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Statement rspb call grouse moor licensing regime
Statement on RSPB call for grouse moor licensing regime
Country Sports Grouse Moorland
In response to publication today (December 14) of a report by RSPB calling for the introduction of licensing of grouse moors, Scottish Land & Estates issued the following statement.
David Johnstone, chairman of Scottish Land & Estates, said: "The Scottish Wildlife Crime Report published annually by the Scottish Government has reported a significant decline in raptor persecution.
"Recorded incidents of persecution are now at their lowest levels and this progress has been noted by government and Police Scotland. This position was underlined only last month by the publication of raptor persecution maps by the Partnership for Action Against Wildlife Crime (Scotland). We have found that working with the independent data produced by government and its agencies is the most accurate indication of the true picture. www.gov.scot/news/recorded-cases-of-bird-of-prey-poisonings-at-record-low
"The work done by gamekeepers and grouse moor owners committed to conservation has played a big part in getting us to where we are today and collaborative efforts involving police and other agencies have made a real difference. There is ample evidence to show that progressive grouse moor management delivers significant biodiversity benefit and there are many bird species – including raptors – thriving on well-managed moors.
"Where wildlife crime does occur, those who are responsible should face the full force of the law. Scotland has very strong wildlife crime legislation and we have repeatedly supported the use of stiff penalties for those who break these laws. Clearly, there is concern over the disappearance of satellite-tagged birds and there should be a concentrated effort to establish the facts in these cases. We would support a more transparent and independent system of monitoring these birds.
"Grouse moor management, like other land uses, is already subject to extensive regulations and there is a real commitment by land managers to make sure the highest standards are met. The sector will continue to improve in line with new scientific findings and evolving best practice,
"There is an independent review of grouse shooting ongoing and that should be allowed to take its course. We do not believe that a licensing system is the most effective away forward and such a scheme could put rural livelihoods at risk without achieving what it is intended to do."
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Hook – Partridge Patriot barbless curved 'grub' in sizes 10 to 16 – or reputable equivalent.
Underbody – lead or tungsten sheet tapered at each end on top of hook, so hook rides upside down lessening the threat of snagging on rocks or vegetation.
Abdomen - rear two thirds of body either light tan or light yellow or light green UV Ice Dub or hare's ear dubbing, colour to suit the prevailing species. The tan and yellow species usually appear springtime and a month later the Macrostemum capense signatum which is indigenous to our inland rivers. Apart from showing off I know the Latin for this unique sub-species, this lime milkshake abdomened larva is what is popularly known as a green rockworm to us Vaalies. Do not confuse our one with the Americans' 'green rockworm' which is a different family (Rhyacophilidae), and dissimilar in both appearance and habits.
Thorax – front third, dark brown hare's ear dubbing picked out to represent legs.
Back – light tan shellback material. Give it about a dozen segments, imitating the natural, using the thread. You can also use wire as ribbing but the thread is quicker and neater.
Back markings – using waterproof marker pens (E.G. Sharpie or Pro-Line) on the shellback material lightly dab dark brown (thorax) and tan (abdomen) thicker at the head getting smaller towards the rear.
Varnish – apply UV or plain varnish to the shellback only.
I do not use beadheads as the above is a lot more lifelike and moves like the natural, not simply plummeting to the bottom - but if you are a beadhead addict, go for it!
Tie the fly slender so they sink naturally without having excess bulk.
As the larvae grow they go through several 'instars' (stages). As the do so they gradually become a darker shade so note that when tying.
It is helpful and quicker to tie the weighting on say a dozen or so hooks at a time. This has the added benefit of after you've done a few, you get some uniform standard of weighting from the practice.


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I was in SC last weekend for one of my oldest friends weddings. A few days of relaxation and celebration and plenty of reminiscing. Like that time, we played golf and I had to succumb to THE RULE.
Waiting for the bride and groom to finish with their photos, I had the chance to catch up with one of my old friends, Joel.
Over a few whiskeys, we geeked out over the upcoming Captain America film, his current obsession with Marvel Unlimited, & his love for the craptastic football team he cheers for out of Cleveland.
Health smoothies have been the rage for years now.
I freaking love a good smoothie. And creating a few superhero smoothies not only help me look like a superhero, but feel like one, too.
Some of my clients, who don't like heavy breakfasts like oatmeal or bacon and eggs, prefer smoothies.
A good smoothie gives them something to start their day with but doesn't make them feel sluggish.
Since I've gone back to eating breakfast, I've been 100% in on oatmeal. But there are mornings I have clients super early and don't have a chance to eat breakfast until 8 or 9 am. In those situations, I'll opt for a smoothie.
Like all things in my life, I have to add a little geek flair to things.
In honor of my good friend Joel, here are some marvelous superhero smoothies that will knock out your hunger.
If you need a smoothie that will smash your hunger until lunch, this is it. Packed full of protein and fiber, this is the best option for anyone who doesn't want a heavy breakfast but wants to feel full till lunch.
You're looking for something a little more visually appealing — a smoothie with some color and POP.
A smoothie with style and brashness like Tony Stark. This one is a lot of fun to make, but if you're in a rush and don't care about the presentation, just blend it all at once.
Hit blend and then place the red mixture in a glass and set to the side.
Once both mixtures are complete, scoop ⅓-½ the red mixture into a clean cup. Then layer on the gold mixture. Finish your creation by adding the rest of the red mixture on top.
Need a smoothie fit for a Super Solider? But also packed with all the best flavors America has to offer?
Captain America is my homeboy. When I need a shake to keep me going for a few hours, this baby blocks hunger shield made of vibranium.
The first recipient of the Most Awesome Human Alive award should be Paul Rudd. He can win the first year, I'll take the second year. Totally cool with being second to Paul Rudd.
Since I have a giant man-crush on Paul Rudd, I had to give Ant-Man his own superhero morning smoothie.
Once called, "the fruit of the gods," persimmons sweeten and flavor this godly concoction.
This is by far the most calorie-heavy smoothie on the list. But when you're out fighting Frost Giants all day, you're gonna need all the energy you can get.
If you want to become a huge jacked man then you're gonna need to recover quickly after your workouts. This is my standard post workout shake that I use after every single workout.
If made to fit within your calories, then yes they can be.
Always track and be cautious of what is going into your smoothies. Your concoction may taste like heaven, but packing in 900 calories is easier than you think.
Start your day with one of these superhero smoothies. Or down one post-workout.
Let me know via Twitter, Facebook, or Snapchat what you throw into your favorite smoothie.


Optus Deal: Score A Free Google Home Hub On Pixel 3 XL Plans!
If you've been humming-and-hawing about upgrading your Pixel phone, Optus' latest deal might just get you over the line. Right now, you can score a free Google Home Hub valued at $219 when you sign up to any Pixel 3 XL plan with at least 50GB of data. Here are the options!
The Google Pixel 3 XL provides a host of incremental hardware and software improvements over the Pixel 2. These include a larger display, 40% louder speakers and new camera tools including the celebrated Top Shot and Night Sight modes. Despite being six months old, it remains a brilliant flagship.
The Google Home Hub, meanwhile, is essentially a touchscreen-equipped control centre for your smart home. You can use it to turn on your lights, lock doors, show the weather, list your day's schedule and tons more, with the display providing related visual information and navigation options.
All plans come with unlimited talk and text, unlimited standard international calls to select countries, free access to Optus Sport and data-free music streaming on Spotify and Google Play Music. The deal runs until June 30, but you'll need to redeem your Google Home Hub before July 16.
When you consider that the Pixel 2 XL sports the same CPU, memory and native resolution as its successor, the Telstra option is arguably a better deal. With that said, a free Google Home Hub is nothing to sniff at and you also get way more data with Optus. The choice is yours.


Christ United Methodist Church Fall Festival — Official site for Southern Village, Events, Dining, Movies and more.
The Christ Church Fall Festival will feature burgers hot off the grill from Al's Burgers, music, a dunk tank, a bouncy house, game booths for kids, prizes, and more. Proceeds from the event will go to TABLE and SNACK who feed hungry children in Orange and Chatham counties, respectively.
For more information, contact the church office (office@christmethodist.org).
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Ever since the first Model T Ford rolled off the assembly line, people have been outfitting their cars and trucks with cooking and sleeping facilities. Henry Ford, and his buddies Harvey Firestone and Thomas Edison, went on camping trips together, with Model Ts equipped for camping.
RV/MH Heritage Foundation - how to visit the RV museum.
Click here for a 1937 movie theater newsreel produced by Chevrolet, about early RVers, often called, "Tin Can Tourists"
Vintage Vacations Archive Page - provides restoration of classic travel trailers.


Manager Paul Warne has refused to make defender Semi Ajayi a scapegoat for his promotion-chasing side's 2-0 defeat against Southend United.
Ajayi put in a jittery performance in a poor all-round Rotherham United display and was at fault for the Shrimpers' game-clinching goal in the second half at Roots Hall.
Warne accepted the centre-half had been well below his best as the Millers, after a 14-match unbeaten run, lost for the third time in their last four League One outings.
But he preferred to focus on Ajayi's huge contribution during the three-month spell without a defeat which took the Millers into fourth spot and cemented their place in the play-off frame.
"The lads are going to have off-days," said the boss after his side had fallen to a seventh-minute opener from Stephen McLaughlin and a 79th-minute strike from Simon Cox.
Ajayi is one of the most talented defenders in the division but prone to indecision from time to time. He was an ever-present in Rotherham's unbeaten sequence and the 6ft 4in 24-year-old scored four goals during that period.
At Southend, on a terrible pitch, he was targeted by home supporters and allowed Cox to beat him too easily as the Shrimpers man wrapped up three points.
"Semi did have a shaky start. Then he played his way into it," Warne said. "I'm not going to stand here and criticise him, because he's been brilliant for me.
Rochdale ended the Millers' proud run on March 10. Since then, Warne's men have lost at Milton Keynes, taken Northampton Town apart in a 3-0 win at Sixfields and been beaten by Chris Powell's midtable team.
Rotherham will be looking to regain momentum on Good Friday, when former manager Steve Evans brings play-off contenders Peterborough United to AESSEAL New York Stadium.
"I don't really see consistency as a massive issue," Warne said. "We were excellent last week at Northampton. "It was a different game at Southend and we just didn't manage it as well as I would have liked.
Midfielder Darren Potter should be in reserve-team action soon as he steps up his comeback from an achilles injury.


Apparently, screenshots of the upcoming Black Ops 2 game were leaked by a special effects company. The reason these screenshots are believed to be official is because the Quadrotor appears in them. In case you didn't already know, the Quadrotor appeared as a teaser image on the official Call of Duty website.
Firstly, here is a piece of leaked art. Note that this isn't a screenshot. This is simply a piece of art that would normally be used in promotional posters etc. Notice the Quadrotor in the background.
If this is a fake, it's pretty well done. This looks to be a screenshot of the Quadrotor. If the teasers on the official COD site is anything to go by, this will be a killsteak.
The picture above shows the Quadrotor from below.
This is the most exciting screenshot of them all. As you can see, there are three killstreaks and a player character underneath. You can see the Quadrotor, an attack chopper and what looks like an Osprey Gunner. The cars also look to be the same kind of cars that we've seen in previous COD games.


A hunch: churches would be healthier if pastors read more (traditional) farming books and fewer business books.
Hi Michael – Care to elaborate? I can surmise given your title and tag but don't want to hazard a guess. Thanks.
This will still be somewhat general, but the basic idea is that the metaphors that we use when we address a topic can shape how we think about that topic. This is especially so when a given metaphor comes to dominate our discussion and planning.
In this case, there is a radical difference between viewing the pastor primarily as the CEO of a corporation, whose mission is to attract consumers, and viewing the pastor primarily as a farmer or a shepherd, whose task is to cultivate and sustain.
I would add this: it is not only the case that choosing to read this book or that shapes our understanding of ministry, but the very fact that we would choose this book or that reveals what we already think ministry is like.


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UK politics: playing away
Richard North, 04/05/2013
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I will be in London today talking to the Campaign for an Independent Britain, on the general subject of "the way forward" for euroscepticism.
It will come as no surprise to readers of this blog that my list of things we must have in order successfully to secure an exit from the EU does not include the Farage Party, which is more and more looking like a cul-de-sac. And in a subliminal message which affirms that, we see the front page of the Daily Mail (left) where any news of the "great victory" is remarkably absent.
Unfashionable it may be to say in certain quarters, but to attract the support of 6-8 percent of the electorate in council elections (and 9.4 percent in a by-election) is not evidence of a wildly successful popular campaign. And this is less so when, with each passing election, the pool of engaged voters steadily diminishes, as evidenced by the declining turnouts.
As we have remarked before, the obsession with share of the vote, where turnout is in free fall, has the hallmarks of two bald men fighting over a comb – although it is more like a gang of people squabbling over its possession.
It is perhaps appropriate, therefore, that the newspaper that makes the greatest front-page display of the Farage Party success is the loss-making Guardian. This left-wing newspaper is only too well aware that the only way of resuscitating the flagging Labour campaign is to big-up UKIP in the hope of damaging the Conservative Party.
Therein lies an uncomfortable truth. However, much it may protest otherwise, at its current level of support, when it has absorbed the transferable votes from the BNP, arising from the collapse of another one-man-band, by far the greater bulk of UKIP's support comes from disaffected Conservatives.
Come the general election, which is the only election which matters to the political claque, the Left will certainly be egging on the "party of protest" in the expectation that it will continue to do disproportionate damage to the Right.
And, confronted with the challenge, Mr Cameron's Conservatives will do whatever it takes to neutralise the threat. For, if Farage has succeeded in anything, he has certainly got the attention of the political classes.
The ironic thing is that the most immediate outcome of grabbing the Guardian front page is one of two possibilities – either the election of the Labour Party to office in the 2015 general election (with or without the Lib-Dems), or resurgent Conservatives who will most likely offer as the bribe to restore their fortunes an EU referendum that we cannot possibly win.
I would find this latter even doubly ironic – for UKIP to force upon the nation a referendum for which it is wholly unprepared, where it would be completely outflanked, then to saddle us with a lost vote which will set the eurosceptic movement back a generation.
But then, whatever else, Farage has never included amongst his attributes anything approaching tactical acumen or strategic planning. Right now, though, his dogged pursuit of a twenty-year-old game plan might now look on the threshold of a breakthrough. But the truth is that it has no better chance of success now than when he first scribbled it on the back of a beer-soaked bar mat, at the end of a boozy planning session.
Perhaps that "plan" emanated from the Grand Old Duke of York pub, because Farage is marching his troops to the top of the hill. Too soon, he will be marching them down again, back into the intellectual cul-de-sac from which his "cunning plan" originated.
And that is what I will be telling the CIB today, plus a few more home truths. Those views won't necessarily be welcome, but I suspect there may be a few there capable of straight thinking and I won't have to make a quick dash for the exit. We shall see.
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Hi suzgupta, Thanks for the feedback! I'll check out the slideshare presentation! I'd love to work on some more SMS texting based projects too…Maybe I'll have time this summer!
That said, I really enjoyed this mLearning usage. What sort of back end statistics do you get?
Your research looks interesting. I am doing research as well and am interested in studying how EFL/ESL educators use PLNs. I am specifically looking for 7-10 EFL/ESL educators from the same institution, school, etc. who might be willing to participate. If you are interested in knowing more, please contact me via Twitter or Wikieducator (http://wikieducator.org/User:Bnleez).
Thanks for the comment! How's your search for the EFL educators going? I'd love to hear more about your research!


The Weave goes around the horn to detail what transpired across the Power-6 conferences, along with the best from the rest of the mid and low-major leagues.
For Duke, Saturday's tilt with Georgia Tech marked the much-anticipated return of their freshman floor general Tre Jones. The fact that Jones missed just three games was a dream outcome for the Blue Devils, given the alternative nightmarish scenarios. Forget about easing Jones back into the rotation – Coach K rode his point guard hard for a full 35 minutes, but Duke struggled to regain its continuity in the early going. After Georgia Tech opened the 2nd half with an 8-0 run to race out to a 35-27 lead, Coach K promptly called timeout. Predictably, the refocused Devils quickly regained the lead and never looked back, as the two usual suspects, Zion Williamson and RJ Barrett, poured in 46 of Duke's 66 points. Credit to Josh Pastner and the pesky Yellow Jackets for stunting Duke's prolific scoring attack to its lowest point total (66) and least efficient (.96 points per possession) offensive performance of the season.
After sitting through a 40-minute dentist appointment at Indiana on Friday night, it was déjà vu all over again in South Bend Saturday afternoon when Virginia and Notre Dame squared off in the Joyce Center.
Why do I keep betting against Chris Mack? It's a foundational gambling principle to tread lightly when fading cerebral coaches like Mack, and it burned me yet again on Saturday. Despite trailing Pittsburgh by 4 at the half, Louisville overwhelmed the young and fatigued Panthers with suffocating defensive pressure in the 2nd half to win handily. The Cardinals' resume now has them within striking distance of a top-3 seed, with plenty of chances in the ACC's gauntlet to keep climbing the ladder even higher.
For all the ink that Nickeil Alexander-Walker has gotten this season – and deservedly so – Justin Robinson reminded us why he's still the engine of Virginia Tech's offense. The smooth lefty rained in 9 of the Hokies 14 threes against Syracuse Saturday night, as Robinson and Alexander-Walker collectively picked apart the Cuse zone with precise passing (both finished with 8 assists).
Florida State's rout of Miami FL in Coral Gables yesterday afternoon was quite a snoozer, as the Seminoles led for the entire 40-minutes of action – shooting a blistering hot 60% from the land of plenty (12/20) certainly didn't hurt.
I have many profound thoughts on Michigan's demoralization of Indiana Friday evening in Bloomington, which was the first of three stops on the 3MW weekend road trip. Conducted by the endearingly maniacal Luke Yaklich, the Wolverines' steel curtain defense planted a glass ceiling on a comfortable early lead, as Indiana trailed by double digits for what felt like an eternity.
Sunday's bout between two of the Big Ten's top-3 squads, Purdue and Michigan State, was the encore of the aforementioned 3MW roadtrip – my colleague Ky had the privilege of capturing the roller coaster ride at Mackey Arena on Sunday, in which Purdue almost squandered a gargantuan 2nd half lead to the Spartans.
Ohio State traveled to Lincoln on Saturday desperately needing to snap a 5-game skid of their own. The Buckeyes hopped on the shoulders of freshman Luther Muhammad, who poured in 24 points to help hand Nebraska its 6th conference loss, pushing the Huskers down another notch in the Big Ten standings. We should all raise our glasses and pour one out for Isaac Copeland, whose college career is now over after he tore a ligament in his left knee when he went crashing to the floor in the first half. This is a catastrophic blow for Tim Miles, given the rail thin rotation he's been handcuffed by all season.
As a staunch (and borderline stubborn) believer in this Illinois team, Saturday afternoon's 9-point victory over the red-hot Maryland Terrapins could be the launching pad to a late season turnaround. It might be too little, too late, but the Illini got a huge performance from Andres Feliz, the highly touted JUCO prospect who's had a sluggish start to his Division 1 collegiate career. Credit to Brad Underwood, who forced the hand of Mark Turgeon to bow to his style of play, as Maryland caved to Illinois' guard-heavy lineup with a 4-guard lineup of their own. This was a shocking turn of events given how dominant the two-headed frontline tandem of Jalen Smith and Bruno Fernando have been this year.
Wisconsin defended its home turf Saturday afternoon when the Badgers dispatched Northwestern 62-46 to tally their 3rd straight Big Ten win. Paced by Ethan Happ's triple-double, Wisconsin moved into sole possession of 5th place in the conference standings at 6-3, just a half game behind Maryland and full game behind Purdue.
Who would've predicted the standings would look like this by end of January? Villanova and Marquette are close to lapping the rest of the league, but Nova is my pick to seize the conference title belt when it's all said and done – if you tuned in for the Wildcats' 3-point assault against Seton Hall, you saw shades of last year's 'Supernova' squad that raided opponents with an endless shower of trey balls from all over the floor.
As much as we here at 3MW like to break down X&O matchup advantages, it's not often the game plays out exactly as we project – but even the shadiest fortune teller could've predicted what would transpire in Saturday's Big-12 / SEC challenge headliner between Kansas and Kentucky at Rupp Arena. The Wildcats' burly frontline beat up the frail Jayhawks frontcourt, which has essentially become a one-man-band in Dedric Lawson since KU lost Udoka Azubuike for the season. UK hauled in a whopping 17 offensive rebounds and pounded the weaker Jayhawks inside, with the chiseled Reid Travis snagging 7 offensive boards all by himself.
While Kansas still sits in an enviable position at 5-2 in the Big-12 still in prime position to win their 1,564,374th consecutive Big-12 championship, something just looks off with this year's rendition of the 4-out, 1-in small ball lineup Self has converted to. Last season's lethal spread offense was so tough to guard because of Svi Mykhailiuk, a 6'8 dual-threat wing who could torch the nets from deep, but also attack hard close outs off-the-dribble. This year, Self is scratching his head with how to replicate Svi's versatility at that pivotal small-ball 4 position since Quentin Grimes looks like a shell of himself at the moment. Ochai Agbaji has been a pleasant surprise, but he's still a long way off from commanding the defensive respect that Svi did last season.
Alabama and Baylor entered Saturday both riding high off some strong recent efforts. The Tide ran Ole Miss out of the gym on Tuesday (just two days after almost stunning the top-ranked Tennessee Volunteers in Knoxville), while Baylor continued resurrecting its season with three straight wins that lifted the Bears into 3rd place in the Big-12 standings. Something had to give here, and it was Baylor who managed to hold serve at home thanks to a late Bama scoring drought and poor decision making. Baylor was pronounced dead just over a month ago, but this improbable surge after losing Tristan Clark for the season has the Bears right back in the thick of at-large consideration.
Wait, is it possible that Mississippi is mortal after all? The Rebels were a buzzsaw for six straight weeks, up until LSU handed Mississippi its first conference loss in Oxford on January 15th. Since then, the Rebels have dropped 2 of their last 3, including Saturday's 14-point loss at home to Iowa State. After hitting a mini-wall to start conference play, Clones freshman freak Talen Horton-Tucker wiped away his recent struggles with a 25-point, 8-rebound, 5-assist outburst.
In typical TCU fashion, the Horned Frogs asserted themselves early against the visiting Gators on Saturday, quickly extending a first half lead all the way to a 16-point margin with just over a minute to go before halftime. In the 2nd half, Florida clawed its way back, using Mike White's patented defensive pressure to disrupt a depleted TCU backcourt. The Horned Frogs would ultimately hold on, in large part due to Florida's feast-or-famine offense that's shown a propensity to suffer through extended scoring droughts.
Other than the Bulldogs' season opener against Savannah State, I can't remember the last time I saw a number greater than 90 next to Georgia's point total in the box score. Texas felt the wrath of a perfect storm Saturday in Athens when the Bulldogs lit the nets on fire from all over the floor, en route to a 98-88 win over the visiting Longhorns.
Since LSU and Missouri's Big-12 / SEC challenge invitations were lost in the mail, an intra-conference battle went down in Mizzou Arena on Saturday. The yellow and purple Tigers came to Columbia with a flawless SEC resume having not lost since December 12th, but were on the ropes late against an ailing Mizzou team without the services of Mark Smith, one of the few bright spots in Cuonzo Martin's backcourt this season. With a patchwork collection of inexperienced and inconsistent guards around him, Jordan Geist essentially dragged Mizzou for 38 minutes before the house of cards suddenly came crashing down.
Up by 14 with just over two minutes remaining, Mizzou fans saw yet another remake of the same movie they've witnessed time and time again, as the shaky ball handling succumbed to LSU's ferocious defensive pressure – a bogus call on the final possession didn't help either, which sent LSU's Emmitt Williams to the line down 1 with just two seconds left. Williams converted 1 of 2 from the line to send the game into extra time, by which point Mizzou had run out of both physical and emotion stamina to punch back in the final 5 minutes (much to the liking of LSU -5 backers).
Mississippi State and Auburn were the other victims of the imbalanced SEC / Big-12 challenge schedule, and took to the hardwood Saturday evening, each seeking to get back to .500 in league play. Both teams were unconscious from downtown, but it was 19 Auburn turnovers that proved to be the difference down the stretch.
The Wild, Wild West of college basketball was back at it again this weekend. Arizona State couldn't hold down USC after Bennie Boatwright drilled a go-ahead 3 as the final seconds ticked away just moments after Zylan Cheatham missed a critical front end of a 1-and-1. UCLA broke out of a 3-game slump with a 21-point bashing of Arizona in Pauley Pavilion, allowing Washington to seize a 2-game lead in the conference standings as the only unbeaten team left in Pac-12 play. Nipping on the Huskies' heels at 5-2 are a pair of unsuspecting hunters in Utah and USC, both of whom were on their deathbeds not even a month ago.
We kick off the 'other' section with a quick toast to all those degenerate gamblers out there who wandered into treacherous wilderness of the added and extra games slate. No bet seemed to be safe on Saturday, but it was Old Dominion -1 ticket holders who suffered the most painful and improbable loss of the weekend. The Roadrunners wiped away a 17-point deficit in just 4-minutes to stun the visiting Monarchs, which was capped off by a Keaton Wallace corner 3 that gave the Roadrunners the lead with 15 seconds left on the clock.
At least Clemson's Marquise Reed has Jordan Goodwin to console in. Saint Louis' stat-sheet stuffing lead guard committed a costly foul with 5 seconds remaining when he gifted Davidson's Jon Axel Gudmundsson a trip to the charity stripe, allowing the visiting Wildcats to retake the lead 53-52. Like Reed, Goodwin earned himself a shot at redemption when he got fouled on an offensive rebound put-back just seconds before the final horn sounded. All Goodwin needed to do was make 1 of 2 to force overtime, but he came up empty on both tries, dropping the host Billikens to 2nd place in the A-10 at 5-2, one game behind Davidson (6-1) and a game and a half behind George Mason (7-1).
The WCC's quest for multiple-bids took a turn for the worst on Saturday after Saint Mary's and San Francisco each came up on the wrong side of two closely contested games. Led by the 'Isaiahs' (Isaiah Wright and Isaiah Piniero), San Diego delivered a big blow to San Francisco's at-large hopes with a 67-63 home victory at home, while Pepperdine's superior athleticism helped the Waves squeak past the Gaels 84-77 in overtime. While San Francisco has an outside shot of sneaking their way back onto the right side of the bubble, Saint Mary's now has three conference blemishes on their resume, which means the Gaels will likely have to run the table in the WCC tournament if they wish to hear their name called on Selection Sunday.


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The Left's Assault on America's Working Class
Despite claiming to champion them, the Left have spent the past year making their lives worse.
by J.T. Young
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Inflation is just the Left's latest assault on America's working class. Over the last year, America's Left surprisingly amassed their greatest power, and how they have used it is an even bigger surprise. Despite claiming to champion the working class, the Left have targeted them to an unprecedented degree.
Unsurprisingly, with inflation's evidence everywhere, June consumer prices recorded their largest monthly jump in 13 years. From gas to groceries to housing, prices are rising rapidly. Already businesses are passing these increases on to consumers, reinforcing the upward spiral.
Of course, no one suffers more from inflation's hikes than those making the least: America's working class. Having labor as their predominant source of earnings, the working class are price-takers, not price-makers, in the market.
Today's inflation follows a year of severe economic hardship for America's working class. Nor has the economy been their only source of tribulation. While their misfortune has taken many forms, it has had one source: the Left.
With 5.9 percent unemployment, employment is the lagging variable in America's post-pandemic recovery. Nowhere is it lagging more than with America's working class, which has the highest unemployment rates.
Teenagers (9.9 percent) and those without high-school degrees (10.2 percent) lead the unfortunate field, and the lower the level of training, the higher the rates. When today's lower workforce participation is factored out, these official rates would be 44 percent higher — easily putting them into double digits.
Education's importance to employment is clear, and to no group is this truer than the working class. Yet for over a year, lockdowns closed schools, especially the public schools on which America's working class are most dependent. Instead, they have suffered most from the ironically apt "remote learning" alternative — where learning was just a remote possibility.
Now, as schools are finally forced to reopen, they find their children facing an ideological assault in which much-needed traditional learning is marginalized by the ideological indoctrination of critical race theory in a social justice curriculum.
Of course, lockdowns did not just shut schools. They shut down the economy, and no one was more shut out than America's working class. Theirs were the jobs most affected and small businesses the most hurt. They lost not just wages but experience and training. As unemployment persists in their ranks, the ominous prospect looms that millions of their jobs are gone forever.
Today's open-borders policy also hurts America's working class the most as illegal immigration puts wage pressure on them. After all, lawyers and accountants are not the ones crossing.
It is not just the job security of America's working class that has been undermined; their personal security has been too. They are the class that is most dependent on America's police forces for their safety. They do not live in gated communities or have the resources to leave unsafe neighborhoods. So as the Defund the Police movement reduces police protection, their risk rises in neighborhoods that in many areas have become veritable war zones.
Each of these assaults on America's working class has come from a Left at the height of their power. When they had the chance to do something for the group they proclaim to champion, they did not just do the least to help. In fact, they did the opposite.
The Left have demanded spending on top of spending, $5.3 trillion in just over a year, with trillions more still demanded. The result has been and will continue to be inflation.
The Left demanded indiscriminate lockdowns during the pandemic, which were the longest and most severe where the Left are strongest. The results were lost businesses and millions of lost jobs, all of which hit the working class hardest.
The Left have long treated public schools as their private fiefdom, with their focus squarely on unions over students and parents. Without school choice, the working class are trapped in this system, which the Left's lockdowns made worse for them and which their ideological agenda will make even worse.
Had this unprecedented assault on America's working class come from any other quarter, the Left would have protested, and establishment media would have echoed their complaints. Instead, the Left perpetrated the assault, and establishment media ignored it.
The biggest lie in American politics is that the Left care for and help the working class. The last year has definitively exposed this falsehood. If America's working class have finally recognized this, then it will be some compensation for the Left's inflicted misery — and their only route out of it.
J.T. Young served under President George W. Bush as the director of communications in the Office of Management and Budget and as deputy assistant secretary in legislative affairs for tax and budget at the Treasury Department. He served as a congressional staffer from 1987 through 2000.


you wouldn't believe how exhausting it is, spending all of your time trying to talk yourself down from that ledge. the only reason i even bother is because i have a guilt complex and don't want to make other people feel bad.
i'm so sad. plain and simple.
words float above my head like feathers or land on my chest like concrete. most of them float, so far away, they never hit home. you say you love me and it means nothing, the weight of it was lost a million "i love you"s ago.
the concrete words are few and far between, their reality stings. when you explained to me the seriousness of what i'm doing to myself, i felt it. i felt it and it scared me, it scared me to death..... but not enough to make me want to change.
hi there, i'm chelsea and i'm stuck in my eating disorder.


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The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020
December 31, 2020, 4:27 a.m. ·8 min read
The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020.
There are 572,982 confirmed cases in Canada.
_ Canada: 572,982 confirmed cases (72,927 active, 484,583 resolved, 15,472 deaths).*The total case count includes 13 confirmed cases among repatriated travellers.
There were 7,476 new cases Wednesday from 65,062 completed tests, for a positivity rate of 11 per cent. The rate of active cases is 194.01 per 100,000 people. Over the past seven days, there have been a total of 44,628 new cases. The seven-day rolling average of new cases is 6,375.
There were 94 new reported deaths Wednesday. Over the past seven days there have been a total of 876 new reported deaths. The seven-day rolling average of new reported deaths is 125. The seven-day rolling average of the death rate is 0.33 per 100,000 people. The overall death rate is 41.16 per 100,000 people.
There have been 13,775,115 tests completed.
_ Newfoundland and Labrador: 390 confirmed cases (21 active, 365 resolved, four deaths).
There were zero new cases Wednesday from 268 completed tests, for a positivity rate of 0.0 per cent. The rate of active cases is 4.03 per 100,000 people. Over the past seven days, there have been a total of six new cases. The seven-day rolling average of new cases is one.
There have been no deaths reported over the past week. The overall death rate is 0.77 per 100,000 people.
There have been 72,243 tests completed.
_ Prince Edward Island: 96 confirmed cases (six active, 90 resolved, zero deaths).
There were zero new cases Wednesday from 343 completed tests, for a positivity rate of 0.0 per cent. The rate of active cases is 3.82 per 100,000 people. Over the past seven days, there have been a total of five new cases. The seven-day rolling average of new cases is one.
There have been no deaths reported over the past week. The overall death rate is zero per 100,000 people.
_ Nova Scotia: 1,483 confirmed cases (25 active, 1,393 resolved, 65 deaths).
There were three new cases Wednesday from 1,051 completed tests, for a positivity rate of 0.29 per cent. The rate of active cases is 2.57 per 100,000 people. Over the past seven days, there have been a total of 25 new cases. The seven-day rolling average of new cases is four.
There have been 177,283 tests completed.
_ New Brunswick: 596 confirmed cases (28 active, 560 resolved, eight deaths).
There was one new case Wednesday from 377 completed tests, for a positivity rate of 0.27 per cent. The rate of active cases is 3.6 per 100,000 people. Over the past seven days, there has been 11 new case. The seven-day rolling average of new cases is two.
_ Quebec: 199,822 confirmed cases (21,612 active, 170,045 resolved, 8,165 deaths).
There were 2,511 new cases Wednesday from 7,966 completed tests, for a positivity rate of 32 per cent. The rate of active cases is 254.71 per 100,000 people. Over the past seven days, there have been a total of 16,299 new cases. The seven-day rolling average of new cases is 2,328.
There were 41 new reported deaths Wednesday. Over the past seven days there have been a total of 298 new reported deaths. The seven-day rolling average of new reported deaths is 43. The seven-day rolling average of the death rate is 0.5 per 100,000 people. The overall death rate is 96.23 per 100,000 people.
There have been 2,498,341 tests completed.
_ Ontario: 178,831 confirmed cases (20,558 active, 153,799 resolved, 4,474 deaths).
There were 2,923 new cases Wednesday from 37,928 completed tests, for a positivity rate of 7.7 per cent. The rate of active cases is 141.13 per 100,000 people. Over the past seven days, there have been a total of 16,168 new cases. The seven-day rolling average of new cases is 2,310.
There were 19 new reported deaths Wednesday. Over the past seven days there have been a total of 245 new reported deaths. The seven-day rolling average of new reported deaths is 35. The seven-day rolling average of the death rate is 0.24 per 100,000 people. The overall death rate is 30.71 per 100,000 people.
_ Manitoba: 24,513 confirmed cases (4,444 active, 19,408 resolved, 661 deaths).
There were 128 new cases Wednesday from 1,162 completed tests, for a positivity rate of 11 per cent. The rate of active cases is 324.51 per 100,000 people. Over the past seven days, there have been a total of 1,132 new cases. The seven-day rolling average of new cases is 162.
There were two new reported deaths Wednesday. Over the past seven days there have been a total of 56 new reported deaths. The seven-day rolling average of new reported deaths is eight. The seven-day rolling average of the death rate is 0.58 per 100,000 people. The overall death rate is 48.27 per 100,000 people.
_ Saskatchewan: 15,160 confirmed cases (2,949 active, 12,057 resolved, 154 deaths).
There were 138 new cases Wednesday from 617 completed tests, for a positivity rate of 22 per cent. The rate of active cases is 251.09 per 100,000 people. Over the past seven days, there have been a total of 1,059 new cases. The seven-day rolling average of new cases is 151.
There were three new reported deaths Wednesday. Over the past seven days there have been a total of 24 new reported deaths. The seven-day rolling average of new reported deaths is three. The seven-day rolling average of the death rate is 0.29 per 100,000 people. The overall death rate is 13.11 per 100,000 people.
_ Alberta: 100,428 confirmed cases (14,555 active, 84,827 resolved, 1,046 deaths).
There were 1,287 new cases Wednesday. The rate of active cases is 332.97 per 100,000 people. Over the past seven days, there have been a total of 6,647 new cases. The seven-day rolling average of new cases is 950.
_ British Columbia: 51,300 confirmed cases (8,726 active, 41,681 resolved, 893 deaths).
There were 485 new cases Wednesday from 15,262 completed tests, for a positivity rate of 3.2 per cent. The rate of active cases is 172.07 per 100,000 people. Over the past seven days, there have been a total of 3,273 new cases. The seven-day rolling average of new cases is 468.
There were 11 new reported deaths Wednesday. Over the past seven days there have been a total of 97 new reported deaths. The seven-day rolling average of new reported deaths is 14. The seven-day rolling average of the death rate is 0.27 per 100,000 people. The overall death rate is 17.61 per 100,000 people.
_ Yukon: 60 confirmed cases (zero active, 59 resolved, one deaths).
There were zero new cases Wednesday from 10 completed tests, for a positivity rate of 0.0 per cent. Over the past seven days, there have been a total of one new cases. The seven-day rolling average of new cases is zero.
There have been 5,921 tests completed.
_ Northwest Territories: 24 confirmed cases (zero active, 24 resolved, zero deaths).
There were zero new cases Wednesday from 45 completed tests, for a positivity rate of 0.0 per cent. Over the past seven days, there have been a total of zero new cases. The seven-day rolling average of new cases is zero.
_ Nunavut: 266 confirmed cases (three active, 262 resolved, one deaths).
There were zero new cases Wednesday from 33 completed tests, for a positivity rate of 0.0 per cent. The rate of active cases is 7.74 per 100,000 people. Over the past seven days, there have been a total of two new cases. The seven-day rolling average of new cases is zero.
This report was automatically generated by The Canadian Press Digital Data Desk and was first published Dec. 30, 2020.
Renfrew council expected to meet community safety plan
Renfrew – It's expected the Community Safety and Well Being Plan the town is to have prepared by the extended deadline of July 21 will be met. Councillor Sandi Heins, who is co-chair of the advisory group creating the plan, is happy the Solicitor General extended the deadline from January 21. "We will meet the date," she said. There are four areas in each local plan that will help make communities safer and healthier: social development, prevention, risk intervention and incident response. As part of the Police Services Act effective January 1, 2019, municipalities are required to develop and adopt community safety and well-being plans working in partnership with a multi-sectorial advisory committee comprised of representation from the police service board and other local service providers. For the area of Renfrew, the committee was formed in late 2019 and in early January 2020, hired Pat Finnegan to lead them through the steps of creating the plan, said Coun. Heins. There are six municipalities partnered with Renfrew: Admaston/Bromley, Horton, Whitewater Region, Arnprior, McNab/Braeside and Greater Madawaska. "Each of those municipalities have representatives on the advisory committee," she said. "We are working with the Renfrew (OPP) Detachment Commander and of course under the leadership of Pat Finnegan to put together that plan." Fire Chief Kevin Welsh, fire committee chair Jeff Scott and herself represent Renfrew, she said. "We've been working through various exercises to get the writing of the plan," she said. Currently, they are working on qualifying the risks and how they may be handled. Next is the public consultation, which could be challenging in these COVID times, she said. "We have a unique committee and they have lots of expertise on how we might handle that (public meeting)," Coun. Heins said. Following the meeting, the report should be finalized and into council's hand by mid-June, she said. Each municipality must pass it and it will then be listed on the website. There will be work with the plan for the rest of 2021. In Renfrew and the municipalities in the lower part of the Valley, a situation table has already been formed, which retired OPP Sgt. Brian Schutt has been leading since January 2017 under retired OPP Detachment Commander Colin Slight, Coun. Heins said. "We're a big step ahead already having that Situation Table in place," she said. The Situation Table is composed of many social service agencies, family and children's services, health unit, mental health and housing, she said. "Representatives of those groups come together once a month and deal with the various situations, so that we're not wasting our services on having everybody go to a situation when it should be housing, or a mental health issue," she said. "They are co-ordinating that, so we're really well-established in that and we're lucky to have that here already in place and working very well." Connie Tabbert, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Eganville Leader


Duff & Phelps' Lapman Lee, Managing Director of Regulatory Consulting, will be speaking at the Conduct Risk Summit Asia on January 16, 2017.
Conduct Risk Summit Asia is one-day conference bringing key risk and compliance leaders from Hong Kong's financial services sector together in a single platform. For just one day out of the office, this conference has been specially designed for you to gain a comprehensive overview of conduct risk in Asia, review existing conduct risk management procedures and design more effective and long-term measures to tackle the future challenges of conduct risk.


I challenged my students to pick an idea, sketch it, and then build it. During the three week course on Skillshare they learned how to turn an idea into an app. It's not as hard as you think, but it does require work.
"Dominion is a very popular deck-building card game where players acquire various cards to create a large kingdom. These cards comprise of treasure cards, victory cards and kingdom cards. Only 10 sets of kingdom cards are used in any given game, but there are so many more different sets that can possibly be selected.
App ideas start on paper. It's the fastest way to capture an idea.
"Abacus is a tool that helps creative professionals establish their prices when contracting independently. With Abacus freelancers can focus in being creative while the app calculates, suggests a quoting price and sets them up for success.
"CapeShare is a guidebook for the best that Cape Cod has to offer from non biased locals. This App contains the essential things to do while on vacation here broken out by town. Whether you are looking for the best beach or the best place to get a lobster roll we give you the tips you need to make your experience on the Cape more memorable. Over 6 million people visit Cape Cod each year and we have created this App to help them avoid crowds, get to great beaches, enjoy great meals and do so much more while on vacation.
What do you think? I found the sketches, final designs, and videos inspiring.
I'll be teaching more iPhone classes. Signup for my newsletter to stay in the loop and my YouTube channel for videos on various topics from programming to coffee.


When they are still, Flounders blend in so well that they are invisible. But this guy kept scooting here, there and everywhere. It must have been agitated about something because its spiky fins were fully extended. Maybe it was having a bad hair day and didn't want its photo taken.
Cloudy Days and Thursdays . . .


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No more FFX-2 shipments, says Square
No more FFX-2 shipments, says Square
Square has announced that following the initial shipment of 1.8 million units of Final Fantasy X-2, which sold 1.2 million copies in a day last week, there will be no more copies made available, even when this batch runs out. Why Square would do something odd like that is questionable, but it possibly has something to do with the upcoming creation of Square Enix.
Square has announced that following the initial shipment of 1.8 million units of Final Fantasy X-2, which sold 1.2 million copies in a day last week, there will be no more copies made available, even when this batch runs out. Why Square would do something odd like that is questionable, but it possibly has something to do with the upcoming creation of Square Enix.
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they are so weird... well, as long as they still release it over here it doesnt matter then.


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Gymnastics Class
T & T
Tumbling & Cheer
Climb North
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The Story of Jewarts Gymnastics
Jewart's Gymnastics started in a basement on Emerald Drive in Ingomar, in 1969. Actually, it didn't have a name at that time, but it did have a purpose; to teach dancing lessons to the neighbor kids. There was a pre-school program and several classes for elementary school-age kids. The goal was to have a school that gave kids the best things that I had learned from 12 years of dancing lessons, four years as a Slippery Rock Gymnast, and three years of teaching physical education for the Los Angeles City School District. The standard was to be "the best," meaning that it would be really fun, it would teach with the best technique, and it would be creative. The kids would "show off" their skills to get recognition. It was an unwritten mission statement that has lasted for 50 years.
It was 1972, the year that Olga Korbut dazzled the world with her innovative routines, that we expanded to the Dance/Gymnastics School under Adzema's Pharmacy and that my brother Paul join me. Our enthusiasm about starting a gymnastics team and bringing something new to the community gave us excitement and a common goal. Our successes in competition whet our appetite to grow the business.
The "gym" under the pharmacy was 1400 square feet. It had brick pillars in the center of two rooms and 10 foot ceilings. We needed a bigger facility, so in 1976, we added a second location on Route #8 above Anderson's Car Wash. We hired our brother, Nick and Allison Hoburg to team-teach with us. Mary Jayne Sirianni Terak was our next employee. In 1980, we built the 7000 square foot gym on Wildwood Rd. We were expecting the Olympic Games to give us a lot of publicity as it had in previous Olympic years, but the US boycotted the Moscow Games.
Fortunately, our new facility was a great drawing card and we weathered the boycott and the recession. In 1984, with the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, we added 4000 feet to the side of the gym and built the "gym Sue George eventually became our pre-school director. We also built the "gym house" for Paul. The strong support of gym parents helped us continue expanding the gym for the next 12 years. And as the enrollment grew, we brought in my brothers, Brian and Nick to head our developmental and boys programs and boys team. In 1990 when Paul married Kathy Hart. We moved into the 90's with a real office manager, a computer and an answer machine. The gym took a significant step to become a more serious business.
The 90's brought the addition of the second generation of Jewart's to work at the gym. My sons Randy, Alex and Ben certainly added innovation and a challenge to the status quo to the business. In 1992, during the Barcelona Games we completed our next addition. We expanded the rear of the gym to set up a second vault runway and the boys' area and added the Lucky Star gym and dance room downstairs. The rockwall pit area was added in 1993 and in 1994 we moved the pre-school gym upstairs and put in our awesome cave climbing area. A long-awaited addition to Climb North was built in 2011.
The Twenty-first Century arrived. Lainy joined the staff full-time in 2001 after graduating from Pitt. Katie retuned from Colorado in 2009 and joined her siblings as a Northstar Coach. Currently, former Northstars, Jeff Malone, Kinsey Basco, Jesse Marweg and Tiara Chadran round out the coaching staff. Currently, Jamie Stark directs our rec program, including our Lucky Stars and X-Cel gymnasts. Ariane Restelli is our pre-school director, Justin Mech manages of Climb North, and Vanessa Varndell is in charge of our tumblers. The rec gym managers along with their staffs handle the 900 + kids a week who enter the rec gym each week. Our speciality instructors bring variety to our programs. Chris Pechar oversees our T and T program. Bulgarian Champion, Kamelia Velkova heads our rhythmic program. Scott Carslaw, our former Boys program director now runs Steel City Ninja. Our most recent program, developed by Katie's husband, Patrick Hilko is The Wild Woods: A Forest Kindergarten.
The growth and evolution of Jewart's Gymnastics has been due to the commitment our family has to the kids we coach and the joy we find in developing youngsters in the sport of gymnastics and more. Case in point, our son Ben owns and operates his own gym in the Portland, OR area, Jewart's Northwest with his wife, Amanda. The support of the parents of the kids we have worked with, have inspired and influenced our decisions more than they will ever know. The final key has been the wonderful staff and the former gymnasts that have worked with us over the years that have been instrumental in helping us carry on our mission. Our heartfelt thanks to other former Northstar gymnasts who have contributed to our success over the years: Sue George, MaryJayne Siriani Terak, Michelle Lichina Packer, Michelle O'Connor, Alison Hoburg, Amy Armour, Nicky Eisel, Jesse Wilson, Courtney McCauley, Kim Gillespie Smart, Louie Liguori, Candi Robbins, Ashley Andreone, Jamie Badali, Daphne Young Aglietti, Amanda Wilson, Gillian Carr, Carlena Bonomi and many others.
Lastly, the big 5 - 0 has finally arrived. 1969-2019. Wow! Our additional 14.000 square foot team training center and the remodeling of the original gym is the crowning jewel of many years of commitment to our gymnasts and our family. This past year we took the big leap and replaced the roof on the original gym. No more buckets! The growth of our programs has kid competing in 5 different Olympic Sports: Men's and Women's Gymnastics, Rhythmic, T and T, Sport Climbing. Personally, I am trying to increase my practice of Tai Chi so that someday, I might be able to help others benefit from its healing qualities of this ancient discipline. We are ever growing and trying to find new ways to bring our mission to the families of the North Hills. A 50 Anniversary is a just reward!
Over the years, we have been honored by, the University of Pittsburgh, Katz School of Business as the 1999 Family Business of the Year. Mrs. Jewart is a Hall of Fame athlete from Slippery Rock University, recognized for pioneering gymnastics. She is also a distinguished recipient of Pennsylvania's 50 Best Women in Business, an award winner from the Women and Girls Foundation for "Leveling the Playing Field" for women, and a top 25 Women in Pittsburgh honoree. As a family and as friends we are proud to be a work in progress: Proud to be leaders in bringing the world of gymnastics to the Pittsburgh area: Proud of the opportunity to coach such great kids. As Wayne George posted on the gym wall many years ago, "The Greatest Kids in the World Gym Here." After another sustaining season of competitive excellence for both our boys and girl's gymnastics teams here in Pennsylvania, we are excited to continue the legacy that Mrs. Jewart and her brothers started almost 5 decades ago. Let's Go Northstars!"
2021 Steel City Invitational
Jewart's Gymnastics
Gym Address: 2468 Wildwood Road Wildwood, PA 15091
Mailing Address: Po Box #36 Wildwood Road Wildwood, PA 15091
Phone# 412-487-5999 Fax# 412.487.7333
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The Spurs keep hanging in there with a 113-104 win over the Jazz
The Spurs aren't out of the playoff hunt yet.
By Marilyn Dubinski Feb 22, 2020, 12:06am CST
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The Spurs are really going to do this, aren't they? Just as I've come to terms with the idea that they're going to miss the playoffs for the first time since 1997, they're going to put the idea back in my head that maybe — just maybe — they could claw their way back into this thing.
With a strong team showing in Utah for a 113-104 win (their second straight) on the penultimate game of this year's Rodeo Road Trip, the Spurs (with a little help from Memphis) have crept within 3 losses of the Grizzles in the 8th seed with 27 games to go. That's still a lot to overcome, but back comes the old saying: they just need to go on a run (something they have admittedly failed to do all season). While two wins in a row won't get things done on its own, it's a start, and the Spurs came out of the All-Star break refreshed and ready to at least try to make one last push.
At the opening tip, it didn't look like they had returned from the extended break. There were enough silly flubs in the opening minute to be its own story. The defense allowed an open layup, LaMarcus Aldridge traveled, and Trey Lyles somehow lost a defensive rebound out of bounds off his own face by jumping too high, which resulted in another open layup for the Jazz on the inbound play.
Still, the Spurs got their act together after Dejounte Murray calmed things down with an elbow jumper that has been automatic for him on this Rodeo Road Trip, and the Spurs methodically built a 27-21 lead despite Aldridge having to sit with two fouls less than six minutes in.
They continued to build the lead up to 14 points in second quarter before the Jazz went on a 14-4 led by Bogdan Bogdanovic, but then the Spurs did something they have struggled with at times this season, especially on the road: respond. Led by the continual hot shooting of Murray and Bryn Forbes, they finished the half on a 17-2 run to get up 65-46, with the Jazz's only bucket being a buzzer beater at the horn.
Another thing the Spurs did well tonight was come out of the locker room strong — at least after a quick 5-0 run by the Jazz to open the second half. Gregg Popovich called an angry timeout, and from there the Spurs built the lead all the way up to 25 points at 93-68 with 1:28 left in the quarter. Then, the inevitable happened. With a 16-3 run spanning the third and fourth quarters, the Jazz got within 12 points while the Spurs looked completely helpless on both ends, allowing that sinking feeling to creep in that no lead is safe with this team.
Despite the 10 days off for the All-Star break, that blown 23-point lead in Denver (and so many others like it that has the Spurs in this predicament in the first place) remains fresh in the mind. In that sense, it was a pleasant surprise to see the Spurs respond and never let it get any worse than that. Both teams basically traded buckets the rest of the way, and the Spurs held on to win their second-straight game of the Rodeo Road Trip, with one more to go in Oklahoma City on Sunday.
Overall, it was a nice team effort with six Spurs scoring in double digits and the role players stepping up despite "meh" games from Aldridge and DeMar DeRozan. If they want any hope of making the playoffs, this is how they're going to have to play night-in and night-out the rest of the way, with strong perimeter defense, contributions from both units, and not allowing those catastrophic runs.
I hate being fed false hope, and the Spurs will have to do a lot more than win two games against a couple of playoff-bound-but-not-quite-contending teams to convince me otherwise, but it's a start. We all know what this team is capable when they play well, now they have to prove they can do it on a much more consistent basis,
Murray continues to be amazing on this Rodeo Road Trip. With 23 points on 10-16 shooting, this was the first pair of back-to-back 20-point games of his career after he recorded a career-high 25 points in OKC. He also continued his stat-stuffing ways with 7 rebounds, 4 assists, 4 steals and only 1 turnover. His midrange shot remains money, and he has been given full freedom to do what he wants with the ball. If this is the real, healthy, improved Dejounte of the future busting through, the Spurs are set at at least one position.
I continue to be subtly impressed with Lyles. He makes few mistakes, plays good defense, has a nose for rebounds, and his offensive game continues to expand as he improves his three-point shooting while also adding the ability to drive to the rim when defenders close out. I would like to see the Spurs get good enough at the PF position that he doesn't have to be their starter next season, but he has definitely been a pleasant surprise and could easily have role with the team going forward.
Jakob Poeltl blocking shots is becoming so normal I didn't even notice he had four in the first half until it was mentioned in the third quarter. He also had 7 rebounds, 2 assists, and no fouls. He was reportedly the Spur most teams had interest in ahead of the trade deadline, but they rightfully made his asking price too high.
Forbes had a good game with 13 points on 4-6 shooting from three, but after committing an admittedly questionable flagrant foul by impeding Jordan Clarkson's landing space on a three-point attempt midway through the fourth quarter, giving him three technical free trows and the ball with the Spurs still trying to fend off a Jazz run, he was pulled in favor of Derrick White, and we finally got to see more of what White and Murray can do together. Both played fantastic defense all night, playing a role in keeping Donovan Mitchell at bay with just 12 points, and looked good closing out the game together.
The Spurs reportedly made the Jazz fall to 1-7 when wearing those solid yellow jerseys. The Spurs can relate to uniforms causing losses, Jazz fans.


The typical diet overhaul involves the ceremonial throwing out of the bad (chips, ice cream) and the installation of the good (fresh vegetables, skinless chicken breasts).
But swearing off terrible food doesn't complete the renovation of your lifestyle.
It's not just what we eat that affects our bodies; it's how we eat: in our cars, while watching TV or working on the computer, at our desks, always gobbling down meals while doing many other things at the same time. All of this can cause us to eat more without realizing it.
That should be reason for concern, say nutrition experts, who add that eating behavior is regularly ignored in most diet books, which typically concentrate on calories and fat, carbs and protein. It's even given short shrift on the Web site for the USDA's new food pyramid, which offers up a scant tip or two.
Dietitians say many people don't understand that the where and how of eating is as important as the food itself. "It's much easier to say that if I cut my carbs down to 20 a day I can lose weight," says Susan Bowerman, assistant director of the University of California, Los Angeles, Center for Human Nutrition. "It's very tangible. But if I use smaller plates or stretch my meals out to 30 minutes, the promise isn't really there."
"It's diet, diet, diet," says Gail Frank, a spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association. "I don't think people stop and think of patterns and plans when it comes to meals. They think of restriction -- what I'm not going to do."
These patterns include eating while doing something else (driving, watching TV), eating under stress and eating too quickly, barely taking time to chew the food.
Frank says other meal patterns include switching from a weekend eating culture (bingeing on rich, fatty foods) to a weekday eating culture (chowing down quickly at a desk). "People have a lifestyle," she says, "and their style of eating is related to that."
Peter Max-Muller, 25, is a perfect example. He is constantly on the run in his job as a Los Angeles clothing stylist. Breakfast is either a bagel and orange juice grabbed from the refrigerator or a doughnut and orange juice grabbed from 7-Eleven.
Lunch is from a fast-food restaurant, a nearby sandwich shop or is provided on the set if he's lucky. Dinner is at a restaurant with friends or a Trader Joe's frozen entree cooked at home.
Max-Muller says he wouldn't trade his lifestyle for anything, but he sometimes ponders his food choices.
"When I'm feeling tired or lethargic, I think it's probably because of what I'm eating," he says. "But I can't see myself preparing foods at night, especially because it's just for me."
With work hours and commutes getting longer, there are no indications that our society is going to slow down and adopt the European model of lengthy, relaxing meals. If anything, Europeans are becoming more like us.
Americans, says University of Texas at El Paso psychologist John de Castro, "take the lowest amount of vacation of any society and we feel guilty when we do, so we bring our cell phones and laptops. It's just epidemic how work has become a focal point of people's lives. These are very strong forces, and they're not about to change."
De Castro, who chairs the university's psychology department, co-chaired a research study in 2003 that examined eating while watching TV. Study participants (78 undergraduate students) ate more often on days when they ate with the television on. Subjects also said they were less hungry before eating meals while watching TV, suggesting that a distraction such as television might affect internal cues such as hunger.
But health experts say it is possible to change our eating habits, with some guidance.
Our mothers will be thrilled to know that some of what they drilled into us as kids was right: slow down, and cut food into smaller bites. That admonishment to chew each bite 20 times, however, is pointless, Bowerman says: "If you're busy counting how many times you're chewing, you can't talk," she says. "You certainly don't want to swallow things whole, but if you're aware that you're trying to chew longer, OK."
Although we're tempted by things such as fattening mall foods, "We have to think in advance -- what is my plan for today?" says Netty Levine, a registered dietitian with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. "Set meal times. Take a lunch break -- put it into your calendar. Think, 'I'm not going to eat so quickly.' "
Other tips include setting the fork down and taking sips of water between bites. Waiting until you're starving to eat will have you reaching for fatty, high-sugar foods, so have healthful alternatives available such as fresh fruits and vegetables. Eating slowly gives the brain time to register fullness; wolf down a meal and you may end up overeating. Keeping healthful, nonperishable food items in your car is a good idea, especially for long commutes.
There are some trade-offs when developing healthier eating habits. You may get less done and perhaps spend more money for high-quality, healthful foods -- fast foods are notoriously inexpensive. In one of de Castro's studies, he found that social interaction while eating -- i.e., the family dinner -- actually made people eat significantly more.
But, he points out, "The function of a family meal is more complex than just getting calories. The social aspects of it are very important. If we understand the consequences, we can counterbalance them."
If all else fails, there's a dental device that slows eating and restricts food intake. After debuting about a year ago, about 5,000 DDS Systems have been sold via dentists, says Kevin Phillips, the company's chief operating officer.
"We live in a society that inhales its food," Phillips says. "I'm going to guess that your lunch will be a rushed affair between several meetings or phone calls."
Let's just say it didn't involve linen napkins and water with a lemon wedge in it. But there's always tomorrow.


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27 Injured as Tour Ship Hits Bridge in Germany
A tourist ship struck a highway bridge on the Rhine river in western Germany and 27 people were injured, police said Wednesday.
The accident happened late Tuesday on the Rhine River near the north-west German city of Duisburg.
There were 129 people on board the ship when the vessel hit a supporting pillar of the A42 motorway.
Four people were taken to hospital with serious injuries while 20 others were slightly hurt. A police spokesperson told the Germany's Deutsche Presse Agentur that none of the injuries appeared fatal.
Another nearby ship helped to take the injured off the "Swiss Crystal." A number of fire department boats were also involved.
The A42 is expected to remain closed on Wednesday as structural engineers carry out safety checks.
The "Swiss Crystal" was completed in the year 1995 and was completely renovated in 2007. The 101 meter (330 foot) long vessel, owned by the Swiss shipping company SCYLLA, sails out of Basel. The ship involved in Tuesday's accident was en route to the Netherlands.
According to Duisburg emergency services, the tour operator offered passengers the chance to complete their journey in a replacement ship. Guests were also offered hotel accommodation for the night, as well as other means of transport back to their respective homes.
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Q: Angularjs: How to stream http response to new window? How can I use the angularjs $http service to post a request to the server and stream the result to a new browser window?
My service generates and streams back a pdf report which I'd like to open in a new browser window. So far I've been using $http to post requests which returned json data. I could use this to update the model. That works fine.  But now I don't want to extract data from the response, just display in another window. Perhaps I should be using a lower level service rather than the data exchange pattern I've been using?
$http(httpPostConfig).success(
    function(data, status, headers, config) {
        ...
    }
).error(

    function(data, status, headers, config) {
        ...
    }
);

A: Have your server return a unique identifier of the generated PDF and than use $window service to open a new window with it's url pointing to a server-side endpoint which returns PDf based on unique identifier (e.g. $window.open('/pdf/6234556'));

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The last chapter ended with these words,—The moment the mind of man awakens to his divinity, that moment he begins to rise superior to the animal nature, and his ascent has begun.
But lndia's Golden Age was only one out of many others, too many to write about here, but just in passing I would make mention of the Golden Age of China, far back in the mists of a past of which we have no history, we only know that Lao-Tzu, the great Teacher, who lived about 500 B.C., spoke with fervent longing of a Golden Age in China when great Sages, Masters of Knowledge and Wisdom lived, and China had reached a height of civilization and culture, equal, if not surpassing that of India. But it is true also that we need not go back to the Golden Age of which the Sage spake to find a China as different from the China of today as Egypt or Greece are from the Egypt and Greece of history, for in the days of Lao-Tzu and Confucius, China had reached a state of civilization and culture that perhaps we may still be aspiring to.
"It was an age of great men. Sakya Buddha, the religious reformer; Ezekiel and Daniel, Haggai and Zachariah, amongst the prophets; Cyrus the Great; Cambyses, Darius, and Xerxes of the power of the earth; Pythagoras, the Samian Philosopher; the writers, Pindar Aschulus and Anacreon; Leonidas the Spartan, Militiades and Themistocles the Athenian, and a host of others, too numerous to mention."
"As it is, we cannot shut our eyes to the fact that, whilst an acquaintance with the histories of Greece and Rome is so widely diffused that the names of many men mentioned in them, who were distinguished from their fellows by their virtues, or made infamous by their vices, are as familiar as household words, the history of this singular people (the Chinese) and the name of Confucius, one of the greatest moral teachers of his age, indeed of any age, remain comparatively unknown."
Perhaps my readers will say: "But what has all this to do with your subject?" Pardon, dear reader, but it is not the digression that it may seem to be. What I want you to understand is this, that Civilization. Evolution, Scientific Knowledge, Culture and Education—are all blind alleys, leading to nothing and nowhere. Empires arise in all their earthly pomp and power, their genius and science, education and culture, each one, it may be, in some respects an advance on all former civilizations, yet each one in its turn passes away, leaving man just where they found him. Civilization and Evolution do not lead to Life, but to Death. Some ten years or so ago I was asked to address a company of people in London, and speaking on Evolution and Civilization I said then what I am writing now, and my words were treated with ridicule by many very intellectual people, and some told me afterwards that I was wrong, they could not accept my "theories." Yet, we had, with all our boasted civilization, just come out of the most bloody and disastrous war that the world has ever known, a war in which our greatest scientific knowledge had been used for the most devilish ends, and now, scarcely has the blood of a million of our sons become mingled with the soil of France, before we are using our knowledge, our science, our "evolved" minds in inventing still more deadly gases by which to wipe out another million of our brothers; still more murderous weapons by which to destroy men, women and children, innocent of any crime, and having no quarrel with us. THIS IS WHERE CIVILIZATION, EVOLUTION, EDUCATION, AND CULTURE LEAD THE WORLD OF MEN. They are blind alleys in so far as any advancement goes, but in so far as the race is concerned they lead to Death. So I repeat again what I said that day in London, CIVILIZATION, EVOLUTION, EDUCATION, MATERIAL SCIENCE do not lead to LIFE but to DEATH.
The fact of the whole thing is this,—Man has advanced to a certain point by evolution, over and over again, but never has he believed that he is destined to overcome the habit of dying. I am absolutely certain of one thing, THE SUPREME MISSION OF JESUS, THE CHRIST, TO THIS WORLD WAS TO TELL MEN THEY NEED NOT DIE. I cannot get away from it, and the more I read His words, and study His life and mission, the more am I convinced that if men had understood Him and His message the race would have conquered death by this time. We have been taught—the whole civilized world has been taught, that death was inevitable. Men must die, has been drilled into the mind of the race age after age, and any hint at all as to death being contrary to the Divine Idea concerning Man has been taboo among both the intellectuals and the religious.
And now allow me again to ask the question I asked at the beginning of this chapter,—To what height is it possible for man to rise? And I answer,—Man was not made subject to death by his Creator. God made not death, but man called it unto himself and he can, by Divine Consciousness, rise superior to death, even to the death of the physical body. If only the race had believed the message of Jesus, and if only His message had been understood actually to mean what He said, and not given what has been called "a spiritual interpretation," man by this time would have overcome the necessity of death, and his physical body would have passed out of its gross elements into those pure and deathless elements of which I verily believe our Lord's physical body had passed while He yet walked among men. I imagine some reader may object—"But our Lord died?" Yes, He did, but remember He said of His life, "No man taketh it from me. I lay it down of myself, and I lay it down that I may take it again." How His sayings have been misunderstood! Death had no power over the body of Jesus, and it could not have touched Him unless He had allowed it. "I lay it down of myself." I cannot read the sayings of Jesus without being fully convinced that they contain this truth for the race,—the ultimate conquering of death by the transmutation of the gross or animal body into that Substance that can know no decay, and over which death can have no power. And now you will more fully understand why I wrote of the great civilizations and culture of the past ages, it was to show you that this great change cannot take place through Civilization, or Evolution, or Intellectual Knowledge, or Science, for if it could then these great men and great nations of the past would have overcome "the last enemy" long ago. Is it possible that we have misunderstood the words of our Lord concerning "the new birth"? Did He refer to a new Consciousness altogether, a DIVINE BIRTH through which the very nature of the physical body would be changed, and man would return again to that deathless state he undoubtedly once knew; and that he must become even as his Lord, when He was able to say, "no man taketh it from me, I lay it down of myself, that I may take it again"?
People talk of death as the decree and will of God! Yet those same people will tell the story of the raising of Lazarus from the dead; the raising of the widow's son at Nain, and also that of Jairus' daughter, and at the same time say that death is the will of God for the human race! It that be so then Jesus, at times, defied the will of His Father, and went absolutely against it, undoing what God had done. Here is a clue—follow it up. He came to do the Father's Will, and one of the ways in which He showed a sad and dying world His Father's will concerning them, was to raise the dead to life again, showing that death IS NOT THE WILL of God for any man. No one can logically read the Scriptures and come to any other conclusion.
If we will consider many of the sayings of Jesus, we will have to come to the conclusion that He meant His message to be understood as one that, carried out to the uttermost in the lives of men, would deliver them from the necessity of the death of the physical body, and that, by a Divine Consciousness, the physical body could be transmuted into the same substance as His own body when He walked upon the water, or passed out of their midst when they would have laid hands upon Him.
When I have spoken of these things I have been ridiculed by a few, and some have tried to enter into a controversy with me on the subject. One man pointed to a few people who in the last century wrote and talked a great deal on what they called "physical immortality" and (he added) "They died just as you, and all others will die, and yet they claimed to have found immortality in the flesh." My only answer was, "I have not claimed any such thing, neither do I say that I shall not die." I would also point out that I do not mean the immortality of the physical body in its animal condition, with its physical passions, physical attractions, and under the compelling power of the law of Gravitation. Man must rise superior to the gross physical body, and by the power of the New Birth into the Divine Consciousness, he must change the very nature of his body, until it becomes as the body of our Lord, tree from the law of Gravitation, free from the material laws of the earth, and the flesh, and is absolutely a body over which death has no power. This is what one here and there throughout the history of the race has manifested, as already pointed out in the case of Enoch "who was not for God took him," and Melchizedek of whom it was said there was no end to his life. "For that after the similitude of Melchizedek there ariseth another priest, who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life. By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament." And this "Priest of an endless life" said, "Greater things than these shall ye do because I go to the Father." And He called Himself, "The firstborn among many brethren." He declared that all who accept His teaching, and keep His commandments, following Him faithfully in the Regeneration would never see death.
This clue concerning Life and Death throws such wonderful light upon the Agony in the Garden, for one remembers that He had said, "The prince of this world cometh and hath no part in me," and one knows that Death had no power over His body unless He deliberately gave it that power. "No man taketh it from me, I lay it down of myself." It was there in that Garden that He met face to face, the last act of Atonement for the race, to give up a body that need not know death, and to submit to all the pain and death agony of crucifixion, not for Himself, nor because He must, but because HE WILLINGLY would do so. Oh, what love was this! If you will use this clue you will see a glory and a meaning in many of His sayings, and the sayings of His disciples that you never saw before. "Who for the joy that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising the shame." "I lay it dawn that I may lake it again." What a clue we have here! Look at the magnitude of His sacrifice! See Him, who need not die, giving His body to death for us! What a wonderful vision! And yet how blind we have been to it, for do you not see that He must die the death to show us that "death had no dominion over Him," and that His own words might be fulfilled, "THAT I MAY TAKE IT AGAIN." How could death hold a body from which all the elements of death had been purged, and in which the prince of the world could find nothing to lay hold upon? "He hath ascended on high, He hath led captivity captive!"


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Q: Update an app from other iTunes/Computer without losing the Documents folder Our inHouse tech have installed our own app to some of our iPods 3.x devices.
Now, we have to update that app but WIHTOUT LOSING the data that has been entered by users.
The problem is that the computer who installed those app and syncronyzed, isn't working now, and when we try to update them from another computer, iTunes insist in deleting ALL apps and documents app from iPods and add the new ones.
I suppose that this action will erase ALL documents from the app, so we will lose the data.
What can we do ?
thanks,
m.
ps. those devices have currently an AdHoc profile

A: You can try to use the iPhone Configuration Utility, which can be found at http://support.apple.com/kb/DL851


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Q: How to practically make a bridge between user interface and the RFID reader/KOHA database? in java I am stuck in Koha database and RFID reader?  How to make a bridge between Koha database and RFID reader in Java.
Please help me out.

A: This requires 2 steps.
1. Authenticate as Library Admin
2. Access the "Circulation" modules via REST, but looks like this is not easy. The only link I found so far was :
ILSDL interface


Interested in applying for a Boston College apprenticeship? Still need some information confirming?
You should find most of the answers to the most frequently asked apprenticeship questions below.
What is the difference between an apprenticeships and a full time study programme?
Unlike a study programme, which focuses on developing your knowledge and abilities in College full time, an apprenticeship provides you with the opportunity to gain skills and knowledge through on-the-job training in the workplace, as well as classroom or workshop based learning at Boston College, all while earning a wage.
If you join us straight from school you may not be fully ready to enter straight into work. Apprenticeships are ideal for those who are ready to enter the world of work.
However, if you still like the idea of studying an apprenticeships, full time study programme may help prepare you. Visit our 'Study Programmes' page for more information.
You need to be at least 16 years old when you start your apprenticeship at Boston College.
There's no upper age limit - an adult can train as an apprentice too.
The current minimum wage for an apprentice is £3.90 per hour but employers can, and often do pay more. This rate applies to apprentices aged 16 to 18 and those aged 19 or over who are in their first year. All other apprentices are entitled to the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage dependent on their age.
You may need up to five GCSEs at grade 9-4 (A*-C) - including English and Maths. Entry requirements vary between individual apprenticeships - please see individual course information for further details.
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The majority of apprenticeships are based in the workplace and include one day a week at Boston College (either at the Boston or Spalding campus), however some are 100% work-based. Please see individual course information for further details.
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As an apprentice you will receive support from your employer, your lecturers and assessors at Boston College. You will also have a dedicated Apprenticeship Coordinator who will visit you and your employer in the workplace to support your progress both at college and at work.
As an apprentice it won't cost you anything. However, you may want to buy books and stationery to support your learning.
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You can view Boston College's current apprenticeship vacancies by clicking the 'Apprenticeship Vacancies' link at the top left hand side of this page. The Boston College Apprenticeship Team is also on hand to help match you to employers, as well as providing information on the training and qualifications available. Local vacancies are also advertised on the gov.uk 'Find an Apprenticeship' website.
The College's Career Team can also help you with CV writing and job applications.
I've already got a job, can I still do an apprenticeship?
Definitely - if your employer agrees you can become an apprentice in your current workplace, and base your training around your current job role.
Contact the College's Apprenticeship Team for more information, or your employer can do this directly.
Will I get holiday pay?
You will be entitled to the same employment terms and conditions as other employees working at similar grades or in similar roles, including; paid annual leave, sick pay and company benefits.
It will depend on the individual apprenticeship, however all apprentices have to be in training for a minimum of 12 months and one day.


The only part of the shuttle to fly in orbit; can transport 13 tons of material and five to seven astronauts.
Door allowing the crew to embark and disembark before the launch and after the return to Earth.
Protects the orbiter nose from heat caused by friction when the vehicle enters the atmosphere; covered with carbon fiber, it can withstand temperatures over 2,900°F.
Small rocket engines that direct the orbiter to the desired position.
Protects against heat so that the orbiter does not burn up on re-entry into the atmosphere.
Forward section of the orbiter housing the crew, flight-control equipment and monitor.
Shuttle compartment that stores various types of cargo, depending on the mission (satellite, probe, laboratory, telescope).
Mechanical arm used to handle and move shuttle cargo.
Discharges into space the heat produced by the functioning of onboard equipment.
Remains open in orbit so as to expose the content of the cargo bay to space.
Opening that provides access to the communications tunnel.
Area where scientific experiments on weightlessness are carried out.
Horizontal surface acted on by aerodynamic forces that keep the orbiter aloft in the atmosphere.
Each of the two ailerons controls pitching during landing.
Part serving as a thermal shield for the motors during re-entry into the atmosphere.
Contains fuel for the maneuvering engines and the directional control thrusters.
Each of the orbiter's three tail engines used during takeoff; these only function for the first 8 min. of flight.
Used to place the vehicle in orbit, to provide thrust in case the orbit changes and to take the vehicle out of orbit.
Mobile vertical part that allows the orbiter to set its direction when landing.
Varying for each mission, they make it possible, for example, to study meteorological conditions, pollution and cosmic radiation.
Door making it possible to expose equipment to the space vacuum.
Corridor that allows the astronauts to go from the orbiter crew compartment to the laboratory.
Window that makes it possible to see outside the orbiter.
Covering 70% of the orbiter, the tiles protect it from heat on re-entry into the atmosphere.