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Why Mercedes F1 Ignored a Frantic Radio Call From Lewis Hamilton Before the Hungarian Grand Prix
Abhishek Bharadwaj
Mercedes Trackside Director, Andrew Shovlin, revealed why the team ignored Lewis Hamilton during the formation lap for the Hungarian Grand Prix. Shovlin explained the reason behind Hamilton's apparent 'stalling issue' before the race start and why Mercedes didn't do anything to alleviate Hamilton's fears.
The formation lap for the Hungarian Grand Prix was one of the more interesting ones we've seen over the years. With changing conditions, some teams opted to gamble on a different tire strategy compared to the rest of the grid.
Lewis Hamilton issue was only affecting the engine around the idle controls: Mercedes
Both Haas cars stopped for slick tires before the race start, which was strategically brilliant but in violation of current rules. According to current regulations, teams must not aid the driver on the formation lap.
Haas instructing Grosjean and Magnussen to pit is why the FIA penalized the American team for stopping just before the start of the race.
As Hamilton entered his grid slot, he complained of the engine being very close to stalling. Turns out, the issue was caused by a relatively harmless sensor problem. But Mercedes couldn't inform the Brit of the same due to current radio rules.
Speaking to the Mercedes YouTube channel, Shovlin said:
"What it actually was, was a sensor issue that was only affecting the engine around the idle controls. When he was sat there, waiting to go off on the formation lap. Now it wasn't a problem, it wasn't going to stall.
"And there is a protection that will actually stop the engine from stalling anyway. If you were in that situation, but we couldn't tell him it was OK. Because of the rules that prevent you [from] talking to the driver during that entire formation lap.
"So we knew it was fine. But he had to sort of worry a bit for the next few minutes until he got off the line."
Aside from the minor hiccup before the start, Hamilton sped off into the distance to clinch an eighth Hungarian Grand Prix victory. By winning at the Hungaroring, Hamilton equaled Michael Schumacher's record of most wins at a circuit (8).
Mercedes' current form is almost reminiscent of the team's dominant years from 2014 to 2016 when they had no real competition in F1.
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i rebuke the message of this demonic movie in the mighty name of JESUS CHRIST!
I really feel sorry for people who are constantly being fed by all these demonic and satanic promoting movie.
They keep watching this movie and the more they watch it, the more they hate and never believe in God.
This is exactly what the name wants! to make people rebel against Jesus.
Satan is definitely winning on Earth…but when our Lord Jesus returns…he will be defeated by a single breath of Jesus.
why do you keep watching these types of movies? Carrie, Evil Dead remake, Legion, Priest, When the Lights Go Out, Exorcist series etc?
these movies are dedicated to demons and when you watch these movies, you attract demons around you, darkness flows around you making you love evil.
You will not know what is good or evil.
why associate with evil and darkness when you can associate with good and light?
watch something else but not these evil movies!
its called not living with a closed sheltered mind……get out a little. I should know. I use to go to a christian school……and I sure as hell don't believe!! There's more to life than just wasting your time trying to convert people!


Situated just moments from the River Gade, our B&M Bargains store in Hemel Hempstead is well-placed to be able to accept local shoppers, as well as those who are travelling from out of town for a day visit.
Those who visit us in store will be delighted to find a great selection of products, especially those everyday essentials that are useful around the home. Our products include those from health & beauty, toys & games, DIY, electrical, stationary, pets and baby accessories amongst many more.
Conveniently, our Hemel Hempstead store is not only located on the routes for bus services 4, 5, 31, 51, 207, 300, 301, 352 and 502, but there are also two car parks just minutes away at Water Gardens. You'll find parking available, but it is advised that you check for any restrictions or time limits before your visit.


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New Cabinet Ministers announced
This week, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced a new Cabinet line-up with some surprises, shuffles, promotions and demotions. Read the full list here >
The ministers most likely to have an impact on libraries and librarians are:
The Minister of Internal Affairs: Jan Tinetti
(also Minister for Women and Associate Minister of Education)
The Hon Jan Tinetti is based in Tauranga. Jan pursued a career in primary school teaching and taught in Invercargill and Greymouth before embarking on a career as a school principal. Over her 20 years as a primary school principal, she led four schools in Southland and Tauranga. Jan's last position as principal before entering politics was Merivale School, Tauranga's sole decile 1 school. Throughout her career in education, she has fiercely advocated at a national level for equal educational opportunities. After seeing families struggling in her local community, she has campaigned for them to access everything they need to thrive. Jan's entry into politics stemmed from her belief that the Government has a role to play in ensuring all New Zealanders have access to the services they need to help them to be the best they can be. Source. You can read Minister Tinetti's maiden speech here.
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The Minister for Education: Chris Hipkins
(also Minister for COVID-19 Response and the Public Service)
The Hon Chris Hipkins retains his role of Minister for Education.
Chris passionately believes that every New Zealander deserves the opportunity to reach their full potential in life. He is a staunch advocate for and defender of our public education system.
Chris believes that a free, quality education is the right of every child. Chris entered Parliament in 2008 and became the Spokesperson for Education at the beginning of 2013.
He places a strong emphasis on social justice and believes that every New Zealander should have the opportunity to reach their full potential. Source.
The Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage: Carmel Sepuloni
(also Minister for Social Development and Employment, ACC and Disability Issues)
The Hon Carmel Sepuloni steps up from her previous role of Associate Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage.
Carmel has always been committed to improving social, health and educational outcomes for all New Zealanders but has especially focused during her career on low socio-economic groups, Māori, Pacific, disabled people and sole parents.
During her political career Carmel has brought to the fore the slashing of the training incentive allowance, made public the impact of cuts to ACC funding for survivors of sexual violence, campaigned for better legislation around social workers and fought for the right to privacy for social service users. Source.
The Minister for Local Government: Nanaia Mahuta
(also Minister for Foreign Affairs and Associate Minister for Māori Development)
The Hon Nanaia Mahuta retains her position of Minister for Local Government.
During her time in Parliament, Nanaia supported policies and initiatives that built the capacity of communities, especially social service organisations, greater investment in education, employment and training opportunities particularly for young people, supported the continuation of the Treaty Settlement process and supported specific initiatives that lift the wellbeing and opportunities for young mums and those who are vulnerable and victims of abuse. Source.
Nanaia Mahuta is New Zealand's first female Minister of Foreign Affairs and the second of Māori heritage, after Winston Peters.

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In an awkward 2011 video, Blink-182 tries to promote Google Plus
David Anthony
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2011 was a simpler time. Blink-182 still featured both of its founding members, Mark Hoppus and Tom DeLonge, and Google was making its latest foray into the world of social media. Following the death of Google Buzz and Google Friend Connect, the tech giant made another stab at connecting people with people, and in June of 2011 Google Plus was born. The platform attempted to gain traction by adding celebrities to its network, giving fans the ability to "hang out" with their heroes.
That September, Blink-182 was set to release its first reunion record, Neighborhoods. The pop-punk band had reunited in 2009 following the plane crash that left drummer Travis Barker on the brink of death and hospitalized for months. The resulting album is one that already highlighted the disconnect between the band members, as DeLonge was never in the same room as his bandmates during the Neighborhoods recording sessions.
In an attempt to promote the record, and show that DeLonge and Hoppus were, like, totally still friends, the pair took to a Google office to be interviewed by an employee who worked with the "early adopters and influencers on Google Plus." After getting some biographical information out of the band, the Blink members field questions about Google Plus and everything they love about it.
The awkwardness is palpable from the start. Hoppus plays along, struggling to piece together an answer about his favorite Google Plus features and, after a bunch of meandering, hoping "it's new" will suffice. DeLonge is less effusive, shooting back with "Really? Are you?" when the host describes himself as being "thrilled" by DeLonge's presence on the social network. DeLonge goes on to mention Apple and note that Google Plus, "Isn't all there yet," and then tries to talk up Google as if he hadn't just fucked the whole thing up.
It's an interesting time capsule, capturing a moment when Google Plus made a play to dethrone Facebook and Blink-182 was attempting to ignore the growing fracture within the band. It's an incredibly awkward 40 minutes, with DeLonge staring at the ground and picking at his hands while Hoppus' attempts to razz him fall flat. It's also a strange look at a simpler time, one in which DeLonge was content to only mention UFOs once in the course of an interview.


In a world where Kindles and iPads are trumping the way people flip through the daily paper (negate the fact the everyday man has been seeking out news online for years), newspapers tend to be their own form of endangered species in some households.
For those who still feel refreshed after skimming through a Sunday paper, get a little extra mileage out of those quick-to-be-recycled goodies.
Most animal shelters and rescues could use the non-circular pages to line kennels of pets looking for homes.
Call up the local elementary school or day care to see if they could use a stack of newspapers for any art projects. Nothing screams childhood more than gluey paper mache.
If you're going out of town, chances are you're NOT going to be reading each section when you get home. Most major publications will allow you to donate the print editions to local schools while you're out of town via their Newspapers in Education program.
Don't use the coupons in your Sunday paper? Help out a military family by donating the manufacturer's coupons (valid or expired for up to six months).
Keep kids busy with this hefty list of newspaper crafts … build everything from a purse to a bow.
Is it cold outside? Start a fire by rolling the paper tight and light to use as a starter log.
Moving? Keep your belongings in place by packing with crumpled newspaper.
If you decide singing in the rain and jumping in puddles is for you, you can put wads of newspaper in your wet shoes to dry & deodorize them in no time.
For dozens of more great ideas, check out this fantastic reader-submitted list of newspaper reuse ideas by the Dayton Daily News.


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In-person jury trials to resume in Idaho on March 1
Idaho News 6
By: Katie Kloppenburg
Posted at 8:39 AM, Feb 04, 2021
BOISE, Idaho — Criminal and civil jury trials are set to resume in person in Idaho starting on March 1, as long as courts follow certain conditions ordered by the Idaho Supreme Court in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The order also allows impaneled new grand juries, subject to the same conditions.
The Idaho Supreme Court ordered the jury trials to stop late last year due to the spread of the virus, health and safety risks posed by ordering juries, case parties and court staff in close proximity with each other. There were also concerns over the impact on health care providers and systems, according to a news release.
The court will prioritize jury trials for criminal cases, starting with those where a defendant is incarcerated. Civil jury trials will be prioritized after those.
Jury trials must follow safety protocols and jury proceedings can be postponed if the administrative district judge for the relevant court determines local COVID-19 incidence rates meet certain thresholds. Trials may also be postponed if other circumstances exist that pose a substantial increase in the health or safety risks to jury trial participants, according to the release.


Takeouts with a tap, shopping with a scan and taxis with a touch; mobile phones simplify everyday tasks so well they've become pocket-sized superheroes. But just how much time do users spend on apps each day and is it possible we've reached a technological peak in the mobile app industry?
In the '90s, time was spent on a range of chunky technological fads, but exactly ten years after the birth of the App Store our attention from TV, CDs and floppy disks has shifted towards a single mobile device.
Studies by HackerNoon and other leading mobile industry research suggests that the average mobile phone user will spend a total of four to five hours per day – a staggering third of their lives – on their phone. 90% of that time is spent on mobile apps. Mobiloud apps have become king as web browsing becomes a thing of the past only accounting for the remaining 10% of user's time.
According to annual research by Flurry Mobile 'State of Mobile', it's reported that app sessions did not drastically change from 2016-2017. This suggests the overall time spent on apps is stagnating, meanwhile users are constantly striving to discover newer apps that adapt to the digital lifestyle.
So which apps are we spending the most time on? Whether it's investing in stocks, downloading music, or spending an evening battling it out on a particularly addictive game, here's the lowdown from Flurry's State of Mobile showing which industries come top in terms of growth of active sessions between 2016 and 2017.
The one-tap wonder is sweeping across mobiles: it's no surprise in-app shopping has come out on top since users now feel safer spending and buying online, especially with the development of one-tap purchases from major e-commerce retailers.
When Netflix launched for mobile, it meant bigger and better things for people using their mobiles for every aspect of their lives, including choosing the films or TV shows they want to watch. Mobile apps are replacing everyday functions – who needs a remote control these days? – and the entertainment industry has shown to benefit greatly from this.
Online banking and the rise of mobile-first financial technology has revolutionised the way we spend, save and send money. Payment features have advanced so they are more secure, instant and savvy, causing people to make the switch from traditional banking to digital.
What does the future look like for mobile apps? Developing markets have adopted a mobile-first structure which will become more significant with improved data speed and networks. As mobile connections becomes increasingly faster with 5G on the horizon, people will spend more time on apps. For now, data-lite app versions are a big hit in emerging nations as the reliability of internet and hardware is dubious. App Annie reports emerging markets completely skipped the desktop generation, meaning app usage takes priority over everything.
Whether your business is planning to launch an app or is looking into developing one, it's important to note that mobile apps are here to stay and will most certainly play an integral part of tech development in the future. It's a revolution that has taken the world by storm over the last decade and one which is set to completely replace web activity in the not-so-distant future.
CTA – Want to discover more interesting insights into the lucrative world of mobile apps? Read our Mobile Benchmarks Report 2018 to give you a full picture of mobile app performance in 2017.
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DDT causes diabetes, breast cancer and infant deaths?
Friday May 20, 2011 at 10:23 am
Is it time to bring back JunkScience.com's DDTees?
Today's New York Times article "As an Insecticide Makes a Comeback, Uganda Must Weigh Its Costs" states:
But the United States banned the use of DDT in 1972 over the chemical's hazardous environmental impact. Studies have also linked DDT to diabetes and breast cancer. One examination of the consequences of using DDT to fight malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, conducted by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, said the chemical might have increased infant deaths. [Emphasis added]
I traced the diabetes claim to a study published in the July 2009 Environmental Health Perspectives. Aside from the usual fatal flaws of weak association epidemiology, this study's assertion that DDT metabolite DDE was associated with incident diabetes is laughable since the average body mass index (BMI) of the study subjects was 33.2 — e.g., meaning that the average study subject was likely to be obese (check out this chart to see what height/weight combos make for a BMI of 33+).
Moreover, no significant associations were reported for study subjects with a BMI less than 29.
I don't know whether obesity leads to diabetes or diabetes leads to obesity, but there's no evidence that DDT is involved.
As to the breast cancer risk claim, I last addressed this issue in an October 11, 2007 FOXNews.com column, responding to an October 2007 Environmental Health Perspectives study.
What about infant deaths?
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences study referred to by the New York Times doesn't even try to associate DDT with nonmalarial infant death. It instead only estimates nonmalarial deaths that may be associated with DDT spraying, the alleged "association" being based on three studies "suggesting" that DDT exposure may increase pre-term delivery and small-for-gestational-age births, and shorten the duration of lactation.
Here's my quick take on those three studies:
Association between maternal serum concentration of the DDT metabolite DDE and preterm and small-for-gestational-age babies at birth is an effort to retrospectively blame DDT for premies and underweight births 35 years after the births. But this can't be credibly done with biased data and weak/inconsistent statistical associations.
DDE and Shortened Duration of Lactation in a Northern Mexican Town reports statistically insignificant results.
Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) and Dichlorodiphenyl Dichloroethene (DDE) in Human Milk: Effects on Growth, Morbidity,and Duration of Lactation confounding risk factors were not considered in a multivariate regression model (i.e., all at the same time), so its hard to blame DDT on even a statistical basis.
So contrary to the New York Times' assertion, there is no credible evidence that DDT has anything to do with diabetes, heart disease or infant deaths. Moreover, given that one million children under the age of five die every year from malaria, even if DDT did increase the risk of diabetes, breast cancer and infant death, those risks would be better than the alternative. While the Times misinforms millions are dying needlessly.
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What do people hear when we say "Change Management"?
That's how our conversation on website redesigns and change management began. From there our panel covered the role that fear plays during large redesign projects, key change management principles, and how to practically mitigate and manage change to make redesign projects a success. We even talked about some tools!
Our webinar panel included Graziella Jackson (Echo&Co CEO), Daniel Constable (UNICEF Canada Director of Business Solutions) and Joel Bush (Capellic Partner). Capellic's Evan Blackford moderated.
Create a vision and direction – Put structure around it.
Clearly define people's roles and contributions.
Separate ideas from actionable requirements.
Start small and develop a proof of concept, if possible (e.g., develop an authoring experience, etc.). Try them out and only mature the ones that show clear success.
Design is not change. Design is design and simply reflects the desired change.
Understand the change you are managing.
What is driving the change.
Make sure your change agents are the right people.
Identify the "winners" and "losers" from the change.
Ensure all stakeholders are in the change.
Understand whose job role is changing.
Know when to involve the right stakeholders – not everyone needs to be involved at all times. Some are critical during strategy and ideation; others are critical to understanding requirements, etc.
Iterate change – you don't have to do everything at once.
Use your roadmap to plot a course and manage expectations related to changes.
Involve your developers and creatives early – they see change and requirements differently.
Save budget and grumpiness by not over-architecting technical solutions to enforce administrative and process changes if he can be done more elegantly with internal governance.
If you missed the webinar or need to watch it again, we've got you covered! We have the whole thing right here (Approx. 1 hour).
If you liked this webinar, guess what?! We're doing more. Our next two webinars include a deep dive into new tools for integrating Drupal Commerce with Blackbaud Merchant Services (What?!!) and a discussion about how to get up and running using data to inform decision making for your website. We'll be adding more free webinars soon, which you can check out at any time here.
Thanks to everyone who joined us! We had fun and hope you did too.


The bunny hunt will take place on Saturday, April 20.
Barnstaple's Easter Bunny Hunt is back for 2019 this Easter weekend.
Barnstaple Town Centre Management is holding a one-day event on Saturday, April 20, with the hunt taking place alongside a family fun day at Queen Anne's Cafe on the Strand.
This year's hunt follows a slightly different format to previous years. Entry forms can be collected from Superheroes in Boutport Street, printed from this article or the Barnstaple – It's a Must Facebook page.
When solved, the answers will lead to the locations of 10 bunnies placed in shops around the town centre.
This year's top prize is a family ticket to see this year's Queen's Theatre pantomime – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. There will also be Easter eggs for 10 runners-up, donated by Tesco Barnstaple.
Completed entries can be posted in a dedicated post box inside Queen Anne's Cafe on the Strand, where a special Easter fun day will be taking place.
The Cafe will have craft sessions running at 10am and 2pm costing £5, with proceeds going to Children's Hospice South West.
There will also be live music, face painting, a bouncy castle and fun-fair games.
There will be some special guests in Barnstaple town centre too, with Oreo the Easter Bunny in town between 11am and 1pm. The Borderline Morris Men will be performing in Butchers Row between 11am and 1pm.
Hannah Harrington, Barnstaple Town Centre Manager, said: "We are excited to have the Barnstaple bunny hunt back – it's a great way to combine the excitement of Easter whilst exploring the shops in the town centre.
"We'd like to thank both The Queen's Theatre and Tesco Barnstaple for their donations of the prizes - it's fantastic to see local businesses sponsoring local events. We look forward to seeing all of your entries and announcing the winner of our fantastic prizes.


The cooler your automatic transmission runs, the longer it'll last.
To dissipate heat from the automatic transmission fluid (ATF), they route transmission lines through a cooler that's either built into or in front of the radiator. Air enters through the grille and sweeps across the cooler or radiator's fins, helping cool the fluid.


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Bahamas is closing down again due to COVID-19 resurrgence
Here is a news summary from a Miami Herald article on the new shutdown:
Less than three weeks after reopening its borders to international visitors, the Bahamas on Sunday announced that it is closing all of its airports and seaports to tourists from the United States, effective Wednesday.
Bahamasair, the country's national carrier, will cease all outgoing flights to the United States immediately, Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said in a national address Sunday.
Outgoing commercial flights will still be permitted to accommodate visitors scheduled to leave the Bahamas after Wednesday, he said. Visitors from Canada, the United Kingdom and the European Union will still be permitted to visit as long as they can show proof of a negative COVID-19 RT PCR test from an accredited laboratory taken within 10 days of their arrival. Also allowed under the new order: private international flights and charters and pleasure crafts.
Other quotes from the Prime Minister:
"Regrettably, the situation here at home has already deteriorated since we began the reopening of our domestic economy," Minnis said. "It has deteriorated at an exponential rate since we reopened our international borders."
The Bahamas has reported 49 new covid-19 cases since opening its borders to foreign travelers on July 1, Minnis said. That amounts to nearly a third of the total infections detected in the country since the pandemic began. Most of the new cases have been found on the island of Grand Bahama, a popular resort destination.
In talking with our friends on Andros, Harbour Island and other Out Islands, they are not reporting any new cases, but everyone is concerned with the spike in virus infections. Andros Island has several clinics, but there is no clinics on Harbour Island to treat patients. There is no current plan for a reopening date.


It's that bittersweet time of the year again when we trade in our beach bags for backpacks and get ready to take on a new school year. The freedom and slow pace of the summer is hard to see go, but we are equally excited about what a new year brings. You'll notice for us that the new year brings a new and improved format for our newsletter. Don't forget to make sure that all of your teachers are signed up, as well as any board members or education committee members that you want to keep informed.
The first day of school always feels exciting. Teachers start fresh with a new class and friends are reunited. Getting to that first day though takes a tremendous amount of planning! We at the ISJL love planning and finding ways to make this process as easy for you as possible!
We have ideas for how to set the tone for the year, how to execute excellent teachers trainings, how to set parents up for success, checklists galore and more. We hope you get some great inspiration here and that you will reach out to your Education Fellow for anything you need!
Experiential learning is one of those "trending topics" that has been popping up in everyone's social media newsfeeds and in all sorts of communal conversations as the next big thing in Jewish education. But what is experiential learning and how do we bring it to our classrooms?
Experiential learning is actually exactly what it sounds like, learning through experience. So it's not really the NEXT big thing, since lots of things we already love – like summer camp and retreats! – fall into this category. Read More..
With everything else we have keeping us busy all summer, how can we stay connected with our religious school families as Back-To-School approaches?
One of our ISJL Education Partner Communities, Congregation B'nai Israel in Galveston, Texas, has found a way to bring their religious school families back together before the start of the traditional religious school year—and we're shining a spotlight on it because it's something more schools might want to try!  Read More..
The ISJL Program Bank: Making Your Jewish Education Dreams Come True!
As the school year fast approaches, it is time to start planning the set-up of both your physical classroom space and the feeling you want to create for your community. Creating a setting that is conducive for learning is crucial whether you are a teacher preparing the room for students or a director preparing a space for teachers. Additionally, setting clear expectations for both teachers and students is essential to creating a positive and productive learning environment. Read More..


HONOLULU – The Hawaii State Department of Health is preparing for the selection of the first licensees for the Medical Marijuana Dispensary Program by next week Friday. In the interest of full disclosure and transparency, the Department is notifying the applicants and the public of some recent developments.
The review and selection of the applicants will continue with the remaining four panel members. "We believe the review will be sufficiently rigorous with the remaining four members of the panel," said Director of Health, Dr. Virginia Pressler.
In addition, the Department has encountered delays related to the required fingerprinting and background checks of the applicants. This has resulted in a notice last night to the applicants to submit their fingerprints through the contracted service provider, Fieldprint, by next week Tuesday in order for the Department to complete the mandatory review of the applications by the Friday deadline.
The medical marijuana dispensary law, Chapter 329D, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), allows DOH to award a total of eight licenses initially: three licenses for the City and County of Honolulu, two dispensary licenses each for the County of Hawaii and the County of Maui, and one dispensary license for the County of Kauai. Each dispensary licensee will be allowed to operate up to two production centers and two retail-dispensing locations.
For more information about the Medical Marijuana Dispensary Program, go to http://health.hawaii.gov/medicalmarijuana/.


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China to Pakistan by rail and road
ASIA: Kerry Logistics Network has launched a rail and road multimodal freight service between Lanzhou in China and Islamabad in Pakistan, operated by its member company Lanzhou Pacific Logistics Corp.
A block train carrying mechanical equipment, car parts, commodities and snow melting agent left Lanzhou on October 23 and travelled 3 300 km to the Kashgar bonded zone in Xinjiang where the goods were transferred to lorries for the 1 200 km to Islamabad. The journey time was 13 days, 15 days faster by sea and road.
A regular service is planned for 2019.
'As we continue to expand our capabilities and implement our development blueprint of capturing the opportunities along the Belt & Road trade route, we are thrilled to launch this new service that offers a significant time saving', said Edwardo Erni, Managing Director, China & North Asia at Kerry Logistics. 'Following the establishment of a new subsidiary in Pakistan in July 2018, this new service will help to better equip us to capitalise on the increasing trade activities between China and Pakistan facilitated by the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor'.


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Thailand: Who will fund the drive to beat malaria?
Despite Thailand having a good record on malaria management, the threat of a drug-resistant strain emerging means an eradication programme is being considered. But who will fund that ambitious plan?
Outside a corrugated iron hut in Trat Province, Angkhum Chavilai pricks Pong Phan Dom's finger and squeezes out five drops of blood. He takes his temperature and asks about his symptoms. Then he gets out a smartphone and plugs in Dom's answers.
"I am very worried about malaria," says Chavilai. "If a malaria case comes late and we cannot treat them, they will die. Many years ago we used to see that."
Now, though, this is much less likely to happen. With 800 malaria posts and clinics and universal free treatment, Thailand far outstrips its neighbours' disease management, a fact reflected in its dramatic drop in cases, from six figures in 2000 to 20,000 in 2008. In the seven provinces bordering Cambodia, only 308 people have contracted the deadliest strain of the malaria, caused by the mosquito-borne parasite Plasmodium falciparum, this year.
That's just as well because, in 2007, scientists confirmed that artemisinin-based combination therapies, the drugs used to kill P. falciparum, were taking longer to work on the Thai/Cambodian border, a region which has seen resistance to effective malaria treatments, including chloroquine and sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine, emerge several times in the past and spread across the world. In 2008, fearing the global impact of yet another drug-resistant strain, particularly in Africa where malaria kills about 800,000 people every year, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has set global malaria eradication as one of its aims, funded a $22.5m (£14m) regional containment programme.
Yet, for Professor Nicholas White of Bangkok's Mahidol-Oxford Research Unit, containment is not enough. "Once malaria drugs go down the tube, that's it," he says. "You've got to have a new one and we haven't got a new one. So shouldn't we do something really unusual about this? Why not pull out all the stops, do everything we possibly can and get rid of it?"
Radical approaches, such as mass drug administration, mass screening and treatment, will be considered at a conference this autumn. However, according to Dr Prudence Hamade, senior technical adviser at Malaria Consortium, which is working in Thailand and Cambodia to improve access to accurate information to contain resistance, these approaches depend on being able to "get hold of all the people". In Thailand, where roughly half of malaria patients are Cambodian and Burmese migrant workers, that can be hard, as Ahwat Masarath knows. She runs a malaria post at her village home in the Pong Nam Ron district.
"It's very difficult working with migrant people," she says. "At one place, the first time I went to do blood tests, the workers tried to escape because they didn't know what it was about and they were afraid. Most of them hide somewhere in the forest. It takes a long time to build up trust."
Initiatives such as building links between clinics and business owners, running educational sessions, providing free mosquito nets and producing bilingual leaflets and posters, are underway. Yet the message seems slow to get through.
"Some people buy medication on the black market if they think they have malaria," says Cambodian fruit farm labourer Nath Chay, 29, who spends six months a year in Thailand. "Others go home. On this farm, if we get sick the owner will take us to the clinic but that's not the case everywhere."
A study in 2004 found black market counterfeit anti-malarials account for up to 53% of samples bought in mainland south-east Asia. Asymptomatic carriers and the possibility that diagnostic tools miss low levels of infection also mean it's likely that only 70% of Thailand's malaria cases are recorded. The others come and go unobserved, taking the parasites with them, as the ominous reports of lengthening drug-response times coming from the Thai/Burmese border suggest.
Establishing co-operation isn't just a local problem. The international collaboration necessary for elimination is hampered by the diplomatic tension between Thailand and Cambodia, the secretive Burmese regime and the piecemeal division of south-east Asia into two World Health Organisation (WHO) regions. This puts neighbouring countries under different administrative umbrellas.
WHO's Mekong Malaria Programme (MMP) was designed to address this by fostering cross-border partnerships. Although, after two years, there is no joint grant from the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria for the Thai and Cambodian national malaria programmes, the countries have agreed to share information and meet at cross-border workshops organised by Malaria Consortium and the WHO and through the Asian Collaborative Training Network for Malaria. Now Dr Charles Delacollette, MMP's co-ordinator, would like to see the countries invest more.
"Country members are not committing enough of their domestic money," he says. "They say to WHO 'can you do it?'"
However, at the Bureau of Vector-Borne Disease in Thailand's Ministry of Public Health, director, Dr Wichai Satimai has other priorities. Dengue fever is on the rise and there is an outbreak of arthritis-inducing Chikungunya. The malaria budget has just been cut and soon it will be amalgamated into general health spending.
"If we are going to contain or eliminate malaria we must have more Global Fund money," he says. "The problem is the whole world's problem. They have to help us. We cannot do it by ourselves."
But the world has a doubtful disease elimination record. Of seven attempted eradication programmes, only one, smallpox, has ever succeeded. Countries such as India, which got malaria down to 50,000 cases during the global drive of the 1950s and 60s, now have infection rates in the millions again. There is a $4bn annual shortfall in the amount of money the WHO estimates it will take to wipe it out.
At Bangkok's Mahidol University, the dean, Professor Pratap, feels it too. "I sense that [the Thai government] are not very serious," he says. "I want them to announce that Thailand will be free of malaria in 10 years and this is the strategy. They have not said that. Now they don't talk about malaria at all."
Back in Trat Province, Chavilai packs up his samples and heads to the clinic. For now, with his patient on the $5-a-day drug malarone, he is confident that the slide he is about to examine under the microscope will be parasite-free.
At Mahidol University, the findings from Angkhum Chavilai's latest follow-up appointment flash up on Professor Pratap's smartphone, joining the database that records and maps all malaria cases in the Thai containment zone.
"A map can help the decision-makers decide what is happening," says Jaranit Kaewkungwal, director of the university's Biophics department, which developed the system with the help of a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant. "If the map is getting more red, they know they should do something."
Now nearing the end of its first full year of use, the pioneering Biophics technology allows national and regional malaria staff to have a real-time overview of cases, including information about drug response times, symptoms and even patients' photographs. Such rapid data analysis will be essential if Thailand is ever going to meet WHO's stringent malaria elimination criterion of no more than three locally transmitted cases in three consecutive years – standards that even the USA, which had eight linked cases in Florida in 2003, sometimes fails to meet.
However, in terms of the information collected, this first version, which developers hope can be adapted for other regions, countries and health programmes, is deliberately close to the paper recording system local staff were using before. For Dr Vipat Kuruchittham, technical officer at Malaria Consortium's office, which is helping to pilot and evaluate a similar system under a USAID-funded malaria elimination project in the island province of Phuket, such familiarity is crucial.
The Phuket initiative aims to eliminate malaria altogether. Malaria Consortium is also working on user-friendly systems to allow sharing of data between Thailand and Cambodia to speed up the response to the spread of resistance.
"We have to change bit by bit," Vipat says. "We are trying to reduce the burden with the limited staff they have. That's the point of technology in health. But the people have to be willing to use it. That's the thing."
"Everyone has to know about malaria because we have to contain it. It's very dangerous."
Chay Sopann, a Thai border guard in Pong Nam Ron, Chanthaburi Province, knows more than most about the risks. In his time serving in the forests along the border, he has contracted the disease twice.
"All the soldiers used to have malaria," he says. "We'd go home and our parents would say: "What happened to you? You've just got a common cold." But I'd know it was malaria and I had to go and have a blood test. When it was positive, they'd give me medication. I would feel very bad and hardly be able to walk."
Nowadays, few soldiers get malaria, an improvement Sopann puts down to more clinics and better education. However, working at the checkpoint where fruit farm labourers and hundreds of others come to renew their border passes each week, he worries that Cambodian migrant workers may not be as knowledgeable and could be at risk.
"It's very important for the border guards to play a role in containment," he says, "but the problem is the language barrier. We cannot speak Khmer."
However, for Praphan Boonma, director of the district malaria programme, who comes to do spot tests on the migrants and recently found 20 cases of Plasmodium vivax (the region's predominant, less deadly strain) here, Sopann and his colleagues already play a vital role.


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This question stems from pure idle curiosity. It seems to me that British newsreaders use a special accent, especially when reading out the headlines or introducing a particularly serious story. Perhaps it would be more properly termed a tone of voice rather than an accent, but in either case I've never known anyone to speak in that way in any other situation.
I'm not referring to recieved pronunciaton, but to something much more specific that seems to be only used for news and not other announcements. Similarly, I'm not referring to the mid-Atlantic accent, which also seems to be mostly associated with news readers but is no longer in use. The voice/accent I'm referring to combines a kind of exaggerated seriousness with perhaps a lower pitch of voice than usual. It's difficult to describe but anyone who lives in the UK should be familiar with it. Does it have a name?
Edit: an exaggerated example can be found in this classic parody clip from The Day Today. Most of the characters use their normal voices at first, but once the situation changes around 2 minutes in, all the broadcasters start using the special "serious" voice that I'm asking about.
To be honest, these days there are nearly as many news presenters with regional - particularly Scottish - accents as those using RP, which is the dominant form.
Regional accents are often deemed to be "from somewhere real" and so appparently are judged to have integrity. RP is respected and seen as educated, but doesn't have a specific area of origin tbat people can relate to; at best it's the South East of England accent.
50 years ago, there was a predominance of the cut-glass upper-class accent on the BBC, the way the queen speaks. But that has almost completely gone now, and old clips with presenters speaking in that way are hilarious today, for the deference to the aristocracy and royals they represent.
The word 'portentous'springs to mind.
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The man in dark robes looked somewhat confused and bewildered, and spoke a version of the Thracian language. A couple of party members who had practiced the language managed to establish a baseline of communication. Thelma Turge, a Magic-User, was able to carry on a complete conversation using the alignment language of Law.
Thelma explained that they were the enemies of the Gnolls and Lizard-men, which got the man on their side. He introduced himself as Macreus, cleric of Thanatos. It soon became clear that he had been sealed in this area for a very long time, perhaps hundreds of years. Eventually, he provided the party with a history lesson on the caverns. Long ago, humans built a society here, achieving a great level of sophistication. Far below, a great palace stood in a place where a sun-filled forest grew miraculously underground. The cult of Thanatos was held in high regard then, and the humans kept the beast-men, the gnolls and the minotaurs, as slaves. During the reign of Agamemnos, however, the beast-men revolted, slaughtering the king and conquering seizing all levels below the first. This was before Macreus was born. During his time, humans lived only on the first level, and in the city on the surface above. The worship of Thanatos became outlawed then, and he and his brothers sealed themselves in this secret area, waiting for a safe time to reemerge. There were also rumors that once, even before the old human kingdom, a race of highly sophisticated lizard-man progenitors lived in the caverns, but of course that was nonsense. Tales of the undead lizard king served to frighten children into obedience.
It was unclear how long Macreus had been in stasis down here, but the city he described on the surface was now just ruins. The party did however tell him that the cult of Thanatos was alive and well. They didn't tell him how many of its members they had killed on a previous expedition.
Encouraged by someone taking up arms against the beast-men and their Minotaur King, Macreus offered the party some information and help. He told them that there was a sphinx on the floor below, and that beyond that sphinx was a route to the old temple of Thanatos from its heyday. Far below that temple was the old palace, where the sun shone far below ground. He also told them of a temple to the goddess Athena, where it was said that Agamemnos stored weaponry crafted by a great weapon smith from a land far to the east.
Telling them that it was impossible to return to the first level of the caverns the way that they had come, due to a magical seal, he fished out a long rope ladder from a pit in the hallway floor. He led them to the end of the hallway, where what looked like a solid wall of rock was really just an illusion, and opened out onto a chasm. The rope ladder affixed neatly into slots in the floor, and the party began to argue about how to go down.
First they sent two retainers, Jen and Jann Halfroot, down the rope ladder. When they returned, they reported a cavern below, with an underground river running through it. On a small bridge across the river, slept a large humanoid creature.
After some deliberation, the party decided to send down their solitary thief, Jek the Stabber. Jek descended the ladder and saw the creature, a kind of stunted-looking giant, much larger than a person but with the squat proportions of something smaller… a halfling or a dwarf maybe? Small creatures stirred in cages mounted to the bridge, and baskets hung in the water.
Then Jek noticed the sack. A bulging bag propped up against a nearby wall, adjacent to the bridge. They poked it from ten feet away with a pole, making a tiny noise but not arousing the creature. They ran up to it, carefully examined it, and silently lifted it from the ground. Then Jek noticed the hallway going north, the direction in which Macreus had told the party that a Sphinx lived. The long hallway was lined on either side with eerily glowing skulls, one set into the center of each ten foot section of wall.
Jek took the sack and rushed back up the ladder.
The most interesting thing in the first half of this session was dealing with Macreus, and how much he could tell them. They did get a great reaction roll, and to their credit, used his ignorance of the current situation, and their knowledge of the existing enmity of the cultists and the gnolls to get him onto their side.
Technically Macreus only speaks Thracian and Ancient Thracian, the former of which some of the PC's can piece together, the latter of which is supposed to be mostly lost to time. I've let the PC's who speak the modern language piece together a few words of ancient in the dungeon though, and ultimately I let them carry out a full on conversation using the alignment language of Law.
Alignment languages are a weird feature of the game. B/X only has three alignments: Lawful, Neutral, Chaotic, and any character can speak a language tied to their alignment. It seems like this would eliminate any advantage for having a high intelligence and speaking additional languages, as the party's edgy, chaotic character can just talk to all the monsters.
Because Caverns of Thracia was originally written for AD&D, not B/X specifically, Macreus actually has a two-part alignment: Lawful Evil, which makes sense for a death cult leader. So Thelma Turge, lawful magic user, was able to talk to him no problem.
There is an encounter later in the dungeon that includes a chart to roll on which takes Intelligence into account, to determine the accuracy of communication between people who don't share a language. The intent seems to be that you can use it anywhere in the module (and presumably elsewhere in your campaign, too), but the presence of alignment languages kind of circumvents that as well.
I have come around to the philosophy that giving the players more information is almost always better than giving them less, and challenges that just occlude information from the players are usually not going to be interesting. In this case, as soon as Macreus gave them a huge exposition dump, they started plotting about whether to seek the temple, or the sphynx, about the best route out, about whether to try and return to town first or push onward. Having meaningful, actionable intelligence can be what separates an interesting, player-driven sandbox from a game where they are just aimlessly roving down corridors running into monsters.
While Thracia and other modules often have rumor tables, where new characters can roll for hints, they are often so vague as to be kind of useless until the players are more familiar with the adventure location, and they are also often seeded with false rumors and red herrings. There's something about just saying "there is interesting and valuable stuff in places X, Y, and Z, have at it" that immediately gets things moving in a more interesting direction.
Totally agree with you about giving the PCs more information being more fun. It was hard for me to internalize this approach but I think I run a better game because I could finally stop hiding my cards, so to speak, and let the players making more informed decisions.
I ran DCC RPG but use B/X rules for most of my DM procedures.
I simply have PCs make diplomacy checks at -2 when using Alignment Language to try and convince NPCs to do something.


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Next Question brings this back around to the very beginning of the series in our thirteenth and final episode. It does what a good season finale should do: leave questions unanswered. Unfortunately, because Golden Boy was cancelled long before Next Question aired, the little tidbits we are given will never be resolved. Thus, what eventually happened to Detectives Owen (Chi McBride) and McKenzie (Bonnie Summervale), whom we are told met an unhappy end, will remain forever hidden. These questions would have been answered as the series (would have) continued, but Next Question leaves other questions that the second season premiere would have answered. As an individual episode, Next Question does better than some of the ones that have come before, but truth be told the series had put itself in a corner that it couldn't get out of.
Scenes in this episode include flashbacks to the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Viewer discretion is advised.
Nothing like using the horrific mass murder of thousands of people to close out a season of a low-rated television series.
Commissioner Walter Clark (Theo James) is still being interviewed by Paul Daly (Richard Kind). The Commissioner is admiring the Freedom Tower, the building that will rise 1,776 feet over New York City near where the World Trade Center once stood. We then go back to present day, where Detective Clark, having been relegated to desk duty, is given something to do by his partner, Don Owen (Chi McBride). He brings out his old cold case, that of Jozef Dworaczyk, a recent Polish immigrant who happened to be murdered on September 11, 2001. In the midst of all the chaos of that day, he was kind of forgotten.
We now get flashbacks within flashbacks (if we go by the premise that Golden Boy really takes place seven years from now). Owen is now in the Clark position, attempting to sort out this bizarre crime, bizarre in that Dworaczyk had no enemies. He is in turn mentored by Andrew Lightstone (Robert John Burke), who advises him to never promise someone they will find the perp. Circumstances force Lightstone to go the World Trade Center while Owen continues the case. He is able to observe the second plane hitting the second tower, and later on, as he attempts to reach his partner and friend, the towers fall (though Owen bravely rescues a pregnant woman about to be engulfed by the debris).
In yet another of those strange twists Golden Boy takes, the Dworaczyk case is related to the case the 39th Precinct is handling, a drive-by where the driver is unharmed but the passenger is killed off. Clark finds that Eddie Roque (Peter Scavanivo), who bore a striking similarity to Dworaczyk, has left prison. Roark we find not only was the intended target but knows who put out the contract on him because Roark himself had used the same hitman.
Roark, who now has months to live, decides that he might be in need of some redemption. He tells Clark who the hitman is: Pablo Vega (Eric Todd Dellums...and is it me or is there something odd about casting an African-American in what would appear to be a Hispanic role?). Cracking the case of a hitman would have great implications for whoever brings him in. That person, in the mind of Detective Christian Arroyo (Kevin Alejandro) is none other than Detective Christian Arroyo.
Arroyo really could do with some good news, given that he has had simply the worst day of his life. First, his wife has found out that he has been having an affair. While she hasn't found who his mistress is, he is unceremoniously dumped. Next, his actual mistress, Deb McKenzie (Bonnie Somerville) has really moved on, and he is actually heartbroken. Third, he has grown tired of Clark thwarting him at every turn and will get that promotion. He won't let some old man or his junior partner get in his way, especially since his onetime ally Deputy Mayor Holbrook (Eric Morris) all but screwed him over. However, the hits keep on coming, literally: to add to Arroyo's awful, terrible, no good, very bad day, Mamma said knock Arroyo out. Clark punches him unconscious and then handcuffs him to where he can't go with everyone else.
Roark goes to the shop to attempt to hire Pablo, but Pablo in turn tries to kill him. He at first encounters Clark when attempting to flee, but since Clark has no gun or badge, he slashes him out of the way. Owen, however, DOES have both. Pablo, in his own way, is in need of redemption: he had given up the hitman job after the botched killing, for which he feels actual guilt.
With both cases solved (at least I think both solved...we've all but forgotten about the first), Owen not only is able to close out his last case with Lightstone but bring peace to Mrs. Dwaraczyk and I figure her now 11-12 year old son (she was pregnant at the time she became a widow) AND get a promotion. While Arroyo himself does nothing at this point, we know Deputy Mayor Holbrook does. We discover that Holbrook has allowed innocents to go to jail (connected to this corruption case or the hitman job, I forget). That, along with Clark sleeping with his wife, push him over the edge. He approaches Clark and Margot while having dinner, first turning a gun on him, then on her. The screen goes dark as shots are fired.
In a subplot, Junior finds that he needs the shady connections of Senior (Michael Madsen) to crack the case. Senior for his part, convinces his daughter Agnes (Stella Maeve) to take a ride with him...what could have been for next season. Next Question ends with us learning that Clark will now work to clear the innocents blamed for Pablo's killings, but that this cost him two weeks in a coma, and that both Owen and McKenzie are in seven years no longer with us.
As I stated, Next Question left us with a host of questions: what DID happen to Margot? how did Owen and McKenzie meet their ends (the pilot did suggest something about a shooting, but whether that would have happened in the future or was what already occurred in Sacrifice we know not)? What will become of Arroyo now that his life seemed to implode in one day?
Those questions are likely never to be answered now that Golden Boy has been cancelled, but for myself I am not a fan of long teases (which might explain my dating life, but I digress).
Nicholas Wootton, Golden Boy's creator, penned the season/series finale, and I trust that he knew the wisdom of featuring September 11th as part of his story. I do not look kindly to such things, fearing that such a horrific and traumatizing event in human history should not be relegated to a plot device.
That, however, is not the only thing I found fault with in Next Question. Again, the idea that all the cases have to be connected somehow is something I'm finding more and more ludicrous (McKenzie's brother, Holbrook's Client Number 9 deal), and now this: a twelve-year-old murder conveniently coming together with the case they are investigating? That point I might concede only because I cannot recall anything about the present-day murder, which is not a good thing.
That isn't to say Next Question didn't have anything good in it. Michael Madsen, though underused in both his episodes, has a good comeback at the beautiful Theo James' expense. This is the first time they have seen each other in years, and Walter Clark, Senior greets his son with, "How's your modeling career?" Cinematically, I thought it was highly clever that McBride's Owen in his flash-flashbacks would enter the light whenever he threatened someone, but slip into the shadows when he was being soft and gentle; this is a good twist in the visual department. Credit also has to go to Alejandro, an undiscovered acting treasure who really needs to work more. Apologies to the breathtakingly beautiful James, but Alejandro was the more compelling actor with the deeper character as opposed to James' Clark, whom the series kept shifting from good to bad.
I know, that was the point of Golden Boy: to see how he became whoever he became, but James was a bit more bland, especially to the good cop/bad man Arroyo who in one season we see slowly evolve and even crumble. Clark just seemed to be more grumpy and short-tempered, as if his years on the force did not shape him into someone with more (or less) compassion or insight. Arroyo on the other hand, was the more fascinating character. I'll give you that James is prettier than Alejandro (though the latter ain't bad-looking by any stretch), but I would give Alejandro the title of 'better actor'...and he wasn't the lead.
It almost made me wish Arroyo had punched Clark. Heaven knows he had many reasons to do so.
Next Episode: None due to Cancellation.


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U10: Trytime in Weißensee
19. Dezember 2018 · U10
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On a very wet and cold Sunday morning in November, a sizeable squad of 14 BSV-U10 players and
their parents trekked across the city to Weißensee for our final tournament of the year. There were
not enough players to split into two teams like we did in our previous two tournaments, so this time
we could unfortunately only enter one team. With 6 substitutes the only tournament goal we spoke
about during our warm-up was that every player would be given a fair chance to play.
In wet, muddy and slippery conditions, our lilywhite shorts were drenched in different shades of
brown, before our first game even started! But everyone was fired up for the game against Rugby
Union / Hennigsdorf, which was dominated by BSV-U10. We fed off opposition mistakes in the first
half and scored most of the tries from turnover ball to lead 4-0 at the break. All our substitutes got
game time in the second half and our superiority in the ruck and strong line defence meant that
there was no way through for Rugby Union / Hennigsdorf. A few individual break away tries from
BSV-U10 in the second half resulted in a final score of 8-0 and a solid start to the tournament.
During the match break, the team profited from the experience and knowledge of Jozo and Martin,
both of whom made an extra effort to come support the team in Weisensee. The benefit of the extra
coaching to the team was immediately evident in the next game against the tournament hosts,
Rugby Klub 03. A starting 8 of experienced players developed and as soon as they established a
strong lead, the substitutes were used to close out the game. And like in the first game, despite the
changes, the performance of the team and try count remained consistent in the second half. Strong
tackling, secure rucks and good handling of the wet ball was the basis of the 8-0 victory. All 14
players wanted to play and stay on the field all the time – a dream scenario for any coach – and there
grunts and moans whenever a player was substituted.
OranienRaptors posed a different challenge in our third game. We had to stop the threat of their
bigger players. In defence, our quick line speed, low and double tackling was key in not allowing
them to gain momentum with ball in hand. That was the job half done. On attack, our speed,
stepping and breaking first tackles proved too hot to handle for the OranienRaptors players. But even
though we led 5-0, which was the end result, we defended our line until the final minute. Even when
the OranienRaptor's best player made a break down the touchline and almost scored, a last gasp
tackle meant that as the winners of Group A, BSV-U10 had not yet conceded a try in the tournament!#
The final was against the winner of Group B: Berliner Rugby Club (BRC). BSV-U10 loves playing
against BRC and our previous games this season have always been close. It must be admitted that the
BSV-U10 players were still smarting from the tournament loss to BRC in Potsdam. It was therefore
the perfect opportunity to 'settle the score'… The main goal was to win the game and hence the
tournament, but from a development perspective, the team aimed to improve on the previous
performances of the day. The rain stopped. The sun came out. Both teams were up for it and didn't
give an inch. Crunching tackles, solid rucks and retaining possession made for a tight first half, which
BSV-U10 led by scoring the only try just before the break. There was only one instruction at halftime:
Play in the opposition half. BRC was chasing the game, but were not allowed to get out of their half
as planned. Even more impressive when in possession, was the passing and ball retention of BSV-U10
players. And of course the effectiveness, scoring almost every time or coming very close when they
had the ball. Because of the strong BRC defence, there were no individual tries, but all 3 tries of our
in the second half came from a combined effort over multiple phases. From the coach's perspective,
BSV-U10 played their best game of the season 🙂 The players were very proud that they had won the
tournament without conceding a try. A perfect way to end the year!
Anatole, Béla, Bruno, Emile, Emma, Enno, Faddey, Henri, Jacob, Javier, Kilian, Lasse, Philip, Valerie
vs. Rugby Union / Hennigsdorf (Won; 8 – 0)
vs. Rugby Klub 03 (Won; 8 – 0)
vs. OranienRaptors (Won; 5 – 0)
vs. Berliner Rugby Club (Won; 4 – 0) Final
Playing format: Each game 2 x 7 min. with 8 players
Weather conditions: Overcast/rain/sunny/11 degrees
Report: Russell
Photos: Stefan & Frank


Ciara Carter, is a MBA students qualified for the 2020 Boston Marathon.
Ciara Carter, was born and raised in Los Alamos, New Mexico and grew up staying active in the outdoors, but did not enjoy running even a mile. It was not until she moved to Florida in 2014 to finish high school and enter college when she began running.
when I first began running, my pace per mile was 15 minutes. Four years later, I woke up one day in June of 2018 and decided I would start training to qualify for the Boston Marathon in 2020.
In December, 6 months after this decision and many miles of training, she ran the Ameris Bank Jacksonville race finishing short by 13 min, but her determination, body, and mind would not rest until she qualified! 3 months later in March 2019, she ran the Tomoka marathon in Ormond Beach, Florida and she qualified by 4 min and 15 seconds before her age limit cut off of 3 hours and 30 mins.
I was grateful for my time due to the fact a week prior I had found that the Boston qualification times were reduced by five minutes in every age group.
She has not done any crazy training schedules that included hour-upon-hours of running a day. she just aimed for a certain amount of miles per week that included running at a maximum of 50 miles a week and included long runs on the weekends.
50 miles does seem excessive at first, but spread throughout the week with a long run at the end and a 9-mile tempo run, it is easy to hit the total mile goal no matter how busy you are. Plus, with my schedule, I was able to be flexible with which days my runs needed to be shorter than others based on time and the weather.
She highly recommends cross-training. Cross train being a class instructor and personal trainer. Carter included Zumba classes and high-intensity interval training classes that she would instruct with light weights and high repetitions. Carter also included Yoga as her main source of injury prevention. She has been practicing Ashtanga yoga for four years and has found this the most effective way to keep her body function the way it does while taking the beating of constantly running.
Runners often neglect muscles they do not use while running, therefore adding in some extra did help my overall performance. Again this was NOT heavy weightlifting.
Ciara qualifying for Boston was the success of 5 am early mornings, hard work, and dedication to the training schedule, but there is no better feeling than seeing the hard work pay off.


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Press release that announced the formation of EOPC.
Prior to the formal announcement of the formation of EOPC, the University administration had to decide on the best structure for implementing Penn State's Equal Opportunity Plan.
"Only a long-term commitment to the principles of affirmative action and equal opportunity will ensure a secure and just future for the citizens of the state and nation."
The Equal Opportunity Plan called for concrete actions at the highest levels of the University administration.
From its inception, one of EOPC's main strategies was to fund proposals from members of the University community that would contribute to Penn State's equal opportunity goals.
Physically Handicapped Students At Penn State, A Faculty Guide.
EOPC provided the initial funding to support the creation of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Allies Student Resource Center.
In addition to funding proposals, EOPC issued reports to the University community on matters that were critical to making progress towards Penn State's diversity goals.
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Mix and Chic: Three Important Factors For Kitchen Renovations!
One of the best ways to improve your home's value is by remodeling your kitchen. A minor kitchen renovation in 2017 can return roughly 80.2% percent on your initial investment on a national average. Remember, however, that before you move one appliance, you need to have an end vision in mind. Whether you go with a simple sketch to remind yourself of your overall vision or a professional redesign, such as you might get from this kitchen remodeling & design company located in San Francisco, knowing what your end result will be will help prevent costly mistakes. When designing your new cookery there are some things to keep in mind to help you get the most out of it.
When you are looking at design options for your new kitchen, it is easy to get caught up in the hype of this year's trends. That new off-pink and canary yellow combination may be all the rage this season, but what do you think of avocado green now that the 70s have come and gone? It is better to pick something classic that you know you will love now and that you will still love in five years. Additionally, if you are doing a renovation to increase your home's resale value, a trendy look may count against you.
On the other hand, you are the one who will be spending the most time there, so you should really go with what you love. Just be careful, because, with the money that you will be putting into your kitchen, it would be disastrous if it turns out to be something you do not like at all.
If you are going for a complete remodel and rearranging where your appliances go, remember the golden triangle for kitchens. This is a standard where your refrigerator, your sink, and your stove are all located at the tips of a triangle. The thought is that those three places are where you are going to spend the most time, so making it easy to move between them is important. As a rule of thumb, these three appliances should all be spaced between 4-feet and 9-feet away from each other. The total distance should be between 13-feet and 26-feet. There also should not be anything that blocks the path between the three points, like an island or tall cabinet.
Do not forget that you do not have to go big on the renovations. Simple things like changing the finish on the cabinets will go a long way toward making your kitchen feel fresh again. A change of wall covering and the cabinets will make the room shine, especially when paired with new drawer pulls and other hardware.
Another area that often gets overlooked is lighting. You do not have to rip out the old lights, but installing new directional lighting above the sink is a great way to add some pop. There is also a great opportunity to install track LED lights underneath hanging cabinets to illuminate counters. LEDs give you bright lighting without heat generation, so you do not have to worry about your hands getting overheated while working or that your produce will wilt.
From a new coat of paint on the walls, all the way to taking the room down to the studs, a kitchen update creates a fresh environment for your culinary endeavors. It may not make you a Gordon Ramsey, but it might inspire you to try.


Compressioni problem, is my engine dead?
Bought 2004 XC70 with 197000. They said they blew the turbo. They gave me a turbo kit to rebuild that they never used.
When I did my pre-inspection test I got lazy and didn't check the compression. The PCV needs servicing as a rubber glove on the oil filler hole expanded rather than sucked in. The coolant was higher than "max" when cold.
I went for a test drive and it seemed fine. They have replaced timing belt and transmission worked. I checked the codes and got a "turbo", "knock sensor", and forget what else from the live data.
On the 50 minute drive home I blew one huge smoke cloud that totally obscured the road behind me at about 20 minutes in. The car ran a little rough but then was fine. Then I blew a much smaller puff at about 40 minutes. It didn't happen again.
I stopped to change the title and found oil dripping down the inside of the radiator on the driver's side. Not much but was noticeable.
I paid $400 for it so I could scrap it right now and not be out of pocket but the car body is good, and overall is a nice car.
So I took off turbo. I then did a compression check. When I took the cover off there was oil on the top of the engine. When I pulled the spark plugs out they were all oily and wet. None were dry and "ashy" looking. Cylinders #1, #2, and #5 were 150psi. Cylinder #3 is 90psi and Cylinder #4 is 100psi.
I am about to do a leak test to see if its head gasket, piston rings, or valves.
Question: Does a failed turbo mess up the engine? Is there any way this has nothing to do with a head gasket, piston rings or valve issues? Should I rebuild the turbo and then just run the car with SeaFoam to see if it is just messed up from oil.
You have lower compression numbers but that is probably due to a head gasket that is leaking. Since you have to pull the turbo to pull the head, I'd pull the head and have it checked.
If the head checks out, have it done and rebuild the turbo with the kit that you have. You'll probably end up with a nice car.
Any tips on a code reader not giving me ANYTHING? Led dead? It's dead? IDK..?
BAD PROBLEM! V-8 Going Dead!
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Traditional vs Modern BPM - why should I care?
Traditional BPM vs. modern ... what is this about?
these are just few points and I am sure many business users could come up with quite a long list in this area.
Nevertheless, what's is the point here? Main one is to not look at BPM as traditional setup anymore but use it to innovate your domain by utilizing the knowledge that is present in each and every coworker in your company. The assets that modern BPM should promote is collectively gathered knowledge of your domain and the way you work to make profit.
Due to those BPM initiatives in organizations were usually expensive and time consuming activities. Moreover, many of them failed to deliver because of the outweighs between expectations/promises and the actual capabilities of the product/solution.
BPM projects often made a promise to bridge the gap between IT and business but in the end (one way or another) IT took control and drifted away of business making the delivered solution not so business focused any more. Some of these were caused by the limitation mentioned above but some were because the chosen architecture was simply not suitable for the needs of the business domain.
I keep saying "business domain" or "business context" and I really mean it - this is the most important aspect of the work when dealing with business (ops ... I did it again) knowledge. The key to the success is the knowledge to be used in IT solution and not vice versa (IT solution altering the way business is done to fit the product/technology).
So if the traditional BPM does not meet its promises, should I still care about BPM at all?
to just name the few. So conceptually it is still valid and useful, what is more important is how it is actually realized. The modern BPM is about scoping your solutions to the domain, in other words proper partitioning of your domain will help you solve or overcome some of the issues exposed by traditional BPM.
keep in mind why things are done the way they are - that's because of business context. If you understand your domain make sure it is captured as knowledge and then used within the IT solutions - this is where BPM practices come in handy. That's the whole point of having BPM in your toolbox - once the business knowledge (business processes, business rules, information entities) is collected it can be directly used for execution.
To summarize, modern BPM is about using the tool in more modern way but still the same tool - process/rule engine. Although the tool needs to be capable of doing so - meaning it should be suitable for lightweight deployment architectures. That can easily scale and evolve but still provide value to the business in a matter of days on both months or years of IT projects.
Next article will give an example of such system to show what can be done in less than a week of time... stay tuned!