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By Alannah Fitzgerald | Oct 6, 2014
The doge meme teaches us so much about language learning and how challenging it can be to accurately combine words and patterns when using another language. The FLAX language system teaches us so much about how we can avoid using dodgy language by employing powerful open-source language analysis tools and authentic language resources.
The FLAX (Flexible Language Acquisition) project has won the LinkedUp Vici Competition for tools and demos that use open or linked data for educational purposes. This post is the one I wrote to accompany our project submission to the LinkedUp challenge.
FLAX is an open-source software system designed to automate the production and delivery of interactive digital language collections. Exercise material comes from digital libraries (language corpora, web data, open access publications, open educational resources) for a virtually endless supply of authentic language learning in context. With simple interface designs, FLAX has been designed so that non-expert users — language teachers, language learners, subject specialists, instructional design and e-learning support teams — can build their own language collections.
The FLAX software can be freely downloaded to build language collections with any text-based content and supporting audio-visual material, for both online and classroom use. FLAX uses the Greenstone suite of open-source multilingual software for building and distributing digital library collections, which can be published on the Internet or on CD-ROM. Issued under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Greenstone is produced by the New Zealand Digital Library Project at the University of Waikato, and developed and distributed in cooperation with UNESCO and the Human Info NGO.
REMIX WITH FLAX
At FLAX we understand that content and data vary in terms of licensing restrictions, depending on the publishing strategies adopted by institutions for the usage of their content and data. FLAX has, therefore, been designed to offer a flexible open-source suite of linguistic support options for enhancing such content and data across both open and closed platforms.
Featuring the Latest in Artificial Intelligence &
Natural Language Processing Software Designs
Within the FLAX bag of tricks, we have the open-source Wikipedia Miner Toolkit, which links in related words, topics and definitions from Wikipedia and Wiktionary as can be seen below in the Learning Collocations collection (click on the image to expand and visit the toolkit in action).
Wikipedia Mining Tool in FLAX Learning Collocations Collection – click on the image to expand and visit the collection
Featuring Open Data
Available on the FLAX website are completed collections and on-going collections development with registered users. Current research and development with the FLAX Law Collections is based entirely on open resources selected by language teachers and legal English researchers as shown in the table below. These collections demonstrate how users can build collections in FLAX according to their interests and needs.
Law Collections in FLAX
Number and Source of Collection Resources
Open Access Law research articles
40 Articles (DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journals, with Creative Commons licenses for the development of derivatives)
MOOC lecture transcripts and videos (streamed via YouTube and Vimeo)
4 MOOC Collections: English Common Law (University of London with Coursera), Age of Globalization (Texas at Austin with edX), Copyright Law (Harvard with edX), Environmental Politics and Law (OpenYale)
Podcast audio files and transcripts (OpenSpires)
15 Lectures (Oxford Law Faculty, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and Department of Continuing Education)
PhD Law thesis writing
50-70 EThoS Theses (sections: abstracts, introductions, conclusions) at the British Library (Open Access but not licensed as Creative Commons – permission for reuse granted by participating Higher Education Institutions)
British Law Reports Corpus (BLaRC)
8.8 million-word corpus derived from free legal sources at the British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) aggregation website
FLAX Wikipedia English
Linking in a reformatted version of Wikipedia (English version), providing key terms and concepts as a powerful gloss resource for the Law Collections.
FLAX Learning Collocations
Linking in lexico-grammatical phrases from the British National Corpus (BNC) of 100 million words, the British Academic Written English corpus (BAWE) of 2500 pieces of assessed university student writing from across the disciplines, and the re-formatted Wikipedia corpus in English.
FLAX Web Phrases
Linking in a reformatted Google n-gram corpus (English version) containing 380 million five-word sequences drawn from a vocabulary of 145,000 words.
Featuring Game-based Activities
Click on the image below to explore the different activities that can be applied to language collections in FLAX.
FLAX Apps for Android
We also have a suite of free game-based FLAX apps for Android devices. Now you can interact with the types of activities listed above while you're learning on the move. Click on the FLAX app icon to the right to access and download the apps and enjoy!
FLAX Research & Development
To date, we have distributed the English Common Law and the Age of Globalization MOOC collections in FLAX to thousands of registered learners in over a 100 countries – wow!
A collaborative investigation is underway with FLAX and the Open Educational Resources Research Hub (OERRH), whereby a cluster of revised OER research hypotheses are currently being employed to evaluate the impact of developing and using open language collections in FLAX with informal MOOC learners as well as formal English language and translation students.
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Radio Ga Ga 3 – Research and teaching with language corpora
By Alannah Fitzgerald | Dec 22, 2012
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This is the third satellite post from the mothership post, Radio Ga Ga: corpus-based resources, you've yet to have your finest hour. I have also made the complete hyperlinked post (in five sections) available as a .pdf on Slideshare.
I confess that I spend most of my time listening to BBC Radio 3. The parallel that I will draw here is that I was never formally educated in classical music in the same way as I have never worked toward formal qualifications in corpus linguistics during any of my studies. Because I am working broadly across the areas of language resources development and enhancing teaching and learning practices through technology it was only a matter of time, however, before I started exploring and toying with corpus-based resources. I met Dr. Shaoqun Wu of the FLAX project while at a conference in Villach, Austria in 2006 and by 2007 I had begun to delve into the world of open-source digital library collections development with the University of Waikato's Greenstone software, developed and distributed in cooperation with UNESCO, for realising the much broader vision of reaching under-resourced communities around the world with these open technologies and collections.
Bridging Teaching and Language Corpora (TaLC)
Let's fast forward to the 2012 Teaching and Language Corpora Conference in Warsaw, Poland. Although I have participated in corpus linguistics conferences before, this was my first time to attend the biennial TaLC conference. TaLCers are very much researchers working in the area of corpus linguistics and DDL and this conference was themed around bridging the gap between DDL research and uses for corpus-based resources and practices in language teaching and learning.
One of the keynote addresses from James Thomas, Let's Marry, called for greater connectedness in pursuing relationships between those working in DDL research and those working in pedagogy and language acquisition. At one point he asked the audience to make a show of hands for those who knew of big names in the ELT world, including Scrivener, Harmer and Thornbury. Only a few raised their hands. He also made the point that these same ELT names don't make their way into citations for research on DDL. Interestingly, I was tweeting points made in the sessions I attended to relevant EAP and ELT / EFL / ESL communities online without a TaLC conference hashtag. It would've been great to have the other TaLCers tweeting along with me, raising questions and noting key take-away points from the conference to engage interested parties who could not make the conference in person and to catalogue a twitterfeed for TaLC that could be searched by anyone via the Internet at a later point in time. It would've also been great to record keynote and presentation speakers as webcasts for later viewing. When approached about these issues later, however, the conference organisers did express interest in ways of amplifying their events by building such mechanisms for openness into their next conference.
Prising open corpus linguistics research in Data Driven Learning (DDL)
Problems with accessing and successfully implementing corpus-based resources into language teaching and learning scenarios have been numerous. As I discussed in section 2 of this blog, many of the concordancing tools referred to in the research have been subscription-based proprietary resources (for example, the Wordsmith Tools), most of which have been designed for at least the intermediate-level concordance user in mind. These tools can easily overwhelm language teaching practitioners and their students with the complex processing of raw corpus data that are presented via complex interfaces with too many options for refinement. Mike Scott, the main developer of the Wordsmith Tools has also released a free version of his concordancing suite with less functionality and this would suffice for many language teaching and learning purposes. He attended my presentation on opening up research corpora with open-source text analysis tools and OER and was very open-minded as were the other TaLCers whom I met at the conference regarding new and open approaches for engaging teachers and learners with corpus-based resources.
There are many freely available annotated bibliographies compiled by corpus linguists which you can access on the web for guidance on published research into corpus linguistics. Many researchers working in this area are also putting pre-print versions of their research publications on the web for greater access and dissemination of their work, see Alex Boulton's online presence for an example of this. Also hinted at earlier in part 2 of this blog are the closed formats many of this published research takes, however, in the form of articles, chapters and the few teaching resources available that are often restricted to and embedded within subscription-only journals or pricey academic monographs. For example, Berglund-Prytz's 'Text Analysis by Computer: Using Free Online Resources to Explore Academic Writing' in 2009 is a great written resource for where to get started with OER for EAP but ironically the journal it is published in, Writing and Pedagogy, is not free. Lancaster University is home to the openly available BNCweb concordancing software which you only need register for to be able to install a free standard copy on your personal computer. A valuable companion resource on BNCweb was published by Peter Lang in 2008 but once again this is not openly accessible to interested readers who cannot afford to buy the book. The great news is that the main TaLC10 organiser, Agnieszka Lenko, has spearheaded openness with this most recent event by trying to secure an Open Access publication for the TaLC10 proceedings papers with Versita publishers in London.
DIY corpora with AntConc in English for Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP)
At TaLC10 I discovered a lot of overlap with Maggie Charles' work on building DIY corpora with EAP postgraduate students using the AntConc freeware by Laurence Anthony. We had also included workshops on AntConc for students in our OER for EAP cascade at Durham so it was great to see another EAP practitioner working in this way who had gathered data from her on-going work in this area for presentation and discussion at the conference. Many of her students at the University of Oxford Language Centre are working toward dissertation or thesis writing which raises interesting questions around enabling EAP students to become proficient in developing self-study resources for English for Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP). Her recent paper in the English for Specific Purposes Journal (2012) points to AntConc's flexibility for student use due to it being freeware that can be installed on any personal computer or flash-drive key for portable use. Laurence Anthony's website also offers a lot of great video training resources for how to use AntConc. The potential that AntConc offers for building select corpora to those students currently pursuing inter-disciplinary studies in higher education is also noted by Charles. Having said this, drawbacks with certain more obscure subject disciplines, for example Egyptology (Ibid.), that had not yet embraced digital research cultures and were still publishing research in predominantly print-based volumes or image-based .pdf files made the development of DIY corpora still beyond the reach of those few students.
Beyond books and podcasts through linking and crowd-sourcing
TOETOE: English for Academic Purposes (EAP) with OER from Alannah Fitzgerald
While presenting on the power of linked resources within the FLAX collections and pushing these outward to wider stakeholder communities through TOETOE, I came across another rapid innovation JISC-funded OER project at the Beyond Books conference at Oxford. The Spindle project, also based at the Learning Technologies Group Oxford, has been exploring linguistic uses for Oxford's OpenSpires podcasts with work based on open-source automatic transcription tools. Automatic transcription is often accompanied with a high rate of inaccuracy. Spindle has been looking at ways for developing crowd-sourcing web interfaces that would enable English language learners to listen to the podcasts and correct the automatic transcription errors as part of a language learning crowd-sourcing task.
Automatic keyword generation was also carried out in the SPINDLE project on OpenSpires project podcasts, yielding far more accurate results. These keyword lists which can be assigned as metadata tags in digital repositories and channels like iTunesU offer further resource enhancement for making the podcasts more discoverable. Automatically generated keyword lists such as these can also be used for pedagogical purposes with the pre-teaching of vocabulary, for example. The TED500 corpus by Guy Aston which I also came across at TaLC10 is based on the TED talks (ideas worth spreading) which have also been released under creative commons licences and transcribed through crowd-sourcing.
The potential for open linguistic content to be reused, re-purposed and redistributed by third parties globally, provided that they are used in non-commercial ways and are attributed to their creators, offers new and exciting opportunities for corpus developers as well as educational practitioners interested in OER for language learning and teaching.
Anthony, L. (n.d.). Laurence Anthony's Website: AntConc.
Berglund-Prytz, Y (2009). Text Analysis by Computer: Using Free Online Resources to Explore Academic Writing. Writing and Pedagogy 1(2): 279–302.
British National Corpus, version 3 (BNC XML Edition). 2007. Distributed by Oxford University Computing Services on behalf of the BNC Consortium.
Charles, M. (2012). 'Proper vocabulary and juicy collocations': EAP students evaluate do-it-yourself corpus-building. English for Specific Purposes, 31: 93-102.
Lexical Analysis Software & Oxford University Press (1996-2012). Wordsmith Tools.
Hoffmann, S., Evert, S., Smith, N., Lee, D. & Berglund Prytz, Y. (2008). Corpus Linguistics with BNCweb – a Practical Guide. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
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O-Wool's going on the road!
Watch out, New England! I'll be headed to a couple shows in the coming weeks with loads of yarn in tow. If you'll be attending one of these can't-miss events, please stop by and say hello to Patrick and I! We're bringing all of the yarns, including all of the gorgeous new colors of O-Wool Local.
O-Wool Local in Fringetree, Wild Geranium, Gray Birch and Steelhead.
It's that time of year - the time when many knitters turn their minds to holiday projects. Please let me live vicariously through you and your holiday gift knitting! Here are some of my favorite free patterns to get your creative juices flowing. Feel free to tag me on Facebook or Instagram so I can see what you're making this Fall!
I paired a unique cable pattern with an i-cord edging.
Easy-to-memorize stitch pattern means a quick knit!
FINISHED SIZE: 23" circumference, 14.5" tall.
YARN: Legacy DK / 3 skeins. Shown in 4568 Cypress.
GAUGE: 20 sts and 26 rows = 4" over Cable Chart.
NEEDLES: Size 6 (4 mm): 24" circular (cir). Spare ndl for three ndl BO. Adjust needle size if necessary to obtain the correct gauge.
A super cute colorwork pattern on a basic beanie. You could even knit this with Legacy DK to make a large hat and have different color combo options!
FINISHED SIZES: Child (14" circumference at rib), Adult (18" circumference at rib).
YARN: Classic 2-Ply / 1 skein each MC, CC1 and CC2, shown in 8101 Chocolate (MC), 4412 Dogwood (CC1), 4411 Begonia (CC2).
GAUGE: 30 sts and 30 rows = 4" in Stockinette Stitch.
NEEDLES: Size 1 (2.25 mm): 16" circular (cir). Size 3 (3.25 mm): 16" circular (cir) and double-pointed (dpn). Adjust needle size if necessary to obtain the correct gauge.
This baby blanket is a fantastic beginner's project. Stockinette, seed stitch and garter stitch combined with simple increases and decreases - and on big needles!
FINISHED SIZE: 46¼" wide and 46¼" long.
YARN: Balance Bulky / 2 skeins each, shown in 1000 Natural (A); 6001 Boltwoodite (B); 6002 Crocoite (C); 4001 Cinnabar (D).
GAUGE: 8 sts and 14 rows = 4" in Stockinette Stitch.
NEEDLES: Size 13 (9 mm): 32" circular. Adjust needle sizes if necessary to obtain the correct gauge.


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Missouri Man Reportedly Left Sick Mother 'Rotting Alive, Fused to Chair'
An elderly Missouri woman was described as "a rotting corpse that was still breathing" after her son left her in a vinyl chair for so long her skin fused to the seat.
Carol Brown had to be pried from her chair by emergency workers after her adult son reportedly left her unable to eat, drink, or go to the bathroom at her home in Independence, Mo. The 74-year-old woman later died.
Emergency workers were called to a scene of filth and squalor when the man reported that his mother had suffered a stroke on Oct. 27, KCTV reported.
"The victim's legs were fused to the chair and her legs had to be physically separated from the foot rest portion of the chair leaving behind yellowish skin tissue," Independence police detectives said in an affidavit. "When she was removed from the chair, there were flying insects around her body."
The officials said that "bodily fluids and feces were heavily present" in the woman's home.
Hospital staff who treated Brown before she died said the woman had a maggot infestation on an open sore around her ankle, according to court documents.
Her son, who had filed an application to receive aid from Missouri State to be his mother's caretaker, told officials he had been honoring her wish to die at home.
Brown's daughter, who had worked and looked after her mother for six years before moving 1,000 miles away, expressed outrage over her older brother's treatment of the elderly woman.
"I don't know how you can leave your mother stuck to a chair. Nothing to eat or drink and she couldn't talk. She had her eyes open, but couldn't respond at all," Melissa Askren said.
She added, "You cannot sit here and tell me I was honoring her wishes by letting her die at home. You were leaving her stuck to a chair starving to death. That is not letting her live her last days at home."
Independence police are waiting for autopsy results before forwarding the case to the Jackson County Prosecutor's Office.
Newscore contributed to this report.
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PORTLAND — In Oregon, having a pinot gris or a potent indica delivered to your door is so simple as a number of faucets on the iPhone. But attempt to get a bottle of Irish whiskey with out leaving the home and also you're in all probability out of luck. Under the state's extremely regulated liquor distribution system, home deliveries are out of the query. State Rep. Margaret Doherty says that's an outmoded coverage.
"Here in Oregon it is legal to deliver marijuana to your home, but you can't deliver hard liquor," stated Doherty, a Democrat from Tigard.
This session, she's pushing a invoice that might change that. Under House Bill 2523, the state would have the power to license for-hire delivery providers to spirit spirits from the liquor retailer to the doorstep. These cognac couriers can be required to verify purchasers are a minimum of 21 and never intoxicated earlier than handing over the products, and to permit the Oregon Liquor Control Commission to examine data of deliveries.
Doherty sees the transfer as a approach for liquor shops to succeed in extra shoppers.
"In this day and age when we have everything delivered to our houses, I think it's a tool that OLCC agents can use to market their products," she stated.
The concept was raised by aged residents of Doherty's district, who noticed a obvious disconnect between the ever-growing record of issues they might have delivered to their door — meals from their favourite eating places, groceries from a close-by grocery store — and the continued lack of ability to have liquor delivered. Doherty says the invoice applies simply as properly to youthful shoppers, accustomed to deliveries within the age of courier providers like Caviar and Postmates.
Questions stay: What variety of coaching would delivery service staff be required to bear? What sort of automobiles can be eligible for delivering liquor? Would these automobiles should retailer bottles in a lockbox? Those and different questions would possible be answered throughout an OLCC rule-making course of if the invoice passes, Doherty stated.
So far, HB 2523 hasn't seen vocal opposition. The OLCC has a impartial stance on the invoice, and the Oregon Beer and Wine Distributors Association helps the measure, although its members' merchandise are already eligible for home delivery.
Oregon Recovers, a statewide coalition targeted on substance abuse, doesn't have a place on the invoice, in response to Director Mike Marshall.


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The pope doesn't care about capitalism
Joseph Kaboski, professor of economics, Notre Dame
Published 2:49 PM ET Mon, 31 Aug 2015 Updated 11:08 AM ET Tue, 1 Sept 2015 CNBC.com
It seems everyone from Donald Trump and Rush Limbaugh to leftist Bolivian president Evo Morales gets riled up about what Pope Francis thinks of capitalism. If I had a dollar for every person that asked me about the pope's views on capitalism, I'd have a heck of a lot capital.
Recently, an interviewer asked Trump what he would do if he met the pope and, hypothetically, the pope said something about capitalism being toxic and corrupt. Trump replied that he'd tell the pope, "ISIS wants to get you." Explaining the weird response, Trump said, "the pope—I hope—can only be scared by God. But the truth is, if you look at what's going on, they better hope that capitalism works. Because it's the only thing we have right now."
Max Rossi | Reuters
Pope Francis waves as he arrives to lead his Wednesday general audience in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican, June 17, 2015.
The truth is, the pope, who will be visiting the U.S., with a stop in New York, later in September, doesn't seem to have much interest in capitalism. For all the hoopla, he, himself, rarely uses the word. He talks about greed, poverty, inequality, and the environment, but none of his important papal writings ever mention the word capitalism. In contrast, John Paul II discussed it repeatedly. Back then, in a world struggling with the end of Communism, the word actually had some meaning. Today, "capitalism" means so many different things to so many different people that it has practically lost its meaning. If it means a private-sector economy, it exists (almost) everywhere. If it means an economy with no rules or regulation except property rights, it exists nowhere. If "capitalism" means the U.S. economy as it is, then I'm confident no one of any partisan or religious persuasion is in favor it. (Just turn on the TV!) It is probably wise that the pope avoids the word.
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Perhaps Pope Francis has little interest because he believes that "realities are more important than ideas." The pope is not a businessman, economist, or a politician. The practical questions he deals with are not those of writing financial regulations, evaluating policies, selling products, or lowering costs in distribution chains. The pope is a spiritual and moral guide, and – surprise, surprise! – the practical realities that concern him are the questions of how to be just and loving toward God and neighbor. These are the practical questions we all face of how to live lives of meaning.
As an academic economist, perhaps I should take offense that the pope finds ideas and economics unimportant, but as a Catholic, Christian, and a human being, I have to appreciate it. It's as if the pope is inviting us not to just spend all our time in the shallow water, but wade into these deeper practical realities that the pope wants to guide our economic and decision-making. When it comes to the details of economic policy or business that all nations face, the Pope is not telling us the answers; he's telling us the questions.
As opposed to economics, here are three practical yet deeply spiritual issues that do concern Pope Francis and where he is quite clear about his stance.
1. It's about the right attitude toward wealth. The pope's chief "microeconomic" concern is whether people have the proper attitude toward wealth, money, materials goods and comfort. Pope Francis insists that all of these are merely means to an end. We consume to live, not live to consume. Money is a good servant but a poor master. You can't serve both God and money.
On the "macroeconomic" side, the corollary is that the economy is meant to serve people, and not the other way around. That means that the end goal of our economic policies, institutions, and culture cannot be ideologies, special interests, or quarterly profit goals, or GDP growth statistics but whether these policies, institutions, and culture lead to good and just outcomes for people.
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2. It's important to care for the poor. It should be no surprise that a Christian leader should have a special concern for the poor. Here, Pope Francis has a two-fold concern. First, he has a genuine love for the poor, the many struggles they face, and their material needs. Second, however, the pope realizes that care for the poor is intimately linked with love of God. "If we can't love our brother, whom we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see?" Indeed, according to Christianity, it is often in caring for these "least" (the poor, the immigrant, the unborn) that we encounter God, sometimes unwittingly.
Following suit, the pope also sees a "macroeconomic" side to addressing poverty. It is an urgent problem that requires addressing the root causes of poverty, not merely the symptoms. The pope again insists that we need to be willing to orient policies, institutions, and cultures to addressing the urgency of the problem at its roots.
3. People should consume to live, not live to consume. In a recent letter sent to all the bishops, the pope addresses the way we can be good stewards of all the gifts of God's creation, but especially the earth itself. He insists that respecting creation is just not only to God but also to other people including the poor, the developing world, and future generations. On the micro-side, he promotes simple lifestyle decisions – again, no surprise from a man who chose the name of St. Francis. On the macro side, he deplores a "throwaway culture," a side effect of living to consume, rather than consuming to live. He also deplores the failure of governments and institutions to protect the environment, which he sees as an idolatry of the market.
Pope Francis doesn't care much about business and economics, but do I think he should? The economist in me appreciates a division of labor with the pope focusing on what he does best and urging businessmen and politicians to perform their own roles (but better). The professor in me feels the pope could benefit from learning some economics. First, it would clarify some places where the pope and economists agree. We do evaluate policies based on their impact on people, for example, and we agree that the environment is one place where unregulated markets lead to problems. Second, economists and businessmen have deep insights into many of these serious concerns. For example, finance, international trade, multinational firms, and especially economic growth often draw skepticism from the pope. Despite all their problems, however, sound research shows that they are influential in attacking poverty at its roots.
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In the end, finance and trade are not cure-alls, of course and the pope's concerns remain. Donald Trump could well teach Pope Francis a great deal about business, but we could all learn a great deal about the deeper things in life from Pope Francis.
Commentary by Joseph Kaboski, the David F. and Erin M. Seng Foundation professor of economics, University of Notre Dame. He is also president of the Catholic Research Economists Discussion Organization (CREDO) , an international professional society of Catholic research economists and a consultant with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development.


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Wolves: Hwang Hee-chan's presence may encourage Hwang Ui-jo
Harry Whittingham | 19:50 13/08/22
Wolves are thought to be targeting Bordeaux and South Korea striker Hwang Ui-jo this summer – and the presence of compatriot Hwang Hee-chan at the club may convince the forward to make the move to Molineux.
That is according to journalist Pete O'Rourke, who was speaking to This is Futbol about Wolves' potential transfer business heading into the final few weeks of the window.
According to MailOnline, Fulham have now joined Wolves in the race to sign Ui-jo this summer, with the West Midlands side having reportedly already made a £2m offer to Bordeaux for his services.
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The same report suggests that the Ligue 2 club are looking for a fee closer to £4m this summer after their relegation from the French top-flight last season, with the 29-year-old having been the club's top scorer in each of the last two campaigns.
And O'Rourke believes the presence of Hee-chan within Bruno Lage's side could be a significant selling point to the striker this summer, saying: "I think it would definitely help. I'm sure Hwang Hee-chan will be letting his compatriot know what life is like at Wolves, what life is like in the Premier League.
"I'm sure he would give a glowing reference of maybe what Wolves could do for him as well, if he did make that move from Bordeaux.
"So it's obviously going to play a big part, I think, in his decision if he does want to go to Wolves, and that would also help with the settling-in process as well, having a familiar face and somebody that he's used to playing with."
TIF Thoughts on O'Rourke's comments…
We believe that whilst Hee-chan's presence may encourage Ui-jo to make the move to Molineux, we think that Wolves should be looking elsewhere for a striker this summer.
The club are in desperate need of an out-and-out number nine before the window closes in September following Raúl Jiménez's pre-season injury and Fábio Silva's season-long loan move to Anderlecht.
However, we believe that a loan move for Michy Batshuayi, who has also been discussed as a striker option for the club, would make much more sense for Fosun and Lage, with the Chelsea forward already having some Premier League experience under his belt.
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The Italians have drawn up a shortlist which includes Marseille striker Loic Remy and Internacional's Leandro Damiao.
Both are wanted in England with Newcastle maintaining interest in Remy and Tottenham hopeful of signing Brazil international Damiao at the third attempt for around £15million.
City are reluctant to sell Dzeko without finding a replacement first.
Edinson Cavani at Napoli is one target but the Italians' excessive valuation of £50million is proving prohibitive.
City assistant coach Angelo Gregucci: "I don't know if the club will lay siege to Napoli for Cavani, but every club with a player of the highest level will know they'll be courted by bigger clubs.
"Mancini decides the transfer targets along with the new directors. If you ask the clubs who can afford Cavani, for example Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and Manchester United, then I think they'd want Cavani just as Manchester City want him. If he should want to undertake a new adventure, then he will tell the club and I expect they'd let him go.
"Cavani is among the world's top five strikers and is doing great things. Napoli invested heavily in him, but the player's intentions are decisive."


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Medifast recipe for Crab fettichini?
I sautee peppers in a pan with a little "I can't believe it's not butter" until soft. Then add 6 oz. of crab meat and saute, then I add 1 oz. of F/F cheese with a little skim milk (which you are allowed 1 cup per day) so the cheese does not clump. I stir until it is all melted and gooey. And that's it.
I hope someone enjoys this as much as I do!..
Try this with Shirataki Fettuchini. I think this would be great! Watch the cheese and milk though as it has carbs. You probably don't want to add other condiments or a bar on days that you are eating this.
Thanks for the yummy idea!..
Sounds good......I love anything crab.....can't wait to go to the ocean this summer..and eat me some crab legs...lol..
We aren't allowed 1 cup of fat free milk per day. 2 tbsp equals 1 condiment or 1/2 a cup equals 1 Medifast meal (if necessary). You could still make this using the milk as your condiment - but I just didn't want you to think you could have a cup of milk all the time. Try doing half a serving of peppers and half a serving of shirataki noodles..
I think I'll try this with shrimp instead of crab (since I have some in my freezer ) with some shirataki angel hair and maybe broccoli instead of peppers (since I don't like peppers).
Ooh! actually, one question: What kind of cheese did you use? I know that I prefer cheddar in macaroni & cheese (which I should so try to make with cut up shirataki noodles maybe?) but I'm not sure if that's appropriate for this?.
Hey guys I did talk someone at Medifast awhile back and they said we are allowed 1 cup of SKIM milk per day, I hope she knew what she was talking about lol. Regardless I DON'T use a whole cup in this recipe, just a little so the cheese doesn't clump up. Since I have started Medifast which was 2 months ago I have had a cup of skim milk at least 3 times a week if not more and I have lost 46 pounds..so as far as I'm concerned it has not hurt. But to each their own. And I will have to try this with the Shirataki Fettuchini. Thanks..
Oh and one more thing, Medifast said we can have F/F cheese but only if you do it right...Instead of 7 oz. of crab, chicken, etc. have 6 oz. and 1 oz. of f/f cheese OR instead of 5 oz. of beef have 4 oz.
I made alfredo last night for dinner (not your recipe) and it was amazing. I didn't use milk though. I think because I was cooking frozen shrimp and frozen broccoli and the ice melted and there was a little water in the pan, that worked fine. my cheese didn't clump. so maybe try adding water instead of milk?..
What kind of cheese is everyone using?? Inquiring minds want to know!..
I just printed all the new stuff so I can study again. A bit frustrating as I am only on day 18 anyway, but I think it is more clear anyway!..
To answer the milk question... with the newer guidelines regarding milk products, it does state that we can have 1/2 cup whole milk to meet a fat requirement (with a leaner or leanest meat choice in L&G), but I sure wouldn't make a habit of it. Lot of carbs.
The spaghetti squash is clearly legal, but as pointed out a higher carb choice so adjust accoringly..


Birmingham City have been totally out of form in the second half of the season and, as a result, their Championship status is in great danger. The Blues are on a five-game losing run in the English second tier and they must be low on confidence ahead of the visit of Leeds United. Given their poor form, we do not believe that there is a big value on the hosts. The Whites, on the other hand, are eager to cement their spot in top two and we predict that they will go all guns blazing at the Blues on Matchday 40. Marcelo Bielsa's men showed character in a 3-2 win over Millwall at the weekend and they are definitely capable of beating Birmingham City at St. Andrew's Stadium. In the first half of the season the Blues defeated the Whites at Elland Road, meaning that the visitors are hungry for revenge.


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PHOTO: Jawed Yusuf put a deposit down on a home with an in-law suite so he could bring his father from Pakistan to live with his family. He's disappointed his plan will not come to fruition. (Angelina King/CBC)
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When he put a deposit on a pre-construction home with an in-law suite in a new housing development in Mississauga, Ont., Jawed Yusuf thought his dreams of buying a house big enough for his family — and for his father to come live with them from Pakistan — were finally coming true.
It's been almost three years since he put the money down, but today, the project has been cancelled and the builder says it's keeping his $150,000 deposit — unless Yusuf agrees not to sue.
Meanwhile, he and his family have no new home to move into, and his aging father remains in Pakistan.
"We have been planning for so long for this," Yusuf said through tears. "It's an honour for us when our parents live with us."
In 2019, Yusuf paid a deposit on a home in Longview Ravine Estates — a 45-property development by Exquisite Bay Development Inc., also known as Bay Homes. The company billed the site as a luxury development of detached and semi-attached homes that backed onto a ravine in north Mississauga.
But the project went sideways, and last month Exquisite Bay sold the land to a different developer.
Buyers told CBC News they were never notified of the sale or the fate of the project; instead, they received letters, dated Apr. 11, 2022, from Exquisite Bay stating that they were in violation of their purchase agreements, and that the company was keeping their deposits unless they agreed not to take legal action.
The letters contained no mention of the sale or the cancellation of the project.
"It feels like they're holding our money hostage," said Kerrese Predovich, who also signed on in 2019 and expanded her family with the expectation of moving into the new house.
"It feels like they're holding our lives hostage. For the last three years, we've just been waiting."
CBC News spoke with half a dozen people who are part of a group of approximately 30 buyers who've banded together to try and figure out what to do next. While Exquisite Bay has maintained all of the buyers violated their purchase agreements, the buyers disagree.
"Why are they blaming us? What do we do? How do we get another house?" Predovich said. "We're priced out of the market because we bought our house three years ago."
In a statement, Exquisite Bay president Ahmed Yousuf said the company was unable to proceed with the project "because of circumstances beyond its control, including servicing delays, cost issues and inability to maintain construction financing."
"At the same time, all of the purchasers were in default of the purchase agreements and therefore Exquisite Bay had no obligation to complete the sale transactions or return deposits. Under the circumstances, Exquisite Bay had no alternative but to cancel the project and sell the land to another developer," Yousuf said.
Exquisite Bay says all buyers are in default of the sales agreement
Yousuf said the vast majority of purchasers in default of the sales agreement did so because they didn't provide the company with the proper mortgage commitment documentation.
The buyers have said their financial paperwork was approved by the company and its sales agents. They point out the sales agreement states that after the initial period of signing, they had 14 days to provide supporting documents upon demand. But Exquisite Bay didn't bring up any issues with their financing until last month, they say, in the letter that terminated their agreements — three years after they signed and when the project had already stalled.
"It really was like a punch in the stomach," Predovich said.
A rendering of a home in Longview Ravine Estates. Exquisite Bay Development Inc. marketed this house as a four-bedroom home with the option of an in-law suite. (Longview Ravine Estates/Facebook)
Exquisite Bay's Yousuf said other buyers are in default because they put their houses on the market, which also violated the purchase agreement. One couple received a letter from Exquisite Bay saying they'd listed their house for rent online, but the couple has said they didn't try to rent out the house — it never got built.
All purchasers were asked to contact the company's lawyer and those who did have been offered their deposit back, plus six per cent interest for each year, Yousuf said. But in order to receive it, buyers have to sign an agreement promising not to take legal action.
He also said that some buyers have agreed to the terms.
But both Predovich and Yusuf have said they're weighing their options. They want the builder to "do the right thing" and return the deposit without strings attached.
"Our mental health and our financial situation has been negatively affected, so I don't plan on just agreeing to their terms," Predovich said.
Construction delays dragged on for years
Exquisite Bay began marketing Longview Ravine Estates in 2018 and, according to the company's social media, construction was "in full swing" in January 2020, despite not having all of its building permits at that time. The project sold out by September 2020.
In March 2021, the company's request to renew its builder and vendor licence was refused, according to Ontario's Home Construction Regulatory Authority (HCRA). The HCRA said it can't disclose the reason for that unless the matter is appealed, which Exquisite Bay didn't do.
Exquisite Bay didn't answer questions on the record relating to its licence.
Azfal Chowdhury says he and his family drove by the site regularly over the last three years, anxiously waiting to see any construction at the site. (Angelina King/CBC News)
Just weeks after its licence renewal was refused in March 2021, the company issued a letter to buyers, delaying their closing dates from July 2021 to November 2021. But Nov. 1, 2021, came and went.
Then, Exquisite Bay sent a letter, dated Nov. 9, 2021, saying servicing of the land was finished. It also promised buyers that construction would start soon, as the company was in the process of obtaining building permits.
"I was full of anxiety," buyer Afzal Chowdhury said. He and his family had been driving by the site regularly over the last three years, eagerly waiting to see if any progress had been made.
"We really didn't know what their plans were. We repeatedly asked and they just kept giving us hope."
Yousuf, in his statement to CBC News, said: "We are and have been acting in good faith and in an honourable manner in a difficult situation."
Better buyer protections wanted
Mark Morris, a real estate lawyer who is not involved with the file, said pre-construction sale agreements are written in favour of developers and buyers are "at the mercy" of their competence.
He said whichever party wins next month's provincial election should enact better buyer protection for pre-construction sales, including legislation that enforces a fixed purchase price and that allows buyers to register their sales agreement against the land the property is supposed to be built on.
"I wish one government would step up and actually assist those parties who are going forward with the biggest purchases of their life so that they don't end up in this exact scenario," Morris said.
The land in Mississauga where the project was slated to be built sits empty. (Angelina King/CBC)
Exquisite Bay bought the land in Mississauga, Ont., for just over $21 million in 2018, according to real estate documents, and sold it for $38 million to Vandyk Properties last month.
In a statement, Vandyk's vice-president, managing director of real estate Sherman Chan, said the company is keeping the project intact and won't be making any drastic changes.
He acknowledged Exquisite Bay's buyers are in a difficult situation, and said Vandyk will be looking at providing them an advanced opportunity to buy in its development, "in hopes of ensuring that they're heard and acknowledged."
But Yusuf, Predovich and Chowdury all said even if they agree to Exquisite Bay's terms and get their deposit back, they likely can't afford the new homes in the current housing market.
All three said that while they understand projects don't always go as planned and costs can increase, they wish Exquisite Bay had been more transparent when things started to go awry.
"Why didn't the builder speak with all the buyers? Maybe there might have been a better solution than this," said Yusuf.
Angelina King is a reporter with CBC Toronto where she covers a wide range of topics. She has a particular interest in crime, justice issues and human interest stories. Angelina started her career in her home city of Saskatoon where she spent much of her time covering the courts. You can contact her at angelina.king@cbc.ca or @angelinaaking
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The chairman of Vinexpo Xavier de Eizaguirre and Guillaume Deglise, Vinexpo's chief executive officer, made the announcement and said that the fair would now run Monday to Thursday. Sunday will no longer be a scheduled fair day.
This may be welcome news as many exhibitors who spoke to harpers.co.uk at Vinexpo 2015 said that Sunday was "a very quite day." This was despite President François Hollande's visit to the show on Sunday.
The official figures have not yet been released, but "overall, the number of visitors is on par with 2013," according to a statement released by Vinexpo. It added: "The number of French visitors showed a slight drop, compensated for by an increase of 2% in international visitors."
Chinese and American visitors accounted for the two top international visitor groups outside of France. Chinese visitors saw a 14% increase over the 2013 show, while the number of US buyers increased 14.5%. The US was the designate Country of Honour at Vinexpo 2015.
For De Eizaguirre attracting Chinese visitors is essential. He said: "China is the market for the future." But De Eizaguirre told harpers.co.uk having both the American and Chinese markets representation growing at the show is a postive sign particularly as both markets are of growing importance within the global wine trade.
"The show reflects the industry, which is very American and very Chinese focused. When I look back it's a reflection of what is happening in the market," said De Eizaguirre.
International visitors accounted for 36% of the total visitors to Vinexpo this year.


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"Nelson Bryant, a celebrated New York Times outdoor columnist and Army paratrooper who parachuted into Normandy on D-Day during World War II, died Saturday at the Martha's Vineyard Hospital. He was 96.
An avid sportsman who hunted, fished and knew every inch of the Island's back woods, marshlands, beaches and surrounding waters, Mr. Bryant had lived in West Tisbury and close to the land for nearly all his long life. Blunt-spoken, salty and smart, he recalled the war years with vivid clarity, even more than half a century after they had ended. He was one of the last surviving Islanders of the Greatest Generation, along with his war colleague Ted Morgan, who died in November 2019.
"Sometimes I'm haunted by that goddamned war. Night after night after night," he told the Martha's Vineyard Museum's oral historian Linsey Lee in a 2010 interview.
"I have a healthy respect for danger. I'm very leery of things, and think a lot about them. [But] . . . my country was at war. I detested Hitler, what was going on all over the world, and I decided that I ought to do my part. And so I tried to pick the hardest thing I could find."
He was born on April 22, 1923, in Long Branch, N.J. His family moved to the Vineyard in 1933 during the Great Depression.
He attended schools in West Tisbury and Tisbury and finished high school at the Norfolk School for Boys in Connecticut.
He was accepted at Dartmouth College and enrolled in 1942 for a summer semester.
"It was interesting, but not very rewarding intellectually because all of us freshmen ate in one place, and we all got ill with a virulent disease," he recalled in the interview with Ms. Lee. "Most of the time I spent in the infirmary. But anyway . . . the war was going on and I said, I can't sit and let this go by."
Dartmouth had a Naval Reserve Officer Program. He tried to enroll but couldn't get in because he had been born blind in his right eye.
So he volunteered for the draft and joined the Army. He tested into Second Signal Service Battalion.
"It was a high-flying intelligence outfit, decoding and that sort of thing," he recalled. "But I had nothing to do with words or decoding. My job was to work with the supply sergeant and hand out clothes to all the people that were studying how to break codes." He continued:
"This was Army. And it was boring. As a matter of fact it was so boring that I memorized the names of all — let's say there were 100 men. Just for something to do. For instance, I still remember the last one. It was Frederick W. Zander, and his identification was 12125356."
He was keen to join the Airborne despite his eyesight, and found a way to get in by reading the eye test on both sides with his good eye.
He eventually qualified to become a paratrooper and excelled at rifle training, partly thanks to a lifetime spent hunting on the Vineyard, even though he could only shoot from his left side. He joined the 82nd Airborne Division's 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment.
"I found my first jump unpleasant," he recalled in the interview with Ms. Lee. "I was scared. But I had wanted to do something that was difficult. I didn't want to hand out socks and shoes. I didn't want to be a cook in a kitchen. I wanted to be a frontline soldier."
He jumped into Normandy the night before D-Day and jumped into to Holland and in the Battle of the Bulge. He left Sissonne, France, after he was wounded."
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Robert Wisner says he's never seen the kind of drop that occurred in grain production in South America this spring. Farmers in Argentina and Brazil are expected to harvest 675 million fewer bushels of corn and 711 million fewer bushels of soybeans than they did in 2007-08.
The decrease, which could prove to be even greater when USDA issues a new forecast on June 12, was not good news for pork producers attending the World Pork Expo in Des Moines, Iowa. Those producers, struggling with higher feed costs for months, have been hoping for some relief in the corn and soybean markets.
"I've been analyzing grain markets for almost 43 years, and I've never seen anything close to the decline that we're looking at in South America this year," said Wisner, an agricultural economist with Iowa State University, who spoke at a marketing seminar at the Expo.
The shortfall in South American production is just one of the factors having an impact on the outlook for a return to profitability for the nation's hog producers. The declines were due to the lack of timely rains in Argentina and southern Brazil in January and February, the middle of summer in the reversed seasons in the southern Hemisphere.
Some grain analysts are expecting USDA to lower its forecast for Argentina's soybean production by another 36 million to 72 million bushels when it issues its June world supply and demand outlook estimates (June 12).
"They could also reduce the soybean crop estimate for Paraguay," said Wisner, who works with Iowa State's Ag Marketing Resource Center. "Those numbers won't be anywhere near as large as in Argentina, but it's part of a trend of decreased South American production.
Other factors affecting grain prices and the outlook for feed costs:
• After an absence of several months, commodity index or hedge funds have become active in the grain markets. "They have become quite a significant force," he said. "I would anticipate more purchases by commodity funds as the economy begins to recover."
• Adverse weather conditions continue to slow the planting progress in the eastern Corn Belt states and in North Dakota. As of June 1, USDA was reporting 4.1 million acres of corn that farmers had planned for 2009 still were not planted. "The big question mark is how many of those acres might be pushed over to soybeans," he said. "The second question is what are the delays going to do to corn yields?"
• The value of the dollar has been declining, which means crude oil prices are rising. "If crude oil goes up, that means gasoline prices will increase along with ethanol and corn prices."
• On the other hand, China reportedly has cancelled orders for 48 million bushels of U.S. soybeans and some soybean meal in recent days, a move that could be bearish for soybean prices.
• Declining livestock numbers could also have a negative impact of feed demand and take some of the steam out of the corn and soybean markets.
• Meanwhile, dry conditions are causing concerns in northeast China, where most of the country's corn and soybeans are grown, and in western Canada. Officials in the Ukraine have said wheat production in that country could be down 200 million to 240 million bushels due to weather problems last year.
The increases in crude oil prices of recent days have, indeed, been negative for the pork industry, said Glenn Grimes, professor emeritus with the University of Missouri and a speaker at the marketing seminar.
"High oil prices led to high gasoline prices to high ethanol prices, to high corn prices and to red ink for the livestock industry," said Grimes. "A weak economy is doing the same in reverse. Your problem is not demand, it's rising costs."
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First unveiled at the Los Angeles Auto show, in 2006, and put on the market in 2008, Nissan's Altima Coupe was – and still is – one of the prettier cars on the road. It was pleasing to the eye from just about every angle, and although it may have resembled Infiniti's G37 two-door, had virtually nothing in common with it.
Featuring a front-drive drivetrain, the 2010 edition of the Altima Coupe came with two engine choices: a 2.5 litre four cylinder or a 3.5 litre V6. These powerplants were also found in the four-door sedan version of this car, and in addition to a six-speed manual, a CVT was the only other transmission choice. By now, Nissan was committed to this gearless transmission, and people got it, whether they liked it or not.
Nissan has always tended to market its cars in packages, and the 3.5 SR version, for example, of the Altima Coupe could be had with the Technology Package, which included a voice-recognition navi system, Bluetooth connectivity, and a rear-view camera, among other things.
You could also order things like leather interior, heated front seats, tilt-telescoping steering wheel, cruise control, dual zone climate control, and a dynamic vehicle control system. There was also a power sunroof, and push-button start was standard equipment. All versions came with four-wheel disc brake and ABS as well as a full roster of safety equipment.
A word about back seat room. In a nutshell, you won't find any. Small children and dogs may like it back there, but it's snug behind the front seats. The Altima Coupe was really a two-seater, despite the fact that Nissan claimed it'd accommodate up to five adults. On the other hand, the back seat did feature a 60/40 folding feature, which was handy, since the trunk has a scant 210 litres of cargo capacity.
No safety recalls are on file with Transport Canada, but the US National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration has a few. One concerns the Garmin navi system that may be part of the aforementioned Technology package. The 750 Nuvi model of this item apparently has lithium batteries that are prone to overheat and possibly burst into flames. This glitch is widespread throughout the industry and isn't just confined to Nissan products. NHTSA also has recalls for front suspension components of the 2010 Altima, but, at this point, this just concerns the sedan model.
NHTSA has some 41 technical service bulletins listed for the 2010 Altima, though they aren't specifically aimed at the Coupe model. Still, better safe than sorry, and some of these bulletins include: issues with the rain-sensing wipers, a warning about the temperature level of the transmission fluid in the CVT, unpredictable engine "knock", problems with the push-button start, and a warning not to disconnect the vehicle's battery while the car is running.
Aside from issues with the electrical system and brakes, the 2010 edition of the Altima fares reasonably well with Consumer Reports. It gets a "good bet" designation from this group, and an above average used car prediction rating. Comments from owners include: "Lots of noise from the CVT, particularly during acceleration", "seats could be more comfortable", "it would be nice if Nissan offered options on an individual basis instead of only expensive packages", and "love the V6".
Marketing researcher, J.D. Power is a little less enthusiastic and the best they can give the 2010 Altima Coupe is an "about average" grade, right across the board.
From a base price of about $27,500 in 2010, the Altima Coupe has dropped in value by about $8000 – $15,000, depending upon the model and equipment level. The four cylinder S version seems to be fetching about $2000 to $4000 less than the SR V6 and there is no real difference in value between the CVT and the six-speed manual transmission versions.
Horsepower/Torque: 175 hp / 180 ft. lb. & 270 / 258 ft. lb.
Fuel Economy (litres/100 km): 10.2 city/7.3 hwy. (V6 w. CVT) Regular gas.
Alternatives: Honda Accord Coupe, Toyota Solara, Ford Mustang, Mitsubishi Eclipse, Hyundai Genesis Coupe, Mazda RX8.


A Leeds teacher who was caught with large amounts of cocaine, ketamine and MDMA has been banned from teaching indefinitely.
Santiago Martinez was struck off by the Teaching Regulation Agency's professional conduct panel, after he was convicted of five separate offences concerning the possession and supply of Class A and Class B drugs.
The 30-year-old worked as a languages teacher at Royds School in Leeds between 2012 and 2015.
He handed in his resignation in November 2015, but a month later he was suspended after the school found out he had been arrested.
In December 2015 police searched his house and found a large quantity of white powder and tablets, as well as drug paraphernalia and £910 in cash.
Possession of the Class A drug cocaine with intent to supply on 6 December 2015. He was sentenced to three years imprisonment and ordered to pay a victim surcharge in the sum of £120.00.
Possession of the Class A drug MDMA with intent to supply on 6 December 2015. He was sentenced to three years imprisonment to be served concurrently.
Possession of a Class B controlled drug with intent to supply on 6 December 2015. He was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment to be served concurrently.
Conspiring to supply the Class A drug cocaine from 17 August to 27 August 2015. He was sentenced to 3 years imprisonment to be served concurrently.
The disgraced teacher was imprisoned a year after he had been convicted and fined for drink driving and theft during two separate hearings at Leeds Magistrates Court.
He was caught stealing £32.96 worth of toiletries from Boots in December 2015 and drink driving in February 2016.
After reviewing all the facts of the case and the convictions, the misconduct panel concluded that he should be banned from teaching in school, sixth form college or children's home.
It stated the theft offence 'amounts to both unacceptable professional conduct and conduct that may bring the profession into disrepute'.
The panel also said the convictions for drink driving and drug offences 'were relevant to children' and had 'a potential impact on the safety or security of pupils and members of the public'.
Its ruling states: "Plainly, driving with excess alcohol, possession of and intent to supply Class A and Class B controlled drugs and conspiring to supply cocaine, all had the potential to cause serious harm.
"The panel has also taken account of how the teaching profession is viewed by others.
"The panel considered that Mr Martinez's behaviour in committing the offences could affect the public confidence in the teaching profession given the influence that teachers may have on pupils, parents and others in the community."
Mr Martinez also failed to provide any mitigating factors or any evidence to suggest he was acting under duress.
The decision to ban him indefinitely was made in September and he was given 28 days to appeal.


Here's one more shot from Vegas, the New York, New York casino. A lot more colorful than I remember it from pictures I've seen. We didn't get a chance to take the rollercoaster ride.
Here's a shot from our flight back to the Bay Area from Las Vegas.
Here's what Lori and I were up to 21 years ago today. Now that we're legally 21, Lori and I can go have a drink together.


Enough is enough. Your home's been on the market way longer than you expected and it still hasn't sold.
You had some showings at the beginning. But after the first couple of weeks, the showings dropped off to almost zero.
And, you know other houses on the market are getting tons of showings. In fact, someone you knew got their home sold in the first week. Multiple offers! Over asking price! Annnnd…their house wasn't nearly as good as yours. That's why they were asking less than you are.
This sound anything like how you feel?
Maybe your agent isn't doing a good enough job.
You're probably wondering if your agent is doing a good enough job.
Your agent hasn't brought one of their own buyers through the house.
Heck, nobody from their office has shown the house!
Are they saying the right things to other agents and their buyers? Pointing out all of the features of the home? Saying what he should to get them to make an offer?
This house practically sells itself, if they'd just get people to come in and see it.
And every time you bring any of this up, alllll your agent does is push you to lower your price.
You're thinking about firing your agent…or just giving up altogether.
But, before you do…take this objective opinion.
Maybe your agent is right.
Maybe you should listen and reduce your price.
There's a lot of reasons a home might not sell. More than we will get into here.
But the biggest, most common reason a house doesn't sell is because a homeowner has chosen to price their home too high.
There. I said it. Not your agent. Somebody that has nothing to do with your home or the sale of it.
If a house is priced appropriately within the current market, it should sell within a reasonable timeframe.
No amount of advertising, marketing, salesmanship, open houses, or Internet exposure will sell an overpriced home.
Don't feel bad. People do this all the time.
But most people get frustrated. They resist lowering their price. And they start blaming the agent, the marketing, or whatever else for the problem.
Then they decide to either fire their agent, or just let their listing contract expire, so they can hire another agent.
When they do, the next agent gets them to lower their price. Sometimes right away. Sometimes not too far along the way.
And they eventually realize that they should've just lowered their price with the first agent. They realize they shouldn't have waited so long and wasted so much time.
And their first agent has nothing to show for it, other than a feeling of, "I told you so…", which doesn't pay any bills, or put food on the table.
So, before you go and fire your agent, please take a moment to think about whether or not your price is the reason why your home isn't selling.
Then why did they let you believe it could sell for more?
You might wonder why your agent would have given you any hope that your house could sell for as much as you are asking.
You might wonder why they let you list for as much as you did, if they were only going to push you to lower your price anyway.
Even within the industry, agents complain about other agents "letting" homeowners list their homes for too high of a price. Brokers, managers, other agents, and real estate trainers alike, will all say that no agent should ever take an overpriced listing. That an agent should refuse to list a home if the owner doesn't want to list for a reasonable price.
By the same token, some people within the industry will say it's OK to do so…as long as you get the owner to agree up front to lower the price after a period of time.
And yet others still will argue that it's better to just take a listing, even if it is overpriced, and gradually get the homeowner to agree to lower the price. Basically…an owner will eventually be motivated enough to "see the light".
All of those perspectives are valid to some degree.
… because another thing agents are told is that the homeowner is the one who chooses how much to price their home for. Not the agent.
And, if we're being honest, there's some amount of truth to an agent "just trying to get business". But it isn't with any bad intention.
It's a tangled web we weave, and there's a lot more spiders weaving it than just one agent and one homeowner. It's the pressure of the industry itself. It's the realities of the relationship between owner and agent.
Nobody is doing anything "wrong"…but a lot of people tend to not do things "right", at least not right out of the gate.
You should give your agent a heart attack. Reach out and say that you've been thinking. And the more you've thought about it, the more you think that the reason your house isn't selling is because it's priced too high.
Even if your agent hasn't said that is the problem.
A good agent isn't going to push you to lower your price if it isn't warranted.
Price isn't always the problem, but it's always the solution.
OK, so here's what you should do, if your house isn't selling as quickly as you would like it to.
Assure your agent that you're in it for the long haul with him/her. They need to feel like you will be patient and give them the time it takes. This is an important step.
Next, talk with them about whether your price really is the problem or not. It might just be that the market is slow. If nothing else is selling in the price range, then maybe it's nothing more than supply and demand. Not much you or your agent can do about that, other than be patient.
However, if other houses are selling in the price range, it probably is an issue of your house being priced too high. At least against the other options buyers have to choose from.
If your home is priced well in the market, and justifiably against recent sales, and you just can't be patient… Then, as the saying goes, price is always a solution. You can always lower your price to a point where someone will buy it.
Hopefully hearing all of this from someone who isn't directly involved with the sale of your home helps.
Now go reach out to your agent and surprise the heck out of him/her. You'll be surprised at how much better your relationship becomes when you can chat about this calmly and objectively. The whole blame game just doesn't work well, and it usually isn't the problem anyway.


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CNET's acquisition of EDventure Holdings will see former ICANN chair Esther Dyson join the company - and she'll be bringing Release 1.0 with her
By ZDNet UK | March 19, 2004 -- 17:00 GMT (09:00 PST) | Topic: Tech Industry
CNET Networks is to buy EDventure Holdings, the global information services company founded by former ICANN chair Esther Dyson. The planned acquisition will be a cash and stock transaction, with Dyson joining CNET Networks as editor-at-large.
Esther will continue to drive the direction and growth of EDventure's two primary properties: Release 1.0, a monthly technology report, and PC Forum, an annual technology conference for executives, which starts this weekend in Scottsdale, Arizona.
"As an interactive content leader in a number of categories, we are committed to the continued growth of our business technology Web sites, and Esther and her team will build on our tradition of high quality journalism by helping our large audience of decision makers capitalise on the future of technology," said Shelby Bonnie, chairman and chief executive of CNET Networks.
CNET Networks is the parent company of CNET Networks UK, which publishes ZDNet UK, silicon.com and owns the European Technology Forum events group.
Through EDventure's long-established network of global leaders, the acquisition enables CNET Networks to deepen its ties with C-level and IT executive audiences, said the company. "The acquisition adds two successful fee-based content brands with significant growth potential to our award-winning business technology offerings, alongside News.com, ZDNet and TechRepublic."
"CNET Networks espouses our vision for the future of interactive content as a conversation," said Esther Dyson, in the same statement. "This, combined with the massive size of their targeted business technology audience makes CNET Networks the ideal platform to communicate with the broad community of IT influencers and decision makers worldwide."
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Hill, John, Pamela Church Gibson, Richard Dyer, Elizabeth Ann Kaplan, and Paul Willemen. 2006. The Oxford guide to film studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Gledhill, Christine, Anne Friedberg, and Rajinder Kumar Dudrah. 2000. Reinventing Film Studies. p.439-452, p.439-452. London + New York: ARNOLD.
Boyd, Danah. 2015. It's complicated: the social lives of networked teens. [Place of publication not identified]: Yale University Press
McLuhan, Marshall, and W. Terrence Gordon. 2011. Understanding media: the extensions of man.
Gladstone, Brooke, Josh Neufeld, Randy Jones, and Susann Ferris-Jones. 2012. The influencing machine. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.
Frost, Chris. 2016. Journalism ethics and regulation.
Eggers, Dave, and Dion Graham. 2014. The Circle.
Murch, Walter. 2004. In the blink of an eye: a perspective on film editing. Princeton, N.J.: Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic.
Berger, John, and John Berger. 1973. Ways of seeing; a book made by John Berger. New York: Viking Press.
Alterman, Eric. 2004. What liberal media?: the truth about bias and the news. New York: Basic Books.
Balsom, Erika. 2013. Exhibiting cinema in contemporary art. Amsterdam: Amsterdam Univ. Press.


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I like the Illinois state game.
I think we are close to another HH with Memphis.
Two P5 road games that I think folks will be happy about.
(04-16-2019 09:44 AM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote: I like the Illinois state game.
I hope one of the P5 games is at Maryland.
Lol they want no part of us at any venue.
(04-17-2019 06:50 AM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote: Lol they want no part of us at any venue.
Good. I'm not about whoring ourselves out, but I am about challenging this team. When you play at schools in the ACC or SEC you are prepared for the very best environments that CUSA has to offer. I think two P5 road games should be a staple moving forward.


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Q: AWS MSK serverless cluster with EKS Fargate We have 2 environments Dev and Prod both are in different VPC.
Also, we are using MSK Managed Kafka with EKS Fargate Cluster(no nodes) successfully running.
Now we moved from Managed Kafka to MSK serverless environment.
We attached both VPCs and the same Subnet and SG what we used in order to connect MSK Managed Kafka to EKS Cluster.
We are able to connect EC2 instance to MSK serverless from both VPCs,
but we try to connect any EKS cluster we are facing timeout issue or not able to connect with MSK even though same MSK Managed configurations we are using.

How to connect MSK Serverless to EKS Fargate Cluster.

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