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An Animal Adoption may only be in the name of an individual, individuals, or groups (i.e. school name or business name) as indicated at the time of application.
An Animal Adoption applies to group of animals or a named individual unless specified in advance by The Wildheart Trust, which will usually be for limited promotional purposes. Adoption does not imply ownership nor does it create any liabilities in respect of an animal.
In the event of the group of animals or individual animal of the Animal Adoption ceasing to be on display at the Isle of Wight Zoo due to death or relocation to another collection, or any other reason, an alternative animal will be offered for the remainder of the Animal Adoption period. Unfortunately, The Wildheart Trust cannot offer a refund in such circumstances.
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There will be a charge of £10.00 to cover administration costs if you cancel your booking and require a refund for an 'Animal Encounters'.
Refunds must be applied for before 3 months of expiry unless due to exceptional circumstances: illness/ injury, pregnancy or bereavement. Once a date has been booked, the experience is non-refundable unless due to exceptional circumstances. This is at The Wildheart Trust's discretion.
Once booked, the date cannot be changed except in exceptional circumstances.
The recipient name can be exchanged providing The Wildheart Trust are given a minimum of seven days notice.
The Wildheart Trust will allocate session slots on a first come, first served basis. It is the participant's responsibility to book with advance notice to avoid disappointment.
Customers will receive their confirmation within 10 working days of their order.
Participants must be aged 12 years or over (18 for big cat experiences). There is no upper age limit, although participants will need a reasonable level of fitness to take part in the activities.
Pregnant women and nursing mothers will not be able to partake in Animal Encounters.
Once the date has been booked, the experience cannot be rescheduled and is non-refundable unless due to exceptional circumstances: illness/injury, pregnancy or bereavement. This is at The Wildheart Trust's discretion.
The reference name can be exchanged providing The Wildheart Trust are given a minimum of seven working days notice.
The Isle of Wight Zoo reserves the right to ask any participant to leave the site should they behave in an inappropriate or unsafe manner. Alcohol must not be consumed prior to the experience, on the day of the contact session, and the Isle of Wight Zoo reserves the right to refuse the participant the right to take part in the experience if they appear to be under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
The Wildheart Trust reserves the right to change any of the dates for the animal encounter experiences.
The Wildheart Trust reserves the right to alter the content of the experience on any given day due to animal welfare or health issues, but will ensure that if this is the case then the activity will be replaced with another similar task or the encounter will be offered on another day.
The Wildheart Trust reserves the right to cancel the experience due to unforeseen circumstances.
The Wildheart Trust will give as much notice as possible, but this cannot always be guaranteed.
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Zoo Friend Members are entitled to entry to the Isle of Wight Zoo only during normal opening hours.
Membership cards are not valid after their expiry date, and remain the property of The Wildheart Trust at all times.
Admission to the zoo will not be granted under any circumstances without the production of a valid Membership card. If you do not have your card with you on the day of admission, the current full admission charge must be paid, which is not refundable.
A membership pass may not be valid for entry for certain special events in the zoo calendar (e.g. Bat Evenings), and this will be advertised as such. There will be an additional fee payable for member entry to such events.
The Membership card is not a credit card, charge card, or cheque guarantee card.
An adult must accompany children 16 years old or younger.
An administration charge of £3 will be made for lost or replacement Membership cards should you require one. Please call the Membership team prior to your visit so we can take payment and provide you with a temporary access pass.
Free car parking when visiting the Isle of Wight Zoo applies to Zoo Friend Members. Availability cannot be guaranteed, and parking will be on a first come, first served basis.
All events are subject to availability. Zoo Friends Membership does not guarantee availability to Isle of Wight Zoo events – applications are to be made on an event by event basis.
Zoo Friends benefits and prices may be subject to change at any time. No refunds can be made.
Special Offers – Unless otherwise advised, special offers, including joining offers, are only available once to each Member of the Isle of Wight Zoo. Each offer will also be subject to additional Terms and Conditions.
In the event that a payment is rejected by any bank or credit card company, then the membership will be suspended until valid payment of the membership fee (and, at The Wildheart Trust's discretion, payment of any additional costs incurred by The Wildheart Trust because of the rejection of the payment) is received by The Wildheart Trust If valid payment is not received then membership will be terminated. Any such termination may be back dated to the date when the rejected payment fell due.
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Tag: Fairy Tales
Hunted by Meagan Spooner
Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Magic, Retellings, Romance, Young Adult
Hunted by Meagan Spooner eBook Download Beauty knows the Beast's forest in her bones—and in her blood. Though she grew up with the city's highest aristocrats, far from her father's old lodge, she knows that the forest holds secrets and that her father is the only hunter who's ever come close to discovering them. So when her father loses his fortune and moves Yeva and her sisters back to the outskirts of town, Yeva is secretly relieved. Out in the wilderness, there's no pressure to make idle chatter with vapid baronessas…or to submit to marrying a wealthy gentleman. But Yeva's father's misfortune may have cost him his mind, and when he goes missing in the woods, Yeva sets her sights on one prey: the creature he'd been obsessively tracking just before his disappearance. Deaf to he...
The Mermaid's Daughter by Ann Claycomb
Adult, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Fiction, Lgbt, Mythology, Retellings
The Mermaid's Daughter by Ann Claycomb eBook Download A modern-day expansion of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid, this unforgettable debut novel weaves a spellbinding tale of magic and the power of love as a descendent of the original mermaid fights the terrible price of saving herself from a curse that has affected generations of women in her family. Kathleen has always been dramatic. She suffers from the bizarre malady of experiencing stabbing pain in her feet. On her sixteenth birthday, she woke screaming from the sensation that her tongue had been cut out. No doctor can find a medical explanation for her pain, and even the most powerful drugs have proven useless. Only the touch of seawater can ease her pain, and just temporarily at that. Now Kathleen is a twenty-...
Beauty of the Beast by Rachel L. Demeter
Adult, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Historical, Historical Romance, Retellings, Romance
Beauty of the Beast by Rachel L. Demeter eBook Download Experience the world's most enchanting and timeless love story—retold with a dark and realistic twist. A BEAST LIVING IN THE SHADOW OF HIS PAST Reclusive and severely scarred Prince Adam Delacroix has remained hidden inside a secluded, decrepit castle ever since he witnessed his family's brutal massacre. Cloaked in shadow, with only the lamentations of past ghosts for company, he has abandoned all hope, allowing the world to believe he died on that tragic eve twenty-five years ago. A BEAUTY IN PURSUIT OF A BETTER FUTURE Caught in a fierce snowstorm, beautiful and strong-willed Isabelle Rose seeks shelter at a castle—unaware that its beastly and disfigured master is much more than he appears to be. When he imprisons he...
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Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
Adult, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Fiction, Retellings
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik eBook Download Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders... but her father isn't a very good one. Free to lend and reluctant to collect, he has loaned out most of his wife's dowry and left the family on the edge of poverty--until Miryem steps in. Hardening her heart against her fellow villagers' pleas, she sets out to collect what is owed--and finds herself more than up to the task. When her grandfather loans her a pouch of silver pennies, she brings it back full of gold. But having the reputation of being able to change silver to gold can be more trouble than it's worth--especially when her fate becomes tangled with the cold creatures that haunt the wood, and whose king has learned of her reputation and wants to exploit it for reasons ...
Beast by Lisa Jensen
Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Retellings, Young Adult
Beast by Lisa Jensen eBook Download Filled with magic and fierce emotion, Lisa Jensen's multilayered novel will make you question all you think you know about beauty, beastliness, and happily ever after. They say Château Beaumont is cursed. But servant-girl Lucie can't believe such foolishness about handsome Jean-Loup Christian Henri LeNoir, Chevalier de Beaumont, master of the estate. But when the chevalier's cruelty is revealed, Lucie vows to see him suffer. A wisewoman grants her wish, with a spell that transforms Jean-Loup into monstrous-looking Beast, reflecting the monster he is inside. But Beast is nothing like the chevalier. Jean-Loup would never patiently tend his roses; Jean-Loup would never attempt poetry; Jean-Loup would never express remorse for the wrong done to Lucie...
All the Ever Afters by Danielle Teller
Fantasy, Fiction, Historical, Historical Fiction, Retellings
All the Ever Afters by Danielle Teller eBook Download A luminous reimagining of the classic fairy tale Cinderella, told from the perspective of Agnes, the beautiful girl's "evil" stepmother Compelling fiction often obscures the humble truth... We all know the story of Cinderella. Or do we? As rumors about the cruel upbringing of beautiful newlywed Princess Cinderella roil the kingdom, her stepmother, Agnes, a woman who knows all too well about hardship, privately records the true story. But what unfolds is not the princess's history. The tale Agnes recounts is her own. A peasant born into serfdom, Agnes is separated from her family and forced into servitude as a laundress's apprentice at Aviceford Manor when she is just ten years old. Alone, friendless, and burdened with a...
The Surface Breaks by Louise O'Neill
Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Feminism, Fiction, Mythology, Retellings, Romance, Young Adult
The Surface Breaks by Louise O'Neill eBook Download Deep beneath the sea, off the cold Irish coast, Gaia is a young mermaid who dreams of freedom from her controlling father. On her first swim to the surface, she is drawn towards a human boy. She longs to join his carefree world, but how much will she have to sacrifice? What will it take for the little mermaid to find her voice? Hans Christian Andersen's original fairy tale is reimagined through a searing feminist lens, with the stunning, scalpel-sharp writing and world building that has won Louise her legions of devoted fans. A book with the darkest of undercurrents, full of rage and rallying cries: storytelling at its most spellbinding.
The Merry Spinster by Mallory Ortberg
Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Retellings, Short Stories
The Merry Spinster by Mallory Ortberg eBook Download From Mallory Ortberg comes a collection of darkly mischievous stories based on classic fairy tales. Adapted from her beloved "Children's Stories Made Horrific" series, The Merry Spinstertakes up the trademark wit that endeared Ortberg to readers of both The Toast and her best-selling debut Texts from Jane Eyre. The feature become among the most popular on the site, with each entry bringing in tens of thousands of views, as the stories proved a perfect vehicle for Ortberg's eye for deconstruction and destabilization. Sinister and inviting, familiar and alien all at the same time, The Merry Spinster updates traditional children's stories and fairy tales with elements of psychological horror, emotional clarity, and a keen sense of femi...
Beauty and the Beast Novelization eBook Download
Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult
Beauty and the Beast Novelization eBook Download Belle has dreamt of adventures like the ones she reads in her books, of traveling the world outside her small town. When Belle's father is captured, she takes his place as a prisoner of a fearsome Beast. But life in the enchanted castle isn't as terrible as Belle imagines, and she ultimately finds friendship and love. Enjoy this tale as old as time about adventure and love, about looking past first appearances, and about the inner Beauty and Beast in all of us in this beautiful novelization of the upcoming star-studded film!
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Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical, Historical Fiction
The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden eBook Download The magical adventure begun in The Bear and the Nightingalecontinues as brave Vasya, now a young woman, is forced to choose between marriage or life in a convent and instead flees her home—but soon finds herself called upon to help defend the city of Moscow when it comes under siege. Orphaned and cast out as a witch by her village, Vasya's options are few: resign herself to life in a convent, or allow her older sister to make her a match with a Moscovite prince. Both doom her to life in a tower, cut off from the vast world she longs to explore. So instead she chooses adventure, disguising herself as a boy and riding her horse into the woods. When a battle with some bandits who have been terrorizing the countryside earns her th...

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The Milky Cat is not an ordinary cat. Her owner Craig Armstrong was a climber and knew that there was something special in Milly from the moment she jumped on the shoulder at the cats shelter where she had adopted her.
Mile immediately began to show affinity for winning peaks and after several trial excursions, Craig concluded that Miley is not like all other cats and has the ability to master the skills of climbing the rocks, that she has a natural gift for it and enjoys doing it with him.
The two have thousands of social media followers, and Millie does not allow her to glorify her head and think only of conquering new peaks and depths.


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Q: Executing terminal command from java I am new to java and learning it. I want to run a command line program from java class.
This is the command i want to run:(only linux)
path/to/folder/$ echo "Inhibition of NF-kappaB activation reversed the anti-apoptotic effect of isochamaejasmin." | ./geniatagger

This will give me output which I want to store in a java object.
String output:
Inhibition  Inhibition  NN  B-NP    O
of  of  IN  B-PP    O
NF-kappaB   NF-kappaB   NN  B-NP    B-protein
activation  activation  NN  I-NP    O
reversed    reverse VBD B-VP    O
the the DT  B-NP    O
anti-apoptotic  anti-apoptotic  JJ  I-NP    O
effect  effect  NN  I-NP    O
of  of  IN  B-PP    O
isochamaejasmin isochamaejasmin NN  B-NP    O
.   .   .   O   O
Please guide me how to achieve that?

A: Command line interpreters, mostly called shells, are a typical platform specific feature not supported well by Java. This is not to say it is impossible, but you have to ask yourself whether you want this feature to work on all platforms or not.
If you don't care about multi-platform, you can look into Runtime.exec
E.g:
Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd /c echo Hello World!");

If you do care, maybe you are better off doing the same thing from Java directly. Mostly shell commands can be achieved from Java directly without too much code. It will then be cross-platform and the performance will often be much better.
If you decide to go with invocation of shell commands anyway, to act on the output of it, learn how to access the standard input/output streams. Look at this example.
UPDATE
I think I now see that probably you want to write a program ./geniatagger that will accept input from the command line, e.g. output of 'echo' that was piped to it etc?
If so, look at using System.in, the standard input stream.

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Best Comic Book Movie Ever?
March Madness overlaps with the run-up to Avengers: Endgame, so it's time to ask: what's your FAVORITE comic book movie of all-time? To find out, here are — in order — 60 of the top-earning comic book films (adjusted for 2019 inflation), plus 4 cult classics who just might pull off an upset.


It is highly important with log cabins that the base is 100% level, flat and square. It must be free from subsidence over it's lifetime. It is highly recommended that a base has a DPM (Damp proof membrane) within it or on top.
Please see this page for lots more advise on bases for log cabins.


Community Description: We are currently building community in two main ways: Studying Mason's volumes and twice-monthly nature walk meetings. As we grow together we are exploring many new ways to enjoy the feast together through family recitation nights and the possibility of a future co-learning community. Mothers will be studying Volume 2, Parents and Children, beginning in July and will meet the second Wednesday of each month from 7-9 pm. Please email for information about nature walks.
Community Description: This is a book discussion group for mamas reading through the CM volumes. We meet the third Tuesday of each month at 7pm. Families of mamas in the book group are then invited to meet for a monthly Natural History Club as we seek to grow in understanding of the philosophy and practice of the 20 principles. See our FB page for more details... New members welcome.
Community Description: Charlotte Mason SC Midlands was created as a platform for sharing and drawing families together in our immediate area. The goal is to provide contact for various small community lesson groups that are available in this area, book study & support meetings and other enrichment opportunities such as hikes, family camping and local art/music opportunities.
Community Description: At Seaside Cottage School, we use Charlotte Mason's methods as she was a Godly woman who treated each child as a unique and precious gift from God. We use a literary-focused, arts-focused curriculum and history books with a Judeo-Christian Worldview. The Mission of Seaside Cottage School is to train up children in the way they should go by presenting them with a feast of ideas which are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, virtuous, and praiseworthy so they will be able to filter life's experiences through a Biblical worldview, labor in the Great Commission, and, in all they say and do, bring glory to God.
Community Description: This is a group for homeschoolers (between the ages of 8-13, but siblings outside of range are of course welcome) following the Charlotte Mason way of educating our children. Besides twice-monthly nature hikes, we host a Handicraft Fair, a Shakespeare Festival, and a book club for mamas.


BAKER CO., GA (WALB) - The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is handling the case of the fatal shooting of Marvin Mikel Miller, Jr, 37.
The Baker County resident was shot several times on Harden Allen Road, in Baker County in the predawn hours Saturday.
The Sylvester Field Office of the GBI, and the Baker County Sheriff's Department began a joint investigation into the shooting.
The shooting was reported to have resulted from an argument that happened earlier between Miller and Antonio Walters, Jr., age 23, who lives on Milton Miller Road, in Colquitt, GA.
Late Saturday afternoon, arrest warrants were issued and served on Walters, charging him with Felony Murder and Aggravated Assault. Walters was booked into the Miller County Jail.


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After joyous summer English women's football faces a battle for its soul | Women's football
Rule number one of English football: when Leah Williamson tells you to do something, you do it. Particularly when she is screaming it at you over the din over 90,000 supporters at Wembley. "We want them to come to WSL games!" she yelled of the 17 million viewers watching the triumphant climax of the Euro 2022 final on the BBC.
Happily, the public have taken Williamson's advice to heart. Something has changed here. On Friday night, Arsenal and Brighton kicked off the new Super League season with a sell-out at Meadow Park. Manchester City have already sold 20,000 tickets for their derby against Manchester United in December.
Aston Villa's season ticket sales are up 108%. And although the death of the Queen scuppered last weekend's big opening, the stage is now set for the latest chapter in one of British sport's outstanding success stories: a game that over the decades has built itself up from enforced extinction to create something fresh, exciting and joyful.
Now for the delicate part. With the euphoria of Wembley now a cherished memory, the arm wrestle over its legacy has begun. Never have there been so many competing visions of what women's football should look like in this country. Everyone agrees on the imperative to "grow the game". But how that growth should be generated and who it should primarily benefit: these are questions that will be resolved in the coming months, questions that will define the soul of the sport.
Within hours of England's win over Germany, the Chelsea manager Emma Hayes had used her column in the Telegraph to demand a radical rethink of English women's football. Hayes called for the WSL to be run along similar lines to the Premier League, a breakaway body geared towards maximising the commercial potential of the top clubs, seeking "investment from corporations and partners and sponsors" that would create a "trickle-down" effect through the game. "I've always been an advocate of the women's game becoming a business," she would say later. "I think we've now entered that phase."
Hayes is by no means alone in conceiving women's football in terms of a lucrative start-up. "It's a literal gold mine," said Megan Rapinoe in a Guardian interview last month. The Denmark international Pernille Harder, meanwhile, has spoken in glowing terms of the spiralling transfer fees at the top end of the women's game, saying: "I think it's good for women's football to get the money rolling. It shows that it keeps developing." Naturally, there are multiple strands to this debate. Hayes's job is to advocate for her club, currently striving to push the boundaries, to attract the world's best players to London, to compete not just at domestic but European level. The departures of Keira Walsh to Barcelona and Georgia Stanway to Bayern Munich suggest that English clubs are still some way behind the cream of Europe in terms of prestige and pull.
Georgia Stanway playing for Bayern Munich Women after leaving the WSL. Photograph: Action Press/Shutterstock
But further down the pyramid, where salaries are barely liveable and training invariably has to fit around work, you hear a very different perspective on growth. "What is the purpose?" asks Maggie Murphy, CEO of Lewes FC. "Is it just entertainment, is it a business? Because if so, then at some point Lewes FC will fall off and die. If decisions are made that just require more and more money on unfeasibly short timelines, we won't be able to keep up. So for us, it's an existential question." Lewes play in the second-tier Championship, one of the few teams at the elite end of the game not tied to a big men's club. They are fan-owned, generate all their own revenue and are still the only club in the UK to split it equally between men's and women's sides. Attendances have quadrupled in three seasons. If you wanted to design and run a women's football club from scratch, Lewes would be your starting point.
"We're more than just football. We're football, plus community, plus purpose," says Murphy. "Often I'm jealous of other clubs' funding, and then I meet some of the staff that work at those clubs, and they're jealous of our environment, our town, our community. You can't falsify that stuff." Murphy sits on the board of the WSL and Championship, which means that the coming months bring some tough conversations. The Football Association runs the women's game at all levels in England but is preparing to let go of the WSL competition it inaugurated in 2011. Advertisements will shortly go out for a new independent chief executive to run a standalone WSL and Championship.
The FA would retain a share for three years, but ultimately leave the future in the hands of the biggest women's clubs, which to an increasing degree also happen to be the biggest men's clubs.
Lewes in action at home to Southampton in a Championship match last month. Photograph: Steve Bardens/The FA/Getty Images
Liverpool's promotion means that the top nine clubs in last season's Premier League are also represented in this season's WSL. (Aston Villa, Everton and Reading are the others.) This is the crystallisation of a long-term trend: while the inaugural WSL seasons saw Bristol Academy, Doncaster Belles and Lincoln grace the top flight, over time the gravity of men's football has imperiously asserted itself. Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester City have occupied the top three places in every WSL season since 2015. Tottenham, Manchester United and West Ham have belatedly begun to invest. Newcastle, who have made women's football a priority under their new ownership, will not stay in the fourth tier for long.
Lewes do not have a big benefactor, and have powered themselves into the second tier entirely through membership, sponsorship and matchday revenue. If women's football ends up locked in a toxifying spiral of spending and profit, an arms race to the top, they will simply be unable to compete.
"One of the ironies is that the better women's football gets, the more dependent it becomes on men's football to finance that ambition," says Murphy. "You can't just assume that more money is a good thing. If it's not paired with good governance and equal decision-making and diversity, then I'm not sure it necessarily is. If the assumption is that more money at any cost is good, we'll start to see some dodgy investing that could tear at the fabric of the culture we've built."
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Going to games
Live WSL football represents excellent value. Take season tickets: the champions Chelsea – based at Kingsmeadow in Kingston-upon-Thames – offer league-only deals for £49 to adults and £5 to juniors and seniors.
Tottenham's adult prices are £70 and promoted Liverpool's are £60 – with juniors and seniors paying £35. Meanwhile, Manchester City sell adult season tickets at £58-£68 – or £40-£45 for seniors and £27 for under-16s. For a flavour of the cost of a one-off ticket, Chelsea charge adults £10 to sit and £9 to stand, with concessions £2 and £1, respectively.
Games are staged across the weekend from 7.30pm some Fridays to 6.45pm-7pm every Sunday evening, with at least one match on Saturday lunchtime and the remainder kicking off between 12pm and 3pm on Sunday afternoons.
An increasing number will take place at Premier League stadiums at various points. City use the 7,000-capacity Academy Stadium on the Etihad campus for most of their 11 home WSL fixtures, but will hold December's Manchester derby with United (based at Leigh Sports Village) at the Etihad Stadium.
Similarly, Arsenal play most games at Meadow Park in Borehamwood but the north London derby on 24 September is being held at the Emirates. Aston Villa usually run out at Walsall's Bescot Stadium but they will face City at Villa Park on Sunday 18 September. A week later Liverpool swap their customary match-day base at Tranmere's Prenton Park to meet Everton at Anfield.
Television and social media
The Football Association has signed a record broadcast deal, of which Sky Sports will transmit 35 WSL games exclusively live this season. Meanwhile 22 matches will be free-to-air on the BBC and those not broadcast on television can be watched live on the FA Player. Highlights will be broadcast on BBC One on Sunday night. The WSL's accounts offer regular updates as the action unfolds.
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The woman with the unenviable job of finding a compromise between these competing visions is Baroness Campbell, the FA's head of women's football. "I'd love to give you a really simple answer, but there isn't one," she admits. "What we don't want is the head leaving the body. What we're selling to broadcasters and sponsors is a competitive league, not four or five teams. And therefore growing the whole thing is important. We've got to take everybody on this journey. I think we all understand that."
There are radical solutions on the table. Equalising prize money in the FA Cup would have the potential to transform smaller clubs in the space of a single afternoon. A progressive redistribution of broadcast revenue – weighted towards clubs further down the pyramid – would be more transformative still. But as the Brighton director Michelle Walder admitted to SportsPro: "Nobody is necessarily going to want to fund their competitor who might get them relegated. So it's a balance."
These are questions that stray into the realm of the ideological. But then women's football has always been an ideological thing: imagined from its very earliest days as an alternative culture, a struggle against traditional power, the simple idea that existence could be resistance. That ethos persists to this day. By and large women's football is a diverse and safe space, its people approachable and relatable, the product largely uncontaminated by tribalism and abuse, crypto scams and super-agents.
Lotte Wubben-Moy at the centre of England's Euro 2022 celebrations at Wembley. Photograph: Liam Asman/Womens Football Magazine/SPP/Shutterstock
In fairness, retaining the unique culture of women's football is a priority that almost everyone agrees on. More importantly, the top players – virtually all of whom emerged from obscurity through an underfunded system – are united on the importance of furnishing the whole pathway. Arsenal's defender Lotte Wubben-Moy was behind the open letter from the Lionesses to Liz Truss, demanding greater investment in school sport. "They're very grounded and very authentic," says Campbell. "They're proud to put on that England shirt, they're proud to put on their club shirt. But they want to keep the thing whole."
Which is why the next eight months of conflict, conversation and consensus are so critical. The Lionesses have shown what is possible when you invest in the top end of the women's game. Meanwhile the WSL's big three are streaking off into the distance. Growing the game in a way that gives everyone else a chance: this is the battle ahead. And never has there been a more apposite moment to disprove rule number two of English football: eventually, money finds a way through.
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When the Houston Texans were looking at head coaches last offseason, there were jokes about their desire to hire Josh McCown, who had never coached above the high-school level. There was a serious candidate in Brian Flores.
Nobody considered Lovie Smith. When he suddenly emerged as the leading candidate, it was strange.
It was also a relationship that was probably doomed from the start. The Texans fired Smith on Sunday night, team owner Cal McNair announced. The news was first reported by NFL Network's Ian Rapoport and Mike Garafolo.
Smith is the second straight coach to last just one season with the Texans. If you count Romeo Crennel, who was the interim for 12 games in 2020 after Bill O'Brien was fired, the next coach the Texans hire will be their fifth in four seasons.
Lovie Smith fired after losing season
The Texans were reportedly down to three candidates last offseason: McCown, Flores and Philadelphia Eagles defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon. Then Flores filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against the NFL.
The Texans seemed set to hire McCown, despite his lack of experience. After the lawsuit, the Texans pivoted to Smith. It got messy. Flores said, through his lawyers, that he was passed over due to the lawsuit.
It left Smith in a strange spot. He was the defensive coordinator for a 4-13 Texans team in 2021 that gave up the second-most yards in the NFL. The Texans fired David Culley after one season, but hired the coordinator of a bad defense. Smith had coached the University of Illinois, but hadn't been a head coach in the NFL since 2015 with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
It was an awkward, unexpected hire and not a great fit. The Texans were expected to be bad, and they were. And Smith didn't last in Houston to coach a second season.
Houston Texans head coach Lovie Smith lasted just one season with the team. (AP Photo/Eric Christian Smith)
Another 1-and-done coach in Houston
The Texans were 1-3-1 to start the season, then lost nine in a row. They quickly got in the lead for the first overall pick of the draft. It was a bad team and the fans tuned it out.
They finished the season with a victory against the Indianapolis Colts, a win that cost the Texans the No. 1 pick of the 2023 draft.
It's rare for a team to have two consecutive one-and-done coaches. Since the merger in 1970, only the San Francisco 49ers have fired multiple coaches consecutively after just one season. The 49ers had three straight one-and-done coaches from 1976-78 and then had back-to-back one-year coaches in 2015-16. The 49ers made a Super Bowl not long after each of those bad stretches, so it's not like the Texans can't rebound quickly. But Houston is viewed as a disorganized franchise and firing Smith a year after he was a strange hire to begin with isn't the best look.
Houston is starting to dig out from bad trades that cost it draft picks and other poor decisions, and a new head coach can have a practically clean slate to rebuild. That might appeal to someone, but Houston isn't seen as a stable franchise. It could be a tough sell.
At this point, the Texans have to hope that their next hire lasts more than a season.


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Thesis: Homelessness is a condition that has affected most people in America; however, the condition is curable.
Attention Getter: States such as Alaska, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Colorado, and Washington State recorded highest rates of homelessness. The total number of people experiencing homelessness in America amounts to more than 3.5 million in one year.
Reason to listen: Increasing unemployment causes homelessness due to poverty and lack of money to pay affordable houses. It is very important to realize ways of earning money and securing employment to reduce homelessness.
Thesis statement: Homelessness is a condition that has affected most people in America; however, the condition is curable.
Credibility statement:
I have read many articles, newspapers, blogs, websites, and other materials regarding homelessness in America and the world.
I have conducted research from books and other materials on the internet.
Preview of the main points:
Discuss homelessness.
Discuss the causes.
Recommend to reduce homelessness.
Homelessness is a state where people do not have adequate housing and shelters. They lack permanent houses and reside on the streets, incomplete buildings and vehicles, single room facilities, and other unstable situations. Section 330 of the public health service Act(42 U.S.C.,254B)(h)(5)(A) defines homelessness as a condition where people lack houses including those who stay in private and supervised facilities at night as well as those living in temporary houses. According to Philips (2012), people living in double up conditions cannot maintain a stable situation, forcing them to accommodate their friends and extended members of the family. Example people who have been homeless such as those released from prison and hospitals are homeless because they do not have a permanent housing to return.
Philips (2012) explains that homeless individuals lack regular and fixed residence during the night. People living in areas not fit for human habitation and in temporary institutions are homeless. People who lose their house due to a court order that has resulted in eviction action directing them to leave within fourteen days are homeless because they will have to live in hotels and other temporary places. The Federal statutes define youths and families living unaccompanied and experiencing continued instability due to frequent moves are homeless.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) uses a point-in-time count to measure prevalence of homelessness because the method includes those in shelters and outside shelters. According to HUD, 23% individuals living in U.S.A are chronically homeless. They are unaccompanied people with a disabling condition such as mental illness, chronic physical illnesses, and problems with development and abusing certain substances. They have been sleeping in places not meant for human habitation for over three years. More than 1.5 million children in America are homeless in a single year.
11. Causes of homelessness
a. Most homeless families lack affordable housing, members are unemployed and suffer poverty. Such families abuse substances, suffer from mental illnesses and chronic diseases. According to Front Steps (2017), factors such as domestic violence, loss of jobs, and lacking affordable houses leads to homelessness among most people.
b. According to front steps (2017), the state of homelessness is increasing in America to more than 564,708 people sleeping in emergency shelters and outside their homes in 2016. More than 36,907 being children, 47,725 are veterans. More than 269,991 homeless people are disabled and unemployed. More than 16 states report an increase in homelessness. Most poor people are at higher risks of homelessness because they are unemployed and cannot shelter the burden of house cost.
c.Veterans constitute more than 40% of the homeless population, where at least 200,000 are homeless in one night. The racial and ethnic minorities such as African-Americans remain overrepresented. More than 2% Asians, 4% Native-Americans, 13% Hispanic, 42% African-Americans and 39 percentage non-Hispanic whites are homeless. Approximately 71% homeless persons dwell in central cities, 21% in environs, and 9% live in countryside areas (The National Alliance to End Homelessness, 2018).
DHealth problems reported among homeless individuals
Homeless individuals live in places without adequate resources that lead to various health problems such as alcohol abuse and other drugs. They experience problems with mental health, HIV/AIDS, and other acute health problems such as tuberculosis, sexually transmitted diseases and pneumonia. Other people suffer stress, high blood pressure, cancer, and diabetes.
111. Response to homelessness
a. The major response to homelessness remains with McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, a major central legislative response Act signed by President Ronald Reagan in 1987. The Federal Act has initiated several programs to assist homeless Americans regain stability. The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act offers emergency shelter, job trainings, transitional housing, education, services for primary care in health, and few permanent houses (The National Coalition for the Homeless, 2009).
Review of Major Points:
Homelessness.
Causes of homelessness
Recommendations.
Restatement of Thesis: Homelessness has affected most people in America; however, the condition is curable.
Closure: In conclusion, homelessness has affected most Americans for a long time. Today most organizations and Acts formed give remedies to the condition through education, trainings, and workshops on better means of survival. Some also built permanent houses at cheaper prices.
Front steps. (2017). U.S. Homelessness Facts. Front steps. Retrieved from http://frontsteps.org/u-s-homelessness-facts/The National Alliance to End Homelessness. (2018). State of homelessness report. National Alliance to End Homelessness. Retrieved from https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homelessness-statistics/state-of-homelessness-report/The National Coalition for the Homeless (2009).Substance Abuse and Homelessness. National Coalition for the Homeless, 1-3.
Philips, K. (2012).Homelessness: Causes, Culture and community development as a solution. Salve Regina University, 1-56.
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Background: Included in methods commonly used for assessing vocational training are oral assessments (OAs) since, in addition to assessing knowledge to a depth rarely achieved in other forms of testing, they give unique insight into students' personal attitudes, which are important factors in the workplace. However, OAs require considerable preparation by the assessors, they can be restricted by time and assessor allocation, it is difficult to fully cover the course fairly, and they can put undue stress on the examinees, hence hindering a true expression of their skills and knowledge.
Purpose: OAs can give insight into a student's personal attitudes, and the purpose here is to find the relationship between OA observed attitudes and those deduced from the computer-aided assessment.
Design/Method: For the computer-aided assessments a scheme based on comparing two statements, followed by fuzzy AHP analysis, was used to determine the student's attitude on such topics as general safety, work area tidiness and cleanliness, care and good use of hand tools and accuracy and testing of equipment. The results from the computer-aided approach were then compared with attitudes on the same topics obtained by oral assessment.
Results: For this work the important result was that there were strong correlations between the OA observed attitudes and the computer-aided assessment derived attitudes of the students. It also became clear however that for safety, the attitude of students (and perhaps workers) is more complicated than just having a 'good' or 'bad' attitude. Social pressure and organisational influence do seem to play a part so influencing or masking the student's true attitudes.
Conclusions: Satisfactory correlations were found between results of students' attitudes when tested using the OA and computer-aided methods. Further work would need to be done to confirm generalization of substituting OA methods with a computer-aided assessment method.


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The Australian women's basketball team defeated China 75-60 to set up a semi-final showdown against a USA team that beat them in the gold medal game at the last three Olympics.
Australia, who lost the previous three gold medal games by an average of 20 points, will meet the United States one round earlier in London after the defending Olympic champions advanced with a 91-48 win over Canada in their quarter-final.
Power forward Lauren Jackson, who became the Olympic women's all-time leading scoring leader in the game, said it would feel strange facing the Americans earlier in the tournament than they have grown accustomed to.
"It is strange, but the last four years we've had since Beijing there's been a lot of changes within our program," said Jackson, noting an influx of new players. "To get back in the semi-finals and be a medal contender is huge for us."
Center Liz Cambage powered Australia with 17 points, while Jackson's added 12 to move one point ahead of retired Brazilian player Janeth Arcain as the Games' all-time scoring leader with 536 points.
Ma Zengyu was China's top scorer with 15 points.
It was a hard-fought, close game between the familiar rivals. China led 36-35 at the intermission and trailed by only three points heading to the fourth quarter.
Cambridge took charge from there, keying a 12-2 run that propelled Australia to victory after China had tied it 55-55.
The result still represented a step forward for China, who lost to Australia 90-56 in the semi-finals at the 2008 Beijing Games and by 91-58 to them at the 2010 world championships.
"Today's game is a great game for both teams," said China coach Sun Fengwu. "We tried hard to show our ability and had our best performance."
The 31-year-old Jackson, a member of Australia's three Olympic silver medal squads, said her team has to be better in their next game.
"It was a real slug-out, we didn't really get ahead until the fourth quarter," Jackson said. "We've had to come back a few times this tournament. We don't want to be like that with the Americans because they're way too good for that."
The other two women's quarter-finals Russia held off Turkey 66-63 and will now meet France, who beat the Czech Republic 71-68, in the semis.


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RBV's Beginnings
RBV's Problems
RBV Data
Mt. Ararat
June 8, 1981, Landsat 3, Return Beam Vidicon — Madagascar
Sketch of Landsat 1, formerly known as the Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS)
A sensor on the early Landsats had a name worthy of some Star Trek gadget. Originally Landsat's primary sensor, the Return Beam Vidicon (RBV) flew on the first three Landsats.
A sample RBV image shows the northwestern coast of Madagascar. The black-and-white image from 1981 has higher resolution than the Multispectral Scanner (MSS) on board the early Landsats. So what happened to these RBV images, and are they useful today?
What's a Vidicon?
A vidicon is a television camera tube that formed an image by focusing light onto a photoconductive faceplate. An electron beam scanned the faceplate, detecting light intensity for each scan line. The beam then bounced back by an electrically charged area. The resulting picture was made up of about 5,000 separate scan lines (compared to 525 for a traditional television picture).
July 28, 1981, Landsat 3, Return Beam Vidicon — Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Landsat's RBV had an inauspicious beginning. It rode into orbit on Landsat 1 on July 23, 1972. During orbit 196, just 14 days later, a relay in the Power Switching Module of the spacecraft got stuck in a permanently "on" state.
The problem could have been fixed with a difficult command sequence, but the other sensor on Landsat 1, the MSS, was already showing its excellent performance and became the favored sensor for its capability to acquire near-infrared data. So the RBV on Landsat 1 was not reactivated. In the short time it operated, it recorded 1,692 images.
The RBV camera that flew on board Landsat 3 was redesigned and given a slightly different mission. This RBV had a spatial resolution higher than the MSS, 40 meters, to add a new dimension to the MSS's multispectral coverage. The higher detail could be used for detailed ground mapping. The Landsat 3 RBV acquired many thousands more images than either one on board Landsats 1 and 2. The RBV imagery is scattered across the globe, and all of it resides in the EROS archive.
Dec. 7, 1980, Landsat 3, Return Beam Vidicon — Brazil, stairstep anomaly on right side
Dec. 7, 1980, Landsat 3, Return Beam Vidicon — Brazil, closeup of the stairstep anomaly, lower right side
Because of RBV's higher spatial resolution than MSS, glaciologists were able to use the RBV imagery for spotting more detail. "If you want to look at the ice front, you want to get as sharp a picture as you can," John Dwyer, Chief of the EROS Science and Applications Branch, said. "They could map crevasses and their displacement and movement over time and map the surface velocity. Once you straighten out the geometry of the image, the RBV can still be useful."
Yes, the geometry of an RBV image had to be "straightened out." It turns out there are a few problems inherent in the RBV data.
The RBV was more like a television camera than a sensor, but television pictures tended to distort the image. Researchers using satellite imagery want the image to resemble an accurate map. They expect straight lines for latitude and longitude, for example. RBV images, however, were more like maps printed on a rubber sheet. They were easily stretched out of shape, distorting those imaginary latitude and longitude lines. These distortions could be corrected, but that would have increased processing time and cost.
Furthermore, when imaging over Antarctica, RBV tended to go snow blind. Areas of high reflectance, like snow and ice, could be overexposed. Therefore, cloud cover and snow cover were easily confused.
Because RBV's main purpose was mapping the earth, the imagery included a reseau grid. No other Landsat sensors contain reseau marks. These plus signs on the images are used to correct distortions in the image after development or scanning. As John Faundeen, Archivist at EROS, put it, the reseau marks allowed you to "tie the imagery to the earth to verify the accuracy."
In all, there were officially 11 inherent problems with RBV data. Other problems include corners out of focus, occasional black vertical lines, and missing or distorted reseaus. These problems are detailed in a 1981 USGS Open-File Report.
The RBV image shown in this section is in Brazil and shows a stairstep anomaly on the right side of the image. This stairstep phenomenon appears in several RBV images.
70-mm RBV film in the EROS archive.
RBV film chip in the EROS archive.
Roughly 138,000 images were taken by the RBV on Landsat 3. The data were recorded to 70-mm black and white film rolls at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and delivered to EROS. This film, stored either on 70-mm film or in envelopes on film "chips," is part of the EROS archive, and it's the only copy.
Only 64 of those images have been scanned from their film source for immediate download via EarthExplorer (look under Landsat Legacy in the Data Sets tab). The rest of them are there and you can find their locations, but the film would have to be scanned before you can download a high-resolution version.
If a scene has not been already scanned, users can place an order to scan the film for $30 per scene. Once it's scanned and a high-resolution digital version made available for download, it's freely available worldwide. But as noted, any of these images have a decent chance of having geometric distortions.
Sep. 12, 1977, Landsat 2 (path/row 183/32) — Mount Ararat, Turkey
Oct. 10, 1980, Landsat 3, RBV — Mount Ararat, Turkey
Oct. 3, 2001, Landsat 7 (path/row 170/32) — Mount Ararat, Turkey
Sep. 5, 2017, Landsat 8 (path/row 170/32) — Mount Ararat, Turkey
Sep. 29, 2018, Sentinel-2B — Mount Ararat, Turkey
Despite its problems, RBV data has been used in land change studies.
RBV data was used in a recent scientific study of glaciers in Turkey. Scientists used RBV images from 1980 (along with dozens of other Landsat images and high-resolution commercial satellite images) to document the areal extent of all glaciers in that country. The researchers noted that RBV's higher resolution was an excellent source for glacier studies.
The glacier covering the top of Mount Ararat is Turkey's largest glacier. Based on data from the RBV and more recent Landsat sensors, the glacier area of Ararat diminished from 8.9 square kilometers in 1977 to 5.6 square kilometers in 2008, according to the study. Most loss took place on the southern, western, and eastern sides of the mountain.
Even though RBV had an impressive spatial resolution, the near-infrared and shortwave infrared imaging capability on current Landsats defines the extent of ice more clearly than RBV could.
The depth of the Landsat archive across the history of Landsat sensors made this study possible. It's important to continue to monitor these glaciers and gauge the effects of these changes, and RBV turned out to be an excellent source where data did not already exist.
Mt. Ararat Glacier Extent
1977 8.9 km2
June 26, 1980, Landsat 3, MSS — Chitina River Valley, Alaska, USA
July 5, 1980, Landsat 3, RBV — Chitina River Valley, Alaska, USA
July 8, 2018, Landsat 8, OLI — Chitina River Valley, Alaska, USA
One of the factors that improves on Landsat sensors over the project's history is the quality of the data. For example, compare these images of glaciers in Alaska's Chitina River Valley from 1980. There is more background noise in an RBV image than there is in the MSS image. The RBV on Landsat 3 had a slightly higher spatial resolution, but the low signal-to-noise ratio makes it harder to pull out surface detail.
The 2018 image from Landsat 8's Operational Land Imager has even better signal-to-noise ratio and higher resolution than both early sensors. The image reveals more detail about the roughness and flow of the ice. Landsat 8's shortwave infrared bands provide a better distinction between ice and rock or soil.
High-quality data is needed in studying glaciers. Glaciers reflect visible light and appear bright white in natural color satellite images. But a glacier absorbs near-infrared light. The near-infrared and shortwave infrared imaging on later Landsats show the difference between snow and bare ground more clearly.
However, glaciologists still found RBV useful for mapping arctic regions. In high latitudes, images acquired at low sun angles helped enhance local topographic relief. The high resolution of the RBV on Landsat 3 supplemented MSS imagery.
In the RBV image of the Chitina River Valley, the brightest wavy streaks are glaciers. Note that they extend farther downstream in 1980 than they do in 2018. In the Landsat 8 image, wavy blue streaks indicate glaciers. They are generally in the same location as in the 1980 image, just diminished.
While RBV might not be exactly what is needed or have the ideal attributes for a study or for mapping forests, glaciers, and other land covers, perhaps it's one more tool to add to the collection in studying land change. It's at least worth another look. Besides, as Faundeen said, "RBV is another interesting chapter in the Landsat story."
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Personal comm.: John Dwyer, Chief, Science and Applications Branch, USGS EROS; John Faundeen, Archivist and Chief, Office of Communications & Outreach, USGS EROS; Chris Crawford, USGS EROS


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Indiana Pacers at Detroit Pistons - 11/17/21 NBA Picks and Prediction
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Peter Tran November 17, 2021 12:24 am
Detroit Pistons (3-10) vs Indiana Pacers (6-9)
Game Info: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 7:00 pm (Little Caesars Arena)
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The Detroit Pistons play host to the Indiana Pacers at Little Caesars Arena on Wednesday night.
The Indiana Pacers have been in decent form as they've won five of their past eight games overall, but they will be eager to bounce back in this one after having their two-game win streak halted by the Knicks in a 92-84 road loss on Monday. Malcolm Brogdon led the team with 22 points, eight rebounds and seven assists, Domantas Sabonis added 21 points with 15 rebounds and three assists while Caris LeVert chipped in with 17 points. As a team, the Pacers shot just 37 percent from the field and eight of 37 from the 3-point line as they held the Knicks to just 16 points in the first quarter to lead for most of the game, before going ice-cold when it mattered most as they scored just two points in the final 5:47. Justin Holiday scored just eight points after pouring in 27 points in the previous game, while TJ McConnell had a night to forget as he finished with just two points on one of eight shooting.
Meanwhile, the Detroit Pistons have been in a serious slump as they've lost 10 of their first 13 games overall and they will be hoping to bounce back here after getting thrashed by the Kings in a 129-107 home loss on Monday. Saddiq Bey led the team with 28 points on nine of 17 shooting while Cade Cunningham added 25 points with eight rebounds and eight assists, but no other player scored more than eight points. As a team, the Pistons shot just 40 percent from the field and 13 of 47 from the 3-point line, but they were always fighting an uphill battle after getting blown out by 31-12 in the first quarter, before falling behind by as many as 32 points.
Looking at the betting trends, the Pacers are 2-5 ATS in their last seven games against a team with a losing record, 4-1 ATS in their last five games following a loss and 6-2 ATS in their last eight games overall. The Pistons are 2-8 ATS in their last 10 home games, 3-7 ATS in their last 10 games against a team with a losing record and 5-13 ATS in their last 18 games overall.
Head to head, the under is 4-0 in the last four meetings in Detroit and the Pacers are 2-5 ATS in the last seven meetings in Detroit.
The Pacers come into this matchup as the team in better form and they will be eager to come out firing after scoring just 84 points in an ugly loss to the Knicks on Monday. The Pistons have yet to hit their stride this season and their confidence took another hit after getting routed by the Kings in their last outing. Chris Duarte is questionable with a shoulder injury, so the Pacers could be a little shorthanded once again, but they are 6-2 ATS in their last eight games overall and I think that trend continues as they get the win against this slumping Pistons team.
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