Chinese jump rope being played.
Chinese jump rope (Chinese: 跳皮筋; pinyin: tiàopíjīn), also known as Chinese ropes, jumpsies, elastics (British English: Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain), yoki (Canada), French skipping, American ropes/Chinese ropes (in Scotland), and (in German) gummitwist, is a children's or girls' game resembling hopscotch and jump rope. Various moves (creation of positions or figures) are combined to create Chinese jump rope patterns which are often accompanied by chants.
Chinese jump rope combines the skills of hopscotch with some of the patterns from the hand-and-string game cat's cradle. The game began in 7th-century China. In the 1960s, children in the Western hemisphere adapted the game. German-speaking children call Chinese jump rope gummitwist and British children call it elastics.
The game is typically played in a group of at least 3 players with a rope approximately 16 feet (5 m) in length tied into a circle. Traditional Chinese jump ropes are strings of rubber bands tied together, but today many varieties of commercial rope exist. Two players face each other standing 9 feet (3 m) apart, and position the rope around their ankles so that it is taut. The third player stands between the two sides of the rope and tries to perform a designated series of moves without making an error or pausing.
The game is typically played by three or more players using a string of rubber bands that has been tied into a circle, usually at least six feet long ("approximately 2 feet in diameter"), or an elastic rope. Two of the participants (the holders) face each other several feet apart, and position the string around their ankles so that it is taut. The third player (the jumper) stands between the two sides of the rope and must accomplish a series of increasingly difficult moves without making an error. The position of the string is raised as the jumper moves through the levels, from ankle to waist height and higher. "They are great for stretching. Often a child gets so intrigued with the shapes the rope can make that [the child] stretches much harder than [the child] would have otherwise."
"Americans" pattern The names of the moves may be chanted: "right, left, right, left, in, out/open, in, on"
In this game the two ends of the rope are tied together so that the rope forms a circle. The two end children stand inside this 'circle' and place it at ankle level, standing just far enough part so that the rope is held taut between them. The jumper must perform several tasks requiring various degrees of agility in this particular game.
Instead of swinging the rope, the ends of the rope are tied together to form a loop. (Instead of using a regular jump rope, you can use a Chinese jump rope that is made of a stretchy material, sort of like a large rubber band.) The two enders stand with the rope around their ankles, forming a rectangular shape with the rope....If you get through all these steps without missing or stepping on the rope, the game gets harder. The enders move the rope up....The better you do, the higher you have to jump.
The game begins with choosing the jump pattern to follow and with the holders holding the rubberband around their ankles. There are many jump patterns and most are accompanied by a song. This is sometimes called the "first level". The jumper tries to complete the chosen pattern. If the moves are completed successfully, then the rope is moved farther up and the series is repeated. When the rope gets too high for a normal person to jump over it, the player then kneels and uses his or her hands instead. Some people just stop the game at this point, as the game is much easier when using hands. If the jumper makes a mistake, players rotate their positions and the next player becomes the jumper. Once the player is finished, that person switches with one of the other people, and so on much, until everyone has been able to play.
There are many variations of the game that are played. Sometimes the rope is criss-crossed so that it makes an X, and the player must move his or her feet into different sections of the X in some pattern. Instead of simply raising the rope, some players create a procession of "levels", similar to a video game, that the player must complete before winning the game. When a player returns to jumping, they continue the game from the last uncompleted level. The player that first completes the levels (usually five to nine, up to neck height) wins the game. These levels often have specific names, such as the "roller coaster," which is a criss-crossed rope that is higher at one end than the other. There is a pattern known as "American" and one known as "the Name Game".
On the way to London Station.
How many inches did it go in?
No rhyme; The two ends of the rope are tied together to form a circle. The two 'end' children step into this circle, hold it up above the ground at a height of about six inches, and stand as far apart as possible so that the rope is taut between them, going around the back of their ankles.
Step 1: The jumper begins by standing with her side to the oval. She puts one foot into the center, without touching either side of the rope, and touches the ground with her toe. She then removes her foot, places it under the rope closest to her and over the second side so that the first side of the rope crosses the second side. She repeats this motion five times, then changes sides and repeats the whole action.
Step 2: For the second step the rope must be raised to the jumper's knee level—or just below it. The jumper begins by standing in the center of the oval. She jumps and throws her feet outside the oval on either side of the ropes. Then she jumps and brings her feet back into the oval. This is repeated five times, facing each direction (front and back).
Step 3: In the third step, the rope must be fixed so that one side is higher than the other. The jumper faces the rope, jumps into the center (over the lower side), then across the higher side. She then repeats this action in reverse (jumping backward over the rope). This is repeated five times.
Step 4: Rope in position of Step 1—this time the action is performed with the jumper's hands, instead of her feet.
Step 5: Rope is in position of Step 2: jumper touches ground with hands as she jumps.
Step 6: Rope is in position of Step 3; jumper repeats action of Step 3, but with hands touching ground as she jumps.
Any miss in the steps requires jumper to start over!
^ a b c d Block, John and Block, Tina (2013). It's a Hop, Skip, and Jump for Fitness and for Fun!, p.27. WestBow Press. ISBN 9781449799861.
^ a b c "Playground games in England". Woodlands Junior School. Archived from the original on 10 November 2012. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
^ a b c Hawthorne, Ruth. "Classifying Jump-Rope Games", Keystone Folklore Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 2, Summer 1966, p.113, p.125-6, and p.126, n.1. Williamsport, PA: Lycoming Printing Company and Simon Bronner.
^ Gaussot, Ludovic. "Le jeu de l'enfant et la construction sociale de la réalité", Le Carnet PSY, 2/2001 (n° 62), p. 22-29. Accessed December 4, 2017.
^ "Summer School: How To Make a Jumpsie Rope", Canadian Family; for the term "Chinese ropes," see Iona Archibald Opie, Peter Opie, Children's Games with Things, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. 199.
^ a b Horowitz, Gayle L. (2009). International Games: Building Skills Through Multicultural Play, p.68. Human Kinetics. ISBN 9780736073943.
^ a b Kogan, Sheila (2003). Step by Step: A Complete Movement Education Curriculum, p.133. Human Kinetics. ISBN 9780736044097.
^ a b Rau, Dana Meachen (2005). Jump Rope, p.23-5. Compass Point. ISBN 0-7565-0677-8.
^ Rau (2005), term mentioned on p.23 and defined on p.28.
^ Horowitz (2009), p.72-3. Step 37: "Twist/turn feet to release rope."
^ Burk, Maggie C. (2002). Station Games: Fun and Imaginative PE Lessons, p.18. Human Kinetics. ISBN 9780736041058.
Marty, Sheree S. (1994). Chinese Jump Rope. Sterling. ISBN 9780806903521.
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Cigarette Export Labeling Act - Requires cigarettes being exported to bear the Surgeon General's warnings required by the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act. Makes it unlawful to advertise abroad any cigarette without the Surgeon General's warnings required by the Act.
Repeals provisions of the Act exempting from the warning requirements cigarettes for: (1) export; or (2) delivery to a vessel or aircraft for consumption beyond the jurisdiction of U.S. internal revenue laws.


After we went to the park, we did an art project from Home Art Studio (2nd Grade). Home Art Studio is like a built-in teacher, like a personal tutor, kind of. We were going to do the first art project, which was watermelons, at the time.
The lesson started out with drawing one watermelon in the center.
This lesson involves overlapping and I thought that I could go freely with my watermelon. So I made five watermelons.
Then we traced the pencil drawings with a Sharpie pen.
The instructor, Lindsey Volin, told us that watermelons are made up of 92% water. No wonder they're so juicy! But I wonder…what gives them their red color?
One lesson that I learned in this painting is that you can't put too much water. Or paint. Or else you'll end up having a not-so-great looking, moldy watermelon when the red and green watercolor mixes!
We finished our night happily by watching a movie and playing a game. We did do a puzzle too. So that brings me to a conclusion of our first summer day! Exciting and happy.


STI will be hosting our Fall 2018 STI University class Monday October 15th, through Wednesday, October 17th, in Dalton, Georgia.
The class will provide new dealers an opportunity to tour the STI manufacturing facility. Seminar topics will range from branding to product knowledge and applications to a hands-on installation class.
Aside from transportation, STI University classes will cost dealers $500 per attendee.
This cost includes hotel accommodations at a hotel in Dalton, a welcome reception on Monday night and meals Tuesday and Wednesday morning. Attendees will also receive an STI Golf Shirt and other promotional items.
On Tuesday we will have a full day of classes and Wednesday we will meet for a half day of classes before attendees return home.
This class is perfect for new dealers or new hires, whether they are installers or sales and marketing people.
Please RSVP to Jeff at jeffrey@synthetic-turf.com Chase at chase@synthetic-turf.comJoseph at joseph@synthetic-turf.com or Dakota at dakota@synthethic-turf.com if you wish to attend.


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Main Highlights of the Week: August 8-15
During a briefing at the Ukraine Media Center, Deputy Head of the National Police, Chief of the Criminal Police Mykhailo Kuznetsov said that since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the russian federation, Ukrainian cyber police together with other law enforcement agencies repelled and eliminated the consequences of 83 hostile cyber attacks, and also prevented more than 300 cyber attacks that were on stage of preparation
In addition, according to the official, since the beginning of martial law, the cyber police have conducted more than 950 searches.
Cyber police officers also identified more than 1,700 servicemen of the russian federation, who are involved in the commission of war crimes on the territory of Ukraine, and identified more than 850 propagandists of the "russian world". During the full-scale invasion of the russian federation, the cyber police identified 50 collaborators, 44 of whom have already been notified of suspicion, Kuznetsov added.1
Specialists of the Government Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine CERT-UA, which operates under the State Service of Special Communication, registered 203 cyber attacks in July. Comparing with the previous period, it can be seen that the number of attacks on representatives of state administration and financial institutions, on which the lives of Ukrainian citizens depend, has increased. 2
CERT-UA also monitors the activity of the UAC-0010 (Armageddon) group.
During the first half of 2022, the main way of implementing the malicious plan is the distribution of HTM-droppers (including UTF-16 encoding) via e-mail (from compromised accounts and to private e-mail addresses) that initiate the chain of delivery of GammaLoad.PS1 to computers victim's womb
The purpose of attackers, among other things, is to steal files with a specified list of extensions, as well as authentication data of Internet browsers, for which GammaSteel.PS1 and GammaSteel.NET are used, respectively. GammaSteel.PS1 is probably a PowerShell implementation of the previously used HarvesterX.
In addition, one of the attackers' tactics is to damage the template file C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates\Normal.dotm using a macro, the code of which ensures the generation of a URL and its addition to the created document in the form link (so-called "Remote template injection"). This will lead to the infection of all documents created on the computer and their further unintentional distribution by the user.
Typically, scheduled tasks, the Run registry branch, and environment variables are used to ensure persistence and launch payloads. Actively uses PowerShell (powershell.exe), as well as wscript.exe, mshta.exe.3
Cyber attacks on russia
Ukrainian hackers have hacked the russian service for watching TV channels Pager TV and replaced broadcasts of user-selected channels with videos about the fact that war will soon come to russia. 4
Anonymous has hacked streaming services and TV news propaganda channels in russia to broadcast footage of the destruction of russian military assets. 5
The IT army of Ukraine conducted successful attacks on the platform for video communication and remote work – TrueConf, which is used by both private companies and state institutions of the russian federation. 6, 7
The IT army of Ukraine attacked the central bank of mysterious DNR. They follow excuses of russian banks and call it technical works too. 8
Russion-language platform DUMPS offers DDos attacks for $80 an hour – but only against russia and belarus.9
Anonymous reported the hacking of two large russian video conferencing services – Videomost and Webinar. 10
Over the weekend, the IT army of Ukraine attacked russian video conferencing products 11 and propaganda resources 12
Unknown people posted 70 000 files (749 GB) of Elvees, a russian producer of integrated circuits and security solutions, including anti-drone technology. 13
Link to all everyday news…

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Photo: Michael Bradley, Dart Vice President-Sales/National Accounts, participates in The Wuerffel Trophy presentation along with Tom Brassell, The Wuerffel Trophy Executive Director; Courtney Love, 2017 award recipient; and Danny Wuerffel, the former University of Florida quarterback who established the award in 2005.
Dart, the maker of Solo-branded products and other consumer products and foodservice packaging solutions, has sponsored the award the last two years to highlight those college athletes who have made significant contributions on and off the field.
Dart is proud to sponsor the Wuerffel Trophy, established by former University of Florida quarterback Danny Wuerffel, because its criteria closely align with our commitment to giving back to local communities through product donations, cash gifts and encouraging volunteerism.
Love, a native of Youngstown, Ohio, has participated in a mentoring program for the children of incarcerated parents and last year traveled to Ethiopia to help build houses and shoe-shining boxes so men could work and provide for their families. During the trip, he also delivered food to impoverished families and visited with orphans and widows. Love also has served in a Skype mentoring program with area high school students and taken part in events with the UK Children's Hospital, Read Across America and the Special Olympics.
As part of our sponsorship of the trophy, Dart's Solo brand is promoting the Wuerffel Trophy in eye-catching product displays in numerous retail stores throughout the nation. The displays feature customized products in 11 different color combinations that match the colors of local teams and festively contribute to game-day tailgates and gatherings.


You might think that a coat of white paint is all you need to create a modern minimalist house. But there are myriad other materials and finishes that you can use to add depth, texture, detailing, and color to this style of home.
This traditional building and finishing material can work well in a modern minimalist space. Worried about finding legal or sustainable wood? Go for engineered wood substitutes, veneers, or recycled wood.
Raw, unpainted concrete walls and floors are hallmarks of the modern minimalist style, and these give a cool, gritty feel to the space. Are you settling with drywall? Then you can actually "fake" a raw concrete wall finish with different layers of gray paint and some skilled blending techniques.
A lot of modern homes try their best to lessen consumption and their carbon footprint by upcycling or recycling used materials. Industrial designer Mitch Shivers used broken PVC pipes, driftwood, and other scrap objects to create his fence.
Often used for structural members or roofing, steel can be used as surface cladding, or in architectural details. Here, Shivers couldn't find an old bank door for his main door, so made one himself out of stainless steel sheets.
Even though bricks or brick veneer have long been a favorite finish for modern industrial design, bricks can add warmth, color, and texture to a sleek space.
One of the most important materials used in modern minimalist design is glass—not only for windows and doors—but as a way of giving the rooms a sleek look, while allowing transparency and light into the space, as seen here in this glass balustrade.
Plastic may seem counterproductive in creating sustainable modern design, but a lot of plastic or polycarbonate materials are good, affordable alternatives to stone, glass, roofing (as seen here), or cladding.


The fifth year of Sycamore Covenant Academy has begun with a bang. Though still relatively small in size, this ministry of our church that provides academic and discipleship training for home educated youth has grown this year as we have more students and teachers helping us than ever. What is exciting to me personally is the enthusiasm for learning and the friendships with the young people, parents and teachers that I enjoy. Yet perhaps most exciting is that not only am I teaching my standard math (Algebra II) and Greek (Beginning) courses, but this year I am also teaching Old Testament Survey.
My goal for this class is to hopefully give the students just a taste of the experience I had in seminary while sitting in the class of Dr. Clark Copeland. Class after class I would sit there and have him open up for me the Old Testament Scriptures in ways that I had never seen before. Just as the guys on the road to Emmaus had their hearts burning when Jesus explained the Scriptures to them (Luke 24:32) and the disciples had their minds opened that they might understand the Scriptures about Him (Luke 24:44-45), so I had that experience while attending class.
So not only am I preparing new lessons each week, learning to use a PowerPoint presentation for the first time (on our new SCA video projector!), and putting more hours in the classroom, but I am working to help these young people see Christ in the Old Testament Scriptures. Like the rising sun in the picture above that serves as the backdrop for the opening title in PowerPoint for each class, the Law and the Prophets colorfully shine with the anticipated glory of the coming Christ.
One of my favorite moments thus far was to tell the class during our study of the book of Exodus that Moses is also a **New Testament **character, and then to ask them where he appeared. Then as they recalled the story of the Mount of Transfiguration, where Christ shined with a glory surpassing that of Moses on Mt. Sinai, we looked at what Moses and also Elijah (the Law and the Prophets being fulfilled!) discussed with him in Luke 9:30-31. The topic was Jesus' "departure," or, as it says in the Greek, His "exodus!" As the new Moses, Christ was preparing for the cross to provide His people an exodus from their slavery to sin. I don't know if the students were excited, but I can testify that the teacher surely was!
Yet most of this course is taking place outside of the classroom. You see, as I prepare this Old Testament Survey, I am being stretched to clearly explain the whole counsel of God's Word. I am seeing how little I actually know about the Book I have devoted my life to studying and teaching, and am feeling the weight of how careful I must be in accurately handling the word of truth before these young minds. I feel shame at how pitiful my devotion to the glorious Lamb of God really is, how casual my regard for His sovereignty can be, how quickly I forget or even disbelieve His promises. I start each study examining the Word of God carefully, like the students in Biology class looking at a specimen with the microscope. Yet how come it is that my studies so quickly turn to the feeling that I am the amoeba on the slide?
I guess what I'm seeing is that surveying the Old Testament really ends up in an exercise of the Old Testament surveying me. So though I can only pray that my students end up with burning hearts and opened eyes, so far the only result I can report is a dust-covered forehead of the teacher who, like the saints of old (i.e. sinners saved by grace), is overwhelmed again by the awe of the holy Lord.


Soft bigotry of low expectations - Michigan Future Inc.
Our Michigan Future Schools initiative is designed to create, at scale, open enrollment high schools in Detroit that graduate students college ready who ultimately earn college degrees. We provided funding to help start eleven new high schools. Continue to work with eight of them plus one more. Eight charter schools and one DPS.
Nearly everyone advised us against doing a college-prep high school initiative in Detroit. High schools are more challenging and more expensive that k-8s and urban high school students, who don't get in to test-in schools, tend to be far behind academically. But despite those impediments there were emerging around the country high poverty/high minority high schools that were preparing a substantial proportion of their students for college success. We believed then––and still do today––that if it is being done elsewhere it can be done in Detroit.
Here's the big question: Is it possible to take thousands of low-income Latino kids, send 99% to four-year colleges and then see two thirds of them end up with degrees? That seems improbable, but the early results from this large scale experiment by IDEA charter schools — serving 15,000 students in the Valley alone — look promising. For eight years in a row, close to 100% of their graduates have been accepted into four-year colleges. … The usual catch with schools such as IDEA is that they're great at getting their kids accepted into college but lousy at making sure they graduate, a struggle shared by all high performing charter schools serving poor kids. … Among the IDEA students entering college, however, 62% graduate in six years. That's good, but IDEA has some doable-sounding plans to boost that to 85%.
Noble Network is a growing system of secondary schools in Illinois that serves 10,000 students who attend 16 high schools and one middle school. Noble's students are 95 percent African-American or Hispanic, and 89 percent are low-income. … In 2014, 100 percent of Noble Network's seniors participated in the ACT exam and earned an average ACT score of 20.3. Statewide, 50 percent of students are low-income, while Noble's student population is 89 percent low-income. The average statewide ACT score was 20.7.
Michigan's average ACT score for the graduating class of 2015 is 19.8. You read that right. The Noble Schools––95 percent African-American or Hispanic, and 89 percent low-income––have a higher average ACT score than all kids in Michigan.
What IDEA does is take some of the poorest kids in the world and make college-goers out of every nearly all. Most striking: They have figured out how to do it at scale. They are on track to run 60 schools by 2017, serving 40,000 students. IDEA's goal is to become the biggest pipeline of low-income college graduates in the state of Texas. It's not at all far fetched.
If this kind of success can play out in places such as Las Milpas, where describing a student as an English Language Learner seems redundant, what does that say for cities across the country where the education challenges are tough but not this tough, and yet by comparison the education outcomes are awful? It's says we're doing something wrong; it says we need to dramatically change the way we educate students in those cities. It says we have to completely change our expectations of what's possible.
Six years into the Michigan Future Schools initiative none of the schools we are working with are close to achieving the college ready and college success standards (similar to what IDEA and Noble are achieving) they committed to. There are some signs of progress. We remain confident that Detroit schools can achieve IDEA like results. But as Whitmire says its almost certain they won't get there without higher expectations.
What has been most surprising, is not that the schools are struggling to meet high student achievement standards, but how many folks involved with the schools don't believe that most Detroit kids can meet those standards. From state policy makers to authorizers, districts, management companies, school boards and school building educators (sometimes parents too) there is a pervasive sense that college success is too high a bar for most Detroit kids. That graduating from high school and enrolling in post secondary education is a real accomplishment. The predominant view is that expecting a college degree is too high a bar for kids because of some combination of poverty, families and neighborhoods. All which are seen as being hurdles that schools can't overcome.
IDEA and Noble provide compelling evidence that quality schools can overcome for many whatever barriers poor minority kids bring with them to school. Its time in Detroit––and across Michigan––that we set expectations that all kids can succeed and stop settling for/accepting (in too many cases celebrating) a lot less.
Congratulations on a great article. I noticed both of the school systems you describe (IDEA and Noble) are not for profit corporations. I am sure there are some exceptions, but in general it seems that the outstanding, high performance charter schools are usually not for profit. From what I have seen, charters sponsored by for profit companies do not do nearly as good. I have noticed the same thing with for profit colleges. It seems that for profit charters and colleges are far more interested in cutting costs than in educating kids. Keep up the good work with your schools.


Corrugated GI sheets are popular construction material. They are light weight, can be installed rapidly and have a very long service life ranging upto 50 years. However they have one disadvantage, heat conduction. Due to the conduction of heat, the space below them will feel like an oven. At ATC we have solutions to prevent this from happening. ATC deals in Insulation Sheets from Supreme India, also known as INSUSHIELD, these are flexible making them suitable even for curved roofs. These are available in a wide range of thickness and available in rolls. Laying them is as simple as it gets, cut and paste is all that is needed. Besides these, they are also available with reflective aluminum foil which will allow for better light distribution and make the space brighter. These will come very handy for poultry farms, industries, gymnasiums, schools, colleges, resorts, futsals among others.


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"Vintener is Coming" – Fields of Glory review
Posted by navalairhistory on August 4, 2017 May 4, 2020
When historical novelist Jemahl Evans recommended Michael Jecks' Fields of Glory, the first in his Hundred Years War series, I knew there was a good chance I was in for a decent read. Moreover, having just launched a mediaeval novel myself (An Argument of Blood, co-written with J.A. Ironside, about the lead up to 1066), I was definitely up for a tale of the long and brutal history of war between England and France that in many ways started with the Norman Conquest of William I.
I was not disappointed. Fields of Glory depicts the campaign under Edward III starting less than a decade into the Hundred Years War, and the lead-up to the Battle of Crécy. This was not a phase of history I had studied in any detail and my prior knowledge went about as far as knowing of the battle and that the young Edward, The Black Prince, showed great courage and skill as a general despite his tender years. This lack of knowledge was no hindrance as Jecks draws the reader expertly into the world of 14th Century France and the invading English and Welsh army. The narrative eschews the more common approach of taking one main character (e.g. Bernard Cornwell's The Last Kingdom series, C.S. Forester's Hornblower series) or two (Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series, Simon Scarrow's Cato-Macro series), for a broader spread of POVs, mostly in the English army but including a French civilian woman Béatrice, whose fate converges with that of the army. It put me in mind of Alaric Bond's Fighting Sail books, where the story is told from the perspectives of a range of characters involved in the narrative, some of whom stay the same from book to book, while others drift in or out. Central is Berenger Fripper, the head of a Vintaine (nominally a 20-man unit as the name suggests but often less for one reason or another), though numerous others provide similarly prominent point-of-view, such as Sir John de Sully, the knight under which the Vintaine fights, and the aforementioned Béatrice among several non-combatants. Particularly intriguing is the 'gynour,' Archibald, responsible for the primitive cannon and its unstable black powder, potentially as dangerous to the English as to the enemy.
One thing that becomes apparent very soon is that the title is distinctly ironic. Precious little is glorious. The nature of mediaeval warfare can seem counter-intuitive to those more accustomed to reading about modern combat, but Jecks immediately establishes the conventions – the defending army would often attempt to avoid battle, generally having far more to lose from a decisive engagement. The invading army therefore has to goad the opposing general into fighting. The means by which this was done was the chevauchée – a ravaging of the land and common folk creating as much destruction and slaughter as possible until the French king had no choice but to deal with the annoyance. If anyone starts to read Fields of Glory with any remaining notions of the chivalry of mediaeval knighthood, it will not last far into the narrative. (In any case, chivalry, where it was observed, tended to be practised between those of the noble classes, not by knights toward commoners…) The brutal actions of the invading army are not shied away from, neither are they gratuitous. One of the most interesting aspects of the book for me was the way Jecks dealt with monstrous cruelty being a fact of life in this style of warfare, but which still had to be carried out by men with agency. Consciences are not a modern invention, after all. The range of responses within the invading army to its own depredations are fascinating. They range from those who view the army's behaviour with mounting disgust to those who surrender themselves completely to the brutality, by way of some who are momentarily swept up by mob mentality or disinhibited by alcohol. It is, in short, a convincing cross-section of attitudes one might expect to find. Possibly the most convincing aspect, though, is the way characters project their feelings about the actions of the army into the superstitious and religious. These are not modern men, and the alien nature of their willingness to leap to supernatural explanations when things start to go wrong feels spot on. As the army's initial success turns to difficulty and then the very real prospect of being routed by the resurgent French, some begin to believe firmly that God is displeased or some other force, as real to them as it is unseen, plagues them, and begins to be dangerous for those who might take the blame for bringing it on.
The particular skills of the vintaine and their shortcomings are similarly presented with a good eye for the period detail. Touches such as the problems caused by a wet bowstring or a knot in the stave of a bow, and the preoccupation of the characters in such matters, demonstrate the level of research and help to put the reader firmly in the 12th century. Pleasingly, Jecks avoids the great potential pitfall of historical fiction, of characters being too modern for the their time. The outsiders who allow us to see the world of the Plantagenet army with fresh eyes, chiefly Béatrice and the vintaine's boy servant, Ed, are just as much of their time as the soldiers. Each of the characters has their own arc bound up in the wider story of the invasion, some of which seem set to continue into the following books.
Much of the narrative turns on attempts by one side or the other to avoid a pitched battle, but the climactic fight, when it arrives, maintains the tension throughout – even though most readers will know broadly how it ends. Fields of Glory is highly recommended to fans of historical military fiction, and I look forward to reading the succeeding books in the series.
Michael Jecks' website is here and his Amazon author page is here
He can be found on Twitter at @MichaelJecks
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Reblogged this on writerlywitterings and commented:
A delightful review – many thanks!
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You're most welcome, I thoroughly enjoyed the book and look forward to getting stuck into the others


Foundation president Judy Posthumus announced the pledge at a meeting of Arran- Elderslie council after council and members of the medical clinic's building and fundraising committees were presented with architectural drawings and cost estimates for the expansion project.
Posthumus said Chesley and area residents "have always been very generous in their support of health care in our community," through bequests, fundraising efforts and memorial donations, saying foundation members "believe it is in the best interests of our hospital and our community to support the clinic."
Building committee chairman Chuck Beamer told council that coming up with plans to expand the existing clinic and provide accommodation for the family health team professionals who will use in the building in the future "was a challenge" because of the limited space available.
He praised architect Terry Marklevitz of Stratford, a Chesley native, for his "commendable job of translating the wishes of staff into a functional drawing incorporating those basic needs."
Those drawings show an expansion of the 2,983 square foot building into a proposed 5,478 square foot building, with a basement under the expanded portion. The current building does not have a basement.
Marklevitz said there will be 20 examination rooms, up from 10 now, and more waiting room and office space. Records storage will be moved to the basement.
Marklevitz said the new portion of the clinic would be built and occupied before renovation work on the existing portion, which was totally rebuilt in 1998, would begin, thus causing the least disruption to services.
The clinic would be big enough to accommodate the town's six doctors and an additional six full-time equivalent health care professionals who are part of the Brockton and Area Family Health Team.
The estimated cost of the project, including the basement and an elevator, is $1,600,729.23. More than $640,000 of the total is for the basement and elevator.
Councillors Paul Eagleson, Ross Herron and Mark Davis stressed they support the project but asked where the rest of the money needed for the work will come from and questioned the need for a basement and elevator.
"It's a lot of money for something we may or may not ever use," Eagleson said. "And add to that cost another $128,000 because of the HST this summer."
Herron, chairman of council's finance committee, said although the municipality "has had money in reserves to draw from in the past, that isn't the case this year. We'll be using everything we have for the Big Dig (reconstruction of Main St.) in Chesley and if this project is $600,000 short, we'll need to do that with borrowed money. We have to give that serious thought."
Eagleson agreed. "Paisley built a clinic using no taxpayer money and Tara water users are paying $3,200 each to have water. How can we ask ratepayers outside of Chesley to come up with $600,000 for a clinic in Chesley when Chesley has not had to support their projects? I support the project 100%, but we need to take a serious look at the math involved."
Both Davis and Herron said that before council needs to see actual costs before it can give a final recommendation for the project.
Davis suggested proceeding without a basement "may be the way to go," saying "if it really isn't needed, why strap future generations with debt?"
Others argued against that. Dr. Ian Thompson, one of the community's six physicians, said space for records storage would have to be found upstairs.
Clarke Birchard, co-chairman of the clinic's fundraising committee, told council the committee has raised $264,500 "without an exciting, progressive project like we've seen today to present." Birchard said he's convinced once the public sees the plans, excitement will increase and donations will follow. He predicted fundraising efforts, including a business canvass, will bring in at least another $500,000.
"That's a modest goal and I'm confident we can reach it," he said.
Birchard pointed out an expanded, modern clinic "will not only improve working conditions for the current staff and expanded space for the Family Health Team, it is an important tool in physician recruitment efforts. For that, and a whole lot of other reasons, including the fact our doctors have waited five years for improved facilities, we have to go forward."
"I know it's a lot of money, but I think we can do it," Mayor Ron Oswald said. "We are really fortunate in Chesley to have a 15-bed hospital and six doctors. Communities around us have raised money and built clinics and we can too."
A meeting is planned for Tuesday, March 30 at 7 p.m. at the Chesley Community Centre to present the plans to the public.


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Two Men of God
by Norman Grubb
The most outstanding examples of intercession–and ones which greatly influenced me–are the lives of C.T. Studd and Rees Howells.
C.T. STUDD
C.T. Studd left for the heart of Africa in 1913, leaving behind his wife, apparently a permanent invalid with an enlarged heart, who was spending half her days in bed. He had to go, he said, and it was the only time he went against the wishes even of his own wife; and when a friend carne to tell him that it was not even Christian to leave her in that condition, he wrote on a postcard what became the motto of the Crusade: "If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him."
He went. He found his "black gold" in the Ituri Forest of the Congo. But before reaching there, he wrote back to tell his wife of how he had nearly died on safari of a severe attack of fever. He had one young man with him, Alfred Buxton, and when thinking that he would not be alive by the next morning, he called Alfred into his tent to tell him so. But as Alfred left the tent, "C.T." remembered the promise in James that those who call, when they're ill, for the elders of the church and are anointed in the name of the Lord, will be healed. So he called Alfred back–Alfred being twenty years old–and said to him, "Alfred, I hereby appoint you an elder of the church of Jesus Christ!" Then he said to him, "Get some oil. All we have is in the kerosene lamp–but the scripture isn't particular–so get some and anoint me." He did so and the fever was gone by the next day. So he then in his letter to his wife said, "Scilla, don't trust those earthly doctors. Trust Doctor Jesus and get off your bed." This she did, and began to go through England and the U.S.A. with a fiery challenge to young men and women, of whom I was one, to go and join her husband in getting the gospel to those tribes. So involved were these two at the two ends of the young mission that in the last sixteen years of their lives they saw each other only for one short visit of two weeks! That was a long-drawn-out "death." I know what it cost her–in a way, much more than him–as she was my mother-in-law. She remained "at home" while he was immersed in all the absorbing and dangerous activities of his pioneer life. But note: You don't choose your own "death" in your intercession; God puts it on you as you proceed. "Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory."
But the price was fully paid, the intercession gained, both in the heart of Africa and in the worldwide extensions of the Crusade. The full story, which has had tens of thousands of fascinated readers and has resulted in many being called into full-time service for the Lord, has been written in his biography, which is now available in a number of languages.* Once again, this illustrates the three principles of intercession–Commission, Cost, and Completion.
The life story of Rees Howells must be read, as it is by many thousands these days, to catch the continual stream of instances of how the Holy Spirit first got His total possession of that young life, and then began to give him early practice in specific intercessions. There was the derelict of a man living in the boiler room of the tin mine; the tramps; the unemployed villagers; the sick people; and the succession of deliverances having to do with buying the four large properties for the Bible College and School. Each has a fascinating story of "deaths" which led into the gaining of them. Finally he lost his reputation–and perhaps never regained it. For he had a word from the Lord, together with his co-intercessors at the College, just before the start of World War II, that for the next thirty years the world would be kept open for the gospel and a thousand more missionaries would go out from the College. He called it the Thirty Years Vision.
Then came Hitler and Mussolini and the outbreak of the war, with the threat that these two men would take over the world and close it to all missionary witness. Rees Howells first countered that by publishing a book called God Challenges the Dictators, which openly declared that God would destroy these men who were clamping down on the spread of the gospel. Rees Howells would have been one of the first men to be liquidated if Hitler had conquered Britain!He then went further. He announced, by the word of the Lord, the day the war would be ended. There had been that first year of so-called war when nothing happened, and we joked about it as "The Phony War"–the French just sitting cozily behind their Maginot line. It was at the end of that year that he called for the celebration of victory to be on Whitsunday of 1941. Some of the national newspapers took up the "prophecy." But that was the very week when the real war broke out, not ended, with the shock of Hitler's Panzer invasion of Holland, Belgium and France–and threatening Britain. If ever there was a false prophet! His reputation was lost forever. But he held to his Whitsunday celebration. He had gained the victory and the destruction of the dictators by faith, and there he stood.
It actually took four years before the victory was a visible fact. Surely a crazy and mistaken faith. lt may have looked like that then, but not now. We couldn't then see that Hitler had built up such an enormous armament that unless it was wholly destroyed, even if there should be a so-called peace, the free world would have lived faced with a constant threat. In those four years that threat disappeared forever, with the entry of the U.S.A. into the war, and the final destruction of the Nazi and Japanese power.
During those years Rees Howells and his co-intercessors at the College stood on their faith ground. They confronted the challenge of Rommel on the verge of the capture of Alexandria, which would have opened the door for an invasion of the Holy Land, and they got through to the victory of faith which declared that he would never capture Alexandria–and they made that word of faith known. No one had then heard or thought of Montgomery and the way in which he turned Rommel and his army back in flight.
It was the same when the German army had invaded Russia and reached Stalingrad. If they had taken that city, they could have crossed the Caucasus and invaded the Holy Land by that route. The College stood their ground in faith that the Nazis would never take that city. The battle raged for weeks, and the surrender of the German army there was the beginning of the end of the German invasion of Russia.
Then, with the war ended, there came the real gain of this intercession, far beyond anticipation–as Paul puts it, "exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think." With all opposition ended, and the dictators destroyed just as Rees Howells by the word of faith had said they would be, a tremendous upsurge of the gospel throughout the world began. We who are involved in missions know there has been nothing like it in world history. There have been hundreds of new missionary recruits, at more than double the rate before the war, and all kinds of new missionary agencies. But far more important, the freedom of the world from colonial governments has meant many nations finding their identity. Their churches and believers, the fruit of a century and more of missionary labors, have begun to rise up. They have claimed their inheritance as autonomous churches of Jesus Christ with His Word and Spirit and have begun to take their place of leadership both in the spread of the gospel among their own people and in sending their own missionaries to other lands. There is a wholly new "bursting at the seams" of the church of Christ in whole continents like Africa and South America, and in many countries such as Indonesia, Korea, and elsewhere in the Far East.
So we see that the gaining of the intercession for which God called Rees Howells and those with him to lay their lives on the altar, accompanied by "the first fruits going to the altar" (Lev. 2:1-3) in that loss of reputation, has in God's perfect timetable produced this unbelievable world harvest, beyond what any of us fifty years ago would have dreamed of; and this could not have been produced without the time it took for the destruction of the Nazi menace and the freedom of the years that have followed. It was an intercession gloriously gained, but only seen by those whose eyes are opened to the law of intercession: the corn-of-wheat principle–through death to life. This is what Rees Howells used to make so plain in his teaching on the lives of the Bible intercessors–from Noah, Abraham, Moses, Isaiah, Jonah, Daniel, right through to the Savior Himself, and on to Paul and up to our day. Samuel, Rees Howells' son, has cooperated with Doris Ruscoe in preparing a further book on some of those teachings. Intercession: Readings from Rees Howells, published in the U.S.A. by Christian Literature Crusade and distributed in Britain by Lutterworth Press.
* C. T Studd, Cricketer and Pioneer, published by Lutterworth Press in Britain and distributed by the Christian Literature Crusade in the U.S.A.
Faith Illustrations–The Original Christmas
Three Exciting New Projects
The Holy and Hidden Mystery
From Who Am I?
From The Intercession of Rees Howells
Except by Faith
The War and After
The Intercessor: Behind the Scenes


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Malami distances self from Rivers election
written by Esther faroye April 8, 2019
The Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar-Malami (SAN), has distanced himself from claims by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that he was working with Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, to void the result of the Rivers State governorship election.
Malami's spokesman, Salihu Isah, described the claim as ridiculous, and warned that the AGF should not be linked with the local politics in Rivers State.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had on Sunday raised an alarm over alleged plot by some leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, working with the AGF to cause constitutional crisis in Rivers State over the already decided case on the elections in the state by the Supreme Court.
PDP's spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan alleged that the APC has been mounting pressure on the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Mohammed, to reverse the judgment of the Supreme Court, which upheld the verdict of the trial court that lawfully excluded the APC from participating in the Elections in Rivers State, having nullified the party's flawed primaries in the state.
In his reaction, the AGF said as a democratic nation, Nigeria has institutions that are vested with powers to void elections if the need arises. He added that voiding of elections is not part of the responsibilities of the Attorney-General of the Federation as there are better and more important issues to attract the attention of the minister.
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Q: The horizontal scrollbar on my asp.net panel won't scroll I have a repeater wrapped inside a panel (using MVC Asp.net). The scroll bar appears, but my table seems to be wrapping to accomodate the horizontal size of the panel rather than overflowing past the panel.
The scrollbar is showing up, but it doesn't do anything.
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I did try to use style="overflow:auto" in the panel but it doesn't do anything. Help?

A: You are not setting the width of the panel. So first set the width of the panel and then assign overflow:scroll property to them.
<asp:Panel ID="pnlMultipleBeneficiaries" ScrollBars = "Horizontal" style="overflow:scroll" runat="server" Width="500px">

one more thing you can try that you can fix the width of
 and set overflow property in this class
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Basically the point is overflow property will work when you are having fix width of the parent and having overflow property with them.

A: Sis, Just change the overflow:auto;  to overflow:scroll;

A: Worked for me (Browser -> Chrome Version 59.0.3071.115 (Official Build) (64-bit)) as well as Internet Explorer 11 Version 11.0.9600.18697
Used for Kendo Grid, both are working.
CSS code:
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Webpage created: December 23, 2019
Webpage updated: December 23, 2019
PARADISE ROAD SPECIAL INSTRUCTION SCHOOL
When the Paradise Road Junior Mixed and Infants' School was opened on Stoke Hill, Devonport, on Wednesday March 13th 1907 it included 54 physically and mentally handicapped pupils from the former Exmouth House Special School, which took the name of Paradise Road Special Instruction School.
Designed by Mr H J Snell, of Plymouth, the building was constructed by Messrs Pearn Brothers, also of Plymouth, under the personal supervision of Mr T Cowan, of Mannamead. It was built of in the Renaissance style, using Plymouth limestone with Portland stone dressing to the main entrance and Portland sills and buss brick dressings to the windows and main quoins. Mr T Davey, of the Messrs Eddystone Patent Concrete and Modelling Works, Plymouth, constructed the fireproof concrete corridors and staircases. The cost of the site and building was £7,315.
On the ground floor, facing out onto the main road, each 25 feet by 21 feet, for the boys, girls and infants. Adjoining them were two assembly halls, one of 42 feet by 16 feet and a smaller one of 22 feet by 16 feet for the infants. At the western end was a babies' room, measuring 18 feet by 15 feet, with a set of lavatory basins and drinking fountains and a cloak-room. There was a general cloak-room and lavatories between the two assembly halls. At the eastern end of the ground floor was a room for the mistress, along with lavatories and patent drinking fountains.
Upstairs on the first floor was another large assembly hall, 66 feet by 16 feet, facing north, with a further three class-rooms, each 25 feet by 22 feet, on the south side. There was a room at each end for a mistress, along with lavatories, cloak-rooms and drinking fountains.
In the basement was the water heating apparatus, which fed twelve, five-coil radiators on each floor, all fitted by Mr W Ford, of Plymouth.
No reference was made in the description of the building to the accommodation for the disabled pupils. It would appear that this was at the rear of the building, as it had access to three playgrounds for the use of the special instruction pupils. However, the Ordnance Survey map of 1914 shows only two playgrounds, the third being accessible from the front along the west side of the building.


In Houston, East Downtown, better known as EaDO is a hip and growing millennial hub where you'll find no shortage of spots to eat–from poke to Vietnamese food, to soul food, and bistro-style American restaurants. I made the long trek 10-minute drive the other day to try out something altogether different with a group of girlfriends now known as the Black Blogger Clique: Cajun Tex-Mex from EaDeaux's Cajun Cocina. I've never tried this type of fusion fare but, while exciting, it felt very familiar. Let's get into all the details.
It was hot-hot when we visited EaDeaux's, so we ate inside nearby East End Hardware and cooled off with their boozy sno balls. I got the Jon Sno-Cone because I love gin and it was advertised to have a lot of it. It did. And it was delicious. 🙂 We quickly got to eating, starting with appetizer platters filled with grilled boudin links, shrimp and sausage boil, cracklins, pico, and the best white queso I have had anywhere!
You might wonder what sparked the idea for Cajun and Tex-Mex fusion. The reason is two fold. Owner/operators Jason and Starr Harry are HBCU graduates who hail from New Iberia, Louisiana and Phoenix, Arizona, respectively, and drew from the foods that feel like home. Additionally, with EaDeaux's home base being situated between historically black (Third Ward) and majority Hispanic (Second Ward) areas, they felt their menu would resonate with the surrounding community.The artwork on the side of the truck pays homage to the Cajun roots of EaDeaux's offerings, Acadiana, which is a region in Louisiana where the food is done a little differently than what you might find in New Orleans.
We also tried gumbo, etouffee, okra, and a range of tacos and nachos featuring veggie, gumbo, beef, boudin, crawfish, chicken, and beef options. Whew! The portions were generous and the southern hospitality was real, y'all. Tequila shots were also on the menu that day but I couldn't hang. By the way, if you're used to Houston boudin, you might be a little thrown (in a good way) by EaDeaux's boudin. Theirs is made in the Acadian way, which has a very high meat to rice ratio. Ours tends to be more rice heavy.
The Harrys opened EaDeaux's as a food truck after operating their other business, EaDo Hand Car Wash, for a while and receiving constant questions from customers about where they could grab a bite while having their cars detailed. At that time, eating establishments in EaDo were limited. Since they're on wheels, they pop up at different spots around town throughout the week, including The Davenport on Mondays and Bar 5015 on the weekends.
In addition to EaDeaux's and EaDo Hand Car Wash, the Harrys have full-time careers in engineering and human resources! I don't know how they balance it all but I'm so glad we can enjoy their vision. I highly recommend swinging by EaDeaux's at your very earliest opportunity. More on my local faves here. Thanks for reading!


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Trump's Iran sanctions won't work without the partnerships he destroyed | Opinion
There seems to be no plan for handling the aftermath. Any plan should have anticipated several scenarios, including an attack on a U.S. military base.
Trump's Iran sanctions won't work without the partnerships he destroyed | Opinion There seems to be no plan for handling the aftermath. Any plan should have anticipated several scenarios, including an attack on a U.S. military base. Check out this story on theleafchronicle.com: https://www.theleafchronicle.com/story/opinion/columnists/2020/01/10/trump-has-destroyed-partnerships-created-chaos-foreign-affairs/4423838002/
Kiran Sreepada, Contributed Published 2:06 p.m. CT Jan. 10, 2020 | Updated 2:12 p.m. CT Jan. 10, 2020
OPINION: Kiran Sreepada is running to represent Tennessee's 7th Congressional District in 2020.
The president has made it clear that while he would like to work with Iran, he feels that declaring war is the best way to achieve that goal. Make no mistake, sanctions are economic warfare – a tactic that can have even more devastating and long-term impacts than missiles.
Kiran Sreepada (Photo: Contributed)
This could have been a potentially strong tactic if it was part of a broader strategy. However, there clearly seems to be no plan and no real preparation for handling the aftermath at our feet. Any plan of this nature should have anticipated several scenarios, including an attack on a U.S. military base – something even cable news pundits discussed as a possibility. We owe it to the brave men, women, and families of the armed forces to take escalations like this seriously and with forethought.
The current call for sanctions is going to be difficult to enforce and is ultimately a lazy attempt to deliver on an ill-conceived campaign promise.
Crippling sanctions can be a tool in war, one that can serve to drive a regime to an outcome, however, sanctions only work when everyone is on board. With the sanctions under the Bush and Obama administrations, there was a global understanding that the sanctions were necessary. As such, everyone abided by them in dealing with Iran, and thus made the sanctions effective. Iran eventually came to the negotiating table and agreed to an equally effective deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
Such examples of global cooperation are rare and, unfortunately under this administration, now unlikely. All this means that the new round of sanctions, following actions that have earned global condemnation, will likely be impotent. The administration, and its supporters in Congress, have alienated almost every one of our allies, and have ensured that those allies are hesitant about enforcing sanctions against Iran. All Iran has to do is go find one of a handful of countries willing to buck the sanctions to make money.
If Iran doesn't need to worry about American sanctions, we are once again weakened on a global stage. These are now all real possibilities given how much we have isolated ourselves over the last few years.
Broad diplomatic strategy and planning are things this country needs. These sanctions are short-sighted and will only hurt the common man and woman in Iran, not the regime in power. In the wake of World War II, the United States and its allies crossed a Soviet blockade and dropped food, fuel, and other supplies to Germans in Berlin. These Germans were our enemies just three years prior, and yet we felt a commitment to our common humanity and appealed directly to the people in the shadow of a tyrannical government.
We can once again win over the people of Iran and at the same time hurt a tyrannical regime by supporting democracy movements and the common Iranian citizen. These sanctions will not accomplish that goal.
An understanding of consequences and how the world will react to actions are necessary, not just so we can be most effective with our actions, but so we can stay ahead of our adversaries and rebuild our reputation. This is the way we once again become the shining city on the hill; this is the way we keep our young men and women from being deployed on a whim; and this is the way we can eventually work with Iran – something the President and the Republican Party continually claim they would like to do.
Kiran Sreepada is running to represent Tennessee's 7th Congressional District in 2020. For more, go to kiranforcongress.com.
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Gianyar, Bali. "Simon says touch your nose!" Greg Forthuber tells his group of nine students. Some of the students quickly touch their noses, but several others fail to follow the instruction as they try to figure out what a "nose" is. But despite having to sit out the rest of the game, the students still cheer on throughout.
On this particular afternoon, the students at the Slukat Learning Center are playing a game of Simon Says to improve their English. But English is not the only subject taught at the SLC, which has about 150 students from low-income families between the ages of 8 and 18.
The center also provides courses in computing, recycling, organic gardening, yoga and traditional Balinese dance.
"And all of the students take part in the programs free of charge," says I Gusti Agung Rai, who founded SLC with his wife.
The SLC is in Keramas village in Gianyar, about 30 kilometers from Denpasar, the provincial capital. The center was founded in 2007, when Agung's family and a group of friends from the United States started giving free English lessons to underprivileged children in Gianyar.
To this day, the students' parents typically work as brick makers, farmhands and security guards, while a few are low-ranking civil servants.
"In Jakarta, you can easily find classes teaching English or other subjects," says Iga Ayu Mas Pramitasari, the SLC secretary and Agung's daughter.
She says the center represents a new model of education that combines local needs with foreign teaching methods. The computer classes, for instance, are sponsored by Accenture, an international technology consulting firm. The school maintains a Web site at slukatlearningcenter.wordpress.com.
The curriculum is custom designed specifically for the students in Slukat, developed and sponsored by the Australia Business Community, while the teachers are all volunteers, some of them from overseas.
"The challenge here in the kampung is to build character," says Agung, a former official with the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK).
He says his ambition is to help children in his neighborhood achieve their goals by teaching them the skills they might not get at regular schools.
Agung says he wants to see children from Gianyar dream big because he believes they can achieve their goals.
So how do students develop respect and discipline?
Ayu says they learn discipline before even entering the classroom. The first class starts at 3:30 p.m. and if students are late they aren't let in.
Slukat also has an organic garden and recycling program called Clean and Green Slukat.
Students are asked to pick up plastic waste they find on their way to the center, to be recycled later. Each month, the student who collects the most waste gets a reward, a small gift such as a book or photo frame. "But the point is we show appreciation for their efforts," Ayu says.
In the organic garden, the students plant tomatoes and corn. They monitor the plants' growth and write reports about it. "Environmental studies teach them to be responsible for the vegetables they plant," Ayu says.
The center also stresses the importance of honesty through a so-called integrity store at the SLC canteen, where the students pick out their own food and drinks and deposit the money in a box. No cashiers are on hand to check the payment, so the onus is on the students to pay the right amount.
Ayu says the teachers are proud of the students for making so much progress.
Yunda Chandra Dewi, 12, a sixth-grader from a state elementary school in Keramas, told the Jakarta Globe that she was happy studying at the SLC, where she has been going for the past two-and-a-half years.
Kadek Tomi Kencana Putra, 19, one of the first students to join the SLC, said he was very thankful.
The learning process goes both ways with the students' enthusiasm also rubbing off on the volunteers, who are mostly travelers passing through the island.
Leonie Gresser, a volunteer from Germany, said the students were very open-minded and interested in different cultures.


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Ultrassay launched Monekypox Virus Detection Kit (Real-time PCR) which can help detect monkeypox virus and detect monkeypox infection cases in time!
On May 7, 2022, a local case of monkeypox virus infection was reported in the UK.
According to the British Reuters report, on the 20th local time, with more than 100 confirmed and suspected cases of monkeypox in Europe, the World Health Organization confirmed that it would hold an emergency meeting on monkeypox on the same day. At present, it has involved many countries including the United Kingdom, the United States, Spain, etc. A total of 80 monkeypox cases and 50 suspected cases have been reported worldwide.
The map of monkeypox epidemic in Europe and America on May 19
Monkeypox is a rare viral zoonotic disease that usually spreads among monkeys in Central and West Africa, but occasionally to humans. Monkeypox is a disease caused by monkeypox virus, which belongs to the orthopoxvirus subgenus of the Poxviridae family. In this subgenus, there are only four types of smallpox virus, vaccinia virus, vaccinia virus and monkeypox virus that can cause human infection. There is cross immunity. Monkeypox virus is rectangular in shape and can grow in African green monkey kidney cells, causing cytopathic effects.
Electron microscope images of mature monkeypox virus (left) and immature monkeypox virus (right)
Humans are infected with monkeypox, mainly through the bite of an infected animal, or direct contact with the blood, body fluids, and monkeypox lesions of an infected animal; usually transmitted from animals to humans, and occasionally human-to-human monkeys can also occur. Acne spreads. It is generally believed to be transmitted through toxic respiratory droplets during direct, prolonged face-to-face contact. In addition, monkeypox can also be spread through direct contact with an infected person's bodily fluids or virus-contaminated items such as clothing and bedding.
The UK Health Safety Agency (UKHSA) said initial symptoms of monkeypox infection include fever, headache, muscle aches, back pain, swollen lymph nodes, chills and fatigue. Patients also sometimes develop a rash, usually first on the face and then on other parts of the body. Most infected people recover within a few weeks, but others develop severe illness. In view of the successive reports of monkeypox cases in many countries, the development of rapid detection reagents is urgently needed to avoid the rapid spread of the virus and endanger the world.
The monkeypox DNA virus detection kit (Real-time PCR) and the orthopox virus universal type and monkeypox virus DNA detection kit (Real-time PCR) developed by ULTRASSAY can help detect monkeypox virus and detect monkeypox infection cases in time.
The two kinds of detection kits can respectively provide detection reagents for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention and control of monkeypox virus infection according to the different needs of customers, help infected patients to diagnose quickly, and greatly improve the success rate of treatment.
Monkeypox Virus Detection Kit (Real-time PCR) 50 tests/kit
Orthopox Universal Type and Monkeypox Virus Detection Kit (Real-time PCR) 50 tests/kit
Orthopox virus universal type and monkeypox virus DNA detection kit (Real-time PCR) can cover four types of orthopoxviruses that cause human infection, and at the same time detect the currently popular monkeypox virus to make the diagnosis more accurate and avoid missed detection. And a tube of reaction solution is used, which is easy to operate and saves costs;
Ultrassay Monkeypox Virus Detection Kit (Real-time PCR) is using rapid PCR amplification, the detection time is short, and the detection results can be obtained in 40 minutes;
The internal control is introduced into the system, which can comprehensively monitor the experimental process and ensure the experimental quality;
With high specificity and high sensitivity, it can detect viruses at a concentration of 300Copies/mL in samples. The monkeypox virus detection has no cross with smallpox virus, vaccinia virus, vaccinia virus, etc.;
Two kinds of kit can meet different customer needs.


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The long-overdue follow-up to Jay Rock's 2015 album '90059' is set to arrive in less than a month.
On June 15, Jay Rock will (finally) release his third studio album, Redemption, the rapper announced on Monday via Instagram.
While the album's full tracklist has yet to be revealed, Redemption will include the previously-released "King's Dead," which features Kendrick Lamar and Future and doubled as a single on the TDE-produced soundtrack for Black Panther, as well as the newly-released "Win."
Unlike Jay Rock's last album, 90059, which was independently released by TDE in 2015, Redemption is an Interscope release.
Redemption will be TDE's second solo album release of 2018 (November by SiR), following a 2017 campaign that featured two highly-acclaimed albums in Kendrick Lamar's DAMN. and SZA's Ctrl.
Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that Jay Rock's Redemption would be TDE's first solo album release of 2018. It is the second, following the January release of SiR's TDE debut, November.


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Ronan Curtis was lost for words last night after landing a senior Republic of Ireland call-up.
The red-hot Portsmouth forward, who left Derry City over the summer, was drafted in as emergency cover for the friendly against Poland.
The uncapped 22-year-old was on a break back home on Foyleside when he got the call from Martin O'Neill.
He arrived in Wroclaw late last night on a flight largely made up of travelling Irish fans. Curtis said: "Words can't describe how I'm feeling right now about getting the call up for my country.
O'Neill had a striker crisis on his hands after Jon Walters was excused from travelling following his 90-minute shift against Wales.
Callum Robinson – who made his debut in that 4-1 defeat – and his Preston team-mate Graham Burke and Millwall's Aiden O'Brien were the only forwards left in the squad.
Between them, they have just three caps.
Curtis – born in London but raised in Donegal – has been on fire for League One Portsmouth since his £100,000 switch on a two-year deal from the Candystripes.
He has scored five goals in his six league appearances for Pompey and will hope for a chance to continue that in a senior green shirt on Tuesday.
It is understood Derry City will profit financially once Curtis wins a senior Irish cap.
But Stephen Ward has withdrawn from O'Neill's squad with the foot injury that forced him off in Cardiff.


West Virginia is not only a beautiful state in the US, it has a lot of history behind it and getting married in West Virginia is certainly not a bad idea. The thought of planning a wedding can be very overwhelming and most times, couples tend to forget the most important thing when planning their weddings - they forget to gather information about all there is to know about the marriage laws in the state they intend to get married in.
No matter how swamped you are at work or with planning your wedding, you need to get information on how to obtain a marriage license in the state of West Virginia - getting this information should be at the top of your wedding to-do-list.
Personal Identification: you are required to provide a valid picture ID such as a certified copy of your birth certificate, driver's license, State Identification, military ID, and international passport. You will be asked to provide the full names of your parents - this includes your mother's maiden name and the states where your parents were born.
Residency requirement: You or your fiancé/fiancée do not have to be resident in West Virginia in order to be granted a marriage license, but if you are a resident in West Virginia, you must apply for a marriage license in the county where you reside.
In cases of previous marriages: In West Virginia, most counties will need you to provide certified proof that a previous marriage(s) have been dissolved either through a divorce or the death of a spouse.
You are required to pay a nominal fee (about $36), but this may vary from county to county - please note that payments should be made in cash only.
If you are younger than 18, you will need a written consent from your parent or legal guardian. There will also be a three day waiting period after applying for the marriage license.
The Virginia Marriage License Information will provide you with more details regarding application for Virginia marriage license. With the West Virginia Vital Records Office you can review and obtain certified West Virginia marriage records.
After couples have obtained their West Virginia marriage licenses, they are free to marry anywhere in the state. West Virginia is truly an Appalachian beauty, this state is home to the historic Harper's Ferry National Park and the historical and bustling city of Charleston, this state is truly a great place to say your marriage vows.
You should choose a date and immediately reserve the venue for the wedding ceremony and or reception.
West Virginia is known to have an array of stunning choices, so when planning to choose a setting for your wedding be sure to choose carefully, do not be in a hurry.
Make sure you give ample notice to the person who will be performing your marriage ceremony.
The Marriage License Requirements in West Virginia will provide you with more information on obtaining a marriage license in West Virginia.


2008 Honoree of the Year Donald Trump holding the Phelps Award with wife Melania and sons Donald Jr. and Eric.
2008 Honoree of the Year Donald Trump with Marine Corps. guests.
Marine Maj. Gen. Dickerson with US Army soldiers a the 2008 luncheon.
Family and friends of Chance Phelps (subject of the HBO award-winning film Taking Chance) with Bill Nelson (Chairman & CEO of HBO).
US Navy Band entertains guests at the 2008 luncheon.
Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient Paul Bucha addresses guests at the 2008 luncheon.


The Shin Bet has reported that Israeli forces thwarted a terror plot by a Hamas cell, in a joint operation together with the IDF and Israeli police. The cell was planning to execute the attack on Israeli soldiers in the Abu Dis area, during the Purim holiday in March this year.
The cell was composed of two Hamas terrorists, Ma'an Shaer, 25, and Daud Adwan, 32. Shaer worked in the cafeteria of the Abu Dis University and is a Hamas member who served time in prison for his involvement in a terrorist shooting at Israeli army forces. The second, Daud Adwan, is also a Hamas member who served time in prison and has knowledge of fire arms.
According to the report, the members of the cell bought a car, and trained with fire arms and also collected information about the target. They had in their possession an AK-47 assault weapon, a 9mm gun and 40 bullets. During the investigation the weapons in question were discovered.
Shaer was the commander of the cell, and was the one who initiated the planning of the attack, which was originally to take place in Jerusalem. He enlisted Dawud, who recommended they change the target to a IDF soldiers standing at a checkpoint near Jerusalem. In addition, Shaer planned on recruiting another operative, who would be used as a getaway driver.
The plot is part of a number of incidents in the past two months in the Jerusalem area. On February 22, an Arab assailant stabbed a Jewish citizen near city hall in Jerusalem. On the March 6, a terrorist ran over five people, some of them officers in the border police. According to the Shin Bet, this shows great motivation from Hamas to execute terror attacks in the Jerusalem area, and the willingness of Hamas members to go back to jail.
Shaer and Adwan will be indicted in the next few days in a military court in the Judea area. The car they used will also be confiscated.


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"By any sensible measure, it would be difficult to describe this as a victory of any kind. It speaks volumes about the repair work we must do for Iraqis, and it should caution us against the savage wars we are prone to. Now that Bush is gone, perhaps the United States can honestly face the damage we have wrought and the responsibilities we must accept from it."
Now, as Obama and his administration escalates the war in Afghanistan, we must push the lessons from Iraq, understand that we'd wreak the same damage there (if not more) and create another human catastrophe. We must hold him to his words of peace!


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Centar općine je grad Čoka. Općina Čoka se sastoji od 8 naselja. Po podacima iz 2002. godine u općini je živelo 13.835 stanovnika, a po popisu iz 1991. je bilo 15.107 stanovnika, što daje prirodni priraštaj za taj period od -8.4%. Po podacima iz 2004. broj zaposlenih u općini iznosi 1.912 ljudi. U općini se nalazi 7 osnovnih i 1 srednja škola.

Naseljena mjesta
 Banatski Monoštor
 Vrbica
 Jazovo
 Ostojićevo
 Padej
 Sanad
 Crna Bara
 Čoka

Etnička struktura
Mađari - 7.133 (51,56%)
Srbi - 5.205 (37,63%)
Romi - 337 (2,43%)
Jugoslaveni - 228 (1,64%)
Slovaci - 201 (1,45%)

Naseljena mjesta s mađarskim većinskim stanovništvom su Banatski Monoštor, Vrbica, Jazovo, Padej i Čoka. Ostojićevo i Sanad imaju srpsko većinsko stanovništvo. Crna Bara ima relativnu mađarsku većinu.

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Funding isn't the problem with open source
I'm writing this partially in response to the recent log4j vulnerability, where I see several people suggest that funding open source projects could have prevented this security meltdown from happening. In this post I hope to convince you that the biggest problem with open source projects isn't the lack of funding.
Don't get me wrong: I do believe that open source contributors should be paid a comfortable wage so that they can contribute full-time to the project. However, there is a greater disease that afflicts open source projects and funding them in the wrong way will only worsen the affliction.
The true problem with open source projects is catering to the needs of large and exploitative tech companies. Open source projects will continue to compromise on quality, ethics, and fair working conditions so long as they view adoption by these companies as the highest measure of success.
The log4j vulnerability
I don't mean to dunk on log4j or its maintainers, but the log4j vulnerability perfectly illustrates the problem with putting the needs of big business first.
The maintainers of the log4j project knew that one of the lesser-known features was potentially problematic (although perhaps they underestimated the impact). However, did not remove the feature out of concern for breaking backwards compatibility. This is covered in more detail here:
log4j: between a rock and a hard place
As the above post notes, if large tech companies had funded the log4j project that would have only increased the pressure to not break backwards compatibility. Large companies are notorious for being loathe to migrate their codebases to accommodate breaking changes, to the point that they will significantly fall behind on upgrades or vendor an open source project. These companies consistently place their priorities ahead of the needs of the wider open source ecosystem.
The log4j incident is a symptom of a larger problem: many large and publicly-traded companies are exploitative and abusive and open source projects that simp for these large companies aren't doing themselves any favors.
Not all companies are bad, but we can all tell when a given company has lost all sense of ethics or social responsibility when they do things like:
engaging in anti-competitive business practices
exposing sensitive user data through willful neglect
busting unions unscrupulously
doing business with authoritarian regimes
not even attempting to morally justify their actions
"The shareholders made us do it"
Is having an ethically dubious logo on your project's page really something to be proud of? Or is it actually a red flag? Think about it:
Do you believe that a company that asks their employees to cut corners won't ask open source projects they sponsor to hack around problems?
Do you believe that a company that colludes with other employers to depress wages will agree to fair working conditions for the open source projects they depend on?
Do you believe that a company that has compromised on its own morals won't pressure its dependencies to do the same?
Free software vs open source
I'm not exaggerating when I say that businesses encourage open source developers to compromise on their morals, because this has already happened.
The most prominent example is that the predecessor to the open source movement was the free software movement, which was not just about making source code freely available, but also securing certain freedoms for end users, such as the right to inspect, modify and run the software their lives depend on.
The free software movement is fundamentally a moral movement, and whether or not you agree with their goals, their stated purpose is grounded in ethical arguments, not a business justification. Richard Stallman discusses this in Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software:
For the free software movement, free software is an ethical imperative, essential respect for the users' freedom. By contrast, the philosophy of open source considers issues in terms of how to make software "better"—in a practical sense only. It says that nonfree software is an inferior solution to the practical problem at hand.
In contrast, the open source movement originated when businesses pressured developers to compromise on their ethical principles (especially copyleft licenses) in favor of being as easy to commercialize as possible (especially with permissive licenses). The same essay notes:
That is, however, what the leaders of open source decided to do. They figured that by keeping quiet about ethics and freedom, and talking only about the immediate practical benefits of certain free software, they might be able to "sell" the software more effectively to certain users, especially business.
… and they were successful, if you define success as wildly enriching tech companies.
I'm not an expert on fixing this problem, but I also don't believe that open source developers need to accept exploitative working conditions. I'll briefly mention some alternatives that people have shared with me when I've brought up this subject in the past.
First off, funding is still important (despite this post's title) and anybody interested in doing open source full-time should read:
A handy guide to financial support for open source
… and if you do accept sponsorships, try to steer clear of accepting funding from companies with a dubious record. Even if they never explicitly threaten to withdraw their sponsorship the implicit risk will always loom over you and influence your actions.
If you form a business around your open source software you should prefer more ethical and sustainable business models. For example, consider staying away from venture capital and instead see if something like a co-op might be more appropriate, which is described in more detail here:
What is a co-op?
This is more common than you think and you can find a list of open source projects backed by co-ops here:
CoopHub
However, open source developers should first reflect upon what success looks likes for their project before pursuing funding. If your measure of success is "large companies use my project or fund my project", you still run the risk of being taken advantage of by those same companies. If your goal is to be used then, well, you'll be used.
More generally, I believe that open source development should return to its roots as a free software movement guided by moral principles. Doing so would help the open source community set better boundaries, which would in turn improve software quality, funding, and working conditions. Without a moral center to give developers a spine, they'll continue to race to the bottom to please corporate interests.