There is evidence that the Romans settled in Drayton as in 1849 labourers unearthed Roman pottery and an ampoule or flask. You can see why early settlers chose this area with its sheltered, green river valley. The stream, which is now piped under the ground, would have been a good supply of drinking water for their animals.
From 1882 to 1959 Drayton had a railway station, which was on the Midland and Great Northern line. During the First World War it was used for the movement of troops, but today it is an industrial site.
Harry Cator, the son of a railwayman, was awarded the Victoria Cross Military Medal and the Croix de Guerre for his services during the war. He became a well-known figure and was highly respected throughout the area.
R.G Carter began his building firm in the early 1920's and the business is still flourishing today. The lych-gate to the church in Drayton is in memory of R.G Carter and all the good work he did for the village. The playing field, adjacent to the church, was given in memory of his wife.
Drayton has very good amenities, including a bank, post office, doctors' surgery, chemist, baker, patisserie, florist, hairdresser, beautician and child-friendly public houses.
There are two schools, first and middle, and a village hall. Drayton's King George V's playing field has football pitches, a cricket pitch and a bowling green.
The Bob Carter Centre offers a vast range of sporting and social activities and has a welcoming community atmosphere.


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История
В феврале 2011 года Goal был приобретён компанией Perform Group. В 2012 году Управление по налоговым и таможенным сборам Великобритании провело расследование этого веб-сайта на предмет использования стажёров, работающих бесплатно. В августе 2016 года Perform Group запустила сервис онлайн-трансляции спортивных видео, получивший название DAZN. В сентябре 2018 года Perform Group была разделена на две компании: DAZN Group, названная в честь основанного ранее стримингового сервиса, и Perform Content. После разделения сайт Goal перешёл во владение DAZN Group.

В 2017 году Goal был признан лучшим сайтом спортивных новостей по версии The Drum Online Media Awards.

Goal 50
C сезона 2007/08 журналисты сайта Goal ежегодно определяют 50 лучших игроков прошедшего сезона, этот список получил название Goal 50. С сезона 2018/19 в него входят 25 мужчин и 25 женщин, победитель также определяется как среди мужчин, так и среди женщин.

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ParentsCanada Sex Ed Report
Positive sexual health starts at home, so roll up your sleeves and get the conversation started. Here's how one mom went from uptight to alright in learning to talk about sex with her kids.
When I was in Grade 5, my best friend told me a woman got pregnant when a man spit in her mouth. Sure, it seemed preposterous, but she pronounced this with such authority that I believed her. Besides, her father was the school principal, which gave her opinion added weight. This notion was cleared up the following year when my very religious mother quietly passed me a slim book that explained the mechanical workings of the sex organs and made it very clear that sex was just for making babies. It focused a lot on body parts, such as the somewhat menacing looking Fallopian tubes, while neglecting to provide the crucial information I was desperate for, such as how to kiss a boy. This, in addition to a few overhead anatomy slides projected on a pull-down screen by but are afraid to a red-faced teacher in high school health class, was the extent of my sex education.
I wanted things to be different for my two daughters. So when they were toddlers, I pushed past my discomfort and used correct anatomical terms such as vulva and labia. When they were in preschool I read them Boys, Girls & Body Science, which explained how babies are made. I taught them about boundaries by explaining the difference between "good touch" and "bad touch." I didn't assume their future gender preference would be heterosexual, making it clear that if they ended up being attracted to girls that was perfectly fine with me.
By the time they started kindergarten, they knew more about sex than I did when I started high school. If anyone ever tried to pass off some lame story about getting pregnant via mouth spitting, they'd be able to set them straight but fast.
I tried to project confidence during these discussions, but truthfully, I always felt self conscious and a little too earnest. When you are brought up in an environment where sex is shadowed by shame and secrecy, you don't suddenly start talking about it with the technical expertise of Sue Johanson and the frank flair of Mae West.
And it didn't get any easier as they got older. One day, while driving my oldest daughter to Grade 6 band practice, she turned to me and said, "You know, mom, you think you've told us all about sex but there are still things I don't know." She then blurted out that some of the boys in the band made fun of her for playing the "tromboner." She knew they were referring to something sexual, but wasn't sure what and was upset with me for not filling her in on this bit of sexual slang. I adopted a tone of cool indifference while matter-of-factly explaining what a "boner" was. The last thing in the world I wanted to do was talk about erections with my 12-year-old daughter, but I figured if she had the courage to ask, I had better show the same courage and answer as honestly and accurately as I could.
Not long after this, again while driving in the car, the term "blow job" somehow came up. I asked her if she knew what that meant and she said she thought so. I began to explain, "It's when a man puts his…" And then, with the force of Wonder Woman attempting to deflect an evil assailant, she raised her arm straight up in the air, with her palm facing me as if to physically block my words from her ears, and yelled: "Stop! I don't want to hear it!"
My strategy to try and be open and relaxed around the subject of sex seemed to have hit a wall. My kids just didn't want to hear about it from me. It was time for someone else to take over. The schools tried to do their part but even teachers were uncomfortable with the material. One of my daughter's middle school teachers confided he dreaded teaching sex ed and typically squeezed it into the last weeks of school to put off the inevitable.
Extra-Curricular Sex Ed?
With that conversation in mind, when they reached Grade 7, I signed my daughters up for a 25-week sex education program being offered Sunday mornings at a nearby Unitarian Fellowship church. Its comprehensive Our Whole Lives (OWL) program does not preach abstinence (although it points to benefits of delaying intercourse) and contains no religious references or doctrine. Classes are taught in Canada and the U.S.
Each week, trained facilitators guide groups of boys and girls in discussions on topics ranging from body image, to concerns about puberty, the difference between healthy and unhealthy relationships, responsible sexual behaviour, and how to know when they are ready for sex. They view slides of drawings of people having sex. They watch a video of a baby being born. They engage in role-playing scenarios where they learn to stand up for themselves in pressure-filled sexual situations. In addition to teaching about the negative consequences of sex, such as unintended pregnancy and STIs, OWL also focuses on the positive aspect — that sex is a pleasureful and life-enhancing experience when it is consensual, safe, caring and respectful.
My kids did not go to these classes willingly. I had to bribe them with the promise of a future shopping trip. But by the third week they seemed to look forward to going and never once missed a class. They rarely spoke about what they were learning, but I knew they were in good hands. In fact, I'm convinced it's the best sex education they could have ever received.
Just as I'm convinced the Ontario government is moving in the right direction with its new and expanded sex ed curriculum, which follows in a similar vein by talking openly about issues of consent, body acceptance, gender identity and safety. Thousands of parents kept their kids out of school last spring to protest this curriculum because they thought it was too explicit (and many felt it conflicted with their their religious beliefs).
Too Much Information?
In fact, studies show that more information empowers kids. Sex ed curriculum helps them understand the biology of their bodies, provides information around the big changes puberty brings and emphasizes the need for tolerance around issues of sexual orientation, gender and family structure. Kids who are "protected" from this information are often the ones who most need safe places to ask questions.
My girls, now 17 and 15, are just beginning to go on dates and my hope is that they are well prepared for all that will bring. Thanks to those many awkward conversations with them over the years, I eventually managed to lose much of my former prudishness around the subject of sex. So much so, that I recently enrolled in the in the 30-hour training course required to be an OWL facilitator.
I have helped lead a session with 12 middle schoolers during which I instructed them on the proper way to put on a condom. I channeled my inner Mae West and even made a joke about the ridiculous length of the cucumber and how it in no way reflected the actual size of the average erect penis, which measures about five inches. I snapped on the condom, explaining the need to leave a reservoir tip at the top and asked them each to follow suit and give it a try. Some were horrified, some giggled, some were quite proficient. In the end they all completed the exercise and I felt good knowing that one day, when they are ready for sex, they'd be prepared with this essential first hand knowledge.
Like many of my generation, I fumbled in the dark when it came to sex. Luckily there's no reason to do that for kids today.
A Sex Talk Timeline
Alex McKay, PhD and Executive Director of the Sex Information & Education Council of Canada (SIECCAN), sketches out developmental milestones for learning about sexual health. "These are basic guideposts," he says, noting that not all children develop at the same pace, and that sometimes physical development does not happen in step with emotional development. Regardless of a family's culture or traditions, the goal for children is to be "comfortable in their own bodies and have a basic knowledge of reproduction. We don't always get it perfect though."
Learns correct names for body parts, including genitalia
Learns to tell the difference between male and female genitalia
Learns to experience pleasure from touch (cuddling, nonsexual touching, infant massage)
Learns basics of reproduction (a sperm and an egg join together to make a baby)
Learns basic rules of privacy (including private parts and talk about private parts) and personal space
Learns your body belongs to you
Learns the difference between good touching and bad touching
Understands basics of human reproduction (sperm from a penis fertilizes an egg in a uterus through a vagina)
Begins to understand that physical changes will occur when puberty arrives
Understands different sexual orientations (heterosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual) and gender identity
Understands and has a reasonably complete knowledge of the physical and psychological aspects of puberty
Understands the positive role of sexuality in relationships
Understands and is aware of the risks associated with being sexually active (delaying intercourse, contraception and safer sex)
Learns media literacy skills to understand and evaluate sexual imagery and messages
Learns social skills related to rights, responsibilities and consent in relationships (including social media)
Learns to use the information they learned from parents and teachers about sexual health and is comfortable with themselves as a sexual being.
For SIECCAN's comprehensive Q&A on sec ed in Canadian schools, go to ParentsCanda.com/SIECCAN.
Let's Talk About Sexuality
PFLAG is a national organization for parents, families, friends, and allies united with people who are LGBTQ. Anne Creighton, Toronto Chapter President, consults with parents and is often invited to give talks in schools. She spoke with ParentsCanada's Nancy Fornasiero about kids and sexuality.
PC: Are primary grades too early for kids to learn about sexuality?
AC: Not at all. We speak to students from Grade 2 upwards. We tell our own stories, focusing on the age of the children we are speaking to. So if I'm talking about my daughter, Amy, to a Grade 3 class, I talk about what it was like for her at that same age, because she was already being bullied by then.
PC: Amy knew she was gay in Grade 3?
AC: She started to realize she was different; kids can tell. Kids that age also have a sixth sense about who to bully. It's the person who's too smart or too fat or a little awkward. Amy gave herself away somehow as someone who was feeling a bit different, and she was persecuted for it.
PC: How do you handle the subject with kids who don't fully understand sexuality and gender differences?
AC: With younger kids, the message is mainly about understanding what we have in common and what differences we have. We talk about what we can change and what we can't. We ask children to think about people who get picked on. How can we make their days happier? We talk about being a good role model, because even Grade 2 students can be role models for kids in kindergarten. With older kids we tell the story of our teens entering high school. We discuss homophobia and coming out: things we wouldn't necessarily cover in junior grades, unless asked directly.
PC: Any dos or don'ts for parents who think their kid might fall somewhere on the LGBTQ spectrum?
AC: Don't ask! Kids need to be ready for that conversation, and the only way to know if they're ready is by letting them start it. All along though, send signals that you'd be okay with it. Introduce the subject when a natural occasion presents itself, and always make it clear that you love your kid, no matter what.
Let's Talk About Consent
While the idea of consent is introduced at a young age, it becomes more of a dominant theme once kids are in high school. Nina Solomun, a third-year university student, is a facilitator of Bad Subject Consent Workshops. The goal of the workshops, started in Toronto by Effy Min and Destiny Laldeo, is to further explore the idea of consent, and ultimately transform what has been termed a "rape culture" into a "consent culture". The workshops are given to Grade 11 English students. They start with a simple exercise: one partner tries to open the other's closed fist. "Students try everything from tickling the person to forcing the fist open," says Nina. "Then we ask them, 'did anyone consider asking the person to open their fist?'" From that first idea of asking comes the concept that consent isn't a one-time thing. "Consent is very complex. It's not just no means no, yes means yes. We teach them that they have to keep asking, keep checking in with verbal and non-verbal cues." Bad Subject recently received a Trillium grant to hire more facilitators and develop its website. For more info go to badsubject.org or email effy.badsubject@gmail.com.
Hot topic – Your child's sexual education
We asked parents to tell us how they handled their eldest children's sexual education. The age breakdown of eldest children was:
5 and under – 29%
Age 6 – 12 – 35%
13 and up – 36%
77% of children first asked how babies were made between ages 3 – 9
I got this!
75% of parents handled the question easily and matter-of-factly.
16% panicked
8% deferred to their spouse
School's in
89% of parents say schools play a role in their child's sexual education Too much information?
59% of parents are concerned about the sexual content of television shows, even those aimed at youth audiences
54% note that stories in the daily news about sexual harassment and sexual assault are also a concern
75% of parents know their kids will hear information and misinformation about sex among friends and in the media
Lovely …
Half of our readers have talked to their children about homosexuality and gender identity. Those who have had the opportunity cited promoting acceptance and love.
On the nose
When asked to guess the average age people lose their virginity, 67% of our readers said between 16 and 18.
According to Statistics Canada's 2009/10 Canadian Community Health survey of 15- to 24-year-olds:
30% had had sex by age 17
Originally published in ParentsCanada magazine, September 2015.
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2021 Audi SQ5 Review: Not as Racy as It Looks, and That's OK | News
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Verdict: No driving enthusiast would pick a 2021 Audi SQ5 over a comparable sports sedan, but it's a nice step up from the plain-Jane Audi Q5.
Versus the competition: Most luxury automakers offer a sportier version of their basic compact crossover, and all of them feature the same formula: sportier looks, more power, more tech, more expensive.
The concept of a sporty crossover SUV eludes me, given its few advantages over a comparably sized sporty sedan for those who want something truly entertaining to drive: An SUV is taller, heavier and doesn't handle as well, given its higher center of gravity. About the only thing a performance SUV can do better than a sports sedan is carry more junk in its trunk.
Audi's sportier version of the excellent Q5 crossover SUV is a perfect example of this: The 2021 Audi SQ5 looks good on paper, with a powerful turbocharged V-6, an electronically adjustable sport suspension, racier looks, performance seats, standard all-wheel drive and more. In a sedan, this is a slam-dunk winning combination. But in a taller, heavier family crossover, does it even work?
Related: 2021 Audi Q5 Doesn't Mess Much With a Good Thing
Racy Looks
Audi's S performance models (versus its S Line appearance packages) boast mechanical and cosmetic changes meant to improve the way they drive and look, and those changes on the SQ5 definitely give it a more aggressive appearance. For 2021, the entire Q5 lineup received mild styling updates, and the SQ5 has benefited from these, too, with a cleaner, tighter look.
The SQ5 I drove was a new-for-2021 color called District Green — a muted, almost dusky hue that looked terrific combined with the optional Black Optic Package's blacked-out chrome trim. The standard rims on the SQ5 are 20-inch units, but that package gives the SUV 21-inch, two-tone wheels with summer tires. (My tester featured winter tires, given I drove it in Michigan in December.) I can't argue with the way it looks; the S treatment turns the attractive-yet-anonymous Audi Q5 into something with presence. It looks racier than the mainstream model, which I suppose is a big part of why some people want to purchase a sporty crossover SUV in the first place.
Not So Racy Performance
An upgrade over the standard Q5's four-cylinder, the engine in the SQ5 is a turbocharged 3.0-liter V-6 making 349 horsepower and 369 pounds-feet of torque — significantly better than the Q5's 261 hp and 273 pounds-feet of torque. The resulting acceleration is as brisk as you might expect: Audi says the SQ5 delivers a 0-to-60-mph time of 4.7 seconds, and I've got no reason to doubt that number, as the SUV feels quick. Once the turbo is spooled up — which happens quickly and with no perceptible lag — the SQ5 proves to have plenty of grunt. It's not quite as hairy-chested as higher-performance competitors, like the Mercedes-AMG GLC63 and its biturbo V-8, but it almost matches the output from the lesser GLC43's twin-turbo V-6.
What lets the SQ5 down is its eight-speed Tiptronic transmission, which feels poorly tuned to the engine; it's always hunting for the right gear and never quite seems to find it. Throttle response is also hampered as the powertrain decides what to do about the request your right foot is making — it always feels half a tick behind your motions, even when using its sportiest settings. The SQ5 responds well enough if driven tepidly, but ask it to do anything remotely sporty and it'll ask you to rethink your request. Quick transitions and sudden calls for acceleration are met with a half-second of confusion from the powertrain, putting a serious damper on the SQ5's sporting pretensions.
The SQ5's ride and handling and its steering feel don't invite aggressive driving, either. Steering feel is highly boosted and fairly numb — normally acceptable in a crossover SUV, but at odds with one purporting to be a sporty model. Its ride and handling balance, however, is good thanks to a standard adaptive suspension and optional air springs. They work together to deliver a compliant, comfortable ride despite the SQ5's low-profile tires and 21-inch rims.
It's softer than you'd expect from a sporty SUV, but given the throttle response and transmission behavior don't make for an enticing sports-driving experience, dialing back your aggressive tactics and just enjoying the luxurious ride is a better idea anyway. The brakes are strong and progressive, hauling you down from speed with ease, but they're surprisingly noisy at low speeds, emitting a gronk noise more often than I've experienced in other new vehicles lately.
The only saving grace is that the SQ5's main competitor, the Mercedes-Benz GLC300/AMG GLC43, feels almost exactly the same to drive. It's also plagued by infuriatingly hesitant powertrain behavior, fairly numb steering and a softer ride than expected. Whether this is some odd quirk of expensive German luxury crossovers at large or something endemic to their programming, we can't say. But it's behavior we haven't noted in vehicles like the Alfa Romeo Stelvio, which is quick, nimble and an absolute riot to drive in its top Quadrifoglio performance trim level.
Enjoy the Buttons While You Can
The SQ5 shines a little brighter on the inside, where a cabin built on Audi's reputation for excellent quality materials, precision assembly and state-of-the-art technology makes it easier to forgive the dynamic fumbles. Unlike a lot of new Audi and Volkswagen products (VW is Audi's parent company), the SQ5's isn't a new-style "glass cockpit" where you have to control everything with a touchscreen. That day is almost certainly coming for the Q5 and SQ5, but until then we'll enjoy one of the last Audi cabins to still have excellent buttons and switches. Everything works and articulates with a precision you won't find in a vehicle equipped with nothing but touchscreens, and to my mind it elevates the luxury feel of the SQ5 to match its price.
There's also considerable comfort to be found in the SQ5. The front sport seats are spacious but not overly bolstered, so you'll actually want to spend time in them. There's plenty of leg- and headroom up front, but the backseat is a little tight in the legroom department. The second row does slide fore and aft in order to maximize cargo room or passenger legroom, but in order to drop the rear seatbacks you have to slide the front seats forward a bit and keep them there the whole time the second row is down. It's a less than optimal arrangement if you're a taller driver who needs to haul something, but the cargo area is plentiful even with the seats up, so this should be a minor inconvenience.
There are some updates to the SQ5's gauges and multimedia system, including rearrangement of the optional Virtual Cockpit digital gauge cluster. The standard viewing mode for the SQ5 is now what's known as Sport mode in the Q5, while a new, exclusive S Performance mode brings the speedometer and tachometer front and center and allows for customization of the surrounding gauge readouts. It also allows for shifting views between the gauges and an onboard navigation map — something Audi was among the first to do and still does extremely well.
While the new gauge layouts' available customization is welcome, the gauges themselves are not overwhelming in terms of the data dump they provide to drivers. The central multimedia screen does, however, now feature wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, in case you'd rather not use Audi's native systems, and one thing you're sure to enjoy using is the optional 19-speaker Bang & Olufsen premium audio system, which sounds just as good as you'd expect it to.
Competitively Matched
The starting price for a new 2021 Audi SQ5 is $53,995 (including destination fee). It's a hefty bump over the $44,395 starting price of a base '21 Audi Q5, but not unreasonable given its rather thorough list of changes. Like most German luxury cars, however, a lot of desirable features will cost you extra — which is why my test vehicle had more than $17,000 in options, making for a grand total cost of $71,790. Along with the $1,000 Black Optic Package described above and another $1,000 for a full Nappa leather interior, these packages added significantly to the bottom line but also made for a significantly nicer vehicle:
Prestige Package ($9,600)
Bang & Olufsen audio system
LED matrix headlights and organic light-emitting diode taillights
360-degree camera system
Virtual Cockpit gauges
Sport Package ($3,000)
Electronic sport suspension
Sport rear differential
As for competitors, there are more than a few manufacturers in this price range aiming to sell sporty crossover SUVs to the well heeled. Most are slightly more expensive and more powerful than the SQ5, but when you start adding in all the options, the bottom line begins to even out. The BMW X3 M40i is the best Bimmer to match up against the SQ5, with a 382-hp six-cylinder engine and $57,595 starting price. The Mercedes-AMG GLC43 is also a good match, with a $60,950 base price and a 385-hp V-6 engine. There isn't a version of the Alfa Romeo Stelvio well-suited to match this mildly hotted version of the Q5; your choices there are a four-cylinder Stelvio Ti (cheaper and less powerful than the SQ5) or an ultra-hot Stelvio Quadrifoglio (far more expensive and powerful than the SQ5). But Jaguar's mid-level F-Pace P340 S stacks up well, featuring an inline-six that pumps out 335 hp at a starting price of $60,545.
Aside from a slightly tight backseat — not uncommon in this class — the Audi SQ5 makes up for its confused and underwhelming sportiness with a plush, sophisticated interior that looks and feels great. It easily outclasses the Alfa Stelvio in both material quality and technological sophistication, and it feels to be on the same level of luxuriousness and sophistication as the Mercedes-Benz GLC or BMW X3. People shopping for a sports sedan aren't likely to consider the SQ5, but those shopping for a compact luxury crossover might easily make the jump from the normal, everyday Q5 to one that's just a little more amped up, a little more powerful, a little more aggressive looking and a little more expensive.
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SPORTS DIPLOMACY – A TOOL OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY
It's not just sport… how a very Australian sport is being Americanised and militarised to further US global interests.
by Sasha Uzunov | 25 Jan, 2023 | analysis
"I had a bit of a man-crush by the end, I must admit," says AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan about US Vice President Joe Biden, who the AFL invited to a game in July 2016. (Photo: AFL)
'It's all about culture: Why AFL football clubs are like army units', is the striking title of an official Australian Football League (AFL) podcast in 2022. In it, the AFL Commissioner Simone Wilkie, urged on the teams by singing the praises of former head of the CIA and US Army General, David Petraeus.
General Petraeus is an odd choice of footballers' hero. He served in Iraq, where in 2003 he used controversial 'kill-and-capture' raids in the bloody early pacification of Mosul, and in Afghanistan in 2010, where he was criticised for civilian deaths and for allying with corrupt and violent local security forces.
Petraeus's career collapsed in a public scandal in 2012, after he had become Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). His illegal leaking of highly classified documents to his biographer with whom he was having an undeclared illicit sexual affair, led to him being sacked, fined US$100,000 and sentenced to two years of probation. He is also believed to have leaked 'top secret' classified information to reporters.
He was one of the architects of the Iraq War about which Australian journalist Julian Assange exposed US army wrong doings, killings of innocents and what amounts to war crimes. Assange is being persecuted by the US. He's being held in a British prison awaiting likely extradition to a politically motivated trial in the US.
The AFL Commissioner is a former Australian Army Major General who served in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars in senior staff headquarter positions in Kabul. Major General Simone Wilkie was Assistant Chief of Staff to General David Petraeus during the Iraq War troop surge of 2007, and was awarded the US Army Bronze Star, although without the 'V' for valour device. Wilkie became AFL Commissioner in 2015, three years prior to leaving her career military job in 2018.
Wilkie retains links to the Defence sector by way of her Senior Advisor position with Lighthorse Group, a Canberra-based security advisory firm – however this position is absent from her curriculum vitae on LinkedIn. Fellow advisors at Lighthorse Group include the former Director of the US Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt General Vince Stewart, along with former Australian Special Forces head, Brigadier Ian Langford, and Victoria Cross winner Mark Donaldson.
Then Brigadier Simone Wilkinson, newly appointed assistant Australian commander Afghanistan, International Security Assistance Force, visiting the notorious US Detention Facility in Bagram, Afghanistan, on 1 August 2012. (Photo: US Army)
Major General Wilkie – the AFL still calls her 'Major General' even though she has retired – says her experience in Iraq under US General Petraeus 'showed her the importance of leaders understanding the challenges faced by their people'. General Wilkie declares in the AFL podcast:
'General Petraeus would regularly go out into the battlefield and talk to people and try and get those briefings so that he'd make the best decision on the information that he was provided. That, to me is really good leadership in an organisation which was scores of thousands of people from over 40 different countries.'
To take the footy analogy further, a retired Army General such as General Wilkie drawing lessons from US General Patreus, when they were both part of the losing side in Afghanistan, is like a footy coach of the losing side in the Grand Final giving players tips on winning.
The reason for the US and its ally Australia going to war in Iraq in 2003 was based on the lies and false intelligence reports that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein possessed 'WMD', biological chemical and nuclear 'Weapons of Mass Destruction'.
The Australian military intelligence whistle blower who revealed that the Iraq WMD intelligence was flawed worked in the Defence Intelligence Organisation in Canberra. Andrew Wilkie went public before the war, to reveal there was no convincing evidence of WMD in Iraq – and hence no legal reason to invade. He has since become an outspoken federal Member of Parliament. At the time Andrew Wilkie's army wife was Simone Wilkie.
Using the Iraq War as an example for leadership in Australian Rules Football is a nonsensical analogy – the invasion was, firstly, based on flawed evidence, was hence illegal, then became very bloody, the scene of many war crimes, and has since resulted in a fractured country.
Moreover, while AFL Commissioner, General Wilkie was from 2017 to 2020 a member of the Australian American Leadership Dialogue (AALD), a pro-US lobby group derided by former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating for 'bowing and scraping' to the US and hindering the growth of an independent Australian foreign policy.
Simone Wilkie, the AFL Commissioner, is still referred to by the AFL in this 2021 photo as 'Major General", despite her ending her Army career in 2018. (Photo: AFL)
The linking of professional AFL football to the failed wars of Afghanistan and Iraq sounds like a clumsy and blatant Information Operation by the AFL on the Australian public to promote US militarism in Australia.
Declassified Australia sought responses from the AFL over its Americanisation policy but no response was forthcoming.
Australian Rules Football is a unique sport, a unique football code, a distinctive cultural marker of Australian-ness – for some it's a quasi-religion. But the governing body of Australian Rules Football, the Australian Football League (AFL), paradoxically acts as if its spiritual homeland is not Australia, but a Corporate America heavily intertwined with American nationalism and United States foreign policy agenda.
The US knows that sport is a very useful tool to promote its foreign and cultural policy agenda abroad and in Australia. In essence to tap into Australian public opinion and shape it via Australian cultural institutions. In other words, to win hearts and minds!
The AFL through its media and broadcasts are now converting many Australian sporting terms replacing them with American slang equivalents which traditionally do not belong to the game. US terms such as 'turnover' meaning loss of possession of the ball to the opposition; 'line ball' is another, meaning very close; 'road game', meaning away game; 'thrown a curveball', a baseball term meaning something difficult or unexpected; 'big dance' meaning the game; and 'dee-fence', instead of the Australian pronunciation of defence; and so forth.
Beneath the all-watching eye of the Washington Monument, now Defence Minister Richard Marles takes one for the team from then US Ambassador Arthur B. Culvahouse Jnr, inside the parliamentary office at Parliament House on 31 July 2019. (Photo: Twitter)
Australian governments at all levels realise the importance of sport in shaping public opinion and therefore it comes as no great surprise their lavishing of tax funding of sports. On the AFL's website it boasts of support from all of the two territory and all of the six state governments, and even the federal government.
'I have watched Prime Ministers and senior ministers make their way through the room to (AFL chief executive) Gillon McLachlan,' says leading football administrator Jake Parkinson. 'Prime Ministers know how the public love the game; they understand the level of influence the game has in Australia."
The Americanisation of the AFL has some of its early roots during the period of the Whitlam government. In 1974 the VFL invited the controversial US Ambassador to Australia, Marshall Green, to the VFL Grand Final between Richmond and North Melbroune. Interestingly, the ambassador attended along with Governor General John Kerr, and acting Prime Minister Jim Cairns.
Green has been described as 'an imperious, sinister figure who worked in the shadows of America's "deep state', and he was known to be a Whitlam hater. Green's nickname was 'the coup master' due to his covert interference in governments he had been appointed ambassador to, including Indonesia.
At the grand final VFL President Sir Maurice Nathan, a pro-American, conservative business figure opposed to the Whitlam Labor federal government, refused to have Advance Australia Fair, Whitlam's choice for a new national anthem, played by the RAAF Band alongside God Save the Queen which was then still the national anthem.
Prime Minister Gough Whitlam (middle) with Marshall Green, US ambassador to Australia (right), celebrating at a US Independence Day dinner in 1975, with IBM MD Allen Moyes, president of Australian-American Association, just four months out from the US-supported constitutional coup that deposed the Whitlam government. (Photo: Australian Information Service/Trove)
The US State Department first got involved with the AFL (then known as the Victorian Football League-VFL) in August 1977 when it introduced the VFL General Manager Jack Hamilton to US sports officials.
We know this because of declassified US diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks. The AFL wanted to pick the brains of the governing body of American Football (Grid Iron), the National Football League (NFL) on how to run a modern sports administration. AFL fact finding missions to the NFL have been visiting the US ever since then.
A July 2008 US diplomatic cable leaked to Wikileaks refers to 'Sports Diplomacy'. The document reveals that US State Department diplomats, with Australian help, used 'sports diplomacy', via the US top Basketball league the NBA, to push a favourable US political message in Indonesia.
The sensitive diplomatic cable, which requests intelligence sources be protected, reads: "The high profile of the NBA and an American player visiting Indonesia could open doors to other sports diplomacy initiatives."
The cable notes that Australian diplomats are also involved in pushing the same US cultural message in Indonesia through Basketball: 'Australia's Embassy has successfully partnered with Dektesi (DBL, the Indonesian Basketball League) in the past, and Australian Ambassador Bill Farmer is expected to announce a trip by selected DBL all-stars… to play against high schools in Australia.
'Similar youth exchanges with US would no doubt be welcomed and the American roots of basketball and prominence of the NBA globally make this a natural vehicle for effective sports diplomacy programs in the future.' [Our emphasis]
Theories differ over the origins of Australian Rules Football: it developed from the Indigenous game of Marngrook and the Irish game of Gaelic football or it was simply invented by local British colonialists. Nonetheless, the formal organisation of Victrorian Football League (AFL's predecessor until 1990) was founded in 1896 in the then British Empire's Colony of Victoria by people who very much identified as culturally British and staunchly monarchist.
By the early 1980s as Australian Rules Football moved towards professionalism and slowly edged towards a fully national competition, the VFL was caught in a tight spot. As the big bucks started to flow into the game, some players wanted to leave their clubs and join others for larger salaries. The VFL feared a bidding war amongst clubs to secure the top players.
By 1983 the VFL's reaction to the massive waves of change buffeting the competition was to turn to the US for help. This is revealed in the book, 'The Phoenix Rises-the amazing story of the salvation of Australian Football', written by Ross Oakley, AFL CEO from 1986 to 1996.
It reveals VFL President Allan Aylett had convinced the VFL board to hire 'the world's most powerful' US public relations consulting firm, McKinsey and Co, to professionalise the promotion of the game. McKinseys has been long a consultant to US intelligence agencies, and has been described as having 'more secrets that the CIA'.
Then, the book reveals, the VFL sent a team of its officials to 'fly to the USA to meet with the four major sporting leagues. They were the National Football League (NFL), Major Baseball League (MBL), the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the National Hockey League (NHL).'
The team's mission to the US was to get as much information on the American system of running a professional competition, including promotion of the game, managing the payment system, and the retention of players. Such American assistance would pay dividends later.
Prime Minister Julian Gillard famously used AFL as a tool of diplomacy on her visit to US President Barrack Obama in 2011, in a PR highlight handballing an AFL ball to Obama, before assembled cameras.
'Having the most powerful man in the world playing with a Sherrin on his home turf, is of slightly more value than having the voice of Bon Jovi mouthing a B side ditty as noise above some rugby league "highlights".' The AFL PR team lapped it up when then Prime Minister Julia Gillard in Washington gave a handball to US President Barack Obama in March 2011. (Photo: AFL)
The alliance blossomed between the hand-ballers, and later that year during Obama's Australian visit, Gillard agreed – without any public consultation – to the permanent rotational basing of US marines in northern Australia, and the provision of extended US access to military bases and facilities across Australia.
This can now be realised as a early step towards the US militarisation of Australia, that has now been put on steroids by the Morrison government under the AUKUS agreement.
In 2016 the AFL invited then US Vice President Joe Biden to a football match in Melbourne.
Enormous publicity, hoopla was generated as well the very important photo-ops of VP Biden holding an Australian Rules Football ball in his hands whilst talking with AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan. It wasn't just sport – Biden watched the game with then Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop.
The political message of the AFL linking itself to the US could not be missed. It was telling Australians loud and clear that it had hitched its polticial wagon to the White House, the supreme centre of world power.
The AFL invited then US Vice President Joe Biden to a game in July 2016, seen here with MCC president Stephen Smith, AFL Commission Chairman Mike Fitzpatrick, and AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan. (Photo: AFL)
Documents detailing the AFL connections with the visit of Biden were applied for by Declassified Australia under Freedom of Information applications to the Prime Minister's Department, the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Victorian State government. The search surprisingly turned up barely a handful of emails, all largely redacted. Why the secrecy over a visit to a football match?
The letter accompanying the release stated:
'Disclosure of this correspondence is reasonably expected to impact the ability of the Australian government to maintain good working relations with the United States Government. The document contains information of a nature that would reasonably be expected to cause damage to the international relations of the Commonwealth, should this information be released.' [Our emphasis]
Heavily redacted documents received in response to an FOI application for details of the AFL connections to the visit of Joe Biden to Australia in 2016.
To hammer home the AFL association with the US establishment, in 2019 the Collingwood Football Club invited the then US Ambassador to Australia Arthur B. Culvahouse Jnr, a US President Trump appointee, to a players' event.
Culvahouse was certainly a 'good old American boy' – he had served as chief lawyer to President Ronald Reagan in the early 80s fending off a presidential impeachment on charges of illegally arming a mercenary army with funds from illegal weapon sales to Iran, known as Iran-Contra.
The stated reason for his attendance was to celebrate Collingwood's new American recruit to the game, Mason Cox. While the Collingwood team had many players of other ethnic and national origin, they never felt the need to invite those players' foreign ambassadors.
The final part of the picture relates to the severing of ties to England and the monarchy, and the turning further towards American presidency and nationalism.
The AFL enlists a clever 'anti-colonial' policy to make itself out as the champion of Indigenous Australians. The AFL has moved to largely erase its British heritage and re-write its history.
Of note, UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss was in Australia in early 2022 but never got the red carpet treatment to a game as Biden had, even though a number of AFL clubs, such as Collingwood, North Melbourne, Port Adelaide, were actually founded by UK born Englishmen.
US Ambassador to Australia Arthur B. Culvahouse Jnr, was invited by the AFL to the Collingwood facility in Olympic Park in Melbourne in April 2019, for an AFL publicity event.. (Photo: AFL)
The AFL's female competition, the AFLW, last year refused to give a minute's silence on the ground over the death of Australia's Head of State, Queen Elizabeth II, the British monarch, because of Indigenous Australian opposition.
The AFL hypocritically has been happy to at the same time to associate itself with the US, another Anglophone country founded on white European settlement, with a long history of mistreating indigenous Native Americans.
America's NFL has a history of denigrating Native Americans with for example the use of the name 'Red Skins' for its Washington team. It was finally forced to change the name in 2020 after massive Black Lives Matter protests rocked the US over the deaths of African Americans at the hands of US law enforcement.
The embracing of US forms of publicity, management, and style, hyped up with the overblown dropping of Australian sporting terms for aspects of the game, in favour of American slang terms, is not a natural process. It is being pushed hard, including by some very prominent US political heavyweights.
Under the guise of sport, it enables the US to build up in Australians a close identification with all things American. It builds public support for America and American interests.
It builds empathy among the public at the very time that Australians are being expected to accept the American militarisation of the Australian mainland – with new bases, new facilities, and new weapons – that threaten to drag Australia inevitably into another American war, this time against China.
It's not just sport.
Sasha Uzunov
SASHA UZUNOV is a photo journalist, film maker, researcher, and a former Australian soldier. His documentary film 'Timor Tour of Duty' was awarded a Platinum Reel Award from the 2009 Nevada Film Festival in the US. He writes at www.alternatecomms.com View all posts by Sasha Uzunov
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Is That An Eclipse? No, It's A Soccer Ball From Inazuma Eleven GO Galaxy
By Ishaan August 26, 2013
Level 5 have shared a brand new trailer for their next pair of Inazuma Eleven titles in Japan—Inazuma Eleven GO Galaxy, which will come in Big Bang and Super Nova versions. The trailer was debuted at last night's Level 5 Vision 2013 event, and you can watch it below:
Inazuma Eleven GO Galaxy's story involves the Grand Celesta Galaxy tournament. Losing means the end of the Earth, so Tenma and co. have their work cut out for them. Level 5 will release the game for Nintendo 3DS this winter.
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As ACM Awards Move on to Fourth Broadcast Partner, How Do Other Music Awards Shows Compare?
The move will likely be closely watched by the entire industry.
The Academy of Country Music announced last week that it is moving its ACM Awards to Amazon Prime Video next year. The show aired on one of the three legacy broadcast networks continuously for 50 years.
The move will likely be closely watched by the entire industry. If the show holds its audience, and if top artists continue to support it, other awards shows may seriously consider streaming partners. If the show falters, other shows may be reticent about following suit.
Amazon Prime Video will be the ACM Awards' fourth broadcast partner, which is more than any other major music awards show. Let's see how the other shows compare:
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Microstepping is a means of moving a stepper motor's stator flux smoother than in half- or full-step modes, resulting in less vibration and noiseless stepping down to zero hertz as well as facilitating smaller step angles and better positioning.
A stepper motor is a brushless synchronous motor, meaning the stable stop position of the rotor is in synch with the stator flux. The rotor rotates with the rotation of the stator flux, which makes the rotor move toward the new stable stop position.
When you drive a stepper motor in half- or full-step mode the stator flux rotates forty-five and ninety electrical degrees respectively. The stepper motor develops a pulsing torque because the distance between the stator flux and the rotor position is not constant in time due to the stator flux's discontinuous motion.
Because you only need two current levels — Ion and 0 — generating a stator flux that rotates forty-five or ninety degrees at a time is simple and can be accomplished with any stepper motor driver. When we combine the Ion and 0 values in the two windings we can create eight combinations of winding currents, giving us the eight typical one- and two-phase-on stop positions responding to the flux direction.
You can create a rotating flux capable of stopping at any desired electrical position if you use a stepper motor driver that can generate any current level from zero to one hundred forty-one percent of the nominal two-phase-on current of the stepper motor, also enabling you to select any electrical stepping angle. You can change both the direction of the flux and the amplitude.
Microstepping a stepper motor will cause the rotor to move much smoother on low frequencies because the stator flux, which controls the stable rotor stop position, moves more continuously than it would in half- or full-step mode.
Microstepping has a relatively minor effect on the rotor movement compared to full-stepping with frequencies above two to three times the stepper motor system's natural frequency. This happens because of the filtering effect of the load and rotor inertia — a stepper motor system acts as a low-pass filter.


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Route 88 Bridge to Undergo Maintenance This Week
The Route 88 bridge over the Point Pleasant Canal will undergo periodic openings this week, and could produce traffic delays…
The Route 88 bridge in Point Pleasant Borough. (Credit: Google Maps)
The Route 88 bridge over the Point Pleasant Canal will undergo periodic openings this week, and could produce traffic delays.
According to the Point Pleasant Police Department, the state Department of Transportation will be opening the bridge for 15 minutes at a time, each hour between 9.30 p.m. and 5.30 a.m., through Thursday.
The openings will allow cable and general bridge maintenance to be performed, the police department said.
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Q&A: Release of Fukushima nuclear plant treated water into sea
KYODO NEWS - Apr 13, 2021 - 08:32 | All, Japan, 3/11 Fukushima
The following are questions and answers on the Japanese government's plan to release treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant into the sea.
Photo taken April 13, 2021, from Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, shows the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. (Kyodo)
Q: What is the current situation at the Fukushima plant?
A: Struck by a magnitude-9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami that hit Japan's northeast on March 11, 2011, the No. 1-3 reactors at the plant suffered core meltdowns, prompting more than 160,000 people around the complex to evacuate at one point.
Although plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. plans to decommission the destroyed complex between 2041 and 2051, how to dispose of some 1.25 million tons of low-toxicity radioactive water accumulated in tanks on the premises has been one of the major challenges in the process.
Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 8, 2021, shows tanks storing treated radioactive water on the premises of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant crippled in the March 2011 huge earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Q: What exactly is the treated radioactive water?
A: The plant continues to generate massive amounts of radiation-tainted water that is used to cool melted nuclear fuel, together with groundwater that sweeps into its facilities.
The water is treated using an advanced liquid processing system, or ALPS, to remove most contaminants, but the process cannot get rid of tritium, which is difficult to separate from water.
Q: What is tritium?
A: Tritium is a byproduct of nuclear reactors, but exists in the natural world. It is said to pose little risk to human health and the ecosystem as the material does not present an external exposure even when water containing it comes in contact with skin. Even if one drinks the water, as long as the tritium concentration is low, the amounts of tritium will not accumulate in the body and will soon be excreted.
Q: Why does the treated water need to be disposed?
A: With the amount of water increasing roughly by 140 tons a day, the total volume kept in more than 1,000 tanks on the Fukushima complex's premises reached 1.25 million tons as of March. The storage capacity of water tanks is expected to run out as early as the fall of 2022. TEPCO claims the entire decommissioning process will be hampered if it needs to keep building storage tanks within the premises.
Q: How will the treated water be dealt with?
A: The water is diluted with seawater to lower its tritium levels below government standards -- a practice common in the industry at home and abroad.
Photo taken April 12, 2021, shows fishing boats at a port in the Fukushima Prefecture town of Namie, near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant crippled in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
Q: What do fishermen think of the release?
A: The government's decision has been delayed due to strong opposition from local fishermen amid concerns about the perceived safety of marine products seen in the aftermath of the 2011 nuclear crisis.
Q: How does the international community view the release?
A: The International Atomic Energy Agency has supported the plan, with Director General Rafael Grossi saying in an interview with Kyodo News late last year the organization is prepared to send a monitoring team, should it be requested.
However, neighboring China, South Korea and Taiwan, which continue to restrict imports of Japanese agricultural and fishery products from areas around Fukushima, have voiced concerns about the possible negative impact on people's health and fishery businesses resulting from the release.
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CUHK and Shun Hing Group Present the Lecture Series in Arts and HumanitiesRenowned Confucian Scholar Prof. Tu Weiming Speaks on the Sense of Cultural Identity in the Global Chinese Community
https://www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/en/?p=48505
Prof. Tu Weiming
Prof. Joseph Sung, Vice-Chancellor and President of CUHK gives a welcoming address.
Ms. Cynthia Mong, Director of Shun Hing Electronic Trading Co. Ltd. (middle) and Prof. Joseph Sung, Vice-Chancellor and President of CUHK (left) present a souvenir to Prof. Tu Weiming.
The lecture draws a full house of 450 audience.
To mark the 60th anniversary of the Shun Hing Group and the 50th anniversary of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2013, the Shun Hing Lecture Series in Arts and Humanities has been established with a generous donation from the Shun Hing Group. The lecture series aims at promoting cultural knowledge and scholarly pursuits in the arts and humanities. Distinguished scholars from four major areas, Music, Drama and Film, Literature and Art, as well as Philosophy and Thinking, will be invited to give public lectures. The first lecture of the series was presented by Prof. Tu Weiming, a world-renowned scholar in Confucianism on 'A Truly Meaningful "We" in Cultural China: How Is It Possible?' today (7 March) on CUHK campus. The lecture attracted an audience of over 450, including CUHK staff and students, members of education and public sectors.
In his lecture, Professor Tu shared his views on the sense of cultural identity in the global Chinese Community. The Chinese in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and in the global community have endeavored to embrace and to advocate their precious culture, while building a strong sense of cultural identity. He hoped such a cultural identity could be established in a humanistic spirit of freedom, diversity, inclusiveness and self-reflection, and most important, incorporating a vision of communal, critical, rational and benevolent self-consciousness.
Since its establishment, CUHK has committed itself as much to teaching and academic research as to upholding the humanistic spirit. Through a wide selection of programmes on offer in general education, exchange and social services programmes, as well as different kinds of lectures and conferences. CUHK strives to encourage students and the public to improve their humanistic quality by thinking critically and appreciating different cultures and philosophies. The Shun Hing Lecture Series in Arts and Humanities launched by CUHK and the Shun Hing Group aims to inspire participants to understand and appreciate the art of living, to review their current state and explore the prospects, so that they become all-round global citizens with a strong sense of social responsibility and a heart to serve.
The Shun Hing Group has been a staunch supporter of CUHK since the 1960's. Over the years, major donations have been received to finance scholarships, exchange and training programmes at the University, as well as the Internet-based Robotics Inter-School Competition to nurture diverse and creative talents. Thanks to the generous support of Shun Hing Education and Charity Fund, Chair Professorship of Mathematics was set up at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences; various laboratories, Shun Hing Institute of Advanced Engineering, and William Mong Eye Centre of Tsinghua University & CUHK were also established for engineering and medical developments.
Biography of Prof. Tu Weiming
Prof. Tu Weiming, Director of the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies at Peking University and Research Professor at Harvard University, was born in Kunming in China. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Tunghai University in Taiwan in 1961, Master and Doctoral degrees from Harvard University in 1963 and 1968 respectively. Professor Tu taught Chinese intellectual history, philosophies of China, and Confucian humanism at Harvard University from 1981 to 2010. He was a visiting professor at Tunghai University in Taiwan, Princeton University in the United States, University of California at Berkeley, Peking University inChina, Taiwan University, CUHK, and L'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. He also holds honorary professorships from Zhejiang, Sun Yat-sen and Renmin universities, and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, all in China.
Professor Tu has been awarded honorary degrees at the universities of Lehigh, Michigan State (United States), Shandong (China), Tunghai (Taiwan), Lingnan (Hong Kong), King's College (London), Macau University, and Soka University (Japan). He was invited by the United Nations to be a Member of the Group of Eminent and International Advisors of Rahman University in Malaysia. Professor Tu is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the recipient of Lifelong Achievement Award by the American Humanist Society. He has authored nine books in Chinese and English, more than a hundred articles on the modern transformation of Confucian humanism, and a five-volume collection of his work in Chinese.
About Shun Hing Group
Established in 1953, the Shun Hing Group is the sole agent for Panasonic products in Hong Kong and Macau manufactured by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (now known as Panasonic Corporation). Over the past 60 years, the Group has remained a firm Hong Kong market leader in their field. In addition to serving as sole agent for home appliances, audio-visual products, telecommunications systems, business equipment and office furniture, the Shun Hing Group is also involved in engineering, contracting and electrical appliance servicing. Logistics, advertising production, system installation and maintenance, as well as property investment and management in China are among the Group's other core activities.
The Shun Hing Group has around 1,800 employees and is committed to its mission of working in pursuit of quality and excellence to develop a 'total quality' corporate culture based on continual improvement. In 2008, the Group won a Corporate Certificate awarded by HKQAA that recognizes its achievement of having all operating companies of the Group to implement ISO9001 Quality Management System. With unceasing efforts, the Group has been implementing Green Office Practices to protect environment. Six Group companies have achieved certification to ISO14001 Environmental Management System with the rest to follow suit.
True to the spirit of give and take, the Shun Hing Education and Charity Fund was established in 1984. The Fund has donated approximately HK$500 million towards projects in Hong Kong and China that benefit education, health care, recreation, sports and environmental protection over the years.
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Чемпионат четырёх континентов по фигурному катанию 2017 () прошёл с 14 по 19 февраля 2017 года в «Ледовом дворце Каннын» (Республика Корея). Фигуристы из Америки, Азии, Африки и Океании выявили победителей в мужском и женском одиночном катании, в парном катании и танцах на льду. Чемпионат стал тестовым соревнованием перед Олимпийскими играми 2018.

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Banned Books @ CCC Library
Celebrate free and open access to information, fight censorship, and champion the freedom to read by checking out a banned book or two from CCC Library.
Banned Books Week 2022
Banned books (print)
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What are "Banned Books"?
Banned books are books that "have been considered unfit to read in schools or have in libraries. These books have been the target of censorship due to their contents. Books may be banned locally, but in some instances are banned nationally as well. A banned book is not illegal to read, but may be difficult to find. It is not uncommon for a book to be banned from some schools, but be on the reading lists for others" (Information Commons, Butler University).
Want to read a banned book? Awesome.
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Banned Books Week is an annual event (since 1982!) celebrating the freedom to read, advocating for the free and open access information, and fighting censorship. Banned Books Week is always the last week of September. Learn more about frequently-challenged and Top Ten lists of banned books.
The ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom tracked 729 challenges to library, school, and university materials and services in 2021. Of the 1597 books that were targeted, here are the most challenged, along with the reasons cited for censoring the books:
Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
Reasons: Banned, challenged, and restricted for LGBTQIA+ content, and because it was considered to have sexually explicit images
Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison
Reasons: Banned and challenged for LGBTQIA+ content and because it was considered to be sexually explicit
All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson
Reasons: Banned and challenged for LGBTQIA+ content, profanity, and because it was considered to be sexually explicit
Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez
Reasons: Banned, challenged, and restricted for depictions of abuse and because it was considered to be sexually explicit
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Reasons: Banned and challenged for profanity, violence, and because it was thought to promote an anti-police message and indoctrination of a social agenda
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Reasons: Banned and challenged for profanity, sexual references and use of a derogatory term
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
Reasons: Banned and challenged because it was considered sexually explicit and degrading to women
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Reasons: Banned and challenged because it depicts child sexual abuse and was considered sexually explicit
This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson
Reasons: Banned, challenged, relocated, and restricted for providing sexual education and LGBTQIA+ content.
Beyond Magenta by Susan Kuklin
Reasons: Banned and challenged for LGBTQIA+ content and because it was considered to be sexually explicit.
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It now appears clear what has happened to the £600K
19 June 2021 Martin James Keatings No Comments News
Below is the briefing from the treasurer of the SNP given to the NEC, I'll not rehash my comments of re-appointing a treasurer beaten in a fair party member election due to lack of transparency, in favour of a treasurer who wanted to bring transparency but decided to resign as a result of it not being forthcoming. You can read my previous articles here:
The SNP could end accusations about party finances tomorrow.
The SNP has "appointed?" a new treasurer
I reserved judgement about the 600K, now I'm not.
So let's go through the treasurer's report then shall we? Those of a disposition likely to trigger the kicking of a monitor from their desk may wish to leave now.
The list of points begins with the external audit and review by the electoral commission being founded upon as the be-all and end-all of verification. Two things I will say with this, firstly an external audit confirms that transactions are in line with what is disclosed to the electoral commission, and the electoral commission only requires certain things to be disclosed. It actually profers no assurance whatsoever.
The second point is pretty simple, that donations come in different forms of payment and are recorded as either being cheque, bacs or card. Nothing of noteworthiness at this point.
The third point is just about the fact that they put a little note next to a donation to say why the person donated in the first place and if they expressed a certain intention for its usage.
The fourth point is where things start to take a turn into darker territory. It states "in due course, as money is utilised for such purpose, the balance of any such total is reduced until the obligation is expunged". That's some clever wording because if funds are available for usage and those specific funds donated are used for the specific purpose they were donated, there is no obligation created. The obligation only comes with debt to something. It's complicated, but in simple terms, if Bob donates a fiver and says he wants it used for leaflets, then the party buy leaflets using his donated fiver, there's no obligation because the amount is immediately scored off in the books.
The next point elaborates further. "Donations made to the independence related fundraising appeals have been treated in this way. They are recorded within HQ as being related to these appeals and amounts equivalent to the sums raised will be spent for the intended purpose. "
Keywords of note here are "amounts equivalent to the sums raised". In other words, what this is saying (while trying to confuse the reader) is that bobs fiver is not being spent on leaflets, what they are saying is an "equivelant" fiver will be spent on leaflets and we'll get to this in a minute.
It goes on to say "Of course, the SNP is the party of independence and, as such, every penny we spend – directly or indirectly – is in support of winning independence." This is great political spin that is intended to try and calm the reader and brace them for what comes next.
It goes on: "However, through this internal process we will ensure that an amount equivalent to the sums raised from these appeals will go directly to our work to secure a referendum and win independence". There are those words again "equivelant sum". Keep reading!
This of course sets up point 6. "To be clear, by the end of 2020 a total of £666,953 had been raised through the independence related appeals and coded as such through the internal process. These donations are also included in – and have been reconciled with – the total amount for donation included in the party accounts from 2017 to 2020. Up until 21st December 2020, a total of £51,760 of expenditure had been applied against this income. The balance remains "earmarked"- through the internal process explained above – for independence related campaigning. It is worth noting that there are other items of expenditure that it would have been perfectly legitimate for us to apply against this income but we have chosen not to do so. In other words, we are taking a very strict approach to ensure that this income supports expenditure directly related to the campaign for independence."
I shall stop here for a moment and explain. What they are saying is that the money was never "ringfenced" at all and that the following statement about the funds being "interwoven" throughout the party accounts is complete and utter nonsense. IT was never ringfenced. It was earmarked.
The statements about "equivelant amounts" are pure political spin. What he is saying is that they record all of the amounts that people have donated and the things those donors want the money spent on. At that point, they pull a shell game. What he is saying is the SNP have likely spent the money.
In simple terms, the SNP mark all the donations from the likes of bob which were specifically donated for the purposes of indyref 2 and they get a total amount. From this, they create an account for that type of donation. It then seems they spend the money on whatever they like (like elections) which then creates a black hole in that fund. At that point, they then use member dues and future donations to refill that black hole.
Simply put they are putting specific donations for specific reasons into the fund, then lending that money to themselves for other purposes (all the bobs and all their fivers) and spending it. They are then using members dues and other donations to pay for things related to the specific purposes of that fund. In other words, bob donates his fiver for the indyref 2 funds, the SNP spend it on an election. Sandra then donates another fiver (the "equivalent fiver") which the SNP then spend for "indyref2 related stuff" bought at the time Sandra donated. Is it illegal? Possibly not, however, if you did that in business, namely using one client's money to fill a black hole in losses from the money you took from another, you'd be charged with running a Ponzi scheme!
Earmarked and ringfenced are not the same thing. Earmarked simply means a marker to indicate where money should be spent and recorded. Ringfencing means putting it in a separate account and not touching it, only withdrawing money from it when you are buying or paying for something specific to the purposes of that fund.
So basically put, the SNP have spent the money and are now paying it back from current donations, future donations and members dues. It kind of reminds you of what new labour did with state pensions, where they took the sizeable pot which the electorate was paying into, and which was a self-sustaining fund there for peoples retirement, and changed the system to one where people paying tax today, pay for pensions paid today. Just so they could spend the pot. I never thought I would hear myself say this, but it looks like the SNP really have gone New Labour.
I'm sorry but bobs fiver should only be spent on indyref 2 expenditure, not used to loan to the SNP for election campaigns, then replaced in the future. It's patently dishonest. Bob donated in good faith that his money would be spent for a specific purpose, not used and then replaced later on. But it's the non-SNP members that should be livid about this, who donated to the fund believing it was distinct and separate from the SNP and was expressly for Indyref 2. It was not to be used for the SNP's own electoral advantage.
As for the comment in the next paragraph about the SNP not being a charity et al, well that's just unnecessary posturing. As for the comments about other "legitimate" costs they could have applied. That's utter trash, by their own admission they haven't done any work in preparation for indyref 2. So how exactly does no work amount to £50K+ in expenditure?
The joke really comes home in para 9, where they say "there may be a need for a further fundraising exercise in early 2022 as we approach critical political watersheds". Well! I can tell you, I ain't going to be one of the ones donating and I am sure many others won't as well. Why? Because we know where the money is going, namely to cover the money spent previously for purposes other than which it was intended!
There's a reason Ponzi Schemes are illegal. They are an investing scam which generates returns for earlier investors with money taken from later investors. This is similar to a pyramid scheme in that both are based on using new investors' funds to pay the earlier backers. In otherwords your liabilities get wider and wider and wider, and eventually you hit a brick wall where your income starts to contract/drop rather than continue to climb. At that point you don't have enough funds to pay back the missing funds, the crap hits the fan. In business, people lose livelihoods. Point and case, Enron! With a political party, the likelyhood is that the party collapses – it's unsustainable.
But what could possibly cause such a contraction for the SNP with respect to their income? You guessed it! Scotland becoming independent, where the "party of independence" is no longer required due to the fact that all parties are parties within an independent nation. Fewer supporters mean less income, less income and the shit hits the fan and isn't evenly distributed!
Don't take my word on it though, because here is the report!


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L'espèce Rhagio primaevus est publiée par Théobald en 1937. L'holotype MA 126 vient de la Collection de l'Institut de Géologie de Montpellier, collection constituée par Monsieur de Sardi, et communiquée par M. Thoral professeur de géologie à la faculté des sciences de Montpellier.

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 Aix-en-Provence dans les Bouches-du-Rhône.

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Insecte décrit en 1937
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World Weaver Press, 9781732254640, 220pp.
After her trip to Japan, the Head of Portland Kind calls Koi home to help solve a murder. The body of a powerful magical being was found in the witch's hut in Forest Park, along with a strange, haunting quotation about dreams and death written in blood. Can Koi discover who seems to be calling out a Baku before others from her new-found family die?


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Education or Nuisance
What Do U Think Madam Education Minister?
Sir Frank Peters :
Why are children's heavy schoolbooks not produced in two equal parts with Part 2 only carried to school after the completion of Part 1?
It's a well-known truism that children (especially in a third-world country), who learn to read, write, add and subtract; provide a much better future for themselves. There can never be enough emphasis given to the importance of education, but even the best of medicines are best served in adequate beneficial dosages. Too much of a good thing may be harmful.
What happens if there's too much education forced down children's throats at an early age (with or without the horrific evil scourge of corporal punishment)? It's likely to create a bottleneck in their learning. There's no time for them to pursue other equally (or even more) important activities that fashion and mould their lives for the better. With the combined pressure of school and tutoring, there's very little time for children to actually experience being what they are, children.
School should be a place where both child and teacher want to be and where learning (and teaching) is fun and rewarding… a Jamuna Fun Park of sorts. Every day there should be something new to be absorbed… a new joy ride to enjoy... something happens that makes being at school all the worthwhile that a child (or teacher) doesn't want to miss.
A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instil a love of learning that lasts an entire lifetime. The mediocre teacher tells robot style, can't explain, and makes learning lacklustre and boring.
Pupils learn best when happy
Children (and adults) learn best when they're happy, stress-free, and the lessons are delivered in a non-violent multicoloured fun environment!
Since launching my anti-corporal punishment campaign in schools and madrasas almost eight years ago, I've come into contact with many admirable and noble teachers in the city, suburbs and villages who have the best interests of their pupils at heart.
Over the years, these teachers have become accustomed to the five-and-a-half-day school week, but I have yet to meet a teacher who actually applauds or agrees with it. In these modern, advanced times, the five-and-a-half-day school week just doesn't make good sense and, in my opinion at least, is counter-productive.
I think the five-and-a-half-day school week is a family-size nuisance and detrimental to the advancement of child, family, and Bangladesh.
Why? It causes colossal unnecessary inconvenience and puts senseless strain on teachers, pupils, and their families who need a 48-hour meaningful break to unwind and refresh. The five-and-a-half-day school week just isn't worth the trouble and inconvenience.
The benefits of a five-and-a-half-day school week as opposed to a five-day week are none! In fact, it's quite the opposite.
Sure there is the need to go through the syllabus and provide for recovering days lost due to political activities by having extra classes at the weekend, if necessary.
A two-day free weekend, on the other hand is powerful, invigorating and beneficial. It gives both teachers and pupils alike, time for body and mind to relax, recuperate, and to be recharged in readiness for the following week. After all, life is like an orange and schooling is a mere segment.
In bygone years when there was a high illiteracy rate in Bangladesh, a five-and-a-half day school might have been justified… just might… but times have changed, Bangladesh has advanced and systems need to adjust accordingly.
Also being open for a half-day not only causes tremendous inconvenience, but also is NOT optimum utilization of school resources. It would be better to allow the school facilities to be used at the weekends for other socially beneficial purposes, such as foreign language classes, sewing/embroidery classes for poor women, exhibition/sale of local handicraft or sports/drama/musical activities, or even for extra-curricular activities of the keen students and teachers.
Teachers are no different to other government workers who work only five days a week. They, too, want to spend time and relax with their families and friends, participate in their children's activities, visit their in-laws in distant locations, pursue hobbies and interests and generally clear their minds of the daily hurdles they face trying to teach a classroom of 100 or more pupils. In fact, they most probably need (and deserve) the rest much, much more than the majority of other government workers.
At present, six days a week, the unsung heroes of the nation take the school home with them, perch themselves in a corner to correct and grade papers and prepare the following day's lesson plans. Even when they're not in school, they're in school! They get to enjoy diminished quality time with their loved ones (and vice-versa) and this can - and does - manifest in frustration, stress and non-intentional corporal punishment of innocent children both in their homes and their classrooms.
With a two-day free weekend, teachers would get the time to leisurely buy their weekly groceries, attend to their domestic chores, visit friends, visit places and visit parents in distant locations. They would have sufficient free time from when they leave school on a Wednesday afternoon to when they return on a Saturday morning to do something worthwhile, beneficial, different and enjoyable in a fresh, relaxed state of mind.
Virtually, the two-day weekend would become a two-and-a-half-day weekend for both teachers and pupils. The chances are they would return to the classroom fully refreshed, fully charged, and in a happy state of mind that would spillover onto the pupils and generate an ideal fun/friendly atmosphere of mutual respect for learning. That can't be achieved if they're overworked, listless, lacking job satisfaction, frustrated, and pulling out their hair (or that of the pupils!).
Similarly, if children attend school only five days a week they would get to spend more time with their friends, family, visiting their grandparents, playing sports, travelling, relaxing and having fun. There would be more time to develop their minds, their sporting bodies, and broaden their education. Their attitude towards school and learning would be measurably more positive and less stressful. Be mindful of the adage, 'all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy'.
With so much of his/her time demanded by school and tutorial activities, it is difficult for a child to enjoy the wonders of childhood nowadays and experience the magnificence and beauty of the greater world... the bigger picture. Childhood is a child's most precious destination they get to visit only once. Many adults would give all their wealth to experience it again.
There is little to no wisdom in attending school for a half-day, especially during the rainy season. It's something teachers and pupils do, but they totally resent it. Sitting for a half day in damp-soaked clothing, soggy school shoes, and feeling miserable is not conducive to good learning or good teaching.
Many children walk long distances and arrive home from school hungry, tired, stressed, and depressed because of the excessive amount of homework facing them, not to mention the ton of books they carry in both directions, which is ridiculous.
(Why heavy children's schoolbooks not produced in two equal parts with Part 2 only carried to school after the completion of Part 1 is beyond me… but that's another story.)
The pupils return to school the following day possibly with eyestrain, headaches, fatigued, stressed, grumpy, angry, and depressed from their late hours of study and then find it extremely difficult to pay attention in class to soak-in new information.
Who gains? - Burnout and stress are not conducive to good learning (or teaching).
An extra half-day away from school not only provides the opportunity for the mind, body and soul to recuperate and recharge, it gives older children the opportunity of doing part-time work, earning pocket money and making a valuable contribution to the family or performing family chores.
In summary, the five-and-a-half day school week has passed its use-by date and needs to be abolished. It lacks justification, imagination, and vision of what a person's life could be… what it should be… and screams for change. Overseas they're moving towards a four-day school week, but I don't think Bangladesh is quite ready for that, just yet.
Advancement in society always requires change, ridding itself of the old technology and adapting the new and moving forward with confidence and speed. Cylinder recordings… gramophone records…VHS videos… cassettes…cassette players… floppy discs… Fax machines… Tape recorders… all had expiry dates.
The same principle applies to how education is taught in our schools now. We can embrace the change, greet the new world, or lag behind and suffer the consequences.
What do you think, Education Minister Dr. Dipu Moni, MP?
(Sir Frank Peters, former newspaper and magazine publisher and editor, a humanitarian, an award-winning thought-provoking writer, and a royal Goodwill Ambassador who has relentlessly campaigned for eight years to abolish corporal punishment in Bangladeshi schools and madrasas)
Adequate relief materials needed to face the deluge
FLOOD situations in the country's North and Northeastern districts including, Kurigram, Jamalpur, Gaibandha, Bogura, Rangpur, Sirajganj, Tangail, Sylhet and Cox's Bazar, are being deteriorated as floodwaters are submerging new
Ensure hassle-free higher education for them
THE results of this year's Higher Secondary Certificate and equivalent examinations under country's 10 education boards were announced yesterday where the combined pass rate rose by 7. 29 percent
Today's Journalism
Syed M. Fuad :I am often amazed at the tendency of certain sections of the media to read too much into something when little exists, and often to read
Arifa Noor :Years ago, I heard Beena Sarwar (journalist and editor) narrate a story involving veteran journalist Aziz Siddiqui, who was part of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan
Punish the corrupts
TWO government probe committees have found anomalies involving Tk 36.4 crore in purchasing furniture and other household items for officials of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Pabna. The bodies, formed
Accidents at level crossings
A newly-married couple and eight others of the bridal party were killed when a Dhaka-bound train rammed their microbus at an unmanned level crossing in Sirajganj's Ullapara upazila on Monday
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed :Satellite channel, one of the most outstanding inventions of humankind, has become a matter of controversy. Any scientific invention, which has widespread application, gives birth to
Coral Reefs Under Threat
Al Nahian Avro :Coral reefs are the highly diversified symbiotic ecosystem in the marine-realm, covering 1% of the ocean and providing shelter to almost 25% of marine species. Reef-building corals
About ICC probe and punishment of Myanmar Generals
A TEAM of investigators of the International Criminal Court is due in Dhaka today to prepare for the preliminary probe into crimes committed against minority Rohingya community in Rakhine of
Killing inside court: Police role questioned
AN accused of a murder case was killed in front of a judge at a Cumilla court on Monday. The incident took place when an accused youth stabbed another one


Now you can deter robbery, theft, and vandalism without the high cost of a real security camera. When placed in your home or business, even the most sophisticated criminals will think the premises are guarded by a high-tech surveillance system and go in search of an easier target.
In fact, this is an actual dome surveillance camera that has been modified into a "dummy" or fake security camera. This dome dummy camera is designed to imitate the small, high tech security cameras on the market today. This unit contains a flashing red LED light which draws extra attention to the camera, particularly at night.
The flashing light is optional; to have it simply install 2 "AA" batteries (not included). NOTE: to stop or start the light flashing simply push in on the dome or lens part of camera. Installs quickly and easily to the ceiling or wall using the included screws. The base measures 4 1/2" across and the dome is 2 3/4" high.


INIFD Chandigarh organised Annual Convocation Ceremony for the class of 2015-2016 where the Star Bollywood Designer, ExclusiveStylist to Salman Khan & mentor to INIFD students, Ashley Rebello was the Honourable Guest.
INIFD Corporate Director Ms. Ritu Kochhar & INIFD Director Mr. Ashok Kaushik felicitated the Guest with trophy. Star Bollywood Designer Ashley Rebello felicitated to the INIFDstudents with Young Achievers & Student of the Year Award.
Mentor to INIFD Students, Ashley Rebello addressed the budding student designers & felicitated the pass out students with the certificates & Trophies.The students were also felicitated for their achievements and were recognized for their creativity & brilliant performances throughout the year.
Star Bollywood Designer & Stylist, Ashley Rebello also conducted the workshop at INIFD Chandigarh & shared the finer intricacies of the glamorous world of Fashion Design with thestudents.
The Designer Workshop of Ashley Rebello was a great learning experience for the INIFD students. Everyone enjoyed the celebrations with full enthusiasm & got their pictures clicked posing with smiles on their faces.