I have a love/hate relationship with student presentations. On one hand, I love giving students a chance to stand up in front of the class and teach us all something. They get to practice speaking in the target language in front of an audience, and I get to learn new things from them. On the other hand, student presenters are often terrified to be standing in front of class, they frequently either speed through material so fast it is hard to understand what they are trying to say or they ramble on and on while everyone is shifting around uncomfortably waiting for them to get to the point. If students present individually and you have a class of 20 or more, this can take up a lot of class time in which each student doesn't actually get very much speaking time. I have found that a lot of these problems can be eliminated by changing the way students are asked to present. When I first started asking students to present, I usually asked them to create a power point presentation figuring that that is the most common way they might be required to present in the future. When I thought about it more however, I came to the conclusion that while power point is still used extensively, there are many more ways to present that are often more effective, require students to prepare better and require more active audience participation.
For this assignment, students are required to create a poster. This can be just a large piece of paper or it can be a more elaborate 3 paneled cardboard creation that stands on its own. It incorporates both visual elements and text and should show illustrate the main ideas and some of the details the presenter wants to get across to his/her audience. When the poster is finished, the presenter uses it to talk about their topic and answer questions to small groups of his/her classmates.
Low tech - If you don't have a lot of computers, projectors or smart boards in your classroom or if you students are young or not super computer savvy, this is great. All you really need for this kind of presentation is some paper and pens. You can show your students how to make charts and graphs as well as drawings to illustrate their points. You can also show them how to use visuals in coordination with text to create an easy to understand, memorable presentation.
Multiple students can present at the same time - In a large class you can have 1/3 of the class presenting at a time while the other 2 thirds walk from poster to poster in pairs.
The audience is active - Instead of just sitting in their chairs listening, the audience is walking around, listening and asking questions in a more casual, conversational manner with the presenter.
The speaker is less nervous - Instead of standing in front of the whole class, the presenter only has to talk to a few of his/her classmates at a time.
The presenter has a chance to present multiple times - Practice makes perfect but when a student is presenting in front of the whole class, he/she only has a chance to do it once. With the poster presentation each student has a chance to make his/her presentation many times. They also have a chance to answer many more questions than they would in other formats.
The presenter does not really practice public speaking - As someone who used to hate speaking in front of a large audience but now loves it, I can attest that there is nothing that will get you over your fear of public speaking like just getting up and doing it over and over again. Students usually don't get as much practice speaking publicly as it would take for them to get over their fears and poster presentations will not really help with this since they are not speaking in front of many people. Possible solution to this problem: invite other classes to your class when you students are presenting. This will give students bigger, less familiar groups to present to.
The teacher can't monitor all the presentations all of the time - I usually have to be evaluating each presenter so I have to go to each poster and listen to each presentation. This means I can't observe what is happening with each group to see if they are staying focused or are getting off topic. Possible solution to the problem: Give students evaluation sheets in which they report back on the questions they asked and what they learned at each presentation.
In this presentation, small groups of students (or individual students) create a video to show to the class. I used this kind of presentation when I wanted my students to practice giving instructions. They had to choose something they knew how to do and give us step by step instructions while they demonstrated. I loved this project because it took me into my students hearts and homes. One of my students showed us how he made omelets because he was living alone for the first time and had to learn how to cook. Another student took a video of himself drawing an eye in detail, speeded it up and explained how and why he was doing what he was doing. Drawing was his passion and we were all inspired. Before playing their videos, the presenters had to stand up in front of class, introduce themselves and the video they made. They can then conduct a question and answer session afterwards.
Videos are engaging for both the creator and the audience - You just have to take a quick browse through YouTube to see how much people love making videos and how interesting they are to watch. There is something about being on film that is fascinating.
Students get a chance to practice language extensively as they create their videos - Instead of just practicing the target language while they are up there speaking, they practice it while they are creating the videos. Most students will practice before they record and rerecord if they make mistakes. In this way they practice both their fluency and their accuracy.
Students get a chance to stand up and speak in front of a large audience - While most of the presentation is the video, students do have to present the video in front of the class so they do practice public speaking.
It is easy for the teacher to monitor both the presentation and the audience participation - The teacher becomes just another audience member albeit one who is responsible for giving feedback and making sure everyone behaves. If you want, you can ask students to submit their videos to you so you don't have to grade them at that moment, you can watch them later at your leisure. Of course, this will take up more time so as the teacher you can choose, grade it all at once, or give it a closer look later on.
Requires student to have access to and knowledge of video making equipment- Luckily with the advent of smart phones, many students have everything they need in their own pockets. However, not every student in every part of the world has access to this kind of technology. Possible solution: If you have access to one or 2 video cameras, students can check them out for a limited amount of time.
Can take up a lot of class time viewing videos - If students present their video, then the class watches the video and their is a short question/answer session after, this can take a lot of time. I used to have classes of over 30 students and it was not feasible to spend an entire week doing nothing but watching videos. Possible solution: Show just one or 2 videos at the beginning of each class. Make a schedule so students know when their video will be presented.
Books are a time honored way of getting information from one brain into another. They are also incredibly diverse; books can, and are written on every topic under the sun and in a variety of formats. My high school students made illustrated bilingual books from fictional stories they wrote. They then got to choose how they wanted to bind their books and ended up with works of art they read to other classes and then could take home and share with their families.
When I taught in a Family Literacy program, my whole class made a book together, each person contributing a page. They decided that it was important to teach their children what street signs meant so each person took a different sign, drew it on a page and wrote about it. We then made copies for every member of the class. They shared them with their children while they walked together in the neighborhood.
With university students, I asked them to work in small groups to gather information about where the food they ate was coming from. They conducted interviews with grocers, farmers and restauranteurs as well as finding information on-line. Their findings were then bound into book form and they shared what they learned with the other groups in class.
Some books on how to bind books. Some of my favorite are Cover to Cover, and Making Handmade Books.
Books are lasting, tangible objects that are easy to cary and share with others. I found that students put a lot more effort into organizing and making books than they would have in a less lasting format. Posters get thrown away, videos are stored on hard drives out of sight but books can become a part of a person's life as they are brought out again and again.
Authoring a book empowers students. Authors are seen as experts in their fields and when students become authors, it gives them a sense of pride and ownership of their learning. They are also fun to share.
Organizing a book encourages higher-order thinking skills. Students must make a myriad of decisions when creating a book from what the covers will look like, how much information will be presented on each page, how information is best presented (text or illustrations), what the layout will look like and how the reader will be able to access information easily. All of these decisions require students to think in different ways.
Creating a book takes time and resources. Sometimes I like to use class time for students to do creative projects and hands on work but I find that it can also become a distraction from actually learning English. Students can start obsessing about how everything looks and spend enormous amounts of time cutting, gluing and drawing silently. It can also get expensive buying fancy paper, bookbinding tools and art supplies. Possible Solution: use recycled materials and give students limited class time to work on their books. There is so much waste in this world that makes wonderful art. Cardboard can be turned into something spectacular. Tin cans can be flattened. Old clothes can be cut up. There is no limit to the number of things that can be turned into a book cover or used as pages.
Books are usually not very big and can be difficult to share with larger audiences. I have seen some children's books blown up to enormous sizes so adults can read to a larger roomful of children but usually books are kind of small and people in the back rows have to strain to see the pages. This can cause them to lose interest and start to misbehave. Possible solution: if you want your students to share their books with a larger audience, you could have them take pictures of the pages of their books and then project them on a large screen while they read. This will give them practice public speaking while still enabling them to read from their books.
Students are used to being asked to listen to a teacher or presenter talk so when they are asked to give a presentation, that is usually the first thing that comes to their minds. The extent of audience participation is usually limited to a question and answer period at the end. I challenged my students to deviate from this standard when I asked them to do a workshop however. In order to give them an idea of how a workshop differs from other kinds of presentations, I demonstrated it for them by giving them a workshop and helping them break down the components. I showed them how to introduce the topic of their workshop, How to set up activities so their students are actively participating and creating something, how to wrap it up with a discussion and answer the participants questions. We talked about how to write up instructions that participants could take notes on and take home. I then asked my students to think of something they know how to do and can teach the rest of us in a workshop. This could be anything from how to create music using our own bodies to how to save someone's life. I left the topics up to the students but because I had too many students for everyone to give an individual workshop, they had to work in small groups. Each group had to talk about what they knew how to do and what they had in common to come up with a topic in which every member of the group could contribute.
Varies depending on what students want to do in their workshops.
Students have to work cooperatively - Because I asked students to work in groups, they really had to talk about their interests and talents with each other and figure out what each person could contribute.
Students had to think about their audiences - In many presentations, the presenter spends a lot of time practicing the presentation but doesn't spend much time at all thinking about the audience. The audience is this kind of scary mass that is to be presented to. In a workshop however, the presenter must think a lot about how many people will be in the audience, if they want the participants to work individually or in groups, as well as how and what they will ask them to do.
Students must create materials - Because workshops are usually hands on, students need to think about what materials the participants will need in order to accomplish the task being asked of them. They need to write instructions and think about how participants will use those instructions. This allows them to practice many skills in their target language.
The audience is active and engaged - One of the things that always worries me during student presentations is the amount of time most of the students are just sitting and listening passively or maybe not listening at all but falling asleep or being disruptive. In workshops, everyone has to do something so they are usually a lot better behaved and are paying better attention.
Time consuming - Introducing, creating something, wrapping up and answering questions all take time, a lot of time. I set a time limit for my groups but not one of them were able to stick to it and I didn't have the heart to make them stop in the middle. Possible solution: Help students break down exactly how many minutes they have for each section of the workshop and then make sure they are keeping track of time throughout.
Students are being asked to do many things they may never have done before - Not only must students speak publicly, they need to create materials, group participants, monitor them for understanding and progress and evaluate their success. In short, they need to do all the things good teachers do and that can be really challenging! Possible solution: instead of assigning everything all at once, stagger the assignments. Ask the groups to turn in their instruction sheets and materials ahead of time so you can look at them and offer advice. Have students practice monitoring each other on tasks that you assign. Instead of being the only one floating from group to group everyday, ask a few students to take on that role every week until it feels more comfortable to them.
I used to work for a trucking company that had a driving school. One of my responsibilities was to attract new students into the program and one big way we did that was by having booths at employment fairs. I usually had a table to display information and little prizes to give away to people as well as a poster that explained who we were and how we could help you get a job. I would spend the whole day talking to people about the trucking industry and answering their questions. This required me to have a wide body of knowledge so I spent quiet a bit of time browsing trucking websites and talking to truckers about the positive and negative aspects of their jobs. I stumbled into this job with absolutely no interest in trucking but found that as I became more knowledgeable it became more interesting to me and I enjoyed talking to people about it.
When I was teaching English at a high school in Brooklyn, I saw one of the most important parts of my job was to inspire an interest in reading in my students. One way we did this was by allowing groups of students to choose what book they wanted to read. When they finished they were able to choose how they wanted to present the book to the other groups. One of their options was to create a booth. I loved this option because they had to make things related to their books to give away like bookmarks with images and quotes from the book, brochures, buttons and other things. It also encouraged them to really think about the book they had just read so they could explain why other students might want to read it.
It is a great project for groups. Each student has to take individual responsibilities to create the materials for the booth but they have to work together to make it happen. This means I can easily see who did what when it comes to evaluating student work.
It combines writing and speaking. in order to create the materials for their booths, students must do a fair amount of writing but the bulk of the work at the booth is speaking. They don't have prepared speeches so the speaking is more natural and conversational.
It builds job skills. Like I wrote earlier, I got this idea from one of my many non-teaching jobs. Being able to promote ideas and products is a skill that is required for many jobs and even though it can seem intimidating, it is actually a lot of fun.
It takes a lot of space to set up booths. Depending on how many students you have and how your classroom is set up, it might be hard to squeeze that many booths into a tight space. Possible solution: use the hallways or other "public" spaces for the fair.
It can be difficult to get enough people looking at the booths and asking questions if most of the students are presenting at their booths. Possible solution: have students work in groups of 3 or 4. Only one person should be presenting at the booth at any given time, the others should be looking at other booths and asking questions. You could also invite other classes to come in especially if they haven't read those books yet and might be interested in reading them in the future.
What creative ways do you have of getting your students to present their work and ideas? Please share in the comments.
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Schloss Dallau in Dallau, einem Ortsteil der Gemeinde Elztal im Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis im nördlichen Baden-Württemberg, geht auf eine ehemalige Wasserburg des Deutschen Ordens zurück, die in der Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts auf dem Platz eines Vorgängerbauwerks errichtet und im 16. Jahrhundert bedeutend umgebaut wurde. Die Wehranlagen und die meisten Gebäude der Anlage wurden bereits im 18. Jahrhundert abgerissen, so dass die Anlage seitdem im Wesentlichen nur aus dem einstigen Palas und einem übriggebliebenen Turm besteht.

Geschichte
Um 1300 wurde in Dallau eine Tiefburg als Herrensitz der damaligen Ortsherren von Dallau, der Herren von Heinriet, gegründet. Diese erste Burg bestand lediglich aus einem Wohnturm, der von einer Ringmauer umgeben war. Der Deutsche Orden erwarb 1416 die Hälfte des Ortes und die gesamte Burg. Nach der Beilegung von offenen Fragen über die Kontrolle des Vorburgbereichs hat der Deutsche Orden die Burg in der Zeit von 1438 bis 1451 umfassend ausgebaut, wobei anstelle des alten Wohnturms der heutige Palas mit Staffelgiebel trat, der im Süden und Westen an bzw. auf die alte Ringmauer gebaut wurde. Der Palas bildete das Hauptgebäude der von einem 20 Meter breiten Wassergraben umgebenen, teilweise doppelt ummauerten und mit vier Ecktürmen sowie Torbau ausgestatteten Anlage, der sich jenseits des Wassergrabens nach Westen noch eine ebenfalls ummauerte und vom Dorf her nur durch einen Torturm zu erreichende Vorburg mit verschiedenen Wirtschaftsgebäuden anschloss. Im Bauernkrieg 1525 eroberten Aufständische die Burg, die jedoch ohne größere Schäden blieb. 1529/30 wurde die Burg nochmals umgebaut und dabei u. a. am Nordgiebel des Palas um einen mehrgeschossigen Küchenanbau erweitert. 1668 kam die Anlage an die Kurpfalz, wo sie jedoch nicht als Verwaltungssitz benötigt und nur noch notdürftig unterhalten wurde. Der Küchenanbau wurde um 1700 abgerissen. 1736 wurde praktisch der gesamte restliche Baubestand mit Ausnahme der Zehntscheuer in der Vorburg als baufällig beschrieben. 1740 fanden einige Ausbesserungen statt, u. a. erhielt der heute noch erhaltene Turm damals ein neues Dach. 1774 waren die Wehrmauern und die meisten Gebäude der Burg mit Ausnahme von Palas, einem Turm und der Zehntscheuer bereits abgerissen und der Burggraben verfüllt. 1974 kam die Anlage in den Besitz der Gemeinde. Damals fanden anlässlich eines Neubaus in der Nachbarschaft die ersten archäologischen Grabungen zur Erforschung der ursprünglichen Substanz statt. Weitere Untersuchungen, eine umfassende Bauaufnahme und schließlich eine denkmalgerechte Sanierung schlossen sich ab 1989 an. Die Sanierung des Gebäudes war 1995 abgeschlossen. Heute dient das Schloss Dallau insbesondere kulturellen Zwecken.

Literatur
 Franz Meszmer: Rekonstruktion von Dorf und Schloß Dallau. In: Bruno König: 1200 Jahre Dallau im Elztal, Dallau 1974, S. 333–354.
 Robert Crowell et al.: Schloß Dallau – Der Schlußbericht, in: Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg – Nachrichtenblatt des Landesdenkmalamts, 24. Jahrgang, Heft 4/1995, S. 147–158.

Weblinks

 Datenbank Bauforschung/Restaurierung. Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Baden-Württemberg

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Kulturdenkmal in Elztal (Odenwald)
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Q: Showing attributes form when modifying features QGIS has this neat feature to show up a form, allowing to set/change attribute values, when adding features to a layer, called attributes form. It is possible to show or hide it when adding new features:

However, I would like to show up this form also when modifying geometries of already existing features. For example if I move a point to another location.
Of course I could simply open the attribute table afterwards or use identify tool to show up the form after I moved it. But I am looking for a way to automatically show up the form when e.g. moving features, just like it does when adding new features.
Any ideas how (or if) this could be done? I couldn't find any settings in QGIS 3.4 nor 3.14, only the checkbox to "apply default value on update". This indeed updates values when moving a feature, but does not open the form so users could add extra infos.

A: You can make this form show up with the identify tool and edit the fields of the identified feature if you are in edit mode

But to my knowledge you can't just link the form to any action.

A: Perhaps you could try copying into the Python startup code configuration panel (icon next to the drag and drop designer) what is suggested in this post:
How to set checked "Auto Open Form" in identify results window, programatically?

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This Teacher-Friendly Guide™ is one part of a large project designed to help educators teach about Regional and Local (ReaL) Earth system science in an inquiry-based way. This ReaL Earth Inquiry Project, and all of its related resources, support educators and students in the investigation of the project's driving question: "Why does this place look the way it does?" The "place" of the question is anywhere you happen to be, but we hope and expect users of these materials will start by studying areas outside their backdoor or their classroom door. The Fieldwork chapter (Chapter 11) addresses both actual and Virtual Fieldwork, and we believe the coupling of virtual and actual fieldwork is an excellent way to teach and learn, and it's an approach that is fully three dimensional, in the NGSS's sense of that term.
Read through the Practices outlined in Table A.1 with an eye towards engaging in and documenting fieldwork. See the graphic organizer and the question list in Chapter 11 and consider how these questions can be asked of any site, and how they can serve to inspire new questions that are site-specific. Then, consider the making of Virtual Fieldwork Experiences (VFEs) to document the site, allowing for continued investigation after leaving the field, and sharing findings with others in the community and beyond. This approach provides opportunities to engage all of the practices. To build rich explanations of the range of processes at play in a field site requires application of all of the Crosscutting Concepts. There are also opportunities for using field sites to build understandings of all of the DCIs, though selected ones from the Life and Earth & Space Sciences have the most direct correspondence. The use of virtual and actual fieldwork is scalable to fit the educational need, so a particular lesson or activity would be expected to target just one or two, but a program of fieldwork across a course would allow for the addressing of many of the Concepts, Practices, and Ideas.
Table A.1: Summary of NGSS's Three Dimensions. For more detailed descriptions, see the relevant appendices in The Next Generation Science Standards.
Look again to the graphic organizers from Chapter 11: Fieldwork. It is easy to see how, especially in Earth science, biology, or environmental science courses, most of the units in these courses play out in some meaningful way outside the classroom door. As the DCIs are akin to umbrellas relative to a course's units, these too largely play out in meaningful ways outside the classroom door. The NGSS recognizes that in order to understand big ideas, years of coordinated study are required. The coordinated study of the local and regional environment provides an excellent opportunity for this. A field site can be studied using increasingly sophisticated approaches across the K - 12 experience, and for the students, this does not entail repetition, but rather the opportunity to study a site from different disciplinary vantage points across all or part of the K - 12 continuum. If such an approach is adopted broadly, kids who move during the course of their schooling can bring in new eyes, and information, to compare and contrast the environment in their new school with the environment where they used to live.


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Week 5 (w/c 31st December 2012)
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St Albans Away / AFC Totten at home
After the wettest year on record, 2013 started off as a glorious sunny morning, the wind and rain that had blurred the Weymouth horizon for the past week had given way to sunshine and shadows on the seaweed decorated sandy beach. Looking out the kitchen window, early morning (for New Year's Day anyway) walkers filled the beach likes ants scurrying about their business. Many were making the most of the dramatic transformation in weather whilst others were clearing the lungs after a night of celebration and heavy drinking.
With Weymouth FC away on New Year's Day, I was half tempted to pop up to Dorchester to watch their game against Truro City, but ultimately another lazy day doing something close to nothing, won the day.
It was just me and Twitter, keeping an eye on how Chesham were fairing at St Albans City. I feared the worst but hoped for more. I wanted a result for Andy Leese. I wanted a result to shut up those moaners that had spoiled my Boxing Day afternoon standing behind the goal against Chippenham Town. Despite our relatively new recruits to the side, the odds were not in our favour. Since St Albans' change of management and the reported huge cut in their budget, results had gone well for The Saints. Still, a new year, a fresh start for Chesham?
After our brisk morning walk along the beach (kids building sandcastles, on January 1st? Crazy) we settled in the flat for a lazy afternoon. The kids switched on the Xbox, Heather persisted with the challenge of completing a 1000-piece jigsaw before home time and I, with the sailing boats through the window creating a real life, moving, background picture, got on with getting this diary account up to date; checking my phone for Twitter every now and then.
To be honest, I forgot about the game at first. At about 3.10pm I checked my timeline. Wow. Chesham had scored from a penalty. Good start.
A few moments later it was 1-1. Against the run of play according to the official Chesham United Twitter link, and Ryan Woolnough – good to see that my rose-tinted glasses had not been left on the mantelpiece at home! Moments later it was 2-1 to Chesham. 3-1. 4-1.
At this point I had to send Martin Woolnough a text: "Is someone on Twitter taking the piss, is it really 4-1?"
Moments later I got the response: "No, it's now 5-2"
Incredible, not to mention bloody typical, I was missing what must have been one of the best performances of the season…if not several seasons. I did not care, I would happily miss a game that we win comfortably, the final score was 6-2 and, based on the conversation I had with my Dad moments before writing this, the result was not in any way flattering and we could have had more.
I could tell as soon as I heard the phone ring in the Weymouth flat that it had been a good day for Chesham, Dad wanted to talk about the game, and I know he was going to settle down for the evening, have a couple of beers, and toast a fantastic start to 2013 for Chesham United. Dad and I always talk about the effect Chesham's result has on how enjoyable Saturday evening is. It had been a while since we had a really good one. A genuine excuse for a beer.
Tonight, there is good reason for a celebratory beer. I sent Andy a congratulatory text. His reply read: "Enjoy the beer! Whisper it but we are looking strong again…"
It seemed the new players returning had had an effect…and I had missed it! Still, if Andy's words were right, there will be plenty more days like this…
…To be honest, I thought I might have to wait more than four days four one of them!
AFC Totton have been floundering around mid-table, a bit like ourselves, not yet matching last season's form which saw them reach the play-off finals, beating us in the semi-finals. Mid-table, but no doubt hopeful of having a second half to the season push for the play-offs. We too have suddenly started talking about the play-offs again on the back of the St Albans result.
I arrived back from Weymouth on Wednesday, returning to work on the Friday… that is always a horrible feeling, although returning on a Friday does break you back into things gently. I tried to call the Chairman a couple of times to catch up on where we are on a few things, but we seemed to keep missing each other. I was beginning to feel quite distanced from the club.
Just before heading to Weymouth the kids Xbox had started to play up, deciding to power itself off just as you were in the middle of a game. Compared to all the problems in the world, and the way you see some kids suffering from poverty and deprivation, it should be a mere minor irritation, but, on the back of all the new Christmas present games, it felt bloody annoying. I kept hoping the problem might go away on its own, but, funnily enough it never did. With the console being a present from the previous year, it seemed like another example of Sod using his law in the most vindictive of ways, the machine packing up just a few days over a year after we purchased it. Do I need to tell you how long the warranty lasts on an Xbox?
Nonetheless, I thought it best to register the product on the Xbox site to help with my diagnosis and work out how much it is. Saturday morning; a few hours to kill before heading over to the club for a midday meeting with my Dad and Mike Warrick to re-address the club's budget forecasts for the year, now that we are six months into the financial year. Call it preparation for a half year report at the next board meeting.
Straining to read the tiny serial number on the side of the console, I got several error messages inputting the numbers. Please check your serial number and re-enter. I nearly gave up and through the computer out the window. I'm glad I didn't, somehow, in some way it popped up: Your warranty expires 8th January 2013. I had three days left to get it fixed under warranty.
Like a madman I was following the online instructions, printing off my despatch label to send the console off for a free repair (to the Czech Republic?), wrapping it in layer upon layer of bubble wrap, then into a box, more bubble wrap, parcel tape, more bubble wrap, a layer of kraft paper, slap the label on and I was off in the car to find my local USP collection point, which happened to be in Hemel Hempstead old town. All done and delivered; within twenty minutes of uncovering the good news that the machine was under warranty.
With still a couple of hours until I needed to set off to the football club, I took the car up to Tesco for a long overdue car wash. Waiting for the guy in front of me to take his aerial off and go through what seemed a totally unnecessary pre-wash procedure, I checked my emails on my iPhone. There was one from Andy Leese. I was being copied in on the wage bill for this week being sent to the Chairman. It started with those words I used to dread when I was Chairman: "It's a little high this week because…."
The email went on to request a meeting to discuss the playing budget. Totally understandable and justified, after all last time the Chairman and I had met with Andy we agreed that we would look at it again after the FA Trophy, which was couple of weeks ago now. I picked up the phone to call the Chairman, just as I entered the car wash and the multi-coloured brushes began banging against my windows making it almost impossible to hold a conversation. Through the din though, I think we agreed that we would try and have a meeting with Andy, before the game, in his office.
The midday meeting with Dad and Mike Warrick was pretty depressing and if it were Mike and I still carrying the ultimate responsibility for the club, I would be back to the sleepless nights. Commercial income is down. Not just on forecast, but also on last year. That was no great surprise, it has been a concern for a long time and now we have got to reach a point where somebody grabs those few rows in the company budget spreadsheet and takes responsibility for understanding what is happening and transforming it from the sorry sight it is currently.
Figures for the bar are a long way off from where I had hoped they would be. Again, there are numerous reasons why the start of the year has not got off to a flying start, but it is time for that to start changing too. After our initial meeting (when the club office began to fill up with other people) we moved to the boardroom where we had a conversation about how to carry out better analysis of the bar's performance.
The football budget is running at about £10,000 over where we planned to be at this stage of the season, but on the flip side of that it could be argued that prize money is £10,000 over where we planned to be at this stage. Although we cannot treat any one element of the club separately when it comes to managing the club's financial status, it is interesting to note that, were we just simply running a football team and nothing else, then we would be financially very stable. If only.
With prize money not likely to figure in the income for the second half of the financial year, it raises the question about what we need to do with the playing budget.
It was nearly 2.00pm by the time I left the boardroom meeting and started to wander for a sneaky pre-match pint. As I passed Andy was standing outside the club office so I asked Dad to order me a pint of Carlsberg and I'll be in shortly. With Brian also making his way in the direction of the clubhouse, we took the opportunity to jointly meet with Andy in his office to discuss the playing budget and catch up with where we are on the footballing side of things.
It was an excellent meeting, and the sort that should take place more often. Not necessarily with me, but the manager needs to feel he is being communicated with by people at the club that have genuine influence.
To be honest, I think the meeting went better than Andy possibly imagined. Both the Chairman and I have resigned ourselves to accepting that, frankly, the money available for football remains very much dependent on Roger Payne. Our job is to keep Roger happy and prove that we are doing things to change the club to where we are not always relying on his wallet to keep the club running. With that in mind, and on the back of a six goal bonanza at St Albans, and with a busy January coming up, and the fact that we just might still be able to reach the play-offs; we told Andy that he can keep the budget where it is for the rest of January, but if things slip away, the cut will have to be bigger than anyone would really like to handle.
Wow, even I have given in to the fact that the playing budget only seems to have a very tenuous link to the club's overall finances!
The meeting finished at 2.45pm. Just time to down my sneaky pint and then take up my position on the terraces. Andy had done most of his work by now and the players were under the control of the coaches, many people will not understand the way the management works, the fact that Andy was not in the dressing room twenty minutes before the game does not make him a bad manager. The hard work had already taken place – and I could tell that from the state of the whiteboard in his office.
The game itself started fairly evenly. Entertaining, but fairly even. Chesham United had a new bite and vigour about them. When we attacked we looked like scoring, defensively we seemed to cope well with the early corners won by the visitors and I just loved seeing John Kyriacou (JK) breaking down the wings providing width and options to our attacks.
One excellent break saw Inih lay the ball across for Simon Thomas to bundle the ball into the net. I question whether it was an own goal, but it was given to Thommo, and a few minutes later he was on the scoresheet again, definitely his goal this time. Before the breaq, Inih Effiong got in on the act with a goal. We were on fire.
Soon after the interval Simon Thomas completed his second successive hat-trick and moments later he had his fourth of the game; his seventh goal in two games in 2013 – you know what? I don't even think I heard anyone on the terraces in front of the Chess Suite moaning about him this week! A deflected Dave Fotheringham effort completed a 6-0 win, even better than the result a few days earlier at St Albans City.
What a difference a week can make, suddenly, without a hint of sarcasm, everyone is back talking about the play-offs, and on the back of the past seven days, who am I to argue with that?
A good week concluded with winning a joint of gammon in George's legendary post-match meat raffle.
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From the Skyscraper to the Parking Lot, Graduate Student Opens Community Testing Site
June 26, 2020 by Grace Buono Leave a Comment
While Americans across the country spent much of the spring at home under lockdown orders, Miguel Blancarte Jr. (GRD '18) found himself in a new line of work: He set up, managed and operated a community-based coronavirus testing site in his childhood neighborhood in Chicago.
WBEZ | Miguel Blancarte Jr. (GRD '18) helped start a COVID-19 testing site in his childhood neighborhood with the organizations Community Organized Relief Effort (CORE) and Curative.
"I traded in an office, a cushy comfortable chair and books around me and laptops, for example, for a field filled with orange cones and yellow caution tape and a couple port-a-potties," Blancarte said in an interview with The Hoya.
The testing site, located in the Little Village neighborhood on Chicago's southwest side, is one of six city-run testing sites maintained in partnership with organizations Community Organized Relief Effort, an initiative founded by actor Sean Penn to provide free coronavirus testing in communities across the country, and Curative, an organization that works to bolster testing site capacity with precise easily administered oral fluid tests, according to an announcement by Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D).
While he was living in Merida, Mexico, 10 years after completing undergraduate studies at Brown University, Blancarte enrolled in Georgetown University's Master of Arts in International Business and Policy program. Though the degree was globally focused, when it became clear there was a need to bring more testing to his local community, Blancarte said the education served him well.
"The program that I did through Georgetown honestly really did prepare me for something like this, something that is very much unprecedented," Blancarte said. "It's a testing facility that is outdoors, it's emergency. You have to respond to the different situations that arise and there's really no playbook, there's no guidebook, there's no anything."
Blancarte's testing center was borne out of necessity. As of June 23, Chicago's 60623 zip code, where Little Village is located, reported an average of 39.7 cases of COVID-19 per 1,000 people, the highest rate among all Illinois zip codes, according to WBEZ.
After flying back to Chicago from Mexico though Miami in March, Blancarte developed COVID-19 symptoms and called 311 to find a testing location nearest to where he lived. The city informational line directed him to a hospital that was a 34-minute walk away, but when he arrived there, hospital staff had to turn him away. There were no tests, Blancarte said.
"I think it's a shame that it has to be a local initiative, that it has come down to mayors and governors to get citizens tested, to get people tested," Blancarte said. "It's not only about one group or one demographic or certain demographics, it's about every single human being and the fact that the federal government wasn't able to roll out a comprehensive plan for free coronavirus testing."
For Blancarte, his Jesuit education at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Chicago and his time at Georgetown ingrained in him a commitment to social justice, he said.
"I think the most fundamental component of being enrolled at Georgetown that even got me to accept this new position is being a man for others," Blancarte said. "This COVID testing site is in my community and I've been so much about my community in the past, that I said, 'What's a better way to pay it forward, to help my community, than accept this role and step up to the plate, step up to the challenge?'"
Now, at the testing site Blancarte manages, which sits in the parking lot of his old elementary school across the street from his childhood home, CORE offers tests to anyone who wishes to receive one, he said.
"Irrespective of whether someone is documented or not, irrespective if someone is insured or not, irrespective of if someone is experiencing homelessness or not, none of that matters. As long as you want to get a test, you will get a test and it is going to be free," Blancarte said.
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Film/Televison December 8, 2015
Film Review: Atop the Fourth Wall: The Movie
What do you do if you are too busy or cheap to read a lot of comics? Watch somebody review all the bad ones on YouTube, of course!
Several months ago I stumbled onto the YouTube channel of Lewis "Linkara" Lovhaug. He is the creator and host of the long-running web series "Atop the Fourth Wall", where he reviews bad comics. What is unique about the show compared to other reviewers on the Internet is that all the reviews are serialized. When not reviewing comics, the character of Linkara defends Earth from mad scientists, inter-dimensional conquerors and Lovecraftian gods. Thus you have to watch most of the episodes in the order they appear to know what is going on in the skits before and after the review proper. Additionally, I like how Linkara is more subdued then other reviews and is not prone to angry rants or swearing. I personally don't have any issues with rants or swearing (I do it occasionally on my own blog and channel), but it's refreshing to know there is someone out there who can be entertaining and thoughtful without resorting to shock value.
So when I learned Linkara was releasing Atop the Fourth Wall: The Movie on YouTube after a successful Indiegogo campaign, I was intrigued to see what he could do when he focused just on the story-line of his character. Here is part 1 of the film:
Atop the Fourth Wall: The Movie takes place after the events of To Boldly Flee, a Channel Awesome production that Linkara was one of the stars of as his show is affiliated with that site. Linkara is celebrating his birthday with Nash, The Cinema Snob, Obscurus Lupa, Marzgirl and Angry Joe when he is contacted by Agent Allen Park. Turns out the United States government has lost contact with the spaceship they sent to Jupiter and since Linkara is the only one they know of with a spaceship in orbit (trust me, its explained in his videos) they need his help to rescue the crew. Linkara agrees and with the help of Pollo, 90s Kid and Harvey Finevoice, he takes the rest of the Channel Awesome crew into Jovian space to help. There they run into Mechakara, which is actually an alternate universe Pollo designed to look like Linkara, who plans to kill Linkara and all of humanity once and for all. Meanwhile, Linkara questions how weird his life has become and whether he will continue doing his show.
Much like Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie, this is definitely a film for the fans of Atop the Fourth Wall or Channel Awesome. It is full of in-jokes and cameos that fans will recognize and enjoy, but they may fly over the heads of new viewers. Still just as Linkara admonishes comic book creators about putting effort into their books because any comic could be someone's first, I'll take off my fan hat and try to judge this film from the perspective of someone who has never see Atop the Fourth Wall.
Well since this is a low-budget, indie film, the acting and the special effects aren't anything to write home about. Admittedly I enjoyed Brad Jones as his character, The Cinema Snob. He seemed liked he was having a blast during playing his role and it showed in his performance. The rest of the cast's acting is okay or amateurish, but considering some of the atrocious acting you can find in both indie and Hollywood films, you can tell people were putting effort into their acting and I appreciate that. Even all the in-jokes weren't that bad since you had Nash and others able to act as audience stand-ins at times to make the explanations more natural without ruining the joke. For example, take 90s Kid, a recurring character from Atop the Fourth Wall who will interrupt Linkara's review to declare how awesome pop culture from the 90s was. I liked how we actually learned more about this character, saw him use his skills as a techie and even learned his real name, thus taking a long-running joke and turning it into a real character.
The special effects weren't bad either, although there were moments when objects seemed to merge into each other, but they were brief. I even found the practical effects involving Mechakara when he began ripping the flush off his metal skull pretty convincing (and disgusting) despite the fact we didn't see him take all that much off. Sure a lot of the action scenes could be silly amd over the top, but remember that Atop the Fourth Wall is a show where Linkara lampoons not only the cliches of comics, but also other aspects of pop culture. If the Power Rangers can do silly poses and formations before they take down a badie, why not Linkara?
If you are a fan of Linkara and his show, you will enjoy Atop the Fourth Wall: The Movie. If you are not a fan, well you still might enjoy seeing someone who is passionate about comics and speculative fiction create something that he and his friends put a lot of effort into. In an age where Hollywood is releasing a major film where we see Batman holding a gun (I'm still pissed about that ridiculous Batman v Superman trailer) its refreshing to see a real fan set out to make a movie that tries not to make the same mistake the entertainment industry does again and again. It may not win any awards, but I think you may find yourself tracking down some old Linkara videos after you watch this movie.
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Jesse Ross "J. R." Williams (November 17, 1940 – September 17, 2015) was a Canadian football player who played for the BC Lions. He won the Grey Cup with them in 1964. He played college football at Fresno State University and Bakersfield College. Williams was inducted into the Bob Elias Kern County Sports Hall of Fame in 2001. After his football career he was a football coach, coaching at Arvin High School and Highland High School in Bakersfield. He died in 2015.

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Jan. 8, 2019 2:20 p.m.
A B.C. mom whose online petition to ban smoking in multi-unit residential buildings gathered thousands of names is preparing to present her case to the provincial legislature.
Naomi Baker said because the legislature doesn't recognize digital signatures, she has been collecting names on a "paper-based" petition since October, with the intent of presenting the petition to MLAs.
"Our intention always was to take it to the leg," Baker said.
Her website, https://airweshare.ca/ has made the signup forms available for download and printing.
Baker launched a Change.org petition for a "Multi-Unit Dwelling Smoking Ban in B.C."using her maiden name of Naomi Goffman in August of last year.
It said all multi-unit dwellings in BC should be smoke-free.
"Smoke-free multi-unit dwellings will vastly improve the health of British Columbians, reduce the risk of apartment (and) condo fires, and reduce cost of health care by reducing preventable health issues caused by second hand smoke," the petition stated.
Baker said it was the birth of her daughter Faith a few months earlier that inspired her campaign..
Shortly before the Bakers moved in, strata council records show there was an attempt to make the building smoke-free, Baker said, but it lost by one vote.
Next year, a motion to ban smoking on common property bylaw passed, something the Bakers said has actually made the situation worse because the smoker can't go out on their balcony.
At last count, the online petition nearing 14,000 names, and while it may not officially count with the province, Baker expects the fact it generated that much support will have some weight and will be mentioned when the paper petition is filed.
Langley MLA Mary Polak is planning to present the petition some time after the legislature resumes sitting in mid-February.
Polak said Baker made a "compelling case" for the restriction when they met a few weeks ago.
One possibility, Polak suggested, could be changing the default in current regulations, where multi-unit residential buildings automatically allow smoking unless owners vote to ban it.
Changing it to automatically non-smoking would require a vote to permit the practice, she said.
"That puts the onus on the people who wish to smoke," Polak said.
Since Baker launched her campaign, she said she has discovered her family is far from alone.
She said some have endured smoke as long eight years.
"They're frustrated and so relieved that someone is bringing this to light, because they've been suffering," Baker said.
In her own case, Baker said the smoke problem in her family's suite has lessened.
Most of the cracks that were allowing smoke to waft into their suit have been plugged, and because the family has been filing repeated bylaw complaints with the strata council, the number of incidents has dropped.
"We get two to four days with no smoke [some weeks]" she said, but smoke still gets in through their electrical outlets.
A May 2018 poll by the Clean Air Coalition of BC found that half of BC multi-unit housing residents surveyed have experienced second-hand smoke exposure and nearly 90 per cent consider it harmful.
Seventy per cent said the provincial government should make all new market rate and social housing complexes 100 per cent smoke-free and the same amount supported a no-smoking bylaw by default that applies to all units, including balconies.
Under current B.C. laws, people are not allowed to "smoke tobacco, hold lighted tobacco, use an e-cigarette or hold an activated e-cigarette" in common areas of apartment buildings, condominiums and dormitories or transit shelters.
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A Full Schedule for 2022 Kroger Symphony on the Prairie
April 5, 2022 | Press Release
Your Favorite Sounds of Summer: Kroger Symphony on the Prairie presented by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
2022 line-up features Melissa Etheridge, Three Dog Night, and ISO's Star-Spangled Symphony!
INDIANAPOLIS—The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra is pleased to announce the 2022 season of Kroger Symphony on the Prairie starting June 24 at the Conner Prairie Amphitheatre. Fans will be thrilled with an exciting line-up that offers a fun-filled musical summer experience for the whole family.
Tickets to the general public will go on sale April 12. Buy tickets here beginning April 12, 2022. Tickets may also be purchased at central Indiana Kroger stores.
Season highlights include ten performances by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra; Melissa Etheridge on her One Way Out Tour August 5; Three Dog Night August 13; and the Spinners August 12. Audience favorites are returning for the 2022 season, including Arrival from Sweden: Music of ABBA July 30; Face 2 Face: Tribute to Billy Joel & Elton John August 6; and One Night of Queen performed by Gary Mullen & the Works August 19.
The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra opens the 2022 Kroger Symphony on the Prairie season June 24-25 with Resident Conductor Jacob Joyce leading the orchestra in favorite classical music, including Ravel's Boléro. The patriotic Star-Spangled Symphony returns July 1-4 conducted by Alfred Savia with vocalist Doug LaBrecque, accompanied by a fireworks finale. Principal Pops Conductor Jack Everly leads the ISO and a cast of Broadway performers July 15-16 in music from treasured musicals, including Les Misérables and Hamilton. John Williams Blockbusters on July 22-23 features music from the legendary composer's film scores, including Indiana Jones, Superman, and E.T. the Extra Terrestrial.
2022 Kroger Symphony on the Prairie schedule
June 24-25: Classical Favorites with the ISO
The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and Resident Conductor Jacob Joyce take you on a whirlwind trip around the globe with selections from Ravel's Bolero, Bizet's Carmen, Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker, Brahms's Hungarian Dances, and many more.
July 1-4: Star-Spangled Symphony with the ISO
Your favorite patriotic celebration complete with fireworks! Featuring the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Conductor Alfred Savia, and vocalist Doug LaBrecque.
July 8: Home Again: A Tribute to Carole King
July 9: Never Die Young: A Tribute to James Taylor
July 15-16: Broadway Under the Stars with the ISO
Join Principal Pops Conductor Jack Everly for this exciting performance of all of your Broadway favorites. Featuring music from Beauty and the Beast, Les Misérables, Hamilton, Moulin Rouge, and Wicked!
July 22-23: John Williams Blockbusters with the ISO
Get ready for a night of Hollywood's greatest soundtracks with the ISO under the direction of Conductor Enrico Lopez-Yañez, featuring the music of John Williams and more.
July 29: Hollywood Nights: The Bob Seger Experience
July 30: ARRIVAL from Sweden: The Music of ABBA
August 5: Melissa Etheridge: One Way Out Tour
August 6: Face 2 Face: A Tribute to Billy Joel and Elton John
August 12: The Spinners
August 13: Three Dog Night
August 19: One Night of Queen Performed by Gary Mullen & the Works
August 20: The Fab Four: The Ultimate Beatles Tribute
August 26: The Phil Collins Experience
August 27: Master Blaster: A Tribute to Stevie Wonder
September 2: Super Diamond: The Neil Diamond Tribute
September 3: The Springsteen Experience: A Tribute to the Boss
September 4: Here Come the Mummies
Know before you go:
Gates open at 6 p.m. and concerts begin at 8 p.m. each night
Date-specific tickets may be purchased via the ISO website. Attendees must have tickets (mobile or hard copy) to enter each performance. Children two years old and under do not need a ticket.
In addition to purchasing online, patrons may scan a QR code at Central Indiana Kroger stores to receive a discount when they purchase tickets on the ISO's website. Tickets are also sold at the ISO Box Office located on Monument Circle.
Tickets can be downloaded to phones as mobile tickets for all ISO concerts at Conner Prairie. Likewise, patrons can print their tickets at home and bring them.
Table rentals, reserved seating, and tickets to the Huntington Bank Sunset Lounge are available in limited quantities. Reserved seating tickets and table reservations (a maximum of ten per table) will go on sale to the general public April 12. Visit IndianapolisSymphony.org/SOTP for the list of shows that have reserved seating available.
Patrons may carry in their own food and beverages and purchase refreshments on-site including beer, wine, and spirits.
Three large LED screens installed in 2019 enhance the stage view from every location on the lawn.
Reserved parking is $40 for each show and provides easy-access parking. Reserved parking is available for individual concerts.
Groups of 30 or more may purchase discounted tickets to Kroger Symphony on the Prairie at a 10% discount. For group sales, contact the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra Box Office at (317) 639-4300.
For more information on any Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra indoor or outdoor presentation, contact the Hilbert Circle Theatre Box Office at (317) 639-4300 or online at IndianapolisSymphony.org.
About the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, at home and thriving in the heart of Indianapolis, offers an exceptional artistic and musical experience. The orchestra is open to all and dedicated to creating an inclusive and innovative experiential environment that is inspiring, educational, and welcoming. The ISO celebrates historically beloved performances while engaging audiences by introducing new voices through programming including the DeHaan Classical Series, the Printing Partners Pops Series, Kroger Symphony on the Prairie, the holiday traditions of AES Indiana Yuletide Celebration, and the popular Bank of America Film Series. For more information, visit www.indianapolissymphony.org.
About Conner Prairie
Conner Prairie is the destination for living history, inviting guests to step into the story and actively experience the connection between today and yesterday. With more than 1,000 wooded acres on the White River, Conner Prairie offers education and adventure to more than 400,000 visitors of all ages each year. As Indiana's first Smithsonian Institute affiliate museum, Conner Prairie provides both outdoor interpretive encounters and indoor experiential learning spaces, melding history and art with science, technology, engineering and math. A 501(c)3, nonprofit organization, Conner Prairie is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, and relies on grants and philanthropic donations from individuals, corporations, and foundations to fuel its sustainability and growth. For more information, visit ConnerPrairie.org.


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Getting to Measures That Matter
Over the past decade, the National Quality Forum (NQF) has endorsed more than 700 healthcare performance measures addressing many important areas of health and healthcare. With the development of the National Quality Strategy (NQS)—a national blueprint for achieving a high value healthcare system—a framework is now in place to assess gaps in quality and efficiency measures. Despite notable progress in getting to measures that matter, a deliberate prioritization of measures is necessary to close critical gaps in measurement. With limited resources to dedicate to measure development and endorsement, decision makers—including policy makers and measure developers—need specific and actionable recommendations on how to most effectively target their resources to create measures that will drive improvement.
Under contract with HHS, NQF will provide multistakeholder guidance on priorities for performance measure development and endorsement to address the triple aim of the NQS by focusing on five content areas. These areas reflect important aspects of health and healthcare that have been repeatedly identified as needing more substantial performance measurement.
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Adult Immunization
Focused on identifying critical areas for performance measurement to optimize vaccination rates and outcomes across adult populations
Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias
Targeting a high-impact condition with complex medical and social implications that impact patients, their family members, and their caregivers
Focused on the dynamics of coordination and team-based care between providers of primary care and community-based services in the context of the "health neighborhood"
Emphasizing the role of the workforce in prevention and care coordination, linkages between healthcare and community-based services, and workforce deployment
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The Wrong Side of Murder by Lauren Carr (Book Review)
One spring morning, Jodi Gibbons got up and went to school as she did every day. Her young life went sideways though when the police found that her mother had been brutally killed during the night.
Twenty years later, many in Pine Grove believe Jodi got away with murder. After all, how could she have possibly slept through her mother's violent death in the very next room?
After decades of silence, Jodi accepts investigative journalist Nikki Bryant's invitation to tell her side of the story. However, before the interview can take place, someone silences Jodi permanently.
Now it is up to Nikki Bryant and her friends to uncover the secret that Jodi Gibbons has been protecting—a secret someone believes it is worth killing to keep from being revealed.
The Wrong Side of Murder had multiple murder cases to solve – past and present crimes. I was impressed at how well Lauren Carr connected the crimes. That's no easy feat and demonstrates her skill as a storyteller.
Not all the murders were quick to solve. Not every motive popped off the pages in a clear picture, which was fantastic. Oh, how I love a mystery that isn't wrapped up in the book's first half. I will say that I solved 50% of the cases: suspects and motive. The other 50% left me guessing. I'm sure other readers will be baffled about who killed who and why.
Even though The Wrong Side of Murder revolved around a not-so-funny topic, Lauren did sneak in some comedic scenes. For instance, Kathleen grounding her 36-year-old daughter. Another example is Elmo's need to tidy up a messy home. Yup, the dog has OCD. Oh, and the flashback image of Harrison and Kathleen at their kids' dance and doing the infamous lift from Dirty Dancing from the song, "Time of your Life." If that had been my mom or dad, I would've switched schools the following day.
Special Note: Like with Killer Deadline (A Nikki Bryant Cozy Mystery Book 1), The Wrong Side of Murder is rated G for everyone! Nikki and Ryan are still together, but there's only a smooch here and there. No hanky panky at all. The death scenes are not graphic; however, they do vary in causes. One involves a staged suicide.
Selling over half a million books worldwide, Lauren Carr is the international best-selling author of the Mac Faraday, Lovers in Crime, Thorny Rose, Chris Matheson Cold Case Mysteries, and Nikki Bryant Cozy Mysteries—thirty titles across five fast-paced mystery series filled with twists and turns!
Book reviewers and readers alike rave about how Lauren Carr seamlessly crosses genres to include mystery, suspense, crime fiction, police procedurals, romance, and humor.
The owner of Acorn Book Services and iRead Book Tours, Lauren is also a publishing manager, consultant, and virtual book tour coordinator for independent authors.
Lauren is a popular speaker who has made appearances at schools, youth groups, and on author panels at conventions.
She lives with her husband, and two spoiled rotten German shepherds on a mountain in Harpers Ferry, WV.
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From his humble beginnings in the kitchens of France to his Michelin-rated La Toque in Napa, Chef Ken Frank continues to bring the magic of seasonal food to life. The chef and restaurateur opened his first incarnation of La Toque in 1979 on Los Angeles' infamous Sunset Strip before moving to Napa in the late '90s. He then relocated the restaurant to Rutherford before finally making his home in Napa at the Westin Verasa in 2008. Wine country has proven to be a perfect place for Frank to evolve his menu of seasonal and fresh dishes. This sustainable practice isn't just a phase though: for Frank it's a fully committed lifestyle that starts in the garden, continues in the kitchen and ends on the plate.
Describe your style of cooking.
My cooking is rooted in France with international influences, and it is absolutely seasonal. I depend on the very best ingredients I can find at any time. There is quite a bit of Asian influence because I'm on the west coast. I like good food probably a little more than ever before because exciting things have been happening [in the culinary industry]. France used to be the culinary center of the universe, and now it has serious competition from chefs from the United States, Spain, Italy, Germany and Switzerland. The world of food is broader than it used to be.
How do you incorporate garden-fresh ingredients into your menu?
We're really spoiled to be able to have access to a garden around the corner. It's great to be able to grow things that you can pick fresh daily. We kind of plan the garden around what we want to be able to have. Our sous chefs are all working on the garden wish lists for this spring and summer. We've got a number of different kinds of basil, a devoted herb bed and we're also starting to grow some of our own micro greens this year. If you grow them yourself, then you're the master of your own destiny.
What are some ways that you incorporate sustainable techniques into your cooking?
Our kitchen is super energy efficient. We use on-demand water heating and we have two crazy expensive Japanese water heaters. We also have a system of sensors in all of our hoods that measure heat and the volume of smoke at three times per minute. We run usually not more than 80% efficiency and we've saved almost $2000 a month on our power bill. I run the whole food and beverage department in the Westin Verasa, and they have a brand-wide Green Program, so our lighting is green. We recycle metal and cardboard glass, and we're part of the city's food-waste compost program. We've eliminated a little over fifty percent of our waste stream that we've diverted into recycling. As a brand, the Westin has been really green-conscious.
What is the key to keeping your Michelin rating?
Michelin looks for two things: outstanding food and consistency. It's the only award of its type that is really fully anonymous. It's good to be in Zagat, and to have reviews in newspapers and magazines. But none of those have the gravitas that the anonymous Michelin spectator has. It's the world's gold standard. Every chef I know and every cook in my kitchen is more proud of that Michelin star than every other thing that we do. It is respected worldwide, and you will eat well in a Michelin rated restaurant.
Do you feel pressure to keep your Michelin rating alive?
I wouldn't call it pressure: there is a constant pressure to uphold a certain standard. There's a shared responsibility that I know the staff feels. Losing a star is a terrible thing; I wouldn't wish it on my last enemy. Going from two to one is horrible and there is nothing good about that. We take our rating very seriously.
What's next for you?
I'm not an empire builder. I am slowly working on a new book. I haven't written it yet – I'm just thinking about it. I've talked about it with a couple of people and it's getting closer.
I haven't written a book in 25 years since Ken Frank's La Toque Cookbook. It is very much late '70s, mid '80s style cooking, but the recipes still work, and some of the combinations in the book still cycle. The difference between me now and 25 years ago is that I can't think about cooking without thinking about what we're going to pour with it, so the new book will have a much bigger wine component to it and it will be utterly seasonal. What's available in February is very different than what's available in May and October. It may take awhile to learn what those things are, but it comes from experience when you realize that there's always something great out there.
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Trump insisted his new ban on transgender service members was based on recommendations from the military, but the Pentagon still has no idea what the ban means or how it would be implemented.
Undercutting the White House's assertion that Donald Trump announced his sweeping new directive to remove all transgender people from the U.S. military after consulting with top Pentagon officials, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff announced there would be no action on the ban because the armed services don't yet know what the ban means.
Trump's announcement completely blindsided not only the Pentagon but members of Congress. "This is major policy by tweet," Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO) complained to CNN Thursday. Coffman sits on the House Armed Services Committee.
Trump stressed in his tweets announcing the ban that it was made "after consultation with my Generals and military experts." And at Wednesday's White House press briefing, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders insisted the move was based on a "military decision."
Yet to date, the White House has provided absolutely no details on how such a wide-ranging new policy initiative would be carried out. It has also failed to present any senior members of the military leadership to discuss the plan, or explain why it is needed.
The White House's entire rationale seemed to revolve around, 'The military told us to do it," even though there was no proof that that was the case. Thursday's announcement by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, confirming it was blindsided by the news, essentially obliterates the White House spin.
The announced transgender ban has been met with bipartisan criticism.
The new initiative would overturn a policy President Barack Obama instituted last year allowing transgender military personnel to serve openly and seek related medical care. Trump's Defense Secretary James Mattis had previously announced he was delaying enactment of that plan and wanted six more months to study the issue. Trump's tweets short-circuited all that.
A 2016 Rand Corp. study commission by the Defense Department concluded that letting transgender people serve openly would have a "minimal impact" on readiness and health care costs.


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The 2016 Avenal Sand Drags Spring Nationals lived up to its billing as a great show from start to finish for the Central California crowd. Each race at Avenal seems to get a bigger racer turnout and this race was no exception with over 200 entries competing over the three days of competition. Race Director Chachy Zavala along with his crew did an exceptional job putting cars down the track and getting the show done in a timely manner, making it extremely enjoyable for racers & spectators alike. Before we take a look at the action, NSDN wants to give a huge thank you to all of the Avenal Sand Drags crew for the A1 top notch hospitality all weekend for us. It makes it so much easier to bring the coverage to the masses right here on National Sand Drag News. Now let's take a look at the top performers from this event.
National Sand Drag News is proud to announce that Good Vibrations Motorsports has come on board to be the Presenting sponsor of the NSDN Live Stream from the upcoming Mayhem at Soboba SCSDA event on May 20-22 as well as the SCSDA Season Finale September 30-October 2. We are proud to have such a quality organization back our coverage for these events. Please support Good Vibrations by purchasing your performance parts (check their site for their full selection of great products) through them, and be sure to thank them for their support of National Sand Drag News. A huge thank you goes out to Good Vibrations as well as these fine folks for being sponsors of our NSDN Daily Race Coverage from the May SCSDA event at the Soboba Casino in San Jacinto, CA: Hammer Down Racing (Dennis Rieck), Morris Family Racing, Rialto Trophy, MPC Racing, Kevin Williams Racing, and Flirtin' With Disaster Racing (Kenny Hayes). The pre-registration deadline for the May SCSDA event is quickly approaching. Be sure to click the links below to take care of the pre-registration process, as well as download & print the event weekend schedule. We are looking forward to seeing everyone at this great event.
NSDN would like to pass along our best wishes for a speedy recovery to Jeff Guillot. Jeff had a serious accident last weekend with his "Wild Thing" nitro burning 3-wheeler at his home track in Louisiana during the PSDA Gator Nationals. Per the latest update from the PSDA, Jeff has a long road ahead but is expected to fully recover (full update below). Jeff is the ATV World Record holder and many time event winner at races across the country as well as owner of the NE Louisiana Sand Drag Track & PSDA Board Member. On top of all that Jeff is a down to Earth great guy with a huge passion for sand drag racing. NSDN continues to send positive thoughts to Jeff and his family as he continues towards a full and speedy recovery.


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Dennis Herrera is running for re-election as San Francisco's city attorney and loudly rumored to be eyeing the mayor's office down the road. So a few weeks ago, he invited about a dozen influential folks to a local restaurant for drinks (on his campaign's tab) and some face time. Those folks were local bloggers.
Their questions didn't rock him on his heels initially. Instead, Herrera was quizzed about his favorite movie trilogy ("The Godfather") and what he'd write on a cardboard sign if he were homeless ("Wanna have fun?"). Soon the crowd turned serious and interrogated him about more typical topics, such as his shepherding of the same-sex marriage cause.
Herrera is one of a handful of forward-thinking local politicians - such as San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris, a candidate for state attorney general; East Bay congressional candidate Adriel Hampton; and Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Hillsborough - who are reaching out to bloggers as if they were another constituent group.
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It's a relationship bloggers and politicos think can be mutually beneficial - particularly for the candidate, as the relationship is largely free of the adversarial pushback pols receive from traditional media. Even President Obama plans to meet soon with liberal bloggers as a way to spread his message to a potentially friendlier audience.
Local and statewide politicians realize that as traditional media outlets cut their staffs and reduce coverage, bloggers can offer a more efficient way to spread their messages - and, occasionally, their planted stories - to a wider audience. Because of the rapid pace of downsizing in mainstream media, these days it is also more frequently the local blogger who is following the minutiae of planning commissions and neighborhood concerns.
While there are bloggers who break news, most do not consider themselves journalists in the traditional sense, but rather opinion-makers who sometimes report. Many are partisans, political geeks who, if they're not tapped into the local political party apparatus, are hardwired into online networks of like-minded people.
And while their audiences may not be large - anywhere from a few hundred to several thousand - the several hundred political bloggers in California are reaching the right demographic audience.
"They're the people who are generally very connected in political circles," said Alex Tourk, Herrera's campaign manager, who gathered the bloggers for drinks. He pulled together a crowd of statewide bloggers last year for Speier's congressional run and plans to do something similar for Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, D-San Francisco. "They're the people whose friends turn to them to find out how to vote."
More politicians are recognizing that. It is how Sean Mykael McMullen - the 32-year-old Livermore resident who writes the BearFlagBlue blog of East Bay politics ( www.bearflagblue.com) - found himself sitting in a Livermore doughnut shop across the table from congressional candidate Adriel Hampton.
Hampton isn't abandoning traditional media in his quest to replace Rep. Ellen Tauscher, D-Walnut Creek. But in a continually fracturing media environment, he is reaching out in as many ways as he can.
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"These are the people who don't just write about the campaign, but they're volunteering for it," Hampton said. "And I know that some of the (bloggers) I talk to will wind up working, for pay, for other campaigns."
While Hampton, a Dublin resident who is a former political reporter for the San Francisco Examiner, and McMullen agreed on most issues, the blogger found Hampton's position on religious freedom a bit too conservative. (Hampton said in his online platform, "I would not force pharmacists to violate their religious faiths to work at state hospitals.")
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"I see myself more as an activist than a reporter," said McMullen, who serves on the Alameda County Democratic Central Committee.
It is not uncommon for political operatives to plant a story - about their own campaign or another - with a friendly blogger.
"It's part of the modus operandi of political communication these days," said Brian Brokaw, campaign manager for Harris' run for state attorney general. "Of course, it would have to pass through the filter of the mainstream media to have a big splash, though."
"It's more 'pitch ideas' than 'plant stories,' " Tourk said. "Just like you'd pitch an idea to a (traditional media) reporter."
Many bloggers see themselves as serving an adjunct function to journalists. Sure, Brian Leubitz regularly breaks news on the Calitics blog he founded ( www.calitics.com). "But then a (traditional media) reporter will pick it up and do the reporting that I don't necessarily want to do," Leubitz says.
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Few bloggers or political operatives see traditional journalism going away - or want it to. Besides, said Tourk, confirming media consumption studies, "most people get their news from TV anyways. I don't see that changing."
But as former CBS News anchor Dan Rather told The Chronicle, local TV reporters often take their cues from print reporters.
"If you close down the newspapers, who is going to do the reporting?" Rather said. "I'm a great believer in the Web, but most Web sites don't have any reporting staffs."
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He has won numerous awards and covered everything from fashion to the Jeffrey Dahmer serial killings to two Olympic Games to his own vasectomy - which he discussed on NPR's "Talk of the Nation" after being told he couldn't say the word "balls" on the air. He regularly appears on Bay Area radio and TV talking politics and is available to entertain at bar mitzvahs and First Communions. He is a graduate of Northwestern University and a proud native of Pittsburgh. Go Steelers!


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