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By Brendan Moffett , written on September 29, 2020
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Making Derbyshire the UK's sustainable tourism hotspot
Brendan Moffett, the University of Derby's Director of Contemporary Hospitality and Tourism, lays out a vision of Derbyshire's potential to blaze a trail as a sustainable visitor destination.
The best connected tourism product
The emerging ambition for a 'green revolution' to support a more productive and inclusive economy in our region is a really exciting development.
Indeed, across the country, a strong national narrative to support rural productivity and areas of natural beauty, has been gathering momentum, most notably the Glover Review 2019
The review calls for radical plans for England's National Parks, closely aligned to the D2N2 Local Industrial Strategy ambition for the Derby and Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire local enterprise area, "utilising natural assets to achieve clean, inclusive and productive ambitions and promoting them as key visitor destinations".
Our region certainly has the opportunity to harness its globally significant assets, such as the Peak District National Park and Chatsworth House, to become the 'most sustainable, connected tourism product in the UK'.
As a member of the Derbyshire County Council Visitor Economy Recovery Group this is all very encouraging to see.
'The Visitor Economy' is a place-centred concept concerned with the whole environment where visitors, locals and tourists interact.
It focuses on the elements that attract visitors, the infrastructure that supports their visit, and the services provided to them during their visit.
Delivering such a truly 'place-based solution' will only be possible by aligning all key stakeholders at the destination level.
Supporting 'good growth'
However, one of the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic has been a significant increase in 'staycations' and while this is a much needed boost for our communities and businesses reliant on visitors, we will need to consider how this new dynamic can be managed to protect the natural environment.
A 'Sustainable Tourism Development' approach will enable the region to retain the economic and social advantages of tourism, while reducing or mitigating any negative impacts on the natural, cultural or social environment. This is becoming more important as we seek to deliver the 'good growth' needed to support the UK's commitment to bring all greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050.
The University of Derby is keen to help shape a shared ambition with stakeholders in the region to make this a reality.
Much excellent work is already underway by Peak District National Park Authority, Derbyshire County Council and D2N2 to develop sustainable travel projects that can secure the funding to reduce the reliance on carbon.
These include the better integration of modes of transport, modal shift from extensive car usage and the development of new green infrastructure for electric vehicle charging.
Highway improvements will also be required to better connect with enhanced cycling and walking networks that support 'active travel'.
The PDNPA Corporate Strategy outlines a strong ambition to enhance the visitor experience by developing 'Recreation Hubs' to facilitate better demand management of visitors.
Further re-enforcing the region's aspirations to be a sustainable tourism leader, the University is working in partnership on the pioneering Gateway at Peak project.
Tourism zone 'test-bed'
One of the key aims of the project is to become an exemplar for sustainable tourism, by managing visitor flows and facilitating access to the Park in a safe and environmentally friendly way, offering park and ride facilities and reducing traffic and congestion.
The D2N2 area is the perfect test-bed for a 'Tourism Action Zone' – the concept highlighted as a driver of sustainable tourism growth in the Tourism Sector deal (2019).
The creation of such a zone would bring businesses and local organisations together to establish a coordinated strategy for growth in the D2N2 visitor economy, building on the excellent work being undertaken by Marketing Peak District and Derbyshire on the ERDF 'Delivering a World Class Visitor Economy Within Derbyshire' project.
This scheme is helping to improve the quality and productivity of visitor economy businesses in the area and the new £10 million Kickstarting Tourism package recently announced by the Minister for Regional Growth and Local Government, Simon Clarke MP.
Combining heritage and innovation
The University of Derby is a strong advocate for an approach which combines our unique heritage and cultural assets with the innovative thinking of leading stakeholders, as well as a dynamic SME community to fully embed sustainability into our visitor offer.
Alongside this, we are keen to utilise the DE-Carbonise ERDF project to support SMEs in the sector with carbon reduction audits and grants to support the adoption of renewable energy, resource efficiency and waste reduction. Broad uptake of this support will further enhance the area credentials as a 'sustainable tourism destination'
Tomorrow's visitor will increasingly make decisions about where and how they travel, what they buy and consume based on the environmental and community impact, leading to a preference for locally sourced products and authentic experiences.
For further press information please contact the Corporate Communications Team on 01332 593419, pressoffice@derby.ac.uk or @derbyunipress
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I really love this show and I don't think it gets nearly the attention it deserves. It was always overshadowed by Game of Thrones, Mad Men, and Breaking Bad. It certainly has its slow moments, I loved its quiet nature and attention to detail. The series finale is incredibly haunting to me as well. I also had some issues with the political wheeling and dealing and character motivations at times. Not that any of it was unsubstantiated or out of character, I just had a hard time keeping track of the player's allegiances and such. A really great series!


Well, that was the third wretched England performance in a row – and to think some people have been predicting we'll win the World Cup. Pigs might fly: As I've said before, we'll hit the quarter finals then get knocked out either on penalties or by a team with better coherence and tactical nous than us. Not that I'm a pessimist or anything, but I've been watching World Cups/European Championships since the early 1980s, and that's an opinion based entirely on reality.
Anyway, it's a good job we don't pay to watch them week in, week out, isn't it?
With any luck our boys will return injury free, and once they've reintroduced themselves to one another after all these weeks away, they'll need to get back to earning their daily bread.
In the meantime, an erstwhile cricket dunce like me has gone Ashes potty – and I'm going to turn my attentions to that. I've even bagged a ticket for Monday (if it happens – that's cricket for you). And it's only £10. Football, are you listening?


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Beth Am Israel gets ready to celebrate its 90th anniversary on Oct. 18.
The celebration at Beth Am Israel marking its 90th anniversary will be going on for a full year.
They'll commemorate a congregation that has somehow managed to hold together despite attrition, changing demographics, a dwindling economy and other obstacles that could've marked its demise. They'll celebrate their rich litany of rabbis, law professors and other top-level professionals who've helped build the synagogue — literally — from the ground up.
"This all started with an overall view of celebrating the community and its history," said Margie Yavil, co-chairman — along with her younger brother, Dr. Bob Steiner — for their upcoming 90th "reunion" on Oct. 18, and everything that will follow. "We wanted to honor the past, celebrate the present and plan for the future.
But no matter how you add that up, it doesn't come to 90. In fact, back in 2007, Beth Am Israel had a big 80th anniversary celebration. So celebrating the big Nine-Oh just eight years later doesn't compute.
Which is not to say the synagogue and the people who've kept it going all these years don't have something worth celebrating. In fact, the story of Beth Am Israel is an inspirational one.
"It almost mirrors the Jewish community in general," said Steiner, who grew up and was Bar Mitzvahed at the old Cobbs Creek location, which lasted until they moved to Penn Valley in 1972. He subsequently moved to California, but has since returned and reconnected.
"It was a beautiful synagogue in West Philadelphia where just about everyone belonged," continued Steiner, who notes that the building — since converted to become the home of Bethany Baptist Church, meaning they didn't have to change much of the lettering — still exists. "It was almost like a village within a community. The rabbi, Morris S. Goodblatt, was a very charismatic individual and there was a lot of warmth and feeling there.
But Beth Am Israel refused to go away. Perhaps it was because of people like the Cutlers. Leonard Cutler recalls his grandmother bringing him along to a Bar Mitzvah when he was only 7 or 8. From then on he was hooked, attending Hebrew school and getting Bar Mitzvahed, later becoming a member of Boy Scout Troop 195, which held regular Thursday night meetings at the shul.
That means they were here when Beth Am Israel left West Philly and resettled in Penn Valley, where it remained in a location literally still a part of its current 2004 site situated in a different part of the same lot. One of the charms of the place is they didn't leave the past behind, taking the heavy, oak-paneled doors from the ark — along with the chairs from the bimah — with them. They're all prominently displayed, along with all those confirmation class pictures and other relics.
"When I look at those doors upstairs and the other things that came from the original building, I feel so much at home," said Margie Yavil, who, like her brother, left the area for a number of years. "I feel comfortable here.
But this wasn't home for Rabbi David Ackerman, who grew up in New York.
"I was friendly with Rabbi Marc Margolius, who was here before me," said Rabbi Ackerman, who spent 15 years at Tifereth Beth Israel in Blue Bell before coming to BAI. "A number of times, I heard him talk about the history of this community and the way in which the synagogue at 58th and Warrington was really the anchor for the Jewish community.
"He shared that in context with the idea that's what synagogues would aspire to, even in a different time, I completely agree.
"I think that's exactly the kind of community we want, where people find the old furniture and their 7-year-old picture on the wall and show that to their grandchildren.
So even if the numbers don't add up, that's what they'll be celebrating at Beth Am Israel this year. A congregation that has become modernized and youthful — currently at 390 families, after once sinking down into the low 100s… A congregation with a promising future, yet with a loving connection to its past… A congregation with an open mind toward how religious its members want to be.
Ackerman says it doesn't get any better than that. "That's a great legacy and I'm a lucky rabbi," he said. "I get to work with engaged, committed, dynamic and caring people who share a similar vision and goal.


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Dramatic growth, interdisciplinary research, and offering "boutique education at scale"
By Molly Sharlach
Jennifer Rexford, chair of computer science and the Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor in Engineering, speaks about growth, research and innovative education in computer science.
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Q. What's new in the culture of computer science, and what makes Princeton distinctive?
A. The computer science department has grown dramatically in response to unprecedented student interest and exciting opportunities for interdisciplinary data science research across campus. Our department has hired 18 new faculty in the past few years, building our strength in four main facets of data science: (i) machine learning methods, including theoretical machine learning, natural language processing and computer vision; (ii) using these methods to accelerate scientific discovery in areas such as genomics, neuroscience and cognitive science; (iii) information technology policy to shape the security, privacy, fairness and ethical implications of our data-driven world; and (iv) the underlying computer and networked systems that collect, store and analyze increasingly large and diverse data sets.
Princeton's computer science department is distinctive in having strengths across all four of these areas, and, importantly, at the boundaries between them. Interdisciplinary research works unusually well at Princeton because of our small, intimate campus — truly an intellectual village — and our stellar sister departments all over campus.
In computer science, seven of our faculty have joint appointments with another part of the university -- two in the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, one in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, one in Psychology, two in the Woodrow Wilson School, and one in Mathematics. Plus, our faculty have strong connections with the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning, the Center for Information Technology Policy and the nearby Institute for Advanced Study. Working within and across departments, our faculty perform research and teaching at the highest level, making fundamental progress on many of the important challenges facing humanity.
Q. Is there a particular research area you would highlight — an example of collaboration between computer scientists and colleagues in other departments?
A. The research that accelerates discovery in science is a great example of Princeton's contributions to data science. For example, computer science professor Kai Li has an exciting collaboration with the Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Intel Corporation to enable real-time analysis of human brains using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data.
In this project, research experiments can, in real time, change the stimulus given to a human subject based on full-brain analysis. These advances enable interactive experiments that were just a pipe dream a few years ago. For example, an experiment could change the tasks given to human subjects based on the brain scans' indications of how well they are concentrating on the task at hand. The techniques enable fundamental discoveries in neuroscience, as well as new ways to diagnose and treat medical conditions. A key innovation was to bring down the time required to analyze the fMRI images by five orders of magnitude (100,000-fold) through advances in computer algorithms (to reduce the amount of computation needed) and computer systems (to complete the computations more quickly on modern computing hardware).
This is just one of many examples of Princeton computer science faculty pushing the envelope on scientific discovery by combining a deep understanding of the underlying science with innovation in algorithms and computer systems. Better yet, this is only the beginning, with the opportunity to transform scholarship in a wide range of disciplines across campus.
Q. How has teaching changed for computer science? What opportunities does the department offer for computer scientists, scientists and engineers, and non-science majors?
A. The most obvious change is the sheer number of students taking computer science courses. COS 126, our interdisciplinary introduction to computer science, is taken by more than half of all undergraduate students on campus. Even our upper-level courses routinely have more than 100 students. Computer Science is the most popular major at Princeton, with more than 10 percent of undergraduates graduating with a computer science degree.
As our faculty has grown substantially in the past few years, we are creating new courses, particularly in data science, and offering existing courses more often to help meet student demand and decrease course size. Students of every stripe are fascinated by the power of computer science to affect so many areas of scholarship and so many professions. Yet, Princeton is rightfully known for the intimate educational experience it offers its students. So, increasingly, the department's challenge is to offer boutique education at scale. We address this challenge in several ways:
To make education more interactive, large courses include many small sections for discussions and hands-on work, introductory courses experiment with video lectures that students can watch on their own time (freeing up classroom time for additional discussions), and independent work seminars allow juniors and seniors to choose from a wide range of timely topics.
To support incoming students with diverse backgrounds, our introductory course (COS 126) has precept sections for students with less prior programming experience. Plus, we run a Summer Programming Experiences program that enables undergraduates to stay on campus over the summer to pursue programming projects with faculty and graduate students. We also support dozens of undergraduate students in attending the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing each year. In addition, our department offers both a B.S.E. and B.A. degree in computer science, as well as an Applications of Computing Certificate, to reach students with a range of interests.
To increase opportunities for faculty to interact one-on-one with students, we create software that automates the more routine aspects of managing large courses. We have a dozen lecturers who help support large courses and create new educational software and programming assignments over the summer, and we hire more than 100 undergraduate students who assist their peers by staffing computer clusters on evenings and weekends and by helping with the grading of programming assignments and problem sets.
We have further growth and innovation coming, and we welcome students from all backgrounds to join us in harnessing computer science to learn, create and serve.
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While Williams Lake's mayor recovers from surgery for a heart attack, one of the six city councillors will be stepping in as acting mayor.
This is Smith's second consecutive term on council.
On Thursday, April 11, the city's corporate engagement officer, Guillermo Angel, put out a press release noting that Mayor Walt Cobb had suffered a heart attack.
Angel noted that Cobb had presented himself to Cariboo Memorial Hospital early Wednesday and was transferred to Kelowna General Hospital for surgery, which was successful.
Angel said he was sure in Cobb's "get 'er done" fashion he will want to be back to work as soon as possible, however, everyone at City Hall wants the mayor to take ample time to recover as needed.


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Dark side of TSP's G fund
Mike Causey@mcauseyWFED
If there was a popularity contest in the government's in-house 401(k) plan, the clear winner would be the special Treasury securities G fund. Thirty-six percent of all the money active and retired feds have in their TSP accounts is in the G fund. Some have everything in it.
During the Great Recession, hundreds of thousands of active and retired feds fled the falling stock market, moving money from the stock-indexed C fund (S&P 500), S...
During the Great Recession, hundreds of thousands of active and retired feds fled the falling stock market, moving money from the stock-indexed C fund (S&P 500), S fund (small caps) and I fund (a limited international markets fund) into the G fund.
Many of them also stopped investing in the stock funds that have since recovered big time. Many of them remain in the G fund waiting for the "right" time to come back into the stock market.
Arthur Stein, a Washington-area financial planner, thinks that many feds who fled the stock market for the "safety" of the G fund have never returned to stocks. They missed out on the recordh-high gains the markets have made in recent years. Many investors have moved into the TSP's millionaire club. The vast majority are long-time TSP investors who stuck with the C and S funds through good times and bad. They enjoyed watching their portfolios grow on paper during good times, like now, and continued to buy stock funds while they were on sale during downturns.
Currently, the G fund has 36 percent of all asset allocations, followed by the C fund (28 percent), the S fund (10 percent), and the F fund (5 percent) and the I fund (4 percent.) Eighteen percent of the TSP's investments are in one of its Lifecycle target retirement date funds.
The G fund is the favorite because it is considered safe. As in, it never has a bad day. On the other hand, it rarely has a good one. Over the last one, three, five and 10 years, the F, C and S funds outperformed the G fund. But as Stein and others point out, the danger of having all or too much of your money in the G fund is that over a long period of retirement, investments into the G fund won't increase purchasing power after subtracting out the negative effects of inflation and taxes.
"There are many types of investment risk," he said. But the only thing provided by the G fund is its total lack of volatility (fluctuations in value) and the guarantee provided by the government. None of the other TSP funds offer those benefits." But that cuts both ways. Very low risk vs. very low returns. To illustrate it, Stein uses this example with something we can all identify with: U.S. postage stamps.
"Historically, using the G fund as a long-term investment exposed investors to a high risk of losing purchasing power. The rate of return for the G (and F) funds was not sufficient to increase purchasing power after subtracting out taxes on withdrawals and inflation, " Stein said using this example:
At the beginning of 1993, Bill, Jack and Mary each have $10,000 in the TSP. They invest their $10,000 in one fund:
• Bill in G
• Jack in F
• Mary in C
Each of them withdraws the same dollar amount annually to buy 2,000 first-class stamps, after paying taxes of 30 percent on the withdrawals.
Why first-class stamps in this example? First-class stamps are unique in one respect; the value (service provided) is the same year after year. Thirty years ago, one first-class stamp was sufficient to mail a letter anywhere in the U.S. The same is true today. So first-class stamps are a good proxy for inflation.
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Result: Even though an equal dollar amount is withdrawn from each fund each year, the G fund is exhausted in 2009 and the F fund in 2010. But the C fund still had a positive balance in December 2016. In fact, the C fund balance was 37 percent higher.
Yes, fluctuations in value (volatility) are much lower for the G and F funds. Unfortunately, the low volatility occurs while the G and F fund values decline to zero.
Few FERS retirees will be able to live on "guaranteed income" (Social Security and annuity) until they die. At some point, expenditures will exceed guaranteed income. Retirees then need to start withdrawing from their investments to supplement permanent income. The investment withdrawals need to last as long as the retiree is alive. That will be difficult to achieve if the purchasing power of the investments is declining.
"Past performance is no guarantee of future performance," Stein said. "But tell me why the G fund is considered 'safe?'"
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Is Sleepaway Camp Right for My Kid?
Considering exploring overnight camps for your children this summer? Two directors share tips to prepare kids for the positive experience of a lifetime.
By Laura Quaglio
If your kids haven't tried sleepaway camp, you're entering uncharted territory for your family. That, however, is not actually a bad thing. "Doing something outside of your comfort zone burns memories that last forever because it won't blend into the background of life," says Michael Richards, founder and executive director of Science Camps of America based in Pahala, Hawaii. When kids spread their wings, they can grow as a person — and become more the person they really are, not limited by the perceptions and history of their classmates or even their own family.
"Campers all enter on this totally equal basis, and they can express their personality without the backdrop of their whole life, their whole history," says Richards, whose camps are for teens aged 13 to 17 who are interested in exploring volcanoes, rocks, forests, oceans, and skies of Hawaii to learn about related sciences like geology, climate, and astronomy. "You can't come to school and reinvent yourself — or even be yourself," he adds. "In the camp, kids can express their personality and no one is going to judge them or say, 'Why did you suddenly change?' I think that gives kids tremendous empowerment."
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Being in a camp environment also helps prepare kids to function as positive and productive members of society during adulthood. At Camp Chrysalis, where kids aged 8 to 17 explore various outdoor environments in California, director Lee Tempkin takes pride in showing campers how "shared leadership" works. "Everyone calls me Lee, though it's clear I'm the leader," he says of his management style. "The staff and I have camp huddles, talk around the campfire, and discuss who would like to give the next camp talk," he says. "Kids see that we are all part of an adult community. That we respect and work with each other and with them." Being in a tight-knit group 24/7, even for a short time, helps kids build stronger teamwork skills and independence, all of which will serve them well when they eventually leave home as a young adult entering the workforce or college.
Still a bit hesitant? Worried if your kid will thrive and if you will survive? Here are some ways to tell whether you and your child are ready … and how to prepare them for a transformative, positive experience.
Think About Their Personality
Richards says that "the vast majority of kids love [overnight camp], even if it is their first time doing it." The kids who do best, says Tempkin, are those who are open, flexible, and positive about new experiences. His camps expose kids to a variety of outdoor activities while living among redwoods, tide pools, marshes, and mountains and learning about ecology and our responsibility for our planet. Kids will get dirty and wet. They'll sleep in tents with other campers and learn outdoor skills. Kids who are accustomed to spending most of their time in an urban area, indoors, or in solo activities may have a tougher time adapting. For them, as well as kids younger than age 8, he says it's better to start with overnights or a weekend getaway at a friend or family member's house. "Summer camp is not the time to have a kid be away from mom and dad for the first time," he says.
Kindness, too, is key. "Kids who are mean to other kids may have a hard time," says Tempkin. Campers will be interacting with each other in close proximity all day (and night) without breaks. Kids don't have to like everything or everyone new, he notes, but they need to appreciate different experiences and different kinds of people.
In a way, this is good news, because it means that bullying is not generally a problem at either of these overnight camps, and probably many others. "Kids are amazingly open about it, and they won't let anyone get away with the slightest bit of it," Richards says. "Maybe because they're not with their usual peer group. They think, 'Let's stop this before it starts.' It's really something to see."
Let Your Child Choose the Camp
Richards says that telling a kid, "you're going here" is one of the biggest mistakes parents make. Of course you won't want to let your child have the only say-so: Sometimes kids don't have the same concerns that you do. And if you aren't comfortable with their pick, your child will sense that, and it might affect their stay. On the other hand, kids will be more invested in having a good time if they are allowed to select a program that excites them.
Some camps offer a range of activities that can include athletics, crafts, survival skills, and so on. Others center on a particular theme, such as a single sport, academic subject, or interest (like soccer, science, or computer coding). "Kids find us because they're interested in science," says Richards. "So they're going to be in a group of like-minded kids. All of a sudden, these kids have that shared enthusiasm, and that makes it a very good social experience." On the other hand, kids who don't have a specific interest may prefer to dabble in a variety of activities, which can help them find a new hobby they'll love. Either way, discuss these different options and be sure your child knows what "their" camp offers.
Encourage Their Independence
At Camp Chrysalis, kids learn to keep track of their gear, their toothbrush, their fork, and so on. They will spend 8 to 12 days at Big Sur, Mendocino, or Sierra. They will hike, swim, and hang out. They also learn camping skills like "how not to damage a tent," "how to sterilize drinking water," and "how to whittle safely." You can help set them up for success by encouraging them to take more responsibility for such items and actions at home. Let them start packing their sports bag or packing their lunch for school. When preparing for camp, have them help you pack their labeled camp gear, too, so they know where everything is located.
At Science Camps of America, Richards likes to give kids as much choice as possible throughout the day, such as which bed to sleep in, which van to ride in, and what topic to debate that evening. If you don't already do so, start encouraging your kids to make more of their own choices when it's feasible.
Another tip: Once they're at camp, leave them be. Both camp directors agree that kids will have a better experience if their parents aren't checking in all the time. In fact, many camps take away tech, though they'll certainly allow phone calls if a child is particularly homesick.
If you miss texting your kids, remember this: Taking that away will free them up to interact with the kids at camp. Richards says he gathers up the cell phones after each camp's orientation. "The kids know that it's going to happen and they're all horrified by the prospect of it, but within a few hours, you've got 20 strangers who are best friends. It's amazing to see how fast they socialize and connect without cell phones to distract them." You can both get accustomed to the idea by easing up on the tech connections at home a bit, too. And if they do phone home, Richards says make sure to tell them you're excited and happy for them. You may feel like you should tell them how much you miss them, but both camp directors agree that this often makes kids feel guilty about having fun, which can inhibit their ability to immerse themselves in the experience.
Do a Bit of Detective Work
Fear of the unknown can be powerful, but it's easy enough to dispel some of it. Richards, for one, believes in finding information that helps kids and parents "envision the environment" and understand what a typical day or week will hold.
"I encourage parents to look at the camp's website with their kids," says Tempkin. "We also have a family night in June, where we show slides. I think it's reassuring to have some of the basic information so it's not so scary for them to go off on their own."
If you like, call the camp and see if a director or staff member can answer your questions. What do the facilities look like? What food will be provided? What will the campers learn? Work with your kids to create a list of things you want to ask.
If you learn something you think the kids won't love, don't withhold the information from them, advises Tempkin. "I'm a believer that kids are people who need to be respected to handle information, especially regarding an experience that is going to be their experience." The more a child knows, the better they can picture themselves there, having a great time.
Talking to other parents can be helpful, too. Ask the camp director for references. Also look for written reviews such as the ones on ActivityHero or on the camp's website.
Ask About Staff Numbers, Age, and Experience
For parents who are worried about their kid getting lost in the shuffle, it's important to look at the size of the camp, says Tempkin. "We divide our campers into four small groups of 8 or 9 kids with 2 staff members, and they eat together and doactivities together on a daily basis, so the staff gets to know the campers really, really well." Richards, too, has a smaller camp, with just 20 kids and 5 staff members per session. "We try to develop a relationship with each kid, one-on-one," he says. "Our motto is: Don't treat them as a group. Treat them as individuals."
Maturity of the staff is important too, says Tempkin. Half of his staff members are adults, not college or high school students. "The maturity of the staff is reassuring for families who have never done camp before," he says. Younger staffers can serve as great role models or mentors, but there must be enough adults available to deal with larger concerns and keep campers on track.
It's also a good sign if some staffers are former campers, since they will know the culture, and they obviously enjoyed their stay when they were kids. Tempkin says that most of his staff grew up attending his camp, and he has known them since they were 8 or 10 years old. "They act as mature mentors who can be a positive factor in the kid's life," he says. "Kids need adults in their lives who are not their parents, especially as they become teens. A good camp can provide those mentors."
Last, ask how long staffers have been with the camp. A low turnover rate means staffers know what they're doing — and they enjoy it enough to return summer after summer.
Talk About How Kids Can Share Their Experiences With You
Kids love to teach their parents, and attending a summer camp offers them a chance to learn new things and then pass them on. Your child can do this by keeping a journal. Kids at Camp Chrysalis write in a "Bear Book." In fact, Tempkin says that this can also help dispel some homesickness because kids know they can always write a letter to home and share it later. They also send a postcard to parents midway through the trip. This is fun for kids, most of whom have never written out a postcard before, and for parents who feel better when they receive even a brief communication.
Another option might be to revisit the locations your child explored and ask them to serve as your tour guide. Richards says that one mom and her son spent a few days in Hawaii after his camp ended, and she phoned a few days later to share how much her son enjoyed showing her around the island. Richards adds, "It gave that boy an opportunity to take what he had learned and teach it to his mother. And as we know, when we teach something, that's when we really learn it." Tempkin has similar stories of campers who became "great tour guides of the areas they've learned about."
As for parents, knowing that our children have surpassed us, even in a small area of expertise, is tremendously rewarding. So when they share, listen closely and ask questions.
In the meantime, go ahead and start making your own list of what you want to do — or where you'd like to go — when your kids are at sleepaway camp. Who knows? Their getaway might be a transformative experience for you, too.
Posted by: Laura Q // Adventure/Outdoors, Biology, Camps, Environmental, Featured Posts, Geology, Hiking, Marine Science, Nature Programs, Science, Sleep away camps // April 22, 2017
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Mass raptor poisoning in Wales: location revealed
Categories: 2012 persecution incidents, 2013 persecution incidents, News and Persecution Incidents in Wales
Tags: Bendiocarb, buzzard, Glanusk Estate, poisoning, red kite
In March 2016, we blogged (see here) about the mass poisoning of raptors in 2012/2013 at an unnamed location in the Brecon Beacons National Park, Powys, Wales.
Our suspicions had been aroused when looking at raptor poisoning data published in two RSPB reports (Birdcrime 2012; Birdcrime 2013). We were very interested in a cluster of incidents (24, to be precise) during this period, all listed as 'Powys' and all involving the poison Bendiocarb. Those 24 incidents included nine poisoned baits and 15 poisoning victims, as follows:
9 x poisoned pheasant baits
2 x poisoned ravens
5 x poisoned red kites
8 x poisoned buzzards
An FoI was submitted to Dyfed-Powys Police to determine whether all these poisoning crimes had occurred at the same location (answer: yes) and whether any prosecution had been forthcoming (answer: no).
We were curious about why there had been no media coverage of this case, it being "the most significant wildlife poisoning incident in Wales and the second highest recovery of poisoned raptors in the UK in the last 40 years", according to the RSPB (see here). We'd suggested that there had been a police 'cover-up', an accusation that Dyfed-Powys Police denied (see here). We still think there was some level of cover-up, not so much with the police investigation per se, but rather with the lack of any subsequent publicity about this case.
Naturally, we were interested in finding out the actual location of this mass raptor poisoning and we firmly believe it's in the public interest that the location is named, but we didn't have much to go on, other than it happened on a pheasant-shooting estate within the Brecon Beacons National Park. A number of blog readers from Powys did contact us privately and each named the same estate, but if we were to publish the estate name we needed much more conclusive evidence than that.
It's taken us a while to get there, and we're not going to reveal exactly how we got there because we know, from past experience, that as soon as we reveal information sources the authorities do their utmost to make access more difficult (e.g. by deliberately withholding data from official reports, see here) but after a series of FoIs and scrutiny of several indirect Government databases, we're now in a position to name the location of the mass poisoning of raptors in 2012/2013 as the Glanusk Estate, Powys.
Glanusk Estate
Glanusk Estate is privately owned and run by Dame Elizabeth Shan Josephine Legge-Bourke, her son Harry Legge-Bourke and his wife Iona Legge-Bourke (see here).
Shan Legge-Bourke was appointed lady-in-waiting to Princess Anne in 1987, was High Sheriff of Powys in 1991, has been the Lord Lieutenant of Powys (the Queen's personal representative) since 1998 and became Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 2015 New Year Honours.
Shan Legge-Bourke's daughter, Tiggy Legge-Bourke, was nanny to Princes William & Harry and worked as a personal assistant to Prince Charles between 1993-1999.
Shan Legge-Bourke's son, Harry Legge-Bourke, is a partner in the management of Glanusk Estate and served on the Board of Natural Resources Wales (the Welsh statutory conservation agency) between 2012-2015 (the same time the mass poisoning of raptors was taking place on Glanusk Estate).
The Queen visited Glanusk Estate in 2012 as part of her Diamond Jubilee celebrations (see here).
Could these strong royal connections explain why Dyfed-Powys Police were so reluctant to publicise the criminal activities taking place on Glanusk Estate? Who knows? Interesting though, isn't it?
Now, we're not suggesting for one minute that the Legge-Bourke family was in any way involved with the mass poisoning of raptors on Glanusk Estate, although it's more than likely that the family would have become aware of what was going on when the police raided the estate in 2013 armed with search warrants and arrested two people (see police statement here).
As far as we can tell, Glanusk Estate offers walked-up grouse shooting (only 3-4 brace at a time – see here) but, like many large, privately-owned estates, the more commercial pheasant shooting is not run by the estate but is managed by an independent company, in this case, Mark Coleman Sporting & Game.
Mark Coleman Sporting & Game
According to the Mark Coleman Sporting & Game website (here), which, incidentally, features the logos of GWCT, Countryside Alliance and the National Gamekeepers Organisation, Mark Coleman operates two pheasant shoots: one at Glanusk Estate and the other at Stoke Edith Estate in nearby Herefordshire.
Stoke Edith is a close neighbour of the Sufton Estate. Some of you may recognise that name. In 2010, an under-gamekeeper from the Sufton Estate was convicted of 17 wildlife crime offences, including the use of Bendiocarb to poison raptors (see here). In the same year, the Sufton Estate Head gamekeeper was convicted of running a cannabis factory on the estate and was sentenced to two years' imprisonment (see here).
Amazingly, according to this article published in Fieldsports magazine: glanusk_fieldsport_article-1, the Head gamekeeper now at Glanusk Estate, employed by Mark Coleman, is someone with the same name as that convicted Head gamekeeper from Sufton Estate. Imagine that! It surely can't be the same person, because, as we're so often told, criminal gamekeepers are not tolerated by the shooting industry, right?
But Mark Coleman employs another gamekeeper who also has a familiar name. According to this Fieldsports magazine article: stoke_edith_fieldsport_article-1, a gamekeeper employed by Mark Coleman on the Stoke Edith Estate shares the same name as a gamekeeper convicted of killing raptors and badgers on a shooting estate in Herefordshire in 2008. Imagine that! It surely can't be the same person, because, as we're so often told, criminal gamekeepers are not tolerated by the shooting industry, right?
We are, of course, in no way suggesting that Mark Coleman or any of his employees had any involvement or knowledge of the mass poisoning of raptors at Glanusk Estate, although, just like the Legge-Bourke family, it's probably fair to assume that Mr Coleman was made aware of these crimes when the police raided Glanusk Estate in 2013 and found the 15 poisoning victims very close to some pheasant pens.
We'd love to know whether the Glanusk Estate and/or Mark Coleman Sporting & Game and/or Dyfed-Powys Police made any effort to warn the 20k guests who visit the annual Green Man Festival at Glanusk Estate about the discovery of poisoned baits and birds found strewn around the grounds.
According to the statement issued by Dyfed-Powys Police (here), the Crown Prosecution Service decided against charging anybody for the mass poisoning of raptors at Glanusk Estate in 2012/2013 because there was insufficient evidence to identify an individual culprit. Whoever did it has got away with it, like so many of these raptor killers do.
But this wasn't just any old raptor poisoning. This was a mass raptor poisoning, the most significant ever uncovered in Wales, and the second biggest discovery of poisoned raptors in the UK in the last 40 years. And it happened on a prominent estate, within the Brecon Beacons National Park, over the period of a year. How can someone get away with that? And how can the authorities get away with keeping quiet about it?
And what about a subsidy penalty for the estate? These poisoning crimes were obviously in breach of cross-compliance regulations, in the same way that the mass poisoning of raptors at Stody Estate (Norfolk) was also a breach, which resulted in a huge financial penalty for the estate, imposed by the Rural Payments Agency (see here).
We've done some digging about a potential subsidy withdrawal at Glanusk and we'll be blogging about that shortly.
Photo of one of the poisoned red kites found on Glanusk Estate, by Guy Shorrock (RSPB)
UPDATE 2 July 2016: Statement from Glanusk Estate here
UPDATE 3 July 2016: Further statement from Glanusk Estate here
UPDATE 4 July 2016: No subsidy withdrawal for mass poisoning of raptors on Glanusk Estate here
NYorks Police decision to caution pole-trapping gamekeeper: where's that review?
Tags: gamekeeper, hen harrier, pole trap
On 1st June 2016, we blogged about the Mossdale Estate gamekeeper who had been caught on film setting illegal pole traps on a grouse moor in the Yorkshire Dales National Park (see here).
Later that day we also blogged about North Yorkshire Police's decision to issue this criminal with a caution rather than refer him to the Crown Prosecution Service to begin a formal prosecution. We argued that, according to the official Police 'cautions' guidelines, the decision to caution in this case was apparently flawed. The offences, to which the gamekeeper had already admitted guilt, backed up by excellent video evidence obtained by the RSPB's Investigations Team, were of such gravity and included all five aggravating factors (and no mitigating factors) as listed in the Police guidelines, that this was a clear case for proceeding to charges and a prosecution (see here).
The Police's decision to issue a caution, and their justification for that decision, resulted in widespread public anger, particularly on social media.
To her credit, Amanda Oliver, North Yorkshire Police Acting Chief Constable (also the newly-appointed Police National Wildlife Crime lead) responded by tweeting the following:
Around the same time, one of our readers sent an FoI to North Yorkshire Police about this case, asking for details about the procedures that were followed to reach the decision to caution this gamekeeper. The response doesn't tell us anything we didn't already know. That blog reader has kindly given us permission to post the Police's FoI response here: NYP_FOI_June2016_pole trap decision
So, it's now 30th June 2016 and a month has passed since we were promised a police review of the decision to caution. Where is it? How long does it take to conduct a review of this nature? It can't take very long, surely? The evidence against the gamekeeper was as good as it gets (unequivocal video footage and a subsequent admission of guilt from the gamekeeper) so the question to be addressed by the review is pretty simple:
Why did the police officer issue a simple caution when the official police guidelines state that a simple caution was inappropriate for these offences?
Let's ask Acting Chief Constable Amanda Oliver when we might expect to see the results of the review. Emails to: amanda.oliver@northyorkshire.pnn.police.uk
Hen Harriers surviving on grouse moors? Not a Chance in hell
The RSPB's Hen Harrier team has today announced the 'disappearance' of yet another satellite-tagged hen harrier.
This time it's a two-year old female called 'Chance', whose last sat tag signal came from a grouse moor in South Lanarkshire at the end of May. The RSPB's Investigations team conducted a search for the body/tag but nothing was found.
Incidentally, this is the same area, dominated by grouse moors, where another sat-tagged hen harrier (Annie) was found shot last year (see here).
As always, this 'disappearance' leads to two standpoints. Without conclusive evidence of a carcass or a dropped satellite tag, the grouse-shooting industry can, and will, suggest that the bird hasn't been killed but rather it's just a sat tag failure and that Chance is probably still alive, and that it was just pure coincidence that the last sat tag signal came from a grouse moor.
Now that explanation might be plausible if it was the first or second time it had occurred, but the thing is, it isn't the first or second time this has happened to a sat-tagged hen harrier. We know from past experience that an awful lot of young, sat-tagged hen harriers mysteriously 'disappear' when those birds have been visiting grouse moors. In fact, the majority 'disappear'. According to Natural England data, we know that of 47 young hen harriers that were fitted with sat tags between 2007-2014, a staggering 78.7% of them 'disappeared'.
And only a couple of weeks ago we were told of another sat-tagged harrier that had 'disappeared' – that was a bird named Highlander whose signal vanished when she was visiting a grouse moor in Durham earlier this spring (see here).
We've also learned, in recent weeks, that some of the methods employed to 'help' hen harriers 'disappear' on grouse moors are still very much in use (see here and here), even though the grouse-shooting industry is supposed to be signed up to DEFRA's Hen Harrier Inaction Plan.
It has been blatantly obvious for some time what has been going on, and with the familiar, predictable news of yet another 'disappearing' harrier on a grouse moor, the picture becomes ever clearer. The Untouchables are still getting away with it.
In the same RSPB blog (here), it has been announced that there is currently a hen harrier breeding attempt at Geltsdale, bringing the total number of known, active hen harrier nests in England this year to three. You might think that's good news, and indeed the RSPB are painting it as such, but let's be honest, three hen harrier nests in the whole of England, where there's suitable habitat for an estimated 330 nests, is appalling by anyone's standard. It's a less than 1% success rate and we don't yet know whether these three nests are even going to be successful.
You might think that the hen harriers have made a safe choice by attempting to breed at Geltsdale – it's an RSPB Reserve and so the birds can expect a very warm welcome from the wardens and volunteers who look after this site. But remember, there was a breeding attempt at Geltsdale last year but it failed after the adult male 'disappeared' while he was off hunting, away from the safety of the Reserve. He was one of five adult males that 'disppeared' from active nests in England last year (see here). And over the years there has been a catalogue of raptor persecution incidents, both on Geltsdale and on the neighbouring grouse moor estates. These incidents, dating back over the last 20 years, include shot hen harriers, shot peregrines, poisoned ravens, poisoned buzzards, poisoned peregrines, poisoned baits, and a poisoned hen harrier.
And even if, against all odds, these three active nests in England ARE successful this year, what chance do the young fledged birds have once they leave these heavily protected sites? Not a chance in hell while driven grouse shooting is allowed to continue and while the authorities continue to turn a blind eye to the criminal activities of the grouse-shooting industry.
If you want to put an end to this carnage, please join 46,000 concerned members of the public and sign this e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting: HERE
Photo of a hen harrier by Gordon Langsbury.
Moorland Association feeling the pressure
Tags: hen harrier, pole trap, shooting
Last week the Moorland Association (MA) went in to full damage limitation mode and sent around an e-newsletter to its members about recent events (e.g. here and here) that, in its view, had damaged the MA's reputation.
It's amusing that the MA still thinks it has a reputation to damage. Newsflash for the MA: your reputation has been in tatters for some considerable time (e.g. see here).
Anyway, back to the newsletter. Mark Avery blogged about it (here) and it's well worth reading his thoughts.
What Mark didn't do was publish the actual newsletter, so we thought we'd do that here: Moorland Association Newsletter June 2016
It's interesting to read just how worried the MA is about all the adverse publicity, especially that generated on social media. For all its public spin and denials and propaganda, behind closed doors the MA is certainly feeling the pressure like never before.
Let's help bring down the curtain on their absurd pantomime – please join 45,000+ people and sign the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting HERE
Goshawks still under threat in Peak District National Park
Categories: 2013 persecution incidents, 2015 persecution incidents, 2016 persecution incidents, News and Persecution Incidents in England
Tags: goshawk, shooting
An interesting blog (here) has just been posted about the tentative success of goshawks this year in the Peak District National Park.
Written by Mark Thomas of the RSPB Investigations Team, the blog documents the appalling persecution of goshawks that has taken place within the boundary of this National Park over the years. It discusses how several active goshawk nests have been visited at night by masked, armed men (an identical tactic has been used to persecute goshawks within the Cairngorms National Park – e.g. see here) resulting in nest failures.
This year, four active goshawk nests have been discovered in the Upper Derwent Valley within the Peak District National Park and three of those are still active, now with recently-fledged young. Another goshawk nest within the NP is known to have failed with all the evidence pointing towards the adults being shot (see here).
Now, some might/undoubtedly will jump on these results (i.e. the three 'successful' nests) and use them to claim that raptor persecution is on the decline within the Park. They'd be fools to do so.
Just because these nests have successfully fledged young, it doesn't mean that those young birds are now safe. Far from it. Cast your minds back to 2010 and another apparently 'successful' goshawk nest in the Peak District National Park. Here is what happened to them:
The above is an excerpt from the Peak Nest Watch 2010 end of season report, which is a(nother) sorry catalogue of raptor persecution involving goshawks and other raptor species within this National Park. The full report can be downloaded here: peak_nestwatch_2010
The RSPB Investigations Team are no fools and their latest blog mentions that their cameras will remain in place at these 2016 nests and monitoring will continue for some considerable time, to find out whether these young birds will be left alone.
As they say, time will tell.
Hands off our Hen Harriers: Picnic at Grimwith Reservoir, Yorkshire Dales National Park
Categories: Henry the Hen Harrier and News
We're told that the picnic/stroll/chat about the lack of Hen Harriers in England this year – 'a tiny handful' (RSPB) – will be held at Grimwith Reservoir car park at midday on Saturday (this Saturday! Saturday 25 June).
It will be nice to meet up with many friends and register our anger at the lack of Hen Harriers in the Yorkshire Dales National Park and elsewhere in the English uplands, and in many parts of the UK uplands.
Grimwith Reservoir car park is large and ideally placed for a stroll around the reservoir to take a look at the grouse butts set into the wall on the far side and the line of butts at the eastern end of the reservoir. There is a clear view (if the weather is OK – surely it will be) across the characteristic chequerboard-pattern of burned heather patches.
Grimwith Reservoir is on the western side of OS Explorer map 298, Nidderdale, at 063641.
See you there perhaps?
Natural England issues impotent gas gun guidance
Last September we asked the statutory conservation agencies Scottish Natural Heritage and Natural England to issue urgent guidance about the use of propane gas guns in the uplands (here). We, and others, were concerned that these devices were being used to prevent hen harriers from nesting on grouse moors.
Both organisations committed to investigating this issue (see here and here) and Natural England promised it would publish this guidance before the start of the 2016 breeding season. It failed to do so.
Meanwhile, further evidence of the (mis)-use of gas guns on grouse moors emerged, this time within a National Park (e.g. see here and here).
SNH then managed to issue some contradictory advice (see here) which left us none the wiser.
Now Natural England has finally responded with this:
Thank you for your email, and my apologies for the delay in replying. I am conscious of the concerns that have been expressed around the use of gas guns on some moorlands in England and we have been keen to clarify the legal position around their use.
In doing this, we have found that their use is much wider than solely in the uplands. As a result, we have worked with Scottish Natural Heritage to develop some guidance, setting out the circumstances when permissions may be required for the deployment of gas guns. This is attached for your information.
We are also in discussion with the grouse shooting industry, to develop some best practice principles for the use of gas guns. The aim is to provide simple advice on their deployment, and help to avoid disturbance to birds nesting on protected sites.
I hope this information is helpful. If you have any further queries, please contact John Barrett at john.barrett@naturalengland.org.uk, and he will be happy to provide further information.
Alan Law
Are you ready to see the 'guidance' that has taken Natural England and SNH nine months to produce? Hold on to your seats, here it is:
In a nutshell, the 'guidance' is: make sure your gas gun doesn't disturb breeding Schedule 1 birds. Oh, and if your grouse moor is part of a SSSI designation, you'll need to ask permission first.
Vicarious liability prosecution: Andrew Duncan (Newlands Estate) part 7
Tags: buzzard, gamekeeper, vicarious liability
Criminal proceedings continued on 17th June against landowner Andrew Walter Bryce Duncan, who is alleged to be vicariously liable for the crimes committed by gamekeeper William (Billy) Dick in April 2014.
Gamekeeper Dick was convicted in August 2015 of killing a buzzard on the Newlands Estate, Dumfriesshire by striking it with rocks and repeatedly stamping on it (see here). Dick was sentenced in September 2015 and was given a £2000 fine (see here), although he is appealing his conviction.
Here's a quick review of the proceedings against Andrew Duncan so far:
Hearing #1 (18th August 2015): Trial date set for 23rd Nov 2015, with an intermediate diet scheduled for 20th Oct 2015.
Hearing #2 (20th October 2015): Case adjourned. November trial date dumped. Notional diet hearing (where a trial date may be set) scheduled for 18th January 2016.
Hearing #3 (18th January 2016): Case adjourned. Another notional diet & debate scheduled for 11th March 2016.
Hearing #4 (11th March 2016): Case adjourned, pending the result of gamekeeper Billy Dick's appeal. Another notional diet scheduled for 4th April 2016.
Hearing #5 (4th April 2016): Case adjourned, pending the result of gamekeeper Billy Dick's appeal. Another notional diet scheduled for 3rd June 2016.
Hearing #6 (3rd June 2016): Case adjourned, pending the result of gamekeeper Billy Dick's appeal. Another notional diet scheduled for 17th June 2016.
Hearing #7 (17th June 2016): Case adjourned, pending the result of gamekeeper Billy Dick's appeal. Another notional diet scheduled for 15th July 2016.
For those interested in gamekeeper Billy Dick's appeal, we blogged about it here.
Vicarious liability in relation to the persecution of raptors in Scotland (where one person may potentially be legally responsible for the criminal actions of another person working under their supervision) came in to force four and a half years ago on 1st January 2012. To date there have been two successful convictions: one in December 2014 (see here) and one in December 2015 (see here). One further case did not reach the prosecution stage due, we believe, to the difficulties associated with identifying the management structure on the estate where the crimes were committed (see here).
Henry's picnic Sat 25 June: Yorkshire Dales National Park
Next week, on Saturday 25 June, whether we have voted Brexit or Remain, there will be a Hen Harrier rally to mark this year's virtual absence of nesting Hen Harriers from the English uplands.
Full details will appear here and elsewhere next Wednesday but we have now been told by the organisers that it will be in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Watch this space.
Case against gamekeeper Stanley Gordon re shot hen harrier Part 2
Tags: hen harrier, shooting
Criminal proceedings continued at Elgin Sheriff Court yesterday against Scottish gamekeeper Stanley Gordon.
Mr Gordon, 60, of Cabrach, Moray, is facing charges in connection with the alleged shooting of a hen harrier in June 2013.
The case continued without plea and the next hearing will be 14th July 2016.
Previous blog on this case here


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The upcoming Vivek Oberoi starrer PM Narendra Modi's trailer has gone missing from YouTube. The film was supposed to hit the theatres on April 11, but has been put on hold by the election commission. Here are the details.
Vivek Oberoi is finally making his comeback in Bollywood with 'PM Narendra Modi' after starring in a lot of southern movies. the upcoming film is a biopic of India Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Besides Vivek Oberoi essaying the main role, the movie also features Zarina Wahab, Boman Irani, and Manoj Joshi. The makers planned to release the film before the Lok Sabha elections. However, The election commission did not let that happen. Directed by Omung Kumar, PM Narendra Modi was supposed to release on April 11 but has been delayed by the EC.
The film is in the headlines again as the trailer has gone missing from YouTube. Yes, you read that right. The viewers are not able to view the trailer on the video streaming giant. The trailer of the controversial biopic released in March, but has now vanished from the internet. In fact, it is not even available through Google search. When you try searching for the trailer of PM Narendra Modi biopic, the top result shows the trailer of the web series Modi: The Journey of a Common Man. Moreover, if we try to write 'Modi biopic trailer', it clearly states that the video is unavailable.
Fans are curious to know is this is the result of Elections commission's order. As they had mentioned, "any poster or publicity material concerning any such certified content, which either depicts a candidate (including prospective) for the furtherance (or purported to further) of electoral prospect, directly or indirectly, shall not be put to display in electronic media in the area where MCC (model code of conduct) is in operation." Talking about puting the release on hold, Vivek said, "Even though our date has been delayed, but we are undeterred. There are powerful people who are standing against us including many renowned lawyers of the Supreme Court. But we are certain that they can delay us, but cannot deter us."


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Brandywine Ballet takes a bite out of WCU with "Dracula"
Just in time for the 31st, Brandywine Ballet got West Chester into the Halloween spirit with their performances of "Dracula" this past weekend.
Based off of Bram Stoker's 19th century novel, the ballet tells the story of the tragic romance between Prince Dracula and Elisabeta. Dracula loses his bride, Elisabeta, to suicide after she assumes he has died in the war. Without her, he turns into a monster, sucking the blood of innocent victims across Europe for four hundred years. His killing spree continues until he happens upon a woman named Mina, who actually turns out to be Elisabeta, his long-lost love. She is engaged to Jonathan, but Dracula remedies this situation by kidnap-ping him. Unfortunately for Dracula, Mina is reluctant to believe that he could have been her lover so long ago. Frustrated, Dracula becomes attracted to Mina's friend, Lucy, and turns her into a vampire. Eventually, Mina understands that the bloodthirsty monster is her old love and persuades him to bite her so she can join him in eternal life. The story ends with Dracula's death; Mina drives a stake through his heart after he is mortally wounded by a group of Jonathan's pals. A tragic, yet beautiful ending leaves the two lovers separated yet again.
Brandywine Ballet told this age-old story beautifully, and with remarkable ease. All of the dancers, from the leads to the ensemble members, deserve an enormous amount of credit for their graceful and breathtaking performances. Tim Early (Dracula), Hannah Telthorster (Elisabeta/Mina), Alex DiMattia (Jonathan), Caitlin Oeste (Lucy), and Joe Cotler and Barrett Powell (Lucy's Suitors), performed their lead roles so skillfully that the audience was led to believe that the dancers were defying gravity at certain moments. Telthorster and Oeste complimented each other perfectly; Telthorster floated across and caressed the stage as the pure and graceful Mina, while Oeste powerfully writhed as Dracula's victim, Lucy.
At times, more than twenty dancers graced the stage. Yet, they never once made the scenes feel crowded or uncomfortable. Their precision in numbers like "Dracula's Creatures," left the audience breathless and contributed to the well-deserved standing ovation at the end of the show.
The elegant costumes, the intricate scenery and lighting, and the powerful music transformed the Emile K. Asplundh Concert Hall into a perfectly eerie setting for a pre-Halloween night of entertainment. Yes, that's right: this wonderful performance took place right here on our campus.
Students might also be interested to learn that West Chester University offers a ballet certificate program. The dedicated and talented participants of this program not only receive an undergraduate degree from the university, but top training from the Brandywine Ballet. Currently, five students are taking advantage of this wonderful opportunity.
The Brandywine Ballet calls West Chester University home for its three seasonal performances each year. The annual performances of "The Nutcracker" will take place on Dec. 7-16 this year. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased online at www.brandywineballet.com or by calling the box office at 610-696-2711. The spring performance is "Grease" and will be showing from May 3-5.
Graciously, the Brandywine Ballet offers WCU students half-priced tickets. Scoop tickets up for "The Nutcracker" right away and be prepared to enjoy a fantastic alternative to a night out on the town. I promise, students will not regret an evening spent enjoying top-of-the-line ballet from a truly fantastic local organization.
Molly Herbison is a second-year student majoring in Spanish. She can be reached at MH757997@wcupa.edu.
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As a book whose point is enhancing the low-carb diet program, Stephen Holt's Enhancing Low Carb Diets provides readers with so much more. The book is anchored on Dr. Robert Atkin's study on low-carb diet, also known as Atkins Diet. It is commendable how, throughout the book, Holt does not fail to give credit to Dr. Robert Atkins and his contribution to the dietary institutions in America, while other authors have copied Atkin's principles without giving him proper credit disregarding the years of research and study it took for Atkins to develop his low-carb diet program. The book, which is partly medical and partly self-help, provides definite goals from the start. For the readers, knowing what to expect in the following chapters helps prepare them for the discussions to come. In this case, the main goal presented is to counter obesity through a healthy approach. The book is designed to guide the readers as they go through each chapter, helping them realize (and even act on) the severity of obesity as a health hazard in modern-day America. Holt utilizes an urgent tone in Enhancing Low Carb Diets, which is effective in highlighting the significance of this subject. The goals he set are also feasible enough for readers to apply to their lifestyles.
Stephen Holt MD, DSc. is a pioneer of Integrative Medicine, best-selling author and medical practitioner in New York State.


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Oxidative stress and antioxidant status in mouse liver: Effects of dietary lipid, vitamin E and iron
Wissam Ibrahim, Ung Soo Lee, Che Chung Yeh, Joseph Szabo, Geza Bruckner, Ching K. Chow
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of dietary fat, vitamin E and iron on oxidative damage and antioxidant status. Male Swiss- Webster mice (1 mo old) were fed a basal vitamin E-deficient diet that contained either 8% fish oil + 2% corn oil or 10% lard with or without 1 g dl-α-tocopheryl acetate. The diets without vitamin E contained either 0.21 or 0.95 g ferric citrate/kg. Diets were fed for 4 wk/kg diet. Compared with the vitamin E-supplemented groups, mice fed diets without vitamin E (with or without supplemental iron) had significantly (P < 0.05) higher hepatic levels of thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances (TBARS), conjugated dienes and protein carbonyls when they were fed fish oil, but not lard. The levels of TBARS were further increased by iron supplementation in the mice fed fish oil. Significantly lower concentrations of α-tocopherol and higher glutathione (GSH) were found in the liver of mice fed fish oil and vitamin E than in those fed lard and vitamin E (P < 0.05). The activities of superoxide dismutase and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase were lower in the fish oil- fed mice than in those fed lard (P < 0.05). The activities of Se-GSH peroxidase, non-Se-GSH peroxidase, catalase, and glutathione reductase were not altered by dietary fat or vitamin E/iron. The results obtained provide experimental evidence of the prooxidative effects of high dietary fish oil and iron, and suggest that vitamin E protects not only lipid-soluble compounds, but also water-soluble constituents, against oxidative damage. Further, dietary lipid plays a key role in determining cellular susceptibility to oxidative stress.
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Ibrahim, W., Lee, U. S., Yeh, C. C., Szabo, J., Bruckner, G., & Chow, C. K. (1997). Oxidative stress and antioxidant status in mouse liver: Effects of dietary lipid, vitamin E and iron. Journal of Nutrition, 127(7), 1401-1406. https://doi.org/10.1093/jn/127.7.1401
Oxidative stress and antioxidant status in mouse liver : Effects of dietary lipid, vitamin E and iron. / Ibrahim, Wissam; Lee, Ung Soo; Yeh, Che Chung et al.
In: Journal of Nutrition, Vol. 127, No. 7, 1997, p. 1401-1406.
Ibrahim, W, Lee, US, Yeh, CC, Szabo, J, Bruckner, G & Chow, CK 1997, 'Oxidative stress and antioxidant status in mouse liver: Effects of dietary lipid, vitamin E and iron', Journal of Nutrition, vol. 127, no. 7, pp. 1401-1406. https://doi.org/10.1093/jn/127.7.1401
Ibrahim W, Lee US, Yeh CC, Szabo J, Bruckner G, Chow CK. Oxidative stress and antioxidant status in mouse liver: Effects of dietary lipid, vitamin E and iron. Journal of Nutrition. 1997;127(7):1401-1406. doi: 10.1093/jn/127.7.1401
Ibrahim, Wissam ; Lee, Ung Soo ; Yeh, Che Chung et al. / Oxidative stress and antioxidant status in mouse liver : Effects of dietary lipid, vitamin E and iron. In: Journal of Nutrition. 1997 ; Vol. 127, No. 7. pp. 1401-1406.
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