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The Rail | Riding a Horse and Carrying a Microphone
Riding a Horse and Carrying a Microphone
By Melissa Hoppert
Matthew Stockman/Getty ImagesDonna Barton Brothers, an NBC analyst, has also written a horse racing guide aimed at casual fans.
When Mario Gutierrez came from virtually nowhere to ride I'll Have Another to victory in the Kentucky Derby, Donna Barton Brothers was waiting just beyond the finish line to interview him in her role as analyst for NBC — on horseback. For Brothers, being on a horse comes more naturally than holding a microphone. Her mother, Patti Barton, was a trailblazer for women jockeys, and Brothers, her sister and her brother followed in her footsteps. When Brothers retired in 1998, she was the second-winningest female rider in the United States by money earned. But she never strayed too far away from the sport she loved. She is married to a horse trainer, Frank Brothers, and works as an analyst for NBC Sports and TVG.
How did your mother inspire you to be a jockey?
My mother was one of the first half-dozen women to be licensed as a female jockey in the United States. That was in 1969, and I was 3 years old. My memory was that my mother was always a jockey. To be honest, I grew up wanting to be anything but a jockey. My brother and sister both wanted to ride and be jockeys.
We were around horses growing up, but it wasn't that fascinating to me. I grew up thinking that would be a very mundane occupation.
When I graduated from high school, I figured I wasn't quite prepared to go to college, so I figured I'll go work at the track and make some money so I could pay my way through college. Mom and Dad neither encouraged or discouraged us in being jockeys, but at the end of the day, I found out that at the racetrack is where I felt really comfortable.
I guess because it all came so easily, I didn't realize I did have a talent for it. Certainly growing up around the horses and my mother's inspirations, I didn't recognize it as such.
There's a lot of talented female riders right now; what have they been able to bring to the game?
I think it's great. When Julie Krone, Patti Cooksey and I, the top three female jockeys, all retired within a three-year span, everyone said, "Good, all the good girl jockey are gone."
We begged to differ. We knew there were a lot of female jockeys that were either undiscovered or weren't getting the mounts that they deserved. Certainly they were untapped talent. Chantal Sutherland is a perfect example, but Rosie Napravnik hadn't even started riding by the time we all retired.
The great thing about being a jockey as an athlete, unlike being a professional baseball or football player: everyone has to play the same thing within a few pounds. It's really hard to convince me and other successful female jockeys that if we all weigh somewhere between 100 and 112 pounds that we can't all be equally strong and thus equally good at what we do.
It just stands to reason that in this profession, especially where women are pretty much known to be a little horse crazy at times, that there is going to be some successful female jockeys. It might come a little easier for them than for men because a lot of them don't have to watch their weight as much.
You recently wrote the book "Inside Track: Insider's Guide to Horse Racing." How did you come up with the idea, and were you trying to get more people into the sport?
Yes, it was definitely aimed at the casual fan. When I retired from being a jockey, I married horse trainer Frank Brothers. I was around a lot of the owners then — you meet a lot of them in the paddock as a jockey, but you're not entertaining them.
You recognize a lot of owners and racing fans who are passionate about the sport were somewhat alienated by their friends and family who didn't embrace it as much as we did. Once I got to meet the friends and family, I realized that they did not understand it, and nobody was taking the time to explain it to them.
At that time, I thought, I need to buy so and so a book, and then I looked around, and there was no book. I saw a couple of other books: intro to Nascar, girls' guide to Nascar, and books like that. But there were no books like that in thoroughbred racing, and I felt like we really needed a book like that. I felt like that for about five years before I finally said, "Nobody else is going to write this book, so I guess I have to do it."
What is it about this sport that has captivated you to make it your life's work?
When I was 36 years old in 2002, I went to college finally — I always wanted to go. I studied physiology, and I was really captivated by psychology, too. I thought maybe I'll be a psychologist and get a master's and then a doctorate.
Then I realized, you know what I really love and what I've taken for granted my whole life is horse racing. It's just part of who I am. It's in my bones. It's in my veins. It's created me. It's every fiber of who I am, and it's put food on my table since I was born. And it's not that I feel indebted to it.
I guess what I love about it is when you come to the backside of the racetrack, people aren't politically correct. They are honest, and you don't have to worry about what people are thinking or where they stand. You don't have to watch everything you say because it might be taken out of context. People on the racetrack say what they mean and mean what they say.
As far as sports and competitions go, it's not like horse shows. There's no judging; you either win or you lose. If you can't win, then you figure out something you can do better to improve your horse's performance. I like the fact that racetrack is all in black and white. It's not something that only I understand because I was born and raised in it, but anyone can understand if they look into it and see everything they can see.
Why do you think the Triple Crown is important to the sport of horse racing?
I don't think the Triple Crown is important to the sport of horse racing. I mean this hasn't happened in 34 years. I'm 46, which means I was 12 the last time we had one.
Ever since I can remember, people would say, "Racing needs this," or, "This is going to be the nail in the coffin." Keeneland Racetrack had its highest numbers in attendance both on-track and off-track handle in their most recent concluded spring meet. Our last Derby broadcast had the highest numbers that it had ever seen and the biggest crowd it had ever seen.
I think horse racing is fine and will always be fine. We will always face challenges, and we're going to need to step up to the plate and meet those challenges.
I think that the Triple Crown is exciting because the wait has been 34 years. After 1978, when Affirmed won the Triple Crown, people started saying that it's easy because we had three triple crowns winner in the '70s. But since then, it's become so elusive.
I think it's like the girl that you want to go out with but you can't. It's just become so elusive. We just want to see what it feels like. I mean, I was 12, and I barely remember the last Triple Crown winner, and so I would like to see what it feels like. I'd like to witness it, and we would like to all say, "We saw that horse."
There's no better definition of a truly great 3-year-old than the Triple Crown series. If a horse can win all three races, we know collectively that we've just seen a really good horse.
Does the sport need reform? What do you think about I'll Have Another's trainer, Doug O'Neill?
I do think the sport needs reform. There's a lot of people in the racing industry that were upset with Joe Drape and the issues he brought up in his article, but I wasn't one of them.
I feel that visibility is good. I feel like there's been times when we've seen the worst that we're capable of in this sport, but we feel as a group that we can do better, especially when it comes to the lower-level claiming horse. They don't get the same media attention or the same type of care and attention from their trainers and owners. They all deserve to be taken care of very well. We can definitely do better.
As far as Doug O'Neill's charges go, he's never had a bad test for an illegal drug or a narcotic. There are a lot of top trainers who are racing all around the country who have had a bad test for illegal drugs.
By and large, it's a contamination. We test in nanograms, and one nanogram is a positive test. I think what needs to happen is that we need to have a national testing procedure that we agree upon. The racing industry needs to get on the same page and get its act together to make that happen.
I'm not sure that federal legislation is the answer. If we can't figure it out, then federal legislation might have to happen.
How hard is interviewing on horseback?
I should just tell you that it's really hard. I think if you went down to Louisiana and you went up to a fisherman who was out on his shrimping boat all day long and said, "Hey, we really want to do a story about you, and do you want us to come to your boat, or do you want to come to our studio?" I think he would definitely say, "Come to my boat." For me, being on horseback is like being on my boat.
My first national telecast I did was NBC Breeders' Cup in 2000. Five hours of live programming with eight races. The only thing that kept me from shaking so much from nerves and that I would look ridiculous on camera was the fact that I was on a horse and my body had other things to do. I was able to deal with the nervous energy.
I've ridden since my earliest memory, and riding the horse itself is the easiest part — it comes second nature to me. That interview on horseback is the easiest thing I do all day because it comes natural to me to be on a horse, and the fact that I'm talking to someone who just won a huge race. Whatever race it is, is a huge race to them.
It's exciting to be the first one there and to be able to almost share the emotion and the aftermath of that. It's hard to put into words how special it is for me.
In 2010 on Kentucky Oaks day, you got unseated from a horse live on the "Today" show. What was going through your mind?
Commercial! Commercial! I was thinking I could not believe this was happening. I wasn't really embarrassed, but it totally killed the entire segment because I could tell we weren't going to commercial.
I wasn't really embarrassed because as a rider, especially of thoroughbreds, you fall off a lot, and you almost always fall off on camera in the afternoons when you're used to people see you falling off. But you're not used to being seen by a national audience.
But at the time, it was like, 'O.K., I wish that hadn't gone down that way.' But 10 minutes later, it was just the weight of the world off my shoulders. Because you know, in the position you're in, the worst thing that can happen to you is that you fall off your horse on live TV.
Well, I just fell off my horse on live TV, and it wasn't that bad. At the end of the day, it made me more relaxed, and I thought, "Oh well, you fell off, and it's still O.K."
Explain your routine on race day.
I've already got my ponies lined up. I've got somebody that's going to bring my ponies from the paddock for the race, I don't need to worry about that. So once I get over to the paddock where the trainers and groups of people that I've walked with, then I just go ahead and get on my horse. I've got to get my spurs on if I don't have them on already — almost all horses do a little bit better with a set of spurs on.
I have my saddle bag, and I tie it down so it doesn't flop all over the place. I usually just get on my horse and just sit in the paddock on my horse and watch the horses as they're being saddled and walking around to see if anything happened that I can report from the paddock.
Then I follow the horses out on the racetrack, and I just keep my eye on them throughout the post parade to see if there's any unusual behavior. Jockeys show their hands pretty well in the way they warm a horse up. For instance, if there's a nice strong, brisk gallop in the warm-up, then I know they're probably going to be forwardly placed, bringing them out right out of the gates, and I'll report that.
I watch them as they're in the starting gate, and then they'll load, and I'll watch for the second before they spring the latch. At the Derby, I go the wrong way of the racetrack and meet them on the backside. But at the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes, I'll go the right way on the racetrack.
I'll listen to the call of the race the whole time in my ear. Sometimes, I've got monitors I can look at, but really it's almost a distraction because I'm listening to the call so intently. I'll look at the monitor just to judge if the horse that's in front is two lengths in front or a half-length in front of the horse behind him or just to see how strung out the field is. Mostly I just listen to the call of the race.
When I end up next to the winning jockey, I don't often know precisely what kind of trip they had. I mean, I know they were seventh in the early going, but unless the announcer says, "I need checks at the half-mile pole," I don't know about it. You can see that as a liability because you know as an interviewer, you want a decent idea of what the answer is going to be before you ask it. If I don't know where they came from, I have no idea how to pose the question to solicit the information that I'm looking for.
The reality is actually the opposite, as most of the viewers don't know where they came from either or where they were in the early goings. I do have 5-by-8 index cards with the horse, the past performance strips and key points about that. As soon as the winner crosses the wire, I'll glance at that card, and really it's just to refresh my memory. But I cannot honestly say that I had to do that at this year's Derby or Preakness. It wasn't too hard to remember the Mario Gutierrez, Doug O'Neill, I'll Have Another story.
What is the most unexpected or memorable moment from your interviews at the end of Triple Crown races?
I guess that would be Calvin Borel when he won his first Derby in 2007. The queen was in attendance that day, and he came back crying. It was unexpected to me because what happened was like always; I pulled out my notecards, and I had all these questions in my mind based on what was down on that card.
Then I started talking to Calvin, and all my questions went out of my head; they were gone. I couldn't think of a single question based on the information I had written down. So he just talked about how he wished his mom and dad were there, his brother and the horse. It was a really emotional time for him.
Once I was out of questions, which didn't take me too long, and luckily he talked quite a bit about what it meant to him, I just threw it back to [Tom Hammond] and said, "Obviously, an emotional win for Calvin Borel."
When Calvin rode off, I thought, I am so fired. But when I got back to the compound, all my producers congratulated me and said it was a great interview. I thought, "Did they just see the same thing I saw?" What I realized was that because I got caught up in Calvin's emotion and that conversation, I could do nothing other than converse with him. It made it a much better interview than knowing my next question before he's done talking.
It really changed the game for me. I still prepare as much as always, but it's like I know what I know, and I put it in my back pocket, and if I need it, I'll use it. I've learned it's not my job to show how much I know; it's my job to pull out everything I can from them.
A version of this article appears in print on 06/10/2012, on page SP13 of the NewYork edition with the headline: 30 Seconds With Donna Barton Brothers: Waiting Past the Finish Line for the Winner.
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Olga S. Froemming
February 24, 1918 - June 20, 2014
Olga Severine (Rostad/Wallin/Harstad) Froemming was born in Roseglen, ND to J.R. (Johan "John" Rudolf) Wallin & Mabel Rostad on February 24, 1918 in her grandfather Ole Rostad's farm home. A few years ago, we learned Olga's father J.R. had immigrated to ND from Sweden. In the 1920s, after making a trip home to Sweden after his father passed away, J.R. came back to MN with a wife, & they had 2 sons & 1 daughter. A number of years later, his family moved on to California.
In December, 1924, her mother Mabel married Paul Harstad, a mail carrier. From that point on, Olga used Harstad as her last name. Olga was confirmed about the time she finished 8th grade. She graduated from high school in 1935 in Ryder, ND where she was active in Glee Club, a quartet, courses in Latin, bookkeeping and typing. During those years, she was her mother's helper – being the oldest in the family. She diapered & helped care for her 10 brothers & sisters, except Beryl, who was born in 1940 – the year Olga was married. Olga's favorite color had been red & her favorite song was 'I Love You Truly' by Bing Crosby.
Olga attended Bemis Business College in Minot for a year. She recalled after the first 6 months of school that she ran out of money & had to quit. She did housework for a while, then went back & finished business college. After that, she did housework at several homes where she stayed & worked 'around the clock', except the ½ day off per week. She got her first official job with Farm Security Administration (FSA) in January, 1939. She worked for FSA in several county offices – including McClusky, ND, where she met Paul Albert Froemming, her future husband. After a whirlwind courtship of five months that included passing notes to each other under their desks, they were married in Crookston, MN on October 28, 1940. Up until Christmas 1940, they kept their marriage a secret. It wasn't considered appropriate for both husband & wife to be working, especially in the same place.
Their first apartment was two rooms upstairs in a private home. After about 2 years, they bought a new home in St. Louis Park and lived there for 8 years. Their daughters, Paulette & Kathleen, were born during those years. To help Olga care for her children, Lorraine (who was 12 years old) lived with them for a year. Margaret also stayed with them for a year. Irma Froemming (Paul's sister) also lived with them for 3 ½ years.
Her next 29 years were in Velva & Minot, ND. She was Paul's first employee when he incorporated Souris River Telephone (SRT) in 1953. After more employees were added, Olga phased out, but would help him nights at the office. In 1960, she began working at Minot State University (MSU) as secretary to the business manager. She retired in 1973.
After retiring, Olga traveled with Paul to meetings & conventions across the country. At the end of 1978, Paul retired & they sold their home & moved to Mission Viejo, CA. From the first year they were married, they always went on an annual vacation trip – so she had been in most every state in the U.S.A. as well as to Canada, Mexico, & Hawaii. They enjoyed many trips with Bruce & Kathy, including a trip to Germany, Spain & the Canary Islands. They also enjoyed having the grandchildren over to spend the night and sometimes the whole week.
Life slowed down in 2000, when Olga had triple by-pass surgery & started needing more help. Paul & Olga sold their California retirement home & moved into Park Terrace, an assisted living community in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA. After 68 years of being happily married, Paul passed away December 3, 2008 & Olga's oldest daughter, Paulette, passed away December 14, 2009. Olga lived in 2 different board & care homes after she fell & fractured her back in three places near the end of 2010.
Throughout the years, Olga had been active in numerous Lutheran church activities like teaching Bible School, Altar Guild Chairman, Treasurer, Secretary, and Vice President of Lutheran Women's Missionary League (LWML). She was also active in Homemakers Clubs & was a Brownie Assistant, Chairman of the Wedding Committee, member of the Rebecca Circle, greeter and counted offering money with Paul. She was a member of Abiding Savior Lutheran Church, Lake Forest, CA for 35 years. Olga always felt her biggest blessings were her husband & her children. She was a loving mother & led her life as a wonderful example to her family & all those around her. She always had a strong faith & was prepared to meet her Lord in peace.
Olga is survived by:
Her daughter Kathleen (Bruce) Dunn, their children Shawn (Tabitha) Dunn and Natalie (Tommy) McElmeel, and their grandchildren Samantha Dunn, Lucas and Olivia McElmeel.
Former son-in-law Gregg (Sharon) De Lorto, his daughter Tina Chaturvedi, his grandchildren Marissa & Ryan Gutierrez, and his great-grandchildren Kenneth and Mia Gutierrez.
Brothers: Orville (Betty) Harstad & Wesley (Cindy) Harstad
Sisters: Lorraine (Donald) Lea, Carol Jessen & Beryl (Donald) Dokken; & numerous nephews and nieces.
Olga is preceded in death by:
Her husband Paul and her daughter Paulette De Lorto, her parents, brothers (Arthur & Jerald Harstad), sisters (Margaret Thompson & Darlene Thompson).
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kris seibel says:
Our hearts are heavy with the loss of Olga. She was a wonderful lady! Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
Don and Kris Seibel
(nephew in Washington)

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Conflict and virus push migrants to leave Libya
by Ericson Mangoli August 20, 2020, 10:51 pm
Conflict and coronavirus push migrants to leave Libya and head to Europe and European Union nations have been encouraged not to blame the pandemic so as to deny migrants a sheltered spot to land.
(African Stand) — More than 45 migrants, including several children, have died off the coast of Libya, says the UN refugee council.
This year, over 17,000 people have arrived in Italy and Malta by boat from Libya and Tunisia, a threefold increase compared to 2019, according to the UNHCR.
The boat, which was carrying more than 80 refugees, capsized after the engine exploded. More than 30 survivors, mainly from Senegal, Mali, Chad, and Ghana, were rescued by local fishermen, but the deaths marked the deadliest episode for refugees leaving Libya this year.
While experts are unsure of what has caused the rise in migrants seeking to make the dangerous crossing, one explanation could be the ongoing conflict in Libya which has seen an intensification since the beginning of this year.
The attempt by the renegade warlord Khalifa Haftar in January to topple the UN-recognised government resulted in thousands of migrants being displaced.
Even as Haftar's forces have been pushed back they left behind significant amounts of explosives and hidden mines likely forcing many to attempt the dangerous journey to Italy or Malta.
When the pandemic struck Libya, in addition to the increased conflict, it resulted in higher food insecurity which has left vulnerable populations, in particular, migrants in dire need of food assistance.
These factors are likely pushing migrants to seek safety.
The UNHCR urged Mediterranean nations "to strengthen the current search and rescue capacity to respond to distress calls."
So far this year, the Libyan state has rescued more than 7,000 people, returning them back to the country.
The UNHCR estimates that at least 302 migrants have died making the crossing, however, the number of dead is believed to be much higher.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, under the guise of public health, some European nations have implemented policies that have reinforced the hostile climate towards migrant arrivals.
Italy, one of the country's that was hardest hit by the coronavirus, declared its ports "unsafe" in April and announced that ports would no longer accept migrants until the end of the emergency measures.
Malta, another main entry point for migrants, soon followed suit declaring that it will no longer rescue stricken migrant boats and that the country could not guarantee a safe place for them.
The UNHCR has urged countries not to use Covid-19 "as an excuse to deny people access to all forms of international protection."
Earlier this year, Malta and Italy refused to take migrants that had been rescued by cargo ship, resulting in food supplies and water running dangerously low.
Alarm Phone, a charity dedicated to helping migrants stranded at sea, accused the EU and Malta of leaving people to die in the Mediterranean in April of this year when a boat was stranded with 63 people on board.
"All authorities have failed to intervene, using the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to dramatically breach the law of the sea as well as human rights and refugee conventions," said the human rights organization in a statement.
According to testimonies from people on the boat, twelve died. One of the survivors recalled, "We shouted for help and made signs. Three people tried to swim to this big boat as it started moving away. They drowned. We made signs to the aircraft with the phones and we held the baby up to show we were in distress."
"By deciding not to proceed with rescue and not to ensure the disembarkation in a place of safety, the Maltese government becomes responsible for having facilitated the illegal push-back of the people in distress," said Alarm Phone.
The Maltese army, using privately owned shipping trawlers, has been engaged in secret operations to push back migrants towards Libya, attempting to avoid the political fallout from such operations.
The UNHCR has expressed concern about a "failure to assist and coordinated pushbacks of migrant boats in the central Mediterranean."
EU member states might not be united in sharing the migrant burden equally, however, one thing that has united them is what some have called the militarisation of the EU borders – this has meant deadly consequences for migrants.
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EPL: 2021 Boxing Day Picks: City Can Tame Foxes
Noelle Matthews | December 22, 2021
The English Premier League doesn't stop for Christmas and there's a full slate of top flight action during the Christmas holiday, with nine games on December 26.
EPL fans checking out the latest prices on their favorite online sportsbooks will find that the bookies are not taking any chances ahead of the latest round of Premier League fixtures.
League leaders Manchester City and closest rivals Liverpool are short odds to beat Leicester City and Leeds United respectively. They are predicting closer games in the West Midlands and north London, with Wolves at -130 favorites to beat Watford and Tottenham a -135 chance against Crystal Palace.
Manchester City v Leicester
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Manchester City v Leicester, 2021-12-26
Pep Guardiola's Manchester City roll on, and it seems like no one, with the possible exception of Liverpool, know how to stop them.
The reigning league champions have now recorded nine wins in a row, the latest being a 4-0 victory against a woeful Newcastle team at St James' Park. That made it three clean sheets in a row for City, who boast the division's best defensive record – though only the second-best goalscoring tally.
Goals are hardly a problem, however. The main concerns for Guardiola at the moment appear to be the familiar one of fixture congestion and a less familiar disciplinary problem with Phil Foden and Jack Grealish. Neither of those issues are likely to slow City's advance this winter, and they certainly won't be concerned by the impending visit of Leicester.
The Foxes secured a welcome victory last time out – also over Newcastle – but that was only their second in seven games. Their last two games have been postponed due to COVID-19 issues, but even with the extra few days of rest, they will not be able to match the champions.
Manchester CityTo beat Leicester City
Liverpool v Leeds, 2021-12-26
The fact that Manchester City are not showing any signs of weakness means that the pressure is on Liverpool to maintain their own high standards and so keep the gap between the two clubs to manageable proportions.
Six consecutive wins from the middle of November kept them in the chase, but dropping two points at Tottenham at the weekend was not part of Jurgen Klopp's plan and Liverpool know that they can't afford many more slip-ups if they want to be in a position to regain the title in May.
Their home form, however, has been excellent. Four consecutive wins at Anfield have seen them score 12 goals and conceded only one and they will have a good chance of extending that run of success on Boxing Day when they entertain the inconsistent Leeds United.
Marcelo Bielsa's Leeds remain one of the Premier League's most entertaining and exciting teams, but they are finding life in the top division a lot harder this season. Injuries have not helped but their performances have been too variable to enable them to build a platform and they go into this game only five points clear of the drop zone. Consecutive defeats to Chelsea, Manchester City, and Arsenal will not have boosted their confidence and I can't see them getting anything out of this game.
LiverpoolTo beat Leeds United
Tottenham v Crystal Palace, 2021-12-26
There are plenty of London derbies every year in the Premier League, but this looks like being one of the most competitive we will see this season.
Tottenham have improved significantly under Antonio Conte, and although their efforts have been disrupted by COVID-19, which has led to player absences, a postponement, and a cancellation, they have kept to their upward curve, underlining their progress with a 2-2 draw against Liverpool at the weekend, in which key striker Harry Kane looked back to something like his best.
Conte will not take these opponents lightly, however. Under Patrick Vieira, Palace are one of Europe's most improved top-flight teams, and they have put in some impressive performances. Most of those, however, have been at Selhurst Park. On the road they have been less successful – aside from one shock victory at the Etihad – so Tottenham should be able to edge this one.
Tottenham To beat Crystal Palace
Wolves v Watford, 2021-12-26
Wolves have been solid under new manager Bruno Lage so far this season but fans may soon start to become a little restless with the lack of goals and creativity in the team.
The statistics certainly make for stark reading. Wolves are a respectable tenth in the table, with the third-best defensive record and the second-worst goalscoring record. Their last four home games have produced a paltry two goals in total, and while the team have earned plenty of praise for some of their performances against the bigger teams in the division, they are lacking dynamism.
Fortunately for Lage, the arrival of Watford on Boxing Day gives them an ideal opportunity to improve those goalscoring stats. The Hornets have lost their last four and have the fourth worst defensive record in the division. On the road, they have been conceding approximately two goals a game so even Wolves should be able to capitalize and earn a comfortable win here.
WolvesTo beat Watford
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People have varying views of the career potential for Help Desk pros. One is that it's a dead-end job; the other is that it's a good opportunity to learn about the company and flex your people skills.
Is there no career opportunity for the Help Desk pro?
by Michael Kassner in CXO
on April 29, 2008, 10:57 PM PDT
In a piece published today on Computerworld, Thomas Hoffman writes that people look at the career opportunities for Help Desk pros two ways: One, that the Help Desk is a dead-end job and two, that it is a perfect opportunity to see how a company works and flex your people skills.
For the first view, Hoffman quotes Fred Wagner, a FileNet and Kofax systems specialist for the city of Long Beach, California, as saying, "If you're hired just to work on a help desk, that's all you will ever do."
Help desk technicians who work in "stovepiped" IT organizations — that is, companies where systems analysts, network managers, and other IT professionals are segregated from one another — can go 10 to 15 years without being promoted into IT infrastructure, business analyst, systems administrator, or other types of roles, he says.
The second viewpoint, one that extols the career merits of the Help Desk, claims that
"a job on an IT help desk can open doors to other IT career opportunities. Help desk technicians, these proponents say, gain valuable experience working with end users throughout the enterprise and learning what makes the business tick."
Proponents of both viewpoints agree on one point, however. If you're the type of Help Desk pro who wants to keep your head down and just "fix PCs," you're not going to get anywhere.
I'd like to hear from some Help Desk pros out there. How long have you been in your positions? Do you prefer it that way? If you've gone on to other positions, what were they?
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March 2017 - Statement of Changes – UK
The Home Office published new Statement of Changes that will potentially change the immigration landscape in the UK. Some of the changes pertaining to hiring and sponsoring foreign workers in the UK follow the recommendation from the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC). We have drafted a summary of the changes that we believe are relevant to our partners and clients.
Changes relating to Tier 1 of the Points-Based System
Tier 1 (Entrepreneur)
The proposed changes provides a clearer definition of 'invested finds' and clarifies the specified evidence on job creation, so that an applicant can provide confirmation from an accountant that their business did not employ any workers prior to their involvement.
Tier 1 (Graduate Entrepreneur)
The Immigration Rules are being amended, such that should there be remaining places in the Tier 1 (Graduate Entrepreneur) limit after the initial round of allocations, the Secretary of State may allocate additional places to endorsing bodies by ad hoc request throughout the remainder of the year, rather than at a fixed point in the autumn (30 September).
Tier 1 (Exceptional Talent)
Minor changes relating to endorsements by two DCBs, Arts Council England and Tech City UK, are being made at those bodies' requests.
Tier 2 (General)
The following changes are being made following the proposal by the MAC:
The salary threshold for experienced workers is being increased to £30,000 for the majority of new applicants. The salary threshold for new entrants remains at £20,800. The new salary threshold will not apply to nurses, medical radiographers, paramedics and secondary school teachers in mathematics, physics, chemistry, computer science, and Mandarin until July 2019.
Changes are being made to support positions associated with the relocation of a high value business to the UK or a significant new inward investment project, where the sponsor is a newly-registered (within the last 3 years) branch or subsidiary of an overseas business and the investment involves new capital expenditure of £27 million or the creation of at least 21 new UK jobs. Sponsors in such cases will be exempt from carrying out a Resident Labour Market Test and from the requirement to assign a restricted Certificate of Sponsorship under the Tier 2 (General) limit.
Annual updates are being made to the salary thresholds for high earners (whose sponsors are exempt from carrying out a Resident Labour Market Test and from the requirement to assign a restricted Certificate of Sponsorship under the Tier 2 (General) limit) and for indefinite leave to remain applications. The salary threshold will be increased to 159 600 GBP (previously 155 300 GBP)
Tier 2 (Intra-Company Transfer (ICT))
The changes affecting the Tier 2 ICT include:
The Short Term Staff sub-category is being closed;
The salary threshold for senior transferees who are able to extend their total stay in the category to up to nine years is being reduced, from £155,300 to £120,000;
The requirement for transferees to have at least one year's experience working for the sponsor's linked entity overseas is being removed for applicants paid £73,900 or above.
Tier 2 (General) and Tier 2 (ICT)
Introduction of the Skills Charge
The applicable skills charge should be paid fully as paid fully as part of the application in order for the Certificate of Sponsorship to be considered as valid.
Clarity on allowable allowances
Changes are being made to provide greater clarity and consistency as to which types of allowance will be considered against the salary requirements. In addition, the closure of the ICT Short Term Staff sub-category means that accommodation allowances can form a maximum of 30% (rather than 40%) of the total salary package for all ICT workers (except Graduate Trainees).
Changes relating to the visitor rules
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The president's directive on immigration might resemble the record deportations of Obama's first term—but without the corresponding push for legalization.
In his first week in office, President Donald Trump acted on his core campaign issue: immigration. In a short span of time, the president signed executive orders calling for the construction of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and a crackdown on so-called "sanctuary cities," which limit collaboration between local authorities and federal immigration agents.
The orders fell in line with Trump's repeated pledge to control illegal immigration in the United States and suggested that Trump will likely pursue an immigration agenda that resembles the aggressive deportations of former President Obama's first term. The Obama administration deported record numbers of undocumented immigrants, much to the frustration of immigrant advocates. In his first term alone, he deported 1.5 million undocumented immigrants. By the end of his tenure, Obama had deported more people than his most recent predecessors, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, though the number of deportations dipped after his second term. There was also a corresponding push for legalization under the Obama administration—and that push is absent from Trump's order.
"The intent of this new policy is to provide clearer and more effective guidance in the pursuit of those priorities," wrote then-Department of Homeland Secretary Jeh Johnson in a 2014 memo.
The Obama administration's new approach meant scrapping the Secure Communities Program, in which local law enforcement shared digital fingerprints of people booked into jail with federal authorities, who would then determine whether an individual was in the country illegally and whether to pursue deportation. The program originated in the George W. Bush administration and had received backlash from city officials, who said it was driving a wedge between law enforcement and the communities they police. "Its very name has become a symbol for general hostility toward the enforcement of our immigration laws," Johnson wrote in a 2014 memo.
The Trump administration also intends to reinstate the Secure Communities Program, despite the friction it caused between local authorities and the communities they protect.
Clarissa Martínez De Castro, the deputy vice president of the Office of Research, Advocacy, and Legislation at National Council of La Raza, said Trump's revival of the program—and the broad language used in listing priorities—indicates that he has a different perspective from that of his predecessor. "When the executive orders that you are putting on the table are predicated aggressively on misinformation or outright lies about the immigrant community, I think there's a huge gap," she said.
"Obama's stated goal was to reform the system, bring people out of the shadows, put them on a path to citizenship, so it didn't make sense to advocates that he was pursuing Secure Communities," as well as another federal program that involved local authorities, Appleby said.
It's not clear what federal grants that includes, but withholding them may take the administration into precarious legal territory. As Lena Graber, a special projects attorney at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, told me earlier this month, Supreme Court precedent, like the 2012 ruling that upheld Obamacare, might present an obstacle. That ruling found that the Affordable Care Act's withdrawal of Medicaid funds for states that did not agree to expand Medicaid was unconstitutionally coercive.
But the text of the order itself also presents its own limitations. Rick Su, a law professor at the University at Buffalo who studies immigration and local government, noted that the Trump administration used Section 1373 to define what constitutes a sanctuary city. That section says that any government entity or official who decides to voluntarily collaborate with federal immigration agents cannot be prohibited from doing so. It does not, however, require communication between local and state governments and federal immigration agents.
The Obama administration also put pressure—though arguably at a lesser degree—on sanctuary cities to cooperate with deportation requests, a move that garnered support from conservatives. Last year, the administration announced a policy that would require authorities to turn over undocumented immigrants who have finished their sentences in federal prison and are eligible for deportation.
Still, the federal government is largely dependent on local authorities to identify individuals who may be in the country illegally and turn them over to federal immigration agents.
Trump appears to have noted that limitation in his executive order. "[There was] a lot of bluster and talk about penalizing sanctuary cities, but for all the extreme positions, the order recognized that the president's power is arguably quite limited," Su said. This might also be true for the creation of the Office for Victims of Crimes Committed by Removable Aliens, which would issue reports "studying the effects of the victimization by criminal aliens" in the country. Presumably, that office would also rely on data from local authorities. Congress might, too, present a hurdle, as they would need to approve funding to implement these proposals.


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New Delhi– Demand for gold in India for the second quarter dropped by 18 per cent mainly due to high price, jewellers' strike and various regulatory moves by the government, Somasundaram PR, Managing Director, India, World Gold Council, said here on Thursday.
The demand for the precious yellow metal for the April-June quarter in 2016 was 131 tonnes, down by 18 per cent compared to 159.8 tonnes in the corresponding period in 2015.
India's second quarter 2016 gold demand value was Rs 35,500 crore, a fall of 8.7 per cent in comparison to the same period a year ago.
"In India, consumer demand fell 18 per cent to 131 tonne in Q2 2016, compared to 159.8 tonne in the same period last year, and only marginally higher than Q1 2016. This quarter too was a truncated period for sales as the jewellers' strike extended into April and remained more or less effective until Akshaya Tritiya, when sales saw a brief boost," Somasundaram said while releasing the second quarter demand report.
"However, elevated price levels and a regulatory push for transparency through PAN cards, tax collection at source and excise duty on jewellery, coupled with weaker rural incomes kept demand subdued," he added.
The second quarter also witnessed a spurt in the flow of unofficial gold into the country, significantly impacting the organised and tax compliant segments of the gold industry, he said.
The World Gold Council estimates gold demand for 2016 to be in the range of 750 to 850 tonnes.
Somasundaram is hopeful that the demand will pick up in the remaining two quarters of 2016.
"We anticipate gold demand to return to normalcy during the peak season of weddings and festivals closer to Diwali, supported by good monsoons that will positively impact rural demand.
"It will benefit both consumers and the trade to transition swiftly to the new reality of better tax compliance, across segments, nationally," he added.
Somasundaram said the focus has to shift to adopting an industry-wide code of conduct covering responsible sourcing, transparent pricing and hallmarking, without exception.
"At the same time, policy endeavours have to be made towards a reasonable duty framework considering gold's role, inter-alia, in promoting and protecting savings and in enabling easier access to credit for a wider cross-section of people," he added.
Total investment demand for the second quarter in 2016 in India was down by 12 per cent at 33.1 tonne in comparison to the same quarter in 2015.


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Барай — рукотворный резервуар, обнесённый дамбами, практичность которых сочеталась с искупительной символикой: распределение воды монархом гарантировало продолжение жизни на Кхмерской земле и подтверждало саму божественную сущность правителя, который отождествлялся с Индрой.

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In 2013, Pedro da Silva received intensive chemotherapy treatment for testicular cancer. Then, in 2016, during routine follow-up, he was diagnosed with a second form of cancer – this time leukemia. Local doctors in his native country of Portugal began by treating him with Imatinib. For the first few months, it appeared that this treatment was effective. However, testing later revealed that the cancer had returned, and his doctors decided to switch the chemotherapy drug to Ponatinib. Sadly, in May 2018, this medication also stopped having an effect on the cancer. Complete remission was never achieved, and the doctors in Portugal were not optimistic about Pedro's prognosis.
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I see this phrase plastered on posters at the gyms, in fitness magazines and, of coarse, the fashion magazines. I will admit that I eat it UP! Seeing this phrase motivates me to step up my fitness regime and my sense of style!! After months of focusing on gift wrapping, entertaining, and cookie making I am ready for a little me therapy. It doesn't mean that I had to run out to the store and throw away everything in my closet. INSTEAD… I took a peak at the times in my closet and thought…what can I create that is new and on trend (and it must be comfy, while I play with my kids and fold laundry, as well as run them to all of their activities and maybe I'm going to grab dinner quick after)! This was a challenge I was up for!
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Those where ORs. I guess something happened when i copied them to the forum. I will give that header file thing a try.
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I have taken a similar approach and can send you my skeleton code if you want. I put my windows stuff in one file, and a "mainapp" object in another file (where the DirectX stuff starts). Then from the windows file I just create an instance of a "mainapp" object (which thus calls the constructor, and does all initialization) on startup and and mainapp.doframe() in the message loop. When the program is done and the mainapp object goes out of scope, the destructor is automatically called and everything is cleaned up. Then whatever other details I need for the game I put in new files.
When starting a new project, I never have to touch the windows file, and just tweak the mainapp file to suit my needs.
Your SetCooperationLevel call looks good, but if you think it is the problem, check the return code from it.
Would you mind if I get that source code that you wrote?
It seems that it doesn''t recognize that i have already declared those things. Any suggestions?
Those 4 errors are because your lpdd... pointers are not known about in your clean up file. You need to declare them as extern or include a .h file or something.
But here is my skeleton ddraw source. Once you look at it it should be fairly obvious what''s going on, but let me know if you have questions.


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Q: How to break lines in messages in markdown / knitr? I want to create a vignette for an R package using markdown (knitr) and pdf output. Some of my functions produce messages that are nicely broken into lines in the console. However, in the resulting pdf, the lines are not fit into the box for the code chunk but overflow.
I tried using strwrap and writeLines within message with width = 80 (see examples). It does break the lines at the right places, but I have to use con = stdout() in writeLines to see the output in the markdown pdf.
con = stderr() (the default) does not show the message. However, this way, the console output is no longer formatted the same way as normal messages (red in my case) but like normal output (black).
mes <- "A very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very long message."

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message(mes)

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message(writeLines(strwrap(mes, width = 80, con = stderr()))
message(writeLines(strwrap(mes, width = 80), con = stdout())

Here are the results in the R console

and in the markdown pdf:

My preferred solution would be not to format the messages but to find the correct hack for markdown / knitr.

A: I wouldn't use writeLines, I'd do the wrapping and then pass the string to message.  For example,
mes <- "A very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very long message."

# default settings
message(mes)

# pasted together
message(paste(strwrap(mes, width = 80), collapse = "\n"))

That's cumbersome to write each time, so if you're doing it often, I'd put it in a function:
wrapmessage <- function(mes, width = 80)
 message(paste(strwrap(mes, width = width), collapse = "\n"))

and then use it like this:
wrapmessage(mes)      # 80 chars
wrapmessage(mes, 40)  # 40 chars

The latter looks like this:

A: I found the solution following aosmith's suggestion using hook_outputs. I had to redefine it compared to the example given in the link to apply to messages, not the general output:
hook_output = knit_hooks$get('message')
knit_hooks$set(message = function(x, options) {
  # this hook is used only when the linewidth_mes option is not NULL
  if (!is.null(n <- options$linewidth_mes)) {
    x = knitr:::split_lines(x)
    # any lines wider than n should be wrapped
    if (any(nchar(x) > n)) x = strwrap(x, width = n)
    x = paste(x, collapse = '\n')
  }
  hook_output(x, options)
})

However, I also realized that the formatting and if it works correctly strongly depends on the character defined for comments in opts_chunk$set.


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