Each trimester students can choose a videography, digital photography or graphic design course. In addition to these formal offerings, our Media Lab students join forces with fellow students for cross-curricular projects that combine learning experiences from a variety of classes and activities such as music and mountain biking!
Students explore the esthetics and mechanics of contemporary digital photography including use of a camera as well as their phones and their various applications.
Students are introduced to the DSLR camera and the many modes of shooting film as well as becoming fluent in Adobe Photoshop, learning how to catalog, archive and print their work for exhibition.
Students learn the latest technologies and processes of digital video production including field and studio camera operation, sound, lighting, project planning and more! Our Graphic Design course provides students the opportunity to learn and apply techniques and theories that communicate a visual message. Students develop competency in computer illustration, layout, color, editing, typography and printing.
Tiny house living is all the rage, but what about the actual product behind the concept? Salisbury students immerse themselves in the design of our tiny house from the basic floor plan to the study of the energy efficient materials used in the construction process; every base is covered . Once the plans are set via the use of computer-aided design the focus shifts to the construction phase.
The Economics Department benefits from a multi-disciplinary approach to the discipline, as well as a commitment to the depth of experiential learning that comes from applying economic theory. Students, typically in the upper forms, may choose to pursue a program oriented around the capital markets by studying economics and personal finance, or may apply to participate in the Entrepreneurial Studies Program, a three-course program oriented around the theory and practice of building an organization around a novel concept. Embedded in this program is a college-level economics course designed to better prepare students for further study of the discipline. Student experience in the department centers on our belief that boys best learn by doing. The theories of personal finance are cemented through an annual mock portfolio competition and an active investment club on campus overseen by the Economics faculty. The theories of supply and demand find real meaning in the student demand schedules created by the Student Agencies operating on campus (see the Entrepreneurial Studies Overview). Every student in Entrepreneurial Studies creates, develops, and defends to the school administration, a real business plan, seeking approval and seed funding from the School. Many go on to put their plans into action as Independent Study projects in their sixth form year.


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Top-ranked Houston wins 80-60 at Tulane
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POSTED: January 17, 2023 -- 10:44 p.m. CT
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In a battle for first place in the American Athletic Conference, the top-ranked Houston Cougars defeated the Tulane Green Wave 80-60 Wednesday night. Houston improves to 6-0 in The American and 18-1 overall. Tulane is 5-2 in conference and 12-6 overall.
J'Wan Roberts and Tramon Mark combined for Houston's first 16 points of the game. Houston's offense was red-hot to start the game. The Coogs made 13 of 16 field goal attempts before cooling off missing 6 consecutive field goals.
Houston led 33-24 with 3:47 remaining in the first half. Tramon Mark sank a jumper before Marcus Sasser hit a 3 then Jamal Shead added a driving layup for a 40-28 Houston lead with 28 seconds remaining in the first half.
Mark was whistled for a foul on Tulane's Jaylen Forbes' three-point attempt. Forbes hit the three and made the free to cut Houston's lead to 40-32 at halftime.
Marcus Sasser started the second half with 8 straight point. Sasser swished two 3-pointers and added a steal and layup for a 48-32 Coogs' lead with 18:18 on the game clock.
After a Tulane timeout, Forbes and teammate Jalen Cook combined for 9 points to slice Houston's lead to 53-41 with 15:44 remaining. Tulane's dynamic duo combined for 8 more points to cut Houston's lead to 5 (54-49) with 11:36 remaining in the game.
Houston went on a 7-0 run as Mark made a pullup jumper; freshman forward Jarace Walker sank a jumper for his first bucket of the game; and, Sasser knocked down another three-pointer.
Jalen Cook hit another three-pointer at the 9:10 mark; but, Jarace Walker got a dunk for a 63-52 Houston lead with 8:39 to go in the game.
Neither team scored for nearly three minutes before Jamal Shead banked in a three-point shot to beat the 30-second shot clock. After Kevin Cook hit a pull-up jumper for Tulane, Jarace Walker made a tough turnaround jumper; Jamal Shead scored a driving layup and Marcus Sasser splashed a corner three.
Houston led 73-54 with 3:28 to go in the contest.
Sasser's seventh three-pointer of the game sent the Green Wave fans to the exits.
Sasser scored 17 of his team-high 23 points in the second half. He also had 4 assists and 4 rebounds.
J'Wan Roberts finished the game with 15 points (6 for 9 shooting) and 6 rebounds.
Jamal Shead scored 14 points on efficient 6 for 10 field goals. Shead added 7 assists and 4 rebounds.
Tramon Mark chipped in 12 points, 7 rebounds, and 2 assists.
Houston shot 55.4 fg% (31 for 56) for the game including 12 for 24 (50.0%) from 3.
Jaylen Forbes' 23 points led Tulane. Jalen Cook was next with 15 points (6 for 19 field goals).
Houston scored 1.250 points per possession in the game compared to Tulane's 0.896 points per possession.
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Man arrested after huge cannabis farm discovered in Ashton-under-Lyne
Police raided an address on Canterbury Street in the early hours of the morning
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A cannabis farm was discovered at a property in Tameside. (Image: supplied)
A man has been arrested after a huge cannabis farm was discovered at an address in Tameside.
Police raided the address on Canterbury Street in Ashton-under-Lyne today (Tuesday).
They seized a 'large quantity of cannabis plants'.
The man is currently in police custody awaiting an interview, a post on the GMP Tameside Facebook page said.
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The post, put up at 1.30pm, said: "Local officers executed an early morning warrant earlier today at an address on Canterbury Street, Ashton-under-Lyne.
"A male was arrested in the address and is currently in police custody awaiting interview, a large quantity of cannabis plants were seized.
"The investigation is ongoing."
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Fruits of different seasons come with different nutritional benefits; they are natural produces to meet the requirements of the season. However, some fruits like bananas are available at all times. The fruits of the Spring season include oranges and rhubarbs, while in Summer it is predominantly melons that are rich source of fluids along with different kinds of berries and when its Fall, its time to enjoy different kinds of apples, the quintessential fruit.
Onset of winter brings fruits like kiwi and grapefruit. These are popular examples and there are several other native fruits that are available during different seasons around the world.
The best way to enjoy fruits is to stick to the seasonal fruits; they definitely taste better than the artificially ripened ones. Fruits are a good source of energy and hence being encouraged even at work. Offices and big organizations are encouraging their staff to consume plenty of seasonal fruits in place of fizzy drinks and caffeine to stay alert and thus be more productive at work.
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Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo, the ultimate single make motor racing series, makes Canadian debut in rounds 5 and 6 of the inaugural North American season. Taking on the longest racetrack in Canada, with 20 turns, a 2000ft long straightaway and at 40ft wide, Calabogie is sure to provide a good test for both drivers and cars alike.
With six rounds left, the drivers will be looking to push their lightweight, 570 hp, all-wheel-drive Gallardo's to the max, as they compete for places in the Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo World Series Final in Vallelunga, Italy against the best from Europe and Asia.


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Kaiju Shakedown: Aachi & Ssipak
By Grady Hendrix on March 18, 2014
In a world where energy has run dry, in a country where the government robs its citizens of hope with drugs and pornography, in a land where freedom is a four letter word, there is one hero who knows what he needs to spark the revolution: your poo. A vertiginous slide down a swirling toilet bowl of bad taste, Aachi & Ssipak (06) is a deliriously detailed X-rated animated sci-fi epic eight years in the making that has repulsed movie critics and delighted audiences at film festivals around the world.
Aachi & Ssipak
"Exceedingly grotesque . . . increasingly nasty," says Richard Kuipers of Variety! "Even mature and physically fit viewers for whom etiquette and courtesy are important values need to think twice before seeing the movie," says the daily Chosun Ilbo in Korea. And The Korean Times observes with some trepidation: "Human feces are important in the story…"
Not since the anti-authoritarian head trips of Ralph Bakshi has a movie done so much so quickly: within the first reel it's dispensed more ultraviolence than a thousand action films, annihilated the boundaries of good taste, and violated the copyright on so many precious corporate properties so gleefully that they might never recover.
If Michael Bay and John Waters were forced to make a baby, it would grow up to direct Aachi & Ssipak—a title that pairs the Korean word for "butt" and a Korean profanity. In the story's vision of the future, feces has become the world's power source and the government has implanted ID chips in the anuses of its citizens that rewards them with an addictive, hallucinogenic laxative called a "juicy bar" every time they have a "sincere" bowel movement. Aachi, who looks like Little Orphan Annie after 10 years of crystal meth addiction, and Ssipak, a romantic, hairless gumby, team up with a porn star named Beauty whose mutant butt earns her dozens of juicy bars whenever she drops a load. But the Diaper Gang—constipated killer Smurfs with AK-47s who are addicted to laxatives—and a death-dealing government cyborg want to wipe them out before they can live large.
Mega-action scenes so hyper-detailed they take your breath away unfold in this flick, which might feature some of the best action filmmaking ever to grace an animated movie. Other films are parodied nonstop, and even the movie itself blacks out from bad taste every 10 minutes, returning to consciousness with another scene already in progress. It all ends with a mushroom cloud, a tidal wave of shit, one character's cheerful promise to drain another's bowels dry, and a mad scientist making a killer sex doll out of cadavers.
Aachi & Ssipak is also cursed. Originally slated for a 2002 release, the production stalled until 2006 after its investors pulled out. Then MTV optioned it for a series, keeping the original movie off the American market, before losing interest and abandoning the project. Last week, hope seemed to be in sight when Mondo Media and Cinedigm released a Blu-ray and DVD of Aachi & Ssipak in the U.S. But no. Although the movie looks better than ever, Mondo Media cut four minutes from the film and replaced the entire soundtrack. The original music has been replaced with what sounds like the dubstep setting on a Casio keyboard, made worse by the fact that while the original film's action scenes were punctuated with sudden silences, here the electro-score is slathered from one end of the movie to the other with little regard for the intentions of the original filmmakers. The voice acting has been dubbed into English, and while the two leads are perfectly fine, the rest of the cast has been haphazardly directed, with additional dialogue dubbed over formerly silent shots. Without an option to listen to the original soundtrack, or to hear the original Korean-language track with English subtitles, Mondo Media's disc is a big pile of fail, which is too bad because you get the feeling that their hearts were in the right place.
What makes it even worse is that Aachi & Ssipak is such singular movie. Given the massive costs associated with animation, it's kind of incredible that this film even exists, and one like it won't come this way again anytime soon. Director Jo Beom-jin and animation director Gap Kim spent the late Nineties working with two other artists to turn Jo's Aachi & Ssipak screenplay into a movie, generating concept sketches and rough character designs.
"We started to make test scenes and pilot films even before the script got completed," Gap Kim told FILM COMMENT. "The project started as Flash animation but we realized that at the time this technology had too many limits, so we eventually switched to a 2-D and 3-D composite as the script progressed."
They began to bring more staff on board in the early 2000s, recruiting from Chung-ang University, television stations, anywhere they could find artists who wanted to make more ambitious animation. Taking over a two-story building in the Gangnam District in Seoul, 20 members of the production team moved in. Officially, this was their offices, but as Jiyoun Lee-Lodge, the movie's character designer and one of the only women on the crew said: "We would only go home every couple of days, and the days and nights just slipped by. We had no other life outside. We lived and worked together all the time."
Aachi & Ssipak developed a uniquely Korean design sensibility.
"I was fed up with the Japanese style of animation," Lee-Lodge remembers. "I wanted something that was a hybrid. Not just American or Japanese or European style, but something in between. We went all the way back to looking at how we constructed basic shapes like circles, triangles, squares, and how slight juxtapositions, or ratio changes, made the impression of the shape's significance change."
They took their influences from everywhere. "We were pulling all-nighters to make things more awesome," Lee-Lodge continues. "Watching other animation, watching movies from classic to cult from around the world and discussing them. Looking back, it was a bit too much of a mix-up between work and life, but we were all so dedicated under the belief that we were making something cool. I studied antique toys, anime characters, American comic characters, independent film animation characters, toy books, Hong Kong action figures, antique American toys. It was a breakthrough in my character design. I remember we had stacks and stacks of magazines, mixing and matching."
Out of all this came not just a distinctly Korean look but some deviously clever conceits. One of the movie's greatest inventions is the Diaper Gang, a horde of adorable blue creatures who are insanely cute but rabidly violent, and prone to meeting gruesome ends, often with their brains blown out as they cower and sob, begging for their lives in high squeaky voices. Director Jo had noticed that John Woo's Hong Kong movies contained a steady stream of extras being murdered. The entire production team found it hilarious that these people were seemingly born to run out screaming, wave a gun, and get shot. What if these faceless victims were cute cartoon characters, they wondered? What if they begged for their lives? Thus was born the Diaper Gang, characters who play havoc with audience sympathies while offering a critique of action cinema, and being unbearably cute.
Officially budgeted at 35 billion won (about $3.2 million), the movie was actually pulled off for less than 30 billion. After a few years of intense work, the rough Flash animation was ready to go, the concepts were sketched, Jiyoun had written the bible for the production, and some scenes were animated. Next, they were supposed to swing into full production in early 2002. But then Buddhism happened. Or, rather, the world's biggest Buddhist video-game action movie happened, tanked, and took down the production company.
"The production should have begun immediately," Gap Kim remembers, "but our investor suffered great losses over the film Resurrection of the Little Match Girl which triggered a chain reaction that halted all productions that followed including Aachi & Ssipak. Furthermore, our sponsor company was merged into another, bigger company. Production halted for a year."
The entire team disbanded. "Everyone wished and hoped that it would work," Lee-Lodge says. "But there was nothing much we could do except say, 'Let's keep in touch.'" Then, in 2004, a new round of funding materialized and production started again. But when the long-awaited Aachi & Ssipak was finally released, it bombed, pulling in an audience of 20,000 people, not even enough to break even.
In 2006, a small screening was organized in Los Angeles by friends of the production, and the movie picked up steam again. That was when MTV came on board, but when they abandoned the idea, Aachi & Ssipak was dead again. This time, for good.
It seems cosmically unfair that one of the most unique animated films ever made, a labor of love that beat the odds and reached completion, should be so neglected. But the Aachi & Ssipak experience has always been bittersweet.
"I had more disappointment than satisfaction [with Aachi & Ssipak] for only showing about 60 percent of my ability," Gap Kim said. "I was involved in the script writing process and did over 50 percent of the storyboards and did the entire layout. Also, I tried to handle as much key animation as possible but only worked on about 50 scenes due to the schedule. It was my first experience on a feature film as an animation director but what made it even more difficult was that I also had to storyboard, direct, do layout, key animation, and art directing all at once. I learned a lot about animation development and production from this experience."
"I was proud," Lee-Lodge said. "Those teammates were a great, unique crowd. There were very talented animation directors like Gap and Choong-bok, animators like Seong-gu, and many more. We were friends and family in a sort of nonsense manner."
Mad Monkey
The next project for Gap Kim was Mad Monkey, part of which can be seen here. A fantasy film about six supernaturally endowed martial artists, it was going to be a 70- to 90-minute film but only about 20 minutes currently exist and, in Gap Kim's words, "it needs more investment."
As for director Jo, he said he didn't want to talk about Aachi & Ssipak anymore, and declined to comment for this story. "It was a long time ago," he says.
And so, Aachi & Ssipak may rest in peace, but we'll always have the Diaper Gang.
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… All the art-house directors keep making kung fu movies. Chen Kaige's The Monk, is now shooting in China, starring Wang Baoqiang (the smiley, unlucky kid from Dante Lam's Fire of Conscience). The adaptation of a martial-arts novel by Xu Haofeng—author of Wong Kar Wai's The Grandmaster and writer-director of The Sword Identity and Judge Archer—is co-produced by Columbia Pictures.
… Hou Hsiao-hsien has finally wrapped his own wuxia movie, The Assassin, after shooting for close to two years. Starring Shu Qi, it's aiming to premiere at Cannes.
… Indonesian director Joko Anwar recently shot a short film The New Found for Toshiba. It's not what you'd expect from this master of the macabre, but it's just as eye-popping and off-kilter as his horror movies.
… Longtime Hong Kong writer-director-producer, Gordon Chan (Fight Back to School, The Final Option, Painted Skin), has been named head of Hong Kong film studio, Media Asia.
… In Hollywood, comic-book movies are all about guys in rubber suits crying and punching each other in the face. Want to know what a comic-book movie looks like in Korea?
… French street artist Invader had his cartoony, iconic art up on city walls all over Hong Kong for over a decade—until the Highway Department started tearing it all down recently.
… The super-cartoony J-pop star Kyary Pamyu Pamyu just ended her U.S. tour with a New York City concert that sold out in short order.
… The Great Passage, a film about a dictionary editor, took six of the top prizes at the recent Japanese Academy Awards. It's even more startling when you realize it's directed by Yuya Ishii, formerly the bad boy of Japanese cinema who directed impenetrable art-films like Bare-Assed Japan and Of Monster Mode.
… A similar suprise took place at the Thailand National Film Awards when bigger-budgeted movies were shut out by Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy, a low-budget teen film (developed at the Venice Biennale College) based on 410 tweets from a boarding-school student. The movie took Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Editor, and Best Cinematography. Read a review, check out the trailer, and understand why.
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The New Housemistress
How strict is the new housemistress?
by Sally Cavendish
One of the peculiarities of old-fashioned English private schools, given a new lease of life in the Harry Potter stories, was the all-pervasive house system. You were allocated to a particular house at the start of your school career and remained in that house until you left the school. Each house had its own quirks, reflecting long traditions, and the general tone was set by the housemaster or housemistress in charge of the eighty-odd pupils who constituted a typical house in a boarding school of the period.
Some houses made a big thing of sport, others excelled at music or drama. And in the golden age of corporal punishment, which house you were allocated would often dictate how often, and how hard, you got whacked by your housemaster or housemistress. Each house had its own distinctive disciplinary regime, with only the most heinous offenders referred up the chain of command to the head teacher, who alone had the power to punish on the bare bottom. So, each housemaster and housemistress ran their own little fiefdom according to their own, sometimes eccentric, precepts. It was all a bit haphazard, but at least everyone knew where they stood.
At Abbey Grange in Kent, a traditional girls' boarding school in a remote rural setting half way between London and Dover, the four boarding houses, named after well-known female writers, were Austen, Eliot, Bronte and Gaskell. And their respective housemistresses, at the time this story was set, were Dr Bartlett, Miss Hopkins, Miss Binks and Miss Bracewell.
How did they compare on the Beaufort scale of strictness? Precise data was scarce, in that the school did not maintain formal punishment books. But of course, there was no shortage of anecdotal evidence. Girls who had been punished by their housemistress would naturally compare notes with girls in other houses. It was also possible, during showers after gym, to glimpse the tell-tale marks of a strapping or caning.
The bottoms of girls in Austen house who had got the wrong side of Dr Bartlett were the object of particular ooh-ing and ah-ing in the showers. The cane was her weapon of choice and six of the best her invariable sentence. Those livid red stripes, and the tales associated with them, were part of the folklore of Abbey Grange.
Nobody would have dared use the term 'sadistic bitch' within earshot of the formidable Dr Bartlett but, behind her back, it was often whispered of her. Being allocated to Austen house was regarded as a very mixed blessing indeed. The house hockey and lacrosse teams might carry all before them in inter-house competitions, but there was hell to pay if you stepped out of line.
At the other end of the scale to Dr Bartlett was dear old Miss Binks, who had been housemistress of Bronte house for the best part of twenty years. She had started her teaching career in a junior school and had never really taken on board the fact that, if you want to administer corporal punishment to a 16-year-old, you need to put a bit more beef into it than when you are chastising a 10-year-old.
She never caned. It was not even sure she possessed a cane. And the slipper which she took to errant bottoms was so worn that, even if she had wielded it with maximum force, it would have done little damage. In the showers, a bottom had that been on the receiving end of the slipper from 'Binksy' never showed anything but a very slight pinkness, which faded within hours.
Another of Miss Binks's foibles, which her pupils imitated pitilessly, was to give pupils a long, commiserating hug after punishing them.
"There, there, dear," she would coo, patting their backsides in a motherly manner. "The sting will go soon. I just hated having to do that your poor bottom. Now off you go to bed, like a good girl."
As for Miss Hopkins and Miss Bracewell, the other two housemistresses at Abbey Grange, there was little to choose between them. They were neither martinets nor softies; they just did their best, like so many other housemistresses of the period, to keep order, using the slipper, the strap or, occasionally, the cane, to see that school rules were respected and girls taught certain rudimentary good manners.
Then, quite suddenly, in 1969, Miss Bracewell retired, citing the need to look after her ageing mother in Devon. In her place, the headmistress appointed Jennifer Marshall, the head of physics, who, at just 33, was more than ten years younger than the three other housemistresses.
In the classroom, Miss Marshall was a popular figure, cheering up her physics classes with wacky little Blue Peter-style experiments to illustrate Newtonian principles of motion. But, as a disciplinarian, she was an unknown quantity. At Abbey Grange, only the head teacher and housemasters and housemistresses had the authority to administer corporal punishment.
But she would not remain an unknown quantity for long. Only a few weeks into her tenure, two girls from Abbey Grange, one from Austen house and the other from Gaskell, were caught visiting the village sweet-shop during the lunch-hour, contrary to school rules. The first girl, Stephanie Robson, was sent to Dr Bartlett for the inevitable six of the best. The second, Pauline Masters, was sent to see Miss Marshall.
Three hours later, after afternoon sport which, on that day, consisted of a cross-country run, both girls found themselves in the showers in adjoining cubicles. And it was obvious at a glance that Pauline was in a considerably worse state than Stephanie, with the traditional 'tramlines' of a caning taking the form of raised welts. It was almost like looking at a corrugated-iron roof.
"Crikey!" gasped Pauline's best friend, Rachel. "You really got it."
Pauline nodded grimly. "Yep. She didn't hold back. I was blubbing by the end."
If Miss Marshall had wanted to stamp her authority on her new charges in Gaskell house, she could hardly have done it in more vivid fashion. Rumours of her strictness with the cane spread like wildfire and, for several weeks, every one of the 77 girls in her house was on her very best behaviour.
But it couldn't last, of course. As the stripes on Pauline's bottom slowly faded, so did the sense of terror that the stripes had struck in others. At which point, by an unhappy coincidence, Founder's Day loomed.
Founder's Day, which was always held on the second Wednesday in June, to commemorate Lady Millicent Parker, the Victorian philanthropist who had decided to turn her private home into a select boarding school for daughters of the clergy, was associated, by long tradition, with high jinks'; everything from midnight feasts in the dormitory to bursting balloons in the chemistry lab. A little more latitude was allowed than at other times. A blind eye was turned to excesses. There was a holiday atmosphere.
To Clare Irwin, Florence Garforth and Susie Bell, three notorious pranksters, Founder's Day was an excuse for some jolly jape that would live on in school folklore. The previous year, in a typical stunt, they had introduced a piglet from a neighbouring farm into a biology lesson, causing complete pandemonium. They had been gated for a week, and made to write a hundred lines each, but thought it a price well worth paying.
This year, they had been scheming away since January and were counting the days till Founder's Day, when they could put their master plan into action. The idea was to set off the fire alarm in the gym at the precise moment when the headmistress rose to her feet to make her Founder's Day address to the dignitaries gathered in the main hall. And it worked a treat. The fire alarm went off, everyone ran around like headless chickens for the next twenty minutes and, best of all, the three culprits escaped undetected. It was Clare who set off the fire alarm, while Florence and Susie kept watch. Seconds later they were hiding in a broom cupboard, giggling at their cleverness. By the time they emerged, the coast was clear.
It was nearly six hours later when their sins caught up with them. Miss Marshall was in the habit of going around the dormitories in Gaskell house before going to bed, to wish the girls goodnight and check that all was well. When she reached C dormitory, the one containing Clare, Florence and Susie and nine other girls, she delivered her bombshell.
"Irwin. Garforth. Bell. My study. Now. Come on, look sharp."
Seconds later, the three sixth-formers were trotting disconsolately behind Miss Marshall as she marched downstairs to her study and shut the door behind her.
"Well?" she said, looking straight at Clare, whom she had identified in her own mind as the ringleader.
There was a long, tense silence. Carefully avoiding her friends' eyes, Clare pondered her dilemma. Assuming that Miss Marshall, for whatever reason, suspected them of having been responsible for the fire-alarm going off, did she actually have any proof that they were the culprits? It would be silly to confess if there was no need to confess. To protest their innocence, on the other hand, carried its own risks. As she stayed rooted to the spot, she became conscious that she was trembling.
"What's the matter, Irwin?" Miss Marshall asked sarcastically, and her sarcasm was the most worrying sign yet. "You're not normally short of things to say for yourself."
"I'm sorry, Miss. That is to say, I don't mean, I-I'm very sorry."
"You will be sorry."
Miss Marshall had heard enough. She had known exactly which three girls had been responsible for setting off the fire-alarm for the simple reason that, two hours after the incident, she had overheard the trio talking and giggling about it. If she had doubted the evidence of her ears, there was no doubting the evidence of her eyes. It was hard to imagine three guiltier-looking faces than the ones now facing her.
"I realise that larking about on Founder's Day is something of a school tradition," she said, speaking slowly and deliberately, like a judge summing up at the end of a trial. "And I do not want to pour cold water on that. But the simple fact is that letting off a fire-alarm is grossly irresponsible. Just think about that for a minute, girls. Suppose, God forbid, there were to be a real fire at the school tomorrow. People might remember today's little prank and not respond to the fire alarm with the necessary urgency. The consequences do not bear thinking about."
The homily over, the judge pronounced sentence. "You were obviously all on this little caper, so you will each receive six of the best. Take off your dressing-gowns, put them on the sofa and line up against the wall. You will be caned in alphabetical order."
There was a sharp intake of breath from Susie Bell as she realised that she would be first to be dealt with. Once dressing-gowns had been removed, the thin summer pyjamas in which she and the other two were standing were no sort of protection against the evil-looking cane which Miss Marshall had taken out of the corner cupboard. Like her friends, Susie had never been caned before, although there had been a close squeak in the fifth form, when they had been strapped, along with six other girls, for messing about in maths.
Miss Marshall had now pulled out an upright chair from the corner of the room and placed it centre stage.
"Right, Bell. I want you to bend over the chair and rest your hands on the seat. If you move your hands from their position, you will receive extra strokes. You are to stay quite still while you receive your punishment. I trust that is clear."
Clare and Florence hardly dared watch as their partner in crime assumed the position, her pale pink pyjama bottoms stretched tight as a drum across her pert backside. But there was something hypnotic about the purposeful way Miss Marshall set about her business. Having kicked off her shoes to help her keep her balance, she now took up her position, with her feet slightly apart, tapped the cane a couple of times against Susie Bell's bottom, then whipped it back before lashing it down on its target.
SWISH! THWACK!
The sound of the cane was followed by a low grunt from Susie who, in the estimation of her friends, had done well not to scream out loud. It had been a real stinger and there were five more where that came from.
SWISH THWACK!
The fourth stroke was a couple of inches below the others and did produce a shrill yelp from the prostrate girl. By the sixth, tears were streaming down her cheeks and her shoulders were shaking uncontrollably.
"Now let that be a lesson to you," said Miss Marshall, in an icy voice. Now go and stand in the corner while I deal with your friends. Garforth, I think you're next."
Florence endured the same purgatory as her friend, and was even more voluble in her reactions. Her screams, it was later discovered, had been audible in the dormitory, where they had occasioned near panic. Then it was the turn of Clare, whose plump little bottom was covered by baby-blue pyjamas of such wafer-thin material that, as Miss Marshall's cane descended, with punitive force, the other two girls could clearly see red ridges forming. It had been, by any standards, a chastening experience.
"Right, girls," said Miss Marshall, replacing her cane in the cupboard, like a smoking gun, and allowing herself a wintry smile. "That concludes the evening's proceedings. There will be no more nonsense with fire alarms at this school, Founder's Day or no Founder's Day. Now put on your dressing-gowns and get back to your dormitory."
As the three sixth-formers hobbled bed-wards, clutching their throbbing rumps, Clare whispered to Florence: "Well, at least nobody died."
Her friend was too traumatised even to smile.
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Il ponte dell'Ammiraglio è un ponte a dodici arcate di epoca gotica visibile dall'attuale corso dei Mille a Palermo, e dal 2015 è Patrimonio dell'umanità protetto dall'Unesco.

Storia
Fu completato intorno al 1131 per volere di Giorgio d'Antiochia, ammiraglio del re Ruggero II di Sicilia, un anno dopo la nascita del Regno di Sicilia, per collegare la città (divenuta capitale) ai giardini posti al di là del fiume Oreto. Rappresenta per la vasta piazza, denominata Scaffa, un monumento simbolo del collegamento tra il centro della città e la zona periferica Brancaccio.

L'uso degli archi molto acuti caratteristici permetteva al ponte di sopportare carichi elevatissimi; interessante anche l'apertura d'archi minori tra le spalle di quelli grandi per alleggerire la struttura e la pressione del fiume sottostante. Il ponte infatti resistette senza problemi persino alla terribile Alluvione di Palermo del febbraio 1931.

Il 27 maggio dell'anno 1860, nel corso della spedizione dei Mille, Garibaldi proprio su questo ponte e nella vicina via di Porta Termini si scontrò con le truppe dei Borboni, lì schierate perché il ponte era un ingresso nella città per chi veniva da mezzogiorno: Garibaldi proveniva infatti dal Monte Grifone, e precisamente dalla frazione di Gibilrossa. Lo scontro al ponte dell'Ammiraglio provocò l'insurrezione di Palermo.

Ora sotto gli archi del ponte normanno non scorre più il fiume, dopo che il suo corso fu deviato a causa dei suoi continui straripamenti. Questo ha anche consentito l'allargamento del Corso dei Mille. Sotto il ponte dell'Ammiraglio oggi si trova un giardino, con attorno viali alberati, agavi e altre varietà di piante grasse.

Il ponte ha ottenuto un incremento di presenze turistiche con l'inaugurazione del tram di Palermo: infatti il ponte con la piazza omonima sono divenuti una delle principali fermate del percorso della linea 1. Dal 3 luglio 2015 fa parte del Patrimonio dell'umanità (UNESCO) nell'ambito dell'"itinerario Palermo arabo-normanna e le cattedrali di Cefalù e Monreale".

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Bibliografia
Giuseppe Bellafiore, Palermo. Guida della città e dei dintorni, Palermo 1995, S. 118 (data erronea 1113).
Adriana Chirco, Guida di Palermo. Visita guidata della città e dei dintorni per itinerari storici. Palermo 1997, S. 20 ISBN 88-7758-313-4 (tra 1130 e 1140)
Cesare De Seta, M. Antonietta Spadaro, Sergio Troisi, Palermo città d'arte. Guida ai monumenti di Palermo e Monreale. Palermo 1998. S. 308 Nr. 440 (dopo il 1132)
Ferdinando Maurici - Melo Minnella, Antichi ponti di Sicilia Palermo 2006 (Talismani; 14) S. 38f., 41, 66-68, 89,94; Tafel X, LVIII - LIX. (verso 1132)

Voci correlate
Ponti sull'Oreto
Fiume Oreto
Museo aptico
Palermo arabo-normanna e le cattedrali di Cefalù e Monreale

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Ammiraglio
Architetture arabo-normanne di Palermo
Architettura normanna in Sicilia
Palermo arabo-normanna e le cattedrali di Cefalù e Monreale

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Local grouper sites offer hope for species survival
Nassau grouper (Photo courtesy DoE)
(CNS): With the Nassau grouper recently elevated to the 'critically endangered' list of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the strongest warning it issues that a species is facing an extremely high risk of extinction, the spawning sites around the Sister Islands offer the last hope for the survival in the region of these iconic reef fish. The Department of Environment (DoE), in partnership with the Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF), has resumed its annual 'Grouper Moon' research project in the Cayman Islands ahead of this year's spawning to see if the recent resurgence in the Nassau grouper population is being sustained.
The project, which started in the mid-1980's and grew into the 'Grouper Moon' when the REEF partnership began in 2002, has taken on a special significance this year because of the designation by the IUCN that the species is now in real danger of disappearing from the wild. The IUCN believes the Nassau grouper population has declined globally by more than 80% since 1980.
But work in the Cayman Islands over the past decade has resulted in a noticeable resurgence in numbers off the coast of Little Cayman, where at one spawning site monitored by scientists more than 6,500 grouper returned in January and February last year.
Nassau grouper spawning aggregatoin (Photo courtesy DoE – CLICK TO ENLARGE)
That is a significant increase from just a decade ago, when the site recorded fewer than 2,000 grouper. Another separate spawning site off Cayman Brac counted nearly 1,000 grouper last year after previous counts had shown less than half that number.
But despite the good news in our region, DoE Research Officer Bradley Johnson said this resurgence in the waters around the Sister Islands does not mean the species is out of trouble, even in local waters.
"It's not nearly enough to take the species off the IUCN critically endangered list or to relax local protections for the species," he said. "We have yet to see a similar resurgence in Grand Cayman."
However, he said the data was encouraging and "highlights the importance of adhering to, and enforcing, Nassau grouper fishing restrictions set under the National Conservation Law".
The current closed season for Nassau grouper in Cayman Islands waters began on 1 December and will last until 30 April, and it remains essential that the fish is left in peace during the breeding season.
Despite his mixed support for limitations on marine protections and the failure of his ministry to press ahead with much-needed enhanced marine protections in local waters, in a release about this year's spawning Environment Minister Dwayne Seymour offered his support for the restrictions on catching grouper.
"We still hear occasional reports of Nassau grouper being caught during the closed season and the public must understand that fishing restrictions on the species have changed over the years," Seymour said, as he offered support to the need to retain the closed season.
"The recent 'critically endangered' designation for Nassau grouper shows we did the right thing protecting them locally. It also makes it even more important for both Caymanian fishermen and visitors to respect the law and release any Nassau grouper they catch during the closed season," the minister added.
Fishermen who inadvertently catch Nassau grouper during closed season should release them alive, even if the grouper is hurt during the catch. Using circle hooks, as opposed to J-hooks, can make the process of removing the hook from the fish's mouth easier, as the circle hooks are designed to not hook in the stomach of the fish but rather in the mouth, making extraction less dangerous for the fish, DoE experts advised.
Anyone who witnesses, or who becomes aware of, Nassau grouper poaching during the closed season is asked to call 911 and may also contact DoE enforcement officers directly:
Grand Cayman (916-4271)
Cayman Brac (call 911)
Little Cayman (925-0185)
See the flyer on Nassau grouper conservation and important links to The Grouper Moon Project in the CNS Library
See the full Grouper Moon Changing Seas documentary by REEF below:
Tags: Department of Environment, Grouper Moon Project, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Nassau grouper, Reef Environmental Education Foundation
Category: Marine Environment, Science & Nature
John John follow the advice of the scientist and we might make a half decent environmental minister out of you yet!
J.Smith says:
Get that XXXX DOE officer back in the boat, as he spends most of his time on the DOE clock working on boats, delivering boats or property management…yup that is well evidenced in North side and Frank Sound….corruption at its finest in front of everyone
Dat so true. Him done this for years needs to stop.
Since the doe don't have any boats or Officer, counting them is the only protection the grouper will get.
Where does Kirk's get their grouper from? No one seems to know including the people who work in the store.
Can we get an idea of where these spawning sites are? Asking for a friend.
Cute. Everyone knows they are on the east ends of each island.
There are spawning sites from West Bay to East End. Take your pick.
Thanks guys! Easy pickins!
I wasn't taking about grouper but still, as you say, easy pickins.
They selling grouper all day long on the water front
its called caymankind local enterprise!
Most of that is deep water grouper (warsaw) with a few rockfish (yellowfin and tiger(often contaminated with ciguatera toxin)) in the mix.. These are probably being overfished too though.
Yes they do and why does CIG do nothing?
Conservation laws in Cayman are a total joke.
I know, let's open a Grouper "Centre" and subsidise it to the tune of millions of dollars a year!
PPM cares not for the environment.
just shut down nassau grouper fishing on all 3 islands for as long as it takes. and continue to educate tje younger population. if a species is on the verge of extinction why are we still having a season at all?
dim-witted local fishermen won't like that…
CNS, would you find out if DoE has any plans to replace the former Marine Officer on the Brac?
CNS: I'll send the question to Auntie.
Do they have any realistic plans to get adequate officers on GCM and a 'fit for purpose' boat fleet, (or boat) that can protect our fisheries?
CIG spending millions on killing iguanas but nothing on protecting the indigenous animals we have.
They even rely on a UK initiative to bring the Blue Iguana back from extinction.
When is someone at DOE going to take protection more seriously?
We need to get serious about poaching all species of marine life on this island.
We need more marine officers. We need lengthy prison sentences, seizure and destruction of boats and equipment for anyone caught.
Or we can continue to ignore the problem and be left with nothing in the not so distant future.
We also need to ban all expatriates from taking marine life from our waters!
but its ok for locals???
Yep. We have birthrights. Go home and fish if you don't like it.
My son was born here so I'll exercise his birthright until he's old enough to do so himself then.
With rights come responsibilities. Learn that then speak.
Yep. We have de full rights to destroy our environment. It's our birthright as Caymanians.
i grew up in little cayman ….back in late 70's and 80's.I am happy to say that the nassau as well as fish population is now doubled since the measues for protecting them has been instituted. e.g. you can now catch nassau and other grouper species as well as mutton snappers from shoreline….it shows that the fish populations has increased…and the measures by the DOE are working! I also must give praise to MR WAYNE PANTON…for his initiation of the laws to protect them, when he was the minister for environment. He continues to be a strong advocate for the futures marine protection in the islands. Keep up good work to all…..
We sure miss Wayne Panton in Government. One of the really bright ones.
Let's get grouper, turtle, and juvenile lobster tails off our menus and out of the stores please.
Why are people allowed to fish a critically endangered species at all?! Forget about 'offering support to the closed season' Minister – this species now needs to be treated like turtles, without delay! Especially if we're a bright spot in its fight for survival regionally! Why is this place so thick and slow with obvious things: no fishing endangered species! SMFH
Delicious. Having me some grouper row on toast as we speak.
It's spelled roe you ignorant troll.
Spell that shit however you want, still taste good boy.
Douche chill
*roe*
I doubt you. I think you are a troll who loves stirring the soup.
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Q: Inline core dump generation from a C/C++ program In the course of development of some application we came to a need of possibly getting a complete core dump without completely stopping execution of a program completely.
Granted there are conditions that generate core dump where continuation may not be safely possible but we are not talking about memory corruption, and such.
What I am looking to do is send a signal to the program and generate a complete core without or minimally impacting program execution
Is this possible?  If so how?

A: See this Google library, it might help: http://code.google.com/p/google-coredumper/

The coredumper library can be compiled into applications to create
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A: Coredumpber is for Linux and obviously a great idea if that's your OS.
For other Posix-like systems, something like this ought to work fine:
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#include <process.h>

// Fork and abort for a core dump. This process keeps running.
if (fork() == 0) abort();

Of course the environment must be set to dump core on SIGABRT.  You could also try raise(SIGTERM), which is like kill -9.

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Mercado: "The crowd was amazing here all weekend"
Out of all the riders on track at the Circuito San Juan Villicum, there was one in particular that the passionate Argentinian fans wanted to see in action. Chants of "Dale, Tati, Dale!" echoed all weekend around the grandstands of the 4.2 kilometre circuit, as Leandro Mercado (Orelac Racing VerdNatura) looked on proud from his ZX-10RR.
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"I'm happy about all the weekend because I felt a huge support, and that's important", he added.
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Seth Jacobson, Alessandro Morbidelli, Sean Raymond, Dave O'Brien, Kevin Walsh, David Rubie
Nature 508, 84 (2014)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature13172
Planetary scientists from BGI, France and the USA, funded by the European Research Council (ERC), dated the formation of the Moon using a newly established 'clock' to 95 +/- 32 million years after the beginning of the Solar System. They simulated the growth of the terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars) from a disk of thousands of planetary building blocks orbiting the Sun. By analyzing the growth history of the Earth-like planets from more than 250 simulations, they discovered a relationship between the time of the Moon-forming event and the amount of material the Earth accretes after that giant collision, shown in Figure 1.
An estimate for the mass accreted by the Earth after the Moon-forming event is obtained from measurements of the highly siderophile elements. In order to understand its estimation one needs to appreciate that the giant impact also initiated the final round of core formation in the Earth. In this process, iron as well as the highly siderophile elements are segregated to the core. Thus, the abundance of the highly siderophile elements remaining in the Earth's mantle is directly proportional to the mass accreted onto the Earth after the Moon-forming collision. Consequently, a measurement of the highly siderophile budget of the mantle provides the relative late accreted mass of the Earth necessary in order to use this clock for dating the Moon-forming event.
Efforts to date this Moon-forming event on the basis of radioactive isotope measurements have proposed a range of ages: some have argued for an early event, at around 30 million years after the birth of the Solar System, whereas others suggest that it occurred later than 50 million years, and possibly as late as 100 million years, after the Solar System formed. This new method is the very first geologic clock discovered that ticks in early Solar System history that does not rely on measurements and interpretations of the radioactive decay of atomic nuclei and so it affirms the late interpretations of the radiometric data.
Figure 1: The time of the last giant impact and the amount of mass accreted after that impact relative to the final mass is shown for each Earth-like planet. Triangles are Earth-like planets from classical simulations and circles are those from Grand Tack simulations. The black staircase is a running geometric mean of the Earth-like planets from Grand Tack simulations and the cyan-band indicates the 1σ uncertainty; the dashed staircase is the running geometric mean for all the Earth-like planets. The dashed line is the estimate of the late accreted mass for the Earth from the highly siderophile elements and the gray region indicates its uncertainty. The background colors indicate whether those times are consistent (green), inconsistent with 85% confidence (pink) or inconsistent with 99.9% confidence (red).
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The operator held the demonstration on its live commercial network in Italy.
It said it was researching SDN because of the transformational nature and requirements of 5G, which it said would require "a highly efficient and powerful transport network".
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Vodafone said its next step is to integrate the technology into the full controller/orchestrator chain.
In September, Vodafone said it was using Juniper Networks' software defined wide area network solutions for its enterprise offering.
The operator is also working on Facebook's Telecoms Infra Project and demonstrated in July how the project's optical technology can improve the operation of fibre networks.


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Reserves? What reserves?
26 Dec 08 One Comment
Not long after the Paris Trip I decided to take the same girlfriend to Perranporth on the north coast of Cornwall. I hired a Grumman Tiger from LSF at Elstree. The flight down was unexciting and we had a good weekend.
It was on the return journey we had problems. For some reason, Perranporth had no fuel available. I calculated what we'd burnt on the way down and worked out that we had just enough fuel to get back to Elstree and thence, if necessary, to divert to Luton. At that stage of my flying career, I'm not sure if I had never learnt or if I had forgotten about "reserves" but in any case, it didn't occur to me.
We take off and I'm talking to Plymouth who asked me whether I was flying North or South of Dartmoor. I said I couldn't see Dartmoor on the map to which I got the reply, "That large danger area right in front of you. I assume you're not going to fly right through it!"
I'd managed to overlook it completely and yes, had planned straight through it. "North," I said, picking one at random. Now I had to turn left and work out where I was going next.
All the way back, I was keeping a very close eye on the fuel and was surprised to see both tanks showed a quarter as we approached the outskirts of the London control zone, I'd expected less. I had noticed, however, that there was a definite tendency for the right wing to drop when the plane was in trim which was very frustrating as it meant paying constant attention,
Just as we approached Greenham Common and I was about to call for MATZ penetration, the engine spluttered and started to die. I switched to the right tank and it picked up again. Back to the left and it spluttered. The left tank was clearly empty though still showing a quarter. The right tank also showed a quarter but I had no idea how much was actually in it.
I had been talking to London Information so called them and calmly asked for urgent permission to land at Greenham Common. The controller was more panicked than I was: Greenham Common had nuclear missiles at the time and was at the highest level of security.
Meanwhile the plane was flying fine on the right tank but I still wanted to get down as soon as I could. I downgraded the emergency and was transferred to London Radar. They pointed out that I was almost overhead Booker (now Wycombe Air Park) and suggested I land there. They said they'd rung them and the airfield was closed but that it would be OK to land there and they'd give me vectors. You could hear the relief in the controller's voice that I would not be flying into Greenham Common.
As taught when landing at an unmanned airfield, I carefully overflew the runway and did one circuit. "Would you mind just landing it this time," asked my passenger on the second final approach.
Of course, with the airfield being closed, there was no fuel available so our romantic weekend away ended with a friend having to drive out to pick us up. He grumbled all the way back.
I felt somewhat vindicated though. I recalculated the fuel burn and found exactly what I'd expected but all in the right tank. When I complained to the CFI at LSF, he simply shrugged it off with, "Fuel gauges are never that accurate."
Category: I learned from that,
It hardly matters how much experience or time you have in airplanes, when the fuel needles start "bouncing", palms start getting sweaty. I try and avoid these moments at all cost, but inevitably you fly long enough, it'll happen.
The key is this:
Always leave yourself an out!
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