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Gallium awards: they keep coming!
Author Megan Colman
Three cheers for four amazing award nominations for Gallium Ventures! We are so excited to share that our talented team and crowned clients have been recognised by the PRCA Dare Awards, the PRMoment Awards and The Drum Marketing Awards.
Awards season is always a competitive one, and we have absolutely loved looking at all the fantastic award nominees that managed to push through and succeed despite the pandemic standstill. That is why we are so appreciative and proud to be nominated for these prestigious awards!
The Drum Awards, a global awards program which recognises best practice, the best companies and the best people from across the marketing and communications industry have nominated us for New Product or Service Launch Strategy of the Year! We are also thrilled that the PRMoment Awards, which celebrate excellence and reward outstanding campaigns in the UK's PR and communications industry nominated us for both Innovation in Public Relations and for the Best Campaign during the Coronavirus Crisis! Great things come in threes because we have been nominated for Event/ Launch of the Year at The PRCA Dare Awards, the UK's leading regional PR awards that aim to reward the very best PR and communications professionals across the UK!
Celebrating great work is incredibly important for all industries and the marketing and PR industry is no exception. Awards not only highlight the hard work and achievements of an agency, they also raise awareness on the wealth of opportunities in the industry and ultimately attract talent! Awards can also fuel innovation by encouraging agencies to have a look at their competitors and see where they can improve. There are so many significant benefits to being an award nominee, and that is why we are beyond excited about our award nominations for our creative campaign with Chipolo, where we released the Chipolo ONE Ocean, a new version of their hit Bluetooth item-finder!
This campaign was a great example of Gallium's ability to conceptualise, source materials and deliver successful creative campaigns, with this one specifically tackling the issue of climate change. With innovation, sustainability and hard-work at its core, the Chipolo ONE Ocean was born, the first sustainable Bluetooth item-finder, made entirely from recycled plastic salvaged from the ocean.
We not only created a successful new product, we also secured an incredible amount of global coverage in Forbes, Cheddar TV, The Verge, Esquire and loads more!
We love and care for our planet, and that is why we are especially proud of this campaign as it aligns deeply with the core values of Gallium Ventures. Aiming to shine a light on our plastic pollution problem and leading the way for other companies in the consumer tech industry, we are proud to say this campaign positively impacted our environment. Chipolo pledged $1 from each sale towards the non-profit organisation Oceanic Global to support ocean clean-up efforts.
We can't wait to attend each event (some of which are taking place virtually) and see who the winners are. The PRCA Dare Awards will be taking place in-person at the The Waldorf Hilton Hotel on Thursday, July 1st, you can buy your ticket here. The PRMoment Awards will be streaming their London awards ceremony on Thursday, May 27th, 4pm on a free to access page on their website, you can register here. The Drum's new awards show site will announce the results on Thursday, June 17th. You can register and add it to your calendar on the website. If you are unable to attend, do follow us on Twitter or Instagram where we will be sharing the results of the awards to keep you all up to date. We are crossing our fingers and toes and wishing all nominees the best of luck!
Megan Colman
Gallium Ventures' best things of 2022
2022 has brought a time of uncertainty with ups and downs for many. However, at Gallium we believe it is important to recognise and shine a light on the good things when possible, so we have put together a list of some of the best creations and/or uses of tech in 2022. Best Use Of Crypto Now we know that crypto can be controversial, but as we move towards an era of financial change, it is important to recognise how this space can be beneficial. A great example of this is people worldwide having the ability to raise funds for...
Gallium Ventures wins PRCA Best Apprenticeship Employer
Last night Gallium Ventures won the highly coveted category of Best Apprenticeship Employer at the PRCA's PR Internships and Apprenticeships Awards.
What a Whopper of a pregnancy craving
To celebrate Germany's Mother's Day, this year, Burger King Berlin launched a rather questionable menu honouring the weird and wonderful cravings that some mothers experience during pregnancy. We wanted to understand just how representative these claims of cravings actually are and shed some light on the reality behind the campaign.


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The  of companies centers on the Nagoya Railroad railway company, which links Nagoya and its suburbs. Many companies in the group are designed to enhance the value of the Meitetsu rail network. In addition to the railroad system, the group includes other companies in transportation, real-estate, retail, leisure, and cultural endeavors. Here is a partial list of companies in the Meitetsu Group.

Transportation
Meitetsu
Toyohashi Railroad
Hokuriku Railroad
Ōigawa Railway
Meitetsu Bus
Meitetsu Kanko Bus
Gifu Bus
Chita Noriai
Meitetsu Taxi
Meitetsu Unyu
Taiheiyō Ferry
Ontake Kotsu
Miyagi Kotsu
Abashiri Bus

Real estate
Meitetsu Real Estate

Retail
Meitetsu Department Stores
Meitetsu Yakuhin
Kanazawa Meitetsu Marukoshi Department Store
Pare Marche

Leisure
Meitetsu Grand Hotel
Gifu Grand Hotel
Meitetsu Inuyama Hotel
Joan
Meitetsu Impress
Meiji Mura
Japan Monkey Park
Sugimoto Museum
Little World Museum of Man
Minamichita Beach Land
Komagatake Ropeway
Shinhotaka Ropeway

External links

Meitetsu Group

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RMC was founded in 1995 in Prague, Czech Republic "Central Europe" as a global distribution & trading company in polymers, plastic raw materials as well in Agro commodities with offices and operations in Europe, Middle East and Africa.
In Petrochemical (Raw Material), due to our relationship with JPC chemicals with their production capabilities of 300,000 tons of plastic raw materials (LLDPE, HDPE and others polymers) we can supply and service wide range of plastic raw material used in various application.
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Tag Archives: Tocqueville
The intellectual in America: an example
Here's an example of the intellectual's situation in contemporary America, courtesy of the American historian of Russia Steven F. Cohen. Cohen is about as well-established a figure as could be imagined (some details here). After thirty years as a professor at Princeton, he now teaches at NYU; he's published lots of scholarly books and received important honors; he seems to have plenty of money and reasonable access to the media. If anyone should feel secure about expressing opinions, it's people like Cohen.
So it's a shocker when he tells us about self-censorship within his well-informed, well-protected milieu. Cohen's particular concern is American policy toward Russia, an issue on which he's has spoken eloquently and courageously, but the details here matter less than the intellectual climate that he describes.
In that climate, he tells us, "some people who privately share our concerns" in "the media, universities and think tanks—do not speak out at all. For whatever reason—concern about being stigmatized, about their career, personal disposition—they are silent." As for young scholars, those "who have more to lose," Cohen himself urges silence. He reports telling junior colleagues that "'American dissent in regard to Russia could adversely affect your career. At this stage of life, your first obligation is to your family and thus to your career. Your time to fight lies ahead.'"
This is a seriously depressing account, because Cohen isn't even talking about outsider radicals, ethnic leaders, or potential "extremists," the kind of people that the New York City Police Department might put under surveillance (see here and here for examples). He's only discussing well-trained experts like himself, who work for well-defended, rich institutions. His friends have connections, their opinions fall within the spectrum of American common sense, and the subjects they study have major-league practical relevance. After all, we really don't want to screw up our relations with another heavily-armed nuclear power. We want to get the story straight, and critical debate contributes to doing that.
Yet fear reigns even in this corner of the academic arcadia. At a minimum, Cohen tells us, university professors wait for tenure before expressing an opinion; until then, they shut up. Many of their elders apparently continue shutting up after when the immediate pressure eases, whether because there are still career steps to climb or for more personal reasons.
In some ways, of course, this is just an updated version of an observation that Alexis de Tocqueville made long ago. "I know of no country," Tocqueville reported in Democracy in America, "where there prevails, in general, less independence of mind and less true freedom of discussion than in America…. In America, the majority draws a formidable ring around thought. Within those limits, the writer is free; but woe to him if he dares to go outside it."
But there's also something more sinister in the story that Cohen tells. Tocqueville believed that American democracy explained the problems he detected. "The tyranny of the majority" (he invented the phrase) ensured that non-conforming opinions wouldn't be heard, because Americans (metaphorically) voted on their ideas just as they (really) voted on their city councilors. But Cohen and his friends aren't actually facing the tyranny of the majority. They're facing instead the readiness of powerful insiders to channel discussion in specific directions, by using among other tools their leverage over academic institutions. In other words, the old fashioned forms of power haven't lost their relevance in our twenty-first century world– and even historians can feel their effects.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged academia, American life, Free speech, Tocqueville on August 21, 2014 by jonathandewald.


Excel-to-MSSQL is a program to convert MS Excel spreadsheets into MS SQL databases. Each worksheet becomes a table, each row becomes a record and each cell becomes a field. All versions of MS Excel are supported. The program has easy-to-use wizard style interface and works with all versions of MS SQL server.
Guide your orange ball to win the territory! Cutting off the part of the field with a line, you repaint it. You should be attentive and avoid collision with the ball that ruins your lines and prevents you from cutting the field. One more thing - the ball you guide doesn't act on the colored field while the opponent ball does. Have fun winning your territory! Capture the whole field! Game is free to download and play!
Change case for values in MS Access tables. Change to upper case, lower case, title case (proper case), and setence case. The data found in each field of a table can be quickly converted.
Change case for values in Oracle tables. Change to upper case, lower case, title case (proper case), and setence case. The data found in each field of a table can be quickly converted.


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Tag Archives: USNS Patuxent
PHOTEX: USNS Patuxent (T-AO 201) and USS Leyte Gulf (CG 58) prepare for a replenishment-at-sea
Posted on December 4, 2013 by navalmatters
131201-N-VC599-027 ATLANTIC OCEAN (Dec. 1, 2013) The Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Patuxent (T-AO 201), left, and the guided-missile cruiser USS Leyte Gulf (CG 58) prepare for a replenishment-at-sea. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Justin Wolpert/Released)
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HMAS Newcastle conducts RAS in Gulf of Aden
HMAS Newcastle is one of the Royal Australian Navy's Adelaide-class frigate, which is based on the US Navy's Oliver Hazard Perry class. Six frigates were built between 1978 and 1992, with the first four built in the US and the remaining 2 built in Australia. As the aging class begins to decommission (Canberra in 2005 and Adelaide in 2008) they will be replaced by the Hobart-class air warfare destroyer.
HMAS Newcastle Replenishes at Sea in the Gulf of Aden
A heavy pallet of food stores being transfered via heavy jaskstay from USNS Patuxent to HMAS Newcastle.
HMAS Newcastle's Ship's Company has battled through 35-degree heat and 97-percent humidity to complete multiple replenishment operations with the United States Naval Service ship USNS Patuxent in the Gulf of Aden, in the Middle East Area of Operations.
Newcastle was supplied with 400,000 litres of F44 and F76 fuel during the four-hour Replenishment At Sea – Liquids (RAS-L).
The RAS-L involved a large fuelling hose being extended from Patuxent to Newcastle to transfer the fuel.
Thirty-eight pallets of stores, mostly fresh food, were then transferred from Patuxent to Newcastle by heavy jackstay.
Petty Officer Boatswain (POB) Francis Standen said "heavy jackstays" were an important seamanship skill to have on a warship and it was good for the crew to successfully complete the evolution while on operations.
"We don't get to conduct heavy jackstay very often, so the experience was great for the whole crew," he said.
"Everyone did really well and it was great to see the whole ship's company working together to get the job done," POB Standen said.
Leading Seaman Maritime Logistics – Supply Chain (LSML-SC) Sarah Hickling said the food stores transferred from Patuxent to Newcastle during the Heavy Jackstay would keep her crew fed for several weeks.
"We took on frozen meat, potatoes, strawberries, mandarines and all kinds of tinned, frozen and dry food. We also took on stores for our canteen. Overall, we took on enough food to last us another two to three weeks," LSML-S Hickling said.
The evolutions allowed Newcastle to continue her mission at sea, without having to visit a port to refuel and resupply.
The Adelaide Class Guided Missile Frigate (FFG) will conduct more RAS evolutions during her deployment to the Middle East Area of Operations (MEAO).
Newcastle was in the area participating in a counter terrorism focused operation as part of the multi-national Combined Task Force 150 (CTF 150).
Patuxent is a non-commissioned United States Naval Service oiler assigned to the replenishment taskforce, CTF 53.
CTF 150 is one of three task forces operated by Combined Maritime Forces (CMF), a 28-nation coalition based in Bahrain.
CTF 150's Area of Operation (AOO) spans over two million square miles, covering the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden and Gulf of Oman. The task force exists to create a lawful and stable maritime environment free from terrorism, smuggling and other illegal activities.
Newcastle's participation in CTF 150 is part of her assignment to Operation SLIPPER. The Australian Defence Force (ADF) contribution of a Major Fleet Unit in the Middle East Area of Operations as part of the international campaign against terrorism, counter smuggling and counter piracy in the Gulf of Aden, and enhancing regional maritime security and engagement.
Newcastle's current deployment is the 55th rotation of an Australian warship to the MEAO since 1990. She is due to return to Australia in October, after handing over Operation SLIPPER duties to HMAS Melbourne.
Imagery is available on the Royal Australian Navy Media Library at http://images.navy.gov.au/S20130651.
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I got an order mixed lots of faceted stones from a gemstone company, and I never know what's in them. Well my citrine lot of checkerboard stones were not the medium ones I had hoped for, but were these huge ones!!! I decided that this would be a great opportunity to teach myself how to set a prong style ring. So I read up on it and this offset ring is the result of my study. Its very flashy, but it has the concrete hammered pattern on the band and is not as uniform as a stock jewelry store mold.
wow that is georgous, I'm going to heart your shop right now. You make such beautiful jewelry. I'm not always too impressed with most Etsy jewelry shops but yours stands out above the rest.
Amy, thanks for such a kind compliment!
it is a beautiful and elegantly simple setting. I love the way the stone is purposefully off-angle. If that makes sense.
That ring is gorgeous!!!! I love big flashy jewelry.
Is this ring going to Etsy?


Gunwade & Overton Lakes are set in the heart of Ferry Meadows Country Park and offer first class fishing in a relaxed, landscaped country park.
Gunwade & Overton lakes are both natural fishing venues which are fed in several place from the river Nene.
Gunwade and Overton lakes are renowned for their Bream and Zander fishing, drawing match and pleasure anglers from all over the UK.
Pleasure bags up to and beyond 150 lb in summer months are realistic targets with match anglers needing 100 lb + bags to get in the top three.
Specimen Carp, Pike and Zander anglers also travel from all over the UK to try to temp the resident specimens.
Disabled anglers are provided with ? Swims specifically built to cater for their needs, these are adjacent to the sailing club car park and cafe along with inside toilets and disabled access.
Gunwade lake contains Carp to 30+ / Pike to 20 lb+ / Bream to 10+ / Tench to 10+ / Eels to 7lb+ / Perch to 4 lb+ / Zander to high doubles along with Roach, Skimmers and Hybrids.
Day tickets available on the bank along with Member books. Not all Bailiff's carry member books all the time, if that is the case when you visit you will be need to buy a day ticket for the day.
Only Overton Lake and Gunwade Lake are open to fishing all year round, there is no close season, this is by day ticket or yearly members hand book.
Fishing is from designated "numbered swims" only.
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Ensuring your child's proper brain development can be as simple as making sure he's strong enough to attend school every day.
Approximately 70% of your child's immune system is found in his gut, so if you want to raise a smart child, with a high resistance to infection, you must ensure that his digestive health is in the best possible shape.
You can start by serving food rich in prebiotics, the tiny superheroes of the human digestive system. One such food is Enfagrow A+ Four, which has two kinds of prebiotics in its clinically proven blend.
Polydextrose (PDX) and galactooligosaccharides (GOS)—the prebiotics found in Enfagrow A+ Four—are dietary fibers that become food for the good bacteria in your child's tummy. In sufficient amounts, prebiotics help good bacteria to grow along his large intestine. This ensures the balance of the digestive system, which consequently benefits his immune system.
GOS is widely used in child nutrition. In contrast, PDX is naturally found in baked goods, nutrition bars, and yogurt.
With these two prebiotics, Beta-glucan and the highest levels of DHA, Enfagrow A+ Four is based on a clinically proven blend. With each glass, your child stands a better chance at avoiding the common cold, flu, sore throat, and other illnesses that lie in wait in his school or playground.
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Ivan Francl, slovenski operni pevec, tenorist in baritonist,  * 10. maj 1907, Ljubljana, † 26. januar 1987, Zagreb.

Petje je študital na Glasbeni akademiji v Zagrebu in leta 1933 prvič javno nastopil v ljublkanski Operi kot Cavaradossi v operi Tosca Giacoma Puccinija. V Ljubljani je nastopal do sezone 1941/1942. Bil je med najbolj priljubljenimi pevci; njegove najboljše vloge  so bile še Don José (Georges Bizet, Carmen), Janko (Bedřich Smetana, Prodana nevesta), Mica (Jakov Gotovac, Ero z onega sveta) in Radames (Giuseppe Verdi, Aida). Po operaciji na grlu leta 1945 je začel nastopati kot dramatični baritonist v Zagrebu. Kasneje je večkrat gostoval v Ljubljani. Ivan Francl je bil igralsko prepričljiv igralec in pevec z glasom velikega obsega.

Bil je brat tenorista Rudolfa Francla.

Viri

Glej tudi
 seznam slovenskih pevcev resne glasbe

Rojeni leta 1907
Umrli leta 1987
Slovenski operni pevci
Slovenski tenoristi
Slovenski baritonisti


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Q: Semibold math symbols? Is there a way to make semibold math symbols?
I am using \mathbf for vector symbols, but I feel they look too heavy.
Here is a MWE:
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\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % useful to type directly accentuated characters
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\usepackage{sansmath} \sansmath
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I tried the package bm, but it did not change the fonts, as far as I can see.
Is there a way to make semibold vector symbols?
I have already googled (and found a few hits here on SE), but none of the suggestions worked for me.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Best regards, Gabriel

A: There is a semibold condensed in the cmss family.
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
% \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % no needed anymore in a current latex, it is the default
\DeclareMathAlphabet      {\mathsb}{OT1}{cmss}{sbc}{n}
\newcommand{\vcsb}[1]{\ensuremath{\mathsb{#1}}} %semibold
\newcommand{\vc}[1]{\ensuremath{\mathbf{#1}}}
\usepackage{sansmath} \sansmath
\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
\begin{document}
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\[
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"168 Zham" claims that Armenian political parties will find themselves under "full control" of the authorities after completing their re-registration in accordance with a new law on political organizations. The law requires the parties to disclose personal data on their members, including their address, place of work and passport number. "So the authorities are getting an opportunity to control one by one every individual with opposition views," contends the paper, adding that this is creating fertile ground for blackmail and intimidation of opposition activists.
"Hayots Ashkhar" makes a case for the reform of Armenia's constitution. "The concentration of all government powers in one fist inevitably means that the leader delegates some of those powers to the [state] apparatus, becoming dependent on the latter," explains the paper. It says Armenian bureaucrats currently operate in "greenhouse conditions." "They have won back the role of the linchpin of the state."
Galust Sahakian, a leader of the governing coalition, tells "Hayots Ashkhar" that the Armenian opposition is now looking for excuses to avoid supporting the constitutional reform. Hence, the opposition claims that the latest constitutional draft is not good enough, says Sahakian. The draft, he says, "is not a piece of artistic work which should be liked or not liked."
"168 Zham" takes a diametrically opposite view, criticizing the "constructive" section of the Armenian opposition for being ready in principle to support the reform. "If we take into account the widespread ignorance of the people, the fairly big investigative efforts needed for becoming familiar with the proposed changes and the persisting atmosphere of distrust in the country, it can be asserted that in the event of more or less free and fair elections the November referendum will most probably end like the previous one did." In that case, says the paper, opposition supporters of the reform will have to share responsibility for its failure.
"Hayots Ashkhar" reports that Ukraine and Iran have signed a memorandum that offers Armenia to serve as a transit route for Iranian natural gas supplies to Ukraine. The paper welcomes the move, saying that it does not threaten "the strategic interests of our strategic ally Russia." It calls the idea a "unique chance" to offset Azerbaijan's growing importance in the exports of oil and gas.
(Hrach Melkumian)


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Private Schools Catering to Foreign Students in Dubai
By Mary Ann Zehr — January 29, 2008 4 min read
Dubai , United Arab Emirates -
Ashok Kumar, who grew up in Chandigarh, India, is the chief executive officer at a private school that serves 9,000 Indian students on a sprawling campus in this fast-growing Arab city—and every day is an educational balancing act.
Mr. Kumar must make sure that Indian High School, the name that covers the entire K-12 institution, not only follows an Indian curriculum, including daily Hindi lessons, but also complies with regulations from the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of Education for private schools. In accordance with those regulations, the Indian school also provides daily lessons in Arabic.
Opened in 1961, the school fills an important niche in this city of about 860,000, which has a high proportion of foreign workers—many with children—who must find schooling alternatives because the UAE does not enroll non-Arabs in its public schools.
For more stories on this topic see our International news page.
The demand for private schooling is particularly high among Dubai's Indian population. Mr. Kumar estimates that about 30 percent of the people in this city are Indian. They hold a wide range of jobs: taxi drivers, hotel workers, bankers, information-technology specialists, and business people, among them.
Dubai is the chief city of the emirate of the same name, one of the seven emirates that make up the UAE. The Persian Gulf seaport was a stop on President Bush's trip to the Middle East this month.
Strong Academics
Mark Stapleton, an American consultant to the Ministry of Education's office of planning and policy, works with Dubai's private schools. He said that many parents, regardless of national background, perceive them as providing a stronger academic education than do the public schools. A fair number of Arab families send their children to private schools, Mr. Stapleton said.
Dubai is one of seven emirates that make up the UAE.
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SOURCE: CIA World Factbook
For foreign-worker families, however, there is no alternative. And Mr. Kumar said many Indian families and those of other nationalities don't really want to send their children to public schools because the curriculum is in Arabic. At Indian High School, the language of instruction, starting in kindergarten, is English, one of the official languages of India.
Indian High School charges the equivalent of $800 per year in tuition, and employers cover the tuition paid by about 2,000 parents of the schoolchildren, according to Mr. Kumar. The school waives the fee for some parents, he said.
While the school enrolls children from a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds, most of their parents are Indian professionals. Taxi drivers and hotel employees, for instance, are unlikely to earn enough for the government to let them bring their families to Dubai, Mr. Kumar and staff members at the school said.
Even though many parents stay in Dubai by continually renewing three-year job contracts, the student population at Indian High School is surprisingly stable. Only about half a dozen slots open up annually in each of the lower grades and are filled with new students. About six students compete for each of those spaces, Mr. Kumar said. Kindergartners are admitted by lottery, and academic performance is considered for admission of students in other grades. New students aren't admitted in the 10th, 11th, and 12th grades.
All graduates of the school go on to higher education, according to Mr. Kumar. The largest number of graduates attend university in India, and the next-largest number head to colleges in the United States.
Ashok Kumar, who grew up in Chandigarh, India, presides as chief executive officer at Indian High School. He says the school, which provides daily lessons in Arabic as well as in Hindi, cooperates well with the Ministry of Education in the United Arab Emirates.Dubai.
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Mr. Kumar, who has a master's degree in education from the University of Toronto, said his school cooperates well with the UAE Ministry of Education, which, in his view, takes a light hand in instruction.
David Ipe, the career adviser for the school, said the Indian school teaches boys and girls in the upper grades in separate classes in accordance with ministry regulations. Girls attend school in the morning, and boys use the same facilities during an afternoon shift.
Cultural Enclave
It seems that the school is an enclave of Indian culture in the middle of Dubai. With the exception of the school's Arabic teachers, the 400 teachers are Indian. Many of the teachers wear saris. Mr. Kumar had Indian tea brought to Mr. Stapleton and a mid-January visitor, along with an Indian lunch of curries and biryani, a spicy rice dish.
On a recent day of heavy rain—so unusual for Dubai that many schools closed—Mr. Kumar decided to keep Indian High School open. He'd closed the school already for one day that week; the government had ordered that schools and government offices be closed because of traffic problems expected during President Bush's visit.
Sayira Banu, Simran Gandhi, and Shailaja Krishnamurthy—all 11th grade girls—said they had been brought up in Dubai. Ms. Gandhi and Ms. Krishnamurthy have attended Indian High since kindergarten, and Ms. Banu has been there since 3rd grade. Their parents, they said, came to Dubai in search of better job opportunities.
They had all chosen the "commerce" track for 11th and 12th grades—all three hope eventually to get M.B.A.s. The other choices are humanities, which is open only to girls, and science.
Ms. Banu plans to attend university in India. Ms. Gandhi said she intends to go to the American University in Dubai. And Ms. Krishnamurthy said she'll apply to universities in the United States and Britain.
Mary Ann Zehr
Mary Ann Zehr was an assistant editor for Education Week. Her beats included English-language learners, bilingual education, immigrants, dropouts, achievement-gap issues, and charter and private schools. She is the author of the blog Learning the Language.
A version of this article appeared in the January 30, 2008 edition of Education Week as Private Schools Catering to Foreign Students in Dubai
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India corruption protesters dump snakes in busy tax office
Four deadly cobras among 40 snakes unleashed by farmers in latest anti-corruption protest in northern India
Jason Burke in Delhi and Manoj Kumar in Patna
Wed 30 Nov 2011 09.46 EST
Snakes are released in an Indian tax office. Reuters
Two farmers fed up with bribery demands have dumped three sacks filled with snakes on the floor of a busy tax office in northern India.
The 40 or so snakes of different sizes and species, including at least four deadly cobras, sent clerks and villagers climbing on to tables and scurrying out of the door to escape the office in Basti, 185 miles south-east of Lucknow, according to local official Ramsukh Sharma.
"Snakes started climbing up the tables and chairs," he said. "There was total chaos. Hundreds of people gathered outside the room, some of them with sticks in their hands, shouting that the snakes should be killed."
No one was bitten or injured during the incident on Tuesday afternoon. Police and forest officials captured the snakes.
The farmers had been asking for tax records for their land in nearby Narharpur village, but officials withheld the files for weeks while allegedly demanding bribes.
Protests against seemingly endemic corruption in India are common. Scams have hit the headlines and badly damaged the prime minister, Manmohan Singh, and his ailing administration. But it is the daily payment of small bribes to petty officials, policemen or even to medical staff that causes widespread resentment.
In the last year, a series of anti-corruption campaigns have mobilised widespread public support. In August, tens of thousands demonstrated in support of the creation of a new ombudsman with the power to investigate politicians and senior bureaucrats.
Some states in India have taken their own steps to fight corruption. One of the most innovative, in the poor north-eastern state of Bihar, has been the posting of online videos of personal statements by victims of bribes, in which they name corrupt officials. Officials believe the fear of exposure on websites such as YouTube will stop those accused of corruption offending in the future.
Authorities said they had verified and uploaded more than 1,000 such video clips, though it was not immediately possible to verify the claim. The state government said it had received more than 11,000 complaints from villagers, mostly related to housing schemes for the poor.
Bihar's rural development minister, Nitish Mishra, said: "We feel the fear of their names going public on the social networking site, resulting in social embarrassment, will obviously force the 'corrupt' officials not to seek bribes from the common villagers."
Based on the complaints, the minister said, the courts had jailed 72 corrupt officials.
Though supportive, ordinary people in Bihar say the campaign will have little impact on corruption. "It could be good publicity material for the government but will in fact not check corruption since only a little section of state population have access to internet facilities," said local resident Vijay Anand.
Mohan Guruswamy, a former senior finance ministry official and founder of the Centre for Policy Alternatives thinktank, said: "All over the country you are seeing a strong resistance to low-level corruption – for a driving licence, a railway ticket. This is basically extortion. It is not just a middle-class thing. It is happening further down. People are saying this is our right and we won't pay."
Though a series of high-profile arrests have been made in the so-called 2G mobile phone scandal – an alleged scam which costs the exchequer tens of billions of pounds – almost all those detained have now been released on bail.
Police said they were searching for the farmers who dumped the snakes, identified as Hukkul Khan and Ramkul Ram. Khan is also known locally as a snake charmer.


MyCockpit: Marty, I want to thank you in behalf of our readers, in participating in this interview, this will be a fascinating interview.
As with most fellow builders I talk to, it never seizes to amaze me the things we have in common. Marty Arant is mainly known as www.simpilot.com but most of us really don't know about Marty. We're about to change that.
Marty, would you give us a little background about yourself, how you got involved in flight simulation, and how Vmax got started?
Marty: Well, it now seems so long ago. I'll get right to the crux of the matter and let everyone know I'm 58 years old… so I've been around for quite sometime and have seen some fantastic changes, including those to our flight simulation hobby. First and foremost I've always had my head in the clouds. When I was only 10 or 11 years old I used to lie down in the back yard of our house in Alabama and watch the little airplanes flying over on their way to the small airport near where we lived. Little did I know then that there was this thing called a 45 degree entry to the downwind and our house was right under it. After attending engineering school in Chicago in 1965-1966 I spent a few years in electronics, moving to California in 1968. It was here I heard about the fantastic opportunities in computers and started pursuing this as a career. I joined a small computer start-up company called Wang Laboratories and it was here that I got into computer sales/marketing. I finally ended up with my own small computer marketing firm. By the early 1990s I was a dedicated flight simulation enthusiast… having started out with the first PC version on an original IBM PC. My first exposure to the add-on product market came a few years later… from some of the early Sublogic and BAO products. By this time I was doing some consulting in the virtual reality market both here and in Japan and had formed a company called AETI… which stood for Applied Emerging Technologies International. Believe it… it didn't take me long to figure out I could combine my interest in computers and virtual reality with my love of flying. We gradually started picking up add-on products to distribute and eventually started publishing our own products, the first of which was an aircraft add-on called "Jet Age." We then went on to publish the ProFlight 98 and 2000 products and later the Ready for Pushback 747-200. In 2000 my wife and I purchased my childhood home in Wetumpka, Alabama and moved here in order to have a less hectic lifestyle. Because we needed to reincorporate the company here in Alabama we incorporated under the name Vmax Flight Systems.
MyCockpit: Now, how many people have heard of Wetumpka, Alabama? I just raised my hand, that's because I used to live there. A beautiful and peaceful town, indeed.
I think most of us know about "Jet Age, ProFlight, and of course the name AETI, an intricate part of our flight sim hobby.
We'll get back about Vmax in a bit, but first, tell us about your Flight-Sim building experience. How did you get started in actually building a cockpit? Of course, tell us what you have and are building.
Marty: It's actually hard to pin down a date that I started working on my own cockpit. Back around 1996 I had built a motion-based cockpit based on an F16 using an upgraded Thrustmaster shell and Falcon 3.0 by Spectrum Holobyte. Actually I designed the unit and had a couple of Air Force engineer types build it for me. I did a lot of corporate events with it around the country, including the Rolling Stones Voodoo Lounge Tour in California. But the idea then was to market the product to the much-anticipated virtual reality location-based entertainment market…something that, pardon the pun, never quite "took off" as expected. But once you've flown a simulator in a real cockpit with real controls you'll never be happy again flying with a keyboard and monitor. Still, due to a lack of space, time, and money, I had to get by with a pretty typical FS setup for many years. Gradually though my flight simulation business I began to add more and more hardware items to my product line, starting with my own yoke, the AFCS series, manufactured under license from Precision Flight Controls, and then later, Vmax became the exclusive worldwide distributor for GoFlight products. So gradually one corner of my office began resembling an airplane. All along I had wanted a real enclosed cockpit, but I dreaded the thought of the hammer and nails part. Then I was in Florida visiting a company involved in real flight simulation training and they had a slightly used cockpit shell for sale… based on the Kingair corporate twin. About the same time I was in Europe for a flight simulation show and ran across the Engravity Company. They had designed and were manufacturing acrylic backlit panels that replicated the Captain, Center, and First Officer instrument panels for the Boeing 737 NG. Amazingly and by pure coincidence, these 80% scaled panels would fit perfectly into the Kingair fiberglass shell I was looking at in Florida. Thinking to myself that such good luck would never come my way again… I figured I would go ahead and take the plunge. So I purchased the cockpit shell, the Engravity panels along with the required three LCD units required to display the instruments and run the Project Magenta 737 networked software. I also found two very small touchscreen LCD displays for the flight management system. I already had a fairly nice center console built up from GoFlight components, but now I disassembled it, bolted two separate GoFlight floor standing racks together and painted it and the GoFlight modules Boeing gray. Starting in October 2004 I had everything fairly well assembled… and running by Christmas of the same year. This past year I've added the Engravity Overhead panel and the recently-released Ivibe Tactile Feedback System. About the only thing left on my wish list at this time is a multi-channel visual display… instead of the single projector visual system I am currently using. Over the past dozen or so years I've had the opportunity of flying a variety of Level-D airline simulators around the world and it really is amazing how much of this technology we can now replicate in our home-built cockpits.
MyCockpit: Well Marty, it sounds like you've been around the block a few times and obviously developed some good cockpit building experience. As you mentioned regarding "good luck coming your way" I think several cockpit builders can relate to that. The real simulator experience and not necessary the real flight experience seems to be the one thing that influences most builders in building their own Sim.
If you had a choice, of all the Real Cockpit Flight-Simulators you've experienced, which one were you most impressed with, and of course tell us why? Have you had the opportunity to visit other Sim-Builder projects, perhaps tell us which one(s)?
Marty: I've not had the opportunity of visiting with many home cockpit builders, but because of our software and hardware development, I have had the opportunity of spending time in the simulators of most US based airlines, as well as one major European carrier. I would have to say my most memorable experience was at the United Training Center in Denver, Colorado several years ago. I had gone to Denver to help prepare for the Avsim Conference and Exhibition and was invited to preview the simulation experience that was being offered to attendees by United. I had previously flown various high-end flight simulators before, but this was a new-technology 777 extended-range level-D simulator. The report on my adventure is on Avsim at http://www.avsim.com/pages/0504/ual_777/ual_777.htm But what I find absolutely amazing is the detail and fidelity that can now be built into a home cockpit. In many ways. the graphics and sensory input is equal to or even exceeds what is available in the high-priced airline and military simulators.
MyCockpit: I too have had the United Training Center (Denver) experience, and it is certainly was very motivating, as a builder.
You have experience with multitudes of Flight-sim products, tell us about the ones that moved you the most, the ones you say "WOW that's amazing."
Can you share any information about up coming products, or just give us a hint of what's coming?
Marty: There are now so many outstanding software products out there that it would be hard to list them … so I'll concentrate just on hardware. Certainly the most recent and I must say, profound product that I've tried is a tactile feedback seat from ivibe.com. Now like many of your readers, I've tried subwoofer seats that are driven by the simulation sound system. This is different. This seat actually contains motors and is driven from a specific FS2004 driver. This means you get vibration on takeoff, for example, whose frequency is directly tied to ground speed and/or RPM. And when you lift off the wheel effect fades and then you feel a "bump" when the wheel is retracted. The effect is similar when landing and hitting the reversers. This product is brand new so many of your readers probably haven't heard of it before… but I suspect they will in the near future. I'm not a dealer or representative of this company… so I have no reason to recommend it except that it is just simply a fantastic addition to the sensory effects available in the home cockpit…and all without spending big bucks for a motion system! As the exclusive worldwide distributor for GoFlight I certainly feel this line of products is at the top of my list. What is so great about GoFlight is the ability to add components piecemeal as you can afford them… until you've built up your entire cockpit console. And it's a great way to sneak your cockpit by your spouse one little box at a time. The GoFlight stuff is USB plug n' play and is really easy to configure. As to my wish list, I was at the FS Weekend convention in Amsterdam several months ago and WOW… talk about "high end" products. First on my dream list would be the $3,000 Boeing 737 throttle system with real actuators and moving trim wheel that I saw at a booth at the show. Well… maybe if I ever win the lottery!
MyCockpit: Marty, it's been a wonderful experience, having the opportunity to interview you. I have so many more questions, perhaps leave those for another time. In behalf of my fellow flight-sim builders I want to thank you for participation. Are there any last comment you'd like to make.
Marty: Well, some twenty plus years ago I purchased my first computer, an IBM XT, and loaded the first PC version of flight simulator. At that time it was a crude black & white image with some basic instruments. The engine sound was made by a series of "clicks" generated by the PC speaker. Now, sitting in front our projection systems with these breathtaking graphics, audio and flight models, it's just amazing to consider how far desktop flight simulation has come during the past twenty years. And to think. if all of us had been born just one generation previous to the present one, we would have missed all of this. I think I speak for my fellow flight simulation enthusiasts when I say, "these are truly wondrous times!"


Have you ever been in an On-Again and Off-Again relationship? We have all been there. Whether it has happened to you personally or you have had that one friend that has been in on that roller-coaster of a relationship. Simon and Angi discuss the ups and downs of an on-again/ off-again relationship.


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Assateague Island Horse Census Report
February 28, 2019, Berlin, MD (USA): The National Park Service (NPS) says it has completed its February 2019 population census of wild horses on Assateague Island, which noted that three aged mares are missing and presumed dead.
The total population of the Maryland herd is currently at 76 horses, including 21 stallions and 55 mares. The three aged mares missing and presumed dead were identified as N6BK "Bessy Twister", N6H and X24M "Patty."
A full census of the Maryland horse population is completed six times per year during February, March, May, July, September and November. During each census, horses are identified by their distinguishing characteristics, mapped and counted. Individual horses that are not seen during multiple census periods are presumed dead, NPS said.
The goal is to track the overall population dynamics of the herd in support of the long term fertility control program that was initiated in 1994.
The NPS also noted that back in November 2018, it collected fecal samples to test for pregnancy hormones in selected mares. There were four positives among the pregnancy test samples collected in November 2018 including: N2BHS-A "Gokey GoGo Bones", N2BHS-AL "Ms. Macky", N2BHS-I "Annie Laurie", and N2BHS-M "Susi Sole" (foaled in January).
Feature Photo Courtesy The National Park Service. L2R: N9BFT-KP (Alexandria's Angel), N6BMT-FQ (Theodore), and N6BMT-F (Jojo) in February, 2019.
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I had a wonderful discussion of Elijah's journey to Mt. Carmel (1 Kings 19) with St. Augustine Academy students. You never know where discussions will lead, and what students will come up with, if you can get students to talk, if you can stand letting them talk, if you follow up what interests them while not losing sight of the central parts of the reading.
The lesson we learned: If you find yourself at 50 or 60 years old, having spent your life being jealous for the Lord and His Church, seeing the complete failure of all you tried to do, alone in the wilderness starving, pray to God to die. And He will send an angel to feed you, and tell you, "Your journey has only begun," and will send you to His holy mountain, where He will reveal His inner nature to you, and give you a whole new mission, to prepare for something greater than you ever dreamed.
I wonder what our next discussion will bring.
With over 30 years of immersion in a Great Books based, fully integrated curriculum at Thomas Aquinas College in California, I enjoy sharing the fruits of the discussions I have with students, colleagues and friends about authors and ideas. As the Director of Advanced Formation for the Institute for Catholic Liberal Education and a founding member of the Justin Martyr Fellows, I work to share my good fortune with Catholic educators and students around the country. As a lover of God, Church, family, America, Tolkien, Shakespeare, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine and Aquinas, I like to write about them in particular ways.
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"I wonder what comes next" triggered an answer to Rev. Chua's homily on the 'Broom tree'. Is it bordering on despair or is it thirsting for more? Is less more? Less about you and more about He who has given you everything? You have seen but satisfaction wains. Your burden is heavy, but he makes it light. There is more if only you avail yourself to seek.


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A Bateria de Costa do Monte da Guia localiza-se no cume do Monte da Guia, na freguesia das Angústias, concelho da Horta, na ilha do Faial, nos Açores.

História
Constitui-se numa posição fortificada em 1941, no contexto da Segunda Guerra Mundial, com a função de defesa da cidade da Horta e do canal entre as ilhas do Faial e do Pico. Cooperava com a Bateria de Costa da Espalamaca e com a Bateria Antiaérea do Monte Carneiro.

Juntamente com a Bateria da Espalamaca, foi guarnecida pela Bateria Independente de Defesa da Costa (BIDC3), cada uma com dois oficiais subalternos, seis sargentos ou furriéis e vinte praças. Foram artilhadas com peças que haviam pertencido ao antigo Couraçado Vasco da Gama, abatido em 1936.

Desativada na década de 1970, atualmente possui instalados equipamentos de apoio à navegação aérea.

Inscreve-se na Paisagem Protegida do Monte da Guia pelo Decreto Regional n.º 1/80/A, de 31 de janeiro.

Características
Sob a forma de um complexo de infraestruturas enterradas, à excepção das instalações da Casa da Guarda e refeitório, foi construída empregando betão armado. Integra três espaldões para peças de artilharia de costa, um posto de comando de tiro (PCT), dois postos de observação (PO), quatro paióis, quatro paiolins, corredores de ligação, central eléctrica e de climatização, alojamentos e instalações sanitárias para as guarnições.

Bibliografia
 BARREIRA, César Gabriel. Um Olhar sobre a Cidade da Horta. Horta (Faial): Núcleo Cultural da Horta, 1995.
 MENESES, Manuel Sousa. "A defesa dos Açores no período da 2ª Guerra Mundial (1939-1945)". in Boletim do Instituto Histórico da Ilha Terceira, vol. XLV, tomo II. Angra do Heroísmo: Instituto Histórico da Ilha Terceira, 1989. p. 1399-1516.
 Faial, Açores: Guia do Património Cultural. Edição Atlantic View – Actividades Turísticas, Lda., 2003. ISBN 972-96057-1-8 p. 80.
 Levantamento dos Fortes Açoreanos, Registo nº 77137.

Ver também
 Lista de fortificações nos Açores
 Bateria Antiaérea do Monte Carneiro
 Bateria de Costa da Espalamaca
 Bateria da Castanheira
 Casamatas da Serra do Cume
 Casamatas ao Areal de Santa Bárbara
 Casamatas do Pico Alto
 Trincheiras militares do Caminho do Mar

Ligações externas

Monte Guia, Bateria Costa Do
Horta


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It is against the law to discriminate against someone because of a protected characteristic.
What are protected characteristics?
It is against the law to discriminate against someone because of:
gender reassignment
These are called protected characteristics.
You are protected under the Equality Act 2010 from these types of discrimination.
A person belonging to a particular age (for example 32 year olds) or range of ages (for example 18 to 30 year olds).
See our advice and guidance on age discrimination.
A person has a disability if she or he has a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on that person's ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.
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The process of transitioning from one sex to another.
See our advice and guidance on gender reassignment discrimination.
Marriage is a union between a man and a woman or between a same-sex couple.
Same-sex couples can also have their relationships legally recognised as 'civil partnerships'. Civil partners must not be treated less favourably than married couples (except where permitted by the Equality Act).
See our advice and guidance on marriage and civil partnership discrimination.
Pregnancy is the condition of being pregnant or expecting a baby. Maternity refers to the period after the birth, and is linked to maternity leave in the employment context. In the non-work context, protection against maternity discrimination is for 26 weeks after giving birth, and this includes treating a woman unfavourably because she is breastfeeding.
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This month, several members of the Accessibility Team had the unique opportunity to experience navigating architectural barriers commonly faced by people who use wheelchairs. We attended a seminar held in New Jersey that involved actually getting into a wheelchair and going through a series of obstacles to experience just how challenging it is to navigate environments that do not meet (or just barely meet) the minimum standards of accessibility compliance. The experience of using a wheelchair to negotiate common obstacles brought to light the rationale behind accessible design and construction requirements that we deal with on a daily basis.
We were first presented with the seemingly simple task of negotiating vertical level changes of ¼ inch and ¾ inch, which are common at thresholds and other transitions found along circulation paths. While the majority of the class had little to no difficulty moving over the ¼ inch level change, only two of approximately 50 participants were able to negotiate the ¾ inch level change. Most of us could do little more than spin our wheels against it. Accessibility regulations prohibit a level change of greater than ½ inch (with a 1:2 max bevel) unless ramped (with a 1:12 max slope), and it was very easy to understand why after performing the exercise. The difference between a ¼ and ¾ inch change in level may have seemed rather insignificant to the eye, but when attempting to cross it in a wheelchair, that additional ½ inch became insurmountable.
The next task set before us was to negotiate across a series of ramps at various slopes. We went up a ramp with a 1:12 (8.33%) running slope – the maximum permitted by code – with a vertical rise of 3 inches. Maintaining the momentum needed to reach the top was no easy feat. Considering the fact that code permits a vertical rise of up to 30 inches at this slope, it was not difficult to imagine just how demanding it would be to reach the top of a technically compliant ramp.
We were then asked to move through a 90 degree turn with a clear width of 36 inches, the minimum width of an accessible route. Nearly the entire class needed to back up and reposition at the corner of the turn to avoid scraping the foot rest of the wheelchair against the base molding (the results of many unsuccessful attempts can be seen in the image below). This was a particularly interesting exercise, as our clients frequently question whether base molding matters when assessing clearances. Evidently, it does.
Our final challenge was to approach and open a door, both with and without the minimum required latch side clearance. In order to open the door, we had to position the wheelchair at a slight angle to the door, reach forward to grasp the handle, and then open the door with one hand while simultaneously rolling the wheelchair backwards and positioning it to move through the doorway with the other. As we discovered, when the minimum latch side clearance is not provided you have to stretch across your knees to the reach the door handle, throwing the body's center of gravity forward and putting yourself in danger of toppling out of the wheelchair. As a result, anyone without a longer than average arm span found it almost impossible to open the door when the latch side clearance was not provided. Even with the necessary clearances, because the door was equipped with a closing device, it was extremely difficult to open the door, move out of the way of the door swing, and negotiate through the doorway before the door closed onto the wheelchair.
The numbers in the building codes and accessibility regulations are just that – numbers. Experiencing the basis of those numbers and the human element behind them gives us a better understanding of why we are required to design a certain way, and maybe the motivation to go beyond the minimum requirements to make life just a little bit easier for as many people as possible.


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Save Tonight - 2018 Rendition
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With his breakthrough American hit "Save Tonight," alternative singer/songwriter Eagle-Eye Cherry became the latest member of his family to stir the music world: his father was avant-garde jazz trumpeter Don Cherry, and his sister was alternative rap pioneer Neneh Cherry.
Born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1971, Cherry was christened Eagle-Eye (yes, his real name) because the first time he looked at his father, he did so with only one eye open. Cherry spent most of his early childhood in Sweden and on the road with his father, and at age 14, when his family moved to New York, he studied acting at the New York School of Performing Arts. He also took up the drums, playing in several bands for fun, and later played around with keyboards and songwriting. Acting remained his primary focus for the time being, though, and after school he made a living appearing in plays, commercials, and the occasional television pilot; he also guested on The Cosby Show. In the meantime, seeking more control over his own creative expression, Cherry began playing guitar and writing songs again.
Don Cherry passed away in 1995, and a grief-stricken Eagle-Eye moved back to Stockholm with his girlfriend to clear his head. It was there that he began to earnestly concentrate on songwriting, and took some time to hone a set of original material modeled on the acoustic singer/songwriter tradition, with touches of blues and light funk. Deciding to try his luck in Sweden before the more competitive American marketplace, Cherry recorded his debut album, Desireless, and gave it a low-key release on the Swedish label Diesel in 1997. Gradually, thanks in part to the singles "Save Tonight" and "Falling in Love Again," the album became a hit -- first in Sweden, then Scandinavia, then all across Europe. Desireless was picked up by Sony's Work Group division for American distribution, and was released in the summer of 1998. "Save Tonight" soon began a steady climb up the charts, and buoyed by support from the VH1 set, it eventually peaked in the Top Five. Cherry was red-hot, and Desireless went platinum in the States, selling a total of four million copies worldwide. In the summer of 1999, he appeared on Carlos Santana's vaunted comeback album Supernatural, singing the duet "Wishing It Was."
Cherry toured the world in support of Desireless, and during the massive promotional jaunt his relationship dissolved. The breakup informed his second album, Living in the Present Future, which was released in Europe in 2000. Remixed for American release, the album was retitled Present/Future, sported a different running order with several different tracks, and wasn't released in the U.S. until late 2001. Despite the European success of lead single "Feels So Right," plus a well-received duet with sister Neneh on "Long Way Around," Present/Future didn't attract nearly as much attention in America as its predecessor. ~ Steve Huey, Rovi
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How the Media Is Misleading Voters Into Believing Clinton Is 'Inevitable' /
How the Media Is Misleading Voters Into Believing Clinton Is 'Inevitable'
After three primary battles, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are tied in pledged delegates, or delegates that are decided by the voters, 51-51, and due to New Hampshire's open primary that Sanders won overwhelmingly, he leads the "popular vote" 60% to 40%. But one wouldn't know that after a cursory glance at the delegate count of media sources including ABC News, NPR, Chicago Tribune and the New York Times:
When one googles "democratic delegate count" in google the default result gives a similar impression:
The reason for this is because most media, though certainly not all, are including what are called "superdelegates" or delegates awarded to party insiders who have thus far pledged their delegates to Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders. Given Clinton's early "front-runner" status and deep connections within the party, it's entirely logical why she would have such a considerable lead among the party elite, but it's a precarious lead that, when presented without qualification, only serves to prejudice the voter into thinking Clinton's lead is insurmountable.
The reality, as the Times' own report makes clear, is that these delegate totals are far from set in stone: "But superdelegates could switch candidates if Mr. Sanders is the overwhelming choice of regular voters."
Indeed, in 2008, a great number of superdelegates, having initially supported Clinton, flooded to Obama once he started to rack up major victories in the primary states. While such a scenario has yet to play out in 2016, why the media would present such an historically provisional total as something final is misleading. As several political pundits have pointed out, if Sanders were to begin racking up voter-allocated delegates, it would create a crisis in the party if the superdelegates usurped their wishes and selected Clinton in spite of her getting fewer votes. Absent a tie, as Jonathan Bernstein of Bloomberg notes, the superdelegates won't decide the primary, and are thus far more psychological than material. All this essential context is lost in these simplistic graphs.
Big-name Sanders booster Mark Ruffalo cried foul Tuesday morning, tweeting, "Please set the record straight, 51 to 51 and not 502 to 70." Other big-name Bernie supporters Michael Moore and Robert Reich also objected to the framing. Despite their partisan tone, they're entirely right. How the media frames the horse race matters and how they're doing so now is very misleading.
Another major issue in the superdelegate-included totals, in addition to being objectively prejudicial, is that it plays into one of Clinton's major selling points: inevitability. As the Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel put it on Twitter when objecting to the New York Times' use of superdelegates, it's an "inevitability watch." The reason she framed it this way makes sense to anyone who closely monitors the campaign; the impression that Clinton is the ordained favorite, the default nominee absent disaster, exists largely in the minds of pundits and party leaders. When the voters actually get to weigh in, as we've seen, Clinton and Sanders are roughly just as popular..
MSNBC Chris Hayes made a similar point, tweeting:
I think it's important to keep democratically earned delegates and super delegates separate in tallies. it's true, according to the DNC rules there's no difference between them. And it's also true HRC has hundreds pledged to her. But in the event that Sanders were to head towards the convention w more awarded delegates, I think it would provoke a pretty profound. small-d democratic crisis for the DNC to award the nom to HRC just on super Ds.
He's on the right track, but this is a bit inadequate. Some media make difficult-to-understand color distinctions, but this is not something we can expect the average voter to parse. MSNBC and CNN, to their credit, have avoided publishing on their websites the lopsided superdelegate totals, vouching instead for state-by-state breakdowns.
The media's job should not be to play into power-serving tropes. The average media consumer cannot be expected to make such nuanced distinctions while briefly looking at a graph. Scrolling past Twitter or flipping through the New York Times and seeing a graph that shows Clinton with a 7-to-1 lead gives the impression the election is all but over, which can only serve to undermine democracy and further perpetuate the undeserved "inevitable" narrative advanced by the Clinton camp.


County Commission called meeting set for noon Thursday to discuss contract with Rome Braves.
NEW BUSINESS: Approve the third addendum of the contract between Floyd County and the Atlanta Braves Baseball Club.
We're seeking additional clarity but assume this will center on ongoing talks to extend the Rome Braves' tenure at State Mutual Stadium. The Braves and the county have been negotiating the Rome Braves' continuing contract here as spelled out in the original agreement that brought the team to State Mutual Stadium in 2003. The Braves have deferred comment until after Thursday afternoon's meeting.
In December, Hometown Headlines talked with Jim Bishop, the general manager of the Rome Braves, about what's ahead this year.
The Rome Braves return for their 17th season in Rome this April with the first home game on April 11. The county will be funding approximately $500,000 in improvements to State Mutual Stadium later this year with matching funds from the Atlanta Braves' organization. Braves General Manager Jim Bishop says they don't yet have a timetable for the projects that will include a new scoreboard, new sound system and improved security among other items.
← Politics: Barton the winner of House District 5 runoff. Floyd Republicans hold mass precinct meeting Saturday. Links to State of the Union, Democratic response.


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Amerks' Stafford named top rookie for January
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League announced today that Rochester Americans right wing Drew Stafford has been named the Rbk Hockey/AHL Rookie of the Month for January. Stafford tallied six goals and seven assists for 13 points in just seven games with Rochester last month.
Stafford, 21, started January with two points at Manitoba on Jan. 4, then recorded the game-winning goal along with two assists in a 4-1 win at Hamilton on Jan. 6. He scored twice more, including another game-winner, in the Americans' 5-2 victory in Syracuse on Jan. 13, and authored his sixth three-point game of the season with a goal and two assists vs. Grand Rapids on Jan. 26. Stafford had another goal and an assist at Binghamton on Jan. 27, then closed out the month by representing Rochester at the 2007 Rbk Hockey AHL All-Star Classic in Toronto, where he scored a goal for the victorious PlanetUSA team.
Stafford also earned two recalls to the parent Buffalo Sabres in January, appearing in four NHL games.
In recognition of his achievement, Stafford will be presented with an etched crystal award prior to an upcoming Americans home game.
A native of Milwaukee, Wisc., Stafford has recorded 18 goals and 17 assists for 35 points in 28 games for Rochester this season, along with two goals and three assists in 19 NHL games with Buffalo. The Sabres' first-round pick (13th overall) in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft, Stafford played three seasons at the University of North Dakota and was a gold medalist with the United States at the 2004 World Junior Championships.
Other nominees for the Rbk Hockey/AHL Rookie of the Month award include Albany defenseman Michael Vernace, Chicago defenseman Nathan Oystrick, Grand Rapids center Jeff Campbell, Hartford right wing Ryan Callahan, Houston right wing Danny Irmen, Manchester defenseman T.J. Kemp, Norfolk forward Troy Brouwer, Providence center David Krejci, Syracuse right wing Adam Pineault, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton center Tyler Kennedy and Worcester goaltender Thomas Greiss.
LaBarbera named AHL Goalie of the Month
Aeros end winless drought, beat Admirals in shootout


Last year was jam-packed with change: I moved to the westernmost tip of France, in Brittany. The region's name, Finistère, roughly translates to "End of the World." Though not as wild as my native Northwest–big farming has done a number on the landscape–Brittany has much to offer in the way of quiet beaches, crashing waves and some of the most spectacular storms I've ever witnessed. I'm also convinced that rainbows are born out here on the tip of the world: they sprout on the horizon with nearly every cloudburst.
Brittany is also one of France's traditional cider-making regions. I recently visited La Maison du Cidre, a micro cider farm reviving traditional methods: no pesticides, no added yeasts, no filtering. Like natural wine makers, La Maison du Cidre puts respect for the fruit first. The result is a surprising natural cider that encapsulates the crisp, bitter-sweet terroir of Finistère. Read more about French natural cider in my article for Sprudge Wine.
I was so inspired by their work–and the stout, earthy apples they tend to–that I decided to dig a little deeper into natural cider. This year, along with craft coffee and craft beer, I'll be learning more about natural cider and sharing my discoveries with you.
Is it really nearly spring? The calendar says March 1st, but the wet street and sullen grey sky out my window suggest otherwise. Fortunately, Paris has no shortage of cafes to shelter in when things get really dreary–and their numbers are growing. Boneshaker is doing a comforting coffee-and-donuts number in the 2nd arrondissement, while Mokonuts maintains a tight and tantalizing menu of Mediterranean-inspired dishes and luscious homemade cookies alongside its coffee and teas. The Left Bank is fast becoming a destination for coffee as well, with the opening of the delightful Bleu Olive and laid-back O Coffeeshop (two words: banana bread). Head over to Sprudge for the full story.
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Posters offer a $6,300 reward for the capture of ISIS members in Eastern Ghouta.
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Daily Star on September 30, 2014, on page 8.
As a U.S.-led coalition pursues airstrikes against Al-Qaeda groups in Syria and Iraq, Syrian rebel and jihadist militias in the sprawling Eastern Ghouta suburb of Damascus have been experiencing their own, largely separate developments in their battles with both the regime and ISIS.
Much is being made of the coalition's aerial campaign against ISIS and other groups – how the strikes could benefit the regime, and how it highlights the lack of rebel ability to defeat ISIS.
While ISIS had a presence in the Eastern Ghouta earlier in the year, Zahran Alloush, the head of the Islam Army militia, declared war on the extremists in August, coinciding with the month of Ramadan.
The journalist estimated that some 400 ISIS members were either killed, captured, defected or fled the Ghouta during August, punctuated by two major battles, in the suburbs of Maydaa and Misraba.
The journalist argued that such a campaign would require tens of thousands of troops, playing down the possibility of a rebel collapse in its Eastern Ghouta "capital".
One target of the U.S.-led campaign, the Nusra Front, is active in Eastern Ghouta and is not part of the joint operations room.


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Newcastle Productions, which produces and distributes Findus the Fisherman fish fingers, fish pies and tuna pasta bakes in the United Kingdom, among other frozen food products, has gone into administration.
The Longbenton, Newcastle, company has been hit hard by the global credit crunch and is experiencing cash flow difficulties, according to various news reports. In the United Kingdom, banks that have lent money on a secured basis have the right to call in a receiver, or an administrator, to sort out a company's assets and look after its interests.
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UK fisheries bill becomes law, revoking automatic rights for EU vessels
UK, Norway sign fisheries agreement
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