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Here's a summary of this afternoon's economy questions, taken by the Deputy Minister for Economy & Transport, Lee Waters (Lab, Llanelli).
Wales Office suspected of being behind "West Britain" alliance quote
Rhun ap Iorwerth AM (Plaid, Ynys Môn) said the recently-announced "Western Gateway" alliance – a pet project of the now former Welsh Secretary, Alun Cairns and rebranding Wales as part of "West Britain" – was undermining attempts to build a Welsh economy.
In a slightly feisty exchange, he went on to accuse the Welsh Government of being too eager to ride on Cairns' coattails in the past and refusing to take its economic role seriously.
The Deputy Minister suggested "West (of) Britain" came from the Wales Office and the person who that quote was attributed to – the alliance's Chair, Katherine Bennett – denied saying it. There are elements of cross-border working the Welsh Government were keen to explore, but:
"….we are sceptical about the intentions behind the setting up of this alliance and giving it, certainly, any institutional character because we fear the UK Government are using this as a Trojan horse to undermine the Welsh Government through whatever comes of the shared prosperity fund…..The chair that's been appointed, Katherine Bennett, is a very good person and we certainly wouldn't wish to undermine her in any way. This is not a joint appointment, but we certainly would like a conversation with her about how she feels this alliance goes forward with our concerns in mind."
– Deputy Minister for Economy & Transport, Lee Waters
First Newport M4 commission recommendations expected before Christmas
Shadow Economy Minister, Russell George AM (Con, Montgomery), asked for an update on the commission set up to consider alternatives to the Newport bypass since it was canned earlier this year.
While the Deputy Minister confirmed that the timetable for the commission's work hasn't slipped, there were some perceived delays:
"Can I ask why it has taken until October to establish the membership of the commission? And can I also ask: can you confirm that by the end of this year, we will have the interim report, or will it just be an update? And can I ask what appears to be kicking into the long grass, can you tell me if this interim report has been kicked into the long grass, or do you still anticipate the report to be delivered by the end of this year?"
– Shadow Economy Minister, Russell George AM
The Deputy Minister said the Welsh Government expects early recommendations by Christmas. It's taken time to establish a "high-calibre" commission, who've now published their terms of reference. He was encouraged that the commission intends to look at several interventions beyond road improvements.
In response to a follow up suggesting the bypass had twice as much support as its scrapping, the Deputy Minister said decisions weren't made based on popularity but on principle relating to the climate emergency. The poll also didn't take into account the estimated cost, which could've eaten into the budget for new schools and hospitals.
"Open mind" on economic region boundaries
David Rowlands AM (BXP, South Wales East) raised Cardiff Council's complaints about Newport being the centre of the National Development Framework plans for economic growth – complaints which go against the spirit of regional development. Given regional-based working was now desired, wouldn't it be better to have five regions based on the five Senedd electoral regions?
The Deputy Minister said the Cardiff City Region has been in development for several years with buy-in from local authorities themselves. If the local authorities decide they want to change boundaries then the Welsh Government would keep an open mind – but the number of economic regions has to be at the right number to provide bang-for-buck.
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FloSports and D.C. United announced a multiyear broadcast partnership agreement, to provide year-round content with live and on-demand coverage for all non-nationally broadcast D.C. United home and away matches including other select games on FloFC. The coverage will be available to anyone within the DMV region which roughly stretches from Richmond, Va., to all of D.C., Maryland and Delaware.
Is the content updated? How much of the content is added and how often?
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***Original review***Add me to the list of users with problems that FloSports' technical support completely ignores. After paying $50 for a month's access to FloMarching to watch DCI finals I downloaded the Apple TV app. It (kinda) worked for a bit while watching open class prelims. After the rain delay the app simply refused to work. I restarted the Apple TV and then the app acted as if I didn't have a subscription and when trying to log in it appeared that I was about to be charged a second $50. In short, the app is not working. I emailed support for help. That was several days ago. Other than a support ticket confirmation I have heard zero from support. (I have received multiple junk advertisement emails from FloSports in this time, however.) This is finals week and it all ends tomorrow so the lack of support is frustrating and completely uncalled for with a service that cost as much as this one does. I've reverted to AirPlaying from my phone which works but is not as convenient. This is my first time paying for this service and I have been disappointed with the quality. Buyer beware.
I have had a membership to FloSports since my membership was to FloWrestling. Once they extended their coverage to content out side of just wrestling, it was so much better!
I would give FlowSports content a five star rating, but the app, and especially the TVOS app are not that great. The content however is awesome and easy to access...as long as you use their website then beam it to your TV as it is hard to find content on the apps.
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I am rating this a 3 star because I believe that there are some things to be improved on the app. The video quality that Flograpping and Flowrestling provide is awesome. There are 2 things that I believe that need to be highly improved in.
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During my freshman year in high school, I was going through many changes and transitions such as a new work load, family issues, the pressures of keeping up with social status, and finding myself. Within that year, I was faced with so many changes that, mentally and emotionally I could not handle it. I started losing sleep and it affected my performance in school and had my family really worried. It got so bad that my family did not know how to handle it and I was admitted into the mental health ward at 15 years old. Throughout that first year in high school, I was in and out of the hospital but the summer I was in summer school, I got a really intense panic attack and that was when my parents decided to place me in the mental health ward for 3 weeks. It was such a different experience for me and there were many restrictions. At the time, the doctors diagnosed me with minor depression and psychosis because when I got admitted into the mental health ward, I was having a severe attack and claimed that I was seeing a lot of different things. Out of this whole experience, I was able to keep sane through writing. I remember asking the receptionist for a paper and pen and I went back into my room and started writing. I was writing my thoughts about the whole process and how I felt about being in there. This was a huge defining moment for me. I felt like I found a part of my purpose when I was in there.
I share this story to say that, there is always light in a dark place as long as you search for it. Even though it felt like I was falling a part, I found something to keep me sane and to keep me balanced. This is what writing/journaling has done for me and I hope that whoever reads this, that you are able to find that "thing" that keeps you sane.
Hi! My name is Jo-Anne Santos. I am a writer, educator, and author currently residing in Toronto, Ontario. I released my book of poetry & short stories "Growing Wings" this year and I've been writing since I was a small child.
I'm slightly allergic to mangoes. As much as a I love the fruit, sometimes my lips get really itchy if I eat it really messy.
I remember some of the best advice I received was from one of my previous mentors, Kevin Chin. He said to me "you are the 1, everyone else is the 2. Remember you have to focus on the 1, before you focus on the 2." This advice was so big for me because at the time, I wanted to make everyone happy but he showed me that in order to do that, I must be able to focus on myself first.
I definitely think every woman should know that they are powerful beyond measure. I believe that for so long, we've been underestimated, but there's a whole army of us that are rising and have risen. I believe this is such a beautiful thing.
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What motivates me most is humanity. When I see people coming together, collaborating and working towards the good of others is what keeps me going. It allows me to continue to live out my purpose so others can be impacted positively.
One thing that I think people would be surprised to hear about me is that I was previously married. The experience itself has impacted me and has made me into the woman that I am today.
Jo-Anne Santos is a poet, writer, and educator from Toronto, Canada. Jo-Anne aims is to educate others on ascending from their life circumstances through the power of creative writing.


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Defining "disease" for the purposes of fixed success fees
Posted on October 30, 2012 by Simon Gibbs
Legal costs is a funny old game.
Fixed success fees for employers' liability claims were introduced on 1 October 2004. Fixed success fees for employers' liability disease claims were introduced on 1 October 2005. Recoverability of success fees between the parties will end in April 2013 (although not retrospectively).
Only now, with the end in sight, has the question of what is and what is not a "disease" suddenly become problematic.
The first issue that arises is whether exacerbating a pre-existing condition amounts to a disease. This issue now appears to be heading to the Court of Appeal. See the excellent briefing note from specialist costs counsel Andrew Hogan for a more detailed analysis.
Secondly, we have the recent judgment of Mr Justice Males in Patterson v Ministry of Defence. This concluded that symptoms relating to exposure to cold weather conditions did not amount to a "disease" for the purposes of the fixed success fee regime. This judgment includes a detailed analysis trying to interpret the meaning of the term "disease". It is clear that this is a far from straightforward point. This is compounded by the fact that some of the claims that fall within the "disease" category for the purpose of the rules would not normally be considered as such using ordinary language.
Now that the courts have been asked to properly grapple with this issue it is likely to run for some time and potentially produce some unexpected outcomes. Remember, everyone used to believe that pleural plaques was an actionable injury and millions of pounds was paid out in damages and costs before it was decided that it was not.
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New proportionality test
Earlier in the year specialist costs counsel Andrew Hogan wrote about the various alternative proposals for a new proportionality rule. Commenting on the Longstop Model (i.e. undertaking an assessment applying reasonableness and at the end of the assessment process the judge can stand back and reduce the figure further if the amount appears disproportionate – this is the model that appears to have been adopted) he wrote:
"The notion of a "long stop" discount test of proportionality, is a recipe for satellite litigation, as it will introduce chronic uncertainty into the assessment of costs, both in terms of when such a deduction will be applied and in terms of what the quantum of deduction might be. Perhaps, more significantly, it is disappointing that even now, some 15 years after Lord Woolf 'borrowed' the concept of principle of proportionality from European Union law, it remains a nebulous and uncertain concept, hard to define and even harder to apply, which is conceptually very odd, when one considers that the stated aim of Jackson was to reduce perceived disproportionate costs to a proportionate level. If you can't define proportionality, how can you judge whether you have succeeded or not in moving from a disproportionate model of costs to a proportionate one?"
I have yet to meet a costs practitioner who believes that the new proportionality test is workable.
More worryingly, I have yet to meet a costs judge who is able to explain by what margin, if any, a Bill of Costs in relation to routine litigation that has been assessed at £75,000 applying the reasonableness test should then be reduced down to if the amount in dispute was only £25,000.
Provisional assessment pilot
A reader recently contacted me to ask whether I had any information on how the provisional assessment pilot scheme is working in practice, what is generally being allowed to claimants, and what people's general experiences have been.
I must confess, to date I have not had a single case fall within the scheme. Perhaps claimants are steering well clear of the courts where the pilot applies.
So, the best I can do is ask other readers to share their thoughts here. For once, I will entirely understand if these are anonymous.
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Simmons v Castle – "simple, clear and fair"?
I don't want to have to change the name of the Legal Costs Blog to the Let's Have a Go at APIL Blog but they do keep coming out with the silliest things.
APIL president Karl Tonks, commenting on the Court of Appeal's change of mind in Simmons v Castle as to the timing of the 10% uplift in general damages, stated that the original ruling was "simple, clear, and fair to all concerned".
His criticism is that:
"now someone who starts funding his claim in, for example, March next year but whose case concludes in, for example, November, won't be entitled to the increase, while at the same time someone who starts on 1 April but whose case concludes in November will receive a different sum in damages for his pain and suffering. It could easily mean that two claimants leaving court on the same day, with the same injuries, will receive different damages just because of the date on which they signed their funding agreement."
This appears to reveal a rather worrying lack of understanding as to how LASPO will operate.
Let us take two claimants who suffer identical injuries following highway tripping accidents, both worth £5,000 general damages in current money. They settle their claims in November 2013. Both claims are funded by way of CFAs with 100% success fees and ATE premiums of £500.
If the Simmons judgment had been left unaltered:
1.	Claimant A starts his claim in March 2013. When the claim settles in November 2013 he would be entitled to damages of £5,500 (ie £5,000 plus the 10% uplift). The other side would be liable for the success fee and ATE premium meaning Claimant A walks away with £5,500 in hand.
2.	Claimant B starts his claim in April 2013. When the claim settles in November 2013 he would be entitled to damages of £5,500 (i.e. £5,000 plus the 10% uplift). Claimant B will have to pay his success fee and ATE premium out of his damages. The success fee would almost certainly be £1,375 as the 25% cap would apply. Claimant B would therefore walk away with £3,625 in hand.
How is this any fairer then the amended judgment? The amended judgment means Claimant A get £5,000 and Claimant B £3,625. Still not the same, but at least closer.
Any change such as this creates inherent "unfairness" during the transitional period. If APIL had a fairer solution that would have meant all claimants would have identical outcomes with the introduction of LASPO it is a pity they did not suggest it to the Court of Appeal. Of course, one solution would have been to introduce the 10% uplift and the end to recoverability at exactly the same time (ie end recoverability retrospectively). That way Claimant A and Claimant B would both have identical outcomes when their claims settled in November. Although, no doubt APIL would have managed to come up with some objection to even that "fair" solution.
Costs Lawyer expansion or protection?
The Association of Costs Lawyers recently released the results of a survey of claimant personal injury lawyers indicating gloomy predictions for the implications of the Jackson costs reforms. 78% predicted that they would have less work after implementation. 62% of firms expected to make staff redundant as a direct consequence of the Jackson reforms, while 28% did not yet know. Only 10% said they were sure they would not make such redundancies.
When personal injury lawyers sneeze the costs profession tends to catch a cold. Even if the personal injury lawyers surveyed are incorrect as to the negative impact on their work volumes, other parts of the Jackson reforms, such as an extension of fixed fees and costs budgeting, will inevitably lead to a significant reduction in the amount of work available for Costs Lawyers and law costs draftsmen.
A recent press release from the Association of Costs Lawyers, commenting on the continuing high numbers of new students joining, highlighted the fact that "The Costs Lawyer route to qualification supports the social mobility agenda in the legal profession, as students need only a minimum of four GCSEs to begin the training". What intrigued me about that aspect is that the Association's President, Michael Bacon, commented in this month's Costs Lawyer magazine on the "impressive level of qualifications that many of those applying for student membership this year have shown" and the suggestion that the Association should be trying to extend awareness of the profession to various universities and their students, with it being agreed in principle that a selection of universities would be visited to outline to them the role of the Costs Lawyer, what qualifications are required and the "attractiveness" of the profession as a viable alternative to either barrister or solicitor.
Although there is not exactly a conflict between the minimum academic qualifications required and the potential drive to encourage those with law degrees to enter the costs world, it does reveal a certain tension between the two.
I would be the first to recognise that there are many excellent Costs Lawyers and law costs draftsmen who may have limited academic qualifications, and in the past this was probably true for a high proportion of those practising. I would also be the first to say I would much rather have a bright employee with four GCSEs then a dim one with LPC or BVC qualifications (of which there are many). On the other hand, the costs world has changed unrecognisably in the last 15 years from when I first started. Costs law has become infinitely more complex and demanding. As the volume costs work begins to disappear post-Jackson, that trend will accelerate.
I have long questioned whether a significant number currently working in costs are really intellectually or academically suited to the same. I won't rehash the whole issue of Costs Lawyer standards, but it seems perfectly arguable that some of those in the profession probably shouldn't be and that there are other young bright law students who would be much better suited for the future.
These various different topics appear to come together. If it is accepted that the post-Jackson world is going to lead to much less costs work it must also follow that many currently working in costs will not do so in the future. If the Association of Costs Lawyers role is now a purely representative one should it be seeking to encourage new, and possibly better qualified, entrants into the profession who will be competing with existing Costs Lawyers? Or is its role to protect existing members regardless of their suitability for the future or what is in the best interests of clients, in which case should it be discouraging new entrants into the profession?
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Measuring costs budgeting success
The aim of costs budgeting, that will be rolled out nationally from April 2013, is to control the level of costs that are incurred. There are a large number of unpredictable factors as to whether this aim will be achieved. However, let those make a couple of assumptions:
1.	Claimants' costs are currently reduced, by agreement or assessment, very roughly by one-third (obviously this masks an enormous amount of variation).
2.	Come April 2013 claimants are able to produce accurate budgets that broadly reflect the level of costs that are currently incurred. (The likelihood of accurate budgets being produced is, of course, a very big assumption.)
If the judiciary hopes to limit costs to no more than the levels currently been incurred they would need to reduce the budgets submitted by claimants by an average of one-third.
In fact, if the aim of costs budgeting is to reduce the amounts allowed below current levels it would be necessary to go further than that one-third. Reducing the budgets submitted by an average of 50% would only produce a relatively minor reduction on current figures.
Are judges really going to routinely reduce budgets by this margin?
The danger is that judges may think they are being "jolly robust" reducing budgets by an average of 25%, and thereby avoiding the need for matters to proceed to detailed assessment, and conclude that costs budgeting has been a great success.
The difficulty is that I have not seen any suggestion that the judiciary will have any accurate yardstick with which to compare the budgets being submitted with what might be deemed a "reasonable" allowance under the current system.
I would certainly not suggest that the very small proportion of cases that proceed to detailed assessment are indicative of "average" figures, let alone "reasonable" figures, but at least that would represent a starting point. I have heard no suggestion that the time or resources needed to analyse the data from detailed assessment hearings is being spent to give judges a guide as to what to allow in the budgeting process.
How is success therefore to be measured? A reduction in the number of cases that proceed to detailed assessment cannot be an adequate guide if the costs allowed under the budgeting process exceed current figures.
Costs budgeting
I had a very enjoyable morning last week in Derby giving a training session to Geldards solicitors on the practicalities of costs budgeting. Costs budgeting is, of course, expected to become the norm for multi-track matters come April 2013.
(Geldards is a firm that has lucked out having Nicola Mallen has a professional support lawyer. When I saw the quality of the training materials she had already produced on the subject of costs budgeting I almost cancelled. To increase the pressure, Professor Dominic Regan was speaking later in the day. I was just happy it wasn't the other way around. Dominic is not an easy act to follow.)
As part of the training session I raised the issue as to who should normally undertake the costs budgeting exercise. At this stage I am sure they expected the hard sell to begin. In fact, quite the opposite. I am far from convinced that the majority of Costs Lawyers or law costs draftsman are remotely suited to the job of day-to-day costs budgeting.
It was therefore rather ironic when later that day I checked for updates on the Litigation Futures website to see Iain Stark, Chairman of the Association of Costs Lawyers, being reported as saying:
"The Jackson reforms will put a far greater emphasis on dealing with costs pre-emptively rather than after the event. This means solicitors will need to bring in costs expertise from the start of a case to ensure that the budget they will have to submit to the court at an early stage is realistic and defensible."
I fear that costs budgeting will be to the cost profession what the PPI scandal was to the banking sector, only worse.
The only thing I would suggest to those considering offering a costs budgeting service in this area, and who hope to remain practising in 5 years time, is to set aside at least 10% of your annual turnover for the next 5 years to ensure you have a sufficient reserve to pay for professional indemnity insurance once the claims starts coming in.
10% uplift revisited
The Court of Appeal has amended its decision in Simmons v Castle by deciding that the 10% increase in general damages due to come into effect on 1 April 2013 should not apply to those claimants whose cases are funded by conditional fee agreements where the CFA was entered into before 1 April 2013.
The Court accepted the ABI's main argument that it would be unfair for such claimants to be able to recover success fee and ATE premiums after that date but to also benefit from the increase in general damages that was designed to compensate claimants for not being able to recover success fees and ATE premiums. As the court put it "it is hard to challenge that contention: such claimants would have the penny and the bun" (I'm going to have to start using that expression).
On the other hand, the Court decided that those claimants whose claims are funded on a conventional should benefit from the increase regardless of when the claim began (which still seems to be very much the case of somebody getting a free bun).
The Court noted:
"If the amendment is rejected, there could be cases where a Part 36 offer was sufficient at the time it was made but was insufficient after the 1 April; no such difficulties would arise if ABI's proposal was accepted. Similarly, if ABI's proposal is rejected, there could be cases where defendants try to accelerate the trial and claimants try and delay it. We do not think that these problems are considerable, but they tend to favour ABI's case."
If this is true of CFA funded claimants would it not equally apply to "conventionally" funded claimants? Hasn't the decision to allow "conventionally" funded claimants the uplift, regardless of when the claim began, left open considerable scope for satellite litigation over whether Part 36 offers have been successful or unsuccessful? Given this potentially includes a very large number of claims funded by BTE insurance this is likely to come back to haunt the Court of Appeal.
Bizarrely, APIL's submissions to the Court included the argument that the ABI's proposals would "lead to satellite litigation". It has not been reported as to whether the advocate making that submission managed to keep a straight face at the time.
Although this has been a broadly successful outcome for defendants, the downside is that the Court took the opportunity to extend the 10% increase to claims other than those in tort, such as claims in contract. This will therefore cover holiday claims.
Therefore, a decision was made to delete paragraph 19 from the earlier judgment and replace paragraph 20 with the following:
"Accordingly, we take this opportunity to declare that, with effect from 1 April 2013, the proper level of general damages in all civil claims for (i) pain and suffering, (ii) loss of amenity, (iii) physical inconvenience and discomfort, (iv) social discredit, (v) mental distress, or (vi) loss of society of relatives, will be 10% higher than previously, unless the claimant falls within section 44(6) of LASPO. It therefore follows that, if the action now under appeal had been the subject of a judgment after 1 April 2013, then (unless the claimant had entered into a CFA before that date) the proper award of general damages would be 10% higher than that agreed in this case, namely £22,000 rather than £20,000."
Retrospective success fees
The Costs Law Articles Archive section of Legal Costs Central has been updated with an article previously published in Solicitors Joournal on the extent to which retrospective success fees are recoverable.
Jackson implementation
Posted on October 9, 2012 by Simon Gibbs
The Government has been releasing further details as to how the Jackson forms are to be implemented.
In relation to the 25% cap on success fees in personal injury cases, excluding damages for future care and loss, this 25% includes solicitors' success fee, any barristers' success fee and VAT. Imagine trying to split that particular pie between the solicitor, junior counsel and senior counsel (not to mention what would happen where there is a change in the firm of solicitors acting or a change in counsel).
The lawyer will be required to provide clear information to the claimant on how the success fee has been calculated including showing the breakdown between solicitor and barrister (if appropriate), and the type of damages that the cap applies to (excluding future care and loss). This will be a new requirement for both CFAs and damages-based agreements (DBAs). That should be fun where settlement is reached on a global basis.
In relation to damages-based agreements (DBAs), it has been announced that in addition to the 25% cap on the amount of damages, excluding damages for future care and loss, in personal injury cases that we already knew about, and the existing 35% cap on damages in employment tribunal cases, there will also be a cap of 50% on damages for all other cases under a DBA in civil litigation.
It has been confirmed there will be a new rule on proportionality; the test is intended to control the costs of activity that is clearly disproportionate to the value, complexity and importance of the claim. This will come into effect on 1 April 2013. Of course, it won't be until at least 12 months after that date that we will have the faintest idea as to how this test will work in practice. 12 months of absolute pandemonium in the costs world with probably not a single case capable of settlement.
The extension of the RTA portal upwards to £25,000 and outwards to cover EL and PL cases appears to still be firmly on the agenda, although the rumours circulating on this issue seem to change by the day.
The Government is still considering whether to increase the small claims limit for personal injury cases from £1k to £5k.
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Cross Country Season Begins With Safety Protocols
Daily temperature checks and social distancing the new normal for one of two sports approved to return to play
File photo: Junior Isabella Frey shown in November 2019 during her sophomore cross country season.
Sophia Fuller, Video Editor
In the midst of a world run by Covid-19, some high school sports with low contact are able to resume earlier than others. Cross Country is one of those lucky sports with workouts that started in October and a season beginning Nov. 4.
Holding a season during the pandemic poses some concerns for coach Patrick Marshall, but he is administering several precautions to ensure everyone's safety.
"We are doing a health screening before every workout. Also, maintaining a separation of 10 feet between athletes when not running," Marshall said. "During our workouts we try to make the groups a little smaller than normal and spread them out so they are not bunching up."
Marshall has high hopes for his team this year, despite the delay of the season and having fewer workouts.
"We would like to win the conference championship and hopefully move on to the state meet," Marshall said.
Reflecting on the abrupt end to last year's spring track season, Marshall hopes this year can end differently for his athletes.
"I felt really bad for our students who lost their spring season last year. I would hate to see it extend through this school year," Marshall said.
Technology has been a big part of keeping the team connected and engaged during quarantine. The team utilized an app that tracks activity and motivates the athletes.
"We started a Strava group so the coaches and athletes could check up on progress and encourage each other," Marshall said. "It also has social media features where they give 'kudos' or 'likes' on other runners' activities."
This season is all about adjustments. With players being out of practice for so long and the new schedule, it is going to be unlike any cross country season Marshall has experienced.
"We have some time to get in shape, but the season is going to go by fast. I can already see that we have some (students) that were able to keep up the training and some that will need to try and catch up," Marshall said. "It is going to be an interesting season with the milder weather and how quickly the season will go."
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Within the past few weeks, both the soccer teams on which I play won their respective league championships. These achievements, while trivial in the grand scheme of life, nevertheless fill me with pride and some satisfaction. It wasn't so much that the teams won that has me feeling so positive, it is the manner of how: each squad overcame adversity and challenges to emerge victorious, although the specific challenges facing each team were different. If sports are a metaphor for life, then there are some good lessons here.
Exports play in the premier division of Grand River Soccer, and came into the 2014 season as favourites to defend the title won last year. Things didn't start off all that well, though: four games into the season we found ourselves with a record of two wins, a loss, and a draw. For most teams, that record would be OK, but we expect to win every game. And I don't mean that arrogantly, I just mean that we are a talented group, with a few years of chemistry, and we go out each week to win.
The biggest problem at that early juncture wasn't the record, but the play. Our devastating attack was sputtering, we were making defensive miscues, and our midfield wasn't the dominant force it had been in years past. Our roster had changed slightly, but not to the degree that the on-field performance should change all that much. In fact, although we were at 2-1-1, we probably deserved to be worse off, having snatched some points in the closing minutes of two of those games.
Grand River Soccer has some very skilled teams – last season came down to the final day of the season and the top teams had returned largely intact – so we knew we couldn't afford to be dropping points. We'd actually played two of the top teams in that opening four game stretch, and at that point we were tied for top in the league, but there was growing concern about the poor performances relative to our own expectations.
In week five, we cruised to a comfortable 3-1 win. In week six, we crushed a primary rival 5-2. Things were turning around. Plus, league parity was at an all-time high, and teams were stealing points off each other in some surprising results. The consequence was that we were starting to open up a bit of a lead in the league title race. But July brings vacations, and by this point in the season injuries have started to take their toll. We were without the league's best centerback for a crucial four game stretch due to vacation, and between other injuries and absences we played with a patchwork line-up for the rest of the season.
This photo was taken nine days after the knee-on-knee I took in the first game of a back-to-back night.
A 6-3 win over a main rival in which many of our guys were playing the second of back-to-back games that night, and in which we scored four goals in the last ten minutes. Two of those were by our manager, Ruben, who only came on to play for the last twenty minutes and scored a highlight-reel brace in the span of five minutes. I played 180 minutes that night with the knee injury you see in the picture (actually, both knees were injured…). On corner kicks I was leaning against the post for some respite.
A 3-1 win to clinch the title, that saw us gut out a win with a hodge-podge line-up (I played in center midfield for the only time all season) over a very talented opponent. I subbed off for the last ten minutes, as I was absolutely exhausted (and still very injured), but I felt satisfied that I'd done my part to earn the championship.
We split our last two games as some of us injured folk sat out, but it didn't really matter – we still won the league title by 6 points. Of all the titles I've been a part of, this one is up there in contention for most satisfying. Every single week we came out ready to play, no matter the circumstances, and more often than not we found a way to win.
Of all the titles I've been a part of, this one is up there in contention for most satisfying. Every single week we came out ready to play, no matter the circumstances, and more often than not we found a way to win.
Fusion plays in the premier division of the Tri-City Men's Soccer League (TMSL). We won the title two years ago, and finished third last season.
The season for Fusion was as interesting as that of Exports, and had the same ultimate result, but was about as different as is possible. Fusion's season was characterized by inconsistency (alternating dominating play with listless ineffectiveness), dysfunction, and just enough victories to get the job done.
The TMSL had extreme parity this year, with the eight teams finishing with these point totals: 26, 23, 23, 22, 18, 17, 16, and 12 (the maximum available points for the season is 42). On any given week, any team could beat any team. We finished with eight wins, four losses, and two draws – hardly a dominating season.
Halfway through the campaign we sat at four wins, two losses, and a draw, and the team was coming off a poor stretch of play that was marred by a disgraceful moment of team dysfunction that almost saw us kick a player off the team. At that point, some of us got together over drinks to chat about the season and basically try to get things back on track. What made things a bit funny was that we were sitting alone in first at the time, but we all felt like we were having a brutal season.
At that point, some of us got together over drinks to chat about the season and basically try to get things back on track. What made things a bit funny was that we were sitting alone in first at the time, but we all felt like we were having a brutal season.
Basically, we either won or we lost; we either played brilliantly or brutally. There was very little middle ground for the team this year, and it showed in the results. Nevertheless, on the strength of our many victories, we were tied on points and held the tiebreaker against our main rivals as we headed into the final week of the season.
That final game, though, was played under unusual circumstances. Should we win, then we earn promotion to the Kitchener and District Soccer League (KDSL), one of the better leagues in the country. While we are pretty much, to a man, excited about that prospect, there are some significant logistical issues that must be overcome. Without getting into the details, suffice it to say that getting promoted would significantly complicate matters for the Fusion soccer club.
Consequently, before the game there was actually talk of "Do we even want to win this game?" That lasted all of about ten seconds, before we all agreed "Screw it, let's go out and play and deal with the consequences." In an absolutely epic match (which included a professional-calibre volleyed goal from our right-back and our keeper making a penalty save in injury time), we came out 3-2 victors and so wrapped up the title.
I played about twenty minutes of the first half, with that knee injury, before coming off and planning on sitting out the remainder. Unfortunately, our left winger got injured with about twenty minutes left in the match and came off, thrusting me back onto the pitch. Making matters a tad difficult was the extreme speed of the players our opponents had on the right. I essentially said to myself, "Twenty minutes to clinch the title!" and I applied all the Mind Gym goodness I'd picked up (thinking positively, focusing on what to do rather than what not to do, etc.). I felt privileged to be on the pitch as the referee blew the whistle to end the match that made us champions.
Six of us on the team were on the Fusion team that first earned our way into the premier division five (or six?) years ago. It's been quite a journey.
I haven't played since that match, as I'm giving my knee some time to heal. It's been almost four weeks and the bruising is still visible and there's still internal swelling. Damn! The price of victory.
Now we get to deal with the consequences! Personally, I'm excited by the challenge of upping my game to play against even tougher competition, and I'm very seriously considering a dedicated training regimen during the winter to get in the best shape of my life in preparation for the 2015 outdoor season. I'm gonna give it everything I've got!
As last year, I'm not pictured. Since we won the league with two games to spare, and I was injured, I didn't go to the next game…which was when the trophy was provided. Damnit! I swear I'm on the team.


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Press release (Nr. XIV) - Fraunhofer IWS / 13.10.2016
Last night, Fraunhofer IWS Dresden received the second prize of the EARTO Innovation Awards 2016 in the category Impact Delivered for the: Development of super hard diamond-like carbon coatings for improved energy efficiency. These coatings are applied on piston rings and other parts in the powertrain. Coated piston rings show a reduction in fuel consumption of about 1.5 % or 3 g/km CO2 emission. Series production has started. Further components will follow.
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EARTO Innovation Awards Ceremony on October 12, 2016 in Brussels
The reduction of friction has an especially large potential to reduce fuel consumption and CO2 emission. Studies have revealed that a consequent use of coatings for the reduction of friction can lead to worldwide savings of up to 117 billion liter of fuel per year which corresponds to savings of up to 290 million tons of CO2 emission. Hydrogen free carbon coatings (ta-C), the next generation of DLC, have a higher content of diamond bonds and a hardness which is a factor of 2-3 higher as compared to conventional DLC coatings. Therefore they reveal a significantly higher wear resistance especially under high load. Moreover they show excellent properties under dry running conditions. Depending on the working conditions they also show drastically reduced friction values.
Due to the urgent need of a reduction in fuel consumption ta-C coatings are of utmost interest for the automotive industry and their suppliers. Piston rings are known to have a significant impact on fuel consumption and CO2 emission. They contribute to about 25 % to the total friction losses, which corresponds to 6 % of the total fuel energy. Fraunhofer has started an ambitious program with industrial partners, namely Vakuumtechnik Dresden (VTD) as an equipment manufacturer and Federal Mogul (FM), the world leading manufacturer of piston rings in order to exploit this potential to reduce fuel consumption. Due to the extreme wear conditions large coatings thicknesses of up to 20 μm are necessary, which up to now only can be made by the laser arc process developed by Fraunhofer IWS Dresden.
As a result it could be proved that ta-C coated piston rings have a wear resistance which is more than doubled as compared to the best alternative. Scuff resistance, especially important in modern combustion engines, improved by a factor of 10. Extensive tests confirmed that the use of ta-C coated piston rings resulted in a friction loss reduction of up to 20 % and therefore show an advantage in fuel economy and CO2 reduction of 1.5 % and 3 g/km CO2 , respectively.
At the end of the year 2015 seven laser arc modules were built and delivered by Fraun-hofer while the coating equipment was built by the industrial partner VTD. In the next years further coating machines will be built in order to meet the growing demand. Series production at Federal Mogul started late in 2015 and in 2016 a production volume of about 30 million ta-C coated piston rings is expected. Market penetration is expected to grow extremely rapidly since all major European car manufacturers have adopted or initiated testing these rings for their future engine programs.
The EARTO Innovation Awards were delivered during a ceremony held on 12th October at the BelVue Museum in Brussels by the European Commission Vice-President for Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Jyrki Katainen. Fraunhofer, Europe's largest application-oriented research organization, has now received the distinction for the sixth time.
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Sanders also admitted last week in another media interview that his team is looking at the possibility of a 2020 run for him. He also said that running for president is a personal decision that will impact on his family.
Sanders is of course coming off from a frustrating 2016 results for him when he ran in the Democratic primaries, gained popularity among so-called progressives, but eventually lost to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the nomination. His supporters widely claimed after Hillary humiliatingly lost to Trump that good, old Bernie would have stood a better chance against Trump.
Social media users gave varied reactions to the possibility of Sanders running for President in 2020, even among Democrats.
I wish he would give it up already.
It's been plainly obvious that he's running for over a year, now. For all of our sake, I sincerely hope he wins the nomination. Millennials will stay home again if he doesn't, and Democrats can't win the White House without them.


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L'Évangéliaire de Godescalc ou de Charlemagne est un manuscrit pourpré enluminé de la fin du  (781-783). C'est un des plus importants exemples d'enluminure carolingienne. Il est conservé à la Bibliothèque nationale de France sous la cote « Nouvelle acquisition latine 1203 ».

Historique du manuscrit

L'évangéliaire est réalisé par le scribe Godescalc à destination du roi Charlemagne et de sa femme Hildegarde. Il est produit à la cour, peut-être alors localisée à Worms. Il est daté entre 781, après le retour de Charlemagne de Rome et le , jour de la mort en couches d'Hildegarde.

Le manuscrit de l'évangéliaire est attesté en 1246 dans un inventaire des biens de l'abbaye Saint-Sernin à Toulouse. Il a peut-être été donné par Louis le Pieux, alors qu'il est roi d'Aquitaine, ou bien par son fils Charles le Chauve, alors qu'il séjourne à l'abbaye après le siège de la ville en 844. Le manuscrit était alors exposé chaque année par l'abbaye, à l'occasion du Jeudi saint.

Le manuscrit est transféré au cours de la Révolution au musée des Augustins de Toulouse, fondé en 1793.  Il est transféré en 1810 à Paris puis il est offert par la ville de Toulouse à Napoléon  en 1811, à l'occasion du baptême du roi de Rome. Il est conservé dans les collections impériales, et notamment dans le bureau de son bibliothécaire particulier, Antoine-Alexandre Barbier, au château de Saint-Cloud. Il entre au musée du Louvre en 1814. En 1852, il est transféré au musée des Souverains tout juste créé par Napoléon III, où il est exposé avec le psautier de Charles le Chauve. Il passe ensuite dans les collections de la Bibliothèque nationale de France après la fermeture de ce musée, en 1872.

Description
L'évangéliaire est rédigé en onciale à l'encre d'or et d'argent sur 127 pages de parchemin pourpré. Le codex est décoré de six miniatures : les quatre Évangélistes, le Christ en gloire (imberbe) et la Fontaine de vie. Il s'achève sur un poème de dédicace (folios 126v et 127r) rédigé en minuscule caroline où apparaît le nom de l'enlumineur, Godescalc (Godescalcus, Gottschalk). Ce poème commémore le voyage fait par Charlemagne en Italie en 781, sa rencontre avec le pape Adrien  et le baptême de son fils Pépin.

Il constitue le plus ancien exemple connu d'enluminure carolingienne, un style caractérisé par son mélange d'éléments insulaires (le décor d'entrelacs), paléochrétiens et byzantins, visiblement d'influence italienne. Dans ses miniatures, l'artiste utilise des ombres élaborées, avec un trait marqué et des couleurs, pour donner de la profondeur à ses personnages.

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Bibliographie

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The aim of this paper is to develop fast second-order accurate difference schemes for solving one- and two-dimensional time distributed-order and Riesz space fractional diffusion equations. We adopt the same measures for one- and two-dimensional problems as follows: we first transform the time distributed-order fractional diffusion problem into the multi-term time-space fractional diffusion problem with the composite trapezoid formula. Then, we propose a second-order accurate difference scheme based on the interpolation approximation on a special point to solve the resultant problem. Meanwhile, the unconditional stability and convergence of the new difference scheme in L2-norm are proved. Furthermore, we find that the discretizations lead to a series of Toeplitz systems which can be efficiently solved by Krylov subspace methods with suitable circulant preconditioners. Finally, numerical results are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed difference methods and demonstrate the fast convergence of our preconditioned Krylov subspace methods.


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Hey all, I recently bought Gianthold as it seemed to be the "quest du jour" on Cannith, and haven't been disappointed. It's a great set of quests (I've gone through 4 of them so far) and feel like I got my money's worth (in addition to getting access to the forums, and the unlimited AH access, which is totally going to spoil me).
I see that Menechturan is on sale this week. I can't say that I've seen very many people running quests there lately. That seems to be the major problem with Cannith being primary F2P - the only quests I ever see in the social panel are things like Invaders! or something like Relics of the Sovereign Past, or something like that. Occasionally I *will* see GH quests, which is why I bought that quest.
I actually bought Shan-to-Kor just for the heck of it, and managed to pull two others together for a "favor only" run of all the quests there on elite. I actually ended up getting about 2k worth of XP at the end of the last chain of quests there on elite (at level 13). But I had fun with them, and got some extra favor (which is always nice) - and not too shabby for 200 points!
I'm thinking at my level (14) Necropolis might be a better option (I actually see people running quests there from time to time), but can I just buy Necropolis III and skip the first two?
Is there anything else that tends to be played commonly on Cannith that people have actually purchased? Seems like VIP people are actually in the minority on there, so the only P2P quests that tend to get played at what ends up being "most popular". So, unless we as a community agreed to go buy "X" no one would ever do that.
Necro 4 is another option you should consider. Not quite sure how often those are done here though, I remember having a hell of a time trying to find people to do the Abbot with after getting flagged.
Necro 3 has some of the most HATED quests in the game, with the exception of the end one. I would never recommend spending money on it unless you enjoy really weird stuff/potential train wrecks. One, for example, has everyone else in your group standing around while you lead slow, suicidal rats through a trap-filled maze. If you do this without "cheating" it will usually take around one-two hours of boringness, assuming they actually end up killing the monsters instead of just dying.
The Sands are good for levels 10-14, but you're advancing beyond that already.
After gianthold, I would definitely vote for the Vale, not only do you get the 5 quests there, but also the subterannean, and access to 3 raids (shroud, vision of destruction and hound of xoriat). Once you get high level, most ppl grind the shroud alot and vale quests in order to gather ingredients needed to craft weapons, and other gear. Right now until the next patch, the Shroud is closed, but once it re-opens the 4 top raids being run will be (in no particular order), Reaver, Shroud, VOD, and HOX. So you would get alot of bang for your buck as you level up. Level 12 is when you are allowed access to the vale areas. There is alot of xp to get there, and loot in quests and the explorer areas of the vale and the subteranean. If you want +2 tomes, you wil hhave a very good chance by running these quests/explorer areas.
It was recently updated and it seems that Demon Sands (on sale now!) has gotten a lot more worth it after last mod. Would be in op's level range, too.
Vale of Twilight is another must for high levels.
1 lowish one I always suggest to get is delera's which includes a couple of mid lvl quests as well most people would like to get the voice of the master I am sure.
Well, for the people I've done it with, the real problem is that last Carrion Eater the rats are too slow to avoid & the 4mins to get another one to him. Is there a better way to do that part that doesn't involve singing songs or blade barrier/chaining him through the bars?
If I remember correctly, and I would have to go back to the quest to remember properly if it was the last carrion or not (heh) I was able to use some of those carrion rats as fodder since they would also chase the food. This made them particularly useful to press switches - and get killed - by the traps, without having to send an army of fodder at them.
I agree with your sentiment, with Cannith being a primarily f2p server, i'm having trouble getting people to play p2p content, even content that is otherwise popular. I don't know if it weird luck, but for example, I haven't been able to find a group to do a run through delera's. So I'm at 8th level and I might end up outleveling the content, which saddens me a little given that it seems to be great content. Oh well, maybe with my next alt.
I strongly advice joining a guild. Even if you don't fill a group with guildies, normally all you need is 2-3 good people to run a quest with and be probably even more efficient than a full group, not to mention it's easier to fill a group when you start with several.
Well, one nice thing is that dungeon packs are by account, not by player. So, even though my (then) 13th level cleric bought Shan-To-Kar, my newly created Bard was able to enjoy them at an appropriate level.
Delera's is on my "to-buy" list, as well as Twilight Vale.
But today, I plan on picking up all the Sigils I need since they're 50% off!!


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La scodella è una stoviglia di forma semisferica adatta a contenere liquidi. Il suo nome deriva dal latino scutella forse derivante da scutum scudo, più probabilmente diminutivo di scutra dal greco chytra contenitore di terra.

Caratteristiche
Sua caratteristica è di non avere manico, alla base ha un rinforzo che fa da piede garantendone la stabilità. Materiale d'elezione è la ceramica e la porcellana, meno comuni vetro, metallo e legno. Quelle infrangibili sono realizzate in resina melamminica o materiale plastico, quelle usa e getta in plastica leggera.

Utilizzo
La scodella era usata per la colazione con il caffellatte, per il pranzo con le minestre in brodo, nelle osterie per bere il vino, oggi meno comune perché soppiantata da tazze con manico e bicchieri in vetro anche se piccole tazze da vino in porcellana bianca sono ancora usate dagli appassionati.

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Tazza

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