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News December 24, 2017 December 26, 2017
"Please Don't Climb" – The History and Victory of Rights to Respect for Uluru Rock and the Anangu People of Australia
by Josie Allison
"Please don't climb," reads a sign greeting tourists approaching Uluru Rock, standing as a subdued effort by the Anangu aboriginals to deter the violation of their sacred site.
Uluru Rock is an immense sandstone monolith in the heart of the Northern Territory in central Australia. Its enormous crimson mass dominates the arid landscape, rising 348 meters above ground—higher than both the Eiffel Tower and the Chrysler Building—with a ten-mile circumference, not to mention the 2.5 unseen kilometers extending underground. Uluru's magnitude, however, is not solely owed to its immense size. Uluru was first revered by the Anangu Aboriginal people as a sacred site believed to be shaped by their ancestors. In the past 70 years, this sacred site has been repurposed by Piranpa, or "white people" in Pitjantjatjara, as a tourist attraction. Chains and ropes were hammered into the rock so tourists can climb to the top and take photos. Motels, airstrips, and roads were developed to accommodate the traffic. For decades, the Aboriginal people have battled for ownership, rights, and respect restored to the land. After a series of portioned victories and unabated struggle, the Anangu people can finally see a ban placed on climbing Uluru in sight.
Uluru is believed by the Anangu to have been molded by ten ancestors during Tjukurpa, or, in the poor English translation, "Dreamtime." Before these ancestors walked its surface, the world was a featureless place. The Anangu say that these Anangu ancestors, or spirit people,began shaping the land as they explored it, creating formations like Uluru along their way. Uluru is esteemed as one of the most prominent sites; the aboriginals believe they can connect with Tjukurpa and receive blessing from their ancestors just by touching the stone.
Uluru, the Anangu, and their encompassing lands had long been left in peace due to their isolated location, but ever since white men's first contact with the area, the Anangu people have seen this site seized and degraded for profit, and have been in steady struggle over the region.
The first white men visited the region in the early 1870s and named Uluru, Ayers Rock, and Kata Tjuta (another prominent, sacred feature) Mount Olga. Due to the landscape's harsh conditions, the area didn't see much Piranpa traffic. In 1920, the region containing Uluru was declared the South West Reserve within a system of Aboriginal reserves established as sanctuaries. In 1940, the reserves were minimized to make way for mining development, and a dirt track leading to Uluru was carved eight years later, opening the floodgates to tourists and miners who made regular trips to exploit the unprotected, sacred land. The Australian Commonwealth recognized the rich opportunity for tourism in the area, and removed Uluru and Kata Tjuta from the protection of the Reserve, deeming it a park functioning under government legislation. As their world and Tjukurpa were signed away and converted to an attraction, the Anangu people took up arms in an unwavering fight to take back their land and rights.
Eventually, after a series of meetings, the territory was declared a National Park under the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act of 1975, and ownership was transferred to the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service in 1977. The battle for ownership continued, and in 1979, possession of the peripheral lands surrounding Uluru and Kata Tjuta were restored to the hands of the traditional owners, but the National Park territory containing their sacred sites was excluded. This fruitless victory led to three years of lobbying by Anangu councils and officials to amend the claim and the bureaucracy that barred them from full ownership. Aboriginal Australian artist and activist Vince Forrester stated in 1983 in the Financial Review, "We want Uluru back. but not under [these] proposals…We want total management. We want land rights as land rights are supposed to be and not watered down."
After three years of debate without consensus, Prime Minister Robert Hawke announced the handback, sparking controversy and opposition from Northern Territory government and tourism industry who feared that the transfer would threaten their capacity to capitalize on the park. The following years witnessed a series of political battles as the Anangu remained unyielding, all the while repeating to the public that their intentions as owners would not hinder tourist operations. Finally, on Oct. 26, 1985, hundreds of Anangu and Australian civilians gathered to witness the 'handover' as the title deeds were passed to the Traditional Owners at the base of Uluru.
This was a massive victory for the Anangu people and for Aboriginals across Australia. As he announced his intentions for the handover in the Launceston Examiner in 1983, Prime Minister Hawke remarked, "This is a historic decision and is a measure of the willingness of the Government, on behalf of the Australian people, to recognize the just and legitimate claims of a people who have been dispossessed of their land but who have never lost their spiritual attachment to that land." While this statement rings true and the handover set in motion closer ties and communication between the Australian government and the Anangu people, their land continued to be exploited and their voice continued to be muffled under politics and agendas. After the handover, the traditional owners leased the territory back to Commonwealth, initiating joint management of the National Park. This allowed sacred sites like Uluru and Kata Tjuta to remain as tourist destinations.
Before the repossession of Uluru, chains were hammered into the rock to assist tourists in their climbing the rock. Climbers have since consistently summited the rock, an inherently disrespectful act that has left a path of rubber from the soles of shoes that track up the rock and are visible from miles away. Furthermore, the tourist traffic and lack of waste facilities have left trash and a stench of urine in the area. Aside from the tourism's violation of the site, over 30 climbers have died in their attempts to summit Uluru in past decades. Nevertheless, the treatment of Uluru has been a consistent conflict between the Anangu and the Commonwealth, and the Aboriginal community has argued for years for a ban be placed on climbing Uluru.
The Anangu people report that they have felt coerced and pressured by the government over the issue. "Over the years Anangu have felt a sense of intimidation, as if someone is holding a gun to our heads to keep [Uluru] open. Please don't hold us to ransom," Chairman of the park board and traditional Uluru owner, Sammy Wilson, stated in The Guardian. Aboriginals have placed a sign as the trailhead leading to the monolith that reads "Please don't climb;" however there has never been any jurisdiction prohibiting climbers. The sacredness of the site has been acknowledged without action, and has even been capitalized on by the tourism industry. Tours drive around the rock to look at ceremonial sites where the Anangu continue to perform rituals. The Uluru Travel Guide website trivializes the Aboriginal significance of the site by equating it to the tourist's appreciation. It says, "Uluru as it is known to the indigenous Aboriginal people, is a very sacred place. But visitors from around the world who come for an Ayers Rock tour have no trouble relating to the magic and power of this formation." The site later writes, "The Aboriginal people would prefer visitors to stay off their sacred site, but there are marked trails leading across and atop Ayers Rock. Visitors who aren't deterred by the cultural warnings will get spectacular views from the top of Uluru."
The recent push to prohibit climbing Uluru is residual from the Park's management plan for 2010-2020 that proposed that a ban be placed if fewer than 20 percent of tourists climbed the rock. It was reported that between 2011 and 2015, only 16 percent of visitors climbed, setting forth the announcement that a ban will be placed on Uluru on October 26, 2019, a date chosen to celebrate the 34th anniversary of the handover. This decision breathes a sigh of relief and shout of triumph throughout the Anangu and Aboriginal community. The ban marks an end to a 70-year conflict between the Anangu and a government that consistently placed dollars over indigenous rights. The exploitation, stifling, and ensuing struggle of the Anangu reflect a similar battle fought by indigenous communities across the world as they grapple with their local governments for rights and respect to their lands and community. Unfortunately, very few of these battles bear the same fruits that we have seen today in Australia. The Sherpa have been in constant conflict with the Nepali government over the unjust treatment of their community and their sacred Himalayan land. After a series of protests and strikes, they have seen very little progress in their movement rights and respect. The Standing Rock Reservation ten-month protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline and the government's heartbreaking disregard for their cries exemplifies the worldwide weight indigenous communities bear as they face threatening corporate and administrative interests. Although there is still much work to do in compensating the Aboriginal people, the Anangu people's long-due victory of Uluru is an event to be celebrated and reverberated around the world in the strife of indigenous communities. The Anangu story should resonate in the minds of tourists as they appreciate sacred spaces and be echoed in government halls as legislation is imposed on sacred grounds.
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Sophisticated software is to be used by Transport for London (TfL) to improve its traffic management system.
Through a 10-year partnership with Siemens Mobility, TfL is seeking to deliver £1bn of benefits through the reduction of delays for all road users by 2036.
The Split Cycle Offset Optimisation Technique (SCOOT), which is the current Urban Traffic Control system in London that aids TfL in the use and management of the road space through the optimisation of traffic light timings, operates on an outdated technology. The newly generated Real Time Optimiser (RTO), developed and maintained by Siemens Mobility, in conjunction with TfL, will replace and build on these current capabilities.
The methodology of SCOOT is simple: with the aid of sensors, it detects traffic and adjusts traffic lights signal timings accordingly. It has sought to reduce the extent of delays (traffic delays are 13% lower than what it would otherwise be) and simultaneously allows more people and goods to move on the capital's road network. When the sensors detect high levels of congestion, traffic lights give priority to buses, they inform cyclists of segregated and less congested lanes and extend the green pedestrian invitation for citizens.
RTO technology will be able to not only help TfL further in the logistical sphere, but also facilitate citizens to plan their journeys through the provision of open data. Should TfL face a disruptive issue that may be caused by an unplanned incident, planned works or events, the 24/7 control centre of the company will make use of the new sophisticated tools to tackle and rectify the problem as quickly as possible. With regards to how it will aid citizens, the open data will inform road users of current or (un)expected road conditions to support improved journey planning.
Glynn Barton, Director of Network Management, TfL, identifies the new traffic management system as a "game-changer" for people in London, as it will "use new data sources to better manage our road network, tackle congestion, reduce delays for people choosing healthier travel options and improve air quality".
Wilke Reints, Managing Director at Siemens adds that the system is a "unique opportunity to build a robust, reliable system that will meet the needs of one of the world's largest cities".
In a GovTech Leaders interview with London CDO Theo Blackwell, he stressed that the "investment in technology in our transport infrastructure is the fundamental way forward" in order to "manage growth (2m more people in the 25 years) with limited extra capacity". This will be achieved partly through the use of open data.
On a similar theme, TfL has announced that pay as you go fares information is to be added to TfL's Journey Planner and open data feed. Customers using TfL's Journey Planner can now see how much a planned journey on public transport in London will cost, following recent upgrades to help make planning journeys easier for customers.
As TfL's journey planning tool is powered directly from its open data API, the data will also be available to developers free of charge at tfl.gov.uk/open-data and joins an extensive range of TfL data feeds already available.
Ben Gammon, Head of Digital, TfL, states that 'by being open and transparent with our data, we can strengthen our relationship with our customers, encouraging more people to use public transport and other more sustainable forms of transport such as walking and cycling', and thus reduce the dire consequences of pollution on the environment and citizens of London.


Our out of town trips are usually spent with family and friends. John and I last went on a trip with just the two of us in 2001 in Boracay. I gave birth to twins Julia and Rafael in 2002. Yes, they're made in Boracay (winking twice here!).
I miss the feeling of spending alone time with my boyfriend forever, my bestfriend, my staunch supporter and my soulmate.
I am looking forward into spending that long-awaited and much needed time-alone with John via View Park Hotel. Who knows, another twins may come out after this vacation, made in Tagaytay, lol!!!


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Best of Books named Oklahoma's best-loved bookstore
EDMOND — Independent bookseller Best of Books has been named "Oklahoma's Most Beloved Bookstore" by Reader's Digest magazine.
The designation comes courtesy of online voters using Nextdoor, a private social network designed to keep residents aware of what is happening in their neighborhood and surrounding neighborhoods. Customers nationwide voted for their favorite bookstore in each state.
Reader's Digest wrote online: "The first rule of book club: Don't talk about book club. While that's not exactly true at Best of Books in Edmond, their 'book club' is a lesser-known fact. But it's also one that's definitely worth joining: For every 12 books you buy from the shop, you get a store credit to put towards your 13th."
Best of Books is a 3,100-square-foot store located at 1313 E Danforth Rd. in Edmond. The store has been in operation for almost 35 years. It is currently owned an operated by the Hight family; full disclosure, owner Joe Hight spent years as an editor at The Oklahoman.
The store "has close relationships with schools, libraries and universities" and "offers discounts for educators, book club members and military members," as well as public events for children and opportunities to meet and get books signed by authors, according to a news release.

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CPRE:  Second homes are gutting communities
30 Mar 2013 | News
When planning minister Mr Boles has been asked about this, he claims the answer is to build more! The story from the BBC is below and here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21979039 The tax system should put countryside second homes beyond the reach of more people, according to the head of the Campaign to Protect Rural England. Ex-poet laureate Sir Andrew Motion said "townies in the [...]
Young people doing really well in East Devon
It's called Knowing East Devon and is full of statistical information relating to East Devon and its population. One of the statistics relates to East Devon being the second highest district in Devon for the number of holiday homes. Page 171 has some really interesting information about rates of employment and our young people. The report states: "The proportion of the [...]
Scrutiny cttee recommend protective policies for district
Proposed by Cllr Roger Giles and seconded by me, the overview and scrutiny committee agreed to: 1. Make representations to the Local Government Association relating to concerns of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) timetable being too fast for plans needing to be compliant with the NPPF 2. Endorsing in policy, the disaggregation approach (splitting the district in half), which was a [...]
Business forum scrutiny cttee to look at planning after all
After a very long and protracted debate, EDDC's overview and scrutiny committee agreed by a narrow margin, that its sub-committee should be allowed to look into EDBF's influence on planning. An amendment by Cllr Tony Howard to suspend the committee until the police investigation was over, was voted down. It follows months of wrangling and rows over whether or not it was appropriate for[...]
Pickles to revoke old south west housing targets
This is significant because although the south west regional spatial strategy (RSS) was never adopted, it proposed 17,100 houses for East Devon, a massive hike from the 11,400 RSS housing target for the district, that was published just two years previously in 2006. There has been continuing rows about using this evidence base with which to pin our new housing levels in the new draft EDDC Local [...]
Don't forget Tuesday 2 April if you are a Feniton resident
At 2pm, at Knowle, Sidmouth, EDDC offices, members of EDDC's development management committee will sit down and determine the two of the three major Feniton applications, currently on the table. These are for 32 houses on land next to Acland Park and secondly, for 59 houses (reduced from 120 houses) on land west of Ottery Road. Please make every effort to be there, if you are a [...]
East Devon planning woes feature in new national report
"Scaring the Living Daylights out of People" covers three main subject areas, including exploring the tactics of companies who want to demolish people's homes to build lucrative new developments, conflicts of interest in East Devon and the lobbying practices used by supermarkets that want planning permission to build new stores. The East Devon chapter is entitled "the local[...]
Wainhomes swoops on Feniton again
This time the field in question is adjacent to the Wainhomes appeal site, where 50 houses were allowed by a planning inspector last September. Wainhomes have now applied to build 83 houses, which, if approved, would link up with Green Lane. It would appear to me that the more applications that are approved, the more applications will be submitted. I hope next week's development management [...]
Mammoth tooth found in river Otter
It's not often you stumble across a 20,000-year-old mammoth tooth while carrying out a routine task at work, but that's exactly what happened to Environment Agency officer Simon McHugh. Simon was checking riverbank erosion near Newton Poppleford in East Devon when he noticed the massive molar sitting on the bed of the River Otter. Experts at London's Natural History Museum have confirmed [...]
Western Morning News coverage of Feniton march
Hundreds of people took to the streets in a "save our countryside" protest against controversial government plans to relax planning laws. More than 250 people gathered in the East Devon village of Feniton on Saturday to express their fears over the impact on rural areas of the new national planning policy framework coming into force this week. Campaigners say the thousands of new homes planned[...]
More pictures from Feniton protest - Midweek Herald
http://www.midweekherald.co.uk/news/feniton_march_1_1990908?id=14&storyId=1.1990909.1364219361
Just seven per cent of plans ruled in line with NPPF
Fewer than seven per cent of councils have adopted plans that have been judged by inspectors to fully comply with the government's National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) ahead of the deadline to get plans up to date this week. The government gave local authorities 12 months to bring adopted local plans in line with the NPPF when it published the framework last March. Under the [...]
East Devon Business Forum to continue
Members of the East Devon Business Forum have decided not to disband the group. Roy Stuart, vice chairman of the forum called for members to decide at its meeting, held on Wednesday, March 20, whether to disband the group or continue with an amended constitution after the chief executive of East Devon District Council, Mark Williams ruled that the Local Authority would no longer provide financial [...]
Middle England prepares for planning war
Reforms that come into force this week have already led to 25,000 extra homes being given planning permission in the past year. Since the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) was first published last March, the number of homes granted approval in England has risen by a quarter on the previous year, figures show. Experts warned communities that the number would rise even more once the NPPF [...]


Cardiff is a fundamentally strange place. A capitol city with a small-town mindset. Beautiful buildings side-by-side with deeply ugly, crumbling counterparts. Money sluicing into some areas, and cruelly meandering away from others.
No, there's nothing too unusual about these circumstances. But Cardiff's small size magnifies these effects, and it's the first I mentioned that has the greatest impact. It's an important place, and yet for many, it's simply their local town, where they pop into on Saturday to buy sausages. Mmm, sausages.
Anyway – the result is a music scene that is dynamic, fractured and outward-looking, and yet marked with a homely feel. I'm aways expecting a New Wave Of Country and Western to emerge from there.
Until that happens, here's Cardiff's Lucky Delucci, typically fulfilling their requirements: gentle Euros Childs-esque folk cross-faded with staccato drums; the Tweecore golden duo of glockenspiels 'n' strings pushing up against something a bit more… grand.
By twinning these two sensibilities of old and new, Lucky Delucci fulfil Cardiff's unspoken remit: thrusting forward to the future yet pandering to the past. In the tedious world of town planning, this approach might stultify; in the shimmering world of shiny pop music, it works, if you can do it.
Lucky Delucci can. Sweet, cunning, and gazing hungrily over the horizon. Or at least Cardiff Bay.
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Imagine that you just negotiated a great deal on a new home. That's not surprising, given how well you managed the process from start to finish. You studied the local real estate market and discovered the seller's motives for listing the property. You even created mutual gain by allowing the seller to stay in the house for several weeks after closing, since you'll be leaving on vacation anyway. And, to top it off, your timing was impeccable. The day after papers were signed, another potential buyer appeared, offering much more than you did. Fortunately for you, they were too late.
Hats off to you! But here's an unsettling question: Did you succeed because you were smart or merely because you were lucky?
Imagine a parallel universe with a carbon copy of you, an identical seller, and the exact same house. That "other you" prepared and negotiated exactly the same way you did. But in this alternative world, one thing was different: The competing buyer showed up two days earlier. Because they made a higher bid, the other you had to pay much more to avoid losing out entirely.
Condolences to your double, of course. But remember that your doppelganger was just as masterful a negotiator as you are, just not so lucky. This misfortune could just as well have befallen the real you.
Luck, both bad and good, often looms large in negotiation. It's rarely acknowledged by practitioners or studied by scholars in the field, but ignore it at your peril. By its very nature, luck can't be controlled, yet it can be intelligently managed, beginning with how you think about it.
Before digging deeper, please launch the activity below to assess your own "luck factor." There are no right or wrong answers on this quiz. Just pick whichever response ("true" or "false") tends to be closer to your experience.
In 1942 an Austrian émigré took a wrong turn in a New York City night club and ended up at the table of Broadway lyricist Alan Jay Lerner. The Austrian was a struggling composer named Frederick Loewe. They struck up a casual conversation, which ultimately turned into a long collaboration that produced hits like My Fair Lady, Camelot, and Brigadoon.
If Lerner hadn't gone to that club that night, or if Loewe hadn't wandered by, perhaps they might have bumped into each other at some later point and gone on to make great music together—but probably not. Lucky them (and lucky us). What we can never know, of course, is the number and nature of near misses—the possible collaborators whose paths didn't quite cross and, hence, whose songs we never got to hear.
So it is in negotiation. And so it is with whom you meet and when you see them. Call it chance or call it luck, but your success at fashioning collaborative agreements depends in part on whom you happen to encounter, what they need from you at that particular time, and what they can provide you in return.
The module began with the story of you and a doppelganger, both equally skilled and diligent when it comes to negotiation. But one you (the real one) was able to buy a lovely house at an excellent price. Through no fault of their own, your double had to pay much more just because the stars were aligned for you, not them.
Unlike Rock, many successful business people believe that their professional achievements are a testament to their own intelligence, vision, and virtue (or some high-powered cocktail of all three). Harvard Business School Professors Francesca Gino and Gary Pisano state that it is all too common for executives to attribute the success of their organizations to their own insights and managerial skills and to ignore or downplay random events or external factors beyond their control.
Researchers have confirmed this finding and, as Gino and Pisano note, have further found that when examining the bad performance of others, people tend to do the exact opposite. That is, when they see other people's success, they explain it as being the result of pure luck (and regard other people's failures as due to their incompetence).
This double-standard is both vain and dangerous. Believing that your successes are due to your brilliance and that any failures are a matter of bad luck, distorts your learning. That's especially true when it comes to negotiation because it provides poor feedback. High performance—doing everything right—doesn't guarantee outstanding results if fortune isn't on your side. Even after a negotiation is over, luck still complicates the picture and may make us mislearn from experience. Negotiation is a wicked learning environment, because you seldom know the whole story.
What lesson should you draw, for example, if you walk away from the bargaining table empty handed? It could be that there simply was no room for agreement. Alternatively, perhaps one side overplayed its hand. Maybe neither party was very creative. Or maybe you had the bad luck to be matched up with someone who simply wasn't open to reason.
You should be modest, therefore, about your apparent successes and circumspect about your seeming failures. Baseball is a so-called game of inches in which the margin between victory and defeat can be razor thin. A screaming line drive may land just foul or land fair, sparking a ninth-inning rally. Over a full season, such bounces tend to even out. Similarly, in the negotiations we undertake over the years, luck more or less balances out for most of us.
In particular cases, it boils down to having a clear-eyed view of what's in your control and what isn't. You may not have the luxury of choosing your negotiating partners. And you certainly can't dictate how they're feeling on a given day, how they weigh their alternatives to coming to agreement with you, or if some external event will help you or them. Thus, where you end up—with a great outcome, a merely adequate one, or no deal at all—depends significantly on your luck with respect to who's across the table, how they plays the game, and whether they're open to persuasion.
Of course, much still depends on how well you play whatever cards you've been dealt. That includes your skill at reading others' tendencies and your ability to influence them positively and spot opportunities to spark mutual gain. Psychological research also shows that in preparing for negotiation, you can prime yourself to look for the upside by taking just a few minutes to list your goals and the steps you can take to achieve them. You might also take a cue from the classic Kenny Rogers song "The Gambler". In both poker and negotiation, the secret lies in knowing what to throw away and what to keep.
Uncertainty complicates planning any endeavor. For some people, that uncertainty can be paralyzing. Eileen Shapiro and Howard Stevenson, authors of Make Your Own Luck, say that, "Of course, acting in the face of uncertainty is scary, because you are acting before all the facts are in—though in truth you are always acting before all the facts are in, whether you are doing what you planned to do or making a shift based on new information."
Shapiro and Stevenson write about strategy and decision-making generally, but their advice is particularly apt in negotiation.
Identify your major goals, they advise, then map out multiple paths to reach them.
Don't try to account for too many possibilities (otherwise the complexity of your map will make it impossible to comprehend).
Assess the various tracks you might follow, not just to pick the best, but to keep other options open.
Take a hard-headed look at how much "smagic" (their term for luck) will be needed to reach your objective.
Accept the luck factor in negotiation. Your results - whether good or bad - are never all of your own doing.
Make ongoing learning a priority as you negotiate.
Felda Hardymon, Tom Nicholas, and Liz Kind, "Arthur Rock," Harvard Business School Case 813-138.
Eileen C. Shapiro and Howard H. Stevenson, Make Your Own Luck: 12 Practical Steps to Taking Smarter Risks in Business, Portfolio, 2005.
Michael Wheeler, Chapter 12, "Wicked Learning" in The Art of Negotiation: How to Improvise Agreement in a Chaotic World, Simon & Schuster, 2013.
Richard Wiseman, The Luck Factor: The Four Essential Principles, Miramax Books, 2004.


Glenleigh Park teaches a blend of the National Curriculum for England and our own Paragon Curriculum. We hope that you find the information below useful. If you have any questions about our curriculum please speak to your child's teacher or contact the school office.
As an academy we have freedom to design and implement a curriculum that we feel is best suited to the children at our school. The teaching of English and Maths is our highest priority so that children leave Glenleigh Park with the skills they need to succeed in secondary school and beyond. We know however that children learn best when what they are learning about is fun, engaging and hands-on. That is why we make links between the subjects we teach whenever possible. For example if children are learning about Ancient Egypt our curriculum planning makes sure that in English lessons children use what they have found out to write about Egypt across a range of different genres. Similarly links are made between science lessons and maths so that if children have carried out an experiment and recorded the results they may use these in a maths lesson when learning about handling data.
The links below take you to the documents that our teachers use to teach our curriculum at Glenleigh Park. Should you have any further questions regarding the curriculum at Glenleigh Park please contact the Headteacher.


PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A car slammed into a Philadelphia police patrol car overnight in Northeast Philadelphia.
Two officers were reportedly taken to the hospital to be checked for minor injuries.
A photo of the cruiser shows damage to the back door on the passenger side.
The police vehicle was hit at the intersection of Magee Avenue and Charles Street in the Tacony neighborhood.
There is no word whether or not charges were filed against the other driver.


Mac Mahoney is a 17 year-old senior brought up in West Hartford, CT. Born on September 19th, 2001, Mac lives with his mom, dad, and twin sister, Katie. He uses his free time to complete any unfinished work and relax with his homeboys. He is very involved with the Hall community, highlighted by his captainship of the Boys' Golf team and participation in the Modern Vintage club.
In the future, Mac will attend and hopes to graduate from a 4-year university. He would love to follow in the footsteps of his role model, Warren Buffett, because, "he is a financial legend, in investing." "It's hard not to like a guy with billions of dollars," Mac added jokingly. Mac is loyal and honest, and is not afraid to tell people what he thinks of them. This will benefit him in the journalism class, which he took because he believes he "would get the most applicable skills from it".


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Coffey In Quest Of 3rd Rite Aid 200 Triumph On Syracuse Mile
Syracuse, NY — October 3, 2009 – By Kevin Kovac, World of Outlaws Late Model Series P.R. Director
Vic Coffey has experienced the thrill of winning the world's richest DIRTcar Big-Block Modified event – twice.
Maybe that's why the 2008 World of Outlaws Late Model Series Rookie of the Year doesn't have any butterflies floating in his stomach as he prepares to make another assault on the Rite Aid 200 Presented By Ferris & Snapper Mowers, which headlines Super DIRT Week XXXVIII, Oct. 7-11, at the famed Syracuse Mile on the New York State Fairgrounds.
"You always want to win that race so bad because it's the biggest Big-Block Modified race of the year," Coffey said of the $50,000-to-win event that he captured in 2002 and again in '07. "Even after you win it once, you still want to win it again. But once you win it, it does take that pressure off. You're not thinking, 'Can I do it this year?' because you've already done it.
"After you've won it," he continued, "if things go bad for you – like they went bad for us last year when we broke a spindle about 20 laps into the race (and finished 45th) – you can deal with the disappointment a little better. But if you've never won it before and you have trouble, it seems like it takes 3,000 days for the year to go by so you'll have another shot at it. You just can't stop thinking about getting back there again to try to get that first win."
Coffey, 38, of Caledonia, N.Y., might now carry himself with the confident posture of a former Syracuse champion, but that doesn't mean he'll enter the 2009 Super DIRT Week activities totally free of concerns. He has, after all, entered just a half-dozen DIRTcar Big-Block Modified events this season due to his focus on dirt Late Model racing and will be debuting a brand-new, limited-edition machine built by Troyer Race Cars in Rochester, N.Y.
Heading out on the intimidating 'Moody Mile' in an untested car wasn't Coffey's original plan. He decided a couple months ago to turn over the proven Bicknell car that he's driven in the last three Rite Aid 200s (including his '07 triumph) to his Sweeteners Plus Racing teammate Tim McCreadie of Watertown, N.Y. – the 2006 WoO LMS champion who is returning to Super DIRT Week competition this year for the first time since 2005 – and ready his team's existing Troyer car to run at Syracuse. But Coffey destroyed the mount earmarked for 'Cuse duty in a wild series of flips during a heat race on Aug. 29 at Canandaigua (N.Y.) Speedway, forcing him to order a new car for the annual autumn showdown that this year culminates the week on Sun., Oct. 11.
Coffey's Modified wasn't constructed specifically for Syracuse – it's a short-track frame with a body that's been beefed up to withstand the rigors of the high-speed mile – but it sports enough new ideas, including a different motor placement, to make it quite unique.
"I'm not worried about running the new car, just a little unsure about it," said Coffey, whose only top-10 finishes in 13 career Rite Aid 200 starts are, amazingly, his pair of victories. "Running this car is a little bit of a gamble. Troyer has only built a few of these type cars and I think we'll have the only one at Syracuse, so it could be a big advantage for us or it could be a struggle if we can't get it figured out right away."
Coffey sees pure speed as probably being more important than gas mileage this year in the Rite Aid 200, thanks to a new rule DIRTcar Racing officials have instituted. Teams must make two mandatory pit stops – one before lap 100 and one after the halfway point – for the first time in an event that usually sees its winner push the fuel envelope well over 100 laps.
"I think it's a good rule," said Coffey, who won the 2002 Rite Aid 200 when leader Kenny Tremont ran out of gas on the final lap. "Now everybody should be able to run hard rather than worry about conserving fuel. It should make the race more fun and exciting."
With Coffey currently on a week-long Midwestern dirt Late Model trip that ends on Saturday night (Oct. 3) with the Knoxville Late Model Nationals at Knoxville (Iowa) Raceway, he's dispatched two volunteers to pick up his Syracuse car at the Troyer shop. Troyer workers assembled most of the machine, leaving Coffey and Co. with only some final preparations, including engine installation, when they return to their team headquarters in Avon, N.Y., most likely sometime on Sunday.
Despite the car being largely race-ready, "we're gonna have a couple late nights in the shop," said Coffey. In addition to finishing the Big-Block car, Coffey must also swap the dirt Late Model parts in his new Featherlite trailer, which he picked up last week in Iowa, for Modified paraphernalia and load up the car he'll run in the DIRTcar 358-Modified Syracuse 150. He's not sure if he'll make it to the Fairgrounds in time for 'Happy Hour' hot laps at 3 p.m. on Wednesday (Oct. 7), so his practice time might be limited before Rite Aid 200 time trials begin on Thursday afternoon (Oct. 8).
The segment of Super DIRT Week that has Coffey most jazzed is the 150-lap 358-Modified event on Sat., Oct. 10. He's come close to winning the event several times, including last year when he crossed the finish line second but was later disqualified because the back-up car he hadn't planned to use was found to have a cylinder head infraction.
"I feel more anxious about the small-block (358) deal," admitted Coffey, who will make his 13th start in the 358-Modified show that headlines Saturday's Super DIRT Week program. "We've had a good shot at winning that thing three or four times, so I'd really like to get that race.
"I think we have a real good shot at it. We're going there with the same (358) package that we've run the last few years (a Bicknell car with a Mopar engine) and we know it's fast. It's going to be a matter of catching the right breaks."
Coffey expects to be back in his dirt Late Model following Super DIRT Week, perhaps for the WoO LMS 'Topless Showdown' on Wed., Oct. 14, at The Dirt Track @ Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., and certainly for the World of Outlaws World Finals on Nov. 5-7 at The Dirt Track. Though he dropped off the WoO LMS as a regular midway through the season, in 26 tour A-Main starts this year he's registered more top-five finishes (three, including a career-best second-place run on Sept. 2 at New York's Brewerton Speedway) and the same number of top-10s (nine) that he did in 34 A-Main outings in 2008
For more information about Super DIRT Week, including lap sponsorship, ticket order placement and vendor space availability, please contact DIRTcar Racing NE Headquarters during the week at 315/834-6606. Further newsworthy items can be found at www.superdirtcarseries.com and www.dirtcar.com as well as www.superdirtweekonline.com, where tickets can be ordered and official Super DIRT Week entry forms are found. Sign up today as a Big-Block 'follower' on Twitter by visiting http://www.twitter.com/SuperDIRTcar and http://twitter.com/SuperDIRTWeek, the exclusive site for all the racing activity scheduled during the week ahead.
DIRTcar Racing Northeast main office is located in Weedsport, New York on the Cayuga County Fairgrounds, home of DIRTcar All-Star Weekend in July. DIRTcar Northeast's crown jewel event —Super DIRT Week at the New York State Fairgrounds in Syracuse— runs October 7-11, 2009 featuring Hoosier Tire-VP Racing Fuels Mr. DIRTcar Championship Series events for Big-Block Modified, 358-Modified, Sportsman and Pro Stock divisions. Ticket and schedule information is available by contacting the Weedsport office (315/834-6606) during the day or logging into www.superdirtweekonline.com anytime.
The Big-Block Super DIRTcar Series is brought to fans across the Northeast by several sponsors and partners, including series sponsors Hoosier Racing Tire www.hoosiertire.com and VP Racing Fuels www.vpracingfuels.com. Promotional partners include Rite Aid Corporation www.riteaid.com, Dig Safely New York www.digsafelynewyork.com and the University of Northwestern Ohio www.unoh.com and the contingency sponsors are Bars Leaks www.barsproducts.com, Bert Transmission www.berttransmission.com, Bicknell Racing Products www.bicknellracingproducts.com, Bilstein Shocks www.bilstein.com, Brodix Cylinder Heads www.brodix.com, Ferris Industries www.ferrisindustries.com, Integra Shocks www.integrashocksandsprings.com, Intercomp www.intercomp-racing.com, KSE Racing Products www.kse-racing.com, Motorsports Safety Systems www.motorsportssafetysystems.com, Penske Shocks, www.penskeshocks.com, Racing Electronics www.racingelectronics.com, Rislone Oil Stabilizer www.barsproducts.com and Wrisco Industries www.wrisco.com.
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Tetris Deluxe
Tetris just can't get old... or can it? We review the latest version of the famous puzzler, this time on cell phones.
For years, we've seen variation after variation of the popular Alexei Pajitnov puzzle game Tetris, a piece-dropping game where the goal is to basically create solid lines in a limited puzzle field to eliminate them from play. If a line is not eliminated, it remains and pieces can stack on top of it. The higher the pieces stack, the easier it is to lose the game. You know the formula. It's seen use on the NES and current generation consoles, and now it's time for cell phone users to get in on the act.
Tetris Deluxe is Blue Lava's take on the classic puzzle game, and it keeps to the simple formula of the original game, a smart move considering that latest versions of the game haven't really done so. The result is a joyous, if simple, puzzle game that will keep you busy for hours on end. It features colorful graphics and simple, bright shapes to put into play, and the sound effects are kept easy to not put your phone into overdrive. This means no background music, but oh well.
As far as gameplay, it's very solid, coming into good use with the keypad and allowing you to be precise, either on your own or with the assistance of "ghost pieces" which help you see where your shape could end up. The difficulty ramps up pretty nicely, and the game features an abundance of modes, including the classic non-stop Marathon, the speedy Ultra competition, and the challenging 40 Lines mode. There's no real versus mode, I'm afraid, but the rest of the game in its single player guise is pretty damn cool.
The old credo "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" comes into play, and Blue Lava was wise to bring us Tetris in a good ol' form instead of some revamped bastardization that would have left us distracted. It may not be for everyone, especially if they've gone out of Tetris leagues with new puzzle games. But there's still plenty of pleasant distraction to stick on your cell phone with this, so at least give it a couple of playthroughs and have some fun again.
What's Hot: It ain't broke, and they didn't fix it. Great game after all these years.
What's Not: Looking for something new? Then move along.


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John Sabo, a visiting researcher from Arizona State University, will be presenting this week's roundtable! He will be telling us about his work in the ecologically and economically important Mekong River Basin. We will be continuing the climate change theme from last week's talk, but moving onto its impacts on fisheries instead. He will also discuss how dams have impacted the river and fisheries.
Abstract: Inland capture fisheries on the Mekong River provide a majority of the animal protein and vitamin A to the diets of over 40M people in the Lower Mekong River Basin. The productivity of this fishery is fueled by the monsoon flood pulse which creates wetlands the size of small US states in Cambodia and Vietnam. The region is experiencing rapid development, including the planning and impending construction of over 20 hydropower facilities, some already built. Climate change will also likely change the intensity and timing of the South Asian Monsoon, with implications for the extent of the ensuing flood pulse and the fishery that depends on it. In this roundtable I will address two topics. First, I present the results from a century scale analysis of change in hydrologic variation and key aspects of the flood pulse on the Mekong River including an assessment of current dams. This analysis is done within a novel spectral framework that allows for identification of baseline stationarity and decomposition of the linear, seasonal and stochastic components of change in daily discharge. Second I link spectral measures of hydrologic variation to catch data from the fishery using a 15-year dataset of the Dai fishery on the Tonle Sap River (Cambodia) and a second time series approach—a multivariate autoregressive state space (MARSS) model. The spectral-MARSS framework is then used to forecast the fishery under near time climate change. Daily discharge variation and key aspects of the flood pulse have been experiencing natural change for over a century. Existing dams have modified discharge in spite of a shifting baseline. Fisheries catch varies with several spectral measures of daily discharge variation. Surprisingly, low flows have equal if not higher positive effect sizes than high flows on catch in this flood pulse system and spectral measures outperform "first moment" measures of flood pulse extent. Moreover, antecedent hydrology—the flood drought sequence from the previous 1-2 years—significantly affects current catch in the fishery. These results suggest that the spectral-MARSS framework may provide a robust tool for forecasting fisheries production in the future.
Ian McCullough is from the UCSB Bren school and will be presenting on his PhD research. Join us for this timely talk on climate change and California forests.
Abstract: Climate change has emerged as a potent threat to forests worldwide, resulting in heightened concern for the sustainability of timber resources, ecosystem services, structure and function. In this study, we investigate the effects of long-term climate change on the growth and distribution of ponderosa pine in the Sierra Nevada of California using tree-rings and statistically downscaled climate models. We focused initial efforts on a small, declining population at Tejon Ranch, near the species' southern range limit. Subsequently, we incorporated published tree-ring chronologies from the International Tree-Ring Data Bank to assess climate-growth relationships along a Sierra Nevada latitudinal gradient. Climatic controls on growth have varied historically across the gradient. Although precipitation was the primary limiting factor at all sites, more northern sites were more sensitive to fall temperatures, whereas southern sites were more sensitive to climatic water deficits (measure of unmet evaporative demand for water). Given that trees cannot live where they cannot grow, we are currently exploring ways to use the climate-growth relationship to infer the potential future distribution of ponderosa pine based on locations of favorable growing habitat.
Roundtable for next week will be presented by Emma Hodgson, a graduate student in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Marine species are experiencing a suite of novel stressors from anthropogenic activities that have impacts at multiple scales. Ecological risk assessment is commonly used to judge the consequence of novel stressors to species, but usually without consideration of the life history of organisms. Most marine species vary throughout their life history in their spatio-temporal distributions in the water column, their responses to external pressures, and their level of contribution to the population overall. Better incorporating our understanding of those differences between life stages provides an opportunity to advance our understanding of the consequences of stress at the population level. This work advances approaches to ecological risk assessment and cumulative impacts assessment by explicitly incorporating life stage exposure, sensitivity, and importance to population growth rate.
Carol Blanchette, Associate Research Biologist from the Marine Science Institute will be our Roundtable speaker next week. Please join us for a lively discussion on an interesting topic!
Abstract: "If science is going to fully serve its societal mission in the future, we need to both encourage and equip the next generation of scientists to effectively engage with the broader society in which we work and live" (Leshner 2007, AAAS CEO). This sentiment has been broadly embraced by scientists and non-scientists in recent years, along with the idea that scientists have a responsibility to share the meaning and implications of their work, and that an engaged public encourages sound public decision-making. Effective communication of science has become critically important in the environmental sciences, where public understanding of key environmental issues ranging from climate change to sustainable resource management has important policy implications. In this roundtable I will provide a brief overview of some of my experience and activities in the realm of science education and communication, and I will provide an overview of OCTOS, a new hub for environmental communication and science education activities on the UCSB campus. I will lead a discussion focused on how we (as scientists) can help to build communication capacity, serve as resources for science educators, and how to evaluate the efficacy of these efforts.
Join us for our March 11th Roundtable with Dr. Allison Bidlack from the Alaska Coastal Rainforest Center!
The north Pacific coastal temperate rainforest (PCTR) ecosystem extends from central British Columbia to southcentral Alaska, includes the largest remaining old-growth forests in North America, supports some of the most robust fisheries on the continent, and is home to tens of thousands of people who depend on a resource and tourism-based economy for their livelihoods. It is also a region characterized by an intricate geologic and evolutionary past, a rich cultural history, and complex linkages among ecosystem components. The social-ecological systems of the PCTR are being transformed by climate change, as well as by global economic drivers such as tourism, energy prices, and timber demand. Given the current rates of ecosystem change and the potential for profound systemic shifts and economic upheaval in the region and beyond, a more holistic understanding of these patterns, processes and impacts is essential for the effective management of resources and the resilience of communities. This talk will provide a brief introduction to the region and some of the integrative work being performed, with an emphasis on regional projects involving existing datasets.
Join us for our roundtable discussion on March 4th with Dr. Anne Bjorkman from he German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv).
Abstract: Identifying large-scale patterns in functional traits has become a hot topic in community ecology over the past decade, as understanding current biogeographical patterns can help us predict future shifts under climate warming. In the Arctic, where temperatures are warming faster than anywhere else on the planet, shifts in vegetation and associated functional traits can have direct consequences for ecosystem function. For example, increases in shrub cover could affect summer and winter soil temperatures and thus influence the depth of permafrost thaw, while specific leaf area (SLA) and leaf nitrogen concentration can influence decomposition rates, relative growth rates, photosynthetic rates, and carbon fixation, all of which in turn influence carbon cycling and net primary productivity (NPP).
As part of an international synthesis effort based at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research ("iDiv" – the German equivalent of NCEAS, or at least we like to think so), we are investigating patterns of functional traits across climate space and over time by combining a circumpolar vegetation database with a large and growing tundra plant trait database. This is very much a work in progress, so I will present some of our work so far and would love to have your feedback!