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Stínadla jsou nejčastěji chápána jako fiktivní městská čtvrť, kterou vytvořil ve svých knihách spisovatel Jaroslav Foglar. Jedná se o blíže neurčenou chátrající historickou čtvrť s úzkými a křivolakými uličkami, jejíž předobraz byl pravděpodobně v Praze. Celá čtvrť ostře kontrastuje s ostatními čtvrtěmi moderně se rozvíjejícího města. Název je patrně odvozen od dříve zde stojícího popraviště (Stínadla = stínati hlavu), což však román pouze naznačuje. I bez toho jsou však Stínadla místem stínů, protože pro chlapecké výpravy ožívají až večer po setmění. Kluci ze Stínadel vytvořili zvláštní organizaci a říkali si Vontové podle Vojtěcha Vonta, který jako první sjednotil chlapecké party ve Stínadlech. Jejich odznakem byl žlutý špendlík nošený na klopě kabátu. V čele Vontů stál Velký Vont a odznakem jeho náčelnické hodnosti byl hlavolam zvaný ježek v kleci.

V této čtvrti prožívají svá dobrodružství jednak Rychlé šípy v původní trilogii (zamýšlené tetralogii) Jaroslava Foglara. Na jejich děj také volně navazují, nebo se jím s větším či menším úspěchem inspirují, i další autoři.

Foglarova románová Stínadla (trilogie)

Základem stínadelského fenoménu je trojice Foglarových chlapeckých románů, které se postupně rodily v letech 1940–1986, resp. až 1994.

 Záhada hlavolamu, prvně 1940–1941
 Stínadla se bouří, prvně 1947
 Tajemství Velkého Vonta, prvně 1986
 Budou se Stínadla bourat? (nebo též Kdo byl Jan Tleskač?), zamýšlený titul, který úmrtím spisovatele (1999) zůstal pouze v konceptu z roku 1994. Klíčové pasáže z něj koncem roku 2010 zveřejnil Miloš Dvorský ve své knize Mýtus zvaný Stínadla.

Závěrečný čtvrtý díl stínadelské historie

Samotný Foglar zamýšlený čtvrtý závěrečný díl stínadelské historie napsat nestihl. Nezávisle na něm se o to však pokusili dva jeho ctitelé:

 Červinka, Josef: Poselství ze Stínadel, prvně 80. léta 20. století. Text knihy byl samizdatově šířen ještě před tím, než vyšlo Foglarovo Tajemství Velkého Vonta jako nezávislý "3. díl" Stínadel. Po vydání skutečného Foglarova třetího dílu Josef Červinka – Grifin své dílo přepsal a učinil z něj jakýsi vlastní "4. díl" stínadelské ságy.

 Velinský, Jaroslav: Poslední tajemství Jana T., prvně 2003. Knihu napsal český spisovatel a trampský písničkář Jaroslav Velinský, známý také pod přezdívkou Kapitán Kid. I on si touto cestou dle vlastních slov splnil "dávný klukovský sen" a napsal svůj vlastní "4., závěrečný" díl stínadelské historie. Chystal se údajně i do "5. dílu", mezitím však zemřel.

Existují tedy dva na sobě nezávislé a Foglarem neautorizované "4. díly". Mezi Foglarovými příznivci na ně panují různé názory. Vzhledem k tomu, že oba výše uvedení autoři jsou v komunitě Foglarových příznivců uznávanými osobnostmi, jsou ohlasy více méně shovívavé.

Díla inspirovaná Foglarovou trilogii
Vedle výše uvedených knih vznikají pochopitelně i další literární pokusy, které se myšlenkou Stínadel inspirují. Samostatnou autorskou trilogií na Foglarova díla navázal český spisovatel Svatopluk Hrnčíř, který dokonce začal být označován za jednoho z pokračovatelů Jaroslava Foglara. Ve svých knihách však již nesleduje dění okolo Vontů, ale okolo Uctívačů ginkga. Kvalitní literární zpracování, originální zápletka i autorovo renomé zajišťují Hrnčířovým románům uznání, byť dějovou linku i ducha původních Stínadel posouvá směrem, který do původního Foglarova stínadelského světa příliš nezapadá.

Vedle výše uvedených existují i pokusy o stínadelské romány (J. Hogan, V. Levý):

 Hogan, Jiří: Meč Vontů, 1999; jedná se o volný přepis Foglarovy Záhady hlavolamu
 Václav Levý – Jiggi: Tajemství Stínadel, 2007 dostupné on-line
 Václav Levý – Jiggi: Mezi Vonty, 2008 dostupné on-line

Stínadla ve filmu

 Záhada hlavolamu 1969, devítidílný hraný televizní seriál, režie Hynek Bočan
 Záhada hlavolamu 1993, celovečerní hraný film, režie Petr Kotek
 Poselství ze Stínadel 1996, výrazně autobiografický amatérský hraný film na námět stejnojmenného románu Josefa Červinky – Grifina, režie Karel Hrivňák – Eskalík

Symboly Stínadel

Symbol stínadelské čtvrti byl poprvé zobrazen v černobílém seriálu z roku 1969, inspirovaném prvními dvěma díly stínadelské trilogie. Když Rychlé Šípy poprvé otevřou vonskou kroniku (3. díl seriálu) na první stránce je vyobrazena hradební zeď s bránou, zvednutou kovovou mříží a pod mříží v bráně je zobrazena sekera. Tento obraz ale není umístěn v žádném erbu ani jemu podobném tvaru. Během příběhu z kroniky o závěrečné bitvě mezi dvěma soupeřícími skupinami stínadelských chlapců (4. díl seriálu) je v centru bojiště na stožáru vlajka, která zobrazuje stejný symbol. Svým ztvárněním vlajka připomíná erbovní vlajku, kdy jsou erbovní prvky ze štítu převedeny na obdélník vlajky, bylo by tedy možné opačným procesem vytvořit znak stínadelské čtvrti.

Tato vlajka je v seriálu použita i ve scéně po bitvě u příležitosti pohřbu zabitého Roberta Komoura. Část stolu, na který přinášejí stínadelští květiny, je rozprostřena právě tato vlajka. Na druhé části stolu se však nachází tmavý štít (tvarem připomínající spíše pavézu), na němž je zobrazena pouze bílá sekera.

Seriál nikterak tyto symboly neozřejmuje ani nepopisuje, není tak jasné, zda symbol hradební zdi s bránou a sekerou je zamýšlený jako symbol stínadelských chlapců (po sjednocení všech soupeřících skupin Vontů), nebo zda je to znak celé čtvrti. Totéž platí o druhém zobrazeném znaku, který by mohl být jak znakem celé čtvrti, tak i pouze symbolem té skupiny stínadelských chlapců, ke které náležel zabitý Robert Komour.

Vzhledem k tomu, že seriál je černobílý, není jasné, jaké barvy by jednotlivé elementy obou použitých symbolů měly mít.

V roce 2021 ztvárnil znak Stínadel Radek Micopulos. Znak kolorovaný do černých siluet křivolakých uliček a žlutých symbolů Stínadel – překřížených žlutých špendlíků a žlutého květu. Tento znak byl vyroben v podobě raženého kovového štítku doplňujícího Ježka v kleci Rival. Později byla s tímto motivem vydána i pamětní medaile z "nového stříbra".

Hledání fiktivních Stínadel v reálném světě

Od vydání první knihy o Stínadlech se mezi příznivci Foglarovy literatury spekuluje o tom, zda Stínadla skutečně existovala a kde se nacházela. Protože většinu života prožil Foglar v Praze, obecně se vždy předpokládalo, že staré lokality hlavního města (Nusle, V Jirchářích, Řásnovka a další) byly Foglarovou nejvýraznější literární inspirací. Od toho se také odvíjel vznik různých chlapeckých skupinek, které na Starém Městě pražském pod vlivem Foglarových románů po večerech hledaly dobrodružství, nebo zde přímo nějakou "vontskou" organizaci založili. Podobná dobrodružství se však snažili podnikat i Foglarovi mladí čtenáři v jiných městech, kde žili.

Ucelený přehled poskytl však až Miloš Dvorský, který ve své knize Mýtus zvaný Stínadla. na základě studia archivních pramenů a srovnávání různých možných inspiračních zdrojů přehledně zdokumentoval a doložil, že Foglar se při psaní stínadelských opravdu inspiroval na několika konkrétních místech Staré Prahy. Pravděpodobným předobrazem Vontů jsou klukovské party z pražského Františku, přičemž se v románu objevuje i překvapivě mnoho atributů judaismu. Klub Rychlé šípy jsou podle Miloše Dvorského kombinací Foglarovy vlastní klukovské party z Vinohrad, zážitků Foglarova skautského oddílu, novinových výstřižků a vysněných ideálů. Má se za to, že vedle inspirace, kterou Foglar čerpal z vlastních dětských zážitků v Nuslích a na Vinohradech, z urbanistického hlediska i z hlediska tajemna se Foglar nechával (přímo i nepřímo) výrazně inspirovat nuznými ubikacemi obyvatel čtvrti Na Františku, bitkami místních hochů s chlapci od Petrského náměstí, důležitou roli hrál pro Foglara také zrušený kostel svaté Anny a v dílčí míře také snad fotografie tehdy již zbouraného pražského židovského ghetta.

Od vydání prvního stínadelského románu až dodnes se v uličkách staré Prahy průběžně objevují různé skupinky chlapců a dívek, kteří zde pozůstatky údajného vontského hnutí buď hledají, nebo si na Vonty hrají. V první polovině 50. let 20. století existovala na Starém Městě například klukovská parta zvaná Velká Obec Vontská (VOV), což byla i přes velký název malá partička místních chlapců. Několik takových zde působilo i v šedesátých a sedmdesátých letech 20. století. Nebývalý rozkvět zažila vontská organizace, která na Starém Městě působila od poloviny 80. letech 20. století a její dozvuky byly patrné ještě začátkem 90. let. Vontové hráli hry v jeho úzkých uličkách a chodci v zapomenutých zákoutích mohli číst křídou napsané vzkazy s vontskou tematikou. Vedle otevřeně "vontské" organizace vznikla na Starém Městě koncem 80. let 20. století také konkurenční organizace zvaná Město a později i některé další znesvářené frakce (Druhá strana, Františkáni aj.). Zanikly však spolu s vontskou organizací.
Detailně a poutavě popisuje tyto postvontské skupinky kniha Mýtus zvaný Stínadla. Vontská organizace existuje do dnešní doby. Její příslušníci nosí na klopě tradiční žluté špendlíky a setkávají se v uličkách Starého Města. Objevují zapadlé kouty centra Prahy, zkoumají opuštěné domy, sklepy či půdy a křídou píší na stěny domů vontské nápisy, aby udrželi myšlenky a genius loci foglarovských knížek stále v povědomí lidí.

S ohlasy na Stínadla a Vonty ve formě různých nápisů a symbolů se na zdech pražských ulic lze doposud setkávat, například u kostela sv. Anny, v Řásnovce a v dříve bezejmenné uličce, která byla v září 2007 pojmenována Ve Stínadlech.

V Pořadu České televize Pokračování příště (díl Záhada hlavolamu) uvedl režisér seriálu z r. 1969, Hynek Bočan, že mu Jaroslav Foglar prozradil lokalitu Stínadel pro účely natáčení. Jednalo o uličky na Josefově (především Řásnovka), jako Rozdělovací třída pak posloužila ulice Revoluční.

Stínadla, která v reálném světě existují (výběr)

Podle historických popravišť
 ulice Stínadla a Ke Stínadlům, Ledeč nad Sázavou; tato oblast měla zřejmě jako jediná nepřímý vliv na Foglarovu tvorbu,
 ulice Na Stínadlech, Písek
 ulice Na Stínadlech, Sedlčany
 ulice Na Stínadlech a fotbalový stadion Na Stínadlech, Teplice
 ulice U Stínadel, Pelhřimov

Podle foglarovského námětu
 ulice Ve Stínadlech, Praha 1 (Do té doby bezejmenná pražská ulička byla takto nazvána v roce 2007 u příležitosti 100. výročí narození Jaroslava Foglara.)
 ulice Ke Stínadlům, Dobříš. Spolu s dalšími okolními ulicemi (Velkého Vonta, Jana Tleskače, Rychlých Šípů a Jaroslava Foglara) byla v roce 2014 pojmenována podle díla J. Foglara
 čtvrť Stínadla, Kuřim. Nově vybudovaná čtvrť při vjezdu do Kuřimi ze směru od České, nachází se zde ulice pojmenované podle hlavních postav Foglarových knih-Červenáčkova, Metelkova, Bohoušova, Losnova apod..

Související články
 Jan Tleskač
 Ježek v kleci
 Rychlé šípy
 Stínadelská trilogie

Reference

Literatura

 Miloš Dvorský: Mýtus zvaný Stínadla, Zdeněk Bauer, Praha 2011,

Externí odkazy

Fiktivní obce
Rychlé šípy


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Mr. Paice: I do, of course, agree. I am sure that all hon. Members who represent constituencies where the consultation process has been taking place will fully understand that the way in which the consultation and the closure process are being carried out involves seriously bad practice.
My main criticism of this whole sorry saga is that it is a top-down decision. Of course some post offices are very badly run—we have all been to see them, so we cannot deny that. The simple reality is that they could be more successful if they were under different management. Many of them will never be profitable in a purely commercial sense, which is one reason why I have just discussed the social aspects.
However, we ought to help and encourage the better ones to succeed, and the consultation appears to ignore that approach. Some excellent and apparently profitable post offices are being closed. Despite what the Prime Minister said earlier today about the post offices that have only 16 or 20 customers a week—a tiny minority of post offices have such a low level of usage—the reality is that many of them will remain open because of the access criteria and the fact that they are located in the most remote areas.
What should be happening is that the Post Office should simply set delivery standards and requirements of a sub-post office and tell people how much they will get paid for the work; the figure should be one that does not incur a loss for the Post Office. That would allow the sub-postmaster or sub-postmistress to make their own judgments about whether they can operate on that basis. It may depend on what other business they attach to it. Many may say that because they value their community and own the local shop or pub, they are happy to accept a small loss, because the village needs a post office. They may want to talk to local authorities—we have heard of the example of Essex—or other voluntary bodies and the local community. It is not a question of accepting continuous losses—no Government should do that—but of letting the individuals decide whether they can run a business on the basis of the standards and finances laid down by the Post Office, including perhaps subsidising it from other activities.
All the discussion about new business for the Post Office—the Secretary of State went on and on about it this afternoon—is focused on what is being decided by the Post Office nationally. It is the Post Office in London that is deciding to look out for insurance business, currency exchange or whatever. That is top-down thinking. Instead, the entrepreneurial sub-postmaster should be able to look for his own business. He may want some help from the Post Office nationally, if that can be done, but he should be set free to find other forms of business, perhaps in conjunction with local authorities, that could be related to the post office activity and help to make his business more viable. That is why I wholly condemn the arrangement that will prevent those closing with compensation from providing similar services through other providers. It is true that such constraints are often applied for a year or two in commercial law when someone ceases an activity, but we are not talking about purely commercial situations. The Minister fully accepted that many post offices play a vital social role and the whole issue of commerciality should be pushed to one side, in terms of allowing those businesses to offer PayPal or other services. The issue is access to public
services, especially in our rural areas, and is accompanied by the issues of the quality of life and social gain.
We need a much more flexible approach to the network to accommodate post offices that fail, or what happens when a sub-postmaster wishes to retire or sell up. The system should facilitate a replacement in those circumstances, and that should be self-evident if we want a comprehensive network. We need to review urgently the planning and rating systems to encourage multi-use of our premises. I know that there are good examples of pubs, churches and village halls providing post office services, but they experience difficulties, including in the ratings sector, that need to be considered carefully. In many cases, the post office is part of the only remaining shop in the village and if the post office element is closed, the shop may go down too, especially with the restraint on trade that I have mentioned. The village is then left without any service. The implications for that on the need to travel, car usage, carbon emissions, and the sheer difficulty and harassment for individuals, are obvious.
If the Government really care about the post office network, and do not take just a purely mechanistic view of it, the first thing that they must do is get a grip on what the Post Office is doing. Other hon. Members have raised the threats to sub-postmasters and mistresses who face closure. They have been told that if they get early information that their post offices are on the hit list, they must not tell anyone; otherwise, they will not get their compensation. This is all blackmail. It is wrong, and the Government have to get a grip on it. They could do other things. They could make it a condition that the lottery provider ought to enable all post offices, at least in rural areas, to have a terminal. They could say to the Post Office, "Just tell sub-postmasters and mistresses what you want from them, what the services are and how much you are prepared to pay. Let them decide whether they can take it on on that basis and let them go out and look for extra business."
The Government could do all those things. They could reverse the whole process to a bottom-up system, but they will not. That was clear from what the Secretary of State said. No one in government really understands our rural communities. The Government believe in central decision making and that no individual can be trusted to make the right decisions. The main reason that they will not do these things is that they would have to admit that they are wrong.
The Government have continued to waste billions of pounds with little to show for it, yet when they have a chance to do something good for no extra money they refuse to do so. It is typical of a Government who have had their day.
Mr. Ian Cawsey (Brigg and Goole) (Lab): It is an honour to follow the hon. Member for South-East Cambridgeshire (Mr. Paice). We normally end up debating the future of pigs, so it is nice to move on to another subject, even if it still begins with the letter P.
When the announcement was first made some months ago, I was a Government Whip. It is good to be able finally to stand up in the Chamber and make some comments about how the decision has affected Brigg and Goole. I am reminded of the first time I stood for
election in 1992 in the old Brigg and Cleethorpes seat—unsuccessfully, I hasten to add—against the Tory MP Michael Brown, who is now my good friend. One of the big issues was post office closures. It seems almost like groundhog day; here we are, still discussing it—[Hon. Members: "More pigs!"] There will be no more pig analogies. That is the end of it.
Thousands of post offices have been closed under Conservative and Labour Administrations. They would probably be closed under a Liberal Democrat Administration, too, if there ever was one. As the hon. Member for Rutland and Melton (Alan Duncan) candidly said, we cannot control everything in the way that we would perhaps like to.
Let me tell the House something about the experience in Brigg and Goole and how it has been handled. We are at the end of the process now and we were in the first tranche that was announced. When the announcement was made, it was proposed that Westfield Avenue post office in Goole, which is an urban post office, would be closed, and that the rural post offices in Reedness, Wroot, West Butterwick and Eastoft would change to outreach. We then went into the consultation.
A lot of hon. Members have said that the consultation was a complete sham. I would say that it was a curate's egg in some respects. It is very difficult to understand how some of the decisions were finally reached, even though some of them were definitely improvements on the original proposals.
Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon) (Con): Whether the consultation was a sham or not, did not the hon. Gentleman's constituents have the same experience as mine? First, some of the rationale that the Post Office put forward in its explanation was factually wrong. Secondly, the process was truncated to a shorter time than is usual for such consultation procedures.
Mr. Cawsey: I would agree with that, based on my experience.
Goole is a good example. We were told, "It's an urban area. There is another post office only 400 yards away, it is a big town centre that could take the capacity, and there is a regular bus journey of only 10 minutes." We could see the rationale. However, when I met the Post Office I pointed out that the bus ride, which takes only seven or eight minutes to get to the post office, is not the same on the way back. The people in the Post Office dealt with that with great incredulity. They said that they had never heard of a bus that took seven minutes to go down the road one way and then took longer to come the other way. The point was that the bus does not go that way—it is a circular route. A short journey to the post office becomes a tour round the town to come back. That had not registered on their radar at all. When we reached the final conclusion, which was that that post office should be closed, all I got was a nice little paragraph in the reasoning, something like, "The MP put up a decent argument. We looked into it but we are not doing anything about it."
We made some progress with the outreach services. It was decided that the services covering Reedness and Wroot would remain in the shops where they are presently located, and that they would continue to be delivered by the people who deliver them now. Moreover, the fact that the outreach for Reedness was to come from the
Goole post office meant that it could provide more services, including road tax and foreign currency. That shows how much had changed since we started our campaign, and that the decisions amounted to a bit of a curate's egg.
What happened next has been described by other hon. Members who have contributed to the debate. A final recommendation was made: the Goole office was to close and the others would be outreached, with two offices remaining in the shops where they were located. It was then announced that a complete hash had been made of one of the outreach offices in Lincoln—what was claimed to be a short walk across level ground turned out to be on a very steep hill.
The result was that there was a change of mind about the office involved, and that the office at Wrawby was suddenly put up for closure, even though it was fine in the initial consultation. I met Post Office representatives and said that that decision was wrong because it meant that people had had to go through the mill twice, when once was bad enough. However, despite my great admiration for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State, I was told that saving one post office meant that another office would have to go.
Justine Greening: The hon. Gentleman is reinforcing the point that I made earlier—that all the access and other criteria used to decide which post offices should close in the end mean nothing because the Post Office is determined to achieve the target of 2,500 closures.
Mr. Cawsey: A few weeks after being told that the office at Wrawby was viable, I was told that it no longer was. When I asked why, I was told that most of the offices that the Post Office proposed to keep open were not viable, but that it would propose closure only for offices that were not viable.
Mr. Angus MacNeil (Na h-Eileanan an Iar) (SNP): The hon. Gentleman is touching on a problem that I have encountered in the north of Lewis. The postmistress at Skigersta is very anxious to save her office, but she is worried that solving her problem might cause difficulties for the Port of Ness office just a little way down the round. The closure programme is putting postmistresses and postmasters in a very invidious position.
Mr. Cawsey: I understand exactly where the hon. Gentleman is coming from.
What transactions are undertaken in post offices? All hon. Members will recognise that question from their discussions with the Post Office. What one is told—on a confidential basis only—when one asks is that the number of transactions that post offices carry out is very low. I was shocked when I found out how low the number is: as a local person, I had thought that it would be much higher.
There is no doubt that a significant change has taken place. Some of it is due to demographic changes, and no firm can lose 4 million customers in a relatively short period without such changes being part of the reason. In addition, people are making different decisions about how they get their pensions and benefits. It is worth bearing in mind the fact that 80 per cent. of pensioners had stopped getting their pensions from post offices before Labour was even elected. The demographic change is therefore not new, but has been going on for some time.
I picked up a petition at one of my local post offices that appeared to have been signed by everyone in the village. I said to the sub-postmaster that he had done extraordinarily well, but he replied, "Yes, Ian, but if everyone who signed the petition used the post office I would not need it." That is another common problem.
Questions have been asked about the adequacy or otherwise of the Post Office's management. I sometimes think that they have created problems for themselves, and that they continue to do so. For example, I said earlier that I was very pleased that the office at Reedness was to stay in the shop where it is presently located. The local sub-postmistress is willing to work more hours, but to do so she requires a relatively small amount of IT and a laptop computer. Without that equipment, she is forced to rely on the time that the person from the main post office can give, but the Post Office has refused to provide it.
The Post Office is making week-by-week, month-by-month savings on the hours that the Reedness sub-postmistress works, but it will not meet the one-off capital cost involved in giving her the kit that will allow her to work extra, voluntary hours while her shop is open. I am pleased to see my hon. Friend the Minister for Employment Relations and Postal Affairs on the Front Bench, as I have raised this matter with him previously. I hope that he is able to help.
I turn now to the provision of television licences. Why did the BBC decide not to let post offices sell the stamps that people use to buy licences? The answer is that the tender from PayPoint was £100 million less than the one offered by the Post Office. Why was it so much lower, and why has no one ever challenged the Post Office about whether it was serious and credible in its attempt to get the business?
John Taylor of the Rawcliffe Bridge post office told me that he wanted to install a PayPoint terminal when the decision about television licence stamps was taken but was told that he could not do so. I understand that the arrangements are more flexible now, but when the changes were all taking place he was told that he could not do it. PayPoint found other locations and that is not going to change now.
The same sub-postmaster said to me, "If you look at the back of a British Telecom bill, where it sets out how you can pay, it no longer mentions the post office." People can still pay through their post office, but it does not say so on the bill. I took that up with British Telecom, which simply said, "We're never going to stop people paying through the post office—obviously, we have links with the Post Office historically—but it is the most expensive way for us to collect our money from customers, and we ain't going to advertise it, although we'll continue to accept payments through the post office."
Only today, a constituent who wanted to pay her water bill told me that she would be charged more at the post office than at the local garage or the local shop. It makes me think: why is the Post Office creating these barriers to business? The report of the Select Committee on Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, which has been referred to, said that poor management has been a factor over the years, but that there was greater confidence in the people who are in place now. I really hope that that is true, but we are still waiting to see.
Local authorities can and should play a role, and I welcome some of the recent developments. My area is covered by two local authorities, one of which is North Lincolnshire council. When the announcement was first made, all that time ago, I had a conversation with Liz Redfern, who was then leader of the council. I asked whether there was something that the council could do. It is fair to say that I met with a polite response but not a great deal of interest. However, in May last year, North Lincolnshire was the only council in the country that went from being Conservative to Labour; I am happy about that, although I am not happy that only one council changed in that way, but at least the council concerned was my local council. Mark Kirk, who is now the leader of the council, is in discussion with its offices on how they can work with local post offices. Perhaps there can be outreach to the villages, too, so that local government services there use the post offices, boost the number of hours, and so make the post offices more viable.
My other local council is the Tory East Riding of Yorkshire council, and I have to say that on many issues, including the one that we are discussing, it is very enlightened. Stephen Parnaby, the leader, is doing a good job there. We were county councillors together. He is a good bloke, and he will be pleased that he is in Hansard. He came up with the idea, which his cabinet supported, of the local council becoming a corporate sub-postmaster. If the Post Office approves the idea, the council will be able to deliver post office branch services via its mobile libraries, its customer service centres, which already exist, and village schools. That is a way in which local authorities can make a big difference.
The council does not pay the tax on its vehicles at post offices, but in the council's defence, it can be said that there is a Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency office right next door to County hall, so it is probably difficult to justify doing so. Again, that is a simple thing that councils can do: they can get all their fleet taxed at local post offices. All hon. Members should ask their local councils whether they do that.
I want to mention sub-postmasters. I welcome the package and the fact that, this time, sub-postmasters get something if they have to go, because no such provision was in place before, and that was a mistake. However, what about those who want to go? At least one sub-postmaster in my area—I will not say who it is, because that would set another hare running—really wanted to be let go, under the consultation, but he has been told that that cannot happen. What happens to those people when the process finishes? We need answers to that. We should always remember that in this debate, we are talking about the future and livelihoods of the people who run our post offices.
We are ahead of most areas; frankly, we are at the end. Goole post office is closed, and the Wroot and Reedness services are staying in the shop. We are trying to work with the council to boost services in those outreach locations. I was speaking to the sub-postmasters in West Butterwick, Eastoft and Wrawby, and for all sorts of reasons that are not the business of the House, none of them is seeking any further involvement with the Post Office. They have made their decisions about what they want to do with their lives, and they want to move on. Frankly, there would be no benefit to Brigg
and Goole from the suspension being proposed tonight. Indeed, it would mean a further period of uncertainty for the sub-postmasters concerned.
We maintain a network across our area, which is big and rural. I remain as determined as ever to work with the two councils in my area, which are of different political persuasions, to ensure that that remains the case, and to ensure that, despite the odds, we have a vibrant post office network for the future.
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Aviation: EU and ASEAN conclude the world's first bloc-to-bloc Air Transport Agreement
The European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have concluded negotiations on the ASEAN-EU Comprehensive Air Transport Agreement (AE CATA). This is the world's first bloc-to-bloc air transport agreement, which will bolster connectivity and economic development among the 37 Member States of ASEAN and the EU. Under the agreement, EU airlines will be able to fly up to 14 weekly passenger services, and any number of cargo services, via and beyond any ASEAN country, and vice versa. Commissioner for Transport Adina Vălean said: "The conclusion of this first-ever 'bloc-to-bloc' air transport agreement marks an important milestone in the EU's external aviation policy. It provides essential guarantees of fair competition for our European airlines and industry, while strengthening reciprocal prospects for trade and investment in some of the world's most dynamic markets. Importantly, this new agreement also provides us with a solid platform to continue promoting the high standards on safety, security, air traffic management, environment and social matters going forward. I am grateful for the constructive approach of all parties involved, which made this historic deal possible." The Agreement will help rebuild air connectivity between ASEAN countries and Europe, which has decreased sharply due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and open up new growth opportunities for the aviation industry in both regions. Both parties expressed intent to maintain regular discussions and close coordination to minimise disruptions to air services caused by the pandemic. ASEAN and the EU will now submit the AE CATA for legal scrubbing in preparation for signature at a later date. A joint statement on the Conclusion of the ASEAN-EU Comprehensive Air Transport Agreement (AE CATA) has been published here.
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The unusual scolding came at the end of a trial in which Muskogee defense attorney Larry Vickers had defended a man against charges of burglary, assault and battery, interfering with an emergency call and violating a protective order. The jury deliberated for about an hour at the end of a two day trial before acquitting the man on the three of four counts. They returned a guilty verdict on violating an order for protection and recommended a fine of $1 when they could have sent the man to jail for a year. Court records indicate he paid the fine the same day.
Though the jury recommended a minimal sentence, a Muskogee publication, muskogeenow.com, reported the defendant had already spent a year in jail awaiting trial. If convicted of burglary — one of two felonies for which he was acquitted — he could have faced a minimum sentence of 7 years in prison.
Vickers said he put on a defense asserting police had accepted the accuser's statement as fact. A police officer's testimony supported the theory.
"It think it was a situation where patrolmen were called out to what they thought was a domestic disturbance and didn't make any real investigation," Vickers said.
Evidence showed the defendant was not burglarizing the residence, but in fact had lived there. Vickers called witnesses who knew the couple and confirmed that he lived at the residence. Vickers said his client was attacked when he returned to his own residence.
This case highlights the difference an proper representation can make when a person is facing criminal charges. If you've been charged with a crime in Tulsa, Muskogee or anywhere in Northeast Oklahoma, call a criminal defense attorney immediately to explore your options. For a free consultation with a Tulsa criminal defense attorney, contact the Wirth Law Office today at (918) 879-1681 or toll free at (888) Wirth-Law. If you prefer written correspondence, you may submit a question through the form at the top right of this page.


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WESTFORD -- When (or maybe that's if) Jake Dow makes it big in the world of country music, his classmates at Nashoba Valley Technical High School can say they knew him when.
The 18-year-old Ashby resident has a dream that one day, he'll be filling arenas like Chris Young or Brad Paisley or Florida Georgia Line or any of the other country-western acts he likes.
"That's what I aspire to be," he said.
On the day Dow graduated from Nashoba Tech, a sunny Saturday in June 2017, he packed his guitars into his car and drove to Philadelphia to audition for "The Voice." That was after he had already won the North American Country Music Association award for Male Vocalist of the Year and Male Entertainer of the Year.
Though "The Voice" didn't work out, it also didn't dissuade Dow from pursuing his dream. He cut a CD, called "Stuck on Repeat," at a friend's recording studio and released it in March. The CD features 10 mostly uptempo songs much in the style of Paisley and Young.
Dow stopped by Nashoba Tech one recent day to meet with former classmates and teachers in the cafeteria and shop his CD.
He studied Plumbing & Heating at Nashoba Tech and still works in the plumbing field.
"I'm plumbing by day and playing music by night," the always-smiling Dow said while greeting students and former teachers in the cafeteria.
Jake started playing guitar when he was 7 and taking voice lessons when he was 10.
He trains at Nashua Community Music School, for which he recently played a benefit concert at Alpine Grove in Hollis, N.H. He also performs regularly at Bailey's Bar & Grill in Townsend as he continues to climb the ladder that he hopes will lead to the Grand Ole Opry.
He'll keep strumming and singing -- and smiling -- until the day he makes it as big as his idols.
"It's definitely something I want to do," he said.


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Garden access policy – revised by Trinity House/Capita in October 2016
Access to the gardens is via an electronic fob system, offering the opportunity to access the gardens to the wider residential community of Trinity Village.
Residents can apply to Knight Frank for one fob per household and are required to sign a seven-page licence. The rules and regulations for use of the gardens can be found on the Trinity Village website: https://www.trinityvillage.co.uk/properties/garden-policy
For assured shorthold, assured and regulated tenants of Trinity House, access is granted without charge.
For long leasehold and freehold owners within Trinity Village there is an annual fee of £100. For properties which are sublet, completion of the licence and payment must be carried out by the long leaseholder/freeholder. The charge of £100 may be refunded at year end for six "designated gardeners" with a record of voluntary work in the two gardens. Long leaseholders and freehold owners should email trinityvillageestate@knightfrank.com if they are interested in receiving a fob.
TNRA advice on using the gardens in the squares
Until 1994 no one was allowed into the gardens in Merrick Square and Trinity Church Square. After many years lobbying from TNRA, residents were given access to the gardens. Entry to the gardens is a privilege which is enjoyed by many of us. It would be possible for Trinity House to withdraw the privilege if it is abused.
It is not TNRA's responsibility to police the use of the two gardens but we give the following advice (based on the rules in the licence which you signed when collecting your entry fob), so that we can all continue to enjoy them.
1. According to the rules, residents can use the gardens with 'members of their families who are resident with them and friends or relatives accompanied by them'. If you invite family or friends into the gardens:
• make sure that they all understand and follow the rules (see below);
• be aware of other people in the garden and do not spoil their enjoyment by taking up too much room;
• do not make a lot of noise and disturb other users or residents in the surrounding square.
2. Keep the gates closed while you are in the garden and when you leave, so that only people with a fob can enter. Leave the garden by 10 pm and close the gate.
3. According to the rules, the following are not allowed in the gardens:
barbecues and bonfires
games creating noise or nuisance
causing damage to beds or plants
picking flowers, treading on flower beds, climbing trees or statues.
Make sure that you and your guests follow these rules.
4. If you have a picnic in the garden, take away and dispose of all the rubbish that you have created.
TNRA is sometimes asked to give permission for people to hold events in the gardens. Please note that this permission can only be given by Knight Frank for Trinity House. Hiring equipment from TNRA does not mean that TNRA sanctions any event or activity.
After years of lobbying by TNRA, in July 2015 Trinity House appointed Greenmantle to manage the green spaces in Trinity Village – the gardens/beds of Trinity Church Square, Merrick Square, Gloucester Court, Swan Street and the south side of Trinity Street – and to be consulted about the design and landscaping of rear gardens.
In 2019 Knight Frank appointed Gould Landscapes to replace Greenmantle.
The gardens in the squares have been open to residents since 1994 (Merrick Square) and 1997 (Trinity Church Square) and have been well used. Use of TCS garden has increased since the closure of Trinity Street to through traffic. Since 1998 TNRA has taken part in the London-wide Open Garden Squares Weekend in June, opening first just Merrick Square garden and since 2007 both gardens on the Sunday of the weekend.
Originally laid out in the 19th century, the gardens were redesigned and replanted in 2000 in accordance with designs drawn up by the Museum of Garden History (now the Garden Museum). In 2010, TNRA became concerned that the condition of the gardens had declined and we commissioned a report to assess this. We discussed the gardens with Trinity House and the managing agents.
Garden action days
Since 2011 TNRA has organised a number of action days in Trinity Square Garden when local volunteers have worked under the supervision of Penny Hinves, former TNRA Vice Chair and garden designer, who is a Chelsea Silver Medal Winner. This has improved the garden by weeding, composting, the planting of shrubs and ground cover and the planting of several thousand bulbs. Volunteers have cleared and tidied the gardens before they have been opened to the public at Open Garden Squares Weekend in June each year.
"No dogs" signs
In 2014 several dog owners had been exercising their pets by setting them free in the garden. At TNRA's suggestion, Capita put a "No dogs" sign on the gates of both gardens to discourage this practice.
Volunteers weeding, planting, fertilising and watering TCS garden in the last of the sunshine in December 2011.
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The CLC Applauds the Introduction of the CARE Act Press Release
September 16, 2009 /in CARE Act, Federal Laws, News & Events/by Reid Maki
Washington, D.C.—The Child Labor Coalition (CLC) applauds the introduction of the Children's Act for Responsible Employment (CARE), H.R. 3564, introduced September 15th by Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA). The legislation would close loopholes that permit the children of migrant and seasonal farmworkers to work for wages when they are only 12- and 13-years-old.
"Child farmworkers are exposed to many dangers—farm machinery, heat stroke, and pesticides among them—and perform back-breaking labor that is not fit for children," said CLC co-chair Sally Greenberg, the executive director of the National Consumers League, a consumer advocacy organization that has worked to eliminate abusive child labor since its founding in 1899. "It's time to level the playing field by closing these archaic loopholes and offering these children the same protections that all other American kids enjoy. We applaud Rep. Roybal-Allard's leadership in introducing CARE."
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The Automobil-Verkehrs- und Übungsstraße ('Automobile traffic and training road'), known as AVUS, is a public road in Berlin, Germany. Opened in 1921, it was also used as a motor racing circuit until 1998. Today, the AVUS forms the northern part of the Bundesautobahn 115.

Circuit
The highway is located in the southwestern districts of Berlin, linking the Stadtring at the Funkturm junction in Charlottenburg with Nikolassee. It runs through the Grunewald forest along the historic Königsweg road from Charlottenburg to Potsdam and the parallel Berlin-Blankenheim railway line.

While normal for a road, it is unusually shaped for a race track as it is essentially two long straights in the form of a dual carriageway, with a hairpin corner at each end. The north curve featured a steep banking from 1937 to 1967. While the original layout was  long, the southern turn was moved several times, to shorten the track to , then  without the banking,  and finally .

History
In 1907 the Kaiserlicher Automobilclub (KAC) association devised a fee-financed circuit, as both a motor-sport venue and a testing track for the motor industry. A developing company was established in 1909; however, a lack of finances and official authorisations delayed the start of construction until spring 1913. During the Great War works discontinued, and though Russian Army prisoners were temporarily employed in AVUS's construction, the track was still unfinished. From 1920 the remaining road work was financed by businessman and politician Hugo Stinnes. The circuit, including a gate building and several stands, was inaugurated during the first post-war International Automobile Exhibition (IAA) with a motor race on 24 September 1921. Afterwards the road was open to the public at a charge of ten Marks.

Race track
At the time of opening, AVUS was  long – each straight being approximately half that length, and joined at each end by flat, large-radius curves, driven counter-clockwise.

While the Grand Prix motor racing scene still evaded German tracks, the circuit from 1922 was also the site of motorcycle races. On 11 July 1926 the track played host to the first international German Grand Prix for sports cars, organised by the Automobilclub von Deutschland, the former KAC. The 1921 roadway turned out to be insufficient: Already, in practice two days before, the young Italian driver Enrico Platé (not to be confused with the Argentinian driver and team owner of the same name) was involved in a crash that killed his mechanic. During the race, in heavy rain, two track marshals died when Adolf Rosenberger lost control and hit the indicator board and the timekeeper's box, with a third employee succumbing to his injuries in hospital a few hours later. The Grand Prix was won by his fellow team-member, the so-far unknown Mercedes-Benz salesman Rudolf Caracciola, from Remagen, driving a private, eight-cylinder "Monza" Kompressor type. The fastest lap of  was set by Ferdinando Minoia in an OM.

From 1927 the German Grand Prix was relocated to the new and more secure Nürburgring circuit in the Western German Eifel range, while the AVUS received a new asphalt surface and served as an experimental track for rocket cars.

On 23 May 1928 Fritz von Opel ("Rocket Fritz") achieved a speed record of  in an Opel RAK2.

Due to the Great Depression annual auto races were not resumed until 1931, when Caracciola again won in a Mercedes-Benz SSK, succeeded by Manfred von Brauchitsch the next year after Caracciola had switched to Alfa Romeo.

The competition on 22 May 1932 saw further notable participants like the Earl Howe, Hans Stuck and Sir Malcolm Campbell. The Czechoslovak driver, Prince George Christian of Lobkowicz, died when his Bugatti Type 54 crashed in the southern hairpin. The following events were won by Achille Varzi (1933) and Guy Moll (1934), to the great annoyance of the new Nazi rulers, who declared the victory of German drivers and cars a matter of national pride. They strongly backed the construction of the new Silver Arrows (Silberpfeile) generation of Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union.

In 1935 Luigi Fagioli won the race in a Mercedes-Benz W25; however, the track was no longer adequate for cars reaching average race speeds of far over . In an effort to make AVUS the "world's fastest race track", the 1936 season was skipped and while the track hosted the cycling road race, the marathon and 50 km walk athletic events of the 1936 Summer Olympics, the north curve was turned into a steeply banked turn (43°) made of bricks. It became dubbed the wall of death, especially as it had no retaining barrier, so cars that missed the turn easily flew off it. The Silver Arrows raced only once on the banked version, in 1937. As the AVUS race did not count towards the championship, non-GP cars were allowed, which permitted the use of streamlined cars, similar to the cars used for high speed record attempts. This race was run in two heats; during qualifying for the second heat, Luigi Fagioli stuck his Auto Union Type C on pole position, with a time of 4 minutes and 8.2 seconds at an average speed of  - which was the fastest motor racing lap in history until this time was bettered by Tony Bettenhausen in qualifying for the 1957 Race of Two Worlds at Monza.  It was also bettered by four drivers during the 1971 Indianapolis 500. Mercedes driver Hermann Lang's average race speed of about  was the fastest road race in history for nearly five decades, and was not matched on a high-speed banked-circuit until the mid-1980s at the 1986 Indianapolis 500.

No major race was held after 1937 as, in early 1938, the popular German race driver Bernd Rosemeyer was killed in a land speed record attempt on a straight section of the Autobahn Frankfurt–Darmstadt (present-day Bundesautobahn 5), at which point the high-speed AVUS was considered too dangerous for the fast Grand Prix race cars. Furthermore, it was to be connected to the growing Reichsautobahn network in 1940 by extending it south towards the Berliner Ring, therefore the original hairpin at Nikolassee was demolished and replaced by a junction. A planned banked south turn was never built; the cleared grounds in the Grunewald forest were used as a proving ground ("Keerans Range") by the American occupation forces after World War II.

Post-war
The first AVUS race after the war was held on 1 July 1951 for Formula Two and Formula Three cars, won by East German driver Paul Greifzu. For post-war racing, the original extremely long straights were shortened by the introduction of a new south turn roughly in the middle (just before the Hüttenweg exit, where it can still be seen), reducing the track length to . After World War II, the Berlin Wall, with its Checkpoint Bravo at Dreilinden/Drewitz, came no closer than about one mile (1.6 km) to the former South Turn. It is a common yet incorrect belief that the Berlin Wall cut the AVUS in half.

It was not until 19 September 1954 that this shorter track hosted a non-championship Formula One race. This "Grand Prix of Berlin" was mainly a show dominated by the Mercedes-Benz W196 drivers Karl Kling (the winner) and Juan Manuel Fangio. No serious competition was present, as many teams had refused to show up and the German Grand Prix was still held on the Nürburgring. Finally AVUS hosted its only world championship Formula One race with the 1959 German Grand Prix on 2 August, won by Tony Brooks. This race weekend also saw the death of French driver Jean Behra in a supporting sports car race, as his Porsche RSK flew over the top of the north turn banking, as there was no wall or fence. German driver and journalist Richard von Frankenberg had previously walked away from a similar spectacular crash at the same site, but Behra would have no such luck as his body impacted a flagpole head-first after he was flung from his car.

After 1961, Grand Prix racing did not race on banked circuits until 2021. The banked sections at Autodromo Nazionale Monza and Autodrome de Linas-Montlhéry were considered dangerous by international racing standards. They were used in connection with chicanes for some time, then abandoned.  Banking only returned to Formula One in 2021 when the redesigned Circuit Zandvoort featured 18-degree banked turns at John Hugenholtz and Arie Luyendijk (the former Bos Uit).  The AVUS banking was dismantled in 1967 to give way to an expanded intersection under the Funkturm tower. From the top of this tower, one can see that the AVUS is not perfectly straight.

The old banked circuit can be seen in the film A Dandy in Aspic (1968) featuring period racing cars.

Racing was continued with a flat north turn, but AVUS only held national touring cars DTM and Formula 3 events. The length of the track was roughly cut in half twice in the 1980s and 1990 as racing on straights became unpopular. Also, chicanes were added to reduce entry speed into the North Curve. Yet, some incidents and accidents occurred. The BMW of Dieter Quester rolled over when exiting the last corner, and crossed the finish line sliding on its roof, with sparks flying, for a podium finish. The car of John Winter hit a barrier and exploded into a fireball in North Curve, which he survived.

In 1995, the race 2 of DTM had to be cancelled, after a multi-car pileup blocked the circuit; later that September, British driver Kieth O'dor was killed in a Super Touring Car event when his car spun and was rammed sideways, with the impact on the driver's side.

AVUS today
After the fall of the Berlin wall, the closure of the AVUS for race events became increasingly problematic over traffic and associated environmental concerns. After the last races in 1998, a farewell event with veterans was held in 1999. Since 2000, the new EuroSpeedway Lausitz in Brandenburg is considered the replacement venue for competition. The round race control tower at the north end still remains with its prominent Mercedes-Benz and Bosch sponsorship insignia. It is used as a (now closed) public restaurant and motel. The old wooden grandstand is protected as a historic monument.

Gallery

Lap times
The official race lap records at AVUS are listed as:

See also
 List of Formula One circuits
 EuroSpeedway Lausitz

References

External links

1936 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. pp. 644–7, 682-5, 932-5.
 FORIX about the AVUS track
 Historic Purpose Built Grand Prix Circuits on Google Maps

Venues of the 1936 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletics venues
Formula One circuits
German Grand Prix
Defunct motorsport venues in Germany
Roads in Berlin
Sports venues in Berlin
Olympic cycling venues
Motorsport in Berlin

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Culture - Vanessa Hudgens and Kaia Gerber Meeting in 2007: Photo
Vanessa Hudgens and Kaia Gerber Meeting in 2007: Photo
Vanessa Hudgens meeting Kaia Gerber in 2007.
Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photo: Getty Images
There are few things more humbling than the passage of time. Our hair begins graying, our youth starts to feel fleeting, and suddenly kids born after the year 2000 can legally purchase alcohol. Usually, my answer to the question "Wanna feel old?" is "Get away from me." However, I cannot look away from this photograph, a relic from 2007 that is both nostalgic and discomforting:
His ex meeting his new gf 😶 pic.twitter.com/QFKFkNfpm3
— KVee (@KNVee) August 5, 2022
That is a picture of Cindy Crawford, her children, and Vanessa Anne Hudgens — I refuse to omit the "Anne" — on the red carpet for High School Musical 2. Hudgens is shaking hands with Crawford's 5-year-old daughter Kaia Gerber. You likely know Gerber, now 20, from her work as a model, actress, or cutting her dad's hair. Aw, so cute! Or is it? Let us take a brief detour to discuss the dating history of Ms. Vanessa Anne Hudgens.
Hudgens famously dated her HSM co-star Zac Efron throughout their time filming the franchise. They eventually broke up in 2010. The next year, she started dating Austin Butler. You either know Butler from his role as Elvis in the new Baz Luhrmann–directed biopic or his continued Performance as Elvis on the movie's press tour — the man is holding onto that Elvis accent for dear life. I recognize Butler from his role as James Garrett on Zoey 101, the 2005 Nickelodeon show that starred Jamie Lynn Spears and has nothing to do with this but is always worth mentioning. Anyway, Hudgens and Butler dated for nine years, creating such classic hits as being investigated for carving their names into a rock at an Arizona national park. At the beginning of 2020, they announced their breakup. Don't worry, Hudgens has moved on and is currently dating baseball player Cole Tucker. (They met during a meditation class on Zoom. Namaste.)
Butler, now 30, has since moved on as well and is currently dating … Kaia Gerber. Yes, the same Kaia Gerber from earlier!! Gerber and Butler were first linked in December 2021. They've done yoga together and attended the 2022 Met Gala as a couple, two major milestones in every relationship. (Gerber previously dated Euphoria star Jacob Elordi. At one time, Elordi was rumored to be dating Lori Loughlin's daughter Olivia Jade, who looks like Kaia Gerber in a different font.) Now, let's take another look at that HSM2 red carpet photo.
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That is a picture of Vanessa Anne Hudgens shaking the hand of her future ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend. Its existence is either Kismet or a curse, I haven't decided quite yet. I am also still unsure why Cindy Crawford and her family were at the HSM2 premiere to begin with. Maybe it's because she was in an episode of Disney Channel's Wizards of Waverly Place? (She played a model who also liked board games — brave!) Regardless, this seems like an apropos time to mention that Butler was also on an episode of wizards and has a role in the High School Musical universe He co-starred in the Ashley Tisdale–led spinoff Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure. Based on what I gather from the on-set photos, he played … a pervert that followed Sharpay around with a big camera? It's a small world, etc.
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To address the obvious, there is a 13-year age gap between Hudgens and Gerber and a 10-year age gap between Gerber and Butler. Butler and Gerber's age difference, while unsettling in a photo from 2007, isn't atypical of Hollywood couples. It certainly doesn't raise eyebrows like the 24-year age gap between Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Sam Taylor-Johnsonwho started dating when he was 18 and she was 42. Or the 27-year age difference between Dane Cook50, and his new fiancée, Kelsi Taylor, 23. The two have been dating for five years, and Cook has been adamant about specifying that timeline since Taylor would have recently turned 18 when they first got together. However, there is some skepticism about how old Taylor really was when the two started dating since they appear to have been hanging out when she was still a minor. Writer Tracie Egan Morrissey has done the lord's work, chronicling a deep dive into Cook's Instagram and bringing to light the "game nights" Cook often hosted. Based on Cook's own Instagram posts, Taylor is far from the only teen to have attended a party at this adult man's house. Of course, Cook and Taylor are committed to appearing unbothered by questions about their age gap. Cook, who I regret to inform you is on TikTok, recently shared a throwback photo of himself from 1994. He's either 21 or 22 in the photo, around the same age his fiancée is now in the year 2022. Cool.
But back to Vanessa, Kaia, Austin, and the impermanence of youth. If you actually want to feel old, I recommend gazing upon this photo of Austin Butler days before his 19th birthday — nearly the same age Kaia Gerber is now — holding an SD card for a flip phone. Or this picture of Butler and Hudgens from 2012, when Uggs and layering hoodies under leather jackets were peak fashion. These pictures make me feel ancient in a way a multigenerational handshake never could.
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The $100 Million Boat
The Maltese Falcon, which claims to be the largest and fastest personal sailboat in the world, was launched in Italy over the weekend. She's an 87.5 meter (287 ft long) yacht with three masts that are 57 meters tall (187 ft). She looks like a 19th century clipper ship, but moves like a rocketship.
Who would commission this type of super-mega-yacht with all its high-tech bells and whistles? Venture capitalist Tom Perkins of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, that's who! Mr. Perkins, a mega-rich Silicon Valley Pioneer, has served on the board of tech heavyweights such as HP, Compaq, Philips Electronics and Tandem Computers (where he served as Chairman for 23 years).
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The Sacred Way was the ancient road that connected the city of Athens to Eleusina. It had a length of 22 kilometers, starting from the Sacred Gate in Kerameikos. At the most part followed the route of the current Sacred Street leading to the Temple of Dimitra at Eleusina.
Based on historical data is considered that the inhabitants of Athens, crossed the path for the first time in Late Greek period (1600-1100BC.) in order to reach the town of Eleusina. Later, when the Eleusinian mysteries were formally established, the Ancient Sacred Way played an important role because the religious processions followed this route.
The embankments of the road were made of large conglomerate stones or limestones and were rooted on the rock in depth which in some places reached 1,48 m. Three roadways can be distinguished: The lower consists of the sanded surface of natural rock, where small potholes were filled with pressed stones of chalk. The middle consists of thick pressed stones of chalk with small stones. The top roadway is paved and its width was about 0.20m. Among the three roadways mediate thinner layers of sand enriched with fine gravel.
An exceptionally well-preserved part of the Sacred Way, approximately 200 meters, has been excavated near the Temple of Afrodite in Aphaia Scaramanga, where have been preserved until today prints of the wheels of the passing chariots and carriages. Section of road, about 44 m, was excavated in front of the 9th Primary School of Haidari at the junction of the current Sacred Street with Kolokotronis Street and to the west. Around 47 meters further west, has been excavated part of the Ancient Sacred Way with length 23.5 m, of which has preserved only the northern embankment of the road. Smaller parts of the ancient road have been identified to the east, within the borders of the Municipality of Haidari.


I didn't know what to expect when I picked up this book, but it surpassed my expectations big time. I can say that Fostergirls will be counted among my favourite reads of 2011.
Sadie is a 15 year-old foster girl who has been in the system since she was three, found in the streets begging for food with her brother and no sign of their mother. Since then she was separated from her brother and has lived in twelve different foster homes. Now in another new group home in a small town, Sadie wants to get out of the system and live on her own. She's a tough girl who prefers to go unnoticed and keep to herself, but on her first day in school she meets Rhiannon, a girl her age who talks non-stop and wants to befriend her.
From the moment I picked up this book I wanted to read non-stop. The author captures Sadie and her world so well, that I became engrossed in it very quickly. The story is told from Sadie's point-of-view and I loved being inside her head and seeing things through her young and streetwise eyes. The author's professional experience in the field of education shone through in this novel and she portrayed the challenges both of the foster care parents and the kids, as well as the school system so realistically.
Sadie and Rhiannon are so different from one another and yet they share the frustration of being different from other teens. Their characters are so well-developed, unique, and memorable. Sadie is tough, used to looking out for herself, not allowing herself to care because if she does, she will then feel disappointment which she's experienced too many times in her life. But she is also vulnerable and needs to be loved. Rhiannon loves to take care of others and even when others are unkind to her she is strong and looks beyond their behaviours.
The author handles the rough scenes in this book well. She manages to show us the life of girls in foster care, who've come from painful situations no child should go through, without using any profanity or explicit descriptions. Sure, the language was crude at times but so realistic and without being offensive. This book also explores learning disabilities and some of the programs being implemented to help students who have trouble reading and writing.
Overall, this was an inspiring and revealing book. I highly recommend it to teens, social workers, parents, and teachers. What a great read!
Note: This book is rated C = clean read. There is some rough language but no profanity.
Disclosure: Thanks to Monica Palkowski from Second Story Press for sending me this book for review. I was not compensated in any other way, nor told how to rate or review this product.


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Released on 30/08/2004 by Epic
Main artist: Lamb of God
Genre: Metal
Download this album for unlimited listening.
Buy the album Starting at €15,29
Laid to Rest (Album Version) Explicit
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The Dark Side of the Moon: An Astronomical Success
Pink Floyd's ground-breaking album The Dark Side of the Moon was the result of a long creative process that began around 1968. A Saucerful of Secrets (the main track from the eponymous album) was, for Nick Mason at least, where it all began. Their next album Ummagumma (1969) gave each band member the opportunity to create a solo piece, though they would have to combine their talents if they wanted to hit the jackpot. Pink Floyd continued to search for the perfect record with Meddle, an album which highlighted their skills in the studio, and Atom Heart Mother, before they reached nirvana with The Dark Side of the Moon. And the album's perfection hasn't faded one bit.
Alice Cooper Doesn't Run from Danger
The Alice Cooper story is, first and foremost, an extraordinary tale of "split personality". Like something straight out of "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", singer Vincent Furnier surrendered to the domination of showman Alice Cooper. But by his own admission, the man who always speaks of "Alice" in the third person in interviews remains a simple, completely normal guy in private, far from the stage where he enacts his excesses and provocations. Throughout a career stretching over 50 years, there is an evident streak of schizophrenia in his many stylistic changes. While we credit him with the invention of shock rock, he has ventured into almost every genre with varying degrees of success, from pop to nascent hard rock, with forays into heavy metal, new wave and industrial…
Back in Black: AC/DC in all Their Glory
With 50 million copies sold, Back in Black is the second best-selling album of all time just behind Michael Jackson's thriller. Who could have imagined that AC/DC's seventh studio album would pick up so many awards considering their charismatic lead-singer Bon Scott's premature death after the release of Highway to Hell. The album marked the end of their first chapter but the beginning of their second which fans of the Australian band today continue to relish…
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Irish teenager takes over Taoiseach's office and calls for youth voices to be heard on UNICEF's World Children's Day
Aoife Murphy wins UNICEF's #KidsTakeOver competition after campaign to lower the voting age to 16
DUBLIN, 18 November 2017 – Fifteen-year-old Aoife Murphy from Westmeath will bring the voice of young people around Ireland to the Taoiseach's office on Monday November 19th, after winning UNICEF's Taoiseach #KidsTakeOver competition. Youth advocate Aoife is campaigning for Ireland to lower the voting age to 16 and will spend the day with An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar highlighting why young people deserve to have a say in decisions that affect their future.
Aoife's takeover of the Taoiseach's office comes the day before World Children's Day on November 20th. World Children's Day is a day 'for children, by children', when children from around the world will be taking over, as part of UNICEF's global #KidsTakeOver initiative, key roles in media, politics, business, sport and entertainment to express their concerns about what global leaders should be focusing on.
Aoife was chosen by UNICEF to represent the views of the children of Ireland after she entered a competition to describe the one change she would like to see in her community, nation, or world. Aoife spoke passionately about why she started a local campaign to lower the voting age to 16 and why it's so important to listen to the voices of young people on issues that will have consequences for their future.
This year Aoife has been running a campaign in her school and community to give young people a voice in their future and to advocate for change in the voting age. "Young people are facing great challenges like climate change, inequality and unemployment. We want to play our part in deciding who is making the decisions, that ultimately will have a far greater impact on our generation than theirs. It is our future – we deserve our say!" she said.
UNICEF Ireland Executive Director Peter Power said: "World Children's Day is a celebration of children all over the world and of all the progress we have made on children's rights, but it is also an opportunity to raise awareness about the issues faced by children both at home in Ireland and around the world. Aoife's wonderful determination and passion for giving young people a voice is a reminder that children and young people will be the most affected by the decisions, from climate change to housing, that our societies make today."
World Children's Day is commemorated each year on 20 November and marks the anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The global day raises awareness and vital funds for the millions of children who are unschooled, unprotected and uprooted. Alongside the #KidsTakeOvers and other activities this year, UNICEF is inviting the public to go online and sign its global petition asking for leaders to commit to fulfilling the rights of every child now and for future generations, and to Go Blue for every child by doing or wearing something blue on 20 November.
ENDS ###
About: Aoife Murphy – "It is our future – we deserve our say!"
Aoife Murphy (15) lives in Delvin, Co. Westmeath with her family. She is a student at Eureka Secondary School in Kells.
A passionate youth advocate and community volunteer, Aoife has recently started a campaign in her local community to lower the voting age to 16. As a young person from a small village in rural Ireland, Aoife has personal experience of how it feels to be dis-empowered and excluded from the national conversation. She has witnessed first-hand how her peers can become disconnected and apathetic – feeling their voices are not being heard.
Aoife is concerned that many young people are not encouraged to get involved in politics or their wider community. "My local community is like a family. We're all the same and that's what we need. If we don't have the force to come together, then we can't tackle the issues that matter most."
She believes that young voices are being lost on important long-term issues that will drastically impact their futures – with adults making choices and young people having to live with the consequences.
Through her campaign, Aoife is fighting for more faith to be shown in young people – giving them the responsibility and opportunity to voice what matters to them.
With lowering the voting age likely to be put before the people in a referendum in 2019, Aoife believes now is the time to give voice to the issues faced by young people and to highlight the impact that change could have. "At 16 I am legally allowed to drive a tractor. At 16 I can legally get married. At 16 I can legally be paid the national minimum wage. At 16 I can legally consent to medical treatment. If we can do all of these things, why can't we vote? Or have a say in our future?" says Aoife.
Aoife feels without a voice at the ballot box, her generation will be powerless in the face of the challenges like, climate change and the housing crisis. As part of the Taoiseach #KidsTakeOver competition Aoife produced a powerful video to explain why lowering the voting age matters so much to her.
About World Children's Day
More information on World Children's Day, visit: https://www.unicef.org/world-childrens-day/
UNICEF works in some of the world's toughest places, to reach the world's most disadvantaged children. Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, to build a better world for everyone.
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Our people management strategy has a strong focus on empowering employees and building a culture in which they feel valued. In the past 12 months numerous strategic processes, training schemes and individual one-to-one coaching programmes have been introduced to ensure our team feel integral to the continual development of our business. We uphold clearly defined progression plans to develop employee knowledge and advance their skill set, ensuring they have the relevant resources to do their job to the very best of their ability.
The leadership team behind RAM Tracking are responsible for the transformational approach to people management. Championing continuous professional development through promotion from within, encouraging employees to continue learning by supporting them through professional qualifications and improving the working environment through the integration of a market leading CRM platform.
As well as somewhat traditional practises we also promote a little 'off the wall' team building including: days at the races, curry nights, family fun days, running club and bubble football - to name just a few!
Do you have a clear passion to add value to each customer you come in to contact with? Are you focused on making each customer feel special every time you speak with them? Do you want to work for a company that is labelled as one of the fastest-growing companies outside London by The Sunday Times with a clear focus on innovation? Well this is the opportunity for you!
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RAM has been short listed and won various awards including Employer of the year, Customer focus and Entrepreneur of the year at the National Business Awards. We are also finalists for the 2016 FleetNews Awards for fleet specialist services supplier of the year.
Due to our aggressive growth, we are looking to recruit a Customer Success Advisors to join our instillations team working within the Customer Success department. If you want to work in a booming market for a company with endless career opportunities apply to RAM.
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Started in 2004 RAM Tracking has grown year on year to establish itself as the market leader in tracking technology with over 80+ employees spread over our UK and Canada offices. Our success has come from firstly having a product that drastically improves our customer's businesses and secondly sticking to our core values and beliefs which are having a positive attitude, working hard, customer excellence, sales excellence, team work, investing in employees, clear career progression and most importantly making RAM a fun exciting place to work.
RAM has been short listed and won various awards including Employer of the year, Customer Focus and Entrepreneur of the year at the National Business Awards. We have also recently been awarded our second Exceptional rating by the IIC, for the service we provide our customers and staff. This goes to show what a great place RAM is to work. As well as being finalists for the 2016 FleetNews Awards for fleet specialist services supplier of the year.
Due to our aggressive growth, we are looking to recruit a Customer Success Advisor to join our installations team, working within the Customer Success department. If you want to work in a booming market for a company with endless career opportunities apply to RAM.
Inbound and outbound telephone calls with existing customers to ensure they maximise their savings and get the most from our service.
Liaising with a network of engineers to arrange dates and times for visits to customers to complete requested work.
Investigating and resolving customer issues ensuring clear focus on service excellence is the key focus with each customer contact.
Being empowered to make your own decisions and following through on the actions you agree with your customers.
Ongoing training is provided to ensure you have a full understanding of our product and have excellent customer service skills.
Please note we offer a performance related bonus scheme with realistic OTE of £4000 - £8500 per year, depending upon your performance.
As we are a close team we have many team building events paid for by the company. Some examples of previous events are; A company trip to Marbella, Friday's at the Races, paintballing, virtual golf, bowling, curry and quiz nights, golfing and nights out.
A clear focus on delivering a world class customer experience on each customer contact.
A proven track record getting results (within the telematics industry would be a huge advantage).
CRM management experience (Salesforce experience would be beneficial).
The ability to prioritise workloads and have exceptional attention to detail.
Clear motivation and drive to succeed.
The drive to improve own learning and hunt for information.
A reliable person who has the willingness to go the extra mile and do what's needed to get the job done.
The ability to speak to customers and colleagues at all levels.
A technical background would also be an advantage.
If you are the type of person that wants to make a real difference in an award winning, innovative and customer centric technology company please contact Wayne Pepper on 03333 230 233 to discuss any opportunities further. Alternatively email your CV via the Apply button.
We are currently looking to recruit an Internal Key Account Manager to join our sales department and contribute to the continual growth of our business. The successful applicant will be a highly motivated, target driven and reliable individual, in search of a new opportunity.


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"It's an extraordinarily
time-demanding job," Carter
said. "As a woman, you prob-
ably do one of three things:
You either don't have a family,
or you neglect your family, or
you are richly blessed in figur-
ing out ways to balance career
In Carter's case, she was
able to find a healthy balance
between her work and her
loved ones. Her husband is a
commercial real estate appraiser
who works from home, so he
has been available to take their
kids to school activities and
look after them if they fall ill.
Carter said the day-to-day work of supporting a family can be enough to prevent some women from pursuing a job that is exceedingly time-consuming.
"If you have a family, and you're trying to balance all of those responsibilities with a 60- to-70 to sometimes 80-hour-a- week job, it's tough," she said.
"I think most women recognize that pretty early on, and I think you probably find a much higher percentage of women principals and women in curriculum fields than you do in the superintendency. I think it's at least partly because many women see the time requirement and just choose not to pursue that avenue."
Lack of Guidance
In addition to the time constraints and family factors, there is a notion that young female educators and administrators are lacking encouragement and guidance from leaders in the field. It can be difficult to accomplish something that few others do without the support of a mentor providing reassurance and advice along the way.
This was exactly the case
for Lufkin ISD Superintendent
La Tonya Goffney, who was
not aware of the uneven ratio
of males to females in the job
until her first Region 6 superin-
tendents meeting.
"I walked in, and it was all
men," Goffney said. "And that's
when I realized it was not the
Goffney said becoming a
superintendent was not a goal
until she received encourage-
ment from her mentor during
her postgraduate work.
"I think mentors, sponsors,
people in the field are very
important," she said. "Because
it was mentors, it was my
superintendent mentor who
had taught me at Sam Houston
who came to me and told me
I was ready. And at the same
time, there were community
members who pushed me out
There is a perceived deficit
of mentors pushing young
women to create ambitious
goals for their careers. Interest-
ingly, a Columbia University
study revealed that younger
women tend not to choose
female mentors. Additionally,
the study showed that women
at the senior level tend not to
take on female mentees because
there is a feeling of competi-
tion and there are only so many
leadership positions available
for women.
Men aren't doing much better in identifying young women to mentor and raise to positions of leadership, according to the study. A majority's reaction to a small entry by a minority into its territory (such as an-all male school board hiring a female superintendent) might be neutral or even positive, the study showed; however, once a minority reaches a certain threshold, the majority often feels threatened. Studies suggest this threshold is about 20 percent, which would almost identically match the percentage of female superintendents in the state ( 19 percent).
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package io.dropwizard.setup;

import com.codahale.metrics.MetricRegistry;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import io.dropwizard.configuration.YamlConfigurationFactory;
import io.dropwizard.jackson.Jackson;
import io.dropwizard.jersey.validation.JerseyViolationException;
import io.dropwizard.jetty.HttpConnectorFactory;
import io.dropwizard.logging.ConsoleAppenderFactory;
import io.dropwizard.logging.FileAppenderFactory;
import io.dropwizard.logging.SyslogAppenderFactory;
import io.dropwizard.server.ServerFactory;
import io.dropwizard.server.SimpleServerFactory;
import io.dropwizard.util.Resources;
import io.dropwizard.validation.BaseValidator;
import org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractNetworkConnector;
import org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server;
import org.hibernate.validator.constraints.NotEmpty;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;

import javax.validation.Validator;
import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import javax.ws.rs.QueryParam;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;
import javax.ws.rs.ext.ExceptionMapper;
import java.io.File;

import static io.dropwizard.server.SimpleServerFactoryTest.httpRequest;
import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;

public class ExceptionMapperBinderTest {
    private SimpleServerFactory http;
    private final ObjectMapper objectMapper = Jackson.newObjectMapper();
    private Validator validator = BaseValidator.newValidator();
    private Environment environment = new Environment("testEnvironment", objectMapper, validator, new MetricRegistry(),
        ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader());

    @Before
    public void setUp() throws Exception {
        objectMapper.getSubtypeResolver().registerSubtypes(ConsoleAppenderFactory.class,
            FileAppenderFactory.class, SyslogAppenderFactory.class, HttpConnectorFactory.class);
        http = (SimpleServerFactory) new YamlConfigurationFactory<>(ServerFactory.class, validator, objectMapper, "dw")
            .build(new File(Resources.getResource("yaml/simple_server.yml").toURI()));
    }

    @Test
    public void testOverrideDefaultExceptionMapper() throws Exception {
        environment.jersey().register(new TestValidationResource());
        environment.jersey().register(new MyJerseyExceptionMapper());
        final Server server = http.build(environment);
        server.start();

        final int port = ((AbstractNetworkConnector) server.getConnectors()[0]).getLocalPort();
        assertThat(httpRequest("GET", "http://localhost:" + port + "/service/test")).isEqualTo("alright!");
        server.stop();
    }

    private static class MyJerseyExceptionMapper implements ExceptionMapper<JerseyViolationException> {
        @Override
        public Response toResponse(JerseyViolationException e) {
            return Response.ok("alright!").build();
        }
    }

    @Path("/test")
    @Produces("application/json")
    private static class TestValidationResource {
        @GET
        public String get(@NotEmpty @QueryParam("foo") String foo) {
            return foo;
        }
    }
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HBO to Make 'The Devil and Sidney Korshak'
HBO to Make The Devil and Sidney Korshak
Robert Evans to produce a film about one of Hollywood's great behind-the-scenes fixers.
— April 2, 2009
According to Variety it looks like HBO, Paramount Pictures and Robert Evans will be telling the story of Sidney Korshak.
Korshak was a Chicago attorney who came to Hollywood and created relationships with politicos, labor leaders, showbiz types and the underworld. He used his considerable clout to "fix" various situations in Hollywood.
HBO bought the Vanity Fair article "The Devil and Sidney Korshak" which was written by Nick Tosches.
Robert Evans will be producing the project from a script by Art Monterastelli.
"You can't tell this story in just two hours," stated Evans.
Sidney Korshak died in 1996
"This will be the saga of what the New York times once called the most powerful man in the country, and yet he was a total mystery," Evans continued. "I consider him the godfather's godfather, but he never had a misdemeanor and died a totally innocent man. He didn't have an office; everything was done from the corner table at the Bistro in Beverly Hills, and everything was in his head."


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Lift a set of NodeU inputs from constants to controls. The result triple gives the incremented NodeId, the transformed FromPort list, and the list of newly minted control Nodes.