My students work on the second tray and scrub until they think their pumpkin is clean!
After it has been scrubbed, they dry it off and then get to "decorate the classroom" with their clean pumpkin.
Cheap, easy, and a HUGE hit!
For this activity you will need white yarn, Elmer's White glue, and balloons.
After all the yarn had been wrapped around the balloons, I hung them up to dry over night. The next morning, I popped the balloons and added a plastic spiderling to each egg sac. The kids came in to find their egg sacs on their desks in the morning. They were beyond excited!!
For this activity, I gave each child a plastic Easter egg "egg sac" filled with plastic spiders. My students then had to count up their spiders and place them on their spider web worksheet that I made for them. They then practiced decomposing their number of spiderlings!
To do this, I showed them how to put some spiderlings on one side of the paper and the rest on the other side. After they did this, they wrote down their equations.
As I teach at a Christian school, we don't celebrate Halloween at school. However, many of our students are VERY excited about all things October. Therefore, to help give them an outlet, I let my students write all about their favorite things to do in October.
A friend of mine came into my classroom this Friday and said to me, "Wow… you have a lot of books for October!" I had to laugh because I may have a bit of a problem with buying books for my classroom. However, this small obsession of mine works in my best interest. My students LOVE listening to themed stories and they are a great way to increase engagement! Reading these stories is a great way to work on the comprehension topics your are discussing during your language lessons!
Kindergarten students LOVE to move! I use this to my advantage and set up centers that encourage my students to walk around the classroom. I put up this spider web and it is the biggest hit in my classroom.
As a center, my students read the words on the web and record them on their "write the room" recording page. On this page, students sort the words by the vowel in them.
7. Make an edible (healthy!) snack!
For this activity, I simply gave each student a "Cutie" and had them draw a face on it! They loved the idea of turning their cutie into a jack-o-lantern!
Opening the cutie also helps develop those fine motor skills!!
We also decorated the classroom with writing activities, crafts, and a shared writing activity inspired from Vickie Plant's pumpkin activity from the blog Primary Press!
I hope you can use some of these ideas this week!


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The Ultimate Collection или Ultimate Collection — названия музыкальных сборников:

 The Ultimate Collection (альбом Ace of Base)
 The Ultimate Collection (альбом Гарта Брукса)
 The Ultimate Collection (альбом Донны Саммер, 2003)
 The Ultimate Collection (альбом Донны Саммер, 2016)
 The Ultimate Collection (альбом Уитни Хьюстон)

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Here's a little something to put on your calendar to attend in November…The Beatles' The White Album: An International Symposium to be held on November 8-11, 2018 at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, NJ. The keynote speaker will be Beatles historian and author Mark Lewisohn. Other speakers will include Geoff Emerick, Chris Thomas, Walter Everett, Bruce Spizer, and Tim Riley. The conference them will be: "Producing an Enigma for the Ages" .
If you plan to attend, on the first night of the conference (November 8th), be sure to buy tickets to see The Weeklings in concert. You may remember my review of their last album back in November 2016. If not, you can read more about them and their Beatlesque sound here.
Currently, host Kenneth Womack is still in the process of accepting abstracts for any Beatles experts and authors that wish to speak at this event, but the deadline is drawing near (August 20, 2018), so if you're interested in presenting at this symposium, you can find the information about how to submit a paper for consideration at: https://www.monmouth.edu/mca/whitealbum/.
For all the Beatles fans and freaks that want to attend, keep your eyes and ears up for more information on tickets to this grand event!


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Robert Gassaway – Gentleman Author
Bob Gassaway was a journalist for more than 20 years. After earning a Ph.D. in sociology, focusing on human communication, he began teaching journalism and conducting research as a sociologist. He is co-editor of a non-fiction book called Dirty Work and later in life wrote murder mysteries, drawing on many memories of crime scenes.
After a long illness, Bob passed away in May. A SWW member and board member, many of us remember him as soft spoken and unfailingly polite, always noticing the efforts of others and encouraging positive interactions. Before the SWW Memoir Conference in 2015, Bob wrote the following article, and in doing so exposed many of his own experiences and memories for us to enjoy.
The Many Faces of Memoir
The memoir is a curious kind of writing. It has many faces because it has a different style and tells a different story for every person who creates one.
Bookstores tend to lump biographies and memoirs together, but they actually are very different beasts. A biography tells the story of a person's life from childhood up until the time the story is written. But a memoir is a narrower take on a person's life-just a segment of the life that the writer deems interesting and worth recounting.
One writing teacher uses a kitchen metaphor to distinguish between them. She says a biography is the whole pie. But a memoir is a slice of the pie. It should be an interesting slice with characters and probably conflict that will hold the reader's attention, but it's just a piece of the life, covering a particular time period in the writer's life.
One thing is clear: Biographies and memoirs are shelved in the nonfiction section of the bookstore. Indeed, the memoir is expected to be a true account. If you plan to write fiction, write a novel, not a memoir.
Nonetheless, the writer can take some reasonable liberties with a memoir. Memoir, after all, derives from a French word meaning memory. So you're drawing on your memories when you write a memoir. Yet many memoirs reproduce conversations of years gone by. Are they verbatim transcriptions that the writer is reproducing? Not likely. The reader should understand that the writer has reconstructed the events as he or she remembers them. In fact, a note early in the book might remind the reader that the writer is depending on memories to tell the story.
One of my friends, Fred Bales, has used a variety of approaches to telling stories from various parts of his life. He published one book, mostly for friends and family, using the letters he and his wife, Jan, wrote to their parents when Fred and Jan were serving in the Peace Corps in Chile.
In another project, Fred created a novella based on boyhood memories of a scandalous sex triangle in his hometown. He also produced a short nonfiction book on his experiences during an attempted coup in the Philippines. He was in Manila as a Fulbright lecturer, teaching at two universities, when some members of the Filipino military tried to overthrow then-President Corazon Aquino in December of 1989. Fred holed up in his small apartment, but often could hear gunfire not far away.
Bright journalist that he was, he cranked paper into his typewriter and began keeping a log of his daily life, describing what he could see and hear, plus what he learned about the attempted coup d'état from television news and from people at the U.S. embassy. Last year, when he decided to write about his coup experiences, that log provided the facts he needed.
He used memories in a more traditional approach to memoir to produce an account of his work as a volunteer for a homeless shelter in Albuquerque. The residents in the shelter are men with medical problems, some of them quite serious.
That book, called Our Sheltered Lives, actually sort of sneaked up on Fred. He had been volunteering at the shelter for about three years, he says, when he decided that he could write a book about his experiences. At that point he began making some notes after each day of volunteer work to describe his more interesting experiences.
In the book, Fred recounts conversations with the men as he drove them to medical appointments and on errands around town. He disguised the identities of the men to protect their privacy.
Fred is a former journalist and a retired journalism professor who taught at the University of New Mexico (UNM). After he retired from UNM, he taught for several years in New Orleans and later in Brownsville, Texas, before he returned to Albuquerque to settle down and start writing.
"I think everybody ought to have something to look forward to, and for writers, that is writing," he says. "I do if for my own self. It has its own rewards. I'm not in it for the money." (But he does have four books for sale on Amazon.com)
Jim Tritten, a member of the board of directors of SouthWest Writers, is a retired Navy pilot and draws on those experiences in some of his writing. He has 3,345 hours of pilot time in 24 military airplane types to his credit. And he has made 320 landings on nine aircraft carriers-one of the most difficult things a naval aviator will ever do.
A modern aircraft carrier is a huge ship when you go aboard one or see it tied up at a dock. But it looks like little more than a speck in the ocean when you are flying thousands of feet above it and planning to land on the flight deck below. The carrier is not parked at sea when a pilot is trying to land. The ship is underway, rolling and pitching with the waves and the actions of the sea, plus it is steaming into the wind to grant the airplane extra lift as it makes its precarious landing.
If you are able to touch down on this moving target, a tailhook under the plane is supposed to grab a steel cable strung across the deck. An aircraft traveling 120 miles an hour is jerked to a stop in just two seconds.
Jim has penned a few short nonfiction stories about his years of flying, the close calls, the tall tales the pilots tell each other, his visits to foreign ports and his other adventures. And he has written a novel, not yet published, that includes a fictional chapter that is based on a real-life crash that Jim experienced firsthand.
But we all have stories that will interest others. For instance, I spent a year in Vietnam as a war correspondent for The Associated Press. (Actually it was one year, two weeks, five hours and 18 minutes-but who's keeping track?) I spent most of my time with the U.S. Marines in the northern part of South Vietnam-and I made a very large target at 6-foot-4 and 300 pounds. I've started writing a book about covering the war.
Beyond that, I've been a journalist, a firefighter, a paramedic, and a sociologist. Along the way, I've been to dozens of murder scenes. Now my primary writing interest is mystery novels based on what I've learned about the work of crime scene investigators.
Naturally you don't have to go to a war or make a habit of landing on aircraft carriers or see lots of dead people or work with the homeless to have an interesting tale. The trick is to pick out the pieces of your life that are the most interesting and find a narrative structure that you can use to knit those together into an intriguing story. And that makes a memoir.
With some thought and effort, you can turn your story into a memoir that your family will cherish-and it might just find a publisher who will spread the word far and wide.
Thank you, Bob, for your wisdom, your friendship and the sense of adventure you gave in everything your wrote.
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OpTic's Dashy reveals his favorite CoD teammates of all time
by Albert Petrosyan
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Having teamed with some legendary players in his career so far, OpTic Gaming Call of Duty professional Brandon 'Dashy' Otell has revealed which have been his favorite thus far.
It did not take long for Dashy to develop into good enough of a Call of Duty player to land on a prestigious team like OpTic Gaming.
And while he's still very much in the early stages of his professional career, he's already gotten the chance to play alongside some of the biggest names of the esport.
Speaking with OpTic CEO Hector 'H3CZ' Rodriguez about his career, Dashy revealed that his favorite teammates to this point have been none other that Jeremy 'StuDyy' Astacio and Rasim 'Blazt' Ogresevic
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"It's between Blazt and StuDyy, between the two," he said. "StuDyy, he was the guy that taught me like 'you have to do this, this, don't be an idiot, this and that. Obviously, people are watching you now.' And Blazt, just because we're like the same age, so we kind of relate a lot. So probably either of those two."
Discussion begins at the 5:19 mark.
StuDyy was one of Dashy's first ever teammates in the pro scene, having teamed with him under the Str8 Rippin banner at CWL Anaheim in 2017, where they placed 17-20, and later 13-16 at the CWL Championship 2017.
He is now retired, serving as one of the desk analysts for the CWL at the Pro League and other major tournaments and events.
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Blazt, meanwhile, first teamed with Dashy at CWL New Orleans 2018, during his brief stint with Enigma6 Group, before the two became more permanent teammates with compLexity Gaming, qualifying for the CWL Pro League during the WWII season.
Their careers have since progressed at different rates, as Blazt has jumped around several teams this season until landing at UYU, while Dashy has very much solidified himself as an integral member of OpTic's squad.
Str8 Rippin
Dashy's first ever competitive event was with Str8 Rippin, teaming with StuDyy, Temp, and Ricky.
Of course, it must be said that Dashy specifically mentioned that he did not want to name someone from their current OpTic roster as his all-time favorite teammate, for obvious reasons.
So the true answer to H3CZ's question could very well be someone who's currently a member of the Green Wall, but that's not something that would be confirmed anytime soon.
Dashy is now a firm staple of OpTic Gaming's roster, having already earned MVP honors in his first season.
Dashy and OpTic head to Miami for CWL Finals
OpTic Gaming face a stiff test at the upcoming CWL Finals tournament in Miami, Florida, where they will be competing in the $1.25 million Playoffs of the CWL Pro League.
While they did run away with the first seed in Division A during the regular season, their performances towards the end was lackluster to say the least, and they will need to regroup if they are to fight off fellow powerhouse teams eUnited and 100 Thieves, both of whom pose a serious threat.
Read More: Nadeshot finally gives update on 100 Thieves' plans for Call of Duty franchised league
CWL Finals will be played July 19-21, and will feature the Play-In tournament, Playoffs, and the final amateur open bracket tournament of the year, which will send 16 non-Pro League teams to next month's Champs.
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Last night was the Westchester Crossword Puzzle Tournament in Pleasantville. It was a good time as always, seeing old friends and new. Of course, the puzzles were next week's NYT Monday-Thursday (an above-average bunch by Ian, Joel, Paula, and with an auspicious debut, Evan Birnholz), which I solved at the judges' table. Congratulations to all the winners!
It's now been six full days since the last time I solved a crossword - by far the longest of my "career". Feels weird.
I think I'm about to get farther behind in solving than ever before. I'm working long hours (with little downtime) for the next week, but eventually I'll get back and fill in all the little boxes. Some of the spreadsheet boxes will say "untimed", because I'm going to do some leisurely paper solving as a change of pace.


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Catelynn Lowell Drops A Baby Bombshell & Fans Are Freaking Out!
By:OK! Staff
Feb. 27 2020, Updated 5:52 p.m. ET
Is another baby on the way?! Catelynn Lowell dropped a major baby bombshell and fans are freaking out!
"Why is it that when babies get to be around 1 year old that you wanna have another? ? #ImNot #CalmDown but seriously why? Is it like hormones or something?" the fan favorite MTV star wrote. Looks like baby number four isn't on the way yet, but it's on her mind!
Cate and husband Tyler Baltierra welcomed their third child together, a baby girl named Vaeda, in February 2019. The fan favorite couple also share daughter Novalee, 5, and daughter Carly, 10, whom they placed for adoption in 2009.
Shortly after Vaeda's birth, the two were already talking about welcoming another child! In March 2019, Cate opened up about wanting a baby boy!
"Yes, we want more children," she told Us Weekly. "We really want to try for a boy."
At the time, they said they will start planning baby number four when "Vaeda is a little older, like, six months to a year." Back in October 2018, when they learned that they were expecting their third daughter, they couple was a bit shocked. She said to Us Weekly, "I was so shocked that it was a girl because I for sure thought it was a boy! Tyler knew the sex before I did."
Cate admitted that at first she was "so shocked" and "almost cried" because she "wanted a boy so badly." However, shortly afterwards came excitement! "I'm super excited it's a girl now. Since our miscarriage, I just am thankful to get another chance, and as long as it's healthy, that's all that matters," she said.
Fans on Twitter responded to Cate's tweet writing, "Have another one hopefully it will be a boy!" Another user wrote, "Y'all need a BOY!!!!"
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Cate's tweet about wanting another baby has led to countless fans asking if she is pregnant in recent weeks. "Everyone has been asking me if I'm pregnant again. This seems to be a repetitive question. I can't mention the word baby without everyone assuming I'm pregnant or asking me if I'm pregnant or commenting 'congrats,'" she told Champion Daily.
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She continued, "With that being said, at this time I am not pregnant. I have mentioned that yes, I do want to have more babies in the future. Could I get pregnant this year? Absolutely. Am I pregnant right now? No."
While the constant pregnancy inquiries get a little tiresome, Cate and Tyler are flattered that their fans are so invested in their parenthood journey. She insisted that she will share the happy news when there's news to share. "Being pregnant is great, and I promise you that when I am, I will definitely let you know. For now, Tyler and I sit back and laugh at constantly being asked if I'm pregnant, but we do appreciate how much you guys care to know if we are pregnant or if we're not," she added.
During the same interview with Champion Daily, Cate also addressed the rumors that she and Tyler are getting a divorce. "In a similar vein, I'd like to address one more thing that keeps coming up. People keep asking if Tyler and I are getting divorced. Again, this is a RUMOR. There is NOTHING WRONG in our relationship. Tyler and I have made it through THICK AND THIN and we are each other's everything's," she emphatically stated.
Cate was quick to note that they've been together for so long that they've definitely had their ups and downs. "Yes, we've had some bumps along the road, but please tell me what couple doesn't have issues along the way? What couple is perfect? We've been together since we were teenagers, and we'll be 30 in a few years. At this point, we've spent over half of our lives together," she pointed out.
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Cate doesn't envision a day where she and Tyler will ever make the decision to split. "Sorry to disappoint those looking for more drama, but I don't see that changing. Will there be problems or fights in the future between us? Of course! All normal couples have peaks and valleys, but I can assure you we will stand the test of time," she said.
"Again, we appreciate how interested you are in our relationship status, but like a pregnancy test, I can tell you it's a definite NEGATIVE on us getting divorced," she joked.
Tyler gushed over Cate in a sweet Instagram message just days after Valentine's Day. "MY BABY!!! I love you so much & I'm so proud of how far you've come as a woman, as a mother, & as a survivor! Your strength is as immeasurable as your capacity to love so deeply & I am so blessed to have you as the matriarch of our family tribe & to have you as my wife!" he wrote.
He continued, "Thank you for everything you do @catelynnmtv & always remember...You're BEAUTIFUL. You're STRONG. You're WORTHY. You're SAFE. I love you honey!
#MyBabe #MyWorld #13YearsStrong."
The longtime couple celebrated Vaeda's first birthday with a Trolls-themed bash on February 22.
Stay with OKMagazine.com for all updates on Cate & Tyler!


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Q: onAuthStateChanged Firebase Listener on app refresh causing private route issues I have currently initialized a React App with firebase. Within the application, I have created an open login route and a private Home route using react-router-dom. my app.js looks like so:
App.js:
import React from 'react'
import { BrowserRouter, Switch, Route } from 'react-router-dom'
import Login from './pages/Login'
import Home from './pages/Home'
import PrivateRoute from './utils/PrivateRoute'

const App = () => {
  return (
    <BrowserRouter>
      <Switch>
        <PrivateRoute exact path='/' component={Home} />
        <Route path='/login' component={Login} />
      </Switch>
    </BrowserRouter>
  )
}

export default App

I am storing the currentUser in context using the onAuthStateChanged firebase event listener like so:
AppContext:
import { useEffect, useState, createContext } from 'react'
import { auth } from '../utils/firebase'

export const AppContext = createContext()

export const AppProvider = ({ children }) => {
  const [currentUser, setCurrentUser] = useState(null)

  useEffect(() => {
    auth.onAuthStateChanged(setCurrentUser)
  }, [])

  return (
    <AppContext.Provider value={{ currentUser }}>
      {children}
    </AppContext.Provider>
  )
}

when a user logins in via the login route:
login:
import React, { useState, useCallback, useContext } from 'react'
import { auth } from '../utils/firebase'
import { useHistory, Redirect } from 'react-router-dom'

function Login() {
  const [formData, setFormData] = useState({ email: '', password: '' })
  const history = useHistory()

  const handleChange = ({ target: { name, value } }) => {
    setFormData({ ...formData, [name]: value })
  }

  const handleSubmit = useCallback(
    async event => {
      event.preventDefault()
      await auth
        .createUserWithEmailAndPassword(formData.email, formData.password)
        .then(user => {
          console.log(user)
          history.push('/')
        })
        .catch(err => {
          alert(err)
        })
    },
    [history, formData.email, formData.password]
  )

  return (

      <form className='register-form' onSubmit={handleSubmit}>

Create Account

        or use your email for registration

        <input
          type='email'
          placeholder='Email'
          name='email'
          onChange={handleChange}
        />

        <input
          type='password'
          placeholder='Password'
          name='password'
          onChange={handleChange}
        />

        <button type='submit'>Sign Up</button>
      </form>

  )
}

export default Login

the currentUser is successfully stored in context and the user is pushed into the private Home route.
the Private Route looks like so:
import React, { useContext } from 'react'
import { Route, Redirect } from 'react-router-dom'
import { AppContext } from '../context/AppContext'

const PrivateRoute = ({ component: Component, ...rest }) => {
  const { currentUser } = useContext(AppContext)
  return (
    <Route
      {...rest}
      render={routeProps =>
        !!currentUser ? (
          <Component {...routeProps} />
        ) : (
          <Redirect to={'/login'} />
        )
      }
    />
  )
}

export default PrivateRoute

The issue I'm having is that when the app refreshes, the currentUser becomes null initially and then currentUser's information loads back up. While the currentUser is null on refresh, the user is kicked from the home route and redirected to the login page.  I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions on how to prevent this from happening.

A: You initialize your currentUser state variable with a null value:
const [currentUser, setCurrentUser] = useState(null)

This means that currentUser is always initially null when the page is first loaded.  The prior user object isn't known for sure until some time later, after it's asynchronously loaded by the Firebase SDK.  Your code needs to be ready for this.  If you require that a user be signed in before rendering your component, you should wait for the first time onAuthStateChanged triggers with an actual user object.
You can read more about this behavior of the Firebase Auth SDK in this blog.

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Q: Did Robert Heinlein Create the Modern Concept of Powered Armor? Is Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers, published in 1959 and winner of the Hugo award for Best Novel in 1960, responsible for the modern concept of "powered armor" that is such a standard of recent science fiction movies, literature and games?

A: Starship Troopers is influential in popularising the idea, but it's nowhere near the origin point for the concept of powered armor.
A quick glance at Wikipedia indicates that the concept of powered exoskeletons well predates Heinlein: the first prototypes were developed in the 1890s and 1910s. The idea of using a powered exoskeleton for armor was already prevalent in science fiction like the Lensman series in the 1930s.
However, one of the scientists working on exosuit technology in the 1980s was partly inspired (though only AFTER having begun his project, so Heinlein still can't take any credit for the idea itself) by Starship Troopers.


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Holland & Knight Adds Ex-Senate Staffer In DC
Law360 highlights the addition of former U.S. Senate staffer Dimitri Karakitsos to Holland & Knight's D.C. public policy and regulation practice. Mr. Karakitsos formerly worked for the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, serving as senior counsel and principal drafter on the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, a reform of the outdated Toxic Substances Control Act.
"When you work on a major piece of legislation that passes with overwhelming bipartisan support, it's a pretty big accomplishment," said Mr. Karakitsos, "It gives you new opportunities to transition into new things."
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Tooltips are implemented in the Boonex Dolphin 7 social network software but are not documented. Moreover, they are not called tooltips in Dolphin 7 nor are they implemented using the fairly common paradigm of converting the (X)HTML title attribute into a stylized tooltip as is done by the TipTip jQuery plugin and others. This post describes how they are implemented in Dolphin 7 and how they can be configured and stylized.
* Just add float_info attribute to your element.
The visual appearance of the Dolphin 7 tooltip can be controlled using CSS. The relevant CSS rules are located in ..//templates/base/css/forms_adv.css. Here are the rules used to display the tooltip shown above.
Unfortunately, the float_info paradigm is not consistently implemented across the Dolphin 7 codebase. It is not used anywhere to replace the native tooltips. For example tooltips for individual avatar pictures and whether the user is online or not are implemented using the native HTML title attribute as shown below.
Fortunately these are easy to find and convert to using the float_info attribute.
Note that Dolphin 7 uses info instead of float_info within most of the codebase to denote a float_info attribute. Another inconsistency!
This example shows how to add in a string from a language file. If you do not need localization just enter a regular text string, i.e.
One of the advantages of the Dolphin 7 tooltips is that they are dynamic, i.e. tooltips are created as needed, as opposed to just being created when the page is first rendered. This is not the case with many of the existing jQuery-based tooltip plugins, including the previosly mentioned TipTips plug-in, which do not handle dynamically created page sections.
Dolphin 7 also makes use of the jQuery–ui plug-in. Currently, this plug-in does not have support for tooltips. However work is well underway to add support for tooltips in the next version of jQuery-ui, i.e. 1.9. If you are interested in learning more about this forthcoming tooltip support in jQuery-ui, see this wiki page. It will be interesting to see if Boonex changes to using the jQuery-ui tooltip support when it is released. This obviously is the way to go longterm.
P.S. Please let me know if I missed any important information about tooltips in Dolphin 7 and I will update this post. Developer documentation for this particular software is sorely missing!


We use to have only one type of hot dog you could buy but when I went shopping for hot dogs I got decision stress because there were just to many to choose from.
Small to large and from low fat to high fat. I decided to just pick the first can of the shelf and bought these small hot dogs.
With these sausages we are making hot dogs but with a twist because there is no bun in this recipe today but tortillas. They are surprisingly easy to make and surprising delicious these great tortilla wraps.
Start with the onions and slice them ultra thin and fry them in about a tablespoon of olive oil. Put them aside.
Then heat the pan to pan fry the tortillas on both sides. This will not take more than half a minute. Drain on kitchen paper.
Then pan fry the hot dog sausages until they warmed through. You can also choose to put them in warm water together with the Sauerkraut to let both warm.
Now it is time to plate up. First take a tortilla and add two to three tablespoons of Sauerkraut and top it with the onion.
Then add some salad like rucola and put the hot dogs on top. Drizzle some ketchup and mustard on the hot dog and you are ready to serve.
Have fun with this easy tortilla hot dog wraps recipe! Made a recipe tag @thetortillachannel on Instagram or PIN it on Pinterest.
Looking for a different kind of hot dog? If you love hot dog you need to try these. Easy to make and done in no time. This Tortilla hot dog is delicious.
You can also choose to put the hot dogs in warm water together with the Sauerkraut to let them warm instead of pan frying the hot dogs.
Beautiful creation Mireille ! It is my pleasure to enjoy your creations ?
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At one of the quarries in the Wahweap Formation we were working on with Dr. Titus, the majority of the bones we were unearthing were rotten and past the point of being able to salvage. However, surrounding some of the rotten bone were rocks called siderite concretions. In the picture below you can see that this particular concretion was quite large and after we put it somewhat back together, you could tell that it was once encasing an 80 million year old hadrosaur bone -- the dark reddish color that you see is rotten bone still attached to it. According to Dr. Titus, these concretions often form around organic material and that's why there was so much of it in this site.
According to geology.com, concretions are formed by groundwater leaving minerals behind in soil or sediment. Many concretions form around a fossil like ours. Usually the cementing material is calcium carbonate. But, it is common to have iron carbonate (siderite) nodules like those seen here.
The concretions were part of the process that caused the bone in this location to be destroyed. Also, the siderite encased bone was not possible to extract. But at least the concretions saved enough bone to give us an estimate of the type and size of dinosaur that had been preserved there.


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A hairdresser from New-Orleans was arrested this morning and accused of using his customers' hair to create voodoo dolls and cast curses upon them.
According to the New-Orleans Police Department (NOPD), 29-year old Enoch Azaka collected the hair he cut from his customers at the Old City Barber Shop and used it in black magic rituals.
"We found a voodoo altar in the store's basement with dozens of dolls. We also found baggies full of hair, each marked with the names of the customers it came from."
New Orleans Police Chief Ronal Serpas says Mr. Azaka used his skills as a voodoo sorcerer to cause pain and illness to his victims in order to extort money and sexual favors.
The victims described suffering from acute migraines, back pain, severe rashes, respiratory problems and even some sudden and eerie hemorrhages that would cause blood to come out of their nose, eyes, and ears.
Mr. Azaka allegedly contacted them himself to explain that he was a powerful sorcerer and the cause of their pain.
"Some of his victims called us after he asked them for money. He showed them the dolls and threatened to increase their pain if the didn't pay him thousands of dollars."
Two of his female customers claim that instead of money, the accused asked them for sex in exchange for "dispelling the curses" he had cast on them.
According to the New Orleans Police Department, Mr. Asaka used black magic rituals to cast curses on at least 48 of his customers.
Enoch Azaka now faces a total of 184 criminal charges, including 94 charges of theft, 32 charges of extortion and 48 charges of witchcraft.
Witchcraft and the practice of magical arts are still illegal in Lousiana under an old French law that predates the state's acquisition by the United States in 1803.
The 1731 "Act against Sorcery and Witchcraft" provides that anyone who should "use, practice, or exercise any witchcraft, enchantment, charm or sorcery" shall be sentenced to a minimum of ten years of imprisonment.
If found guilty on all charges, Mr. Azaka could get a fine of $1,125,000 and face a total of 835 years of imprisonment.
He was freed a few hours after his arrest on a $120,000 bail and should be back in court in October for the beginning of his trial.
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4 Comments on "Hairdresser arrested for making voodoo dolls from customers' hair"
Eric Hayman | June 4, 2021 at 9:33 pm | Reply
Next it will be a crime to fill a bottle with tap water, call it HOLY and pour it over babies' heads.
regina | April 7, 2021 at 7:04 pm | Reply
cool kid
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Never thought the world would do this, curse this man he deserves what he got


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Forbes' contributor, Devin Thorpe, packs a crowd of social entrepreneurs and impact investing experts into his latest article. Each practitioner provides a different perspective; each new angle exposes a little more of the puzzle.
A managing director at Caprock, Matthew Weatherley-White, shares his $0.02 on common mistakes, and the real value of impact metrics:
Matthew Weatherley-White… cautions that no single set of metrics will work for all social ventures. "We believe that there are no universal impact key performance indicators. Instead, social entrepreneurs should be prepared to measure, on day one, whatever impact metrics are endogenous to the operations or mission of their enterprise. Far too often, social entrepreneurs believe that tracking and reporting on a host of socially-aware metrics will make their business 'more' impactful… when, in fact, doing so may be (at best) a distraction to operating the business or (at worst) a distorting force, putting at risk the survival of the enterprise. Seen through this lens, impact measurement can be interpreted as answering the question of 'materiality': what impact measures are critical to the survival of the enterprise. That set of measures should be what the entrepreneur strives to report the day the doors open.
Stephanie Gripne, Founder and Director of Impact Finance Center, will help illuminate the differences between outputs and outcomes, while Lisa Hagerman, Director of Programs at DBL Partners, makes an argument for the inclusion of narratives in impact reports. With 6+ names to a page (it's a 4 page story) there is plenty of advice and opining to go around. Catch 'em all.
This article was written by Devin Thorpe for Forbes.


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We would like to thank Garrett D. Cole for useful discussion on crystalline mirror materials. This work was partially funded by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems  (EQuS), project number CE110001013 and Discovery Project DP140101638.

\section*{Author Contributions}
K.X.,  M.R.V. and J. T. each contributed to the original concept and the model. K.X. primarily wrote codes for simulations. All three wrote the manuscript.

\section*{Additional Information}
K.X., M.R.V., and J.T. are co-inventors of the magnetic quantum interface described in this Report (internationally protected Australian Patent Application 2014900600).

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Egypt/Mohamed Salah Odds - 22/1
Egypt will be coming into the African Cup of Nations quietly confident that they can go all the way in the tournament, as they are the record seven times winners of the competition itself.
Carlos Quieroz's side arguably have the best player in the world at present in Mohamed Salah, as the Liverpool man is the current Premier League top scorer with 16 goals and nine assists in 20 matches, averaging a goal every 111 minutes, meaning the 29-year-old's tally as far in the campaign as a whole stands at 23 goals in 29 appearances across all competitions.
2021 AFCON Winners/Top Scorer Doubles Tips
EGYPT/MOHAMED SALAH @ 22/1
Senegal/Sadio Mane Odds - 28/1
Senegal will come into the AFCON in 2021 desperate to go one better than they did last time out, having finished as runners-up to Alegria in 2019.
Les Lions de have some high profile players amongst their ranks such as Edouard Mendy, Kalidou Koulibaly, Idrissa Gueye, but perhaps non more so than Liverpool's Sadio Mane.The 29-year-old managed three goals in AFCON 2019 which saw him finish as second top scorer in the competition, just two behind Nigeria's Odion Ighalo.
At present, the former Senegal man has scored 10 goals in 26 appearances for Liverpool this season and will be expected to carry the hopes of the nation in attack. In Group B, Senegal will face the likes of Zimbabwe, Guinea and Malawi.
SENEGAL/SADIO MANE @ 28/1
Senegal/Mohamed Salah Odds - 28/1
As mentioned above, Senegal will be looking to win what would be their first-ever AFCON tournament, having suffered the heartbreaks of finishing runners-up in both 2002 and 2019.
Perhaps this could be the coming of age for Les Lions de having came so close last time out, and arguably, with having one of the strongest squads in the competition, there is every chance that they could go all the way this time.
Someone that could challenge Mane to be top scorer at AFCON is Salah, who will be looking to capitalise on the likes of Nigeria, Sudan and Guinea-Bissau's defence in Group D, having already scored 23 goals for Liverpool this season.
SENEGAL/MOHAMED SALAH @ 28/1
Ivory Coast/Sebastien Haller Odds - 50/1
Ivory Coast will certainly fancy their chances of going far in AFCON 2021, having last won the competition back in 2015 for just the second time in their history.
Patrice Beaumelle's side boasts talents such as Eric Bailly, Franck Kessie, Wilfried Zaha and Sebastien Haller, meaning that they have a well-rounded squad that will be expected to delve deep into the tournament and potentially win it, especially having exited the tournament at the quarter-finals stage in 2019 on penalties against Algeria.
A player that comes into this competition in fine form for his club side is Haller of Ajax. The 27-year-old who only switched his allegiances to Cote d'Ivoire in November 2020 became the fastest player to score 10 goals in a single Champions League campaign when he fired in the opener in Ajax's 4-2 home win over Sporting Lisbon on matchday six of Group C in early December.
Haller's goal tally across all competitions currently stands at 22 this season and with the likes of Zaha and Nicolas Pepe set to provide him with service, he could be a contender for the Golden Boot and maybe even spearhead Ivory Coast's charge to AFCON glory.
IVORY COAST/SEBASTIEN HALLER @ 50/1
Ivory Coast/Riyad Mahrez Odds - 66/1
As previously mentioned, the Ivory Coast have a good chance of winning the upcoming AFCON tournament due to the quality that they possess in their squad, as their squad is filled with established European based footballers that have proven themselves in European competitions such as the Champions League and Europa League.
Riyad Mahrez is a name that will be on many viewers lips of the upcoming AFCON, as the 30-year-old helped to inspire Algeria to their first title since the 1990 edition of this competition.
The Manchester City winger scored three goals last time out, including a 95th-minute winner in the semi-finals against Nigeria and has been in good form for City coming into this year's tournament in Cameroon, firing in five goals in six Champions League matches, as well as managing 10 goal contributions across 16 Premier League appearances.
IVORY COAST/RIYAD MAHREZ @ 66/1
Algeria/Sebastien Haller Odds - 80/1
Algeria will be hoping to defend their crown as champions of Africa coming into AFCON 2021.
Last time out, the Greens displayed their stern character, finishing top of a group consisting of Senegal, Kenya and Tanzania, before defeating the likes of Guinea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Senegal once again in the final, winning every match at the tournament.
With players such as Said Benrahma, Mahrez, Ismael Bennacer and more in their ranks, there is a chance that they will be strong competitors for glory once again.
So far, Haller has shown early signs of clicking well with his Ivory Coast teammates since joining their squad in late 2020, as the 27-year-old has scored three goals in eight matches, on top of the 22 goals the former West Ham man has scored for Ajax across all competitions this season.
ALGERIA/SEBASTIEN HALLER @ 80/1
Nigeria/Kelechi Iheanacho Odds - 100/1
Last but not least on this list is the double of Nigeria and Kelechi Iheanacho that comes in at 100/1.
The Super Eagles are without key players such as Victor Osimhen and Emmanuel Dennis coming into this year's AFCON, but, they will still likely put on a good show for their fans, with Interim Manager Augustine Eguavoen leading the charge.
Nigeria's last win in this competition came back in 2013, but, their experiences in 2019 where they were beaten by Mahrez's stoppage-time strike in the semi-finals for Algeria could unite the side in what is a troubled time. Eguavoen's men will take on Egypt, Sudan and Guinea-Bissau in Group D.
Iheanacho will be expected to lead the way for the Super Eagles, despite only managing four goals across all competitions this season. The 25-year-old will be looking to rediscover the goalscoring form that saw him score 11 league goals in 12 matches for Leicester City at the end of last season.
The Foxes forward will line up next to some high profile names, such as club teammate Wilfried Ndidi, as well as Ighalo and Alex Iwobi.
NIGERIA/KELECHI IHEANACHO @ 100/1


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While You See A Chance
After spending the past two summers touring the Northwest Territories, Yukon and Alaska it really struck me how differently Canada and the U.S. choose to manage their First Nations communities, resources, and tourism in the North. Whether out of pragmatism, practicality or simply opportunity, the Americans seem to have made incredible progress while in Canada we have tended to languish and procrastinate. Why there are such differences in an area with so much in common is a question that needs more examination.
In terms of size, with a combined area of 706,000 square miles the Yukon and NWT are nearly equal to Alaska which has 740,000 square miles but in terms of population there is no comparison with the Yukon and NWT barely registering 85,000 people whereas Alaska has over 740,000 and even that makes it the most sparsely populated state in the Union. The populations weren't so far apart until WW2 when the population of Alaska, particularly Anchorage, exploded with the building of military bases, the Alaska highway connecting Fairbanks to Dawson Creek in Canada, and then the discovery of oil.
Trans Alaska Pipeline
It was the discovery of oil in Prudhoe Bay in 1968 that prompted the U.S. government to begin negotiations with the First Nations people whose lands were still in dispute following the purchase of Alaska from Russia 100 years earlier. By 1971 the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, the largest land claim settlement in U.S. history, had been worked out and was signed into law by President Nixon which created 12 Native regional economic development corporations for the Natives who lived in each region and transferred title to millions of acres of land for them to farm, mine, or log as they saw fit. In return the oil companies were able to build a pipeline from the Arctic coast to the port of Valdez where tankers could then load the oil for transport to the U.S.
Contrast this with the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry for a gas pipeline to connect the gas fields of the Mackenzie Delta with the pipelines in northern Alberta which started in 1974 and after 3 years of consultation resulted in a 10 year moratorium on any development taking place. For the next 35 years gas exploration, First Nations negotiations, and federal permit applications were under way but, by the time everything had been agreed on between the First Nations, oil companies, and federal government the price structure had collapsed and, in 2017, the project was cancelled. All the promised jobs and economic opportunity were once again put on hold.
Treaty Map of Canada
Land claims and self government agreements between the First Nations of the Yukon have been ongoing since the days of the Klondike Gold Rush but started in earnest in 1968 with the formation of the Yukon Native Brotherhood and by 1990 an Umbrella Agreement had been reached that over the next 15 years saw 11 of the 14 First Nations in the Territory become self governing. But in NWT the original Treaty of 1921 is still in dispute not only for the unequal way it was negotiated but also because of subsequent violations committed by the Federal Government with the residential school system, resource extraction, and actions by Indian agents.
The Alaska Railroad was started in 1903 and by 1923 it connected Fairbanks to Anchorage and Seward providing a backbone transportation link that continues to this day carrying freight and passengers to all the major centres. The Canadian rail connections north of the 60th parallel are basically non-existent. There used to be a railroad running from Skagway, Alaska to Whitehorse on the Yukon River but it has since been scaled back to Carcross, and in NWT the railway from Alberta ends in Hay River which is located on Great Slave Lake. Since 1890 a Canada - Alaska connection has been continuously proposed without success as the logical next step for railways in the North. In 2015 a link between Fairbanks, Whitehorse, Fort Nelson and Fort McMurray called the Alaska Canada Rail Link (ACRL) has been rekindled with the support of First Nations but 4 years later nothing has materialized.
While the railways wait to connect at least there's some progress being made with the roadways up North. The Mackenzie Highway connects northern Alberta to Yellowknife, NWT and the Alaska Highway connects northern B.C. to Whitehorse, Yukon and Fairbanks, Alaska. A major breakthrough this year was the completion of the road to Tuktoyaktuk from Inuvik which extends the Dempster Highway from Dawson City all the way to the Arctic Ocean but year round connections still need to be made between Inuvik and Yellowknife. There are no roads anywhere within Nunavut but perhaps one day something will connect Rankin Inlet with Yellowknife.
Alaska has three cities with universities, but currently there isn't a single university in any part of Canada's north, the only northern nation without an arctic university. With a population of 300,000 Anchorage would be expected to have a university, but Juneau and Fairbanks each with 30,000 residents also have one and, while Yellowknife and Whitehorse are roughly the same size, there is only a college. Climate change, resource development, agriculture, and Indigenous languages are just a few of the disciplines that could attract students from all over and stimulate growth and new opportunities in these territories. Long overdue plans are finally afoot to establish universities in NWT and the Yukon starting this fall, 56 years after the Alaska university system was established.
In terms of national parks both the Alaskan Denali and N.W.T. Nahanni are spectacular and filled with all sorts of wildlife and signature geographic features such as Denali Mountain, the highest in North America, and Virginia Falls, which is twice the height of Niagara Falls. Both have restricted access to preserve and protect the parks but the entrance to Denali is surrounded by beautiful lodges, restaurants, and services of all sorts whereas Nahanni has only the dilapidated Fort Simpson which is practically devoid of any accommodations, places to eat or tourist conveniences of any kind. As a result, over 400,000 people a year visit Denali as opposed to less than 1,000 who visit Nahanni.
Nahanni National Park
Alaska, Yukon and NWT all share in being part of Beringia, that ancient land mass that stretched from Siberia to the Mackenzie River 65,000 years ago during the last ice age and was teaming with giant mammals such as woolly mammoths, scimitar cats and steppe bison. It also allowed for the movement of early people into the Americas from Asia. Later as the glaciers started to melt the area got covered up and remained hidden until the placer mining activities of the various gold rushes revealed what had once existed. In each of the major cities; Yellowknife, Whitehorse, Fairbanks, Anchorage, & Juneau there are some truly incredible museums with fascinating displays of these ancient creatures, First Nations artifacts, and all the animals currently living in the North.
Beringia Museum - Whitehorse
McBride Museum - Whitehorse
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre - Yellowknife
Museum of the North - Fairbanks
Alaska State Museum - Juneau
Anchorage Museum - Anchorage
Obviously the vastness of the North, not to mention the climate, is what makes it particularly challenging to tame but, if Canadians want to truly claim their land, they need to put more effort into the enterprise. Under nearly identical conditions the Americans have proved it's possible to succeed and, in the process, have created a prosperity for its citizens that is the envy of the country with Alaskans having one of the highest levels of per capita/family income. They have exploited their natural resources without destroying the habitat, made productive settlements with their First Nations people, and created an environment where tourism is booming and young people flock there to study and enjoy the outdoors. When will Canada realize that when you see a chance take it?
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Where Have All The Whales Gone?
L-92 aka Crewser
J-35 and her baby
This past summer was a dramatic tale of two completely different coastlines. Here on the West Coast the declining southern killer whale population dominated the news with first L-92, aka Crewser, a 23 year old male dying in June, then in August one poor mother whale, J-35 was filmed pushing her dead baby around for more than 2 weeks in a heartbreaking effort to stop her from sinking, and finally we all watched in September as another whale, J-50 slowly succumbed to disease and starvation. The southern killer whale population hasn't had a successful birth in over 3 years now and has declined to just 74 individuals.
J-50 and her mother J-16
The suspected causes of all this heartache include noise from tanker/freighter traffic, PCB's in the food chain, DDT from fertilizer run-off, and a lack of Chinook salmon, their main source of food. Chinook salmon are the largest species of Pacific salmon averaging 36" in length and 30 lbs in weight but they can get much bigger. Because of their size they are the favoured prey of killer whales and are highly valued by sports fishermen. "There's no nooky like chinooky" is the saying, and the largest ever caught weighed 126 lbs. Native to the North Pacific and ranging from Alaska to California, Chinook are now in decline everywhere due to over fishing, loss of habitat, and poor ocean conditions.
Nelson with a 20 lb. Chinook
Nelson with a 23 lb.Chinook
Chinook mainly spawn in large rivers such as the Yukon, Nass, Skeena, Fraser and Columbia and with both the Columbia and Yukon in a near collapse it leaves only a few rivers in B.C. to hold the fort. Last summer Alaska suspended both the commercial and recreational Chinook fishery to help protect the returning salmon yet B.C. kept its fishery open.
Chinook Migration Routes
While the southern killer whale population is suffering the northern killer whale population is thriving. They don't seem to have any problem feeding themselves and the group has now grown to more than 300 which is 4 times the southern whale population. Eating on average 500 lbs per day this could involve a lot of Chinook salmon but both groups also eat chum salmon and herring. Strangely enough they don't eat sockeye salmon which is unfortunate because this year was predicted to be a huge run whereas the Chinook run was dismal.
Sea lion and seals
While the federal government instituted a 35% reduction in the allowable catch at the start of the season the returns are so low that many groups have argued for a complete ban on fishing in order to preserve all the Chinook salmon for the whales. Others, less informed, have also called for a cull of seals and sea lions which also compete for salmon. However Chinook aren't the primary food source for seals and sea lions and, if there really were too many of these creatures, the transient killer whale population would certainly keep them in check.
Right whale on the East Coast
Meanwhile on the East Coast this summer there wasn't a single incident of a Right Whale being harmed in any way as opposed to last year when 18 of them were killed. The changes to the crab fishing season meant all the fishing gear had to be out of the water before any whales arrived in the Gulf of St. Lawrence to avoid any entanglements, and slower speed limits for freighters and other commercial vessels in active shipping lanes managed to prevent any collisions. Enhanced whale monitoring efforts identified more than 135 individuals in Canadian waters this summer as compared to 114 last year so obviously they aren't starving either.
While government efforts on the East Coast have had a dramatically positive effect on whale populations, in spite of objections from the fishing industry and others, the same commitment is obviously lacking on the West Coast. The fishing industry simply has too much influence and, while they are keen to harvest the salmon, they don't seem to be putting much effort into habitat enhancement or hatcheries. In spite of the southern killer whales being an endangered species it's coming down to a decision on which is worth more to the economy whale watching or fishing. After that question is answered we will then know where all the whales have gone.
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Dinosaur and prehistoric animal themed stationery and school kits are very popular with schoolchildren at the moment. Thanks to Everything Dinosaur, mums, dads, grandparents and guardians are spoilt for choice when it comes to kitting out their budding, young palaeontologists in readiness for the autumn term. The summer holidays may have started in the UK, but we, at Everything Dinosaur are already busy with plans for the autumn and spring terms. Parents, grandparents and guardians are also preparing for next term as they kit out their charges with school kits, lunch boxes and new backpacks.
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The role of public funding in arts, museums and libraries.
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In the Guardian on the 21st March 2018 there was an article, "Opera is many things to me. Elitist is not one of them". Opera is not elitest as music it is the inequality of funding that sets it apart and one could argue that it is conspicuous consuption writ large with two opera houses existing almost side by side.
Opera receives a disproportionate amount of public subsidy compared to other art form. In a time of continued austerity there are two opera house in London soaking up substantial public funding.
The Arts Council's funding decisions are based on the bounded rationality of the past. The lack of art form polices guiding funding decisions has bedevilled the arts in England since the instigation of the National Portfolio bidding process in 2012.
The National Portfolio scheme was an abrogation of the Arts Council's duty to ensure funding by art form on an equitable basis. The result is that in 2018/19, Opera will receive a total of £57.1 million of which 32.5% will be spent outside of London. Classical music will receive £19 million of which 55% is allocated to the English regions and jazz will receive a total of £1.6 million of which 30% is spent outside of London; 3.4 million people attend classical music concerts, 2.1 million people attend jazz concerts and 1.7 million people attend opera.
1 Jazz Services funds for 2014/15 are net of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra that was a NPO under the umbrella of Jazz Services.
Please note that of the funding of core jazz NPOs only 30.2% of the funds went to organisations outside of London. Organisations based in London received 69.8% of the total funding of £1.678 million.
In 2018/19, Opera will receive a total of £57.1 million of which 32.5% will be spent outside of London. Classical music will receive £19 million of which 55% is allocated to the English regions and jazz will receive a total of £1.6 million of which 30% is spent outside of London. For the avoidance of doubt 3.4 million people attend classical music concerts, 2.1 million people attend jazz concerts and 1.7 million people attend opera.
An article the UK leaving the EC in the Guardian on the 14th October – "Brexit row breaks into war of words." Sadly the politicians who favour Brexit do the electorate a disservice. Nigel Lawson and Iain Duncan Smith's stance on Brexit is reprehensible, naive and febrile. They are dancing with the clapped out ideology of a no deal Brexit that will inexorably lead to Britain becoming the reality of Air Strip One in George Orwell's 1984. Their utter disregard for the well being and future of the generations who did not have a vote in the referendum is disgraceful and an abuse of their public positions. Regrettably it will be history that finally shows them up as the charlatans they are.
There was a leader article, "Opera is often derided as elitist", in the Guardian on the 28th September 2017. Regrettably the article ignores the fact that opera in the UK receives a disproportionate amount of public subsidy compared to other art forms and like the banks are too big to fail. In a time of austerity there are two opera houses cheeks by jowl in London soaking up substantial amounts of public funding. If politicians allowed two Accident and Emergency units to operate in the same way they would be publicly derided.
The Arts Councils funding decisions are based on the bounded rationality of the past. The lack of art form polices guiding funding decisions has bedevilled the arts in England since the instigation of the National Portfolio bidding process in 2012.
The National Portfolio scheme was an abrogation of the Arts Council's duty to ensure funding by art form on an equitable basis. The result of this flawed process is that in 2018/19, Opera will receive a total of £57.1 million of which 32.5% will be spent outside of London. Classical music will receive £19 million of which 55% is allocated to the English regions and jazz will receive a total of £1.6 million of which 30% is spent outside of London. For the avoidance of doubt 3.4 million people attend classical music concerts, 2.1 million people attend jazz concerts and 1.7 million people attend opera.
On the 16th July 2017 the Observer reported that the Arts Council had rejected an application from the Music Venue Trust for support for venues. I am not surprised the Arts Council rejected the Music Venue Trust's application, as the majority of the Arts Councils funding decisions are based on the bounded rationality of the past. I recently made a number of Freedom of Information enquiries asking if the Arts Council had art form policies, the answer was no. The lack of art form polices that should guide funding decisions has bedevilled the arts in England since the instigation of the National Portfolio bidding process in 2012.
The Arts Council has published funding for the four year national portfolio organisations (28th June 2017). The Arts Councils method of funding the Arts in England is fatally flawed. The problem is that the funding decisions are not informed by a coherent art form policy that would hold the Arts Council to account. Further more the Arts Council has yet to publish an impact analysis of the organisations it funded in the last round. The pathetic increase in funding of 4.6% to organisations outside of London clearly demonstrates the woebegone, lackluster, line of least resistance approach by the Arts Council of England to funding the arts with out a policy for art forms.
In America the biggest crime is not larceny but to be poor. In the UK you hear loose talk from the right wing press about having an American style health service. What these people neglect to understand, is that if you have no medical insurance you are consigned to the human scrap heap. They ignore the blindingly obvious that if you want a productive nation you need healthy citizens. I had a problem with my eyes and spent three days as an out patient at Guys and St Thomas'. I was impressed and I wrote the chief executive. My letter is published below and if you value the nations health then it is crucially important you defend the NHS.
Forgive me for writing to you. I have spent three days as an outpatient at Guys and St Thomas'. For the record I would like to thank and congratulate all the staff for sorting out my eye problem and resolving my fears.The Medical Eye Unit was led by Professor Stanford and the doctor who saw me first and expedited matters was Dr Miles Parnell. All staff were courteous, professional, helpful and put a great number of private sector companies to shame. The culture of the organisation is something that would make boards of directors in the commercial sector weep tears of envy.
The throughput of patients must be staggering and if you were in manufacturing you would have won a Queen's Award for Industry.
I was impressed. The press – I use the word in its loosest sense – such as the Daily Mail, give the NHS a hard time which I find to be irritating and completely at variance with the facts. After my recent experience I will find their cant ,humbug, smugness and twaddle more than irritating but profoundly vexatious.
If you ever need a testament to the excellence of the hospital's service or help in any campaign you may have to run, please count on my support.


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News Release 4-Mar-2008
Drinking and aggression among university students often depends on the context
Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research
Aggression and violence among university students often involve alcohol consumption.
A new study has found that both drinking levels and drinking contexts are important.
Aggression is more likely when students drink at a fraternity, sorority or campus residence, and when a partner is present.
Attending parties also increases the risk of aggression, especially for women.
A significant proportion of university students experience violence, under circumstances that often involve alcohol. A new study has found that drinking at a fraternity, sorority or campus residence increases the likelihood of aggression, and that attending parties can especially increase aggression for women.
Results are published in the March issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research.
"A number of studies have shown that university students experience a wide range of harms related to alcohol consumption, including aggression," said Samantha Wells, a scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and corresponding author for the study.
Aggression among university students likely reflects aggression in society, said Tim Stockwell, professor and director of the Centre for Addictions Research of B.C. at the University of Victoria. "I would not expect students to have lower or higher levels," he said. "Aggression and violence are features of group drinking situations, in general, especially where these involve groups of young men who are strangers to each other and are in competition in various ways."
To better understand what may increase risk of aggression among students, Wells and her colleagues used data collected through the 2004 Canadian Campus Survey, a national survey of 6,282 students at 40 universities. Responses from 4,387 (64.3% female, 35.7% percent male) respondents were analyzed, focusing on the students' three most recent drinking events.
"We found that that the more drinks students consumed, the greater their likelihood of experiencing aggression," said Wells. "We also found that aggression was more likely when students drank at a fraternity, sorority or residence, when their partner was present, and when they drank at three or more places on the same occasion. Drinking at a party also increased the likelihood of aggression, especially women. Conversely, aggression was less likely when students had a meal."
Given that the researchers controlled for alcohol intake as well as living arrangements, Wells said there is something about fraternities, sororities and campus residences that is particularly risky for students. "We need to understand what it is about these settings that make them particularly risky for aggression," she said. "Is it, for example, that large parties, such as keg parties, are held in these settings" Is it that drinking in these settings involves heightened concerns with masculinity""
Wells added that the finding of greater aggression among women than men at parties was consistent with previous research showing that women tend to report aggression with people they know and at home, whereas men are more likely to report aggression with strangers in public places. "Prevention programs that focus on preparing women for the risks associated with drinking at parties might help to reduce their likelihood of experiencing aggression," she said. "However, more research … would be useful to determine, for example, who women are fighting with and whether they are victims, mutual participants, or perpetrators."
Both Wells and Stockwell suggested that findings from this study can be used for policy and prevention purposes.
"The risk of alcohol-related violence is usually associated with a combination of intoxication and certain predictable social situations," said Stockwell, "mostly involving a degree of conflict or frustration. When people are intoxicated, they are less able or inclined to resolve these situations peaceably. Measures to reduce the risk of aggression and violence need to address not only reducing conflict and stress in drinking situations but also moderating the amount people actually drink. Both the amount people drink and the drinking context – for example, the size of the drinking group, type of drinking setting, whether or not a partner is present – increased risk of alcohol-related aggression and violence."
Wells agreed. "The present research clearly identifies an important role of alcohol in aggression," she said, "therefore prevention programs need to focus on reducing excessive drinking among college students. We found that drinking with a partner actually increased the likelihood of aggression. This may reflect that aggression occurs between partners or that incidents of aggression arise due to jealousy concerns, similar to research on aggression in bars. Therefore, programs that focus on preventing partner violence and other relationship-related conflicts may be highly effective. In addition, programs that promote the consumption of food, and encourage people to stay in one place rather than going from one drinking place to another, may likewise reduce the occurrence of alcohol-related aggression."
Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research (ACER) is the official journal of the Research Society on Alcoholism and the International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism. Co-authors of the ACER paper, "Where, with Whom, and How Much Alcohol is Consumed on Drinking Occasions Involving Aggression" Event-level Associations in a Canadian National Survey of University Students," were: Ljiljana Mihic, Paul F. Tremblay and Kathryn Graham of the Social Prevention and Health Policy Research Department at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health; and Andrée Demers, of the Health and Prevention Social Research Group at the University of Montreal. The study was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
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TOWERSON, William II (1569-1637), of Portsmouth, Hants.
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010
bap. 18 Apr. 1569,1 s. of William Towerson (d.1579)2 of St. Bees, Cumb. and Anne, da. of Christopher Moore.3 m. (1) by 1605 (with £200)4 Margaret (d. 5 May 1625),5 da. of Sir Henry Curwen† of Workington, Cumb., 2da.;6 (2) Mary, wid. of one Harris, s.p.;7 2s. illegit.8 d. Nov. 1637.9
Freeman, Portsmouth 1605, mayor 1607-8, 1617-18, 1625-6, 1629-30, alderman c.1607-d.;10 commr. assurances, London 1608, 1619-20,11 prizes Portsmouth, 1608, Portsmouth, Southampton, Hants and I.o.W. 1627;12 dep. v.-adm. (jt.) Hants 1626-d.;13 commr. sewers, I.o.W. 1631.14
Commr. policy of merchants 1607.15
Like his London cousin William Towerson I*, this Member prospered as a merchant. He settled in Portsmouth, where he took out his freedom on receiving his first wife's portion in 1605.16 From around 1623 he looked after the local interests of the East India Company, and was twice rewarded for his services with pieces of plate.17 By 1626 he was joint owner of two ships, and was rated at £10 for the Forced Loan.18 As deputy to the vice admiral, the 1st Viscount Conway (Sir Edward Conway I*), he was authorized in November 1626 to disburse £1,200 on the town's fortifications, and in May 1627 he was granted letters of marque.19 The duke of Buckingham stayed at his house a month later, before embarking on the expedition to the Ile de Ré.20 Returned for Portsmouth to the third Caroline Parliament, Towerson's first appointment, on 17 May 1628, was to consider the patent of the Muscovy Company, of which his cousin was a member.21 Four days later Towerson was granted leave of absence, and may not have returned before the session was prorogued.22 In June he undertook to provide corn for La Rochelle.23 In the second session, he was appointed, on 11 Feb. 1629, to the committee for a bill to encourage trade.24
Towerson lived to see the two branches of his family reunited by the marriage of his daughter to William Towerson I's younger son.25 Towerson's own son William was illegitimate, and his son Erasmus probably so. The latter took service with Sir Patricius Curwen*, and carried the standard at his funeral.26 Towerson was 'very weak and sick' when he drew up his will on 21 May 1635, but lived on until November 1637.27 Although he left a house in Portsmouth and the lease of Porchester parsonage to his two sons-in-law, his will does not suggest wealth; his wife received only a silver tankard 'as a remembrance of my true love and affection to her'.28 He was the last of the family to sit in Parliament.
Authors: Virginia C.D. Moseley / Rosemary Sgroi
1. St. Bees Par. Reg. ed. H.B. Stout, i. 17.
2. Ibid. ii. 25.
3. Ibid. iii. 6.
4. J.F. Curwen, Fam. of Curwen, 133.
5. Add. 33283, f. 458.
6. Curwen, 125.
7. Portsmouth Recs. ed. R. East, 54.
8. PROB 11/175, f. 185v.
9. CSP Dom. 1637, p. 511.
10. Portsmouth Recs., 313-14, 328, 347, 595.
11. C181/2, ff. 70, 336, 357.
12. HCA 14/39, no. 142; APC 1627, pp. 76, 87.
13. CSP Dom. 1625-6, p. 486; 1637, p. 511; HCA 30/865.
14. C181/4, f. 89.
15. C181/2, f. 51v.
16. PROB 11/159, f. 14.
17. CSP Col. E.I. 1622-3, p. 151; 1625-9, pp. 59, 266.
18. SP16/32/72; Add. 21922, f. 17.
19. APC 1626, p. 359; 1627, p. 48; CSP Dom. 1628-9, p. 296.
20. CSP Dom. 1627-8, p. 205.
21. CD 1628, iii. 449.
22. Ibid. 511.
24. CJ, i. 929a.
26. Curwen, 125, 150.
27. CSP Dom. 1637, p. 511.
28. PROB 11/175, f. 185v.


Happy Father's Day to my husband!! You are the best dad I've ever known.
My own father passed long ago when I was a small child but I get to look on with admiration at my husband, who is the best dad a kid could ask for. This is not about clichés or making things sound good on paper for others to read. My husband is a wonderful dad who is dedicated to our son (that lucky kid!) and has the patience of a saint when it comes to that child. I think he makes me look bad in comparison but it inspires me to be a better parent. But seriously, I don't know where his patience comes from!
My husband essentially spends all his free time with our son. The man does not get many breaks and insists he doesn't need one. All I can say is thank goodness the little guy's bedtime is around 8pm! When he's home from work, you'll find my husband in the playroom with our son or they'll be out doing something together or just talking about this or that (well, mostly about cars - their shared interest). He takes the time to really talk and explain things to the little one. If my husband dares to leave for a bathroom break, he'll hear a loud voice shout "Daddy! Come down!" before he's even reached upstairs. He doesn't even get much privacy to take a shower. Our son will repeatedly ask how many more minutes it'll be before daddy's done and has been known to barge right on in there with some question or something to say. And daddy welcomes him. It doesn't stress him out and he'll tell me how much he loves spending time with the little guy and how "he's so cute!"
And instead of going home and catching a short break, my husband will hustle over to the baseball field after work to catch the last minutes of Jalen's T-ball game. Rather than take a break on his own once in a while, he says he'd rather hang out with his little guy. Even after spending the entire day together, he will stay for "just a few more minutes" in our son's room at bedtime to talk some more. I'm pretty much redundant during the weekends.
It's not a celebration without some sort of cake. We love the flourless chocolate cake..
So here's to all wonderful dads out there! I know you deserve as much appreciation as us moms. Keep up the good work because we all know how important dads are to a kid's life.
Just a quick note on the flourless chocolate cake. In my original post, you saw the cake sliced before it completely cooled - I was too eager to take the picture and eat it! As you can see in the comparison below, given the time to cool, the cake sets up much more neatly and slices a lot easier. Either way, it tastes great. Personally, I don't mind my flourless chocolate cake a little gooey so I try not to overbake it and we're ready to eat it as soon as possible. But if you want a cleaner presentation, make sure that after baking fully, you allow it to cool thoroughly. It will be easier to slice and look more "presentable".
And having this nice relaxing Sunday morning breakfast on Father's Day reminds me we need to do it more often. It's so relaxing to linger in the morning and chat.
Again, Happy Father's Day for all you cool dads out there! And most especially, to my hubby!
The little guy was bursting with excitement to wish Dad a Happy Father's Day first thing this morning. He was eager to present Daddy with the painting and a handmade card.


Michigan Farm To School - Blog: Great Lakes Farm to School Month Events!
Greetings Michigan Farm to School practitioners and supporters!
It may only be August, but we're already gearing up for National Farm to School Month this October. Read below for information on the Great Lakes Great Apple Crunch and the Food Day Midwest Menu Event. Farm to School Month is a great time to promote your farm to school projects and share the good work of connecting kids, local farmers and vendors and good food. Get ready to celebrate!
Did you Crunch last year? Do you want to Crunch this year? Sign up here to participate in the Second Annual Great Lakes Great Apple Crunch, and you'll be directed to the Michigan Apple Crunch page sponsored by Cherry Capital Foods. This is a simple, but loud way to feature your farm to school work. At NOON on Thursday, October 22, we'll all Crunch into a healthy, delicious local or regional apple to show our support for National Farm to School Month and Food Day 2015.
Sign up here to receive your Crunch Guide chock full of ideas for planning, promoting, sharing and educating around your event - and you'll receive the 2015 Great Lakes Great Apple Crunch logo too! Be sure to "Like" the Facebook page to stay up to date on the latest news. Let everyone know you are participating in the Crunch by using the hashtags #GreatAppleCrunch #F2SMonth and #FoodDay2015 on your favorite social media. Questions? E-mail vherald@wisc.edu or your National Farm to School Network State Lead. Your state may even have a special edition of the Crunch - or even a contest - click here to find out more.
We are asking participating schools and organizations to sign up this year. Tracking the impact of the Crunch is a critical way to share the importance of our collective work to build farm to school in the region.
Are you looking for a new and exciting way to celebrate Food Day and National Farm to School Month? Are you ready to showcase your local food efforts throughout your lunch tray? This year school districts in the Midwest and Great Lakes are invited to celebrate by serving a Midwest Menu on Thursday, October 22nd in partnership with the School Food FOCUS Upper Midwest Regional Learning Lab. Join seven of the largest regional school districts in serving a Midwest Menu that highlights your favorite local and regional foods. Please attend the webinar on Wednesday, August 12 at 2 EST / 1 CST to learn more, and sign up to participate in this great event! And if you want to share, use these hashtags to promote your great events! #MidwestMenu2015 #FoodDay2015 and #F2SMonth. Register for the webinar here, and read more below.
Are you interested in doing something special with your whole tray to celebrate Food Day during Farm to School Month this year? The Midwest Menu might be just what you are looking for! In the spirit of collective celebration, all schools across the Midwest are invited to serve a coordinated lunch tray featuring local and regional foods on Thursday, October 22nd, 2015. This webinar is designed to help you prepare to join the School Food FOCUS Upper Midwest Regional Learning Lab in serving a clean-label and locally sourced school lunch, and participate in National Farm to School Month with a "crunch heard round the region," a delicious coordinated apple bite during lunch!
In the webinar, you will hear the stories of food service staff who participated last year—they will share advice and answer questions to help you plan your own local foods celebration.
Each tray should include a chicken item of your choice and a local apple - locally or regionally procured if possible! Step two is to find a vegetable and whole grain side that showcase the bounty of your local area. A highlight of participation is having your students bite into their local apples at the same time for an enthusiastic Great Apple Crunch!
A project of the School Food FOCUS Upper Midwest Regional Learning Lab, the Midwest Menu is a great way to join forces with schools around the region to highlight your local and regional food efforts!