Campagnolo doesn't manufacture different levels of performance. There is only one standard performance level that is a required from the legendary Italian name and the Potenza 11 Group is a telling example of the high standards that Campagnolo demands of its components. Therefore, this top class aluminium groupset offers the same superior performance as corresponding carbon fibre products mounted on professional bikes. The only differences between the two versions are mainly due to minor changes in the construction material used. Potenza 11, synonym for strength and intensity, was constructed around these strengths. The last born 11+ Revolution is the Potenza 11 Group, which - as its name suggests - will help you smash you goals.
The grip body reproduces the asymmetry of the human hand, increasing the area of contact with the palm of the hand and providing different support positions for maximum safety in all riding positions. Due to their shape, the levers are always easy to reach without effort, regardless of your riding position and the size of your hand. A study on the position of the hands of road cyclists has highlighted 3 different riding positions depending on the track and riding style. Based on these studies, Campagnolo created the special and exclusive shape of the Ergopower brake levers to ensure safe and comfortable riding at all times. In addition, a special insert for large hands increases the distance between the shift levers and the handlebars by 8%, creating sufficient space for braking and shifting while maintaining maximum safety conditions. The Vary-Cushion system encloses the handle body and serves as a damper. The special geometry of this anti-allergenic hand protection rubber with different density absorbs the vibrations so that you can sit in the saddle for many hours without tiring or overstraining your hands. The Ultra-Shift shape of the levers allows a more powerful operation of the brake levers. Even with your hands on the Ergopower levers, strong and responsive braking is possible. Thanks to this advantage, professionals can talk in peace before they get serious.
The introduction of the Power Shift system makes it easier for Ergopower gears to control the front derailleur/gear. Thanks to the optimised design of the new 12/27 and 12/30 sprockets, shifting is just as smooth as with the larger 11-speed brothers. The Power Shift System mechanism shifts the chain down one sprocket and up three sprockets.


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Q: Loading a secure file with cURL I'm trying to use cURL to access a secure file.. The documentation for its use is confusing so I searched and found two sites (1 & 2) and a reference here on SO but the scripts don't seem to work for me.
The site I'm am trying to access has the data I need publicly available, so I don't need to log in or provide a password.
This is the script I have and all it does is sit there waiting for something to happen (I get no errors).
$ch = curl_init('https://www.somesite.com/index.htm');

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY);

// Disable PEER SSL Verification: If you are not running with SSL or if you don't have valid SSL
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

// Disable HOST (the site you are sending request to) SSL Verification,
// if Host can have certificate which is nvalid / expired / not signed by authorized CA.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);

$sFile = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

I just need to figure out what I'm doing wrong here.
Thanks!
Update: The script does work locally in XAMPP, but not on the live server (am I missing a php setting? - probably something I can't touch because I'm using a free hosting service, for now). I also found this article about grabbing a certificate, but it isn't clear to me if I need to grab the one from delicious or the site I'm trying to access.

A: Well you have a missing quote on the first line:
$ch = curl_init('https://www.somesite.com/index.htm');

Apart from that, try
echo curl_error($ch);

before you close the handle.
Also you can show PHP errors (turn this off once you go live though):
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', 1);

A: try something like
$sFile = curl_exec($ch);
$info = curl_getinfo($ch);

print_r($info);

that should contain some useful information.

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For Andrea DeVries, Mother's Day is forever etched into her mind as the day her youngest son was killed in a traffic accident.
Twenty-four-year-old Daniel DeVries was engaged and working in human resources at Meadowlands Hospital in Secaucus. He had graduated a year earlier from Monmouth University and lived with his parents, Andrea and Roger, in their Paramus home near the Ridgewood border. On Mother's Day 2008, he was crossing the intersection of Maple and Ridgewood avenues when he was struck by a driver making a left turn. He was killed almost instantly.
The only charge brought against the driver was failure to yield to a pedestrian. There was no investigation into whether he had been intoxicated or operating a cell phone at the time of the accident, according to Andrea DeVries. The driver paid $300 in fines and had his license temporarily suspended, but DeVries said she felt justice had been eluded.
Andrea DeVries and her son Daniel, who was killed while in a Ridgewood pedestrian crosswalk on Mother's Day 2008.
Since then, DeVries has been on a crusade to promote pedestrian safety and seek harsher penalties for motorists who drive and talk on their cell phones.
Last year, she attended a legislative breakfast at her synagogue, Temple Avodat Shalom in River Edge. Her rabbi, Neal Borovitz, invited her to ask the speakers, state Sen. Loretta Weinberg and a proxy for her then-rival for lieutenant governor, Kim Guadagno, about the case.
Assemblywoman Connie Wagner, who represents Paramus and sits on the state's transportation committee, was in the audience. At her invitation, DeVries testified before the Assembly in January as it considered a bill increasing fines for those drivers who fail to yield to pedestrians.
The bill passed the legislature and Gov. Jon Corzine signed it as one of his final acts in office. The new law increases the fine of $100 to $500 if a victim is seriously injured as a result of the driver's failure to yield. It also increases the maximum jail time from 15 to 25 days.
For DeVries, though, the new bill does not go far enough. She wants to see mandatory drug and alcohol testing and a check of cell-phone records for every driver who kills a pedestrian.
"It was a baby step," she said of the legislation.
On average, 150 New Jersey pedestrians die each year in traffic accidents, according to the state's Department of Transportation. And for each fatality, two more are injured. New Jersey began counting the number of crashes associated with cell phones in June 2001. In 2004, the state banned the use of hand-held cell phones while driving. In 2008, the state made texting while driving illegal.
In 2008, the state recorded 1,821 hand-held cell phone-related crashes and 1,383 hands-free cell phone-related crashes. With 159, Bergen County had the third highest number of hands-free crashes that year. Essex County recorded the highest with 380 and Hudson County the second highest with 310. Essex also led the number of hand-held related crashes with 252, while Bergen registered 149. Hudson recorded 102.
According to Distraction.gov, a Website set up by the U.S. Department of Transportation, there are three main types of driver distraction: visual, taking your eyes off the road; manual, taking your hands off the wheel; and cognitive, taking your mind off what you are doing.
Texting is the most alarming distraction, according to the site, because it involves all three types of distraction.
None of the three yeshiva high schools in Bergen County offer drivers' education. At Ma'ayanot, however, the senior class each year is witness to a presentation on the dangers of drunk driving.
Texting while driving should be addressed as well, said Ruth Wang Birnbaum, assistant principal for academic affairs at Ma'ayanot. She pointed to statistics that show that texting while driving is as dangerous as drinking while driving.
An estimated 515,000 people were injured and 5,870 people were killed nationwide in 2008 in police-reported crashes in which at least one driver distraction was reported, according to Distraction.gov. According to the National Safety Council, at least 1.4 million crashes nationwide are caused by drivers talking on cell phones, while at least 200,000 crashes are caused by drivers who are texting.
According to statistics from the University of Utah posted on Distraction.gov, using a cell phone while driving, whether hands-free or not, affects a driver's reaction time as much as having a blood alcohol level of .08, the legal limit. Carnegie Mellon University found that driving while using a cell phone results in a reduction of 37 percent in the amount of brain activity associated with driving, while a Virginia Tech study found that 80 percent of all crashes and 65 percent of near-crashes involve some type of distraction.
Drivers using hand-held devices are four times as likely to get into crashes that result in injury, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
During the past 23 months, according to the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General, police issued 224,725 citations – an average of more than 9,000 a month – to drivers violating the state's cell-phone laws.
Teaneck Police Chief Robert Wilson said his department has been targeting cell-phone usage since the second half of last year. New Jersey, he noted, has a very high rate of seatbelt usage because of high rates of enforcement.
"Hopefully we'll get the same effect [for cell-phone usage] as seatbelt usage," he said.
Teaneck's Lt. Robert Carney does not see cell-phone usage increasing among drivers but he does not see the problem abating until the state punishes violators with points on their licenses.
"People seem to believe if they put [a cell phone] on speakerphone while still holding it, it's hands-free," he said.
The man who struck and killed Daniel DeVries will never return to trial or face stiffer punishment than the handful of fines he has already paid. Andrea DeVries' personal quest for justice is over, but she continues fighting to prevent others from having to share her nightmare. Through Weinberg, DeVries has been in touch with the New Jersey Crime Victims Law Center, which does pro bono work to promote victims' rights, in order to help others get the justice she feels she never received.
He pointed to strict laws in Massachusetts and California that stop traffic when pedestrians enter crosswalks. In April, state law will change regarding pedestrians and crosswalks, a result of another last-minute Corzine act. The new law will require motorists to come to a complete stop for pedestrians in crosswalks instead of just yielding to them.


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How do you tell a Conservative from a Liberal? Ask an economist
Posted on September 20, 2019 in Governance Debates
Source: NationalPost.com — Authors: Andrew Coyne
NationalPost.com – Opinion
September 18, 2019. Andrew Coyne
The only difference between the parties is whether this bias to the expedient is dressed up as a philosophy and celebrated, or merely yielded to
I believe I was the first to propose the creation of an Economists Party, a political movement that would advocate for the sorts of policies favoured by people who study economics for a living, based on the principles at its core.
It could not happen, of course, any more than the existing parties are likely to suddenly embrace the teachings of economists they have so cheerfully ignored until now, and for the same reason: because politics is, at its core, the opposite of economics.
The basic principle of economics is that everything is scarce. The basic principle of politics is that nothing is scarce. Economics teaches that more of one thing can only be had at the expense of less of another. Politics teaches that we can have more of both things, and of everything else besides.
Since more of one thing means less of another, economics tells us there is no point in favouring one part of the economy over another: the resources diverted to one firm, industry or region are simply resources denied to all the rest. Whereas politics is all about such transfers: a perpetual merry-go-round of redistribution, not from rich to poor, which is appropriate, but from everybody to everybody, which is impossible.
One has to suppose that the current generation of Conservatives feels at least some discomfort at the dog's breakfast they are asked to endorse
And if, for some reason, a politician were to resist this impulse, he would shortly find himself out of work. For whereas the benefits of a given intervention are typically concentrated on this or that group, the costs are spread widely; its beneficiaries, accordingly, have every incentive to organize and agitate on its behalf, while those footing the bill — consumers, taxpayers, or both — have comparatively little at stake as individuals. They may not even know who they are.
Thus it is that politics inclines, more or less inevitably, to prefer the narrow interest over the broad; producers over consumers; the present over the future. The only difference between the parties is whether this bias to the expedient is dressed up as a philosophy and celebrated as a positive good, or merely yielded to.
In practice this is only really an issue for the Conservative party. If you genuinely believe that scarcity is a myth — that deficits, far from a vice, are a virtue; that only cruelty and superstition, and not observation and analysis, prevents governments from substituting their own beliefs for how resources should be allocated for those of people with actual skin in the game — then your conscience is clear: muck about all you like.
But Conservatives have occasionally affected some familiarity with economics. For brief periods in the recent past — within living memory, at any rate — Conservatives have professed to believe in such ideas as balanced budgets, free trade and private ownership; to favour a neutral tax system and broad-based tax cuts over narrowly targeted deductions and credits; to understand how price signals are superior to regulatory edicts as spurs to efficient resource use.
So one has to suppose that the current generation of Conservatives, under first Stephen Harper and now Andrew Scheer, feels at least some discomfort at the dog's breakfast they are asked to endorse as party economic policy.
Where once the party stood for bold, broad tax reform, it now confines itself to a clutch of micro-targeted "boutique" tax credits, such as for children's fitness or transit passes: spending programs by another name, of precisely the sort of busy-bodying, social-engineering bent that Conservatives used to disdain, and not very effective even at that. Harper could be faulted for taking the party down this road, but Scheer now proposes to revive the same credits even after their abolition by the Liberals.
Or where the party does get around to proposing more broad-based cuts, it does so in a way calculated to produce the least bang for the buck. It was the GST cuts under Harper; it is the cut to the 15 per cent base rate of personal income tax now. As before, the proposal will cost billions, at the expense, not of spending — the party is no longer meaningfully committed to balanced budgets — but of the deeper cuts in the middle and top marginal rates that the same money would have bought: the kind of cuts that would actually do the economy some good.
(Wait, cut taxes at the top? Heresy! But much of the benefit of the Tory cut would go to those higher up the income scale — they pay the 15 per cent rate, too, on the first $47,630 of their income. Only it would take the form of a windfall, rather than an incentive to higher productivity, inasmuch as it would apply to income they had already earned, rather than to income they were thinking of earning — to the next investment, or the next hour worked. Want to help the working poor? Enrich the federal Working Income Tax Benefit, which doesn't go to rich people.)
The news is a little better when it comes to business subsidies. But even as Scheer was announcing he would cut such "corporate welfare" payments by $1.5 billion annually — a fraction of the total — he was insisting he would preserve those distributed by the sordid pork-barrel rackets known as the regional development agencies. As for supply management, the state-organized price-fixing rings into which much of Canadian agriculture has been organized, we know where Scheer stands on that.
Which rather makes a mockery of his professed concern to make life more "affordable" for ordinary Canadians, as in his mulish opposition to the federal carbon tax — a tax that, unlike the costs of his own, more regulatory-heavy climate change plan, is refunded to consumers. Once, not so long ago, we might have expected the Conservatives to offer a more market-oriented alternative to the Liberals. But now I guess it will have to fall to the Economists Party.
Andrew Coyne: How do you tell a Conservative from a Liberal? Ask an economist
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Omicron, Covid lockdown rumours, weather updates
Notes from the newsroom
SAMAA | Samaa Web Desk - Posted: Jan 9, 2022 | Last Updated: 2 weeks ago
Posted: Jan 9, 2022 | Last Updated: 2 weeks ago
Here are some of the stories we will be following today, Sunday, January 9, 2022. Artwork by Yawar Yaseen The cases of the new coronavirus variant Omicron are increasing at a scaringly fast rate in Pakistan, especially Karachi. The infection rate in the city has surpassed 10% within a week. The Sindh government has, however, debunked rumours of a lockdown in Karachi. Health Minister Dr Azra Pechuho says the decision for a lockdown will be taken after reviewing the hospitalisation rate. Meanwhile, on Saturday, 26 students of Lahore's King Edward Medical College tested positive for coronavirus as the positivity rate in the city rose to 6.3%. According to university officials, students who tested positive were living in the hostel and have been isolated. Photos: Online The Pakistan Meteorological Department has forecast rain in multiple cities, especially in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, today. "Widespread rain with snowfall over the hills is expected in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Islamabad, upper/central Punjab, Gilgit-Baltistan, and Kashmir. Heavy rain/hailstorm is expected at isolated places during the period," it tweeted Saturday. Photos: Online Heavy snowfall and blizzards brought life to a standstill in Murree Friday night. At least 22 tourists stuck in cars froze to death. The Met Office has blamed the fatalities. The department's DG said that the weather forecast was out on December 31 but appropriate measures were not taken. The Pakistan Army and Disaster Management Authority are conducting a rescue operation in the area. The government has banned the entry of tourists in Naran, Shogran, and Kaghan after heavy snowfall was forecast in the destinations. According to the notification from the office of Deputy Commissioner Mansehra, Tehsil Balakot, Naran, Kaghan and Shogran have been closed for all kinds of traffic due to the extreme weather conditions.
Here are some of the stories we will be following today, Sunday, January 9, 2022.
Artwork by Yawar Yaseen
The cases of the new coronavirus variant Omicron are increasing at a scaringly fast rate in Pakistan, especially Karachi. The infection rate in the city has surpassed 10% within a week. The Sindh government has, however, debunked rumours of a lockdown in Karachi. Health Minister Dr Azra Pechuho says the decision for a lockdown will be taken after reviewing the hospitalisation rate.
Meanwhile, on Saturday, 26 students of Lahore's King Edward Medical College tested positive for coronavirus as the positivity rate in the city rose to 6.3%. According to university officials, students who tested positive were living in the hostel and have been isolated.
Photos: Online
The Pakistan Meteorological Department has forecast rain in multiple cities, especially in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, today. "Widespread rain with snowfall over the hills is expected in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Islamabad, upper/central Punjab, Gilgit-Baltistan, and Kashmir. Heavy rain/hailstorm is expected at isolated places during the period," it tweeted Saturday.
Heavy snowfall and blizzards brought life to a standstill in Murree Friday night. At least 22 tourists stuck in cars froze to death. The Met Office has blamed the fatalities. The department's DG said that the weather forecast was out on December 31 but appropriate measures were not taken. The Pakistan Army and Disaster Management Authority are conducting a rescue operation in the area.
Pain and gain: Pharmacies overcharge for paracetamol amid Omicron surge shortage
Umrah to continue despite new wave of Covid-19
The government has banned the entry of tourists in Naran, Shogran, and Kaghan after heavy snowfall was forecast in the destinations. According to the notification from the office of Deputy Commissioner Mansehra, Tehsil Balakot, Naran, Kaghan and Shogran have been closed for all kinds of traffic due to the extreme weather conditions.
Coronavirus	Omicron	weather updates
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Nielsen Mobile has just confirmed that Google leads the U.S. mobile search market with a 61 percent share of the market.
Google's lead is followed by Yahoo!, with 18% market share. MSN lags far behind with only 5% share of the market in the first quarter of 2008.
Earlier, Hitwise and comScore had declared similar results for the general search market.
Nielsen has found that each Google visitor uses the mobile search facility about 9 times a month, on average, while Yahoo! visitors use mobile search about 6.7 times a month on an average, in spite of Yahoo! providing a much wider range of mobile services than Google.
It has also been established that the majority of mobile search users are male, with Google having 65% and Yahoo! having 63% male users respectively.
The most frequently searched for categories on mobile devices were found to be information, local listings and navigation to specific websites, in that order. Users of both Google and Yahoo! query these search categories in almost the same proportion.
On a scale of 1-10, 44% of Google users said their experience with mobile search could be rated between 8 and 10, while only 40% of Yahoo! users felt the same way.
James Watt, a software engineer with Google, has commented that Google's mobile homepage has been updated to make it faster to upload. He says that Google is "obsessed" with the idea of speeding up mobile search.


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AG Barr Scorches FBI: 'Launched Intrusive Investigation of US Presidential Campaign'
U.S. attorney John Durham also does 'not agree' with key conclusions of FISA report
Jamie White | Infowars.com - December 9, 2019 Comments
Image Credits: Drew Angerer/Getty Images.
Attorney General William Barr blasted the FBI over their abuse of the FISA process outlined in the Inspector General's long-awaited assessment of the bureau's counterintelligence operation against Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
"The Inspector General's report now makes clear that the FBI launched an intrusive investigation of a U.S. presidential campaign on the thinnest of suspicions that, in my view, were insufficient to justify the steps taken," Barr said in a statement Monday. "It is also clear that, from its inception, the evidence produced by the investigation was consistently exculpatory."
"Nevertheless, the investigation and surveillance was pushed forward for the duration of the campaign and deep into President Trump's administration. In the rush to obtain and maintain FISA surveillance of Trump campaign associates, FBI officials misled the FISA court, omitted critical exculpatory facts from their filings, and suppressed or ignored information negating the reliability of their principal source."
"The Inspector General found the explanations given for these actions unsatisfactory. While most of the misconduct identified by the Inspector General was committed in 2016 and 2017 by a small group of now-former FBI officials, the malfeasance and misfeasance detailed in the Inspector General's report reflects a clear abuse of the FISA process," Barr added.
Additionally, U.S. attorney John Durham, who is conducting his own investigation into the origins of the Russia collusion hoax, sided with Barr's opinion in a statement, saying he also did "not agree with some of the report's conclusions as to predication and how the FBI case was opened."
"I have the utmost respect for the mission of the Office of Inspector General and the comprehensive work that went into the report prepared by Mr. Horowitz and his staff," Durham stated in the press release.
"However, our investigation is not limited to developing information from within component parts of the Justice Department. Our investigation has included developing information from other persons and entities, both in the U.S. and outside of the U.S."
"Based on the evidence collected to date, and while our investigation is ongoing, last month we advised the Inspector General that we do not agree with some of the report's conclusions as to predication and how the FBI case was opened," Durham added.
Despite the mainstream media and IG Horowitz's attempts to downplay the damning findings, the actual Justice Department leadership recognizes the FBI's surveillance malfeasances under former Director James Comey for what they were — a politically motivated attempt to subvert the will of the American people.
Read the full IG FISA report below:
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The music of Chopin has always had a strong attraction for me because of the power of its melodies and harmonies. The clean and simple relation between the two creates an inviting as well as compelling urgency. Like a pearl, it doesn't ask for attention, it just naturally gets it.
There is a resemblance with the material in the Great American Songbook, the same unchallengeable necessity. Being a jazz-performer I have extensively studied the work of Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin among many others and in my opinion Chopin, even without consciously having "met" the African scales and rhythms called Blues, paved the way for not only the above mentioned renowned songwriters but also for great masters of jazz improvisation as Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Barry Harris and Oscar Peterson to name a few. Chopin enriched the harmonics, wrote easily recognizable and singable melodies and when his melancholy shows in chromatic embellishments ("blue" notes) he in fact created the universal language of contemporary jazz, called Bebop. It is my sincere desire that all over the world jazz musicians will explore the treasure-chest filled with the works of the classical composers in an endeavor to implement these gifts in their musical expression.
On this CD you will hear six live tracks of three different concerts I gave with the trio. I hope and trust you will enjoy my honest tribute to Chopin.


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Blessed Thomas Holford Catholic College
English (2RSR)
http://www.bthcc.org.uk
PGCE Secondary School Direct (English) provides you with the practical training and theoretical knowledge required to become an outstanding English teacher.
Compared with non-School Direct teacher trainees, you will benefit from additional time in school before the PGCE starts and follow a modified version of the course. Throughout, you will focus on the 11-16 age range in order to gain Qualified Teacher Status (QTS), learning to teach the National Curriculum and related national strategies surrounding GCSE, AS and A2-level study.
The majority of the course focuses upon practical training in teaching and learning-related skills. You will enjoy extended periods of school experience, which will provide opportunities to work in a Primary setting and to teach in at least two different Secondary schools. In total, 25 weeks of your PGCE will be spent experiencing and working in different types of school.
This practical training is underpinned by the development of your knowledge and understanding of educational theories, ideas and concepts, including current issues and developments.
At the end of the course, your lead school may offer you a permanent role.
BTHCC is the Lead School in the partnership and will be coordinating the recruitment process. We will be mainly working in partnership with All Saints Catholic College, Dukinfield, a member of our alliance, to ensure that the selection and recruitment process is transparent and rigorous.
Head teachers and senior colleagues from both BTHCC and All Saints will be involved in the recruitment process.
You are welcome to visit the school prior to application - please email schooldirect@bthcc.org
Interviews will usually take place at BTHCC.
When you come for a School Direct interview there are likely to be other applicants being interviewed alongside you. We are keen to see that you can work collaboratively with others. The criteria we will use at interview to decide whether or not we offer you a place on the course are:
an awareness of current educational issues
a realistic and positive view of schools and schooling
an open and enquiring mind
clear reasons for wanting to teach
motivation and commitment to teaching pupils of all levels of ability
maturity and self-confidence
an appropriate level of subject knowledge in your chosen subject for secondary applicants
You will be expected to plan and deliver a 20 minute teaching session - a topic will be supplied in advance of the interview and you will be given information regarding the age and ability of the pupils.
Further details about the interview process will be sent when invited to interview.
The 3 main placements work on an A/B/A rotation where Blessed Thomas Holford Catholic College as the lead school in our alliance is usually the A placement although this may not always be the case.
The other school in our alliance where you are likely to be placed is
All Saints Catholic College in Dukinfield (https://allsaintscatholiccollege.com/)
International students £18,000
A second or first class honours degree in English Literature, English Language, Linguistics or a joint honours degree with at least 50% of these subjects. Applicants with degrees in other English-related subjects may also be considered in some circumstances.
Minimum grade C or 4 at GCSE (or equivalent) in English Language and Mathematics.
a genuine passion and clear reasons for wanting to teach
an awareness of the role and responsibilities of the teacher
a good standard of written English
Candidates applying for PGCE Secondary School Direct will need to sit pre-entry skills tests in Numeracy and Literacy. No unconditional offer will be made until both tests have been passed. You are therefore advised to have passed these tests prior to interview. For late applications, priority will be given to those who have already passed the tests.
Two weeks observational experience in a UK secondary school within the last 2 years
References which support the suitability of the candidate for teaching
A personal statement
Our expanding and oversubscribed school has 1405 pupils from 11-18 years of age including 142 in our Sixth Form College. Our mission statement at Blessed Thomas Holford Catholic College reflects our commitment to developing the best in all our pupils and staff.
Our most recent June 2013 Ofsted report judged the school to be Outstanding in every area for the third time in succession.
Our 2018 GCSE results are excellent with 92% achieving a pass grade in English and 80% in Mathematics, results which are well above the average.
We are very proud of our Sixth Form students who in 2018 achieved an overall pass rate of 99% with 60% of the grades at A* - B. Our Sixth Form is rated as Outstanding and we have a university entrance rate which is exceptional. In 2018 95% of our students secured a place at their chosen university with many accepted into the most prestigious universities across the UK.
Our vision is to develop teachers who will become the school leaders of the future. By starting your teaching career at Blessed Thomas Holford Catholic College we would like to think your first year will be just the beginning. We are proud of our Middle Leaders and Senior Leadership Training programmes which will recognise your potential and give you the opportunity to explore careers management. Our relentless quest for excellence includes providing coaching for every member of our teaching staff. Continuing Professional Development is very much central to our philosophy.
(http://www.bthcc.org.uk/teachingschools/schooldirect/)
The Good Teacher Training Guide 2017 rated The University of Manchester as top in the North West for secondary initial teacher training.
Trainees are taught by experts in education who are active in education-related research.
Secondary subjects are taught by specialist tutors with substantial teaching experience. The tutors are in touch with current educational practice and often contribute to research, policy and curriculum developments.
(https://www.seed.manchester.ac.uk/education/study/pgce/)
Blessed Thomas Holford Catholic College seeks to ensure that staff are supported with any additional needs which they may wish to disclose. All staff, including staff with additional needs or disability, have an equal opportunity to access relevant support and reasonable adjustments in order to fulfil their role within the college. The fundamental principles – as set out in the college's mission statement – are reflected in college policies on curriculum, pastoral care, equal opportunity and assessment, recording and reporting.
At Blessed Thomas Holford Catholic College, we will seek to work in partnership with staff and relevant outside agencies to ensure individual needs are met.
The college adopts the principles, policies and relevant sections of the Equalities Act, 2010.
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Match report for Sutton United 3 Colchester United 2
Oldham game rearranged
Our game away to Oldham Athletic, which was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch last Saturday, has been rearranged for Tuesday 22 March, kick off 7.45pm
Harrogate Papa John's Trophy date confirmed
We can confirm that our Papa John's Trophy quarter final at home to Harrogate Town will be played on Tuesday 25 January, kick off 7.45.
Preston game set for December 8th
Sutton's FA Youth Cup third round tie at home to Preston North End will be played on Wednesday 8 December, kick off 7.00pm.
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Indian gets 9 years in jail for sexual assault on US flight
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A 34yearold Indian man has been sentenced to nine years in prison for sexually assaulting a sleeping woman on a US flight early this year
WASHINGTON: A 34-year-old Indian man has been sentenced to nine years in prison for sexually assaulting a sleeping woman on a US flight early this year.
Prabhu Ramamoorthy, living in the US on a temporary work visa, was accused of abusing a 22-year-old woman seated by the window next to him while his wife was on his other side on a Spirit Airlines flight from Las Vegas to Detroit on January 3.
He will be deported back to India after he serves his sentence, a federal court in Detroit said on Thursday as it sentenced him to nine years of imprisonment, Detroit Free Press reported. He will never be allowed back into the US.
Prosecutors said Ramamoorthy "committed one of the most brazen airplane sexual assaults ever prosecuted in this district" when he knowingly took advantage of a sleeping, intoxicated woman who could not fight back.
The prosecution had originally sought a 11-year jail term but US District Judge Terrence Berg concluded that nine years was sufficient for what he described as "an extremely serious offence".
Ramamoorthy was held without bail after appearing in the federal court after prosecutors argued there was a risk he could abscond.
According to court records, the 22-year-old victim had told investigators that she was sleeping in the seat next to Ramamoorthy on the flight when she was jolted awake and found the fellow passenger shoving his fingers inside her pants and "vigorously moving them". She said her shirt was also unbuttoned.
Federal prosecutor Amanda Jawad said Ramamoorthy stopped after the victim opened her eyes and then the shaken woman immediately alerted flight attendants. She was then given a different seat and the man was arrested after the plane landed.
When the accusations against Ramamoorthy surfaced, he had denied them. He told the police he could not have committed the crime because he was asleep. His wife had claimed that the woman had been sleeping on her husband's knees.
According to officials, Ramamoorthy later altered his story and told an FBI agent that he might have unclasped the sleeping woman's bra "while playing with it".
The court filing stated that Ramamoorthy also admitted that he "unzipped the woman's pants part-way and put his finger inside". He was convicted by a jury in August following a five-day trial.
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Shale is a fine-grained sedimentary rock which is formed by the compaction of silt and clay-size mineral particles. Shale is available in black, brown, buff, green, grey, red, yellow colors. The streak of a rock is the color of powder produced when it is dragged across an unweathered surface.
Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock composed of mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite. Shale is characterized by breaks along thin laminae or parallel layering or bedding less than one centimeter in thickness, called fissility .
Shale is a fine-grained sedimentary rock that forms from the compaction of silt and clay-size mineral particles that we commonly call "mud". This composition places shale in a category of sedimentary rocks known as "mudstones".
It is a fine-grained clastic sedimentary rock made of compacted mud consisting of clay and tiny particles of quartz, calcite, mica, pyrite, other minerals, and organic compounds. Shale is found all over the world in areas where water exists or once flowed.
Deposition of solid sediment particles in the Rock Cycle - Occurs when wind and water currents slow down and as glacial ice ... -Fine grained = made of silt and clay sized particles; these particles are so small that great magnification must be used to identify them ... -Shale MUST exhibit this property.
Boggs, 2006 describes shales as fine-grained, siliciclastic sedimentary rocks that consist dominantly of silt-sized (1/16–1/256 mm) and clay-sized (<1/256 mm) particles. Shale is also referred to as a fine-grained, clastic rock that displays the property of being fissile.
Shale is a fine-grained sedimentary rock which is formed by the compaction of silt and clay-size mineral particles. These rocks are composed of many distinct minerals. The process of formation of rocks is different for various rocks.
A book definition for shale, including your query about grain size is..."a laminated, fissile, fine-grained sedimentary rock made up of silt (0.0625 - 0.004 mm) and clay size particles (<0.004 mm). Shale is defined in terms of particle size, not composition.
a sedimentary rock composed mostly of sand-sized particles, usually cemented by calcite, silica, or iron oxide mudrocks A fine-grained sedimentary rock made of clay and silt-size particles.
Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock composed of mud that is a mix of clay minerals and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz, dolomite, and calcite. The ratio of clay to other minerals varies.
A mixture of clastic sedimentary rocks varying from mudstone to sandstone, dominated by rocks containing clay-sized or silt-sized particles This category is also used for fine-grained mixed clastic .
Shale, any of a group of fine-grained, laminated sedimentary rocks consisting of silt- and clay-sized particles.Shale is the most abundant of the sedimentary rocks, accounting for roughly 70 percent of this rock type in the crust of the Earth.
Shale - fine-grained rock composed of silt and clay which tends to part along the bedding planes. It is the most abundant sedimentary rock. It is the most abundant sedimentary rock. B. Chemical Precipitates - formed by the precipitation of minerals from saturated solutions.
A fine-grained, organic rich, sedimentary rock characterized by thin layers of clay or mud, organic shale has wide variations in geology, geochemistry, geo-mechanics and production mechanisms. These variations occur from one resource play to the next, sometimes even within the same organic shale.
Shale refers to a fine grained rock or a clastic sedimentary rock that is majorly composed of mud. This mud is actually a mixture of clay mineral flakes as well as tiny fragments or silt sized particles of other minerals that include calcite, quartz etc.
Clastic sedimentary rocks are classified by size of the sediment particles making up the rock. Particle size descriptions like sand, silt, and clay have specific meaning in geology and engineering.
Shales by definition are fine-grained rocks that contain between 50% and clay sized particles with clay mineral constituting at least 25% of the total rock volume.
In sedimentary rock, the finest grained rock, with a grain size less than 0.006 mm, is claystone, mudstone, or shale. These are very fine-grained sedimentary rocks composed of very fine clay particles, including fine mica particles ( Fig. 1.1C ).


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Aaron Hernandez Associate Gets 5 Years For Hartford Bar Shooting
Fotis Dulos expected to waive probable cause hearing and seek speedy trial
Gun Found At Shooting Scene Linked To Aaron Hernandez
Six things to do this weekend
By Courant staff
At least 35 Connecticut towns join the world in ringing in the summer solstice on June 21 when musicians, both professional and novice, fill the streets for Make Music Day. The music in Hartford, scattered all over the city, starts at 10 a.m. and includes a kazoo parade down Pratt Street at 1 p.m., led by WNPR's Chion Wolf, music lessons at Mortensen Riverfront Plaza and the Funky Dawgz Brass Band at Charter Oak Cultural Center at 4:30 p.m. You'll find a full schedule at makemusicday.org.
Find highlights of Make Music Day here. »
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Under A Big Top
TheaterWorks again presents drag superstar Varla Jean Merman, who will be pitching a tent for one night at Wadsworth Atheneum for a circus-themed show starting at 7 p.m. on June 23 (theater entrance located at 29 Atheneum Square North). The adults-only show is rated R, for "rude, raunchy and riotously funny." $35 to $65 at theaterworkshartford.org
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Food Truck Fest
The Greater Hartford Food Truck Fest at The Promenade Shops at Evergreen Walk in South Windsor runs June 22 and 23 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. both days, with more than 20 food trucks, restaurant offerings, specialty food, live bands and family fun. Free admission and parking. The event takes place in Evergreen Walk Park near L.L.Bean. thepromenadeshopsatevergreenwalk.com.
Concorso Ferrari
Thousands of cheering spectators and car enthusiasts will greet 40 Connecticut Children's patients as they ride into LaSalle Road in West Hartford on June 23 as part of the Concorso Ferrari & Friends car extravaganza. The day, which runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., includes music, food, shopping, and, of course, a display of all makes and models of Italian automobiles — from vintage Alfa Romeos, Fiats and Lamborghinis to the supercars of Ferrari, Pagani and Maserati. No admission fee. facebook.com
(Alex Syphers | Special to the Courant)
Historic Gardens Day
Fifteen Connecticut Historic Gardens are open to the public on June 23 from noon to 4 p.m. Sites, which include the Butler-McCook House in Hartford, the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme and the Stanley-Whitman House in Farmington, will feature tours, special events and activities. Rain or shine. Grounds admission is usually free; regular admission for house tours. Find a complete schedule at cthistoricgardens.org
Who's playing when at these free outdoor evening concerts in Greater Hartford »
Road Jam & Still River fests
Two Roads Brewing, 1700 Stratford Ave., Stratford, hosts its annual Road Jam music fest June 21 from 5:30 to 10 p.m. and June 22 from 2 to 10 p.m. Tickets are $35 on Friday and $60 on Saturday, including admission to the concerts and your first pint of beer. Both days $90. tworoadsbrewing.com. Also on June 22, The Still River Music Festival runs from 11 a.m. to midnight on the agricultural fair grounds in Riverton. $14; $7 for children. stillrivermusicfestival.com
(Nick Caito, Special to the Courant)
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A Year in Shorts Day 85: "Sanjay's Super Team"
In recent years, Pixar has been making a slow but concerted effort to bring in more diverse voices behind the scenes. While it is undeniable that Pixar has achieved a level of critical and commercial success that would be the envy of most studios, it's not wrong to point out that the vast majority of their work has been the brainchild of a bunch of straight white guys. Still, Pixar is trying to move in the right direction with both their features and their shorts. And it arguably all began in 2015 with Sanjay Patel's Sanjay's Super Team.
Released in theaters alongside The Good Dinosaur, a film I'm sure most of you forgot existed until right now, Sanjay's Super Team is based on Patel's own experiences growing up as a first generation American. It tells the story of a young boy and his father struggling to connect, with the father wanting his son to be interested in their tradition while Sanjay only cares about superheroes. So not at all relatable to contemporary Americans.
Speaking as someone who has always had a complex and often contradictory relationship with their own cultural identity, I've always found movies like this very interesting and moving. And while I think Sanjay's Super Team is not an exceptional short, there's still a lot to like about it. The animation is gorgeous, especially its use of colors, which might be some of the most visually striking work Pixar has ever done. And it all comes together in a nicely understated and heartwarming conclusion. You might not cry while watching it, but I defy you not to at least be a little bit moved.
(via The Telegraph)
When I saw Sanjay's Super Team in theaters, I wasn't too impressed. I thought it was fine but forgettable. But watching it again made me appreciate it more, and I advise anyone who was in the same boat to do the same. If I had any real complaint about it, it would be that the film could honestly be better served by being longer. Maybe even a feature. It certainly would have been a bit more memorable than The Good Dinosaur.
"Sanjay's Super Team" is available to watch on Disney +
88th Academy Awards A Year in Shorts Best Animated Short Pixar
A Year in Shorts Day 92: "What on Earth!"
A Year in Shorts Day 91: "My Grandmother Ironed th...
A Year in Shorts Day 90: "Flamenco at 5:15"
A Year in Shorts Day 89: "Chip an' Dale"
A Year in Shorts Day 88: "Black Sheep"
A Year in Shorts Day 87: "Aquamania"
A Year in Shorts Day 86: "Sandy Claws"
A Year in Shorts Day 84: "7:35 in the Morning"
A Year in Shorts Day 83: "Snow"
A Year in Shorts Day 82: "The Legend of John Henry"
A Year in Shorts Day 81: "Tea for Two Hundred"
A Year in Shorts Day 80: "Crazy Mixed Up Pup"
A Year in Shorts Day 79: "Day & Night"
A Year in Shorts Day 78: "Building a Building"
A Year in Shorts Day 77: "From A to Z-Z-Z-Z"
A Year in Shorts Day 76: "Two Cars, One Night"
A Year in Shorts Day 75: "Mickey and the Seal"
A Year in Shorts Day 74: "Universe"
A Year in Shorts Day 73: "Lambert the Sheepish Lion"
A Year in Shorts Day 72: "The Fly"
A Year in Shorts Day 71: "The Tortoise and the Hare"
A Year in Shorts Day 70: "Election Night"
A Year in Shorts Day 69: "Maestro"
A Year in Shorts Day 68: "Jerry's Cousin"
A Year in Shorts Day 67: "The Cow"
A Year in Shorts Day 66: "Everything Will Be Okay"
A Year in Shorts Day 65: "Der Fuehrer's Face"
A Year in Shorts Day 64: "Time Piece"
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Q: default value in kotlin data class not work when server send null for that value in moshi I use Moshi for parse json from server. if server send null for item default value not set! but server not send that item default value set.
json:
{"percentChange": null,"change": "-2500.00","value": "130000","name": null}

data class:
@JsonClass(generateAdapter = true) data class Reference(val name:String? = "-",val value: Double,val change: Double,val percentChange: Double? = -10.0,)

but data for name and percentChange is null that should "-" for name and "-10.0" for percentChange. if server not send name and percentChange, default value work, but if send that null default value not work!
I use converter-moshi:2.4.0 and retrofit:2.4.0

A: This is working as intended because the null literal as a value for a key in JSON is semantically different than the absence of the key and value.
You can make a custom JsonAdapter for your use case.
@JsonClass(generateAdapter = true)
data class Reference(
  @Name val name: String = "-",
  val value: Double,
  val change: Double,
  val percentChange: Double? = -10.0
) {
  @Retention(RUNTIME)
  @JsonQualifier
  annotation class Name

  companion object {
    @Name @FromJson fun fromJson(reader: JsonReader, delegate: JsonAdapter<String>): String {
      if (reader.peek() == JsonReader.Token.NULL) {
        reader.nextNull<Unit>()
        return "-"
      }
      return delegate.fromJson(reader)!!
    }

    @ToJson fun toJson(@Name name: String): String {
      return name
    }
  }
}

@Test fun reference() {
  val moshi = Moshi.Builder()
      .add(Reference)
      .build()
  val adapter = moshi.adapter(Reference::class.java)
  val decoded = Reference("-", 130_000.toDouble(), (-2_500).toDouble(), null)
  assertThat(adapter.fromJson(
      """{"percentChange": null,"change": "-2500.00","value": "130000"}"""))
      .isEqualTo(decoded)
  assertThat(adapter.fromJson(
      """{"percentChange": null,"change": "-2500.00","value": "130000","name": null}"""))
      .isEqualTo(decoded)
}


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The 16,500 housing units on which construction began in May in the U.S. West region, which includes Colorado, represented the most housing starts in four years, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.
Housing starts of both single-family and multifamily units in the West were up 25.9 percent from May 2011 to May 2012, according to new housing construction and housing starts data released June 19 by the Census Bureau. Of the new units started, 11,400 were single-family structures and the remaining contained more than one housing unit.
Nationally, housing starts rose 26 percent in May 2012 compared with May 2011, with total housing starts reaching 68,300 units.
However, total housing starts are still well below May's peak levels – 69 percent below – the West reached in 2004. The national peak in housing starts was reached during May 2005 and May's starts were 65 percent down from that.
Multifamily starts have rebounded more than single-family starts, which are 76 percent below peak levels, while multifamily starts are only 49 percent below peak levels reached in August 2008. The single-family housing starts for the West region during May were at the highest point reached since August 2008.
The West Census region includes states on the West Coast and within the Rocky Mountain region.


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Q: What's the best approach for results of a running race? I am a student in a good statistics program, but I'm not always the best at picking the tools/process to apply to a problem. To be clear, this is NOT homework, I am asking for a project that I have in mind for myself.
Let's say there is a runner in 5K races. The runner has data on their placing in the event in relation to the population of runners in the race. So they know they finished in X place out of N runners. The data would look like:
Placing   Field of Runners
10          120
2           135
23          131
560         810
1           10

Now the runner wants to answer - "I am running in a race with 118 people today, what is my likely placing in the race?". The runner would be interested in either a placing or a percentage placing in the field, like the top 5%, the top 10%, etc. Like, "what is my likelihood of placing in the top 10% of the field today?".
At first I thought of doing something with a normal distribution and a z-score. But I'm not sure if that would make sense because of the disparity in the size of the fields; some fields may have 10 runners, other times it will have thousands.
Then I was thinking about normalizing the data with a percentage placing - like top 12%, top 80%, etc - but then I'm a little hazy on how to go on from there.
Or maybe it's a linear regression issue???
Can anyone please help me with this?

A: You are looking for the distribution of your place in the race. It's normal, see this note.
So, the simplest estimator is to get the percentiles from your data set for each race and average them. That would be your estimate of your place in the next race. You can weight the ranks by $\sqrt{n_i}$, where $n_i$ is the number of runners in races, this will wight the big races heavier.
Here's MATLAB example for both simple and weighted means, and your place in next race with 100 runners:
a=[10          120
2           135
23          131
560         810
1           10]

% unweighted mean
m = mean(a(:,1)./a(:,2))

%wighted mean

mw = mean((a(:,1)./a(:,2) .* sqrt(a(:,2))) / sum (sqrt(a(:,2))))

% place in 100 runners race

round(mw*100,0)

Output:
m =

   0.213015738384695

mw =

   0.070342921102228

ans =

     7

This is assuming that you got to popular 5K races with significant number of runners, hundreds. In small races it's hard to argue that the runners would be similar race to race. In big races such as Kormen's pink run, the runners body doesn't change much.


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Allen Motor Company
The Allen Motor Company began as a machine shop in Elkader in 1903, established by Albert and Oley Allen. Their primary business was repairing steam engines. In 1908, when General Motors was established, the Allen brothers obtained a Buick franchise for Elkader and Clayton County. In 1910 the brothers remodelled and expanded their shop and changed the name to garage, a term just coming into general usage in America.
By 1914 business had grown so much that the brothers decided to expand again. In Elkader they built one of the first and finest Buick service stations in Iowa. This new service station included one of the first gas pumps in Iowa. Prior to that, gas was sold from metal cans. In 1916 the Allen Brothers ordered a train load of Buick automobiles direct from the factory, six of which were sold on the unloading platform before they could be moved to the showroom. In the late nineteen teens over half the cars priced over $1000 sold in Clayton County came from the Allen Motor Company.
Allen Motor Company opened a dealership in Oelwein in 1922, and in 1923 the Buick Motor Company asked the Allens to take over the territory surrounding Oelwein. This gave the company a sales territory covering three counties.
In 1929, yet another expansion led to the creation of an even larger sister company at the junction of two state highways in Cedar Rapids, their first dealership in Cedar Rapids. It opened on Black Tuesday, October 29th, the day the stock market crashed. Also in 1929, Ray H. and Al W. Allen joined the company. Allen Motors was one of the first car dealerships in Iowa to sign a contract with Buick, which expanded their sales territory to eight counties.
In 1930, Maurine Allen, who had been managing the Oelwein store, closed it. In 1931, the company acquired Oldsmobile and Cadillac franchises and bought stock in AMCo. In 1932 the company did away with their elaborate showroom in Cedar Rapids and transformed it into a super service station, which was equipped with two hydraulic lifts, a tire department, a battery department, and brake testers.
With the advent of World War II and rubber and gas rationing, total company sales dropped from over a million dollars to less than $300,000. To offset this loss, in January of 1942 it developed a tire recapping and vulcanizing service and invested in intense marketing of their services. According to the November 1942 issue of the publication Tires, Upon every addition or improvement they issue interseting pamphlets and folders, complete with photographs and information about their new service. In an attempt to boost sales, the company installed plate glass windows to allow passersby to view what was happening on the sales floor and in the tire recapping department. Also due to the war, the number of employees dropped from 80 to 41. During the war, the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA), of which Ray H. Allen was a director, recruited 20,000 new members for the military. Ray also recruited 30 young men from the Cedar Rapids area to serve as mechanics for the army ordnance department. He was awarded a certificate of merit from the army for these efforts. Al W. Allen served in the Supply Department of the Naval Air Station in Alameda, California from 1944 to 1945, when he returned to the dealership.
In 1947 the Elkader and Cedar Rapids companies were split, with Oley Allen's family taking ownership of the Elkader branch and Albert Allen's children assuming responsibility for the Cedar Rapids location. In the early 1950s General Motors required their dealerships to have separate franchises, so the Cedar Rapids location was split into two companies: Allen Oldsmobile-Cadillac and the Allen Motor Company, which sold Buicks. In January 1950, Allen Motor Company moved into their fourth building, which was a block long and half a block wide. This new building had a large tire and accessory sales room which sold automotive products as well as electric tools, radios, waxes, polishes, and flashlights. Soft drinks and candies were available in vending machines. The formal opening was a two-day affair with prizes. The station sold 14,400 gallons of gasoline from their six pumps during the opening.
Eventually, the Cedar Rapids super station was operated separately from the sales and service station and recapping was no longer done. The speciality of of the super service station was quick service for all makes of cars. In 1952 there is the first sign of integration, as a photo of their staff shows an African American among the group.
In 1959 Allen Imports was inaugurated in Cedar Rapids to sell import cars. The original franchise was Renault/Peugot, followed by Triumph and other British sports cars, Mercedes Benz, and Volvo. In 1980 the company sold this branch of the company for its asset value.
During the early 1960s Allen Oldsmobile-Cadillac and Allen Motor Company re-merged. In the 1970s the Cedar Rapids AmCo stock was sold to AMC and in 1985 a portion of Allen Motor Company stock was sold. Allen Motor Company acquired a GMC truck franchise in late 1989 and in 1990 they were granted a Saturn franchise. The Cedar Rapids dealership remodeled in 1991. In 1999 they relocated the entire dealership to near I-380 in Hiawatha.
Allen Motor Company Records
Identifier: msc0874
Abstract Records of the oldest auto dealership in Iowa, including financial records, newsletters, and photographs.
Found in: University of Iowa Special Collections / Allen Motor Company Records


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Discover Cornwall's magnificent Minack Theatre
The Minack Theatre, Porthcurno, Cornwall. Credit: VisitBritain/Tomo Brejc
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Nestled in a remote rock cluster in the caverns of Porthcurno, the Minack proves a theatrical experience akin to no other: a horizon-bending view into the distant sea collides with the acting talents of the Kneehigh Theatre Group in a head-spinning combination
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Welcoming over 80,000 audience members a year to their reclusive performing cove, seats at the Minack Theatre are carved from the rock face itself, with the environmentally-friendly alternative to pillows – i.e. grass – helpfully growing amongst the stalls.
In the early 1930s, Rowena Cade and her fellow local drama enthusiasts aimed to create a small, secluded area in which their country troupe could perform a production of The Tempest. Moving individual boulder by individual boulder down the incline of the eroded cliff-face, the actors created a minute makeshift stage where they could enact their play, while still taking full advantage of the atmospheric ocean backdrop behind them. Eighty years on, the sight of struggling vessels in stormy seas and an unmerciful aquatic landscape remains the same as it did back then.
Open all year round, accepting an average of 150,000 casual tourists who come simply to marvel at the ingenuity of its design, the Minack is the jewel in the crown of the Cornish experience. In no other theatre is the fury of the surf a hindrance to a director. In no other performance space can the timing of the wild wind make or break the emotive effect of a monologue. Porthcurno's worst-kept secret is the stuff of dreams, a playhouse virtually requiring an abseil to reach the front row.
Not for the faint-hearted – or indeed any audience member with vertigo – the Minack merges the Bard with the bay, treading the boards with striding the beach, and with an eight-decade history securing its rock solid foundations into the popularity of thousands of theatre-goers every year, it can look forward to another multi-generational heritage to come.
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Tagspaces is a file and note organiser for all major platforms (including mobile). Unlike the "cloud-crazed" hype we see across all applications, using proprietary file solutions and not letting the user access their data outside of the software, Tagspaces is offline, open source, uses plain file formats, and has a simple yet ingenious tagging mechanism. It is extensible ("hackable"), cross platform, and free to use.
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When you first run it on OS X, you will need to right-click the TagSpaces.app folder and choose "Open," selecting "Open" in the dialogue again. (This is only necessary for the first time you run Tagspaces on OS X. Linux and Windows versions will run straight away.) Android and iOS versions are available from the respective app stores.
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The user interface is intuitive. On the left-hand side column, you can see your chosen location, with any subdirectories marked with smaller folder icons. The right side will list available files. You can use different views to list your files which you can choose from the perspective switch in the upper right corner.
and a rather interesting "Bilevel Partition" view which even the developer does not claim to be useful for anything (but it does look interesting).
Using tags is what tagspaces is supposedly all about, yet it makes tagging and viewing tags surprisingly simple. You can switch to "Tag Library" on the left-side pane to view your most commonly used tags.
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Tagspaces can show the contents of various file types, including all image formats and even many video files. It will show up on a third page, right of the file-list.
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There is no button to switch from the editor screen back to overview. Double-clicking the file name will do the trick. It is quite different from the usual two pane MD editors and probably makes more sense too.
and a handy code view for straight HTML formatting.
Tagspaces is way more capable than it would seem from the above short introduction. It can effectively replace Evernote or similar applications and your regular file manager. It has plenty of potential and is being constantly developed. The project is hosted on GitHub, and users are most welcome to contribute to it, or you can modify it for your own personal use if you like. It is a powerful open project, and eventually it will become what its users make of it. For more information, and an introduction to various use-cases, you should check out the Tagspaces's FAQ and tutorials, yet the best way to acquaint yourself with this excellent piece of software is to start using it right away.
I recently use Tagspaces and I am pleasantly surprised by its functionality and ease of handling. I recommend with both hands!
Widows had a tag manager in Vista, and it seems likely that they will add a tag manager to Windows 10. In that case, Tagspaces will probably die over a few versions of windows [windows 15?], and then what?
Hey Julius, thanks for reading.


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Threatened with insolvency, Green Party considers closing its head office
ملفات ساخنة ملفات اخبار العرب24-كندا: الجمعة 03 ديسمبر 2021 04:46 صباحاً
اخبارالعرب 24-كندا:الجمعة 3 ديسمبر 2021 04:46 صباحاً As it looks for ways to cut its costs and avoid insolvency, the Green Party of Canada is considering ditching its Ottawa party office.
A report from the party's financial arm, presented to party members at last weekend's virtual general meeting, says the cash-strapped party is considering all of its options, including shutting down the office.
Donations to the Green Party fell off a cliff in June as efforts by members of the party's executive council to oust leader Annamie Paul spilled over in public. The drop in donations also coincided with the recent federal election.
"This past year has been challenging for the Green Party of Canada Fund. The threat of insolvency became very real in the spring and the summer," the party's financial report says. "That threat continues to this day."
The fund administers the Green Party's finances and holds its assets. It incurs all party expenses, negotiates contracts and deals with legal matters within the party.
According to the latest numbers released by the party's financial arm, the Greens have lost 1,722 monthly donors since January 2020 — 499 since July.
The report also says the party has lost roughly 6,259 members since July. Membership in the Greens stood at 35,000 nearly a year ago, after the party's last leadership race.
The last several months have been tumultuous ones for the Greens — marked by MP Jenica Atwin's defection to the Liberals, attempts to oust Paul from the leadership, legal proceedings and accusations of racism and sexism.
Paul officially resigned the leadership last month and gave up her party membership.
"This was not easy. It has been extremely painful. It has been the worst period in my life, in many respects," she said during her final news conference as Green leader in September.
"The downward trend in the number of monthly donors and total monthly donations is a very serious concern," the fund's report states. "We are now considering other ways to reduce costs, including a reduction in the leader's office budget and possible termination of the Ottawa office lease in 2022.
"These reductions may be avoided if fundraising increases, particularly in the critically important December 2021 fundraising period."
Losing the Ottawa office would not affect the work of the party's two MPs, whose offices and staff in Ottawa are funded by the House of Commons.
The party has tried to economize in other areas. It launched a round of layoffs in July and October, cut contracts and renegotiated its Ottawa lease.
Paul's exit blamed for 'significant legal costs'
The fund report says that legal proceedings involving the former leader consumed a lot of time and money, as did its collective agreement with newly unionized staff.
"Negotiations over [Paul's] departure as leader of the party and as an employee of the fund have required the fund to incur very significant legal costs over the past year," the report says. "Almost the entirety of the funds were spent defending the GPC and the GPC Fund in the arbitration or negotiating the terms of her departure.
"Contrary to media reports, no final judgments were made in her favour."
WATCH: Annamie Paul resigns as leader of the Green Party
Annamie Paul resigns as Green leader, citing lack of party support
Annamie Paul has announced she is stepping down as Green leader after the party's disastrous showing in the recent federal election. 'I just don't have the heart' for a fractious leadership review, she said. 6:41
Paul had been leader of the Green Party for just over a year when she quit. After Atwin crossed the floor in July, the party's federal council began trying to remove Paul from the leadership through an early confidence vote. Paul took her party to arbitration and an adjudicator ruled in Paul's favour, preventing the party from proceeding.
Paul led the Greens into the election, which saw the party lose ground in the national vote. Paul blamed the party's dismal results on unnamed party members who she said "took great pleasure in attacking me." She also accused some federal council members of writing a list of allegations against her that were racist and sexist.
At a news conference on Parliament Hill Wednesday, the party's new interim leader said they did not know how much the party paid Paul on her way out. Amita Kuttner acknowledged the infighting over Paul's leadership affected donations.
"If you are looking to support a party, you'd hope to be getting something out of it. And if you're not getting the sense that you're going to get a return on your investment, you certainly wouldn't be donating," Kuttner said.
The report says the fund is taking steps to get its finances in order. It's launching consultations on re-organizing the fund management team and changing the scope of the party's executive director position, harnessing the work of volunteers and focusing on fundraising.
"We hope that better fundraising results in December will enable us to build a more sustainable financial future for our party in 2022," the report says.
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Daily Archives: 19 December, 2014
Airports, Train Stations and Other Places...
Author: Teresa Barrio Traspaderne Airports are symbols of power, not only in a political sense but also in an economic one. They represent the power of the State to control its borders, yet they also embody a relentless appetite for profit of those transnational corporations that are omnipresent at every single airport throughout the EU….
Greece in extremis before second Presidential election
In a highly polarised climate Greece appears to be heading closer to snap elections. The government has failed to secure the required 200 votes in the recent presidential elections for its candidate Stavros Dimas, a former European Commissioner.
Comics journalism is flourishing
Throughout the world, more and more reporters try to grasp the news by drawing their observations, instead of writing in-depth articles or taking pictures. More subjective than traditional journalism? Pioneers like Joe Sacco, who traveled the frontlines of Palestine, Bosnia and Chechnya, would doubt it. And what kind of journalism is objective anyway?


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