Data on the clinical characteristics of pediatric tuberculosis (TB) are limited. This retrospective study was performed to evaluate the demographic characteristics and clinical features of pediatric TB.
The medical records of children with TB at Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, between 1992 and 2002 were analyzed for demographic and clinical characteristics, and treatment regimens.
103 children aged 0 to 14 years with probable or confirmed TB were enrolled. Ninety patients (87.4%) had pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) and 13 (12.6%) had extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB). The mean ± standard deviation age of children with PTB and with EPTB was 6.0 ± 4.2 years and 4.5 ± 5.4 years, respectively. Household contact was the route of infection for 44.4% of patients with PTB and 7.7% of patients with EPTB. TB in children aged 0 to 4 years most commonly involved the lung (53.3%) or the extrapulmonary region (69.2%). Common symptoms of PTB were cough (81.1%) and fever (33.3%). The most frequent sites of pediatric EPTB were bone (n = 4) and cervical lymph nodes (n = 4). Tuberculin skin test (TST; ≧10 mm) was positive in 69.6% of children with PTB (55/79) and 37.5% of children with EPTB (3/8). Children with PTB had a lower positive acid-fast bacilli rate (40.0%) and Mycobacterium tuberculosis culture (27.8%). Eighty percent of patients infected through household contact had a positive TST.
Prolonged cough, household TB contact, and positive TST were characteristic factors for children with PTB in southern Taiwan. Young age was associated with high morbidity.


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HS2 Action Alliance: Government Spending Review – why have they missed cutting HS2?
19 October 2010 – It is expected that the government will confirm in tomorrow's Spending Review that it is planning to fund HS2, the high speed rail scheme. The capital cost of this project is forecast to be some £33billion.
HS2 Action Alliancefinds it inexplicable that a project with such a poor business case could possibly be thought better value for money than the benefits that we as a country are being forced to give up.
The HS2Action Alliance has analysed the case for HS2 and can prove:
1: HS2 is not a sound investment
Commercially HS2 will lose money. It will cost £25.5bn for the first phase of development, but only generate £15bn of extra fares.
The Net Benefit Ratio (NBR) – 2.7 – detailed in HS2's business case depends on a number of unrealistic assumptions:
That all business time spent on trains currently is unproductive
That there will be a huge increase in demand for travel, some 267%, despite clear evidence of demand saturation
HS2 Ltd say that if demand falls short by just over 20% (still a 190% increase) then the NBR will not reach 1.5, an unacceptable ratio
The cost of damaging the environment and property blight on the route is excludedfrom these calculations
2: HS2 will not deliver major wider economic regional benefits or transform the North
DfT/HS2 Ltd say there are benefits (worth £3.6bn) but this is mainly from additional local transport using freed-up existing capacity not faster connectivity.
The redistributive effects will benefit London – not the regions. London is the UK's dominant city. It is seven times bigger than the next biggest city, unlike other major West European capitals that are only twice as big.
DfT's assumptions imply that trips to London will grow at three times the rate of those from London to the regions – taking money from the regions and spending it in London.
The current emphasis on additional transformational benefits to redress the North/South divide is neither based on theory nor empirical evidence. It is a smokescreen to hide the weaknesses in the business case and the absence of an environmental case.
3: A new railway is not needed to solve the rail capacity problem
We can generate 65% more capacity with just extra rolling stock on West Coast Main Line (WCML) and there is massive capacity potential on Chiltern Railways. 65% more capacity satisfies the requirement forecasts made by leading authorities. This capacity growth could be generated without disruption.
DfT's own alternative to HS2 (Rail Package 2) de-bottlenecks WCML, delivering required
capacity by running more and longer trains (for a net cost of just £2billion) and gives a better (3.63) NBR than HS2 (2.7). Extra capacity can be developed incrementally against actual need – not relying on long-term forecasts.
Why this option was discarded merits serious investigation.
DfT's explanation that it did not provide sufficient extra capacity – despite it meeting all the demand forecasts – suggests replacing the doubtful policy of 'predict and provide' with the economically squanderous one of 'predict and over-provide'.
4: The UK does not need to catch up with Europe – it is still ahead
The UK – unlike Europe – has had a fast national railway system for a long time. As Sir Rod Eddington said in 2006, the UK has extensive fast inter-city services.
We also have routes capable of 200km/h (125mph) – with quicker rail journey times between the capital and the five largest cities than in other major West European countries:
Averaging 145 minutes in UK
151 minutes in Spain
184 minutes in Italy
221minutes in France
244 minutes in Germany
5: HS2 is not 'green' – it doesn't fit as part of the low carbon economy
Even DfT say it will not reduce CO2 emissions, but it will be 'broadly neutral' (and HS2 Ltd's
sums flatter HS2). Trains capable of 360km/h use more than twice the power of 200km/h trains. 84% of
journeys on HS2 will indisputably create more emissions – all the new journeys (27%) and
those switching from conventional rail (57%). A showcase transport investment such as HS2 should contribute to the UK's target of reducing emissions by 80% by 2050.
6: HS2 will not greatly reduce domestic air travel
To generate sufficient shift from air (8% of HS2 journeys) HS2 Ltd assume a 178%
increase in domestic air travel by 2033 and a third runway at Heathrow.
In reality demand for domestic air travel in the UK has been declining since before the recession, so opportunities for HS2 to displace air travel are reducing, not increasing. Were reductions in domestic services to arise they would be replaced by long haul services that are more polluting.
If you would like to talk to HS2 Action Alliance's spokesperson Hilary Wharf please contact:
Richard Houghton
07803 178 037 or richardwhoughton@gmail.com
About HS2 Action Alliance
HS2 Action Alliance is a not for profit organisation working with over 50 local community groups, which is challenging the case for HS2 and working to getGovernment to take the right decisions.
Communicate the facts about HS2 clearly and accurately.
Provide a channel for local groups to share information and analysis, and pool resources to maximise effectiveness.
Question, evaluate and where appropriate challenge the economic & environmental case for HS2.
Identify and promote alternatives to HS2 that are in the national interest.
Seek to minimise the adverse impacts of HS2 on individuals, communities and the environment.
Work with local action and community groups, other interested organisations and businesses, to improve Government decision making on HS2

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Dilapidated Peckham bungalow sells for nearly £1m
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A pre-fabricated bungalow that has been out of use for more than ten years has been sold for £920,000 at auction. The derelict three bedroom property in increasingly trendy Peckham was sold by the local council on Monday.
Tenants last occupied the 0.06 acre corner plot in 2002, while the bathroom was described on the sales particulars as "not fitted".
The south-east London bungalow, which will require significant refurbishment and modernising, began with a guide price of £590,000, but bidding started at £600,000 and rapidly rose, eventually finishing at £920,000.
While there is no planning permission on the site, it is thought that the buyer will attempt to get permission to build new homes nearby. Peckham has become very popular with young professionals priced out of Clapham and Brixton, with a modern two-bedroom flat nearby to the bungalow currently on the market for £449,950.
"The bungalow on Costa Street provided bidders with an opportunity to acquire a site with great residential development potential, situated close to the popular Bellenden Road," Chris Coleman-Smith, head of Savills Auctions, which sold the property, said. He added that Peckham has become an increasingly sought-after neighbourhood in the last decade. The area was once best known for Only Fools and Horses and social deprivation, now it is witnessing the benefits of years of regeneration and gentrification.
"There was quite a lot of interest in it and bidding started at £600,000, so people weren't messing around," Coleman-Smith added. "Average prices in Peckham Rye now exceed £550,000, so there is certainly scope for the buyer to achieve a good return."
Southwark council, which sold the bungalow, insisted the money raised would go towards improving its current housing stock as well as being invested into new properties.
"Although selling council homes is not something we would normally want to do, sometimes the costs for repairs and refurbishment to bring our older properties to a decent standard are simply too high," Councillor Richard Livingstone, Southwark council's cabinet member for housing, said. "In these cases, we have the option to sell them when they become vacant and use the money to fund this housing investment programme."
He added: "We are extremely pleased that once again we have managed to raise a significant amount of money from the sale of a property that was far past its expected lifespan, to put back into creating better homes for our residents."
In 2013 Southwark council raised nearly £3m from the sale of two large houses in another part of the borough, money that was reserved for the building of 20 new homes. But they have faced criticism from activists who say too much council-owned stock is being sold off to the highest-bidder.
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Why Stop at the Banks? Neil Clark, co-founder of the Campaign for Public Ownership, argues for renationalisation of the railways, utilities and airports.
From The First Post, 14th October 2008.
As the economics pundit Will Hutton put it, "It was only months ago that nationalisation seemed to belong to the world of big band music, ration coupons and nylons." Now, of course, everything has changed.
The Government's acquisition of Northern Rock in February, and this week's £37bn purchase of sizeable public stakes in three of Britain's leading banks, means that the great nationalisation 'taboo', in force since the Thatcherite counter-revolution of 1979, is finally at an end. Even the Sunday Telegraph has been forced to acknowledge that "nationalisation is no longer a dirty word".
Now that the Rubicon has been crossed, the question that needs to be asked is: If the government can nationalise our banks, why can't they bring our malfunctioning railways, our profiteering utility companies and our widely condemned privately owned airports back into public ownership?
In the standard neo-liberal rewrite of Britain's post-war history, nationalisation is portrayed as an unmitigated disaster. Nationalised industries were - so the narrative goes - inefficient, badly run and a drain on the public purse.
But new quantitative research goes a long way to shattering this myth. It shows how productivity growth in publicly owned enterprises compared favourably to that in the private sector and in the US, where utilities remained in private ownership. And the profitability of the nationalised industries improved too, from decade to decade.
Advocates of privatisation claimed that the mass sell-off of Britain's public utilities, public transport and infrastructure would improve efficiency and benefit the consumer. In fact, the opposite occurred. Britain's railways are by far and away the most expensive in Europe, with fares up to 14 times higher than on the continent - despite the new train companies receiving four times more in taxpayers' subsidies than the state-owned British Rail.
It's a similar story with our privatised airports, which, with their tacky, shopping-mall atmosphere are widely regarded as an international disgrace. Thosewho hold to the dogmatic 'publicly-owned bad, privately-owned good' mantra should reflect that Manchester Airport, the one major British airport which remains in public ownership, regularly comes out top in surveys of customer satisfaction and was voted Britain's best regional airport last year.
As for Britain's energy utilities, with record price hikes in place and more on the way, is there anyone now prepared to argue that privatisation has benefited consumers?
As opposed to the arguments for privatisation, the case for re-nationalising the railways, utilities and airports is based not on ideology, but on common sense. Natural monopolies such as railways and utility companies are better in public ownership than in private hands where, because of the need to pay dividends to shareholders, prices paid by consumers will always be higher.
To see how different things could have been, we only have to look across the Channel. While Britain pursued an extremist path in the 1980s and 1990s by "selling off the family silver" - to use former Conservative Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's wonderfully damning phrase - our European neighbours preferred to take a more pragmatic approach.
No other major European country has yet followed the British example and sold off its railways. Even Switzerland, regarded by many as a bastion of the free market, has kept its railways in public ownership. And while British householders face record hikes in their energy bills this winter, the position is rather different on the continent where, due to greater state involvement, price rises are nowhere near as high.
The recent financial meltdown has done much to discredit the neo-liberal ideology that Britain has followed - under both Conservative and Labour governments - over the past 29 years. It's time to ditch that ideology and return to the common sense approach to public ownership that Britain followed after World War Two.
Our unhappy experience since 1979 shows that it's privatisation - and not nationalisation - which deserves to be regarded as a 'dirty word'.


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Maia Morgenstern,
Sergio Rubini
Released: Wednesday, February 25, 2004
Length: 127 minutes
Studio: Icon Productions
Rating: Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.
THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST focuses on the last twelve hours of Jesus of Nazareth's life. The film begins in the Garden of Olives where Jesus has gone to pray after the Last Supper. Jesus must resist the temptations of Satan. Betrayed by Judas Iscariot, Jesus is then arrested and taken within the city walls of Jerusalem where leaders of the Pharisees confront him with accusations of blasphemy and his trial results in a condemnation to death.
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The Passion of the Christ Blu-ray Review
Generally, movies with a religious undertone tend to be controversial and when Jesus is the main character, that controversy tends to be doubled. Such is the case with Mel Gibson's (Braveheart) 2004 film The Passion of The Christ. While it opened to modest acclaim and solid box office numbers, it definitely had its detractors. While the DVD first hit the market over 10 years ago and the Blu-ray definitive edition came out five years later, Icon Productions has now released another version including Digital download.
We all know the Bible stories about Jesus of Nazareth (Jim Caviezel; Person of Interest) and how he was persecuted and killed by the Romans. There have been numerous films depicting his life, death and resurrection. Gibson's version documents the last 12 hours of his life and the torture he endured.
The film begins with Jesus praying in Gethsemane as we see Judas (Luca Lionello; Cover Boy…Last Revolution) betraying him and receiving his reward. Jesus is then taken to Sanhedrin to face the Priests and the accusations against him. He does not deny he is the son of God and is sentenced to death for Blasphemy. Jesus is then sent to Pontius Pilate (Hristo Naumov Shopov; Undisputed 3: Redemption) who, while seeing no reason to condemn him to death, eventually bends to the will of the people and orders Jesus's crucifixion. We then see his torture and death.
This telling of the classic religious story is slightly different than most. While there are a few details that stray from the Bible story, such as Jesus killing a serpent while he is praying in Garden of Gethsemane, the majority of it is what we have come to expect. However, this version is also extremely violent and bloody, garnering a hard "R" rating when it first came out and turning off some viewers; hence, much of the controversy. The torture scene is difficult to watch and the moments when they nail his hands to the cross rival many of the best slasher films for blood and gore.
The cast stands out as one of the best things about the film. Shopov and Lionello are very good and Maia Morgenstern (Ulysses' Gaze) as Jesus' Mother, Mary, is excellent. Of course, Caviezel has a career defining performance as Jesus, elevating the movie from a decent film to great one. His ability to portray emotion with nothing more than a look transcends the story and makes the audience feel his eyes as if they were burning a hole directly through us.
Gibson does a terrific job directing, for the most part. His vision is clear as we see various vantage points throughout the film, including moments through Jesus' eyes that are haunting. Unfortunately, the effects are cheesy, especially when the temple breaks apart. I felt like I was on that old Disaster! ride at Universal Studios Orlando. Also, the androgynous, albino Satan was weird and distracting.
The Blu-ray is presented in 1080p high definition video, which helps give the realistic feel. Watching Jesus' flesh being torn from his body is chilling and the blood dripping from him is gruesome. The DTS-HD master 5.1 audio is crisp and clear and the dialogue doesn't get lost.
The combo pack doesn't offer any new extras, other than Spanish subtitles, to go along with the already present English ones. Otherwise, the minimal extras include an insightful audio commentary, a re-cut version of the film and Biblical footnotes that are even more distracting than the subtitles and music commentary. The Digital download is a nice added feature as well.
If you are a Christian, you will mostly like enjoy this telling. As a Jew, the anti-Semitic undertones made me uncomfortable and annoyed. Most other religious groups may find the telling interesting if not bloody.
Grade: C+
-- Allison Hazlett-Rose
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Apple and Hollywood – The Big Sony Danger
By Rob Enderle / August 18, 2017 August 18, 2017
There is an old saying about people that don't learn from history being destined to repeat the mistakes of the past. That may play out here as Apple considers spending a billion dollars to create their own media content. You see back in the 1990s Sony came up with the idea that RCA had it right – that if you could blend content and hardware you could own the market. At the time, Sony was dominant in music players (Walkman), receivers, TVs and professional movie and TV recording gear, but on VCRs they were being overshadowed. So, they bought into movie, TV, and music production and the result was they nearly went out of business.
Let's talk about why going into content could be a really bad thing for Apple.
It's A Very Different Business
I grew up near Hollywood and spent about 4 years trying to be an actor and have known a lot of folks in the industry over the years. Entertainment is a very different business than high tech, it is heavily unionized, revenue and profits are widely shared, there are a lot of things done as a practice that would get you fired in other industries, and the creative types that define the industry are exceedingly hard to manage.
It also can consume stupid amounts of money. Projects that cost hundreds of millions of dollars aren't unusual and there have been impressive successes on efforts costing thousands. This can lead to massive underspending and massive overspending. The first can create the impression that you only bring out crap doing significant damage to the brand, and the last crater the firm's valuation particularly if the movie does poorly in the box office.
The industry is also made up of a lot of people good at presenting as something they aren't. Just picking people that are truly competent over those that are posers can – in and of itself – be incredibly daunting. Finally, the unions in the industry are unusually strong and can easily shut down production not only at the firm but for the entire industry from time to time. Tech firms like Apple, which are largely union free, don't have a great history with working with unions.
Sony's Screw Up
At the heart of the Sony problem was a culture that distributed decision making. This made it hard to keep to the original concept, which was that content was going to be subordinate to hardware. Instead, for some screwy reason, hardware became subordinate to content. So, Sony hardware for music had massive Digital Rights Management (DRM) layers so they could play the content and no one could steal it, while that same content played just fine on the Apple iPod without all that crap. The result was that while the content business remained relatively strong, hardware – the whole Walkman effort – failed and Apple took over. On video content, there was no real advantage with Sony hardware so it just became a distraction and Sony TVs, VCRs, DVD players, and related efforts all suffered.
Amazon Counterpoint
Now Amazon has successfully done content and it hasn't harmed their core business at all. In fact, it has enhanced it. But Amazon isn't a hardware player, they are a retailer, and they are basically selling some things they create. The Echo line, Kindle line, and some accessories all move reasonably well, as does some Amazon core content though much of what they move is owned by other studios and third-party players. They aren't really in the class of a full sized movie studio yet and the effort simply enhances the membership privileges with Prime. Finally, while they do pay to have content created, they mostly keep that effort separate from their main operations and so it hasn't become, yet anyway, much of a distraction.
Sadly, Apple is structured and has a culture closer to Sony's than Amazon's. In fact when Steve Jobs rebuilt Apple last decade he used Sony as a template. The result is that while their retail effort is stronger than say HP's, they aren't in Amazon's class and they have a tendency toward closed ecosystems. This means Apple content is likely only to play on Apple hardware. This means that, rather than being an iterative broad revenue add it will be limited to people who have Apple hardware who also want exclusive Apple content. A vastly smaller potential base to buy the content than Amazon or Netflix enjoy.
Wrapping Up: The Odds Aren't Good For Apple
Given the Sony lesson, the odds aren't good for Apple. Yes, they successfully brought out a smartphone when no one thought they could do that either, but that was with Steve Jobs leading and Tim Cook is no Steve Jobs. In fact, since Jobs died there hasn't been another iPhone, iPod, or iPad success suggesting that creating a product that can spin a market is now beyond Apple's capabilities. With Jobs, Apple did beat the odds regularly. With Cook, they really haven't beaten the odds once.
Yes, with the Apple Watch they do have what is arguably the most successful smartwatch in the market but it is isn't even a fraction of the success the iPod or iPhone were. And it is far closer to Apple's device oriented strengths. I guess, what I'm saying is that if the firm can't have a major success with a product and in an industry they know, the odds are they won't have a success in an industry they don't know. And they don't yet know the movie and TV industry.
In the end, the best path for the firm might be to think about RCA and creating something new and interesting. Rather than entering an existing market late, enter an emerging market early and define it. That's what RCA (once part of GE) did and until they were broken up they owned the then-emerging radio and TV markets. Virtual Reality is emerging and at least has the promise of being amazing. If Apple can create amazing first, the outcome might be far better. We'll see.
Rob Enderle
President and Principal Analyst at Enderle Group
As President and Principal Analyst of the Enderle Group, Rob provides regional and global companies with guidance in how to create credible dialogue with the market, target customer needs, create new business opportunities, anticipate technology changes, select vendors and products, and practice zero dollar marketing. For over 20 years Rob has worked for and with companies like Microsoft, HP, IBM, Dell, Toshiba, Gateway, Sony, USAA, Texas Instruments, AMD, Intel, Credit Suisse First Boston, ROLM, and Siemens.
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Two Cambodian housing rights defenders were tried and convicted on 22 August for "insult of a public official". While Bov Sophea has been released, Tep Vanny remains in detention, serving a six-month sentence for charges related to a 2011 protest, and under investigation for separate charges linked to a 2013 protest.
Tep Vanny and Bov Sophea, housing rights defenders from the Boeung Kak community in Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital, were arrested in the evening of 15 August while conducting a peaceful vigil with a small group of people from their community against officials they allege to be corrupt. The peaceful gathering was part of the "Black Monday" advocacy campaign by human rights defenders protesting the detention of four staff from local human rights organization, ADHOC (Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association), and one former ADHOC staff member who is now the deputy secretary-general of the National Election Committee.
After being arrested, Tep Vanny and Bov Sophea were held at Daun Penh police station for two nights before being brought to Phnom Penh Municipal Court for questioning on 17 August. Later that day they were charged under Article 495 of the Criminal Code for "incitement to commit a felony" and trial proceedings were initiated immediately under Article 47 of the Criminal Procedure Code which allows for expedited prosecutions of accused where certain conditions are met.
The two activists were brought to trial on 22 August. According to witnesses, the proceedings lasted only 90 minutes. During the announcement of the verdict, the charges against them were changed to "insult of a public official" under Article 502 of the Criminal Code and the two women were each sentenced to six days' imprisonment, the maximum allowed. Bov Sophea was released later that day. However Tep Vanny was returned to Prey Sar CC2 prison as she faced further investigation related to other charges in connection with a 2013 protest.
Tep Vanny and other housing rights activists from the former Boeung Kak lake area continue to be targeted by the authorities. In another resurrected case, on 19 September, Tep Vanny, Bo Chhorvy, Heng Mom and Kong Chantha were sentenced to six months' imprisonment for insulting and obstructing public officials. This relates to a protest of almost five years ago in November 2011. Amnesty International will keep monitoring this case closely and will open a separate action if necessary.


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Alternative Spellings: Morata batho
Urban Charles Joseph Murphy was born in July 1919 in Dublin, the capital city of Ireland, and died on 27th February 1981. He was the oldest son in a family of six children. He went to a school run by the Irish Christian Brothers. This was a very important thing for him in his later ministry. He is reported to have said jokingly "They left more marks in me, more than one."
Shortly after finishing his Secondary School education in 1938, he joined the religious order of the Passionist Congregation. He did normal studies there and was ordained a priest in 1946. His main work was preaching. He is remembered as a good preacher. He preached in Ireland and in Scotland. He liked preaching very much.
He was among the first group of Catholic priests who came to Botswana in 1952. He did not come on his own but was appointed by the Vatican. There were eight missionaries altogether—four priests and four sisters. They arrived in Botswana on 7th February 1952. Two of his colleagues, namely Fr. Theodore and Fr. Norbert, took over the running of St. Joseph's College. Fr. Carthage went to Ramotswa Mission. Murphy went to Francistown to open a new frontier in missionary work. He was the first Catholic missionary to plant the Catholic Church in Francistown. At that time, there was no diocese and no resident bishop in Botswana. The southern part of the country came under the bishopric of Kimberley while the northern part was under the bishopric of Bulawayo. The western part of the country was under the bishopric of Windhoek in South West Africa (now Namibia).
According to Fr. Demort O'Caroll, Murphy was a man full of energy. Within a year, he had gathered together several priests and sisters to assist him in his missionary venture. He succeeded in building a church and a school in Francistown. The policy of the Church was always to have a school as a means of establishing contacts with young people. Murphy was essentially a pastor who visited his people regularly, particularly the sick. He always liked to be with people. Because of his love for people, he was nicknamed "Morata batho" meaning "he who loves people." He worked in Francistown for more than ten years where he laid a strong foundation for the future development of the Catholic Church in that part of the country. Later, he came down to continue missionary work in Gaborone. In 1959, Bechuanaland was raised to the status of a Prefecture by Pope John XXIII and Murphy was appointed the first Apostolic Prefect. In 1966, the Prefecture was raised to the status of a diocese and Murphy became the first bishop of the new diocese.
His vision for the Catholic Church in Botswana was fueled by a burning zeal to spread the gospel everywhere in the country. However, he wanted to do this by cooperating with—not competing with—other churches, especially in the latter years of his life. His vision consisted of preaching the Word of God in the widest sense. He was not just a preacher, he was also a visionary. He encouraged local vocations. He founded local congregations of religious orders. For example, in 1967, a local order of nuns, the Sisters of Calvary, was founded in Lobatse, later to take their permanent home in Moreneng at Kgale. Murphy also encouraged young men to go for training to become priests. Central to his vision was his determination to establish local leaders for the church. This desire led to the appointment of Bishop Setlalekgosi soon after Murphy's death.
Murphy had a good working relationships with his clergy. He was dynamic, both spiritually and socially. He was approachable by everybody. He frequented the hospital every day, visiting the sick in the community and imparting to them faith and a sense of hope. He strove to make the local church self-supporting but he did this gradually and not forcefully because this was a nascent church that needed a lot of care and nurturing. Those who knew him well have described him as very informal in his relationships with people. He was not pompous. He was relaxed and had a great sense of humor.
Murphy was a divine gift to the ecumenical movement in Botswana. Interviewees for this article described Murphy as having a strong ecumenical spirit. He was popular with all the churches and got along well with them. He was good at raising funds for social development. The Second Vatican Council convinced him and the other clergy to embrace the ecumenical spirit. There was no dissent among the clergy when he proposed that the church should join the Botswana Christian Council. There was no resistance among the laity either. Roman Catholic Christians took it very well. This may be because Batswana are, by nature, ecumenical. This can be seen in their cooperation during funerals, weddings, and other religious and social events. The feeling of antagonism towards other churches was not very pronounced among Batswana Catholics and they went along with Murphy's move to embrace ecumenism. The antagonism came mainly from the old generation of missionaries.
In 1971, Murphy became chairman of the Christian Service Committee of the Botswana Christian Council, a position he held for many years until the time of his death. As a result of his strong ecumenical zeal, he brought the Roman Catholic Church into the fold of the ecumenical movement thus giving the movement in Botswana a unique inter-denominational spirit.
In the country as a whole, Murphy contributed greatly towards the social development of the Batswana, mainly in the area of education and in the provision of health services. He brought into the country a number of well-qualified medical and nursing personnel who worked at many health centers such as Ramotswa and Kgale. In this way, he enhanced the health of the people in the country. As part of his social program, he started the Commercial School in Gaborone and enabled St. Joseph's College at Kgale to grow from strength to strength.
Murphy was not a controversial figure when it came to matters of church and state. He maintained good relationships with various people in government. He was a great friend of Sir Seretse Khama and worked cordially with the government. He was not a confrontational man. He wanted to dialogue with people quietly in the background. He never made public statements and many issues affecting the life of the church were resolved through pastoral letters. In the spirit of a true ecumenist, he was very much a reconciler and did not like controversy.
Murphy was very diplomatic towards local chiefs and government officials. He was also respectful of the local culture. He was open-minded towards local cultures without condemning them. This enabled him to go along with the process of contextualization by grounding the gospel in the cultures of the local people. This process led to changes in worship such as the use of Setswana in the liturgy and the use of local tunes in church music. What was even more significant is that he did not look down on African Independent Churches. Rather, he was amused at the kind of life they led and at the teachings in the New Religious Movements. Murphy was active up to the time of his death at the age of 62.
James Amanze
(Personal communication with Fr. Demort O'caroll, St. Joseph's Kgale, Gaborone, 2003).
Photo source: Mmegi, 2016.
This biography, received in 2018, was written by Dr. James Amanze, General Secretary of the Association of Theological Institutions in Southern and Central Africa (ATISCA), Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Botswana (Gaborone), and DACB Advisory Council member. These stories were written as part of a collection documenting the history of the ecumenical movement in Botswana, an unpublished manuscript entitled "Heroes and Heroines of the Ecumenical Movement in Botswana: Celebrating Great Lives, Celebrating Past Leadership."


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Digger derricks and OSHA compliance: Some exemptions apply
Michael Hyland
Noah Fatzinger
The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) has delayed its deadline for employers to ensure that crane operators are certified by one year. When new licensing requirements for crane operators go into effect November 10, 2018, electric utilities should be aware of the requirements relating to the operation of digger derricks.
OSHA largely exempted digger derricks, or radial boom derricks, from the new third party licensing requirements. This exemption was put in place to keep electric generation and transmission utilities from having to cover more than $21 million annually in regulatory compliance costs, but the exemption extends from an earlier rule from 2013 that places limitations on the actual functions of the digger derrick.
Digger derrick operators are exempt from the licensing requirement as long as they are "used for augering holes for poles carrying electric or telecommunication lines, placing and removing the poles, and for handling associated materials for installation on, or removal from, the poles, or when used for any other work subject to subpart V of this part," according to the exemption in OSHA 29 CFR 1926.1400(c)(4).
The rule, as it currently exists, exempts 95 percent of utility work. OSHA stated the remaining five percent is highly unlikely to be exempted, and there is no great savings in business, safety, or labor costs to be had by doing so.
Although most electric utility construction work using digger derricks is exempt, the work still must meet industry-specific OSHA safety regulations under OSHA 29 CFR 1910.269, including all applicable safety standards for motor vehicles and mechanized equipment identified in Subpart O and electric power transmission and distribution safety guidelines described in Subpart V.
In the final rule, OSHA warned that if it found employers using a digger derrick for jobs not under the exemption, it would fine the employer and possibly rescind or restrict the exemption altogether. If OSHA restricts the exemption, employers would see increased costs to license operators.
A helpful analogy may be to think of OSHA compliance like playing soccer. Just as keeping the ball within the field keeps play going, following the limitations of the exemption allows for job completion. As soon as the ball and player cross over the sideline, the ball is out of play and the possession is reversed. If employers and employees keep digger derrick work within the boundaries of the exemption, they are less likely to face issues, fines, or repercussions keeping operational costs down, worker safety at the highest level, and helping prevent utilities from facing increased oversight in the future.
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This is a really wonderful holiday in a beautiful and unspoilt part of Europe and will appeal to active families as well as adult groups. Based at Vogel there is much to offer the experienced skiier as well as those new to this exciting winter sports activity.
Vogel is a truly wonderful location for families and adult groups. The natural conditions – the normal ski season lasts from December to the first of May – put Vogel in first place among Slovene ski resorts for reliable snow conditions. Because Vogel lies on the first mountain barrier above the Adriatic Sea, substantially more snow falls here than anywhere else of similar altitude in the Alps. The high mountain setting and the extraordinary panoramas over the surrounding area – the ski centre lies in Triglav National Park above Lake Bohinj – give Vogel a special attraction. In spite of its majestic setting, the ski centre at over 1500 metres altitude is suitable for all skill levels. The abundant sun, outstanding views, and attractive, well-groomed trails are exceptional and in good weather and suitable conditions, experts will relish the opportunities for off-piste skiing.
Vogel lies within the Triglav National Park, at the head of the Bohinj valley. You can reach the lower Vogel cable car station on foot by following one of the maintained trails along the north or south shores of Lake Bohinj. You can also access it by means of public transport, the Bohinj tourist boat or by car, which can be parked in the free parking area. Vogel cable car then takes you to the upper cable car station, to a height of more than 1,500 metres above sea level. This magnificent 'Kingdom of Zlatorog' makes your heart leap in every season of the year. Enjoy the beautiful colours, the breathtaking views and the abundance of opportunities for active holidays in the mountains. The winter idyll and the warm rays of sunshine promise an unforgettable experience on the snowy slopes from December until the end of April. Vogel is a true paradise for skiing, freestyle, cross-country skiing and off-piste skiing. Children can also practice their skills in the kindergarten, and those who love acrobatic moves can practice their skills at Vogel Snow Park. And best of all, you can also enjoy delicious cuisine and great accommodation here in the Bohinj Valley within 10 minutes of the Vogel Ski Centre.


Examine the progress of Indian economy towards globalisation in the post reform years . comment on the slow pace of progress on globalisation and identify the major reasons.
-	Globalization. Borders between countries virtually disappeared enabling cross-border movement of goods, services, technology, and capital.
-	Attractive tax regime. Indian government reacted to opened opportunities creating favorable tax environment in India. As a result, international companies/corporations recognized India as one of the best places to set up Shared Services Centers and other kinds of business units.
-	Internal developments. Availability of labour and natural resources, improvements in education on background of low wages rates enhanced already existing conditions for growth.
-	Strong internal consumer demand. Quite high degree of internal consumer expenditure is another driver which boosts economical growth of India.
Despite recent global financial meltdown Indian economy is considered as one which has sufficient potential for further growth within the nearest future.


On the podcast: Remember when we thought it couldn't get dumber than Dubya? Those sure were the days. Plus: Fowl play and frackers gone… fracking wild.
This week on the Texas Miracle, the Observer's weekly compendium of everything you need to know, but maybe wish you didn't, about the Lone Star State: Remember when we all used to make fun of how dumb George W. Bush sounded? When his folksy ramblings were an embarrassment to Americans the world over? After the first eight minutes or so of this episode, you're going to be damn near convinced the man was a certified genius.
As always, we'll go out to the Texas Tiki Shed to get caught up on the latest and greatest-slash-worst Texas news with Observer staffers Naveena Sadasivam and Patrick Michels, plus Observer veteran Alexa Garcia-Ditta to talk about Rewire's deep-dive investigation into the anti-abortion program that Texas spends millions on each year, and the child welfare program our lawmakers don't seem to want to allocate another dime to, plus a new fracking study that reveals — hold on to your hats, y'all — that fracking isn't the healthiest thing on earth.
Patrick will also stop by the Texas Tiki Shed to bring us wild, weird and in this case fowl news in our Strangest State segment, featuring a (literal) turkey trot and a (literal) chicken toss.


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A minor release to ensure that all DataTables extensions are uniform in how they operate in terms of AMD loaders.


Qantara K Khan is an active political activist who has been working relentlessly in bringing up a qualitative change in Bangladesh's women and people's life. A faculty member at The School of Business, Independent University Bangladesh, Qantara is the member of Bangladesh Awami League International Affairs Subcommittee and joint convener of Suchinta Bangladesh and director of Suchinta Foundation. She is also the chairman of Quest Green Development Ltd.
She is the daughter of Faruk Khan, former minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism Ministry of Bangladesh, but she never used her Father's influence to establish her. Idolizing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Qantara carved her own niche and made her Iconic figure. The Daily Observe has recently caught her up. Here are the excerpts of the interview.
You are the daughter of a politician and are yourself involved in Awami League. What qualitative changes would you like to see in the participation of women in politics?
Our beloved Honourable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is a woman herself and she has brought about tremendous amount of development in Bangladesh. She is my inspiration and my reason for joining politics. I want more women to see our Prime Minister as a role model and to have more participation in politics and follow her ideals so that Bangladesh can move forward towards development.
As a director of Suchinta Foundation, what are the things you want to do?
We are already doing a lot of things. Suchinta is a youth platform, where we capture the essence of Joy Bangla and of the liberation in our hearts. From the place where Suchinta works, the projects which we do, we try to explain to the youth that 'You have to know your existence, your roots, yourself'.
We currently have an ongoing, university-centric project titled 'Jago Taronno, Rukho Jongibaad'.
How much progress do you think we have done in becoming a modern nation? In your opinion, what else should be done? Where should women participate more?
Our GDP has grown significantly under the leadership of the Honourable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Women are doing well both culturally, economically and in sports. I want women to enter more fields, especially the ones where there are predominantly men, so that women can contribute equally. Women should be participating in all the fields where there are men.
You have already proven yourself to be a successful individual. What do you want to do next and what is your future goal?
Until the day I die, I want to work for Bangladesh and the women of Bangladesh. I want to serve more and more people through politics. Most importantly, being a woman, I have been able to establish myself. I want to be able to help more women become self-dependent and strong. I want to devote myself towards the development of the people of Bangladesh.
What is your call now to women?
I would request more women to get out of their homes. Try to make yourself independent from all sides and angles. Study hard, tour different places, make your world bigger. Work in different sectors, including international affairs, so that Bangladesh can develop even more rapidly with your contribution, benefiting you in return.
Furthermore, I would request women to remember that, during the war, the women who could take up weapons have done so. But, there were thousands of unnamed women who have fought in the war using their bodies.
There were abused every night, yet in the morning they woke up, determined of passing news and information to their freedom fighter brothers to free the nation. These brave women have fought in the liberation war as well. They have undergone extreme pain and humiliation for us to be free. They are our weapons and pillars of strength.
We must never forget their red blood. We must work to move our beloved nation forward and make their sacrifice worthwhile.
After doing so much work, how do you give time to yourself?
I try to do everything in a disciplined manner. I teach university students and I work on behalf of Suchinta foundation as well. I also try to contribute to the nation on an international level being a part of the Awami League international committee. Even after all this, I give time to my family. Not only this, I also give time to myself. I give time to myself for self-reflection and improvement so that I can become a better version of myself and help more people.


I cannot believe my little space on the internet has turned three years old, how did this even happen? Where has all that time gone – three years, seriously?
I remember the 20-year old me sitting in my university room feeling a little bit miserable and needing something to take my mind off lectures and assignments; along came the idea of starting up my own blog. Even today, I find myself cringing over my first year of blog posts sometimes you have got to question what I was even thinking!
Little did I know that three years later, a few face lifts and a change of name from 'Adventures of Wonderland' to 'Little Talks' I would still be as much in love with blogging and creating exciting content to an even bigger audience.
Blogging has helped me come out of my shell so much more, yes I am still quite shy and get all embarrassed taking them outfit shots on the street but I have grown so much; although getting a full time job, a car, mortgage and a puppy kinda helped!!
I am so excited for what the future holds, there are so many fun ideas bubbling away in my head that I cannot wait to share with you. 2017 is going to be a fun year!!


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Cyberpunk 2077: The most disastrous game release since Atari's E.T.
Marina BlackJanuary 13, 20215 mins read
Graphic by Daniya Siddique
After eight years of development at CD Projekt Red, Cyberpunk 2077 quickly shifted from a likely Game of the Year candidate to an international pariah in the video game world. Littered with technical issues, game-breaking glitches, and graphical failures, Cyberpunk 2077 has sparked fan revolt, internal turmoil, and cross-corporate controversy.
Set in a dystopian future where digital nomads navigate the high-stakes world of corporate espionage, Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world role-playing game based on a 1988 tabletop game.
Notable for its choose-your-own-adventures style, CD Projekt Red promised a revolutionary gaming experience for console players. However, when cars are suspended in mid-air or enemies don't die after relentless close-combat hits, players have no choice but to mark the game half-baked and unplayable.
CD Projekt Red only circulated PC versions of the game for review before the game's official release. While Cyberpunk 2077's PC gameplay is remarkably smoother than its console gameplay, the company was only delaying the inevitable backlash from players.
Fans are outraged; although, many fans are making memes and having a laugh about the whole situation.
One YouTube user commented on a video about the game, saying, "I think the real problem here is that people don't want to admit that this is the reality of what 2077 will be. Given how quickly the world is going to shit, by 2077, it will be a common occurrence to phase across a city in the blink of an eye, die from tripping on some garbage on the street, have people straight up phase in and out of existence and having cars suddenly defy all laws of physics."
However, the outcry from fans and critics lead to an apology from CD Projekt Red less than a week after the game launched, offering refunds to those who purchased the game. While CD Projekt Red does not have the authority to give refunds to those who purchased through digital game stores, Sony removed the game from the Playstation store and offered refunds.
While the release of Cyberpunk 2077 will be monumental in video game history, the reasons behind its failure are only beginning to surface.
CD Projekt Red is an independent Polish studio known for its incredible success in The Witcher franchise, receiving Game of the Year in 2015 for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Establishing itself as a competitor in the Triple-A games market, the company was expected to release another outstanding game With Cyberpunk 2077.
Triple-A games require severe attention to detail and patience. The game was delayed three times in an effort to perfect the game before its launch; however, corporate executives would not let the game developers push back the launch date any further and instituted a mandatory six-day workweek that involved long hours and overtime.
This tight timeline and unhealthy office environment is the main reason why Cyberpunk 2077 failed to meet its expectations. CD Projekt game developers knew the game would receive backlash, but there was nothing they could do. Critics suggest that executives wanted to capitalize on the high-spending nature of the holiday season and release the unfinished game in December.
Surely, Cyberpunk 2077 will go down in history as one of the most disastrous video game launches ever. Yet, it does not compare to the embarrassing launch of Atari's E.T. video game that is said to have been the demise of Atari.
In 1982, Howard Scott Warshaw, a gifted programmer at Atari, was chosen to collaborate with Steven Spielberg on developing an E.T. video game after his recent success with designing Atari's Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Warshaw drafted an adventure game involving the player helping E.T. to phone home by dodging government agents and scientists and collecting parts of an interplanetary telephone. After pitching this idea, Spielberg said he wanted a Pac-Man knock-off, but Warshaw was able to convince Spielberg.
Atari's ordered an initial run of four million copies of E.T. and budgeted $5 million on what is considered the biggest advertising campaign for a video game. Atari needed E.T. to be successful as they were losing their consumer market to the emergence of home computers that could do more than run video games.
Scheduled for a holiday release, the game was rushed and launched with "opportunities where you could suddenly wind up in an odd situation," says Warshaw. Consequently, only 1.5 million copies were sold, causing stocks in both Atari and their parent company, Warner Communications, to plummet.
Atari buried truckloads of the unsold E.T. game in the New Mexico desert which was confirmed by a documentary crew in 2014 who excavated the supposed burial site, thus unearthing Atari's demise.
Perhaps Cyberpunk 2077 and CD Projekt Red will also be buried for their failures, but this is unlikely. The company continues to work through the game's bugs, promising game patches in the near future. Cyberpunk 2077 and CD Projekt Red do not deserve to be exiled to the digital dumps just yet.
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Q: Activation of network failed with my VPN I have a problem with my vpn when I want to activate it, it was working fine until today.
I'm on Ubuntu 20.04 and my vpn is an L2TP vpn.
I reinstalled the VPN several times but impossible I always have the same errors, in the syslogs too.
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[792]: <info>  [1676487754.0452] vpn-connection[0x55f412ad8580,538229dd-c240-4f90-a931-051a685fb707,"Selectour",0]: Started the VPN service, PID 88451
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[792]: <info>  [1676487754.0594] vpn-connection[0x55f412ad8580,538229dd-c240-4f90-a931-051a685fb707,"Selectour",0]: Saw the service appear; activating connection
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[792]: <info>  [1676487754.0678] vpn-connection[0x55f412ad8580,538229dd-c240-4f90-a931-051a685fb707,"Selectour",0]: VPN connection: (ConnectInteractive) reply received
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu nm-l2tp-service[88451]: Check port 1701
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88462]: Redirecting to: systemctl restart ipsec.service
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu systemd[1]: Stopping Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Protocol Daemon for IPsec...
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu whack[88466]: 002 shutting down
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu ipsec[88471]: warning: could not open include filename: '/etc/ipsec.d/*.conf'
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu libipsecconf[88471]: warning: could not open include filename: '/etc/ipsec.d/*.conf'
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu systemd[1]: ipsec.service: Succeeded.
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu systemd[1]: Stopped Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Protocol Daemon for IPsec.
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu systemd[1]: Starting Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Protocol Daemon for IPsec...
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu addconn[88475]: warning: could not open include filename: '/etc/ipsec.d/*.conf'
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu libipsecconf[88475]: warning: could not open include filename: '/etc/ipsec.d/*.conf'
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu _stackmanager[88478]: warning: could not open include filename: '/etc/ipsec.d/*.conf'
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu libipsecconf[88478]: warning: could not open include filename: '/etc/ipsec.d/*.conf'
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu _stackmanager[88483]: warning: could not open include filename: '/etc/ipsec.d/*.conf'
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu libipsecconf[88483]: warning: could not open include filename: '/etc/ipsec.d/*.conf'
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu ipsec[88740]: warning: could not open include filename: '/etc/ipsec.d/*.conf'
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu libipsecconf[88740]: warning: could not open include filename: '/etc/ipsec.d/*.conf'
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu ipsec[88738]: nflog ipsec capture disabled
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu systemd[1]: Started Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Protocol Daemon for IPsec.
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu libipsecconf[88755]: warning: could not open include filename: '/etc/ipsec.d/*.conf'
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88756]: 002 listening for IKE messages
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88756]: 002 forgetting secrets
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88756]: 002 loading secrets from "/etc/ipsec.secrets"
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88756]: 002 loading secrets from "/etc/ipsec.d/ipsec.nm-l2tp.secrets"
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: debugging mode enabled
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: end of file /run/nm-l2tp-538229dd-c240-4f90-a931-051a685fb707/ipsec.conf
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: Loading conn 538229dd-c240-4f90-a931-051a685fb707
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: starter: left is KH_DEFAULTROUTE
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: conn: "538229dd-c240-4f90-a931-051a685fb707" modecfgdns=<unset>
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: conn: "538229dd-c240-4f90-a931-051a685fb707" modecfgdomains=<unset>
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: conn: "538229dd-c240-4f90-a931-051a685fb707" modecfgbanner=<unset>
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: conn: "538229dd-c240-4f90-a931-051a685fb707" mark=<unset>
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: conn: "538229dd-c240-4f90-a931-051a685fb707" mark-in=<unset>
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: conn: "538229dd-c240-4f90-a931-051a685fb707" mark-out=<unset>
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: conn: "538229dd-c240-4f90-a931-051a685fb707" vti_iface=<unset>
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: conn: "538229dd-c240-4f90-a931-051a685fb707" redirect-to=<unset>
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: conn: "538229dd-c240-4f90-a931-051a685fb707" accept-redirect-to=<unset>
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: conn: "538229dd-c240-4f90-a931-051a685fb707" esp=aes128-sha1,3des-sha1!
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: conn: "538229dd-c240-4f90-a931-051a685fb707" ike=aes128-sha1-modp1024,3des-sha1-modp1024!
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: opening file: /run/nm-l2tp-538229dd-c240-4f90-a931-051a685fb707/ipsec.conf
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: loading named conns: 538229dd-c240-4f90-a931-051a685fb707
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: seeking_src = 1, seeking_gateway = 1, has_peer = 1
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: seeking_src = 0, seeking_gateway = 1, has_dst = 1
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: dst  via 192.168.1.254 dev enp3s0 src  table 254
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: set nexthop: 192.168.1.254
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: dst  via 192.168.1.254 dev wlp2s0 src  table 254
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Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: dst 172.20.0.0 via  dev br-03bfdb4a48e9 src 172.20.0.1 table 254
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: dst 192.168.1.0 via  dev enp3s0 src 192.168.1.29 table 254
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: dst 192.168.1.0 via  dev wlp2s0 src 192.168.1.81 table 254
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: dst 127.0.0.0 via  dev lo src 127.0.0.1 table 255 (ignored)
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: dst 127.0.0.1 via  dev lo src 127.0.0.1 table 255 (ignored)
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: dst 127.255.255.255 via  dev lo src 127.0.0.1 table 255 (ignored)
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: dst 172.17.0.1 via  dev docker0 src 172.17.0.1 table 255 (ignored)
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: dst 172.17.255.255 via  dev docker0 src 172.17.0.1 table 255 (ignored)
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: dst 172.18.0.1 via  dev br-3b8f59f5dec5 src 172.18.0.1 table 255 (ignored)
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: dst 172.18.255.255 via  dev br-3b8f59f5dec5 src 172.18.0.1 table 255 (ignored)
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: dst 172.19.0.1 via  dev br-0c4ea6a9581e src 172.19.0.1 table 255 (ignored)
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: dst 172.19.255.255 via  dev br-0c4ea6a9581e src 172.19.0.1 table 255 (ignored)
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: dst 172.20.0.1 via  dev br-03bfdb4a48e9 src 172.20.0.1 table 255 (ignored)
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: dst 172.20.255.255 via  dev br-03bfdb4a48e9 src 172.20.0.1 table 255 (ignored)
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: dst 192.168.1.29 via  dev enp3s0 src 192.168.1.29 table 255 (ignored)
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: dst 192.168.1.81 via  dev wlp2s0 src 192.168.1.81 table 255 (ignored)
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: dst 192.168.1.255 via  dev enp3s0 src 192.168.1.29 table 255 (ignored)
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: dst 192.168.1.255 via  dev wlp2s0 src 192.168.1.81 table 255 (ignored)
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: seeking_src = 1, seeking_gateway = 0, has_peer = 1
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: seeking_src = 1, seeking_gateway = 0, has_dst = 1
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: dst 192.168.1.254 via  dev enp3s0 src 192.168.1.29 table 254
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: set addr: 192.168.1.29
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu nm-l2tp-service[88451]: Could not establish IPsec connection.
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[88761]: seeking_src = 0, seeking_gateway = 0, has_peer = 1
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu nm-l2tp-service[88451]: g_dbus_method_invocation_take_error: assertion 'error != NULL' failed
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[792]: <info>  [1676487754.7600] vpn-connection[0x55f412ad8580,538229dd-c240-4f90-a931-051a685fb707,"Selectour",0]: VPN plugin: state changed: stopped (6)
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[792]: <info>  [1676487754.7621] vpn-connection[0x55f412ad8580,538229dd-c240-4f90-a931-051a685fb707,"Selectour",0]: VPN service disappeared
Feb 15 20:02:34 R1-ubuntu NetworkManager[792]: <warn>  [1676487754.7630] vpn-connection[0x55f412ad8580,538229dd-c240-4f90-a931-051a685fb707,"Selectour",0]: VPN connection: failed to connect: 'Message recipient disconnected from message bus without replying'

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Marian Brown
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Center for Sustainability and the Environment
Does the institution have at least one sustainability committee?:
The charter or mission statement of the committee(s) or a brief description of each committee's purview and activities:
The charge of the Sustainability Advisory Committee, reconstituted and re-charged by President Jon Gibralter, is to advise the President of the College on the continuing efforts to integrate sustainability and practice and assure alignment between sustainability planning and institutional planning. The Sustainability Advisory Committee will develop recommendations to implement "best practices" to position Wells College to be a regional and national leader in sustainability. (This advisory committee will oversee progress on the Climate Action Plan, the development and implementation of the resiliency plan, and oversight of progress using AASHE STARS assessment measures and metrics).
The mission of the original Sustainability Group, also known as the Wells College Presidents' Climate Committee, was to ensure the fulfillment of the requirements of the American College and University Presidents' Climate Commitment of which Wells became a signatory in the Fall of 2008. Additionally, the Presidents' Climate Committee acted as the " repository for all campus sustainability initiatives for consideration and potential inclusion in the Wells College Climate Action Plan, the goal of which is to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.
Members of each committee, including affiliations and role (e.g. staff, student, or faculty):
Sustainability Advisory Committee
Reporting to: President Jonathan Gibralter
Marian Brown, director, Center for Sustainability and the Environment
Brian Brown, director, Facilities Operations and Services
Kit Van Orman, manager, Human Resources and Business Services
Laurie Turo, administrative assistant, Academic & Student Life
David Foote, assistant director, Communications, alumnus
Dan Wentworth, director, Information Technology
Milene Morfei, professor, Psychology, alumnae
Matt Hogan, visiting lecturer, Math
Rich Kegler, director, Book Arts Center
Kevin Sennett, general manager, Wells Dining
Tom Vawter, professor emeritus, Biology and Environmental Science (also local community member)
Jonathan Mills '18, Individualized major in Sustainability
Kaitlyn (Kate) Wells '18, student, Chemistry
Eliza Schwab '18, student, Business, Athletics
(We are currently recruiting additional student members for 2017-18)
We also have three alumni serving on the committee:
Stephen Armstrong '16
Mary Mitchell Goodman '70
Rachel Kinsman Steck '96
Does the institution have at least one sustainability office that includes more than 1 full-time equivalent (FTE) employee?:
A brief description of each sustainability office:
The Center for Sustainability and the Environment has three distinct, yet highly-interconnected areas of focus:
Academics: The Center supports faculty interested in incorporating sustainability content in courses across disciplines and assists students and their faculty mentors to undertake sustainability-related research projects.
Operations: The Center works with operational units across campus to further develop the campus as a "living-learning" laboratory that reinforces and models the principles and practices of sustainability that students learn in their coursework.
Outreach: The Center serves as the hub for programs that engage the college community in co-creating a more sustainable campus environment.
Full-time equivalent (FTE) of people employed in the sustainability office(s):
Does the institution have at least one sustainability officer?:
Name and title of each sustainability officer:
Does the institution have a mechanism for broad sustainability coordination for the entire institution (e.g. a campus-wide committee or an officer/office responsible for the entire campus)?:
A brief description of the activities and substantive accomplishments of the institution-wide coordinating body or officer during the previous three years:
The campus sustainability committee was first convened in 2008 to support the College president's signing of the American College and University President's Climate Commitment and the development and implementation of its Climate Action Plan. Members of that committee also developed proposals for an academic program in Sustainability, including an Individualized Major and two minors: Sustainability and Sustainable Food Systems. Those academic programs came online in Fall 2014. Responding to the interim president's call for project proposals, members of the Sustainability Committee proposed the creation of the Center for Sustainability and the Environment. That proposal was accepted, a director hired, and the Center opened in June 2014 to begin to draw together the curricular, research, operational and outreach activities related to campus sustainability.
Job title of the sustainability officer position:
Job description for the sustainability officer position:
Job title of the sustainability officer position (2nd position):
Job description for the sustainability officer position (2nd position):
Job title of the sustainability officer position (3rd position):
Job description for the sustainability officer position (3rd position):
The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
https://www.wells.edu/academics/center-sustainability-environment
Additional documentation to support the submission:


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Со́ндало () — коммуна в Италии, в провинции Сондрио области Ломбардия.

Население составляет 4 498 человек, плотность населения составляет 47 чел./км². Занимает площадь 96 км². Почтовый индекс — 23035. Телефонный код — 0342.

Покровителем населённого пункта считается святая Агнесса Римская. Праздник ежегодно празднуется 21 января.

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For many senior athletes, this will the final time they wear their school colours with pride, for some juniors it's just the start, at the New Zealand secondary schools track and field and road running championships in Hastings this Friday to Sunday.
Over 1,300 athletes from 210 schools throughout New Zealand and also from the Cook Islands, Niue and Fiji will take part.
The championships will be staged at the Hawke's Bay Regional Sports Park, Percival Road, Tomoana starting at 1:00pm Friday 1 December and continuing into the weekend, finishing at 5:00pm on Sunday 3 December.
As always, much attention will focus on the sprint events, with strong fields in both the boys and girls sprints.
Hutt Valley High School's Nick Smith faces some tough opposition in the defence of his senior boys sprint double. Smith was second to Jordan Bolland in the 100m in 2015 and came back last year at Waitakere to take the double. He will face tough competition from James Guthrie-Croft, TJ Paea, Mogammad Smith, Sam Diggelmann, Nic Forster and Yasheek Rosario.
Lucy Sheat will also be defending her titles in the senior girls sprints. Sheat also won the 200m in 2015. Georgia Hulls runner up in the 100m and 200m for the last two years has entered the 100m and the 400m, where, ahead of Grace Godfrey, Izzy Neal and Samantha Hardie.
Maddison Wesche has an outstanding record at the championships in the shot put having won the junior title in 2013 and 2014 and in her final year will be going for her third straight title in the senior girls. Last year she set a schools record of 16.75m with the 3kg shot.
The highlight on Sunday will be the hotly contested senior boys 1500m. Last year Theo Quax was narrowly beaten by Matthew Manning for the title. This time there are five runners who are also in with a chance. Sam Tanner, Isaiah Priddey, Nick Moulai, George Cory-Wright and Jacob Holmes. In a recent time trial which saw nearly all of them achieve a personal best time, it was Tanner who prevailed in 3:50.05.
On current form Tanner may well also have the edge in the 3000m. Last year the 3000m was superb with Nick Moulai setting a New Zealand under 17 record of 8:16.77 and dragging a number through to personal bests. The line-up for the 3000m looks equally strong with Moulai, Tanner, Priddey, Holmes, Joseph Clark, Bradley Christison, Connor Melton, Kalani Sheridan and Murdoch McIntyre.
The senior boys 800m will be close between Liam Turner, Harrison Porritt, Flynn Palmer, Max Spencer, Jono Ansley and Sam Gouverneur. Sam Montgomerie, William Sinclair and McIntyre should feature in the medals in the 2000m steeplechase.
Oliver Miller will be out to make it three years in a row in the 300m hurdles. He will be also defending his senior boys 400m title. Olly Parkinson and Matteus Pio will give Miller plenty of competition in the 300m hurdles while Parkinson should show out in the 110m hurdles from Forster. In the 400m competition will come from Michael Graham, Gouverneur and Zinan Bennett.
Matthew Aucamp second in last season's national youth decathlon championship will be contesting the high jump, pole vault, 110m hurdles and javelin throw while Cameron Miller the youth decathlon champion is down to contest the discus throw as well as the high and long jumps.
Connor Bell is poised to add the senior boys discus throw record to the junior record of 65.00m he set last year with the 1.25kg discus. Chris Mene holds the senior record of 61.76m with the 1.5kg discus set in 1990. Bell set a New Zealand 1.5kg under 17 and 18 record of 63.93m in Australia in March and this season has thrown 61.94m.
Hannah O'Connor winner of three junior events last year, the 1500m, 3000m in a record 9:32.89 and 4km road race will be going for the senior 1500m, 3000m double. In the 1500m O'Connor will face Tessa Hunt and Harriet Bush.
In the 3000m competition will come from Tessa Webb, Liliana Braun and Samantha Burke. Webb and Braun are expected to also feature in the 2000m steeplechase. Bush is also in action in the 800m alongside defending champion Lily Trotter, Georgia Clode, Isobel Hegan, Mya Graham and Hunt.
Olivia McTaggart who equalled Eliza McCartney's senior girls pole vault record of 4.10m last year, was over the bar this week at 4.20m and will be looking to having the record outright. Hannah Adye who has cleared 3.46m this season will give the junior girls record of 3.10m a nudge.
Alex Brown and Laura Kehely on current form should win the 3000m race walking open titles.
Hayley Marx will contest the 300m hurdles, javelin throw, long jump, high jump and 100m hurdles while Kayla Goodwin is down for the javelin throw, triple jump, long jump and 100m hurdles.
In the hurdles Goodwin with a time of 14.37 this season, will be favoured over Tegan Duffy.
Caitlin Bonne will be defending her javelin throw title, Mellata Tatola the hammer title and Tatiana Kaumoana the discus title.
Anthony Nobilo heads out into the field and will tackle the senior boys shot put, discus and hammer throws.
Anthony Barmes, on the improve at each outing should medal in the hammer. Commonwealth youth games silver medallist in July Nick Palmer is likely to be way ahead of any other competitor in the shot put having improved his personal best to 20.08m two weeks ago.
In the jumps, Forster has an edge in the long ahead of Miller, Andrew Allan and Reuben Brown. Allan, third last year, should dominate the triple with Adam Norman, Keiran Pere and Cameron Collins not too far behind.
Tom Moloney junior champion last year is in line to step up and take the senior high jump title over Norman.
Duffy, Goodwin and Lauren Henry should battle out the senior girls long, and Lisa Putt, Goodwin, Jamie Speer, Lydia Bamford and Emma McColl are the ones to watch in the triple. Josephine Reeves on her current form will be favoured in the senior girls high jump.
Rio Para-Athlete William Stedman will compete in the 100m, 200m, 400m, shot put and long jump.
The NZSSA Track and Field Championships were first contested in 1972.
"I hadn't thrown a discus for six months. I had a practice throw the day before and it felt good. On Sunday I was a National Champion and record holder." Ben Ellis recalls of his performance at the National Secondary Schools athletics championships in Auckland in December last year.
Ellis won the local, regional, North Island and National paralympic discus titles in a breakthrough year.
Imagine having your ankles shackled together and walking on your toes all day. This is the agony Ben Ellis has endured his entire life.
The Year 13 student at St Patrick's College, Wellington suffers from beals syndrome which essentially causes abnormal bone and aortic enlargement problems, inhibiting fluid movement.
"I can't extend my arm like a normal person and struggle with basic flexion in my legs. I basically walk on my toes, which gets painful after a while but I have grown use to it," Ellis elaborates.
Ellis dabbled in rugby, football and futsal, but it wasn't until he was urged to get involved in athletics, he discovered his true sports calling.
Ellis competes in the T43 (lower) or T45 (upper) body impairments classes. The later classification is where he most frequently competes. Ellis is coached by Wellington throwing guru and former National representative Shaka Sola.
"Shaka has taught me how to throw like an able-bodied athlete which has helped me increase my distances and forces me not to think about my disability," Ellis acclaims.
In 2017, Ellis successfully defended his regional title, but hasn't competed for several months after to surgery to remove his appendix. However his talent and promise has been recognised by Paralympics New Zealand. Ellis was one of only a dozen individuals selected in a National training squad for promising athletes.
"That was a surprise and a big deal. It's great to have that support and I learned a lot at the camp in August in Auckland," Ellis enthuses.
It was a big deal for Ellis winning the College Sport Wellington disabled athlete of the year award on Sunday night. Ellis joins paralympic swimming champion Mary Fisher as one of the select few to have claimed the prize.
Ellis will compete at the National Secondary Schools championships in Hastings in December. Despite little preparation, past form indicates Ellis will step up when it counts.
In 2018, Ellis is having a gap year. He plans on working at Thorndon New World while fundraising for trips to the Australian and Victorian championships.


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import { assert, deprecate } from '@ember/debug';
import { guidFor } from '@ember/-internals/utils';
import OrderedSet from './lib/ordered-set';
import { copyMap } from './lib/utils';
import { MAP } from '@ember/deprecated-features';

/**
@module @ember/map
@private
*/

let Map;

if (MAP) {
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  JavaScript (before ES6) does not have a Map implementation. Objects,
  which are often used as dictionaries, may only have Strings as keys.

  Because Ember has a way to get a unique identifier for every object
  via `guidFor`, we can implement a performant Map with arbitrary
  keys. Because it is commonly used in low-level bookkeeping, Map is
  implemented as a pure JavaScript object for performance.

  This implementation follows the current iteration of the ES6 proposal for
  maps (http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:simple_maps_and_sets),
  with one exception:  as we do not have the luxury of in-VM iteration, we implement a
  forEach method for iteration.

  Map is mocked out to look like an Ember object, so you can do
  `EmberMap.create()` for symmetry with other Ember classes.
*/

  /**
  A Map stores values indexed by keys. Unlike JavaScript's
  default Objects, the keys of a Map can be any JavaScript
  object.

  Internally, a Map has two data structures:

  1. `keys`: an OrderedSet of all of the existing keys
  2. `values`: a JavaScript Object indexed by the `guidFor(key)`

  When a key/value pair is added for the first time, we
  add the key to the `keys` OrderedSet, and create or
  replace an entry in `values`. When an entry is deleted,
  we delete its entry in `keys` and `values`.

  @class Map
  @private
  @constructor
  @deprecated use native `Map` instead.
*/
  Map = class Map {
    constructor() {
      deprecate('Use of @ember/Map is deprecated. Please use native `Map` instead', false, {
        id: 'ember-map-deprecation',
        until: '3.5.0',
      });

      this._keys = new OrderedSet();
      this._values = Object.create(null);
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    }

    /**
    @method create
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    @private
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      let Constructor = this;
      return new Constructor();
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    /**
    Retrieve the value associated with a given key.

    @method get
    @param {*} key
    @return {*} the value associated with the key, or `undefined`
    @private
  */
    get(key) {
      if (this.size === 0) {
        return;
      }

      let values = this._values;
      let guid = guidFor(key);

      return values[guid];
    }

    /**
    Adds a value to the map. If a value for the given key has already been
    provided, the new value will replace the old value.

    @method set
    @param {*} key
    @param {*} value
    @return {Map}
    @private
  */
    set(key, value) {
      let keys = this._keys;
      let values = this._values;
      let guid = guidFor(key);

      // ensure we don't store -0
      let k = key === -0 ? 0 : key; // eslint-disable-line no-compare-neg-zero

      keys.add(k, guid);

      values[guid] = value;

      this.size = keys.size;

      return this;
    }

    /**
    Removes a value from the map for an associated key.

    @since 1.8.0
    @method delete
    @param {*} key
    @return {Boolean} true if an item was removed, false otherwise
    @private
  */
    delete(key) {
      if (this.size === 0) {
        return false;
      }
      // don't use ES6 "delete" because it will be annoying
      // to use in browsers that are not ES6 friendly;
      let keys = this._keys;
      let values = this._values;
      let guid = guidFor(key);

      if (keys.delete(key, guid)) {
        delete values[guid];
        this.size = keys.size;
        return true;
      } else {
        return false;
      }
    }

    /**
    Check whether a key is present.

    @method has
    @param {*} key
    @return {Boolean} true if the item was present, false otherwise
    @private
  */
    has(key) {
      return this._keys.has(key);
    }

    /**
    Iterate over all the keys and values. Calls the function once
    for each key, passing in value, key, and the map being iterated over,
    in that order.

    The keys are guaranteed to be iterated over in insertion order.

    @method forEach
    @param {Function} callback
    @param {*} self if passed, the `this` value inside the
      callback. By default, `this` is the map.
    @private
  */
    forEach(callback /*, ...thisArg*/) {
      assert(
        `${Object.prototype.toString.call(callback)} is not a function`,
        typeof callback === 'function'
      );

      if (this.size === 0) {
        return;
      }

      let map = this;
      let cb, thisArg;

      if (arguments.length === 2) {
        thisArg = arguments[1];
        cb = key => callback.call(thisArg, map.get(key), key, map);
      } else {
        cb = key => callback(map.get(key), key, map);
      }

      this._keys.forEach(cb);
    }

    /**
    @method clear
    @private
  */
    clear() {
      this._keys.clear();
      this._values = Object.create(null);
      this.size = 0;
    }

    /**
    @method copy
    @return {Map}
    @private
  */
    copy() {
      return copyMap(this, new Map());
    }
  };
}

export default Map;

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This model will be back in stock in July 2019. This Cutty Sark wooden ship model with copper plated hull is a memorable wedding gift for those getting married on board of the authentic Cutty Sark in London.
During the mid-1800's the Tea Clippers used to race from China back to the UK, with the new season's crop. The Cutty Sark was built for this purpose by Scott and Lindon and launched on 22nd November 1869, at Dumbarton, Scotland.
The Cutty Sark made her maiden voyage in January 1870. Between 1870-1877 she carried mainly tea but was never able to win the tea race. Her most successful year should have been in 1872 when she was leading her great rival, the Thermopylae by 400 miles, but disaster struck and she lost her rudder in a storm. From 1878 she carried coal between Shanghai and Sydney, and wool between Melbourne and New York, but her finest hour came in the regular Australian wool trade to London. Her design and speed were well suited to the rough seas of the Southern Hemisphere and between 1885 – 1895 she was untouchable, even beating her old rival Thermopylae on no less than five occasions.
She was sold to a Portuguese firm and re-named the 'Ferreira'. She served the next 27 years sailing between Portugal and its colonies. In 1920 she was sold again and re-named the 'Maria do Amparo' and in 1922 she was re-fitted in London. Captain Dowman purchased her, raised the Red Ensign, and she came home again. In 1924 she was restored as a Tea Clipper but was presented by Captain Dowman's widow to the Thames Nautical Training College where she became a training ship. She was moved to Greenwich as an exhibit in 1951.
If you are in London you must pay a visit to the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. It's a fabulous day out with the kids and you can also see the Cutty Sark ship and the Royal Observatory.