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Стійкість роботи реактора
Ядерні реактори проектують так, щоб у будь-який момент процес поділу перебував у стійкій рівновазі відносно малих змін параметрів, які впливають на реактивність. Наприклад, при висуванні керувального стрижня з реактора коефіцієнт розмноження нейтронів стає більшим від одиниці, що при всіх інших незмінних параметрах призводить до експоненціального наростання швидкості ядерної реакції з характерним часом нейтронного циклу від τ = 10-3 с для реакторів на теплових нейтронах до τ = 10-8 с для реакторів на швидких нейтронах. Однак, при підвищенні швидкості ядерної реакції зростає теплова потужність реактора, внаслідок чого зростає температура ядерного палива, що призводить до зменшення перетину захоплення нейтронів і, у свою чергу, до зменшення швидкості ядерної реакції. Таким чином, випадкове підвищення швидкості ядерної реакції гаситься, а викликане переміщенням керувальних стрижнів або повільною зміною інших параметрів  — призводить до квазістаціонарної зміни потужності реактора, а не розвитку вибуху. Описана закономірність є однією з фізичних причин негативного потужнісного коефіцієнта реактивності.

Для безпечного керування ядерним реактором вкрай важливо, щоб всі коефіцієнти реактивності були негативні. У випадку, якщо хоча б один коефіцієнт реактивності позитивний, робота реактора стає нестійкою, причому час розвитку цієї нестійкості може бути настільки малим, що жодні системи активного аварійного захисту ядерного реактора не встигають спрацювати. Зокрема, аналіз показав, що позитивний паровий коефіцієнт реактивності реактора РБМК став однією з причин Чорнобильської аварії.

Зниження реактивності
Реактор, що працює в стаціонарному режимі як завгодно довго, являє собою математичну абстракцію. Насправді, процеси, що протікають в реакторі, викликають погіршення розмножувальних властивостей середовища, і без механізму відновлення реактивності реактор не зміг би працювати як завгодно тривалий час. Циркуляція нейтронів у реакторі включає процес поділу; кожний акт поділу означає зменшення кількості атомів подільного матеріалу, а значить, і зменшення k0. Щоправда, атоми, що діляться, частково відновлюються шляхом поглинання надлишку нейтронів ядрами 238U з утворенням 239Pu. Однак накопичення нового подільного матеріалу зазвичай не компенсує втрат подільних атомів, і реактивність зменшується. Крім того, кожен акт поділу супроводжує поява двох нових атомів, ядра яких, як і будь-які інші ядра, поглинають нейтрони. Накопичення продуктів поділу також зменшує реактивність (див. йодна яма). Зменшення реактивності компенсується квазістаціонарним пониженням температури реактора (відповідне збільшення перетину захоплення нейтронів компенсує падіння реактивності та повертає реактор у критичний стан). Однак, активні зони енергетичних реакторів потрібно розігрівати до якомога більшої (проектної) температури, оскільки коефіцієнт корисної дії теплової машини зрештою визначається різницею температур джерела тепла та холодильника — навколишнього середовища. Тому потрібні системи керування для відновлення реактивності й підтримки проектної потужності та температури активної зони.

Система керування
Ядерний реактор може працювати із заданою потужністю протягом тривалого часу лише в тому випадку, якщо на початку роботи має запас реактивності. Виняток становлять підкритичні реактори із зовнішнім джерелом теплових нейтронів. Звільнення зв'язаної реактивності в міру її зниження в силу природних причин забезпечує підтримання критичного стану реактора в кожний момент його роботи. Початковий запас реактивності створюють шляхом побудови активної зони з розмірами, що значно переважають критичні. Щоб реактор не ставав надкритичним, одночасно штучно знижують k0 розмножувального середовища. Це досягається введенням в активну зону речовин-поглиначів нейтронів, які можна згодом видаляти з активної зони. Так само як і в елементах регулювання ланцюгової реакції, сполуки-поглиначі входять до складу матеріалу стрижнів того чи іншого поперечного перерізу, що переміщаються по відповідних каналах в активній зоні. Але якщо для регулювання достатньо одного-двох або декількох стрижнів, то для компенсації початкового надлишку реактивності число стрижнів може досягати сотні. Ці стрижні називають компенсувальними. Регулювальні та компенсувальні стрижні не обов'язково являють собою різні елементи за конструктивним оформленням. Певна кількість компенсувальних стрижнів можуть бути стрижнями регулювання, проте функції тих і інших відрізняються. Регулювальні стрижні призначені для підтримки критичного стану в будь-який момент часу, для зупинки, пуску реактора, переходу з одного рівня потужності на інший. Всі ці операції вимагають малих змін реактивності. Компенсувальні стрижні поступово виводяться з активної зони реактора, забезпечуючи критичний стан протягом усього часу його роботи.

Іноді стрижні керування роблять не з матеріалів-поглиначів, а з подільних речовин або матеріалу-розсіювача. У теплових реакторах  — це переважно поглиначі нейтронів. Однак ефективних поглиначів швидких нейтронів немає. Такі поглиначі, як кадмій, гафній та інші, сильно поглинають лише теплові нейтрони завдяки близькості першого резонансу до теплової області, а за межами останньої нічим не відрізняються від інших речовин за своїми поглинальними властивостями. Виняток становить бор, перетин поглинання нейтронів якого зменшується з енергією значно повільніше, ніж у зазначених сполук, за законом . Тому бор поглинає швидкі нейтрони хоча й слабко, але дещо краще від інших сполук. Матеріалом-поглиначем в реакторі на швидких нейтронах може служити лише бор, за можливості збагачений ізотопом 10В. Крім бору в реакторах на швидких нейтронах для стрижнів керування застосовують і подільні матеріали. Компенсувальний стрижень з подільного матеріалу виконує ту саму функцію, що й стрижень-поглинач нейтронів: збільшує реактивність реактора при природному її зменшенні. Однак, на відміну від поглинача, такий стрижень на початку роботи реактора розташований за межами активної зони, а потім вводиться в активну зону. З матеріалів-розсіювачів у швидких реакторах використовують нікель, що має перетин розсіювання швидких нейтронів дещо більший, ніж інші сполуки. Стрижні-розсіювачі розташовують по периферії активної зони і їх занурення у відповідний канал викликає зменшення витоків нейтронів з активної зони, а отже, зростання реактивності. У деяких спеціальних випадках цілям керування ланцюговою реакцією слугують рухливі частини відбивачів нейтронів, які при переміщенні змінюють витік нейтронів з активної зони. Регулювальні, компенсувальні та аварійні стрижні спільно з усім устаткуванням, що забезпечує їх нормальне функціювання, утворюють систему керування та захисту реактора (СКЗ).

Аварійний захист
Основна стаття: Аварійний захист ядерного реактора
На випадок непередбаченого катастрофічного розвитку ланцюгової реакції, а також виникнення інших аварійних режимів, пов'язаних з енерговиділенням в активній зоні, конструкція кожного реактора передбачає екстрене припинення ланцюгової реакції, здійснюване скиданням в активну зону спеціальних аварійних стрижнів або стрижнів безпеки. Аварійні стрижні виготовляють з матеріалу, що поглинає нейтрони. Вони скидаються під дією сили тяжіння в центральну частину активної зони, де потік найбільший, а значить, і найбільша негативна реактивність, що її вносить в реактор стрижень. Стрижнів безпеки, як і регулювальних, зазвичай два або декілька, проте на відміну від регуляторів вони повинні зв'язувати якомога більшу величину реактивності. Роль стрижнів безпеки може виконувати й частина компенсувальних стрижнів.

Див. також
 Ядерний реактор
 Атомна електростанція

Примітки

Література
 Климов А. Н. Ядерная физика и ядерные реакторы. М. Атомиздат, 1971.
 Левин В. Е. Ядерная физика и ядерные реакторы. 4-е изд. — М.: Атомиздат, 1979.
 Петунин В. П. Теплоэнергетика ядерных установок М.: Атомиздат, 1960.

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Club Sexualizing Children Influenced Scottsdale School District to Allow Students to Drop 'Deadnames'
Scottsdale Unified School District (SUSD) allows students to replace their legal birth names, called "deadnames," on their IDs with their preferred names. The district folded to a push from a Gender & Sexualities Alliance (GSA) chapter at Cocopah Middle School: these clubs are part of a national network pushing a hyperfocus on a child's sexuality while engaging them in social justice activism.
One GSA middle schooler revealed SUSD's "deadname" policy during a testimonial video featured at the latest annual fundraising award ceremony hosted by the Phoenix chapter of the Gay, Lesbian, & Straight Education Network (GLSEN, pronounced "glisten": an activist organization pushing for comprehensive LGBTQ+ sex education and other social justice activism), called the Sparkle Glitter GLSEN Remote Fundraiser and Respect Awards. Arizona Daily Independent first reported on the video. The mother of the anonymous student was also present; her daughter revealed that her GSA club pushed SUSD to create a "deadname" policy. The young students were instigated and aided by a teacher serving as their club sponsor, Laynee Langner, whose efforts helped them cinch the award "GSA of the Year."
"One of my friends, who is trans, had their deadname on their ID and we thought that was kind of unfair because everyone was calling them by their deadname," complained the middle schooler. "We took it to district board level and got it changed for the entire district so that the entire district's students could have their proper names on the ID."
Langner explained that the students do what they want, when they want in their GSA. She further explained that school policy forbade students from using chosen names on their ID for proper identification reasons.
"Every single student has to wear their ID all day every day, and these have their 'deadnames,' and they wanted that changed. The consensus is that we can't because it's their legal names, and we need to have their legal names on their IDs. And I came back and told the students and they were so upset," said Langner. "I haven't seen such joy on the face of a child when I told them they didn't have to have their 'deadname' on their ID, that they could have their chosen name on their ID. It was just euphoria, and it brought – it's just bringing tears to my eyes right now."
"Deadnames" are the birth names that individuals reject upon transitioning genders. The lack of a space between "dead" and "names" wasn't an oversight – that's the spelling recognized by activists, and even Merriam Webster. Activists also use the verb "deadnaming" to refer to the accidental or purposeful practice of using an individual's legal birth name.
GSAs originated with GLSEN in the late 1990s. GLSEN, established in 1990, not only promotes the sexualization of children, it intertwines the tenets of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in its messaging. In guidelines for promoting inclusivity through a GSA, GLSEN wrote that having black representation in GSA leadership was necessary, and touched on topics like intersectionality, solidarity, centeredness, anti-racism, and white supremacy. It also insisted that GSA engage in social justice activism.
"If you're discussing gender identity, talk about the gender binary as a white supremacist concept, and share information about some of the many African and Indigenous tribes that have embraced gender outside of the binary for decades," read the post. "Have in-depth conversations in your GSA about intersectionality, solidarity, and anti-racism. These conversations are incredibly important, but you must also ensure that you do not place any undue burden on Black club members to share their trauma or to teach non-Black club members about racism. Provide space for Black people to process during or after these conversations, if needed, and make sure students know that they can step out at any point if they're uncomfortable or triggered."
Last year's GSA Summit focused on a partnership with Black Lives Matter (BLM). The National Education Association (NEA) was also involved.
The club has caused deep divisions on campus in its short existence within SUSD, also mentioned during the Sparkle Glitter GLSEN Remote Fundraiser and Respect Awards testimonial video. The anonymous mother-daughter duo who revealed that the GSA sixth graders pushed SUSD to create a "deadname" policy described the divide their GSA caused at Cocopah Middle School. The mother said that their activism caused "a whole lot of problems" and said that some parents threatened to leave their middle school while others brought GSA cake to thank them.
"There was a very clear divide in the sixth graders. Those who participated were called 'gay' and those who didn't participate were called 'homophobic,'" said the middle schooler.
This is the same district formerly led by Jann-Michael Greenburg, the SUSD board member removed from presidency over his connection to a dossier on political and parental opponents created by his father.
One legislator, State Representative John Kavanagh (R-Fountain Hills), promised to intervene with a bill to require parental consent before a student can join a school club involving gender, gender identity, and/or sexuality, as well as require schools to give parents detailed information about those types of clubs. The representative asserted that the backdoor approach to sneaking in curriculum through clubs must come to an end.
"School districts should be serving the needs of families and students and not replacing their own ideologies with the beliefs of the parents. My bill would close a loophole that school districts have found in the state law that requires parental approval before students receive sex education," explained Kavanagh. "They've taken LGBTQ+ politics out of the classroom and into the clubs to circumvent the law. My bill will require that parents consent to their child joining any kind of gender sexuality, or gender identity club before the students can join and the school will also have to send parents information about the club's bylaws, rules, goals, and purposes."
Jill Dunican, a Desert Mountain High School parent, told AZ Free News that it took her almost four months before she could get someone at her child's school to tell her what GSA was all about after her high schooler told her about a "sexuality club" on campus. Dunican said that she recognized the harm posed by GSA immediately after obtaining more information on it.
"At first, the principal confirmed there was a Genders Sexuality Alliance, which she framed as a mere support group. However, it took almost four months before I was put in touch with the teacher who leads the GSA who was able to provide details about the agenda and source of curriculum," said Dunican. "After reviewing the GLSEN website, it became clear how divisive the content is. These lessons are not something I want my children exposed to. Essentially, they ask kids to label each other based on skin color, gender and sexual identities in an effort to stack rank themselves into victim groups to establish the oppressors and the oppressed. I just don't see how that helps any child."
"Another concerning finding," said Dunican, "was GLSEN's instruction that teachers encourage students to become social activists for the abolishment of police, including school resource officers. In fact, GLSEN even promotes policing as a white supremist concept. In our home, we support police and first responders and value their contributions to the Scottsdale community."
Dunican expressed that she's not against providing emotional support to LGBTQ+ individuals or any children. Rather, Dunican has concerns that the GSA programming is indoctrinating children with a victimhood mindset and sexualized content that does not seem age appropriate, all without parental consent.
"I've heard others attempt to frame any criticism of the GLSEN indoctrination as anti-LGBTQ+. That's simply not the case. If there was a Gay-Straight Alliance that truly promoted alliances and provided support, and didn't push a sexualized ideology, I would be all in. Every child should be treated with kindness and respect, regardless of who they are. What GLSEN is pushing on our community and children is completely inappropriate."

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Home Life in SG Life in SG - Careers ACRES Wildlife Rescue – Guardians of Nature
ACRES Wildlife Rescue – Guardians of Nature
A three-metre albino python, seven large iguanas and several rare star tortoises are just some of the animals housed at an enclosure in north-western Singapore. But this is no zoo – these animals are all victims of the illegal wildlife trade in Singapore.
These exotic creatures live at ACRES, an association which rescues wild animals which have been smuggled to Singapore from Asia and beyond.
ACRES was created in 2001 by a group of Singaporeans to help animals from ill-treatment and the black market. Its mission is to create a world where animals are treated as sentient beings. Their goal is to have a collaborative and sustainable animal protection movement in Asia.
The team there also rescue wild animals such as snakes from residential areas and educate the wider community about animal welfare.
Education is a very important part of what ACRES does, says Louis Ng, ACRES founder and chief executive. There has been a major change in the attitudes of the younger generations of Singaporeans, who are more and more conscious and concerned about their flora and fauna, says Luis.
As Louis says, "we are their guardians and it is our moral responsibility".
It's happening at a government level, too. In July, the minister for law and foreign affairs, Mr K Shanmugam will take feedback from any people in Singapore who are concerned about wildlife welfare to see how they can progress together.
If some people are making efforts, unfortunately smuggling is a reality in Singapore. Even the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which ensures trade does not threaten wildlife species which are in extinction, Singapore is one of the biggest hubs of illegal wildlife trade in Asia.
To spread the word, ACRES relies heavily on social media, mainly Facebook. But they also use face-to-face interaction to make people realise the danger for animals. ACRES doesn't have a lot of volunteers to help them, and are calling for people in the community to help out.
Anyone can help ACRES by being a volunteer, building enclosures for the animals on weekends, cleaning cages and looking after the animals. People can also help the association by making donations, coming to their events or just talk to people about ACRES and what their jobs consist of.
ACRES' workers also try to expand the association where it can have a bigger impact. They already work in Laos, Thailand, and Malaysia, and are trying to get established in Indonesia. Nevertheless, their first target is Singapore because other countries in Southeast Asia take Singapore's lead.
This article was originally published in August 2013.
ACRES Wildlife Rescue Centre (AWRC) 91 Jalan Lekar Singapore 698917
info@acres.org.sg
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Q: In matplotlib plot cell averages instead of line plot Given a set of n 'co-ordinates', say x=[0, 1, 2, 3, 4] and n-1 'values' y = [10, 20, 30, 40] I want to plot a piecewise-constant function which is equal to 10 for 0 < x <1, equal to 20 for 1 < x < 2 etc.
In other words, the x-list contains co-ordinates of cells boundaries while y-list represents value of this function inside cells. What is the standard way to plot such data?
I am also interested in non-regular grids and 2d plots.

A: For the 1d data, you could use a bar plot. The first argument is the center of the bars, and the second their height.
x=np.asarray([0, 1, 2, 3, 4])
centers=(x[1:]+x[:-1])/2.0
plt.bar(centers,[10, 20, 30, 40],width=1)

For 2d data, you can use pcolor and colorbar
# x coordinates of the cells
x=np.asarray([0, 1, 2, 3, 4])
# y coordinates of the cells
y=np.asarray([0,1,2])
# values inside the cells
c = np.asarray([[10, 20, 30, 40], [50,60,70,80]])

# plot the cells
plt.pcolor(x,y,c)
# plot a bar to match colors with values
plt.colorbar()

To plot non regular grids, pcolor can take as arguments 2d arrays for x and y: you can specify the x and y coordinates for each cell.
Note that pcolormesh plots the same thing than pcolor but much faster, which can be useful.

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Mentors included OSU faculty, graduate students and alumni, and statistics and analytics professionals from 7 companies locally and nationally.
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Chris Mossop is a Scottish singer/songwriter you will want to hear again and again. He has one of those distinct voices that fully engages the audience and his tone is heartfelt and surprisingly disarming.
"Definitely one to watch" – Forth One Radio.


Given the semi-minor political controversy surrounding the film's supposed anti-American undertones, we were very surprised that First Man turned out to be one of the more socially conservative films we've seen in a long time. Director Damien Chazelle and star Ryan Gosling, continuing on the success of their collaboration in La La Land, execute the same feat in a different genre with their second film. If La La Land gave us the most classic of classic Hollywood musicals rendered in a modern way, First Man is akin to a lot of the Great Man in History hagiographies Hollywood is known for; stories of stoic, square-jawed, nearly always white American men who make history through grit and silent – always silent – determination. There's a deeply cynical part of us that wonders if a lot of the critical praise of this film has more to do with a yearning for that kind of figure in American life at a time when our public figures and pedestal-dwellers consistently reveal themselves to be disappointing and problematic.
But let's say this before we get too far into that: First Man is a very good film executed in an engrossing way, telling a classic story about men and women making history and trying to hold themselves together at the same time, with fantastic performances from leads Gosling and Claire Foy, as Neil and Janet Armstrong. As a troubled married couple, they are simply electric together. The scenes of Foy pleading and imploring Gosling (deliberately underplaying to a nearly infuriating extent) to connect with her on some level and to understand her perspective just a little were so powerful and so heavy with yearning that it almost felt like you had accidentally stumbled into some couple's extremely private argument and can't figure out a way to exit the room gracefully.
This you-are-there sense, which permeates the entire film and largely serves as its entire point (since this topic is fairly well-trod cinematic ground, the film's style, like La La Land's, is its raison d'être) is rendered in extreme shaky cam, grainy, period-defining film and lighting, and utterly devastating sound design. The shaky cam and cinema verite-style cinematography are wonderfully effective in both the domestic scenes and the mission-based scenes, but it's the sound during the missions that truly sells the film as its own unique experience. Chazelle seems determined to strip the actual work of developing manned space flight of any romanticism, depicting the missions as hellish affairs akin to riding a series of controlled explosions. There are times when the flashing images and ear-pounding sounds are nearly overwhelming and it's to Chazelle's credit that he sticks with these moments, letting them play out long enough for the audience to feel some sense of nausea and fear themselves. The very best scenes of the film occur during these missions and nothing in the film defines the heroism of the people involved better than showing just how scary and hard their work was. Unfortunately, the emotional component of the story wasn't nearly as well developed or executed.
Make no mistake, the emotional aspect of the story is also a major point of it. While the film has all the trappings of a classic Great Man story, it also tries to explore the nuances of an emotionally distant man and the sacrifices made by him and his wife in order to allow him to become a legend. There is a point the film wants to make about men who keep their cards close to their chest, men who don't display emotion readily and choose all their words carefully. Unfortunately, that point comes off retrograde and muddily expressed; contradicting itself at times.
The film gestures toward Janet's emotional landscape but never lets us see her traverse it, if that makes any sense. It tips its hat toward the ideas that she is unhappy in her life, emotionally unfulfilled in her marriage, and mourning a dead child, but it literally never lets her truly explore those emotions. It barely lets her even portray them. There are times when Janet's perspective is clearly signaled in the story but not actually shown. To put that in more concrete terms, the film goes to great lengths to underline just how stressful her life is as the wife of an astronaut and just how horrifying it can be for her to have to listen to her husband's missions unfold in real time. Then, inexplicably, fails to cut away to her when certain missions hit a snag, go on too long, or swerve too close to disaster. We only see her long after she's had time to process certain events, even though the tremendous difficulty she faces doing that processing is literally the most important part of her character.
Chazelle has this tendency to not depict the character's most emotional moments or to depict them without commentary or context. There is a climactic emotional moment near the end of the film which we will not spoil here. Suffice it to say it was presented in such a manner as to depict Armstrong as the mid-Century ideal of the stoic, silent, American hero. That it happened in total solitude, as far away from his family as humanly possible; farther indeed than any man has been from his family, didn't seem poignant to us. It seemed selfish and punishing, in the context of the story. The problem is, after two-plus hours of watching Armstrong keep everything in check, this moment of release is presented as something beautiful and touching. There's no other sense or feeling attached to it. That's the filmmakers choice and we suspect how one views the film will hinge largely on whether you think that moment should have had more nuance to it. In other words, it comes down to whether you're in the mood for a Gary Cooper-like hero who keeps all his emotions in check (and far away from the people who love him) or whether you think the time for such notions of masculinity have passed. If Armstrong was unknowable for a biographer or unreachable by his own family, we would think a film exploring such ideas would have something to say about them. Instead, it's presented in a purely, reverently heroic manner.
Neil Armstrong and the men of the space program truly were heroic; not just in their bravery, but in their persistence. When First Man sticks to these ideas, it's stirring and engrossing. When it tries to put them in the context of mid-20th Century American masculinity ideals, it fails to truly ask any questions or come to any conclusions other than the obvious ones.


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University of Calgary Dinos coaches, second from left, Matt Berry, and Jabari Arthur, far right, join Tom Knitter, second from right, of the Dinos, with six members of the Vernon Panthers at the Dinos summer camp at McMahon Stadium. (Dinos Athletics)
Dinos high on Vernon Panthers
Six Cats attend University of Calgary football camp
Aug. 15, 2018 11:55 a.m.
Jack Neuman
For The Morning Star
CALGARY — A strong Vernon presence worked out at the annual University of Calgary Dinos football development camp earlier this summer.
Six players from Vernon Secondary School (VSS) Panthers attended the camp which featured the Dino coaches and players as instructors. One of the instructors was former VSS grad, Carson Labrecque, a linebacker with the Dinos.
The camp involved more than on the field instruction. Film breakdown and meetings were an integral part of the camp.
"The competition was very good," said Panther quarterback Zack Smith, attending his third U of C camp. "I really liked the breakdown in meetings and the coaching was good.
VSS linebacker-running back Charles Lemay attended his first camp and loved watching film of the practices.
"I wanted to get better so I came to this camp. It is also good to see how you stack up against others," said Lemay, who enters his senior season with Sean Smith's Cats this fall.
Grade 11 student Caden Danbrook experienced his first camp, and along with Lemay and Thomas Hyett, were members of Team B.C. that competed in the Canada Cup in Calgary in mid-July. "I had to learn a new game as we used Canadian rules. It meant learning new things. I enjoyed the level of instruction."
Heartbreaking loss for Panthers
Other Panther players attending were Matthew Reich and Drew MacKenzie.
"They were a hard-working group of players," said U of C defensive coordinator Matt Berry. "One can see they have had success. With a core of players like this, VSS should be a strong team. I look forward to seeing them compete against Foothills Composite later this season."
The Panthers play an exhibition in Okotoks, south of Calgary, in late September against Foothills Composite High School Falcons. The following day, the Cats will be guests at the Canada West regular-season game between the University of Calgary and the University of Saskatchewan Huskies at McMahon Stadium.
Vernon Vipers land Watson in trade
Altidore nets 3 as Toronto drubs Whitecaps 5-2


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Picture Book Monday with a review of Knit Together
My daughter and I have lots of things in common. For example, we both enjoy making music, but we have our own tastes and styles. Therefore, when we make music together, we have to find a way to do so, as a duo, in a way that works for both of us. Today's picture book is about a mother and daughter who are both creative and who similarly have to find a way to allow their respective gifts to blend in a way that makes them both happy.
Angela Dominguez
Penguin, 2015, 978-0-8037-4099-0
A little girl loves to draw. It is her way of being creative and expressing herself. Her mother is not an artist, but she is a knitter. The little girl cannot help thinking that knitting is better than drawing because you can wear what you knit. She would love to learn how to knit so that she can make "the most amazing things," things like finger puppets and gloves.
Mom shows her daughter how to knit, but it turns out that knitting is "not as easy as it looks." Soon the little girl has nothing to show for her efforts, other than a snarl of yarn and a grumpy face. Mom, who knows how hard it can be to learn a new skill, reassures her daughter, telling her that there is no need to be discouraged. Mom explains that the little girl's artwork inspires her, and sure enough, when you look at the little girl's drawings and her mother's knitted projects, you can see how the artwork is indeed reflected in the knitted hats and other yarn creations. Then the mother and daughter come up with a plan, one that will combine both of their gifts.
This wonderful picture book celebrates creativity in all its forms. Being able to draw and being able to knit are both gifts, and both gifts are precious. Children will be delighted to see how the mother and daughter in this book find that there is a way to share and combine their skills to create something special and unique.
Poetry Friday with a review of After the bell Rings: Poems about After-School Time
When I was in elementary school I can remember feeling that time seemed to slow down during the last lesson of the day. That last bell seemed to take forever to ring. When it rang I knew I was free, until the next school day began.
Today's poetry title explores those almost-out-of-school and free-of-school times.
After the bell Rings: Poems about After-School Time
Carol Diggory Shields
Illustrations by Paul Meisel
For children, the moment when the last bell rings at the end of a school day is a special time. After that bell rings they will be free at last, and all kinds of activities await them. Before the bell rings they are "Like horses at the starting gate," watching the minute hand tick, ticks around the clock face. It feels as if "the clock on the wall has stopped." They are not the only ones who are happy when the bell rings. Their teacher is also glad that her work day is coming to a close, and for her too the last two minutes before the bell rings "are the slowest of all."
Once they are free, children head off for home to play video games, practice their musical instruments, and battle with homework assignments. They have a snack, read a book, send text messages and hang out with friends.
There are so many things to do, but kids can become bored all the same. If this happens, children must never, ever mention that they are bored because if they do they will end up mowing the law for Dad or sweeping for Mom. If children do get bored the trick is to "look busy and don't show it" and make sure that they "Don't let your parents know it!"
This amusing poetry picture book takes readers into the lives of children after they are released from school. The poems come in many forms, including one that is made up of a series of text messages that fly between two children. We hear from a boy whose sister's violin playing is making his life a misery, and another whose mother catches him playing a video game when he should be doing his homework. Then there is the girl whose afternoons and Saturdays are so booked up that all she wants to do on Sunday is to "just take a nap."
Children and their grownups will surely enjoy this clever trip into those wonderful after-school hours when children, if they are lucky, get to do at least some of the things that they dreamed of doing when they were sitting in class.
Labels: April is National Poetry Month, Children's book reviews, Poetry books, Poetry Friday
Picture Book Monday with a review of The Boy on the Page
Most people, at some time or another, wonder why they are here and what they should do with their lives. When we are children we ask each other "What are you going to be when you grow up?" and when we are grown up we ask ourselves, "Am I doing what I should be doing with my life?"
In this exceptional picture book we meet a young boy who wonders why he is where he is, and what he discovers will resonate with readers of all ages.
The Boy on the Page
Peter Carnavas
Kane Miller, 2014, 978-1-61067-245-0
One day a small boy landed on an empty page. It was a rather abrupt arrival, and for a while he just stood there as there was nothing else around him. Then, slowly, a world began to appear on the white page. Green hills, trees, flowers and then animals of all kinds joined the. Soon other people were there too, and buildings. As he grew up in the every changing world, there was a question that the boy wondered about. Why was he there?
The boy went on to have all kinds of wonderful experiences. He rolled down a hill, rode a horse, planted a tree, paddled a canoe, and made music with friends. He grow up and fell in love, he became a father, and built a house. He did so many things and yet he still had no idea why he was where he was. What was this all for?
In this beautiful and sweetly simple picture book we watch a boy, and then a man, experience all the wonderful things that life has to offer. We see how the boy (and man) gives of himself to others, and receives so much in return. When we come to the end of the tale we realize that the answer to the boy's question is a simple but powerful one.
Throughout the book wonderful illustrations are paired with a spare text, and together they offer readers of all ages a message that is timeless.
Poetry Friday with a review of Changes: A child's first Poetry Collection
Young children are often wonderfully receptive to poetry. There is something about the rhythm of verse that appeals to their ears. In today's poetry title readers will find a collection of beautifully rhythmic poems that perfectly capture the adventures, images, and sensations that children experience as the seasons go by.
Changes: A child's first Poetry Collection
Illustrated by Tiphanie Beeke
Sourcebooks, 2015, 978-1-4926-0168-5
Charlotte Zolotow was a prolific writer who wrote more than ninety published books for young readers, two of which won Caldecott Honor awards. For four decades, in her capacity as an editor-publisher at HarperCollins, she worked with wonderful writers such as Laura Ingalls Wilder, Maurice Sendak, and Arnold Lobel. In this wonderful collection, twenty-eight of her poems are brought together to offer young children a beautiful journey through the seasons. They are being published in what would have been Charlotte's centenary year, and therefore they serve as a fitting tribute both to her and to her "ability to frame the largest, boldest truths for the smallest, newest readers."
The collection begins with a poem called Change, which explores the joys of "Celebrating the Seasons." We see how one season flows into another, a process that is full of change and wonder, and yet in the end, when the year comes full circle, the only thing that has really changed is us. We have grown up and grown older.
Next we begin our journey with poems about spring. We see a river winding through a meadow and experience the spring wind which "comes gently after the rain / smelling of spring and growing things." We lie in the grass and see a small bird flying over the trees. We meet some violet sellers and celebrate the simple beauty of crocuses and pansies.
In summer we share a moment with a child who is watching a honey bee. That "shimmering clear / making the sky seem very near" moment is his to relish and enjoy. We see how blue is a true summer color, the color of "the sea at noon," bluejays, blueberries, larkspurs and "the sky itself." We experience the essence of time spent by the sea, and meet two denizens of summer; a fly and a beetle.
Autumn is a time when "the light long summer / is grown old." It is a time of falling colorful leaves, of school days, and Halloween costumes. Following close on its heels comes winter with its snow and frozen rivers. "Black and still" trees are stark and beautiful, and now when toes feel the cold, we remember the summer sun.
Paired with sweet illustrations that capture the magic of the seasons, these wonderful poems will delight readers, young and old alike.
Picture Book Monday with a review of The baseball player and the Walrus
Many people think that they know what a person needs to have to be happy. Happiness = having lots of money and being famous. However, judging from the stories we see in the media. the rich and famous often are not very happy people. Something is missing from their lives.
Today's picture book explores the way in which one rich and famous person stumbles across something that makes him happy, and we see how he tries to figure out how to change his life so that happiness can be his.
The baseball player and the Walrus
Ben Loory
Illustrated by Alex Latimer
There once was a baseball player who had it all; fame, fortune, and fans. The surprising thing is that the baseball player was not happy. He knew that something was missing in his life but he had no idea what that something was.
Then one day the baseball player went to the zoo and he saw all the animals. He saw the lions, tigers, giraffes, and elephants, and then he came to the walrus pool. The baseball player was very taken with the walrus and he stayed and watched it all day long. Something about the animal lifted the baseball player's spirits and made him feel happy inside.
That evening the baseball player decided that he was going to buy the walrus. He created a splendid walrus habitat in his back yard, and stocked up on fish and walrus vitamins. He showed the zoo people that he was going to be a responsible walrus owner, and they finally agreed to let him take the walrus home.
The walrus and the baseball player became fast friends and had many grand times together, but when the baseball season began the player had to be away from home a lot and both he and the walrus were very unhappy. Eventually the baseball player decided that he had had enough, and he quit his job and went home as fast as he could to be with his walrus. Everything was perfect for a while, until the baseball player realized that without a job he could no longer afford to keep his dear friend.
Many people think that happiness should be a secondary consideration in life. We have to make money, buy things, and be 'successful' first and foremost. In this delightful picture book we meet a man whose money, fame, and success don't make him happy. Luckily, he finds out that having a walrus for a friend is just what he needs, and he does everything in his power to make the walrus part of his life.
With humor and sensitivity, the author of this book gives readers a tale that is amusing, memorable, and that conveys a message that everyone should take heed of: Follow your heart.
Poetry Friday with a review of Poems From Homeroom: A writers place to start
Happy poetry Friday! Today I have a book that is full of wonderful poems. It is also is a sort of guide book to help young people start exploring the world of poetry for themselves. Knowing how to start, and what to write about is often hard, but Kathi Appelt shows young poets where to begin by offering them prompts and exercises. She shows them how accessible this writing form is, and how freeing it can be.
Poems From Homeroom: A writers place to start
Kathi Appelt
For ages 13 to 18
Owlet Paperbacks, 2010, 978-0805075960
Early humans spent most of their time doing what they could to survive. They had to find food, build shelter, and keep themselves and their young safe from predators. Then there came a time when existence was easier, and humans began to look for ways to express themselves. They told stories around the fires at night, made up songs, created beautiful paintings on cave walls, and eventually figured out how to write so that stories could be kept and treasured.
Writing is a wonderful form of self-expression because it is so easy to do, and it comes in many forms. "One of the most flexible is poetry," because you can write poems about anything at all. They don't need to have a story or characters unless you want them to, and they can be in verse or not. Poems can be about mundane things, or they can explore big picture subjects. The sky is the limit.
In this thoughtful book, Kathi Applet takes us into the lives of several teenagers through a series of poems, building their personalities using wonderful imagery and stories. We get to know Jimmy Haliburton, who has a real guitar at home, but who plays the air guitar at school. With this instrument he accompanies the morning announcements. Then he plays the blues, after which he moves on to be Jimi Hendrix. On this instrument of air he "can't mess up or play out of key."
We meet a girl who has a dragon tattoo "Curled around her ankle / like a cat." The tattoo somehow makes her more than just "plain 'ol Patty Lopez." It turns her into the "Dragon Girl of Dogwood High." Then there is another girl who has a pick-up truck sized crush on her teacher. She is "smushed by love," and loves the fact that he thinks that she asks intelligent questions. What should she ask next?
In the second half of the book, the "study hall," the author goes back and looks at the poems she wrote again. She talks about what inspired her to write them, and then offers her readers a collection of prompts that they can use as a jumping off place to write their own poems. For example, she tells us why she wrote the poem about the girl with the dragon tattoo. Then she presents readers with ideas and questions. She invites them to write about people who are somehow unique and different. She talks about people who are a part of a group, and those who hate being classified into a group. She asks readers to think about how clothing and other embellishments make people feel. The dragon tattoo makes Patty feel powerful. How would a black trenchcoat make a person feel? Finally she talks about people who have some distinguishing mark or characteristic forced on them. This is not something they chose. Rather, it is something that they would like to be rid of. She asks her readers to "Write about someone like that."
Finding a starting place is often so hard to do when you are beginning to explore the world of writing. In this excellent book Kathi Applet helps young people to explore the world of poetry in a way that makes sense to them. She gets into their world in poetry form, and then invites them to share their experiences through writing.
Picture Book Monday with a review of Breaking News: Bear Alert
Spring is a time when many animals become active again, after the cold months of winter are over. Birds and squirrels start building nests, and bears come out of hibernation, Typically bears immediately set about looking for food when they wake up. In today's picture book you will see what happens when a pair of just-woken-up bears are accidentally brought to a town.
Breaking News: Bear Alert
David Biedrzycki
Charlesbridge, 2014, 978-1580896634
An episode of Our Furry Planet is being broadcasted live. The host of the show, Jean Louis, is in a bear cave with his cameraman, filming a pair of bears who are hibernating. Jean Louis says that soon the bears will wake up and they will be hungry for food. As he is talking he pokes one of the bears with a stick. What he does not realize is that his actions wake up the bear, and not surprisingly is gets mighty miffed that it has been disturbed.
The screen goes blank for a moment and then we are brought a "Breaking News" alert. A skycam shows viewers that the bears, who are now fully awake, are riding on the roof of the Our Furry Planet van. Jean Louis and the cameraman have no idea that they are taking two large, furry passengers to the city with them. They think that they escaped the bears that they so rudely woke up.
When they get to the city, the cameraman tells the media that he and Jean Louis scared the bears away, but it soon becomes clear how wrong he is. Security video from Teddy's Diner shows the bears entering the establishment where they start eating whatever they can get their paws on. The bears then make their way down Main Street, and their progress is picked up by various cameras. Animal Control officers arrive on the scene but the bears are now in the Misses and Petites section in Paddington's Department Store, and they in disguise
Young readers are going to love this clever picture book. The story is presented in such a way that we feel that we are watching the whole crazy bear alert situation on a screen. Young readers will see that in addition to the chaos created by the arrival of the bears in town, something else is going on. Eventually the two stories collide to bring the tale to a wonderful denouement.
Poetry Friday with a review of Winter Bees and Other Poems of the Cold
Spring has officially arrived in Southern Oregon, but the last few days have been quite wintery. A chilly wind has blown through our valley bringing rain with it, and snow has fallen on the mountains. I therefore feel quite justified reading and reviewing today's poetry title, which explores how wild animals and plants survive the cold months of winter.
Winter Bees and Other Poems of the Cold
In the past, winter was often a time of hardship for humans. Food was scarce, it was cold even indoors, sickness was common, and the days were short. Without the comforts of heated homes, electric lights, decent healthcare, and grocery stores, winter was grim. For wild animals winter is still a time of hardship. They have to adapt to the changes in their environment so that they can survive until spring.
In this award winning picture book Joyce Sidman shows us how animals that live in cold places survive, how they find ways to get through the long winter months. On every spread we find a richly textured and colored illustration that is with paired with a poem. There is also a section of nonfiction text, which provides us with further information about the animal species featured on the pages.
The first spread takes us into the cold world of the tundra swan. We see how they "tucked beaks / into feathers and settled for sleep." As they slept, the swans dreamed of the journey that was coming when they would see "the sun's pale wafer / the crisp drink of clouds. " When the swans woke up to a land covered with snow, they began that journey that would take them thousands of miles from Alaska to warmer climes on the east or west coasts of the United States.
Later in the book we meet a young moose, a creature that is "built for the cold." The largest deer species in the world, the moose's size makes it possible for their core to stay warm and their "tough, shaggy hide" keeps their extremities from getting too cold. Moose use their excellent sense of smell to find food and they can reach the high branches of "willow and yew" that other animals cannot get to.
Beavers find the perfect way to get through winter. They build a dam and a lodge and even when their pond or lake freezes over, the beavers can swim under the ice to get to the twigs that they stashed in the water not far from their home. Like "strong brown bullets" they dive and then return to their warm home where they groom, eat, and then sleep cuddled up together.
Even the trees and plants have adapted to survive the cold darkness of winter. Deciduous trees shed their leaves and "essentially shut down" in winter, bending "when all the wild winds blow," standing firm thanks to their deep root systems. Unlike the tender leaves of these trees, conifers have tough needles that are not damaged by freezing temperatures.
This is a book that children and adults will greatly enjoy exploring. The sections of text that appear on every spread are packed with fascinating facts and information, and the poems, with their layers of rich imagery and language, are a joy to read.
Labels: National Poetry Month, Poetry books, Poetry Friday
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You will find below the horoscope of Tom Finney with his interactive chart, an excerpt of his astrological portrait and his planetary dominants.
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Sir Thomas Finney, OBE (born 5 April 1922, Preston, Lancashire) is a former English footballer, famous for his loyalty to his league club, Preston North End, and for his performances in the English national side.
Finney is also the current President of Kendal Town.
Finney was born at home in Preston on a street next to the Deepdale stadium to parents Alfred Finney (b.1894) and Margaret Mitchell (b.1896). He was frail and somewhat sickly in his youth and stood only 4 ft 9 in (1.45 m) at the age of fourteen. When he was offered the opportunity to sign for Preston North End (PNE), his father insisted that he complete his apprenticeship in the family's plumbing business before signing as a professional.
Here are some character traits from Tom Finney's birth chart. This description is far from being comprehensive but it can shed light on his/her personality, which is still interesting for professional astrologers or astrology lovers.
In a matter of minutes, you can get at your email address your astrological portrait (approximately 32 pages), a much more comprehensive report than this portrait of Tom Finney.
Warning: when the birth time is unknown, which is the case for Tom Finney, a few paragraphs become irrelevant; distributions in hemispheres and quadrants are meaningless, so are dominant houses and houses' accentuations. Therefore, some chapters are removed from this part.
Tom Finney, Fire is dominant in your natal chart and endows you with intuition, energy, courage, self-confidence, and enthusiasm! You are inclined to be passionate, you assert your willpower, you move forward, and come hell or high water, you achieve your dreams and your goals. The relative weakness of this element is the difficulty to step back or a kind of boldness that may prompt you to do foolish things.
The predominance of Water signs indicates high sensitivity and elevation through feelings, Tom Finney. Your heart and your emotions are your driving forces, and you can't do anything on Earth if you don't feel a strong affective charge (as a matter of fact, the word "feeling" is essential in your psychology). You need to love in order to understand, and to feel in order to take action, which causes a certain vulnerability which you should fight against.
Tom Finney, the Cardinal mode is dominant here and indicates a predisposition to action, and more exactly, to impulsion and to undertake: you are very keen to implement the plans you have in mind, to get things going and to create them. This is the most important aspect that inspires enthusiasm and adrenalin in you, without which you can grow weary rapidly. You are individualistic (maybe too much?) and assertive. You let others strengthen and improve the constructions which you built with fervour.
The three most important planets in your chart are the Moon, the Sun and Saturn.
In your natal chart, the three most important signs - according to criteria mentioned above - are in decreasing order of strength Cancer, Aries and Libra. In general, these signs are important because your Ascendant or your Sun is located there. But this is not always the case: there may be a cluster of planets, or a planet may be near an angle other than the Midheaven or Ascendant. It may also be because two or three planets are considered to be very active because they form numerous aspects from these signs.
After this paragraph about dominant planets, of Tom Finney, here are the character traits that you must read more carefully than the previous texts since they are very specific: the texts about dominant planets only give background information about the personality and remain quite general: they emphasize or, on the contrary, mitigate different particularities or facets of a personality. A human being is a complex whole and only bodies of texts can attempt to successfully figure out all the finer points.
Affectivity and intuition are very developed, Tom Finney, and you are very sensitive to your environment. You "feel" atmospheres, moods and other people's emotions and when you capture negative influences, a feeling of ill-being immediately overwhelms you, all the more so because your lively imagination may destabilize you as it amplifies your receptiveness. Your nature is anxious and you tend to worry for your entourage. You strive to offer them a reassuring family atmosphere, the much needed comforting and warm sort of cocoon where you can laze around, at will. Because you care so much for your family, they may think that you are intrusive and that you try to rule their life through subtle affective blackmail. Trust them... and also learn to have more confidence in yourself!
Love at first sight, flash in the pan, amorous impulsiveness? All these are part of your way of loving or to fall in love, Tom Finney. Throughout your relationship, you maintain this kind of jerky and lively style, that may seem childish or naïve, but that is so generous and cheerful! You are undeniably possessive and you are not concerned with your partner's opinion but, fortunately, you readily forgive because of your spontaneity and your authenticity. When your relationship is intense, everything is fine. There is no romanticism, no complications with you. You love with ardour and, except for a few crazes and opportunities for new pastures here and there, the only danger may be that boredom settles in. In that case, you leave without regret and you quickly forget what consumed you, not so long ago.
Tom Finney, you are a real Goliath and you often excel in sport; your thirst for conquests prompts you to constantly launch new challenges. The enthusiasm you put in your undertakings is perfectly well supported by your moral concepts and an idealism compatible with the values of the society you live in. You are pragmatic, enterprising and sometimes, naive. You do not pay attention to details and you launch various great adventurous projects that are all doomed to success. In a few rare cases, you can funnel your huge energy into more philosophical, even spiritual or religious enterprises, where your entire fieriness works wonders. On the sexual plane, your ardour and your spontaneity are your main assets. The danger is that you may spread yourself too thin in the sense that you may forget about faithfulness, particularly during the extensive faraway travels you are so fond of.
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Your Life Path is influenced by the number 5, Tom, which indicates changing and off the beaten track destinies. Your activities are varied and placed under the sign of adaptability, and multiplication of resources. More than anyone else, you need to enhance your learning capacities and the broad-mindedness. You must cope as well as you can with changes and transformation occurring in your life. Indeed, Life Path 5 brings about destinies which are prone to twists and turns, as well as to upheavals. Therefore, your life's main orientation may vary considerably at certain stages, and if your destiny is that of adventurers whose course is fraught with obstacles, it may also turn you into an exceedingly unstable person through lack of nuance. You accumulate experiences and enrich your know-how with each crucial period. Your adaptation skills enable you to go through all the successive stages of your life without ever being destabilised by new situations.


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July 6, 2021 ReviewsAaron Dootson, Adam Blanshay, Alex James-Hatton, Charing Cross Theatre, Chris Ma, Daniel Krikler, David Shields, Edward Johnson, Gabrielle Lewis-Dodson, Genevieve Nicole, Ian Carlyle, Jaydon Vijn, Keegan Curran, Michael Bradley, Natalie McQueen, Nick Winston, Phillip Money, Pippin, Ryan Anderson, Stephen Schwartz, Steven Dexterthespyinthestalls
Reviewed – 5th July 2021
"The pace of the production is unrelenting, and the hit list of songs comes thick and fast"
There is 'Magic to Do' in the round, underneath the arches at Charing Cross Theatre with this new production of Stephen Schwartz's classic musical Pippin. Director Steven Dexter takes on his fourth production of the show, developing his version from last autumn at the Garden Theatre.
Performed by a versatile ensemble of eight, Pippin (Ryan Anderson) – with shades of Peer Gynt – goes off on a life journey in search of success and fulfilment, aided and abetted by a troupe of travelling hippie players who may, or may not, have Pippin's best interests at heart. Always by Pippin's side is the scheming, snake-hipped Leading Player (Ian Carlyle) who, when not centre stage, can be found observing close by, conducting the band, directing the lighting changes and marshalling his players. He leads Pippin a merry dance intending it to culminate in a sensational Grand Finale – both the show's and Pippin's – if fate or love does not intervene.
The set is colourful and vibrant with copious suns and flowers, the circular stage area reminiscent of a big top circus ring. This is 1967, the year of the Summer of Love, and flower-power is in its ascendancy. As we take our seats, the fragrance of incense in the air, Pippin – peace and love symbols embroidered onto his jeans – sits alone, brooding. We hear a soundtrack of sixties songs – The Beach Boys, Cream – interspersed with news bulletins of progress of the Vietnam War. But as the action begins, the period feel becomes less important. This story is timeless.
The pace of the production is unrelenting, and the hit list of songs comes thick and fast – 'Corner of the Sky', 'Glory', 'Morning Glow' 'Kind of Woman'. The two-piece band is supported by the ensemble with a rhythmic drive of finger clicks, foot stamps and the beating of their own cajons. Together in song and dance they re-enact Pippin's life, each member taking the role of a significant other in the story: his father, mother, grandmother, lover. And as each player takes centre stage, they are treated to a drum roll from their fellows. Special mention is due here for Genevieve Nicole as Berthe, Pippin's grandmother, who so nearly steals the show whilst leading the audience in a sing along of 'No Time at All'. But everyone excels: the words are clear, the singing powerful, the variety of dance styles exhilarating.
But it is Pippin and the Leading Player who are the equal stars of this show. Anderson is sympathetic in his portrayal of Pippin as his character swings from vulnerability to exuberance and then through apathy to tenderness when he allows himself to find love with his Catherine. And his energy is balanced by Carlyle's control in showing the Player's cynicism, persuasion, and drive to produce the spectacular. Together the couple command the stage, and no more than during their duet 'On the Right Track'.
The production is family-friendly with no severed limbs or decapitated heads. And the sexual hijinks are more sensual and implied than explicit, with no more than a hint of bump-and-grind.
The work of Stephen Schwartz will be well represented this year on the London stage with Wicked, The Prince of Egypt, The Children of Eden and Godspell all upcoming but the run begins here with this fine and most enjoyable revival of his first big success.
Reviewed by Phillip Money
Photography by Edward Johnson
Charing Cross Theatre until 14th August
Previously reviewed this year by Phillip:
The Money | ★★★ | Online | April 2021
Animal Farm | ★★★★ | Royal & Derngate | May 2021
Trestle | ★★★ | Jack Studio Theatre | June 2021
Romeo and Juliet | ★★★★ | Regent's Park Open Air Theatre | June 2021
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When I wrote "Mrs Darcy versus the Aliens" I never anticipated that it might ever become the object of academic research. Well, it hasn't. Not really. However, it has been referenced in a number of academic works on Jane Austen, which is about as good as I'm likely to get. Here are some examples.
In "GLOBAL JANE AUSTEN: Pleasure, Passion, and Possessiveness in the Jane Austen Community" – Lawrence Raw, Robert G. Dryden (eds), Springer, 2013, Chapter Thirteen, "Pleasure and Profit: Re-presentations of Jane Austen's Ever-Expanding Universe", Anette Svensson writes:
Finally, Austen's text-universe reaches beyond the global perspective as it becomes intergalactic in makeovers such as Mrs. Darcy versus the Aliens (2011) by Jonathan Pinnock.
Anette Svensson, by the way, is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Jönköping in Sweden.
In "Pride and Prejudice 2.0: Interpretations, Adaptations and Transformations of Jane Austen's Classic" – Hanna Birk, Marion Gymnich (eds), V&R unipress GmbH, 2015, Chapter One, "200 Years of Reading Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice; or Where the Literary Canon Meets Popular Culture", Marion Gymnich writes:
In Jonathan Pinnock's Mrs Darcy versus the Aliens (2011), the Regency-style setting is even combined with twentieth-century alien abduction lore.
Incidentally, that's Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich of the University of Bonn to you.
In Susannah Fullerton's somewhat more populist overview, "Happily Ever After: Celebrating Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice" (Frances Lincoln, 2013), she writes:
Mrs Darcy versus the Aliens ('The truth is out there, though it is not yet universally acknowledged') by Jonathan Pinnock mixes Regency bonnets with ghouls, ghosts and a lunatic named Mr Firth, and was published in 2011.
This is actually my favourite citation, because it's quite clear from the references she makes that Ms Fullerton (President of the Jane Austen Society of Australia since 1996, no less) has actually taken the time to read the book. Amazing, really.
In "The Cambridge Companion to 'Pride and Prejudice'" (CUP, 2013), Emily Auerbach notes in Chapter 15 ("Pride and Proliferation") that:
More werewolves can be found in Mr. Darcy's Bite (2011), and Mrs Darcy vs. the Aliens (2011), Elizabeth and Wickham team up to fight hordes of aliens.
Ms Auerbach is a Professor in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Cambridge Companion is edited by Janet Todd, who goes on to use rather similar phraseology in her own "The Cambridge Introduction to Jane Austen" (CUP, 2015):
Werewolves arrive in Mr. Darcy's Bite (2011) and in Mrs Darcy vs. the Aliens (2011) Elizabeth and Wickham fight hordes of aliens.
As it happens, Ms Todd is a Professor Emerita at the University of Aberdeen and Honorary Fellow of Newnham College, as well as being a former President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, which probably makes her the most high-powered academic to have referenced the book.
Sadly, in "The Bloomsbury Introduction to Popular Fiction" – Christine Berberich (ed) (Bloomsbury – obvs – 2014), Chapter Seventeen, "Rewriting Popular Classics as Popular Fiction: Jane Austen, Zombies, Sex and Vampires", Ben Dew banishes Mrs Darcy to a footnote:
Elizabeth has become the slayer of aliens, zombies and vampires, while Darcy has been re-imagined as, among other things, King Arthur, a rock star and a small woollen puppet.[1]
[1] See (respectively): Pinnock 2011; Grahame-Smith 2009; Jeffers 2009; Dixon 2011; Rigaud 2011; Wang and Wang 2012.
Ben Dew is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth. I am, frankly, disappointed in him. Mind you, I'm grateful to him for bring Jack and Holman Wang's "Cozy Classics: Pride and Prejudice" to my attention. Awesome.
Good to see the Church of England getting in on the act, too. Here's the Revd. Ian Tattum of St Barnabas, Southfields, in a 2016 sermon on St Paul:
I don't imagine that Jane Austen ever thought that one day there would be a sequel to Pride and Prejudice called ' Mrs Darcy versus the aliens.' But there is- as one reviewer put it' ' it is much funnier than the original and has a lot more aliens.'
Going a little further afield, we find Ana Bartolović of the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek in Croatia, whose 2012 paper on "Jane Austen's Work as Popular Culture Phenomenon" mentions Mrs Darcy as number 95 in a list of 99 sequels.
More recently, Ксения Романенко of the Института образования, Национальный исследовательский университет (that's Ksenia Romanenko of the Institute of Education, National Research University – come on, keep up) mentions Mrs Darcy as an example of a crossover novel in her 2017 paper "Ностальгия и самоирония: литературный культ Джейн Остен через фигуру ее фаната" ("Nostalgia and Self-Irony: the Literary Cult of Jane Austen Through the Figure of her Fan"). I'm particularly pleased about this, because if she genuinely has read the book, she'll be one of the few who will have been able to understand the Trotsky quote on page 192:
Finally (for now), Áine Madden, in her 2018 doctoral thesis submitted to the School of English at the University of Dublin, "'She stimulates us to supply what is not there": Expanding Jane Austen's World Through Fandom" identifies Mrs Darcy as one of "numerous other monster-riddled retellings of P&P released in the late noughties". Sadly, she misspells my publisher as Prixima in the reference section, but never mind.
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A weak system pushes through on Thursday with maybe an inch of snow on the mountains. Winds will pick up into Friday. Colder air will drop highs into the 30's on the mountains Thursday and Friday.
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A student majoring in biology or conservation biology will receive a broad background in various areas of biology and will understand and use biological principles and methods. The relevance of biology to other disciplines is emphasized. The program promotes participation in laboratory and field studies. Students are prepared upon graduation to enter graduate school, professional school or careers in biologically-related areas.
The requirements for the biology major are structured so that students take at least one course in each of several areas of biology and related sciences.
Visit our Academic Catalog (2019-2020) for course listings.
Understand biological principles and their implications from the molecular to the ecosystem levels of organization.
Discover how the social sciences and traditional combine in the most effective conservation strategies.
Study, analyze experimentally and interpret biological problems.
Communicate effectively about biological and ecological matters.
Thiel College offers scholarships to students for reasons such as academic success, community service or involvement, exemplary leadership and more! The scholarships available to biology and conservation biology majors are:
Marion G. Resch Science Scholarship at Thiel College
Dr. Florence West Tribute to Dr. Bly
Ruth and Sheridan Brown Allied Health Scholarship
The Dr. Judith A Crissman '64 Endowed Scholarship Fund
The Maenpa Family Biotechnology Endowed Scholarship Fund at Thiel College
Elizabeth McElhaney Scholarship
J. Scott Morrison Endowment for Science and Religion
Arthur E. Smith Scholarship Fund
TWC Amelia Earhart Scholarship
The Ethel Smith Vierheller Award Fund
Irene Wintersteen Memorial Science Scholarship
Visit our Financial Aid page to learn more about the types of aid available to students.
It's easy to get involved on campus! Joining a student club or organization is an excellent way to meet others and gain leadership experience. A biology and conservation biology major might be interested in the following clubs and orgs:
Outdoor Recreation Club
Sigma Xi (Scientific Research Society)
Beta Beta Beta (National Biology Honorary)
Visit our Campus Life page to see a full list of student clubs and organizations.
Thiel College alumni have gone on to become pharmacy technicians, veterinary technicians, laboratory technicians and much more! Here are just a few post-graduation opportunities available to biology and conservation biology majors:
Research Biologist: Work in research and you can expect to earn an average $70,790 per year. Some industries pay more. Biologists working in governmental institutions earned an average of $74,980 and pharmaceutical firms pay $79,220.*
Biological Technicians: These jobs pay an average of $42,520. The top 10% of these jobs pay over $69,000.*
Conservation Scientists plan ways to utilize natural resources but still protect the environment. Median salary is currently $61,110 per year.*
Zoologists who specialize in conservation biology study endangered species and research methods of protection. Median salary is currently $59,680 per year.*
*Job and salary information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Study.com.
Michael T. Balas, Ph.D.
✉mbalas@thiel.edu


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Q: I don't understand the usage of 'a' in this sentence I have trouble understand this sentence:

The kernel maintains a data structure called a page table, that contains a mapping of
a processes' virtual page addresses to real page addresses in memory.

Why it's in plural while there is a 'a' proceeding it? It sounds like it is saying "some arbitrary group of", am I correct?
The book is How Linux Works by Brian Ward, 2nd, page 182, line 4.

A: You are correct. The sentence should read:

The kernel maintains a data structure called a page table that contains a mapping of
  a process's virtual page addresses to real page addresses in memory.

(Note that there should not be a comma before a relative clause using "that".)
The sentence could also be written with plural nouns as:

The kernel maintains a data structure called a page table that contains mappings of
  processes' virtual page addresses to real page addresses in memory.

The rules surrounding apostrophes with plural possessive nouns and with singular nouns that end with 's' can be tricky even for native speakers. This sentence deals with both cases depending on whether the noun is singular or plural.


In previous post, we created our first Machine Learning model using Logistic Regression to solve a classification problem. We used "Wisconsin Breast Cancer dataset" for demonstration purpose. Now, in this post "Building Decision Tree model in python from scratch – Step by step", we will be using IRIS dataset which is a standard dataset that comes with Scikit-learn library. Let's have a quick look at IRIS dataset.


Escape the hustle and bustle in this family friendly barn conversion. Stable Cottage is a two bedroom self catering cottage with an open plan living and dining area and superb views of the surrounding Teesdale countryside.
High, beamed ceilings give a spacious feel to this tastefully converted barn, with a cast iron log-effect stove to keep you cosy as you unwind and enjoy the view. The fully equipped kitchen provides everything you need for a 'home from home' so you can relax and enjoy your holiday. The master bedroom looks on to the orchard and has a king size bed and television. The second bedroom enjoys open rural views and provides either a 5″ double or 2″6 twin beds. The large wet room is accessible independently from both bedrooms and is light and spacious, with walk-in shower and finished with large slate tiles. The animals on the farm and our outdoor garden area and games will keep the whole family entertained when the sun is shining, while in the cottage we have a great selection of board games, books and DVDs. The cottage garden has beautifully stocked borders with a variety of seating and patio areas to make the most of the daytime and evening sun. The patio overlooking Goose Pond houses the barbecue for you to use, or why not head down to the summerhouse by the pond for the perfect place to enjoy a good book and glass or wine?
For a complete list of the features and items included as standard with all our cottages please see our what's Included page.
Up to two well behaved dogs welcome, see our pricing page for more details.


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Onuma Tsuruga Auberge EPUY
Hokkaido Onuma
Overall Planning/Concept Work/Logo Design/Architecture-Design Planning/Sign Design
Restaurant Ware Design/Interior-wear and Uniform Design/Promotional Tools Design/Furniture - Fixture Coordination
One Delicious Day of Flowers, Greenery and Food
We built Auberge Epuy on the concept of "One delicious day of flowers, greenery and food," placing it in Hokkaido's Donan region, near to Onuma Station on the Hakodate Honsen and within sight of Mt. Komagatake. The building had originally been an old American style JR Hokkaido Hotel named after Joseph Yuri Crawford, a railway engineer who helped in developing Hokkaido's natural resources. Using the current facilities as a base, we planned to enhance the interior with onsen baths and spa living rooms equipped with outdoor baths. In the lounge, we created a diorama of model trains running on the Hakodate Honsen line in memory of the previous owners, and named it the Crawford Lounge. Also, we established a new restaurant in the garden based on the theme of "50 Mile Food." The hearth at the center, with its chimney piercing the roof of the restaurant like a great tree, became the symbol of Epuy.
In the Ainu language, Epuy means "Forest of many blossoming trees." (Source: "Considering Place Names in the Ainu Language," by Susumu Sugawara). When we think of flowers of the north, the kitakobushi, or Thurber's Magnolia, come to mind. In the Matsumae area of Hokkaido, they call this tree Shikizakura. I feel that the kitakobushi, the Epuy, is similar to the Sakura in that it signals the coming of spring and its green shoots after the long winter, a symbol of hope reborn. I designed the Epuy symbol based on the shape of the kitakobushi blossom just as it begins to open.
D51 Hakodate Honsen Nanae-Onuma
April,1975
Long ago, this was a famous place featured on post cards. You could see the track-side ditches climbing the rolling hills. In the foreground is Onuma Station, where early in the morning the C62 from Onuma to Hakodate, rotated into service from the depot at Goryokaku, engine sits at the head of the local train with smoke billowing from its stack.
(Photo/Caption: Jun Endo)
-From the Epuy Bar/Lounge Crawford-Steam Locomotive Model
After December of 1975, steam trains disappeared from Hokkaido's landscape. However, Komagatake remains as tall as ever when seen from this same spot, and a new vision is growing at its foot.
Restaurant Epuy is built to blend in with the green trees and blue sky. Following a "delicious garden" theme, we have planted herbs, and guests can enjoy their meals outdoors as well.
This hearth is the symbol of Restaurant Epuy.
It represents an Epuy tree reaching its limbs for the sky, and the pendant lights hanging from its wrought iron limbs suggest the tree's seeds.
Hakodate and Onuma are both agricultural centers as well as sources of seafood from the Tsugaru strait and Uchiura Bay.
And of course, Mori-cho, facing Uchiura Bay, is famed for its squid rice.
For lunch, we serve Epuy-style squid rice.
The name Epuy is an Ainu word.
We're told that during the Jomon Period, the northeastern and northern territories also enjoyed mild weather.
Even back then, people enjoyed a rich food culture, with soups full of nuts and seafood.
I'm certain even in those days people gathered around the fire and enjoyed delicious food, just as we do today.
Let us pass through the connecting walkway to the accommodations area.
We kept the best of the Early American Style hotel that was, and renovated it to be even more classic.
I used the red of the center of the Kitakobushi flower as the main Epuy theme color, and focused my design on the three pillars of Flowers, Food and Railways. The welcome lounge was made using recycled future, dressers and doors. There is a model train display showing Komagatake towering over the Hakodate Honsen in the lounge, and you can even run the former D51 and Niseko Express.
Workflow (Ryokan)
Soul of Tohoku
Tsuruga Group
Hana Beppu
Taro-cho Fishery
Soul of Japan


A Mandrake, also known as Mandragora, is a plant which has a root that looks like a human (like a baby when the plant is young, but maturing as the plant grows). Whenever unearthed, the root screams. The scream of a mature Mandrake when it is unearthed will kill any person who hears it, but a young Mandrake's screams will usually only knock a person out for several hours.
The Mandragosa KIT is $69.95 as a one piece flexible urethane foam casting. Click to ORDER. Follow the instructions in the video above to complete it. It is only available in kit form (untrimmed, unpainted). You will need to buy your own plastic foliage at a craft store. Thanks!!!
We created a foam armature and suspended it off the bench with a fiberglass rod. I decided to produce a custom FAT rendtion of the a mandrake - a pudgy, pouty face and big beer belly.
We're using CT3 Clay (identical to WED) and constantly drying it out and wetting it down to achieve a sculpt quickly and organically.
Yes, he's doing the walk-like-an-egyptian pose but imagine the ends of his limbs fully decorated with root extensions. Also, with the simple insertion of a thick wire, the arms and head can be posed. Just jam armature wire through the soft foam, glue the ends in place with rubber cement, and pose him as you wish!
A kit consists of the body casting which is made in a soft flexible urethane foam (will not deteoriate and can be displayed outdoors if the paint is sealed properly). The casting is then decorated with craft store leaves and roots.
This artpiece can be potted, hung outside or used as interior decoration.
Here's the first casting out of the mold. For this first test I used a flexible urethane FOAM. It took an ENTIRE Kit but the result is pretty neat!


In Memoriam: Irvin H. Carty Jr.
2:28 p.m., June 23, 2009----Irvin H. "Irv" Carty Jr., who became the first black student-athlete to earn a varsity letter for the University of Delaware athletics program in 1951, died June 12 at his home in Wilmington, Del. Mr. Carty, 77, also was the first black student to live on the UD campus.
A native of Wilmington, he attended Howard High School before enrolling at the University of Delaware in 1951. He was a two-year member of head coach Ken Steers' Blue Hen men's cross country teams and led the team to a 5-1 dual record and sixth place finish at the Middle Atlantic Conference championships in 1951 and a 4-1 mark and fourth place finish at the MAC meet in 1952. He earned two letters, becoming the first black student-athlete to earn that distinction at UD in 1951.
Mr. Carty entered the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division and left the service as a lieutenant. He later rose to the rank of major with the National Guard.
He worked for the Delaware Department of Welfare as a case worker and later served 30 years with the United State Postal Service, retiring in1989 as director of employee labor relations for the state of Delaware and the eastern shore of Maryland.
Services were held June 17. Donations may be made in his name to St. Joseph's Catholic Church, 1012 French St., Wilmington, DE 19801.