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Pupils at three primary schools in Tameside will become "Junior PCSOs" during a road safety week of action to tackle inconsiderate parking.
Parents parking across entrances, on footways, on 'keep clear' markings and obstructing crossing points is an increasing problem nationwide.
A survey of headteachers, conducted by Tameside Council, has established local concerns.
In response, the council has co-ordinated the week of action, between January 21 to 28, in partnership with Greater Manchester Police and local schools.
A range of initiatives have been created to raise awareness and change behaviour. These include a pilot study of a "Junior PCSO" scheme where twelve pupils at three schools – Dowson Primary School, Marlborough Road, Hyde; St Anne's Primary School, Clarendon Road, Audenshaw; and St Peter's Primary School, Oxford Street, Ashton – will don hi-viz vests and hand out information leaflets, to warn motorists about the dangers of inconsiderate parking. They will be supported by Tameside Council parking enforcement officers, Greater Manchester Police officers and school staff.
Russell Scott Primary School in Denton initiated and funded "Junior PCSOs" last April and has since seen a significant decrease in parking problems.
They have helped create the pilot scheme, which is expected to be just as successful and, once evidenced, the model will be rolled out to other schools across the borough.
The aim is to make drivers think and act responsibly with enforcement only being used as a last resort. It's hoped that children handing out warnings, in the style of parking tickets, will shame persistent offenders into changing their behaviour.
Inconsiderate parking not only endangers pupils and pedestrians by reducing visibility, but parking with engines running also increases pollution.
Vehicle exhausts can produce harmful gases – and tiny particles of soot and other matter – that are linked to increases in asthma, allergies, heart and lung disease and cancer. A recent study revealed that switching off the engine when at a standstill could help reduce air pollution during peak travel hours by as much as 30 percent.
The council will also conduct air quality monitoring outside schools and environmental officers will give school talks on the issues. An Arts Award logbook has also been produced to educate Key Stage 1 pupils on road safety.
All of those responding to the survey of local headteachers had experienced issues with parking and road safety outside their school with 60% experiencing problems every day. Every responder had experienced illegal parking outside their school with 77% reporting disputes between drivers and 40% reporting speeding. There were reports of illegal parking and congestion making it dangerous for children to cross the road, "near miss" accidents and vehicles blocking roads and driveways.
One headteacher even commented that a parent had driven at them whilst a PCSO was standing at the school gate.
Most of the headteachers had sent letter to parents, distributed newsletters and introduced a staff presence on the streets at peak times but problems persist.
One headteacher said: "Road safety is a serious concern for staff and pupils at the school. A proportion of parents who disregard the school's letters and phone calls present a serious risk to the safety of children, staff and parents alike. Any support in resolving this and ensuring a safe environment for the children would be greatly appreciated."
Another said: "I live in fear each day of a child potentially being seriously injured or killed as the road outside school is a dead end and some parents have a total disregard for this. We are desperately in need of help before something serious happens."
Another added: "It really is a big issue and the more support we can get the better."
Russell Scott headteacher Steve Marsland said: "The Junior PCSO scheme we initiated gives the children a strong voice and allows them to take responsibility within their community, using their work on pollution and road safety to challenge the mums and dads to be more considerate and encourage them to walk to school.
"It's had a real impact at Russell Scott, reducing problems dramatically. I'm glad to see that it is now being rolled out to other schools across Tameside where I hope it will have a similar effect."
Tameside Council Executive Leader Councillor Brenda Warrington said: "We welcomed the initiative undertaken by Russell Scott that we know proved successful in that area. Children's safety is every school's priority and road safety and inconsiderate parking is, unfortunately, a problem for most. We've organised this road safety week of action to support schools in tackling the issue and I urge motorists to think about where they park and act responsibly. This is a problem that we cannot allow to continue and we're urging motorists to co-operate without us having to seek enforcement action."
Pic Caps: Russell Scott Primary School pupils acted as "Junior PCSOs"


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Segundo Víctor Aurelio Chomón y Ruiz, dit Segundo de Chomón, est un opérateur et réalisateur espagnol, né le  à Teruel et mort le  à l'hôpital Tenon dans le  arrondissement de Paris. Il est un des pionniers du cinéma d'animation. Il réalise ses premiers films en Espagne avant que Pathé ne l'attire en France où il travaille sous le nom de Chaumont ou Chomont.

Biographie

Débuts
Il est le fils d'Isaac Chomón, médecin, et de Luisa Ruiz, mais peu de choses sont connues de son enfance à Teruel. Il a peut-être fait des études de dessin industriel.

Lors d'un voyage à Paris vers 1895, il rencontre Julienne Mathieu, artiste lyrique et comédienne de théâtre, qui devient sa compagne et sa femme. Elle lui fait connaître les premières projections cinématographiques des frères Lumière. En 1897, ils ont un fils, Robert Mathieu. Entre 1897 et 1899, il s'enrôle dans l'armée espagnole et part à Cuba où il participe à la guerre hispano-américaine, puis revient à Paris en 1899. En l'absence de Segundo de Chomón, Julienne Mathieu commence à travailler à l'enluminure, c'est-à-dire au coloriage image par image de films, pour les principales sociétés cinématographiques de l'époque, celles de Georges Méliès et de Charles Pathé. Elle apprend la technique, en particulier au sein de l'atelier de Mme B. Thuillier, cherche à la perfectionner, et décide d'en faire son métier.

En 1901, Segundo de Chomón, Julienne Matthieu et leur fils s'installent à Barcelone, où ils établissent un petit atelier de coloriage au pochoir de films (procédé Pathécolor), équipé d'un banc-titre rudimentaire pour tourner les titres traduits en espagnol des films de Pathé Frères, qu'il distribue à Barcelone. L'atelier réalise notamment pour Pathé Frères le coloriage de Ali Baba et les quarante voleurs (1902), Danses cosmopolites à transformations (1902), La Fée Printemps (1902), La Vie et la Passion de Jésus-Christ (1902-1903), Guillaume Tell (1903), La Valise de Barnum (1904) et Métamorphoses du papillon (1904).

Parallèlement à ces activités de sous-traitance et de distribution, Segundo de Chomón tourne quelques documentaires pour Pathé Frères, dont Ascension du mont Serrat en Espagne et Descente du mont Serrat, tournés tous deux le même jour, en 1901 (films perdus), en installant la caméra à l'avant du train pour la montée et à l'arrière pour la descente, afin de donner la sensation du mouvement du train, et Barcelone - Parc au crépuscule (1904). À partir de 1902, il réalise quelques films pour la société de production espagnole Macaya y Marro, formée en 1902 par Alberto Marro, l'exploitant de la salle de cinéma Edén Concert à Barcelone, et le financier Luis Macaya. Parmi ceux-ci, Choque de trenes (Collision de trains, 1902, film perdu).

Il interprète également les rôles principaux dans deux de ses courts-métrages, En avant la musique (connu aussi sous La leçon de solfège) et Les œufs de Pâques en 1907.

Activité cinématographique
Encouragée par Pathé Frères qui lutte contre Star Film, la société de Méliès, la créativité de Segundo de Chomón le place comme l'un des plus grands spécialistes de l'époque de la prise de vues image par image, qu'on appelle en France en 1906 « le mouvement américain » : c'est la technique de la première animation, inconnue en Europe, utilisée abondamment aux États-Unis où elle s'intitule stop animation (voir James Stuart Blackton).

Il signe en 1905 des contrats avec des entreprises telles qu'Itala Film de Turin ou Pathé frères de Paris, avec qui il fonde à Barcelone une succursale espagnole. Segundo de Chomón contribue au développement de la création d'une véritable industrie nationale cinématographique espagnole. Ses films visent le public populaire, avec des mélodrames, des zarzuelas, des drames historiques et des comédies.

Après quatre années passées en France, période la plus prolifique, il retourne à Barcelone en 1910. Là, il s'associe avec Juan Fuster, ouvre un petit studio et produit et réalise plusieurs films espagnols. Il fait aussi partie de l'équipe de quatre opérateurs qui travaillent pour Giovanni Pastrone sur le film Cabiria. Il est responsable de l'impressionnante séquence d'éruption de l'Etna, qui utilise l'effet Schüfftan (une partie du cadre seulement est impressionnée). Dans d'autres scènes, il utilise les déplacements sur rail de la caméra pour magnifier les décorations des temples orientaux, et développe un éclairage expressionniste qui fait ressortir les visages des acteurs et les détails du décor.

Le réalisateur rencontre des difficultés à se faire connaître du grand public bien que son rôle demeure important dans la mise au point des prises de vues image par image. Il est confronté à des réalisateurs à succès comme Georges Méliès, dont il est le grand rival, mais aussi Émile Cohl.

Le conflit mondial de 1914-1918 pèse lourdement sur son activité, de même qu'à celle de ses concurrents. Les studios Itala Film sont transformés en hôpital. Surtout, l'industrie cinématographique européenne souffre de l'extraordinaire augmentation des coûts du celluloïd, matière première stratégique. La baisse de la production cinématographique n'empêche pas Chomón de travailler avec Giovanni Pastrone dans des films comme El fuego (1915), Tigre real (1916), La guerra y el sueño de Momi (1917), ou Hedda Gabler (1919). Peu après la guerre, il quitte Itala Film et s'associe avec l'artiste de cirque Luciano Albertini pour créer la société de production Albertini Film.

En 1923, il s'installe à nouveau à Paris. Il travaille avec un ingénieur suisse, Ernest Zollinger, à un système de film en couleurs pour lequel il obtient la médaille d'or de l'Exposition internationale de photographie, optique et cinématographie de Turin. Trois ans plus tard, il participe au tournage de la super-production du cinéma français Napoléon (1927) d'Abel Gance.

En 1929, il se rend au Maroc mais il contracte une maladie grave et décède peu de temps après à Paris.

Son fils, Robert Chomon, dépose ses maigres archives (350 photos de plateau) au Musée du cinéma de Turin.

Filmographie

Comme réalisateur

Comme chef-opérateur
 1906 : Aladin ou la lampe merveilleuse, d'Albert Capellani
 1908 : Transformations élastiques, de Jean Durand
 1914 : Cabiria, de Giovanni Pastrone
 1927 : Napoléon, d'Abel Gance pour les effets spéciaux

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie

 Joan M. Minguet Batllori, Segundo de Chomón, Beyond the Cinema of Attractions (1904-1912), Filmoteca de la Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelone, 1999

 Carlos Fernández Cuenca Segundo de Chomón, maestro de la fantasía y de la técnica,(1871-1929), 1972, Editora Nacional, Madrid, 1972, 226 p.

 Juan Gabriel Tharrats, Inolvidable Chomón, Filmoteca regional de Murcia, 1990, 59 p.

 Louise Beaudet, À la recherche de Segundo de Chomón : pionnier du cinéma, Annecy, Les Éditions du lac, 1985
 Réjane Hamus, « Segundo de Chomón », 1895, , n° 27 p. 49

Articles connexes
 Cinéma espagnol
 Cinéma d'animation

Liens externes

  Biographie et extraits (vidéo) sur UbuWeb

Réalisateur espagnol
Réalisateur du muet
Pionnier du cinéma
Effets spéciaux
Acteur espagnol du muet
Acteur ayant incarné le Diable
Naissance en octobre 1871
Naissance à Teruel
Décès dans le 20e arrondissement de Paris
Décès en mai 1929
Décès à 57 ans

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They say that faint heart never won fair lady but one Serbian man is taking the search for love to a whole new level.
According to The Huffington Post, Predrag Jovanovic sent 5,000 messages to women on social networking site Facebook in an attempt to meet a partner but has not received a single positive reply. The 34-year-old got just 15 responses and while they were all negative, he said that "when someone ignores you that is the worst thing of all".
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I have created a collection (see Dis-integration Work in Progress). I have not used the descriptors series or typology (Mike Perry, 2018) as the images are not in an order of significance or of one type. They are, however, of the same genus, beach debris. I chose the title and simply numbered each one as they are linked by the descriptor genus. For me, combing the two parts with a hyphen shows that there are two processes at work as evidenced in my images.
In a world where integration and equality are important I see what we are making becoming one with what has naturally occurred regardless of what it is. Anthony Hernandez found traces of human habitation with his series Landscapes for the Homeless (Smithson, 2017). Mandy Barker has also shown found manmade items, as is, but from oceans and beaches across the world. She also photographed the finds transformed, in a way that appears to 'integrate' them with nature and be described as new found forms (Barker, 2017).
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Laing, Olivia. 9 April 2016. Conceptual art: why a bag of rubbish is not just a load of old garbage. Avaulable at: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/apr/09/conceptual-art-tate-britain-olivia-laing. [accessed 30-03-2018].
O'Hagan, Sean. 27 August 2015. Keith Arnatt is proof that the art world doesn't consider photography 'real' art. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/aug/27/keith-arnatt-photography-exhibition-spruth-magers-absence-of-the-artist. [accessed 30-03-2018].
Perry, Mike. 2018. Land/Sea Solo exhibition. Mostyn Gallery, Wales, 2 March-2 July 2018. Available at:http://www.m-perry.com. [accessed 30-03-2018].
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Hollywood is an unincorporated district of the City of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A, that runs from about Vermont Avenue on the east to just beyond Laurel Canyon Boulevard above Sunset and Crescent Heights Boulevards on the west; the north to south boundary east of La Brea Avenue runs from about Mulholland Drive in the Hollywood Hills of the Santa Monica Mountains and Griffith Park to Melrose Avenue; and the north to south boundary west of La Brea runs from about Mulholland in the hills to Fountain Avenue, with Crescent Heights as the west boundary south of Sunset Boulevard. The population of the district is estimated at about 300,000 people.
In 1853, one adobe hut stood on the site that became Hollywood. By 1870, an agricultural community flourished in the area with thriving crops. In the 1880s, Harvey Henderson Wilcox of Kansas, who made a fortune in real estate even though he had lost the use of his legs due to typhoid fever, and his wife, Daeida, moved to Los Angeles from Topeka. In 1886, Wilcox bought 160 acres of land in the countryside to the west of the city at the foothills and the Cahuenga Pass.
Accounts of the name, Hollywood, coming from imported English holly then growing in the area are incorrect. The name actually came about because Daeida Wilcox went on a trip to the East, and while on the train she met a woman who spoke of her country home in Ohio named "Hollywood." Daeida liked the sound of it and when she returned to Southern California she gave the name to her and her husband's ranch.
Wilcox soon drew up a grid map for a town, which he filed with the county recorder's office on February 1, 1887, the first official appearance of the name Hollywood. With his wife as a constant advisor, he carved out Prospect Avenue (later Hollywood Boulevard) for the main street, lining it and the other wide dirt avenues with pepper trees, and began selling lots. Daeida raised money to build two churches, a school and a library. They imported some English holly because of the name Hollywood, but the bushes did not last.
By 1900, Hollywood also had a post office, a newspaper, a hotel and two markets, along with a population of 500 people. Los Angeles, with a population of 100,000 people, lay seven miles east through the citrus groves. A single-track streetcar line ran down the middle of Prospect Avenue from the city, but service was infrequent and the trip took two hours. The old citrus fruit packing house would be converted into a livery stable, improving transportation for the inhabitants of Hollywood.
The first section of the famous Hollywood Hotel, the first major hotel in Hollywood, was opened in 1902 by a subdivider eager to sell residential lots among the lemon ranches then lining the foothills. Flanking the west side of Highland Avenue, the structure fronted on Prospect Avenue. Still a dusty, unpaved road, it was regularly graded and graveled.
Hollywood was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. Among the town ordinances was one prohibiting the sale of liquor except by pharmacists and one outlawing the driving of cattle through the streets in herds of more than two hundred. In 1904, a new trolley car track running from Los Angeles to Hollywood up Prospect Avenue was opened. The system was called "the Hollywood boulevard." It cut travel time to and from the city drastically.
In 1910, because of an ongoing struggle to secure an adequate water supply, the townsmen voted for Hollywood to be annexed to the City of Los Angeles, as the water system of the growing city had opened the Los Angeles Aqueduct and was piping water down from the Owens River in the Owens Valley. Another reason for the vote was that Hollywood could have access to drainage through the city's sewer system.
With annexation, the name of Prospect Avenue was changed to Hollywood Boulevard and all the street numbers in the new district changed; 100 Prospect Avenue, at Vermont Avenue, became 6400 Hollywood Boulevard; and 100 Cahuenga Boulevard, at Hollywood Boulevard, changed to 1700 Cahuenga Boulevard.
In the early 1900s, motion picture production companies from New York and New Jersey started moving to sunny California because of the good weather and longer days. Although electric lights existed at that time, none were powerful enough to adequately expose film; the best source of illumination for movie production was natural sunlight. Another reason was the distance of Southern California from New Jersey, which made it more difficult for Thomas Edison to enforce his motion picture patents.
At the time, Edison owned almost all the patents relevant to motion picture production and, in the East, movie producers acting independently of Edison's Motion Picture Patents Company were often sued or enjoined by Edison and his agents. Thus, movie makers working on the West Coast could work independent of Edison's control. If he sent agents to California, word would usually reach Los Angeles before the agents did and the movie makers could escape to nearby Mexico.
The first movie studio in the Hollywood area, Nestor Studios, was founded in 1911 by Al Christie for David Horsley at Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street. In the same year, another fifteen Independents settled in Hollywood. Creators of dreams began arriving by the thousands; cameras cranked away, capturing images of custard pies, bathing beauties, comedy and tragedy, villains leering, heroines with long curls and heroes to save the day; and they built a new world to replace the lemon groves.
Thus, the fame of Hollywood came from its identity with the movies and movie stars; and the word "Hollywood," a word that, when spoken in any country on Earth, evokes worlds, even galaxies of memories, came to be colloquially used to refer to the motion picture industry in Southern California, the term deriving from the famous community.
The Charlie Chaplin Studios, at La Brea and De Lonpre Avenues just south of Sunset Boulevard, was built in 1917. It has had many owners after 1953, including Kling Studios, who produced the Superman TV series with George Reeves, Red Skelton, who used the sound stages for his CBS TV variety show, and CBS filmed Perry Mason with Raymond Burr there. It has also been owned by Herb Alpert's A&M Records; and Tijuana Brass Enterprises. It is currently The Jim Henson Company, home of the Muppets. In 1969, The Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Board named the studio a historical cultural monument.
The first Academy Awards presentation ceremony took place on May 16, 1929 during a banquet held in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard. Tickets were $10.00 and there were two hundred and fifty people in attendance.
Hollywood and the movie industry of the 1930s are described in P.G. Wodehouse's novel Laughing Gas (1936) and in Budd Schulberg's What Makes Sammy Run (1941), and is parodied in Terry Pratchett's novel Moving Pictures (1990), which is a takeoff of ''Singin' In The Rain.
From about 1930, five major "Hollywood" movie studios from all over the Los Angeles area, Paramount, RKO, 20th Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Warner Bros, owned large, grand theaters throughout the country for the exhibition of their movies. The years 1930 to 1948 are considered the age of the "Hollywood studio system." In 1948, the studio system ended after the Supreme Court ruled that movie studios could not own theaters and play only the movies of their studio and movie stars. By the mid-1950s, when television proved a profitable enterprise that was here to stay, movie studios started also being used for the production of programming in that medium, which is still the norm today.
The famous Capitol Records building on Vine Street just north of Hollywood Boulevard was built in 1956. It is a recording studio not open to the public, but its unique circular design looks like a stack of old 45s.
The Hollywood Walk of Fame was created in 1958 and the first star was placed in 1960 as a tribute to artists working in the entertainment industry. Honorees receive a star based on career and lifetime achievements in motion pictures, live theatre, radio, television, and/or music, as well as their charitable and civic contributions.
In June 1999, the long awaited Hollywood extension of the Metro Red Line subway opened, running from Downtown to the Valley, with stops on Hollywood Boulevard at Western Avenue, at Vine Street and at Highland Avenue.
The Kodak Theatre, which opened in 2001 on Hollywood Boulevard at Highland Avenue, where the historic Hollywood Hotel once stood, has become the new home of the Oscars.
In 2002, a number of Hollywood citizens began a campaign for the district to secede from Los Angeles and become its own incorporated city. Secession supporters argued that the needs of their community were being ignored by the leaders of Los Angeles. In June, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors placed secession referendums for both Hollywood and the Valley on the ballots for a "citywide election." To pass, they required the approval of a majority of voters from all over Los Angeles. In the November election, the referendums failed to receive the required percentage of votes by a wide margin.


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Q: IOException on bundle generation when opting to generate whole directory structure I'm trialling Symfony2 on a Win7 xampp installation and am having a problem with generate:bundle.
php app/console generate:bundle --namespace=amd/HelloBundle --format=yml

If I select 'yes' (the default being 'no' ) at the question:
Do you want to generate the whole directory structure
I get the following message:
[Symfony\Component\Filesystem\Exception\IOException]
Failed to touch H:/<pathToSymfony2Installation>/src//amd/HelloBundle/Resources/doc/index.rst

...and of course the rest of the steps don't follow. The correct namespace and bundle directories are created, but things like auto' routing setup for example are never reached.
When selecting the directory to place the source, I choose the default:
Target directory [H:/<pathToSymfony2Installation>/src]:

(note: no trailing slash)
I notice in the IO exception message there's an additional slash (after 'src') no matter what I do, is this causing the IO error?
If I enter a trailing slash, a further one is added (as you might expect), if I enter the very same as the default - specifically omitting a trailing slash, I still get two slashes after 'src' and before my namespace and bundle names.

A: I got similar problem like you.  I finally found out the cause: FAT32
I get no problem when I put XAMPP on the NTFS formatted drive. (Drive C or even any portable drive)  However, the error appears when I put XAMPP on the FAT32 formatted drive.  (umm... I guess some PHP functions, like touch(), does not work on FAT32 system correctly)
In addition, I also get other problem (Entity not found) on FAT32 drive when I run this command:

Symfony> php app/console doctrine:generate:entities xxxxxx

(NOTE: It can be fixed if I disable the auto_mapping and setup the "entity_managers:" in config.yml explicitly)
However, auto_mapping work perfectly once I put the XAMPP back to NTFS drive.
So, you may check your filesystem.  If your XAMPP is placed on FAT32 drive, move it to NTFS drive and and give another try.
Good luck.

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KCUA may refer to:

 KCUA (FM)
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Daycare centres struggle to adjust to full-day kindergarten
Lu, Vanessa
Ontario's child-care centres are still adjusting to the dramatic change caused by the introduction of full-day kindergarten.
This month, the final wave of 4- and 5-year-olds entered the all-day learning program, with its $1.5-billion price tag, that has been phased in since 2010. The universal program has forced some child-care centres to adjust spaces while others, including home-based daycares, find it hard to fill spots due to age rules.
That's because child-care budgets - both at non-profit and for-profit centres - are based on a system where the fees paid to look after older children help offset the higher costs for infants and toddlers, who require higher staffing ratios.
Even though parents pay far more for infant care, which can exceed $2,000 a month in Toronto, those fees alone don't begin to cover actual expenses. That's why a preschool spot, at about $1,500 a month, where more kids are permitted per daycare teacher, helps balance the books.
In any centre, labour costs are the biggest operating expense, and Ontario's rules require one staffer for three babies up to age 18 months, one staffer for every five toddlers, and one staffer for every eight to 10 preschoolers, depending on age.
When the province began introducing full-day kindergarten, it essentially took away the budgetary linchpin that held things together. With the offer of all-day learning in the public schools, parents would naturally gravitate to the kindergarten program to save on child-care costs.
"With that business model, if you take out one part of it, and it's the bit that makes it go, why would you be surprised that they would collapse?" said Martha Friendly, executive director of the Childcare Resource and Research Unit.
In the initial years of full-day kindergarten, some child-care centres closed their doors. The situation has stabilized, with some reorganizing their programs to accept more infants and toddlers, but that can require substantial renovations for change and sleep areas as well as washroom requirements.
Elaine Baxter-Trahair, general manager of children's services for the City of Toronto, said infant and toddler spaces have grown as a result of full-day kindergarten, with an additional 71 infant and 810 toddler spaces.
"It will continue to increase over the next two to three years," she said, but that will serve only 20 per cent of Toronto's child population. "The system is still woefully too small."
Centres are struggling to find early childhood educators, who have moved to take positions in schools for the full-day program, where a teacher is paired with an early childhood educator. And because child-care centres oversee before- and after-school programs, it means more split shifts for staff, which are harder to fill.
"We become trainers for those staff, who move on after one or two years," said Irene Udo, executive director and founder of the non-profit North York Little Prints Daycare, which has four locations.
"Salaries are so low in child care that the model has to be re-examined," said Udo, whose lease at its Yonge St. and York Mills Rd. location had been in jeopardy this summer.
Udo's centre, like George Brown College's child-care centre in Scotia Plaza, benefited from long-term leases with free rent, struck at a time when the landlords wanted to offer daycare.
In Scotia Plaza's case, the bank tower was allowed to exceed permitted zoning rules when it was built, in exchange for free child care for 25 years, under what is known as Section 37 funding. Typically, a developer may seek to build additional floors in exchange for providing community benefits, such as a daycare.
While both centres are staying put for now, thanks to lease extensions, Udo argues the city and province must come up with a plan on how to protect child-care centres.
Because hers is in a commercial building, the centre is subject to property taxes estimated at $75,000 a year, which wouldn't apply if it was in a school or church.
"Section 37 benefits should be for a lifetime," Udo said. "If a developer gets to add six extra floors, it doesn't lose six floors after 20 years."
Little Prints has adjusted to the change in full-day kindergarten by adding more spots for infants and toddlers.
But that type of move directly affects home-based daycares, says Leslie Wilson, vice-president of Wee Watch, a franchise program that uses in-home providers.
Because Wee Watch is licensed by the province, caregivers are restricted to looking after five children, including their own, but there are strict age rules. It can be only two children younger than 2; one between 2 and 3, and two over 3.
Since those kindergarten-age children don't need care any more, it is harder for some providers to round out their income, Wilson said, arguing the province should rethink its licensing rules, especially around the number of infants.
That's because with EI maternity benefits having been extended to a year, from the previous four months and six months, fewer children under age 1 are going to daycare, she said.
As well, as neighbourhood centres add more licensed spaces for infants and toddlers, it reduces demand for home-based care.
"That's competition for us," Wilson said. "It has hit different areas at different times. It doesn't matter whether it hit in the first year or fifth year (of the rollout), it's new."
Add into the mix for-profit businesses like Kids and Company, which operates more than 60 daycare centres across the country.
Anna Green, director of the flagship Wellington St. location in the TD Centre, said her centre runs three rooms for 45 children, which include preschoolers and kindergarten age. In all, the centre has space for 115 children.
Her centre, which caters to parents who work in the downtown towers, hasn't seen an exodus of children as a result of the full-day program.
Green said most parents still need care before and after school, and many of those school programs have long waiting lists, so they chose to stay at Kids and Company, which is open from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.
She also touts the smaller ratios, of one staffer to eight children among preschool children, and one staffer to 10 children in the kindergarten age group, as another draw. The ratio for infants follows the provincial rule of one staffer per three infants.
Unlike other child-care centres, Kids and Company generates revenue through corporate partnerships with companies like some of the big banks, which pay annual fees of $5,000 to $10,000 to ensure child care spots for their employees.
Friendly, who has studied child care for decades, believes the answer for child care's challenges is that it should not be run as a business.
"It is not a viable for-profit business, and it's not a viable non-profit business," she said. "It should be a public service."
Friendly said early childhood education should be treated just like public education in Canada, from elementary schools right up to universities, with public funding.
"To me, it's a public good," she said. "Why do we leave the way children are cared for to the market?"
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Q: Wildfly variable properties standalone.bat
set "DBO_PATH=D:\test"

standalone.xml
<subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:naming:2.0">
    <bindings>
        <simple name="java:propertiesFileName" value="${DBO_PATH}/test.properties"/>
    </bindings>
    <remote-naming/>
</subsystem>

How to set the properties to Wildfly picks them up ??
How to use a relative path in the value standalone.xml

A: You are almost there. In order to achieve the goal, you need to do following:

*

*Set environment variable like set "FOO=bar"

*Then change your standalone.xml to contain reference to ${env.FOO}: <simple name="java:/Foo" value="${env.FOO}/test.properties"/>.

*You can check if the solution is working by running following Java EE 6+ code
@Singleton
@Startup
public class StartupBean {

    @Resource(lookup="java:/Foo")
    String foo;

    @PostConstruct
    public void start() {
        System.out.println("java:/Foo = " + foo);
    }
}

Please refer to http://www.mastertheboss.com/jboss-server/jboss-configuration/how-to-use-environment-variables-in-standalone-xml-or-host-xml for another possible solution.


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Exhibition 2017-2018
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Dylan Gambrell
Troy Terry
Blake Hillman
Sean Mostrom
Dayton Rasmussen
Troy Terry #19·F Denver · 2017-2018
US National U-18 · 2014-2015 · Statistics
Denver, Colo.
10/13/2017 T 2-2 at Notre Dame 1 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10/14/2017 W 4-2 at Notre Dame 1 1 1 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 9 0 2 0
10/20/2017 T 3-3 Lake Superior State 1 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0
10/21/2017 W 5-1 Lake Superior State 1 2 0 2 5 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 1
10/27/2017 W 4-3 at Boston University 1 1 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1
10/28/2017 W 6-1 at Boston College 1 0 3 3 2 0 2 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 0
12/02/2017 W 2-1 at Minnesota Duluth 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 0 -1 0
12/08/2017 T 4-4 Colorado College 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 0 -1 0
12/09/2017 T 1-1 at Colorado College 1 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0
12/15/2017 W 1-0 Dartmouth 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12/16/2017 L 4-5 Dartmouth 1 1 0 1 4 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 -2 0
12/29/2017 L 2-3 Merrimack 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
02/23/2018 T 1-1 at St. Cloud State 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 1 0
03/03/2018 T 3-3 Miami 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
03/17/2018 W 4-1 at St. Cloud State 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 -1 0
03/24/2018 W 5-1 Penn State 1 1 2 3 4 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 2 1
03/25/2018 L 1-5 at Ohio State 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0
Regular Season Totals 39 14 34 48 99 7 11 0 0 6 48 54 8 21 4
10/01/2017 W 3-1 University of Lethbridge 1 1 0 1 6 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0
2017-2018 Totals 40 15 34 49 105 7 11 0 0 8 48 54 8 22 4


CHICKEN WITH MUSTARD CREAM SAUCE — This easy chicken dish, with a creamy mustard sauce, is on the table in about 20 minutes!
I found this recipe for Chicken with Mustard Cream Sauce in a newly purchased cookbook, Everyday Food: Great Food Fast (from the kitchen's of Martha Stewart Living).
It's my new favorite cookbook. I love it so much I subscribed to Everyday Food magazine!
This chicken is a perfect example of the kind of recipes that are featured in the Everyday Food cookbooks and magazine. Quick, simple and delicious. Not to mention, who isn't looking for new ways to cook chicken breasts?
I almost always have the ingredients on hand for this recipe, which is great for the nights I haven't really planned anything for dinner and don't want to spend a lot of time figuring out what to cook.
It's not a bad idea to double the sauce, as that gives you plenty for the chicken, plus some left to spoon over a side of rice.
This meal is easy enough for a week night dinner, but fancy enough for company. My favorite kind of recipe! Trust me, this is one chicken dish you'll be making over and over again!
Be sure to save this Chicken with Mustard Cream Sauce recipe to your favorite Pinterest board for later.
This easy chicken dish, with a creamy mustard sauce, is on the table in about 20 minutes!
Add olive oil to a large skillet and preheat over medium-high heat.
Add chicken to skillet and saute until cooked through, about 10-12 minutes, turning once. Transfer to a plate and keep warm.
Pour chicken broth into hot skillet.
Whisk in the cream, mustard and tarragon or oregano. Cook and stir for about 2 minutes.
Pour sauce over chicken and serve.
Sauteed chicken breasts smothered in a creamy rosemary butter sauce. Ready in 20 minutes or less!
Sauteed chicken breasts, smothered in bell peppers and a creamy sauce, then topped with melted cheese.
Classic chicken cordon bleu, cooked on the grill and lightened up with a flavorful Dijon vinaigrette.
Chicken breasts are slow cooked with garlic cloves, then finished off with a creamy sauce.
Tender chunks of chicken and potato, with peas and carrots, are cooked in a creamy sauce, then topped off with wedges of flaky pie crust in this slow cooker version of classic comfort food.
Who Dished It Up First: Martha Stewart, in her Everyday Food series of recipes.
I love tarragon in a sauce. It's such a nice change, and I don't see it used often. Looks delicious!
That sounds wonderful! I just bought dijon mustard too.
I just gave this recipe to a friend on Wednesday except mine also has a spoonful of honey in the sauce. I can vouch for how good the recipe is.
Oh, that looks delicious! I used to make something similar, but I haven't made it in ages.
This looks delish! I will have to give it a try.
I just added this to my "must make" list! Sounds delicious and super simple!
This is a fabulous recipe! I made it recently and my husband and I instantly loved it. I've since made it two or three more times. The sauce is so rich, creamy, and flavorful. Thanks for sharing!
I made this last night for dinner. It was delicious! I doubled the sauce because my husband likes lots of sauce, he enjoyed it so much he almost licked the plate!
Just made this for dinner and we LOVED it! Thanks for sharing!!
Just made this for my boyfriend, I was looking for something quick and easy and this turned out amazing! I seared the chicken in a stainless steel pan and the chicken turned out caramelized crispy! The boyfriend loved it, served it with asparagus, mushrooms and snow peas! SO GOOD! Thank you for sharing this!
So glad you and your boyfriend liked it. It's one of my favorites too!
I like to cook with things I already have in the house and unfortunately I don't have heavy cream on hand. Do think if I use a can of campbells cream of chicken soup as a substitute that it would work? Well i"m going to try it tonight and see how it works, but I think next time I'll try it the recipe as is.
This looks amazing, but the recipe says to preheat the oven… And then the oven isn't used?
Tamara, the recipe is referring to pre-heating the skillet with the oil on the stovetop, not preheating the oven.
Made this tonight and loved it! My only issue, the sauce was a bit thinner than yours. I'm new to the kitchen…did I just not cook it long enough? Will definitely make this again!
Mainly you just need to let the sauce reduce a little longer to get it thicker. sometimes we get impatient but if you want it to not seep everywhere just leave it on the stove a little bit longer and it should thicken up.
Made this for supper! Delish!!
YUM, this was fabulous! My son put the sauce on everything, not just the chicken! Added capers.
I thought about adding capers… Think I will next time!
I made this last night. It was a fast and yummy chicken recipe. Which I love!
Soooo good and warm and yummy on a day you do not feel like spending a whole lot of time on dinner, but want a home cooked meal…I served with chicken rice and it was received well by my hubby, 1 year old, 5 year old, and 8 year old. Thumbs up!
I made this last night- it was really good and my boyfriend said he loved the sauce! (I overlooked the chicken a bit or he probably would not have made the distinction of only loving the sauce :P) I will definitely make this again. thanks!
Thanks so much- making this for dinner tonight, yummy!
We made this a few new ago…it's a new family favorite! Thanks for sharing!
I love the recipe! I add my chicken back to the sauce for extra flavoring! Thanks so much!
My husband and I found this recipe while looking for low carb options. I don't use Dijon mustard often because to me it can be very "strong" tasting. But this was very good! I love that I already have all the items on hand that I need to make this. If you have not tried this recipe, its definitely worth it.
This looks so good!! Pinning!
Mmmmm, this looks super-delicious! Pinning!
This looks like a great Sunday dinner idea 🙂 Re-pinned from your pin!
Wonderful meal!! Wish I had the calorie count.. although I'd eat it everyday anyway!
Mad it for dinner tonight–it was amazing. Hubby thought I made a special meal for him. I did–under 30 minutes! Loved it.
Thanks for the recipe! We are going extremely low carb and so excited to find another low carb dinner idea!! Going to make it tonight!
This recipe looks great! I can't wait to make it. But I was wondering what kind of rice you usually pair it with? Chicken flavored or just plain white rice? I'd love to know.
I usually just do plain rice, but whatever you like best would work great!
I made this last night and my husband and I both loved it. Next time I will make a creamy mustard sauce pasta with chicken and peas.
I made this for dinner tonight and it was delicious. I added some mushrooms because my boyfriend loves them.
My husband loves mushrooms too. I'm going to try that next time. Thanks!
Lovely collection of recipes you have here…….
Made this tonight and my family loved it. It was quick easy and fits with eating low carb. Thanks for the recipe. I will make this again.
Making this tonight and was thinking about serving with pasta?
Already planning to make it for the second week in a row.
Delicious and so easy!!! Thanks for sharing!
We absolutely loved this recipe! Followed recipe exactly and I served this with rice pilaf and green beans. Thanks so much for posting! Cant wait to make it again!
Wondering if this freezes well? Should I chop the breast up and cook it within the daycare? Would that freeze better?
This was wonderful and easy! Family loved it and will definitely make again.
Just had this in a restaurant and loved it! Google brought me to your recipes and can not wait to try this and some others… they look like they bring chicken back to life and very good options for Keto diet!! Thank you!!
Just made this tonight and the whole family loves it! My sauce wasn't thick at all which was disappointing but it still tasted great! Thanks for the recipe!
This was delicious! Will definitely be making it again.
Made this last night for my hubby. It was delish! I did double the sauce as suggested, lots of yummy goodness to put over the rice & cut Italian beans I served with it. Definitely will be making this again. Directions were easy to follow and all the supplies were in the pantry.


The glamorous Kika modern metal pendant from Terzani in white, black and gold.
A fabulous new pendant lighting design from Italy, inspired by the glamour of the golden age of Hollywood. Created by Franziska Hinze for Terzani, it's a bit of an attention-seeker. It features hundreds of tiny eight-sided pieces of metal, which are all attached individually by hand to the metal rings on the frame. The metal is highly reflective, so will pick up all the colours around it.
There are three colourways, which can all be ordered from this page. These are white with stainless steel, white with gold, and white with black. The chart here will help you.
Thr price quoted here is for the larger of the two sizes. Please get in touch with us if you would like a price for the smaller size, measuring 54 centimetres in diameter.


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Poor services halt Zim tourism revival
AaronPettey
MASVINGO: DERELICT facilities are hampering Zimbabwe's efforts to revive the country's tourism sector, officials said.
Dr Fredrick Kasese, the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) Masvingo Provincial Chairman, told CAJ News that most hotels in the country were currently operating at below capacity due to non-expansion and rehabilitation of basic tourism facilities.
Kasese cited the example of hotels in Masvingo, a city in southern Zimbabwe, which he said were struggling to remain operational due to low business.
"For example, from the eight major hotels that are in Masvingo most are operating below 25 percent capacity utilization, with much business coming from organizations that come for conferences as the demand for hotel facilities by individuals has been declining over the past years. The decline in business is solely due to dilapidated tourism facilities which are in dire need of refurbishment" Kasese said.
He said statistics from last year revealed that hotels recorded 2 percent bookings from foreign tourist while 98 percent were from local clients who were mainly companies organizing conferences.
He said the key thrust for this year was to develop a national tourism blue print which will unlock the dormant potential the country has to emerge as a strong competitor in the global world.
"Masvingo is without doubt one of Zimbabwe's finest holiday and tourism destination, which has not been fully tapped. If we are to entertain any hopes of growth we need more investment in accommodation sector particularly three to five stars hotels, luxury lodges and conference facilities to boost competition," he said.
Masvingo Province boasts of the major tourism attraction centres such as the Great Zimbabwe Monuments, from where the country derives its name. The province also boasts the Gonarezhou National Park, Lake Mutirikwi, the giant Tokwe Mukosi Dam and the Save Valley Conservancies among others. The area has not been spared the dwindling fortunes of the country's tourism industry.
The political and economic problems Zimbabwe has suffered over the years have taken a toll on the sector that was once the mainstay of the economy. Tourism and Hospitality Minister, Walter Mzembi, has called for a combined effort within government departments to vigorously market the country. "We have to move together as a family in order to promote tourism in the country and this can only be done if some of us stop demonizing the country a move that will scare away potential tourists ,"said Mzembi.
SOURCE: CAJ NEWS AGENCY
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Troy Eklund helped his Nevada Griffons to a June 1987 win with a dramatic eighth-inning tie-breaking home run, The Nevada Daily Mail wrote.
"When I hit it, I was thinking double," Eklund told The Daily Mail afterward. "I was running and watching, and it started rising. When it started rising, I knew it was gone. It kind of surprised me."
Eklund played that summer in Nevada in between his time at the University of Arkansas. He went on from there to a brief career as a pro, and then to a career in broadcasting.
Eklund's career in baseball began in 1989, taken by the Rangers in the 25th round out of Arkansas.
With the collegiate league Griffons, Eklund hit 17 home runs by the end of July. Earlier that July, Eklund was credited with taking a home run away with a catch.
Eklund returned to Arkansas that fall. In 1989, Eklund knocked 12 triples and won All-American honors. Over his career there, Eklund knocked in 180 runs.
He also helped his club to the 1989 College World Series. Eklund hit a two-run home run in an Omaha loss.
With the Rangers, Eklund played his first season between rookie Butte and single-A Gastonia. Between the two levels he hit .206, with just two home runs.
He returned to Gastonia for 1990. In 98 games, he hit .236. He also hit six home runs and had 32 RBI. Two of those RBI came in a July 1990 game, sealing an extra-inning win.
Eklund has since gone into broadcasting, working with Cox Sports.