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Citing the state's rape shield law, a trial court judge barred publication of the names of priest's accusers, one of whom has spoken publicly about his allegations.
Jan. 7, 2005 — A Superior Court judge ordered Boston-area news media Tuesday not to publish the names of the accusers of defrocked priest Paul Shanley.
One of the alleged victims, who prosecutors say might refuse to testify if he is publicly identified, waived his right to privacy when he consented to previous news photos and stories that disclosed his identity, an attorney for Boston media organizations reportedly told a judge Thursday during a hearing to challenge the do-not-publish order.
Lawyers for The Boston Globe , the Boston Herald and the Associated Press challenged the order by Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Charles Spurlock during a hearing before Judge Stephen Neel, who is scheduled to preside over Shanley's trial later this month.
"This individual in fact waived his privacy interest. His photograph appeared all over the place with his consent. He made a conscious decision to put his name out there," Robert A. Bertsche, representing the Globe and the AP, said during Thursday's hearing, according to AP.
Neel had not ruled on the media's challenge as of Friday. He did, however, vacate a portion of Spurlock's order instructing the media to retract the already-published names as soon as possible.
Attorney Elizabeth A. Ritvo, who represents the Herald, called prior restraint of the press "the biggest harm to the Constitution, from the First Amendment perspective."
Since Shanley was arrested three years ago and charged with numerous counts of child rape and indecent assault and battery, two of his alleged victims have spoken publicly about the case and were regularly identified in news articles, according to AP. Shanley originally was charged with assaulting four people, but prosecutors dropped two alleged victims from the case and plan to drop a third. The lone accuser remaining may refuse to take the witness stand if he is publicly identified during the trial, Assistant District Attorney Lynn Rooney reportedly told Neel.
The man's name was used in early versions of an AP story on Tuesday, but was removed after Spurlock issued his order. The Associated Press has a policy of not identifying alleged rape victims if they wish to remain anonymous.
Spurlock's order cited Massachusetts' so-called rape-shield law which makes it a crime "to publish, disseminate or otherwise disclose the name" of an alleged sexual assault victim. Violation of the statute could result in a fine of as much as $10,000. A check of legal databases indicates the constitutionality of the law likely has never been challenged. Massachusetts appellate courts often cite the law when using pseudonyms for rape victims in published decisions.
A U.S. Supreme Court case, Florida Star v. BJF , holds that when a newspaper publishes truthful information which it obtained lawfully — in that case, the name of a rape victim — punishment may be imposed only when "narrowly tailored to a state interest of the highest order," and that no such interest was served by imposing liability on a newspaper for violation of Florida's rape-shield law.
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just wish the weather was cooler so l could spend time playing FFXIV too damn hot to turn anything on, my room is too warm as it is without the PS4 heating things up even more.
heh, been busy.. mostly elsewhere. getting to be allot to do these days and its way to hot to do anything. (l hate summer, unlike those who are inconsistent who complain about summer and also about winter l just hate summer lol).
actually a little to the left since l walked round the corner for a chinese.


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Inna Goncharenko: You can't change a worldview of an adult athlete
Posted on 2016-07-20 • 11 comments
An interview with Inna Goncharenko. About her skaters, their new programs and preparation for new season.
Inna Germanovna, how many skaters trains in your group?
I.G.: There are three senior skaters, members of the Russian national team: Elena Radionova, Sergei Voronov and Maxim Kovtun. And four young skaters: Alexandra Avstriiskaya, Diana Guseva, Sofia Istomina and Alina Soloviova.
Sergei Voronov and Maxim Kovtun came to you after the end of last season. Was the process of accommodation difficult?
I.G.: Sergei joined our group before Maxim, so he had more time to adapt to the new conditions. For me it was important that an athlete understands that he wants to change what needs to be changed. It's not a quick process. It's always difficult, when a person has worked for years in a certain direction, and suddenly he was told that this should be change, this should be learnt, corrected. It's difficult psychologically, because it raises the question: "How will I learn this?". But you must learn if you want to continue. And my job as a coach to make a skater came to this himself, make him understand and realize this.
You can't change a worldview of an adult athlete, but you can give it a bit different direction. This happens in the work of any coach who takes a new student. Coach always brings something of his own. And then it all depends on the athlete. A horse can be brought to the watering, but it's impossible to make it drinking. I give an athlete what I can give, what I see, what I consider necessary to give. If you're going to take it, then take it. No, then no. They are adults. They know what they want in life.
What can you tell about work with Kovtun?
I.G.: It's a different story. I even haven't expected that all will go so. Firstly, when Maxim appeared in our group, I treated him with suspicion. Internally worried: whether I'll understand him, whether I can. But it turned out that for me it's a very familiar type of personality. It's comfortable for me to work with Max. There was no training, on which I got angry. Everything is pretty smooth yet. Maybe, because I don't demand too much of him, because I understand that at this moment it's unreal. Kovtun entered the season later, because there was a period when he wasn't skating at all. He went to Ekaterinburg, passed exams in the school of Olympic reserve. After that, it was necessary to have a time to relax. Also to break in new skates. There was a problem. He got a crooked boot. Alexander Kuznetsov helped us to deal with this problem. He came and fixed a boot as much as it was possible to fix, sharpened it. Now Maxim is training on these skates.
Now in parallel with the preparation for the season Kovtun still have to pass the exams in RGUFK (Univercity of physical education). So, this period is quite difficult. But I see that Max is trying to cope. I can see that he wants to work. He realizes that to want – it's one thing in words, and to do the required amount of work – it's quite another. It isn't easy for him, because he used to talk a lot, and then to look for the reason, why didn't work out.
So, on the one hand, it's easier to work with adult athletes. You don't need to explain truisms, like to children, work with parents. You can't say them – I'll call you mother, your dad. They are responsible for themselves. On the other hand, it's difficult with them. They're adults by age, but understanding of some things doesn't always correspond to their adulthood.
Everything is different, when you brought up the student from childhood, how we did with Lena Radionova. We are able to understand each other perfectly, to forgive and all like that. We have our established relationships. Naturally, when the question about Sergei and Maxim arised, I asked Lena, because Lena – it's Lena. She totally didn't mind. It's even more interesting, when adult skaters train next to her, the training builds in a completely different way. And the relationships in the group have changed. Guys like men treat Lena as a little lady. Support her, joke to defuse the situation. Recently saw such scene at training: something didn't work out and Lena was almost crying, but Maxim came to her, began to talk. And she says: "Max, why you don't let me to cry! I just wanted to. " I looked through some time and she was already laughing. In general, we have a positive atmosphere at trainings.
So, it's become easier for Lena to train?
I.G.: I would say, more interesting. Guys have sense of humor. The work is in a relaxed atmosphere. But if you really work hard, invest, the work definitely can't be easier. It's the question of the relation to it. At the moment, we have a positive mindset, maybe because it's summer and athletes are more relaxed, however we'd a lot of problems since the beginning of training camp, but not only we have such. But all this has passed. Training camp is over. I have a feeling that it's passed on a positive note, was interesting. Something work out, something doesn't, but by and large, guys are set to work. We overcome difficulties, moving on.
How the work on new programs is going?
I.G.: It's ongoing work on short and free programs. Something, of course, will change. Perhaps even radically, because while you haven't skated it all, you don't fully understand how well it's done. Definitely we can say that Lena's short program will remain the same. We like this program. It turned out "delicious", Lena appears in it in a new image. It's evident that she skates this program with great pleasure. The program is already popular among local hockey players. They sometimes come to see our training and always applaud Lena after her skating. It's important, when the audience react so. Hence, the program cause so much emotions, it's always a pleasure.
Both Sergei Voronov's programs are done. I think that in the future we will only polish them, add some choreography. Nikolai Morozov did the programs. First we had some doubts about the short program. The music has been changed but now I see that we have chosen the right option. Programs suit Sergei.
Maxim has come already with a free program that Peter Tchernyshov did. It's an interesting program. When I first saw it, noted that it was a small work of art. Maxim skates the program from his soul. He likes the music. It's evident that Peter noticed exactly what Maxim likes and did a program exactly for him. The maximum that will be changed in this program are entries to the jumping. But it's usual, when you start to jump, there is a question of priorities. Sometimes you have to sacrifice some choreography for the sake of stability of the elements. It's a pity, of course, but we'll see how to do it in a better way. We're polishing the program. Work on quite difficult step sequence.
Ilia Averbukh and Elena Maslennikova did a short program for Maxim. The idea of the program belongs to Ilia. We liked it. We worked on a program with a very good mood. Ideas came from everyone, including Maxim. He joined immediately, suggested some of his tried and tested things, Ilia and Elena Stanislavovna worked on style. Very interesting libretto. But it is better to see the program, than to talk about it. The work on it is complete. Now we're polishing the program.
I would also like to thank Ilia Averbukh for help. When we asked him, he immediately agreed, in spite of the tight busyness. Ilia came to Novogorsk. In the evening he flew from Sochi, worked with Eugene Medvedeva, and then switched to Maxim. Ilia has a stunning creative stock of ideas, and you wonder how he has time for everything. We are very grateful for his help and support.
Generally, coaches offer and find choreographers for their students, but Lena Radionova expressed a desire to work with Shae-Lynn Bourne.
I.G.: Lena was at the show and saw how the Shae-Lynn works, and when she returned, said that she want to do a program with her. Naturally, I support the athlete. Lena is developing. She's interested in everything. As a coach, I can not but encourage the athlete's desire to learn something new, to broaden her horizons, learn new elements … I am very glad that Shae-Lynn agreed, found the time. As I said, Lena came back from Canada with a very good work.
the source: fsrussia.ru
photos by Olga Timohova and from personal archive of Inna Goncharenko
Related topics: Elena Radionova, Inna Goncharenko, interview, Maxim Kovtun, Sergei Voronov
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11 Responses to "Inna Goncharenko: You can't change a worldview of an adult athlete"
Stolbova Obsessed says:
Elena and Kovtun are so cute together. Are those wedding bells in the distance? I wish.
he actually have GF
FS Gossips says:
Yes and really hot one
Is it the one here?: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p8TUj_ecgwU
It's around 5:43.
My goodness, whoever she is, her hair is long.
Yes, she did rythmic gymnastics.
https://www.instagram.com/p/4zboCriBRT/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BF_JggJCBYE/
Awesome! Sorry Elena, this one's taken!
Elena has those mile-long supermodel legs that every girl wishes she had. But it's not ideal for skating. I hope she doesn't get too tall, but you can't control how tall you grow. As a teenager waiting forever to get past 5'2″, I know what I'm talking about lil. (I try making myself feel better about my shortness by remembering that Ksenia Stolbova is my height and she's a diva).
Maybe Elena will be more of a Carolina Kostner – you know, super tall but really good? One can hope.
But Carolina had her ups and downs, 2009-2010 was a disastrous season for her….but she was the only one for Italian skating federation, she could afford such a decrease in results and still be in a team. With the competition in Russian national team it's almost impossible for Elena.
Quite worried about that. Also Tsurskaya might have that problem.
Sounds good! Can't wait to see what Inna does with the new students. I think she'll have her hands full with Kovtun!
I hope that all changes will help Kovtun, maybe at least he'll feel more comfortable with his coaching team, feel more support. Also interesting how Goncharenko will deal with Elena's growing up problems…..looking at her photos on Instagram it seems she's grew up even more, such a long legs….how it'll affect jumps
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Can I decode this using the json decoder with [][]interface{}?

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Can I decode this using the json decoder with [][]interface{}

Yes you can there is nothing wrong with decoding the JSON output. This is an array of JSON.
[["9BC67ACD", "example1", "example1.co.uk", "2018-08-06 08:46:44", "2018-08-06 08:46:44", "2018-08-06 08:46:44", "FINISHED", 1], ["B339CBA2", "example2", "example2.co.uk", "2018-08-06 08:38:25", "2018-08-06 08:38:24", "2018-08-06 08:38:27", "FINISHED", 1]]

Or you can Unmarshal the JSON into an interface{}. But in both cases you need type assertion to fetch the underlying value of an interface.
package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "encoding/json"
)

var jsonBytes string = `[["9BC67ACD", "example1", "example1.co.uk", "2018-08-06 08:46:44", "2018-08-06 08:46:44", "2018-08-06 08:46:44", "FINISHED", 1], ["B339CBA2", "example2", "example2.co.uk", "2018-08-06 08:38:25", "2018-08-06 08:38:24", "2018-08-06 08:38:27", "FINISHED", 1]]`

func main() {
    var result interface{}
    if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(jsonBytes), &result); err != nil{
        fmt.Println(err)
    }
    fetchValue(result) // This function recursively get the underlying value of an interface.
}

func fetchValue(value interface{}) {
    switch value.(type) {
    case string:
        fmt.Printf("%v is an string \n ", value.(string))
    case bool:
        fmt.Printf("%v is bool \n ", value.(bool))
    case float64:
        fmt.Printf("%v is float64 \n ", value.(float64))
    case []interface{}:
        fmt.Printf("%v is a slice of interface \n ", value)
        for _, v := range value.([]interface{}) {
            fetchValue(v)
        }
    case map[string]interface{}:
        fmt.Printf("%v is a map \n ", value)
        for _, v := range value.(map[string]interface{}) {
            fetchValue(v)
        }
    default:
        fmt.Printf("%v is unknown \n ", value)
    }
}

Playground example

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A distinguishing feature of the Florida Sandhill Crane is its call. It is described as the "call of the wild" and it sounds like a bugling or trumpeting sound. It can be heard several miles away.
Florida Sandhill Cranes are vulnerable to man-made hazards such as fences and power lines which can result in broken wings, legs and necks.
They are gray and have a bald spot of red skin on top of their heads. Their cheeks are white and their bills are long and pointed. Their neck and legs are very long. When in flight, they keep their long necks straight and allow their legs to trail behind them.
Hatchlings have reddish-brown upperparts and gray underparts.
Predators include bald eagles, owls, ravens, crows, foxes, coyotes, alligators and bobcats.
Florida Sandhill Cranes mate for life and choose their partners after a series of dancing displays. They have frequent, loud trumpeting calls that can be heard from long distances. For mating cranes, they engage in a unison calling. They stand very close together and call in a synchronized and complex duet. The female will call twice for every call a male makes.
When threatened by air, Cranes attack by leaping into the air and kicking their feet forward. They also hiss and spread their wings in a natural defense to make the predator flee. They are very social and territorial birds.
During the hotter months, Sandhill Cranes use forestry areas for shade and the wetlands for midday loafing. In Florida, they spend most of their time foraging for food.
They can stay warm while standing in freezing water due to their ability to reduce the amount of blood that is warmed in their body by constricting blood vessels in their feet. Their arteries and blood vessels in their legs are very close together, so colder blood can be warmed before it even reaches their body.
Their habitats are highly selected by water sources.
Florida Sandhill Cranes are non-migratory and can be found in freshwater ponds and marshes. They inhabit prairies, pastures, tundra's, river valleys, open grasslands, farmlands bogs, grazing for food. They are also often found in urban areas due to the continuous loss of their natural habitats. Cranes usually tend to roam in groups or pairs.
They are omnivores so they eat plants and meat. Typically, they can be seen grazing for grains, seeds, berries, insects, mice, worms, small birds, frogs, lizards, snakes, crayfish, snails and aquatic plants. Unlike herons, they do not fish for their food. They use their bill to probe the ground and their feet to scratch up food from underground.
Florida Sandhill Cranes are monogamous birds who breed for life. They also choose to raise their young together. These cranes are recognized for their dancing ritual in which they bow, flap their wings, pump their heads, jump/leap into the air, toss sticks and run. This dance can relieve aggression and stress while also increasing the bond between the mating cranes. By creating this dance ritual, cranes will choose each other and began to mate.
For roosting and nesting, Florida Sandhill Cranes choose shallow marshes and they forage open upland habitats for food. Both pairs will gather and build their nest which results in a large mound of leaves, grass, moss and twigs. It is typically about 3' deep.
Females usually lay two eggs at a time but in some instances they only lay one and on rare occasions, three. The eggs are a pale olive color and marked with brown or gray markings. The eggs are incubated by both the male and female for a period of 32 days. The female will incubate the eggs more at night.
Hatchlings, aka "colts" are well-developed, covered in down and their eyes are open. Just 24 hours after cracking from its egg, the hatchling will begin to travel from the nest with its parents. Both mama and papa bird feed their hatchlings but they quickly learn to feed themselves. Florida Sandhill Cranes are extremely devoted parents. At 65-75 days, they learn to fly. When the hatchling turns 10 months old, it is free to be on its own. Hatchlings eat peanuts, corn, insects, frogs, snakes and other smaller mammals. When Sandhill Cranes are two years old, they can start bonding together, which allows the reproduction process to start all over again.


The management wish to apologize for any delays you might have experienced with updates. Due to technical difficulties involving internet access in the jungle we are a little behind.
In the morning I woke up at the hostel covered in small red bites. Having previously managed a hostel my first thoughts were bed bugs. But the owner assured me they had no such issue and it was most likely the beastly sand flies and mosquitoes who got me. in the end I believed him as the bites did appear more sand fly like in nature. I went back to sort out some things and suddenly his mother appeared (she is the most darling old lady ever and always calls me "mi amor"). She indicated for me to put my feet up on the side table and then proceeded to smear a green liquid that smelled like menthol all over my legs, feet and arms. Needless to say, that afternoon I went on the hunt for some of this amazing stuff.
I permanently carry a small tin of mentol chino with me when I do tours and this was like a liquid form of it. Mentol chino is about the only thing, other than copious amounts of cortizone cream, that helps the itchiness… speaking of which where the heck is my tin, ahhhh I hate sand flies!!!!
When I got back to AmaZoonico I found out that none of the others wanted the newly available single room that was recently vacated. So I immediately started moving. It has 2 lovely windows, a shelf and a bed side "table". Fantastic! However it is above the kitchen (which can get very noisy) and its wain wall by the bed is the one facing the popular lounge, which means talking to all hours of the night and cigarette smoke. But hey, its my own room!
When a group of woolly monkeys were due to be released we realised that one of them had an injured tail. After close inspection (involving 4 people holding him down and one looking at it) we realised it was most likely broken but as there was still blood flow we decided to bandage it and see how it healed. We believe he was sitting with his tail outside his cage when another wild monkey came up and broke it right below the part they use to grip things with (prehensile). After an initial check I headed off to do a tour and Michael (the manager) headed off to Tena for his weekend off.
Shortly after my tour ended I was called to help with Francisco again, it turns out he had started chewing on the injured section and was now causing severe damage. We bandaged it up again and called the vet in Quito we work with. His suggestion was to amputate the section before infection set in. We then called Michael to tell him his weekend off had come to an end. He returned the next day and preparations were made. We still had no vet, the vet from Quito was unable to come and so it was up to Michael to do the deed. Upto this point the only amputations he had made were on necropsies (autopsy on an animal), so this was going to prove interesting.
With limited equipment I became the monitoring machine with my stethoscope and watch. I made up a monitoring sheet to keep things in order and then we were on our way. It was really difficult cutting through tendons and moving the skin and hair away from the bone and then came the decision of where to cut. If we cut too high it would mean a redo and the wound wouldn't heal well. If we cut too low we would remove part of his healthy tail. Luckily Michael's guess seemed well aimed and the cut was clean. As we were starting to close up, Francisco decided to start waking up which lead to mild panic as we tried to turn up the anesthetic and hold him down at the same time. In the end the surgery appeared to be a success, Francisco woke up without problems and appeared to be leaving his tail alone. Michael was so impressed by how well it went he bought us all a soda.
It is inevitable to find the occasional issue when you take a large bunch of people of different ages and cultures and push them together. At present the majority of volunteers were female and under 22 from Europe. Its never a good idea when there are too many girls barely out of highschool in a group together and they proved this when they called me into a room and sat me down and proceeded to tell me that I wasn't working hard enough. This was a bit of a shock as I was barely on my 2nd week and still didn't know everything, they named a few instances from that (all of which turned out to be when I was in surgery). When our head volunteer arrived she looked fairly concerned at this apparent gang up. So it turns out that I am back in highschool, and still not popular. It really took its toll on me and I seriously started considering leaving. Working with a bunch of youngsters who refuse to speak anything but spanish (great for immersion but you need someone to give you the occasional translation) and who treat you like someone who isn't worth being there was not my idea of fun. But after chatting with Sarah I decided to stick it out and just focused on myself instead of trying to be part of the group. In the end I am very thankful to her advice, as groups change and so do the dynamics.
Today during fruit delivery we had a Belgium group arrive for a tour. Lukas, from Holland, could have done the tour but he is much more useful with the fruit carrying than I am. So I got to do my first tour in Afrikaans (a form of Dutch spoken in South Africa). It was a lot of fun and the most amusing part is that every time I said something they all got this look on their faces and said "oh how cute". I switched to English after the 5th time they said this. It was all rather amusing and great practice for my Spanish.
I spent my valentines in Tena with my usual pizza and fanta. Turns out I have 2 days in a row off. the down side is that it is only 1 day after my last day off and means I will most likely have to work 7 days straight, but on the upside I really need a couple days to myself and away from the highschool atmosphere.
At the appointed time on the appointed day I headed out to find my bus. Turned out to take me a lot quicker than I had thought and gave me a 40min wait till departure. When the bus arrived I jumped in and was thrilled to see that I could get the seats at the door, what a score, air and I can see where I was going. 5minutes later I noticed two very confused looking Ecuadorians behind me looking at their tickets. What do you know, we have assigned seats! I apologised profusely and made my way near the back to seat 18 aisle. no air and no way of seeing where I was going. Well I waited and sweated a young boy came through selling some kind of frozen popsicle, the best 10cents I ever spent!
Surprisingly the bus left at precisely 2.30pm and we were soon on our way at top speed (which I think is the only speed). I had seen a few people with boxes of chicks getting on the bus and was not surprised by the cheeping sound coming from the family next to me. I did feel sorry for the poor, strange looking black chick that the young boy had a vice like grip on. It was particularly strange that it appeared to have a long tail… I then realised it was not a chick at all but a baby monkey.
The family saw my reaction and let me hold it, for the entire bus ride. He was tiny, barely the size of my palm, it sounded like he was only 15 days old and his eyes were just open. He clung to me and made cheeping sounds looking for safety.
I have since found out that it is a Chichico monkey or Tamarin monkey. They are the 2nd smallest monkies in South America. This was a Saddleback Tamarin. Black with a white moustache. Too cute and so in need of its mother and mothers milk. At one point it made its way up my shoulder and under my hair where it clung to me for dear life.
As the trip progressed I tried to convince the family to let me take the baby to the refuge with me, but through broken Spanish I was able to get from them that it was their sons pet and they couldn't take it away from him… $30! Number 1 I didnt want to encourage the selling of wildlife and 2 I didnt have $30 on me. So unfortunately at the designated sign of Puerto Rio Barantilla I had to return the poor thing back to the family knowing, full well, that it would unlikely survive. A very sad start to my volunteering. I wish I could have done more.
Moving on to happier topics, I found the very big sign announcing I was at the location, went through the big metal gates and down the bank to the left to find my canoe…not waiting there for me.
Mmmm what to do, sit and wait was all I could think of. It was quite pleasant at the river but after 15min I started getting concerned.
Then low and behold a canoe appeared, woohoo, I grabbed my bag and set off to the waters edge, just as the canoe pulled up, the kids got out and told me they were off duty. Ok then guess thats not my canoe! As they were walking away another canoe appeared coming from the opposite direction and they pointed at that one. Ok then here we go this must be my canoe, I shouted : AmaZoonico: and they stared at me as they motored past… But luckily there seemed to be mutual agreement that the gringo (foreigner) looked quite pathetic and they came and picked me up. This wasnt the tourist canoe but a work canoe and no one jumped out to help me put my bags in. Eventually one realized they might be there forever if they left it up to me and took one of them. Then we were motoring down the river, me balanced precariously on the edge of the boat (it was full of bamboo so nowhere to sit).
When I arrived at the "dock" to AmaZoonico I was met by one of the long term volunteers. Pascal is from Germany and has been here for almost 6mths, he will stay for a year. He showed me to my room and gave me a debriefing in the kitchen. When he handed me the keys he said the short one was for the kitchen the other for the bar/curio shop (it took me over a week to realise the key lengths were the same but very tops of the keys were different lengths). When he gave me my sheets, stating "I think they are clean", that was the end of the briefing and I left to settle in my room a little bewildered. My roommate is Karyn from Germany and is very quiet but has a lovely personality and is a very hard worker. She will leave in 2 weeks.
I wasn't feeling so well and by the time dinner arrived I had a splitting headache and had already thrown up once. By the time I went to bed, unable to eat the pizza they had made, I had thrown up twice more. Brought on by dehydration with a touch of stress added into it.
Waking at 6am, feeling much better, I got dressed and wondered what to do. There was some fresh bread for breakfast and someone gave me some jam (we have personal stashes of food that become very important). Then I went upstairs (a total of 75) looking for Celine (France) who had already gone upstairs to start.
Finally finding her she showed me where the Bodega (food prep room) was and had me start cutting up choritos (small bananas) and platanas (plantains). It was all very confusing and there was no set system really. To start off I was following "Big Tour", what a way to start, you have at least 6 buckets full of food (which is difficult when there is only 2 of you, luckily with me there was 3), and you walk the majority of the loop through the refuge, up and down numerous stairs. My biggest problem (other than the weight of the buckets) was that due to my height the buckets kept hitting the stairs as I walked, needless to say I have an array of interesting bruises.
-Aves 2 (bird cage with macaws and parrots) that get lots of fruit. One of the macaws tried to redo my hair with its beak.
-Ocelot cage (felines) – walk to check perimeter and check electric fencing in the morning, lob pieces of meat over fence in the afternoon.
All very exhausting at the end of it and in the heat and humidity even more so.
Our day lasts from 7am till 5pm, there is a lunch at noon, but we have to stay up in the general area in case a tour comes in. This makes for a very long day in sweaty, dirty clothes trying to avoid being bitten by the sand flies. But all in all its great fun.
On big tour again, new people do each tour at least 2 days in a row. Today was also "bebidas", which means we have to take the empty bottles down to the canoe in preparation for new drinks arriving the next day. This is exhausting work, going up and down stairs with cases of empty bottles. At least I thought so until it was up and down with cases of full bottles.
Today I managed much better and dare say, may even be getting used to the heat a little. It was much like yesterday with chopping of fruit, cleaning of cages and feeding of animals. I did get to meet Beata, a spider monkey that lives at the center. It was quite a memorable introduction as she managed to get into the kitchen and we had to try get her out before she got into the food. She has an injury or deformity and is so used to humans that she will never be released, so she lives with us here. But it is very important that we don't hand feed her or try and get her to sit with us, in fact we have to discourage her seeking attention as much as possible as it could cause potential problems with tourists.
I have hit a popular note with the volunteers due to my strings and making of bracelets (thank you hippies in Coffee Bay, South Africa, who taught me). I am even making some to donate to the shop to sell for the center. When I pulled them out I immediately had numerous orders and after a week am still trying to catch up on everyones. I even sold a couple of my fancier ones ($5 plus a bar of chocolate) to them.
On thursdays and mondays we have fruit delivery. This means lugging huge bunches of bananas, platanas, bags of papayas (pawpaws) and a variety of other fruit from the canoes to the Bodega and up the 75 stairs. My first attempt was a bunch of bananas and by the time I reached stair 68 I was seeing stars and battling to breathe. Toki (germany) luckily came along and grabbed it from me. I crumpled into a pile on and found myself shaking and crying. Note to self, start small. I managed another 2 trips with smaller bags of fruit and then focused on tidying the bodega.
– Tamarin monkey is one of my favorites, she is super cute and does great acrobatics for you when you bring the food.
– Barizo (squirrel monkey) – clean and feed, also super cute.
– Paca – walk up steep hill and throw food in, we are not sure if he is there but something eats it so we feed.
Am very excited as I get to go to Tena today, but first I have to survive another front tour and today is also Comida (human food delivery). Another day of lugging heavy, bulky things up the stairs from the boats up to the kitchen, really wish there was another way.
I was told I could leave at 3.30pm and get ready and the canoe would pick us up at 4.15pm. I got down and the others going said it would be there at 3.45pm….ahhh communication issues. Tossed on clean clothes (no time to shower), grabbed my stuff and went to get the canoe. It came at 4pm (go figure). When we got to the bus stop there was virtually no traffic and no bus coming from the direction we needed so we started walking. After an hour and 3km (didn't matter missing the shower anymore) we were finally able to hitchhike and squished the bunch of us with another family in the back of a tiny pickup. It sounded like there was road issues a way back and everyone was help up, so we were very lucky to get this guy.
As I have been told hitchhiking is very safe here and the biggest danger is being killed in a car accident. Considering the speed limit is a suggestion, and extra fast is the only way with the cars usually driving in the middle of the road and honking as they come around the bend, I once again became fairly religious. But we made it to Tena about the same time the bus would have got there had it been on time.
There was a major festival going on in Tena with loud party music and fireworks. But Karyn, who had joined me, and I were only concerned with dinner and then shower. Afterwards I skyped the parents and then, both exhausted we went to bed, my bed being hard as a rock and hers being soft as a feather, we both assume the top bunk must have been just right.
the next day we ran errands, picked up supplies, checked emails (I didn't get a chance to update blogs unfortunatley), and general administrative stuff. Turns out the late night entry into our room was Sara (canada) our head volunteer. She headed back early that morning.
While we were in the store we bumped into Lukas (Holland) who had come to town for the day to pick up supplies. Later on we got our tickets for the bus, picked up our wonderfully clean laundry and hung out till it was time to leave.
When we returned on the bus we got to canoe point and discovered there was no canoe… this seems to be a trend. Victor who lives there and usually takes us back was no where to be found, luckily Lukas had a phone and called in an emergency pick up from Liana Lodge, much to our appreciation as we did not favor hacking through the bush to get to the center.
Tonight was a huge fairwell party for 3 of the volunteers, and the music blared until 3am. I was in bed at midnight. Another exhausting day over and new one starting in a few hours.
It really does amaze me what we put ourselves through in the name of travel and volunteering. Before I arrived in Peru my longest bus trip was a whopping 3hrs. In preparation for my long haul to Ecuador I did 2 trips of 6hrs each in the span of 3 days from Cusco to Lake Titicaca and back.
Finally the day arrived to bus to Ecuador, it was an estimated 30 to 48 hrs (give or take a day I guess). My friend Fernando, from Lima, and I had looked at all the options and came up with 2 possibilities for the trip.
(B) take a well known bus co. to Tumbes (Peru border town), get picked up by a shuttle and go through the border then dropped off at the Ecuador bus station. (This allowed some time to stretch and at least the first half guaranteed of a good bus).
We opted for option two… it might have been better to go with option 1!!!
Leaving at 4.30pm I had planned to go on the super first class section, with seats that go almost all the way down. Unfortunately this wasn't an option but luckily I got the 2nd level seat at the very front for a panoramic view of the trip. I had no seat mate so I was able to "stretch" out and get some sleep. We were even given a small meal and a drink.
Section 1 on the comfy bus with the panoramic view took 20hrs and I pulled into the border town of Tumbes around noon to be accosted by hundreds of taxi drivers.
This is when things went downhill. There was supposed to be someone to meet me and shuttle me across the Peru and Ecuador border immigration depositing me at the Panamerica bus station for the next leg. Turns out there was no one to meet me, the phone number I had went to voicemail and the taxi drivers at the bus terminal were aggressive to say the least. Eventually the bus station clerk told me my ride was here, a taxi driver hired by the company. He said that his job was to take me through Peru immigration and then leave me at the border to take a taxi alone… Mmm this was the exact thing I had been hoping to avoid, as I had heard taxi drivers regularly take advantage of travelers.
Calling a friend in Peru he explained what i had already guessed from the driver but said the driver was willing to come with me if I was scared about crossing alone. I decided to take him up on his offer, not only to prevent being scammed but also because he was happy to carry my big bag. Peru immigration was a breeze and Ecuador wasn't much different, just a longer wait. My Peru cabby left me at the bus station after he had got me checked in and made sure I knew where a good place to eat was. I gave him a tip and thanked him profusely.
With a 2hr wait I twiddled my thumbs and caught up with my diary. Finally it was boarding time and it turned out the good bus was being saved for special occasions. Our bus was cleaned with air freshner, am fairly certain had at least one roach and during the following 18 hr trip its bathroom was locked.
But I had no seat mate so I made the best of it and tried to sleep. Finally only 1hr from Quito at about 2am in the morning I started to relax and think it was almost over. Then we stopped! A landslide had blocked our way. Our choices were an 8hr detour or parking and sleeping it out. As no one spoke English I had to muddle my way through and I guessed when we pulled over that option 2 was decided upon. I started to cry and then realised I was too tired to even do that and just made myself as comfy as possible.
We finally pulled in at 8am, I caught a taxi to my friends and finally was able to crash out. But first things first I had had to pee for the last 3hrs.
I have spent the last 2 days in Quito and after another 5hr bus trip (this one coming with complimentary S bends numbering in the 1000's I am sure), I am in Tena. Tomorrow I will attempt to find the bus and head into the jungle. All I hope is that my canoe is there waiting for me.
Now the jungle adventures begin with biting sand flies, monkeys and wild tourists!


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Stage 1: Maximum push-ups that can be done in a minute. These will be flat-handed pushups, with elbows rubbing against the body (sort of like karate fist pushups). I'm still debating on whether or not to ask for fist pushups. Right now I think not, but opinions welcome here.
Quickly go to stage 2.
Stage 2: Maximum pull-ups that can be done in a minute. (This is the one I want to do a little more research on.) You get one shot here. Once your feet touch the ground, you are done.
Stage 3: Maximum sit-ups that can be done in a minute. These will be bent-knee situps with a partner holding your feet.
Stage 4: You get one minute to do 2 tries at a standing broad jump. Your best effort is your score.
Stage 5 : Maximum number of "squats" that can be done in a minute. A squat is to be done down to thigh-parallel, and then stand completely up. Any squat that doesn't go down that far, or goes all the way down does not count. Judge will stop you if form gets unacceptable.
Stage 6: A one-mile run.
The above crest or pin will be awarded to the #1 competitor in each division. All participants will receive a certificate with their performance scorres.
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Home Elections Elections 2015
Laura-Jane at Plymouth Election Hustings
Communist candidate for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, Laura-Jane Rossington, went down a storm at Thursday's election hustings hosted by City College Plymouth. The 18 year old student spoke passionately about the issues facing young people in Plymouth and delivered a simple message – tax the rich. This is her opening statement.
In 2008, the world economy suffered a financial crisis unlike any it had seen before. In Britain, the banks were bailed out with hundreds of billions of pounds and the recession that followed saw the deficit rise to unsustainable levels.
The Tories blame this global crash on Labour, whilst New Labour were unable to respond with any policies which would actually solve the problem.
For the last 5 years, all of the main parties have been pointing their fingers at each other whilst the likes of you and I have been paying the price. The poor are getting poorer whilst the rich are getting richer.
In 2013, The Sunday Time's Top 1000 'rich list' saw their combined personal wealth rise by £69 billion in 1 year. The richest 10% of households own £4.2 trillion, 5 times as much as the poorer half of society put together.
The Tories and Lib Dems have used the recession as an excuse to destroy large parts of our society that would even make the likes of Margaret Thatcher blush. They sold the Royal Mail to their friends in the city on the cheap, they abolished EMA and lied to you about tuition fees which Labour brought in and still refuse to abolish. And now they are privatising parts of the NHS, leaving the health and well-being of your families in the hands of greedy profiteers. This is no way to run a country.
The Communist Party is fighting for a genuine alternative to our current and failing system.
We would scrap tuition fees entirely in further and higher education and bring back student grants. Education is a basic rights and should be funded out of taxation.
We aim to scrap academies and free schools, integrating all religious, trust, academy and even private schools back into a unified and secular education system, bringing an end to privilege in education. Quality education should not have a price tag attached.
We will compel employers to help fund high quality vocational training for young people. We understand that not everybody learns in the same way, but that does not make them any less capable or any less valuable.
Most people in full time education are living either with their parents or are being exploited by private landlords. None of the main parties are serious about housing. The Communist Party would end council house sales and initiate a large scale building programme of 1 million new social houses.
Many students and new graduates endure the instability of exploitative zero hours contracts. We shall bring an end to this. It is wrong that young workers are paid less just because of their age. We demand a living wage, now, for all workers – regardless of how old they are.
Britain is still one of the richest countries in the world. We could easily create a society that benefits the millions, not the millionaires. Our election slogan is simple. Tax the rich!
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package controlP5;

/**
 * controlP5 is a processing gui library.
 *
 *  2007-2010 by Andreas Schlegel
 *
 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License
 * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1
 * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
 * Lesser General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General
 * Public License along with this library; if not, write to the
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 * Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
 *
 * @author 		Andreas Schlegel (http://www.sojamo.de)
 * @modified	10/05/2010
 * @version		0.5.4
 *
 */

/**
 * control behavior is an abstract class and must be extended, update() must be
 * implemented in your custom control behavior. how to use ControlBehavior
 * please see the ControlP5behavior example in the examples folder.
 *
 * @example ControlP5behavior
 */
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	protected Controller _myController;

	protected float value;

	protected boolean isActive = true;

	protected void init(Controller theController) {
		_myController = theController;
	}

	/**
	 * returns the controller this behavior is connected to.
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	 * @return Controller
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	public Controller controller() {
		return _myController;
	}

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		return value;
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	public void setValue(float theValue) {
		value = theValue;
		_myController.setValue(value);
	}

	/**
	 * get the value of the controller this behavior is connected to.
	 *
	 * @return float
	 */

	public float value() {
		return value;
	}

	/**
	 * when extending ControlBehavior, update() has to be overwritten.
	 */
	public abstract void update();

	/**
	 * (de)activate the behavior.
	 *
	 * @param theFlag boolean
	 */
	public void setActive(boolean theFlag) {
		isActive = theFlag;
	}

	/**
	 * check if the behavior is active or not.
	 *
	 * @return boolean
	 */
	public boolean isActive() {
		return isActive;
	}

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Ben Ball 2019 raises over £87,000
by Natalie Middleton December 20, 2019, 2:52 pm
This year's Ben Ball – hosted at the Roundhouse London – has helped raise more than £87,000 for the charity's automotive work.
Held on 11 December 2019, the event was attended by more than 650 guests, hosted by Ben's chief executive, Zara Ross, and fundraising director, Matt Wigginton.
The evening included entertainment with Ben's Greatest Show, a gospel choir, music from the band, Fully Funktional, and much more. The audience enjoyed guest appearances from Mat Watson from CarWow and also Jonny Gould, renowned auctioneer and Channel Five presenter.
The event also saw the announcement that Ben's 2019 Industry Leader Challenge (ILC), the Epic Thames Waterbike Ride, raised an incredible total of £273,360. This challenge involved Jon Wakefield, managing director of Volvo Cars Sweden; Tim Tozer, CEO of Allianz Partners UK and Ireland and Darren Guiver, former managing director of Group 1 Automotive. The trio cycled over 170 miles in 4 days down the River Thames on self-propelled water bikes through 45 locks. With an average of 12 hours in the saddle each day, this was no mean feat!
Next year's event will feature up to 10 teams from well-known automotive businesses who have pledged to take part in Ben's ILC 2020: The Climb. One person from each company will climb Mount Kilimanjaro in October next year, with fundraising targeted to reach £500,000.
Three leaders from Ben will also be taking part in The Climb: Zara Ross, Ben's chief executive, Matt Wigginton, fundraising director and Rachel Clift, health & wellbeing director.
Matt Wigginton said: "Everyone has their own mountain to climb at some point in their life – no matter who you are, what you do or where you come from. We are slightly daunted, but we can't wait to achieve something incredible in 2020 by reaching the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, together with some of the industry's most intrepid senior leaders! There are still a couple of spots left for this incredible challenge so get in touch with me (matt.wigginton@ben.org.uk) if you would like to find out more."
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When you took dive lessons you learned to perform specific skills to make you safe and comfortable underwater and at the surface. One of those skills was Buoyancy Control. Once you start diving for fun you use your Buoyancy Control Devise constantly throughout the dive. Your Octopus or Alternate Air Source Devise on the other hand is never used unless there is an Emergency Out of Air Situation. Reacting properly in an Out of Air Emergency can make the difference between a Safe Dive and a Tragedy. If your Alternate Air Source and your BCD Inflator Devise are one and the same you will always know where to find it in an emergency.
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KINGSTON,OK--Heavy rains roared through Oklahoma and Texas on Wednesday.
On Thursday, a Kingston, Oklahoma elementary school continued to clean up the mess.
School officials say nearly two inches of water came into the school around lunch time on Wednesday.
It damaged some classroom and hallways--and even soaking old textbooks in storage closets.
Principal of Lower Elementary in Kingston David Gill said the students handled the situation well and his teachers quick thinking prevented further damage.
"When you see that much water coming down that quick, you know, it was something that surprised us," Principal Gill said, "but we got on it really quick and we have steps we have to take, you know, on every situation. We did a good job of slowing the water down from coming in the building."
Principal Gill said it will take until the middle of next week to get the classrooms back in order.
He also says he's hopeful the carpets won't mold.


MOLLY'S GAME is writer Aaron Sorkin's directorial debut. Sorkin also adapted the script from the memoir Molly's Game: From Hollywood's Elite to Wall Street's Billionaire Boys Club, My High-Stakes Adventure in the World of Underground Poker by Molly Bloom. Anyone familiar with Sorkin's work, the most notable being the script for THE SOCIAL NETWORK will surely know that a lot of dialogue is expected and the actors in the film have to be motor-mouthed to be able to speak Sorkin's dialogue at hundreds of miles per hour. Lead actors Jessica Chastain and Idris Elba do just that and supporting actor Michael Cera known for his fast speaking does the same.
MOLLY'S GAME is stud poker. It would be beneficial if one knows the rules of the game in order to appreciate the film. There are suspense scenes involving being dealt the winning card and if one is unsure whether a full house or a royal flush wins, then one might do better to learn the rules of poker before venturing into a poker film. Besides the fact, Sorkin has done his homework on high poker stake games around the world and what transpires on screen in extremely credible. No doubt the memoirs must have have been quite detailed.
There will undoubtedly be those who will complain about the film being too talky. But this is the niche of watching an Aaron Sorkin film – script or direction. Sorkin has the gift of words and though the film is talky, he is to be given credit for a fast moving 140 lengthy film. His attention to detail is an additional bonus.
Sorkin's both subtle and over-the-top humour is also present. This can be observed in the detailed and lengthy 10 minute introduction to the film where the voiceover announces that the Molly's skiing has nothing to do with her poker. The film then establishes from scratch how Molly enters the game and finally how she becomes super good at ti before it all crumbles. Then the biggest joke is that all this is revealed at the film's end to be caused by skiing after all – to be due to that twig that trips Molly during her final ski jump.
In the story, the FBI presses Molly to reveal the high profile players so that they can be investigated leading to persecution. Molly sticks to her principles against her lawyers advice. Yes, this leads to more verbal debate! Sorkin stays true not to reveal any big names in the film as well.
As in the other Sorkin scripted films, the dialogue goes on so fast that one can understand 20% of its if lucky. But Sorkin has the gift of making the audience feel as if they have understood everything necessary for the film to go on. Sokrin's scripts and MOLLY'S GAME, his first film are strong on his style of writing. To be fair to him, his story gets through and the film moves fast, at times as fast as the dialogue. But if one wants to complain about this, stay away from this film.
MOLLY'S GAME premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival to mixed critical reviews. Love it or hate it, but the Sorkin dialogue film has its pleasures.
[on the differences between him and his character Stringer Bell from The Wire (2002)] Stringer is very calculating and he has to be for so many reasons. He'll calculates the next steps, shipments, inventory, pays workers… all that. But the wicked part is that he can plan murders because that's a part of his business. I'll tell you, if I, Idris, had to contract for murders as part of my job, I couldn't do it because I have a heart. I have no stomach for ordering other people's deaths. Stringer just gets in there, orders the deed and bam… that's it… it's done and he doesn't think twice about it. There's no way I could be that cold. I'm also a more lively kid out there, doing stuff and I can't just do one thing forever. Stringer is committed to his job and business so much so he doesn't have much of a personal life so he's more one dimensional. As for me I have a child, a life, thirst for travel, you know I'm curious… whereas Stringer is more interested in being the best business person and his interests don't go further than that.


No matter how detailed or imaginative I might get. Being able to reconstruct the days and months after Jesus' crucifixion would always be limited by my contextual lens. For example: I can only build up some rough idea of the jaded emotions, confusion and amazement of Jesus' disciples at the time.
This is backed up by the fact that the judgement about whether speculation can serve our understanding of history is still to be decided upon. It can serve a purpose in the scientific method, but only as far as forming the question and creating a reasonable hypothesis are concerned. In other words conclusions based on speculation without parameters is shaky ground. If not down right dodgy.
It's worth adding that speculation can take us away from the meaning and message of the actual texts or equivalent oral history. Critical thinking gives way to assumption. Assumption gives way to murky conspiracy theories, unjustifiable anxieties, misunderstandings, mistakes, so on and so on.
Which is one of the reasons why being apprehended by God is not the same as comprehending God. We are, like the first Christians, grasped in the midst of our inability to grasp. Sometimes all we need to do is stop and listen.
Our hope is not solely resting on a when? It is resting on a who, why, what and how. A witness relayed to us not just by one witness, but by many.
All of which kneels squarely at the feet of Jesus Christ. Where we are confronted by what God freely chose to do and what God, in His good pleasure, promises to complete.
May we be more like Cornelius.
[i] Martin, R. P., & Davids, P. H. (Eds.). 1997 In Dictionary of the later New Testament and its developments (electronic ed.). Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
[ii] As explained by Martin & Davis, apocalypse in koine Greek reads as 'revelation'; unveiling or revealing. Even though it's not complete in its definition, since we are still in a time of grace. Both meanings adequately fit the post-resurrection. Therefore, I consider the use of the term post-apocalyptic justifiable as long as it is done so with qualification.
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Intimidation Clothing is pleased to announce its sponsorship of Cincinnati-based professional featherweight star Eric Moell, who is set to compete for the flyweight title against Lee Spurgeon (1-2) at the upcoming Warrior FC event on March 21st in Hazard, Kentucky.
Moell, who has been sponsored by Intimidation in the past, is currently 5-3 as a pro. After 3 quick victories under the Absolute Action MMA banner to kick off his career, he signed with XFC and competed on AXS TV twice in 2013, including at the Intimidation-sponsored XFC 23 event in Louisville in April 2013. He then returned to the regional scene and racked up two more quick stoppage victories before coming up short in his last outing. Overall, he has finished all five of his victims via submission in the first round, with just one of those wins taking more than 2 minutes.
During his 7-1 amateur MMA career which ended in 2011 when he turned pro, Moell was sponsored by the Intimidation brand in multiple fights. Moell is a member of Alliance MMA in Cincinnati and fans can follow him on twitter @ericmoell.
Team Intimidation's Brandon Hurst continues to be a great asset to his local community in the Lousiville, Kentucky area, as the local fighter recently walked the red carpet repping his sponsor Intimidation Clothing. Sporting a Intimidation lapel pin, Hurst attended the 6th annual Silks of the Bluegrass event Saturday evening in support of Operation Open Arms. The organization helps care for children with incarcerated mothers, and it took place during Kentucky Derby weekend in Louisville.
Hurst walked the red carpet at the event alongside other local celebrities, including singer Lucie Arnaz, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, and more. He was then featured on the local news including an interview as one of the stars in attendance.
Hurst is no stranger to the Intimidation brand as one of the brand's top sponsored athletes in the region as Intimidation continues it's strong growth in the Bluegrass State. After starting his amateur career 1-2, he went on to win his next six in a row, including a victory over Eric Jarvis at XFC 23 in Louisville just over a year ago. Now, Hurst is preparing to make his professional debut in the near future, where he will continue to be sponsored by the Intimidation brand.
Intimidation Clothing is a fast-growing brand of MMA inspired clothing & training gear with a growing national presence and over 50 authorized dealers across the USA. Known as the biggest supporter of local MMA, the Intimidation brand is also regularly featured on multiple sporting events on SpikeTV, AXS TV, SportsTime Ohio, MTV2, FUEL TV, The Comcast Network, Comcast SportsNet and EpixHD as well as MMA highlight shows on Spike TV, AXS TV and more. In addition to over 110 styles of high-quality, bold t-shirts and sweatshirts for men, women and children and is also known for their premium-quality EliteFighter MMA board shorts. Anyone interested in becoming a dealer can apply to sell the Intimidation brand as a dealer and they can be found for sale online at IntimidationClothing.com. Fans can also follow the marketing wing of the Intimidation brand, Intimidation Interactive Media, @IntimidationIM, like Intimidation Clothing on Facebook or follow @IntimidationMMA on Twitter.
Intimidation Clothing is pleased to announce its continued sponsorship of Brandon "Showtime" Hurst, as he is set to make his professional debut this weekend in his home state of Kentucky. Hurst (0-0 pro, 6-3 amateur) is set to take on Eric Jarvis (0-0 pro, 6-10 amateur) at the Hardrock MMA 64 event in Louisville, Kentucky on Friday.
Hurst is no stranger to the Intimidation brand having been sponsored in the past as the company continues it's strong growth in the Bluegrass State. After starting his amateur career 1-2, he went on to win his next six in a row, including a victory over Jarvis at XFC 23 just under a year ago. Now, he'll make his professional debut in his hometown, where he is expected to once again bring a large crowd.
In addition to sponsoring Hurst, Intimidation will also serve as a sponsor for the Hardrock MMA 64 event and will be on hand with an official booth selling its popular brand of t-shirts, hats, hoodies, fight shorts, and more.
Intimidation Clothing's Indiana/Kentucky crew will be busy this weekend, as they are headed to a pair of events in two different states to kick off April with a bang.
First up, Intimidation will continue its sponsorship of Hardrock MMA on Friday night, as Hardrock MMA 64 goes down in Lousiville, Kentucky. The pro/am event features many top fighters from the area, including TUF 14 veteran B.J. Ferguson (10-4), unbeaten prospect Isaiah Ferguson (5-0). Team Intimidation member and rising star Brandon Hurst (6-3 ammy, 0-0 pro) in his pro debut facing fellow Intimidation-sponsored fighter Eric Jarvis in a rematch of their XFC 23 amateur fight. Hardrock MMA is one of the biggest and longest running MMA events in Kentucky, holding more than 60 events in the state and their fourth event this year with Hardrock 64.
The crew will also be on hand at POP!CON in Evansville, Indiana on Saturday, which is a Comic Con event that features vendors from across the landscape including comic books, Martial Arts and more. The convention features exhibitors, professionals, and of course fans for the 2-day event and is organized in part by Jeff Osborne of the Intimidation sponsored HookNShoot promotion. The storied HOOKnSHOOT organization is the second longest running MMA promotion in the United States, behind only the UFC.
Intimidation Clothing closed out March with one of the busiest months in company history, sponsoring multiple events and fighters in different states. The month began as strongly as any month in company history, with two top-tier MMA promotions – Driven MMA & Colosseum Combat – kicking off the month in style, and ended with Pinnacle FC capping off a great month and with a KO of the Year candidate from Luis "Sapo" Santos at XFCi 3 in Brazil.
Intimidation was a sponsor for the PinnacleFC 6 event in Pittsburgh, along with co-main event winner Rob Hanna (4-0) and amateur main event winner Jerrell Hodge (11-1). Hanna survived an early onslaught from Intimidation alum Joey Holt (3-2) to eventually produce one of the biggest comebacks in recent MMA history after nearly being knocked out. Hodge (pictured, right) closed out his amateur career with yet another title to go along with his two NAAFS titles and EFP title, as he claimed the PinnacleFC featherweight title with a dominant three-round performance over Rich Cantolina (10-7).
While Intimidation was represented in Pittsburgh by Out of the Cage Clothing, the newest Intimidation dealer in the Steel City, Intimidation Clothing's Michigan Distributor were also on hand in Jackson, Michigan for the Prison City Fight League. The all-amateur event featured 25 ammy fights including 5 belt fights and 3 contender fights with an impressive night of sales for the crew that is making waves for the Intimidation brand in the state of Michigan.
Meanwhile, with the focus in the USA for Intimidation being in Michigan and Pennsylvania, the International focus was on the fast-rising XFCi promotion. An affiliate of the Intimidation-sponsored Florida promotion televised regularly on AXS TV, the XFC continued it's recent success in Brazil with one of their most high-profile fighters, Luis "Sapo" Santos (pictured, left), in the night's main event. Santos, a Bellator MMA vet and multi-time XFC vet as well, scored his 60th career professional win to improve to 60-9-1 with a front kick KO in the 3rd round of the night's main event that is an early candidate for KO of the Year.
The upcoming weekend will be a busy one for the Intimidation Indiana crew, as they will first be on hand at Hardrock MMA 64 on Friday night in Kentucky and then POP!CON MMA in Evansville, Indiana on Saturday night. Meanwhile, Shad will have the Intimidation Michigan Distributors on the road again selling and supporting Local MMA in Michigan.
Intimidation Clothing is pleased to announce its continued sponsorship of veteran welterweight Luis "Sapo" Santos in his upcoming main event bout. Santos (59-9-1) is set to face Alfredo Morales (15-4-1) in the main event at XFCi 3 on March 29th in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
After making his debut in 2000 and posting an impressive resume with nearly 60 wins, Santos signed with Bellator in 2011 and eventually made it to the semifinals of the Season 5 Welterweight Tournament. A veteran of nearly 70 professional fights, Santos has posted an incredible 45 finishes during his career and was been sponsored by Intimidation multiple times including during his time in Bellator and the XFC. A product of American Top Team, Santos will continue to wear the Intimidation premium quality MMA fight shorts in his fights.
Santos is one of the hottest fighters in all of MMA, as he is currently riding a 5-fight winning streak with four of those wins coming via knockout or TKO in under a minute. After competing on XFC shows on AXS TV in the U.S., Santos will now compete on the organization's international arm, as XFCi 3 will be broadcast on Rede TV in his home country of Brazil.
Intimidation is also a sponsor of the XFC organization, a partnership that will continue when the promotion returns to the U.S. later this year.
Intimidation Clothing is pleased to announce the sponsorship of UFC and Bellator MMA veteran Ryan Thomas. Thomas (19-8), the reigning Colosseum Combat MMA Welterweight Champion, is set to defend his title in the main event at Colosseum Combat XXVIII on March 1 in Kokomo, Indiana. Thomas is set to face "Bellator MMA: Fight Master" veteran Chris Curtis (8-3) as evening's headlining bout. Along with sponsoring Thomas, Intimidation will also serve as a sponsor of the Colosseum Combat event as well.
A native of the East Central Illinois, about 3 1/2 hours south of Chicago, "The Tank Engine" wrestled in college at Division I Eastern Illinois and is a 2-time UFC veteran who has also competed 4 times under the Bellator MMA banner. A member of American Top Team, Thomas teaches at three ATT locations and has a degree in elementary education. He has won 5 of his past 6 bouts, and the finishing specialist has picked up wins over "The Ultimate Fighter" veterans John Kolosci and Corey Hill while competing for the XFC and Colosseum Combat. In his first fight sponsored by the Intimidation brand, Thomas picked up a TKO victory to win the Colosseum Combat MMA Welterweight title fight over Rocky France. Then, he defeated France once again at XFC 27 in New Mexico while again being sponsored by the Intimidation brand. In 19 career professional wins, Thomas has never made it to the judges' scorecards in victory, stopping every opponent scoring 12 submissions and 7 KO/TKOs. Most recently Thomas suffered a controversial decision loss to Dom Steele at XFC 27 in December 2013.
As part of its continued sponsorship of Colosseum Combat events, the Team Intimidation Indiana crew will be on hand selling the brand's popular t-shirts, hats, hoodies, fight shorts, and more with an official booth. One of the newest members of Team Intimidation, middleweight Mike Eikenberry will also be part of the evening's featured professional card.


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My Lady Jane by Hand
In the tradition of The Princess Bride comes a fantastical, romantical, hilarious(ical) adventure inspired by the true story of Lady Jane Grey—or, "an uproarious historical fantasy that's not to be missed" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Lady Jane Grey, sixteen, is about to be married to a total stranger—and caught up in an insidious plot to rob her cousin, King Edward, of his crown. But that's the least of Jane's problems. Jane's about to become Queen of England.
Like that could go wrong.
In My Lady Jane, coauthors Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows have created a one-of-a-kind fantasy featuring a reluctant king, an even more reluctant queen, a noble steed, true love, and only a passing resemblance to actual history—because sometimes history needs a little help.


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IPP welcomes Ms Pauline NG, formerly the Secretary General of the Legislative Council Secretariat as Adjunct Professor
Ms Pauline NG
Director of the Hong Kong Policy Research Centre of Tianda Institute
Former Secretary General of the Legislative Council Secretariat
IPP welcomes Ms Pauline NG, formerly the Secretary General of the Legislative Council Secretariat as Adjunct Professor.
Ms Pauline Ng, formerly the Secretary General of the Legislative Council Secretariat, is currently the Director of the Hong Kong Policy Research Centre of Tianda Institute. Apart from teaching at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, she also undertakes parliamentary development assignments for the United Nations in countries such as Myanmar.
Ms Ng started her career in the Hong Kong Government in 1972. After working in the Executive Officer Grade for 22 years in policy formulation and departmental management, she was appointed as Assistant Secretary General of the Legislative Council Secretariat in 1994. In 1997, she was designated as Clerk to the Provisional Legislative Council to assist in the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. In recognition of her significant contribution, she was awarded the Chief Executive's Commendation for Government/Public Service in 1999.
In September 2008. Ms. Ng was appointed as Secretary General. One of her major responsibilities was the commissioning of the Legislative Council Complex in October 2011. She retired in 2012 and was awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star in the same year. After her retirement, Ms Ng was engaged by The Legislative Council Commission as the Chief Writer of an authoritative guide on the history and procedures of the Hong Kong Legislature which was tabled in the Council in June 2016.
In 2016, Ms Ng set up a social enterprise and launched a web portal we60.com in May 2017 to promote active ageing. In developing this e-magazine, she engages persons with different forms of disabilities and trains them in research, writing, translation, and website design work.
Ms Ng is an active member of Zonta International and she currently serves on the Zonta International Bylaws and Resolutions Committee. She is Vice Chairman of the English Schools Foundation and she holds key positions in a number of professional associations, charitable organizations and education foundations.
Ms. Ng is a Fellow of The Hong Kong Institute of Directors and has a Professional Diploma in Company Direction. She is also listed on the Panel of Mediators of the Hong Kong Mediation Accreditation Association Limited.
It is our great pleasure and immense honor to have Ms Ng joinging HKUST as Adjunct Professor in the Institute for Public Policy (IPP).
For personal profile, please refer to Faculty Associates.