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Croxley Green
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Croxley Green is a village and large suburb of Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire, and a civil parish in England. Located on the A412 between Watford to the northeast and Rickmansworth to the southwest, it is approximately 20 miles (32 km) northwest of central London.
Croxley Green has changed considerably in the years since John Dickinson built paper mills in the area. The area has grown into a semi-urban community, thanks to Croxley tube station on the Metropolitan line providing connections to London's West End at Baker Street and stations through to the City at Aldgate.
The population at the 2011 Census was 12,562.[1] Croxley Green is a part of the UK Parliament constituency, South West Hertfordshire. Gagan Mohindra is the Member of Parliament since the December 2019 United Kingdom general election.[2]
Croxley Green has a large village green. The Croxley Green Windmill was built c. 1860 and survives today converted to residential accommodation.
The Green houses the "Revels on The Green", an annual village fair which includes a traditional maypole dance, which used to be illustrated on the road signs on entering the village. The revels were featured in Metro-land, the 1973 television documentary by John Betjeman, who referred to them solemnly as "a tradition dating back to 1952". The annual Mummers play, "St. George & The Dragon", is played out during the Christmas period at a number of village hostelries. Since 2006 the Parish Council have organised a firework display on The Green for New Year's Eve.
Croxley Mill was built in 1830 adjacent to the Grand Union Canal by the paper manufacturer John Dickinson. Croxley Script stationery used to be produced there by John Dickinson and Co. Ltd. Dickinson Square, Dickinson Avenue, and Barton Way are streets named after the mill owner and some contain the houses built by the company for their workers at the end of the 19th Century. The mill closed in 1980.[3][4]
In 1986, Croxley Common Moor to the south of the village, OS grid reference TQ083949, is a 39.5 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and Local Nature Reserve. In 2008 a group of residents were successful in gaining village green status for Buddleia Wood, a small area of woodland to the south of the village, thereby protecting the area for generations to come. The village signs were replaced in February 2008 with a scene of All Saints Church and The Green.[citation needed]
Train services are provided from Croxley station on the Watford branch of the London Underground Metropolitan line, providing connections to London's West End at Baker Street and stations through to the City at Aldgate. The journey is between 40 and 45 minutes to Baker Street, and 60 minutes to the terminus at Aldgate.
- C of E All Saints' Church, The Green[5]
- C of E St Oswald's Church, Malvern Way[6]
- C of E Explore Church, Fuller Way[7]
- Croxley Green Baptist Church, Baldwin's Lane[8]
- Croxley Green Methodist Church, New Road[9]
- Roman Catholic, St Bede's, Baldwins Lane
- Croxley Green Christian Assembly[10]
- Morris Minors Pre School [11]
- Malvern Way Infant and Nursery School [12]
- Little Green Junior School [13]
- Harvey Road Primary School [14]
- Yorke Mead Primary School [15]
- Rickmansworth School [16]
In 2016, Rickmansworth School took in an extra class of 30 students of which would now occur with every new year group joining with £2.3 million funding to upgrade their facilities from the government.
- Croxley Danes School
They started to build it in 2017 and they finished building it in the late 2020.
York House School[edit]
York House School is an independent preparatory day school for girls and boys aged from 3 to 13 years of age, located on Sarratt Road near Croxley Green in Redhead, an eighteenth-century mansion. The redhead was built and rebuilt in stages by the Baldwin, Finch, and Baldwin Finch families. The current features date variously from 1712, 1743 and 1866.[17]
The school was founded in Hampstead in 1910 by Rev. Cambridge Victor Hawkins. It relocated to Rickmansworth in the late 1940s, then moved again to its current location in 1966.[18][19]
The school motto is "Aut Viam Inveniam Aut Faciam", which is Latin for "Either I shall find a way or I shall make one".
The school's alumni are referred to as Old Yorkists. Notable alumni include:[20]
- Alan King-Hamilton, former Old Bailey judge
- Sir John Sulston, Nobel Prize winner
Local organisations[edit]
Croxley Green has a Residents Association and a Parish Council. There are local organisations dedicated to pastimes and leisure. The Croxley Green Society runs the "Revels", an event hosted on The Green in June/July every year. There are varying clubs including the camera, needlecraft, wine, vineyard, bicycle, jazz, and folk. Additionally there is an annual free of charge festival, called 'CroxFest', which takes place on The Green in September.
Notable residents[edit]
- Barbara Woodhouse the dog trainer presented Training Dogs the Woodhouse Way on television in the 1980s and lived at Campions from the 1940s to the 1980s.[21]
- Fred Housego, the 1980 BBC Mastermind winner, and sometime London black cab driver.[22]
- Ron Tarr, a British actor, best known for playing the part of "Big Ron" in EastEnders, lived in Durrants Drive. In a report about Tarr's death in the Daily Mirror, journalist Chris Hughes stated the character had "a cult following".[23]
- ^ a b "Civil Parish population 2011". Newighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
- ^ "Hertfordshire South West parliamentary constituency - Election 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
- ^ Ailsa Jenkins, 'Dickinson, John (1782–1869)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn, Oxford University Press, Oct 2007 accessed 20 Dec 2008
- ^ Evans, Joan. The endless web: John Dickinson and Co. Ltd., 1804–1954 (1955)
- ^ "All Saints' Church". Croxleygreenallsaints.org. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- ^ "St Oswald's Church". Stoswaldschurch.org.uk. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- ^ "Explore Church". Explore Church. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- ^ Croxley Green Baptist Church
- ^ "Croxley Green Methodist Church". Croxleymethodist.org.uk. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- ^ "Croxley Green Christian Assembly". Archive.org. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- ^ http://www.morrisminorspre-school.com/
- ^ "Home Page". Malvern Way Infant and Nursery School. 10 March 2017. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- ^ R.Hyde. "Home". Little Green Junior School. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- ^ "Harvey Road Primary School". Harveyroad.herts.sch.uk. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- ^ "Home Page". Yorke Mead Primary School. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- ^ "Home". Rickmansworth School. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- ^ William Page, ed. (1908). "Watford: Manors". A History of the County of Hertford. Victoria County History. 2. pp. 451–464. Retrieved 26 February 2009.
REDHEATH is an estate about four miles north-west of Watford, on the borders of the parish of Rickmansworth, consisting partly of freehold and partly of copyhold land held of the manors of Croxley Hall and Cassio. It was occupied by the Baldwins in the early part of the sixteenth century, and remained with owners of that name till 1709, when Thomas son of Henry Baldwin died without issue, and was succeeded by his nephew Charles, son of Charles Finch and Mary sister of Thomas Baldwin. Charles Finch died without issue in 1718, and was succeeded by his brother John, from whom the estate descended in a direct line to Henry Baldwin Finch, the present owner. The Baldwin family appear to have built a house here, but all of that building has disappeared. In 1712 Charles Finch added a new front to the house, and that date appears on it. Further additions were made in 1866 by Henry Charles Finch. The front part is the only old portion remaining. The house is a three-storied building of brick, the roof being surmounted by a large square wooden clock turret, with an open octagonal cupola on the top. The clock in the tower bears the inscription GEORGE CLARKE, WHITE-CHAPPLE, 1743. There are moulded brick cornices over the first-floor windows, and the entrance door, which is in the centre of the front, has a fine semicircular projecting wooden hood, supported on richly-carved brackets. There is a very fine avenue of beech trees, stretching from the back of the house to Chandler's Cross.
- ^ History, York House School
- ^ Gym lessons from army instructor Archived 16 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Alumni, York House School
- ^ Stephen Follows, 'Woodhouse , Barbara Kathleen Vera (1910–1988)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 20 Dec 2008
- ^ David Crozier (15 September 2014). "September 18, 1981". News Shopper. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- ^ "Big Ron Dies of Cancer at 60". Daily Mirror. Trinity Mirror. 22 October 1997. Retrieved 14 April 2009.
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The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) advises that the Government's planned Digital Services Tax (DST) on digital companies should be a temporary measure and ideally last no longer than five years. The Institute wants the DST repealed as soon as there is a multilateral agreement through the OECD on a global method to tax such companies on the value created by users.
The aim of the UK's DST is to ensure that digital businesses pay tax reflecting the value they derive from the participation of UK users.
Glyn Fullelove, Chair of CIOT's Technical Committee, said:
"Given the nature of the tax a pragmatic approach will be required in order for it to be implemented effectively. This is because revenue taxes such as this are a blunt instrument that cannot accurately represent the tax on the profits related to user based value on all businesses on which it is imposed. It will inevitably over-tax some companies and under-tax others.
"Many companies will not have the necessary information to arrive at a precise answer to how much DST they should pay. In practice the Government will have to rely on companies to arrive at a 'best estimate' of the amount of the DST payable based on a just and reasonable estimate of the UK revenues liable to the DST. Given the economic distortions that may arise and the somewhat arbitrary impact of this blunt solution, we would prefer that the measure is expressly time limited to a period of, say, five years."
The CIOT strongly supports the UK government's aim of a long term reform of the international tax system. The CIOT encourages a re-doubling of efforts to achieve an early consensus on the way forward because we are increasingly facing an international tax landscape of unilateral actions being taking independently by countries.
Glyn Fullelove said:
"Unilateral measures inevitably lead to less alignment of tax bases globally, resulting in double taxation and a significant compliance burden for businesses and, consequently, stifle economic growth and innovation. Multilateral action across the globe is ultimately essential if the aim is to ensure, so far as possible, no double taxation and we hope unilateral measures can be repealed once a global long term solution is agreed.
"In practical terms the DST will be based on estimates provided by the digital business themselves1 and a tax operating in this way could lead to taxpayers with very similar businesses paying different amounts of DST. In our view this result is only acceptable in a temporary tax."
The CIOT makes the comments in a submission to a HMRC consultation on the DST which closed yesterday (28 February).2
The CIOT also said that the taxation of user created value ultimately relates to the allocation of taxing rights over the global profits of a business and will not, in itself, raise more taxes overall. The fact that user created value is not currently taxed in the country of the user does not necessarily mean that the profits attributable to it are not taxed, just that under the current framework the right to tax them rests elsewhere.
Glyn Fullelove said:
"User created value may raise amounts of tax that are worth collecting for jurisdictions that have a large user base. However, it is unlikely to raise amounts that materially affect the country's finances and a sense of perspective thus needs to be kept when considering whether and when to introduce such legislative change.
"The Government must manage expectations and the public perception of the taxation of the largest digital businesses, the impact of the DST and what it is intended to achieve and what it can achieve."
1. The CIOT said it must be recognised that many companies will not have all of the information which would be required to arrive at a precise answer of the DST payable. Although some companies may have sufficient information available to them to provide a detailed method of allocating value/income to users, many will not. The information available to each company will be different and it will come from a variety of sources across the business records and systems of companies. Importantly the figures will not necessarily be subject to audit, if they are not necessary for the production of financial statements.
2. The CIOT's response to the Digital services tax: consultation can be read here.

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The establishment of terrorist organizations in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq, the war on Yemen and the declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of the Zionist entity, this is what the United States has done in the recent years to carry out its occupation projects to loot the wealth of the region.
In fact, the war, whether by proxy such as Syria and Iraq or directly as the Yemeni war, comes within the framework of power balance in the region, but the results of these wars poured into resistance's interest and this can not be denied.
Recently, the Yemeni missile force was able to target invaders' depth, and this raised the fears of the American-Israeli enemy and said by its first agent in the region that it would not allow Ansar Allah to become another Hezbollah in the region, but it is too late and today Ansar Allah has become an independent missile capability by its local industries, and we can not disregard the importance of this historic achievement.
The American delegate's drama came out with false accusations against Iran on the basis of iron piece, according to what Tehran said.
Iran is again in the cage of the American accusation and was accused with the flagrant violation for United Nations decisions and support of terrorist groups in the region and the solution is by formation of an alliance to repel them by all means.
Washington did not raise the ceiling and said the White House's response will not be military and will respond only within diplomatic frameworks, and the countries of region welcomed to Trump's decision.
But the most important question is why Washington is playing this paper now?
Tehran believes that the goal is to cover up the war crimes in Yemen and the Saudi defeats, as well as Tehran believes that the White House is seeking by its calumny to quell an uprising from the recent Trump's decision to declare Jerusalem as the capital of the enemy entity.
More importantly, according to Tehran, Washington's goal is to drag Iran's missile program to the negotiations table, a file that Iran has repeatedly confirmed that will not be put on the table.
A papery alliance boils and the region boils because of Palestine, and the purpose is to create papers for Washington's interest and some oil leaders, but according to Tehran it will be dead.
The blockade that imposed by the aggression on Yemen, is a comprehensive blockade, even ships that carrying food and medicine to Yemen, do not cross only after being inspected by aggression's countries and the United Nations, and accusation of Iran to smuggling arms and missiles to Yemen is only fabrications, where Iran is the first enemy for the United States and the Zionist entity, but Iran today is not in the period of "Saddam Hussein" to accuse it by having weapons of mass destruction in its arsenal, and the United States seeks to form an international alliance to confront Iran, but the countries that participated in the Iraq war Today, know that this war has great repercussions, such, the United States can not justify its failure in the region at the expense of others, and it can not shade the public opinion towards this matter.


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The Vertigo Universe is an unofficial designation in the DCU. Vertigo is DC Comics' established imprint for mature readers, and their characters usually don't cross paths with mainstream superheroes.
This is an editorial measure to make sure that younger readers don't mistakenly purchase adult stories after seeing a character make guest appearances in their favorite comics. Because of this, many DCU characters seemed to vanish from continuity while they appeared exclusively in their solo titles.
Despite this, occasional crossover between Vertigo Titles was not unheard of, especially within Vertigo's one-shots such as Vertigo Jam.
Geoff Johns made this concept an explicit part of continuity during the Flashpoint storyline, where it appeared as an alternate timeline next to the mainstream DCU and the Wildstorm Universe. Pandora uses all of them to create one greater timeline with elements from all three.[1] On Prime Earth, many of these Vertigo characters reappear as members of Justice League Dark.[2]
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On the home front, the Advent Calendar we made last year is back in all it's pride on the kitchen table. The bad spelling has been amended and this year, instead of red, it's sporting pink and blue!
Adding to this we have a fab bingo version on the wall, by my wonderful studio neighbour Sarah, at With Relish. Stanley is merrily colouring in the days with dayglo orange.


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Today was my first work day at Shevet and I had the blessing of visiting the children and families at Sheba hospital. There are many differences between pediatric Intensive Care Units in Israel and the United States, but one thing that remains the same no matter the location is that first feeling of helplessness when you see a little one intubated, depending on tubes, many medications, and the wisdom of the doctors and nurses in order to live. However, even if I cannot make medical decisions here, I am at peace knowing that we serve a great God who knows and loves each of us and especially each of these children. He gives wisdom to the doctors. He nudges the minds and hearts of the staff to be alert for changes in status. He fills our hearts so we can give more of ourselves to the families so they may know Him.
As you see, Marya remains sedated and intubated, and with chest tubes in both lungs. Today she received a chest x-ray and CT scan to assess the fluid in her lungs. Please pray for healing and for her body to absorb the fluid in her lungs. Pray for her mother as she waits for good news, her mother has been quiet and hopeful. Today we thank God that He is our Comforter as we wait for improvement and healing.


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BilingualPath now offers group classes for children of all ages!
These full immersion sessions are 45 minutes long and provided by a native Spanish speaker, bilingual pediatric speech language pathologist. Lessons are done in a fun and engaging way through movement, music, rhymes, arts & crafts, and games. These are not tutoring sessions.
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The school gates open at 8:40 a.m. and classroom doors close at 8:45 a.m. Child arriving later than 8:45 a.m. will need to sign in at the main reception in our key stage 2 building.
Please note that children in all year groups must stay with an adult until they go into class unless parents have a prior agreement with the school that the child walks to school unaccompanied.
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|Dynamic I
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|Dynamic I-II
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Inequality of Achievement Among Early Elementary Students Can Widen in Later Years
by Joe Savrock (February 2008)
Elementary school children exhibit a wide range of academic achievement levels. The great inequality of educational achievement among children is shaped by various factors, according to Katerina Bodovski, assistant professor of educational theory & policy at Penn State.
Bodovski's research focuses on the experiences of elementary school children and the factors—related both to schools and to families—that have a significant effect on educational achievement. She says that there are numerous factors that are behind the differential in children's experiences: "Parental characteristics, such as their education and occupation, family income, family structure, and parental activities with children in and outside of home influence children's behavioral and cognitive readiness for school. Also, as it has been long found, time on task and effective instructional methods that boost student engagement with learning shape educational outcomes."
Bodovski teamed with George Farkas, Penn State professor of sociology, to co-author two recent articles in scholarly journals in which they report findings on how mathematics readiness levels relate to subsequent achievement growth and the efficacy of instruction and engagement in producing such growth. The studies appear in The Elementary School Journal ("Mathematics Growth in Early Elementary School: The Roles of Beginning Knowledge, Student Engagement, and Instruction," vol. 108, no. 2, Nov. 2007) and the Journal of Early Childhood Research ("Do Instructional Practices Contribute to Inequality in Achievement?: The Case of Mathematics Instruction in Kindergarten," vol. 5, no. 3, Oct. 2007).
To carry out the two studies, Bodovski and Farkas used data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study–Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K), a nationally representative dataset maintained by the Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). In the 1998–99 academic year, NCES collected base-year data on a cohort of more than 21,000 students who were in kindergarten at the time. Since then, NCES has been tracking the students, who now have reached middle school. The ongoing nature of the ECLS-K provides researchers with data to study the relationship between various factors and school performance over time.
Bodovski and Farkas found that students who began with the least knowledge exhibited the smallest gains in later years. This situation sets the stage for the knowledge gap among students to widen even further over time. "We found that students who began with the lowest achievement showed the least growth over this period," said Bodovski. "Students in the lowest group received the most time on instruction but had the lowest engagement with instruction."
Bodovski noted that time on instruction increased achievement for all students equally. But the effect of engagement was strongest among the lowest-performing group. "The lower engagement of the lowest-performing group explained more than half of their lower achievement growth in grades K–3," she said.
"If inequality in mathematics achievement is to be reduced, teachers must make greater efforts to improve the beginning knowledge and academic engagement of this group," she added.
Bodovski and Farkas also reported that children who are enrolled in full-day kindergarten programs show greater gains in mathematics learning than those enrolled in half-day programs.
Bodovski also is examining different parenting practices and their effects on early school achievement. "In particular, parental school involvement, children's participation in extracurricular activities, educational trips taken with a family member, and the number of children's books at home are associated with better engagement and achievement in both math and reading," she explained. "Further, student engagement—being interested in learning, being organized, paying attention in class, and the like—has a strong and significant association with achievement."
Bodovski's current work is focused on further understanding of the relationships between different aspects of student behavior and educational achievement in elementary school, and how these are influenced by family practices and school settings. She is looking at these processes among different groups of children defined by social class, race, ethnicity, and immigration status.


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Nasser is a Muslim from Yemen. He left his country and now lives somewhere else in the Middle East. He watched the Jesus film and started to read the Bible. Nasser also visits one of our Facebook pages and asked us how he can join a church. We are happy that, through our network, we can help him connect to other Christians and to a church.


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Got permission to hunt an old school yard that has been private property a number of years now. The owner said "poke around all ya want but a couple other guys been through it and said they didn't find much".[split]
Said thanks thinking to myself they probably didn't have an E-TRAC or my patience. Was only there between 2- 2 1/2 hours and pulled 7 silver dimes, silver quarter, silver 4-H pin, buffalo nickel, and 24 wheats!! All coins were fairly deep in the 6-9" range E-TRAC hit hard every time but one, which was a strong nickel but the conductivity number jumped quite a bit.
Found the buffalo at 6" then rescanned and got a strong 12-46. About 2 inches deeper and just to the side came the '38 quarter. I was running deep off but think next time on this spot I should try deep on.
I know there is more waiting to be found and am welcome back, owner stopped by after I had made 15 or so plugs and couldn't find one of them!! Be sure and respect the owner and they will treat you right.
Loving my E-TRAC. Two months now and it is an amazing machine!!!


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Hillary Clinton's astroturf candidacy is in full swing in Iowa.
Her Tuesday morning visit to a coffee shop in LeClaire, Iowa was staged from beginning to end, according to Austin Bird, one of the men pictured sitting at the table with Mrs. Clinton.
Bird told Daily Mail Online that campaign staffer Troy Price called and asked him and two other young people to meet him Tuesday morning at a restaurant in Davenport, a nearby city.
Price then drove them to the coffee house to meet Clinton after vetting them for about a half-hour.
The three got the lion's share of Mrs. Clinton's time and participated in what breathless news reports described as a 'roundtable'– the first of many in her brief Iowa campaign swing.
Bird himself is a frequent participant in Iowa Democratic Party events. He interned with President Obama's 2012 presidential re-election campaign, and was tapped to chauffeur Vice President Joe Biden in October 2014 when he visited Davenport.
'What happened is, we were just asked to be there by Troy,' Bird said Wednesday in a phone interview.
'We were asked to come to a meeting with Troy, the three of us, at the Village Inn.'
The other two, he confirmed, were University of Iowa College Democrats president Carter Bell and Planned Parenthood of the Heartland employee Sara Sedlacek.
'It was supposed to be a strategy meeting,' Bird recalled, 'to get our thoughts about issues. But then all of a sudden he says, "Hey, we have Secretary Clinton coming in, would you like to go meet her?"'
'And then we got in a car – Troy's car – and we went up to the coffee house, and we sat at a table and then Hillary just came up and talked with us.'
Bird said 'we all were called.'
'I mean, Troy asked us all to do – to go to a meeting with him. And we didn't really know what it was about. I mean, he did. He knew.'
t's unclear how many Iowans featured in photographs with Clinton that rocketed around the country on Tuesday were planted.
'The mayor of LeClaire was there, and his wife was there,' Bird said, recalling the scene at the coffee shop.
Price was executive director of the Iowa Democratic Party until a month ago. Clinton's team tapped him last week to be its political director in Iowa.
He did not respond to a request for comment.
Bird is a government and community relations coordinator at Genesis Health System in Davenport, Iowa, according to his LinkedIn profile.
A coworker at Genesis said Wednesday that Bird is 'basically a lobbyist in training. That's what he wants to do.'
Bird disagreed, saying his role was 'more public relations.'
He's also an outspoken progressive whose Facebook wall shows he ordered a 'Hillary For President' bumper sticker 22 months ago. 'Is it 2016 yet?' he wrote in May 2013.
Clinton's nascent campaign has carefully coordinated her image as a spontaneous, handshaking populist in her first days as a candidate, posing with Pennsylvanians at a gas station and venturing into an Ohio Chipotle restaurant for lunch.
When no one recognized the former first lady – she was wearing sunglasses – the campaign leaked information to The New York Times so its reporters could get security-camera footage to prove she had tried to mingle with voters.
Scripting supposedly off-the-cuff appearances is common in presidential politics but could hurt Clinton especially hard since her gonzo road-trip journey to America's broad midwest is designed to counter her image as cold, calculating and politically venomous.
And planting party insiders in place of typical Iowans won't go over well in the Hawkeye State, where pressing the flesh and collecting caucus votes is a quadrennial full-contact sport.
Clinton's campaign has already taken heat for depicting at least three people in her campaign launch video as 'everyday' Americans who were actually partisans with political connections.
One was even a former campaign manager for Wendy Davis, the Texas Democrat who mounted a failed bid for Texas governor last year.
In LeClaire on Tuesday, Bloomberg and other outlets referred to Bird as a 'student' at St. Ambrose University, not as a hospital government-affairs staffer with Democratic party street-cred.
He does study at St. Ambrose – part-time.
But Bird's ties to the party are deep enough that his Facebook wall includes a photo of him standing in front of Joe Biden's limousine in Davenport.
'I was driving the Vice President when he was in town in October,' Bird noted in a Facebook comment.
Biden was not there on official government business, but for a campaign stop in support of Democrat Bruce Braley.
'The Vice President will attend a grassroots event for Braley for Iowa with Representative David Loebsack,' according to White House press guidance for his October 27, 2014 schedule.
Politics from within a Conservative Bastion inside the People's Republic of Maryland
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Hillary Astroturfs Iowa
3 comments:
- Always On Watch said...
Hillary as a populist candidate? I think not.
- April 16, 2015 at 5:44 AM
- Always On Watch said...
It's a dog and pony show.
Wait! That's too large.
It's a teacup dog show -- one dog. Heh.
- April 16, 2015 at 5:44 AM
- Thersites said...
Pure astro-turf for an Ag state.
- April 16, 2015 at 11:14 AM
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See the Mexican Caribbean's famous reefs via a Cancun diving tour. Choose between visiting the MUSA or the reefs of Manchones and Chitales.
Have you ever been to diving in Mexico's Cancun? If not, join us for a Cancun Diving tour, where we bring you either to visit the Cancun Underwater Museum (MUSA) or the reefs of Manchones/Chitales. Be prepared for a feast for your eyes!
If you take the tour on Wednesday, Friday or Sunday, you will visit MUSA, but if you take the tour on other days – you can have a chance to see the famous reefs of the Mexican Caribbean, where you will dive with a tank to a maximum depth of 9 meters.
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Miscellaneous: Tours on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays will be visiting MUSA, tours on other days will be visiting the reefs of Manchones or Chitales. Diver's credential must be provided before the dive.
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"The DACFF RAID controller serves as an essential building block for clustering and Storage Area Network (SAN) environments," says David Hill, senior storage industry analyst at Aberdeen Group (Boston). "End-to-end Fibre Channel connectivity allows system architects to create extremely scalable, high-performance storage systems."
With dual active, automatic failover/failback host cluster support via two copper Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) channels, the DACFF enables flexible configuration and redundant connections for high-availability applications. In addition to supporting automatic failover/failback, DACFF provides support for four other critical clustered storage capabilities, including active-active operation, mirrored write caching, scalable I/O performance and scaleable I/O capacity.
The DACFF's Fibre Channel disk drive connectivity delivers drive data transfer rates of over 100 MB/sec per Fibre Channel loop. The DACFF delivers up to 190 MB/sec performance for sustained sequential RAID 5 reads and over 140 MB/sec performance in sustained sequential RAID 5 writes.
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Another feature of DACFF is Mylex's GAM and WAM (Global Array Manager and Web Array Manager), which enable the RAID system to be configured, maintained and monitored remotely over the Internet or corporate Intranet. --Brian Ploskina, Assistant Editor
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During our trip to Tohoku earlier this month, we encountered shops and shops of kokeshi dolls. Kokeshi are wooden dolls with heads and bodies only, traditionally made only in the six northern prefectures of Japan's Honshu Island. The history of kokeshi is a bit murky. My research shows that kokeshi were first created in the... Continue Reading →
Crash Course: Hanabi (Fireworks)
Summertime in Japan is synonymous with fireworks and barely a weekend goes by without some sort of hanabi display. I'm sad to be missing our local summer festival and fireworks this weekend but we're off to Sendai at the end of the week for a brief summer vacation and I have plans to catch some hanabi up there. Hanabi (literally... Continue Reading →
Crash Course: Shisa
I'm having a bit of Okinawa nostalgia at the moment. No one is more surprised by this than me, as my three years on the island were not necessarily, to quote Dickens, "the best of times". Never terribly fond of the confines of the sweaty "rock", I've nevertheless been reflecting a lot on Japan's southernmost... Continue Reading →
Crash Course: Tatami
One of the things I always remind people when coming to Japan is to wear comfortable shoes. Because you'll take them off. A lot. Why? Well, one of the main reasons for this is the proliferation of tatami mats as flooring in this country. And one simply doesn't wear shoes on tatami mats. (Those things... Continue Reading →
Crash Course: Kabuki
You may be a little fuzzy on noh and there's an excellent chance you haven't heard of kowakamai, but I'm betting most of you are familiar with kabuki. Granted this centuries-old performing art is not for every one (a bit too much warbling for me) but it's highly likely you'll come across kabuki at some point... Continue Reading →
Crash Course: Haiku
Moonless night a powerful wind embraces the ancient cedars -- Matsuo Basho So wrote one of the most famous poets in all of Japanese history, Matsuo Basho. Basho was known for his extensive travels throughout Japan and the manner in which he chronicled them - mostly in haiku form. What's a haiku? Don't confuse it... Continue Reading →
Crash Course: Origami
While my mother was visiting Japan this past month, my conversation partners and I arranged a special meeting so they could teach us origami, the art of paper folding. Having become quite taken with the cranes you often find sitting on ryokan pillows and the stunning geometric origami balls my daughter was gifted by a friend,... Continue Reading →
Crash Course: Ukiyo-e
I just noticed an article online this past week that mentioned an excellent ukiyo-e exhibition at the Edo-Tokyo Museum through March 2nd. (And huzzah - the exhibit will actually move west after that!). I'm not a huge fan of art in general and before I moved to Japan I couldn't have told you the difference... Continue Reading →
Crash Course: Kimono
So I've lived in Japan for nearly five and a half years and I have never worn a kimono. Well, not until a few weeks ago at least. Since sometime last year, I've been meeting once I week with two lovely women/conversation partners who pretend not to notice how little my Japanese seems to improve.... Continue Reading →


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Denys R. Martin
Colonel Denys Richard Martin (11 October 1892[1] – 1970[2]) ranks among the most distinguished philatelists of the Twentieth century. As a systematic scholar and prolific writer, Martin illuminated some of the most difficult topics and set a high standard for the study of the postage stamps and postal history of India and Burma.[2]
As a regular British Army officer of the Royal Engineers, Martin arrived in India during the First World War and travelled throughout the subcontinent during the next twenty years.
Martin's collection included postal history material from the Persian Field Force, the Abyssinian campaigns and the Treaty Ports, which are now in the Government of India's collection.[3]
He was a member of the India Study Circle.[4]
- Fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society London (FRPSL).
- Crawford Medal for The Four Annas Lithographed Stamps of India, 1854-55, 1932.
- Signed the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1939.
- Half Anna Lithographed Stamps of India. 1928. (With E.A. Smythies)
- The Four Annas Lithographed Stamps of India, 1854-55. London: Philatelic Society of India and Stanley Gibbons, 1930. (With E.A. Smythies)
- Five appendices in L. E. Dawson, The One Anna and Two Annas Postage Stamps of India, 1854-55. Philatelic Society of India, H. Garratt-Adams & Co. and Stanley Gibbons, Ltd., London (1948): Die I, A Stone, No. 7 - p. 66; Die I, B Stone, Nos. 2, 28 and 64 - p. 67; India, 1854. Pin Perforated - p. 73; One Anna, 1854, Numbers Printed - p. 75; and The Two Annas, 1854, Some Problems - p. 81..
- Pakistan Overprints on Indian Stamps, 1948-49, London: Robson Lowe, 1959.
- The Second Afghan War. 1961.
- The Bombay-Karachi Sea Post Office. 1963. (With G.C. Danby)
- Indian Travelling Post Offices 1864-1891. London: Robson Lowe, 1969. First printed in The Philatelist.
- Numbers in Early Indian Cancellations, London: Robson Lowe, 1970.
- Burma Postal History, Including the 1987 Supplement. London: Robson Lowe, 1971. (With Gerald Davis.)
- Overseas Letter Postage from India 1854-1876. 1975. (editor with Neil Blair)
- ^ Bateman, Robert. Stamp collectors' who's who. London: Stanley Gibbons, 1960, p. 59.
- ^ a b Who Was Who in British Philately, Association of British Philatelic Societies, 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2013. Archived here.
- ^ These were exhibited by the Government of India's P & T Directorate during the International Stamp Exhibition in London, 18–26 September 1970. India Post (Sep/Oct 1970)
- ^ India Study Circle home page
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Mary B.'s 1965 family home was in need of a new exterior. The gray cedar shingle siding was original to the house and had suffered extensive woodpecker damage over the years. She maintained her home's exterior by painting the cedar, but it was time for something new.
Researching options for her home independently, she sought out the perfect contractor for the job. She had a negative experience in the past where a previous contractor went on vacation, abandoning the job and leaving the crew to complete the work unsupervised. She was not pleased with her results, but the contractor offered no work guarantee. This time around, she was determined to find a contractor who wouldn't let her down and stood behind their work!
Picking contractors recommended from the "Best List for Southwestern Suburbs," she set off on her mission. She needed a contractor who was reliable and knowledgeable, and who would be thorough in the assessment of exactly what needed to be done. Pricing was important but fell secondary on her contractor "must-have" list. It was also important to her that she trusted the company she selected, that the staff was helpful and not pushy, and that she had access to a showroom in order to see product examples.
She selected three from the recommendation list. Having talked with two companies prior to Opal, she felt that they were competitively priced and sufficient in answering her questions, but they lacked in other areas. For example, they provided only swatches for her to view and gave her addresses of homes that she could look at; however, she was not impressed with any of the work that was done. She was frustrated as one started off uncomfortably pushy, and collectively, the two did not give her the confidence that either of them would do a good job with her home. Replacing the siding for her entire home was an enormous investment that she was willing to pay cash for, and she wanted to be 100% confident in her choice without being pressured. Luckily, she found Opal Exteriors.
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Mary contacted Opal and was instantly impressed. She was greeted with a friendly and willing staff that is, in her terms, "much more laid back and not at all pushy." Mary visited the Opal Showroom and worked with Ryan who gave her the confidence she was looking for in her contractor search. The showroom allowed her to see and feel the materials and wall examples firsthand, and picture how they would look. Ryan helped her to visualize by digitally generating renderings of her house with different looks. Compared to the swatches that the other companies handed her, the digital renderings were an especially attractive feature. She explained that the showroom was an enormous aid, emphasizing to her that Opal is indeed a professional company. She described the Opal staff as welcoming with a willingness to help in any way they could with absolutely no pressure. When Opal's pricing came in competitive, she was sold.
Having made her decision, she selected James Hardie planks (6″ exposure) in Woodstock Brown with Artic White Trim, 3/8″ insulation, J&N Stone to front of her home in beautiful Ashlar Country, white aluminum soffit, and a white 4-lite bow window (Anderson 400-series). The crew worked meticulously on her home, taking care of her property and making certain to clean up after themselves daily. There were no hiccups in the process, and the job was finished within the expected parameters.
Mary explained that the crew's performance was stellar. She noted that their expertise, craftsmanship, and meticulous hard work, along with their willingness to answer questions and explain the process in detail, all made them stand out. She especially admired their strong team camaraderie – she could tell that the crew clearly enjoyed their job and working together!
She also went on to express how much she appreciated the communication process from start to end – from sales, to the project manager, to the crew – and how accessible Opal was to her. She had numbers she could text or call in the event she needed to speak with someone. In fact, at one point, she had questions regarding the removal of old vents, and she was informed that the soffit vents would provide the necessary air circulation for her home. However, she felt that her house would look better without the large vents but was reassured of the decision to keep the vents after speaking to someone about her concern.
Mary states that she would absolutely recommend Opal Exteriors to her neighbors, friends, and family because of her great experience with Opal. She is thoroughly pleased with the final result, saying that her house looks brand new! Mary left a 5-star Google Review exclaiming:
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Sam Andrews is a British professional wrestler who is best known for his work with the Varsity Pro Wrestling, the same wrestling promotion in which he trained at.
Andrews trained at Varsity Pro Wrestling's School of Excellence and made his debut in October 2005. He went on to work in that promotion for most of his young career. In 2013, he began appearing in a matches facing his brother Chris Andrews. Of these "Brother vs. Brother" matches, Andrews met his brother Chris on May 19 in a three-way match against "Pretty Boy" Dan Walsh for the DCW Heavyweight Championship. The Andrews brothers met again on July 21, in a singles match for the DCW Heavyweight Championship and once more on October 27 in a ladder match for the title.
Personal life
Andrews has a brother named Chris who is also a professional wrestler. They both debuted in 2005. He attended The Community College Chulmleigh. Andrews is also the proprietor of S Andrews Electrical business.


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Personal Categories help you manage your Credit and make it easy to share select Credit to your social networks or your own website or blog.
When accepting or managing Credit, you have the option to place each Credit into one or more personal categories you create. When you Trust an Issuer, you can also set the categories into which Credit from that issuer should be sorted. This makes it easy for your Credit from the museum or school to get automatically placed in your "Museum" or "Education" categories, for example. (You can later change or add categories, even for automatically accepted and sorted Credit.)
Add new personal Categories from your "My Credit" page by clicking the "Add Category" button at the bottom of the page.
Once you create a category, you need to put the badge in the category. To do this, go back to My Credit and mouse over a badge. Click on Manage.
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Dumas Pascal, Moutardier G., Ham J., Kaku R., Gereva S., Lefevre Jérôme, Adjeroud Mehdi. (2016). Timing within the reproduction cycle modulates the efficiency of village-based crown-of-thorns starfish removal. Biological Conservation, 204 (B), 237-246. ISSN 0006-3207
Timing within the reproduction cycle modulates the efficiency of village-based crown-of-thorns starfish removal
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|Dumas Pascal, Moutardier G., Ham J., Kaku R., Gereva S., Lefevre Jérôme, Adjeroud Mehdi.
|Biological Conservation, 2016, 204 (B), p. 237-246. ISSN 0006-3207
|In Pacific countries, outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns starfish Acanthaster planci (COTS) raise increasing conservation concerns in areas where people heavily depend upon coral reefs for their livelihoods. Small-scale cleanups are often used in an attempt to regulate COTS densities, but their efficiency is challenged by knowledge gaps and the difficulty for the communities to frame their decisions in an ecological perspective. Here, we investigated COTS reproductive seasonality and its potential impact on removals. The spawning period of COTS was documented in two islands of the Vanuatu archipelago using the gonado-somatic index (GSI). Peak spawning occurred one month after the 28 degrees C threshold was exceeded and was delayed by 2-3 weeks with increasing latitude, theoretically allowing cleanups to be framed within the biological cycle. We demonstrated that subsampiing of two/three arms per starfish provide GSI errors <1, a cost-effective strategy to document local spawning patterns. This approach was used during a major cleanup effort that took place during the spawning season, where fishermen removed COTS from a 3.8 km fringing reef. The density drastically dropped from 518.8 to 66.7 ind.ha(-1) after participants extirpated >4 tons (13,000 starfish). At the end of the removals, GSI was reduced by half when compared to control areas, suggesting that traditional practices may under certain conditions trigger synchronized spawning. More effectively controlling COTS outbreaks will require teaching good ecological practices to avoid potential side-effects, a challenge in countries where a lack of knowledge on COTS does not really foster environmental concerns among local communities.
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KIA Index
The 35th Infantry Regiment Association salutes our fallen brother, PVT Harry E. Gallaher, 37598706, who died in the service of his country on May 1st, 1945 in Luzon. The cause of death was listed as KIA. At the time of his death Harry was 21 years of age. He was from Hennepin County, Minnesota. The decorations earned by PVT Harry E. Gallaher include: the Combat Infantryman Badge, the Bronze Star, the Purple Heart, the Asiatic-Pacific Service Medal, and the World War II Victory Medal.
Harry is buried in the Manila American Cemetery.


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A new documentary tracks what happens when the offspring of an anonymous sperm donor have the opportunity to meet their biological father.
During my recent trip to England, I participated as a faculty member at two podiatry and physiotherapy meetings. This was my third trip to the country in the past five years, giving me the opportunity to lecture and interact with colleagues. My experiences this time ran the gamut from dismay about the healthcare system in the United Kingdom to awe and respect for the level of care many of our colleagues offer in this country.
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I recently had the opportunity to spend a long, anxiety-ridden day waiting in the emergency room in an unusual capacity: as the family member of a patient. As many of us, I spend a fair amount of time in the emergency room. However, I have learned that time spent in a professional capacity has a very different feel than time spent watching the clock, waiting for the nurse, the physician and the eventual "news."
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Brazil's newly-elected President could leave it to individual states to determine whether they want to legalize gambling
Far-right congressman and former army captain Jair Bolsonaro has been declared the new President of Brazil after winning a sweeping victory over Workers' Party candidate Fernando Haddad in Sunday's runoff election.
Mr. Bolsonaro won the first round of the presidential election on October 7 to face his rival, Mr. Haddad, in Sunday's winner-takes-all round. Brazil's new leader won 55.2% of all votes cast, while Mr. Haddad won 44.8%.
Brazil's election campaign has been the most divisive one in many years and each of the camps argued that a victory for their rival could lead to the country's destruction. Latin America's largest democracy was led by the leftist Workers' Party in the period between 2013 and 2016, when former President Dilma Rouseff was impeached.
Supporters of Mr. Bolsonaro are hopeful that the new President of Brazil will introduce a fresh approach to governing that will heal the country from its deep economic wounds. Far-rightists have been blaming the Workers' Party's policies for Brazil's economic struggles, but it is yet to be seen whether the new leader of Latin America's largest country will be able to mend the damage.
Controversial Views on Sensitive Topics
It can be said that Mr. Bolsonaro was the most controversial presidential candidate and his fiery opinions during the election campaign drew extreme ire and criticism from in- and outside the country.
Many likened his tactics in the presidency race to US President Trump's approach to policy-making. He has even been nicknamed Trump of the Tropics by political influencers. Others went further, suggesting that his political rhetoric dangerously resembled neo-fascism and warning that his election would pose a great threat to Brazil's democracy.
His eulogies to military dictatorship and his incendiary comments on tender topics such as women, LGBT, and minorities' rights are what he became best known for. And such comments have drawn criticism not only from inside the world's fourth-largest democracy, but also from the rest of the world.
During a São Paulo show earlier this month, Roger Waters, the founder of legendary rock band Pink Floyd, condemned the far-right politician, now President-elect, in front of a 45,000-strong crowd. The musician said that he was "against the resurgence of fascism all over the world" and was "a believer in human rights". His words were welcomed by many of his fans, but others booed him during the gig.
And his comments started the Twitter hashtag #ELENÃO (#NOTHIM), used by users who opposed the election of Mr. Bolsonaro.
"They told us we cannot talk about the election after 10 o'clock. We have 30 seconds. This is our last chance to resist fascism before Sunday. Not him!", Waters said during a Pink Floyd gig in São Paulo
Mr. Bolsonaro's Stance on Gambling
While Mr. Bolsonaro's economic policy plan is not very clear yet, it has become known that he would pursue the adoption of plans that very much resemble those of market-friendly right-wing governments in other parts of the region. His election campaign proposals included reduction of government "waste" and of state intervention in the economy.
The cash-strapped country urgently needs new sources of revenue and it is yet to be seen what these will be. Brazil's previous government considered the legalization of gambling as one such source. And international analysts have tipped the country as global gambling's "sleeping giant".
With very few exceptions, gambling is illegal in Brazil. But lawmakers looked to change the legal status of gaming and sports betting as well as of the locally popular lottery-like game jogo do bicho in a move that was hoped to create a behemoth gambling market worth well over R$20 billion (approximately $5.5 billion).
Two gambling bills have been discussed for years in the Brazilian Parliament – PL 442/1991 and PLS 186/2014 – both calling for a sweeping reform that would legalize land-based casinos, bingo halls, online gaming and sports betting, and jogo do bicho, among other gambling options. However, both pieces have failed to gain the necessary political support to take force as laws.
With Mr. Bolsonaro's comments on other sensitive issues, many would assume that his stance on a topic as controversial as gambling would be quite negative. During his election campaign, the President-elect said he was against the legalization of gambling. However, he pointed out in comments to local media that individual states could be allowed to decide whether they wanted gambling on their territories or not.
While the new President of Brazil is clearly not a big fan of gambling, it seems that the issue could still be considered in the nation's Parliament. While the matter could eventually be left to states to deal with as they feel inclined, a federal legislation should still be adopted. Expectations are big that Mr. Bolsonaro and his administration will bring a much-needed economic improvement. And it is yet to be seen whether gambling will be one of the potential sources of that long-anticipated economic boost.
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The postseason awards keep adding up for Iowa linebacker Josey Jewell and defensive back Josh Jackson.
Jewell was named the Big Ten's Nagurski-Woodson Defensive Player of the Year and the Butkus-Fitzgerald Linebacker of the Year on Thursday. Jackson was named the Tatum-Woodson Defensive Back of the Year.
Both players were All-Big Ten first-team selections on Tuesday, and are still in contention for national awards. Jewell is one of five finalists for the Bronko Nagurski Trophy, is a finalist for the Senior CLASS Award, and a finalist for the Lott IMPACT Trophy. He was named the recipient of the Jack Lambert Award on Monday. Jackson was named the Jack Tatum Award winner on Tuesday and is one of three finalists for the Jim Thorpe Award.
Thursday's awards were the first individual Big Ten honors since 2015, when Kirk Ferentz won the Hayes-Schembechler Coach of the Year and Desmond King won the Tatum-Woodson award.
Jewell leads the Big Ten and ranks third nationally in tackles (125 total, 11.4 per game). He is the third Hawkeye in program history to have three seasons with at least 115 tackles, joining Larry Station (1983-85) and Abdul Hodge (2003-05). Jewell has led the team in tackles in each of the last three seasons — 126 in 2015, 124 in 2016. He has 426 career tackles, fifth all-time in program history.
Jackson is tied as the national leader with seven interceptions. He leads the nation with 25 passes defended and is tied for second in interception return touchdowns (two), and pass breakups (18). He ranks third in interception return yards (163). Jackson's seven interceptions rank fourth best for a single season at Iowa, just one from tying Iowa's single-season record set by King (2015), Lou King (1981) and Nile Kinnick (1939).
Jewell becomes the first Hawkeye to win the conference's top defensive honor since Leroy Smith in 1991, and the first Hawkeye to win the Butkus-Fitzgerald Award.
Former Iowa linebacker Chad Greenway was given the Big Ten's Dungy-Thompson Humanitarian Award.
Penn State running back Saquon Barkley was named the Graham-George Offensive Player of the Year. Wisconsin's Paul Chryst was voted the coach of the year by the coaches and the media.


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Sunday, November 29, 2009
Snarks are completely last year's news.......yawn......zzzzzzzzzz....
Some people are losing track of time just like they have lost track of their meandering noodles.
What Palin said this year and the context it was said in.
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Did you happen to see Robert Peter John Day's response to this? Basically, his argument is that this little episode doesn't make him look stupid because he already called you stupid.
The problem is that Day is so pathologically dishonest that he can't even be honest with himself. You should see his most recent memory hole shenanigans.
Hilarious stuff.
Patrick Ross - and the usual slimeballs at that cesspool are taken in with all the goo he dishes out. It's good to see so many stupid monkeys jumping around on that tree - at least we know where to find them.ReplyDelete
Yes, Patrick Ross speaking on the topic of honesty...ReplyDelete
But back to the topic at hand, let's see if Ms. Dodo would like to comment on this--
Fox News displays old campaign footage to claim Palin is getting 'huge crowds' at her book signings. (Updated)
A supposed 'legitimate' news organization used last years footage of Sarah to show the crowds at her book tour.
And they didn't do anything about it until they were called on it.
And then it was "oh, that was a 'production error'"
Kinda like putting 'D''s behind every disgraced, sex scandaled republican over the past 5 years...
Yes, let's talk about cc's post, shall we, and the impending end of his blog...
Get a load of this.ReplyDelete
Does it shock anyone how incredibly pitiful Robby Day is anymore? Really?
Sparky - you have lost your spark.ReplyDelete
Ms Dodo comments: FoxNews displayed wrong footage at SP's book signing because it WAS a production error. End of story.
Mistakes happen and adults acknowledge them as such.
Juveniles give downright stupid excuses and create more and more deception. They are not fooling anyone but juveniles like themselves.
Lefties = juveniles
Patrick - I just came back from that cesspool. The guy is lowest of the low and when someone is so glaringly low-life, one tends to wonder if everyone he is associated with is like-minded and just as foul.ReplyDelete
What bothers me is the fact that there are a handful of women who seem to be in cahoots with this plague, knowing full well how he takes pleasure in demeaning womanhood. When you lie down with swine, you are also so perceived.
The women with any modicum of decency have long given up any association with the corroding corpse.
Don't let his nonsense get to you. He is unwavering in his quest to silence Conservative voices and is blind to the ever growing list of BT bloggers, coming out more forceful and stronger than ever. Look at the motley group of sad sacks on their aggregators and then look at the BT roll. Just today I saw a young new blogger (at least I did not see him before today) on BT with a great article on Afghanistan. And, over and besides the BT roll, you know there are literally 1000s of Conservative blogs sending out strong messages.
We should be pleased that we are seeing the dying throes of the Canadian Left. The fight is always dirty and fierce before the end.


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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- The Bank of England elected to bide its time with interest rates Thursday, holding the U.K.'s key rate unchanged at 5.5% as it waited for more data on how past rises are impacting growth.
The pause was expected, but is likely to be short lived, with most economists predicting another rate hike before the end of the summer as inflation continues to run above the government's target rate.
Sterling dipped slightly against the dollar falling to $1.9861 from a level of $1.9894 just before the announcement. The U.K.'s FTSE 100 index (UKX) edged up after the news, but swiftly pared gains to stand 0.1% higher. Also see London Markets.
The bank didn't reveal how members of its Monetary Policy Committee voted, though economists were expecting a split decision after it raised rates by a quarter-point at its previous meeting in May.
In that May meeting the bank considered a 0.5 percentage-point hike, which would have been the first of that magnitude since it gained independence back in 1997.
The May vote was also the first unanimous one in the recent tightening cycle, after the committee's most dovish member -- David Blanchflower -- made a sharp u-turn and backed the rise after voting for a rate reduction as recently as March.
The fact that a quarter-point rise was considered last time around indicates that a further hike is on the cards, unless there are swift signs of slower growth or falling inflation, economists said.
"The writing is definitely on the wall for a hike in July. The MPC left the job half-finished in May and have ended up behind the curve on monetary fundamentals," said David Brown, chief European economist at Bear Stearns.
"A bigger monetary response is now needed and the MPC remain under pressure to catch up quickly. Inflation is too high and monetary expansion is running far too fast." Brown added that the bank's main objective should for interest rates to reach 6.0% by November.
The Confederation of British Industry, on the other hand, praised the bank's wait-and-see approach.
"The bank has resisted rushing into a rate rise that, though widely expected, may still prove unnecessary," said CBI chief economic adviser Ian McCafferty in a statement.
Inflation above target
U.K. inflation currently stands at 2.8%, having fallen back from a 3.1% peak earlier this year. By law, the Bank of England was forced to write an embarrassing letter to the Treasury explaining why inflation was running over 3%.
The central bank has previously said it expects inflation to fall over the coming months as sharp rises in gas and electricity prices around a year ago fall out of the calculations. Weaker import prices also will affect inflation, it said.
Other recent data have been mixed, with the bank's own figures showing mortgage approvals in April fell to their lowest level in a year.
A reading on activity in the U.K. services sector, on the other hand, showed faster-than-expected growth in May, though the pace of price increases in the month slowed.
And the British Retail Consortium also recently revealed a downturn in like-for-like sales figures in May.
"Signs of slowing retail-sales growth and a softening housing market growth suggest demand is starting to ease. As a result, the recent ability of companies to push up prices is unlikely to continue," said the CBI's McCafferty.
"It would be wrong to rule out a further increase to 5.75% later in the year, but pundits should not assume that such a move is a done deal," he added.
In making its decision Thursday, the MPC will also have had access to as-yet-unreleased data on manufacturing, noted Societe Generale analyst Brian Hilliard, who added other manufacturing-industry data in recent months have been strong enough to indicate a trend of rising output.
The Bank of England's decision came after the European Central Bank -- which sets rates for the 13 countries that use the euro -- decided to boost its key rate by a quarter-point to 4% Wednesday as economies such as Germany continue to expand at a healthy pace. See full story.