Keep it rolling. The Kings are boot through their early-season schedule. On the additional night of a back-to-back, the Kings struggled late, but begin a way to advance through for a 107-99 win over the Orlando Magic.
Six players denticulate in bifold figures, including a brace of players with double-doubles. The Kings outran, out-hustled and ultimately outscored the Magic on their way to their fourth beeline win.
Here are seven addendum as the Kings move to 5-3 on the season.
Buddy Hield is added than aloof a shooter. The third-year pro acquaint a huge 25-point, 11-rebound double-double to advice lift the Kings. With De'Aaron Fox hurting, he helped advance the bounce all d continued and alloyed in among the copse to advice out on the boards.
Nemanja Bjelica angry a boxy antagonism into a absolute Tuesday evening. The 6-foot-10 advanced went to assignment adjoin a cool amateur in Aaron Gordon, and came out on top.
Bjelica agape bottomward 8 of 13 shots from the field, and accomplished three 3-pointers on his way to 21 points. He added eight rebounds, two steals and a block.
Willie Cauley-Stein acquaint his fourth beeline double-double, bottomward in 14 credibility and 11 rebounds in the Kings' win. Adjoin a big Magic frontline, Cauley-Stein absent a few shots, but he's alive the attic and bringing energy.
De'Aaron Fox came into Tuesday ambiguous with a artificial lower back. It wasn't until an hour afore the d that he was austere to play.
Fox didn't accept his archetypal numbers, but he kept arena to accomplishment the black with 14 credibility and bristles assists in 30 minutes.
The Kings added Troy Williams to a two-way arrangement in the aboriginal anniversary of the division absitively to booty him with them on the trip. With Iman Shumpert sitting out, Williams abounding in nicely, scoring 12 credibility and avaricious bristles rebounds in 33 minutes.
He's a high-energy guy with abundant breadth and a arresting mindset. If the Kings can appear up with a agenda spot, he would be a nice accession to the squad.
Marvin Bagley was alive adjoin adolescent rookie, Mo Bamba. He accomplished the d aloof one backlash abroad from a double-double, announcement 10 credibility and nine rebounds in 23 minutes. He continues to put up stats back accustomed minutes.
The Kings outrebounded the Magic 51-48 on the evening. It was the third time in four amateur that they accept acquaint 50 or added rebounds in a game.
Tuesday was additionally the fourth win in a row for the Kings. The aftermost time the aggregation won four beeline was Feb. 14, 2017, the second-to-last d of DeMarcus Cousins' Kings career.


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Q: Is it possible to raise the sampling frequency of perf stat? I am using perf for profiling, but the number of monitored PMU events is higher than the number of the hardware counters, so round-robin multiplexing strategy is triggered. However, some of my test cases may run less than a millisecond, which means that if the execution time is less than the multiplicative inverse of the default switch frequency (1000Hz), some events may not be profiled.
How to raise the sampling frequency of perf stat like perf record -F <freqency> to make sure that every events will be recorded even if the measurement overhead may slightly increase?

A: First off, remember that sampling is different than counting.
perf record will invariably do a sampling of all the events that occured during the time period of profiling. This means that it will not count all of the events that happened (this can be tweaked of course!). You can modify the frequency of sample collection to increase the number of samples that get collected. It will usually be like for every 10 (or whatever number > 0) events that occur, perf record will only record 1 of them.
perf stat will do a counting of all the events that occur. For each event that happens, perf stat will count it and will try not to miss any, unlike sampling. Of course, the number of events counted may not be accurate if there is multiplexing involved (i.e. when the number of events measured is greater than the number of available hardware counters). There is no concept of setting up frequencies in perf stat since all it does is a direct count of all the events that you intend to measure.
This is the proof from the linux kernel source code :-
You can see it sets up sample period (the inverse of sample freq) to be 0 - so you know what sample freq is ;)
Anyway, what you can do is a verbose reading of perf stat using perf stat -v to see and understand what is happening with all of the events that you are measuring.
To understand more about perf stat, you can also read this answer.

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Caron Pennsylvania is an inpatient and outpatient facility that offers treatment for individuals with substance addiction and/or co-occurring disorders. The family-centered program includes individual therapy, group therapy, fitness and nutrition, art therapy and more. Caron Pennsylvania is located in Wernersville, Pennsylvania.
Caron Pennsylvania, they understand that addiction is complex – as complex as the people and families it affects. Physical, psychological, and spiritual dimensions all play a role in substance abuse disorders. That's why Caron doesn't just treat drug and alcohol problems, but every related issue that patients and their families face.
Some of the services offered by Caron Pennsylvania include Neurofeedback Therapy, Continuing Care, Family Support and Treatment, cutting-edge interventions, gender-separate housing, detox services, psychological services, spiritual support, recreation, physical fitness and exercise, on-site schooling, and a College Success Program.
One of the best rehabs in the world. Saved all of our lives. The trauma was killing him. Not anymore.
They have no consideration for people with physical disabilities, they did not want to offer their services because I am in a wheelchair, the experience was a bit humiliating, I hope to find a place where I can receive the help I need but if you have any disability physical in this place you will not receive any support.
There are no special programs for people with physical difficulties. In this facility patients are not given quality care, the program focuses on generalities of addictions and does not personally attend to each patient, patients are treated in a disrespectful way. It was just a waste of money so no rehabilitation was done.
While we are disappointed to read your negative treatment review, federal and state privacy laws prevent Caron from acknowledging in any way whether an individual received treatment from one of our facilities. This prevents us from responding to specifics, but we can say that Caron does our utmost to provide every person we serve with the support, treatment and therapeutic environment to begin a lasting recovery. If you — or anyone you know — would like to talk about the treatment we provide, please contact us at caroncares@caron.org.
Outpatient programs are for those seeking mental rehab or drug rehab, but who also stay at home every night. The main difference between outpatient treatment (OP) and intensive outpatient treatment (IOP) lies in the amount of hours the patient spends at the facility. Most of the time an outpatient program is designed for someone who has completed an inpatient stay and is looking to continue their growth in recovery. Outpatient is not meant to be the starting point, it is commonly referred to as aftercare. At Caron, they take into account patients' unique needs and circumstances, including their work and home life. If a client already has a stable, supportive environment in which to recover, they may not need to enter a residential program. In these cases, they often recommend outpatient treatment. This program addresses the same issues and disorders as inpatient treatment while also empowering patients and their families to continue everyday life.
Drug and alcohol addiction often takes a heavy toll on one's body. Over time, a physical dependence can develop, meaning the body physiologically needs the substance to function. Detox is the process of removing drugs and/or alcohol from the body, a process that can be lethal if mismanaged. Medical detox is done by licensed medical professionals who monitor vital signs and keep you safe, healthy, and as comfortable as possible as you go through detox and withdrawal. At Caron Pennsylvania, patients undergo detox in an on-site, self-contained detoxification unit. Caron Renaissance is not an acute care facility and therefore does not offer detox services on site; however, they can arrange for transfers from hospitals and other healthcare centers once patients have finished detoxing.
Residential treatment programs are those that offer housing and meals in addition to substance abuse treatment. Rehab facilities that offer residential treatment allow patients to focus solely on recovery, in an environment totally separate from their lives. Some rehab centers specialize in short-term residential treatment (a few days to a week or two), while others solely provide treatment on a long-term basis (several weeks to months). Some offer both, and tailor treatment to the patient's individual requirements. Caron's full-time, on-site, highly credentialed staff and dynamic, comprehensive inpatient rehab programs meet people where they are. Whether a patient needs residential assessment, detox, inpatient addiction treatment, or long-term recovery support, they are careful to address individualized needs and circumstances.
Completing a drug or alcohol rehab program shouldn't spell the end of substance abuse treatment. Aftercare involves making a sustainable plan for recovery, including ongoing support. This can include sober living arrangements like halfway houses, career counseling, and setting a patient up with community programs like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) or Narcotics Anonymous (NA). Caron Renaissance patients can count on them to remain by their sides after treatment. They do everything possible to equip each patient for sober living before treatment ends and through the first year of recovery. One week prior to discharge, every patient at Caron Renaissance receives personalized Continuing Care planning in order to maximize their abilities to live lives of sobriety, serenity, and sustained recovery.
Addiction and behavioral health issues affect persons with substance abuse problems and their loved ones. They understand that the families of addicts are deeply affected. Family members want to help their loved one, but the situation is delicate. Sometimes, the addiction becomes the family's focus, throwing it into chaos. Addiction to drugs and alcohol inevitably leads to pain, confusion, and sadness. At Caron, they believe the patient is the family, and the family is the patient. In other words, they believe it's crucial (and in some cases required) for the family to be engaged in holistic rehabilitation from the very beginning of the pre-admission process. They bring family members into the admission and assessment process from the start, so that their input can form the basis for a personalized addiction treatment plan. At Caron Renaissance, they pair new families with an alumni family "buddy" who can provide support, answer questions, and share experiences.
Nutrition therapy, aka medical nutrition therapy (MNT), is a way of treating physical, emotional, and medical conditions through diet. Specific dietary plans are designed by professional nutritionists or registered dietitians, and patients follow them in order to positively affect their physical and mental health. Caron focuses on giving patients tools to use as they move forward with life. Educating patients about diet and nutrition is a key part of the treatment that they provide at Caron. Teaching patients about the benefits of healthy nutrition and how to achieve it is an integral part of not only their treatment programming, but also one's lifelong recovery. Research suggests that healthy eating habits have a positive impact on recovery and the ability to maintain sobriety.
During the course of a teen's stay in primary or extended care treatment at Caron Pennsylvania, they have the opportunity to be involved in Caron's Education Program. Their regular school provides assignments, and the teaching staff at Caron Pennsylvania helps each student achieve and maintain acceptable academic status while in treatment. Caron Pennsylvania provides an alternative education program licensed through the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Education. All teachers are licensed to teach in an alternative education setting, and have experience in handling students with emotional and behavioral difficulties. Through these educational resources, we are also able to provide up-to-date educational testing as needed. Special tutoring for GED testing is available, as is tutoring over the summer months.
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• Published on March 9, 2018 • Last modified on February 13, 2020
"The Rise and Fall of the Brown Buffalo" airs March 23.
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A genre-defying film about the life of radical Chicano lawyer, author and countercultural icon Oscar Zeta Acosta will premiere in March.
The Rise and Fall of the Brown Buffalo will debut at 8 p.m. March 23 in a Voces special on PBS.
Acosta was the basis for the character Dr. Gonzo in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, written by his friend, legendary journalist-provocateur Hunter S. Thompson.
Filmmaker Phillip Rodriguez brings Acosta to life by employing a cinematic style as unorthodox as his subject: weaving archival footage and images with dramatized portrayals of Acosta, Thompson, and other key figures and moments of the era.
The script is culled from Acosta and Thompson's writings and interviews, as well as letters and journalistic and personal accounts.
Acosta's powerful literary voice, brash courtroom style and notorious revolutionary antics made him a revered figure within the Chicano movement of the 1960s and 70s, and offered one of the most brazen assaults on the status quo and white supremacy seen at the time. Yet Acosta, author of two groundbreaking autobiographical novels, is known more for his turn as Thompson's bumbling sidekick than for his own work exposing racial bias, hypocrisy and repression within the California justice system.
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Maggie Jones on the importance of spoken word skills to help young people realise their aspirations
One of the joys of being in Labour's Education team is the chance to get out and about, visiting schools and being inspired by the enthusiasm of pupils and teachers alike.
Last week, I attended Holy Family School in Waltham Forest – a multi-cultural secondary school experimenting with writing and performing poetry as a means of nurturing confidence, creativity and self expression. The result was outstanding – a room full of articulate, funny, thoughtful young people excited about what they had, and could, achieve. Sitting in the audience I had no doubt that any employer would be impressed by the skills these young people had learned.
I will be raising the importance of such skills in a Lords debate on the importance of preparing young people for the world of work. We already know that the CBI and Federation of Small Businesses are desperate for young people to have better 'soft' skills such as communication, collaboration and problem solving. Yet the government is driving education in the opposite direction, with an obsession on cramming facts, working in isolation and sitting traditional exams. As part of this move spoken word skills have been removed from the English curriculum.
We have previously warned Ministers about the dangers of giving schools responsibility for careers advice without any resources or expertise, and it would be interesting to understand whether they – and indeed the Department for Education – believe the changes to have been consequence free. A recent report from the Commons Education Select Committee on this issue paints a horror story of poor training and advice, with teachers pressurising young people to stay on in the Sixth Form at all costs to improve the school budget. In response, the government said that careers provision was a matter for individual schools – something that the Chair of the Committee rightly described as an abdication of responsibility.
The result of such inaction from Ministers is reflected in a recent report from Pearson which discovered that over a third of young people relied on TV programmes to help them decide on careers, with and one in ten girls looking to celebrities for inspiration.
With a dwindling job market, we must give young people the best preparation available to have any chance of success. The Coalition's failed economic policies have resulted in youth unemployment rates of over 20%, with more than a million not in education, employment or training. We can help by realigning their aspiration to the types of jobs that will be generated over the next two decades, many of which may not even exist today. Some of these jobs will be in the creative, innovation and high tech industries. But the CBI has also identified a critical lack of skills in the manufacturing, construction and engineering sectors – all of which could be drivers for future growth in the economy. Yet our education system is failing to address these new demands.
This is why Labour is putting renewed emphasis on the importance of vocational education to match the best academic provision, supported by quality apprenticeships. The new technical exam announced today is welcome, but it is a belated gesture towards something we have long argued for. And we will continue to criticise the government's backward looking curriculum changes, which fail to meet young people's aspirations and provide the gold standard skills needed to create a modern, thriving economy. It is the least we can do for those talented pupils I met at Holy Family School.
Baroness Maggie Jones of Whitchurch is a member of Labour's Shadow Education team in the Lords
Published 4th July 2013


Despite the fact that most homes have canals and downpipes to gather water and course it far from the building, in greatly overwhelming precipitation regions it is regularly shed, experiencing issues conveying the extensive volumes of water stored in brief times of time.
For homes with guttering and downpipe a yearly review ought to be executed as a base, to guarantee the gutter and downpipe replacement is required or are free of deterrents and in serviceable request.
Deterrents amid times of substantial precipitation can see family unit guttering holding water as opposed to diverting it away, bringing about downpour water running inside the house, harming mortar dividers, or turn into a flame risk in late spring in bushfire inclined zones.
When involving individual electrifies iron profiles made to set lengths, today's drain and downpipes are produced using either consistent length Colorbond aluminum, Zincalume steel, or plastic, with the recent more inclined to assault by UV beams than the initial two.
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It's essential to check your estimations for gutter and downpipes replacement. All corners and changes in height must be represented.


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Supervisor Stone addresses concerns about recreation in Idyllwild
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Jeff Stone (right), Riverside county 3rd District Supervisor, stayed late in Idyllwild Thursday, July 28. In town for his monthly meeting with Hill constituents, Stone agreed to meet with several people about the recent decision to cancel the local recreation contract with the Idyllwild Community Recreation Council. Joining him were Bill Brown (left), County Service Area manager for the County's Economic Development Agency, and Opal Hellweg (not shown), Stone's legislative assistant. Photo: J.P. Crumrine
Thursday afternoon, July 28, several local citizens approached 3rd District Supervisor Jeff Stone, who was in town for his monthly meeting with Hill residents, to discuss the county's decision to cancel its recreation management contract with the Idyllwild Community Recreation Council (ICRC).
Stone agreed to meet with them later that afternoon and at about 4:30 p.m., nearly a dozen people came back to continue the discussion from Wednesday evening's special County Service Area 36 meeting about recreation.
"I heard about the meeting last night [the special CSA 36 recreation meeting] and I wish I could have been there," Stone began. "What you hear coming out of his [Bill Brown, the county's manager for County Service Areas (CSA)] mouth is really me speaking."
Stone adamantly stated that he would not change his decision and asked the people to give the county time to demonstrate what it can do and how that might be a better recreation program for the entire community.
"The first task will be preparation of recreation master plan," Stone said. "It will be comprehensive and look at all age groups and look at all facilities. Town Hall is in disrepair and it will take money — more than the special tax — to fix the facilities.
"I expect recreational opportunities for everyone in the community," he added. "It needs to be inclusive rather than exclusive. We're not coming in to dismantle but to make it better."
"If we heard these reasons before Bill's presentation, at least 50 percent of the issues might have been avoided," said Nancy Layton. "We heard it was your decision, and didn't' hear it from your mouth."
While some attendees were pleased to hear Stone speak directly to the issue and were willing to give the county some time to meet the promises, others left feeling no different than Wednesday night. They remained skeptical of the reasons and doubtful that the county could produce what it's promising given its own financial doldrums.
Josh Whitney told Stone he didn't think the community could give him six months because the change was occurring in summer. "The worst time of year because of the limited outdoor opportunities," he stressed.
Other questions were asked about the future of the ICRC employees and the manner in which they were informed of the change. Both Stone and Brown stressed their intent to employee local residents. Stone also expressed regret for process and said the county will learn from this situation.
Brown said he is continuing to seek local applicants and specifically said he would like to hear Danny Richardson's (who was present) interest in continuing to serve the community.
Other questions were raised about the future of the skate park, the condition of Town Hall and the relationship Pine Cove and Mountain Center residents have with the recreation program.
With respect to the physical conditions of Town Hall, Brown said he could not promise what would happen there until it had been inspected. He does have contingency plans, but doesn't want to discuss them unless needed. For example, it might affect his leverage to rent a different facility.
"You'll see more money come into this town than goes out," Brown said. He intends to seek a variety of grants to help fund programs for different cohorts, but stressed, "We have to have the partnership of the community."
"EDA is the 'get it done' arm of the county. My track history is I've delivered on everything I promised to the community. I'm not back tracking now," Stone said near the end.
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The kitchen bar stools are really important part of the process of creating a functional and comfortable kitchen. The kitchen bar stools can really affect the overall appearance of the kitchen and provide the place with a great accent. The kitchen bar stools come in a variety of designs, colors, and styles. The kitchen bar stools are made in order to meet comfort in the kitchen and of course to enhance the aesthetics of the place and perky it up a little bit. In this article we are going to focus on a specific design of kitchen bar stools with a classical and casual appearance but also with superb and modern outlook. The backless bar stools in the kitchen are made to provide the place with casual and daily feel. Check out the below showcase of 10 super cool and casual backless bar stools that can fit in your kitchen.
The wooden round seat in combination with heavy black iron provide this cool backless bar stool with industrial appearance and may work great as cool accent chair in the kitchen.
The leaf formed seat of this backless wooden bar stools add a charming accent on the overall apperance. This is a beautiful and charming design of a backless bar stool.
The orange metallic Marious backless bar stool with a vibrant and cool appearance surely will work as an accent chair and provide your ktichen with perky and fresh ambiance.
This is a classical design of a backless bar stool with a wooden foudnation and green cushioned leather. This design will fit in every traditional charming kitchen.
The textured seat of this backless bar stool adds an extra beauty of its overall appearance. This is a really natural looking and beautiful backless bar stools.
The blury metalic nature of this backless bar stool will surely stand out in the ktichen and provide it with extra accent. The design and overall appearance of this backless bar stool is extraordinary.
This is a casual and retro design of backless bar stool with classic and beautiful and charming appearance. This kitchen bar stool can fit perfectly in every modern kitchen.
How perky and inovative this backless bar stools looks, right? The perky colors in combination with the simple and casual design provide this backless bar stool with lively and cool outlook.
The pink upholstery of this natural and light backless bar stool adds extra charm and beauty and makes this stool a perfect element for providing and cool and perky accent in the kitchen.
Rattan seat and white foundation is the perfect choice for a backless chair in order to create a light and charming ambiance in the kitchen.


2011 is reaching its date of expiry and soon the most glamorous 2012 is going to take over.
2012 is claimed by many to be the deadline of a major transformation or apocalypse, leading to either a shift to higher consciousness or a global catastrophe, or even both.
How this will come about is a question that many ask.
For more detals see our article: Apocalyptic 2012.
This can either be the repetition of the same monotonous cycle or a shift into a brand new configuration.
Perhaps, more realistically, it is a mixture of both.
This initial time of the year is a most delicate stage in the healing process, and a very challenging space to manage.
Luminous parts of our being take shape and get ready to be born, yet the gestation of this newness occurs in the darkness, while in the outer environment the dynamics of the past year continue to dominate.
This is a most promising time heralding the beginning of a new journey and the birth of precious hidden treasures.
Our multidimensional nature is ready to dispense the most abundant signs of its presence, awakening the memory of our original unity and power.
Yet, this intensifies the contrast with the separated self and all the blocks from of our conditioned past. Hence, if such grievances are not properly released, a vortex of confusion and turmoil can follow.
The individual involved may then be forced to take resolute measures, which may entail the commitment to explore and heal these areas of darkness, or the option of hiding them away.
Being at such a crucial threshold between past and future, the first days of the New Year are ideal for recapitulation.
Recapitulation is an ancient healing practice aimed at retrieving and releasing energy. The assumption is that past events block vital energy until they are finally sorted out and released. When this is not the case the past keeps being held in the emotional body and we lose the connection with whom we truly are.
We merely become the condensation of unrefined fragmented memories, which are constantly recycled, reactivated and condensed in the present.
As human beings we tend to invest enormous energies in these memories until, just like in a computer, the memory space is used up, and our lives crash, hang or freeze.
Releasing the past may not be an easy task. Many people regularly focus on their memories and justify whatever they do and the way they feel based on their past.
They say things such as, "My father abused me", "My partner left me", "I lost my child" or "I was fired", and use them to validate why their life does not work. As they focus on those things they feed those negative past experiences, which then keep being recycled in the present, preventing new experiences to emerge.
Other people take a totally different stance. Being aware of how the past limits their freedom they elect to wipe it out with an instant spring clean. They start a thorough enterprise of deletion of whatever refers to the past, people, places, situations, belongings, etc.
The relationship with my girlfriend is over! Ok, let's burn all her photos, letters, presents, also deleting e-mails, text messages, and so on, until I can say, often by quoting lines from a New Age book, that I have finally cleaned up my past and now I am liberated. And from that moment all will be really different!
Well, this is a universe of immense possibilities, and this can truly be the case if I can move radically beyond the syntax of this separated reality. Since the past, as we perceive it is an illusion, deleting it can be as easy as erasing files from a computer.
The moment I wake up from the dream, it will be all gone. And yet, unless I have mastered the art of not falling asleep again, the past will eventually seep though, exactly in the same way, and the only difference will be the actors and the settings.
Releasing the past is not necessarily deleting the past. Far from being erased the past is first of all in vital need of being truly acknowledged and honoured, then healed and, if it truly does not serve, released.
Release is not throwing the past in the bin and then relying on the local authority to get rid of it. Release is liberation, allowing the past to flow in the present, undoing fear and supporting luminous elements, so that this can provide blessings for the present and future.
Release is forgiveness, and as A Course in Miracles puts it, "To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All the rest must be forgotten. Forgiveness is a selective remembering, based not on your selection" (ACIM, T354).
The problem is not in the past, it is getting stuck there, being frozen in the past. And this happens when we consider only the past, as well as when we deny it.
I can pretend that my ex girl-friend never existed, and remove all the evidence of her presence. This may be temporarily effective if I can't cope with the situation, yet if there are unresolved issues with that girlfriend they will return in one way or the other until I choose to truly release.
And if I don't release those issues during my life, well, those issues may be carried over in my "next life" or be taken up by the following generations.
I stress these two options because I believe that the major obstacle in releasing the past is not the nature of the past itself but the way we perceive it.
I can regard myself as a separated individual having to deal with personal problems throughout my life, and even in past and future lives, or I can acknowledge myself as part of the collective, a planetary larger being, which includes all mankind, past, present and future.
In shamanism there is the notion of "deleting personal history", yet this is not the past, it is the illusory past created by our separated minds. Hence here the deletion applies to the ego involvement with the past and its separated reality.
The perception of separation from others and the world is the human arbitrary configuration that needs to be dropped in order to experience our true identity and move into a much wider reality.
And this is not a spring clean; it is an ongoing and enduring process, which gradually allows the emergence of the collective past, a realm where all minds are joined. Here personal thoughts, being separated, do not exist or are mere hallucinations.
Shamans, more or less universally, receive most of their guidance from that realm and work intensively with ancestors. They experience past, present and future as a time continuum through which they travel in order to gain knowledge and pursue their shamanic intentions.
Now if you want to take a break from all this, you can watch The Immaculate Art of Deleting the Past below by Cut! (filmmakers from Glasgow University).


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Our design team is both experienced and innovative in their approach and in the range of products manufactured, and is backed up by a modern manufacturing facility of 1500 square metres of workshop space, equipped with a guillotine, 150 tonne press break, various rolling machines, lathes, milling machines, drilling machines, welding machines and manipulators, fabric and rubber manufacturing equipment etc.


Overnight, waiting for me in the dock at home.
Powered up OK at the first site of the day.
Interestingly, LookOut was all freaked about something yesterday. There was no index, and manually rerunning the indexer lead to warnings and errors about shared memory, implying said memory was corrupt. I exited and restarted Outlook, then left the indexer running. This morning there was still no LookOut index; manually re-running the indexer seemed to fix that.


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Records of Championships Played by Bangladesh Cricket Team
The Cricket World Cup of the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup is the official league played by different players. Twelve full-member nations of the International Cricket Council participate in this tournament. England was the host nation for the first world cup in 1975. Eight teams participated in the contest, and West Indies won by 17 runs against Australia. Bangladesh cricket team participated for the first time in the 1999 World Cup.
Since then, it has participated in six world cups. Look at how it performed in the different world cups and which stages it reached. Also, the number in brackets against years represents the participating teams. And Bangladesh hosted one international world cup in 2011.
Bangladesh Cricket Team World Cup Record
S. No. Year Stage Reached Performance
1 1999 (12) Group Stage Bangladesh cricket team debuted in the world cricket cup in this championship. It was in group 2 but could not clear the stage with two wins and three losses.
2 2003 (14) Group Stage Bangladesh demonstrated poor results with five defeats out of six matches played in the group stage. It was disqualified in the group stage only.
3 2007 (16) Super Eight Bangladesh cleared the group stage for the first time with two wins and one loss. It was later disqualified in the super-eight stage with six losses.
4 2011 (14) Group Stage Bangladesh co-hosted the world cup with India and Sri Lanka. It was in Group B where it won three matches out of six. It missed the chance to progress by a low margin.
5 2015 (14) Quarter-Finals Bangladesh cleared the group stage with three wins, two losses, and one "No Result." It played and lost against India.
6 2019 (10) Group Stage Bangladesh won three matches out of nine with five losses. It accumulated 7 points in the knock-out stage, bringing it to the eighth position.
These are the results shown by the Bangladesh cricket team in the different world cups it participated in. It can be considered a new team compared to England or Australia. The world cup mentioned above follows the ODI format. It means that teams played the matches in the 50-over ODI format. Then what about the performance of Bangladesh in other world cups?
Bangladesh Cricket Team T20 World Cup Record
ICC launched the T20 Cricket World Cup in 2007. Since then, seven T20 tournaments have been played by different nations. Bangladesh was in the opening inaugural tournament and has played in all seven championships. We will be looking into the last five contests where the Bangladesh team and players showed great efforts.
1 2010 (12) Group Stage Bangladesh played against Australia and Pakistan and lost both matches. Pakistan qualified for the Super-eight rounds with Bangladesh losing the game.
2 2012 (12) Group Stage Bangladesh was in Group D with Pakistan and New Zealand. In the second match, it performed well against Pakistan, but Pakistan won the game with eight wickets and 1.2 overs remaining.
3 2014 (16) Super Ten Bangladesh secured easy wins in the group stage against Nepal, Hong Kong, and Afghanistan teams. But it saw the devastating defeat of four losses against India, West Indies, Australia, and Pakistan in Group 2 matches. Bangladesh hosted the 2014 T20 World Cup.
4 2016 (16) Super Ten Bangladesh performed well against its group stage opponents. Tamim Iqbal scored the first T20I match century for Bangladesh. In Super Ten, it again suffered four losses.
5 2021 (16) Super Twelve Bangladesh won two matches out of three with one loss against Scotland. Shakib Al Hasan of the Bangladesh cricket team became the lead wicket-taker of T20 international games.
Complete List of Championships Played By Bangladesh
The last five tournaments, leagues, etc., played by the Bangladesh cricket team is shared below. TAs you can see, the players and team have improved their game. From being rookies, they are now the up-and-coming underdogs.
Series/ Tournament Season Winner Margin
Bangladesh in New Zealand ODI Series 2020/21 New Zealand 3-0 (3)
Sri Lanka in Bangladesh ODI Series 2021 Bangladesh 2-1 (3)
Bangladesh in Zimbabwe ODI Series 2021 Bangladesh 3-0 (3)
Afghanistan in Bangladesh ODI Series 2021/22 Bangladesh 2-1 (3)
Bangladesh in South Africa ODI Series 2021/22 Bangladesh 2-1 (3)
ICC Men's Cricket World Cup Super League 2020-2022/23 –
Bangladesh Cricket Team, Cricket Match Odds, Cricket Satta Rates, Live Cricket Odds


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The EANI Youth Service, in partnership with Translink and supported by the PSNI & the Policing and Community Safety Partnership are re-launching their very successful awareness raising stall at Newry Bus Station. Targeted information about illegal drugs and new psychoactive substances; so called "legal highs" will be disseminated at peak times (3.30pm -5.00pm) every Wednesday to young people and will also incorporate information on mental health, smoking cessation, sexual health and general well-being. PCSP Chair Cllr Mickey Larkin told Newry Times, "The PCSP is committed to tackling issues around drugs, not only to keep our young people safe, but to promote safer and healthier communities throughout our district." Pauline McQuillan, one of the EANI team who will be delivering the project, stated, "Working with young people on a daily basis around concerns such as drugs and alcohol misuse, mental health etc. and how to deal with them is constantly come up. "Our pilot project earlier this year worked really well and allowed us to promote healthy messages as well as tackling issues around illegal drugs and so called legal highs, so we are delighted to be able to roll out for the full school year." Sergeant Colin Massey, Newry Neighbourhood Police team added, "We welcome and support this initiative particularly in relation to the legal highs, there is a lot of misinformation out there, and this initiative will help tackle that. He added, "It is important that people are made aware that many of these substances may not only be illegal but unsafe; there is a real risk people may be breaking the law and worse that you could take something that is potentially lethal."


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The language of the classroom is entirely English. Students also only speak English with each other.
It is not so much that students study English as an object, but instead conduct their daily lives in English, and so they can have fun while acquiring English.
By coming into contact with English before the end of the Critical Period for language acquisition, without much struggle, students are able to naturally learn to listen to and understand English.
Through phonics instruction, students are able to become strong readers and writers.
In many typical Japanese preschools, it is common for a single teacher to be responsible for a large number of students. Here at Karugamo, small class sizes allow teachers to spend quality time with each individual student and give them the specialized instruction and support they need.
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While this is not yet such a familiar word here in Japan, it could be translated as meaning things like "self-respect," "pride," "self-confidence," and "self-approval." It is difficult to sum up self-esteem in a word, but the best way to put it might be being firmly grounded in your own world and living with confidence in yourself. It is only after developing this sense of self, that children can also begin to recognize others as well. In addition to learning English, self-esteem is a very important thing which will help children become independent.
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Our students love playing outside, going barefoot in the sandbox, playing in the mud, and in the summer time, playing in the water and the pool.
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President Obama Should Have Said: "George Zimmerman Could Have Been Me!"
By Mike Rivage-Seul (Page 1 of 2 pages) 7 comments
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Last Friday President Obama startled Washington reporters and the world by expressing his thoughts about the Trayvon Martin verdict. That decision acquitted George Zimmerman of criminal guilt for killing an unarmed teenager in Sanford, Florida.
In his remarks, Mr. Obama spoke sentimentally of his own experience of racism, and about the dangers of Stand Your Ground laws. He cited the need to consider context in order to understand African-American rage over the Zimmerman verdict. Famously he said Trayvon Martin could have been him 35 years ago.
In fact, the President would have spoken more honestly had he identified with George Zimmerman.
Professor Cornel West (Union Theological Seminary) suggested that in an interview on "Democracy Now." True, he found the Zimmerman verdict disturbing not simply because Trayvon Martin's death went unpunished, but because it revealed what has been termed a "George Zimmerman Mentality." That mind-set shaped by racism, fear, suspicion, and vigilantism has long afflicted our country in general and whites in particular even in this supposedly post-racial era.
More specifically, West charged that Stand Your Ground laws based on States Rights are ultimately aimed at controlling the black community. I would add that they are the modern equivalent of legalized lynching. In practice, the laws permit armed whites who feel themselves threatened by dark-skinned people to shoot those they deem threats to their security. Whites standing their ground have no legal requirement to retreat from the situation even if an escape route is available. The Zimmerman mentality represents lethal violence as a preferred option rather than a last resort.
Ironically, the Stand Your Ground, shoot-first attitude happens to be a key element of Mr. Obama's own drone program. Sharing Zimmerman's attitude of fear and racism, its "signature strikes" have been responsible for the deaths of at least 221 totally innocent dark-skinned children who happened to be nearby when Mr. Obama chose to fire his own weapon at those merely suspected of being or associating with "terrorists." In effect, all of those children were Trayvon Martins who would be alive today had they not been in the wrong place at the wrong time when a man with a weapon perceived a threat from a profiled target.
Such observations made me wonder what key passages in Mr. Obama's remarks would have sounded like if they were slightly altered to substitute references to Muslims, suspected terrorists, and innocent victims of drones for his original words about Trayvon Martin and African-Americans.
With those substitutions key sections of Mr. Obama's text would have read as follows (I have placed my additions in italics to distinguish them from the President's actual words):
"The reason I actually wanted to come out today is not to take questions, but to speak to an issue that obviously has gotten a lot of attention over the course of the last week, the issue of the 221 children I have recently killed by my drone policy. . .
"First of all, you know, I -- I want to make sure that, once again, I send my thoughts and prayers, as well as Michelle's, to the families of the drone victims, and to remark on the incredible grace and dignity with which they've dealt with the entire situation. I can only imagine what they're going through, and it's -- it's remarkable how they've handled it. . .
"But I did want to just talk a little bit about context and how people have responded to it and how people are feeling. You know, when Trayvon Martin was first shot, I said that this could have been my son. On second thought, I would have done better to identify with George Zimmerman. Another way of saying that is that I am George Zimmerman today.
"And when you think about why, in the Muslim community at least, there's a lot of pain around what happened here, I think it's important to recognize that the Muslim community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that -- that doesn't go away. . . .
"And you know, I don't want to exaggerate this, but those sets of experiences inform how the Muslim community interprets what happened one night in _________ (Name the country -- Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia . . .). And it's inescapable for people to bring those experiences to bear. . . .
"Now, this isn't to say that the Muslim community is naive about the fact that Muslim young men are disproportionately involved in resistance to U.S. policy, that they are disproportionately both victims and perpetrators of violence. It's not to make excuses for that fact, although Muslims do interpret the reasons for that in a historical context.
"We understand that some of the violence that takes place in poor Muslim communities around the world is born out of a very violent past in relation to the United States, and that the poverty and dysfunction that we see in those communities can be traced to a very difficult history."
Now the substitutions I've made may strike you as awkward. But I'm sure you get my idea.
The point is that Mr. Obama has no moral ground to stand on in lamenting George Zimmerman's violence or the ridiculous nature of Stand Your Ground Laws. Rather than identifying with Trayvon Martin, the President would have done better to note his similarities to George Zimmerman. Rather than wringing his hands over Stand Your Ground laws, the President should have recognized the identical logic that informs his own drone murders.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It was more of a leg buster, but scientists have named a spiky, tank-like dinosaur that wielded a sledge-hammer tail after the fanciful beast Zuul from the blockbuster film "Ghostbusters" that menaced Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and friends.
The scientists on Tuesday described fossils unearthed in the northern Montana badlands of the four-legged, plant-eating dinosaur called Zuul crurivastator that was about 20 feet (6 meters) long, weighed 2-1/2 tons and lived 75 million years ago.
Zuul belonged to a group of Cretaceous Period dinosaurs called ankylosaurs that were among the most heavily armored land animals ever. They were clad in bony armor from the snout to the end of the tail, often with spikes and a tail club that could be used to smash the legs of predators like the Tyrannosaurus rex cousin Gorgosaurus that lived alongside Zuul.
Zuul is one of the most complete and best-preserved ankylosaur ever found, including rare soft tissue, paleontologist Victoria Arbour of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto said. Its fossils included skin impressions and keratinous sheaths on the tail spikes.
In the 1984 movie, Zuul (pronounced ZOOL) was described as an ancient Near East demigod and appeared as a big, horned, vaguely dog-like monster with glowing red eyes, possessing Sigourney Weaver's body.
The dinosaur's name was inspired by its skull similarities to the head of the "Ghostbusters" monster, Royal Ontario Museum paleontologist David Evans said.
"The skull of the new dinosaur has a short, rounded snout, gnarly forehead, and two sets of horns projecting backwards from behind the eyes, just like Zuul," Evans said.
Aykroyd, the Ontario-born "Ghostbusters" star and co-writer, appeared in a video released by the museum alongside the dinosaur's skull, holding a photo of the movie beast.
"We're so honored that the Royal Ontario Museum would accord the name of this magnificent creature with the appellation that we called our 'terror dog' in the movie, and that is Zuul, Z-U-U-L," Aykroyd said.
The dinosaur's tail, about 10 feet (3 meters) long, was an intimidating defensive weapon.
"The menacing, spiked tail of Zuul is by far the coolest part of the animal," Evans said. "It has a wicked series of large spikes at the base of the tail, then a series of elongated, peaked spines that run the length of the tail club, and it ends in a massive, expanded club."


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Nigel Vaz to succeed Sarah Golding as IPA president
By Rebecca Stewart-06 December 2018 18:00pm
Vaz will pick up the mantle from Goulding
Nigel Vaz, chief executive EMEA and APAC for Publicis.Sapient, is to succeed Sarah Golding as the president of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA).
Vaz will pick up the mantle from Golding, who is chief executive and partner at The &Partnership, when her two-year term comes to an end in March.
Having been at the helm of Sapient for close to two decades prior to its acquisition by Publicis Groupe, Vaz took on an expanded remit at the network in 2017, stepping into the role of global business transformation lead for its member executive committee. He is also on the board of The Marketing Society.
Vaz has been an elected member of the IPA Council since 2012 and is a contributor to its conferences and events. He will outline his agenda for the following two years at the IPA's president's lunch in May 2019.
"It is a real honour to be chosen as the next president of the IPA, and I look forward to building on the extraordinary work of my predecessors in championing our industry and its impact in the world," said Vaz.
"Wherever we look today, we see rapid and fundamental change affecting consumers, economies and culture, clients and our own businesses. The creativity and the technologies that help us to unleash that creativity will be vital to helping navigate that change – and the role and work of the IPA in ensuring we are fit and ready for the opportunity it brings has never been more vital."
Throughout her tenure, Golding chose to focus on 'the magic and the machines' as a theme, stating that she wanted her presidency to create "a new enthusiasm for what machines can do for member agencies".
Under her watch the trade body became more focused on the growing influence of adtech and the impact of online political advertising.
Against the backdrop of the #MeToo movement she also oversaw the rollout of a 'dignity' code of practice for members. The guidelines followed on from revelations that employees at her own firm had a tradition of sending 'top five' memos in which female employees were ranked by their looks, something Golding has since apologised for.
Vaz was chosen to lead the IPA following a formal three-month selection process led by former president Tom Knox, executive partner at MullenLowe London, who headed up the presidential nominating committee.
Paul Bainsfair, IPA director general, said: "I am very much looking forward to working with Nigel to ensure the IPA remains the power behind the practitioners.
"He is a man who encompasses all the skills we need as an industry and who is already a well-known champion for technology and transformation. We continue to live in interesting times and his perspective on world, as well as local, issues will be invaluable as the IPA carves out its global reputation through its thought leading initiatives, professional qualifications and navigates it way through increasingly complex business issues."
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Elections 29.8.2019 09:01 am
DA wins nothing in Free State by-elections, while independents give ANC a bloody nose
Charles Cilliers
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The ANC's Free State stronghold areas may not be quite as solid any more.
Despite heavy campaigning from the DA, including from the leader of the party Mmusi Maimane, over the weekend in by-elections in 15 Maluti-a-Phofung municipality wards, they came away with nothing to show for it.
The area is known for the towns of QwaQwa and Harrismith.
However, it was hardly plain sailing for the formerly dominant ANC either, with 10 of the 15 wards being won by independent candidates and the ANC only retaining five in this area of the Free State. They had formerly run them all.
Some reports on social media suggest that the EFF also won a ward, but the results on the Independent Electoral Commission of SA's website did not confirm this (see PDF below).
The independent candidates were formerly members who were part of a group of 16 councillors who were expelled by the ANC for voting with the opposition in the removal of former executive mayor Vusi Tshabalala, according to a report by Town Press.
They also report that a party called the Heavenly Economic and Political Freedom Programme (HEPFP) threatened to apply for an urgent court interdict to stop the elections from going ahead due to alleged electoral fraud.
The contest for the 15 wards involved 89 candidates from six political parties, and 16 independent candidates.
You can see all the results in the document, according to the IEC, below.
Maluti a Phofung by-election results by Charles Cilliers on Scribd
On Saturday, while campaigning in the area, Maimane was stinging in his criticism of what he characterised as failed economic initiatives in the municipality.
He said that it was clear that unemployment was harming the area's 400,000 residents, who had been failed by unrealised plans in a "special economic zone".
He said that the Tshiame Special Economic Zone was not far from where they were, "where various ANC 'launches' have made more empty promises about jobs".
"But because the municipality cannot sustainably supply water and electricity, nothing has come of this project.
"Sixteen factories in the Harrismith area turned to the courts to stop Eskom cutting the electricity supply, which put as many as 10,000 jobs providing for 50,000 people at risk. The situation is so dire that the community has been managing the water supply to the Greater Harrrismith Area since November last year."
He said there was no evidence on the ground of President Cyril Ramaphosa announcing in his state of the nation address this year that the industrial area had been "revived".
"The ANC government have been at the centre of this jobs crisis in a municipality that has only ever received a disclaimer from the Auditor-General. That means that in almost 20 years since 2001, no opinion has been given regarding the financial statements of the municipality.
"Under the reign of Mayor Vusi Tshabalala, the administration was reduced to a conduit for theft, misappropriation and fraud. This looting was so severe that by the time the municipality was placed under provincial administration in February last year, the administration was bankrupt with not much left to salvage.
"This grand heist of the municipality continues to be fuelled by a factional war over services meant for the people. It is like a pack of hyenas fighting over the scraps of a carcass and is a symbol for the looting that continues to plague the rest of the country.
Maluti-a-Phofung had since been placed under national administration. The situation had deteriorated, with the municipality now owing Eskom R4.5 billion.
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Without four of the planned starting offensive linemen, Vikings are still trying to grow together on offense.
MINNEAPOLIS -- The offensive-line injury woes for the Minnesota Vikings took two more hits during Saturday's loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Minnesota was already without center Pat Efllein (on the physically-unable-to-perform list), left guard Nick Easton (lost for the season after neck surgery), right guard Mike Remmers and right tackle Rashod Hill. Remmers could be close to returning after practicing on a limited basis this week and Hill rolled his ankle during practice.
The Vikings then lost Cedrick Lang and Josh Andrews to injuries during the game. Coach Mike Zimmer said Cedrick Lang is having surgery. Lang had an aircast on his right ankle as he was carted off. Andrews also sustained an ankle injury.
"Well, we've got to get on the stick here pretty quick," Zimmer said of the offensive line shuffling. "I think Remmers will be back next week, which will be good. I think Elflein has a chance to get back here pretty soon, that will help. I don't know about Rashod yet. So, we'll see.
"But, yeah, it's tough. We're not the only ones in the league to be having these issues, I'm sure. We just have a few more than we should have at this point in time. It's life."
Center Cornelius Edison played most of the game, returning after Andrews went down. Danny Isidora has practiced both sides at guard and Aviante Collins played guard and tackle in Saturday's game.


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För Ugglarp utanför Trelleborg, se Ugglarp, Trelleborgs kommun.

Ugglarp är en ort i Eftra distrikt (Eftra socken) i Falkenbergs kommun. Orten var före 2015 klassad som en småort och räknas från 2015 som en del av tätorten Långasand och Ugglarp. Orten ligger vid kusten söder om Falkenberg och är en så kallad sommarort, då de flesta husen är sommarstugor.
Precis invid Kustvägen i Ugglarp ligger Svedinos Bil- och Flygmuseum.

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Orter i Falkenbergs kommun
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Travis Dean and Andrew Fekete added to Victorian JLT Cup Squad
Category: Victorian Cricket Team, Victorian Men's Cricket Team,
Victoria has made two changes to its 14-player JLT One-Day Cup squad ahead of a Qualifying Final in Sydney this week.
Batsman Travis Dean and fast bowler Andrew Fekete coming into the squad in place of Mackenzie Harvey and Wes Agar respectively.
Dean was named in the original 14-player squad at the start of the tournament and was Victoria's highest run-scorer at last year's JLT Cup tournament with 270 runs including a century.
After moving to Tasmania in 2013, Fekete has recently moved back to Victoria to continue his career with the Camberwell Magpies in Victorian Premier Cricket.
Fekete has been training with the Victorian squad during the pre-season, and originally made his List A debut for the Vics back in 2012.
Victoria will play a Qualifying Final this Thursday against New South Wales at Drummoyne Oval from 2:00pm. The match will be broadcast on FoxCricket (501).
The winner of the match will advance to the Semi-Final against Western Australia at the CitiPower Centre, Junction Oval on Sunday, October 7.
Victoria 2018 JLT One-Day Cup Squad
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Peter Handscomb (c)
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MATCH REPORTS - AUGUST 2020
Tuesday 1st September 2020 Merstham FC 1 Tooting & Mitcham 0
In a hard fought, physical contest, the Terrors narrowly lost out to Merstham last night as they continued their pre-season campaign. Whilst Tooting had plenty of possession during the game, they failed to create too many clear cut opportunities.
The only goal of the contest went to the home side in the 53rd minute after a defensive slip on Tooting's left hand side allowed the ball to be crossed from close to the bye line, to be met by the head of Bobby Mills, who netted, unchallenged, from close range. Merstham could have doubled their lead just two minutes later however 'keeper Gary Ross somehow managed to keep out EJ Mensah's point blank range header, with his feet. FT Merstham 1, TMUFC 0
TMUFC line up: Gary Ross (James Shaw 68), Nathan Daly, Sinn'kaye Christie, Ahkeem Belford (dean Hamblin 68), George Ademiluyi (Abz Sahnoun 78), Jamarie Brissett (Mo Sahnoun 78), Daryl Coleman (Noah Kelo 78), Mark Waters, Kelvin Adjei (Dontai Stewart 62), Duncan Culley (Jake Rose 62), Levi Phillips (Danny Williams 62)
Saturday 22nd August Three Bridges 2 - 3 Tooting & Mitcham
Tooting made it three wins from three in pre-season after coming back from behind twice to snatch victory with a performance that was more gritty than pretty, as they took on a strong and well organized Three Bridges side this afternoon in their toughest test of the summer so far.
It was the hosts, with three former Terrors in their squad today in the shape of Lee Hall, Troy Williams and Jordan Wilson, who had the better of the opening exchanges and took the lead on 21 minutes with a long range effort that flew across the angle of the penalty area and into the top left corner of keeper James Shaw's goal. Tooting hit back quickly though and were back on level terms just seven minutes later. The goal came following some good work down the right hand side from Dan Williams and Jamarie Brissett. Brissett's deep cross found Mark Waters, whose downward header from around 10 yards out, eluded everyone as it bounced into the back of the net. HT: Three Bridges 1, TMUFC 1
There was an earlier than expected change to the Terrors line up in the second half as just a couple of minutes after the re-start, Kladji Cani limped out of the game to be replaced by Dontai Stewart. There were further changes to the line up on 52 minutes as Abz Sahnoun replaced his twin brother Mo and there was a further taste of senior action for youngster Pharrell Mensah who took over one of the central midfield spots from goalscorer Mark Waters. Unfortunately for Tooting, just two minutes after the substitutions, some poor defending saw the hosts once again edge their noses in front. On 62 minutes, there were three further changes to the Terrors' line up as Dan Williams, Sinn'kaye Christie and James Shaw were all replaced with Kelvin Adjei, Levi Phillips and Gary Ross all taking the field. On 68 minutes it was one of those substitutes, Kelvin Adjei, who drew the Terrors level once again as he ghosted in at the near post to guide the ball home from a Dontai Stewart corner. With both teams making multiple substitutions, it was the Terrors who were now finishing the game the stronger and with just three minutes of the ninety remaining, it was another of the replacements who snatched victory for Tooting as Levi Phillips reacted quicker than any of the home defenders, following a great double save by the Three Bridges 'keeper, to poke the ball home from about 7 yards out. FT: Three Bridges 2, TMUFC 3
TMUFC lineup;
James Shaw (Gary Ross 62), Dean Hamblin (Hamzah Williams 69), Sinn'kaye Christie (Levi Phillips 62), Nathan Daley (Ahkeem Belford 69), Jamarie Brissett (George Ademiluyi 69), Mo Sahnoun (Abz Sahnoun 52),
Daryl Coleman (Nathan Daley 88), Mark Waters (Pharrell Mensah 52), Jake Rose (Sinn'kaye Christie 75), Danny Williams (Kelvin Adjei 62), Kladji Cani (Dontai Stewart 47)
Tuesday 18th August Tooting & Mitcham 2 Tooting Bec 1
Tooting were in pre-season action again on Tuesday evening, once again taking on Combined Counties League opposition, this time in the shape of our friends and tenants from Tooting Bec .
If The Terrors thought they were in for an easy ride though following Saturday's comfortable victory over Chessington & Hook, they were very much mistaken as they made hard work of trying to overcome a well organized and determined opposition.
After about a quarter of an hour there was a guilt edged chance for Kelvin Adjei to put the Terrors in front however he dragged his effort across the face of goal and wide of the far post from a difficult angle. Tooting did take the lead though after 20 minutes when Kladji Cani ended up in a chase with the Bec substitute 'keeper for a through ball. The Bec 'keeper appeared to get there first but miscued his clearance leaving the Tooting striker with the simple task of steering the ball into an empty net. Despite plenty of possession and pressure The Terrors were unable to add to the score before the break, HT: Tooting Bec 0, TMUFC 1
Tooting doubled their lead on 56 minutes when new boy Jake Rose struck home from the edge of the box however as had been the case in the first half, The Terrors were unable to capitalize further on their advantage. In fact the last quarter of an hour of the match probably belonged to the Combine Counties side as they pulled a goal bacon 75 minutes with an unchallenged header at the near post from a free kick out on their right hand side. They continued to press for the equalizer throughout the remainder of the game however the Terrors held on for the narrow victory.
TMUFC line up; Gary Ross (James Shaw 61), Dean Hambin (Nathan Daley 61), Sinn'kaye Christie (Dean Hamblin 75), Ahkeem Belford, Billy Brown (Abz Sahoun 70), George Ademiluyi (Mo Sahnoun 70), Daryl Coleman (Dontai Stewart 61), Jake Rose (Dominic Odusanya 66), Mark Waters (Daryl Coleman 75), Kelvin Adeji (Danny Williams 66), Kladji Cani
Saturday 15th August Chessington & Hook 0 Tooting & Mitcham 6
Some six or seven weeks later than usual, The Terrors finally kicked off their pre-season schedule with a game against Combined Counties League side, Chessington & Hook; a game played on their training pitch at Chalky Lane, and as dictated by current Government and FA guidelines, a game like all pre-season friendlies scheduled for August, played behind closed doors.
Tooting, led by newly appointed Club Captain, Daryl Coleman, got off to a solid enough start against a physically strong and battling Chessington side, who also showed that they could pass the ball too when the opportunity arose. Tooting found the back of the net as early as the 14th minute however Daryl Coleman's excellently struck free kick from just outside the box was ruled out by the referee as a Tooting player had attached himself to the end of the defensive wall, something that's not been permitted since the beginning of last season. Tooting found the net again on 28 minutes when Danny Williams poked the ball home from close range but once again the effort was ruled out, this time for offside, following some good work down the left hand side by Jamarie Brissett. A minute later though The Terrors finally went in front with a legitamate goal after Danny Williams had shrugged off a challenge to set up Duncan Culley who struck the ball home from inside the penalty area. In less than two minutes, Tooting had doubled their lead, this time, the goal coming as a result of a superb strike from Jamarie Brissett which flew past everyone and into the back of the net. Whilst this put the hosts on the back foot, they had an excellent opportunity to bring themselves back in the game after Abz Sahnoun had given the ball away down Tooting's right hand side. Fortunately, fast improving young centre back, Ahkeem Belford, was on hand to make the goal line clearance. Two minutes from the break, Dan Williams once again showed his strength with a great solo run and finishing shot from the edge of the box to give the Terrors a 3-0 advantage at half time. HT: Chessington & Hook 0, TMUFC 3.
Tooting started the second half strongly and 11 minutes in they extended their lead further from the penalty spot after another run from Dan Williams was brought to an end when he was taken down just inside the penalty box. Duncan Culley then stepped up to take the spot kick, sending the 'keeper the wrong and making it 4-0 to The Terrors. The middle period of the second half saw a number of substitutions and Tooting had to wait until the 69th minute before scoring their fifth when Kladji Cani slotted home from inside the penalty area after the Chessington 'keeper appeared to have needlessly given the ball away. As the game came to a conclusion Tooting won themselves a corner out on the left. The ball was struck at pace into the six yard box by Donati Stewart, where it was met by the forehead of centre back Sinn'kaye Christie who powered the ball into the back of the net with what turned out to be the final "kick" of the match. FT: Chessington & Hook 0, TMUFC 6
TMUFC line up;
James Shaw (Morgan Campbell 68), Nathan Daley (Dean Hamblin 58), Sinn'kaye Christie, Ahkeem Belford, Abz Sahnoun (George Ademiluyi 58), Mo Sahnoun (Billy Brown 58), Daryl Coleman (Pharrell Mensah 69), Dominic Odusanya (Mark Waters 69), Danny Williams (Kladji Cani 65), Jamarie Brissett (Dontai Stewart 65), Duncan Culley (Kelvin Adeji 65)


Feedback seems extremely powerful. It is 'among the most common features of successful teaching and learning' with an average effect size of 0.79, 'twice the average effect of all other schooling effects' (Hattie, 2012: pp.115-116). Such meta-analyses are problematic (see, for example, Wiliam, 2016) and more recent reviews have offered lower effect sizes, but the overall picture is clear: 'Good feedback can significantly improve learning processes and outcomes' (Shute, 2008). Anders Ericsson emphasises the importance of feedback and guided improvement in his work on expert performance: 'Deliberate practice involves feedback and modification of efforts in response to that feedback' (Ericsson and Pool, 2016: p.99).
Providing effective feedback is problematic, however. 'While feedback is among the most powerful moderators of learning, its effects are among the most variable' (Hattie, 2012: p.115). Providing feedback successfully is a real challenge: 'Get it wrong, and students give up, reject the feedback, or choose an easier goal' (Wiliam, 2011: p.119). This is illustrated most vividly in Kluger and DeNisi's meta-analysis (1996), which found that studies of feedback showed an average effect size of 0.41, but that more than 38 per cent had negative effects.
Providing effective feedback to individual students is problematic for practical reasons too. Marking is the most common way to provide individual feedback, but there is limited evidence of its effectiveness (Elliott et al., 2016) and it takes an inordinate amount of teachers' time (Gibson et al., 2015). We may limit our marking in favour of verbal feedback, but reaching every student and giving clear verbal feedback may prove challenging during busy lessons. Once we've assessed students' work, there are different ways in which we can guide improvement without giving individual feedback.
Re-teaching allows us to challenge common misconceptions or knowledge gaps collectively and efficiently. We might reiterate definitions or offer mnemonics to support students with declarative knowledge; or we might offer examples, counterexamples and big pictures to support conceptual knowledge (Shute, 2008). While we could repeat our initial teaching, fresh images, examples and metaphors are likely to prove more useful: students who struggled to add using a number line may do better with counters; those confused by their reading about the American constitution may benefit from studying the court cases around President Trump's 2017 travel ban. Students who 'got it' last lesson need not get bored: they'll have forgotten aspects of the lesson and can also offer some of the explanations. Reteaching seems the simplest and most efficient way to approach knowledge gaps and misconceptions without giving individual feedback.
Closing the gap between students' performances and goals may require more (or clearer) knowledge; it may also require clearer goals. Just as we may revisit what we taught students, we may also revisit the models we offered, or provide fresh ones; students can now compare their efforts with the model and better understand where the gap lies. Revisiting checklists may help students identify missing features of their work: punctuation, point sentences or balanced equations. Asking students to revisit the goals through examining one another's work might work, but could prove unpredictable – the teacher's choice of a model in advance is likely to prove more productive. Revisiting goals allows students both to improve the work at hand and to understand better what good work looks like in the subject.
We may also help students revise how they can change their work to meet these goals. We can do this by modelling the process of improvement – providing demonstrations and worked examples to show what students can do to their work (Shute, 2008). Taking a student's answer, or a weak example of our own, we could model rewriting a paragraph or solution on the board. By asking students to 'suggest another way we could put this, even more clearly' or 'remove unnecessary words', we can model both the kind of sentences or components, and the kind of changes which create an excellent product. Demonstrating how we improve work both shares a process students can follow and further clarifies our goals by showing the choices we make and the difference between a good and a beautiful sentence.
Knowing exactly where students are at is important. It doesn't mean we have to intervene immediately: students may benefit from further practice, perhaps even without error correction. I have written about times when lower student performance can lead to greater learning (Fletcher-Wood, 2017); Josh Goodrich noted, as a response, that teachers skilled in formative assessment can use this to keep tight control of student learning, mistakes and misconceptions. The result can be that students never get the chance to struggle, as teachers address misconceptions immediately without allowing students to do the thinking which may lead to longer-term learning. This is supported by Kluger and DeNisi's (1996) observation that feedback 'may reduce the cognitive effort involved in task performance' and so be 'detrimental in the long run'. As Goodrich observes, if we don't allow students to struggle, although it can appear that students are doing well, this may harm their longer-term retention. This is not an easy message to convey – particularly to observers – but it is an important one: rapid feedback, particularly after students have acquired the knowledge they require, may diminish learning; sometimes, more practice is the best thing for students.
Each of these approaches might usefully be combined with individual feedback: teachers often revisit what students are aiming for before asking them to act on feedback, for example. What I'm wondering is whether we can achieve similar results (better work, better learning) without individual feedback. I've not seen any study comparing delivery of the same feedback to a group and an individual. One possible disadvantage would be students treating group activities as irrelevant to them (through over- or under-confidence). The responses we ask of students after using the techniques above – such as redrafting, further practice or another check for understanding – are therefore particularly important. Conversely, these approaches allow us to provide far clearer and more detailed guidance than we could possibly provide each individual: we can plan one good five-minute explanation, rather than attempting to convey these ideas in 30 individual comments. Of the many ways to guide improvement, perhaps these approaches can save us the most time while also benefiting students.
This is an extract from Responsive Teaching: The Classroom Teacher's Guide to Formative Assessment, to be published in 2018.
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Healthcare technology start-up Practo Technologies Pvt. Ltd has pruned its workforce by about 10% even as the company is exploring new revenue engines by partnering with insurance firms, medical devices manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies.
The company said in an email response on Friday that it let go off 150 of its 1,500-odd employees.
"Yesterday, 150 of our colleagues left the company to pursue opportunities outside. This is a combination of natural redundancies that emerge as we integrate our 5 acquisitions and evolve our businesses, as well as the performance required for the next phase of Practoâ??s growth. In line with our policy, we provide employees with two monthsâ?? pay, employment and outplacement services to help them find them their next great opportunity. We continue to rapidly grow our consumer and enterprise businesses and will continue to hire talent across the board," a company spokesperson said in an email response.
Practo has raised $179 million since its inception in 2008, making it by far the most well-funded home-grown healthcare start-up. The company counts Sequoia Capital, Matrix Partners, Tencent Holdings Ltd, Sofina, Altimeter Capital, Google Capital, RSI Fund, owned by Japanâ??s Recruit Holdings Ltd, New York-based Thrive Capital and Russian venture capital firm ru-Net as investors.
During its last fund-raise, a $55 million round in January this year, Practo was valued at $600-650 million.
The Economic Times reported the development earlier in the day.
Currently, Practo allows consumers to search for doctors and diagnostic labs, book appointments, consult doctors online and order medicines. The company claims to have facilitated 45 million appointment bookings in FY17. As many as 7 million health records were shared on its platform during the same time.
A huge consumer traction, however, does not necessarily translate into revenues. The company earns revenue from a suite of software for doctors, clinics, hospitals and diagnostics labs on a software-as-a-service model apart from letting institutions advertise on its platform. Consumers donâ??t pay for searches and appointment booking, while listing on Practo is free for doctors.
In the year ended 31 March 2016, Practo clocked revenue of Rs165.14 crore as against Rs29.73 crore a year earlier. Net sales stood at Rs156 crore. Losses widened to Rs64.61 crore from Rs12.85 crore a year earlier, according to documents available with the Registrar of Companies.
About Rs133 crore of sales came from Practo Pte, the Singapore-based company that holds about 93% stake in Practo Technologies, for providing "software development and support services", as against Rs23 crore a year earlier. This implies that actual business revenue grew four times to Rs23 crore as against Rs6 crore in FY15.
Practo aims to develop a platform with multiple stakeholders on board that will not only facilitate real-time exchange of information and health records between patients and healthcare providers, but also help businesses such as insurance firms, medical device makers and pharma companies expand their user base as well as gain intelligence on consumer behaviour by leveraging Practoâ??s consumer traction.


While Cultural Chromatics is my full time blog home, I also write for other sites including Brit + Co. Brit + Co is where my blogging skills were honed, so I'm happy that I can still write for them as a contributor. In celebration of Valentine's Day, I created these Valentine's Day Drunkin' Donuts that I really wanted to share with you. I later created a donut CAKE (yes, cake!) for a Valentine's Day shoot that I'll be sharing in a few days.