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Lockout continues at American Crystal Sugar Company
Michael Stapleton
One thousand three hundred sugar beet workers at plants in Minnesota, Iowa, and North Dakota have been locked out by their employer, American Crystal Sugar Company, since August 1. Workers voted in July by a 96 percent margin to reject the company's offer for a new contract that would have sharply reduced benefits and job security.
American Crystal filled its plants with replacement workers after the old contract expired on July 31. The company and the union, Local 167G of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM), met with a federal mediator on Thursday to resume negotiations that can only be aimed at imposing concessions on the union membership.
American Crystal is the largest beet sugar producer in the United States. It has plants in Moorhead, East Grand Forks, Crookston, and Chaska, Minnesota; Hillsboro and Drayton, North Dakota; and Mason City, Iowa.
The company has made large profits in recent years as sugar prices have risen. US sugar prices for the second quarter this year were higher than during the same quarters of 2009 and 2010, rising by 35 and 15 percent respectively. Executive pay at American Crystal has soared. Compensation for company CEO David Berg more than doubled between 2008 and the end of 2010 to almost $2 million, and the average pay increase for the company's top four executives was 75 percent over two years.
Despite its financial success, American Crystal has taken aim at the jobs and benefits of its workforce, joining an employers' offensive in the current economic climate. Among other things, the company wants the ability to replace union workers with contract workers, to dismantle seniority, to redefine which workers are "year-round" and entitled to full benefits, and to lower its health care costs for union workers to that of its nonunion workers. It offered a pay increase that would be more than neutralized by the increased health care costs shifted to the workers.
Faced with such an attack, the union negotiating committee nevertheless promised American Crystal that they would remain "neutral" and not make a recommendation about whether union members should accept the company's final proposal. The union members drew their own conclusions. John Riskey, president of BCTGM Local 167G, told the Grand Forks Herald that union officials only got through a half-dozen pages or so of American Crystal's proposal before workers in Drayton, N.D. stopped them and said that they would not accept the changes the company sought to impose.
While American Crystal representatives expressed surprise that the union rejected its final offer, the company was well prepared for the lockout of its union workers. On July 18, the company instructed union workers to clear out their lockers and workspaces and brought in non-union personnel to observe various positions that week. It rejected the union's offer to have its members continue working under the terms of the old contract while negotiations continued. Instead, American Crystal contracted with Minnetonka, Minnesota-based Strom Engineering to obtain replacement workers, who began work the morning after the old contract expired.
Strom Engineering has specialized in providing replacement workers for over five decades. It has annual sales of $13.6 million and a number of associated business entities. An August 6 article in the StarTribune noted that "the company has been criticized in the past for hiring ex-cons, misleading job applicants and running grueling, 12-hour shifts seven days a week without so much as a bathroom break." One woman who sued the company in 2007 claimed that she was told to urinate off the back of the crane she operated when she asked about bathroom breaks.
Since the lockout, union members have protested outside American Crystal's seven plants as well as outside hotels where replacement workers are staying. Union officials claim morale is high, but some workers are clearly feeling the strain. Dan Dumas, a worker at the Hillsboro plant for 33 years, told the crowd at a rally a couple of weeks ago that he could not take his daughter to the therapy she needed after a serious car accident because he no longer had health insurance.
John Durkin, a worker at the East Grand Forks plant for 34 years, told a local TV station that he could not afford the chemotherapy for his Stage 4 lung cancer. Jonathan Straub, another worker at East Grand Forks, told the Grand Forks Herald, "I've had to take even more money that was squirreled away out to the point it is getting close to nothing, depending on how long this lasts. For now, everything is pretty well riding on the line."
The union bureaucracy can be expected to take advantage of the hardship facing workers in an effort to impose concessions while preserving the union's dues base. On August 18, BCTGM International President Frank Hurt wrote to company CEO Berg urging resumed negotiations. In the letter, Hurt appealed to Berg's profit motive, stating "Your company's decision to take this outrageous action threatens this Union's support for legislation [tariffs] and other public policy initiatives that are crucial to the profitability of the company." Hurt lamented that "one of the most productive and effective labor-management relationships I have ever known" has been "severely undermined."
The union has also appealed to Democratic Party officials who have expressed concern about the damage posed by the lockout to labor-management relations. Democratic Minnesota Senator Al Franken worried in a recent opinion piece about the lockout that there was a "real danger in fraying the fabric of this relationship that, to me, had been sort of a model one, of ag[riculture] and business and labor working together as partners." After meeting with union and company officials just prior to the lockout, Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton, a Democrat, stated, "They both care about the company, they care a great deal about the company and they want to continue to be successful. They share that desire and need to remember what binds them together."
Labor-management "unity" will only mean a drastic cut in living standards for the sugar beet workers. The only way for American Crystal workers to fight the assault on their living standards and jobs is to break from the Democratic Party and the trade unions who defend the interests of big business. They must form their own rank-and-file committees, independent of the trade unions, and be prepared to reject the rotten contract that will undoubtedly result from resumed negotiations, seeking the support of other sections of workers facing similar struggles.
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Robotics Explored on "Future Talk"
One of the fastest growing fields of technology is the field of robotics. A robot is a machine that can act intelligently, either by preprogramming or through remote control, to accomplish specific tasks. Although some robots, such as Honda's Asimo, have a humanoid appearance, most do not. Some of the useful abilities robots can have include the ability to move, to grasp, to lift, to "see", and to receive and send information. Modern robots can perform tasks ranging from vacuuming your floors, to assembling automobiles, to exploring other planets.
In this month's Future Talk, host Martin Wasserman discusses robotics with Chuck Colby, who has worked for more than 50 years as an inventor, and whose work now deals mostly with robots. Chuck has scored numerous technological firsts in his career, including the first home satellite receiver station, the first low cost telephone answering machine and the first low cost TV camera. He created what's believed to be the world's first commercial pocket transistor radio at the age of twelve. Chuck demonstrates several of his robots on the show, including the T-Bot, which allows the user to be in virtually two places at the same time.
We also have videos of two very different kinds of robots. Honda's humanoid Asimo robot is shown pushing a cart, unscrewing a lid from a bottle, pouring a drink, and handing it to a human. The MULE, a driverless military vehicle developed by the U.S. Army, is shown climbing over walls, carrying large quantities of equipment, following the troops wherever they go and figuring out the best route to get there.
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Reenvisioning Cities to Enhance Biblical Flourishing
Dr. Andrew Spencer
As Christians seek to impact the world around them with the redemptive force of the gospel, we often struggle with the best means to do so, especially when the world around seems hostile to the core ideas of our faith. There's no better example of that tension than ancient Israel. In light of the exile of God's people to a distant and hostile land, Jeremiah records God's command:
Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare (Jer. 29:7).
What does this look like in today's cities? More specifically, what do cities look like that reflect this sense of shalom or flourishing?
Cities Reenvisioned for People's Sake
For many of us, cities bring to mind tall buildings with reflective windows, large stretches of sidewalk, and carefully zoned blocks that separate industry from commercial activities from residential areas. Often when we think of cities we think of widely disparate economic conditions in residential areas, with "bad" areas of town and low incomes compared with "good" areas of the city with their contrasting high incomes. Or, in another vision of metropolitan life, many people associate cities with the glitz and glamour of culture, especially beautiful art museums, frequent access to live music, and theater performances.
These images of cities tend to be impersonal and technological. But is a city merely the sum of its buildings, zoning ordinances, and cultural offerings?
In her classic book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs offers a different perspective on the nature of cities. While city planners and tourists often focus on the technical nature of cities, Jacobs—a longtime resident of both New York City and Toronto—describes the humanity of cities while explaining why impersonal approaches to city planning often result in long-term failure of the best intentions of planning boards.
Though Jacobs was an activist and writer, not an anthropologist, she recognizes the interpersonal dynamics that are necessary to make cities safe and healthy. For example, cities put people near to one another, which means that the real need for privacy is significant. At the same time, when privacy becomes an absolute priority, it results in isolation that makes people permanent strangers to their next-door neighbors.
Jacobs wrestles with the competing needs for personal interaction and privacy. Through her years of observation, she concludes that traditional cities, with their sidewalks and mixed-use neighborhoods, often result in a balance of casual acquaintance, slowly built trust, and sufficient privacy. She notes that building and neighborhood designs that require either intimate community or absolute isolation often result in the latter. This is why housing projects—which typically concentrate people from one economic level—often fail to build cohesive communities. The risks of intimate community can seem too great, which leads people to isolate themselves.
The safest neighborhoods, by Jacobs's observations, are those whose streets have regular use at all hours of the day. This requires cities not to rigorously segregate their residential, commercial, industrial, and cultural facilities. When public spaces like sidewalks are peopled throughout the day, they are safer, because even anonymous citizens will step in when an open crime is taking place. When parks are surrounded by mixed-use buildings, they have a regular flow of traffic throughout the hours of the day—business people and grocery customers during the day, residents and dating couples at night. This means such parks do not get abandoned to drug deals, gangs, and lurking predators.
To get this sort of safety in public spaces, however, people must accept the incongruity of office buildings next to apartment complexes of varying ages and next to theaters and small businesses. This requires planning committees and city councils to give up their SimCity-esque visions for aesthetically-perfect, theoretically-satisfying zoning laws. The message that Jacobs offers is that organic development of neighborhoods is much healthier for humans than technocratic plans. In short, seeking the good of the city requires enhancing the humanity of neighborhoods.
Flourishing Cities for the Sake of the Gospel
In his analysis of Jacobs's vision for the city, longtime New York City resident and recently retired pastor Tim Keller writes,
Faithful churches do not exegete their neighborhoods simply to target people groups, although evangelistic outreach is one of the goals. They are looking for ways to strengthen the health of their neighborhoods, making them safer and more humane places for people to live. This is a way to seek the welfare of the city, in the spirit of Jeremiah 29.
Keller finds the principles offered by Jacobs directly applicable to his ongoing work to serve the people of his city for the sake of the gospel.
While The Death and Life of Great American Cities is somewhat dated, having been originally published in 1961, its place as a classic volume in the Modern Library series is warranted. Jacobs writes well in clear, engaging language that invites readers into her vision of a more humane metropolis. More significantly, Jane Jacobs calls on visionary, well-meaning people seeking the good of their cities to emphasize that cities exist for the people, not the people for the cities.
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'It was excruciating to announce it': episode of creature illness was hit to Sudan trades
January 26, 2020 by krishnakumarsinghblog, posted in Uncategorized
A huge number of sheep standing by to be sent out wound up passing on of yearning and thirst, after a flare-up of Rift Valley fever prompted a brief Saudi square on exchange.
The presence of the malady in any nation that relies upon the fare exchange is possibly cataclysmic. Nations should tell the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), which will at that point place limitations on their exchange.
Sudanese government clergymen let it be known was a troublesome choice to send the notice, realizing that it would have significant financial impacts. The episode has now been proclaimed over.
Live creatures are one of Sudan's most significant fares, acquiring roughly $500 million (£384,620) in 2018, as per the International Trade Center.
In any case, in September a year ago, Sudan educated the OIE that Rift Valley fever had discovered its way into the nation. In October Saudi Arabia, which purchases over 70% of its domesticated animals from Sudan, declared a prohibition on imports.
The boycott devastatingly affected ranchers and exporters, who were constrained now and again to sell their animals at a large portion of the standard cost.
Siddiq Hedob, an individual from an autonomous animals exporters' body in Khartoum, assessed that 30% of the exporters in Sudan "have lost cash".
"At the point when the clergyman of wellbeing reported the choice, there were around 80,000 sheep at Port Sudan standing by to be moved to Saudi yet it didn't occur, despite the fact that they were all sound," Hedob said. "So they went through around four days without nourishment or drinking water and a significant number of them had passed on and were tossed in the ocean." However, different sources denied that creatures had been discarded in the water.
Exporter Abdelrahman El-Shaeekh said a huge number of his dairy cattle were being kept in Omdurman city, which was costing him a great deal of cash. He didn't have the foggiest idea when precisely they could be sent off to Saudi Arabia.
Minister of Health Dr Akram Altoum told the Guardian: "When I first consulted the minister of finance, foreign minister, animal resources minister, trade and the industry, and the local governments, we agree[d] that yes this is painful, but please go ahead and declare. We felt it had to happen, it's a principle."
"It would cost our economy thousands of dollars and a whole market of exports, but we had to do it. We didn't do it with any expectations of reward, but it came with its own reward. We collaborated with countries like Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Cooperation Council and they helped to control the disease. Thanks to the vaccine and the technical support they gave us … it will be behind us."
It is believed that other countries have been less rigorous about notifying the authorities about suspected outbreaks. Questions have long been asked about the mysterious absence of African swine fever from Belarus, for example, which is entirely surrounded by countries that have suffered severe epidemics.
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My life when young was like a flower--a flower that loosens a petal or two from her abundance and never feels the loss when the spring breeze comes to beg at her door.
Sudâs, the gardener, plucked from his tank the last lotus left by the ravage of winter and went to sell it to the king at the palace gate.
There he met a traveller who said to him, "Ask your price for the last lotus,--I shall offer it to Lord Buddha."
Sudâs said, "If you pay one golden "mâshâ" it will be yours."
When the gardener said he had been offered a golden mâshâ the king offered him ten, but the traveller doubled the price.
In the hushed shade of the mango grove beyond the city wall Sudâs stood before Lord Buddha, on whose lips sat the silence of love and whose eyes beamed peace like the morning star of the dew-washed autumn.
Sudâs looked in his face and put the lotus at his feet and bowed his head to the dust.
Sudâs cried, "The least touch of your feet."
I will meet one day the Joy without me that dwells behind the screen of light--and will stand in the overflowing solitude where all things are seen as by their creator.
I shall but play with it as the whim takes me,--now take it on my lap, now touch it with my lips, now keep it by my side on the grass.
"Blessed am I that the deaf night denied me--that its coffer was empty."
Sanâtan was telling his beads by the Ganges when a Brahmin in rags came to him and said, "Help me, I am poor!"
"My alms-bowl is all that is my own," said Sanâtan, "I have given away everything I had."
Sanâtan suddenly remembered he had picked up a stone without price among the pebbles on the river-bank, and thinking that some one might need it hid it in the sands.
Then he rose and came slowly to Sanâtan and said, "Master, give me the least fraction of the wealth that disdains all the wealth of the world."
Take, oh take--has now become my cry.
Ratnâkar, the banker, hung his head and said, "Much more is needed than all my wealth to feed the hungry."
Dharmapâal, who owned broad acres of land, said with a sigh, "The drought demon has sucked my fields dry. I know not how to pay King's dues."
Then rose Supriyâ, the mendicant's daughter.
"I am the poorest of you all," said Supriyâ, "that is my strength. I have my coffer and my store at each of your houses."
Sleep is no more for me--my walk shall be through showers of arrows.
Some shall run out of their houses and come to my side--some shall weep.
Now I stand before thee--help me to put on my armour!
The morning light struck upon those eyes, red with the revel of night; the place of the white lily greeted their burning breath; the stars through the depth of the sacred dark stared at their carousing--at those that raised dust to soil thy robe, O Beautiful!
The young ascetic was walking in the lonely street, while overhead the lovesick "koels" urged from the mango branches their sleepless plaint.
Over the relic of Lord Buddha King Bimbisâr built a shrine, a salutation in white marble.
Shrimati bowed to the queen, and turning away from her door came and stood before Amitâ, the newly wed bride of the king's son.
Princess Shuklâ sat at the window reading her book of romance by the light of the setting sun.
I found a few old letters of mine carefully hidden in her box--a few small toys for her memory to play with.
In the lightning flash of a moment I have seen the immensity of your creation in my life--creation through many a death from world to world.
I weep at my unworthiness when I see my life in the hands of the unmeaning hours,--but when I see it in your hands I know it is too precious to be squandered among shadows.
I have kissed this world with my eyes and my limbs; I have wrapt it within my heart in numberless folds; I have flooded its days and nights with thoughts till the world and my life have grown one,--and I love my life because I love the light of the sky so enwoven with me.
If to leave this world be as real as to love it--then there must be a meaning in the meeting and the parting of life.
She falls asleep when you speak to her and answers not--and the flower you give her in the morning slips to the dust from her hands.
The hermit boys had brought the cattle home, and sat round the fire to listen to the master, Guatama, when a strange boy came, and greeted him with fruits and flowers, and, bowing low at his feet, spoke in a bird-like voice--"Lord, I have come to thee to be taken into the path of the supreme Truth.
Thus saying, Satyakâma took leave, and wading across the shallow stream, came back to his mother's hut, which stood at the end of the sandy waste at the edge of the sleeping village.
"In my youth I was poor and had many masters. Thou didst come to thy mother Jabâlâ's arms, my darling, who had no husband."
"My lord," he answered, "I know it not. My mother said when I asked her, 'I had served many masters in my youth, and thou hadst come to thy mother Jabâlâ's arms, who had no husband.'"
I found that your morning light was full of my own mute songs unsung; I thought that I would learn them at your feet--and I sat silent.
She is my bride,--she has lighted her lamp in my house.
I walked upon tiptoe, careful of my person, perfumed, and adorned--but now when a glad whirlwind has overthrown me in the dust I laugh and roll on the earth at thy feet like a child.
Let not those doubts encompass me,--the dust of distractions.
Do you hear the tumult of death afar, The call midst the fire-floods and poisonous clouds --The Captain's call to the steersman to turn the ship to an unnamed shore, For that time is over--the stagnant time in the port-- Where the same old merchandise is bought and sold in an endless round, Where dead things drift in the exhaustion and emptiness of truth.
They wake up in sudden fear and ask, "Comrades, what hour has struck? When shall the dawn begin?" The clouds have blotted away the stars-- Who is there then can see the beckoning finger of the day? They run out with oars in hand, the beds are emptied, the mother prays, the wife watches by the door; There is a wail of parting that rises to the sky, And there is the Captain's voice in the dark: "Come, sailors, for the time in the harbour is over!"
All the black evils in the world have overflowed their banks, Yet, oarsmen, take your places with the blessing of sorrow in your souls! Whom do you blame, brothers? Bow your heads down! The sin has been yours and ours. The heat growing in the heart of God for ages-- The cowardice of the weak, the arrogance of the strong, the greed of fat prosperity, the rancour of the wronged, pride of race, and insult to man-- Has burst God's peace, raging in storm.


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Case Closed, Vol. 55
Book #55 of Case Closed
By Gosho Aoyama
Jimmy Kudo, the son of a world-renowned mystery writer, is a high school detective who has cracked the most baffling of cases. One day while on a date with his childhood friend Rachel Moore, Jimmy observes a pair of men in black involved in some shady business. The men capture Jimmy and give him a poisonous substance to rub out their witness. But instead of killing him, it turns him into a little kid! Jimmy takes on the pseudonym Conan Edogawa and continues to solve all the difficult cases that come his way. All the while, he's looking for the men in black and the mysterious organization they're with in order to find a cure for his miniature malady.
A man is found beaten senseless in a parking lot, and the criminal he fingers is...George? Time for the Junior Detective League to spring into action and clear their friend's name! Then a discovery in the school library reminds Conan of one of his first cases. Flash back to the young Jimmy and Rachel as they track down a sinister intruder in their elementary school after dark...an intruder who seems to have supernatural powers! Can two ordinary kids solve a code left by a master of mysteries
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC (August 13, 2015)
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Updated: Sept. 3, 2012 at 09:52 p.m.
The 2012 NFL regular season kicks off Wednesday night with the latest installment of one of the league's most storied rivalries: The defending Super Bowl champion New York Giants taking on the Dallas Cowboys. The Cowboys and Giants have been involved in some memorable clashes over the last 52 years, and with that in mind, Elliot Harrison counts down the top 10 moments of the rivalry.


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Gloucester County () is a county in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 census, the county was the state's 14th-most-populous county, with a population of 302,294, its highest decennial count ever and an increase of 14,006 (+4.9%) from the 288,288 counted in the 2010 census, which in turn represented an increase of 33,615 (+13.2%) from the 2000 census population of 254,673. Its county seat is Woodbury.

The county's largest city by population was Washington Township which had a population of 48,677 in 2020, while the largest municipality by area was Franklin Township, which covered .

The county is part of the Camden, New Jersey metropolitan division of both the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington metropolitan statistical area, and the Delaware Valley combined statistical area.

Gloucester County borders Philadelphia, the nation's sixth most populous city, to its northwest, and is  northwest of Atlantic City. The county is part of South Jersey region of the state. Gloucester County, along with adjacent Salem County, also in South Jersey, have become an East Coast epicenter for logistics and warehouse construction.

History
The county is named after the city of Gloucester and county of Gloucestershire in England. Woodbury, the county seat, was founded in 1683 and is the county's oldest municipality. National Park in Gloucester County was the site of the American Revolutionary War's Battle of Red Bank, where Fort Mercer once stood. It is now the site of Red Bank Battlefield Park in National Park. The remains of the Royal Navy's  were laid in Red Bank Battlefield Park until they were later moved to Gloucester City.

During the colonial era, Gloucester County's main industry sector was agriculture. Woodbury was the site of the county courthouse, the county jail, a Quaker meeting house that is still in existence, and an inn located on the current location of Woodbury Crossings. Due in part to the county's many creeks that lead to the Delaware River and Atlantic Ocean, smuggling was once common in the county.

Geography and climate
As of the 2010 U.S. census, Gloucester County had a total area of , including  of land (95.5%) and  of water (4.5%). Gloucester County is largely comprised of low-lying rivers and coastal plains. The highest elevation in the county is a slight rise on County Road 654 southeast of Monroe Township that rises to approximately  above sea level. The county's lowest elevation is at sea level on the Delaware River.

Climate and weather

Average temperatures in the county seat of Woodbury have ranged from a low of  in January to a high of  in July. A record low of  was recorded in February 1934 and a record high of  was recorded in August 1918.  Average monthly precipitation ranged from  in February to  in July. The county has a humid subtropical climate (Cfa). Average monthly temperatures in Newfield range from 33.0 °F in January to 76.6 °F in July.

Demographics

Swedesboro and Bridgeport were among the earliest European settlements in New Jersey and were both part of the 17th century New Sweden colony. Gloucester County dates back to May 26, 1686, when courts were established separate from those in Burlington County. On May 17, 1694, the county was officially formed and its boundaries defined as part of West Jersey. Portions of Gloucester County were set off on February 7, 1837 to create Atlantic County. On March 13, 1844, its boundaries were again defined as part of the creation of neighboring Camden County. The county was named for the city of Gloucester and the county of Gloucestershire in the United Kingdom.

2020 census
As of the 2020 United States census, the county's population was 302,294, representing an increase of 14,006 (4.9%) from 288,288 enumerated in the 2010 U.S. census.

2010 census

Economy
Based on 2019 data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Gloucester County had a gross domestic product (GDP) of $14.4 billion in 2018, which was the 14th highest among the state's counties and represented an increase of 1.3% over 2018.

Education

Colleges and universities
Rowan University in Glassboro is a public university that was founded in 1923 on a  site donated by the borough.

Rowan College of South Jersey is the county college for Gloucester County. It was established in 1966 as Gloucester County College and opened to students two years later in 1968. Its main campus is in Sewell in Gloucester County; it also operates two satellite campuses in Vineland and Millville, both in Cumberland County.

School districts
School districts in Gloucester County include:

K-12

Clayton Public Schools
Deptford Township Schools
Glassboro Public Schools
Gloucester County Special Services School District
Gloucester County Vocational-Technical School District
Monroe Township Public Schools
Paulsboro Public Schools
Pitman School District
Washington Township Public School District
West Deptford Public Schools
Woodbury Public Schools

Secondary
Clearview Regional High School District
Delsea Regional School District
Gateway Regional School District
Kingsway Regional School District

 Elementary (K-6, except as indicated)

East Greenwich Township School District
Elk Township School District
Franklin Township Public Schools
Greenwich Township School District (K-8)
Harrison Township School District
Logan Township School District (K-8)
Mantua Township School District
National Park School District
South Harrison Township School District
Swedesboro-Woolwich School District – Consolidated
Wenonah School District
Westville School District
Woodbury Heights School District

Vocational school
Gloucester County has a vocational school, the Gloucester County Institute of Technology, a four-year vocational-technical high school in Deptford Township that serves students from across the county and is part of the Gloucester County Vocational-Technical School District, located in Sewell.

Municipalities

Gloucester County's 24 municipalities along with population, housing units and area from the 2010 U.S. census include:

Transportation

Roads and highways
, the county had  of roadways. Of this,  is maintained by the local municipality,  by Gloucester County,  by the New Jersey Department of Transportation,  by the Delaware River Port Authority,  by the South Jersey Transportation Authority, and  by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority.

Various county, state, U.S. routes, and interstates pass through the county. Major county highways include County Route 534, County Route 536, County Route 538, County Route 544, County Route 551, County Route 553, County Route 555, and County Route 557.

State Routes include Route 41, Route 42, which is part of the North-South Freeway, Route 45, Route 47, Route 55, Route 77, and Route 168. Route 324 is located in Logan Township in the county. The three U.S. routes that traverse the county include: U.S. Route 130 in the northwest, U.S. Route 322 near the county's center, and U.S. Route 40 at the county's southern tip.

The Commodore Barry Bridge crosses the Delaware River, carrying U.S. Route 322 between Chester, Pennsylvania and Logan Township in the county.

Interstate 295 is an interstate that runs through the county's northwest for about . The New Jersey Turnpike passes through the county in the northwest and interchanges at Exit 2 in Woolwich Township in the county.

Public transportation
NJ Transit bus service between the county and Philadelphia Greyhound Terminal in Center City Philadelphia is available on the 313 and 315 routes. Additional public transportation in the county includes the 400, 401 (from Salem), 402 (from Pennsville Township), 403, 408, 410 (from Bridgeton), and 412 (from Sewell) routes, and local service is available on the 455 (Cherry Hill to Paulsboro) and 463 (between Woodbury and the Avandale Park/Ride in Winslow Township) routes.

The Glassboro–Camden Line, a proposed  diesel multiple unit (DMU) light rail system to connect with the River LINE and PATCO Speedline in Camden, was initially anticipated to be in operation by 2019. However, a lack of an official sponsor and  funding source have to date delayed the project.

Freight rail
Gloucester County is located in Conrail's South Jersey/Philadelphia Shared Assets Area, freight rail in the county travels along Penns Grove Secondary, the Salem Branch, and the Vineland Secondary. SMS Rail Lines handles interchanges with CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railway.

Port
The Port of Paulsboro is located on the Delaware River and Mantua Creek in and around Paulsboro in the county. Traditionally one of the nation's busiest ports for marine transfer operations of petroleum products, the port is undergoing redevelopment as an adaptable omni port able to handle bulk, breakbulk cargo, and shipping containers. Studies completed in 2012 concluded that the port is well suited to become a center for the manufacture, assembly, and transport of wind turbines and platforms involved in wind power development.

Government

County
Gloucester County is governed by a Board of County Commissioners and includes seven members who are elected at-large to three-year terms of office on a staggered basis in partisan elections, with either two or three seats coming up for election each November. At a reorganization meeting held each January, the Board selects a director and a deputy director from among the members. In 2017, commissioners, then called freeholders, were paid $16,908 annually and the director was paid $17,908. , Gloucester County's Commissioners are
Director Frank J. DiMarco (D, Deptford Township, term as director ends December 31, 2023; term as commissioner ends 2025),
Deputy Director Heather Simmons (D, Glassboro, term as deputy director and as commissioner ends 2023),
Lyman J. Barnes (D, Logan Township, 2023),
Nicholas DeSilvio (R, Franklin Township, 2024),
Denice DiCarlo (D, West Deptford Township), 2025
Jim Jefferson (D, Woodbury), 2023) and
Christopher Konawel Jr. (R, Glassboro, 2024).

Pursuant to Article VII Section II of the Constitution of New Jersey, each county in New Jersey is required to have three elected administrative officials known as constitutional officers. These officials are the County Clerk and County Surrogate, both elected for five-year terms of office, and the County Sheriff, who is elected for a three-year term. Gloucester County's constitutional officers are:
County Clerk James N. Hogan (D, Franklin Township; 2027),
Sheriff Jonathan M. Sammons (R, Elk Township; 2024) and
Surrogate Giuseppe "Joe" Chila (D, Woolwich Township; 2027).

Gloucester County's prosecutor, appointed in March 2020, is Christine A. Hoffman. Along with Cumberland and Salem counties, Gloucester County is part of Vicinage 15 of the New Jersey Superior Court, which is based in Woodbury in Gloucester County; the assignment judge for the vicinage is Benjamin C. Telsey. Gloucester County Courthouse is located in Woodbury.

In February 2022, the Board of Commissioners appointed Denice DiCarlo to fill the seat expiring in December 2022 that had been held by Dan Christy until his resignation the previous month.

Federal representatives
Gloucester County is part of the 1st and 2nd Congressional Districts.

State representatives
The county is part of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Districts in the New Jersey Legislature.

Politics

The county leans toward the Democratic Party, though to a slightly lesser degree than the state of New Jersey as a whole. As of October 2021, there were a total of 230,545 registered voters in Gloucester County. Of these, 89,073 (38.6%) were registered as Democrats, 57,779 (25.1%) were registered as Republicans and 80,776 (35.0%) were registered as unaffiliated. There were 2,917 voters (1.3%) registered to other parties.

In the 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama carried Gloucester County by a 12.2% margin over John McCain, while Obama carried the state by 15.5% over McCain. In the 2012 election, Barack Obama carried Gloucester County by an even larger margin, even as his support declined nationwide. In 2016, Donald Trump became the first Republican to win Gloucester County since 1988, when George H. W. Bush won it and New Jersey's electoral votes as well, the last time a Republican has done so. In 2020, Democrat Joe Biden was declared victor in the county in the closest Democratic victory in the county in the last 30 years.

On the state level, the county is far more competitive. In the 2009 gubernatorial election, Republican Chris Christie received 47% of the vote, defeating Democrat Jon Corzine, who received around 43%. In the 2013 gubernatorial election, Republican Chris Christie received 50,640 votes in the county (64.1%), ahead of Democrat Barbara Buono with 27,060 votes (34.2%). However, Gloucester County narrowly opted for Democrat Phil Murphy over Republican Kim Guadagno in the 2017 gubernatorial election. In the 2021 gubernatorial election, the county voted for Republican Jack Ciattarelli over the Democratic incumbent, Governor Phil Murphy, making it one of three counties that Ciattarelli flipped.

Emergency services
Gloucester County is served by the Gloucester County Emergency Management Services (GCEMS), the first county-based EMS agency in New Jersey, which provides emergency services to the municipalities of Clayton, Deptford Township, East Greenwich Township, Elk Township, Franklin Township, Glassboro, Greenwich Township, Harrison Township, Logan Township, Mantua Township, National Park, Newfield, Paulsboro, Pitman, South Harrison Township, Swedesboro, Wenonah, West Deptford Township, Westville, Woolwich Township, Woodbury, and Woodbury Heights.

GCEMS was launched in September 2007 with the goal of providing emergency medical services to county residents within nine minutes from the time of dispatch 90 percent of the time, which is considered to be the gold standard in EMS services. The program currently has twelve ambulances in service around the clock and three power shift ambulances on duty from the hours of 8am to 8pm seven days a week. GCEMS operates three Quick Response Vehicles (QRV) units that based in West Deptford Township, Newfield, and South Harrison Township. The department operates from 16 stations throughout the county. Its administrative offices are located at the county's Emergency Response Center at 1200 North Delsea Drive in Clayton. It was the winner of the 2010 Outstanding Public EMS Agency by the State of New Jersey.

Gloucester County's special weapons and tactics (SWAT) unit includes police officers from Gloucester County and provides  emergency services for SWAT-oriented scenarios, including barricaded and suicidal subjects, hostage rescues, high-risk warrant service, dignitary protection, and counterterrorism responses.

Heroin overdoses
In 2014, heroin overose rate in Gloucester County was 17.3 deaths per 100,000 people, the fourth-highest rate in New Jersey and nearly seven times the national average.

Notable people

 Corey Clement (born 1994), former professional football player, Dallas Cowboys, New York Giants, and Philadelphia Eagles (Glassboro)
 Danielson, American Indie pop band (Clarksboro)
 Linda Fiorentino (born 1958 or 1960), actress (Mantua Township)
 Grace Helbig (born 1985), comedian, actress, author, talk show host, and YouTube personality (Woodbury)
 Michael Johns (born 1964), health care executive, former White House presidential speechwriter, conservative policy analyst and writer (Deptford Township)
 Tara Lipinski (born 1982), Olympic gold medal winner, figure skating (Sewell)
 Bryant McKinnie (born 1979), former professional football player, Baltimore Ravens, Miami Dolphins, and Minnesota Vikings (Woodbury)
 J. Hampton Moore (1864–1950), former mayor of Philadelphia (Woodbury).
 Milt Plum (born 1935), former professional football player, Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Los Angeles Rams, and New York Giants (Westville)
 Jimmy Rollins (born 1978), former professional baseball player, Chicago White Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Philadelphia Phillies (Woolwich Township)
 Stephen Mallozzi (born 2001), NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver for Reaume Brothers Racing (Swedesboro)
 Patti Smith (born 1946), punk rock musician (Deptford Township)
 Steve Squyres (born 1956), former professor, Cornell University, and principal investigator of the Mars Exploration Rover mission (Wenonah)
 Charles C. Stratton (1796–1859), New Jersey governor and former Member of Congress (Swedesboro)

Recreation

Gloucester County Historical Society
The Gloucester County Historical Society, founded in 1903, maintains a collection of materials and artifacts related to the history of South Jersey. Hunter–Lawrence–Jessup House in Woodbury displays many of these artifacts.

National protected area
 Great Egg Harbor River (part)

See also

 National Register of Historic Places listings in Gloucester County, New Jersey

References

External links

1686 establishments in New Jersey
Geography of the Pine Barrens (New Jersey)
Populated places established in 1686
South Jersey

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On 24 May, 2016 H.E. Ambassador Bansarn Bunnag and Madam attended the start-up ceremony of Chau Steel Industry Co., Ltd.`s Hamada solar power plant Phase 2's construction at Shimane Prefecture Chau steel industry public co. Ltd's main business is the production and distribution of steel as well as the power business operated by its subsidiary, Chow Energy Co., Ltd. (Thailand) which produces and sells the power generated by the various types of power. Chau Energy also has its subsidiary in Japan, Premier Solution Japan, which operates power plants construction and management in Japan. Its solar power plant projects in Japan has been organized since 2014 with more than 10 projects in various Prefectures. In Shimane Prefecture, the Hamada project Phase 1 was launched in September 2015 with an electric capacity of 11 MWs, while the Hamada project Phase 2 has a capacity of 12 MWs. The Hamada project phase 2 is scheduled to be completed by February 2016. This project is a joint project among five countries including Thailand. Japan, China, South Korea and Germany Mr. Narongsak Kumlerd , Chairman of Chau Energy Co. Ltd and Mr. Anavil JiraThammasiri ,CEO as well as honored guests from Thailand, Japan, and other countries attended the start-up ceremony. Ambassador Bansarn delivered his congratulatory message by stating that many Thai companies have recently invested and done business in Japan and this will contribute to the promotion of the economic ties between Thailand and Japan as well as Thailand and Shimane Prefecture.


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Q: Thread wait in Android i have one problem with handling the thread in android ,in my class i have to create one thread which create some UI after that thread finish i will get some value ,here i want to wait my Main Process until the thread complete it process but when i put wait() or notify in Main process  thread does not show the  UI  in my application
this is sample code
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here i will not use AsynTask because i have some other issue that is reason i choose Thread even now the problem is Thread wait do any give the suggestion for this

A: - Use java.util.CountDownLatch , here you can let some process complete before kick-off some other code.
- countDown() and await() will be of use to you.......
See this example of CountDownLatch:
http://www.javamex.com/tutorials/threads/CountDownLatch.shtml

A: Use the logic below :-
new Thread(new Runnable()
{
    @Override
    public void run()
    {
        //do the code here such as sending request to server
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A: What do you expect to happen if you freeze the main UI thread?
You should be using an ASyncTask to show your gui in the onPreExecute method, do the task in doInBackground  then display the result in the onPostExecute method.
As a plus you can update the progress using onProgressUpdate too.

A: This is not an solution just a advice on how should you structure you activity/app.
You should never block the main thread by calling wait() its a bad user experience and not advised. It would also case a Android Not Responding (ANR) popup.
You can have you thread updating the UI from the background and let the UI to be responsive. Load the static part of your UI in onCreate() and then fire up the background thread to lazy load rest of the component.

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import org.apache.http.Header;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.StatusLine;
import com.google.gson.Gson;
import com.zeropush.exception.ZeroPushEndpointException;

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By Michele Masterson
Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13 Promises Greater Speed and Accuracy
Nuance Communications has revamped its speech recognition software with the release of Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13, which the company says benefits from better speed and accuracy, Web application compatibility, and a cleaner interface.
Dragon 13 is faster than its predecessor, and is 15 percent more accurate, thanks in part to new microphone and PC compatibilities, such as automatic detection of microphone availability, the company says.
"The most important thing for everyone has always been accuracy, and we've seen another major leap forward with accuracy in Dragon 13," says Peter Mahoney, chief marketing officer and general manager of Dragon products at Nuance.
"If you have a new laptop that's got microphones built into the display, you can get very good accuracy even without a headset," Mahoney says. "It enables a different kind of user product, especially with these newer laptops and tablets and convertibles. You can just touch the screen to turn on the microphone or use voice command and you start talking. That's a really compelling application."
Better Web application support is another Dragon 13 improvement. "This is an area that we've seen continued interest in from our customers," Mahoney says."Obviously, more people are spending more time in Web-based applications. One of the challenges that we had in the past was that a lot of these Web applications change all the time, and we are keeping up to date with specific compatibility."
Drilling down to a more technical level, Mahoney says Dragon was able to revamp its ability to interact with Web applications by leveraging the accessibility standard for Web applications, ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications).
"Most well-formed HTML can be speakable," Mahoney says. "We have good compatibility with well-formed standard HTML. Anyone who leverages the ARIA standard gets very good operability with voice commands with Dragon. Basically, it identifies and names the controls on a Web page so that an external application can communicate with [Dragon]."
Dragon 13 also provides full text control, allowing users to not only merge voice into text but also navigate around text and manipulate the text so it's supported in rich text fields. "Users have the ability to have full formatting and control of text versus just putting text into a text field," Mahoney says. "Historically, that's only been supported within thin client applications like a Microsoft Office application, but now you can do that in a Web-based environment."


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A Pakistani judicial panel is expected to make a second visit to Mumbai by mid-February after being given a green signal by India to cross-examine four officials in connection with the probe into the 26/11 attacks.
India has okayed the visit of the judicial commission, which would travel to Mumbai without any delay, Interior Minister Rehman Malik told a news conference in Islamabad Wednesday night.
Though he did not give a date, sources said the commission is expected to travel to Mumbai by mid-February.
The commission had visited India in March last year but its findings were rejected by a Pakistani anti-terrorism court that is conducting the trial of seven suspects, including Lashkar-e-Tayiba's Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, because the panel did not have the power to cross-examine four key witnesses.
Following negotiations between officials of the two countries in December, India agreed to allow the Pakistani commission to cross-examine the police officer who led the probe into the Mumbai attacks, the magistrate who recorded the confession of Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving attacker, and two doctors who performed the autopsies of the attackers.
Kasab was hanged last year in a jail in Pune.
Malik said Pakistan had decided to send the commission to India but there were "some legal requirements" which would be followed.
He said he had directed the Interior Secretary to issue a notification regarding the commission's visit at the earliest.
The anti-terrorism court will also be approached to issue a fresh order regarding the panel's visit.
Malik said the commission will comprise the same persons who had visited India last year.
Thanking Indian authorities, especially Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde, for allowing the panel's visit, he said: "This is a good omen as we are working together to eliminate terrorism, which has affected the people of the region".
He also claimed that the trial of the seven Pakistani suspects was in the "final stages" as some 20 witnesses had testified and been cross-examined.
The remaining witnesses were expected to be examined within two months, Malik added.


with cool feet in the dew.
the genital slip, the smallest.
who confuse her with her name.
Her gaze is a sailing ship.
all these are in the air.
Her wet skirt is her book.
our sisters the laughter of her sisters.
The sun and moon are in the sky.
a wet flame. How pale the moon is.
How at one everything is in her gaze.
She heals the letters of your name.
You dream you are her only errand.
She leaves her footprints in you.
and walks on, splendid in walking.
What are we to make of such grace?
The great poets of the last half-century rediscovered for us the musical power of the poetic line, the actual line in an actual poem. Not a counted beat but a rhythmed tune, a muscular (the heart is a muscle) limb of sound. From the line we make music, and we shape lines by the silences between them.
We learned from Creeley and Duncan and Williams (for me, in that order) how the interruption of syntax indulged that deepest of all qualities of poetry, what Shklovsky and the Russian Formalists called ostranenie, its strangeness, its subtle or not so subtle difference from ordinary speech. From that strangeness our poets made music.
When I read Billie Chernicoff's work, though, for all its quiet, tuneful suspensions of syntax over visual gaps, I'm conscious of something else at play. I want to tease out here, if I can, what that difference is. Or not so much difference (from what I and a million other post-New American Poetry poets are doing) as something added to that process, a different way the music is being used.
Provisionally, I think it is a mode of making visual. Look at the longish poem in the middle of the book, "Gradiva." and you'll find a scrupulously lucid description of the image of a "walking woman" — which is pretty much what I take the Latin word to mean. That poem, its summoning of the image, is my clue to what's fresh, very fresh, about Chernicoff's work.
To say it as clearly as I've been able to think it, she's trying to turn the hesitant, graceful movement of music into a visual apprehension of physical movement. The silences at the ends of her lines are not just rests in the musical score, rests in the measure, they are the geometric points that outline the shape of a person, or a Chinese bronze — it is as if the shape of the poem says: when you see this, know that there is a curve, a salient, a deep embowerment in what the sound of me is summoning you to behold.
Something like that. I feel it in the persistent visualization that goes on in Chernicoff's work — things say look at me. Even when they seem to say touch or taste me, I see more the hand reaching out to caress, rather than the feel of bronze or flower beneath the fingertip.
In this sense, Chernicoff's work is profoundly shaped by, part of, the visual culture we more and more inhabit. She casts the image on the mind's eye — as poetry has always been doing, that's what an image is — Brakhage's "eye-mage," Pound's phanopoeia, all that. But Chernicoff's process is not to cast the image by describing it in so many words, but by setting the name of it in supple motion in the silent air around the poem — we see the shimmer.
Something like that, again. I started out by noticing the grace, the dance-like suavity of her tunes, her sequences, especially the order of things she notices for us to observe or inhabit. Quiet, slow, unhurried as any object, the spectacles her poems unfold are sumptuous in their giving.
The book's title itself starts us off with just such a seen silence. The waters of. Of what? Of Babylon where we wept, remembering? Of Siloe, where we hold our tongues and meditate? The Housatonic that flows through her neighbor fields? Sea that washes all away? That of makes us see something, a place or word, just as so often the line will end, startling as a knock on the door. We hurry to open it to see who's there.


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Dot discovers that Bradley is planning a trip to Stockholm and insists that he visits Max in hospital. Bradley tells Lauren that he's going away, but feels guilty when she gets upset. Bradley goes to Max's bedside and breaks down on Dot. But when he's left alone with an unconscious Max he viciously whispers he's glad that Max is in hospital.
Also, Jane is approached by a talent scout; Whitney is devastated when Tony spends his evening with Bianca instead of her.


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The 2017 World Happiness Report, a list of 155 countries ranked according to multiple measures of personal and collective welfare, was recently released by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), a United Nations initiative. According to the report, the countries with the happiest inhabitants are Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland, Finland, the Netherlands, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Sweden.
In the first book of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) struggled to define Eudaimonia, meaning happiness or general flourishing in Greek. English philosopher John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) called it utility, but the new name did not ease the difficulty of executing utilitarianism's deceptively straightforward ethical principle: maximize human happiness. What is it we're maximizing?
How could the SDSN do better than Aristotle and Mill? Measuring happiness first requires defining it (or in social science lingo, operationalizing the concept). However, happiness is a highly subjective concept. One man's meat (read: happiness) is another man's poison (read: unhappiness).
1. Life evaluation—a reflective assessment on a person's life or some specific aspect of it.
2. Affect—a person's feelings or emotional states, typically measured with reference to a particular point in time.
3. Eudaimonia—a sense of meaning and purpose in life, or good psychological functioning.
According to the report's authors, happiness is grounded in four factors, each explaining why personal assessments of well-being change over time: (1) social support and income security, (2) liberty to make life decisions, (3) sharing and generosity towards others and (4) confidence that government is not corrupt.
Is unhappiness at bottom a social or economic problem? Is the secret to subjective well-being, as Aristotle theorized, living a virtuous life? Or is it, as Plato suggested, pursuing the life of the mind? Is generating the greatest happiness (or utility) for the greatest number of people, as Mill recommended, the best social policy?
Defining human happiness will probably always remain a speculative endeavor—and perhaps it's better that way. To be honest, I find more food for thought in reading Plato, Aristotle and Mill on happiness than I do checking the World Happiness Report's annual rankings.
Is Contemporary Liberalism Creating a Soulless Monoculture?


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Paedophile alert issued to 10 Lancashire families
Police told 10 parents in Lancashire that someone with access to their child was a sex offender last year.
Roadworks update for the North West: All major works from January 13 to January 19
The following summary of planned new and ongoing road improvements over the coming week is correct as of January 10 but could be subject to change due to weather conditions or unforeseen circumstances.
Upskirting offences investigated by Lancashire Police
Five cases of upskirting have been reported to Lancashire Police since it was made a criminal offence.
Not enough parents in Lancashire are vaccinating their babies
Babies in Lancashire could be at risk of catching potentially deadly illnesses as uptake rates for important jabs fall below safe levels.
Multi-million pound bill for free bus passes in Lancashire
Concessionary tickets for public transport in Lancashire cost the council more than £17m last year.
Huge new woodland to span Lancashire
An ambitious £5m project has been launched to double the amount of woodland across Lancashire.
Tens of thousands in Lancashire miss out on vital vaccinations
More than one third of the people eligible for free flu vaccines in Lancashire did not take them up last winter.
First look at the new I'm A Celebrity... attraction where you get to take part
These are the first images of the new multi-million pound I'm A Celebrity.. attraction planned for the North West.
Ribble Valley's bin collection times over the festive period
Households in Ribble Valley are advised of changes to recycling and refuse collection over the festive period.
Why your boss should let you work from home
Lancashire has one of the lowest percentage of employees working from home and it is about time the county's businesses had a rethink argues CEO Toby Harper
Rail improvement works in Lancashire this Christmas
Rail teams are to work across Christmas to improve drainage on the main rail link out of Preston.
Big change in number of children arrested in Lancashire
Arrests of children in Lancashire have been reduced by 81 per cent in eight years.
Girls forced to undergo genital mutilation in Lancashire
At least three new victims of female genital mutilation have been seen by NHS services in Lancashire so far this year.
Revealed: shocking amount of rubbish Lancashire sends to landfill every year
More than one third of Lancashire's rubbish goes to landfill, one of the highest rates in England.
Book review: The King over the Water
The autumn 2015 tercentenary of the Battle of Preston prompted exhibitions, lectures and re-enactments looking back at the battle and its impact on UK history.
Seven-figure sum pocketed by Lancashire's parking chiefs
Lancashire County Council clocked up more than £1m in profit from parking charges last year – a record high.
Fire 999 calls in Lancashire increase while number of firefighters falls
The number of fire call-outs in Lancashire rose to an eight-year high last year, amid a decrease in firefighter numbers over the past five years.
Meet Lancashire's lottery millionaires since 1994
The National Lottery today celebrates the 25th anniversary of its first draw.
Here's how much buried treasure has been found in Lancashire
Fortune hunters and hobbyists have found dozens of buried treasure troves in Lancashire since records began seven years ago, figures reveal.


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Library curtails hours for second time in two years
Postedby Christie Toth
This quarter Millar Library users face another reduction in the facility's hours. With the new winter hours, the library opens half an hour earlier on weekdays and closes an hour earlier in the evenings.
These changes represent a further reduction in open hours from the 24/7 library access that PSU students enjoyed last year, and may leave night owls and procrastinators wondering where to turn. The library will now be open from 7:30 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 7:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Fridays, 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Saturdays and 12:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. on Sundays, with adjusted hours during dead week and finals.
According to Helen Spalding, the new university librarian behind the changes, the new hours reflect rigorous data collection on library use. "During the four busiest weeks last fall, which included midterms, the library staff performed an hourly count of every person in library. We also did counts during dead week and finals, and what we found was really interesting."
During the evenings of midterms, the number of library patrons began to drop around 10 p.m. On Monday through Wednesday, there were 125 people in the library by 11:00 p.m., 30 percent of whom were using the first-floor computer lab. At the same time on Thursday, there were 80 patrons, and 20 percent of them were using the computers. On Sunday, there were 85 library users at 11:00 p.m., 25 percent of them in the computer lab.
"In a six floor building, if there are fewer than 100 people out of 24,000 students, it's not worth being open," Spalding said.
Spalding also cited safety concerns. "The library has no on-site security, and at night there are only five staff people, all on the first floor."
By setting hours that are more cost-effective, Spalding hopes to be able to spread out limited library resources to meet the needs of students in summer session, as well as graduate students and those seeking intersession library access.
"Historically, the library has been closed on Sundays during summer term, but last summer we had 15,000 students," Spalding said. "It hadn't been budgeted, but we made it happen. We opened the library from 12 to 4 on Sundays, and next summer, we hope to have the library open from 12 to 6 on Sundays. We also want to be able to keep the library open from 8 [a.m.] to 9 [p.m.] on weekdays, rather than 8 [a.m.] to 6 [p.m.], during intersession, and open the library on weekends between summer and fall terms. We can do this by shaving off hours during the year."
Students who need 24-hour computer access or a quiet place to study after library hours have the option of using the Broadway computer lab in room 226 of the Broadway Housing Building. In addition to a sitting room with tables and chairs, this lab has 80 computers, compared to 54 in the library's downstairs lab. According to the library's statistics, the Broadway lab has never been full.
"We're also putting more and more things like course reserves up online," Spalding said, "so that users can access them from home or the computer labs."
The winter changes seem to work well for some students. "It just depends on the student and their schedule," said Kellie Schaefer-Levi, an English major. "The night hours don't really affect me. I get here early, so it's great that they're opening half an hour earlier."
Other students have more complaints about weekend and exam week hours than the earlier closing. "It's really the weekend hours that bother me," said education undergrad Tommy Beck. "That's when a lot of people who work have time to study, and they close too early."
Biochemistry student Erin Braithwaite said, "The exam hours are ridiculous. Who waits until the Sunday night before exams to study? Plus, they don't open until noon on Sunday. I've definitely gone to the library to study and then found out they were closed."
"We're trying to make decisions based on data, rather than anecdotes," Spalding said. "I would love for the library to be open 24 hours, but we're trying to look at meeting the most needs with the budget we have."
Judge recall effort hits bump in road
Will the men return to glory?
A new leader for PSU
Postedby Kyle Chown
Student helps refugees fight cultural taboos
Postedby Kaela OBrien
Outrage over fat shaming video seems justified
Postedby Carli Gibson


When standardised tests are shared nationwide – as they now are in the US, under the Common Core system that's been adopted in 46 of the country's states – cheating suddenly becomes a whole lot easier. Especially since teenagers now share just about everything on social media.
As we're all aware, platforms like Twitter and Instagram have a way of making illicit activities go viral. According to Quartz, the testing company Pearson has reported 76 instances of students sharing standardised test questions on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter since February.
Of course, we've probably been guilty of cheating on tests since test-taking first began. But this year is special, marking the first time that a large number of states began taking identical Common Core tests. Many schools are forced to spread the computer-based testing out over multiple days to accommodate all of their students. These two circumstances, coupled with a smartphone-armed teenager, may create the perfect storm of conditions for cheating to get out of hand.
Right now, testing companies are playing a game of whack-a-mole, monitoring leaked information as best they can and grassing up cheaters to their schools, which are responsible for taking disciplinary action. If this sounds a bit sketchy to you, you're not alone. The US has already seen backlash from parents and some school authorities who are concerned about the obvious privacy implications of testing companies monitoring kids' Instagram accounts.