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13 July 2016
The new 3D Printing suite was opened by local MP Sir Oliver Heald on Friday 8 July, who toured the advanced prototyping facility with Managing Director Justin Pringle.Developed in response to significant growth in demand for the company's range of industrial 3D Printing services, the new facility includes a specialist medical material 3D Printing unit, where new designs of prototype medical and drug delivery devices can be made in a controlled environment.The new 2,000 sq. ft. 3D printing suite more than doubles the overall size of the Prototype Projects facilities in Royston and combines an existing suite of high quality 3D printing machines with new capital investments. It also extends the range of services and capacity offered by Prototype Projects across four different specialist 3D printing technologies.Speaking of the new 3D printing suite, Justin Pringle, Managing Director of Prototype Projects said: "We have experienced a steady growth in demand for our rapid prototyping and 3D printing services over the last couple of years."This new specialist 3D printing suite is one of the most significant developments in our 35-year history and is, we believe, one of the largest of its kind in the UK."The new dedicated medical material area for medical device prototyping is particularly exciting, because many of our clients are at the forefront of medical and drug delivery product design."MP Sir Oliver Heald said upon opening the new suite; "It was fascinating to see the work of this pioneering Royston company and the new investment, which has greatly expanded its operations. I was delighted to open the new facility and wish them well."
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JadedSnapper has been sent to SmallVillage's village green which is going to host a village fete and motorcyclist's BikerBash next week.
JadedSnapper: Oh shit, what are you doing here?
ConcernedResident: Well after all the kerfuffle with the council I decided to move. They were a disgrace! I've come to SmallVillage for some peace and quiet
JS: There's a certain irony in that. So, why oh why am I photographing you here, in this pleasant and peaceful village?
ConcernedResident: Well no sooner have I arrived here to find the place is in a complete mess. I mean what they are planning here is just not right. It's blooming wrong!!
JS: Yes I've often thought we need to clamp down on village fetes.
ConcernedResident: I'm glad we're on the same wavelength
JS: Are you american?
ConcernedResident: What? –
JS: – Nothing
ConcernedResident: – Right this lot, this local church are planning a local fete –
JS: I know, who do they think they are?
ConcernedResident: Exactly! And it's worse than that –
JS: – how?
ConcernedResident: They're inviting Limbo's Angels! –
JS: – No!
ConcernedResident: – Yes! –
JS: – No!
ConcernedResident: Yes! –
ConcernedResident: – Look are you taking the piss?
JS: Of course not, I have the upmost respect for your campaigns especially when they are brought against one of the biggest threats to SmallVillage, the local church…
ConcernedResident: Yes well they're clearly a menace, I mean inviting bikers to the village..
JS: So what are you going to do about it, need I ask?
ConcernedResident: I'm getting them 'cos of 'elf
JS: What? They're bringing mythical creatures?!
ConcernedResident: What? No, 'elf and safety!
JS: How does this affect 'elf and safety?
ConcernedResident: These Limbo's Angels are bringing…
JS: What?
ConcernedResident: [gives a grave look] They're bringing fairy cakes. And they're going to feed them to the kiddies!!
JS: Oh. My. God.
ConcernedResident: I know, someone had to stand up to them!
JS: Is that it?
ConcernedResident: No, the village green might get a bit muddy
JS: Well we couldn't have people use a public open space could we?
ConcernedResident: It needs banning!
JS: Erm, okay. So where's your petition?
ConcernedResident: I don't need a petition. This is about rights!
JS: I was waiting for that
ConcernedResident: I'm standing up for the village's 'elf –
JS: And safety?
ConcernedResident: Exactly! Bikers are wrong! It's political correctness gone mad! Ban them! As head of the SmallVillage Residents' Committee it falls to me to stand up for village rights.
JS: So where are your angry supporters in the background?
ConcernedResident: Oh there's only me on it.


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1915 Nili Founded To Spy For the British
Aaron Aaronson
Members of "NILI", believed that by spying for the British they would bring about British victory over the Turks, and thereby gain a Jewish State..
World War I pitted the British against the Ottoman Empire. Some of the Jews of Palestine were convinced that supporting the British would help bring about a Jewish State. Led by Avshalom Feinberg and Aaron Aaronson, this group recruited other members of the Zichron Ya'acov community to work on behalf of the British. They called their organization NILI (Netzah Israel Lo Y'Shaker). Contact was made with the British, and in 1916 and 1917, NILI transmitted important intelligence information to the British. Feinberg and Joseph Lishansky were ambushed by Bedouins near El Arish in 1917, and Feinberg was killed. In September of that year, a carrier pigeon used by NILI was ambushed. Two weeks later, a member of NILI was arrested and after torture, disclosed some of the group's secrets. In early October, the Turks surrounded Zichron Ya'acov and arrested Sarah Aaronson. They tortured her for three days, during which she refused to betray her friends. After three days, she managed to commit suicide, ending her agony. Two of the others -- Joseph Lishansky and Na'aman Belkind -- were executed by the Ottomans on December 16, 1917.


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After winning the primary in Kentucky Republican Senate nominee Rand Paul, son of current Texas Congressman and former presidential candidate Ron Paul, is facing some weird accusations. Since when did Kentucky politics become as dirty as South Carolina politics?
Why is this of any interest to Texans? Ran Paul attended Baylor University from 1981 through 1984 and was a member of the kinda sorta secret society the NoZe Brothers and the Young Conservatives of Texas.
Notice I said Rand Paul attended Baylor, not graduated from Baylor. After he was accepted into Duke Medical School he left Baylor early before graduating to start at Duke Medical School where he graduated from. Some people are trying to make an issue out of this, where there is none. Rand Paul's campaign has never said that he "graduated" from Baylor, only that he "attended" Baylor. Our main stream media outlets including some major national publications took "attended" to mean "graduated" from, and thus the perception was put out that Rand Paul graduated from Baylor. Once again our main stream media fails us and can not do some simple background checking, isn't that the real story here?
The even weirder allegation is laid out in this GQ article. But this post is going in a different direction. Within said GQ article it is revealed that Rand Paul was a member of the NoZe Brothers and Young Conservatives of Texas while attending Baylor. Looking at his membership in these two groups brings light to the TEA Party/Republican/Libertarian political path he has chosen.
The Noze Brothers are a kinda sorta secret society of men and women on the Baylor campus. They publish a satirical newspaper, The Rope, and enjoy mocking stereotypical Baylor culture and the Baylor Administration. I say they are a kinda sorta secret society because they gather in public disguised with fake noses, glasses and wigs as the picture below of Paul and his fellow NoZe Brothers shows. The picture is from the GQ article mention above.
The Baylor Magazine has this to say about The NoZe Brothers.
The NoZe Brothers, a group of about 25 male and female students, are to Baylor what cockleburs are to a field of bluebonnets – irritating, prickly, sometimes even a little painful. And despite periodic eradication, they keep coming back, tenacious and tough as any weed must be to survive.But then, a weed to one naturalist may be a beautiful flower to another. How does one characterize the NoZe, a self-proclaimed (and self-acclaimed) satirical, countercultural group whose mission is to poke fun at Baylor, to put the "pie" in piety, the "pun" in punctilious?
Full Article here.
The Young Conservatives of Texas (YCT) is a nonpartisan group made up of college students in Texas who proudly and at some times loudly fight to uphold the conservative principals they believe in. They are very active politically on and off campus and are known for their provoking political events and commentary on campuses across Texas. My favorite one is "Coming Out of the Closet Conservative" event that has been held on the ultra liberal UT campus. On a side note YCT is also know for bath tubs full of beer at their annual state convention, I wonder how that plays into Rand Paul's political beliefs.
Rand Paul's membership with the Noze Brothers shows that at an early age he was not afraid to voice his opinion against the status quo and the powers that be, aka the Baylor administration and the majority of Baylor students who were too "stereotypical" for Paul and his fellow brothers. Paul's YCT membership shows that he was not afraid to stand up and fight for his conservative beliefs, and that he had no love for the moderates in the Republican Party.
Paul was not afraid to dance to his own beat (which was not allowed on the Baylor campus when Paul attended Baylor) when he was in college and that is still evident today in his political beliefs. He was standing up to an overbearing administration as a NoZe Brother and now he is standing up to the perceived Republican Establishment that as a YCT member he must of though were too moderate. Although now Paul has wisely left his fake nose, glasses and wig at home.


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Supergirl casts Jessica Meraz as the show's new villain
The CW's DC series Supergirl has found its next big bad. Deadline reports that Jessica Meraz (Major Crimes) has been cast as Jessica Ferrar, who's better known as the notorious supervillain Menagerie. In the comics, Menagerie is equipped with metamorphosis powers, giving her control over alien lifeforms known as "symbeasts" which she can command and bend to her will.
Supergirl stars Melissa Benoist as Kara Danvers/Supergirl, Mehcad Brooks as James Olsen, Chyler Leigh as Alex Danvers, Jeremy Jordan as Winslow 'Winn' Schott, Katie McGrath as Lena Luthor, Jess Rath as Brainiac 5, and David Harewood as Hank Henshaw/J'onn J'onnz. New to the cast for the fourth season is Sam Witwer as Agent Liberty, Rhona Mitra as Mercy Graves, and Bruce Boxleitner as Vice President Baker.
RELATED: Jon Cryer Cast as Lex Luthor in The CW's Supergirl
Based on the DC characters created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the series is executive produced by Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Robert Rovner and Jessica Queller. Supergirl is produced by Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television.
New episodes of Supergirl premiere Sunday at 8/7c on The CW. Stream free next day only on The CW App!
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Terror in Toyland (TiT) - An HNT Adventure
by Mark Leslie
[Due to the strike, the producers of this blog are asking readers help keep the storyline going and to "write in their own dialogue" to accompany the following picture.
[So in the comment section, please fill in what you think Mark should be saying as the big bale of hay is dropping toward him]
[NOTE: An additional incentive. The best line submitted by comment will be chosen to be incorporated into the continuing storyline AND that person will receive either the e-book version or a signed physical copy of Mark's book One Hand Screaming (your choice) - how's that for a cheap incentive? And yes, sending a free book is a lot cheaper than the pay raise the striking writers are demanding]


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The children enjoyed listening to some very amusing stories, read by the author himself. He showed the children how he uses the illustrations he has drawn to help him in developing his story.
The children were captivated when he showed them how to change a circle smiley face into many different expressions simply by making minor changes to the eyebrows, mouth and eyes.
Everyone really enjoyed having a go at applying what they had learned and creating their own different circle face expressions.
Take at look at the Class Pages for more photographs from the day and a look at some of the children's own art work.


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3:15 p.m. The latest I've set out on this F Train. It's crowded, not that I mind. It's just different having that press and shared air at the start, different from the other days.
Down the way there are a group of girls, young women really, dressed in tights, down jackets, a slouch beanie here and knitted hat there, all in assorted heels. They're talking up their upcoming evening, laughing and vamping. Beside them sits a middle aged couple, Pakistani I think, staring quietly into that middle distant place we all default to; he in a brown tunic and padded winter coat; she in a turquoise sari and parka. Through the windows I see the sparks of welders working on the elevated tracks.
At Smith-9th Avenue a group of young men board. They're dressed in tight pressed jeans, crisp sneakers and more down jackets. They prop themselves near the young women. And both groups get right to it, to that flirt, dance and play of looking but not looking at each other, to that posturing that won't admit interest or concern. And at 4th Avenue, a frazzled haired woman in a tweed trench coat pushes her way between them, also avoiding everyone's eyes. And I think how we, New Yorkers, are expert at checking each other out on the sly, spying at each other from the periphery. But I wish it weren't so, or that we didn't do it so much. Because, while I get that catching someone's eye can offer an invitation or confrontation we aren't necessarily seeking, I think we go too far, acting as if acknowledging someone would rob us of something in this rat race.
I mean, aren't we all voyeurs and exhibitionists?
At least a little bit?
At least some time?
… Now that's unexpected.
I'm feeling self conscious about who's looking and not looking at me, a touch of the observation effect in reverse. And my pen stalls as we enter the subway tunnel heading to 7th Avenue. The Melvins aren't helping. Their song Lividity is playing on my Ipod. The track is sparse, not much more than a bass droning in a void. It's got me feeling exposed with nowhere to go. But maybe that's what I need to finally get to writing about: Faces?
You see I've been on this trip about faces, wondering about face time, face feeding, face place, flat image. And this is where I'm going, or where I'm at: I don't think we're supposed to see our faces as much as we do. It's not how we evolved or what other animals do. Turn back the clock five hundred, a thousand, ten thousand years, and we're back in the time before mirrors were everyday. You don't even have to go back that far. Just 190 years ago there were no silvered-glass mirrors, no mirrored mass production. Same with the copied image. That luxury didn't become available to the masses until the invention of photographic film 135 years ago. Before these technologies, most of us didn't see ourselves with regularity or resolution, couldn't replicate or transfer our images in oil paints or otherwise. No, we were restricted to what we saw of ourselves in nature, and even that was perilous stuff, Narcissus showed.
But I think we've forgotten this, forgotten that we evolved eyes forward, on the look out for danger, food and sex, forgotten that our lives are in front of us, forgotten that, for a long time even after our monkey minds conceived of polishing stones and volcanic glass, what we thought of ourselves were our bodies, maybe a touch of mouth, nose and cheek, but not our faces. Just check out the cave paintings at Lascaux and Namibia, or that fat bottomed girl, the Venus of Willendorf.
The original image essentially faceless.
And by now it's an old story. Our inventions have gotten out of control. Like salt, sugar and fat we've grown sick from feeding on our faces, faces we haven't yet evolved to digest, still face intolerant. And here's the rub and paradox of the face trap, and why I think face time is so perilous, and what I'm so clumsily trying to say: I think that when we look at our own faces, we can't help but use on ourselves, the same awareness and perception we apply to figure out and communicate with other faces. However, unlike any other face, we actually know what's going on inside, at least if we're being honest – which admittedly is a big if. So we see how much we front when we're falling apart, hiding what we believe needs to be hidden, showing what we feel needs to be shown, ever editing, airbrushing and photoshopping ourselves. And I wonder if this has undermined and accelerated the erosion of trust not only in ourselves – in who we actually are – but in our neighbors, since we figure most everyone's fronting the same false face.
Still, we keep returning to our faces, telling ourselves that our next look will be our last, that we'll finally reach that face place, that relief is just one last look away. Any recovering addict knows the signs of dependence, knows when they're in the dragon's claws: the obsession, the constant preening and posing as we labor and suffer over our reflections, painting our lips, trimming our beards, clothing our skin, ever in search of solace no mirror can provide. And by now in this journey, it seems that most of us have been consumed by our avatars, altogether dominated by the flat images pretending to be the 3D me, although we know that actions speak louder than looks, or, at least, they should.
And who doesn't feel the weight of their face in the torrent of the Information Age?
And I'm not saying that faces aren't powerful and essential. Just the opposite. All five senses reside there as does the mind. The face is the window to the soul. A face launched a thousand ships. Such is face power. But as Uncle Ben warned Peter Parker, a.k.a. Spiderman: "With power comes responsibility."
West 8thStreet – The Aquarium. 4:39 p.m.
The station's interior is decorated in this tacky aqua blue latticework. I head over the footbridge to the boardwalk, hopping over a toppled over fence. Blocks away the Cyclone sits still dark and skeletal. Around me, there's stalled reconstruction, sand piles, barbed wire, wet rust, the smell of an electrical fire. I spot a puddle and bend down and look into it. I'm there: brown skin and eyes, beard and Yankees hat, but translucent and mixed with fuel oil and mud.
The squawk of seagulls turns my head.
I walk onto the beach. I see a young woman in jeans and a loose brown sweater running barefoot, again and again, at the seagulls I came to find. And I think that's her, that's who she is. And I imagine myself as her: eyes watching the birds scatter, heart pounding as her feet grip the wet sand, as her warm breath and raw voice, but not her face. Of course her girlfriend's filming it all on her phone, reducing the moment onto a screen and launching it up to take up crowded residence in the Cyber Slum lurking above us.
It makes it less, flattening the moment.
But the lawyer, I am, pushes back, reminding me, myself and I: Who am I to judge? I don't know these women or what they're up to. Maybe sharing the image will do some good. It's what the best artists do. Like Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother: that iconic photograph of Florence Owens Thompson, mother of seven, destitute pea picker, stranded on Highway 101 in 1936, caught in the wrath of the Great Depression. Ms. Thompson's face seems to want nothing from the camera, seems not to even see it, but her face nonetheless teaches, teaches us just how far our country will let us fall. So reflection isn't inherently bad. It can be beautiful, be important and edifying. No, my problem is that our littered and teaming images have become noise and pollution.
I turn away from the women to the surf and let the ocean fill my ears.
4:54 p.m. My phone vibrates, and I flip it open.
"Hello, hello, is this Mr. Hueston?" A female voice, tired and hurt.
"Yes, this is Mike Hueston."
"Oh thank god! I'm so sorry to bother you on a weekend." The tired voice catches its breath. "But my grandson Devonte was arrested today by the police for burglary and my friend, Elaine, gave me your number. And we're here, but they won't let us in to see him. We don't know if he's hurt. Oh god, there's an ambulance outside!" The hurt voice catches its breath again. "We need a lawyer. My friend said you could help us. We're at the 77th Precinct. They said Devonte and his friends broke into a house. They arrested him three times now. And he's just 17, but they won't let us see him. He's just a boy. Don't we have a right to see him? And it's Blockhead. I know he's in there. He keeps harassing Devonte, always stopping him and searching him. He won't leave Devonte alone. Can you help us, Mr. Hueston?"
Now this is odd. There's a pentecostal drawn into the sand, and I step into it before telling her I'm not available and refer her to a colleague whose number I provide.
"How much does he charge?" Anxious voice unnerved.
"You'll have to work that out with him."
"Can we pay later?" Haggard voice losing hope.
"Please talk to him about that."
"But can they do this?" Voice failing. "Just hold him without allowing us to see him?"
"How old is Devante again?"
"17." Voice just about giving up.
There's no easy way to say it. "I'm sorry mam, but after 16, a child loses that right, and he'll be treated as an adult." My voice is callous to my own ears. The voice fails over the line until I hear: "Oh God no! No! No!" Then the voice whimpers quiet.
"Mam, please call my colleague."
"Ok, thank you, Mr Hueston." The voice hangs up.
I put my phone away and look down at the pentecostal. Stepping inside of it was sardonic. Then again when would I get another chance? And it seemed appropriate given what I do and how often I meet people in various states of hell. But it's not a joke, not at all. And I conjure the image of Devante: a poor, young black boy I've never met; a boy caught stealing what he didn't have the support, education, and above all hope, to believe he could earn; a boy, like so many of the boys I represent, craving cash to buy into that savior image that can't save them, but which they still seek, because it's all they believe they have or possess, an image of themselves aping the celebrities and algorithms of the Silicon Age.
Boys led astray from the real shit they've got to face, charmed into putting on black face for others' profit.
Silicon Slavery.
Silicon Suckers.
And I think of how so many of us have been wounded by image, buying into unsustainable gratification, consumption and excess, buying into flat images no human can actually ever become. That's why, despite how much I admire actors, acting seems so perilous to me, so radioactive, a profession where people are rewarded for mimicking feeling, mimicking life. And I recall that wild girl, LiMei, back at LaGuardia who starred in our high school's production of Julius Caesar, and the time in homeroom when she took my hand and held it to her breast as she acted out the lines:
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Off all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
It's funny how the mind works. I haven't thought of LiMei in years. But here I've dug her up along with some of Shakespeare's greatest words about: letting go. And I hypothesize, pontificate and theorize we weren't meant to remember all that can be saved and uploaded, that we weren't meant to have actual recall of our lives, that we were meant to lose portions, misremember segments, distort and build on others, and continually fragment and reuse memory, creating new grooves and vistas, never static in time.
And what LiMei did was a power move. But that was her thing. Like the time she fucked me in Sheep's Meadow, straddling me as our friends played frisbee. I might as well not have been there as I looked into her emotional mask, into that daredevil grin surrounded by hair so black it shined. Because it clearly wasn't about me, just her, and the reaction she could draw from me, or perhaps the role she saw herself starring in. Whatever. LiMei was the first person I knew, really knew, who believed she was a celebrity, flattening herself and holding her avatar up to be beheld and consumed. And I remember feeling something I would later describe as disappointment about this girl, whose talent I admired, but as far as I could fathom, put herself before her art … and ultimately before people.
5:27 p.m.
I'm sitting on a pile of logs, watching an old man feed seagulls that are twisting around him like a living tornado. And I imagine myself as him, as my hand tossing stale bread, back bending, feet walking, lips smiling; but not the seen smile, but the felt smile. And it strikes me that I often overlook that we actually feel our smiles, as we do all sensation, and that smiling isn't an image or a pose, but a way to communicate happiness to ourselves.
It's getting real dark. I head back to the boardwalk. The street lamps are still down from Sandy, which adds to the night. For a hundred yards or so, it's just the lights of the Aquarium's entrance, Brighton's high rises, and the occasional cigarette embers. It's hard to write in such darkness. And I imagine Ms. Margolin reviewing what I'm scribbling, certain that she'd give me a pass with that smile she loved to share with me. And I remember her hug and kiss goodbye when she went on leave to have a baby. What a terrific hug. The smell of her perfume was like butter and cinnamon, but better. And to this day, I hope she felt, as I hugged her back, just how much she meant to me, hope she felt my thanks, since it was her compassion and patience and steadiness that got me healing after my parents' divorce and the brutal assault my mother suffered, unbeknownst to me, at the hands of my father…
… Father.
That past, present and future is for another day.
Today is about faces.
And I look around to see the people near me. We've turned into silhouettes of ourselves, high def gone low res. Puddle like. Puddle people. And it occurs to me that we didn't evolve with forever light and that darkness may be important because we need to be relieved from the clarity of day, like the erosion of memory. And at the end of that thought, I'm struck by the quiet around me: just the surf accented and a lone Russian voice. And I see the image of my Russian professor, Ms. Feodorovna, leaning against the podium in her stockings and heels, half librarian, half spy. One of the most interesting things she taught us was how the verb "to be" «быть» (byt') in Russian is barely used in the present tense and how in speech it's not pronounced at all. So instead of: "I am walking" a Russian says: «Я – иду» (Ya idu): "I walking." I noted that Russian got right to the action, to the verb, without the redundancy of the extra self, emphasizing and acknowledging that we are what we do, not what we say we are.
Here I am again at the puddle I gazed into earlier. But I'm now featureless, one with the puddle. And I think of The Melvin's Lividity, and the canvas such emptiness offers us. No face deluding me, freeing myself to see the actual me.
6:15 p.m.
I'm struggling to remember a thought I've lost when a woman comes aboard at Avenue X carrying her sleeping baby. The woman's:stroking-her-baby's-hair-beautiful. And I think how she's never seen her face like this. She can't and be aware of it. It would make it something less. Then I watch a family come aboard at 18th Avenue. Mom. Dad. Big and little brother. And I see their faces as they cannot. Faces imbued with emotion and thought and memory and observation. And I call myself out for checking them out on the sly, as I've done over and over again today. So I amend my earlier criticism about how we don't meet people's eyes, which I knew was ill formed when I wrote it three hours ago. For while it's often true we don't acknowledge each other because of ego. It's also about face power. Since to observe someone changes their nature as it does ourselves. The observation effect at work again.
So observation is a responsibility.
6:27 p.m.
Stevie Wonder's Past Time Paradise plays as we approach Carroll Street, and I notice my foot bouncing to its synthesized strings, conga drums, Hare Krishna bells and gospel choir, while Stevie sings:
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been wasting most of their time
Glorifying days long gone behind
They've been wasting most their days
In remembrance of ignorance oldest praise
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Let's start living our lives
Living for the future paradise
Praise to our lives
Living for the future paradise
Shame to anyones lives
Living in the pastime paradise
And I know I'm reading into this, reaching and pushing to connect one thought to another, but I can't help but think: Shame on us for holding on to the images of ourselves, as if the best moments, the most critical, aren't right in front of us. And I turn face front to my life, my life at this very moment, looking out at the mix of strangers near me: the long haired girls, bald men, hipsters and homeboys, and I'm racing with words and words are racing in me. And I look at my hand holding a pen, writing on a pad.
So I write, so I am.
Pushing my drama again.


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This is where the ACTEA Committee reports on activities its members have undertaken on behalf of Affiliates.
- Meeting with representatives of Project Wing re movement to Mitchell premises
- Participation in Molonglo Special Purpose Reserve Workshop run by Parks & Conservation
- Meeting with Stromlo Forest Park re new BNT route through Park
- Second meeting with CTTCS re irrigation infrastructure update at Equestrian Park
- Attendance at Equestrian Forum with BNT, SLA and Parks & Conservation
- Update meeting re BNT through Ginninderry development
- Meeting with SLA to talk about latest works on BNT route in Molonglo
- Meeting with -SFP, Sport & Rec Services and Public Works re enclosed oval at SFP and impact on equestrian access
- Attendance at Recreation Users Group Meeting
- Representations to City Presentation and Parks and Conservation re Parkrun events at Mt Ainslie & North Weston Ponds
- Representations to SLA re developments on BNT route along Molonglo River
- Representations to Capital Works re trail mapping and protection
- Consultation with contractor re planned road works on Ellenborough Street near Kaleen South horse paddocks
- Consultation with CTTCS re water main installation across equestrian trail in the Pinnacle Nature Reserve
- Reps to Environment ACT and Rachel Stephen-Smith re delays in progressing bank remediation in Yarralumla Creek
Site Visit
- Meeting with the Arboretum management about shade trees for the horses yards
- Two field trips to consider options for Molonglo River crossing near the Molonglo Special Purpose Reserve
- On site meeting with North Weston Ponds Parkrun coordinator and City presentation ranger
- On site meeting with Public Works about watering of showjumping arena at Equestrian Park.
- Detailed comments on Public Works water reticulation plan for Equestrian Park.


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Tara Larsen ChangWhy did you choose to submit this art?
She's a little scary to keep around the house (with the eating of pets and small children, you know). I feel safer when she's hanging out elsewhere.
What does being part of SCBWI mean to you?
I love belonging to a community of like-minded souls who are equally passionate about the art and craft of children's book-making.
What is your favorite picture book from childhood?
The Golden Book of Fairy Tales, illustrated by Adrienne Segur (which, to me, was the important part of book construction).
Fun fact: Tara gardens for fairies. Learn more, and see more images, on STQRY here.


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Sunday, April 17, 2011
N is for Numb
Here recently I've had to stop taking one of my medicines because of side effects (doctor's orders no worries), but the effect has been a hypomanic state which led to a crash which I am now wading through. Depression. All I want to do is sleep, which sucks the energy and concentration out of anything you want to do. And it has numbed me out.
So everything becomes a personal attack even if it is a personal attack. I feel like I do a lot and nothing is appreciated and that no one understands where I'm coming from and when I'm able to crawl out of bed I fear I might say something I'll truly regret.
Let me say this: the spotlight is on Bipolar Disorder right now because of people like Catherine Zeta-Jones opening up and going into treatment for her struggle. I hope people take the time to find out about this illness and understand it doesn't make you a freak and that sometimes you just need a little kindness or that you may feel raw. Because it's not just a matter of not being 'lazy' or just 'getting over it'. And right now I don't feel like 'getting over it'. I'm depressed and I spent most of yesterday in bed and it wasn't any fun.
But I still took my meds and I'll continue taking them. An excerpt seems out of place so I'll skip it for now. At least on this blog. But stay tuned, and if you're showing any symptons of depression or mania don't hesitate to reach out, it could save your life.
3 comments:
- Brinda said...
Amy, anyone who knows you in the writing circles is aware of your energy and engagement. I appreciate your honesty in this post. Keep your chin up cause you have many friends supporting you.
- April 17, 2011 at 4:50 AM
- Laura said...
Nice to meet you through the A-Z. This post is no cheat - it is difficult to even to write about depression. I'm not bipolar, but I do get serious depressive spells. I congratulate you for your honesty in this post, and hope you are back on the up soon.
- April 17, 2011 at 6:26 AM
I have suffered from depression all of my life. I now recognize it in the child I was growing up. Back then, nobody talked about depression or about alcoholism, for that matter.
I know what it's like to have to stop one med. that's working and switch to another one that doesn't seem to work as well.
Hang in there, don't beat yourself up -- Bipolar is doing enough of that already.
YOU aren't alone.
MM the Queen of English
- April 17, 2011 at 8:50 AM


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One of the potential contenders for the Republican nomination for President, Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin, was surprise-asked the evolution question. The liberal media recurrently seeks to entertain itself with such "gotcha" questions. Their guys can sound as though they are confused about the number of states, or refer to the "inter-continental railroad," and they'll dismiss these things as foibles. But, they have a different rule for Republicans. Back in the days of Warren Harding, his supposed lack of intelligence was due, the progressives intimated, to his mixed-race heritage. Nowadays, the progressives consider the white race to be suspect.


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And local defense attorney Mark McDaniel said the app has many benefits but could incriminate a driver who is in the wrong.
"I think it's good for law enforcement, I think it's good for the person, if the person didn't really do something," McDaniel said, "But if a person's driving drunk, is intoxicated, or has illegal substances in the car and pushes the app, 'Hey, I'm getting pulled over,' well that can very easily be used against them."
Nonetheless, McDaniel said he's positive the video recording would hold up in court.
The first prompt confirms whether you want to send your location to select contacts. Once you press send, the feature triggers the front camera and automatically begins recording.
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Telecom Operators Will be Fined Rs 5 Lakh for Call Drops: TRAI
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) announced on Friday that telecom operators in India will face stricter rules over call drops and if they don't meet the norms they will be fined at least Rs 5 lakh.
The Indian telecom authority has set up drop call rates (DCR) benchmarks for telecom operators and the fines for not meeting those benchmarks will lead to fine starting at Rs 5 lakh which can go higher 'depending upon the extent of deviation of performance from the benchmark'.
"Graded financial disincentives in case service providers fail to meet the DCR (drop all rates) benchmarks have been introduced, in which amount payable may depend upon the extent of deviation from the benchmarks," TRAI said.
The new regulations related to 'Quality of Services' would be effective from October 1.
"In case of consecutive contravention of the benchmarks for two-quarters, financial disincentive may be up to one and half times and in case of consecutive contravention of the benchmark for more than two quarters, it may be twice the amount," said the regulator.
At present, TRAI's assessment of call drops rely on the evaluation of network performance over the entire service area, averaged every month.
But this methodology wasn't accurate as averaging resulted in poorly performing cells remaining hidden.
"As a result, while service providers were meeting the benchmarks, customers were complaining about the poor quality of service."
Now TRAI will be revising the methodology which will now be done on a percentile basis.
It will remove the anomaly which was getting introduced due to averaging of DCR of bad performing cells in the network with good or excellent performing cells," TRAI added.
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According to research by PwC, only 64% of people aged 55-64 in the UK are in employment.
Given the lack of candidates available in the current job market, in tandem with the growth of job vacancies, isn't it time this changed?
In fact, if this were to increase by just 20% – matching Sweden's record on employing older people – it would add about £80bn to the GDP.
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Well, it's been a long, long time since I've posted (or written!) anything on my blog, friends and for that, I apologize (but I have been busy writing…just not actually finishing anything that I write! (well, except for pieces I've submitted to a few places (magazines, publishers etc).
But now I have some news! I've recently published my first poetry book! It's called Of Concrete and Glass and is available for FREE as an ebook through:
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The book starts with a poem, The Maple Leaf, that I wrote around 20 years ago as a class assignment in Grade 10, that I love still. I slowly added poems over the years, completing the book in 2011. And then…nothing happened with it, until about a week ago when I came across it again and decided to actually, finally, get around to publishing it!
We walk a fine line between the light and the dark…
This book contains poems about the beauty of nature: that of the natural world that surrounds us and the cities we live in, as well as human nature. This is contrasted with poems that deal with the heart of darkness that can be found in humanity, and the strange and shadowy aspects within society and ourselves.
I hope you enjoy it, and if you do I would love it if you could leave a review at whichever retailer you download it from.
Here are two reviews people have left already:
4-Star review on Smashwords:
Just had a quit first read through the collection of poems, "Of Concrete and Glass" and enjoyed it. The collection well demonstrates the two sides to the common experience of living in Vancouver: the casual, bright and easygoing perspective countered by the grey rainy day perspective of doubt, mourning and fear. The nature poems bare a simplicity that exudes freshness, easy on the symbolism but full of marvel. The first poem, "Maple Leaf", stood out for me because of a subtle political slant, given its role as a national representation. What does it represent these days?" is the poet's question. As for the second part, it is heavier and wordier. I liked "The Doppledanger" and the final one about the dead poet the best. As for the message of the latter, I can relate. That fate and role of the poet is what I used to fear, causing me to avoid practicing and developing my own poetry for a long time. I am looking forward to rereading this collection, and downloading some more of Caitlin Mccoll's writing.
3-Star review on Smashwords:
Nicely lyrical and the language flows smoothly. A little scant on the punctuation but of course that's a liberty of free form. 🙂


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Book review: UNESCO's Utopia of Lifelong Learning: An Intellectual History by Maren Elfert
This fascinating and highly readable book describes how the United Nations Scientific, Educational and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) shaped the notion of lifelong learning and promoted its adoption as a global educational paradigm. It offers an account of UNESCO's utopian thinking about lifelong learning and the forces that shaped this, while also considering critically the tensions and ideological challenges that resulted in the prevalence, globally and at country level, of a less-than-utopian, instrumentalist approach to lifelong learning some distance from the expansive humanism of its early theorists.
It is a book that Maren Elfert is, perhaps, uniquely qualified to write. As she notes in her introduction, she worked for many years for the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) during which time she 'became increasingly troubled by the gap between UNESCO's humanistic discourse and the reality of "results-based management"'. One manifestation of this, she notes, was the demand of funders for a narrow, instrumental approach to projects which left little room for the organic development of the work and treated human beings 'as means rather than ends in the teaching and learning process'. This approach, she found, 'contradicted the humanism and the concept of education as a human right that UNESCO propagates'.
The dissonance Elfert identifies between these two distinct perspectives, and her evident, keenly felt discomfort with it, is the fuel for the book. I suspect that Elfert's unease will resonate with many readers and not only those who work in lifelong learning at an international level. In more than a decade working for NIACE (the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education) in the UK, I witnessed the dramatic narrowing of policy-makers' thinking about adult education and lifelong learning, and experienced the sharp contrast between the warm, expansive language used by politicians to talk about lifelong learning and the depressing instrumentalism of their actions. These actions, in which all three main UK political parties were complicit, resulted in a profound and sustained constriction in adults' opportunities to learn, and the destruction of much of the lifelong learning infrastructure that had been many decades in the making. Another casualty of diminishing political support for lifelong learning broadly conceived was NIACE itself, and while its successor organisation, the Learning and Work Institute (the result of a merger between NIACE and the Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion), continues to include lifelong learning within its remit, the loss of a distinctive, dedicated voice has been keenly felt.
Elfert describes the evolution of UNESCO's thinking about education from the immediate post-war period, when the organisation was founded, through the publication of its two landmark reports on lifelong learning (Learning to Be and Learning: The Treasure Within) to present-day economistic approaches to lifelong learning. Much of UNESCO's early thinking about education was spurred by its response to the misuse of education for political purposes during the war and the atrocities to which it contributed. A 'humanistic and emancipatory approach' emerged, Elfert writes, that 'aimed at bringing out the full potential of human beings and enabling them to shape their societies towards greater democratization and social justice'. This utopian strain of thinking saw education as a human right with 'intrinsic' value and rejected any form of instrumentalism in education, which is to say, any attempt to subject education to other, extraneous purposes.
Elfert deftly describes how 'lifelong education' emerged as an educational paradigm during the 1960s, with much of the impetus deriving from Paul Lengrand who popularised the notion of éducation permanente, in France, as one of the founders of popular education movement Peuple et Culture, and internationally, as head of UNESCO's adult education department. It was not until the Faure report of 1972, however, that lifelong education was presented as a key organising principle of UNESCO's work. Faure's report, Learning to Be, represented 'the first time the organization launched a report setting out a vision for the future of education globally', seeking to establish lifelong education as 'the new global "master concept"' for education. The report reasserted the 'humanistic' vision for education set out by UNESCO's founders and defended it against what Faure saw as the growing prevalence of an 'economistic' worldview in education. It proposed the creation of a 'learning society' in which education was available 'for all throughout life, inside and outside of institutions'. The aim of lifelong education, the argument went, was not merely to produce economically useful workers, but to foster the development of a new type of society, in which opportunities for personal fulfilment and active democratic participation were evenly distributed.
As Elfert describes it, while Faure produced 'an inspirational document that was ahead of its time', its immediate influence was limited by a combination of economic recession, political pragmatism and escalating Cold War tensions. It appeared at a moment when neoliberal thinking about education was becoming more and more prevalent and human capital theorists were popularising an understanding of education as, essentially, a tool of economic development. This change was being felt within international organisations such as UNESCO, as well as within nation states, and it wasn't until 1996, and the publication of Learning: The Treasure Within, better known as the Delors report, that UNESCO again presented so ambitious a statement of the value and wider purposes of lifelong learning. Delors consciously contrasted the position taken in his report with the ideologically alien 'neoliberal' thinking that had become politically dominant in Britain and in the United States (under Thatcher and Reagan, respectively). He resisted the idea that education was a means to an economic end, and argued instead for education as a right, a means of supporting people to reach their full potential and of creating a fairer and more socially just society. The report emphasised 'learning throughout life' and stressed both its 'lifelong' and 'lifewide' dimensions, noting the relevance of leaning to all spheres of life. Famously, this vision was expressed in terms of the 'four pillars of learning': learning to know, learning to do, learning to be and learning to live together.
While the adult education community received the report favourably, Elfert writes, many critics 'did not consider it practical enough and criticized it for resorting to "the language of idealism and dreams"'. It was overshadowed by the Education for All agenda, on which it had little impact, and by 'the hegemony of a neoliberal lifelong learning discourse'. As a result, as Elfert notes, it had 'negligible' impact at the level of education policy; it was a 'non-event', in the words of Kjell Rubenson. Even within UNESCO, interest in it was 'short lived'. In the meantime, 'education moved further down the economistic path, jeopardizing more and more UNESCO's utopia of a just society'. In a final chapter, Elfert shows that while lifelong learning became an established part of educational discourse around the world, lifelong learning policies 'display a predominantly economic and instrumental interpretation that focuses on the provision of skills for individuals for job-related purposes, which has little to do with UNESCO's "maximalist" version of lifelong learning'. The language of rights has been replaced by a discourse of responsibilities – principally, the responsibility to acquire and maintain the skills necessary to be a productive worker. The success of lifelong learning as an important educational paradigm has been achieved at the cost of its 'revolutionary' and political aspects.
This attenuated vision of lifelong learning as an endless cycle of training and retraining, shorn of its all-important lifewide dimension, will be familiar to UK readers who will have witnessed the systematic destruction of the country's once world-leading adult education system over the past two decades. The trend has been exacerbated by a prolonged period of austerity and retrenchment in public spending, in the UK and elsewhere, following the financial crash. For UNESCO, Elfert notes, this climate has resulted in a tension between its 'humanistic tradition' and the demands of its donors. Nevertheless, I think she is right to argue for the continuing relevance and importance of the 'maximalist' notion of lifelong learning, which both Faure and Delores defend, and to assert its relevance to the ongoing struggle between 'humanistic-emancipatory' and 'technocratic-rationalistic' worldviews. A Elfert notes, lifelong learning is inextricably bound up with the 'hope that human beings can change their world for the better'. Current threats to the democratic way of life, and the ongoing transformation of the world of work, certainly seem to point in the direction of a broader notion of lifelong learning, which recognises the importance of creativity, resilience, adaptability, and political and civic understanding. The story Elfert tells is a fascinating and important one, and she tells it wonderfully well. While the subject matter may appear relevant only to a fairly niche audience, I found it directly relatable to the national context in which I worked for many years, in ways that helped illuminate it. It also poses important questions to those who advocate for lifelong learning at an international level. I hope it will be very widely read, as, certainly, it deserves to be.


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» google_organization_iam_policy
Allows management of the entire IAM policy for an existing Google Cloud Platform Organization.
Warning: New organizations have several default policies which will,
without extreme caution, be overwritten by use of this resource.
The safest alternative is to use multiple
resources. It is easy to use this resource to remove your own access to
an organization, which will require a call to Google Support to have
fixed, and can take multiple days to resolve. If you do use this resource,
the best way to be sure that you are not making dangerous changes is to start
by importing your existing policy, and examining the diff very closely.
Note: This resource must not be used in conjunction with
google_organization_iam_member or
or they will fight over what your policy should be.
» Example Usage
resource "google_organization_iam_policy" "policy" {
org_id = "123456789"
policy_data = data.google_iam_policy.admin.policy_data
data "google_iam_policy" "admin" {
binding {
role = "roles/editor"
members = [
» Argument Reference
The following arguments are supported:
org_id- (Required) The numeric ID of the organization in which you want to create a custom role.
policy_data- (Required) The
google_iam_policydata source that represents the IAM policy that will be applied to the organization. This policy overrides any existing policy applied to the organization.
» Import
$ terraform import google_organization_iam_policy.my_org your-org-id


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By Jason Schultz
Many NASCAR fans feel the Sprint Cup Series has an excess number of mile-and-a-half tracks on the schedule. Mile-and-a-half tracks don't seem to feature the close, competitive racing that super speedways, short tracks and road courses have offered fans. NASCAR is always looking for fan input on the series, but one suggestion it seems is not being addressed, is that some fans are no longer wanting as many mile-and-a-half tracks on the schedule. Continue reading


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Stana Katic: 5 Things To Know About 'Castle' Actress Leaving The Show
Stana Katic is breaking the hearts of 'Castle' addicts who will no longer get to see Detective Kate Beckett kick butt on their fave ABC drama. Though we all know her as one half of 'Caskett,' HollywoodLife.com has five important facts for you about Stana herself!
ABC dropped the shocking announcement on April 18 that Castle star Stana Katic, 37, would not be returning to the hit drama after season 8. Now that Stana is no longer Kate Beckett, the detective who stole Richard Castle's (Nathan Fillion's) heary, we wanted to know more about this incredible actress. Click through for five important facts about Stana!
Stana already has other projects lined up!
She's not sitting around post-Castle. Stana has several movies coming out in 2016 alone, per IMDb: The Rendezvous, The Tourist, Sister Cities and Lost in Florence. Though we know her best from Castle, she's been in a number of other significant projects aside from the series, including Quantum of Solace, Big Sur, CBGB, The Spirit, and For Lovers Only. She's got a good future ahead of her!
She has her own production company.
In 2009 Stana established her own production company, called Sine Timore Productions, which is latin for "without fear." She produced 17 episodes of Castle!
She's multilingual.
Talk about a smartie. The Canadian-American speaks English, Serbian, Croatian, French, Italian and Slovenian fluently. Seriously.
There's a rumor that she and Nathan hate each other.
Though they have hot chemistry onscreen, and even wound up marrying each other, there's a persistent rumor that Stana and costar Nathan do not get along! Whether or not this gave any weight to her decision to leave the show is still unknown. So sad if true, because we love us some Caskett!
She's an award winner!
Stana has won five People's Choice Awards, including Favorite TV Couple and Favorite TV Crime Drama Actress.
HollywoodLifers, are you shocked that Stana is leaving Castle? Tell us in the comments!


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Why use eCairn for social media intelligence
Is possible many of you have stumbled into many social media marketing tools that offer to track influencers, audit your brand, do competitive research and share content among other things. Perhaps you have heard of Sysomos, Radian6, Klout and traakr.
Our key differentiation is we group people with common interests that talk and share content around an specific topic. We call them tribes. And we calculate influence within these specific 'topic' tribes. Because hey, one mommy blogger can influence million moms in America, but can you tell which blogger is influencing who, where and what content in more appealing to a group of listeners? Also, influence is dynamic. And when you put all mommy bloggers together you can compare apples to apples, and be confident you're listening to the mommy rock stars at that point in time.
We have helped many American and international corporations with over 30 different use cases, enhancing monitoring their social media strategies. More typical uses involve:
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This mailbox topper depicts a bull rider in action. Our Amish craftsman, Perry, skillfully completes this sturdy steel mailbox top by welding it to its base, then thoroughly powder-coats the metal so it will hold up to weather for years to come.
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Wolmer's Prep juggle balancing act in search of dynasty
RECENT champions of the Jamaica Independent Schools' Association (JISA) Preparatory Schools football competitions, Wolmer's Preparatory are heading towards dominating and creating a dynasty while enabling their student athletes to also excel in the classroom.
The team, coached by Raymond Leveridge, aim to make their football programme so strong that they will also develop high-quality players of sound balance — academically and athletically — to feed into the national system.
"I also challenge the boys who play football to be in the top 10 of their respective classes academically. I charge them to be school leaders and whenever these goals are achieved I reward them, with the help of the parents," said Leveridge.
In the past five seasons several players have been called for national junior team duties, namely Ajani Thompson (now at Wolmer's Boys' School), plus Malique Lorraine and Matthew Baker, who now attend Kingston College (KC).
Both Thompson and Lorraine went on to represent Jamaica's Under-15 Reggae Boyz and Lorraine is currently a member of the Reggae Boyz set-up at the Under-17 level.
This qualitative reflection is evident in the number of Wolmer's Prep boys chosen for the all-prep football teams' annual battle against their all-primary counterparts, with no less than five Wolmer's Prep youngsters being part of the final squad since 2015.
The school's chairman, Ryan Foster, stressed the importance of developing well-rounded individuals who perform at a high standard, on and off the field.
"Wolmer's Prep prides itself as being one of the oldest and most established prep schools in the region. We believe in the complete athlete, one who finds that balance between education and sport," he stated.
"The football programme over the past six years has done tremendously well and more importantly, these athletes have also excelled in their educational pursuits."
Foster continued: "We have seen the importance of having a complete athlete as there are many of these preparatory school athletes who don't progress any further from this level of sport. And there are also others who progress, but seek to look at life after competition. Wolmer's Prep and the Wolmer's group have done well over the years to not only produce successful athletes such as Luton Shelton, Allan Rae, Gareth Breese, Ricardo Gardner, Michael Frater, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Jonelle Smith, but that balance is also seen with successful business leaders such as Chris and Milton Samuda, Professor Gordon Shirley, and Brian Wynter, to name a few."
Wolmer's Prep won the Alberga Cup KO in 2018. That year they placed fourth in the Henriques Cup competition. In 2017 they almost claimed the double by winning the Henriques Cup and finishing runners-up in the Alberga Cup.
The school has placed among the top four in both competitions for the past five years and going forward, Leveridge has set a high bar.
"The goals I have for the programme is to win the double in one season (Alberga and Henriques Cup). After that we aim to win both titles for at least three years straight, and in that process continue to produce boys who are well-rounded academically and athletically," shared Leveridge.
He noted that introducing players to the game at the toddler stage and reinforcing fundamentals are important principles.
"Some of these principles are: introducing the game as early as four years old to the boys in the school — I call it football clinic; teach them all the basic fundamentals needed to play the game; repetition of correct techniques, practices and sponsorship — this builds good and strong practices, no matter what; and insisting on continuous touches on the ball daily even if there is no training; building football fitness and IQ (teaching them the theory of the game — laws, rules – as well as how to control their emotions and make their own decisions)," Leveridge said.
These are supported by his own philosophies, fostered by competition.
"Some of my personal philosophies are to keep them actively competing all year round at all levels in the school and with outside competitions. These include: class vs class weekly in first term; inter-house football competitions; upper school all stars vs lower school all stars; Grade 6 (school leavers) vs the rest of the school (future team); practice games vs schools, clubs and academies; and the most recent past team returning to play the current team each year," he explained.
"A major part of this all running continuously is having solid parent support for the football programme, as well as a deeply connecting relationship with all the boys who play the game at the school, whether they are on the team or not," said Leveridge. "All the footballers are brothers, from the juniors to the advanced stage, so they look out for each other on and off the field every day, even when they are in their separate homes."
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It seems like the surge of local summer festivals is trailing off now and the amount of gigs in the usual musical haunts is starting to get back up to speed. And just as a reminder of how the local circuit really does punch above its weight, tonight The Beehive have rather a fabulous act to offer you. Over the last twenty years Pony Pony have worked both as a duo and with such names as Bare Naked Ladies and the sublime Cowboy Junkies and their brand of fiddle driven country-folk is a spellbinding experience that discerning music fans are not going to want to miss.
Although if your excuse for non-attendance is that you are going to The Victoria instead, then that is fair enough as they also have some choice original music on offer. Having caught two of these bands for the first time at The Shuffle I can assure you that The Oxymora's brooding and emotive alt-rock and Palm Rose's soaring post-rock meets dream-pop both have the potential to make them your new favourite local bands. POOL's bruised and gloom-infused music gets the night underway.


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My younger brother, the oldest of the two and the brother whom I am not related to but connected to legally, his circumstances are not anything like mine. He knows when he was born, whereas I most likely never will, I will have to accept I probably never will know my exact time of birth. I have an estimated birthday, but there is nothing written about my mother's pregnancy other than that it was a normal pregnancy.
Which I now know and suspect may be a reconstructed truth. The truth is my birth mother was in very poor health I suspect she might have contructed pre-eclampsia which could result in the infant being born with jaundice like I was. I was also malnourished--- while my brother was not, neither of my brother were.
I have all this information, faces and memories yet since there were very unfortunate circumstances surrounding my birth the one person whom usually knows the answer, does not know a thing. Besides my birth there no memories apart from a few pictures and journals in my adoption file that bear witness of my first 100 days in life. Yes, the hospital staff might know if they remember but it seems to be unneccessary to try to locate someone in a hospital 30 years later. Millions of babies have been born, and babies are born every day. They could know something about my mother's birth-most likely though is that they do not remember.


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The 2004 Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act requires the council to replace the UDP with new development plan documents which form part of the council's local development framework.
The Act automatically saved the UDP Policies for a period of three years from adoption (i.e. until 21 June 2009). The city council received the consent of the Secretary of State to save many of the UDP policies beyond 21 June 2009. These policies will gradually be replaced as development plan documents are adopted.
The city council's application to the Secretary of State outlining why particular policies should or should not be saved is available to download below. Also available to download is the direction from the Secretary of State stating which policies have been saved.
The city council has produced a document that contains the full wording of those policies that have been saved by the Secretary of State, and this is also available to download below.
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The pharao is down! First victory of the Revolution!
Vice President Omar Suleiman announced Friday in a televised address that Hosni Mubarak was stepping down, and had handed over authority to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.
Powers have been transferred to the army following a wave of mobilisation over the past 18 days, millions of people demanding the overthrow not only of Mubarak but the whole regime.
How far away Mubarak's speech on Thursday night now seems, when he declared his intention to remain in power and not bow to "foreign pressure". He was right; he left power because of the mobilisation of the Egyptian people who demanded his resignation, and not foreigners.
The top figure in Egypt's new regime is now Mohammed Hussein Tantawi, the country's defence minister. After the announcement, he drove past Mubarak's former palace, where crowds cheered him. He stopped briefly to thank and hail the crowds before driving in.
In Cairo, the crowd in Tahrir Square exploded with joy, welcoming this new era by a chorus of horns. The demonstrators waved Egyptian flags and fired guns into the air to celebrate the announcement. The protesters chanted, "We have brought down the regime" while many were seen crying, cheering and embracing one another.
In Alexandria, Egypt's second city, many people described an "explosion of emotion". Hundreds of thousands were celebrating in the streets. Celebrations are also being held in the cities of Mansoura, Mahala, Tanta, Ismailia, and Suez, with thousands in attendance.
Violence was reported in the northern Sinai town of El-Arish, where protesters attempted to storm a police station. At least one person was killed, and 20 wounded in that attack.
Throughout the country earlier today, protesters had marched on the presidential palace, state television buildings and other government installations.
The secretary general of the former ruling party National Democratic Party (NDP), appointed on 5th February to appease the revolt on the streets, also announced his resignation. He said there was a need for the emergence of new political formations corresponding to changing attitudes and changing ideas in the country.
Today, the country's new military leaders announced on state television that they promised to hand power to an elected, civilian government. They also pledged to respect all international treaties – an apparent nod to the country's 1979 peace treaty with Israel.
State television also reported that the curfew in the country has been shortened and are now in effect from midnight to 6 am. Some protesters nevertheless vowed to remain in Tahrir Square until their democratic agenda is implemented, which is more than understandable in relation to the army's to general close link with the regime, actually being the main pillar of the Mubarak regime.
Arab reaction
Amr Moussa, the secretary general of the Arab League, declared that there was now a "big chance" to build a "national consensus" in the coming period.
In Gaza, as well as in Ramallah jubilant scenes followed the announcement, with Palestinians setting off fireworks into the evening sky. "The resignation of the Egyptian president… is the beginning of the victory of the Egyptian revolution," Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman, said. He added, "Such a victory was the result of the sacrifices and the steadfastness of the Egyptian people."
Jubilation rang out in Tunis as well shortly after the announcement. A deafening concert of horns greeted the new information from Cairo. Similar scenes of joy were witnessed in several Arab countries, including Lebanon.
World reaction
Catherine Ashton, the European Union's foreign policy chief, said the move showed Mubarak had "listened the voices of the Egyptian people" and opened the way to reform in the country." Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, hailed Mubarak's decision as an "historic change" and called on the country to respect its 1979 peace treaty with Israel.
Her sentiments were echoed by a senior Israeli official, who said: "We hope that the change to democracy in Egypt will happen without violence and that the peace accord will remain."
David Cameron also urged Egypt to "move towards civilian and democratic rule." Iran said Egyptians had achieved a "great victory." Meanwhile Switzerland reacted by saying it was freezing the assets potentially belonging to Mubarak, according to a foreign ministry spokesman.
But these leaders never criticised Mubarak throughout his 30-year rule. Even during the protests, they supported him until they realised he had no choice but to step down, and that the people had won.
The authorities deployed their security forces in Algiers on Saturday to prevent opposition movements to protest in the streets of the capital.
A spokesman for the Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD), an opposition party, said that the demonstration was attended by between 7,000 and 10,000 participants and that the police had made a thousand arrests.
Yemeni police have cracked down on demonstrators who were celebrating in the streets of Sanaa the resignation of Hosni Mubarak, demanding the departure of the Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Buses brought members of the ruling party, equipped with tents, food and water, to occupy Tahrir Square ( same name than in Egypt), as that was the epicenter of the Egyptian revolution, to prevent the demonstrators settled there to do as the Egyptians. Some 5,000 police and government supporters occupied the square.
The police, including officers in plain clothes, drove out thousands of people in the main square of Sanaa Friday night, when protesters tore up posters of the President and shouted slogans demanding his immediate resignation.
The revolution must continue
Mubarak is the second dictator to resign in the Arab world, after Ben Ali in Tunisia, following mass protests. The region, which has suffered several decades from western imperialism and neoliberal policies, is changing. People believe once again that they can play a role in the destiny of their country. A new feeling that they can be the subject of history and not simply the object is now clearly present.
Mubarak's resignation is only the first step in the revolutionary process. While his departure is a success, this will ultimately not satisfy the demands of the people. The Egyptian revolution will have to continue and be made permanent in order for there to be real democratic and social rights. Only by pursuing the revolution will they be able to put an end to oppression, inequality and injustice. This is just the beginning.
Tahya Thawra! Power to the people!
Article also available on Counterfire: http://counterfire.org/index.php/articles/international/10080
Article also available on Counterfire: http://counterfire.org/index.php/articles/international/10080


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