The ideal deck design should appeal not just to the visual senses, but to the emotions too; invoking a sense of inner serenity and calmness. A deck could serve as an entertainment spot, an outdoor dining area, a meditation spot, or even an outdoor family movie spot; the options are basically endless. Looking to build a deck? Here are a couple of Ground Level Deck Design ideas to steal from.
Notice how this deck appears to flow outwards as a continuation of the indoors? The large floor to ceiling windows open up the interior space to views, and also provide the outdoors with lighting thus minimizing the need for lighting at the deck.
In this design the lighting is incredibly done, including those hanging from the trees and the well lights in the gravel. Besides that, providing different seating options is a genius idea enabling the deck become a timeless multi-functional space.
A floating ground level deck is a sustainable solution for those dealing with uneven ground. It majestically extends from the grass resulting in zero ground interference yet still creating a tranquil space with spectacular views.
This is another idea of how you can combine a patio and a deck. To tell the two spaces apart, both different levels and different flooring materials have been used whereby the wood deck gradually transitions to the stone patio.
The beauty of having a deck with multiple seating options is that you can entertain both old and young people while giving each their own space and privacy. For large decks, provide different levels to allow for demarcation of the various seating spaces.
The mixture of pea granite, concrete stepping stones, ipe decking and metal railing with an ipe top railing gives this small space acute visual interest. Fire pits are not only cheaper than fireplaces, but they are also portable hence can be set up anywhere on demand.
There is certainly nothing unlovable about this deck. The interplay of different materials and textures, the beautiful views and the crisp ocean air all set the perfect mood for a deck by the beach.
This deck transitions gracefully from the interior while still maintaining its own identity. Although the glass panes allows for flow of light from the interior, the lighting above the table at the deck is a great touch, as is also the recessed floor lighting.
A good Ground Level Deck Design provides a space that is both graceful and elegant such that it stands out without distracting one from the rest of the house. Also, when it comes to decks it isn't about the size, it's all about the mood created through location, materials used and decor.


It was built as the Charnwood Convalescent Hospice for injured soliders in 1937. After WW2 it was made NHS and became a rehab centre/home for amputees and called Zachery Merton Convalescent Home. In 1999, the home was bought by the infamous Primelife Ltd and was renamed Bradgate Care Home. In 2006 Primelife moved into Charnwood Oaks in Shepshed, leaving Bradgate Care Home empty. Since then multiple housing associations have bought the site with the most resent application for demolition dating July 2012.
The large mansion on site, Great Barr Hall, had its beginnings in the 17th Century, but was remodelled both by Joseph Scott in 1777, and in the 19th century by various occupants.
The Lunar Society, an infomal group of leading engineers, industrialists, scientists and thinkers of the day met here in the early 1800s. the hospital colony for those with severe learning difficulties was opened after the first world war. Originally known as Great Barr Park Colony for the mentally defective, it was later re-named St Margarets Hospital.


The names Deonte and Collyn fit perfect together!
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The baby name Deonte sounds like Donte, Deontae, Deante and Dionte. Other similar baby names are Devonte and Demonte.".
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As one of the key players in the professional haircare industry, Wella Professionals wanted to extend the reach of their annual 2000+ guests event to their millions of fans online.
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The online campaign was built in a sequenced manner, using different ad formats and retargeting to drive online users through a conversion funnel to ultimately have them watch 2 livestreams on d-day and engage with the social content. The following day, users were retargeted to subscribe to their online Education program.
The campaign generated a 31 million reach, 1 million views of video content and 107K visits to the Wella Education webiste.


Author of books such as Sushi Slim.
Makiko Sano is an expert on Japanese food and cooking. She has run the sashimi counter at Selfridges, supplied sushi to Buckingham Palace, and taught thousands of novices how to make sushi effortlessly. She now reveals that skill in her new book, along with the age-old food secrets of Japanese women, used to keep them slim and beautiful.The name of Makiko's restaurant in Hammersmith – Suzu – means 'long and healthy life', and this is what she wants us all to enjoy, sharing her superfood ingredients and tips for eating well for life. She lives in London with her four children.


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INTENTIONALLY MISLEADING: School Board Candidate Leung Falsely Claims Charter Endorsement
Everyone knows that the Douglas County School Board race is one of the most watched races in the state this year. That's why it was so puzzling that Douglas County School District Board of Education candidate Kevin Leung would so publicly mislead the Douglas County community about an endorsement. But that's what Leung did last night.
Leung is part of the Community slate, which is backed by the union, and consists of Anthony Graziano, Krista Holtzmann, and Chris Schor. The slate also is endorsed by political committee Douglas County Parents.
Here's a tweet and Facebook post from Leung that clearly show that he is claiming endorsement by the Colorado League of Charter Schools, an organization that would not normally align with Leung.
The Charter League and the other random charter school Facebook group Leung tagged squashed his hopes and dreams that he could pull the wool over everyone's eyes. In fact, the charter league called it "intentionally misleading." BOOM!
See, why this matters – Leung and his slate, which includes Krista Holtzmann, Anthony Graziano, and Chris Schor, claim to be pro-charter school and pro-school choice. But, at the same time, the four are backed by the union. The two are mutually exclusive. Additionally, the four refuse to commit to fully supporting charter schools in Douglas County.
If we tell kids in schools not to lie to get ahead, don't you think we should expect it from our board of education elected officials?

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Jim Harbaugh signs to coach Michigan, and I feast on my own words
by Kent Sterling
Jim Harbaugh fills all of the qualities Michigan fans want in a coach, and most that fans of those who hate Michigan want too. It's a win-win!
There have been a few times among a long line of accurate predictions where I have erred, and Jim Harbaugh agreeing to become the head coach of the Michigan Wolverines has made me as wrong as I have ever been about anything.
To the end, I said over and over that until the ink dried on the contract teams in the NFL would continue their efforts to woo him, and someone would come with a crazy offer that would keep Harbaugh from going to Michigan. Tonight, the Detroit News is reporting that the ink on the deal is dry.
Finally, I have to admit I am wrong.
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Harbaugh is known as a pragmatic and cagey negotiator, and I assumed that the leak of the Michigan offer (six-years, $49 million) was Harbaugh's effort to establish a bidder for his services and give NFL teams a base level for the bidding.
After all, Harbaugh's San Francisco 49ers qualified for three straight NFC Championship games before this season's 8-8 record. There aren't many coaches in the history of the NFL that can boast a four year run the likes of which Harbaugh just concluded.
Harbaugh leaves the NFL with the fifth highest winning percentage in the history of the league, behind only Guy Chamberlain (who coached four different teams during the 1920s), John Madden, Vince Lombardi, and George Allen.
That the 49ers decided to move on without Harbaugh is inexplicable. That 31 other teams allowed him to go to Ann Arbor is insanity. The Bears are going to hire someone who will succeed at a higher level than Harbaugh? Doubt it.
Factor into his one failure of a season injuries to Patrick Willis, Navarro Bowman, and Glenn Dorsey, and suspension of Aldon Smith and it's not hard to figure out how 8-8 might have happened.
Michigan got themselves a hell of a football coach, Harbaugh got paid in bulk, and the Big Ten became relevant again as a football conference. The drama of the upcoming blow by handshakes between Harbaugh and Ohio State coach Urban Meyers will give fans something to talk about for entire offseason. It's a win-win-win!
Does anyone believe Harbaugh is going to hide his disdain for all opponents?
Today was a great day for Michigan fans and the Big Ten – as good a day as the news of the hiring of Mike Riley at Nebraska signified a step sideways if not backwards for that storied program.
The prodigal son returns to Ann Arbor, and relevance returns to the Big Ten. That winning at Michigan is damn near impossible is a topic for another day. This is a time of hope for those who enjoy a little college football talk that doesn't include rants from haywire SEC honks with delusions of importance.
My being wrong is a bitter pill to swallow, but it's well worth the fun and abrasiveness the irascible Harbaugh will bring to college football played north of the Mason-Dixon Line.
This entry was posted in College Football, Featured Story, Kent Sterling and tagged Harbaugh Michigan, Harbaugh press conference, Jim Harbaugh signs on December 29, 2014 by Kent Sterling.
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Eduardo Tobon | May.06.2014
Celebrating the Newest Class of The World's 50 Best Restaurants
Diners Club International interviews Virgilio Martinez of Central in Lima, Peru – No. 14 on The World's 50 Best Restaurants 2014 list
The World's 50 Best Restaurants were crowned last week, with NOMA in Copenhagen, Denmark, edging out last year's first place winner, El Celler de Can Roca from Girona, Spain, to regain this highly coveted spot. This was one of many crescendos during what's been called "The Oscars of the Restaurant World" by observers and winners.
Representing Diners Club International®, it was my great honor to present the Diners Club® Lifetime Achievement Award to Chef Fergus Henderson, who received an enthusiastic standing ovation from his contemporaries and the wider audience. Having pioneered the nose-to-tail cooking style, and with his London restaurant St. John placing at No. 55 on this year's list, Chef Henderson is a culinary legend who commands the respect of not only his fellow chefs, but of foodies all around the world.
From left to right: William Drew, Group Editor of The World's 50 Best Restaurants and Restaurant magazine, Fergus Henderson and Eduardo Tobon
The full top 50 list can be found on The World's 50 Best Restaurants site, but here is a glimpse of the top 10 restaurants:
NOMA (Copenhagen, Denmark)
El Celler de Can Roca (Girona, Spain)
Osteria Francescana (Modena, Italy)
Eleven Madison Park (New York, United States)
Dinner by Heston Blumenthal (London, United Kingdom)
Mugaritz (San Sebastián, Spain)
D.O.M. (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Arzak (San Sebastián, Spain)
Alinea (Chicago, United States)
The Ledbury (London, United Kingdom)
This is our second year as The Official Financial Services Sponsor for The World's 50 Best Restaurants, and we were on the ground interviewing chefs (see last year's interview playlist), live tweeting event highlights, and welcoming guests to our branded event space. Featured in this space was an eye-catching ice and jelly sculpture of London landmarks, produced by Britain's well-known experience designers, Bompas & Parr:
The awards celebration was slotted in between two other related events to mark important elements of the overall World's 50 Best collaboration. First on April 27, the Diners Club World's 50 Best Restaurants Academy – which is the voting body that selects each year's winners – held their yearly meeting, followed by dinner at acclaimed UK pub The Hand and Flowers.
And on April 29, the winning restaurants and their chefs were feted during the Chef's Lunch at London's newest dining hot spot, The Chiltern Firehouse, which opened in late February.
We are excited to continue the conversation through our soon-to-be-released video interviews of chefs from the awards and ongoing content that aims to bring you an insider's look into these restaurants. To view exclusive offers at other fine restaurants and merchants throughout the world, visit Diners Club Privileges.
Most importantly, we applaud all the winning restaurants and wish them ongoing success. Our heartfelt congratulations goes to the chefs and their tireless teams for working hard, innovating, and making fine dining history!
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Olin-Darling/Zultanski/Ward/Davis report & when will spring come? Happy Purim!
Posted on February 28, 2010 January 7, 2016 by Nada Gordon
I walked through Borough Park today as an ethno-tourist. Is is still ethno-tourism when, strictly speaking, it's one's "own" ethnicity? I wonder. Well, I certainly do feel like a different breed of person than the denizens of Borough Park, but I was sort of admiring them today, in their crazy Purim finery (I saw several pirate hats and cowboy hats, one green dinosaur, one "gangster" in an electric blue suit, one tall male youth in a slutty blonde wig, several children – boys and girls — dressed as cops and soldiers [what's that about?], a couple of small girls dressed as grandmothers, lots of face paint: charcoal eyebrows, hugely rosy cheeks). When I told Gary I was going, he said, "but they're dressed up anyway!" He's right of course, but the ebullient expressiveness of Purim costumes is so perfectly bizarre; if I were Hasidic I'm sure I would live for this day. Well, of course I wanted to take photos, but they seem not to welcome that. They seemed once to even think it odd that I was taking pictures of signage, so I thought, well, I won't be intrusive, I'll just carry their images in my mind. I did, though, sneak this one, from the back.
I'm worn out, winter will never end, I'm thinking, but Segue is galloping along beautifully, and I apologize for my lapses in reports.
Last weekend was Jeni Olin a.k.a. Truck Darling and Steve Zultanski. Here is my intro for Jeni, who wore, as you may be able to get some sense of in this lousy iPhone photo, a red sequin tank top over a white boybeater, false eyelashes, 70s jeans, those "foot" things that surfers wear as shoes, a wooden cross, and sometimes designer-y black spectacles with dragon shapes on the sides:
I saw the Who play San Francisco's Winterland in 1976.
In 1978, I was there for Patti and Bruce.
In that same year, I saw the Ramones live at the Old Waldorf.
I saw the Rolling Stones live in Prague a year after the Velvet Revolution.
In Tokyo in 1990, I was there for Madonna's Blonde Ambition tour, when she wore the now-iconic gold metallic Gaulthier bra.
And now, devoted listeners, I am here today, with you, at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City, to hear… the amazing… Jeni Olin.
Jeni's poems are as crisp and powerful as pop songs, but more surprising. That's a rare thing. They are fearless in their total embrace of affect. As she writes in a facebook update under the name of her Alter Ego, Truck Darling, "My idea of Heaven is feeling absolutely everything to an excruciating degree but nothing hurts."
If she carries the torch for the New York School (she authored, after all, A Valentine to Frank O'Hara, published in 1999) she does so better than anyone else, without a trace of Sha Na Na-like nostalgic reification. Instead her poems are time capsules of contemporary New York, transposed into her own mode of the boyish feminine, infused relentlessly with wit, compassion for self and others, and an endearingly mannered sort of melodrama. As she writes in another update, "I want to be a holder forever, dropping everything, so when we swallow we choke a little & feel things like clumsy reindeer grace."
Her first book, Blue Collar Holiday, with art by Larry Rivers, was published by HL in 2005. Her new collection, Hold Tight: The Truck Darling Poems, forthcoming from HL this fall. I urge you to put in an advance order.
And now, with almost inexpressible excitement, I bring you the jewel of our city: Jeni Olin.
some lines:
Kids sway finchlike in the breeze
Are you so strong, or is it the Black Russian in me?
You cannot bring sexy back without a receipt
I feel virile, like an alpha lemming shouting "next!"
I'm all about silly cavorting here on earth
The agents of chaos grow glammier
I love you more than you love me just by loving you at all
Steve actually read first. Gary wrote a conceptual introduction for him:
Steven Zultanski is the author of the chapbook This and That Lenin (BookThug), plus the forthcoming volumes Pad (Make Now) and Copkisser (BookThug). He edits President's Choice magazine, a Lil' Norton publication.
Close observers of the steve project may have noted that the project's first paper was entitled "Social Terminology Enhancement through Vernacular Engagement," a bit of an in joke, but not (as some have suggested) the source of the project's name.
Steeve. Etymology: probably from Spanish estibar or Portuguese estivar to pack tightly, from Latin stipare to press together — more at stiff. Date: circa 1644.
Go steeeve. My first planned project is to paint steeeve three metres high on a large white board near my residences. I'll be purchasing the paints in four weeks: Night Black and Verdant Sunrise. He shall be rendered in total glory.
Steeeeve wrote: I don't mean to be insulting but it's just not that hard to grasp. Yes the Sun is small if you compare it to something much bigger. That doesn't chage the fact that the Sun is still incredibly large (trying to avoid the word massive since we're talking about size).
Did you mean: steeeeve.
Hey there! steeeeeeve is using Twitter. … Join today to start receiving steeeeeeve's tweets.
Haaaapy Biiiiiiiirthday dear Steeeeeeeve.
NASCAR definition by Steeeeeeeeve. I'm sorry, but I would rather watch competetive elephant ejaculation than a NASCAR race.
Re: The biggest whores in Hollywood. Nickyboy mentioned a giant of a contender today, a truly mammoth name in Hollywood whoredom. A once talented guy who dropped his strides and wrote "get it here studios" with lipstick across his buttcheeks. Who can it be? Steeeeeeeeeve Martin!!
And yeah, if you really want a bit of a meet, then Feb 5th is the time. Woo, Colin! Woo, hanging out with Steeeeeeeeeeve again! Woo, awesomness!
Please help me welcome the awesomeness that is Steve Zultanski.
Sadly, I forgot to take notes, but here's what I remember about his great reading: he read a sizeable chunk of My Pad, his conceptual work listing all the things in his apartment he can and cannot lift with his dick. Each line begins, "My dick can lift/ My dick cannot lift" and catalogues every object in minute detail. The section he read focused on a bag of garbage in a garbage can in his bathroom, and we learned, for example that he could not lift the garbage can with his dick, but that he could lift the Q-tips in the bag, even the ones with earwax on them. This poem occasioned some pleasantly racy aftertalk at the bar, during which someone said he wanted to remind Steve that there might be better tools and appendages for lifting, and I told Steve, making sure to preface my comment with a disclaimer that I didn't mean to be coy, that I appreciated the radical, self-reflexive masculinism of the poem. Blushing banter! Love it! OK, but it was the next poem he read that everyone seemed to agree was his tour de force. It was a kind of psychedelic list poem involving Lenin… stuff was shooting out of Lenin's mouth or eyes… there were different sections… oh I wish I had notes… it was a terrific poem. Then he read a poem called "All My Women," which was a list of women's names preceded by "my." I'm sure there was a trick to the poem, because the names sounded very much like pop star and actress names, and there were some repetitions, and I wondered whether he had gone through, perhaps, a magazine? or a CD/DVD collection? to compile them? Well, I was interested in how many of the names themselves, such as Brianna and Tiffany, had, for me, semantic/generational resonances, were somehow, without needing anything else to determine that: they were always/already superficial and diminufying. Steve dives into the wreck, I think. I'd be curious to know how other people apprehend possibly provocative gestures like this poem or My Pad.
Yesterday's reading was, wow, the incredible Dana Ward. Look at him, with the kewpie hairdo! and the deep powder blue skinny jeans! And those frosty looking Timberland boots: what would you even call that color?
Here's my intro, which was so absolutely connected to what he read that it was almost spooky:
I keep hearing people say it: Laura Moriarty, Brandon Brown, and just last week Sharon Mesmer, in a phone conversation: prosody is what we live in, the shiznit, if you will it's all there is: we're soaking in it. Dana Ward's poetry I hold up as exhibit A. Let's say prosody is a crimson peony as big as a trampoline, its petals all satiny and crenellated, and in the center of it, like a latter-day Momotaro, is this bioluminescent being, poetry's beatific firefly: Dana Ward. Dana and I, who magically share both a birthday and a first name, have been having an on and off correspondence around the notion of lyric. I think, you know, there's Stepford lyric, a kind of zombified moldy twinkie of lyric, precious and myopic and self-important, and this might be what prevails, has prevailed, in the popular idea of what lyric is, an what has caused much discussion, even contention, amongst avant-gardistes about whether or not lyric is useful, valid, worthy of interest, and so forth. And then there's lyric, which, like porn and beauty, I know when I see, and which Drew Gardner usefully reminds us, basically just means "guitar." Not only is it not dead or dying, or in need of resuscitation, but it in itself is a resuscitator, an inflamed liquid fearless exploration into forward moving thought-as-song, born, like Dana, of prosody's giant peony. Dana writes, in his Notley-infused poem "How Spring Leaves,"
every rapturous word pulling through naming nature
as if saying "lambent" acquitted my fear
in the timbral wing of the house of possession
the mouth making sounds toward the tree
It's luscious, right? I'm reminded of how the Beatles in Nowhereland in Yellow Submarine SOW a path in NOTHINGNESS with magically arising foliage in the wake of their forward movements; they clutter an empty world into exuberant being. But lyric, real lyric, is more problematic. It's not just pretty; it's pernicious, too, and alarming. Dana writes in our correspondence, "A lyric then is… a struggle, with our inability to know it, skin-grafting our bodies on a topos for which there isn't any map, an a temporal space contingent on a series of temporalities—prosody then of the living unknown." So… the living dead (faux lyric) vs. the living unknown…
If, as I said two weeks ago, Anselm Berrigan's poems are a little like carnival rides, Dana's seem to more like slides, their temperature-conducting metal rubbed smooth by sliders' gleeful bodies, their shapes and twists designed for both the unexpected and for whooshing momentum. That acceleration is part of the brilliance of their prosody. When they stop and I come to that bump at the bottom of the page, I find I wanna climb up the ladder and go again.
He read fast and I couldn't stop to write down many lines, but here are a couple I fished out of the stream:
I summon my inner Snow White
babies dressed as ladybugs and spiders in the twilight
milk thistle flows through the tunnel of love, at the end of which is just intensive care
[and my all-time favorite ever]
the marriage of Watten and Watteau
Jordan read next, having made it down from Briarcliff where he'd been roughing it with no power, and looking very countrified indeed in red fleece, brown check shirt, jeans, and oldish black socks. No shoes.
Here's Gary's intro:
Jordan Davis's poems have appeared in Poetry, The Nation and The Poker. His chapbook POD: Poems on Demand is forthcoming from Greying Ghost.
When I think of some of the more memorable or defining quotes of the last half century of American poetry:
Frank O'Hara's "Grace to be born and live as variously as possible"
Philip Whalen's "Continuous nerve movie"
Ted Berrigan's "Feminine, marvelous & tough"
Rod Smith's "Take what you need and leave the rest"
Jordan Davis's work feels to me like the most successful embodiment of all of them. This is, after all, the guy who, in the late 90s, promised the world he would write a million poems and who has, since then, acted as though he meant it, producing, in addition to the lyrical and buoyant Million Poems Journal
(1) a handful of chapbooks, including A Little Gold Book; Poem on a Train; Yeah, No; Upstairs; and A Winter Magazine
(2) a translation-version project, My Orhan Veli, which takes English translations by Murat Nemet-Nejat and Talat Sait Halman of a poet—Orhan Veli—internationally known for his off-handed candor and makes him actually, finally read in English as off-handed and candid
(3) conceptual poetry projects, such as Poetry on Demand, wherein he writes poems in response to searches that have led people to his Million Poems blog over the years (e.g., "Poem for a Sixth Wedding"; "Pictures of Bugs Bunny Dressed Like a Thug" and my all-time favorite, "Turtles Generate Poems"
(4) some of the greatest flarf classics of all time, including "The Influence of Anxiety"; "Not Enough Pussay"; and the equally anthemic "Stupidity Is Eternal."
I'm out of time and I haven't mentioned even a half of Jordan's projects—his numerous and insightful sweeping essays on major avant-garde poets for the Nation, his several-season running Million Poems talk show here at the BPC, his eye-opening wholesale lifting and relineation of biographical citations from a congressional Web site, his typing up and editing of all of the voicemails left to him by a certain former New York poet which resulted in what some might go so far to argue is that poet's best book to date—the list goes on, as long and as various as life itself.
He is one of my favorite poets, and it gives me great pleasure to invite him now to the stage.
He read first a piece that appeared to be responses to war and violence, a frustrated musing?…. then some shorter poems "eagles nesting in the gargoyles," "I stayed up writing a report on the sphinx…. then what he called "blues poems" from 7th/ 8th century Japan… it had been a long time since I had thought of the Manyoshu, and these poems were hugely pleasurable: "the ruined castle/ they unfriended it," " so much better than committing all this bullshit/ is this sake," "oh my god , I better do something good ¬– I'm a man!"
Favorite title came next: "The bright ages"
and this line: "as for me, I like liking. There you have it, I'm a liker."
Thank you, poets! Now, this is my Sunday evening, and I must try to wind down, in hopes of slumber. I would like to dream at the very least of crocuses, if it's too much to ask for wisteria…
(snow-weary, pink-haired, and dreaming of spring…)
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merkoneus March 2, 20101:35 pm Reply
this is like a thesis in a great way.
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The problem is I haven't been blogging regularly enough. It's like I get blueballs or something.
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The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada is pleased to announce the release of Singing Welcome: Hymns and Songs of Hospitality to Refugees and Immigrants, a collection of 46 hymns and songs available for free download from The Hymn Society's website (www.thehymnsociety.org) under the "Resources" section.
For nearly 100 years, the work of The Hymn Society has included the promotion and creation of new hymns that respond to contemporary circumstances, inviting communities of faith to respond through song. The current concerns surrounding refugees and immigrants have stimulated many such songs, and this collection brings together works in a variety of musical styles which address this important matter.


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Government guidance states that schools should:
promote the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs
enable students to develop their self-knowledge, self-esteem and self-confidence
enable students to distinguish right from wrong and to respect the civil and criminal law of England
encourage students to accept responsibility for their behaviour, show initiative, and to understand how they can contribute positively to the lives of those living and working in the locality of the school and to society more widely
enable students to acquire a broad general knowledge of and respect for public institutions and services in England
further tolerance and harmony between different cultural traditions by enabling students to acquire an appreciation of and respect for their own and other cultures
encourage respect for other people
encourage respect for democracy and support for participation in the democratic processes, including respect for the basis on which the law is made and applied in England.
British values are promoted in so much of what we do at Fairfield and Colneis, not least during our school assemblies, Religious Education and Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL) sessions. The values are integral to our long-standing aims embodied in our 'Opening Minds, Creating Futures' ethos statement which complements British values and always has done.
Below are just a few examples of how British values have recently been promoted across both schools.
Examples from Fairfield:
Enabling students to develop their self-knowledge, self-esteem and self-confidence – Star Rules, Be the Best You Can Be, PSHE, and Philosophy, circle time- Star of the Week/Listening Tin etc.
Enabling students to distinguish right from wrong and to respect the civil and criminal law of England – Fairfield Star Rules and Behaviour Policy. Rewards via Star of the Week, Listening Tin, Whole class – Stars in the Jar. Student Council. PSHE/Philosophy. Children look at parliament and justice when learning about Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder plot and try to understand the law from different groups' perspectives. Examination of civil liberties when studying the 'Be the Best You Can Be ' value of equality and learning about Martin Luther King and racial inequality and discrimination. Children have also learnt out about Malala Yousafzai and her campaign to promote education for all children, and year 2 made this the theme of their presentation for Youth Speaks – Having a Voice.
Tolerance and harmony between different cultural traditions – learning about how different festivals and celebrations such as Easter, Christmas and New Year are celebrated in some of the communities represented in the year groups – e.g. Poland, Lithuania, China and Japan. Parents were invited into school to share their traditions. Japanese Wishing Trees were made to celebrate Japanese New Year. The children also celebrated Japan's Kite festival to mark Children's Day by writing poems, creating Japanese Art and making koi kites. Children have learnt about Brazil, its culture and traditions and the children have learnt the samba and enjoyed making Brazilian food. They have found out about aboriginal beliefs and wrote their own traditional tales and enjoyed aboriginal art.
Examples from Colneis:
Remembrance – whole school remembrance service, followed by in class sessions looking at the poppy display at the tower of London and discussions on why remembrance is importan.t
Democracy – class school council representative elections and house captain / vice-captain elections.
PSHE – understanding of the impact of bullying (including cyber-bullying). Learning about personal responsibility and impact of choices, including anti-social behaviour and criminal responsibility – BeWise. Road safety – including being responsible for others and reacting to emergencies to provide assistance. Being aware of how their actions may affect others (i.e. feelings of drivers / pedestrians if they are using the roads / pavement incorrectly). Democratically setting classroom rules – listening, respecting, building on others ideas, explaining their reasoning, being able to change their minds, explaining their views.
Self-knowledge – within lessons – self marking and next steps. Learning resolutions. In January, the children have set their own learning, behaviour and learning power goals for the year.
In addition there is all the work we do in assembly based around respect, tolerance and other cultures. We have also found out about the work of many charities and recently raised funds to support Red Nose Day, Children in Need, Air Ambulance, Water Aid, Oxfam, Christian Aid, The Nepal Disaster Appeal and both local hospices.
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Telos Has the Right Codec for the Job
Z/IP ONE comes through in the clutch at Rhema Central Coast
Stephen Wilkinson, Technical Operations Manager, Hope Media Ltd. ⋅ Aug 13, 2018
SYDNEY — I've been with Hope Media Ltd. for 14 years as technical operations manager; during that time I think I've seen it all, or at least most everything.
Hope Media is a not-for-profit organization that runs Hope 103.2 on FM and Inspire Digital on DAB+ in Sydney. As one of the largest nonprofit community radio stations in Australia and due in large part to the resources that it has at its disposal, one of Hope Media's missions is to foster, encourage and provide technical assistance to many smaller stations. These stations are located all over Australia and attention is given specially to rural areas, to help improve their content, fundraising and sponsorship.
As a part of this ongoing mission, Hope Media loans me, generally at no charge, to stations in the community sector to help them with various technical projects.
Recently one of these projects brought me to 94.9 FM Rhema Central Coast. It's situated about 1.5 hours drive north of Sydney in Erina, and has a population somewhere in the neighborhood of 300,000. A couple of years ago they had to move transmission sites due to the land being reclaimed where their tower stood. Unfortunately, their existing 850 MHz STL wouldn't work with the new transmitter location due to a hill being in the path and they weren't able to install a big grid pack antenna to the new tower as they were collocating with existing broadcasters.
As a result, there was going to have to be a two-hop link to get to the new transmitter site, and there weren't any extra STL frequencies available. They installed a two-hop 5.8 GHz Ubiquiti link — the first hop is 8 kilometers/5 miles and the second is 3 kilometers/2 miles.
It's a small Axia Livewire facility. When I was brought onto this project I recommended running Livewire over the Ubiquiti link and installing their Omnia One processor at the transmitter site. This was reasonably successful, except that they were suffering from interference at times with the 5.8 GHz link.
So an alternate backup path was needed in order to achieve the stable signal that they desired. We tried 4G in the short term, but data plans would be prohibitive for the station in the long term. The transmitter site was hard to get an internet connection to. Like most transmitter sites it was a bit remote, but we eventually were able to get an ADSL connection installed with limited bandwidth and differing amounts of latency. Due to the station having limited funds, we tried multiple cheaper codecs over nine months, but unfortunately due to the ADSL conditions, it proved difficult and we were not getting the results that they needed. Fortunately, the station had applied for a local government grant for codecs, and they were awarded it.
Because of the ADSL conditions, I recommended Telos Z/IP One IP codec, which I have used extensively for backup paths and program distribution with Hope Media. The Z/IP Ones are great because of the Agile Connection Technology (ACT). It adapts to the connection's conditions, you can set a minimum and maximum bitrate and also a minimum and maximum buffer. It will try to use the highest quality bitrate and lowest buffer, but if packets start dropping it will increase the buffer or reduce bitrate, all on the fly.
Since installing, the Rhema Central Coast connection has been rock-solid, running at AAC 320 kbps without any dropouts, and they couldn't be happier.
For information, contact Cam Eicher at The Telos Alliance in Ohio at 1-216-241-7225 or visit www.telosalliance.com.
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Ultimate is a fast-paced, non-contact field sport. It's suitable for players of all ages, and usually played in a co-ed format with men and women on the same team.
The sport is played in more than 75 countries, with the largest number of players in North America. There's over 30,000 recreational players in Canada alone!
All you need to play is a disc (frisbee), some cones, and a playing field. Games are typically played with 7 players a side, but there are many variations. The most unique aspect of ultimate is that it's self-officiated - players make all calls themselves - even at national and international championships!


The US Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has approved bipartisan legislation to reauthorise the Department of Transportation's pipeline-safety program.
The legislation, designed to maintain the safety of the US pipeline network, will close gaps in federal standards, enhance the quality and timeliness of agency rulemakings, promote better usage of data and technology to improve pipeline safety, and provide regulatory certainty for the sector.
Jeff Denham, Chairman of the Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee, said "We have a responsibility and an opportunity to ensure the efficiency and safety of the 2.6 million miles of pipelines transporting energy resources to Americans across the country.
"This bipartisan legislation requires Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) to complete mandated safety requirements and to evaluate and report to Congress on their rulemaking process, making our pipelines safer than ever before.
Michael Capuano, a ranking member of the Subcommittee, said "The legislation contains some important safety provisions, including giving the PHMSA to act quickly to address industry-wide safety hazards as soon as they are discovered.
Bill Shuster, Chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, said "Pipelines are critical to the economy of Central and Southwestern Pennsylvania, and the entire country.
"Moving energy products safely and efficiently improves our quality of life, keeps energy costs more affordable, and leads to significant job creation.
"The PIPES Act continues to build upon the pipeline safety advances we've been making in the US, improves our pipeline transportation system, and provides more regulatory certainty.
Subcommittee Ranking Member Peter DeFazio said "The bipartisan PIPES Act includes critical reforms and new tools to protect communities across the country from serious accidents involving the transportation of natural gas and hazardous liquids by pipeline.
"The legislation provides critical new authority to allow the Secretary of Transportation to impose needed emergency restrictions and safety measures in the event of a serious accident or unsafe operating practices.
For further information visit the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee website.


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Komputerowa gra zręcznościowa (potocznie: zręcznościówka) – gra komputerowa, w której pomyślne ukończenie wymaga refleksu i sprawnego operowania przyciskami kontrolera. W grach takich liczy się przede wszystkim szybkość i ciągła akcja, brak jest sytuacji, w których gracz zmuszony byłby do strategicznego myślenia bądź rozwiązania zagadek, jak ma to miejsce w grach przygodowych i logicznych.

Pierwszą produkcją tego typu, która odniosła sukces komercyjny, była gra Pong z 1972 roku.

Przypisy

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Der Hrvatski nogometni kup 2001/02 war der elfte Wettbewerb um den kroatischen Fußballpokal nach der Loslösung des kroatischen Fußballverbandes aus dem jugoslawischen Fußballverband.

Titelverteidiger Dinamo Zagreb setzte sich in zwei Finalspielen gegen den NK Varteks Varaždin durch. Es war für Dinamo der 6. Pokalsieg im unabhängigen Kroatien und der 13. insgesamt.

Modus
Ab dem Viertelfinale einschließlich des Finales wurden jeweils Hin- und Rückspiele ausgetragen. Bei gleicher Anzahl an Toren aus beiden Spielen kam die Mannschaft weiter, die auswärts mehr Tore erzielt hatte. Herrschte auch hier Gleichstand, wurde ein Elfmeterschießen zur Ermittlung des Siegers ausgetragen.

Teilnehmer
An der Vorrunde
 21 Sieger des Bezirkspokals
 11 Finalisten des Bezirkspokals aus den Fußballverbänden mit der größten Anzahl registrierter Fußballclubs

Am Sechzehntelfinale
 Die 16 punktbesten Vereine der Fünfjahres-Pokalwertung. (63 Punkte für den Pokalsieger, 31 für den unterlegenen Finalisten, 15 für die Halbfinalisten, 7 für die Viertelfinalisten, 3 für die Achtelfinalisten und 1 Punkt für die Sechzehntelfinalisten.)

Ergebnisse

Vorrunde
Die Spiele fanden am 22. August 2001 statt.

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Sechzehntelfinale
Die Spiele fanden zwischen dem 18. September und 16. Oktober 2001 statt.

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Achtelfinale
Die Spiele fanden zwischen den 24. Oktober und 7. November 2001 statt.

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Viertelfinale
Die Hinspiele fanden zwischen dem 14. und 21. November 2001 statt, die Rückspiele zwischen dem 21. November und 5. Dezember.

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Halbfinale
Die Hinspiele des Halbfinals fanden am 20. März 2002 statt, die Rückspiele am 3. April.

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Finale

Hinspiel

Rückspiel

Torschützenliste

Weblinks
 Kroatische Fußball Statistiken hrnogomet.com
 Croatia Cup 2001/02 (engl.), rsssf.com

Einzelnachweise

2001 02
Fußballsaison 2001/02