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Ms Monchanit was runner up as Miss Thailand in 2019 and was in her final year as a science student at Khon Kaen University. The incoming Minister of Transport, Saksayam Chidchob, in 2019 made the issue of road safety a priority but apart from a tightening of regulations on drivers licenses and the use of powerful motorbikes, we have not seen a radical plan. At the end of 2019, not long after taking office, the minister proposed GPS tracking for all Thai vehicles but this was later shelved as unfeasible after being examined by panels.
The tragic death of a stunningly beautiful Thai pageant queen on Tuesday morning in Khon Kaen puts Thailand's road accident problem in clear perspective and illustrates the loss to the kingdom of its most precious resource, day after day, in an unceasing parade of death and destruction.
The grieving family of 22-year-old Monchant 'Nong Nam Mon' Chuayboon brought her tiara and sash to the hospital in Khon Kaen on Tuesday to collect her body to bring for funeral rites in Ubon Ratchathani after she died following injuries sustained in a horror car crash on Monday morning the 15th February.
A grieving family, on Tuesday, brought the tiara and sash that belonged to Miss Thailand runner up in 2019 to the Srinagarind Hospital in Khon Kaen where 22-year-old Monchanit 'Nong Nam Mon' Chuayboon died early the same morning.
The items were later displayed at funeral rites for the young woman, a 4th year science student at Khon Kaen University, who succumbed to injuries sustained in a car accident on the grounds of the university on Monday morning just hours after Valentine's Day.
Third person to die in horror crash
Ms Monchanit was the third person to die in the accident which occurred when a car, driven by 23-year-old Thiradet Kulkhemrangsi, hit a tree at an intersection on the campus in a horrific crash.
22-year-olds Krikrit Sukongpongphan and Kornchanda Siangsai from Maha Sarakham province were pronounced dead at the scene when emergency services arrived.
The driver is reported to have only sustained minor injuries.
Miss Thailand pageant paid tribute to the young woman who was runner up in the 2019 competition
On Tuesday, the Miss Thailand pageant paid tribute to the beauty queen by posting her photograph on the organisation's Facebook page as her family took her body back to her home province of Ubon Ratchathani.
The young woman's father, Police Colonel Noppadon Chuayboon, is the Chief at Nam Thieng Police Station in Si Sa Ket province.
The poignant story of a beautiful young woman who had already made a name for herself and was about to complete a university degree brings home starkly to us the tragedy of road accidents which take the lives of 56 people in Thailand every day.
Highlights the loss the kingdom suffers every day which also has long term consequences
What Ms Monchanit's death highlights, beyond records and statistics, is that these accidents, overwhelmingly, take the lives of the young, more active adults in Thai society.
People with so much potential and so much to give.
This is quite apart and in addition to the sadness and grief that her family must be experiencing, a question of hopes dashed with a valuable young life extinguished. This is also true for every family, every day.
In 2018, the Bloomberg Initiative for Road safety produced a report which examined several developing countries and put Thailand at the top of its list for lives lost through road accidents, deaths which it described as 'unacceptable' and 'preventable' and which will cause economic loss to the kingdom in the future.
22% of potential GDP gains over the coming decades will be wiped out by 'preventable' accidents
It estimated that Thailand will lose 22% of its GDP growth potential over the next few decades attributable to the deaths of active adults over that time and to huge numbers of serious injuries.
The World Health Organisation estimates that Thailand loses 22,000 people every year to road traffic accidents, a figure that is improving as it has fallen to number 3 in the shameful list of the countries with the world's most dangerous roads.
The government, the Ministry of Transport and minister have been taking action tightening the regulation of driving licences and high powered motorbikes which cause nearly 80% of deaths.
Plans to place GPS surveillance in all vehicles shelved in 2019 as not feasible after panels were set up
In late 2019, Minister of Transport, Saksayam Chidchob pursued a revolutionary proposal to have Thailand's motor vehicles equipped with GPS by default and monitored but the plan failed to be implemented after being examined by a number of panels on the grounds of feasibility at that time.
So far in 2021, 2,090 people have already lost their lives on Thailand's roads and 136,011 have been injured in accidents according to the Thai Accident Data Centre.
This would put the country on target to lose 16,583 lives this year, an improvement but the figure will go higher as the pandemic recedes.
Among them is a Thai beauty queen and countless others with dreams and future roles to play that are now simply lost to us all.
Tourists to Thailand will be required to have a valid licence to ride a motorbike under new order
Drunk soldier who overturned pickup guns down a diligent policeman trying to rescue him in a stupor
18 dead in bus rail crash in Chachoengsao province early on Sunday morning with over 40 injured
Friday evening horror smash in southern Thailand wipes out family riding pillion on a motorbike
Italian couple die in Chumphon in another horrific motorcycle accident on Thailand's deadly roads
Thailand's road accident rate still a red light – many factors driving the carnage with no easy fix


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In Memoriam: Jane Gaffin
Published July 25, 2015 by Christopher di Armani Filed Under: In Memoriam -- Remembering our Heros, Liberty
I actually thought Jane Gaffin, who passed away at 73 years of age on July 15, 2015, at 5:30 in the afternoon, was too ornery to just up and die on us. Anyone who ever knew Jane knows exactly what I'm talking about. Turns out I was quite wrong. She was every bit as mortal as the rest of us.
It's just that she was one of those rare larger-than-life personalities who would, at the drop of a hat, take on any injustice that dared cross her path. And if you dared go after one of those mere humans she favoured God had best help you because you were going to need it. Jane's tireless defense of Yukon prospectors over the decades is testament to that.
My path crossed Jane's through her work on the Allen Carlos firearms case. The federal government, not impressed that an uppity prospector would dare tell them to get off his land, decided to make an example out of this Yukon prospector in the hopes they could put the screws to the entire bunch. What they didn't foresee was both Allen's determination defend his rights and Jane Gaffin's outrage that these "mindless bureaucritters" would dare attack her friend.
She wrote article after article about Allen's ordeal and absolutely refused to let the matter drop. Not even Crown prosecutor David McWhinnie's libel lawsuit threat phased her. She just dared him to follow through. Needless to say, he backed down and Jane kept writing about the case.
Jane documented the entire legal ordeal Allen Carlos suffered and published it in "Justice Served Up Yukonslavia Style: The Shameful Conspiracy Behind the Allen Carlos Trilogy", an 800-page opus that made several federal civil servants cry.
In my introduction to her book I wrote the following:
In this amazing piece of work, Jane Gaffin documents the entire conspiracy and disgusting conduct of our so-called "public servants" as they systematically tried to destroy one man's life.
Why? Because they didn't like him. Or what he said. Or how he said it. Not that anything he said was illegal. Far from it. In a free society, one has the right to freedom of speech.
This case proves what many of us have known for some time: Canada is NOT a free country. Oh sure, we have the illusion of democracy. Once every 4 or 5 years, the dictator in Ottawa lets us vote him back into power. But is that true democracy? I think not.
Read the entire manuscript and see for yourself how the government abused its power and authority to silence one man. Because they didn't like what he said. Or the way he said it. And you will be as disgusted as I am with this country.
Like thousands of other readers of her work, I'd followed Jane's musings online but I never imagined she would become one of my closest allies in the war for our God-given rights and freedoms. Yet that's precisely what Jane became.
Together we founded diarmani.com as an outlet for our writing. We proudly flew the Gadsden Flag and a quote from William H. Macey that we felt best embodied our spirit:
"All writers are lunatics, except for the good writers, who are maniacs."
That was us. Two maniacs unafraid to take on anyone who dared attack our rights and freedoms. Or people we cared about.
Our motto for the site was written by Jane.
"Our poison-tipped pens are mightier than the sharpest swords."
We used our sharp wit and our biting sarcasm in Blastogram after Blastogram (Jane's favourite word) and publish them wherever we could. Some newspapers were happy to publish our musings, some were horrified we dared contact them at all. None could claim they didn't know where we stood on whatever issue prompted us to write, that much is certain!
We wrote about the onslaught of Big Government into the lives of "mere citizens", a phrase I coined to embody the contempt with which our government and its "bureaucritters" (Jane's creation) viewed us, the good citizens of this nation.
We railed against the unlimited "discretionary power" our government grants to bureaucrats through poorly (lazily?) written legislation. We edited each other's work and frequently bounced an article back and forth until we got it just right. Other times we would ignore each other's editorial suggestions and if that person was me, I would hear no end of it from my writing partner.
Jane knew better and was never shy about telling me why her version was superior!
Our telephone conversations were legendary.
We didn't talk on the phone more than a couple of times a year but those calls lasted forever. A 6-hour telephone conversation was not unheard of and, in fact, was quite common. I often would not call simply because I wasn't prepared (emotionally or otherwise!) for the marathon that inevitably awaited a phone call with Jane.
We would cover every topic imaginable, it seemed, and many topics two or three times until we got to the root of the matter. Often calls would end only because I so desperately had to empty my bladder that I simply couldn't stand it any longer!
Yes, I do believe Jane's bladder was larger than mine.
So was her personality.
Jane was larger than life most days and proud of it. Just as she should be. And despite any confrontations or arguments we would have over the years, we would ultimately come back to each other, article in hand, and ask for some advice on how to make that stupid opening paragraph something worth reading. Whatever caused the rift was long forgotten or, at the very least, ignored for the greater good. It worked for the two of us and I have no doubt the same dynamic was at play with her other close friends. It's just how Jane was and I loved her for it. Most days, anyway!
Ultimately the thing that defined Jane Gaffin for me was not her temper, her attitude, her irascible anger at me for things both real and imagined…. It was her love of people.
Jane would probably disagree with me on this but she was hopelessly devoted to the lives of the people she loved. If you've ever been alternately yelled at and comforted when you were down by this woman, then you were one of those she loved. If you and Jane were both too angry with one another to speak for months at a time, then you absolutely were one of those rare and precious human beings that Jane would walk over burning coals to save, if that's what you required.
Her book "Missing in Life" on Ed Hadgkiss, the pilot who disappeared one day on a routine flight, is a compelling testament to a man she clearly held dear. Her devotion to Jim McFaull and the entire Yukon mining industry is most definitively another. Her dedication to Allen Carlos throughout his legal ordeal and her 800-page book prove beyond doubt that Jane Gaffin was loyal above all else. If you were her friend there was no road she would not walk, no bridge she would not cross, no avenue she would leave unexplored while she defended you.
Dare say it even I would be in that circle of those Jane loved and that love was most definitely returned. Did we fight? Oh my! Yes, we fought over all kinds of things. Especially when she edited anything I wrote. Like any writer my personal writing style contains one or two minor errors. A few things simply are not correct. I know it's not correct but I'm okay with it. It's a style thing, I tell myself. Jane, on the other hand, would scream at me for the same grammatical fault while simultaneously wonder at my intelligence level, or more specifically if I had one!
"If you're not going to stop doing that you can just stop sending me stuff to edit. I'm sick and tired of you not doing what I told you to do and you know I'm correct!"
While that's not a direct quote, it's also probably not very far from the mark. And if I dared use profane language in an article she was not above telling me,
"You're a better writer than that. Just stop it."
Sometimes as politely as that. More often not. That was just Jane.
How do you not love someone who is so brutally honest with you and demands you be the same with her?
What would she say about this article? She'd probably tell me I was full of shit, that I'm just trying to make her look good now that she's gone. Perhaps. I think it's far more likely I've remembered her just as she was… a true Character of the North, and one that will be sorely missed by all who knew her.
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A daily newpaper has been rapped by the press watchdog over a report which implied a former city council leader had attempted suicide.
Steven Purcell, pictured left, complained to the Independent Press Standards Organisation via his solicitors that The Herald, Glasgow, had breached Clause 1 (Accuracy) and Clause 2 (Opportunity to reply) of the Editors' Code of Practice in an article headlined "Cowboys hold few fears for retiring city boss", published on 15 December 2014.
The article discussed the challenge the media coverage following the resignation of the complainant, who had resigned as leader of Glasgow City Council in 2010, had posed in an interview with the authority's retiring chief executive.
The complainant said that the article was inaccurate because it alleged that he had attempted suicide, when he had only contemplated doing so.
He denied what he took to be the implication that he had "gangster connections", or that he had taken part in "cronyism and good old fashioned corruption".
In addition, he said that the article inaccurately connected him to "shady dealings" and a "brown envelope culture".
The newspaper referred to an article which said that it had been revealed that the complainant "ended up in a river last month after walking out of a drink and drug rehab clinic. Friends fear it was a suicide attempt".
Another article reported that "according to some, Purcell re-emerged at the clinic soaking wet, having apparently fallen into a lake". The complainant had been reported as saying "by Saturday, I was contemplating suicide", in a third article.
However, it accepted the complainant may not have attempted suicide and, in an attempted to resolve the issue, offered him the chance to be interviewed by the newspaper to set the record straight – an offer which he declined.
IPSO found in the coverage referred to by the newspaper, there had been speculation of an attempted suicide.
However, to report that "suicide attempts" was one of the themes which would "underpin the media narrative around Glasgow City Council", was a distorted account of the media coverage, and contained a significant implication about the complainant's personal life, which the newspaper accepted was inaccurate.
This gave a significantly misleading impression, and demonstrated a failure to take care over the accuracy of the article.
The complaint was partially upheld on this basis, and the full adjudication can be read here.
Mary Jon complained that the Western Gazette had breached Clause 5 (Intrusion into grief or shock) and Clause 9 (Reporting of Crime) in an article headlined "'I've just killed someone': Yeovil driver panicked and ran over dogwalker after hitting another car".
The article, which reported the driver of a car had pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving after a crash in which the complainant's friend had died, was accompanied by a picture gallery containing photographs of the car which had been severely damaged in the incident.
She said that the photographs were upsetting, and served no purpose, given that it was obvious that the car would have been damaged in the crash.
The complainant was also concerned the article had referred to the deceased as "Ms", rather than "Miss", and expressed concern the story had report details of the driver's fundraising, which she considered inappropriate in the context of his crime.
The newspaper had used the photos, released to them by the Crown Prosecution Service, to demonstrate the car had been travelling at excessive speeed in a residential area.
It furthered the use of "Ms" was not inaccurate, and said that the judge had taken character references into account during sentencing – denying a breach of Clause 9.
Derek Tanswell complained that The Frome Standard breached Clause 1 (Accuracy), Clause 2 (Opportunity to reply), Clause 3 (Privacy), Clause 4 (Harassment), Clause 6 (Children), Clause 12 (Discrimination) and Clause 13 (Financial Journalism) in an article headlined "Councillor flouts laws he serves to uphold", published on 23 October 2014, and an article headlined "Family facing anxious wait after flouting planning laws over caravan", published on 8 January 2015.
The articles reported that the complainant, a Frome councillor who served on Mendip's planning committee, had "flouted" planning laws after he moved a static caravan on to a field in Chapmanslade that he owned with his partner, Sharon Snook (who formally owned the land).
The newspaper had reported Mr Tanswell owned the land, which it admitted was inaccurate, and offered to publish a clarification on this matter.
IPSO found the paper had not been "significantly misleading", and the complaint was not upheld.
Joanne Hogbin complained to the Independent Press Standards Organisation on behalf of her daughter, Bethany Mackie, that the Herne Bay Gazette had breached Clause 1 (Accuracy), Clause 3 (Privacy), Clause 5 (Intrusion into grief or shock) and Clause 10 (Clandestine devices and subterfuge) over an artile reporting Ms Mackie had been jailed for five years for causing death by dangerous driving, and drink-driving.
The article reported that while Ms Mackie had told the court of her "genuine remorse", she had "enjoyed a booze-fuelled Christmas trip just days before she was jailed". The front page article was accompanied by a photograph of Ms Mackie in which she was holding a full wine glass aloft.
The complainant said her daughter had been drinking Coca-Cola from the glass, and that the photo had been taken on a family day out.
While the complainant confirmed that she and her adult friend had had one alcoholic drink each, as depicted in one of the photographs she had uploaded, she made clear that Ms Mackie had not drunk any alcohol on the trip.
The newspaper said that the references to a "boozy trip", and a "booze-fuelled Christmas trip", were accurate, as evidenced by the photograph of the complainant and her friend drinking alcoholic drinks on the train.
It said that the article had not claimed that Ms Mackie was drinking an alcoholic drink, but that she had "held a full wine glass aloft", which was an accurate description of the photograph in question.
The paper offered to publish a clarification on page 3 or page 5, cross-referenced from the front page, in which the complainant would be able to state that Ms Mackie was not drinking alcohol on the trip, and that she was genuinely remorseful. It also offered to publish a follow-up story from the complainant's perspective; a reader's letter, enabling the complainant to put her point of view in her own words; or an interview with Ms Mackie from prison.
IPSO found a breach of Clause 1, but not of Clauses 3 or 5.
The complaint was upheld and the full adjudiction can be read here.
Gavin Jones complained to the Independent Press Standards Organisation that the Berwick Advertiser breached Clause 1 (Accuracy) in an article headlined "Town clerk storms out of meeting", published on 19 November 2014, and an article headlined "Deputy mayor boycotts council in protest against Georgina Hill", published on 24 November 2014.
The articles under complaint both reported that the town clerk had "stormed out" of a Berwick Town Council committee meeting, which the complainant had chaired, after a "war of words" with a second councillor attending the meeting.
The complainant did not dispute that the town clerk had left the committee meeting, but said that she had politely requested to leave the room and that the phrase "stormed out" was inccurate.
IPSO found no breach of Clause 1, and a full adjudication can be read here.


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Make sure that you have tampons, sanitary towels and other articles of hygiene that you need. They may not be available everywhere especially when you leave major cities behind. Consider getting discardable wash clothes for intimate hygiene if you are going places where hygiene may be problematic.
Use a sports bra when you travel on bumpy roads and rivers. Six hours on the back of a truck on bumpy roads is not what your breasts are longing for.
Attractive women with long blonde hair and shiny blue eyes (well not only them for that matter) get a lot of attention in some parts of the world. In fact, looking someone in their eyes may be regarded as flirting in some places. This may be a lot of fun for the first couple of days but it soon gets weary. Being approached and asked if you are married 32 times a day can be exhausting and drain your energy (which should be focused on all the positive aspects of travel).


How to change the batteries on 100's of ubicomp devices?
What will the $2 computer do?
This project is a vision of modern hi-tech city quarter where are used developed technologies wherever possible. It is ubiquitous computing vision in practice. In the heart of this experimental city is Digital Media Street, where are localized the most interesting digital solutions and innovations. For instance, stripes on the roads are not painted, but animated and can change due to traffic conditions. Shops and cultural institutions communicate with your mobile or PDA to inform you about events and opportunities around you. Big screens will show you life in other parts of town or offer important news etc. However, it isn´t only amazing technological artifact, but also social experiment if people are able to live in such a developed (and all the time fast developing) place and if all technologies are useful for them.


Solid Runner came out in 1997, and was a late game in the SNES lifespan. It was developed by Sting, and published by ASCII. The graphics are quite nice in the game, and there's a number of subtle fancy details. For example, the very first house in the game has double doors, and each door opens (and swings shut) depending on how you touch them. Looking online, several Japanese commentators said that the game was gorgeous.
The internet of the far future is apparently a bulletin board like system. A very nice touch is that read messages vanish from the list.
Plotwise, the game is a basic dark future. The hero, Shuu, explores Solid City which is overrun with crime. As best I can tell, your first mission is to try to save Nora from kidnappers. You start out by getting a message from her, and then a phone call from a friend who is a nun. After checking out Nora's house, you get a call from the kidnappers, and then head out in your mobile suit.
The battle system is very minimalistic, and mostly you just get some damage numbers, and text at the bottom of the screen.
Unfortunately, I fought three battles and promptly was killed by the fourth. As best I could tell, I had updated my guns, and had HP recovery armor equipped on my robot. Did I not know how to battle correctly? The battle system had very few menus, and seemed to have some real time dodging elements. One Japanese commentator said that the game had a high difficulty level. Perhaps I needed to grind more carefully. Without a better understanding of how the game is meant to be played, it's really hard to say more about it.
After three battles near the warehouse Cargo-1, the hero is down to 18 HP.
What I can say is that the production values of the game are very high. While I don't love all the sprite work, you get multiple expressions on the hero, detailed graphics in town, and subtle details (like, say, light switches near doors.) Musically, the game reminds me of Front Mission 3 or Shadowrun – a sort of 80's cyberpunk kind of sound. Unlike, say Shadowrun, you get a range of colors and areas, so the town feels more varied and vibrant to explore (although, it doesn't really look like a town in the middle of a crime wave.) I suspect someone who hates fantasy themed RPGs would find the game to be very interesting. As it is, it's a bit tough to explore due to the language barrier.


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Vampyr receives new difficulty modes on Xbox One and PC
By Asher Madan
Vampyr is still getting support.
Recently, Dontnod Entertainment announced a significant content update coming to Vampyr on Xbox One and other platforms. The patch would introduce two new difficulty modes which should enhance replayability. While summer is over, the patch has finally landed on the systems.
Story Mode de-emphasizes combat, placing a greater focus on the narrative so players can enjoy Dr. Jonathan Reid's journey with less challenging gameplay. On the other end of the scale, Hard Mode makes combat much more difficult. Players will receive less experience from killing enemies, forcing them to rely even more on embracing citizens to grow in power.
Vampyr is set in Britain during the lethal Spanish flu which devastated the land. In a completely disorganized and ghostly city, those who are unlucky enough to walk the streets at night become prey to vampires. You step into the shoes of a doctor who has recently turned into a vampire. The game is as much about staying alive by hunting as it is about understanding your new affliction.
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(ANSA) - Naples, February 11 - gales hit Naples on Monday hurting two people.
The tin roof of a building was torn off, hitting a pedestrian who suffered bruises and a motorcyclist whose leg was broken at Portici.
Gales also uprooted a tree, without hurting anyone, and blew down branches across the southern Italian city.


Members of chambers recently appeared in this third of a series of actions brought by Hospira in relation to Genentech's patents in respect of trastuzumab, marketed by Genentech under the trade mark Herceptin. This action concerned Genentech's patent claiming the use of trastuzumab in combination with a taxane for the treatment of HER2-positive breast cancer, in particular by extending the time to progression.
Richard Meade QC (instructed by Taylor Wessing LLP) appeared for Hospira, which alleged that the claims in the patent were anticipated by, alternatively obvious over, the prior art which described an ongoing Phase III trial of trastuzumab in combination with paclitaxel and another agent. Michael Tappin QC and Mark Chacksfield (instructed by Marks & Clerk Solicitors LLP) appeared for Genentech.
After a four-day trial, Arnold J held the patent invalid, finding that the claims in the patent were novel over the prior art but obvious in light of it.


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Kieran Shiach
DC Comics only published two comics on August 31, 2011; Flashpoint #5 and Justice League #1, and in doing so it relaunched its entire universe under the brand of The New 52.
Intended to be a jumping on point for new readers, decades of continuity was abandoned in an attempt to make the line more accessible, and while the initiative is often remembered for its failures, some of the best DC Comics were published in the five years of The New 52 era.
When the Flash storyline "Flashpoint" began, no-one quite knew that it would have the impact that it did on the entire DC Universe; it was an alternate-reality tale in the vein of Marvel's Age of Apocalypse that featured a number of tie-ins starring incarnations of popular characters from an alternate possible timeline. However, DC shocked the comics world when it announced that --- just like Crisis on Infinite Earth twenty-five years prior --- Flashpoint would end with a new continuity and a new status-quo for many DC heroes.
As The Flash attempted to fix the damage he had done to the timestream, he was approached by a mysterious hooded woman named Pandora who told him that the world was not as it should be, and that Barry Allen could fix it. This "fix" involved folding characters from Vertigo and Wildstorm into mainstream continuity, and establishing a timeline in which superheroes had only been active for the past five years, starting with the debut of the Justice League.
Some characters and franchises were relatively unscathed; Geoff Johns was still writing Green Lantern, so that stayed exactly the same, while Batman's biggest worry was trying to fit four Robins into five active years of superheroing. Other iconic heroes such as Superman were given radical reinventions from the ground up, while some reverted to older incarnations, like Barbara Gordon once again becoming Batgirl.
One of the most interesting aspects of The New 52 is how much DC tried to diversify away from superhero comics in certain areas. There were distinct lines such as "The Dark" and "The Edge," and the publisher used its considerable catalog of characters to try its hands at other genres, including westerns, espionage, and modern warfare.
Geoff Johns and Jim Lee's Justice League really set the tone for a lot of what The New 52 will be remembered for, and unfortunately it was a book where heroes squabbled, Green Lantern called "dibs" on Wonder Woman, and the team fought relatively few villains over the course of a fifty issue run.
The aesthetics of a lot of the books and new costume designs were also often very off putting, reminiscent of the worst of '90s superhero comics. Jim Lee redesigned the majority of the characters along with Cully Hamner, and there were a lot of high collars and lots of characters wearing armor. Outside of a select few books, there didn't seem to be a lot of fun to be had in The New 52.
The New 52 didn't necessarily accomplish what it set out to do, and the publisher's announcement of 2016's back-to-basics Rebirth initiative essentially acknowledged as much by rolling back many of the New 52's changes.
But the initiative had its high points. Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's fifty-one issue run on Batman is one of the biggest creative accomplishments in modern superhero comics, and the line also featured acclaimed runs such as Grant Morrison and Rags Morales on Action Comics, Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato on The Flash, and Dan Didio and Keith Giffen on OMAC.
The New 52 also pushed the industry forward in one very significant way, as it was the launchpad for DC's move to simultaneous digital release for all of its titles. Marvel followed suit three months later.
It took DC a few years to find its feet after the New 52, and just when the publisher seemed to have things in hand with standout titles like Batgirl, by Brenden Fletcher, Cameron Stewart and Babs Tarr, and The Omega Men, by Tom King and Barnaby Bagenda, it moved on to Rebirth.
The relaunch may ultimately be remembered as just one in a string of attempts by major publishers to adjust to a changing comics market, but some very talented creators put out some of their best work in those five years, and those are the stories that will ultimately be worth revisiting.
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2020 Tirreno Adriatico
Recap: Ackermann Makes It Two-for-Two In Tirreno-Adriatico
The Bora-Hansgrohe rider cemented his position at the top of the overall standings by making it two for two.
Sep 8, 2020 by FloBikes Staff
Germany's Pascal Ackermann claimed Tuesday's Tirreno-Adriatico second stage ahead of Fernando Gaviria in a carbon copy of the first stage outcome 24 hours earlier.
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The Bora-Hansgrohe rider cemented his position at the top of the overall standings by making it two from two at the end of the 201 kilometer ride set up for sprinters between Camaiore and Follonica.
Taking third was Ackermann's compatriot Rick Zabel riding for Israel Start-Up Nation, the team Chris Froome joins from Ineos next season.
The four-time Tour de France champion is in the Tirreno peloton, using the eight-stage race to tune-up for the Vuelta a Espana.
His Ineos teammate and 2018 Tour de France winner Geraint Thomas are also in Italy ahead of his main target, the Giro d'Italia starting on October 3.
This illustrious duo along with Vincenzo Nibali (Trek-Segafredo) and Astana pair Jakob Fuglsang and Aleksandr Vlasov are biding their time ahead of the more challenging stages to come.
Tuesday's action was marked by a breakaway bid from Umberto Orsini (Bardani-CSF) 26km out, only to be caught by the pack with the sprinters poised to pounce.
Ackermann leads by eight seconds from Colombian Gaviria going into the longest stage of the race, Wednesday's 217km ride from Follonica to Saturnia.
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Announced his arrival on the European Challenge Tour with a runner-up finish in the 2016 season-opener, the Barclays Kenya Open, while playing as an amateur. The young Frenchman then became the first active Challenge Tour player to tee it up at the Masters Tournament after winning the 2015 Amateur Championship at Carnoustie. Went on to shoot 31 in his final nine holes to tie the record for the lowest back nine score by an amateur in Masters history. An outstanding maiden Challenge Tour season saw him finish runner-up three times and notch up three further top fives as he ultimately finished ninth in the Rankings. Returned to the Challenge Tour in 2018 where he won his first title as a professional on home soil at the Hopps Open de Provence and went on to regain his European Tour card by finishing inside the top 25 at Final Stage. He is attached to St Donat Golf Club near Cannes and has seven other amateur victories to his name.


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Crystal Cruises will open a branch office in Miami effective June 1. The branch expansion comes on the heels of the luxury cruise line's acquisition by Genting Hong Kong, which was completed on May 15. Crystal's corporate headquarters in Los Angeles will remain the base of operations, as the Miami branch office presents "additional positioning for greater growth in the cruise capital of the world," according to a prepared statement.
The Miami branch office, located on 1501 Biscayne Blvd in the Omni Building, will be the home site to newly created management positions at Crystal while also serving as a secondary location for Los Angeles based executives to conduct business as needed. It will also feature a reservations call center, which will begin to accept bookings in summer 2015, and provide support on both coasts for Crystal Cruises to serve the domestic and international markets.


HONG KONG: Typhoon Hato left three dead in the gambling hub of Macau Wednesday as it brought chaos and destruction to the enclave after sweeping through neighbouring Hong Kong, where one man also died, reports AFP.
Local media showed severe flooding had left cars underwater and people swimming in Macau's city streets, with the territory's mega-casinos running on back-up generators.
The sprawling Venetian casino resort was on back-up power and without air conditioning or proper lighting, according to one source.
Brian Chan, 31, said authorities had failed to give enough notice of the impending storm and were not properly prepared, describing the territory as "totally lost" in the typhoon.
By evening, parts of Macau were still without power.
"Some have no tap water supply. The city looks like after an attack," Harald Bruning, editor of the Macau Post Daily, told AFP, describing it as the worst typhoon he had experienced in 30 years.
Hurricane winds and heavy rain had earlier hit Hong Kong, leaving an 83-year-old man dead after he fell into the sea, police said, and more than 80 injured. The typhoon shut down the stock market and forced the cancellation of hundreds of flights in the worst storm the city has seen for five years.
Meteorologists raised the Hong Kong's most severe Typhoon 10 warning as the storm hit, only the third time in the past 20 years.
The typhoon passed as close as 60 kilometres (37 miles) and made landfall at noon (0400 GMT) in the southern mainland Chinese city of Zhuhai.
Thousands of people were evacuated Tuesday in parts of south China in preparation for the typhoon's arrival, the official Xinhua news agency said.


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Congress is now a quasi-parliamentary institution
Ron Brownstein 5:40 PM on February 07, 2014
But since the 1980s, power has passed from individual legislators to the parties collectively. Each side has centralized more authority in the party leadership. And far fewer members are willing to buck their party's consensus to partner with legislators from the other side, no matter how skillfully they craft a compromise.
The result has been to greatly diminish the ability of even the most brilliant legislators—whether Waxman or senators like Ted Kennedy and Bob Dole—to break stalemates by creatively assembling coalitions no one else could envision. "It's hard for a guy like that to emerge now on either side," says former Rep. Tom Davis, the Republican who chaired the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee when Waxman was the ranking Democrat. Adds Steve Elmendorf, a former top House Democratic aide, "The leadership is not going to give you the space to do it."
Instead, in almost all cases, each party's leadership now decides whether to reach agreement with the opposition—or, more often, to not agree. Rather than negotiating their own compromises, legislators are expected to salute their party's collective decision. "The best way to put it," Davis says, "is we've turned into a parliamentary system."
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Barbara "St. Amant" Spencer founded St. Amant Vineyard in 1972 with her husband Tim Spencer. In 1979 they launched the winery with the release of their first wine, a dry Zinfandel rose. The winery was named St. Amant, Barbara's maiden name. Over all those years, Barbara was always at Tim's side providing guidance, support, and keeping him on track. She always managed the finances, regularly worked the tasting room, attended hundreds if not thousands of wine events over the years, and played an essential role in building the business. Today, Barbara still actively manages and operates the tasting room, meticulously manages the finances, and regularly represents St. Amant at wine events throughout the region. Like her husband, the wine and grape business is a way of life, and she shows no signs of slowing down.
Stuart Spencer – Winemaker
Stuart took over the winemaking duties when his father passed away in 2006, but having grown up with a family farm and winery, he has a long history with grapes and wine. When his parents partnered with others to open a fine wine shop in 1970's, Stuart was drug along to countless tastings and events where he had the opportunity to taste, learn, and develop a passion for wine. Growing up in the wine business gave Stuart the opportunity to learn the craft from the ground up. Spending countless hours on tractors, leaf-pulling, sampling, harvesting, crushing, racking, topping, and endless hours of cleaning gave him insight into how fine wine is made. Stuart graduated from UCSB where he was member of their swim team. In 1999, Stuart went to work for the Lodi Winegrape Commission where he served as the Program Manager and helped develop many of the innovative programs that have shined the light on Lodi wines. Stuart is currently President of TAPAS (Tempranillo Advocates, Producers and Amigos Society) a trade association dedicated to the promotion of American grown Iberian varieties. Stuart is married to his wife Carrie, and they have two beautiful daughters who will be learning the business from the ground up as well.
Tim Spencer (1938-2006) - Founder
Tim Spencer, owner and winemaker of St. Amant Winery, passed away on September 12, 2006 after a hard-fought two year battle with Lymphoma. He was 68 years old, and was remembered by many for his delicious wines, unique hospitality, and original personality.
In the years since his passing we have had the privilege of hearing countless stories about how my father made a difference in people's lives. He was generous and honest as they come; he inspired many, and was loyal to the core. He had little patience for fools, but would spend hours with those willing to learn. He despised the pretentiousness and snobbery of wine, but insisted that wine was best enjoyed with good friends and family.
He chose his own path in life. He never bent to the winds of fashion or succumbed to the easy road. When others were planting Chardonnay, Cabernet, and Merlot he chose unheard of varieties such as Touriga, Bastardo, and Tinta Cao. He believed these more suitable to our soils and climate. When others dismissed Lodi as a backwater region incapable of producing fine wine, he embraced it, crafting thrilling wines that garnered prestigious awards and national attention.
The winery was not a romantic lifestyle choice, but one born of necessity. He often remarked that he had no intentions of ever opening a winery, but when a winery customer filled bankruptcy shortly after harvest, he had no choice. He drove down, reclaimed the best wine, and began selling it. That was 1981, and that was our first Vintage Port. He often said that he was quite capable of going broke himself, and that he didn't need anyone else's help.
Despite his original intentions, he was a natural when it came to crafting wines and sharing his passion. He believed that a wine's first responsibility was not to please the critics, get high scores, or win awards, but to taste good. He was refreshingly honest, and would often tell customers that he didn't care for one of his wines, but believed that he could do better. He was always trying to do better.
He worked very hard, and wore the scars of his toils with pride. He once drove a redwood grape stake through his arm, lost his wedding ring to a black widow, chopped the tip of his finger off, and was bitten by a rattlesnake – all in our vineyard. Through all of it he never missed a day of work until he was diagnosed with cancer.
He confronted his cancer with the same dry humor that endeared him to many. He often dismissed the annoying salesman's greeting of "Hi! How are you today?" with a "Shitty! I've got cancer!" He loved the silence that followed.
For many years I had the pleasure of joining my dad for lunch nearly every day. He always asked about the grandkids. We discussed business, tasted wines, and shared our mutual passion for crafting delicious original wines. He taught me well, and now it's my turn. My mother, sister, and I, our extended families, and dear friends are committed to continuing the vision my dad began nearly 30 years ago, and ensuring that St. Amant will continue to flourish in the years to come.
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'Christmas joy was instilled by their beautiful mother' - family tributes to beloved Lisa
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PUBLISHED: 12:06 04 December 2019 | UPDATED: 13:20 04 December 2019
Shannen and Caleb, with Lisa's oldder sister Hayley Spano Picture: Submitted
Life has never been the same for a family who lost a beloved daughter, sister and mum to a rare brain tumour.
Lisa Wiles before she died from a rare brain tumour, in 2011 Picture: Submitted
But they remember her by celebrating the joy she brought them every Christmas.
Lisa Wiles, from Blackborough End, near King's Lynn, died from a brain tumour aged 43 in October 2011.
She continued to care for her three children, Zachary, Shannen and Cameron, and study for a degree at the College of West Anglia, after being diagnosed with a highly-aggressive brain tumour the previous year.
A research laboratory named after Lisa Wiles at Addenbrookes Hospital Picture: Red Wellies
Despite surgery and chemotherapy, the tumour grew back and was inoperable.
Miss Wiles' family, including her parents Mervyn and Rosalie Wiles of Middleton, set up the Lisa Wiles Red Wellies Brain Tumour Research Fund after her death to find a cure for glioblastoma multiforme tumours - the type of cancer which killed her.
Before it closed last year, the charity had raised almost £143,000 to buy medical research equipment at Addenbrooke's Hospital, in Cambridge, where a laboratory has been dedicated to Lisa and Red Wellies.
Lisa Wiles, who always loved Christmas Picture: The Wiles family
Once again facing the festive season without her beloved mum, Shannen Norwood, who was just 18 when Miss Wiles died, is working with the charity Brain Tumour Research to raise awareness and share her memories.
Mrs Norwood, now 26, said: "She was the best mum as well as being my best friend. I could tell her anything because she was always so accepting, loving and protective.
"Mum always managed to make Christmas so magical, even though she was a single mum with not much money. We always seemed to get what we wanted - I don't know how she did it. Added to this, mum was fastidious about spending the exact same amount on each of us, even if it meant giving someone a penny to make it up to the same sum.
Little Caleb looking at a pciture of his Granny, Lisa Picture: Supplied
"When Zach, Cam and I were little, mum always bought each of us a Santa sack to put our Christmas presents in so we wouldn't get confused as to whose presents were whose. All was fine until one year I opened Zach's present which was a shirt. I pretended to like it until mum realised I'd opened the wrong one.
"Losing my mum is really hard to understand. I am a devout Christian, but I still ask myself why God gave me such an amazing mum for such a short time. I still remember all the lovely things she said to me and how she gave me so much confidence and belief in myself. She was the kind of mum I now try to be to my own three-year-old son, Caleb."
Miss Wiles' sister Hayley Spano, 50, added: "Lisa was older than me by 18 months. We both loved Christmas and as kids we would take our pocket money and buy gifts from the post office a few doors down from home. Needless to say, everyone got chocolate bars, bath salts and little figurines - the typical things village post offices used to sell. We'd be so excited for Christmas. I can remember as soon as dawn broke, Lisa shaking me and pulling off my bedding to wake me up, shouting 'it's Christmas morning'.
"When Lisa had her three children, she'd scrimp and save to get them what they wanted. Christmas remained just as magical for her, perhaps even more so as she then had her children to join in her excitement. On Christmas Eve, she would pack the car with all the presents, fit the kids in somehow, and begin the journey to our parents' home, just five minutes up the road.
"Lisa never lost her love of Christmas. I'm happy to say the same can be said for her children who are now all in their 20s. Christmas joy was instilled in them by their beautiful mother. Every year that passes without her is painful, yet we keep Lisa's memory alive by reminiscing about her."
Paula Rastrick, community fundraising manager at Brain Tumour Research, said: "Lisa's tragic story reminds us that brain tumours are indiscriminate, they can affect anyone at any age. Brain tumours are the biggest cancer killer of children and adults under the age of 40 and yet historically just 1pc of the national spend on cancer research has been allocated to brain tumours."
Brain Tumour Research is calling for a national annual spend of £35m in order to improve survival rates and patient outcomes in line with other cancers, such as breast cancer and leukaemia, and is also campaigning for greater repurposing of drugs.


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A Nation's Budget Blues By Sonala Olumhense
Early in my career, I was invited to dinner by my Second Republic state governor, Professor Ambrose Alli. I was to share his company at the table with two major pillars of my profession, both now deceased: Tom Borha (Tom Bee) and Aikhen Uduehi.
by Sonala Olumhense Feb 14, 2016
The invitation came as a surprise: I was barely one year old as a journalist. But I wrote two columns per week and had perhaps attracted some attention.
The professor said he wanted our counsel in the affairs of the state. Had I been with my own friends, I would have had tears running down my face with laughter. My counsel?
The governor swiftly put my worries aside, asserting upon learning I had come for the food that if he didn't respect my opinion, I would not have received his invitation.
He had a few of his officials, notably his leading speechwriter, present. For the discussion that followed, however, we could not but notice that gentleman as he spent most of the time sleeping in a corner.
Professor Alli was in Lagos to confront the federal government of the ruling National Party of Nigeria over its environmental policies in the south of the State. His hostile press statement in that regard was ready for his use the following morning.
But none of the journalists he had invited to dinner supported him. We thought that although the press conference would yield wonderful headlines, it was guaranteed not to yield what the state needed: federal reversal of its activities. We told him that if that was what he wanted, it was not worth the cost of a trip to Lagos.
I was not used to the ways of power, but Governor Alli agreed with us and following a spirited discussion, woke up his Director of Information as we had demanded that a replacement speech be prepared for the press conference in a few hours.
Evidently, that speechwriter could not have been happy with his boss' dinner guests, but what I learned was how quickly an official position could change.
I do not know if Professor Alli had a chance to review the new draft, but he did deliver a conciliatory statement that yielded the policy shift that was more important than politicking.
I learned that a busy chief executive can step up to a speech podium with a prepared address he may not have read ahead of time, confident it is the speech he wants to make. In theory, that is.
In practice, is that what happened to the 2016 Appropriation Bill President Muhammadu Buhari sent to the National Assembly in December?
Few budget proposals in history have been as scandalous in preparation, presentation, substance or management.
Advertised as 'The Budget of Change,' it has emerged as 'The Budget of Shortchange' and an embarrassing exposure of poor control in the administration.
Here is a budget prepared as the anti-budget, as the antithesis of budgets preceding it: a document supposed to demonstrate an emerging and better Nigeria but which, instead, showcases where top members of their administration intend to lounge and luxuriate.
Here is a budget prepared for implementation on the basis of foreign loans but which turns out to be loaded with priority confusion, with the presidency the focus of proposals that would have embarrassed even a PDP government led by Lawrence Anini, Nigeria's most famous armed robber.
As last week progressed, there were indications that the document was being disowned by the administration. At least two Ministers had publicly questioned the proposals for their Ministries. Within the presidency, voices were whispering words of sabotage.
The budget is a large document. The breakdown by Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs), available at http://tinyurl.com/h9pqe5l, is 1810 pages long.
Long, but not interminably so. In addition to a full review by the presidency, this is a document that could and should have been thoroughly and professionally reviewed block by block at the Ministerial level but appears not to have been.
That it could have been sent to the National Assembly with such amateur duplication and padding is inexplicable. This is indefensible, especially for a government which came to power wielding the broom as a symbol of its determination to sweep clean.
The kindest thing that can be said about what has happened here is that, despite all of the expression of intent at the top levels of the administration, the structure for change has yet to be put in place.
In other words, the lesson here is that the yam-and-goats era may be gone, but the goats have not been informed.
That leaves the truth to be told: We can blame the rats and goats as much as we like, but an Appropriation Bill is not a dinner address or speech to the Nigeria Bar Association. It is a political, philosophical and economic summary that contains elements of all of the other speeches that came before it.
That is why it includes actionable numbers. Those numbers should not alarm the citizenry. That is what this budget has done.
It is sufficiently shameful, for instance, that the same popular Toyota Hilux van that the Gashaka Gumti National Park wants to buy for N1.2 million is the same model the Foreign Service Academy wants to buy for N15.9m and the Federal Government Girls' College, Kazaure, for N27.6m, after all, these are relatively low-profile institutions. With Kazaure's money, Gashaka would buy 23 vans!
Here is what is worse: when the presidency wants N3.8 billion for the State House Medical Centre, along with N308 million for a new VIP wing in the facility; N436m for feeding and related items; 22m for Aso Rock "rent"; N904m for new cars; and N387.9m for renovation of the Aso Rock Guest House, these numbers are a loud confession that nobody read the budget that was presented to the National Assembly.
Furthermore, while this budget also curiously provides for nearly N5million for books for the Vice-President, the 2015 provided N7.5 million for the same purpose.
In other words, there is something else these numbers also say: that this is how business has been done on federal and state budgets in the past.
However this budget draft came about, it is an insensitive and embarrassing eye-opener and a public relations disaster, and the presidency must accept responsibility for it, and work hard to reclaim public confidence.
The National Assembly comes must scrutinize the document closely and rid it of all malfeasance.
And if the executive insists that this nonsense is not of its making, it must not only break up and reinvent the system that makes it possible, it should interrogate all recent federal budgets, and recoup all of the loot.
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This classic tale of a handsome, spirited horse, Black Beauty has been a children's favourite for over 100 years. Sewell tells the story of Beauty's life from a young foal through to a working horse....
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November 17, 2017 | General News
Ozubulu church killings: Akpunonu, 3 others charged to court
Four suspects were on Thursday arraigned before an Anambra State Magistrate Court sitting at Ozubulu, Ekwusigo Local Government Area over their alleged involvement in the killings at St Philip's Catholic Church, Ozubulu, on August 6.
It would be recalled that no fewer than 13 persons were killed and another 22 wounded in the early morning mayhem on worshippers.
The suspects arraigned were Chinedu Akpunonu (44), Vincent Ike (57), Chukwudi Ugwu (30) and Onyebuchi Mbanefo (46), while three other suspects are still at large.
The suspects were arraigned on 37-count charge bordering on conspiracy and murder.
A South African -based businessman, Aloysius Ikegwuonu, whose father was killed in the attack, the Parish Priest of St Philip's Catholic Church, Rev Fr Jude Onwuaso and six others were listed as witnesses in the matter.
Charges against them read in part, "That you Great Chinedu Akpunonu, .M. Vincent Ike .M. Chukwudi Ugwu .M. others now at large on or about 6th day of August 2017 at St Philip Catholic Church Amakwa Ozubulu at about 0600hrs in the Ekwusigo Magisterial District did conspire to commit felony to wit: Murder.
"You thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 494 of the Criminal Code Cap 36 vol. II revised laws of Anambra state of Nigeria 1991.
"That you, Great Chinedu Akpunonu 'm', Vincent Ike m', Chukwudi Ugwu 'm and others now at large on the same date, place, time and within the aforementioned magisterial District did unlawfully kill one Anthoni Ufondu 'f' by shooting her with a gun which caused her death.
"You thereby committed an offence punishable under 'Section 274(1) of the Criminal Code Cap 36 vol. H revised paws of Anambra state of Nigeria 1991.
"That you Great Chinedu Akpunonu 'm', Vincent Ike 'm', Chukwudi Ugwu 'm' others now at large on the same date, place, time and within the aforementioned magisterial District did unlawfully kill one Anurika Obunadike 'f' by shooting her with a gun which caused her death.
"You thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 274(1) of the Crnal Code Cap 36 vol. H revised laws of Arian-144ra state of Nigeria 1991.
Mr Okechukwu Ikenna counsel to the first defendant (Akunononu), sought the leave of the court for medical treatment of his client who he said was "seriously ill".
The prosecuting counsel, B.A Onwuemekaghi opposed the application , saying such plea should come by writing and not oral.
Application for bail for second, third and fourth defendants also failed as the magistrate, C.O Ezenwanne refused to grant the request.
The magistrate bound over the matter to High Court Nnewi for hearing on a yet to be announced date. (NAN)


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Delaware's high school graduation rates rise
Jun 26th, 2019 · by Mike Finney · Comments:
DOVER — Public high schools in Delaware are making the grade when it comes to increasing graduation rates and lowering the number of students who drop out.
The annual Delaware Department of Education (DDE) reports show that the state's public high school graduation rate hit a record high in 2018 with an overall graduation rate of 86.69 percent in 2018, an increase from 85.75 percent in 2017.
The graduation rates for several student subgroups, including African American (83.68 percent), American Indian (89.19), Hispanic (83.31), low-income (77.88), English leaders (75.44) and students with disabilities (69.80), are also up from 2017.
The graduation rate tracks the percentage of ninth-grade students who graduate with a regular high school diploma within four years. Out of the 10,287 students in the Class of 2018, a total of 8,918 students graduated with a regular diploma.
The 2018 rate is the highest since the state changed how it calculates graduation rates in 2010-11.
"Every day, educators across our state are focused on the children most at risk for dropping out or not graduating on time," Delaware Secretary of Education Susan Bunting said. "They are diligently working to target interventions and supports that meet their students' needs.
"Delaware's educators deserve credit for these improvements. We know our work is not done, and we will continue to focus on those students who need more support. We must ensure that every child completes his or her education."
Downstate schools
Polytech High School had the highest 2018 graduation rate among high schools in Kent County with a rate above 95 percent, ahead of Caesar Rodney's rate of 94.40 percent.
Polytech Principal Ryan Fuller credited his student body, as well as the school's teachers, with for their dedication to academics.
"We are extremely proud of our students for their hard work and perseverance," Principal Fuller said. "We are also proud of our dedicated staff who have designed our support systems to consistently get our students across the finish line and accepted into military service, career employment and/or college."
Polytech High grads from this year.
Other 2018 graduation rates among Kent County public high schools included: Smyrna (92.80), Early College High School at Delaware State University (87.84), Milford (87.39), Lake Forest (83.33), Dover (78.41), First State Military Academy (75.00) and Positive Outcomes Charter School (70.37).
Sussex Tech rated the highest among public high schools in Sussex County by recording a rate above 95 percent, ahead of Delmar's graduation rate of 92.36 percent. The school celebrated a graduating class of 250 students earlier this month.
"We are extremely proud of our graduates for their accomplishments and triumphs," Sussex Tech Principal Dr. John Demby said. "Our students complete a rigorous three-year career-technical program and meet all state academic graduation requirements.
"In many cases, they also earn industry-recognized certifications that prepare them for employment or additional education.
"Whether they're headed to careers, college, or military service, Ravens know how to rise."
The graduation rates among other public high schools in Sussex County included: Cape Henlopen (91.98), Indian River (90.55), Sussex Central (88.66), Laurel (86.40), Sussex Academy of Arts and Sciences (84.34), Woodbridge (80.95) and Seaford (74.24).
Alison May, spokesperson for the DEA, said the association cannot list Polytech and Sussex Tech's actual rates due to student privacy laws.
Not counted as graduates in the required formula are those students who earn certificates; 85 students from the Class of 2018 did so. Also not counted as graduates are those students who remain in school after their fourth year of graduation to continue their education. For the Class of 2018, 151 students remained in school.
For that reason, the state also looks at five- and six-year graduation rates. The graduation rate for the Class of 2016 was 84.66 percent at the end of four years, 85.63 percent at the end of five years and 85.79 percent at the end of six years.
Dropout rate also declines
The DED reports also noted that the dropout rate saw a slight decrease in 2018 as 699 of the 41,593 students enrolled in grades 9-12 dropped out for a rate of 1.68 percent, down from the 2017 rate of 1.71 percent.
The annual dropout rate is calculated from grades 9 to 12, as prescribed by the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), which provides data to the federal reporting system.
The rate represents the total number of students (grades 9-12) who dropped out in a single year, divided by the total enrollment of the same school year.
Data also is collected from private schools and families who homeschool their children. That information is only used to verify whether students transferred from public to private and home schools.
The annual report also looks at dropouts by student demographic. Statewide in the 2017-2018 school year, of the 699 who dropped out, 282 were white/other, 258 were African American and 159 were Hispanic. The majority of dropouts were male (432) and the largest number were enrolled in the 10th grade (215). Students cited academic, personal and economic reasons for why they left school.