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Welcome to La Dante in Cambridge, European Cultural Centre.
The best online languages school in Cambridge since 2008!
We offer our students the best language learning experience offering a high standard of language courses with native teachers and small classes.
We are a recognised examination centre with Instituto Cervantes, Trinity College London and Società Dante Alighieri, offering language certifications and exams for Italian, Spanish and English.
SME BUSINESS AWARDS
Finalist nominations for Business Chameleon and Lockdown Leader in 2021.
The oldest Italian examination centre in the UK offering language certifications and citizenship exams for Italian since 2010.
Instituto Cervantes DELE examination centre for Spanish and Trinity College Examination Centre for English.
Our teachers are trained and qualified native Italian, Spanish or English speakers. Small classes and higher individual attention.
We are a PLIDA, DELE and TRINITY College examination Centre.
More than 5000 students have been learning Italian, Spanish or English from all over the world. We have a 95% pass rate for exams.
We teach Business English and British culture to companies in the UK, Italy, Spain and Japan.
WHO WE AREBENEFITSLANGUAGE SERVICESPARTNERSHIPS
La Dante in Cambridge is a not-for-profit cultural association and is recognised by an international organisation "La Società Dante Alighieri", which was founded in 1889 with 400 offices worldwide.
In Cambridge we promote knowledge and enjoyment of Italian, Spanish, and English language and culture, and we bring together like-minded people who want to learn more about what these beautiful countries have to offer.
Our approach is to create a unique blend of learning language and culture at the same time, which research shows is the quickest way to achieve a higher level of language proficiency.
Learning Italian
We run a wide range of courses and workshops for all ages and abilities. We have adult courses that range from holiday Italian to advanced exam-based classes. For children and young learners, our classes are based on games, songs and role-play, and make learning fun. We also offer business Italian, intensive one-to-one lessons and summer schools. In fact, however you enjoy learning, there's something for you!
See our Italian Courses here!
Be Inspired by Spanish
We offer Spanish classes as we want to promote and spread the Spanish language and culture as well: all about Spain from language tuition to films, evenings with native speakers watching a movie or dancing tango, a thorough way to learn and immerse yourself in Spanish life in the heart of Cambridge.
See our Spanish Courses here!
We also provide English classes with expert teaching from highly qualified English native speakers. The small classes, which are in a friendly school environment, focus on real-life activities through drama and situational learning.
See our English Courses here!
Social and Cultural Events
We also offer a wide variety of cultural and social events for our members. These include cookery classes, cinema screenings, talks and tours at local museums, and events that form part of Cambridge's Science Festival and Festival of Ideas. You can also come along for informal Italian conversation practice with others at your language level, at our regular free conversation sessions.
See our Cultural Events here!
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Benefits at La Dante
Discover another language and culture … be inspired!
Why study Italian, Spanish or English at La Dante?
Because at La Dante even the stones talk, and they tell of centuries of history and breath-taking art…
Italians, Spaniards and British people are proud of their heritage and culture. At La Dante, we teach more than just language: students enjoy learning Italian, Spanish and British language and culture taught by our highly qualified teachers who infuse their lessons with their passion for all things related to their beloved countries! You'll learn everything about the people and places that make the language what it is today. Based in the heart of the city, La Dante is your stepping stone to modern-day culture.
What's different about La Dante?
Whether you want to learn Italian, Spanish or English, for your job or university studies, everyday life, or just personal interest, La Dante can guarantee rapid progress thanks to:
Highly qualified teachers;
Small classes, and a high level of individual attention;
A wide range of cultural & social events in Cambridge and Online;
La Dante Online Learning Platform;
Our communicative approach gives you lots of exposure to and ways to practise the spoken language. Our courses help you to improve your spoken and written language and enhance your understanding of culture. This unique blend of learning language and culture is the key to why so many students improve so quickly and keep choosing La Dante.
At La Dante, we create the perfect environment for learning: meeting friends who enjoy the culture and speaking the language at our cultural events.
La Dante in Cambridge is part of La Societá Dante Alighieri in Rome, one of the five European Cultural Associations in Europe. We prepare our students for the following exams: the official PLIDA exam (Progetto Lingua Italiana Dante Alighieri), for GCSE Italian and A-level Italian with great success. We can also prepare you for the DELE Spanish language exams with our team of trained native Spanish teachers.
We pride ourselves on offering a high level of support to all our students and giving advice on study-abroad programmes.
Know someone who's interested in learning Italian, Spanish or English?
Bring them along and save £10 on the price of your next course! And it gets better… book two courses together and save £20.
I have enjoyed the last two terms with Paola as my teacher. I find the themed conversational style on cultural topics has improved my confidence in spoken Italian. The discussions have helped stretch my vocabulary. The underpinning with grammar is useful and is at about the right level as far as the amount of time spent on it.
Bruce Napier
I love my Italian class. They are stimulating , enjoyable and interesting. We learn at the right pace with plenty of reinforcement of basic grammar.
Caroline McKenna
Highly qualified and talented teachers at La Dante, always organized and with good ideas to help us learning Italian.
Margot Zen
Language Services at La dante in Cambridge
We can supply native-speaking translators, interpreters, voice-over artists and other services such as copy-editing and proofreading. We already supply organisations such as RAI and the BBC, and our professional translators are selected for their qualifications, language skills and experience.
Translations from and into Italian, from and into Spanish
Our professional translators are selected for their qualifications, language skills and experience.
We offer a range of translation services covering: scientific, technical, non-technical and legal.
We offer high quality simultaneous and consecutive interpreting, telephone or face-to-face interpreting services.
Commercial translations
Covering a wide field of life sciences, technical and non-technical subject areas, La Dante can provide the best language solutions for your company.
Audio transcriptions
If you are a publisher with course books, tapes or CD-ROMs to translate, we offer a high-quality service.
La Dante can arrange voice-over native speakers of Italian and Spanish to attend a recording studio of your choice.
Our copy-editors are trained to screen a text for style, grammar, consistency and accuracy as well as check the presentation of a text in its final layout.
Discover another language and culture … be inspired! We are the only centre that has been recognized by the 3 main institutions for the Spanish, Italian and English language!
SME Business Awards 2021
La Dante in Cambridge has been nominated finalist for two SME Business Awards in 2021: BUSINESS CHAMELEON and LOCKDOWN LEADER.
La Dante in Cambridge Digital Innovation project
Thanks to the Digital Technology Grant in 2021, La Dante has developed online tuition giving our students an excellent experience with live contact with our native teachers
Our pocket language Ryze App will bring language learning to each corner of the world, straight in the palm of your hands.
University partnerships
Over the last decade, La Dante in Cambridge established fruitful collaborative relationships partnerships with some of the most prestigious Italian, Spanish and British universities,
as well as running international mobility programmes: Erasmus+, "Beca Argo", Torno Subito and PON.
La Dante has established fruitful collaborative relationships partnerships with some of the most prestigious Italian, Spanish and British universities and international mobility programs such as the Erasmus + programmes, BecasArgo, Torno Subito project.
Partnership with the Department of Italian at Cambridge University with podcasts for Radio Dante Cambridge.
La Dante runs a Study and Career Programme for English for University students who wish to acquire the best skills for entering work during or after their degree.
Parkside Federation and St Mary's and Milton School in Cambridge
La Dante works in partnership with Parkside Federation and St Mary's School to make the school a centre of excellence for teaching and learning Italian or Spanish.
Working with our Partner School
We work proactively to make Italian and Spanish an inspiring subject to teach and to learn
We promote and set up cross-curricular initiatives for Cambridge schools and their feeder schools


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Therapy for Children
Therapy for Adolescents
Psychological Assessment
Scholastic Assessments
Melville Practice
Jonathan Bosworth
Counselling Psychologist
16 Seventh Avenue
Melville
Email: jonathan.bosworth@gmail.com
Transgender Medical Rights
I was recently interview by eNCA Checkpoint on transgender medical rights.
Sections of the interview can be seen in part two of the episode:
Part one can be viewed here:
Please note that I am a counselling psychologist, not a clinical psychologist as is quoted in the show.
Recommended Listening: New Family Values
A large focus of my practice is helping individuals, couples and families understand what works best for them and how to navigate identities and ways of being that have not traditionally been understood or accepted. These are often in the form of diverse sexual orientations (lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, asexual), less conventional relationship orientations (polyamory and consensual non-monogamies) and varied gender identities (transgender, non-binary). However, family structures that differ from "two (first-time) married, heterosexual parents" are often a lot more common than we may assume and hence many of us are currently finding our way in "non-traditional" families or being challenged to re-conceptualise what we consider to be family.
The audiobook, New Family Values, by psychologist and writer Andrew Solomon has really helped me to continue to rethink my notions of family. The book has many useful narratives and ideas about different forms of family - same sex parents, single parents, surrogacy, adoption, foster care, multi-parent families, polyamorous families, childless families and child-free families to name a few - and how the law and societal views may lag behind in accommodating this diversity.
New Johannesburg-based Support Group for Gender Diverse People
Be True 2 Me is a new Johannesburg-based support group for gender diverse people (transgender, non-binary, non-conforming or questioning). Partners, spouses and cisgender allies as well as parents of gender diverse children are also welcome to attend meetings. Furthermore, the group plans to have conversation evenings open to wider audiences, including professionals.
Be True 2 Me meets in Forest Town (near the Johannesburg Zoo) every second Wednesday and for a social once every quarter.
The group can be contacted in the following ways:
Email: group@betrue2me.org
Upcoming Event: Transform(ed) Information Day for Gender-Diverse Youth and Families
On Saturday 18 August, I will be a guest speaker at Iranti's upcoming information day for gender-diverse youth and families. The Facebook event can be accessed here.
Transgender in South Africa
In relation to the recent media coverage of Caitlyn Jenner's transitioning Gender Dynamix and News24 has released a series of informative videos on transgender people and their experiences in South Africa. The videos can be seen below:
New Johannesburg-based Transgender Support Group
Healthcare professions often play an integral part in a transgender person's transitioning. This may include aiding the individual in better understanding their gender identity, planning what a transition will mean for that individual, dealing with the adjustments that are inherent to a transition or providing medical care (such as hormones or surgery). Frequently, healthcare professionals also provide a supportive role, such as through check-ups or through counselling and psychotherapy.
In addition to the assistance provided by healthcare professionals the support and resources contributed by other trans people is becoming more and more evident in transitionings. The explosion of the internet and access to the internet has enabled previously isolated individuals to connect with one another. Websites, blogs, online forums, instant messaging and other online platforms allow for rapid sharing of information and support (obviously with caution being necessary with regards to the reliability of information and the nature of privacy. There are certain things for which the opinion and guidance of the healthcare professional cannot be substituted). However, despite the empowering boom in trans resources by trans persons many trans people still find it hard to find and meet with other trans people in safe spaces.
A much-needed support group for trans people by trans people, CtrlAltGender, has recently been started at Wits University in Johannesburg:
"He? She? For some of us, gender is not so simple. For Trans* People by Trans* People. CtrlAltGender is a trans* advocacy, activism and support group. It is based at the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS) in Johannesburg but is by no means limited to Wits students/staff. Its main role is to provide a safe and secure trans* space to provide support and guidance to the trans* community within the local Joburg area. Beyond that the group functions to challenge cissexism within the university and the community at large.
Trans* is an umbrella term that refers to all of the identities within the gender identity spectrum. There's a ton of diversity there, but we often group them all together (e.g., when we say "trans* issues). Trans (without the asterisk) is best applied to trans men and trans women, while the asterisk makes special note in an effort to include all non-cisgender gender identities, including transgender, transsexual, transvestite, genderqueer, genderfluid, non-binary, genderfuck, genderless, agender, non-gendered, third gender, two-spirit, bigender, and trans man and trans woman."
Any queries about the group can be directed to Jocelyn (marsden.joshua@gmail.com). The group also has a Facebook page and a Twitter account.
Planning a Gender Identity Interest Group
We have identified a need for more collaboration and support for mental healthcare professionals working with transgender, intersex and gender-variant individuals. We would like to invite interested parties to our upcoming meeting to:
better establish the needs of healthcare professionals working with gender-variant clients;
problem solve on ways to better meet the needs of healthcare professionals and their gender-variant clients; and
to plan a gender identity interest group for mental healthcare professionals
DATE: Wednesday 19 February 2014
VENUE : The Family and Child Therapy Centre, 22 First Avenue, Melville (next door to the Melville Animal Clinic)
RSVP TO: Jonathan Bosworth on jonathan.bosworth@gmail.com or 083 703 5121 by Wednesday 12 February
Jonathan Bosworth (Counselling Psychologist),
Claire Jaynes (Counselling Psychologist), and
Fred Walter (Clinical Psychologist)
Transgender Infographics
Trans Student Equality Resources (TSER) have released an important series of infographics on transgender-related topics. Trans persons and significant others, family, friends and allies (SOFFAs) of trans persons may find these particularly helpful in educating themselves and those around them.
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Resources for Teachers, Parents and Learners
Sexual orientation and gender identity are still a controversial topics in South African schools. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) youth, teachers and parents still face prejudice and discrimination on a daily basis. Many parents and teachers find it difficult to provide education on sexual orientation and gender identity. They may also battle to provide support for LGBTI youth. Furthermore, learners often do not have access to adequate resources on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA) have recently launched a website providing resources for LGBTI youth, their parents, teachers and allies as well as for researchers. These free and valuable resources provide accessible overviews of sexual orientation and gender identity. They make recommendations about best practices, policy and education and empower learners, parents and teachers with the information they need. Find these highly recommended sexual orientation and gender identity resources here.
International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia
Friday 17 May is International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO). The following video from the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Office outlines some of the difficulties that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons across the globe face on a daily basis:
A clear message from the above video is that LGBT rights are human rights. In South Africa we have a progressive constitution in which LGBT rights are protected by law. The following table (courtesy of Wikipedia) outlines lesbian, gay and bisexual rights in South Africa:
The following pamphlet (courtesy of Gender DynamiX) discusses the South African legistlation that allows transgender and gender non-conforming people in South Africa to change their gender and name on their ID documents without undergoing sexual re-assignment surgery:
However, despite this progressive legislation many LGBTI persons in South Africa still face discrimination, hate speech and hate crimes. In other words many LGBTI people are still not free or equal. The 17th of May is a day to sit with what this means and to take action. On Friday, various South African NGOs will be uniting to fight homophobia and transphobia - click here for their press release and programme.
Jonathan's Blog
I use this blog to post links to articles and videos that may relate to some of my services or interests. This content may also be useful for potential clients as well as other people interested in psychology and self development.
Consensual Non Monogamy
Consensual Non-monogamy
Family Life Centre
Feminist Studies
Gender Diverse
Gender Dynamix
Gender Non Conforming
Gender Non-conforming
Gender Therapist
Information Day
Mental Healthcare Professionals
Parent Infant Psychotherapy
Parent-infant Psychotherapy
Reduced Rate Counselling Services
Sophiatown Community Psychological Services
Winnicott

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Q: Multiple voltage dividers : finding resistances in a circuit I have to set the battery voltage to 14.5V from the first divider, then from that I have to attenuate it to 1V to feed to the input of an op amp. Now this  answer is inspiring but doesn't solve my purpose. Maximum I can assume the R2 & R4. R3 & R5 still unknown.
Please help.

A: Well, we are trying to analyze the following circuit:

simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab
When we use and apply KCL, we can write the following set of equations:
$$\text{I}_1=\text{I}_2+\text{I}_3\tag1$$
When we use and apply Ohm's law, we can write the following set of equations:
$$
\begin{cases}
\text{I}_1=\frac{\text{V}_\text{i}-\text{V}_1}{\text{R}_1}\\
\\
\text{I}_2=\frac{\text{V}_1}{\text{R}_2}\\
\\
\text{I}_3=\frac{\text{V}_1-\text{V}_2}{\text{R}_3}\\
\\
\text{I}_3=\frac{\text{V}_2}{\text{R}_4}
\end{cases}\tag2
$$
Substitute \$(2)\$ into \$(1)\$, in order to get:
$$
\begin{cases}
\frac{\text{V}_\text{i}-\text{V}_1}{\text{R}_1}=\frac{\text{V}_1}{\text{R}_2}+\frac{\text{V}_1-\text{V}_2}{\text{R}_3}\\
\\
\frac{\text{V}_\text{i}-\text{V}_1}{\text{R}_1}=\frac{\text{V}_1}{\text{R}_2}+\frac{\text{V}_2}{\text{R}_4}
\end{cases}\tag3
$$
Now, we know the values of \$\text{V}_\text{i}\$, \$\text{R}_1\$, \$\text{R}_3\$, \$\text{V}_1\$, and \$\text{V}_2\$. So coloring the things we know red, we see:
$$
\begin{cases}
\frac{\color{red}{\text{V}_\text{i}}-\color{red}{\text{V}_1}}{\color{red}{\text{R}_1}}=\frac{\color{red}{\text{V}_1}}{\text{R}_2}+\frac{\color{red}{\text{V}_1}-\color{red}{\text{V}_2}}{\color{red}{\text{R}_3}}\\
\\
\frac{\color{red}{\text{V}_\text{i}}-\color{red}{\text{V}_1}}{\color{red}{\text{R}_1}}=\frac{\color{red}{\text{V}_1}}{\text{R}_2}+\frac{\color{red}{\text{V}_2}}{\text{R}_4}
\end{cases}\tag4
$$
So, we have two equations and two unknowns, namely \$\text{R}_2\$ and \$\text{R}_4\$. Using your values, we see that:
$$
\begin{cases}
\frac{16-\frac{29}{2}}{10000}=\frac{\frac{29}{2}}{\text{R}_2}+\frac{\frac{29}{2}-1}{1000}\\
\\
\frac{16-\frac{29}{2}}{10000}=\frac{\frac{29}{2}}{\text{R}_2}+\frac{1}{\text{R}_4}
\end{cases}\tag5
$$
It is not hard to solve this (so I let you do that). I used a simple Mathematica code to solve this:
In[1]:=Vi = 16;
V1 = 29/2;
V2 = 1;
R1 = 10000;
R3 = 1000;
FullSimplify[
 Solve[{I1 == I2 + I3, I1 == (Vi - V1)/R1, I2 == V1/R2,
   I3 == (V1 - V2)/R3, I3 == V2/R4}, {I1, I2, I3, R2, R4}]]

Out[1]={{I1 -> 3/20000, I2 -> -(267/20000), I3 -> 27/2000,
  R2 -> -(290000/267), R4 -> 2000/27}}

So, we get:
$$\text{R}_2=-\frac{290000}{267}\approx-1086.14\space\Omega\space\space\space\wedge\space\space\space\text{R}_4=\frac{2000}{27}\approx74.0741\space\Omega\tag6$$

Which is not possible because the resistance must be bigger than zero.

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Bolesław Michal Gładych (17 May 1918 – 12 July 2011) was a Polish fighter pilot, a flying ace of World War II. He was born in Warsaw.

Polish Air Force
As a boy, Gladych was expelled from various schools, before choosing a military career. He graduated summa cum laude from the Polish Air Force Academy. He was commissioned on 1 September 1939, too late to see active service in the Polish campaign. He led a group of newly commissioned pilots to evacuate the PZL P.7 fighters of the Polish Pilot's School to neutral Romania. Escaping from the Romanian internment camp Turnu Severin (reputedly killing a guard in the process) he reached France, where he joined the recently formed Polish manned "Finnish" Squadron, intended to participate in the Finnish-Soviet war. The squadron became an Armee de l'Air Polish volunteer unit - Groupe de Chasse I/145. The unit was equipped with the experimental Caudron C.714 "Cyclone" fighter.

Later, Gladych recalled an air combat with a Bf 109E on 10 June 1940. After a long dogfight, the Pole's fighter was severely damaged. The pilot of the Messerschmitt - with the number "13" on its side - simply waggled his wings and disengaged. This, according to Gladych, was the first of several encounters with Luftwaffe ace Hauptmann Georg-Peter Eder. (Although according to Luftwaffe records Eder flew his first sorties with JG 51 in September 1940.)

Reputedly, 'Mike' claimed several air victories with the French Air Force, although this cannot be confirmed from surviving records.

Royal Air Force
Gladych did reach the UK in 1940, attending 57 OTU before transferring to the famous No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron in October 1940, although again records suggest a later arrival in 1941. He claimed 3 Bf 109's shot down and a probable in 2 sorties on 23 June 1941, although after the second sortie he then crashed his damaged Spitfire at RAF Manston, and hit a telegraph pole, receiving a fractured skull, facial cuts, and a fractured collarbone.

Gladych returned to operations in October 1941 and was transferred to 302 Squadron "City of Poznan' in July 1942, joining it after recuperative leave in December 1942. By May he was a flight commander and had been promoted to Flight Lieutenant.

Gladych detailed in a magazine article years later (Real magazine, New York, April–May 1960) another encounter with Hauptmann Georg-Peter Eder. After crippling Gladych's Spitfire in the spring of 1943, yet again Eder flew alongside his victim and waggled his wings, before flying away.

The two aces possibly met in combat once more in 1944, when again Eder shot up Gladych's P-47 aircraft over Vechta, but the Pole cleverly tricked Eder by flying through the German flak barrage to escape. (Apparently in 1950 Eder and Gladych met by chance at a pilots reunion in Frankfurt and managed to confirm they had been adversaries in each case.)

Another story relating to Gladych is that in the autumn of 1943 Gladych mistakenly almost shot down the aircraft carrying Prime Minister Winston Churchill. RAF Fighter Command grounded Gladych as a punishment.

United States Army Air Forces
After ending his second RAF tour in January 1944, Gladych, along with fellow Pole Flt Lt. Witold Lanowski, arranged a wholly unofficial secondment to the 56th Fighter Group of the U.S. Army Air Forces in early 1944. Recruited by Major Francis Gabreski of the 56th, who as a captain had previously been attached to the RAF Polish Fighter Wing in 1942, Gladych helped organized battle training for American replacement pilots, and was assigned to Gabreski's 61st Fighter Squadron. On 21 February 1944 Mike downed 2 Bf 109s in a single sortie.

When the Polish authorities became aware of the arrangement in June 1944 they attempted to discipline the pair with threats of expulsion from the Polish Air Force. Both continued to fly with the Americans, however, and were consequently expelled. Therefore, Gladych's combat claims with the USAAF are not recognised by the Polish Air Force. Gladych was not formally accepted into the USAAF either (his kill credits were officially recognized, however), and continued to fly unofficially until October 1944, when the Polish Air Force finally relented and sanctioned his secondment. Gladych was carried in American records by his RAF rank of squadron leader but was known in the unit by his equivalent American rank of major. He became the leading figure among six Polish pilots flying with the 61st Fighter Squadron, all but one of whom survived the war.

Gladych had claimed a further 10 air kills and 5 ground kills by the end of September 1944. Gladych reported that on 8 March 1944 while escorting bombers to Berlin, he engaged three Focke-Wulf Fw 190s. Low on fuel, he attempted to disengage after shooting down one of the Fw 190s, but the other two fighters boxed him in and tried to force him to land. As he approached a German airfield configured for landing, Gladych suddenly opened fire on the airfield with his remaining ammunition. German flak gunners responded, but missed Gladych and shot down the two following Fw 190s. When he crossed the English coast his P-47 ran out of fuel, forcing Gladych to bail out.

It was then claimed he flew further (unofficial?) operations with an unnamed P-51 group, claiming a Me-262 jet downed, but this is not confirmed by USAAF records and his ten credited kills were all made with the 61st FS. It is also claimed he intentionally understated the total of his air victories lest he be promoted and transferred off combat duties.

He was awarded the Virtuti Militari, Cross of Valour with three bars by the Polish Air Force, the DFC by the RAF, and the Silver Star and two clusters, the Air Medal and three clusters by the USAAF. He also claimed to have been awarded the Croix de Guerre for the sortie on 8 March 1944 when he strafed an airfield after shooting down an Fw 190.

He nicknamed the numerous P-47's assigned to him Pengie, after the nickname of his then girlfriend, a Canadian WAAF, continuing the series up to Pengie V as he received newer aircraft. The name included a cartoon image of a penguin on the left side of the engine cowling.

His wartime 'score' totals 17 claimed destroyed, 2 probables, 1 shared damaged, and 5 ground kills. His ten kills with the 56th FG are officially recognized by the U.S. Air Force, as are the 4 kills by Lanowski. (USAF Historical Study No. 85: USAF Credits for the Destruction of Enemy Aircraft, World War II, Air Force Historical Research Agency).

Post-war biography
After the war ended, Gladych was allegedly involved in black market smuggling across Europe. In the early 1950s, he was recruited by the CIA to join a newly composed Project ARTICHOKE operating from Washington DC.

He also located his brother (a Polish resistance fighter) in a German POW camp in Austria, which had been liberated by the Russians in 1945. Anticipating the fact that most of the Polish resistance falling into the hands of the Soviets were likely to be deported to Siberia, Gladych used his USAAF status to visit the camp and managed to smuggle his brother out to the West.

After the war "Mike" Gladych emigrated to Seattle, Washington, obtaining a PhD degree and becoming a United States citizen. Until his death, he lived in the area where he practiced psychotherapy. He was a long-term practitioner of Yoga Nidra and integrated yoga into his therapeutic approach.

Mike was considered by many who knew him to be a Yogi, a name that he did not resist. As he described it, he encountered a man from India in a boarding house in England where he lived during World War II. A woman opened her house to people in the armed forces and others. Mike said that he struck up a conversation with the man, who described that he was a Yogi and had been charged by his master (not sure if that is the right word) to travel to England and teach willing people about Yoga. Mike was enthralled and accepted the man's teachings. According to Mike, he told the man that he had to resign his commission in the Air Force because he spent his days dropping bombs on people and trying to kill enemy pilots. The man told him that he had made a commitment to England and asked how he could break that commitment. Mike says that he asked the man, "Am I supposed to drop bombs on people all day and then talk to you about Yoga at night?" and that the man replied, "Yes, of course."

Mike said that his mission in life was to help people live harmoniously, which appears to have meant being at peace with the contradictions in life. Despite the many contradictions in his own life, Mike always seemed to be at peace with things, and he tried to share that with others. His visiting card for his psychotherapy practise read "Yoga Therapy." His wife, Elizabeth, "Pengie" died in 2008.

Honours and awards
 Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari
 Cross of Valour (Poland) four awards
 Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom)
 Silver Star and two clusters (United States)
 Distinguished Flying Cross - twice (United States)
 Air Medal and three clusters (United States)
Croix de Guerre (France) (personal claim)

References

Sources
 Chronicles of Courage An interview with Michal Gladych, 13 September 2002
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Catholic Church lists former archbishop's $3m Kew mansion for sale
By Ashleigh McMillan and Chris Vedelago
September 8, 2019 — 12.00am
The Catholic Church is selling a multimillion-dollar Kew mansion, once the home of former archbishop of Melbourne Denis Hart, as it prepares for a swathe of additional compensation claims from victims of sexual abuse.
The five-bedroom house at 57 Studley Park Road is for sale off-market and will not be publicly advertised.
The Catholic Church is putting its property at 57 Studley Park Road, Kew, up for sale. Credit:Chris Hopkins
In 2005, the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne purchased the Georgian-style property for $1.65 million as living quarters for then-archbishop Hart.
The sale comes as the church accepted legal responsibility for the sexual abuse of a nine-year-old boy by notorious paedophile Gerald Ridsdale, in a case that could open the floodgates for victims seeking compensation. The church has previously said its borrowings to finance abuse payouts would be repaid by the sale of assets.
After denying any knowledge of Ridsdale's offending before the boy was raped in a confessional box at Mortlake in 1982, lawyers for the church on Friday accepted an amended statement of claim from the victim in the Supreme Court – in effect admitting legal liability for his crimes.
Archbishop Hart, who was the head of the Melbourne diocese for 17 years until mid-2018, had the property listed as his home address from 2005, according to records obtained by The Sunday Age in February 2018.
The mansion is owned by The Roman Catholic Trusts Corporation for the Diocese of Melbourne, which is the trust that holds all archdiocese property.
Shane Healy, the archdiocese's media and communications director, confirmed the church was selling the property.
The former archbishop of Melbourne, Denis Hart. Credit:Joe Armao
"The archdiocese regularly reviews its properties, to ensure that they support our commitments and pastoral priorities," he said.
"The property at Studley Park Road, Kew, is being sold because it is surplus to present and foreseeable requirements."
Mr Healy said last year the property had been purchased because the archbishop's previous home was "not fit for purpose due to its size and the cost of ongoing maintenance".
An investigation by The Age in 2018 found the church in Victoria holds assets worth more than $9 billion, with an extrapolated figure of $30 billion worth of property across Australia.
Marshall White director Doug McLachlan confirmed his agency was handling the sale.
The circa-1938 house will be advertised for an asking price between $2.9 million and $3.19 million. The higher end of the estimate is almost double what the church paid for it 14 years ago, and much higher than the City of Boroondara's January 2016 valuation of $2.25 million.
David Morrell, the director of high-end buyers' agency Morrell Koren, said the $3 million price-tag for the Kew property was perhaps conservative for the sizeable lot.
However, the fact that it fronts busy Studley Park Road means it would be a "cheaper entry price in Kew than you would normally get" compared to similar properties in the suburb.
"It's a very active area for schools and that's the logical person that would buy it," Mr Morrell said.
"It will be attractive to the Catholic families of nearby Xavier and Genazzano (colleges)."
In evidence to the royal commission, the church repeatedly warned that increasing compensation payments to victims could lead to cuts to social programs.
Mr Healy said previously that the church had borrowed money to pay sex abuse survivors "which will be repaid from asset sales'' and it would continue to meet the cost of claims from its own resources rather than parish assets.
The archdiocese apparently ran at a deficit of $8 million last year and is carrying debt of up to $180 million, which relates primarily to land for new schools and parishes, according to a recent report by The Australian.
A consolidated financial statement for the archdiocese for 2013, released publicly as part of the child abuse royal commission, showed the church was in surplus in Victoria and had accumulated funds of $212 million.
The documents showed the archdiocese owed a debt of $81 million to its own financial arm, the Catholic Development Fund.
The so-called "Ellis defence", which prevented abuse survivors from suing unincorporated organisations including churches and other institutions, was abolished by the Victorian government last year.
The church spent $872,000 on a beach house with bay views in Dromana for then-archbishop Hart in 2008. He now personally owns the property and lives there, after buying it off the Archdiocese for $1.12 million in mid-2017, using a combination of personal savings and an inheritance.
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NEW YORK—The Metropolitan Museum of Art is embarking on a momentous project to improve the way visitors experience its collection of European Paintings (1250–1800) by replacing and updating the galleries' skylights. Constructed in 1939 and last remodeled in 1952, the current system consists of 30,000 square feet of glass and a louver system, which admit natural overhead light into the galleries. The project will begin in April 2018 and will be carried out in two phases over the next four and a half years.
The project will impact the galleries dedicated to European Paintings, 12500–1800. The new system of louvers above these galleries will result in a diffused light that can be closely maintained and adjusted for each season.
Phase One Preparations for the first phase will begin in April 2018, and by July approximately 60% of the galleries at the top of the stairs leading from the Great Hall will be closed. These include the galleries devoted to Italian, French, and Spanish paintings of the 14th through the 18th centuries, from Giotto to Jacques Louis David.
Phase Two During the second phase, currently scheduled to begin in 2020, paintings will move back into the newly lit galleries and the remaining 40% will be closed. This will affect the collection of Netherlandish and German paintings of the Renaissance, from Van Eyck to Bruegel; 17th-century Dutch and Flemish paintings by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Rubens, and Van Dyck; British 18th-century paintings, including works by Reynolds and Gainsborough; and Italian 16th-century painting, from Raphael to Titian and Veronese.
For more than 100 years, the Museum's European paintings collection has been displayed prominently in galleries at the top of the staircase leading from the Great Hall. Part of the original 1880 building, these galleries were modernized and refitted between 1951 and 1954 to accommodate the expanding collection. Further growth required a major reinstallation of the galleries in 1972 in 42 contiguous galleries, which still could only provide enough space for the display of 60 percent of its collection of 2,500 works. To remedy this, the 19th-century European paintings were moved to a newly constructed wing at the south end of the Museum in 1980 and the 20th-century paintings were moved to the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing when it opened in 1987.


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09/15/2018 L 1-4 at Connecticut RoughRiders 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
09/19/2018 W 5-0 Team Maryland 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
09/22/2018 W 4-2 Boston Jr. Rangers 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
09/23/2018 L 3-4 Boston Jr. Rangers 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10/01/2018 W 4-3 Connecticut Chiefs 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
10/05/2018 W 5-2 Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Knights 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
10/07/2018 W 14-0 Lehigh Valley Jr. Rebels 1 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0
10/13/2018 W 6-3 at New York Apple Core 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10/15/2018 W 6-0 Vermont Lumberjacks 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10/17/2018 W 3-2 at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Knights 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
10/26/2018 W 5-4 Lehigh Valley Jr. Rebels 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10/27/2018 W 9-0 at Lehigh Valley Jr. Rebels 1 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 0
11/01/2018 W 4-3 at Walpole Express 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11/02/2018 L 3-8 at Seahawks Hockey Club 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11/11/2018 W 3-2 at Vermont Lumberjacks 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11/12/2018 W 6-4 at New England Wolves 1 1 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0
11/17/2018 W 4-0 at Connecticut Chiefs 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11/18/2018 W 14-2 at Lehigh Valley Jr. Rebels 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0
12/02/2018 W 4-3 at Philadelphia Little Flyers 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12/13/2018 L 2-3 Seahawks Hockey Club 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12/14/2018 W 5-4 Connecticut RoughRiders 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 2 0
12/19/2018 W 8-2 at Team Maryland 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
01/04/2019 L 2-4 at East Coast Wizards 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
01/09/2019 W 5-4 New York Apple Core 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
01/13/2019 L 0-2 at Valley Jr. Warriors 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
01/14/2019 L 0-5 at New Hampshire Avalanche 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
01/18/2019 W 2-1 Philadelphia Little Flyers 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
01/20/2019 W 6-1 at North Carolina Golden Bears 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
01/21/2019 W 15-3 at North Carolina Golden Bears 1 1 1 2 1 0 0 0 2 0
02/02/2019 W 6-2 at Philadelphia Jr. Flyers 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
02/03/2019 W 7-2 Philadelphia Jr. Flyers 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
02/09/2019 W 2-1 at Philadelphia Revolution 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
02/23/2019 W 5-3 New England Wolves 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
02/24/2019 L 2-3 Valley Jr. Warriors 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
02/26/2019 W 3-2 Philadelphia Revolution 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
02/28/2019 L 3-8 Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Knights 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
03/04/2019 L 2-3 New Hampshire Avalanche 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Regular Season Totals 42 9 13 22 3 3 0 0 22 1
Playoffs Totals 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
2018-19 Totals 45 9 13 22 3 3 0 0 24 1
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"What? I don't keep all the money I make?" asks a wide-eyed student staring at a pretend pay stub. It's questions like this that Nafessa Jackson, and hundreds of her fellow ManpowerGroup volunteers, field in their work with JA USA. It's this sort of knowledge, that's rarely taught in schools, and is absolutely vital in preparing students to find success in the world of work.
JA Worldwide is an international non-profit organization dedicated to giving young people financial literacy and encouraging their entrepreneurship so they can manage their own futures—and even run their own businesses. As a partner for over a decade, ManpowerGroup's number one goal is to help Junior Achievement inspire 10 million students every year to dream big, identify their passion, and reach their potential.
ManpowerGroup and JA believe it's never too early to set the stage for a lifetime of achievement, fueled by learnability and skills development. That's why we're delivering tangible, hands-on learning experience, working directly with students to help them understand the decision making and consequences that impact financial success and sustainability. And thanks to additional partnerships in countries like Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Serbia, Sweden and the U.K., we have even more opportunities to offer work readiness to young students and teachers across Europe by providing digital training webinars, participating in judging panels days during JA annual student competitions, and taking an active part in JA Leaders for a Day events.
The best part? It works. The JA Worldwide-ManpowerGroup partnership instills confidence from youth that lasts a lifetime. Alumni are more employable, more enterprising, start more businesses and earn higher salaries. Our volunteers are engaged and motivated. And because we share a belief that getting youth work ready is a constant and evolving endeavor, it's one that pays dividends not only to young people, but also to their employers.
ManpowerGroup's U.S. partnership with Junior Achievement was recently recognized in New York with the President's Volunteer Service Award, for helping inspire students every year to dream big, identify their passion, and reach their potential.


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Tkachuk said it's an exciting time to be a Flame - and he can't wait to get back on the ice with his teammates
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Bottom line: He wanted to win.
As a Flame, and with this group of guys.
"They're the ones that have made it so fun to come to the rink every day," smiled Matthew Tkachuk Wednesday afternoon at the Scotiabank Saddledome, fresh off the signing of a new three-year, $21-million pact.
"Having the finish we had last year made it even more clear to me that I want to win with this group.
"I want to win in Calgary.
"We could have argued over the long-term, short-term.... We knew this was going to work for both of us. I'm very happy with how it ended and I'm excited to get on the ice tomorrow."
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The Fans - inarguably - feel the same around these parts.
No longer a player on the rise, but a bona fide star in the front of his prime years, Tkachuk pointed to the passion of the market as a big reason why Calgary is the right fit.
"I love it here," he said. "It's an exciting time to be a Calgary Flame."
Initially, both he and general manager Brad Treliving targeted a long-term deal, but a variety of factors including salary cap restraints made that more difficult, if the nucleus of the team were to be retained.
Eventually, both parties landed on a shorter-term contract, which allowed Treliving to keep the core intact.
"This wasn't a negotiation that was profanity-laced 24/7," Treliving joked. "Everyone thinks you start by arm-wrestling over numbers. But Matthew said, 'How do we win?'
"His goal was, 'How do we keep this group, how do we add to this group, and how do we win with this group?'
"Matthew wants to be here. He wants to play his career here. He wants to sign here as long as he can sign here. That was our goal, our mission, at the beginning.
"We spent days, hours and months talking about long-term. But that's how we get to the term that we got to."
Tkachuk, who arrived earlier in the day from Toronto and said there was a palpable buzz in the airport upon his arrival, is over-the-moon happy with how it all played out.
With the scrappy, superbly talented left wing in tow, the Flames return what is largely the same group as last year.
No one being dealt away, all in the name of cap savings.
That Treliving was able to retain this wealth of talent without any major surgery to the roster is a testament to what the team has.
And how the 'window' is open.
"We're a 100-point team last year and basically everyone's back," Tkachuk beamed. "We're chomping at the bit.
"I really didn't really think about (a three-year deal) too much until maybe late August, and once that idea was brought up, I was really intrigued by it and wanted to do it because I knew it would benefit both sides."
Tkachuk is coming off an immaculate campaign in which he posted career highs across the board, including 34 goals that tied him with Sean Monahan for the team lead and the fourth-most points with 77.
He was also his usual gritty self, serving as a thorn in the side of his opponents on a nightly basis and drawing the ire of fans in visiting barns.
A lot will be expected from him this year - a pressure he tends to feed off, if the past is any indication.
As Treliving said, players of Tkachuk's ilk don't grow on trees.
And the Flames are lucky to have him in their corner for years to come.
"You want to be there with your teammates," Tkachuk said. "It's hard to be away. It's not like they didn't include me in anything. I felt like I was here even though I wasn't here…
"But I'm excited to be back.
"This is awesome."


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The Elimination Chamber, 16 tons of steel and glass and 2 miles of thick heavy chain, a structure designed for one purpose and one purpose only – to cause harm to the human body. Since it's debut in 2002 (a debut that was brilliantly teased in the weeks leading to Survivor Series), the Elimination Chamber has had an aura, a certain mystique, that lasts to this day. Unlike Hell in a Cell, which has become diluted through illogical use in the last two years, the Chamber still fires the imagination and rarely fails to live up to expectations.
There have been eleven Elimination Chamber Matches, with the bout becoming exclusive to the February PPV since 2008 (going so far as to have the event changed from No Way Out to it's current titular form – except in Germany, where Elimination Chamber has an entirely different and sinister connotation), and this collection is an anthology of them all in their entirety.
Strap yourself in and get ready for the most brutal ride WWE has to offer.
Certificate: 15
Running Time: 173 mins (including extras)
Kofi Kingston v Alberto Del Rio
Todd Grisham interviews Edge
Elimination Chamber Match for the World Heavyweight Championship: Edge v Rey Mysterio v The Big Show v Kane v Drew McIntyre v Wade Barrett
Matt Striker interviews Jerry Lawler
Booker T with Tough Enough trainer Trish Stratus
WWE Tag Team Championship Match: Santino Marella & Vladimir Kozlov v Justin Gabriel & Heath Slater
Todd Grisham interviews The Miz & Alex Riley
Vickie Guerrero begs for Dolph Ziggler to be rehired
WWE Championship Match: The Miz v Jerry "The King" Lawler
Todd Grisham interviews John Cena
Matt Striker interviews CM Punk
Elimination Chamber Match to Determine the #1 contender at Wrestlemania XXVII: John Cena v Randy Orton v John Morrison v R-Truth v CM Punk v King Sheamus
The Rock & John Cena square off with words – Monday Night Raw (21st February, 2011)
For the first time since it became a February exclusive, the Elimination Chambers would be for different prizes as the RAW bout would be for a shot at the WWE Championship at WrestleMania XXVII while the Smackdown match would be for the World Championship itself.
Before we get to the demonic structure, Alberto Del Rio (the #1 Contender to the World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania) goes one-on-one with Kofi Kingston… and it's a fantastic match; the perfect way to get 11,500 people amped up for the rest of the show. For just over 10mins, both guys shine with great moves, counters and near-falls. The finishing sequence itself was pretty sweet too and the time meant it didn't overstay its welcome for an opener.
Following on from that, the Smackdown crew are up for their turn in the Elimination Chamber as Edge defends the title against Drew McIntyre, Big Show (who was a surprise entrant on the night), Kane, Rey Mysterio and Wade Barrett, with the main surprise of the bout being the showing of my good friend, Mr. McIntyre. WWE booked him as an out-and-out ass-kicker for this match and he lived up to the billing, smacking seven-shades-of-Sunday out of anyone who crosses his path as he and Barrett made their EC debuts. Highlights include hurling both Rey and Barrett through the pods and then his beatdown of Edge. We also get the standard everybody-hits-a-big-move-on-Big-Show-to-beat-him sequence which seems to happen in every elimination-style match he competes in.
From the moment Show is pinned, we get a rapid fire series of eliminations until only Edge and Rey remain. From there, the two men get just under 10mins to showcase the awesome chemistry they have inside the ring and it's a joy to watch.
Match #3 was unlikely to live up to the first two bouts, but giving it 5mins made sure it wouldn't. As far as comedy teams go, Santino & Koslov are usually enjoyable to watch and the interesting dynamic of having Koslov be the "Ricky Morton" and Marella as the hot-tag gives them something unique. Slater and Gabriel, since the switch to Smackdown, have done very little, so taking the tag-titles would at least keep them relevant for another couple of weeks.
Following on from there, the WWE Championship Match between Miz and Lawler was a fantastically heated affair with virtually everyone in attendance wanting the announcer to get a feel-good victory, even if he only held the belt until the following night's RAW. Rumours had actually started to swirl that WWE management were going to do just that, so while in the back of your mind you knew it wasn't going to happen, a little bit of your heart hoped it might.
A solid outing with old-school psychology and Lawler showing us that he can still work to a high level, this was much better than it had any right to be, but again didn't do Miz any favours. As over as he is and as talented on the mic as he is, WWE really dropped the ball with him inside the ring. If he gets another run on top, he needs to be pushed much stronger as an in-ring threat.
Lastly, while not as good as the Smackdown camp, RAW's Elimination Chamber match was also very good, if not just as predictable in regards to the winner. Again, following the Smackdown lead, no-one is eliminated before all six men are in the match, which makes a nice change. OK, technically, that's not exactly accurate, but the way it's done was nicely executed.
Star of the show is CM Punk, but John Morrison puts his Spider-Man-esque abilities to good use around the steel structure (including a genuinely death-defying climb to the centre) and Orton's face push gains more momentum as he and then rival CM Punk trade blows and pinfalls. The last 5mins were high-octane and the fans inside the arena lapped it up, with Cena setting up a showdown against The Miz at 'Mania.
Only one extra, but it's a great one (pun totally intended). From memory, I don't think WWE have ever done an extra where it chronicled a feud with footage from a number of weeks like it does here. Basically, you get the Rock's promo when he first appeared on RAW and Cena's rapped response (which was much better than the usual kiddie-bilge he's forced to work with).
Grade A stuff all round.
One of the few PPVs to actually garner more buys than the previous year, Elimination Chamber 2011 was a very enjoyable show, even if none of the winners were all that surprising. I guess it goes to show that just because it's predictable, doesn't mean it's automatically going to be bad.
The two EC matches themselves are the highlights of the night, but Kingston/Alberto was also great and Lawler/Miz was a fantastic example of how good a worker Jerry Lawler is. I genuinely hope his little run with Miz caused people to seek out his back catalogue from Memphis. Only the WWE Tag Team Championship Match is below par, but that lasts 5mins and doesn't outstay its welcome.
As the last stop before WrestleMania, this needed to put the main-events in place and in that respect it was mission accomplished. I've always had a soft spot for this event and feel it's right to have the Elimination Chamber matches on a set event, which is something I can't say for Hell in a Cell or TLC.
In a nutshell, this is a very enjoyable event and if you buy the Blu-Ray edition, you get the episodes of RAW and Smackdown from the week before.
Points: 9/10
UK: DVD / Blu-ray
USA: DVD / Blu-ray
Canada: DVD / Blu-ray
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On February 6, Business Day published a piece by Wandile Sihlobo in which he detailed the growing trend in the communal areas of the Eastern Cape where agricultural land is increasingly being used for settlement purposes.
This article struck a chord as it could easily have been written about any province in SA, such is the magnitude of the trend. SA may be a rather large country but only 13% of our land surface is suitable for crop production, with only 2% to 3% truly being regarded as high potential.
The 13% is spread across the areas of the Eastern Cape referred to by Sihlobo, as well as large areas of KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Limpopo, the coastal areas of the Western Cape, and Gauteng. Coincidentally, many of these areas are also densely populated, being rapidly urbanised or sought after by other sectors of the economy due to the presence of mineral and coal deposits, as well as water resources required for electricity generation and heavy industry.
Land is about more than just agriculture. Land is required to build homes and settlements; cities and towns need space to expand, and mining and industry must go where the natural resources are located. Where these legitimate needs compete for space with agriculture, it is vital that an equitable dispensation be found to meet all needs while safeguarding high-potential agricultural land for agricultural purposes. The current status quo is simply not good enough.
Land-use management and zoning are functions the constitution reserves for local government. These entities may not have the ability to distinguish between land that is used for non-intensive agriculture and those areas that are crucial to maintaining national food security.
Certain municipalities also adopt a laissez-faire attitude to spatial planning whereby all land outside the urban periphery is deemed agricultural land until an application is brought to develop the land into shopping centres or golf courses.
If this does not change soon, our most precious agricultural resources may disappear quicker than many may think.
While still in its infancy, the draft Preservation and Development of Agricultural Land Bill seeks to address this issue in two ways. First, the bill seeks to map out all land in SA according to its agricultural potential. The department of agriculture, forestry and fisheries must then help municipalities act proactively and identify the areas within their jurisdiction that should be reserved for agricultural use, and channel developments towards least-impact areas. Through the process, land can be earmarked for emerging farmers on the peri-urban edge.
Secondly, large agricultural areas deemed critical for food security could be declared as protected agricultural areas. This could function in a similar manner to nature conservation legislation, although the object would be to protect scarce agricultural resources such as high-potential land as opposed to biodiversity, per se.
To keep red tape to a minimum, regulations should specify which non-agricultural activities should be prohibited in these areas, which could take place under permit conditions and should simply be subject to norms and standards to minimise the impact on agricultural activities.
The exact areas to which this should apply, as well as the content of land-use restrictions, should be very carefully considered to prevent the creation of an additional layer of red tape and to reduce bureaucratic delays as far as possible. Be that as it may, it is high time that SA attaches the same weight to its agricultural resources as it does to our precious nature reserves, mineral deposits and growing urban areas.
• Boshoff is manager: legal intelligence at the Agricultural Business Chamber (Agbiz).


Despite presenting the Sun Valley City Council with detailed information supporting their financial needs, many agencies that requested funds for fiscal year 2012 may have to find a way to get by with less.
Mayor Wayne Willich and the City Council combed through details of the proposed budget during a special work session on June 21.
"What our philosophy here has been is to very, very conservatively project the income side, the revenue side, because revenue except for property taxes has some volatility to it," Willich said. "That's been successful for the last couple of years. We've also managed the cost side to keep the cost side down. In this budget I would like to do the same kind of thing."
While preliminary budget figures are being worked out, city residents can expect the 2012 budget to be similar to this year's.
"Our operating expenditures are about what our annual operating revenues are," City Administrator Sharon Hammer said in an interview. "It's almost flat, especially when you adjust for inflation. It's stable, and that's not bad."
During the meeting, Councilman Nils Ribi spoke against the city's taking the 3 percent property tax increase allowed by state law. The revenue gained by that extra 3 percent would be about $76,000—about $25 per parcel.
"I think we can forgo it this year," he said. "It's time to make some serious cuts."
He suggested cuts in funding for the Ketchum Parks and Recreation Department, community housing and the Sun Valley Marketing Alliance.
"Ketchum needs to step up in a much bigger way, and their proportion needs to be much greater than ours," he said.
Councilwoman Joan Lamb cautioned against bypassing the permitted tax increase.
"I think that's not responsible government on our part," she said. "If you give up that increase in any one year, you then give up the multiplier of that increase. So, every year thereafter. And I just feel that is absolutely the wrong thing for us to be doing. We cannot afford to do that."
Among those agencies that could be on the city's chopping block is Sustain Blaine, a countywide economic development organization that asked Sun Valley for $10,000. The mayor suggested allocating $8,000, but the council leaned toward a much lower figure—zero.
"I've been very disappointed in the outcome of it," Ribi said. "I think that we're missing the boat on what true economic development is supposed to be about and what the goal is."
Though the city has not received a budget request from the county for consolidated emergency communications services, last year's contract was for $117,280.
"I'd like to get started on a phased program where our dollar amount is being reduced," Willich said in an interview.
In his initial budget, Willich proposed $108,000, with the idea that the figure would drop 10 percent each fiscal year for five years. The council at last week's meeting, however, reduced the tentative number to $86,000.
"I can go along with it now because we haven't been sent a bill. We haven't been sent a contract (from the county)," Councilman Dewayne Briscoe said during the meeting. "But by (next month) we will have been sent a contract, and we will have been billed for a certain amount. And so that's when the hard decision is going to have to be made as to what we do."
Fly Sun Valley Alliance—which promotes air service to the valley—requested $25,000 from the city. The proposed amount in the draft budget is $10,000.
Sun Valley Marketing Alliance—which promotes business and tourism in the Sun Valley-Ketchum area—asked for $425,000. It may get $350,000.
"Once again, the council was in a slashing mood," Willich said in an interview. "Marketing and promotion of our business, we have to work the revenue side of the equation. They (the council) don't agree with me."
Blaine County Housing Authority—which works to provide affordable housing in the valley—sought $10,740 but may see only $7,265.
Mountain Rides Transportation Authority—which provides public bus service in the valley—asked for $315,000. The proposed amount is $310,000.
"You can gut the budget," Willich said, "but there are some basics ... that you simply have to provide to have a viable city."
The council has scheduled a meeting for Tuesday, July 12, to review and possibly approve a tentative budget, and will hold a public hearing on the matter on Tuesday, Aug. 2.


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Q: Can't find license information for the Twitter @anywhere JSDK - does anyone know? I need to provide licensing information for each 3rd party script I'm including in a website but I can't seem to find license information for Twitter's @anywhere JSDK script.
I've found the Facebook JSDK license on github, licensed under the  Apache License Version 2.0.
So, I've tweeted some Twitter developers and they have not responded, so I figured I'd post the question here.
Also - is this a better topic for meta.stackoverflow.com not entirely sure?

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Zidane has steadied the ship for Madrid but Hazard still needs the wind in his sails
Written By Rik Sharma
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Atlético Madrid v Real Madrid
E. Hazard
Real Madrid fans might not feel the same way, but Zinedine Zidane should walk away from the Wanda Metropolitano energised and hopeful with what he has seen, with one Eden Hazard-shaped caveat.
Los Blancos drew 0-0 at Atletico Madrid on Saturday night in a largely dull, attritional game, but it was a tie that leaves Real top of La Liga after seven matches.
For a team that has spent much of the past two seasons in the rear-view mirror of their greatest rivals, Barcelona, that is a solid accomplishment.
Moreover, for a team that was hammered 3-0 by Paris Saint-Germain not a fortnight ago, there is now optimism and belief growing where recently lay panic and crisis.
MORE: Former Victory star Besart Berisha joins Western United | Mourinho 'very interested' in Real Madrid return
A 1-0 win at Sevilla, a 2-0 win over Osasuna and this tie with bitter local rivals Atletico has steadied the ship.
Real started the season in disarray, partly due to being thrashed 7-3 by Atletico in a summer friendly in New Jersey, but this was a far cry from that wild affair.
It is Real's third consecutive clean sheet, having failed to keep any in their first five competitive games of the season.
And perhaps most crucially, there was never a period of the game where Madrid lost control.
Too often that has been their downfall, but they played with something that Zidane likes to call "intensity" throughout.
Denis Doyle
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And in the second half they even looked a physical match for Atletico, coming closer than Diego Simeone's side, who needed an excellent Jan Oblak save to keep Karim Benzema's header at bay.
Of course, at Real Madrid it's not enough to merely be on an even keel.
The club must be racing towards success and for that, Hazard will need to hit the heights he showed at Chelsea, the kind of performances that made Madrid pine for him for several years.
Eventually Los Blancos splashed €100 million on the Belgian this summer and so far - granted, it is too early to judge - have been left underwhelmed with their purchase.
Madrid were looking for a player who could put them back on their perch as the kings of Europe, and Hazard has the ability to be that X-factor.
Unfortunately he turned up in the summer several kilos overweight and then suffered an injury on the eve of the season which further set him back.
The forward is still looking for his first goal in a Madrid shirt and, to tell the truth, his first half-decent performance in brilliant white too.
Oscar Del Pozo
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At the Wanda Metropolitano he wasn't so much swallowed up by the derby as ignored by it, touching the ball occasionally but never decisively, left to flit around the outside.
Even Gareth Bale had more involvement in the game, which, for those who have watched the Welshman over the past few years, may come as a surprise.
Despite his fractured relationship with Zidane, Bale is pulling in the right direction.
Once Hazard finds his footing and puts the wind in Madrid's sails, the team's capabilities this season - just how far they can go in the three major competitions - will become more apparent.
On every other count, this is progress for Zidane.
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Our Road To Hell Is Paved With "Good Conservatives"
by Jonathan Peter Wilkinson on December 21, 2018
The limited good that cuckservatives do is buried with their bones. Their insidious ability to undermine the most Rightward functioning Conservative lives on past their demise. Kurt Schlichter explains how this Cucking from The Great Beyond works.
"If only the Republican Party were dominated by a Republican like [Insert Name of Dead Republican Here] instead of that awful, awful Trump!" they sobbed as they shed their crock-adile tears, because it was a crock. There's never going to be a Republican with a pulse who is not Der Führer reborn. Not McCain. Not Mitt. Not Bush 1.0 or 2.0. And Jeb!, had he become 3.0, would have been Hitler too.
Back during the run-up to the 2012 Election pitting Glorious Saint Barack against Mitt Wolfenstein Rommel, my Left-of-Hugo-Chavez sister sent me a snarky email making the rounds in the Richmond, VA Libertardation People's Commune, known to the locals as The Fan. It described the sort of Republican they would be proud to support.
He was a man who knew the limits of the role a military should have in our society. He was also willing to send this military into any community who failed to realize how vital Civil Rights were. (They really managed to put these two bullet points in the same email). He built great infrastructure projects whenever his nation needed stimulus. (Note the 2012 time period this was circulated). He was a modest man who didn't need to put his family on display at all times and talk about the superiority of his values.
He was, of course, dead. He was Dwight David Eisenhower and according to the fiddle-fork who composed this nonsensical missive, he was the last good conservative. Things were so much better and more bipartisan back then. Just ask outgoing Democratic President Harry Truman.
So we now get a similar revisionist hagiography for Evil Amerikan Emperor, Bush I. Bush I was a waddling point source of Cuck-Flatulence while alive. The term Voodoo-Economics was used throught the 1980 Election Season as a battering ram against Ronald Reagan. It didn't come from any Democratic Party Mouth of Sauron. It was George Bush's degenerative semantic from the earlier primary season. Yet rather than being struck from the roster of acceptable Conservatives and sent to wither in the void with condign wailing and gnashing of false teeth, Bush I was appointed Reagan's VP.
Bush I came to power and proceeded to formulate the NAFTA Treaty Donald J. Trump ran for president in part to destroy on behalf of a grateful nation. He coined the term New World Order and really did make Amerika the world's police officer. Lucky us! So there really was much for the Globalist Liberals to love about Bush I. You'll hear these hosannas because, you know, he's that different from current Republican President Donald J. Trump. What were things like when the Bush's were still capable of wielding influence and actually winning votes?
Different. We'll start with how the media reported on Bush I's dad, Senator Prescott Bush back in 2004.
George (W) Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany. The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism. His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.
When the Left is running against you, they run stories about the poor, humble proletarians that grandpa helped lock up in Auschwitz. Damn, I wish I was good enough to make this sort nonsense up! I guess the poor blighters he stuffed in Treblinka were unavailable for comment. And then there was what Bill Clinton and Upstart Al had to say about Bush I in 1992. "He has driven the wagon into the ditch!" Claimed the up-jumped hick from Carthage, TN. Bill Clinton proclaimed that "Those without Vision shall Perish!" And what was the deal with H. Ross Perot's anti- Bush jihad? All of this was directed at stopping him while Bush I lived. Now that he's dead?
Let the hypocrisy make 1,000 buzzards upchuck.
They're all glad he was nice Republican. You know, not at all like somebody else. Indeed the road to hell is paved with dead "good Conservatives."
Tags: barack obama, bill clinton, cuckservatives, dwight einsenhower, george herbert walker bush, mitt romney, prescott bush, RINOs, ross perot
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Royal Victoria Infirmary Newcastle
Peek inside North's new kids' hospital
THESE exclusive pictures provide the first glimpse inside the new £100m Great North Children's Hospital.
Evening Chronicle
Sunday Sun readers are the first to take this visual tour of the site at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary. And even though its doors are not due to open until August next year, you can already see that it's going to be amazing.
Up to 500 construction workers from firm Laing O'Rourke are working hard to ensure that deadline is met.
Paul Margerrison, the company's construction leader for the project, said: "We're right on target. Completion wasn't due until March 2010 so finishing in August will be a bonus for everybody."
Not only will it spell less disruption for staff at the Royal Victoria Infirmary — some specialities have had to move more than once while old buildings have been demolished to make way for the new — but most of all it will mean our region's sickest children will soon have state-of-the- art facilities.
And what facilities they are shaping up to be!
On our trip around the site, we saw the new "MediCinema" which will screen the latest films to youngsters undergoing treatment and their families.
It is housed in the main atrium which is a huge, light and airy, glass-roofed space which will also feature an international food court . . . quite a departure from the traditional hospital canteens.
Bridged walkways along both sides of the atrium lead off into the different medical departments and we got to see inside some of the children's wards, which again are totally different to old-style paediatric wards.
Virtually every bed is in its own room, with floor to ceiling windows looking out onto the university buildings. Each is en-suite and the hope is to have pull-down beds for parents so they can stay the night with their child if they wish. Angela O'Connor, project officer for the Newcastle Hospitals Trust said: "We've never had anything like this before in terms of size and space. It's fantastic."
Architects Anshen and Allen have surpassed themselves with the main children's wing, the latest colourful addition to the city's skyline clad in green pre-patinated copper.
It is on six levels with an impressive conservatory at the very top for teenage cancer patients who will be able to look out over a roof garden and an amazing vista that takes in many of Newcastle's landmarks, including St James's Park.
Our visit to the site was arranged by the Children's Foundation whose Great North Baton Challenge appeal we are supporting. It aims to raise enough cash to kit out the new hospital with a range of modern features that will really make it a welcoming place for youngsters.
Children's Foundation operations director, Caroline O'Doherty said: "The Great North Children's Hospital is a landmark development which will be a centre for excellence in children's healthcare for the North East, similar to Great Ormond Street in London.
"The Children's Foundation wants children receiving treatment at the hospital to be as comfortable and stress free as possible. Our appeal therefore, aims to provide world-class, high-tech facilities, activities and equipment to help a child's recovery.
If you'd like to know more about how to get involved in fund-raising for the Great North Children's Hospital, then call the Baton hotline on 0191-282 0888 or log on to www.thechildrensfoundation.co.uk
V A SPECIAL projection system that will allow kids to contribute their own digitised artwork that can then be shown around the hospital, including the wall of the MediCinema. (£15,000)
V HI-TECH furniture with inputs for iPods, laptops, radios and other equipment. And for smaller children, innovative soft play toys. (£150,000)
V SENSORY ceilings for treatment and anaesthesia rooms that change colour to relax children undergoing treatment or prior to going into the operating theatre. (£30,000)
V SCULPTURES and images that will not only brighten up hospital corridors but help youngsters find their way around. (£30,000)
V A 3-D Sports Rehabilitation Room where children will ride on exercise bikes wearing 3-D glasses . . . the more they cycle or the faster they go, the more 3-D objects will appear.


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Thanks for the QSO's on 7 & 14 MHz and for activating Mull again. Trust you all have a very suceesful exped. Hope to catch you on other bands. Talk to you when you return. 73 to all. David.
Hi Andy, been on 4m all week and will take skeds via ON4KST. Otherwise monitor 70.210 SSB or 70.230 FSK441 2nd period, call in SSB if you hear anything.
We didn't put the the UKAC QSOs in the online log for obvious reasons but now that that contest has been adjudicated I've asked Rob if he can add then in, it may take a week or so as I know he's very busy at the moment. If you are after a card then let me know and we can sort one out for you.
hope to work you on 4m split FSK441, my QRG 69,990. See you soon GL with your activity on Mull.
10May13 / Thanks for the 20m QSO and IOTA EU-008. Best of luck and good DX.
Many thanks for MS-QSO's: 4m yday evening and 6m today morning. 4m is many times easier and faster than 6m. Last year full week trying, but no QSO. This time you have better QTH or setup.
Thanks for the short QSO on 20m.
Great to work you Alf, hopefully work you on a few other bands.
Nice to work you on 10M.
Great website enjoyed the photos.
Nice to work you on seven HF bands.
Great operators your end. good ears.
Tnx vy nice contacts this day (13 May) on 6m and 17m bands!
I'd like to thank you all for this very nice DX "pedition and also for the 20 et 15m QSOs.
Good luck and hope to meet you on other bands before the 16th !!!!!
Thanks to G3ZAY who I got at the second bite of the cherry I worked you guys and it has made my day! All the best to all the Camb-Hams and especially Pete 2E0SQL I might try and a bit of SSB if I remember how to do it…..
Hello Team of GS3PYE/ – IO76ej!
with RST: 5/5-6/- in JN77sn. Distance: JN77sn to IO76ej = 1738 km.
Thank you for your activity. Have a save trip home.
vy 73 es 55 fer u es urs de Christian SWL-CHMY in JN77sn.
Great operation. Operators willing to dig for weak signals and stay until call confirmed – well done!
Many thanks fellows for nice pedition to Mull Island.
Special thanks for all QSO's on ALL 10 band: 4m, 6m, 10m, 12m, 15m, 17m, 20m, 30m, 40m and 80m !
Hi Tim, thanks for the comment. It's amazing how many people we chat to have links to PYE. We're just happy to hold the baton while we can. Gav.
^Thanks for QSO again. UFB Sigs. Wish the hole crew many fun on the Island.
Many thanks Cavin for 6m QSO today.
I hope cu soon also on 4m with less local-QRM.
My first contact into the Scottish Isles!! Thanks and 73.
Thanks for picking out my KX3 on 1w – good ears!
Great to have you in the log – thanks for calling.
Nice to have seen ur sigs on 4m es 6m last weekend great pings here. Fb setup Enjoy ur time there guys!
Hope to hear Bob on the air when you're on Mull next week.
HOPE TO HEAR YOU AGAIN FORM ISLAND OF MULL, ANY IDEA TO DO SOME WAB SQ. ACTIVITY ON THE ISLAND? I'M REQUIRED NM31,34,35,41,42,51,52,54,62,63,64.
Tnx qso on20 SSB Are u guys on Dstar ???
Thanks Dave – no DSTAR up here I'm afraid. Our internet access is limited and via cellular data, and I don't believe any of the local repeaters are DSTAR-enabled. When we're back home you may find one or two of us on GB7PI, though!
Nice sigs on 14&18 Thanks! CU in DIGI Modes.
Tnx for qso's and and especially for the patience on 80M tonight.


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