In a long-anticipated move, the Trump administration took the first step last week toward rolling back Obama-era standards for gas mileage and auto emissions.
The 2012 standards meant that automakers would have to produce vehicles that reached the equivalent of 54 miles per gallon on average by 2025. The action would have reduced oil consumption and greenhouse gas emissions and was one of the pillars of President Obama's climate strategy.
The Trump proposed plan, announced jointly by the U.S. EPA and the National Highway and Transportation Safety Administration, would continue with current mileage standards that peak at 36 miles per gallon by 2021. But they would freeze the standard until 2027.
The plan also proposes a dramatic reduction in the number of hybrid vehicles automakers would have to produce.
In addition to softening mileage and emission standards, the proposed plan would eliminate California's ability to implement tougher standards than the federal ones. California was granted a waiver from federal requirements in 2013 and 13 states followed California's lead.
If the new federal rule is enacted, California has said it will mount a vigorous legal challenge.
To justify the plan the EPA cites improved safety as a motivator.
Its logic is that cars are expensive and if they have to meet tougher emission and mileage standards they will be more expensive.
The increased cost, according to EPA reasoning, means that people will be less-willing to incur the expense of a new car, and will continue to drive their older and (implied) less safe cars longer, leading to increased fatalities.
Up to 1,000 lives would be saved annually according to EPA's calculations. The EPA report says manufacturers will benefit with $253 billion in reduced regulatory costs through 2029.
Environmental interests reacted quickly and predictably.
"The Trump Administration's move to rollback fuel economy standards is a big loss for the environment and public health," Detroit Mercy environmental law Professor Nick Schroeck told Great Lakes Now.
In Chicago, the Respiratory Health Association (RHA) noted in a 2016 report that climate change can increase ozone to levels above where they would otherwise be. Ozone is a respiratory irritant that leads to shortness of breath, coughing and can trigger asthma with children especially susceptible.
"As the climate warms, areas such as Chicago could expect more unhealthy air quality days and summers for ozone," according to the report.
RHA's Director of Environmental Health Programs, Brian Urbaszewski is the report's lead author.
Auto industry reaction to the Trump move was cautious.
The Alliance urged the federal government and California to work toward a "common sense solution" to resolve their differences on mileage and emission standards.
Ford and General Motors top executives had previously acknowledged that climate change is real, auto emissions contribute to it and pledged to reduce emissions.
The Trump administration has pulled the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement.
The administration announcement begins a lengthy and likely contentious process that will lead to lawsuits by states and groups opposed to rollback of the Obama-era standards. Protracted lawsuits are a concern to the auto industry because they can lead to years of regulatory uncertainty.
Next, a 60 day public comment period on the new rule begins with hearings in Washington, Detroit and Los Angeles before a rule is finalized.
Former Clinton EPA Administrator and Obama adviser Carol Browner was involved with crafting the current rules.
In a 2017 interview Browner told Great Lakes Now that the Obama team worked hard to secure input from car manufacturers on how to develop cleaner and more fuel efficient cars before their rule was released.
Browner is now Board Chair of the League of Conservation Voters.
The Trump administration's proposed 1,200 page rule, the Safer and Affordable Fuel-Efficient Vehicles Rule, with supporting documents are on the EPA's website.


Flower boxes anonymous, Sweden, 1950s. Forged iron. Measures: Length of the largest 186 cm/ 6' 1'' Height 16 cm/ 6 1/4'' Depth 21 cm/ 8 1/4'' Length of the medium sized 146 cm/ 4' 9 1/2'' Height 16 cm/ 6 1/4'' Depth 21 cm/ 8 1/4'' Length of the smallest 94 cm/ 37'' Height 16 cm/ 6 1/4'' Depth 21 cm/ 8 1/4''.
Planter, anonymous for Eternit, Switzerland, 1950s. Fibre re-enforced concret.
Rug, anonymous, Sweden, 1950s. Handwoven wool. Pile technique. Measures: L 210 cm/ 6' 11'' W 140 cm/ 4' 7 1/2''.
Planter, anonymous, Sweden. 1950s. Copper and iron. Measure: H 61 cm/ 24'' D 50 cm/ 19 1/2''.
Runner rug, anonymous, Sweden, 1950s. Kelim technique. Measure: L 375 cm/ 12' 3 1/2'' W 62 cm/ 24 1/2''.
Elevated planter box, designed to stand freely on the floor, made in Sweden in the 1960s. Patinated copper box on an oak stand with copper clad feet.
Vintage Galvanized zinc planter. This item is a vintage galvanized zinc pot was made in Hungary in circa 1950s. You can use garden decoration or planter. 10 pieces are available:).
1950s wrought iron three-tier planter.
Extraordinary planter cart in brass and white painted metal with a bamboo handle from Germany, 1950s.


"Regular, degular, shmegular" maternity clothes? Not for this stylish rapper.
Cardi B, 25, and husband Kiari "Offset" Cephus, 26, have welcomed their first child together, a girl, she announced on Instagram on Wednesday. They named her Kulture Kiari Cephus.
The little girl was born on Tuesday.
The "Be Careful" songstress finally confirmed her pregnancy in April during a performance on "Saturday Night Live," after rumors swirled that she was expecting.
The two rappers secretly tied the knot in September 2017 and threw off fans the following month when Offset publicly proposed to Cardi, whose real name is Belcalis Almanzar, on stage with a diamond ring said to be eight carats.
News of their secret marriage only broke in June after TMZ released the duo's marriage certificate.
Offset is also a father to three other children from previous relationships — two sons, Jordan and Kody, and a daughter, Kalea Marie.


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Posted on July 18, 2019 September 20, 2019 by Arvind Gautam — Leave a comment
1. In which of the following dialects
Kabir wrote ?
(1) Avadhi (2) Bhojpuri
(3) Brijbhasa (4) Maithili
2. Where is "Pushkar Fair" held ?
(1) Jodhpur (2) Ajmer
(3) Jaipur (4) Udaipur
3. Which of the following is called
the storehouse of world-art collections ?
(1) National Archives of India
(2) National Museum
(3) National Modren Art Gallery
(4) Salarjung Museum
4. Who introduced the famous Persian Festival of Nauroz ?
(1) Alauddin Khalji
(2) Iltutmish
(3) Firoz Tughlaq
(4) Balban
5. Which of the following is a famous
Assamese festival ?
(1) Makar Sakranti
(2) Yugadi
(3) Onam
(4) Rongali Bihu
6. Which language is spoken by the
people of Lakshadweep?
(1) Malayalam (2) Kannada
(3) Tamil (4) Telugu
7. In which State is the religious
festival 'Ganesh Chaturthi' Celebrated with gusto ?
(1) Rajasthan
(2) Gujarat
(3) Maharashtra
(4) Madhya Pradesh
8. Which of the following language
has been given the status of classical language by Central Government?
(1) Gujarati (2) Tamil
(3) Marathi (4) Malayalam
9. 'Rath Yatra' at Puri is celebrated
(1) Lord Rama
(2) Lord Shiva
(3) Lord Jagannath
(4) Lord Vishnu
10. The most popular festival in Tamil
Nadu is :
(1) Gudipadwa (2) Onam
(3) Bihu (4) Pongal
Answers: 1. (2) 2. (1) 3. (2) 4. (2)
5. (2) 6. (2) 7. (3) 8. (1)
9. (2) 10. (1)
Explainations:
1. (1) Kabir, being illiterate, expressed his poems orally
in vernacular Hindi, borrowing from various dialects
including Avadhi, Braj, and Bhojpuri. His verses often
began with some strongly worded insult to get the
attention of passers-by. Kabir has enjoyed a revival of
popularity over the past half century as arguably the
most accessible and understandable of the Indian
saints, with a special influence over spiritual traditions
such as those of Sant Mat, Garib Das and Radha
Soami.
2. (2) The Pushkar Fair, or Pushkar ka Mela, is the annual
five-day camel and livestock fair, held in the town of
Pushkar in the state of Rajasthan, India. It is one of
the world's largest camel fairs, and apart from buying
and selling of livestock it has become an important
tourist attraction and its highlights have become
competitions such as the "matka phod", "longest
moustache", and "bridal competition" are the main
draws for this fair which attracts thousands of tourists.
Pushkar is a town in the Ajmer district. Pushkar is
one of the oldest existing cities of India. It lies on the
shore of Pushkar Lake. The date of its actual origin is
not known, but legend associates Lord Brahma with
its creation.
3. (4) The Salar Jung Museum is an art museum located
at Darushifa, on the southern bank of the Musi River
in the city of Hyderabad. It is the third largest museum
in India housing the biggest one-man collections of
antiques in the world. It is well known throughout
India for its prized collections belonging to different
civilizations dating back to the 1st century. Nawab
Mir Yousuf Ali Khan Salar Jung III (1889–1949), former
Prime Minister of the seventh Nizam of Hyderabad,
spent a substantial amount of his income over thirty
five years to make this priceless collection, his life's
4. (4) Balban's conception of kingship was similar to that
of the theory of divine right of kings. He cast a halo of
superiority round monarchy. He introduced the system
of Nauroz to add to the dignity of his court.
5. (4) Bihu denotes a set of three different cultural festivals
of Assam. In a year there are three Bihu festivals in
Assam – in the months of Bohaag (Baisakh, the middle
of April), Maagh (the middle of January), and Kaati
(Kartik, the middle of October). The most important
and colourful of the three Bihu festival is the Spring
festival "Bohag Bihu" or Rongali Bihu celebrated in
the middle of April. This is also the beginning of the
agricultural season.
6. (1) The islanders are ethnically similar to the Malayali
people of the nearest Indian state of Kerala. Most of
the population speaks Malayalam with Mahi being the
most spoken language in Minicoy island.
7. (3) 'Ganesha Chaturthi is the Hindu festival celebrated
on the birthday (rebirth) of Lord Ganesha, the son of
Shiva and Parvati. While celebrated all over India, it is
most elaborate in Maharashtra, Goa, Andhra Pradesh,
Karnataka, Orissa and Chhattisgarh.
8. (2) In 2004, the Government of India declared that
languages that met certain requirements could be
accorded the status of a "Classical Language in India".
Languages so far declared to be Classical are Tamil
(in 2004), Sanskrit (in 2005), Kannada and Telugu (in
9. (3) Ratha Yatra is a huge Hindu festival associated
with Lord Jagannath held at Puri in the state of Odisha.
This annual festival is celebrated on Ashad Shukla
Dwitiya (second day in bright fortnight of Ashad
month).
10. (4) The festivals of Tamil Nadu are : Pongal, Jallikattu,
Chithirai and Adipperukku.
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The earliest written record of women's achievements on Cape Ann dates back almost as far as the arrival of the Dorchester Company in 1623. In 1637, Isabel Babson (ca.1577–1661) arrived from Salem. We know from her testimony against William Browne during the time of the Salem witch trials that she was a midwife. She died in Gloucester with a considerable estate.
Cape Ann's most outspoken advocate for women's advancement was Judith Sargent Murray (1751–1820), who found a national audience for her writing. The oldest of eight children in the wealthy Sargent household, Judith benefited from her brothers' education, her father's erudition, and her family's large library, but as is hinted at by her inscribed Dictionary she was very much an autodidact. Her landmark essay "On the Equality of the Sexes" (1790) remains her most famous piece of writing. In it she argues for women's equality on both religious and moral grounds, writing that "our souls are by nature equal to yours; the same breath of God animates, enlivens and invigorates us ...". Her three-volume collection The Gleaner (1798) established her as a leading intellect on matters political and religious. Her outlook on female education, her favorite subject, is full of hope: "In this enlightened age," she writes, we are "rapidly" seeing a "more uniform system of information; and the frequently contested question, respecting the intellectual pretensions of the sexes, may one day be discussed on fair and equal ground." The historian Mary Kelley notes that, as a "staunch Federalist from a prominent New England family, Murray was no egalitarian," but along with other leading proto-feminists of her day such as Philadelphia's Susanna Rowson (1762–1824), she "bolster[ed] women's claims to intellectual equality and moral authority."  The embroidery made by her only child, Julia Maria, and her niece for their aunt Nancy Parsons Sargent (1769–1860) can be read as a symbolic rendering of Murray's own values. Copied from a reproduction of the painting Cornelia Africanus (1785) by Angelica Kauffman (1741–1807), the needlework depicts the popular story of a learned Roman woman who valued education as a republican virtue.
Though Murray's home has been an attraction on Gloucester's Main Street for decades, little of Murray's vast archive remains here. Murray was a prolific letter writer, but her letter books, discovered in 1984, are now housed at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. After her husband died, Murray went to live with her daughter in Mississippi, and that is how the letter books ended up so far from Gloucester and from Murray's second home, Boston. By the time she completed her last letter book, in 1818, at the age of sixty-seven, Murray had created twenty volumes and copied approximately 2,500 letters, which Bonnie Hurd Smith, an independent scholar and Murray's distant relative, is editing for publication.
The stories of the lives of women who resided on Cape Ann can be found in letters, albums, books, and even handwritten newspapers that have survived in the local archives. Friendship albums, which abound in local archives, attest to the ways in which women depended upon and cared for one another. The "affectionately selected" poem that Jane Whipple of Durham, New Hampshire, penned in her friend Amanda Babson's (1811–1857) album offers one example of how young women "looked to the images of intimate and loving relationships sanctioned in sermons, didactic literature, and fiction and poetry to structure their imaginative worlds and peer relationships." Babson's archive offers copious examples of the bonds she and her female peers forged through their participation in civil society, as they were afforded few opportunities to engage in politics.
Amanda Babson, unattributed daguerreotype. Cape Ann Museum.
The content of The Casket indicates that its intended audience was Babson's female contemporaries. She makes reference to her niece Elizabeth Stanwood, her sister-in- law Lucy E. Foster, and many other women in her circle. In every extant issue, Babson includes an "Acrostic Enigma" for her readers to solve. Though we cannot be privy to all of the in-jokes among Babson and her friends, we can detect some of the humor in the advertisement for schoolbooks at "118 Learning Alley" or the notice that "fancy articles," such as brass and tins, can be purchased at "666 Poverty Place." One message admonishes her friends who have not provided content for The Casket; Babson writes, "I will say to those girls that do not write for the papers, that they must not expect to have any pieces for theirs when they edit them so that if they do not they will know the reason." Though we might lament that no copies of any other "girls'" newspapers seem to have survived, we can read Babson's The Casket as evidence that women participated in civil society in ways that deviated at times from the predominantly masculine public sphere of publishing.
One of the first books printed in the United States with moving parts, The American Toilet (1827), playfully tied the notion of women as keepers of virtue to that of women as consumers in the burgeoning marketplace of the early nineteenth century. An early example of lithographic book production, the small volume consists of twenty leaves; each page has an image of a domestic, often personal, object incorporating a movable flap which, when lifted, reveals the name of an associated virtue. As we learn from the 1867 edition, the book itself was the result of female ingenuity and benevolence: "Many years ago, Miss Hannah and Miss Mary Murray, of New York, ladies of great wealth and culture, designed 'The toilet.' They cut pictures from papers and pasted them on the leaves of little blank books, and the descriptions were in their own handwriting. It was originated, and sold, for charitable purposes, and the demand for it was so great, that at length one thousand dollars was realized from the sale of it, and given to the Foreign Missionary Society." We know from the inscription on the inner front board of the displayed copy that this second edition belonged to Julia Metcalf, but archival digging has yet to turn up any details on who she was.
Women participated in the consumer revolution not just as buyers but also as retailers of goods. Abigail Hooper Trask (1788–1885) distinguished herself as a formidable businesswoman. Renovating what is now called the Trask House in the center of Manchester and in 1822, she ran her own store as a single woman until she married in 1823. In addition to selling imported dry goods, Trask also dispensed rum made from molasses and sugar produced on plantations in the Caribbean and South America. Records show that in one year, the store went through as many as fourteen barrels of rum. Trask outlived her husband by thirty-nine years; she was likely a widow when this photograph was taken. Trask's access to state-of-the-art photographic technology suggests that she was a woman of some means. It also indicates that, at least at the time of sitting for the photograph, she valued this friendship immensely; why and when her companion's face was scratched out remain a mystery. Cape Ann's women's archives contain many untold stories, but they undoubtedly testify to the importance women placed on female communities of affiliation and affection.
.George Francis Dow, ed., Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, vol. 2, 1656–1662 (Salem: Essex Institute, 1912), http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/Essex/vol2/images/essex038.html.
 Emily Mace, "Murray, Judith Sargent (1751–1820)," Harvard Square Library (blog), July 28, 2012, http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/biographies/judith-sargent-murray/.
 Judith Sargent Murray, "On the Equality of the Sexes," The Massachusetts Magazine, Or, Monthly Museum Concerning the Literature, History, Politics, Arts, Manners, Amusements of the Age 2 (1790), 134.
 Judith Sargent Murray, The Gleaner: A Miscellaneous Production. In Three Volumes (Boston: I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, 1798), 280.
 Mary Kelley, Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, 2006), 198.
 "Bonnie Hurd Smith's Project to Publish Judith Sargent Murray's Letter Books. http://jsmsociety.com/Letter_books.html, accessed December 15, 2017.
 Catherine E. Kelly, In the New England Fashion: Reshaping Women's Lives in the Nineteenth Century (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2002), 68.
 For a complete discussion of women's role in civil society, see Kelley, Learning to Stand and Speak.
 Karin A. Wulf, Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2000), 25–52.
 Amanda Babson, ed., The Casket, March 10, 1849.
 The term "public sphere" became important in eighteenth-century studies after Jürgen Habermas's 1962 study of newspaper print culture in England was translated into English: Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, trans. Thomas Burger and Frederick Lawrence (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1989); see also Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso, 1983). The idea gained particular currency in early American studies in Michael Warner, The Letters of the Republic: Publication and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century America (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990).
 For more on the printing history of The American Toilet, see Jon Carbonell, "Anthony Imbert: New York's Pioneer Lithographer," in Prints and Printmakers of New York State, 1825–1940, ed. David Tatham (Syracuse, N.Y: Syracuse University Press, 1986), 24. The first book with movable plates produced in the United States was probably Benjamin Sand, Metamorphosis (ca. 1787). I am indebted to Georgia Barnhill for pointing me to these references.
 Hannah Lindley Murray and Mary Murray, The Toilet (Washington, D.C.: William Ballantyne, 1867), frontmatter. Many thanks to Laura Wasowicz, the American Antiquarian Society's Curator of Children's Literature, for drawing my attention to this later edition, which is part of the Society's collections (Record #219549).
 Gordon Abbott, Jeffrey's Creek: A Story of People, Places, and Events in the Town That Came to Be Known as Manchester-by-the-Sea (Manchester-by-the-Sea: Manchester Historical Museum, 2003), 97.


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require 'test/unit'

class ConvertToShouldSyntaxTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase # :nodoc:

  BEFORE_FIXTURE = <<-EOS
    class DummyTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase

      should "Not change this_word_with_underscores" do
      end

      def test_should_be_working
        assert true
      end

      def test_some_cool_stuff
        assert true
      end

      def non_test_method
      end

    end
  EOS

  AFTER_FIXTURE = <<-EOS
    class DummyTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase

      should "Not change this_word_with_underscores" do
      end

      should "be working" do
        assert true
      end

      should "RENAME ME: test some cool stuff" do
        assert true
      end

      def non_test_method
      end

    end
  EOS

  FIXTURE_PATH = "./convert_to_should_syntax_fixture.dat"

  RUBY = ENV['RUBY'] || 'ruby'

  def test_convert_to_should_syntax
    File.open(FIXTURE_PATH, "w") {|f| f.write(BEFORE_FIXTURE)}
    cmd = "#{RUBY} #{File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '../../bin/convert_to_should_syntax')} #{FIXTURE_PATH}"
    output = `#{cmd}`
    File.unlink($1) if output.match(/has been stored in '([^']+)/)
    assert_match(/has been converted/, output)
    result = IO.read(FIXTURE_PATH)
    assert_equal result, AFTER_FIXTURE
  end

  def teardown
    File.unlink(FIXTURE_PATH)
  end

end

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require 'spec_helper'
require 'grim_repo/client'

describe GrimRepo::Client do
  let(:client) { GrimRepo::Client.new('username', 'password') }
  let(:connection) { double('connection', get: response) }
  let(:response) { double('response') }
  before { client.stub!(:connection).and_return(connection) }

  describe "#initialize" do
    it "takes a username a password" do
      expect {
        GrimRepo::Client.new('username', 'password')
      }.to_not raise_error
    end
  end

  describe "#get" do
    let(:uri) { URI.parse('https://example.com/results?page=3')}
    let(:body) { "Lorum Ipsum" }
    before { response.stub!(:body).and_return(body) }

    it "performs a get request with the path & query" do
      connection.should_receive(:get).with('/results?page=3')

      client.get(uri)
    end

    context "with a block" do
      it "yields the response" do
        expect {|block|
          client.get(uri, &block)
        }.to yield_with_args(response)
      end
    end

    it "returns the response body" do
      result = client.get(uri)
      result.should == body
    end
  end
end


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Patrice Thévenard, né le  à Carnetin (Seine-et-Marne), est un coureur cycliste français.

Biographie
Professionnel de 1979 à 1994, ses plus belles victoires ont été obtenues dans des cyclo-cross où il totalise plus de 100 succès. En 1983, il devient vice-champion de France de cette discipline. En 1990, en fin de carrière, il devient le premier Français à devenir champion du monde de VTT, une discipline arrivée un  peu tard dans sa carrière.

Palmarès sur route

Palmarès amateur
 1977
 Paris-Rouen
  du Tour d'Île-de-France (contre-la-montre, ex aequo avec Didier Bourrier)
  de Paris-Ézy
 1978
 Grand Prix cycliste de L'Humanité :
 Classement général

 a et  du Tour du Loir-et-Cher
  de Paris-Troyes
  de Paris-Rouen
  du Grand Prix des Cévennes
  du Tour du Loir-et-Cher

Palmarès professionnel
 1984
 Circuit du Sud-Est
  du Tour du Vaucluse
  du Grand Prix Torres Vedras

Résultats sur les grands tours

Tour de France
3 participations
 1979 :
 1980 :
 1984 :

Tour d'Espagne
1 participation
 1981 :

Palmarès en VTT

 1988
  Championnat de France de VTT
 1989
  Championnat de France de VTT
 1990
  Championnat de France de VTT
  Champion du monde de VTT à Durango Colorado
 Vainqueur de la Transmaurienne

1991
Vainqueur de la Transmaurienne

Palmarès en cyclo-cross

 1979-1980
  du championnat d'Île-de-France de cyclo-cross
 1982-1983
 Champion d'Île-de-France de cyclo-cross
  du championnat de France de cyclo-cross
 1983-1984
 Champion d'Île-de-France de cyclo-cross
 Vainqueur du  Challenge la France cycliste
 Cyclo-cross de Carnetin
 1984-1985
 Champion d'Île-de-France de cyclo-cross
 Cyclo-cross de Carnetin

 1985-1986
 Cyclo-cross de Carnetin
 1988-1989
 Tour du Val d'Orge :
 Classement généra

Notes et références

Liens externes

Coureur cycliste français
Naissance en octobre 1954
Naissance en Seine-et-Marne
Cyclo-crossman français

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A selection of books especially selected for children in Year 5 (9 - 10 year olds) of average reading ability for the 2018/19 academic year.
If your child is a competent reader or has read all these titles then try the books from the Year 6 list. Alternatively if these books are a little challenging try books from the Year 4 list. Our overall mission is to promote reading for pleasure with quality texts that are perfectly pitched for the age group and the curriculum. We have particularly avoided blockbusters, classic or set texts, known to everyone, so that we can include poetry, stunning information texts and inspirational books in which all children and young people can find themselves reflected.
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Louisiana's Way Home
Key Stage 2 Key Stage 3
Author: Kate DiCamillo Format: Hardback Release Date: 04/10/2018
Readers first met Louisiana Elefante in Kate DiCamillo's unforgettable Raymie Nightingale, now she has her own story, and what a tale it is. Louisiana has always believed that her parents were high wire stars, killed in an accident when she was very young, but driven by terrible toothache and an urge to come to terms with her own past, her granny suddenly reveals that everything Louisiana knows about her life is a lie. Abandoned in a motel miles from her old home in Florida, Louisiana is left to decide who she wants to be. She is befriended by a boy called Burke Allen and his family including his seventeen cake baking mother, and the kindness of strangers helps her to new happiness and security. A story of grief and confusion becomes one of love, hope and resilience. DiCamillo writes with extraordinary sensitivity and perception, and readers of all ages will be touched and moved by Louisiana's story. Readers who enjoy this book should also read The Road to Ever After by Moira Young.
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The Train to Impossible Places
Author: P. G. Bell Format: Hardback Release Date: 04/10/2018
January 2019 Debut of the Month | It's not every day that a magical train drives through your hallway but that's what happens to Suzy at the opening of this terrific adventure story. She discovers it's the Impossible Postal Express, responsible for making deliveries throughout the Union of Impossible Places. Being something of a scientist, and deeply inquisitive, Suzy can't let this opportunity pass and climbs aboard. It's not long before she's been deputized as a Postal Operative (by the troll in charge), which in turn embroils her in an even bigger adventure, and one of those magical good versus evil power struggles that are central to all the best fantasy adventures. This rattles along at top-speed and features one of the most varied cast of characters since Hogwarts welcomed young Potter. Fans of magical stories mustn't miss this train! One to recommend to fans of Nevermoor and The Last Chance Hotel.
Author: Katherine Rundell Format: Hardback Release Date: 20/09/2018
Award-winner Katherine Rundell has already taken readers on thrilling journeys over rooftops, across the Russian steppes and of course deep into the forest. She understands absolutely children's longing for wild adventure and no-one is better suited to write new stories for Kipling's Jungle Book characters. This very handsome book, which features beautiful colour illustrations by Kristjana S Williams, tells five different stories, and with each perfectly-imagined episode adds to what we love about Kipling's unforgettable characters, including Bagheera, Baloo, Shere Khan and Kaa. It opens too with a story about one of the most interesting characters, Mowgli's fierce wolf-mother Raksha, who has long deserved more time in the spotlight. These are stories of bravery and cunning, full of excitement and danger, but most of all they are stories of loyalty and community, and by the time they reach the end, readers will be daydreaming themselves into the jungle family. Mowgli links all the stories, and has his own of course, and is exactly the same impetuous, selfish, boasting but warm-hearted, generous boy drawn so vividly by Kipling. In fact the book does exactly what sequels should but seldom manage - it tells us new stories that grow out of the originals, and enhance and enrich them.
Secrets of a Sun King
Author: Emma Carroll Format: Paperback Release Date: 02/08/2018
A fast paced, thoroughly researched and fascinating historical adventure with ancient gods and curses to appease and unscrupulous villains to outwit.
A Kid in My Class
Author: Rachel Rooney Format: Hardback Release Date: 02/08/2018
Longlisted for the UKLA Book Awards 2020 | Rachel Rooney brings a class to life with poems for all the different characters. There is a rich vein of understanding of children here: never sentimental, always intriguing. Children will delight in the ways in which the styles and patterns of the poems enhance the exploration of each child. The wonderful illustrations draw readers into this magical anthology.
The Boy At the Back of the Class
Author: Onjali Q. Raúf Format: Paperback Release Date: 10/07/2018
Longlisted for the UKLA Book Awards 2020 | Shortlisted for The Branford Boase Award 2019 | Winner the Blue Peter Book Awards 2019, Best Story category | The arrival of a new boy in class sparks a funny, moving and quietly powerful story for young readers. Our narrator – we only discover her name in the last chapter – is immediately intrigued by her new classmate, who doesn't speak, or smile, and disappears at break times. She's determined to become his friend and as she gets to know him learns that Ahmet is a refugee from Syria. Finding out that his family are lost somewhere in Europe she decides to help – something that exposes both the prejudice and generosity of those around her. The plotline is very lively – it includes some excellent comic scenes at Buckingham Palace – and Raúf manages to keep the story positive and uplifting while still illustrating the cruelty and bigotry that refugees face.
Author: Jo Cotterill Format: Paperback Release Date: 14/06/2018
Nominated for the CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019. | Real life drama with relatable, engaging characters and dealing with an important issue of self esteem and body image.
Max and the Millions
Author: Ross Montgomery Format: Paperback Release Date: 01/03/2018
Max is used to spending time alone - it's difficult to make friends in a big, chaotic school when you're deaf. He prefers to give his attention to the little things in life... like making awesome, detailed replica models. Then Mr Darrow, the school caretaker and fellow modeller, goes missing. Max must follow his parting instruction: 'Go to my room. You'll know what to do.' There on the floor he finds a pile of sand ... and in the sand is Mr Darrow's latest creation... a tiny boy, no bigger than a raisin, Luke, Prince of the Blues. And behind the tiny boy... millions of others - a thriving, bustling, sprawling civilization!
How Does a Lighthouse Work?
Author: Roman Belyaev Format: Hardback Release Date: 01/03/2018
Join a group of school children on this voyage of discovery and discover the answers to lots of questions as well as fascinating facts about lighthouses and how they work. How Does a Lighthouse Work? provides a fascinating journey through the science and history of lighthouses around the world. Through history a lighthouse has been an important, in fact essential tool for sailors to navigate safely and this remains so today in order to protect all sailors from the dangerous coastlines and rocky outcrops out to sea that are found all over the world. Modern technology may have changed the way that lighthouses work but still their USP remains the same: to deliver a light as far as possible to forewarn sailors of potential dangers. This a terrific book to share with inquisitive children and the combination of stunning illustrations and interesting text makes this a well worthwile read both at home and to use in the classroom.
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow
Author: Jessica Townsend Format: Paperback Release Date: 08/02/2018
UKLA Longlist Book Awards - 2019 | Unusually, Jessica Townsend's book opens with the funeral of her central character. No-one seems particularly upset, not even her family, and that's because Morrigan Crow is a Cursed Child held responsible for any and all mishaps and was expected to die before her 12th birthday. Fortunately for Morrigan and readers, she has been mysteriously saved from her gloomy family and swept into a wonderful new world by one Jupiter Crow, magic-maker, hotel-owner, umbrella-flyer. All sorts of tests await Morrigan in Nevermoor, and she faces them all with intelligence, good-humour and, thanks to her new extended family, the resilience that comes from knowing you are loved. There are echoes of other favourite fantasy adventures in the book, but Nevermoor and its inhabitants are still wildly original and this is an impressively constructed, lively, satisfying story. One to recommend to fans of Harry Potter or of Katherine Rundell's Rooftoppers.
Hilary Mckay's Fairy Tales
Author: Hilary McKay Format: Hardback Release Date: 05/10/2017
This is an absolutely stunning book. Not only is it an absolute treat visually but it's also a feast for the imagination for lovers of fairy tales and the ever elusive happy ever after. Hilary has brought her own unique touch to well known and loved fairy-tales. Fairy-tales that we know so well and yet with her refreshing, imaginative touch have been made new for us. The ten retellings including Rapunzel, Cinderella, Red Riding Hood , The Princess and the Pea, Rumpelstiltskin, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, The Swan Brothers. Hansel and Gretel, amongst others.This is a selection that lovers of fairy tales, old and young, will love to read again and again. Combined with beautiful illustrations by Sarah Gibb, this will be a collection to treasure. ~ Shelley Fallows - You can also find Shelley here.
Aubrey and the Terrible Ladybirds
Author: Horatio Clare Format: Paperback Release Date: 15/05/2017
Longlisted for the UKLA 2018 Book Award | A sequel to the award winning Aubery and the Terrible Yoot, Horatio Clare tells an entertaining new story about his hero Aubery, who this time wants to get away from his parents' fighting – and gets involved in trying to save the world while he is about it. Aubery's special gift is that he can talk to animals and understand everything that they say so, when a spider invites him to help her save the world, he sets off on an amazing adventure across time and space. From the animals Aubrey learns much about relationships the vagaries of and about how everyone must share if the world is to be a better place.
Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth
Author: Frank Cottrell Boyce Format: Paperback Release Date: 09/02/2017
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2017 | Longlisted for the UKLA 2017 Book Award | With all the invention, originality and insight that is typical of his writing for children, Frank Cottrell Boyce takes the sad story of Laika, the first living creature to orbit Earth, and uses it as inspiration for a story about the importance of home. As ever, it's both brilliantly funny and extraordinarily moving. Prez is living with a temporary foster family when he opens the door to Sputnik. Prez sees an alien – in a kilt – everyone else sees a dog. Over the course of the summer Prez and Sputnik have some amazing adventures and break a lot of laws, including some of the laws of physics, but in the process they save the world, and reunite Prez with his grandfather. As wild as a cartoon strip, this wonderful story pinpoints all the best things about life on Earth.
Odd and the Frost Giants
Author: Neil Gaiman Format: Hardback Release Date: 08/09/2016
Prize-winning Neil Gaiman tells a witty and touching story about gods and magic in Viking times. Having run away from home, Odd finds shelter in a little hut in the forest. Here, he meets a bear, a fox and an eagle all of whom seems determined to befriend him. Soon, Odd discovers these are no ordinary animals and that they badly need his help to save the City of Asgard from the Frost Giants who have invaded it. With his cheerful temperament and quick thinking, Odd is just the kind of imaginative hero they need and a wonderful battle for power unfolds. Chris Riddell's enchanting pen and ink illustrations throughout bring the magic to life.
Harry Miller's Run
Author: David Almond Format: Paperback Release Date: 01/09/2016
Longlisted for the UKLA 2017 Book Award | Award-winning David Almond tells a lively story which captures the exuberance of a trio of lads and one girl who set off one hot summer morning to run from their homes in Newcastle to South Shields. There's no training, no special kit, no crowds – just the gang enjoying the freedom to run and the kindness of many who keep them fed and watered along the way. And it is a distance of thirteen miles so exactly half a marathon. Old Harry, now walking with a frame and on his way to a care home, tells young Liam, a boy in the present who has just got a place in the junior Great North Run, all about the trip and the magic of it. In doing so he shows a slice of a different kind of childhood set in David Almond's home ground of Newcastle and the surrounding area. In this beautifully produced new edition, Salvatore Rubbino's illustrations also capture the period and the sense of place brilliantly. ~ Julia Eccleshare
Little Bits of Sky
Author: S. E. Durrant Format: Paperback Release Date: 05/05/2016
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2017 | Shortlisted for the UKLA 2017 Book Award | This moving story of looked-after children describes the difficulties they face, but is nonetheless uplifting. Ira and her little brother Zac live in Skilly House, what Tracy Beaker would call a dumping ground. There are things they like about it including the staff, kindly Hortense and Silas who was in care himself, though not stern Mrs Clark. They love the garden, with its huge tree. Carved into the trunk is a name, Glenda Hyacinth, 1947. Ira decides Glenda must be a ghost (the story is set in the late 1980s) and imagines she sees her playing in the garden. Holiday visits to a lady in the country lead to a permanent home, but Ira is sad to leave Skilly House, especially as by then she's learned something surprising about Glenda. Children will be caught up in Ira and Zac's story from the first page, and will understand them perfectly by the last. Subtle and beautifully told this will appeal to readers who have enjoyed The Illustrated Mum by Jacqueline Wilson.
Listen to the Moon
Author: Michael Morpurgo Format: Paperback Release Date: 27/08/2015
Shortlisted for Children's Book Award 2016, Books for Older Readers category Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award 2014 The Costa Judges described Morpurgo's novel, which begins in May 1915, as "a captivating, utterly transporting war novel that lives on powerfully in the memory". | A beautiful and captivating tour de force of family, love, war and forgiveness, this is a major new novel from the author of War Horse and Private Peaceful, Michael Morpurgo and is set in World War One on the Isles of Scilly. A tale in which things that were lost may still wash up, once again, on the shore. As ever with Michael it is always a story of family and stories.
The Story of the Blue Planet
Author: Andri Snaer Magnason Format: Paperback Release Date: 07/05/2015
Winner of the UKLA Book Awards 7-11 category 2014 | A whimsical fairy tale that will appeal to fans of Maurice Sendak, Dr Seuss and Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Blue Planet is a critically acclaimed global hit being published in the UK for the first time. It's the story of two children who live on a planet inhabited only by children who never grow old but in other ways it's a world not unlike our own. There's a powerful underlying message about caring for our environment whilst at the same time telling a wonderfully entertaining story that is combined with bright, magical illustrations.
The Fastest Boy in the World
Author: Elizabeth Laird Format: Paperback Release Date: 05/06/2014
Shortlisted for the 2015 CILIP Carnegie Medal - Shortlisted for the Scottish Children's Book Awards 2015 8-11 age category | In a beautifully told story packed with emotion and action, Elizabeth Laird tells how eleven- year- old Solomon turns his dreams of becoming an International runner into reality. Solomon runs everywhere – and always especially fast to school. He knows he is good and is convinced that he could join the roster of the great Ethiopian runners but he also knows that growing up in a small village, he'll never have the chance to train as an elite athlete. When Solomon's grandfather insists that he accompanies him on a trip to Addis Ababa, everything in his life changes. Solomon's story is funny, touching and inspiring.
Varjak Paw
Author: S. F. Said Format: Paperback Release Date: 13/03/2014
Beguiling and mysterious , thought provoking and as wise as the feline hero, this is becoming a modern classic.
Shackleton's Journey
Author: William Grill Format: Hardback Release Date: 02/01/2014
Winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal 2015 | Greenaway Medal winning debut from William Grill whose images range from tiny vignettes to sweeping frozen vistas which, together with an absorbing narrative, tells the powerful story of the ill fated voyage.
The Last Wild
Author: Piers Torday Format: Hardback Release Date: 28/03/2013
April 2013 Debut of the Month Do not miss this magical and astounding debut: The Last Wild by Piers Torday (yes mums and dads, his Dad Paul wrote Salmon Fishing in the Yemen) - a wonderfully imaginative tale of magical self-realisation and endless possibility. A truly inspirational book for kids that they'll love. It also introduces a bold new voice in children's fiction with a story destined to be loved by readers of all ages. Perfect too, for children who love Michael Morpurgo, Eva Ibbotson and Roald Dahl. In addition to our Lovereading expert opinion for The Last Wild a small number of children were lucky enough to be invited to review this title. Here's a taster....'I found the book very easy to read and very interesting. I am taking it into school where I will let some other kids in my class read it because I think they will enjoy it too.' Scroll down to read more reviews...
One Dog and His Boy
Author: Eva Ibbotson Format: Paperback Release Date: 01/03/2012
Shortlisted for the Galaxy Children's Book of the Year Award 2011. | Award winning Eva Ibbotson's poignant and beautiful last book celebrates a boy's passion for a dog. All Hal has ever wanted is a dog but his parents refuse to contemplate the idea. A dog would mess up their beautiful house and disturb their busy routine. When they discover East Pets, they hire Hal a dog for a weekend thinking that will do the trick. But they don't know Hal! Hal takes matters into his own hands. Soon Hal and all the dogs he has released from Easy Pets are out on the road – with a price on their head. How Hal makes his escape is both thrilling and moving as it marks his growth from sadness to great happiness. ***Eva's son, Toby Ibbotson, is now continuing the tradition of storytelling with his debut novel Mountwood School for Ghosts which is based on an original idea by Eva Ibbotson.
Once.
Author: Morris Gleitzman Format: Paperback Release Date: 23/02/2006
A moving and convincing child-eye view of what happened to the children of Poland after the Germans invaded. Felix has been placed by his parents in an orphanage for safe-keeping but, when the Germans come and burn the books in the orphanage library, Felix knows he must set out to return to his parents who are booksellers and make sure they are safe. Felix's journey is dangerous and desperate but also full of courage and hope in a world where friendships and loyalty are the glue that hold things together. Gleitzman's second novel in this series, Then, is out in January 2009.
Fungus The Bogeyman
Author: Raymond Briggs Format: Paperback Release Date: 29/03/1990
This is a book that is enduringly funny, wonderfully poignant and at times quite rude. Beautifully described through stunning illustrations and hand written text is the story of the bogey men – and in particular Fungus - who live underground and whose day starts as we all go to bed, is a story that will live long in the memory of all those who read it, or indeed dip into from time to time. Living long in my memory is the food eaten by them – Scab and matter Custard, Snot and Bogey Pie, Dead Dog's Giblets, Green Cat's Eyes – how can one ever forget names like this!!!
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George Wallace he most definitely was not. Carl Sanders was born in 1925 in Augusta. He served in the Air Force in World War II, then returned to the University of Georgia for his law degree. He entered politics on the fast track: elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1954, the state Senate […]
She was the first woman and first African-American to lie in state at the Georgia State Capitol rotunda. Coretta Scott was born in 1927 in Alabama and studied music education at Antioch College in Ohio. After graduation she enrolled in The New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, where she met a young Boston University […]
"Now he belongs to the ages." That was said of Abraham Lincoln. It applies no less to Martin Luther King Jr. King was planning a "Poor People's March" on Washington in 1968 when he went to Memphis to help striking black sanitation workers. The civil rights leader had broadened his approach, speaking out against poverty, […]
Ivan Allen, Jr.
He was Atlanta's mayor for eight years in the 1960s, and he was the only Southern politician to testify in favor of the Civil Rights Act. Ivan Allen Jr. was born in Atlanta in 1911 and graduated from Georgia Tech before joining his father's office supply company. Allen served in World War II. Afterwards, he […]
When you help guide a city through a depression and then, later, guide it through the civil rights era…when you are responsible for Atlanta's becoming the aviation capital that it is…then it's fair to say you've had an impact. William Hartsfield was mayor of Atlanta longer than any other person. He was born in Atlanta […]
He courageously put his life on the line many times during the civil rights movement and has become one of the most respected members of Congress. John Lewis was born to sharecroppers in Alabama, in 1940. He encountered the ugliness and brutality of racism while participating in sit-ins as a student at Fisk University in […]
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It was not a flag that all Georgians could rally around. On this date in 1956, Governor Marvin Griffin signed legislation to change the Georgia flag to one that included the Confederate battle emblem on two-thirds of the banner. Democratic Party leader John Sammons Bell began the campaign a year earlier after two controversial Supreme […]
Massive Resistance
The white South's opposition to court-ordered desegregation in the 1950s was known as "Massive Resistance," and while Georgia's reaction wasn't as violent as other states, it was no less defiant. On this day in 1956, Governor Marvin Griffin addressed a joint session of the General Assembly and urged lawmakers to invoke the doctrine of interposition […]
Poll Tax Abolished
The poll tax, a bulwark of the Jim Crow era, was one of many roadblocks thrown up to keep African-Americans from exercising their right to vote. Although the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, adopted in 1870, guaranteed former male slaves the right to vote, the poll tax, which all voters had to pay was […]
As an actor, and as an activist, Ossie Davis made his mark. Born Rayford Chatman Davis in 1917 in Cogdell, Georgia, in Clinch County, he got his nickname from the way his mother pronounced his initials. Davis served in Africa in World War II, and made his Broadway debut in 1946 in the play Jeb, […]


This is a very interesting crystal with excellent form and relatively large size for the species, from a locality I would not have thought of at first for such a beast. One label notes it was found in 1930. It seems to have been stabilized with shellac or glue at the base in particular, but I do not think that is a repair. Anyways, a neat piece in many ways!


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The Human Genome Project and the subsequent explosion of genomic information are transforming our knowledge of how organisms function and how genes and the environment interact. These insights have led to advances in personalized medicine, stem cell treatments, and genetic testing. Students, teachers, and the public must be prepared to make informed decisions about participation in genomics research, genome-related health care, use of genetically modified agricultural products, and public funding for stem cell research. Education has been identified as a crosscutting element that is critical to achieving the potential of genomics research (1).
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How AR and Computer Mapping are Leading to Safer Medical Procedures
Researchers from the University of Twente are creating new smartphone technology to create a more accurate human body scan via augmented reality, in addition to simultaneous localization and mapping technology.
Carlos Gonzalez | Apr 17, 2018
When performing an operation, there are always risks. Part of the problems arise from not having a clear view. MRIs and x-rays help give doctor a better understanding of a patient's internal organs, but not until they start to operate does the picture come clear.
At the University of Twente in the Netherlands, a research team is developing an economical smartphone technology based on the Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) technology, along with augmented reality (AR). The device allows doctors to reconstruct 3D body sections by directing the smartphone to the areas of interest. The smartphone will display AR layers of the 3D skin surface so that it can help visualize information that would otherwise be invisible to the doctors.
"We would like to layer the information from the MRI and other vein scans, derived from sensor devices using laser speckle, and make them visible with augmented reality," said Dr. Eng. Beril Sirmacek, a member of Twente's Computer Science department and the leader of the project. "This approach allows doctors to view the inner body segments, including features such as tumors, veins, and the status of diabetic ulcers with the use of augmented reality.
By combining SLAM technology with AR, Srmacek and her team are trying to construct a smartphone device that could virtually map the human body.
"This visual support enables doctors to oversee the situation better and make better decisions," Sirmacek added. "In a biopsy situation, this visual support can help with guiding the robot arms to reach the tumor for biopsy at the first attempt, instead of taking the off-chance and reach for the correct location by working with a patient for a whole day and making unsuccessful biopsy holes on the patient's body."
According to Søren Riisgaard and Morten Rufus Blas, researchers from MIT, "SLAM consists of multiple parts: Landmark extraction, data association, state estimation, state update and landmark update." By using the data from the body scans, the computer outputs a continuous update mapping by constantly reorienting the scans and interpreting the new data into updated maps.
The new smartphone device would enable viewing of inner body segments, including organs, tumors, and veins.
"We want our SLAM toolbox software solution to support different cameras like a plug-and-play system," Srmacek added. "So, this allows users to use higher resolution cameras when needed. After medical approvals are obtained for our SLAM toolbox, we would like it to be commercialized as soon as possible."
"SLAM is a core technology in robotics, but its universal usage will only be possible if we have methods to easily interface many sensors in a robotic system," said Prof. Dr. Ir. Stefano Stramigioli, chairman of the Robotics and Mechatronics (RAM) Group, Robotics and Mechatronics. "At RAM, we intend to create a modular SLAM box, which will automatically reconfigure itself if extra sensors are attached in a 'plug-and-play' fashion. Then it would be possible to connect this 'SLAM Box' to a complete robotic system, giving it powerful perception capabilities."
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Judge Restricts LAPD Use of Projectile Launchers Against Protesters
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A federal judge today issued an order restricting the Los Angeles Police Department's use of ``less lethal'' 40-millimeter and 37-millimeter projectile launchers against crowds at demonstrations.
In her order granting Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles's request for a preliminary injunction, U.S. District Judge Consuelo B. Marshall noted an increase in reports of LAPD officers pushing, striking and firing less-lethal weapons on crowds of protesters, including media covering demonstrations, without a dispersal order being given.
In her ruling, the judge ordered that:
the LAPD is restricted from using 40mm and 37mm projectile launchers in public demonstrations except by officers who successfully completed training and meet all annual qualification requirements on the weapons
an officer may use 40mm less-lethal munitions only when the officer reasonably believes that a suspect is violently resisting arrest or poses an immediate threat of violence or physical harm. The use of 40mm less-lethal munitions should be preceded by a warning, if feasible, consistent with LAPD tactics directives
an officer may use 37mm less-lethal munitions as a crowd control tool with the prior approval of the incident commander and only when a dispersal order has been issued, unless immediate action is necessary to stop violence, to ensure public safety and restore order. A warning to disperse must be given, consistent with all of the dispersal order requirements set forth in LAPD's tactics directives, and then the officer may fire the 37mm at the ground 5 to 10 feet in front of the crowd. The 37mm may not be used against specific protesters unless absolutely necessary to prevent imminent serious bodily injury to the officer or others
the 40mm launcher must not be used to target the head, neck, face,eyes, kidneys, chest, groin or spine of a person
the 40mm and 37mm launchers should only be fired at a distance of 5 feet or greater from another person, unless an officer or other person is attacked and there is a threat of imminent serious harm.
Marshall first restricted police use of the weapons last month, and halted the LAPD's use of the 40mm and 37mm weapons in public demonstrations except when deployed by officers that are properly trained. She also restricted police from aiming the weapons at the upper bodies of demonstrators at close range within 5 feet.
The judge further ordered in April that the LAPD must give a verbal warning to disperse, consistent with the department's use-of-force directive, and allow protesters a reasonable opportunity to comply before deploying the launchers except when an officer is attacked.
LAPD said it would comply, and the city requested that the judge modify her order restricting the use of projectile launchers ahead of anticipated May Day protests.
The judge revised her April restraining order, allowing police to fire 37mm hard-foam projectiles at the ground in front of protesters after declaring a gathering unlawful and issuing a dispersal order. The LAPD then said it was putting its 37mm projectile launchers back in service at public protests.
The new order gives clear directives for use of the weapons at public demonstrations.


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Dr Willy Burgess of University College London in the UK has agreed to be the reviewer for the UniWater MSc program in Hydrogeology and Water Resources Management. This review will provide valuable feedback for us, ensuring that our core program meets international standards. Dr Burgess has been involved with teaching hydrogeology at an MSc/PhD level since taking over the directorship of the UCL Hydrogeology for Developing Countries in 1991.
Thanks goes out to Prof Hubert Savenije of TUDelft for giving permission to UniWater to use his on-line hydrology lectures as part of the generic sub-Saharan Africa program. It is 'giving' people like him who share our vision of making education accessible to all.
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UniWater has just begun our latest venture in global community action! We have a growing number of professional hydrogeologists, hydrologists, geologists or any number of environmental professionals who have text books and equipment gathering dust on their bookshelves. Many times professionals who are retiring would like to clear out their offices yet do not know of a 'home' for their beloved books. We have received emails of offers of these resource items, but given the weight of them combined with shipping charges, it has been problematic in determining a way to get these books/equipment to African universities where students could make use of them. Many of the universities that we visited had very few resources in their libraries.
Our initiative is to link up the locations where the books reside with people who are travelling from these locations to the places where they are needed. Indeed, even if we can get books to the nearest city, the cost of ground transportation is considerably less than shipping a box of books internationally.
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Recording of the Week, John Williams conducts the Vienna Philharmonic
by James Longstaffe
Better late than never, so the saying goes. Although composer John Williams has had long associations with the London Symphony Orchestra and many of the major American ensembles, his debut with the illustrious Vienna Philharmonic did not occur until January of this year, when the sprightly 87-year-old took to the podium of the Musikverein to conduct a programme of his own music, now released by Deutsche Grammophon.
Much has been made of the fact that such a 'traditional' (for want of a better word) orchestra was playing an entire concert of film music, yet it's not all that strange: Williams makes the point that many of the composers from the 1930s who helped to establish the "Hollywood Sound", such as Korngold, Max Steiner, Franz Waxman, and Ernest Gold, were émigrés from Austria and Germany, and so the late-Romantic sound world that typifies many of Williams's scores is not actually all that alien to these players.
Speaking of aliens, one of the highlights is undoubtedly the suite from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, where oppressive, biting trombones in the earlier passages give way to incredibly lush string playing in the more Disney-like sections from the film's close, ending serenely as a solo oboe exquisitely intones the famous five-note motif used as a method of communication by the interplanetary visitors.
It's certainly unfair, if perhaps inevitable, that any film music performance will be compared against the original soundtrack recording. Played at a fractionally steadier speed than the film tempo, I did feel that the early sections of Adventures on Earth from E.T. The Extra Terrestrial didn't quite soar the way that I had hoped. Furthermore, having become so accustomed over many years to the distinctive attack of the LSO brass, hearing Star Wars with the mellower sound of rotary trumpets did take a bit of getting used to! In the grand scheme of things, though, these are minor quibbles, and by the end of E.T., any reservations I had were completely dispelled by the sheer majesty of the orchestral sound, not least from the horns, who dispatch their closing fanfares with radiance and nobility.
Indeed, if I were to award a prize for "Best Section", then it would definitely be the horns, who are magnificent throughout. Viennese horns tend to have a somewhat brighter, more focused sound than the more common "French" horns, and that really comes across here. Whether it be nuanced solos in Jurassic Park and the Luke and Leia movement from Return of the Jedi, or the robust might of the entire section in a powerful performance of The Imperial March from The Empire Strikes Back (the latter piece not originally on the programme but added as a last-minute encore at the request of the brass section!), there were several moments where I (and Williams too, judging by the smile on his face) was thrilled by their distinguished playing. There was one passage from Hook where they were so gloriously resplendent that, never mind Peter Pan, it was as if Siegfried himself had just arrived in Neverland!
In case you're wondering how I could tell that Williams was smiling, the deluxe version includes a blu-ray video of the full concert (including an extra six pieces featuring Anne-Sophie Mutter as violin soloist that are not contained on the CD/download version). It's a joy to observe the evident affinity between Mutter and Williams. Mutter is a long-time fan and advocate of Williams's music, and indeed her album from last year, Across the Stars, presented a selection of his movie themes reworked for violin and orchestra.
When I interviewed her at the time of that album's release, I lamented the omission of the Devil's Dance from The Witches of Eastwick, so I'm delighted that it has been included here. Along the lines of a Danse macabre, it's a fiendishly virtuosic showstopper, and Mutter revels in the diabolical cadenzas and dazzingly devilish writing that Williams affords her.
The many standing ovations and cheers before, during, and after the concert speak for themselves as a testament to the impact of Williams's music and his ability to move an audience, and I am thrilled that it has been preserved here in both audio and video formats.
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Question: Is there any software for computing all the rational points over $\mathbb{Q}$ on a given (smooth) quartic plane curve?

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I am not sure if it is solved. Of course, there are the obvious rational solutions, $(\pm 1,\pm 2)$ and $(\pm2,\pm1)$, but we (and you) want to know all rational solutions.
In general, there is no software to determine this (there is "Sage", for example, for doing such computations, but it need not give all solutions).

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Over 5,000 backers wasn't enough to carry DomaCom's now abandoned crowdfunding bid for S.Kidman, with the company deciding to re-direct their funds towards a smaller North Queensland pastoral target. An $8 million 120-year-old family beef operation at Charters Towers.
DomaCom's fractional property investment trust model attracted pledges totalling about $80 million after launching its belated and unconventional tilt at the Kidman pastoral business when Chinese corporate bidders were initially named as likely buyers last year.
Small-scale "mum and dad" investors and a number of farmer partnerships rallied behind DomaCom's push to have the sale opened up to ordinary Australians who wanted to keep the iconic Kidman name and its beef properties Australian-owned.


This tin plate is sure to turn heads in your primitive room! As stated, it is made from tin with the alphabet adorning the outside edge. A yellow saltbox house sits next to a fence with 3 primitive sheep. The willow tree stands tall, watching over the farm. A cream crackled background adorns this item.
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Georgia's Black Sea coast might not be a paradise resort with sandy beaches and lavish hotels, but it certainly has its distinguished charm and authentic characteristics. This is especially true of the small town of Kobuleti, 25km north of Batumi.
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Nicholas Onuf is a leading scholar in international relations and introduced constructivism to international relations, coining the term constructivism in his book World of Our Making (1989). He was featured as one of twelve scholars featured in Iver B. Neumann and Ole Wæver, eds., The Future of International Relations: Masters in the Making? (1996); and featured in Martin Griffiths, Steven C. Roach and M. Scott Solomon, Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations, 2nd ed. (2009). This powerful collection of essays clarifies Onuf's approach to international relations and makes a decisive contribution to the debates in IR concerning theory. It embeds the theoretical project in the wider horizon of how we understand ourselves and the world. Onuf updates earlier themes and his general constructivist approach, and develops some newer lines of research, such as the work on metaphors and the re-grounding in much more Aristotle than before. A complement to the author's groundbreaking book of 1989, World of Our Making, this tightly argued book draws extensively from philosophy and social theory to advance constructivism in International Relations. Making Sense, Making Worlds will be vital reading for students and scholars of international relations, international relations theory, social theory and law.


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Presidential Elections 59
Poverty 55
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20th Century Uncle Toms!, Address delievered at Michigan State University
East Lansing, Mich.
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The Fire, Next Time
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Detroit Council of Human Rights
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Georgiashington, D.C.
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Dublin, N.H.
Cleary, Gottlies, Stern, & Hamilton
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(2016-08-29) Arts and Entertainment
Summary: The second meeting of Besa and Tabitha goes much better than the first. Tabitha explains how her healing works.
As a consequence of its widely varied and diverse student body, Coral Springs was built around the idea of providing a broad array of available facilities and allowing the students to define what areas would then become more fleshed out as they came in with different personalities, outlooks, and skills. Twenty years later, one of the more chaotic but lively areas is the arts dome. Set on the same level as the gym, medbay, and other non-classroom settings, it was originally designed with a more overtly nautical layout then any other dome. In this case, there is a central lecture lounge surrounded by a series of rooms in a pattern similar to the shell chambers of a nautilus. These orbital rooms range from a few small rooms for painters and get larger around the dome's circumference until reaching the largest room which is soundproofed and wired as a miniature recording studio. In between these extremes there sits spaces for every artistic or creative skill that has been represented by the school's students or faculty.
For the last six months, one of its frequent residents has been one Tabitha Jones, musician, composer, and more recently nationally famous as the founder/frontwoman for the band Orphean Wing. Any time she's in residence at the school she spends from four to seven hours in this dome, keeping in practice and expanding her skills. Tonight she's here working the expanding part. She's been collecting more unusual instruments beyond the usual guitar/bass/drums/keyboard/violin quintet that virtually every band out there uses in one combination or another. And with the aid of some textbooks and videos has been learning how to play such things as the sitar, reed pipes, guqin, chapman stick, and others. She's set up in the central lecture lounge on a large beanbag chair designed to sit two or three normal size people. With her waifish build she almost looks like she's floating on it instead of sitting. In her lap is a trapizoidal stringed instrument that she is playing some simple scales on with a pair of striking hammers. She's got a set of headphones on, with one ear kept free so she can hear herself play while still listening to whatever's playing over them.
Besa snuck in, trying to not draw attention to himself. The teen is dressed in one of Sky's hand me down goth shirts and a determined expression. Dark eyes look over to what Tabs is doing, he recognizes the instrument, but has a different goal. Over to the kick wheel, over to the clay. He needs to return to simple, the earth. It takes the smaller teen a meoemmnt to find everything he needs. The electric wheel is skipped and eh starts stetting up at the kick one.
Tabitha is practically impossible to sneak up on, but most here don't know that as she has been conscientious about keeping her enchanced senses to herself. Especially the parts about how far they reach or that some of them aren't hindered by barriers or lack of line of sight. So as Besa enters the dome she tries to take her cues from his behavior and remains quiet until he starts to shift things around like opening the clay barrel and getting his water ready. Only then does she look up and give him a smile and small wave. "Hello, Besa. Been settling in alright?"
While she has heard the reports of the mechanical kraken in the local waters, she doesn't know that Besa has already encountered it. She's wearing much more simple clothing than the first time Besa met her, no suit or makeup, just denim shorts and a slightly too large t-shirt. The clothing is /VERY/ worn and faded but still intact and scrupulously clean. Her copper and black hair is also longer than it was just two weeks ago and would likely drag on the floor behind her as she walks if it weren't currently woven into several loose braids.
Besa's looks up, offering Tabs a smile, "Hello Tabitha. I am well. How are you?" He keeps moving things, getting ready. "I will not disturb you if I throw?" Tabs is aware enough, Besa's favoring his left side.
Tabitha's overall attitude is relaxed and easy, another change from their caffeteria meeting. She shakes her head at the question about being disturbed, "Not at all. And I'm doing better these days. My trial has finished, Rebecca is back safe, and my caretaker tells me he's contacted someone who can help unravel some of my mysteries." She gives a wry smile as she watches his preparation at the pottery wheel. "If this wasn't the last week of freedom before school, I'd be almost perfect." She catches the movement indicating injury and sits up with raised eyebrows, "Are you hurt? What happened?"
Besa smiles, "I am glad Rebecca is better." He's very glad that she let him heal her. His smile brightens, "I am happy for school to be starting." Her question that has him pause, unsure how to answer, "I am…bruised. I stopped taking the pain pills…They made me feel un-right." Dark eyes look up and he offers a smile, "I will pracice better to jump and not injure myself."
A shrug is given at the mention of being happy for school. "I don't mind school, really. Lately it just seems… scrambled to me." She gives a one-shoulder shrug and waves it off. "But that has a long, convoluted story behind it. I'll save you the boredom." She listens to him talk about his injury and nods her agreement about the pain medication. "I hate pain meds, myself. At least these days pain doesn't stay with me for very long." Something about that statement causes a brief shadow to pass through her expression, but it's gone quickly. "Yes, learning how to duck and how to fall correctly are good things in keeping yourself intact. Although…" her voice trails off a bit as she chews on her lower lip in consideration. "Bruises are in the category of 'things I'm allowed to heal without supervision'. If you're alright with me trying."
Besa does';t know what ti wold be, so he just tilts his head and studies her. "Are you in pain now?" Two healers having a stare down, it seems. Besa laughs then, it's warm and friendly, "I am okay. It is a few days old already. It would do me better to learn to fall right!" He then asks, "You have to get permission to heal?"
Tabitha shakes her head a bit at the question about pain, "No. I heal very quickly and haven't been injured in several weeks. But before my powers returned to me earlier this year, I was not so lucky. And I tended to get scraped up while playing. Or when I got into fights." Besa's laugh brings out a responding giggle from Tabitha. "Fair enough. Sometime I can perhaps teach you some techniques I was taught by my caretaker." She shrugs at the last question about her healing. "When I heal, it is… different from most. My aura makes a connection between my body and that of the injured. An exchange is made… my health and wholeness of body goes into them, and their wounds come into me. Then those wounds are repaired by my own healing. Depending on the injury I take into myself…" She shrugs one shoulder again and ducks her head a bit. "It can go badly for me."
Ah….Besa nods in understanding. "Then I am fine, thank you. It is just bruising. You should not need it." The younger teen smiles again, it's warm and friendly, "I wold like to learn. Metal and water are hard….I need to land better."
Tabitha nods her acknowledgement of Besa's declining of the healing. "Very well. Try a warm salt water compress to help lessen the pain. It's what my caretaker would use on my bruises." Then she pauses at Besa's last words. "Metal and water?" Never let it be said that Tabitha is slow when the clues are laid out before her. "You got hurt by that metal kraken the news was warning people about?" She gives him a much closer focused look with her array of senses now, checking tto see if it's /just/ bruising that he's dealing with.
Besa pauses and then lifts the hem of his shirt, showing he fading bruise. It must have been huge. "I will try that, thank you." He nods about the Kraken, "It was on the Master's boat." It was just really heavy bruising. He landed just right to not break anything. The shirt drops, "It was the strangest beats i have ever seen."
"Not something I've heard about before, either. At least, not outside of a Jules Verne novel." Then Tabitha pauses and shakes her head, "Well, not exactly. In that book, the Nautilus was mechanical but the kraken they fought was flesh." She stands, setting her instrument down, and walks over to give the bruising a closer look as Besa lifts his shirt. She reaches out a hand towards the wound curiously, but pulls it back as she's not sure how Besa is about casual touching. She glances up at him when he mentions the Masters' boat. "Are the twins alright, too?"
Besa nods, "It was alive, but not." He stills, letting her look. He's watching her, but doesn't seem upset about her closeness. "Yes. Rain was in the water, Schulyer dove in and saved her."
When no objection is raised, Tabitha reaches her hand forward again and very lightly touches around the edges of the bruising. There is a slight static tingle just before she makes contact, and her finger tips are almost hot to the touch. Her fingers don't linger, though, as she doesn't want to cause him pain. Standing back up to her full height, which is still about a foot or so down from Besa's, she nods her relief at hearing that everyone got out of it intact. "Good. They seem like a decent enough pair."
Now that she's closer to him then before, she picks up on the scent she noticed when they first met. As she's not rushing off on a trans-atlantic flight this time she takes a moment to take a deeper 'smell' with her senses and decides that it's not bad. Even pretty likable. This thought brings a blush to her face and neck and she steps back a bit, looking over at his pottery prep. "You do a lot of pottery?" Internally she's rolling her eyes at herself. Nice recovery, nimble-tongue…
That's…interesting. Besa's eyes widen slightly, and his skin goose bumps, but he doesn't pull away. "They are. They are my friends." He says that in a way that someone would who only has two friends. He ducks his head, but it's to try to keep looking at her face, "Are you well?" He noticed the sudden flush. But then he's distracted about pottery and that happy smile is back, "Yes. I did…I hope to again. It is good to create. And to be reminded of what we are." Deep!
"It's good to have friends like that." Tabitha picks up on the way Besa says that about the Masters twins. The topic takes her mind to her own best friend back home, which distracts her brain from blushes. At least until Besa looks and asks if she's alright, which causes it to return. And then he is blessedly distracted by the talk of pottery, which lets her off the hook. Her fans would likely never believe how shy she tends to be, given the lyrics she's written.
She listens to Besa talk about pottery and his joy about it resonates with her, allowing her to relax a bit further away from embarassment. "I understand what you mean. Music is how I create. It helps me…" and here she pauses as the right words take a moment to form, "It helps me resolve my memories, my older life with who I am in this one." Then she picks up on the part about how he hopes to again and takes another step backwards. "Please, don't let me keep you from getting back into it."
That seems to peak his interest, "You have lived before?" There's no judgment in his question, just honest asking. "Our past lives shape us, but it is who we are in the now that is the sum." He laughs, his hair bounces slightly with the movement, "It is a wheel, but it will not roll away!" Okay, maybe his humor is a little odd. "Have you thrown?" A hand motions to the kick wheel.
Well, that's a first. Not getting a confused reaction on this subject causes Tabitha to look up at Besa, a bit surprised. "Um… in a manner of speaking." She stands with her hands together behind her back so the fidgeting is hidden. "It's a long story, best saved for later." She gets a mildly confused look at his odd humor, but his laughter is contagious and it's impossible to stay on a downswing around that Hair. She shakes her head at the question, "No. As far as I know, I've never done any pottery myself." Then she pauses with a thoughtful look. "Although I do remember some village women in Tanzania making me a board and stones to play Bao."
Besa just nods, not pressing. She can tell the story when she wishes, if ever. He steps over to the wheel, "It is like connecting to the very earth. I can show you, if you wish?" But then he's dirsarted again! So easily! "Do you play Bao?" There's an eagerness to his voice, "Schulyer and I are planning on making a Mancala board."
Tabitha smiles at the offer, "I think that would be a fair exchange. I teach you how to protect yourself from injury, you teach me about working clay." Then there's the subject change, and so much eagerness. "Ah, I remember being taught how to play. I don't know if I was any good at it, though. I haven't tried playing this time around, yet, but I might surprise myself by being halfway decent at it."
There's more nodding and hair swaying, Besa Seems very pleased with this. "If that would not be a bother, yes. Please." He's excited enough that he bounces on his feet, "I will reteach you. It will be fun!" There's more small talk, he's a positive chatter, nothgin and to say about anyone it seems! If she wants, he's throw clay today, just to show her. he's decent at it, and there's a sentualitly to who he works the clay, a familiarity. The teen defintiyl does not mind getting dirty from it.
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