text:
The College Basketball Victory That Seemed Too Good to Be True—and Was
In 1950, my alma mater, City College, pulled off a miracle: winning the NIT and NCAA championships. But when the team's cheating came to light, I learned a tough lesson.
Marvin Kalb
AP / Marty Lederhandler
For me and my brother, City College was one of God's greatest gifts. I enrolled in the college in February, 1948 and was graduated in June, 1951. It was a time of campus tumult, enormous intellectual growth, and a basketball scandal like no other in college history—all against the backdrop of a Cold War with the Soviet Union and a hot war in Korea.
One day, I knew, journalism as a career would call, and I'd happily respond. My brother, as always, had paved the way. He was by now a reporter for the New York Times, and he and a number of his friends had become my role models. When I knocked at the door of The Campus, the more traditional of the two newspapers at City College, I didn't know that I would be given the opportunity of a student's lifetime. I would soon be covering a story that made college basketball history in the spring of 1950: The City College team won both national tournaments, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the National Invitational Tournament (NIT), a feat so exceptional no team had ever done it before, or since.
What Really Happened to Ben Chapman, the Racist Baseball Player in 42?
The glory, unfortunately, was short-lived. Less than a year later, seven of its players were arrested for shaving points as part of an illegal Mafia-run betting scheme. From their pinnacle of fame, they had fallen into a pit of shame, disgracing themselves and the college. It would take decades for City College to recover a modest measure of its former glory. City College was not alone. Other colleges with more luster shared its shame, discouraging many students from applying for admission and many donors from contributing to their future. For the rest of my life, this basketball scandal would taint my memory of what was otherwise a rich and rewarding college experience, and it also taught me important lessons in journalism helpful many decades later in my coverage of wars and political upheavals around the world.
At the time, the college had 16 varsity teams, none more celebrated than the basketball team, which was coached by the legendary Nat Holman. My first impression of "The Master," as he immodestly referred to himself, was that he acted like a British dandy. Even in warm-up garb and sneakers, Holman conveyed an air of elegance, a character out of Oscar Wilde, his dark hair speckled with gray, combed neatly, not a lock out of place; his hands, soft and unblemished, looked like those of a scholar, not a basketball coach. His accent was high Rooseveltian with broad a's and a broguish roll. Only occasionally, during an intense practice period, did it betray his humble roots. (He was born in New York in 1896, and his name, at birth, was Nathan Helmanowich.)
He rose to prominence at a time when the children of Jewish immigrants did not play football, tennis, or golf. Their game was basketball, which they played so often in playgrounds and neighborhood gyms that it was sometimes called "Jewish basketball." Anti-Semites found a pitiful pleasure in describing a Jewish player as "duplicitous" and "crafty" if he could shift swiftly from left to right while dribbling to the basket. Holman was already competing at age 12. He studied the game closely, concluding "the two most essential parts of basketball" were ball handling and movement, not brawn and size.
Molding a Champion
As Holman previewed the 1949-50 season, he knew he had a good team. He had a superb crop of freshmen, bursting with enthusiasm, and his returning veterans were led by Irwin Dambrot and Norm Mager, both outside shooting forwards capable of slipping into the center spot, disrupting the defense and changing the rhythm of the game.
Dambrot was a slender, graceful, 6'4" athlete, so proficient at both offense and defense that he was selected as a first-round draft pick by the professional New York Knicks. Holman once described Dambrot as "the greatest player I ever coached." But the "greatest player" wanted to be a dentist: rather than accept the Knicks' offer after his college career, he enrolled in the dental school at Columbia, a move that profoundly disappointed his coach. Mager was 6'5", so paper thin I often worried about his stamina and durability. Yet, on a basketball court, he proved to be an amazingly resilient athlete
Holman could rely on his seniors. Could he also rely on his sophomores?
Ed Roman was the tallest of his heralded freshmen, clearly destined to be Holman's new center, a position he had played skillfully at Taft High School. He stood 6'6" and weighed 220 pounds, but he did not look like an athlete. He looked more like a pear, his shoulders pinched forward, his hips broad, and his long arms dangling awkwardly at his sides. Yet on a basketball court, he was transformed, almost miraculously, into a beautiful athlete. He had a deadly accurate hook shot while in the pivot, an equally good one-handed shot from outside, and his defense against centers, who were usually taller, was remarkable.
Eddie Warner was another exceptional athlete, a graduate of DeWitt Clinton High School, where he often watched Dambrot at practice. He himself had been playing basketball in Harlem since he was 10. At 6'3" and, in his prime, weighing 215 pounds, he looked like an Olympic god. He moved with the easy grace of a Joe DiMaggio, showing so many dazzling, unexpected moves he often left defenders looking foolish. He could play center or forward, he could score, and his defensive skills were awesome. He was the best basketball player I'd ever seen. Years later, when I watched Michael Jordan soar to the top of the basketball world, I often thought about Eddie Warner. His potential was that big.
Al Roth, 6'4", 210 pounds, played at Erasmus High School in Brooklyn, where he led his team to a city championship in 1948. Though he was never a great shooter, nor especially quick, he knew how to pass, a skill that instantly caught Holman's attention. By the time he was 16, "I was eating, drinking and dreaming basketball." Holman penciled him in as one of the team's two starting guards.
The other was Floyd Layne, a graduate of Benjamin Franklin High School in Manhattan. Layne was a wiry 6'3" guard, a race-horse-swift defensive whiz who used his long arms like windmills to distract a shooter. He, like Roth, was not known for his shooting, though he could score, if necessary; he was the player who had the same task each game—to stop the opponent's best scorer from scoring.
By the time the '49-'50 season opened, Holman knew he had a winner. He didn't know he had a champ. The team easily demolished much of the opposition and finished the season with a 17-5 record, good enough for the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) to offer City College its 12th and final invitation to March Madness. Bradley and Kentucky were both favored to win the championship.
City's first opponent was St. Francisco, the NIT's defending champion. Bookies figured the game was a toss-up, but it was a blow-out, City coasting to a 65-46 win. City's next game was against Kentucky, a prohibitive favorite, and it was here, I thought, that City's season would end. Kentucky players, all white and all-American, strutted into town, cocky and confident. Their coach, Adolph Rupp, arrogant, successful and wealthy, nicknamed the Blue Grass Baron, once boasted that he would never allow a "black" or a "kike" to play on his team. He knew that three Jews and two blacks started for City College.
The buildup to the game, at least among City College students, was electric with tension and anxiety. My editor called it a "culture war"—not a basketball game but a collision of fundamental values. The battlefield was Madison Square Garden, standing like a "medieval fortress," in writer Stanley Cohen's memorable phrase, on Eighth Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets. "The crowd funneled up from under the ground," Cohen wrote, "from the Independent subway, into the twilight shadow of sport's first great indoor temple." The Garden was noisy, sweaty, packed, every one of its 18,000 seats occupied. Because there were no elevators, no ramps, no escalators, many ticket holders had to trudge up steep banks of stairs until they found their seats in the upper balcony. It was like climbing the Alps without skis.
Holman, probably the only one in the Garden who thought "my boys" could beat Kentucky, engaged in his style of psychological warfare. He gathered his players around him. "Let's shake hands with each of them," he whispered, pointing to the Kentucky players across the court. "Let's show these boys how polite we New Yorkers can be." If the City players thought their coach had lost his mind, they disguised their feelings behind nods and grunts of approval. "Sure, Coach, sure," they said.
After the teams took their positions on the court, seconds before game time, I kept my eyes on Layne, as he extended his hand to Kentucky's top scorer. The other City College players did the same thing, their hands extended in faux friendship. In full view of 18,000 fans, not a single Kentucky player returned the gesture. In fact, they all turned their backs on the City players. I heard Layne hiss, "You gonna be pickin' cotton in the morning, man."
The game started, and a miracle took place on the Garden floor. City College, the undisputed underdog, walloped Kentucky. After 10 minutes, the score was 28-9, City leading. At half-time, it was 45-20. With ten minutes to play, City was leading by 30 points. Final score—89-50. Unbelievable! It was the worst defeat in Kentucky's 46-year history of college basketball. The news lead that flashed through my mind: "Murder took place last night before 18,000 witnesses." A glorious murder!!
Having trounced Kentucky, City College went on, almost effortlessly, to win the NIT tournament for the first time in its history. One miracle piled on another. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), in those days not as prominent or powerful as the NIT, invited City College to participate in its tournament. City accepted. How could it not? City College's rhapsodic fans believed they were living the American dream. Given the opportunity for an education, the City College players had proved that Jews trying to make it in America, and blacks trying to make it in America, could make it in America; that we were as worthy as anyone else.
For the City College players, there was really not much time for celebration. They had to practice. Holman kept their eyes on the big question: Could they also win the NCAA crown, thus becoming the only team in college-basketball history to win both tournaments? In many ways, such a goal was beyond their imagination. And yet, so close, they reached for the gold ring—and grabbed it, writing a new chapter in the intertwined histories of City College and basketball.
If the Garden fans went wild after the NIT championship, they went wilder still after the NCAA championship. "Allagaroo, garoo, garra," they screamed, "allagaroo, garoo, garra." It might have sounded like a voodoo incantation, but it was actually the college's chant at any of its sporting events. The students came tumbling out of the balcony and spilling onto the court, mobbing the players and hoisting them onto their shoulders. There were as many tears as cheers. Holman looked like an athlete who had just scaled Mt. Everest, his hair on this night ever so slightly mussed up, his jacket unbuttoned, his handkerchief limp—but he was absolutely triumphant, his clenched right fist extended to the heavens. He and his players had just won the grand slam of college basketball, having beaten the best in the country: San Francisco, Kentucky, Duquesne, Ohio State, North Carolina State, and Bradley twice. The following morning, the New York Times acknowledged that City had "[run] out of basketball worlds to conquer." Its grand slam, said the Times, was "a vindication of the democratic process."
Immigrant parents of City College students might not have appreciated the scope of City's basketball accomplishment until they watched The Ed Sullivan Show, their weekly exposure to American culture. When they saw, first, that coach Nat Holman had been invited on the program, second, that the ovation for him from the studio audience was so loud Sullivan had to repeat his introduction three times and, third, that Holman was there to discuss City's basketball triumph with Ed Sullivan, no less, then they understood that something truly momentous had happened at City College. And when the mayor of New York, William O'Dwyer, hailed the Beavers as "our athletes" at a special noontime rally at City Hall, an event covered and broadcast on the evening news, they knew that City College now occupied a unique place in American life. From one end of the country to the other, City College was now recognized as the college of national champions. Even kids in San Francisco were chanting "allagaroo."
For the next ten months or so, City College lived in a fairyland world of sugared championships won in tinseled Gardens. Students seemed to walk on air, and the basketball players were treated like gods.
And so, when, in the early morning hours of February 18, 1951, the news broke that three of the basketball team's top stars had been arrested at Penn Station in midtown Manhattan for shaving points in an illegal betting scheme run by Mafia gangsters, I refused to believe it. Was this someone's idea of a sick joke? My brother and I were driving to Manhattan after a weekend visit with our parents in Brooklyn. Bernie was at the wheel on a clear, cool Sunday morning. WQXR, the classical music station in New York, interrupted Beethoven to present a news bulletin about the arrest of three City College basketball players. "No," I groaned, "no, there must be some mistake." The story did not name the players, but it did say, quite clearly, that the players had accepted Mafia money to shave points.
I felt I had to get to the college as soon as possible. Though I was now in my senior year, no longer sports editor, concentrating instead on Russian language, literature, and history as a prelude to graduate work in this field, my life still rotated around The Campus.
Across the Brooklyn Bridge, into Manhattan and then up the West Side Highway, Bernie kept asking me questions, and I tried answering them. "Shaving points," or the "point spread," for example: What was that all about? I didn't know much about shaving points, but I did know it was illegal. It was the bookies' way of betting on a game: not which team won the game—that was old-time betting. Now it was, by how many points? The bookies could be seen at the Garden, Runyonesque characters, Mafia mobsters in large brim hats, smoking fat cigars, making money on their new point-spread betting, which got started in the early 1940's and flourished by the late 1940's. "Point spreads attracted gambling," wrote columnist Heywood Hale Broun, "like honey draws bees." Obviously, I thought, as we sped up the highway, I should have looked into this corner of college basketball when I was covering the City College team, but, in truth, it never occurred to me that "our" team would have anything to do with point spreads or Mafia hustlers. Maybe other teams, but not City College.
At the time, reporters were not yet infected by the skepticism of later years, the distrust of government and large corporations. Vietnam was still a failure over the horizon, Watergate a political nightmare yet to happen. We all lived in the post-World War II glow of optimism, growth and prosperity. We felt that our government worked for us and our team played for the glory of the college. We were still innocents at home and abroad. I was, certainly. While covering the grand-slameroo of City College basketball, I was in Nat Holman's hip pocket, a cheerleader with a typewriter. Only later, after years as a CBS correspondent in Moscow, did I acquire a certain skepticism about the stories I covered, a skepticism I then brought to Washington, where I covered Watergate and the American descent into Vietnam. I realize now that a dash of skepticism has always been an essential tool of journalism. Had all journalists had this tool, had they used it well, we might have been able to avoid Vietnam and Watergate.
When I reached the office of The Campus, I could see that the newsroom was alive with both excitement and apprehension. I learned quickly that the three players were Warner, Roth, and Roman, and they had been arrested at Penn Station at roughly 2 a.m. New York District Attorney, Frank Hogan, had sent two detectives to Philadelphia for the CCNY-Temple game. After the game, which City won easily, the detectives joined Holman and his players on the train ride back to New York. Quietly, they informed Holman that they intended to arrest three of his players as soon as they entered New York's jurisdiction. Holman was stunned but offered no objections. "I have no sympathy for them if they are guilty," he said.
The players were charged with illegal point spread manipulation in three Garden games, against Missouri, Arizona, and Boston College. They had cooperated with a once-jailed mobster named Salvatore Sollazzo. Moments after their arrival in New York, standing together on a damp, dreary platform, a devastated Holman told his players that if they had nothing to do with the gambling charges, he would support them "fully, to the best of my ability," but if they did have something to do with gambling, then he would let "the chips fall where they may." As the detectives hustled the players toward a police van for the short ride to the Elizabeth Street Station in downtown Manhattan, Holman walked off by himself, his coat collar pulled high around his neck, into the misty darkness of the railroad platform. It was a scene from Anna Karenina.
The players were questioned by police detectives for several hours and then whisked to the Criminal Courts Building on Center Street. They looked frightened, their heads down, their hands in their pockets. News photographers snapped pictures of these "fallen idols," the title of the column I wrote that night for Monday's paper. I was sympathetic but deeply disappointed in the players. Just by being arrested, they had ruined themselves and besmirched a beautiful accomplishment, their grand slam triumph—"truly betrayal at a biblical level," I wrote. What they had done was incredibly harmful to City College. It was, for me and so many other students, a heartbreaking introduction to the complex frailties of human nature.
How did a Sollazzo get acquainted with a Roman, a Roth, and a Warner? The question opened the door to a look at the summertime "borscht belt" in the Catskill Mountains, where New Yorkers, mostly Jews seeking a break from the humidity and heat of the big city, would go for weekends, weeks or months of vacation. Waiters, really college basketball players with an apron, were hired for a pittance not to wait on tables but to play basketball, one hotel team against another. An informal league was established, according to Bob Cousy: "the Borscht Belt Basketball League." Gamblers, like Sollazzo, were introduced to the players by Gard, and the betting would begin. Players would dump games or win (or lose) by a pre-arranged number of points. They would earn a $1,000-$1,500 for a summer's play (and pay), Sollazzo a great deal more. Even guests bet. It was fun after six-course meals—and for them harmless.
When the summer games ended, and the players returned to school, the betting schemes merely changed locales, from the borscht belt to Madison Square Garden. Gard, working for Sollazzo, maintained close contact with the players and persuaded them to engage in more point spread profiteering. Why not?, he would ask. The gamblers were making fortunes. Why not you? For City College players, all from relatively poor families, the temptation was too great, especially when Gard assured them that Sollazzo didn't want them to dump games, only to win by a certain number of points.
A few days after the initial arrests, on February 20, Hogan dramatically widened the net. He arrested three players from LIU—Sherman White, LeRoy Smith and Adolph Bigos. They were charged with "throwing" games, not just spreading points. Eventually, Hogan was to arrest 32 players from seven colleges across the country, including Bradley and Kentucky. It was a front-page story. Basketball was shamed, but so were the colleges, which soon discovered that their reputations were tarnished and their fundraising diminished. Three other City College players were also arrested in this nationwide crackdown—the dentist Dambrot and his buddies Herb Cohen and Norm Mager. These arrests only deepened the gloom at City College, which was in mourning for a glorious memory now blackened in shame.
The players actually spent very little of the money they earned. Cooperating with the police, they returned most of it. Roth secretly opened a safe deposit box in his mother's name in a small Brooklyn bank, where he put $5,060. He delivered the key to the box to the DA. Roman's family hired a lawyer, who brought $3,000 to the DA's office in two installments. Warner led detectives to $3,050 in tightly rolled bills, which he had placed in a shoe box in the basement of his aunt's home.
One star, though, remained untouched: Floyd Layne. The gamblers, we thought, couldn't get him. The affection and pride we had earlier heaped on all the great City sophomores, we now heaped on Layne. He was our man, our hope, our bridge back to an earlier era. On February 22, Layne led a drastically weakened City College team against Lafayette, and he played the best game of his career, scoring a team high of 19 points, handing out one assist after another and, for good measure, moving in and out of the pivot, where he grabbed a handful of rebounds. He seemed to be playing for himself, for his college, and also for his arrested teammates. When the game ended in a 67-48 City College victory, the fans noisily allagarooed and raised Layne to their shoulders. At that moment, he was our hero, our vindication. He took some of the sting out of our collective shame.
Five days later, on February 27, Layne was arrested. It was like dying twice.
"Well, I was expecting it," he later told reporters. He went with detectives to his home on Prospect Avenue in the Bronx—to a flowerpot in his mother's bedroom, where he had carefully wrapped and buried the $3,000 he had received from Sollazzo.
At The Campus, we pondered many questions about ourselves, our college and the players—few perhaps as painful as the one that focused on Holman: how could this great coach not have known? How could he not have wondered why shots that should have been made were missed; why players, usually smooth, could suddenly become so sloppy? Holman refused to give interviews, though I asked on an almost daily basis. My guess was that he never second-guessed himself—he was, after all, The Master. But, after a while, he might have indulged in what the Soviets used to call "self-criticism." If he, for example, had simply alerted his players to the many dangers of gambling at the Garden; if he had urged them to report any approaches by mobsters; if he had had a closer personal relationship with the players and discussed their problems, he might then have been in a position to preempt the obvious temptations laid before the players by the likes of a Sollazzo. But Holman was not that kind of coach. He seemed to believe his news clips, and he kept his distance. He was, however, touched by the scandal that enveloped his players: There was no escape. After the 1959-1960 season, Holman retired, a tired and disillusioned coach, the questions "Did he know?" and "What did he know?" still hanging over his head and his legacy.
He lived the last lonely years of his life in the Hebrew Home for the Aged in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. My roommate Mark and I often wondered whether Holman would sit for an interview about his life in basketball and, inevitably, about "the scandal." One day in the early 1990's, Mark visited Holman at the Hebrew Home.
"It was a grey autumn afternoon," Mark remembered. What Mark saw in Holman's room "shocked" him. "When I entered," Mark said, "there was Holman, curled on the bed in fetal position, facing the wall and staring into nowhere. His cheeks were sunken and, if memory is correct, his teeth appeared marked by their absence. The walls were covered with children's drawings and paintings and created a warmth that was remarkable, given the circumstances. There was a friendly private nurse in attendance, and I felt a bit guilty at being there. So, after a few pleasantries and having extended my deepest respect, I made as diplomatic a withdrawal as possible." Holman probably never knew he had a visitor. He died on February 12, 1995 at the age of 99.
It is not known whether Holman ever reached out to "my boys," or they to him, but the seven arrested players seemed desperate for the anonymity of an average Monday-to-Friday existence. "For years," Mager told the Times in 1994, "when people on the street asked if I was Norm Mager, I would say 'no.' I tried to hide out. Got married, moved to the suburbs, raised three kids, didn't mix."
Five of the players—Mager, Roman, Cohen, Dambrot, and Layne—got suspended sentences. Roth and Warner were not that lucky. Roth was sentenced to six months in a workhouse, but he struck a deal with the judge. He joined the Army, and his sentence was dropped. Warner was the only City College player to go to jail—he spent six months behind bars.
What did they do for the rest of their lives?
Dambrot worked as a dentist in New York and New Jersey. He died of complications of Parkinson's disease in 2010 at the age of 81. A year before, he celebrated City's grand-slam triumph at Madison Square Garden, arriving there in a wheelchair.
Layne was there, too, fighting back tears, as he held Dambrot's hand. "We were always close," he told the Times. "We bonded then, we bond now. We will always bond." Ironically, considering the impact of the scandal, Layne was given the job of coaching the City College basketball team for 14 years in the 1970s and '80s. Now he is the top basketball coach at the George Washington High School, my alma mater.
Roth, after his Army tour, played basketball for several years in the Eastern League (the seven City players were banned from ever playing in the NBA) and then attended the City College business school, before retiring to a suburb of New York where he sold insurance.
Roman, who died of leukemia in 1988 at the age of 57, spent two years in the Army after the scandal and then settled in Seattle, where he earned his baccalaureate. When he returned to New York, he did graduate work in adolescent psychology, got a Master's degree and a doctorate and worked in the public school system in Queens.
Warner, after serving six months in prison, played basketball in the Eastern League, as did Roth. In the 1960's, he was back in prison for peddling heroin. He then worked as a high school basketball referee, an observer of officials for New York City's Public Schools Athletic League, and finally as a recreational supervisor in Harlem.
Warner might have enjoyed a sensational career in the NBA were it not for the scandal. He once tried to explain that he and his buddies needed supervision, suggesting that if they had got it, they might have avoided the temptation that destroyed their lives. "We weren't seasoned criminals," he said. "We didn't receive the guidance we should've." He sought a measure of comfort from the fact that City College was not alone in the scandal that rocked college basketball in the early 1950's. "We weren't the only team doing it. There were several that escaped. But we paid the price."
Mager, years later, offered his take on the scandal, suggesting that it sprang from the bitterness he felt playing basketball for the love of the game while his college reaped the rewards in its cool exploitation of his talent. "You're talking about kids, kids, who were busting their humps while the school was making a ton of money. What can I say? We loved the game. We really loved the game. I'm not proud of what I did. And we will never know how great we could have been."
They crossed the line and paid a stiff price. City College, the college they disgraced, paid a higher price. It took many years for City College to regain its former luster as a first-rate educational institution. The basketball scandal, while not the only reason for the college's decline, was a major precipitating factor. No student there at the time will ever forget both the triumph and the tragedy of the basketball scandal. I learned at the time that a journalist must never fall in love with a story, as I think I did back then. It's better just to cover it.
Marvin Kalb is the Edward R. Murrow Professor Emeritus at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He is also a contributing news analyst for National Public Radio and Fox News.


All Posts Tagged With: "amsterdam"
Dec 2012: Cave Temples of Batu Caves . photo 121-IMG_0392_zps0f163712.jpg.
Batu Caves Source: visit-malaysia.com. By Lakshmi: Who? If you are visiting Kuala Lumpur and have a half day to spare to visit a Hindu temple ensconced among limestone rock formations.
Batu Caves Source: visit-malaysia.com. By Lakshmi: Who?


text:
Court rules against Philadelphia lost-gun reporting law
By By MARK SCOLFORO
HARRISBURG, Pa. - A Philadelphia ordinance that requires gun owners to tell police when a firearm has been lost or stolen was ruled illegal Monday by a state court, with one of the judges who voted to throw out the law lamenting that their ruling would put people's lives at risk.
A three-judge Commonwealth Court panel ruled unanimously against the city law and issued a permanent injunction, saying the state Uniform Firearms Act preempts it. Philadelphia Police had sought a $2,000 fine against a man charged with violating the lost-and-stolen reporting mandate.
The defendant had pleaded guilty in January 2019 to other firearms offenses, telling a city judge he had been the straw purchaser of six guns. At that hearing, the judge had denied his request for an injunction against the Philadelphia lost-and-stolen firearms ordinance.
The judges cited a 1996 state Supreme Court decision that said assault weapons restrictions in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh were not allowed because the Uniform Firearms Act put authority to regulate firearms in the hands of the state Legislature.
One of the three Commonwealth Court jurists who ruled against the city ordinance on Monday, Senior Judge Bonnie Brigance Leadbetter, urged the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to reconsider that 1996 legal standard and to allow local restrictions "narrowly tailored to local necessities."
"The overwhelming blight of gun violence occurring in the City of Philadelphia, of which I believe we can take judicial notice, and the policy issues argued by the city in the case before us, call for a recognition that local conditions may well justify more severe restrictions than are necessary statewide," Leadbetter wrote.
She said it violates the fundamental right to life and liberty when children can't walk on a street near their homes without the risk of being shot.
"It is neither just to impose unnecessarily harsh limits in communities where they are not required nor consistent with simple humanity to deny basic safety regulations to citizens who desperately need them," Leadbetter wrote. She and both of the other judges who heard the appeal, Patricia McCullough and Anne Covey, were elected as Republicans.
Most proposals to regulate guns have gone nowhere in the GOP-majority Legislature, and Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf has vetoed universal concealed carry and other Republican efforts to loosen firearms regulations.
Earlier this month, Wolf rejected a bill that would have helped gun owners and gun-rights groups seek civil damages from governmental bodies that pass firearms restrictions.
When a law was enacted in October 2018 to require those convicted of misdemeanor crimes of domestic violence or subject to protective orders to give up their guns within 24 hours, it was considered to be the first anti-violence legislation in the state in more than a decade to deal directly with guns.
DOWNLOAD: FOX 29 NEWS APP | FOX 29 WEATHER AUTHORITY APP
SUBSCRIBE: Good Day Digest Newsletter | FOX 29 Philly on YouTube
FOLLOW: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
Woman struck by gunfire as road rage incident erupts on Lincoln Drive in East Falls, police say
Outcry continues over brutal beating death of Tyre Nichols as protests continue into second day

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
Never forget the lesson of the holocaust
by Timothy Strong March 16, 2017 10:00 am 220 views0
College of the Canyons held another human rights event to begin the semester, this time in remembrance of the Holocaust and the importance of never forgetting the tragic events from World War II.
The presentation began with a screening of Alain Resnais' 1956 documentary "Night and Fog" which graphically shows the horrors of the Auschwitz and Majdanek concentration camps during the height of the Holocaust.
After the film, Professor Adam Kaiserman sparked a discussion within the crowd by asking a simple question, "How?" How could people do this to another group of people? He received various responses from the students and faculty in attendance, including comparisons to how the Romans and Greeks treated people during ancient times, to how some believed that the German population knew about the atrocities committed during the Holocaust but did not do anything to fight it.
Professor Kaiserman spoke to Cougar News about the group discussion during the event "The idea was to keep the dialogue open so we give you something to chew on while your watching the event or hearing the lecture and then getting more involved in the process."
Kaiserman also said the Humanities department has five more events planned for the semester, including presentations on Black Lives Matter on 29 Mar and the Arab Spring on 17 April
Cougar News
Timothy Strong
COC sweeps College of Redwoods in impressive fashion
Extended Opportunity Programs and Services (EOPS) at College of the Canyons
The (un)Friendly Ghost: an examination into the recent phenomenon of "ghosting"
by Praditya Fulumirani - 2 days ago
Transfer students scared after college admissions scandal
by Cougar News Contributor - 2 weeks ago
Possible Pride center for LGBTQIA+ community in the works at COC
A Turning Point for College Campuses: How conservative voices found their place at COC


Hi We create most of our tickets via the gemini API from Emails. It works great, however I don't know how to handle "embedded" images in the email. At the moment I just add them as comment attachements, losing the connection between text and image. I would like to see the gemini comment just as the email with the images. Should I create an own "image library" directory or do you have an other solution at hand.
How are you converting emails to tickets? Converse should work for you as it will keep the link in the comment.
we've made our own outlook addin for about a year ago. The outlook addin takes the email and converts it to a ticket via the gemini api. We will have a look at converse. However, our outlook addin is really specialized at our needs and also has a direct link to our CRM. That's an customized solution that converse cannot replace.
Should have thought of that ... Thanks!


WHAT DOES IT ACTUALLY COST TO ADOPT A CHILD? Here are brief answers to the five most commonly asked questions, by Nancy Murphy, a Director of Placements for Kinship Center.
For more detailed information on Kinship Center's comprehensive adoption services, please click here.
Kinship Center offers two types of adoptions: Domestic Infant Adoptions involve infants who have been voluntarily relinquished for adoption by their birth parents. There is a fee for these kinds of adoptions. Foster Care Adoptions involve children who come from the public foster care system. There is no fee for adopting children from foster care, and the associated costs are minimal.
What are the Domestic Infant Adoption Costs?
The average fee for a domestic infant adoption, according to ChildWelfare.gov is about $40,000. At Kinship Center the fee is approximately $10,000. This fee covers the cost of registration and intake, the adoption home study classes, a home study application and interview, birth parent services, child placement fees, legal finalization fees, and some other services.
There can be additional fees for court termination of the presumed father's rights (about $2,750), additional fees for court termination of the alleged father's rights (about $1,825), additional fees for ICWA processing (about $1,925), and additional fees for ICWA courth relinquishment (about $750).
The birth parents may wish negotiation of assistance from the prospective adoption parents with certain medical and other expenses.
What are the Foster Care Adoption Costs?
There is no adoption fee for adopting children from foster care. Generally the only costs for prospective adoptive parents are for a DMV printout, first-aid certification, a physical medical examination, a background check, and personal travel expenses in getting to and from the home study classes.
Adoptive parents receive an adoption tax credit of $13,000 per adopted child. California state reimbursement of up to $400 is available for the costs named above: a DMC printout, first-aid certification, a physical medical examination, a background check, and personal travel expenses in getting to and from the home study classes. Receipts are required to receive this reimbursement.
Adoption grants are available at http://helpusadopt.org. There may also be eligibility for MediCal or DentiCal.


Order your Discover Murray Trail today!
Man from Snow River country greets the Murray River near Corryong in the Victorian Alps. The river's journey through the heartlands of Australia ends powerfully at the the Coorong and Murray's mouth in South Australia. The mighty and ancient Murray River shows her many colours and moods, characters and life. Experience the 2520km journey along the Murray Valley. Re-discover the 5 great landscapes of the Australia's iconic river...see our big skies...taste our amazing food...and live our landscape.
Get a Discover Murray Trail from a local Murray River Visitor Information Centre to truly experience the amazing diversity of this beautiful waterway. Come and experience our rich and unique Murray River and Mallee communities.
Located between Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra and Sydney, the Murray River Trail is a fantastic journey of change, freedom and beauty. Come and see for yourself.
Contact a local Visitor Centre for a copy today!


Shop Licensed U.S. Military Memorabilia here and more.
U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marines and U.S. Coast Guard. Headwear, T-Shirts, Jackets, Jerseys, Patches, Decals, Novelties, etc.
Shop Official Licensed Made In USA Military Gear here.
Shop and buy Made in USA Military Veteran Caps, T-Shirts and Novelty Gift Merchandise here, plus get free shipping on orders $75 or more!
Shop First Responders Caps and T-Shirts here and save.
Buy First Responders Headwear and Apparel now: Fire, EMS, Paramedic and Security/Law Enforcement. Get free shipping on orders $75 or more!
WE PROUDLY RECOGNIZE, HONOR AND SUPPORT THOSE WHO SERVE(D).


text:
18 Sync Licensing: TV / Movies / Video Games 11 Sync Licensing: Advertising 1 Song placements 1 Publishing Deal 1 Management Deals 1 Exposure Opportunity
18 fully mastered 17 broadcast ready 4 rough mixes
18 submission only
9 under $20 9 under $30 18 under $40 18 any price
9 Exclusive 7 Negotiable or N/A 2 Non-Exclusive
18 $1,001 - $1,500
10 within 7 days 10 within 14 days 10 within 45 days 8 longer than 45 days
17 at least 18 at least 18 at least 18 at least 18 at least 18 all
Artistry Worldwide Seeking Pop for Film and TV Licensing
Artistry Worldwide is seeking easy to clear, well-produced pop music for film and tv licensing. Both instrumentals and vocal songs. We get a constant stream of TV and film briefs and are always in need of quality music. You must own or have the rights to the track(s) you are submitting. Please submit your best work for consideration.
Artistry Worldwide is a new media company headed by Max Gousse based out of Los Angeles with a hub in emerging markets such as Toronto, Dubai, London, and Seoul. The mission for Artistry Worldwide is quite simple: to become the number one brand in developing new talent in media worldwide.
- Artistry Worldwide
Deal Type: Sync Placement
Decision Maker: Selected tracks will be pitched for final decision
Deal Structure: Negotiable
Compensation: Negotiable - Typically $1K+
Song Quality: Fully mastered, Broadcast ready
Seeking 90's "East Coast" Hip Hop Songs and Instrumentals for MTV/Viacom
Looking For 90's "East Coast" Hip Hop Songs and Instrumentals in the styles of J Dilla, Mob Deep, Tribe Called Quest, Wu-Tang, etc for our Viacom/MTV deal. We will be supplying several shows.
Because of the "High Profile Major Artists" in our catalog such as Beyonce, Janet Jackson, Chaka Khan, Bill Withers, Chic, Ojays, Sunshine Anderson, Dionne Farris, Kool and The Gang, etc, they are looking to use the "Music Of The Sea" brands and artists!
We have the attention of many major networks and they want to use compositions from our catalog. Have your song/tracks right along side the major artists in our catalog and let your work earn for you.
"High Quality" tracks only, no exceptions! No Demos and unmastered tracks, no uncleared samples. You must have clean versions available, and you must own master and publishing rights.
If you have music in our catalog, your music is automatically being considered.
- Eddie Sea / Music Of The Sea
The Most Awesomely Eighties 1980s Music Needed
The Most Awesomely Eighties - 1980s Music Needed
Pop-Up Music is seeking songs/instrumentals recorded in the 80's or with a retro 80's vibe. All genres welcome - New Wave, New Romantic, instrumental Hip Hop, Pop, Rock, Power Ballads, TV Themes, Synth pop and so on.
This opportunity is for an exclusive contract with a term - all submissions must be 100% owned by the writer/writers. No samples please.
Thanks the Pop-Up Music Team!
Seeking New & Unsigned Artists
Where are the unsigned artists?! It's time you get your break and this is the surest way to get your foot in the door. It will give you a name without trying if your music is on point. M.I.A. Entertainment Group has partnered with other producers in the TV/Film/Music industry and getting Artists Placements on TV/Reality Shows and Docu/Film Projects that are currently being produced, as well as projects in the pipelines of TV Networks. Get your music in today! All the best.
- M.I.A. Entertainment Group
Deal Type: Signing / Exposure Opportunity
Decision Maker: I'm the final decision maker
Compensation: $1,000+
Song Quality: Rough Mixes, Fully mastered, Broadcast ready
Similar Sounding Artists: Rihanna, Drake, The Weekend, Chris Brown, Usher, Ryan Leslie
Seeking New Independent Artists / Tracks for UK Sync Catalogue
A professional content provider of independent music from the UK and other territories, is looking for new music to add to our sync catalogue, and introduce to our contacts in music supervision, music placement, and editing, for potential sync opportunities.
Looking for a variety of genres from artists with a bit of recent traction in the UK media/music business.
- Futureproof Records & Promotions
Deal Type: Catalog Inclusion
Deal Structure: Non-Exclusive
Compensation: $1,000 / Compensation To Vary by placement
Song Quality: Fully mastered
Similar Sounding Artists: N/A
Currently looking for Retro R&B for Showtime series, style of KENDRA MORRIS - Banshee, NICOLE WILLIS - No One's Gonna Love You
Currently looking for Retro R&B for Showtime series, style of KENDRA MORRIS - Banshee, NICOLE WILLIS - No One's Gonna Love You, REBECCA FERGUSON - Glitter and Gold, for major films, indie films, networks and cable tv, advertising, in store play, phone apps, video games.
Join Multi Platinum Producer Mr. Mig's Team
Mr. Mig is looking for Elite Artists, Producers, Beatmakers and Songwriters to join his team at Maxxbeats.com, AudiomaxxStudios.com and Global Groove Entertainment! Directions: Download the FREE Mr. Mig instrumentals at http://www.maxxbeats.com on the "FREE STUFF" page. Create a song to any of the instrumentals and submit here at this campaign dropbox. If chosen, your collaboration may be used in any one of Mr. Mig's upcoming projects, tv or film placements and more!
Seeking Spacey Punk, Spacey Electronic Music With Vocals or Weird Rocktronica with Vocals directly For CSI
Seeking Spacey Punk, Spacey Electronic Music Vocals or Weird Rocktronica with Vocals directly For CSI Vegas, CSI New York, CSI Miami, and also for Ads, Films And Movie Trailers... Have to sound close to Apparat, Ratatat, Divine Fits, Thomas Azier.
Artistry Worldwide Seeking Hip-Hop & Rap for Film and TV Licensing
Artistry Worldwide is seeking easy to clear, well-produced hip-hop and rap music for film and tv licensing. Both instrumentals and vocal songs. We get a constant stream of TV and film briefs and are always in need of quality music. You must own or have the rights to the track(s) you are submitting. Please submit your best work for consideration.
Seeking Covers of Well Known songs done in Spanish
Do you have Spanish music? I need a cover of a well known song done in Spanish for an upcoming sync licensing project. Non-Exclusive license. Please submit your best track(s) for consideration.
- Any decade
- Recognizable (so it can translate to the audience even if it's in Spanish)
- Mainly Top 40 pop and rock
- Uptempo & ballads
Alonzo Jackson has worked with, developed and produced artists such as Dr. Dre, Drake, D'Angelo, Rafael Saadiq, Patti LaBelle, Beyonce, Kellie Rowland, Tommy Lee, Tara Stenson a.k.a. Aura, Paris Hilton, Truth Hurts, Deborah Cox, Sunshine Anderson, Eric Benet, Wanyá (Boys II Men), Pink (Formerly of the group Choice) and the list goes on and on.
- Alonzo Jackson / ALK Entertainment Group
Seeking Music for Sports-Related Broadcasts
I'm seeking songs to pitch to a TV and film sync licensing company for sports-related broadcasting projects. These songs need to be easily clearable: no explicit lyrics, no samples [unless they have already been cleared]
Compiling all genres with lyrical themes of:
- Victory
- Overcoming obstacles/challenges
- Working Hard
- Getting the Gold
- Fighting Spirit
- Perseverance, Strength, Determination etc.
Seeking to hear songs with a triumphant feel or something that would get the crowd going: catchy hook, a fun beat. Please submit your best track(s) for consideration.
- Terence LeMaile / Brand B Sports
Seeking Cover Songs, Public Domain Songs, and remakes for Film Trailers and Advertisements
We need Cover songs, public domain, and remake songs for Trailers and Advertisements such as Sony Playstation, Pepsi, Starbucks, Nissan, Gillette, Toyota, tons more,etc. We have a "Huge" track record of placing music with these entities!
Because of the "High Profile Major Artists" in our catalog such as Beyonce, Janet Jackson, Chaka Khan, Bill Withers, Chic, Ojays, Sunshine Anderson, Dionne Farris, Kool and The Gang, etc, they are looking to use the "Music Of The Sea" brand and artist!
We have the attention of many major networks and they want to use the artist and composers from our catalog! Have your song/tracks along ride along side the major artist in our catalog and grow your brand!!! "High Quality" tracks only, no exceptions! No Demos and unmastered tracks, no uncleared samples. You must have clean versions available, and you must own master and publishing rights! Huge opportunity!
Why the higher than average submission fee?
Often we hear music that doesn't make the final cut for a particular opportunity but we go ahead and select the song anyway because we believe the song is appropriate for other opportunities we're working on. Here at Music of The Sea, we fill dozens of sync requests every week. We don't have time to listen to everything so the higher submission fee tends to discourage all but the best - and we sign a lot of music and we place almost all of it.
We only offer one deal and the terms are the same for everyone, so don't submit if you're seeking another type of deal. If we select your song, you give us exclusive rights to the song for 3 years. If after three years we haven't licensed your song, the rights revert back to you. If we do license your song, we share in the revenue. Often, if we love the song we hear and want to work with you we will also have interest in hearing other songs in your catalog and possibly doing a broader deal.
Artistry Worldwide Seeking Music (Multi-Genre) for Film and TV Licensing
Artistry Worldwide is seeking easy to clear, well-produced music for film and tv licensing. We are open to all genres that you feel would work for sync licensing. Both instrumentals and vocal songs. We get a constant stream of TV and film briefs and are always in need of quality music. You must own or have the rights to the track(s) you are submitting. Please submit your best work for consideration.
Looking for Funk, Blaxploitation, Southern Soul, Pulp and Psychedelic Music for Worldwide Licensing Placement
Looking for Funk, Blaxploitation, Southern Soul, Pulp and Psychedelic for Worldwide Licensing Placement, and publishing opportunities on compilations worldwide, film, TV, video games, webcasts and in the digital download arena. TV shows air on MTV, NBC, VH1, Xelon, CW, Lifetime, Bravo, Discovery, Fuel TV, etc.
Hip-Hop/Club/Hard-Hitting Beats, and/or hooks Exclusively for Various Major Artist/ Fox/BET/NFL/MTV etc.
Hip-Hop/Club/Hard-Hitting Beats, and/or hooks) Exclusively For Various Major Artist/ Fox/BET/NFL/MTV Etc.
Hip-Hop/Club/Hard-Hitting Beats, and/or hooks needed for various major artists at Universal and Atlantic and Fox/BET/NFL/MTV Networks Etc. Some will be picked for Major Artists, Some will go exclusively in my FOX Network Library, BET Library, MTV Library, etc. Get royalties for the rest of your life.
Looking for Florence & The Machine, Adele, Foster The People, and Fun style Songs, for Worldwide Placements
Looking for Florence And The Machine, Adele, Foster The People, and Fun style songs, for worldwide placements, film, TV, advertising licensing, digital, mobile, online distribution, and sub publishing.
Seeking Bollywood and Middle Eastern Songs and Tracks
Seeking Bollywood And Middle Eastern Songs And Tracks. Extreme High Quality Submissions only. Please only submit well mixed, mastered, and produced songs. No demos.


Since the last edition, I have travelled to India and Sri Lanka to discuss collaboration in skills and training. This was an extremely valuable trip with the potential to provide long term mutual benefits for all.
The Indian component of my visit occurred during the Australia Business Week in India. This event builds on the strong partnership between our countries and looks to develop new ways of working together to address skilling and workforce challenges.
The relationship between Australia and India is of great importance with 60,000 Indian students choosing Australia for higher education study last year.
However, India is increasingly looking to vocational education to build economic growth and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched a Skill India Policy. India is now turning to countries such as Australia to assist with implementing this.
India has one of the fastest growing economies in the world, and is set to be the third largest economy by 2030. They have set an ambitious target to have 400 million people skilled by 2025. Skills and training will provide opportunities for millions to realise their career visions, and is something that Australian providers are already having a role in.
Tourism and hospitality are growing industries and India has a strong focus on micro-skilling to fill skills gaps and ensure there is strong industry alignment for qualifications.
To see this first hand, I was able to meet with some of our Australian providers and discuss delivery of 'Train the Trainer' programs, which are helping to boost India's capacity to train its own people to help drive economic growth.
There is a lot we can work on together with India, but there are opportunities across the entire region. As part of this trip, I also to travelled to Sri Lanka - another country experiencing significant growth in their skills and training sector.
Sri Lanka has a flourishing tourism and hospitality industry, which is being supported in part by the William Angliss Institute, Australia's own internationally renowned hospitality training provider. The institute has partnered with Sri Lankan providers at the Colombo Academy of Hospitality Management (CAHM).
The academy delivers Certificate III to Advanced Diploma level qualifications in hospitality, including a program that is based on the 'Trial-a-Trade' initiative that been very successful here in Australia.
I am proud to say Australia's skills and training sector is very highly regarded in both India and Sri Lanka. We have many opportunities for Australia to make a big impact in both countries, with mutual benefits.
Article provided by: Australian Government Department of Education and Training.
Individuals, businesses and registered training organisations from all corners of the nation will compete for countrywide recognition for their outstanding achievements in vocational education and training (VET) at the prestigious Australian Training Awards to be held in Canberra on 23 November.
Visit the Australian Training Awards website to see who is in the running so far for this year's Awards.
Remaining categories are presently being shortlisted which will be completed in mid-October 2017. Victorian finalists in the above categories are to be announced after the Victorian Training Awards to be held on 11 October.
A special edition of Skills@Work will be published listing all finalists after this time.
To book tickets to attend, register here.
The Awards are the culmination of state and territory training awards, with training award winners from each state and territory eligible to compete in aligned categories at the national level. There are seven award categories that are available by entering the Australian Training Awards directly.
A 18-strong team of Skillaroos, including a record number of female competitors, are busily preparing and training hard to represent Australia in their different skills and trades at the 44th International WorldSkills competition, facing off against 77 countries in Abu Dhabi this month.
Aided by their mentors, the Skillaroos will compete in categories such as 3D digital game art, beauty therapy, car painting, joinery, brick laying, landscape construction and welding.
Some Australian Apprenticeships Ambassadors feature amongst the team including Lily Campbell, Nick Johnston, Dusti-Lee Franchi, Ryan Grieger, Brett McPaul, Gaby Ware, Louise Azzopardi, Joshua Morrissey, Alex Halls, Dougal King and Nathan McHugh.
Good luck to the whole Skillaroos team!
To read more about WorldSkills International in Abu Dhabi or browse individual Skillaroo profiles, visit the WorldSkills Australia website.
Article provided by Department of Education & Training. Photos by WorldSkills Australia. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
The Australian government-funded Australian Apprenticeships and Traineeships Information Service (AATIS) has released their new AAPathways website.
This website combines the previous Australian Apprenticeships Pathways and Australian Apprenticeships and Traineeship Information Service websites, bringing the information hosted on both websites together in one convenient location.
The new-look AAPathways website launched on the 31st of August.
Updated site design, including targeting information to the needs of four groups: students, job hunters, employers, industry insiders.
To find out more go to the new website www.aapathways.com.au.
How will emerging trends like big data, changing ways of work, automation, increased urbanisation and increased connectivity affect workplaces and training?
While no-one has all the answers, the Australian Industry and Skills Committee (AISC) has commissioned a new, practical future-focused resource – Future Skills and Training – to help Industry Reference Committees (IRCs) prepare for the future by exploring how current and future Australian and international trends may affect their industries and future skills needs.
Future Skills and Training was developed by Miles Morgan Australia for the AISC's network of 64 IRCs, which make sure that training package qualifications meet the needs of the sector they represent.
The practical resource and workshop materials look at different future scenarios to help IRCs develop training for their industry. They are designed to prompt thinking about how trends and megatrends in society, business, technology, politics and the environment will impact workplaces and training environments and how industry might best respond.
Two IRCs, the Information and Communications Technology and the Process Manufacturing, Recreational Vehicle and Laboratory IRCs recently piloted the resource and workshop session. Over the next few months, and with support from the AISC, IRCs will be able to choose how they engage with the resource and workshop.
While the resource was primarily developed to support IRCs, it may also be of interest to anyone with an interest in vocational education and training and Australia's future skills needs.
Future Skills and Training is available on the AISC website.
Registered training organisations (RTOs) and senior secondary schools that need to assess the foundation skills of their students to better target support now have a new resource available to them: the Foundation Skills Assessment Tool (FSAT).
Funded by the Department of Education and Training, FSAT is an interactive, free online tool designed to identify and measure an individual's foundation skill levels (English language, literacy and numeracy skills as well as employability skills). These skills are fundamental to participation in the workforce, the community and in adult education and training.
FSAT assists in identifying any gaps in skills and knowledge that need to be addressed. This will enable trainers to target assistance to students at the areas where each individual may require additional support.
The department is currently working with the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) to finalise and validate FSAT. FSAT was made available to RTOs and senior secondary schools (for year 11 and 12 students) in September 2016. Through this validation process, the tool will provide trainers and educators with a valuable indication of a learner's foundation skills.
While there has been strong interest from RTOs and senior secondary schools to date, the department is keen for more RTOs and senior secondary schools to use the tool. By participating, you will be helping to ensure that a fully validated, final and free version of FSAT is available as quickly as possible.
Further information regarding FSAT, including answers to 'Frequently Asked Questions', and guidance on how to register, is available here.
PwC's Skills for Australia Celebrates National Skills Week 2017!
For the first time, PwC's Skills for Australia celebrated National Skills with a campaign to remind people that skills are the backbone of Australia's economy.
Employees from PwC offices in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne got a taste of what career pathways are available through Vocational Education and Training (VET), and the new opportunities arising in the dynamic sector.
PwC CEO, Sara Caplan said events like National Skills Week were the perfect platform to showcase skills and training in environments that may not traditionally be familiar with VET.
Having a workforce with the right skills is vital to the success of Australia's $17 billion meat industry.
Our meat industry is a global success story – we export to more than 100 countries, and are the world's largest exporter of goat meat, and the second largest exporter of beef and sheep.
For the meat processing sector - a mix of around 350 small, medium and large producers - to maintain its local and global success, it must comply with strict international compliance guidelines and safety standards. Vocational education and training (VET) offers employees the relevant skills, up to certification standard.
Geoff Yarham has been involved in safety and training programs for more than 30 years and works as Senior HR Projects Manager for meat processor Australian Country Choice. The company is an exclusive supplier to Coles and a number of export customers, as well as employer of more than 1,200 Queenslanders. He knows just how important it is for businesses to have access to nationally recognised training, so employees and companies can continue to meet global regulations and safety standards.
"We are one of the most regulated industries in the country, with a strong focus on hygiene, animal welfare and individual safety," he said.
CPCCCM2010 - Work safely on scaffolding higher than two metres - now deemed not equivalent to CPCCCM2010B.
The changes will correct the mapping of these units to remove their equivalency status.
The equivalency status of Work safely on scaffolding higher than two metres CPCCCM2010, should have been 'Not Equivalent' with CPCCCM2010B – Work safely at heights due to changes to the title, application, performance criteria, performance evidence, knowledge evidence, and assessment conditions from the original content of the superseded unit.
The unit CPCCCM2010B – Work safely at heights can continue to be taught and the teach-out period associated with this unit has been removed.
World Teachers' Day is held anually in October and is an opportunity to acknowledge our teachers and say thanks for the significant contributions they make in our classrooms and communities.
To celebrate and recognise the role of teachers in society, we shine the spotlight on finalists in this year's VET Teacher/Trainer of the Year Award which will be presented at the Australian Training Awards on Thursday 23 November 2017 in Canberra.
*The Victorian Training Awards had not taken place at time of preparing this article. To read about the Victorian nominee for this category, visit the Australian Training Awards website after 11 October 2017.
VET Alumni members comprise Australia's best VET students, businesses, teachers and registered training organisations. They know first-hand the value in investing in VET as either a career, to grow their business or to enhance their training services. Visit VET Alumni to find out more.
Australian Apprenticeships Ambassadors know first-hand the value in investing in an apprenticeship or traineeship. Their inspirational stories prove that Australian Apprenticeships can provide skills for a secure future, and a rewarding career.
Australia now has over 250 Australian Apprenticeships Ambassadors working in many different occupations, of many different ages and backgrounds and from most parts of Australia.
A selection of VET related useful links and resources at your fingertips.
If you would like to provide feedback, supply an article for inclusion in the next edition or join our list of subscribers, please email skillsatwork@education.gov.au. The next edition will be published in November 2017. Submissions are due by Friday 20 October 2017.


Wow we love it. Be party ready in this fabulous joes jungle off the shoulder mini dress.
A fully lined dress that hugs and contours the body. Made from stretch crepe fabric. Features a back vent & fastens with a concealed side zip.
Model is 5ft 8in and wears a Size UK 8.
This figure-hugging mini creates a flattering hourglass shape and is accented with feminine ruffles and bell sleeves.
Made from a light stretch crepe fabric.
Fabric composition: Main 96% polyester 4% elastane. Lining 93% cupro 7% elastane.


Presenting the second edition in the Invicta series of Androids - "Invicta Duo". This second series features a new ghost girl, new sculpting and design elements that differentiates it from the ultra rare first series.
These custom toys were made with epoxy, metal, plastic and painted with acrylics. This is signed and numbered, the very last available in the series.


Cut a very small, very thin slice off the bottom of each Kumato, so they will sit solidly on a plate (less than 1 inch diameter cut), cut off the top, and hollow out each. You can use the scooped out middles in another recipe.
Cut the Asian pear into small slices and add to a quart size bowl. Pour the fresh lemon juice over the pear.
In a measuring cup mix the lime juice, vinegar, fish sauce, ginger, salt, sugar, and honey together.
Add next the oils, ginger, optional chili flakes, scallions, and onion.
Pour this over the chicken and pear and mix.
Add the basil, mint, and almonds.
Fill each hollowed Kumato with the basil chicken mix. Serve on a bed of greens. Garnish with a chiffonade of basil.


The village of Blackville is home to a variety of service groups offering residents the opportunity to become involved and give back to our wonderful community.
Whether you are looking to volunteer or looking for volunteers, you've come to the right place!
Check out the local volunteer opportunities below or advertise an upcoming or ongoing volunteer position by submitting your request using our form.


text:
Wolfgang Vogel ist der Name folgender Personen:

* Wolfgang Vogel (Rechtsanwalt) (1925–2008), deutscher Rechtsanwalt und Unterhändler der DDR
 Wolfgang Vogel (Mathematiker) (1940–1996), deutscher Mathematiker
 C. Wolfgang Vogel (* 1946), deutscher Verwaltungsjurist
 Wolfgang Vogel (Politiker) (1950–2017), deutscher Politiker (SPD), MdL Bayern
 Wolfgang Vogel (Produzent), deutscher Dokumentarfilmproduzent

Siehe auch:
 Wolfgang Vogler

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


text:
Vale of White Horse – dystrykt w hrabstwie Oxfordshire w Anglii.

Miasta
 Abingdon
 Faringdon
 Wantage

Inne miejscowości
Appleford-on-Thames, Appleton, Appleton-with-Eaton, Ardington, Ashbury, Baulking, Bayworth, Besselsleigh, Blewbury, Boars Hill, Botley, Bourton, Bow, Buckland, Buscot, Caldecott, Charney Bassett, Childrey, Chilswell, Chilton, Compton Beauchamp, Cumnor, Denchworth, Drayton, Duxford, East Challow, East Hanney, East Hendred, East Lockinge, Farmoor, Fernham, Frilford, Fyfield, Garford, Great Coxwell, Grove, Hanney, Harwell, Hatford, Henwood, Hinton Waldrist, Kennington, Kingston Bagpuize, Kingston Lisle, Letcombe Bassett, Little Coxwell, Littleworth, Longcot, Longworth, Lyford, Marcham, Milton, North Hinksey, Pusey, Radley, St. Helen Without, Seacourt, Shellingford, Shrivenham, South Hinksey, Southmoor, Sparsholt, Stanford in the Vale, Steventon, Sunningwell, Sutton Courtenay, Swinford, Uffington, Upton, Watchfield, West Challow, West Hanney, West Hendred, West Lockinge, Wootton, Wytham.

Zobacz też
Biały Koń z Uffington

Dystrykty hrabstwa Oxfordshire


text:
"Daughter of the Sky" began true search for Earhart
By earharttruth on September 9, 2019
Now that the establishment's latest phony effort to find Amelia Earhart's plane as far away as possible from where it's buried on Saipan has ended, I think a review of the true history of the search for Amelia is appropriate. (Boldface emphasis mine throughout.)
Most informed observers of the history of research into the disappearance of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan believe that Fred Goerner's The Search for Amelia Earhart is the seminal work in the genre, and all that followed sprang from the San Francisco radio-newsman's initial Saipan forays. But neither Goerner nor anyone else would have ever heard about Earhart and Noonan's arrival at Saipan in 1937 if not for the 1960 book that started it all — Daughter of the Sky, by Paul L. Briand, Jr., a Ph.D., captain (later promoted to major) and assistant professor of English at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo.
I never met Briand, who was born in 1920 and died in 1986, to ask him definitively, but it appears that Daughter of the Sky was conceived and written as another Earhart biography, this one by an aviation expert and co-editor of The Sound of Wings (not the biography by Mary Lovell), an anthology of flying literature published in 1957. We must assume, based on its presentation, that as the book neared completion, Briand was informed of new material that he shoehorned into Daughter's closing pages, information that changed everything about the Earhart disappearance.
Since few readers have a copy of Daughter of the Sky, I think it's instructive to re-present its closing pages, for those interested in something more substantial than the latest failed searches and incoherent dispatches about native bones found and lost on a central Pacific atoll circa 1940.
Paul L. Briand Jr., author of the 1960 book that launched the modern search for Amelia Earhart, Daughter of the Sky (Duell, Sloan and Pierce), circa 1959. Photo taken from book jacket.
In the last of its three parts, "The Last Flight," Daughter of the Sky distinguished itself from all previous Earhart literature. In its next-to-last chapter, "The Fog of Rumors," an apparently unconvinced Briand introduced the "great rumor" that Earhart and Noonan had been prisoners of the Japanese, attributing this idea "largely" to the 1943 Hollywood film Flight for Freedom, a red herring starring Rosalind Russell and Fred MacMurray, and speculation by Dr. M.L. Brittain of Georgia Tech, who had been onboard USS Lexington during the Earhart search, that the fliers became prisoners of the Japanese.
Here Briand presented some helpful information as well, noting Amy Otis Earhart's claim that "her daughter was on a secret government mission and that she was captured by the Japanese," but writing that Mrs. Earhart had no "official basis" for making such as statement. For more on that story, please click here. Briand also cited the March 1944 Associated Press article, "Putnam Flight Yarn Revived," by Eugene Burns that introduced the fishing boat pickup and Marshall Islands landing scenario that Elieu Jibambam had initially shared with Navy Lieutenants Eugene T. Bogan, Bill Bauer and Jimmy Toole (see Truth at Last pages 130-131). Burns' story was buried in newspapers where it appeared at all, and was largely ignored.
Astute readers will note several discrepancies in Briand's narrative of Josephine Blanco's eyewitness account as reported by Navy dentist Casimir R. Sheft to him and later findings by Fred Goerner and others; after all, the book was published in 1960, so we're talking circa 1959 that Briand was made privy to Sheft's revelations.
Very little of substance was known at that time, but the key event, Josephine's 1937 sighting of the American fliers at Saipan's Tanapag Harbor, is presented in stark detail by the Air Force Academy English professor as Sheft related it to him, and thus the true modern search for Amelia Earhart was quietly launched. Very few were even aware of it, as the revelations in Daughter of the Sky were suppressed throughout the establishment media. Following are the closing pages of Paul Briand Jr.'s Daughter of the Sky.
9. "The Light of Fact: A Mystery Solved?"
Two additional events, however, separate in time and both involving Amelia Earhart — but heretofore never interrelated — do fit together in a logical and revealing pattern. All the pieces of the puzzle are not available, but there are enough of them to form a discernible picture.
At the end of World War II Jacqueline Cochran, then head of the WASPS, the famous organization of women ferry pilots, was asked by General Hap Arnold to go to Tokyo and investigate the role that Japanese women had played in aviation during the war. While she was in Imperial Air Force Headquarters Miss Cochran noticed that there were numerous files on American aviation notables — and many filed on Amelia Earhart.
These documents since that time have mysteriously disappeared. They are not in the official custody of the United States Government, or any of its departments, services, or agencies; nor do they seem to be in the possession of the Japanese Government. (All captured documents, those of historical importance having been copied on microfilm, have been returned to Tokyo. No AE files were discovered among the captured materials.) Nevertheless, these files seem to indicate that the Japanese had more than a normal interest in Amelia Earhart, because of another event that happened, curiously, again in the Marianas. This new evidence has never before been made public.
Dr. Casimir Sheft and Josephine Blanco, far right, Saipan, circa 1946. It was Josephine's childhood memory of seeing Amelia Earhart's arrival at Tanapag Harbor as told to Sheft when she worked for the Navy dentist on Saipan that ignited the true modern search for Amelia Earhart.
At the end of the war on the island of Saipan a Navy dentist worked with his assistant, a native girl named Josephine Blanco. It was 1946. Dr. Casimir R. Sheft, now practicing in New Jersey, was taking a break between appointments and talking with a fellow dentist. During the conversation Dr. Sheft casually mentioned the disappearance of Amelia Earhart and speculated about whether the famous flier could have ended her flight in the Marianas, and possibly near Saipan, for he had read somewhere that the Marines had found AE's flight log during the invasion (actually, it had been the photograph album). Suddenly his dental assistant, Josephine, broke in: She had seen an American woman flier many years ago — nine or ten — on Saipan, when she was a little girl. The American woman wore khaki clothes and had hair cut like a man. . . .
Josephine Blanco, now Mrs. Maximo Akiyama, and living in California with her husband and their young son, was witness to an incident which is as incredible as it is enlightening,
In the summer of 1937 Josephine was riding her bicycle toward Tanapag Harbor. She was taking her Japanese brother-in-law, J.Y. Matsumoto, his lunch, and was hurrying along because it was nearly twelve o'clock.
That summer she had just finished Japanese grammar school, where she had gone for the last five years, ever since she was seven years old. In March she had celebrated her eleventh birthday, and now she could begin Catholic school. She was looking forward to studying with the Spanish missionary sisters. Father Tadzio had hoped that someday Josephine, too, like some of the other Chamorro native girls in the Marianas, would answer Gods call and become a native sister.
Josephine had a special pass to the Japanese military area near the harbor. Not even Japanese civilians were admitted to the area unless they carried the proper credentials. The young girl rode up to the gate, stopped her bicycle, and presented her pass. The guard allowed her into the restricted area.
On the way to meet her brother-in-law, Josephine heard an airplane flying overhead. She looked up and saw a silver two-engine plane. The plane seemed to be in trouble, for it came down low, headed out into the harbor, and belly-landed on the water.
It was not until she met her brother-in-law that Josephine discovered whom it was that had crash landed in the harbor.
"The American woman," everyone was saying, greatly excited. "Come and see the American woman." Josephine and her brother in-law joined the knot of people who gathered to watch.
She saw the American woman standing next to a tall man wearing a short-sleeved sports shirt, and was surprised because the woman was not dressed as a woman usually dressed. Instead of a dress, the American woman wore a man's shirt and trousers; and instead of long hair, she wore her hair cut short, like a man. The faces of the man and woman were white and drawn, as if they were sick.
The American woman who looked like a man and the tall man with her were led away by the Japanese soldiers. The fliers were taken to a clearing in the woods. Shots rang out. The soldiers returned alone. (Editor's note: No evidence has ever surfaced that supports the fliers being shot so soon after their arrival on Saipan. Some evidence exists that Amelia was shot much later, but none suggests that Fred Noonan was ever shot.)
This is the photo of Josephine Blanco Akiyama, undated, that appeared in the 1960 book Daughter of the Sky. Josephine had moved from Saipan to San Mateo, Calif., in the mid-1950s with husband Maximo, who accompanied Fred Goerner in June 1960 on Goerner's first investigation on Saipan.
Mrs. Akiyama has affirmed, after identifying a photograph of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan taken on the world flight, that the couple was unquestionably the same man and woman she and her brother-in-law had seen on Saipan: the clothes were different, but the woman's haircut was unmistakable.
Josephine Blanco's story, which is basically the same one she told Dr. Sheft in Saipan, is most probably true. It is extremely unlikely this native girl could have invented her story. If she had, then for what purpose? If for profit or gain, she had, for more than ten years after the American invasion, the opportunity to capitalize on her sensational news.
As an eleven-year-old girl, Josephine of course had no idea of the significance of what she had seen other than it was indeed an American woman she had seen. Dr. Sheft has never doubted her story, and for many years he has hoped that a thorough re-examination of the facts would be made. They were.
Amelia Earhart could have ended her flight around the world at Saipan, If she were indeed headed for Howland Island, however, she somehow made an error of about 100° in reading her compass.
(Editor's note: The following scenario, in which Briand has the Electra and its crew reaching Saipan directly from Lae, is typical of the wild speculation that characterized the early days following the public release of Josephine's Earhart sighting, and is included here only because it, too, is part of Briand's closing chapter.)
It means that all during the night of July 2, beginning after sundown at 5:55 p.m., Fred Noonan was not able to get a fix from the stars to determine his position. And if, after fourteen hours out from Lae, he looked down and saw a chain of islands, he would have determined that he was on course and over the Gilbert Islands; but if AE had turned north while he was napping, and he had still awakened in time to see islands, they would have been, not the Gilberts as he might have thought, but the Caroline Islands — exactly the same distance away but in the wrong direction.
By somehow departing from her course, and making the tremendous error of steering north and west instead of east — as she had done once before on the world flight, when she had turned north to St. Louis instead of south to Dakar, overriding Fred's directions, after the flight across the South Atlantic — AE would have found herself after twenty hours of flying time somewhere along the chain of islands that marks the Marianas.
What began as another of hundreds of garden-variety biographies of Amelia Earhart became the 1960 book that ignited the modern search for the lost fliers. In the final chapter of Daughter of the Sky, the eyewitness account of Josephine Blanco Akiyama was introduced, which led to Fred Goerner's four early 1960s Saipan investigations and his 1966 bestseller The Search for Amelia Earhart.
Her last report, at 8:45 a.m., gave her line of position at 157-337. The Navy's search satisfied judgments that the line was not a radio line, for the areas northwest and southeast from Howland were thoroughly investigated. One hundred fifty-seven-337, therefore, was undoubtedly a sun line.
Near Howland, at position 01° 00′ North Latitude and 177° 20′ West Latitude, on July 3, 1937, the bearing of the sun was 66° from the north point at 7:00 a.m., Howland time. The sun line, therefore, would have been 156-336.
Near Saipan, at position 13° 00′ North Latitude and 153° 00′ East Longitude, at 5:00 a.m., Saipan time, the sun was 64° from the north point. A sun line there would have been 154-334.
If Noonan had thought he was close to Howland when he shot his last sun line, his geographical point of reference — used for computing and plotting his observation — would obviously have been close to Howland. If he had actually been close to Saipan, however, the relative position of the sun would still have been almost the same: 64° from the north point near Saipan, as opposed to 66° from the north point near Howland. But his observation, when computed and plotted on his chart, would have shown him to be the same number of miles from his geographical point of reference.
An experienced navigator with trust in his abilities such as Noonan would have tended to believe that either his observations or his computations were somehow wrong. He would not have thought, at least immediately, that he was some 2,600 miles off course. If AE had been pressing him for a position to radio to the Itasca, he might have, in agonies of doubt, merely given her the line of position, which he could be sure of, but not the geographical point of reference, because he could now no longer determine that point with certainty. This possibility would explain the irregularity of Amelia having transmitted the line of position without the necessary point of reference.
On the basis of these determinations, therefore, there is strong support for believing in Josephine Blanco's story.
The Navy gave Amelia until about noon before she would go down. It was at noontime that Josephine saw the two-motored plane ditch in Tanapag Harbor.
The Navy's final conclusion was that Amelia had ended her flight somewhere north and west. Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan were seen by two eyewitnesses north and west of Howland on Saipan. At that time of the year the American woman and her tall male companion could have been none other than AE and Fred Noonan.
In 1937 on Saipan, according to Maximo and Josephine Akiyama, the Japanese military did not hesitate to kill anyone. Japanese civilian or Chamorro native, whom they suspected of supping on their illegal fortifications.
Japanese officialdom maintaining an enigmatic silence (the Japanese Embassy in Washington knows nothing of the Earhart case, nor does Dr. John Young of Georgetown University, who examined captured Japanese documents for the American Government) concerning the disappearance of the two fliers, it may be idle to speculate upon the final fate of Fred Noonan and Amelia Earhart. The evidence, however, justifies at least one tenable conclusion.
When Josephine Blanco saw the twin-engined silver plane, Amelia and Fred had been flying for twenty-six consecutive hours and for 4,000 futile miles. The sight of the island that was Saipan must have cheered the fliers with renewed hope for safety, and for life itself.
When they survived the crash landing in Tanapag Harbor only to be taken into custody as spies, their joy must have turned to inexplicable bitterness: they had been saved not for life, but for death before a Japanese firing squad.
With the exception of a few details, this headline from the San Mateo Times of July 1, 1960, is as true today as it was then.
For Amelia, who once had said to her husband, "I don't want to go; but when I do, I'd like to go in my plane — quickly," the last word of her wish must have struck her now with sudden and ironic force.
Yet, as she had so often before, Amelia Earhart must have met this challenge with stubborn self-control and resolute courage. For here at last was her unmistakable, but irrefutable, fate.
Thus ended Daughter of the Sky. Though it was riddled with erroneous conclusions and wild speculation, its most important feature, Josephine Blanco's eyewitness sighting of Earhart and Noonan on Saipan in the summer of 1937, was quite real — and this reality launched the modern-day search for Amelia Earhart.
Few, and mainly those who read this blog regularly, know about the vital role that San Mateo Times reporter Linwood Day played in the earliest days of the Earhart investigation, newly launched by virtue of the blockbuster revelations in Daughter of the Sky. Day's Earhart series reached its zenith on July 1, 1960, when the Times front page announced in 100-point headlines, all caps, "AMELIA EARHART MYSTERY IS SOLVED."
Fred Goerner was already on Saipan in the midst of his first witness investigation, and in six years his book, The Search for Amelia Earhart, would sell more than 400,000 copies, only to be trashed by Time magazine as a work that "barely hangs together." The rest is history.
Posted in: Uncategorized	| Tagged: Amelia Earhart, Daughter of the Sky, Fred Goerner, Josephine Blanco Akiyama, Paul Briand Jr., Saipan
Alastair Robertson September 9, 2019 at 2:32 am | Reply
Interesting, but how does this tie in with the reports of radio transmissions from AE received several days after the crash? Whilst I have always believed that AE ended up in Saipan this report seems too convenient and does not altogether accord with other reports.
earharttruth September 9, 2019 at 6:59 am | Reply
You must be new to this blog, Mr. Robertson. There's 194 other posts comprising upward of half-a-million words, and another half million in comments. Could you not have done a subject search before you sent such a snarky comment that reflects only your own shortsightedness?
Tom Williams September 9, 2019 at 9:44 am | Reply
If you buy the most recent version of the book it is summarily trashed in the Epilogue by Steve Chadde (see prior comments "Recent Earhart stories aim to confuse and deceive").
Dave Kapsiak September 9, 2019 at 10:14 am | Reply
Interesting how any documentation concerning this flight "Mysteriously" disappears- photos, personal items, log books,etc. Anything turned over to the military establishment. In any case, thank you Mr. Briand for igniting the search.
William H. Trail September 10, 2019 at 12:02 am | Reply
I don't believe that it is a case of Captain Briand's book being "too convenient" so much as that it is too basic. Mike makes a good point. "Daughter of the Sky" gives every appearance of starting out as just a biography, but with newly discovered, very important, yet limited information "shoehorned" in to use Mike's term, or "tacked on" at the end. Remember, this book is fairly short at only 230 pages, and that includes the index, bibliography, and acknowledgements.
Captain Briand may not have even been cognizant of the post-loss radio transmissions to which you refer. In fact, they are what I consider a whole separate area of narrow specialization in the wide world of Amelia Earhart research. Also, keep in mind, as it was first published in 1960, this book was presumably written in 1958-59. There was no internet to use for research, and what limited information there was, was hard to find. Imagine what Captain Briand might have done with the tools and resources available today.
earharttruth September 10, 2019 at 12:09 am | Reply
Thanks for taking the time to say what I should have said earlier. Sometimes, and it does seem more often these days, I simply lack the patience to deal with annoying comments. Your help is always greatly appreciated.
Alastair Robertson September 10, 2019 at 5:10 am | Reply
Hi William, many thanks for your helpful comment. I was not trying to be "snarky" just trying to understand how the reported stories of the radio transmission match this interesting account. To be clear, I do believe that AE was captured by the Japanese and that there is a conspiracy to hide the truth. Perhaps not as informed as I should be before asking the question. Sorry about that.
Greetings to All:
For anyone who's interested, I found a link to the Guide to the Paul L. Briand Papers achieved at his alma mater, the University of New Hampshire. So far, I haven't had time to delve into it, but from a cursory look at the contents list the collection contains, among other things, Briand's letters, correspondence, notes, drafts, etc. related to "Daughter of the Sky."
https://www.library.unh.edu/find/archives/collections/paul-briand-papers-1920-1986


Softcovers rubbed, corner creases, a few bumps on extremities, remnants of price sticker on front panel, price in pencil on flep, a few light finger creases, Any picture found beside this listing may NOT actually be a picture of this book but a stock photo used by the listing site. 3 R's Used Books and Hannelore Headley Old & Fine Books, Inc. are committed to saving the trees one leaf at the time!
Author Name: Agor, Weston H.


Step 1: Melt the butter, golden syrup and chocolate in a saucepan.
Step 2: Put the biscuits into a freezer bag an then bash them with a rolling pin,until you have both crumbs and pieces of biscuits.
Step 3: And the melted chocolate mixture into a bowl with the biscuit pieces and then add marshmallows.
Step 4: Once mixed fully together, tip in to a 24cm square tray and flatten the best you can.
step 5: Refrigerate for about 2 hours or over night.
step 6: cut into 24 fingers and dust with icing sugar.
Earlier on today i decided that with my nieces help i was going to give some rocky roads a try, i found a Nigella Recipe and switched the Chocolate around and gave them ago!
PS. i need more help being healthy!! please help!


What happened that night when Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman) ended up on the couch with Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), after trying to get the Letters of Transit from Rick, and where did their paths take them after the iconic CASABLANCA ending?
While taking a screenwriting class and interviewing Howard Koch for my book on my family in the 1980s, we became like family. I made a promise to Howard that I'd like to share with you now with this New York Post article that recently came out.
Many heartfelt thanks to Lou Lumenick, the chief film critic of The New York Post, for supporting me in making known my continuing determination and belief in Howard's "Return to Casablanca" treatment, and my wish to find a Warner Bros. approved writer and director.
May Life and all it's adventures be going in the direction you imagined.


text:
Q: Usage of 'but' in a sentence In this passage from Book III, passage 2 of Sun Tzu's The Art of War, does Lionel Giles use of the square-bracketed "but"  effectively make the first sentence convey the meaning that ALL modern strategists would approve the words of the Chinese general?

Here again, no modern strategist [but] will approve the words of the old Chinese general. Moltke's greatest triumph, the capitulation of the huge French army at Sedan, was won practically without bloodshed.

A: This is an old-fashioned literary use of but.
No modern strategist but will approve actually means every modern strategist will approve.
It is meaning 3 of this in Wiktionary - see the quotation from Keats there.
It can be confusing, and I think that is one reason that it has gone out of use.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


PARIS: A French court on Thursday (Oct 11) threw out a request by Swiss bank UBS to drop money laundering charges and limit trial proceedings to complicity in tax fraud, which carries lighter penalties.
Swiss bank UBS Group AG, its French unit and six executives face charges of aggravated tax fraud and money laundering in an investigation into allegations they helped wealthy clients avoid taxes in France.
Under French law, a defendant can on the first day of trial raise objections to the case going ahead on grounds that the constitution has been flouted. The court described the bank's arguments as "devoid of seriousness".
UBS, Switzerland's largest bank, said in a statement before the trial that the hearing would allow it to respond to "the often unfounded allegations that were frequently leaked to the media", but said it would reserve its arguments for the court.
If found guilty of money laundering, UBS could be fined up to €5 billion (US$5.76 billion). French criminal law lets judges enforce fines as high as half the amount laundered and in this case prosecutors estimate that up to 10.6 billion euros was denied to the French tax authorities.
The bank could also face damages to the French taxman for the missing revenue, while its executives risk jail time.
UBS's lawyer Jean Veil told the court on the opening day that the French state was asking for 1.6 billion euros in damages, which he said was excessive.
During the French investigation, UBS turned down a settlement offer of €1.1 billion made by the authorities, judicial sources have said.


text:
Q: Array element automatically set to undef won't change when aliased? Relating to this  question, what's the difference between  a manually set
to undef list element and one that was  set by Perl when growing the size of
that  list by  assigning to  a bigger  index than  the list  size, when  being
aliased? For example, considering this code:
@a = (undef, 0);
@b = ();
$b[1] = 0;

print Dumper(@a), "\n", Dumper(@b);

It prints (as expected, I think):
$VAR1 = undef;
$VAR2 = 0;

$VAR1 = undef;
$VAR2 = 0;

So, aren't the arrays the same? Apparently not:
sub change { $_[0] = 1 }
change(@a); change(@b);
print Dumper(@a), "\n", Dumper(@b);

Which prints:
$VAR1 = 1;
$VAR2 = 0;

$VAR1 = undef;
$VAR2 = 0;

A: One difference is that exists $a[0] is true and exists $b[0] is false.

A: You found a fascinating edge case.
When you explicitly set an element, it first springs into existence. If an array is extended so that multiple indices fall into range of this array, no scalars are implicitly initialized at these positions. Example:
my @array;
$array[2] = undef; # this extends the array
# now elements 0–2 report as `undef`, but only #2 was initalized

When we ask whether these elements exist, we get:
say "index $_ ", exists $array[$_] ? "exists" : "doesn't exist" for 0 .. 4;

Output:
index 0 doesn't exist
index 1 doesn't exist
index 2 exists
index 3 doesn't exist
index 4 doesn't exist

This optimization saves you from allocating unused scalars at these positions; the array access code just returns an undef when there isn't anything there stating otherwise.
Now this squares badly with function calls. When a subroutine is called, a flat list of scalars is put on the stack, which is then accessible as @_. No copying takes place here, so this is call by alias. Now when the $_[0] element is accessed in your sub, there is no scalar here, so it creates a new one in @_:
sub crazy {
  say 1*exists $_[0];
  $_[0] = 1;
  say 1*exists $_[0];
}

my @array; $array[2] = 0;
crazy @array;

say 1*exists $array[0];

Output:
0
1
0

Internally, a scalar is a pointer to an SV struct. These pointers are copied onto the stack, so this makes actual modification of the original @array impossible.


text:
Surprising Statistic Shows Hard-Working Watford Starlet Is Not Just About the Goals
Watford's newest recruit Richarlison has been an instant hit at Vicarage Road since switching Brazilian outfit Fluminense for the Premier League this summer.
The 20-year-old star has scored three goals in his seven appearances for the Hornets - but his impact extends beyond putting the ball into the back of the net.
The Premier League's Stats Centre has revealed Richarlison is leading the tackles for forward players in the competition so far, as he has amassed 20 tackles in his first 570 minutes as a player in England's top division.
Very interesting (& suprising) to see Watford's Richarlison leading the tackles for forward players in the prem so far. Exciting prospect. pic.twitter.com/9r7YM2bQb7
— Joanna Durkan (@JoannaDurkan_) October 3, 2017
The Brazilian has currently out-tackled the likes of Liverpool's Roberto Firmino (6) and Bournemouth's Joshua King (6) who are well-known for their forward pressure - another encouraging sign of his obvious potential.
Richarlison's hard-work is clear to see as he is comfortably leading the pack, with Swansea's Jordan Aye (19) his closest rival to the crown.
Dan Istitene/GettyImages
It has no doubt been a dream start to his career at Vicarage Road, with the Watford faithful likely to be buoyed by the 20-year-old's willingness to do the dirty work - not to mention his last gasp goals which have earned the Hornets four points in their last two outings against Swansea and West Brom.
Richarlison joined Watford for £11.5m during the summer transfer window and has stood up to the test as he has proved he can handle the physical demands of the Premier League.