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IT is John Thompson's good fortune that it finds itself at the forefront of world-class production of steam with its renowned boilers, making it the largest and most modern heavy engineering manufacturing facility in the Western Cape.
Its range of products covers fire tube boilers which can produce steam up to 25 bar using coal and up to 40 bar using oil or gas. In industrial water tube boilers up to 200 tons of steam per hour can be produced at 85 bar and in utility boilers, using water tube technology.
Interestingly, although the sale of new build boilers still remain the mainstay of the business, revenue from its provision of maintenance and efficiency improvement services has become equally important.
Theo Lotter, divisional director of John Thompson, explains the company realised a couple of years ago that more emphasis had to be placed on the retention and development of skills. It foresaw, because of changing market conditions, that it should focus closer on the potential that the service market holds.
This move has paid off handsomely and is one of the reasons that the company in its last financial year (ending March 2010) showed its best ever financial performance.
The continuing success of the company flows from its vision to strategise and forecast market needs, especially so in terms of the cost of fuel, its availability and the quality of fuel.
Right now, the use of electricity in boilers has become risky, both in terms of cost and questions about availability, for example. The cost of oil too has risen sharply. Therefor the coal-fired boiler remains the most viable option for steam demands greater than 1 000kg/hr and basically the only option for demands greater than 3 000kg/hr.
With its new range of coal fired boilers the company has managed to achieve savings and reduced levels of emissions considered impossible a few years ago. Often, especially on larger boilers, pay-back periods of as little as one year are achieved where coal rather than, say oil is used.
But conditions are in continuous flux, and the above scenario may well change over time again. Lotter stresses that the company vision will enable it to timely adjust for changes in market requirements.
"For instance, in the way forward, much emphasis will be placed on re-newable resources. The environment is increasingly becoming uppermost in clients' minds and we are already developing solutions. Our belief is that the 'clean solution will be the winning solution' and we are adjusting our operations accordingly", Lotter says.
He notes that there is an increasing demand for its products and services from both the public and private sectors. John Thompson boilers already have a big footprint in both sectors.
In the public sector, especially so for hospitals and prisons, the government is spending seriously on upgrading and improving steam availability, for example.
The private sector too, especially food and beverages and the mining sectors, has shown a return of confidence, resulting in the local market growing.
This all is very helpful, because John Thompson is increasingly being tasked to be a service provider. Maintenance on older boilers is increasing and there is a strong move to outsourcing, Lotter says.
Currently working 24 hour shifts, the company seems all steamed up to stay on course for some time to come. Lotter stresses that the support and enthusiasm of its some 2 000 employees (parent company ACTOM has around
6 000) are crucial to this.
To effectively execute on its service delivery the company has factory trained technicians based in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban, Witbank and Port Elizabeth to provide a national network of service for all aspects of boiler combustion - electrical, coal, oil, gas and mixed fuel. In addition, an international service is available to customers throughout Africa, the Middle East and South America.


Reece: "The Atmosphere Was Unreal"
Saturday's goalscoring hero Reece Cole praised the mentality of the team and the impact of the fans after his late strike earned the Silkmen a dramatic point against Crewe at the Moss Rose.
Reece levelled deep into stoppage time and admitted he had been working on his shooting with Macc coach Andy Cole during the week.
He said: "The ball just fell to me; I had a chance last Saturday and it got blocked on the line but today, thankfully, I put it in.
His late strike sparked pandemonium on the pitch and in the stands, but Reece conceded that he didn't know what to do when the ball hit the back of the net.
"I didn't know what to do to be fair.
The Silkmen had to fight back from behind three times on Saturday, and Reece praised that belief and determination which has infiltrated throughout the team of late.
"Obviously, we have gone a goal down early doors, it's not what you want but I think the boys dug in.
"I think we still tried to stick to our style of play and play out from the back; so it is a well-earned point.
"I've only been here a couple of weeks now but I'm trying to get my head down and score and get as many assists as possible so as long as we get points on the board at the end of the day, I am happy.
Reece also credited the Silkmen faithful for their unwavering support and was adamant that this helped the team push for another leveller after falling behind so late on.


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David Dennings, the narrator of Ann Diamond's new novel, Dead White Males (Livres DC Books), is a wacky hairdresser much like the one I visit every couple of months. But whereas my stylist is a filmmaker, Diamond's is trying to be a hard-boiled private detective, and he's been hired by a troubled millionaire to track down a dead woman who is stalking him. Dennings has met his client, Nick Maggot, before. Ten years earlier Maggot visited Dennings' salon for a wash and a blow-dry. "What was I back then?" Dennings muses. "Someone trained to hold a mirror to people's faces and show them their best selves." Fortunately Dennings has another talent: he was born with the gift of second sight. Which makes him the perfect detective to find the dead stalker. The reader also meets Professor Ned Bone of the creative writing department, whose memory is not what it should be due to "a surplus of pot in his pre-tenure days"; the wannabee literary critic Sergeant-Detective Gaston Plouffe; and a Haitian psychic who claims to have seen the missing dead woman getting into a car owned by Orville Goner, our greatest living poet. The plot moves quickly between Canada and South America and between reality and whatever else is out there, so that the only thing the reader can do is let go and be taken along, laughing all the way.


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Bette Midler 20 Years Old
Called one of the most successful American singers and comics of perpetuity, Bette Midler has a five-decade profession that has actually earned her various awards. Her career has actually seen her as a vocalist, actress, author, and comic.
During the late 60s and early 70s, the cabaret scene was a breeding ground for skilled young entertainers. Although a lot of entertainers were fortunate to make a dime, a few were able to turn a profit. These acts needed a couple of lucky breaks and the generous support of their enjoyed ones. In addition, lots of striving performers lost little fortunes. Cabaret stays a vital proving ground for new and young skills.
In the cabaret world, the most essential role is to function as a showcase for the many entertainers. The show is typically a mix of acting, singing, and patter. The very best programs have an Emcee who reinforces the program's message. The best programs even include the audience's interest by letting them take the stage in turn. A few acts are even able to woo the crowd with a couple of gallons of champagne.
A few standouts consist of KT Sullivan, who handled to land an industrial representative through her cabaret act. Another notable entertainer was Dawn Hampton, who is a veteran of early Off-Broadway productions and black vaudeville. She performed in nearly every room in town. She wowed audiences at The Tubs and shared a costs with Bette Midler at The Duplex. The Duplex was a Greenwich Village comedy club that focused on cabaret acts. The club's second-floor bar was raucous however preserved a stable flow of patrons.
Among the best cabaret programs of the past few decades was the duo of Mary & & Gordy. Their performance at the Cafe Carlyle in 1968 set attendance records. Their act was a cabaret trifecta with the most excellent feat being their "superstar" tune, a nod to the Carpenters. The song ended up being Carpenters' best-known hit. In the end, the duo's success was because of their ingenious technique to cabaret, which included the very best of both worlds – a little glitz and a bit of grit.
The most outstanding cabaret act of all might have been one produced by Leon Russell, a.k.a. The Mad Dogs and Englishmen. Coolidge co-wrote a number of Carpenters songs, consisting of the aforementioned "Super star" and "We're All Alone" – not to mention her other hits, "Fever," "Greater and Higher," and "We're all alone," which is not to be overlooked.
During her profession as a vocalist, comedienne, and author, Bette Midler has earned a wide range of awards and accolades. She has actually won 3 Emmys and four Golden Globes, and has been chosen for an Academy Award and a Grammy for her tunes. She has actually also been awarded the Sammy Cahn Life Time Accomplishment Award by the Songwriters Hall of Popularity in 2012.
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on December 1, 1945, Bette Midler is the daughter of Ruth Schindel and Fred Midler. Her maternal grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Austria and Hungary. She grew up in the island of Aiea, Hawaii. She attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where she learnt drama. Her first stage performance was the function of Tzeitel in the musical Fiddler on the Roofing system. She relocated to New york city City in 1965. She became an additional in the 1966 movie Hawaii.
Bette Midler's very first major album was The Divine Miss M, which won her a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1973. She released her first television special in 1977. She has actually starred in a number of effective funnies and has actually made 8 American Comedy Awards. She likewise has released numerous kids's books, including The Legend of Infant Divine.
Bette Midler signed a multi-picture handle Example Pictures in 1985. She appeared in a variety of movies, including Ruthless Individuals, For the Boys, Outrageous Fortune, Industry, and Down and Out in Beverly Hills. She co-produced the 2011 staging of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. She has actually likewise appeared in the animated film Fantasia 2000. Her 3rd album, "Wind Beneath My Wings," was a huge hit. It arrived of the Billboard Hot 100 and became her third Grammy Award for Record of the Year.
She has actually also been a representative for AIDS awareness. She has actually likewise been awarded a Kennedy Center Honor for her operate in the performing arts. Her operate in the theater also made her an Unique Tony Award for contributions to Broadway.
She has also been nominated for a Grammy Award for her song "The Rose" and for her efficiency on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" in 1992. She has actually been honored by the Songwriters Hall of Popularity and by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
Throughout her profession, Bette Midler has actually earned numerous awards and nominations. She has actually received four Grammy awards, 3 Emmy awards, and four Golden Globes. She has actually likewise gotten a Kennedy Center Honor. She has actually starred in numerous movies, including The Rose, Hocus Pocus, and Down and Out in Beverly Hills. She has actually appeared on The Tonight Program with Johnny Carson and Murphy Brown. She is offered for product promo and speaking engagements.
Bette Midler was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on December 1, 1945. She studied drama at the University of Hawaii. She then transferred to New York to pursue a performing profession. She has actually had a number of functions onstage, including her very first professional onstage function in the film Fiddler on the Roofing.
Bette Midler tape-recorded her first album, The Divine Miss M, in 1972. She received the 1973 Grammy Award for Finest New Artist. The album arrived of the Billboard Top 200 Chart and offered over a million copies. It likewise made Bette Midler a nomination for an Oscar for Best Starlet.
Bette Midler's 2nd album, Some People's Lives, was likewise a hit. It landed in the top ten of the Signboard Top 100. She also won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Singing Efficiency. She won a Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for her hit "The Rose". She also received an election for Best Starlet in a Musical.
Bette Midler has starred in films including Hocus Pocus, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, The Rose, and The Very First Partners Club. She has likewise starred in a variety of Broadway musicals, consisting of Hey there, Dolly!, Callous People, and Outrageous Fortune. She has actually carried out in over 800 programs throughout her career. Bette Midler is likewise an author. She has actually written several books. She is also the co-founder of the New york city Repair Project, which provides totally free environmental education to high hardship trainees in New york city.
Bette Midler is currently promoting her new album, Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook. It was shipped by Rick Hendrix and will be launched on January 16. In 2004, Bette Midler was nominated for a Grammy Award for her performance on the album. She has actually sold over 15 million records worldwide.
Throughout her career, Bette Midler has actually gotten lots of awards and honors. She has won three Emmy Awards, four Grammy Awards and 3 Golden Globes. She has likewise been nominated for two Academy Awards. Bette Midler is a vocalist, actor, author, songwriter, and film producer. She has offered over 30 million records worldwide. She has likewise written a number of books. In 2010, she confirmed that she would launch a new album, entitled 'Love Songs,' in 2010.
Bette Midler was born upon December 1, 1945, in Honolulu, Hawaii. She was raised in a household of European descent. Her father, Fred Midler, worked as a painter at a Navy base in Hawaii. She was raised in a neighborhood that was mainly Polynesian. She participated in Radford High School and the University of Hawaii, Manoa. She left after her 3rd term.
Bette Midler made her stage debut with a production of Tom Eyen's play, Cinderella Revisited. She has actually appeared in numerous movies, consisting of The Rose (1979 ), Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986 ), and The Stepford Wives (2004 ). She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in The Rose. She also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Movie Funny or Musical.
In the mid-60s, Bette Midler relocated to New York City. She started acting in Off-Off-Broadway plays. She was then cast in a television special. She was likewise a guest star on the movie, Vegetable Soup. She also carried out in a fund-raiser for USA for Africa.
In 2001, Bette Midler's record label Warner Music dropped her. She then signed a multi-picture deal with Touchstone Pictures. She continued to act in movies, consisting of Industry, Adult Assistance, and The Very First Other Halves Club. She also starred in the funny film Callous People. In 2009, she spoke about her new album at the Halloween Ball.
Bette Midler has actually a daughter named Sophie. She and her husband, artist Martin von Haselberg, are married. Their daughter was born upon November 14, 1986. She is the couple's only child. In 2020, she will marry Irish freelance author Harry Guinness.
In 2010, Bette Midler was found in Las Vegas, where she carried out with Gladys Knight. She launched a collection of her tunes on CD.
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How is Interior Designing A Significant Aspect of Construction?
Gone are the days when interior designing was considered merely a pretentious expression of the rich. These days, more and more people have come to realize the importance of having a space that is constructed and designed by the specialists. Professionals, dedicated to offering services for interior design in West Island not only aim at providing a pleasant space but also take care of your comfort.
You can have a house or commercial space built according to your needs, but interior designing is the core of all architectural projects which makes them successful. Interior designing is a process that provides you with a set of visually appealing but efficient solutions in order to make a space more functional. You can hire the services of a licensed construction company that specializes in designs, renovation, and remodeling spaces. Whether you have a residential or a commercial property, you can expect excellent results by hiring a team of experienced designers, architects, project managers, and general contractor in Montreal.
While designing the interiors of a space may sound like an interesting job, there are several challenges in the way. The interior designing experts need to clearly understand your expectations and requirements in order to figure out the easy and challenging parts of the job. Understanding your requirements, the professionals pair their knowledge and experience together to create a well-designed, beautiful home.
Professionals offering services for interior design in West Island consider several factors in order to achieve the best results. Take a look at these aspects from the following section.
Balance: Whether you have a new house or need renovation for an existing property, creating a balance is important to have the feeling of equilibrium. This process is all about equalizing the visual weight of objects in a room. In addition to shapes, it is also about taking care of things like color, pattern, and texture.
Ratio and Scale: It is the proportion between the size of one part to another and how an object's size relates to another. For e.g. a large-sized overstuffed object in a small-sized room will be out of scale.
Emphasis: A room which has everything in symmetry will seem too boring. The team of experienced architects and designers often get it done by having something interest such as a window with a beautiful view or a fireplace. It can also be enhanced by arranging furniture around it to bring emphasize to it.


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Three Minnesota men face a raft of misdemeanor and felony charges after a search of their Lake Crystal home allegedly led to the discovery of illegal drugs, drug paraphernalia, stolen property and a firearm. Agents from the Minnesota River Valley Drug Task Force say they searched the residence after receiving tips from local residents about suspicious activity including frequent brief visits. The men, who are 22, 25 and 30 years of age, heard the charges against them on Feb. 25 in Blue Earth County District Court.


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Chiridiella sarsi is een eenoogkreeftjessoort uit de familie van de Aetideidae. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1983 door Markhaseva.

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Joseph Michael Swango (born October 21, 1954) is an American serial killer and former licensed physician. It is estimated that Swango has been involved in as many as 60 fatal poisonings of patients and colleagues, though he only admitted to causing three deaths.
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Joseph Michael Swango is a serial killer who, as a trusted doctor, had easy access to his victims. Authorities believe he murdered up to 60 people and poisoned countless others, including co-workers, friends, and his wife.
Though American doctor Michael Swango appeared to be handsome and congenial in nature, signs of his inner mental instability were noticeable to colleagues even while he was attending medical school. Swango's classmates observed that he often worked on a scrapbook containing images of horrific, bloody disasters, and they worried that some of the basic anatomical knowledge expected from a physician was sorely lacking. However, no one knew how scary Swango really was until they discovered years later that he had killed between thirty and sixty of his patients.
As an intern in 1983, Swango's patients started quietly dying after he had been in the room with him. Though nurses alerted hospital officials at Ohio State University, their cursory investigations revealed nothing, and Swango continued to practice medicine without reproach. He moved to Illinois, taking a job as an ambulance driver because he admitted that he liked seeing the blood and gore of accidents. It was there that his co-workers again became suspicious of him. Swango began slowly poisoning his co-workers with ant poison, sending them home sick with terrible stomach pains. After a particularly bad episode involving a tainted batch of doughnuts, his co-workers set a trap for Swango by leaving him alone in a room with a pitcher of iced tea. They later had the tea tested in a lab and found that Swango had indeed put ant poison in the tea.
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Video shows Central Florida high school brawl that prompted 12 arrests
Video filmed inside of a Central Florida high school on Thursday shows the chaotic scene that prompted the arrests of 11 students and one adult. The video, which was filmed inside Atlantic High School in Port Orange, shows multiple students brawling and yelling at each other as authorities try to get the situation under control. Investigators said the fight was the result of a series of events that happened Wednesday night at a nearby apartment complex. No one was seriously injured in the fight. Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood says a body camera was ripped from one deputy during the brawl.The adult arrested came onto the campus with a parent. His brother was also involved in the fight.Gregory Devose, 20, is facing charges related to the chaos. He allegedly had brass knuckles with him when he barged onto school property. Devose's mother said her son is being unfairly charged because of the fight at the apartment complex."These people came in my house and attacked my kids," Lashawndre Burke said.Burke claims the juveniles involved in the school fighting showed up at her home the night before and attacked her children, then came after them at school."We actually got calls and saying my kids was getting beat up at school and they were bloody and everything. So, we ran to the school," Burke said.She and Devose's grandmother believe others were at fault for the fight and that Devose was just trying to keep her children safe.
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Video filmed inside of a Central Florida high school on Thursday shows the chaotic scene that prompted the arrests of 11 students and one adult.
The video, which was filmed inside Atlantic High School in Port Orange, shows multiple students brawling and yelling at each other as authorities try to get the situation under control.
Multiple students arrested after fights prompt lockdown at high school in Port Orange
Investigators said the fight was the result of a series of events that happened Wednesday night at a nearby apartment complex.
No one was seriously injured in the fight.
Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood says a body camera was ripped from one deputy during the brawl.
The adult arrested came onto the campus with a parent. His brother was also involved in the fight.
Gregory Devose, 20, is facing charges related to the chaos. He allegedly had brass knuckles with him when he barged onto school property.
Devose's mother said her son is being unfairly charged because of the fight at the apartment complex.
"These people came in my house and attacked my kids," Lashawndre Burke said.
Burke claims the juveniles involved in the school fighting showed up at her home the night before and attacked her children, then came after them at school.
"We actually got calls and saying my kids was getting beat up at school and they were bloody and everything. So, we ran to the school," Burke said.
She and Devose's grandmother believe others were at fault for the fight and that Devose was just trying to keep her children safe.


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The band was formed in 2007 by band members Marcus Mumford, Ben Lovett, Winston Marshall and Ted Dwane. Lead vocalist Marcus Mumford organised the band and their performances and was one of the most visible members of the band because of this the band decided to use the name Mumford & Sons.
They released their debut studio album Sigh No More on 2 October 2009. They later released their second studio album Babel on 21 September 2012. Babel won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year at the 2013 Grammy Awards. They were also a part of the documentary Big Easy Express which won a Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video.
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Mahan Esfahani, who performed the Goldberg Variations in New York City in the fall (see my earlier post), returned on May 1 for a solo recital in Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall. The program was a diverse one of Frescobaldi, Rameau, Benda, and Bach. The instrument was once again a French double after Hemsch and Blanchet built in 2010 by the Montreal maker Yves Beaupré—an instrument that usually resides in our living room.
For all its renovations over the years, Weill Recital Hall, which many still remember as Carnegie Recital Hall, retains the charm of its 1891 Beaux-Arts interior. The smallest of Carnegie's three main stages, it has fewer than 300 seats, and I've always found it an attractive and pleasing venue for solo harpsichord. Certainly the Beaupré instrument sounded rich and warm in Mahan's hands.
The things that always stand out for me in his playing are virtuosity, varied color, and passionate commitment, all of which were very much in evidence throughout the program. The opening set of Frescobaldi pieces included the famous Toccata settima, played with freedom and brilliance, and the Cento partite sopra passacaglia. Now I must confess that, in some performances, these hundred-or-so variations can seem too much of a good thing. (One thinks of the famous quip in Jane Austen: "You have delighted us long enough.") But not on this occasion: the brisk tempo and bold use of rubato made these variations exhilarating.
Those qualities also marked the next set, a gathering of favorite movements by Rameau, ranging from the sighs of "Les Soupirs" to the hammer blows of "Les Cyclopes." (An engaging speaker, Mahan informed us that, according to Rameau, the colorful titles were assigned after the pieces were written, but I can hardly avoid making the connections between the movements and their evocative titles.) The first half ended with Sonata No. 5 by Georg Anton Benda, which has many of the quirky Sturm und Drang attractions that characterize the music of his better-known contemporary C. P. E. Bach.
And it was Carl Philipp Emanuel's still better-known father who dominated the second half of the program, with the French Overture—one of those rare works, like the Goldberg Variations, that Bach actually went to the trouble to publish. Also like the Goldbergs, the French Overture requires a double-manual instrument and encourages the kind of tonal variety that Mahan excels at. As he noted, the grand overture movement and the following dances call to mind a succession of dancers, much as we find in French baroque opera, entertaining the audience with a gavotte or a courante or a gigue—though, Bach being Bach, all the movements have a depth that raises them well above standard dance fare. (Mahan offers a stimulating discussion of this and the other works in his insightful, elegant program notes.) Several movements had an overlay of extra notes, somewhat in double fashion, supplied by the performer.
The two encores were the poignant "Bist du bei mir" (originally by Stölzel and probably arranged by Bach, who's usually attributed as the author) and Rameau's "Les Trois Mains," which allowed the dexterous keyboardist to engage in some sleight of (third) hand.


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North Island (auch Île du Nord) ist mit 2,01 km² die neuntgrößte Insel der Inneren Seychellen. Sie liegt ungefähr fünf Kilometer nördlich von Silhouette Island und etwa 32 km nordwestlich von Mahé, der Hauptinsel der Seychellen. Anders als die geographische Lage vermuten lässt, gehört die Insel ebenso wie die benachbarte Silhouette-Insel administrativ zum Distrikt La Digue and Inner Islands und wird damit von der Insel La Digue aus verwaltet.

2003 wurde die Insel zu einem privaten Ferienclub North Island Lodge mit elf Gästehäusern ausgebaut.

Geologie
Geologisch unterscheiden sich North Island und Silhouette von den anderen Inseln der Inneren Seychellen. Beide bestehen aus etwa 63 Millionen Jahre altem Syenit vulkanischen Ursprungs, während der Granit von Mahé oder Praslin etwa 650 Millionen Jahre alt ist.

Geschichte
North Island war die erste Seychellen-Insel, die von Europäern besucht wurde. Alexander Sharpeigh berichtete 1609 der British East India Company von einer großen Kolonie von Riesenschildkröten.

Von 1826 bis in die 1970er Jahre gehörte die Insel der Familie Beaufond aus Réunion, die sie als Plantage für Früchte und Gewürze nutzte. Weiter wurden Guano, Fischöl und Kopra exportiert. Nach dem Verkauf der Plantage breiteten sich auf der ungenutzten Insel fremde Tiere und Pflanzen aus.

Im Rahmen der Entwicklung zum Resort wurde versucht, die fremden Arten auszurotten und einheimische Tiere und Pflanzen wieder anzusiedeln und so der Insel wieder zu ihrem ursprünglichen Zustand zu verhelfen.

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'IT WAS REALLY TOUGH'
Kaiser Chiefs' Ricky Wilson reveals he almost had a breakdown while on The Voice as he battled anxiety
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FOR Ricky Wilson, life is good. Really good. Step forward Grace Zito, his stunning fiancée, who he proposed to in April last year on bended knee flanked by Reedus – the couple's chocolate Labradoodle – in a band stand at Greenhead Park in Huddersfield.
"I'd kept the ring in the pocket I keep the dog treats in, so he was all over the ring," recalls Ricky, 41. "I got on one knee, he put both paws on my leg and it was really funny, then Grace said: 'You're joking?!'"
Ricky Wilson says he and Grace are trying for a baby but wish to get married firstCredit: Mark Hayman
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They met five years ago when she styled Kaiser Chiefs for their 2014 video My Life. She later worked with Ricky on The Voice and they began dating six months after he quit the talent show following his split from long-term girlfriend, television producer Lesley Williams.
They live in north London but are contemplating moving "somewhere a bit more leafy" in anticipation of "the next big adventure" – growing a family.
"Our marble spiral staircase isn't that conducive to kids, but that's not saying anything's happening right now," he adds.
Given his desire for children have they, ahem, started trying?
Ricky Wilson admits he's much vainer now thanks to weight loss and improved teethCredit: Mark Hayman
"We're practising!" he says with an exaggerated raise of the eyebrow. "I'd like to get married first. There's some old Italian grandparents [on Grace's side] that probably wouldn't be happy if we didn't! There's no date set for the wedding but it'll be churchy, followed by a big party with music from a DJ.
"I don't like watching bands – I get jealous," he admits. "We'll be watching Coldplay at Wembley and Grace will say: 'Why aren't you enjoying it?' and I'll say: 'I am enjoying it.' And then she'll ask: 'Why aren't you dancing and singing?' and I'll say: 'Cos I'm jealous because that's not me!'"
Whenever he and Grace, 31, say "I do", would Ricky consider selling the pictures to a glossy magazine?
"I did think how amazing it would be to sell your photographs and give the money to charity because it would really f**k everyone else up who sells their photographs," he says mischievously.
Ricky, 41, says stunning fiancée Grace Jito met him at his 'absolute worst'Credit: Getty Images
Grace isn't the only reason that Ricky is on such top form. As well as bagging some impressive solo gigs since leaving The Voice two years ago after three series – including his own show on Radio X and filling in for Jo Whiley on BBC Radio 2 – now comes the icing on the cake. The release of the Kaisers' seventh studio album next month sees the boys returning to their original record label Polydor on a lucrative deal.
The enormous success of their 2005 debut album Employment – which sold more than 2 million copies and produced hits such as I Predict A Riot, Oh My God and Every Day I Love You Less And Less – was followed by the No.1 Yours Truly, Angry Mob. But after that, the band – Ricky, Andrew White, Simon Rix, Vijay Mistry and Nick Baines – watched with disappointment as subsequent efforts achieved unremarkable sales.
But there's a buzz building around Duck, and Ricky has said it's given him a second wind.
"People are really excited about it and talking about it like it's already a hit, and that's not happened in a long time," he says.
Ricky says he almost had a breakdown while filming The VoiceCredit: Mark Hayman
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Ricky had one objective for stepping into the glitzy world of reality TV in 2013 – to boost public awareness of Kaiser Chiefs and flog albums – and the plan, he declares proudly, "totally" worked.
"You can't just sit at home and expect the music to do all the work for you," he says.
The Voice changed everything for Ricky, humanising him and diluting the wild on-stage rock star persona.
In the beginning there were reports of his on-set nerves being so bad he needed anti-anxiety tablets.
Ricky Wilson feels the need to stop and take every photo with fansCredit: Mark Hayman
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The rough-around-the-edges Ricky was softened by an endearing vulnerability, and he won the show twice in 2014 and 2015.
Once neurotic about being misinterpreted or misquoted in interviews and therefore closely guarded about his private life, Ricky says immersing himself in prime-time TV has opened his eyes to the power of being more transparent.
"I thought: 'Ah, right, this is a part of my life that people want to know about and you can't hide it, especially now with social media.' It's all about inviting people in rather than closing doors. There was an ownership about me that they didn't have before.
"I have to stop for every photograph now or I'm a bastard, whereas before, if I didn't, it was a bit rock 'n' roll."
The Kaiser Chiefs have achieved massive success since releasing their debut album in 2005Credit: Getty Images
The transition will be obvious to listeners of Duck, which has more emotional songs than the Chiefs are known for, including one where Ricky reveals his longing for kids.
Ricky says Grace met him when he was at his "absolute worst" – broken-hearted after the split from Lesley and feeling thoroughly overwhelmed by the pressure of juggling television duties with recording the album Education, Education, Education & War.
"She's not only seen me in my pants, she's also seen me really miserable," he explains. "It was really tough and I wasn't coping very well with that. People were getting me through the last season of The Voice without me having a breakdown on TV."
Ricky first encountered anxiety as a child, growing up in Leeds with parents Glynne and Geoff and brother James. He'd vomit whenever he was nervous – "it was like a fear of impending doom" – and the problem continued well into his Kaiser Chiefs career.
Ricky Wilson with The Voice winner Kevin Simm in 2016Credit: Getty Images - Getty
"I used to throw up every time before I went on stage. It's like a migraine in your stomach – an intestinal migraine. I don't do it any more because I understand what I'm feeling. Sometimes now if I'm feeling anxiety, I just imagine I'm excited, and it turns it around in my head. That's my little trick."
Rather than damaging his career, Ricky believes his mental health issues have enhanced it by encouraging him to overcome daunting situations, pushing him out of his comfort zone.
"It's something to stand up against. It's kind of made me who I am," he says, adding he ditched anti-anxiety medication because it dulled his "fear of consequence".
Exercise helps calm his mind naturally, although Ricky admits he doesn't do as much as he used to. In the lead-up to his debut on The Voice he shed 2st by cutting out junk food and running 10 miles a day. He now tots up five miles three times a week or more, but isn't keen to shout about his fitness regime.
Ricky says fiancée Grace just 'makes everything perfect'Credit: Getty - Contributor
"I don't really want to celebrate that because you don't really want to remind people that you have to go running to not be 16st," he jokes. "Because I would be. And I plan on being it again one day. I can't wait!"
There's a smattering of shirtless holiday pictures on Ricky's Instagram feed, including one in Menorca, which he jokingly captioned: "It's like Daniel Craig never happened."
It's typical Ricky – self-deprecating and tinged with dry, northern humour. But beneath the jesting is he actually Mr Confident?
"I only post those if I'm feeling very good about myself, but I am in my 40s. Compared to some of the guys I went to school with I'm doing pretty well."
Ricky Wilson says the perfect selfie requires a dog to ensure it gets likesCredit: Instagram
Thanks to the weight loss and improved teeth – Ricky had Invisalign braces to straighten his smile, followed by whitening – he looks sharp and polished compared to his bloated early Kaiser Chiefs days.
Ricky is the first to admit he's vainer now. "Yes, I do think I am, and I really don't think it's a negative thing in moderation because even if I'm walking on stage, if I'm feeling better about myself, then I do a better job."
He's never touched Botox and isn't the biggest drinker, even plumping for the occasional alcohol-free spell, including just before Christmas two years ago following an embarrassing booze bender at an awards do. According to one report, it saw him deliver an "X-rated rant" about his The Voice successor Olly Murs and fall over a barrier three times before being mistaken for a drunken fan by Cate Blanchett's protection team.
Ouch. The morning after that performance must have featured off-the-scale beer fear.
Ricky Wilson left The Voice two years ago but has continued to have an impressive careerCredit: Getty - Contributor
"Oh, totally," shudders Ricky. "That did stop me drinking for a while."
He has zero memory of what he said that night, but has since bumped into Olly and there were apparently no hard feelings.
"He's a really nice guy," he enthuses.
Tom Jones says the same of Ricky in his autobiography Over The Top And Back, which is on display – open on the relevant page – in Ricky's second home in Falmouth.
Ricky says he stepped into the world of reality TV in 2013 to boost public awareness of the Kaiser ChiefsCredit: Getty - Contributor
"I only get one sentence," laughs Ricky, adopting a thick Welsh accent to recite: "'Then I met Ricky Wilson. Nice bloke. No bullshit.' I'm thinking: 'If that is my epitaph, I'm happy with that.'"
Not everyone has been as complimentary as Sir Tom, though. Ricky recalls Tory leadership hopeful Boris Johnson once wrote a scathing newspaper comment piece about Kaiser Chiefs.
"He said: 'These epic softies, the weeds from Leeds, write songs about predicting riots. When I was a kid, rock stars incited riots, they didn't predict them.' I was like, you want people to incite riots? D**k!
"I was next to him once at some traffic lights. I was on my Brompton bike. I may have felt a little bit like giving him a shove, but I'm not that kind of person."
Ricky Wilson and Grace Zito at the NME Awards in 2016Credit: Getty - Contributor
It's true. Ricky has never been the sort to throw tellies out of windows, and his band has long been regarded by the music press as less cool than their counterparts.
But what exactly is cool these days? Ricky has his own definition.
"The other day I was in a hotel room. I'd bought some Lego and thought: 'The fact I can just buy a Lego kit, make it and leave it in the room – that's rock 'n' roll!' If I was really rock 'n' roll, I'd probably be dead. I don't think the coolest people in the world even know or care that they are. The coolest thing is to not really care."
Just over a year ago, before his 40th birthday, Ricky "liberated" himself by abandoning superstitions like never stepping over three pavement drains.
The new Kaiser Chiefs album Duck is out on July 26Credit: Getty - Contributor
"I used to walk through town like I was doing hopscotch," he laughs. "Now, I go the opposite way.
I walk under ladders, I break mirrors, I don't care any more. I used to be saluting magpies all day.
What's the point? Only good things have happened since."
Of course, Grace has been integral to Ricky's new-found contentment.
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"She makes everything better," he says, adding that only a few days ago he was overcome thinking about how his life has panned out.
"I was on the sofa – it was just me, Grace and the dog. She was doing a mood board for some styling thing and the dog was lying in front of the TV watching The One Show, and I had this overwhelming feeling of joy. I thought: 'This is perfect.'"
Ricky's voice suddenly cracks. "Sorry," he smiles, and his eyes are brimming with tears. Then he drops to a whisper: "I'm not going to cry! You don't know what's around the corner, and that's awfully exciting.
There are many adventures to be had."
Kaiser Chiefs' new single People Know How To Love One Another is out now. Duck is out on July 26.
FEELING SOCIABLE
Favourite platform? Instagram – there's no negativity. Sometimes on Twitter people say some awful stuff about how they'd like you to die, then you click on their picture and it's them on the beach with their kids.
Insta fave? I like @Kirbyjenner – he's a guy that pretends to be Kendall Jenner's brother and Photoshops himself in with the Jenners and Kardashians. Also @Paul_danan_official. It's not him, it's a guy who just talks about celebrities from the '90s, and he does it so well.
Funniest person on Twitter? @Smithsara79. I don't know who she is, but I find her very amusing!
Are you on Facebook? No. I still have an account but I wouldn't know the password.
How do you take the perfect selfie? Get the dog in it and it'll get likes! All my most liked photos do.
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This recipe is one that captures memories of sugar-high mornings spent stuffed in a crowded elementary school cafeteria, or snuggled into the couch watching Saturday morning cartoons.
I wanted to bring back a treat that was simple and able to be elevated without ditching its super-sweet, whimsical charm. These mixed berry pop tarts are a special little nod to Frosted Strawberry Pop Tarts™ but with a homemade "grown-up" flair.
CLEAN your berries by rinsing them under cold water and checking them for any stems.
ADD the berries to a medium saucepan with the lemon juice and about 3 tablespoons of water, and mash them together to a smooth consistency (chunky is good too!).
COOK the mixture on medium-heat rolling boil, stirring occasionally to keep it cooking evenly, for about 5-6 minutes, or until it can coat the back of a spoon.
REMOVE the jam from heat and transfer to a glass bowl until it cools to room temperature.
This recipe makes a bit of extra homemade jam, and you can keep it chilled in the refrigerator to spread on your favorite breads and pastries!
ALLOW the puff pastry to come to room temperature before placing one sheet onto a floured surface, and rolling out into a slightly thinner rectangle, about an extra inch on each side.
CUT the puff pastry sheet into six even rectangles.
SPOON about one tablespoon of jam to the center of one rectangle, and spread until there is about ½ inch on all sides.
PLACE another rectangle of puff pastry on top (two rectangles = one tart).
PINCH AND ROLL the sides of the puff pastry over one another, to keep them from bursting in the oven. SEAL them again by pressing a fork down on all sides, and poke the top in four places to allow steam to come out, and once again, keep them from popping open.
REPEAT with the remaining puff pastry and jam.
TRANSFER the tarts to a non-stick baking sheet with either parchment paper or small amount of non-stick baking spray.
BAKE the tarts for 15-20 minutes, or until the tops are light to golden brown.
REMOVE the tarts from the hot pan immediately, and place them on a cooling rack or tray.
STIR the powdered sugar with about 2 tablespoons of water at a time, mixing to make a frosting that is thick and smooth (drizzle-able), but not runny.
SPOON the frosting onto the tarts, either a lot or a little, depending on your sweet tooth.
OPTIONALLY GARNISH with sprinkles or more powdered sugar.


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Warman High has established a tradition of excellence in the academic, athletic and artistic fields and we are proud of the accomplishments of our students and staff.
We encourage parents to contact the school as soon as possible if your children will be registering at Warman High School. This assists us in staffing, developing student timetables and making the transition for your child to Warman High as smooth as possible.
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We offer a full academic program with a broad range of electives: Fine Arts, Advanced Placement Calculus, Advanced Placement Studio Art, senior sciences (Biology, Chemistry, Physics), Industrial Arts, Home Economics, Psychology, Law, Christian Ethics and French. Our fully networked school has two computer labs that enable us to offer Information Processing, Computer Science, Accounting, Computer Assisted Drafting and Design (CADD), Computer Production Technology and Photographics as well as introductory computer skills and keyboarding at the middle years level. Each classroom has a pod of four computers for student use. Internet access is available at more than 200 computers throughout the school.


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In our first installment of "Everyday Tech Myths," we tackle skull-touching car clickers, night-time PC power mysteries, and keyboards in the dishwasher.
We Need Answers
As technology infiltrates every aspect of our lives, it also develops its own mythology. Many of us know how to build a computer or program a DVR, but each of us has experienced technology issues that simply can't be explained.
We're embarking on a study of these tech myths. We're collecting tales, remedies, and bizarre phenomena to share with you. At the very least, we'll all learn something. Hopefully, we'll learn stuff that can help improve our lives. As we move forward with this discussion, please don't hesitate to write in with your own bizarre experiences where technology has behaved strangely, your accidental tips and tricks for fixing busted gadgets, or your questions about how or why a gadget behaves a certain way. We intend to find answers, and we've got a box of tools to help us.
This time, we're dealing with the relationship between car remote clickers and skulls, the debate about leaving computers on at night, and the mystery of the keyboard in the dishwasher.
Car Alarm Remote Touched To Head
Myth #1: I've heard that you can make your car alarm remote work better if you touch it to your head. Is this true?
Answer: Yes, usually.
In 1994, when I bought a new Honda Civic, the guy who installed my car alarm told me that I could get more range out of the keyless entry remote by pressing it to the underside of my chin. It had something to do with one's skull magnifying the signal, he said. I thought he needed to have his own skull examined, but he took me out into the parking lot and demonstrated—and he was right! Or was he? I never really studied the matter closely...until now.
Fifteen years later, I have a family to haul around and a bigger car to do it with, but car remote technology hasn't changed. I parked my Sequoia on the curb near the end of the block, stood about five feet from the front bumper, and hit the keyless remote. Lights blinked, the horn chirped, and the doors locked. All was well.
Car Alarm Remote: Out of Range
Six houses down the block, I found the spot where my remote stopped reaching the car. When I took a step forward, it worked. When I took a step back, it didn't. I did this little ballroom dance routine in the street several times, eventually having to soothe one of the neighbors into believing this was for an article. (It was that or some quip about learning to line dance, which just wasn't funny enough.) One step back beyond the point of being out of range, I confirmed that the remote didn't work. Then I raised the remote, pressed it to my chin, and squeezed the button. I heard a "chirp!" in the distance and saw the headlights flash. Huh.
So I started walking backwards. All in all I was able to back up 42 steps, roughly 85 feet, before I was no longer able to make contact with the car by holding the remote to my chin. That's not a bad boost, but what's really going on here?
The Skull Is Like 'Rabbit Ears'
Chances are you already know the answer, only you haven't connected the dots yet. I recently had the chance to meet several engineers at Intel, including radio expert Robert Paxman. He told me:
"It comes down to antenna efficiency. If a transmitter operating at 'x' frequency range has an antenna that might be lacking in efficiency and you couple it to something that creates a situation for better efficiency, getting that added range is plausible. Because the body has some conductivity, placing it close to some body part would create a coupling effect. Think back to the days of TVs having "rabbit ears" for antennas. Sometimes the best reception and clearest picture was had when you were touching it. The same principle applies here."
PC On or Off?
Myth #2: I'm confused about what's best for the computer and what saves energy. Is it true that I should I leave my PC on or off at night?
Answer: On...probably.
We've been listening to people ask this question ever since the advent of affordable home computers, and the debate still rages on. Those whose primary concern is environmental will insist that every watt saved matters, so you should always turn off electronics when you can. A counter-argument posits that the on-off-on-off cycle wears down your PC's components, particularly the power supply, faster than if you simply left it on all the time. Then, there are the plain ol' busy people (like us) who can't stand waiting five to ten minutes every morning for Windows to load, never mind whatever complications might crop up when trying to exit the operating system every day. We all want to save time, save repair costs, and save the planet. What's a PC user to do?
Sip 'n Sleep
Nobody knows power supplies better than Doug Dodson, founder of PC Power & Cooling, one of, if not the highest quality PC power supply manufacturer. Since being acquired by OCZ Technology, Dodson is now serving as OCZ's chief technology officer, but he's still the go-to guy for all matters related to power supplies.
"Frankly, the advent of the sleep/hibernation mode has eliminated much of the debate over whether to leave the computer on 24x7," he says. "Early computers were either all on or all off.
When they were on, they would draw 100 to 200 watts of power, even when they weren't in use.
That fact led to the debate in the first place, since the power and money wasted at night was significant.
"Now, when the computer is not in use, it can be set to go into sleep/hibernation mode, in which case the amount of power consumed is only about 10 to 20 watts—90% less than older computers. Even if the computer is turned off, standby mode still draws about 5 watts, so the savings from turning off the computer overnight are there, but very small. Therefore, the best policy is to leave the computer on with sleep/hibernation enabled during the week."
The trick is to make sure that your power settings are configured properly. If you're a Windows user, go through the Control Panel under power options, including the advanced ones, and make sure you have everything going into sleep mode promptly. If nothing else, at least opt for the "Power saver" mode if your system isn't under heavy use.
What About Premature Failure?
So, should we never turn our PCs off? Not quite. Dodson advises turning systems off "during weekends or periods when the computer won't be used for a while." However, make sure you turn the computer off either with the power switch on the power supply itself (not the button on the front of the PC) or by turning off the power strip the system is plugged into. Otherwise, the PC will still be draining those 5 watts of standby power.
What about premature failure from power cycling?
"The impact of various system turn-on/turn-off options on MTBF (mean time between failure) is a function of temperature and temperature fluctuation," says Dodson. "The system temperature in sleep/hibernation mode is stable at a relatively low level, so the effect on MTBF for leaving the computer on overnight is minimal relative to turning the system completely off. Leaving the computer on overnight or turning it completely off is preferable in terms of MTBF than turning the computer off while still powering the standby circuit. When the computer is turned off with the standby circuit on, the standby circuit gets hot since the power supply fan is off. This is responsible for a significant reduction in power supply MTBF."
Naturally, you want to save power during the day, too, so aim to own a high-efficiency power supply. PC Power & Cooling makes some amazing units, but they also tend to be relatively pricey. A vendor like Antec, with its 80 PLUS-certified EarthWatts series (shown above), is a solid alternative.
The Case of the Clean Keyboard
Myth #3: I've heard that you can run some PC components through the dishwasher to clean them. My keyboard is a mess. Can I run it through?
Answer: Maybe, but them's long odds.
Once upon a time, back when you had to plug cache memory into motherboards and practically nothing was integrated, I knew a PC technician who admitted to having run a couple of motherboards through the dishwasher after having spilled coffee or soft drinks on them. The boards emerged clean, dry, and functional. I also have a friend who last year decided to let his Windows Mobile phone jump from the diving board over a pool. He drained it, stuck it in an oven for an hour at 150 degrees, and, behold, the desiccated device booted up and worked fine.
I just happen to have an ancient PS/2 Key Tronic keyboard that migrated from regular use to several years on my test bench. It had layers of dust, food, and who knows what else caked into it. Keys stuck. Some you had to bang on to get to register. Plainly, its days were numbered, and with most new motherboards now shipping without PS/2 ports, I had little to lose.
After some Googling, I found conflicting reports on how to proceed. Some people reported success with electronics in the dishwasher, others failure. Some say the oven is effective at drying, others urge rubbing alcohol or sitting in a tub of rice. You only get one shot at these things, so...
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Let's Get Wet
Into the dishwasher. This is a fairly new model Kenmore with whizzy soaker jets everywhere. I set it for normal wash and heated dry. In retrospect, the heated dry cycle may have been a mistake. Also, I was worried about chemicals and corrosion, so I opted not to use any soap. The dishes you see in the picture had been pre-rinsed.
When the drying cycle ended, I removed the keyboard and found it still soaked. So I let it drain over the sink for five minutes then air dried it for two hours. Then I put it in the oven to bake at 125 degrees for 70 minutes.
So Baked
At the end of 70 minutes, the keyboard was quite dry. It was also, well, creaky, and it seemed a bit more flexible than before. I gave it an hour to cool down, and much of the creakiness and flexibility receded.
When I plugged it into my test system, the CAPS light turned on. But then it started spewing out a non-stop stream of "=" symbols. That seemed bad. So I unplugged it, powered down, plugged it back in and powered up. Nothing. The LED was still on, but the keyboard gave no output, and now the Intel motherboard simply emitted an unending beep...beep...beep...beep. When I unplugged the keyboard, the beeping stopped. This thing was toast. D.O.A.
All right, I admit this was not the most scientifically-run rescue attempt, but it does illustrate that for every Web-based success story about electronics washing in the machine, there are probably many more failures. No manufacturer that I know of has ever (or probably will ever) published guidelines on how to do such things, and many have ways of telling if their wares have been submerged. If you have nothing left to lose, then pick your method and give it a shot, if only for giggles. But don't get your hopes up.
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With Schools Deemed Low-Risk for Covid, One State Urges a Return to Hybrid Learning
About 60,000 students have participated in some in-person learning in Delaware since the start of the school year. Less than 600 have tested positive for Covid-19. Shutterstock
By Kate Elizabeth Queram,
By Kate Elizabeth Queram
Delaware Gov. John Carney asked schools to resume at least some in-person instruction by Monday, saying that state health data showed that schools have not been significant sources of infection.
Officials in Delaware are urging schools to return to a blend of virtual and in-person learning by Monday following a four-week "pause" where educators were permitted to shift to entirely remote classes.
"As we have said many times, we do not believe there is a public health reason to close schools," Gov. John Carney, a Democrat, said in a letter sent Tuesday to parents and school employees. "We have spent the past four weeks helping schools try to address the operational challenges they are experiencing. And we can all agree that students learn best when they're in school."
During the break, educators and administrators told state officials that they needed "more transparent and reliable communication about the conditions in their schools" to feel safe returning to in-person instruction.
In response, Carney said, officials reassessed privacy laws and then "dramatically expanded" the school-based Covid-19 data available on the state's tracking dashboard. Updates include the number of coronavirus cases by school district and the rate of contagious cases in schools each week, defined as students or employees who were in school buildings within 48 hours before testing positive for Covid-19.
Schools in the state have been required to report positive Covid-19 cases to students and their families since the beginning of the school year, but until now the Division of Public Health had only released state-level data. The new dashboard enhances that by drilling down to school districts, but not to individual schools, a level of specificity that officials said is still precluded by privacy laws. The data will be updated weekly, Carney said.
Since the beginning of the school year, roughly 60,000 students in Delaware have participated in some form of in-person learning. The state's data shows that 579 students and 546 teachers have tested positive for Covid-19 in that timeframe. From Dec. 26 to Jan. 1, 16 students and 17 staff members were contagious while at school, according to the dashboard, which notes that "the source of infection of these cases cannot be attributed to schools, nor is it known that they are the source of infection to others in schools."
Data from state epidemiologists "shows that the vast majority of cases affecting students and staff originated outside of the school building," Carney said. "The few cases thought to result from in-school spread are frequently observed to be in settings where mask-wearing was not consistently practiced."
In general, schools have not been found to contribute greatly to community spread of Covid-19. A federal study of schools in Mississippi concluded that lack of consistent mask use and "gatherings with persons outside the household" were the greatest drivers of infection among minors, while "attending school or child care was not associated" with testing positive for the virus.
"In Delaware, our epidemiologists have seen the same thing," Carney wrote. "It's a testament to the hard work of students, educators and staff that the number of Covid-positive students and staff is so low."
Carney's letter outlined three options for school districts, including a total return to hybrid learning (his preference), keeping high schools remote while shifting elementary and middle schools to a hybrid model, or moving only high-risk students—including kids with special needs, English learners and low-income pupils—to hybrid instruction while keeping everyone else remote.
Those options are only recommendations, meaning final control remains at the local level. In a statement, the head of Delaware's largest teachers' union encouraged school leaders to consider the wide-ranging effects of community spread on in-person learning when making those decisions.
"With infection rates increasing we have seen how the rate of teachers needing to quarantine and the lack of substitutes is affecting in-person learning. We do not believe that environment better serves our students than a consistent remote instruction would," said Stephanie Ingram, president of the Delaware State Education Association.
"We are asking school boards and superintendents to take a hard look at the spread in their communities, carefully consider future operational challenges, and work closely and collaboratively with their local unions before determining if bringing students back into school buildings is the best choice for their district," Ingram added. "If there is doubt, we ask that schools remain in the remote setting for the safety of staff and students."
Kate Elizabeth Queram is a staff correspondent for Route Fifty and is based in Washington, D.C.
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New Mexico's Bighoot
Ornimegalonyx oteroi
Bighoot, the Flying Head by Mike Smith
In the piney mountains and desert mesas of southcentral New Mexico, citizens of the Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation still tell legends of an enormous and evil bird: Big Owl.
The Jicarilla Apaches, along the state's northern edge, also talk of Big Owl-near slickrock canyons and beneath the gray bluffs of their reservation-but in their stories Big Owl will often paralyze humans just by staring at them, and after doing so swallows them whole, just as smaller owls swallow mice.
Mark A. Hall, noted cryptozoologist and author of Thunderbirds: America's Living Legends of Giant Birds, is convinced that such stories may actually have a basis in fact, in sightings of an actual undocumented species of three-to-five-foot-tall giant owl, a species humorously nicknamed Bighoot.
Ornimegalonyx oteroi, or the Cuban giant owl, was an approximately three-foot-tall owl that lived in what's now western Cuba up until about 8,000 years ago. In the last few decades, three nearly intact skeletons of this bird have been found in Cuban caves, and their size and bone structure suggest this owl was similar to an oversized version of the common burrowing owl, with long legs and an inability to fly for more than short distances.
Hall believes that perhaps some giant owls survived extinction, migrated, reproduced, and became part of New Mexico's Apache oral histories-and a number of intriguing points support his case. Mentions of giant owls occur throughout the mythology of American and Canadian Indian tribes. Many Iroquois once feared what they called Flying Heads-man-sized, bodiless, open-mouthed heads covered in ragged hair-heads that could fly in a halting way, were armed with talons, and craved humans. Hall has theorized that the Flying Heads' hair was actually wings and feathers, and the Flying Heads themselves actually giant owls.
Sightings of giant owls continued into the era of North America's first European-American settlers. According to Hall, some settlers saw their livestock carried off by enormous birds they called Booger Owls-and such sightings have persisted into the present, into oral histories and urban legends, across America and across the Southwest.
"I have heard of them being encountered in Arizona, so New Mexico would be just as likely," Hall said.
In a chapter of Cryptozoology and the Investigation of Lesser-Known Mystery Animals, New Mexico journalist Jerry A. Padilla recounted a Taos woman's encounter with an owl she estimated to be at least four and half feet tall. This incident reportedly took place in the 1950s, not far north of the New Mexico-Colorado state line, when Taos resident Rosa M. Lucero was a little girl. Lucero recalled the giant owl wandering silently from a cluster of willows, walking back and forth, and just staring at her and her grandmother, Elena Bustos Lucero, as the two of them frantically gestured the Sign of the Cross.
"It just walked around in the garden by the willows," said Rosa Lucero in the above-mentioned book. "My grandmother was convinced it was a nagual, someone taking the form of an owl, because she herself said that in all her long life she'd never encountered an owl so large and unafraid of people."
Though generally described as making a hooting sound, owls are sometimes said to hum. The Internet is studded with mentions of owls humming as coyotes howl, owls humming the sounds of the night, and barn owls humming country folks to sleep. Taos Tales, by Elsie Clews Parson, includes a northern New Mexico oral history of a coyote who "went singing and at the end of every song he said like the owl, hum! hum! (grunt)."
A much better-known hum in northern New Mexico is the notorious Taos Hum-a low, pulsing throb of a sound that torments about two percent of Taos's population, causing anxiety, dizziness, headaches, nosebleeds, and insomnia. Many people have suggested possible explanations-a government project, aliens, mass hysteria-but the cause of the Hum remains a mystery.
Would it be ridiculous, then, to suggest that maybe, just maybe, the Taos Hum might be caused by man-sized owls-by the Bighoot-by a number of such owls humming through the forests of the northern New Mexico woods?
Well, would it?
Yes. The answer is yes. It would be.
Permission to reprint this entire article was obtained from Mike Smith. Thank you Mike.
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world's leading cryptozoologists, some say "the" leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson's Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct). Loren Coleman's daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015. Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
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UHCL researchers to study meteorites from Mars with Barrios funding
Dr. Daniel Imrecke, left, and his research assistant Ane Slabic are using funds from the fellowship to research planetary geology, specifically meteorites from Mars.
Barrios Technology, a NASA contractor, has awarded University of Houston-Clear Lake's Associate Professor of Geology and Environmental Science Daniel Imrecke a $2847 fellowship to help fund a new field of his research.
Currently, Imrecke has been working in the areas of structural geology, petrology and petrography. "I'm embarking on a new field, but I'm able to bring a lot of the tools from my previous research into this," he said. "I'm researching planetary geology, specifically the study of meteorites from Mars."
As a structural geologist, Imrecke has previously employed his knowledge to understand the origin and evolution of mountain ranges. Structural geology, in its most basic form, is about how rocks respond to stress.
"Some meteorites have experienced significant stress because they are ejected from other bodies in the solar system," he said. "This is what I'm studying. I'm looking at the changes the minerals have undergone as a result of the deformation that occurs during ejection. We're looking at the petrography, the minerology, and the geochemistry of those rocks."
He added that his research was being done in collaboration with the scientists at the Lunar Planetary Institute, located very close to both Johnson Space Center and the UH-Clear Lake campus.
"It's the development of this collaboration that will allow for more UHCL students to get involved with planetary science projects," he said.
Imrecke said he would be completing his research with Ane Slabic, who is working toward her Master of Science in Environmental Science with Specialization in Environmental Geology.
"I'll be analyzing the samples for this project," Slabic said. "The samples have all been subjected to a variety of shock, from virtually no shock present to highly shocked and complex samples. We have four samples, three from Mars and one from Earth, that we will be investigating and we'll be finding out how shock affects the chemistry of these samples by analyzing and interpreting their physical and chemical data."
The goal of collecting this data, Imrecke continued, is to get quantitative geochemical analyses of phosphate minerals in meteorites. "It's useful for the broader planetary geology community to have this data because not much is known about the shock effects of the distribution of elements within those minerals," he said. "Interpretations might be skewed in a way that isn't telling the full story about planetary processes."
He said the research would ultimately be published, and the primary purpose beyond the work was to get seed money for further studies on this topic. "The Barrios funds help get the ball rolling in a broader planetary geology focus that students can take at UHCL," he said.
For more information about UHCL's Environmental Science program, go online.


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Q: Create simple PDF from Text files in .NET I am looking for a way to create PDF files from simple Text files in .NET.
There is no fancy formatting, pictures or graphs. Only one font(courier new) and font-size throughout the PDF. Basically I want to save the contents of the Text file to a PDF file as is. I may need to set the orientation and margins of pages. It is a simple process.
I don't want to use any third party library for conversion. I have used iTextSharp and PDFTechLib in past. I want to get rid of these products because of cost involved and licencing issues.
I have also looked in using XSL-FO and Apache FOP to achieve this. It looks rather complex to get this simple task done.
Is there any inbuilt .NET Class to achieve the task? OR something similar.

A: I had a similar requirement and I was not able to find good libraries in .net for free. I finally settled with wkhtmltopdf. This is not a .net library but I used System.Diagnostics.Process class to start this exe through .net code.

A: Using Apache FOP may appear complex, but I would recommend to go that way anyway, partly because you will be able to apply it in all situations where you wish to create pdf from xml or text sources. And it also allows for fancy formatting like adding pictures :-).
Roughly, using FOP means doing a two-step process, first creating an fo xml basis by applying an xslt (also called xsl-fo) on the input file, and then creating the pdf from the saved fo xml file.

A: Is a free PDF-printer driver anything that would match your criteria?
Googled it and this was the first result, but there are many other out there. (This particular product is FREE for personal and commercial use up to 10 users):  http://www.bullzip.com/products/pdf/info.php
I use PDF-printing a lot, its easy and I get the same result when printing to printer and to PDF.
Edit: This driver seems to be free for both commersial and personal use: http://www.dopdf.com/

A: I came across an interesting alternative which I have to study and test first, but this may be exactly what you are looking for: css2xslfo.
Download and manual available from links on that site.

A: How about the project iTextSharp. You can find it on http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextsharp/

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