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CP Toilet Map
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Coronavirus (Covid-19) Wales
July 5, 2020 Uncategorized
Since the arrival of this pandemic it has become extremely clear that each and everyone of us has to adhere to an increased level of personal hygiene. Regular hand washing and the repeated use of anti-bacterial wipes on the surfaces we come into contact with are essential precautions to avoid the spread of this deadly threat.
As the Lockdown eases and we venture back into society or return to our places of work we face the added strain of cross contamination and potential transmission of this virus to colleagues and friends. So we are looking for guidance from the devolved administrations to help us all act and behave in a responsible way to avoid touching contaminated surfaces or leaving traces behind that could be harmful to others.
Publicly Accessible Toilets are a vital piece of our everyday lives and these essential facilities help us to stay comfortable and relieved when we travel away from our homes or places of residence. The government has clearly advised us all to WASH your HANDS reguarly and thoroughly for a least 20 seconds after coming in contact with any area or surface that might host the virus. So PC's are an absolutely vital piece of infrastructure in our fight against Covid19 and these units must be opened and maintained to the highest levels of hygiene and cleanliness to serve the rising needs.
Unfortunately, many public and retail units remain closed dur to the severe lack of CLEAR & CONCISE guidance from government and the fear of the providers and sppliers that they are effectively combating the viral threat.
NEW GUIDANCE RELEASED
This guidance is primarily for owners and operators of toilets for public use in Wales
Local Authorities, town councils and town/city centre managers/forums
Town and Community Councils
Third sector organisations
Heritage and tourism sites
Commercial or business premises where toilet access is provided to the public
Hospitality sector (e.g. cafés, bars, restaurants)
Where sector specific guidance is also available it should be considered alongside this.
Purpose and scope of this guidance
The Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (Wales) Regulations 2020 (as amended) have been made for the purpose of preventing, protecting against, controlling or providing a public health response to the spread of Coronavirus and contamination in Wales. The Regulations currently require certain premises and businesses to close, whilst imposing restrictions on certain businesses or services (including 'public toilets') allowing them to remain open providing that those responsible take all reasonable measures to ensure that specific physical distancing requirements are maintained. Persons responsible for work carried out on certain premises are also under a duty to take all reasonable measures to ensure that a distance of 2 metres is maintained between persons on the premises. Those subject to a requirement to take all reasonable measures must have regard to guidance from the Welsh Ministers about taking those measures. These Regulations are regularly reviewed in accordance with Regulation 3.
This guidance focuses on the safer management of toilets for public use in the context of the Coronavirus pandemic and in compliance with the Coronavirus Restrictions Regulations. It is intended to help the owners and operators of toilets for public use to plan for the safer management of toilets as the restrictions in Wales are lifted and to plan for the re-opening of toilets where they have been closed.
This guidance provides a framework for identifying the issues associated with the use of toilets for public use in light of the need for social distancing and cleaning/disinfecting to minimise the transmission of the virus.
This guidance sets out additional principles that owners and operators of toilets for public use will need to consider. It does not replace any existing health, hygiene, risk assessment or other requirements for the normal safe management of toilets for public use.
Responsibility in Wales for opening / managing toilets for public use rests with the toilet owner or operator. For some assets, the local authority may be the owner but responsibility for the operation and maintenance rests with some town or community councils under a lease agreement as part of asset transfer agreements.
Under the Public Health (Wales) Act 2017, there is a duty placed on local authorities to have a local toilet strategy and statutory guidance has been provided. Under part 8 of the Public Health (Wales) Act 2017, local authorities may provide toilets in its area for public use.
This guidance does not alter those duties and powers, it merely provides advice and principles owners / operators may want to consider.This publication has been prepared by the Welsh Government, developed with advice from technical experts and from local authorities. This guidance applies in Wales only and does not impose any legal obligations.
Public health is devolved in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. For advice in other parts of the UK please see guidance prepared by the Northern Ireland Executive, the Scottish Government and, for England, the UK Government (Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government). We expect this document will be updated over time – this version is up to date as of 2 July 2020. You can check for updates on the Welsh Government website.
If you have any feedback regarding the content of this document and inform future guidance, please email saferplaces@gov.wales. This guidance is part of a wider set of documents produced by the Welsh Government about safer public places and related issues. All Welsh Government guidance can be found on the Welsh Government website.
What this guidance contains
The guidance contains principles and steps owners and operators of toilets for public use should consider in planning the reopening (where toilets have been closed) and management of toilets as safely as possible. It does not replace the need for owners and operators to carry out their own risk assessments or follow normal toilet cleaning and management practices.
Existing Public Health Wales and Welsh Government guidance covers the principles of how to manage toilets from a health and hygiene perspective, including the re-opening of schools and other educational settings, managing Safer Public Places and workplace guidance. What this guidance does is bring together those health and hygiene principles in one place, and also consider the issues particular to toilets for public use around public access and communications. See Further information for links to the related guidance.
The importance of re-opening toilet facilities
Toilet accessibility is a key factor in easing restrictions and restoring confidence, once it is safe to do so. Many publically accessible toilets have closed in the response to the pandemic, which has helped encourage people to stay local. Toilet access is essential for many people including the elderly, those classed as disabled, those who are pregnant, those with young children, or those with medical conditions. Consideration should be given to the equality implications of those with particular health needs who need to use the toilet more often. Equality Impact Assessments should be reviewed as part of the planning for re-opening toilets. A lack of toilets can result in anti-social behaviour.
As the coronavirus restrictions are lifted the increasing number of local people and tourists is likely to place pressure on services including toilets for public use. Toilets are currently in the 'high priority but high anxiety' area for the public – half will not visit an attraction at all if toilets are closed. Assurance of safety measures are hugely important in building confidence in their use, and toilet information is key for pre-visit communication. Many people feel they cannot leave their homes for shopping or other day to day tasks if they do not know that a toilet is available.
The challenges of re-opening toilet facilities
Toilets are potentially a risk for transmission of the virus if not managed well. Toilets for public use vary hugely, from isolated rural facilities to small community facilities to large blocks in city centres. Some toilets for public use are located in hospitality / tourism and other public and commercial facilities etc. Toilets are usually relatively enclosed indoor spaces and are often unsupervised. The virus is unstable and does not transmit as easily in outdoor environments and is rapidly inactivated by heat and sunlight. Indoors the virus is likely to survive for longer.
Current guidance issued by the Welsh Government focuses on the key messages to keep Wales safe by:
always observing social distancing (also known as physical distancing) – stay 2 metres (3 steps) away from others (outside your immediate household), indoors and outdoors;
wash your hands regularly;
if you are meeting one other household, stay outdoors;
Read Welsh Government social distancing guidance.
Enhanced cleaning and disinfection practices should be followed.
Read public health guidance on cleaning and disinfection in non-healthcare settings.
In Wales there is no legal or mandatory requirement for people to wear face coverings in public.
Good practice steps to consider
Consideration should be given to the sections below taking into account local conditions, location, size, usage of toilet etc. Risk assessments should be undertaken by owners / operators before opening any toilet, and then kept under review. Risks assessments must include consideration of staff safety and any additional workforce impacts in managing and cleaning toilets. These points are over and above all normal toilet management requirements.
Hygiene – cleaning and handwashing
Frequent enhanced cleaning and disinfection regime adhering to guidance particularly of points that are regularly touched. Frequency will be determined by owners / operators risk assessment based on likely volume of use.
Frequent collection of paper towel and other waste.
Minimising use of portable toilets (non mains sewage/proximity of waste/enclosed space) whilst acknowledging that at some sites it may temporarily be the only option (i.e. while other facilities remain closed).
Using signs and messages to build awareness of good handwashing technique and other respiratory hygiene behaviours, e.g. around coughing and sneezing in public places.
Best practice handwashing information and facilities should be provided
Where possible, providing disposable hand towels as an alternative to hand dryers in handwashing facilities.
Where appropriate, sufficient and accessible provision of automated hand sanitising dispensers.
Regular checking of facilities and measures including recording of checks.
See Further information for guidance on cleaning and disinfection in non-healthcare settings.
Clear signage should be provided on the requirement to maintain a 2m distance from others (outside of your immediate household).
Measures to limit the number of users at any one time, perhaps a one in one out system, either self-regulated with clear signage, or overseen by an attendant.
Removing access, for example to every other urinal or hand basin through use of tape or signage or other mechanism.
Clear markings for distancing and queuing.
Where possible doors to toilet blocks may be wedged open to maximise fresh air, to allow users to assess numbers inside, and to limit hand contact.
Toilet signage
Clear bilingual signage with simple messages should be used:
Do not use toilets for public use if you have symptoms of COVID-19
(stay home, self-isolate, seek a test)
Use them, wash your hands and leave promptly.
Avoid unnecessary touching of internal surfaces, fixtures and fittings.
Keep a 2m distance from others outside your own household – observe social distancing and hand hygiene guidance at all times.
Queue outside not inside the toilets.
Where provided – use hand sanitiser before entering and after leaving.
Guides to good handwashing and around coughing and sneezing in public places.
Telephone number if any cleanliness or stock issues.
Information Campaigns
Consider publically available information / publicity on:
Toilet opening and cleaning protocols so people can plan trips and to help restore confidence.
Reinforcing the responsibility of members of the public to follow the rules on social distancing and hygiene.
Consideration of all user groups
Equality Impact Assessments should be reviewed to ensure that the way rules are implemented do not have a disproportionate, negative impact on those who share protected characteristics. Particular consideration should be given to those who are visually impaired in terms of signage and communication.
Consideration should be given to opening Changing Places toilets as a priority.
Larger toilets or those in busier areas may require supervision, at least in the initial stages, to ensure public are adhering to social distancing and to restrict the number of people using the facility.
In some locations toilets are looked after by volunteers many of whom will be in the at risk or extremely vulnerable (shielding) categories so alternatives may need to be found.
Training of any personnel involved in delivering the measures will be key to ensure they understand and can communicate local guidance effectively and positively.
Where a decision is made not to open a toilet for public use (particularly baby change facilities, toilets for the disabled or Changing Places) an Equality Impact Assessment should be undertaken to assess impacts on accessibility to all sectors of the community.
Defined areas and clear signage to indicate where pedestrians should stand when queuing using spray markings or temporary barriers.
Management of multiple queues for different entrances through clear signage and the use of stewards as appropriate.
"Do not join the queue, come back in xxx minutes" signs provided at popular destinations, when capacity reached.
Alternative provision and / or seating for people who are unable to stand for long periods.
Protection of queues through physical security measures / street furniture.
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A Cotswolds couple has celebrated a major milestone.
Alan and Lilian Rogers celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary at Hyperion House in Fairford.
Lilian is a resident at the care home and Alan visits daily so he can spend time with his wife.
At 11am on March 27, all the staff and residents at the home joined the couple in raising a glass of champagne to celebrate their blue sapphire wedding anniversary.
To celebrate the occasion, the couple looked through their wedding album, which includes pictures from throughout their marriage, and had a look at all the cards they received from family and friends.
Lilian and Alan even received a special congratulatory card from the Queen.
At lunchtime, everyone enjoyed a buffet lunch whilst chatting 'about the good old days' followed by cake and tea.
Throughout the celebration, music was playing which had been chosen by Alan and Lilian which brought back fond memories of their 65 years of marriage.
A spokesperson for Hyperion House said: "The staff at Hyperion House look forward to Alan's visits as they enjoy chatting to him about his marriage to Lilian and the fantastic life they have shared and continue to share throughout their married life together.
"Congratulations to Alan and Lilian with love and best wishes from all at Hyperion House."


So far, I have mainly been photographing birds and macro. I would like to try landscapes as well, but I have no idea what kind of lens to use. I have a Canon EOS30D camera with kit lens, Canon 100mm F2.8 macro lens, Canon 70-200mm F2.8 lens, Canon 400mm F5.6 lens, Sigma 50-500 lens. The kit lens can be used for landscapes, but it's not that good.
I really like landscape images that have an object pretty close to the camera in the foreground, where you can still so much of the surroundings. I can't get the same effect with the kit lens, so which lens would you use for these kinds of images?
Inge, I use a Canon 17-40L, which of course because of the 1.6 crop sensor on the 30D isn't really a 17mm at its widest but about at 27mm. The IQ is excellent, and it's wide enough for me at most times. However, Canon's 10-22, designed specifically for the crop sensor cameras, will give you a true 16mm, and there are times I'd really like to have that wider angle. The two lenses cost about the same, and though the 10-22 isn't an L series, IQ is quite good, much better than the kit lens.
I agree with Steve that you should consider the 10-22 for your purposes. I would avoid the 17-40 if you can. I own one and have an intense love/hate relationship with it because I use it on a full-frame camera. But for a 1.6x crop camera, it's a no-brainer to go with the 10-22. The image quality is good and it will give you a truly wide perspective.
What you can use is a matter of choice and budget. Actually, your 70-200 is an excellent landscape lens! For the "big and wide" landscape I have the 17-40/4 which I use on my 5D and used pre 5d on my 30D. There seem to be good and bad copies of the lens. Mine is good on the 5D and also on the 30D. For versatilityI bought an 24-105, which is an excellent lens. It is on my 5D 70% of the time.
I do not know your level of photography, but getting a good lens is the first step. For landscape photography you'll need a tripod. For great DOF (foreground/ background sharp) you need to use small apertures and it easy when you manual focus with hyperfocal scale. In that way you'll know that everything will be sharp.


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Q: Using if/else operator in php code here's my question:
i have the folwing code in my project:
$news = "Article 20.part2";

if(strpos($news,'.part1')) {$news_n = ".part1";}
else if(strpos($news,'.part2')) {$news_n = ".part2";}
else if(strpos($news,'.part3')) {$news_n = ".part3";}
else if(strpos($news,'.part4')) {$news_n = ".part4";}
else if(strpos($news,'.part5')) {$news_n = ".part5";}

echo $news;
echo "Part number:" . $news_n . "- Read more";

What i want is to display the number of the news part, but the problem is that there are articles with +20/+30 parts and i don't want to add
else if(strpos($news,'.part20')) {$news_n = ".part20";}

etc to my code.
Is there any easier way to do this?
Thanks in advance for your help!

A: you can use PHP preg_match for this
$news = "Article 20.part20";
$matches= array();
if (preg_match("/\.part(\d*)/", $news,$matches)){
    $news_n = '.part'. $matches[1];
}

echo $news;
echo "Part number:" . $news_n . "- Read more";

Edit: You can also use $new_n = $matches[0];. $matches[0] gives you the full match and $matches[1] will have the number part.
Edit2: If the .part is the going to be the last item, then you can use much simpler strstr.
$news = "Article 20.part20";
$news_n = strstr($news, ".part");
echo $news;
echo "Part number:" . $news_n . "- Read more";

A: Maybe something like:
for($i=1;$i<100;$i++)
{
    if(strpos($news,'.part'.$i))
        $news_n = '.part'.$i;
}

A: Use a regular expression
$matches=[];
if (preg_match_all('.part\[( ^[0-9]{1,3}$)\]/', $news, $matches)) {
print_r($matches);
}

A: If the string you are looking for is numbered based as you say in your question you can do:
foreach(range(1, 50) as $i) {
    $part = sprintf('.part%d', $i);
    if(strpos($news, $part) {
        $news_n = sprintf('.%s', $part);
    }
}

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What's a Grist (Malt) Mill & How Is It Used in Craft Brewing?
What is a "grist mill"? Every brewery has one. Sometimes referred to as the "malt mill," the grist mill breaks apart the malt to expose the starch body of the grain. It does this by running the malt through a set of steel rollers that can be adjusted to achieve the optimum grind of the grist. The grist, as milled malt is called, needs to be of a consistent grind, but barley corns and wheat kernels are not always the same size. Roller settings are adjusted as needed to insure maximum yield in the brewhouse.
Earlier grist mills had a single set of rollers, with the settings adjusted manually using a lever-and-gear mechanism. More modern mills have three sets of rollers which are set with a precise electrical motor-and-sensor assembly.
We have three mills at Anchor Brewing: two older models that have been retired and are on display, and one that is currently in use. The two historic mills were designed in the machine age and were powered by a single source which drove all of the mill functions through a series of belts and gears. The new mill employs a precise computer and sensor-controlled set of electrical motors that drive the individual internal mechanisms. All three mills are designed to do the same job, with advancing degrees of efficiency.
The smaller one (left), with the wooden upper portion, was in use at our old brewery up until we moved to our current location in 1979. We don't know exactly how old it is but the characteristics of its design date it to late 1800's and maybe earlier. This amazing antique could have been in service for well over sixty years.
The larger mill (right) is of 1930's design, also maybe earlier. We acquired it as a refurbished unit when we moved our brewery in 1979. In its day it was a popular item. I have seen mills of this type in use all over the country in older breweries and even in some distilleries in Scotland. Although of a later generation than the little guy, it shares the same basic design on a much larger and sturdier level. Its massive construction made it a durable machine, and it was in daily service at Anchor for over thirty years.
Our current mill looks nothing like its older brothers but works on the same principle of three sets of adjustable rollers. It's much more efficient, easier to use, and quieter than the older models and will probably last for thirty years as well. But somehow it's not quite as cool-looking as those old guys with their leather belts, hand levers, exposed gears, and all that.
Thank you for this interesting and fun article Bob. History connects us to each other and everything! Fascinating.
It was a pleasure meeting you at the SF Beer Week closing party at Trumer. I look forward to hearing from you soon.


For the first time, researchers using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have found both structural and functional abnormalities in specific brain regions of patients who have schizophrenia and who experience chronic auditory hallucinations, according to a study published in the August issue of Radiology.
"The results showed abnormalities in specific areas of the brain associated with the capacity to process human voices," said lead author, Luis Martí-Bonmatí, M.D., Ph.D., chief of magnetic resonance in the Department of Radiology at Dr. Peset University Hospital in Valencia, Spain.
"Developing a clear understanding of the pathological abnormalities associated with schizophrenia is one of the greatest challenges in psychiatry," Dr. Martí-Bonmatí said. "Using MRI to mark brain regions that are affected in both structure and function will help pinpoint specific abnormalities associated with the disorder and ultimately enable more effective treatment."
"We hope that by evaluating combined structural and functional abnormalities in the brains of these patients, we may uncover biological markers to find candidates for specific treatments and better monitor patient response to those treatments," Dr. Martí-Bonmatí said.
I'd love to hear your sources for that info!


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    private int cityId;
    private int regionId;
    private String name;
    private String address;
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    private double lng;
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    private String route;

    public int getId() {
        return id;
    }

    public void setId(int id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

    public int getCityId() {
        return cityId;
    }

    public void setCityId(int cityId) {
        this.cityId = cityId;
    }

    public int getRegionId() {
        return regionId;
    }

    public void setRegionId(int regionId) {
        this.regionId = regionId;
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        return name;
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    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public String getAddress() {
        return address;
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    public void setAddress(String address) {
        this.address = address;
    }

    public String getDesc() {
        return desc;
    }

    public void setDesc(String desc) {
        this.desc = desc;
    }

    public double getLng() {
        return lng;
    }

    public void setLng(double lng) {
        this.lng = lng;
    }

    public double getLat() {
        return lat;
    }

    public void setLat(double lat) {
        this.lat = lat;
    }

    public String getRoute() {
        return route;
    }

    public void setRoute(String route) {
        this.route = route;
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}

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Nebraska has fared well during the recent financial recession. Five Fortune 500 companies are located in Omaha, Nebraska's biggest city, as are more than five colleges and universities. International students in Nebraska have opportunities in biosciences, financial services, precision metals manufacturing, renewable energy, and transportation, warehousing and distribution logistics because of the proximity of these Fortune 500 companies.


I get the point of this book in the series, I really do. This is where the rebellion catches fire, where everything starts anew, and that is the real point of the book. The problem is that part is extremely hard to tell in a first person perspective from someone who's not actually in the rebellion. As a result, we see the glimpses Katniss sees, spread out unevenly and without enough details to make it exciting or interesting. The first two halfs of the book are like this, which drags the score to a 4/5 down to a 3.
Then comes the games. While the last book's hunger games section focused on survival in the wilderness and defense, these hunger games focus on active war between the contestants as well as creative deduction. The idea for the new hunger games is clever and interesting, and it cleared my worries that Catching Fire would just be a repetition of Hunger Games.
The ending comes off somewhat deus ex machina, but not to a degree where it spoils the plot. The ending and the cliffhanger are much less anticlimactic than in The Hunger Games, which is a big plus.


Life can be such a roller coaster. Right when I think I've got my schedule and routine under control, life gets crazy and I get behind and can't catch up. Last week was one of those weeks where I had too many things to do and not enough time to get it all done. What suffered? My workouts. Is that always the first thing to go for you, too?
I only got two workouts in last week. It's been a long time since that happened. Why, oh why, did it have to happen during the Move More Challenge?! Gah! This is life, my friends. It's busy, messy, and crazy, and sometimes, everything doesn't fit together perfectly.
The good news is that even though I didn't get as many workouts in, I was aware of my activity and my steps were still decent. I didn't hit 10,000 every single day, but I was pretty close on the two days I didn't. I love having a Garmin watch to track my steps. It really helps keep me aware of how much I'm moving (or lack of movement).
We had friends come into town this weekend and my high school girlfriend had a fitness calendar with her. She schedules all of her workouts and keeps track of them from year to year. I may not be at that point, but it was inspiring! If you want to ensure you're going to get X number of workouts in, put them in your schedule! Look at your week, and plan exactly where you will fit them in. I've done that a little in the past, and it really does help. Time to get back on that train.
I hope that by focusing on moving more, this challenge has helped you to move forward in your fitness levels. Did you start a new habit? My off days are much more active than they were, so I feel like my mission was accomplished. I will keep it up in the coming months and I hope you do, too!
Are you ready to hear about the next challenge? May is the Use Less Plastic Challenge! Stay tuned for more details and LOTS of ideas to help you get dangerous plastics out of your home and life.
It is really sad, but workouts are the first to go for me, too.
I always strive to get to a point where I'm so consistent with my runs that I don't consider skipping an option, but unfortunately at some point my schedule always takes over.
I guess the important thing is to always start again.
Love that you focus on using less plastic. My husband and I started to reduce our plastic use a few years ago, and while we have reduced it quite drastically, we still find ways to reduce further. I think it's such an important step to take in order to keep your family healthy!


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Hinxton is a village in South Cambridgeshire, England.

The River Cam runs through the village, as does the Cambridge to Liverpool Street railway, though the village has no station. Hinxton parish's southern boundaries form the border between Cambridgeshire and Essex. The village is five miles (8 km) north-west of Saffron Walden and nine miles (14 km) south of Cambridge. The 2001 population was 315.

Hinxton is the home of the Wellcome Genome Campus, which includes the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the European Bioinformatics Institute.

History
The name Hinxton is a contraction of Hengestestun, "the town of Hengest".

The village of Hinxton is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Hestitona, as Hyngeston in the Ely Registers of 1341 and Hengestone in the Ramsey Chartulary. Its parish church is the medieval St Mary and St John Church.

Hinxton Hall
Hinxton Hall, set on an estate of  on the banks of the River Cam, is a Grade II* red-brick building built in the eighteenth century. It is currently used as a meetings venue, hosting the engagement and learning programmes of Wellcome Connecting Science.

History
The first house on the site of the hall was a modest hunting lodge built by Joseph Richardson of Horseheath in around 1740, before being sold to Thomas Brown of Ickleton in 1748, passing into the possession of his great-niece Mary Holden. Holden's first husband John Bromwell Jones pulled down the original house and built the present hall between 1748 and 1756. Subsequent owners extended the property and land.

In 1953, the owner, Col. R. P. W. Adeane of Babraham, sold the hall and estate to Tube Investments Ltd. for use as research laboratories, and new buildings were added on the grounds as laboratories. In 1992, the Hall and its estate was bought by the Wellcome Trust. The Hall was used by the Wellcome Sanger Institute and housed the early years of the UK's contribution to the Human Genome Project.

Hinxton Hall is referenced in E.M. Forster's novel The Longest Journey as the home of Emily Failing, the eccentric aunt of leading character Rickie Elliot.

Hinxton Mill
Hinxton Mill straddles the River Cam as it flows northward through the village. Although the present mill was built in the seventeenth century, it is almost certainly the site of the mill mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086.

The mill, used for grinding corn, ceased operation in 1955 and fell into disrepair until being restored in the 1980s with help from Cambridge Past, Present and Future who now own the building; it is open to visitors on about six days per year.

Hinxton Village Hall

The flint and brick building lies at the heart of the village, and dates back to Victorian times. Its community role began when the oldest part of the hall was opened as a reading room for villagers, a place to meet and keep up with the news and share books. Generations of Hinxton residents have cared for the building and over the last five years it has undergone a programme of sympathetic updating – to combine the best of traditional village life with modern amenities.

The village hall is in the High Street, next to the recreation ground. It can be hired for family parties, business and commercial events.

Village life
The village is home to the Red Lion public house, a seventeenth-century building that has been in use as a public house since at least 1841, though there are records of an inn in Hinxton in 1744.

See also
The Hundred Parishes

References

External links

Civil parishes in Cambridgeshire
Hinxton
South Cambridgeshire District
Villages in Cambridgeshire

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Anyone who knows my opinions concerning Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series might wonder why I bothered to see the second film in the four-part saga, perhaps even assuming that I went only to snipe the picture to rain on the fans' parade. That simply isn't true: first of all, this blog doesn't get enough traffic to offend a significant portion of any demographic. Second, I went because, if I expect to be a film critic when I graduate, I should prepare myself now to check out whatever movie ignites the zeitgeist, regardless of whether it interests me. Besides, New Moon is such a tedious bore that anyone who goes in relishing the opportunity to make catty comments and project an air of superiority will be too lulled to do anything.
New Moon picks up a few months after Twilight ended. It's Bella's 18th birthday, but she's so wound-up over her vampiric boyfriend's agelessness that she she openly fears her birthday as a sign of growing old. At 18. Edward assures her that her concerns border on the obsessive (it's all relative, remember; he stands at the foot of her bed at night) and that he'd love her even if she was old, because that's how much he loves her. She pauses. Her pause gives him pause. That night, Bella celebrates the birthday she doesn't want to celebrate with Edward's vampire family. She gets a paper cut from opening her card, and it bleeds like a minor stab wound, awakening the vampires' bloodlust. This reminds Edward what their relationship risks, so he breaks up with Bella and disappears.
This brief bit of plot setup takes long enough, but that's nothing compared to what's in store. Bella spends three months or so locked away from the world, wracked by inhuman grief. Chris Weitz took over the director's chair for Catherine Hardwicke, and he appears to have made the bold auteurial choice to make the passage of these three months feel as close to real-time as possible. Bella is not simply sad; she's devastated. She suffers screaming nightmares constantly, her shrieks rating somewhere between a child crying in a restaurant and "Crazy Frog" on the list of Things That Are Insufferably Annoying. Eventually, she discovers that adrenaline rushes fuel visions of Edward and, desperate to see even an apparition of the moody sparkler, she buys two rusted old motorbikes and takes them to her old friend Jacob (Taylor Lautner) to repair. Jacob tries his best to be there for the girl he loves: Bella hits her head on a rock, Jacob takes off his shirt.
Naturally, with Edward gone and Jacob standing in that "I never knew you were so handsome" light, Bella must decide between pale,sub-poetic stalker vampire Edward and kind, friendly werewolf Jacob (oh right, forgot to mention: Jacob is a werewolf). But Bella can't help herself: when presented with the nicer, more supportive and, frankly, better-looking Jacob, she can't stop thinking about Edward as his professions that seem to come less from Shakespeare and more from George Lucas. Not that her choice really matters: everyone involved in this love story is so repressed that I kept waiting for one to explode in a sticky blast of backed-up sexual effluent.
If it seems like I'm summarizing this film, know that I'm simply writing about the few things that actually happen. This movie is interminable: the pauses have pauses. It's like Antonioni by way of My Chemical Romance. In my review of Twilight I did my best to defend its stars against the material they had to speak, but I've run out of excuses: Pattinson, his part mercifully reduced, reads his few lines as if embarrassed by them (though who could blame him?). Stewart, so intriguing in Into the Wild and Adventureland, is dead-eyed and vacuous; Bella intrigues the vampire cult known as the Volturi (lead by Michael Sheen in an over-the-top performance that genuinely made me wince) because they cannot read her thoughts, but that's only because she's an empty cipher of a character, there to stand-in for its audience to project themselves into the story. However, Bella, fawned over by gorgeous men and scrutinized by elite vampires, doesn't so much represent the normal girl discovering her inner beauty but the popular girl with the body image issues. That's a perfectly valid person to study, but there's something unsettling about propping this type of character up as a role model when Bella sets herself up as a beacon of helplessness and incompetence . At the end, she stands between Jacob and Edward and begs Jake not to make her choose between them. Well, you have to, Bella. What are you supposed to be, a Morm-oh, right.
Only Lautner gives a decent performance, one rooted in some semblance of reality as the boy who can only ever be just a friend. Having put down the first book a hundred pages in out of anger, I never got to this aspect of the story, so I was surprised to see how much better in every way Jacob is to Edward. If that places me in "Team Jacob," so be it. I actually felt sorry for Lautner when his character had to turn into Meyer's idea of a werewolf, which is essentially nothing more than a large dog (I shouldn't have been surprised; look at her idea of a vampire).
Visually, New Moon bests its predecessor, as it dropped that sickening blue tint that Hardwicke inexplicably used for Twilight. Otherwise, however, nothing about Weitz's direction is particularly pleasing, and I feel like I only appreciated his aesthetically neutral touch when compared to Hardwicke's tinting an laughable camera movements. He does give us one good moment though, when Bella flies to Italy on Virgin Airlines. Weitz was given a script in which almost nothing happens, and he does nothing to pass the time, only tilting and panning his camera near the end in a vain and ill-fitting attempt to breathe some life into the film. New Moon follows a circuitous path, opening with a vision of what's to come in the climax, but by the time we get there it's impossible to care anymore; I'd been so lulled into delusion by that point that I worried for a moment that the whole thing would just start again, a never-ending spiral that led down to some level of hell Dante could not conceive. New Moon is simply one long, sleepy pause interspersed with the odd sexual fantasy. This isn't a film; it's an Ambien-induced hallucination.
In the end, though, I do not wish to project onto the fans, as many of the series' detractors have. I certainly don't agree with the characterizations, but I also don't think that any but perhaps a minuscule few would accept someone behaving like Edward in real life as romantic. This is merely a venue for young girls to vent all their obscene, shrieking excitement, which is just fine. Many seemed bored by the end of this seemingly endless film, but they'll be back, just as all of us men hated The Phantom Menace and still showed up for Attack of the Clones, which was even worse. To be honest, I find the Twilight phenom fascinating and revelatory: the rampant hysteria over the franchise and the degree to which women across a surprising age range connect to this admittedly questionable vampire lover opens up interesting dialogues concerning not just female under-representation at the cineplex but also a national feeling of sexual repression that should not be so casually dismissed by a bunch of chortling men who conveniently ignore the Star Trek and Star Wars conventions that endure to this day. Ignoring these feelings is what led to Twilight in the first place.
Labels: 2009, Ashley Greene, Billy Burke, Chris Weitz, Kristen Stewart, Nikki Reed, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner
Hokahey November 26, 2009 at 3:34 PM
Jake - You are incredibly prolific! I'm impressed!
I like your closing remarks here. Having read Twilight and the first third of New Moon, and having discussed the series with my teenage students who love it or hate it, it's interesting to me that fans are so passionate about a pretty basic love story: the lonely outsider girl torn between two guys. Also, there's not a lot of conflict in the books. In the first book, Bella and Edward engage in pages and pages of repetitious dialogue. But Bella certainly has a passion for Edward, and that's what the female fans tap into. Also, I'm intrigued by your "sexual repression" comment above. There's that and a lot of sexual tension in the movies; I guess that's a powerful theme.
Spencer April 13, 2010 at 9:33 PM
I've been trying to understand why this franchise(books and movies) have become so popular with the ladies, and what one person that I know said was that, especially in the books, they could relate to Bella, and they like the idea of there being a vampire guy that's in love with them in a weird, passionate way.
There's of course those fat, single girls out there that can't help but love these books, even if maybe they know they're bad. It's a fan-service. The movies were made, not with any good intention, but just because the books were popular. It seems a little sad to me.
(This is one of the last comments that I'll be posting. I'm taking a 3-month leaving, on account of my mistakes.)
I loved Twilight, I did! I still recognised its flaws but I loved it. There is something, I can´t quite put my finger on it, that fascinates me. But New Moon was nowhere near Twilight! I still liked it, but it felt disappointing mainly because I hate Bella.
So, I liked New Moon but I can definitively agree with the bad reviews.
And I too am surprised as to why this is so popular.
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Banyan's roots were established in the north east end of the city. The Kiwanis Club of Hamilton East, as a service club, provided the leadership and fundraising that led to the creation of the Hamilton East Kiwanis Boys' (and Girls') Club in the 1940s. Members of the Kiwanis Club provided the volunteer board leadership, and in many cases, the volunteer program delivery that evolved into a very vibrant and key organization in the northeast end of the city.
It was under the leadership of the Kiwanis Boys' and Girls' Club Board of Directors, and the Executive Director that the Kiwanis Boys' and Girls' Club took its first community development/service steps through the development of a group home for teenagers who found themselves in conflict with the law, George R. Force Group Home.
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In 1994, the organization was offered the opportunity to assume responsibility for a local secure custody youth justice program; Peninsula Youth Centre. The next step in our journey to acquire significant expertise and provide community leadership in the youth justice service sector occurred in 1999 when Arrell Youth Centre came under the management of the organization.
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Actor Owen Wilson welcomes second baby boy
Owen Wilson has welcomed a second baby boy.
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By Nardine Saad
Owen Wilson has a new little intern to keep track of: The actor now has a second child.
Wilson, 45, and Caroline Lindqvist, welcomed their new baby boy on Thursday, his rep told People.
"I can confirm they had a baby boy on Thursday morning," the "Cars 2" actor's rep said in a statement.
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The floppy-haired actor, whose next projects include "A Night At the Museum 3" and the crime drama "Inherent Vice," is already father to Ford, 2, his son with ex-girlfriend Jane Duell. The couple reportedly called it quits five months after Ford was born but Wilson still remains actively involved in his first son's life, even bringing him along to play with costar Vince Vaughn's kids on the set of "The Internship."
This is the first child for Lindqvist, a Swedish personal trainer, whose pregnancy news broke last October.
The pair is not living together and Lindqvist reportedly told Swedish publication Klick! that she and Wilson had never been in a committed relationship but both wanted to have a baby so they decided to do it together, according to the Daily Mail.
"Owen and I decided to have a child even though we're not in a relationship. And we're not planning on starting a relationship, either," she said, adding, "Owen and I are two close friends having a baby together. We are really looking forward to it and can't wait to welcome our child at the end of January."
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Lindqvist also shut down rumors that Wilson had been one of her clients and that she met him in 2003, when he is said to have hired her as his personal trainer. Rather, they met in 2007 after he split with his then-girlfriend Kate Hudson, Lindqvist said.
A source told People that the actor would be quite involved with the pregnancy, going to doctor's appointments and making sure Lindqvist was "doing well."
"Owen plans to be involved with the baby and help raise him," another source told Us Weekly.
No further details were available about Wilson's latest addition but here's hoping they give him another automobile-inspired name.
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Q: split and flatten array of comma separated strings What is the best way to convert:
const a = ["jan,feb,may", "apr,may,sept,oct", "nov,jan,mar", "dec", "oct,feb,jan"]

to
const res = ["jan","feb","may","apr","may","sept","oct","nov","jan","mar","dec","oct","feb","jan"]

PS: in javascript, I tried using array.reduce() and split method. but that didn't work. here is what I tried
let flat = arr.reduce((arr, item) => [...arr, ...item.split(',')]);

A: Using Array#flatMap and String#split:

const a = ["jan,feb,may", "apr,may,sept,oct", "nov,jan,mar", "dec", "oct,feb,jan"];

const res = a.flatMap(e => e.split(','));

console.log(res);

A: In this case you could just join and split again:

const a = ["jan,feb,may", "apr,may,sept,oct", "nov,jan,mar", "dec", "oct,feb,jan"];

const res = a.join().split(',');

console.log(res);

Or implicitly joining:

const a = ["jan,feb,may", "apr,may,sept,oct", "nov,jan,mar", "dec", "oct,feb,jan"];

const res = "".split.call(a, ",");

console.log(res);

Or implicitly joining when splitting with a regex method:

const a = ["jan,feb,may", "apr,may,sept,oct", "nov,jan,mar", "dec", "oct,feb,jan"];

const res = /,/[Symbol.split](a);

console.log(res);


Spices In the pressure cooker Ready to cook Ready for baking In the pan ready to go in the oven Out of the oven Tasty broth left behind Placing broth into silicon molds for freezing Setting chicken on cooke sheets for freezing A few minutes in the toaster oven and ready to eat! Ready to be devoured! Frozen broth to be used in soups and other recipes!
Tuesday night is All Day Chicken cooking night for my husband and I. When you have picky eaters living in your house you need extra inspiration for cooking. But sometimes you stumble on something simple they really love and end up having to make lots of it! That is how this recipe got created. One of the things our kids love is chicken drummies. Our butcher at Whole Foods is so kind to separate these drummies from the chicken wings for us every week! But you can use chicken legs, chicken wings or chicken tenderloin for example.
Make sure to do your meat pick up the same day our butcher gets his meat delivery.
Bring a cooler and ice with you to keep the meat as cold as possible.
Cook your meat the day of purchase.
Use a pressure to cook your meat! It's the best method to get the most nutrients out of your meat in the shortest amount of time and the high temperatures keep histamine from forming.
Freeze your meat and broth as soon as it is out of the stove. This method keeps it fresh and stops bacteria from growing and producing histamine.
In just a couple hours we have delicious and nutritious crispy chicken for an entire week!
This recipe is great for freezing and eating all week long! Pull it out of your freezer and into your oven/toaster oven and you will have delicious crispy chicken in 5-10 minutes! It doubles as a chicken broth recipe that you can in soups, sauces or in your daily cup of broth!
In a blender add all ingredients, except chicken, and cover with filtered water.
Blend until liquified (about 1 minute).
In a large pressure cooker (or large pot) add chicken and blended mixture.
Add enough filtered water to cover chicken and cover pot with lid.
If using a pot: Bring it to a boil on hight heat (about 20 minutes). Lower to medium-low and cook for 1 hour.
If using a pressure cooker: On high heat wait until the pressure builds up (about 20 minutes). Turn off heat and let it sit for about 5 minutes. Move your pot to the sink. Using the quick steam release, depressurize the pot. This will take a couple minutes.
Quick tip: Moving pot to the sink makes it easier to handle and keeps the mess to a minimum!
In the mean time, preheat oven to 375F .
Take the drummettes from the broth with a slotted spoon and place them into a large pan. We use pyrex casserole pans and it takes about 3 pans.
Place the pans in the oven and set the timer for 20 minutes. Once that 20 minutes is up, remove the pans and use your slotted spoon, mix up the chicken to get the underside somewhat browned as well. Then put them back in the oven for another 20 minutes.
After you initially get the chicken in the oven, strain the leftover chicken stock and then ladle it into silicone molds for freezing. This is excellent broth for other dishes or for my Morning Glory Chicken Broth recipe.


The table below shows the constructors whose cars appears in USAC races between 1971 and 1978.
Everything is open to interpretation of course: the Dragon and Kingfish were both Grant King cars and should probably be grouped together, the Ras-Car could be regarded as a reworked Atlanta and the Kenyon-Coyote and the Colt-Lola could also be seen as a Coyote and a Lola respectively. One or more of the Finleys and the Webster may turn out to be something else and it is possible that more Halibrands, Huffakers and Watsons may emerge as the research continues.
The 'Kramer' that appeared on a previous version of this page was found to be a 1965 Vollstedt entered by Larry Kramer, the 'Seymour' was Louis Seymour's old Gerhardt-Chev and the 'Kenyon' was just another name for a 1971 Kuzma. The Webster that appeared at Ontario in 1976 was Webster Racing's 1972 Eagle. Efforts continue to ascertain if Larry Cannon's 1971 'Autotron Special' was really the Philipp. The Epperly is now included as it appeared at two 1971 meetings but didn't start either race.


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Promises, justice broken
Senior Prosecutor Vernon Roanhorse looks through files at his office in Tohajilee, New Mexico on the Navajo reservation.
Ben Franciso, right, with his wife talks about the day he was assaulted in Tohajilee, New Mexico on the Navajo Reservation.
A 12-year-old victim of sexuall molestation looks outside her front door of her families home in Tohajilee, New Mexico on the Navajo Reservation. She reported to police that her uncle, who lives across the street, molested her many time throughout a year. She is now scared to go outside her home.
By Michael Riley | mriley@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: November 10, 2007 at 12:48 p.m. | UPDATED: May 7, 2016 at 4:58 p.m.
In the stacks of thick folders that cover Jonnie Bray's desk, there are tales of monsters.
The one in her hand starts on a winter night in 2003, when Ronnie Tom tries to rape the 12-year-old sister of his live-in girlfriend on the Colville Indian Reservation in eastern Washington. When she manages to escape, he moves on to his girlfriend's 7-year-old daughter who is nearby, and here he succeeds.
Bray, a Colville Indian and one of the tribe's prosecutors, said an expert forensics interviewer found the 7-year-old's testimony recounting the rape clear and credible. And a sexual-predator profile of Tom warned that he should never be allowed to be alone with children, including his own, or live "near places designed for children, such as schools, playgrounds (or) swimming pools."
But Tom was never charged with a felony crime. That's because here, as on the majority of the country's nearly 300 Indian reservations, the sole authority to prosecute felony crime lies with the federal government. One hundred fifty miles away in Spokane, an assistant U.S. attorney – faced with a distant case and a 7-year-old witness – simply declined to prosecute, something that crime data show they do in 65 percent of all reservation cases.
Now Ronnie Tom is out of jail, freed after serving less than two years on the equivalent of misdemeanor charges Bray cobbled together in tribal court, including a separate incident involving the 12-year-old discovered later. Bray said he is again living with his girlfriend and their new child – a girl.
"He is a danger to our community and to any community," Bray said. "I was just disgusted. I don't think I've ever spoken to that U.S. attorney again."
Already some of the most violent and impoverished places in America, facing a steep rise in meth-fueled crime, the country's Indian reservations are also plagued by a systematic breakdown in the delivery of justice, a six-month investigation by The Denver Post found.
U.S. attorneys and FBI investigators face huge challenges fighting crime on reservations: They are viewed as outsiders who shouldn't be trusted; locations are remote; the high levels of alcohol use among victims, suspects and witnesses that accompany many serious crimes can also make them very difficult to prove, several U.S. attorneys said.
"We have the obligation before proceeding to a grand jury to make sure we have a prosecutable case," said James A. McDevitt, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, who said he could speak only generally and couldn't comment on why his assistants rejected the Tom case. "We're not in the business of taking cases we're going to lose."
But the system is also badly dysfunctional, insiders say, burdened by competing federal priorities such as immigration and terrorism and undermined by institutional resistance to using the high-powered federal judicial machine to prosecute run-of-the-mill violent crime.
"I've had (assistant U.S. attorneys) look right at me and say, 'I did not sign up for this,"' said Margaret Chiara, who until March was the U.S. attorney for western Michigan, with jurisdiction over several reservations. "They want to do big drug cases, white-collar crime and conspiracy.
"And I'll tell you, the vast majority of the judges feel the same way. They will look at these Indian Country cases and say, 'What is this doing here? I could have stayed in state court if I wanted this stuff,"' she said.
"It's a terrible indifference, which is dangerous because lives are involved."
Most cases rejected
A review by The Post of dozens of criminal cases on more than 20 reservations substantiates widely held concerns among American Indians that the system as it now stands functions poorly, including investigations that are chronically delayed or dropped, and serious crimes never prosecuted as felonies.
On the Fort Peck reservation in Montana, a man recently assaulted his girlfriend and broke her jaw, a result that didn't count as "serious bodily injury," according to the U.S. attorney, who therefore declined the case. According to the tribal prosecutor, who was forced to charge the suspect in tribal court, the same man has since committed several other crimes, "literally wreaking havoc here," she said.
On the Blackfeet reservation on a remote stretch of the Canadian border, a 41-year-old mentally handicapped woman named Maria Kennerly allegedly was raped by a neighbor more than a year ago. With no word yet on the progress of the investigation and with the neighbor still living next door, Kennerly's mother said she now keeps her daughter under constant supervision, virtually a prisoner in her own home.
And on the Navajo reservation in Arizona, federal prosecutors recently declined to prosecute the rape and incest case of a man who had sex with his 23-year-old daughter after she had passed out following a family party. The federal prosecutor cited lack of a viable DNA sample on the condom used by the father, Larry Nez. Faced with the testimony of the victim, Nez pleaded guilty in tribal court but served just 60 days in a Navajo jail.
With prosecutors and investigators exercising wide discretion, the effectiveness of justice on reservations varies widely, swayed by personal relationships, the commitment of individual agents or prosecutors, even such vagaries as distance. A General Accounting Office report in the 1980s found that the farther a reservation was from an FBI field office, the higher the percentage of felony prosecutions that were declined.
The sometimes inconsistent politics of tribal sovereignty haven't helped, some American Indians concede. A decades-long effort to shift more police powers to the tribes hasn't necessarily been matched by tribal governments' willingness to fully pay for and professionalize those ranks. A primary reason so many cases are rejected, federal prosecutors complain, is botched crime scenes or poorly prepared cases by tribal investigators who aid the FBI.
"It has been too easy for everybody to fall into role- playing on the federal part of it," said Philip S. Deloria, director of the American Indian Law Center in Albuquerque and a member of the Standing Rock Sioux. "The FBI doesn't care. The U.S. attorneys are unfeeling. And so the Indians pay the price.
"That's not entirely untrue," he said, "but it's not as exhaustive an explanation as it might seem."
Deep sense of anger
But taken together, data and interviews from reservations across the country show vast gaps in justice in Indian Country that have spawned a deeply felt rage over what is seen as the latest in the federal government's string of failures concerning American Indians.
"They've created a lawless land," Vernon Roanhorse, a Navajo tribal prosecutor, said of the federal justice system.
Among The Post's findings:
Between 1997 and 2006, federal prosecutors rejected nearly two-thirds of the reservation cases brought to them by FBI and Bureau of Indian Affairs investigators, more than twice the rejection rate for all federally prosecuted crime. As prosecutors and investigators triage scarce resources or focus on new priorities such as terrorism, hundreds of serious cases of aggravated assault, rape and child sexual abuse occurring on reservations are sent instead through tribal misdemeanor courts.
Investigative resources are spread so thin that federal agents are forced to focus only on the highest-priority felonies while letting the investigation of some serious crime languish for years. Long delays in investigations without arrest leave child sexual assault victims vulnerable or suspects free to commit other crimes, including, in two cases The Post found, homicide.
With overwhelmed federal agents unable to complete thousands of investigations or supplement those done by poorly trained tribal police, many low-priority felonies never make it to federal prosecutors in the first place. Of the nearly 5,900 aggravated assaults reported on reservations in fiscal year 2006, only 558 were referred to federal prosecutors, who declined to prosecute 320 of them, according to data from the Interior Department and the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, or TRAC, at Syracuse University. Of more than 1,000 arson complaints reported last year on Indian reservations, 24 were referred to U.S. attorneys, who declined to prosecute 18 of them.
After decades of complaints, Congress has doubled the amount of money allocated to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for tribal police. But that increase – to $200 million this year – has been largely spent on patrol officers and chasing misdemeanor crimes. Federal investigators and prosecutors have also received sizable boosts in their budgets for work in Indian Country, but those increases have failed to produce a perceptible rise in the number of investigations or prosecutions from reservations.
While some tribal authorities are demanding stepped-up federal enforcement, the debate over sovereignty has complicated a unified cry for reform. Efforts in the 1990s to increase federal agents assigned to Indian Country or place more federal magistrate judges there were opposed by some tribes because they enhanced federal power. And any effort to give tribes more authority over felony crimes would have to be optional, Indian Country experts say, because some tribes – whose resources and commitment to law enforcement vary – wouldn't be willing to pay for it.
Low expectations
Of the many costs of those failures, the worst may be this: Many people on reservations no longer expect justice.
Anna Yellow Owl, a slight 39-year-old woman who lives on Montana's Blackfeet reservation, was trying to protect her 18-year-old son from an angry neighbor three years ago when the man struck her in the face, causing partial loss of use of one eye, surgery and permanent disfigurement.
"Every morning when I'd get up, every time I'd wash my hands, I'd look in the mirror and see my face.
"I know what I used to look like," Yellow Owl said. "I was so angry."
But while the attack took place in midafternoon in front of 14 witnesses, it took nearly two years – until early 2006 – for the FBI to complete its investigation and for the U.S. attorney to decide to prosecute the case. Having recently lost a daughter in an auto accident, Yellow Owl told the FBI agent who finally called that it was too late; she no longer wanted to pursue the matter.
"If they had only acted right away," she said.
"As a woman on a reservation, I've always been treated as a second-class citizen, and I've gotten used to it. I try not to let it get me upset. But justice doesn't happen here."
It's a despair that echoes through Indian Country.
On the Crow reservation in Montana, a 6-year-old girl allegedly was sexually assaulted by a family member, but according to the tribal prosecutor, the case is still under investigation by the FBI nearly three years later. Frustrated by the delay, the Crow prosecutor recently filed charges in tribal misdemeanor court, only to realize that the delay in the case put it beyond the tribe's statute of limitations.
On South Dakota's Cheyenne River reservation, three men broke into a house, stealing several thousand dollars' worth of property. When tribal detectives failed to investigate thoroughly, the victim spent weeks collecting evidence himself. Based on that investigation, the U.S. attorney filed an indictment, and all three pleaded guilty to burglary, the tribe's prosecutor said. It turned out that a key piece of evidence – a plate covered with the thieves' fingerprints and which tribal detectives swore they had sent to a forensics lab – was found months later in the tribe's evidence room.
Straddling old and new
Few places show the system's breakdown so readily as the collection of towns and remote villages tucked in the folds of the country's largest reservation – the land of the Dinè, the Children of God, as the Navajo call themselves.
Navajo society straddles both old and new: The tribe has one of Indian Country's most advanced judicial systems but one of its worst prison systems. Women adorned in sweeping traditional skirts swish through the doors at Wendy's, their faces deeply creased by the desert sun.
A small offshoot set away from the main reservation, the enclave of To'hajiilee (pronounced Toe-hajee-lay) just west of Albuquerque is in many ways typical. At the end of 5 miles of deteriorating road, it dissolves into clusters of villages organized along clan lines and fiercely private.
But the peaceful veneer is deceptive. Alcoholism and drug use are chronic, and from that stems crime that is at once brutal and intimate – often committed by family members, but certainly among people who know each other: Rape. Bloody beatings. The physical and sexual assault of children.
Trying to trace what happens once those crimes are reported is difficult, even for Vernon Roanhorse, To'hajiilee's veteran tribal prosecutor, whose frustration is evident as he flips through a tall stack of recent case files.
Pulling out a blue folder, Roanhorse scans the case of a 4-year-old girl who doctors at a tribal clinic suspect had been molested by her father. Following tribal protocol, they contacted authorities in March 2006, when the girl was brought to the hospital, but neither the Navajo police nor the FBI seems to have investigated the report, and the case remains in limbo, he said.
Grabbing another folder, this one red, Roanhorse scans the file of Ben Francisco. The 45-year-old Navajo man was driving a truck on a muddy road in January 2007 when he slid into another car. The two men inside pulled him from the cab, beating him with a bat so badly that he had to be flown by helicopter to an Albuquerque hospital, where a metal plate was put in his cheek. In seven months, the FBI had never interviewed Francisco, the victim said, and no arrests had been made, though both suspects had been identified.
The FBI office in Albuquerque declined to comment on any Indian Country cases in New Mexico, either closed or ongoing. Capt. Robert Platero, the Navajo head of criminal investigations for the area that includes To'hajiilee, said the FBI is notified of cases his investigators are working on through weekly reports, cooperating with his agents on those most likely to go before federal prosecutors.
But in many cases, the reality is less smooth – and highlights a badly fragmented system in which neither the tribe nor the FBI takes responsibility for ensuring that serious crime is fully investigated.
To begin with, Roanhorse said, the Navajo tribe's own investigator assigned to the community works out of his home 30 minutes away in Albuquerque. On one Tuesday this summer, his office mailbox was full, and the last time Roanhorse or any of his staff had seen him in the office was two months before.
Division of duties
In the case of child sexual assault – to take the example of one crime that seems to plague this reservation – tribal and federal investigators divide the cases by a rough rule of thumb: Federal investigators usually take the lead when the victim is 9 or younger, authorities say; tribal investigators take the lead with older victims. But federal prosecutors often decline those cases precisely because the victim has been interviewed too many times or by investigators who aren't specially trained to handle child sexual assault – as few Navajo investigators are.
One of the files on Roanhorse's desk is for Kim Platero's 12-year-old daughter, who reported to police in October 2006 that she had been sexually molested more than a dozen times by a neighbor beginning at the age of 11.
Over the past year, as the investigation languished, Platero (who is no relation to the Navajo investigator) said her daughter spent most of her time cooped up in a small bedroom, the suspect's house clearly visible through a curtained window. Her sleep habits changed, and her daughter's personality, once outgoing, became dark.
In such a tight-knit community, it's difficult to step forward. But Platero's experience as a sexual assault counselor convinced her it was important.
Platero's daughter told a tribal investigator that she was molested several times while babysitting, the neighbor escalating contact over a period of months. He once lay on top of her and masturbated, the child told police. Another time, he allegedly reached beneath her underpants to touch her vaginal area.
Roanhorse said the FBI apparently is aware of the case but in nearly a year had never contacted Platero, followed up on the tribal police's initial interview of her daughter or, as far as the mother can tell, talked to the suspect, a distant family relative.
The tribe's social services department recently lost the only caseworker who served To'hajiilee. The U.S. attorney's office in Albuquerque wouldn't confirm whether it knew of the case or the status of any federal investigation.
Even if Roanhorse wanted to take the case through misdemeanor tribal court, it hardly merits the effort. Navajo jails are so crowded that the community of To'hajiilee is allocated space for just one prisoner at a time, creating what amounts to a revolving jailhouse door.
To Platero, who occasionally calls authorities for an update, always without luck, it shows how a system with overlapping opportunities for intervention can also fail multiple times.
When two strangers came to the door in July, Platero said her daughter "was really excited because she thought (they) were the FBI," only to be disappointed by a pair of journalists.
Tired of waiting and worried about her daughter's deteriorating emotional state, Platero finally moved off the reservation in September, convinced it was the only way to protect her family.
"It's hard for me to explain to her why nothing is happening," Platero said.
"If this had happened in Albuquerque, something would have been done."
Staff researchers Barbara Hudson and Barry Osborne contributed to this report. Michael Riley: 303-954-1614 or mriley@denverpost.com
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Unsustainable Debate
Paul Page | Jan 08, 2006 7:00PM EST
I don't know about you, but I'm fatigued by the hours of service debate.
It's been more than 10 years since Congress ordered the federal government to rewrite outdated regulations governing truck driver work hours, rules written when a highway was a two-lane road and horsepower could still mean horses.
The first attempt collapsed in 2000 in the face of opposition from the trucking industry and consumer advocacy groups. The second attempt was overturned in 2004 when a federal appeals court ruled the government failed to address its impact on driver health. Now the third iteration of the new rules is under attack by its usual opponents - highway safety advocates and consumer groups led by Public Citizen that oppose the general thrust of the rules - and some less typical opponents - owner-operators, shippers and trucking interests that want specific provisions changed.
They face a Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration that seems to have drawn a line in the sand and is fighting hard not to be dragged across it.
The FMCSA recently denied several petitions asking it to reconsider its latest version of the rules and tried to get them written into law. It is still considering a petition from Public Citizen, which can expect a response from the agency anytime this millennium. After all, there are no limits on the hours FMCSA may take to review a petition.
Hours of service is arguably the most important issue before the FMCSA. Tired truckers who exceed allowable hours put other people in harm's way. What's frustrating is the level of polarization that has opponents in this debate deadlocked and heading full-throttle toward the courtroom. To some, a federal court ruling may now seem the best chance to win a final decision on what the HOS rules should allow. But do we really want courts deciding these matters?
It may not be the courts but changing industry dynamics that finally decide this debate. If you can't find drivers for your trucks, does it matter whether someone's allowed to drive them eight, 10 or 11 hours a day? In a recent Traffic World article, Tom Weisz, the founder of TMW Systems and a leading innovator in trucking technology, said the current model of trucking is unsustainable in the long run - meaning 15 or 20 years.
The reason is the driver shortage. And the reasons for the driver shortage remain the same: poor pay, long hours and bad working conditions. "Not much of a lifestyle," as one trucking executive put it.
Trucking for years based its business model on a steady supply of "guys in rubber boots," as a driver once told me. Those guys haven't disappeared; they now take jobs that don't require them to work up to 14 hours a day and spend weeks away from their families. Oh, and they also want more money, hence Heartland Express's recent pay hike.
At the same time, more freight is moving shorter distances in expedited lanes and the high cost of fuel is pushing more long-haul freight toward intermodal rails.
Trucking is changing in ways that are hard to foresee. Let's hope those changes not only help companies hire more drivers but keep tired truckers at home and off the road.


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The Effects of Interferons on COVID-19.
By stuart13
The number of COVID cases in the U.S. alone has well surpassed six million, and is still climbing daily. This is obviously a growing and dangerous pandemic that is rendering a lot of conversation for a cure. Some recent studies have shown that interferons, could be the answer that everyone is looking for. A recent study on interferons, and their role in viral cell apoptosis, indicates a possible cure with global ramifications to any and all people affected by COVID-19.
Interferons are proteins that reside in the body and are released to fight viral matter in the immune system. Interferons have been instrumental to the discovery cures or antidotes to many other viral matters and have played a key part in the cure to viruses like, Sars, HIV, and HCV. It has even been a key experimental focus for the possible cure to cancer. It has also been noted that interferons are fairly effective against viral matter in the short and long term.
While interferons are a relatively effective and smart choice, they're some drawbacks to using solely interferons for the combat of COVID. Studies carried out by the Francis Crick Institute, have shown that without proper timing and extreme care, interferons can actually slow or even halt the reparation of lung tissue. This is incredibly unfortunate because interferons engage the viral matter in the lungs, and then could potentially make you even sicker from a less harmful virus. However, studies have shown that with proper timing and extreme care, the risks of using these proteins with or without other bodily agents can be severely reduced.
This experiment in the Emerging Microbes and Infections Journal tested the effectiveness of interferons alone, and interferons paired with other bodily functions against viral matter. Interferons when administered or released perform a process called, apoptosis, which is essentially the programmed deaths of cells. So, it speeds up the process of killing viral cells. Specifically, the researchers experimented against HCV. HCV or Hepatitis C Virus is a dangerous virus that can land you in a very ill state. It is also believed to be one of the main causes for liver cancer. These researchers had experimented with the same methods for some other viruses such as, HIV, Influenza, Sars, and even cancer. This is ultimately why this study was conducted and why these interferons are now being heralded as a possible cure to COVID. However, this study was mainly focused on the performance and speed of interferons against HCV in specific.
This study showed how the researchers released these interferons separately, and along with other bodily agents, like ISGs. ISGs or Interferon-stimulated genes are genes that are stimulated expressively by interferons. The product of ISGs is controlling pathogenic infections and illnesses. They studied the results of the interferons' efficiency with or without other bodily agents present during a six-hour time frame, and a twenty-four-hour time frame. The results were staggering, showing that interferons alone were extremely fast and effective in the first six hours, but harshly fell off after that. The opposite was seen with the combination however. The efficiency of the interferons along with other bodily proteins, including ISGs, were slow and ineffective throughout the first six hours, but showed tremendous improvements after twenty-four hours. So, it proved that if engineered correctly and given at the right time, interferons alone or with other bodily operatives could prove some very impressive and optimistic results.
This experiment was certainly not the first and most certainly not the last to experiment with these incredible proteins. However, this study was regarded highly both in method and purpose and has shown tremendous results. This study along with all of the previous studies done with these proteins and how they affected viral matter in the immune system, have put the world's foot in the door to the possible cure of all dangerous immunosuppressant viruses. The impact of this study and the previous studies have surfaced globally in the wake of COVID, which is a hopeful sight for everybody.
The previously mentioned study was conducted thoroughly and extremely professionally. This inquiry also had many predecessors to go off of so it was very concise and straight to the point. It left very little room for ethical and controversial problems. It also left little to no space for sample bias or any voluntary response bias. The only thing I would change about this study in particular is that it needed to provide more specific numbers and statistics about the study itself. There could have been more graphs and charts to convey the data for better interpretation and understanding.
In conclusion, these examinations and further inquiries into these interferons have provided us with more knowledge and a better understanding of these proteins. COVID-19 is a growing pandemic that has well surpassed six million cases in the U.S. and has passed a staggering twenty-seven million confirmed cases globally. Interferons and their amazing properties that they possess provide immense hope for the people all over the globe. These incredible proteins are already being experimented with, in resolve to COVID, and are undergoing trial four for testing. As more experiments are done, and more information is provided as a result of these studies, the world could be as close as they have ever been in taking down COVID.
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The Tyrannicide Brief: The Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold
By Geoffrey Robertson
End of year book lists
C. Max Magee
With Thanksgiving come and gone, the end of year best book lists are beginning to arrive. The New York Times list is 100 strong as usual, and despite not being particularly exclusive, the accolade is sure to grace the covers of the paperback editions of many of these books. It's good marketing really. Something about that word "Notable" (along with the Times name, of course) on the cover of a book makes browsing readers want to pick it up.The Guardian has a less conventional list up. For that list, a number of well-known writers share their favorite books of the year. Hilary Mantel's Beyond Black makes an impressive showing, cited by John Banville, AS Byatt, Philip Pullman and Zadie Smith. Mantel herself names John McGahern's Memoir and The Tyrannicide Brief by Geoffrey Robertson. The New Yorker ran a substantial piece on Mantel earlier this year. I love that the Guardian runs features like this, and I wish that there were an American paper that would do the same thing with American writers.


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Harri Sjöström
Born February 29 1952 in Turku, Finland. Played piano and guitar in his childhood. Studied music with Harry Mann, (saxophone, flute, piano), later saxophone with Leo Wright and Steve Lacy as well as photography and film at the Lone Mountain College and San Francisco Art Institute from 1974 - 1978. Also attended the special class for improvisation at the L.M.C. led by trombonist Johannes Mager.
This joyful, creative and intensive experience with improvisation (musical and theatrical) captivated him so much that since then he has nearly always worked with improvised music and in numerous mixed media projects including film, photography, visual arts and dance. Has also participated in workshops held by John Cage, Georg Russell, Steve Lacy and Bill Dixon among others.
After leaving the U.S., Harri moved to Vienna, Austria, which became his doorway to the European improvised music scene. Formed his first improvising groups and organised numerous projects in Finland and elsewhere. Brought many of the most notable innovators on the international improvisation scene to Finland. One of his early projects included a tour with Derek Bailey's "Company" which was their first in Finland. Moved to Berlin in 1985.
Founded the international Quintet Moderne and co-founded the The Player is trio with Teppo Hauta-aho and Philipp Wachsmann. There's also the Bernhard Arndt / Harri Sjöström duo, which goes back to 1986. His newely formed group is called Three meter Dog with, among others, drummer and percussionist Tony Buck and pianist Bernhard Arndt. The very latest formation Wait is formed in 2005.
In 1990, Harri met Cecil Taylor in Berlin and has been involved in a large number of projects with the legendary pianist and composer since.
Most notable of these were the Cecil Taylor Quintet-Desperados, also featuring P. Lovens, T. Hauta-aho, and T. Honsinger, and the Cecil Taylor Quartet-Qua with Dominic Duval and Jackson Krall, as well as various large ensembles. Some are documented on FMP-Records (Free Music Production).
Has collaborated with a large number of the notable leading improvisors in the international scene since the late 70s and performed at numerous international jazz and contemporary music festivals. Occasionally performs solo and is involved with making film-music. Harri Sjöstrom has been a saxophone teacher since 1980 and is a vital member of the European improvised music scene.
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Meadows appointed to Netball World Cup 2019 Board
By Bill Howell
Netball World Cup 2019 has announced the appointment of Sharon Meadows to the position of independent non-executive board director.
Meadows, who is Director of Devices, Products and Partnerships at EE and BT, has over seven years' experience at director level and brings a wealth of marketing and commercial expertise to the board for the event, which takes place from July 12 to 21, 2019 in Liverpool.
Nicky Dunn OBE, chair of the Netball World Cup 2019 board, welcomed the appointment.
"In appointing Sharon, I am delighted that we have found someone with the right mix of skills to make a valuable contribution to the Netball World Cup 2019 board.
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"Sharon's solid expertise and proven track record of delivering innovative marketing and commercial strategies means she is able to bring a different perspective to the event and I am confident that her contribution to Netball World Cup 2019 will help us to achieve our vision of delivering the best world cup in female sport."
Sharon Meadows, said: "I'm really excited to be a part of the team delivering the Netball World Cup 2019, a global competition that is so important to female sport.
"I look forward to working with the Netball World Cup 2019 board to bring to Liverpool what I'm confident will be a truly spectacular and world-class event."
The Netball World Cup 2019 is to be delivered by Netball World Cup 2019 Limited on behalf of England Netball and in partnership with UK Sport, Liverpool City Council and ACC Liverpool.
The event will see the top 16 teams in the world go head-to-head over ten days of thrilling competition at the Echo Arena, part of the ACC Liverpool campus.
People interested in hearing more about the event can receive the latest updates via email by registering on the official website at nwc2019.co.uk
November 2017: Northern Ireland netball on look-out for Gold Coast 2018 donations
November 2017: England Netball partners with LRG Fitness to provide training and workouts
November 2017: Netball South Africa elects new President as Mthethwa's 12-year reign ended
September 2017: Netball Australia to introduce new junior tier programme
September 2017: Netball New Zealand to roll out development programme in four Pacific countries
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Bill Howell has been a sports reporter for 20 years after starting out at Aberdeen's Evening Express. He joined the Birmingham-based Sunday Mercury in 1998 before becoming the Birmingham Evening Mail's Aston Villa correspondent in May 2000. In 2009 he switched to Wolverhampton Wanderers. Howell became West Bromwich Albion correspondent in 2015. In October 2017 his first book, Thou Shalt Not Pass, an autobiography of former WBA centre-back Alistair Robertson, was published. He joined insidethegames as Desk Editor in the same month.
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Musée de l'Arles antique
Arles Rhône 3 in the museum.
Arles, France
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The Musée de l'Arles antique or Musée départemental Arles antique or Musée de l'Arles et de la Provence antiques is an archeological museum housed in a modern building designed and built in 1995 by the architect Henri Ciriani, at Arles in the Bouches-du-Rhône département of France.
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The museum houses a large collection of antiquities, including monumental Roman sculptures from the local region. Among the exhibits is a model of the multiple overshot water mills which existed at Barbegal, and have been referred to as "the greatest known concentration of mechanical power in the ancient world".[1]
The Arles Rhône 3, an ancient Roman boat discovered in 2011, is on display since 2013.
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President Zuma pays tribute to Chávez
Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has paid tribute to Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez, describing him as a visionary leadership who was commitment to the social struggles of the less fortunate.
Chavez died on Tuesday after a long battle with cancer for almost two years.
Under the leadership of President Chávez, President Zuma said he "instituted a dramatic change under the government's 'Bolivarian' approach in Latin America and beyond in promoting regional integration based on the principles of social justice".
"Our hearts are with the family of President Chávez, as well as the government and the people of Venezuela during this difficult time of mourning the departure of this respected revolutionary leader of Venezuela and indeed the entire progressive family of nations."
Other world leaders have also offered their condolences.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was saddened by the death of Chávez and offered his condolences to the family of the president, the government and the people of Venezuela.
"President Chávez spoke to the challenges and aspirations of the most vulnerable Venezuelans."
The late president "provided decisive impetus for new regional integration movements, based on an eminently Latin American vision, while showing solidarity toward other nations in the hemisphere," said Ban.
In Washington, US President Barack Obama said in a short written statement that the United States hoped to improve bilateral ties that were in rocky situations.
"At this challenging time of President Hugo Chávez's passing, the United States reaffirms its support for the Venezuelan people and its interest in developing a constructive relationship with the Venezuelan government," said Obama.
In London, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said he was saddened by the death, adding that the Venezuelan leader had left a "lasting impression" on his people.
In a statement, French President Francois Hollande praised Chavez for his determination "to fight for justice".
"The late president expressed, while his temperament and the positions he took were not shared by everyone, an undeniable wish to fight for justice and development," the statement said.
Hollande said he was sure that Venezuela would overcome this test of its democracy and stability.
Venezuela will hold a presidential election within 30 days but in the meanwhile, Vice President Nicolas Maduro takes over presidential duties until then. – SAnews.gov.za-Xinhua