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This is an archive of our members' exploits in individual events from 2010 through to mid-2015. From mid-2015 onwards such news will appear on our home page and will be supplemented by the news from our twitter feed.
Its the summer of 2015 so it must be time for the Surrey Individual competitions again! Surbiton have a total of 22 entrants to the various competitions at all levels. That's huge! Follow our progress here. Challenge Cup, Slater-Kennington Cup, Felce Cup, Wernick Cup.
The Delancey UK Schools Chess Challenge Surrey Mega-Finals on 2-4th May 2015 featured Neirin Leggett (5/6) taking equal 2nd in the Boys U-11 "A" section and Daniel O'Malia (5/6), who was equal 1st in the U-11 Boys "B" section. Koby Kalavannan took outright first (6/6) to become the U-13 Supremo and Morayo Ogungbesan took equal 3rd (4/6) in the U-14 section. Here are all their results. Hari Stewart made a score of 5/6 to take equal second in the Boys U-8 "A" section.
The Golders Green Rapidplay on 9th May 2015 saw Koby Kalavannan tied for 2nd place in a very strong field with 4/6. Koby managed to beat GM Tamas Fodor (Elo 2497) along the way in an impressive performance.
The SCCU County Championships run between October 2014 and March 2015 resulted in second place for the Open team in which Mark Josse, Steven Jones and Paul Shepherd featured. The U-100 and U-120 teams, both featuring Morayo Ogungbesan, also came second and so there will be Surbiton interest in the ECF National Stages once again this year.
On 22nd February 2015 the Wilts and West of England Juniors was the scene of a triumph in the U-8 section for Rahda Ratnesan who shared equal 1st with 5/6. Hot on Rahda's heels was Hari Stewart who tied for 3rd with 4.5/6. Also competing were Rajeiv Ratnesan who scored 4/6 in the U-12 section and Koby Kalavannan who made 3.5/5 in the U-14 section. Meanwhile Ranesh Ratnesan cleaned up with outright 1st place on 5.5/6 in the Minor.
The 21st South of England Juniors played over 31st January to 1st February 2015 saw Hari Stewart and Radha Ratnesan tied for equal 4th with 4/6 in the U-8 section. Meanhile Rajeiv and Ranesh Ratnesan tied in equal 6th place with 3.5/5 in the U-11 section and Koby Kalavannan grabbed yet another first place to win the U-14 Closed section.
The 5th Golders Green Congress played on 17-18th January 2015 saw Steven Jones and Koby Kalavannan take joint second prize with 4/5 in the Open.
The famous Hastings Chess Congress took place from 29th December 2014 to 6th January 2015 and worked out very successfully for a couple of our junior members. In the Weekend Major Koby Kalavannan took 1st place with 4.5/5. That same score got Ranesh Ratnesan a joint 1st place in the Weekend U120 event.
The Northwick Park Congress played host to the London Junior Championships from 28-30th December 2014. The U-21 Championship has long been incorporated into a FIDE Open. Michael Basman came joint second with 4.5/6 followed closely by Koby Kalavannan with 4/6. Also competing in the U-8 section were Hari Stewart (joint 3rd with 5.5/7) and Rahda Ratnesan (4.5/7).
The London Chess Classic played on 6-14th December 2014 had a different format including a SuperRapidplay event which James Holland (6.5/10), Michael Basman, Koby Kalvannan (both 6/10) and Tony Stewart (5.5/10) competed in. The Weekend Classic Open saw Michael Basman make a 3.5/5 score.
While Steven was battling it out in Leicester the Hampstead U2200 Congress was running from 29-30th November 2014 and Koby Kalavannan scored 4/5 for a share of second place.
The H.E.Atkins Memorial Leicester Congress Open ran between 28-30th November 2014 where Steven Jones took joint 3rd with 3.5/5.
The summer of 2014 once again saw the Surrey Individual competitions feature strongly in the Surbiton players' calendar. Thirteen of our players featured in the various sections. Koby Kalavannan made his debut in the very tough Challenge Cup. Meanwhile Surbiton collected all the other pots on offer. Paul Durrant was joint winner of the Slater-Kennington Cup, Stephen Moss won the Felce Cup and Ranesh Ratnesan was joint winner of the Wernick Cup. Great effort by you all!
The Delancey UK Schools Chess Challenge Tera-Finals and Challengers events took place on 16-17th August 2014. In the Challengers A Koby Kalavannan was fourth overall and 2nd in his U-12 age category while in the Challengers B Ranesh Ratnesan was joint top of his U-9 age category.
There was plenty of Surbiton representation and success at the 101st British Chess Championships held in Aberystwyth between 19th July and 2nd August 2014. Koby Kalavannan repeated his success last year by coming equal first in both the U-12 and U-13 Championships with 6 and 5.5 points out of 7 respectively. Koby also made a creditable 5/11 in the Major Open.The Ratnesan family was very well represented at the championships too. Ranesh made 6/7 in the U-9 section and 5.5/7 in the U-10 event, both of which were sufficient for second prize in each category. Ranesh's brother, Rajiev scored a useful 4/7 in the U-10 event and, to complete the family picture, Rahda played in the U-8 event and made 3/6. Quite a family plus score! Steven Jones was also a busy man at the championships. Steven scored a useful 5.5/11 in the Championship Open, 3.5/6 in the Rapidplay Open and topped it all off nicely by winning the Week 2 am Open with 4.5/5. To complete the seriously healthy Surbiton plus score for the event Stephen Moss made 3/5 in the U-140 section. Well done to everyone!
The Delancey UK Schools Chess Challenge Giga-Finals took place 0n 12-13th July 2014. A number of Surbiton Chess Club junior members participated. Ranesh and Rajiev Ratnesan came 2nd in the Boys U-9 "A" and U-10 "B" sections respectively while Daniel O'Malia took equal second in the Boys U-10 "C" section which also featured Neirin Leggett, who was equal 5th. The same day Hari Stewart was equal 5th in his Boys U-7 "B" section. Rahda Ratnesan won the U-7 girls section to become "Ultima" and the same day Koby Kalvannan was second in the U-12 boys "B" group and Morayo Ogungbesan was also 2nd in her Girls U-13 section.
When the music stopped on 30th June 2014 to determine the ECF Grand Prix winners Koby Kalvannan found himself in 7th place. However that was not in the Junior section, it was in the Open and he had a number of Grandmasters for company in the results table! Koby also came fourth in the Junior Grand Prix and both Steven Jones (Open) and Ranesh Ratnesan (Junior) achieved high finishes too.
Ranesh Ratnesan competed in the e2e4 Sunningdale U-1650 event during May 23-26th 2014 and made 4/7 including a win against the eventual tournament winner.
The Delancey UK Schools Chess Challenge Surrey Mega-Finals on 3-5th May 2014 saw Hari Stewart crowned "Supremo" with the perfect score of 6/6 in the Boys U-7 "A" section. The title "Supremo" also went to Daniel O'Malia (6/6) in the Boys U-10 "A" section and to Koby Kalvannan (5.5/6) in the U-12 Boys section. Meanwhile, Neirin Leggett with 5.5/6 was joint second in the U-10 Boys "B" section. Results for Daniel, Koby and Neirin. To complete the Surbiton winners list, Rahda Ratnesan won the Girls U-7 section with 6/6 to become "Suprema".
The 37th Surrey Easter Congress on 21st April 2014 saw Hari Stewart come 1st and Rahda Ratnesan come 2nd in the U-7 section.
The SCCU stages of the County Championships once again saw several Surbiton participants between October 2013 to March 2014. In the Open team Paul Shepherd scored 3.5/4 and Steven Jones 2.5/3. Mark Josse and Koby Kalavannan also played and overall Surrey came 3rd in the SCCU but that was enough to qualify once again for the National Stages. Koby also made 1/1 for the U-180 team. Alicia and Ian Mason featured in the U-160 team as did Stephen Moss (1/1) for the U-140 and Morayo Ogungbesan for the U-120 and U-100 teams, in the latter of which she achieved 2.5/4 on top board. The Surrey teams in the National stages also featured several Surbiton players. The Open team got to the semi-finals and included Mark Josse and Steven Jones. That was also as far as the U-180 team got where we had Angus James flying our flag. The U-100 team got as far as the quarter finals with Morayo on top board.
Koby Kalavannan took second place in the Major section of the Golders Green Rapidplay on 8th February 2014.
The World Junior Championships were held in Al Ain, United Emirates between 17-29th December 2013. Koby Kalavannan competed in the U-12 section and achieved a very creditable 6/11 score.
The London Chess Classic played on 7-15th December 2013 featured a number of Surbiton entrants. In the FIDE Open Mark Josse and Angus James made 5 and 4.5/9 respectively. The Weekend A Open saw Steven Jones take 2nd prize with 4/5 while Mike Basman and Koby Kalavannan made 3/5 and that also gave Koby the U-175 prize. The Weekend B U1800 section featured Stephen Moss who scored 3/5. Steven Jones also competed in the 8th December Blitz and took 2nd prize with 5/7.
The e2e4 Gatwick Open played on November 1st-3rd 2013 saw both Steven Jones and Koby Kalavannan score 2.5/5. At the same venue the Ratnesan brothers contested the U-1700 event which saw Rajiev scoring 3/5.
The Open section of the Imperial College Congress ran from 18-20th October 2013 and saw Steven Jones tied for 3rd place with 3.5/5. Koby Kalvannan took a share of the U-2000 prize with 3/5.
Steven Jones competed in the e2e4 High Wycombe Open congress during October 11-13th 2013 and made 2.5/5.
Over 17th-18th August 2013 Koby Kalavannan's journey through the Delancey UK Schools Chess Challenge ended in great success when he became the U-11 champion in the TeraFinal. This link gives an interesting overview of the UK Chess Challenge junior scene, some games, some photos as well as the results. Well done Koby!
The British Championships in Torquay between 28th July and 10th August 2013 saw several Surbiton participants and some prize-winners too. Mike Basman won the Atkins weekender with 5/5 and Koby Kalavannan continued his great summer by winning the British U-11 title with 6/7 and tied for best British U-12 boy with 5.5/7. Also participating were Steven Jones who made a solid 5.5/11 in the Open and Stephen Moss who also made 50% (2.5/5) in the U160 event.
Surrey Open team became National Champions for the second time in three years on 13th July 2013 by avenging their defeat in the Final by Middlesex the previous year with an equally narrow 8.5-7.5 victory. Chris Briscoe, Mark Josse and Paul Shepherd all played for Surrey in the final.
Good results on 7th July 2013 in the Southern GigaFinal of the Delancey UK Schools Chess Challenge for Morayo Ogungbesan who was third equal in the U-12 girls section with 4/6 and Max Elliott who was also third equal with 4.5/6 in the U-11 boys "A" section. Koby Kalavannan got a great result as he participated in the U-11 boys "C" section which he won with 5/6 to become "Ultimo" and thereby qualified for the TeraFinal.
Over the summer of 2013 Surbiton once again hosted the Surrey individual competitions. We were the only venue where all of the playing strength sections were hosted. There were a total of fourteen Surbiton participants in 2013. Well done to Koby Kalavannan, Gonzalo Shoobridge and John Sugden who all won their respect sections to get to the play-off finals against the other section winners. Especial congratulations to Koby who won his final play-off to win the Slater-Kennington Cup. The third year in a row that a Surbiton player has achieved this!
On 30th June 2013 it became official that Koby Kalavannan had won the English Chess Federation Junior Grand Prix which had run from 1st July 2012.
Surrey Open team once again won their way through to the ECF National Final after defeating Lancashire 10-6 in the semi-final on 8th June 2013. This had been preceded by an equally impressive quarter-final victory against Yorkshire by 10-4 on 19th May 2013. Chris Briscoe featured in both matches and did the business with 2/2. This is the third year in succession that the Surrey Open team has reached the ECF National Final and they will face Middlesex (their final opponents last year) on 13th July 2013.
The e2e4 Sunningdale congress of 24th-27th May 2013 had three Surbiton entrants in the U2050 section. Angus James scored 4/7. Both Steven Jones and Koby Kalavannan scored 3.5/7.
Koby Kalavannan was the U-11 Supremo in the Surrey MegaFinal of the UK Chess Challenge on May 6th 2013. He now moves on to the Southern GigaFinal.
April 1st 2013 was the date for a short version of the Surrey Easter Chess Congress and saw Koby Kalavannan win the U-11 championship with 4.5/5.
The Hinchley Wood Easter Chess Congress played over 29th-31st March 2013 saw Angus James capture 2nd prize in the Open Section with 3.5/5. Angus thereby sneaked a place above our very own Michael Basman who scored 3/5 (and organized the event!). See table below.
The SCCU Open division was decided on 16th March 2013 when Middlesex defeated a frankly rather under strength Surrey side (these things happen as any captain will explain to you). Surrey came second in the SCCU Open and qualified for the ECF stages once again. Surbiton contributions included 2/2 from Steven Jones, 1.5/2 from Paul Shepherd and Angus James also featured. Angus also made 1.5/3 in the SCCU 180 section and Paul Durrant also featured for Surrey in that team. Nice to see Gary Inglis make his debut for the U160 team with a couple of games as well as Morayo Ogungbesan's debut by turning out twice for the U120 team. Malcolm Cooper's 2/4 for the SCCU U100 team was also noteworthy and it's a shame they could not raise a team to compete in the later ECF stages having done enough to qualify. That leaves all Surrey's hopes for National stage silverware with the Open team.
The e2e4 tournament in High Wycombe on 8th-10th March 2013 saw Steven Jones score 2.5/5 in the Open. In the U2000 section Koby Kalavannan scored an impressive 4/5 thereby tying for second place.
Through February 15th-19th 2013 Chris Briscoe participated in the far away and exotic 2nd Guam International Open and gained joint second place overall with 7.5/9. Chris's full report can be found in the May 2013 edition of Chess Magazine.
Four Surbiton players entered the Imperial College Chess Congress staged during 1st-3rd February 2013. In the Open section, Steven Jones scored 3/5 and Angus James 2.5/5 (and drew with each other in round 3). In the Major section, Stephen Moss and Koby Kalavannan featured.
Congratulations to Stephen Moss who shared first place in the 18th – 20th January 2013 e2e4 Chester Minor with an unbeaten 4/5.
The London Junior Chess Championships held in December 2012 featured Koby Kalavannan who finished equal first with a score of 7/9 in the U12 major section. This performance also made Koby the SCCU Boys U11 Champion. Koby also score 3.5/6 in the U14 Major. Featuring in the U12 minor section was Morayo Ogungbesan who scored 6/9 to get equal fifth place overall and jointly winning the leading girl trophy in that section. In the FIDE U18/21 Open Steven Jones scored 3/6 in a challenging field. The Northwick Park Open ran alongside the junior events and saw Michael Basman score 3.5/5 to take equal second.
The London Chess Classic Open, which was played between 1st-10th December 2012, featured Mark Josse who scored a good 5/9 in a strong field. Angus James scored 2.5/5 in the Weekender B Open.
The November 2012 Brighton e2e4 Open saw Steven Jones score an impressive 4/5 to take sole 3rd place.
The Basingstoke e2e4 Major 27th-31st October 2012 saw Anna Purvis score a very good 6/9 to take joint 3rd place.
27th October 2012 saw both Angus James and Paul Durrant achieve draws in the Surrey U180 team's convincing win against Sussex . Angus also made his debut for the Surrey Open team during the 2012-13 season.
Steven Jones made a winning start in his Surrey Open team debut on 6th October 2012 against Sussex .
Chris Briscoe scored a nice 4/5 to take joint 2nd place in the 4th Worcestershire Open on 21st-22nd July 2012.
The ECF National Counties Finals were held in Leicester on 7th July 2012 with the Open Final being contested by Surrey and Middx. It was a very close match which was eventually and deservedly won by Middx 8.5-7.5. Chris Briscoe drew on Board 3 and Paul Shepherd won on Board 13 but it was not to be for the team overall. Over the season Chris made 2/3 and Paul made 4/6 for the Surrey Open team. Paul was quite pleased with his game in the Final.
On 30th June 2012 Paul Shepherd joined the Surrey County Chess Association board as a non-executive director.
The Surrey Open team travelled to Horsham to play Sussex in the ECF National Counties semi-final on 9th June 2012. Both Mark Josse, who won on Board 9, and Paul Shepherd, who drew on Board 14, played in a convincing 11-5 victory to take the Surrey Open team to the final for the second year running. On the same day the U180 team's run came to an end in the semi-final against Middx. Angus James notched up 3/5 for them this campaign. The U140 team also met their Waterloo in the semifinal against Lancashire on the same day. Alicia Mason scored 2/2 and Koby Kalavannan scored 1/2 for them this term. Koby also notched up 3/3 for the U120 team in the early part of the season. Max Elliott also featured on Board 1 for the U120 team on three occasions. Malcolm Cooper made 1.5/4 for the U100 team. Its good see a range of Surbiton members playing for the county and I hope more will be inspired by our recent successes.
Mark Josse scored a useful 5.5/9 at the e2e4 London Diamond Jubilee Congress Premier at Gatwick from 2nd-6th June 2012.
The summer of 2012 once again saw Surbiton host several sections of the Surrey individual competitions. There were a total of fourteen Surbiton participants. Angus James came joint second in the Surrey Challenge Cup. Many congratulations to Steve Kearney who followed Angus's success in 2011 by winning the Slater-Kennington Cup after a 1.5-0.5 play-off win. Surbiton also had participants in the Felce Cup and Wernick Cup.
The Richmond Rapidplay of 20th May again featured Koby Kalavannan in the Major where he scored 3/6.
19th May 2012 saw Chris Briscoe, Mark Josse and Paul Shepherd travel to Cossington, Leicestershire, to play for the Surrey Open team in the ECF National Counties quarter-final. Paul was pretty pleased to be acting captain for the day as we ran out 9.5-6.5 winners against a strong Lancashire side.
10 year old junior Max Elliot represented England at the World Schools Individual Chess Championships in Romania from April 28th - May 6th, 2012. Well done Max!
The Richmond Rapidplay of 11th March 2012 saw Koby Kalavannan successfully jump up a level to the Major, where he scored 3.5/6. At the same event Ayse Karel scored 3/6 in the Intermediate.
On 4th February 2012 the Surrey Open team beat Kent 10-6 to retain the Southern Counties Chess Union Trophy with a match to spare. Mark Josse (Board 6) and Paul Shepherd (Board 13) played for Surrey.
The 15th January 2012 Richmond Rapidplay featured Paul Shepherd making 3/6 in the Open and Koby Kalavannan scoring an excellent 4.5/6 to take joint third place in the Intermediate section.
The 2011-2012 Hastings tournament saw Chris Briscoe playing in the prestigious Masters event and making a creditable 5/9 score. The webmaster turned up to see Chris play the first two rounds in which he unfortunately lost to start with 0/2. However, as soon as the albatross departed, Chris made a strong comeback for the rest of the tournament! Alicia Mason also played at Hastings in the Christmas C tournament and got a very good second place result with 4/5.
During 3rd-11th December 2011 Mark Josse played in the London Chess Classic FIDE Open and made a creditable 4.5/9 score against tough opposition.
The Richmond Rapidplay on 11th November 2011 saw Ian Mason score 3/6 in the Major while Ayse Karel also participated in the Intermediate section.
Bonfire night on 5th November 2011 saw Surrey's Open team toast Sussex by 13-3. Mark Josse drew on Board 6 but Paul Shepherd lost on Board 13. Sometimes you just need to hold your hand up and say "well played" to your opponent!
The Gatwick International Premier in October 2011 saw Mark Josse score 4.5/9 in a strong field.
On 1st October 2011 both Chris Briscoe (Board 4) and Paul Shepherd (Board 15) won for Surrey against Middlesex in the Southern Counties Chess Union Open league thereby making important contributions to an overall 8.5-7.5 win for Surrey.
The annual North vs South of the Thames Valley chess match for the Elam Trophy took place at Surbiton on Saturday 17th September 2011 and resulted in a victory for the North by 5-3. Seven Surbiton players participated in the match including several who defected to the North for the day!
11th September 2011 saw Chris Briscoe make 4/6 in a strong Open section of the Richmond Rapidplay in which Michael Nightingale also participated.
The UK Chess Challenge Terafinals were held in Loughborough over 20th-21st August 2011. Koby Kalavannan was the top U9 player in the Terafinal Challengers section C.
On 17th July 2011 Ayse Karel made her now traditional 3/6 in the Intermediate section of the Richmond Rapidplay.
On 2nd July 2011 Surrey won the National Counties Open Lowenthal Trophy for the first time since 1954. Chris Briscoe played in the Final against Kent on Board 7. In the earlier stages of the competition Chris Briscoe, Mark Josse and Mike Basman all participated in various matches. Detailed results.
Through the Summer of 2011 Surbiton played host to the Surrey Challenge Cup, a section of the Surrey Slater-Kennington Cup and the Surrey Wernick Cup. All told there were a total of ten Surbiton players in the Surrey competitions. Congratulations to Chris Briscoe, who won the Challenge Cup a half point ahead of second placed Paul Shepherd. Well done to Koby Kalavannan who convincingly won through to the final playoff for the Wernick Cup and came second overall. Well done also to Angus James who won his section followed by a play-off to take the Slater-Kennington Cup!
July 2011 saw Mark Josse score 5.5/9 in a very competitive Irish Senior Championship.
Mark Josse scored 3/5 including a win against GM Alexander Cherniaev in the May 2011 e2e4 Gatwick Open.
On 22nd May 2011 several junior members of Surbiton chess club participated in the Richmond Rapidplay. Perhaps the pick of the performances was a 4/6 effort by Koby Kalavannan in the Intermediate section. Other Surbiton junior participants were: Alicia Mason in the Major and Max Elliott in the Intermediate. Good efforts by all of you! Ayse Karel also played in the Intermediate and made another solid 3/6.
On 13th March 2011 Surbiton had three entries in the Richmond Rapidplay Open. Chris Briscoe was the highest placed with 3.5/6. Paul Shepherd and Michael Nightingale also participated. Chris and Paul drew in their exciting individual encounter.
On 23rd Jan 2011 Michael Nightingale scored a very creditable 3/6 in The Richmond Rapidplay Open. Alicia Mason got an excellent 5/6 and Ayse Karel also got a solid 3/6 in the Intermediate.
On 29th December 2010 a club Handicap Tournament resulted in a victory by Martin Durrant with 6/7. See full report.
Chris Briscoe won a Thames Valley first team training event on 10th November with 3/3.
Ian Henderson won a Thames Valley first team training event on 13th October with 6/7. See also a photo account of the event.
The annual North vs South of Thames Valley League match for the Ellam Trophy was played at Surbiton's Fircroft venue on Saturday 25th September 2010. The result was a 3-2 win to the North of Thames Valley team.
Chris Briscoe scored 5.5/9 in the very strong GM and IM laden Arctic Chess Challenge 2010 in Tromso, Norway (see photo below), from 31st July - 8th August. No untitled player made a better score than Chris! Final table.
Ian Henderson and Mark Josse both played in the 2010 British Championship at Canterbury 26th July - 6th August. Their final scores were: Ian (4/11) and Mark (6/11). Well done to both as the opposition was very tough. See Mark's account of the event and Ian's account of the event.
Chris Briscoe won the 25th July 2010 British Championship Rapidplay in Canterbury with the perfect score of 6/6.


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Gove is stuck in the past. We must look beyond grades
Peter Wilby
The left once debated bold reforms that valued skills over certificates. As the row over GCSE grades shows, they are needed now more than ever
Illustration by Andrzej Krauze
For more than 20 years, the proportions of young people achieving higher grades in GCSE and A-levels drifted steadily upwards. Arguments raged over whether increased success rates were attributable to easier exams and softer marking or to better teaching and more spending on education. Whatever the truth, no education secretary or examinations regulator made the smallest attempt to arrest or reverse the trend. Parents, teachers and pupils were happy. Only rumbles of dissent from employers and universities disturbed the mood of mutual congratulation.
Then the education secretary, Michael Gove, took a stand. Grade inflation, he said, should stop; the public was losing confidence in the qualifications. Though it denies collusion, Ofqual, the regulator, ordered the exam boards to ensure that the performance levels required for each grade were consistent year on year. This year, the overall proportions getting GCSE grades A*-C fell 0.4%, and in English – a vital subject for future progression – by 1.5%. About 10,000 teenagers who were expecting a C grade in English got a D instead. Predictable outrage – and threats of legal action – followed, just as it did in 2002 when, after changes in A-level exams, some pupils, many from fee-charging schools, got B grades or lower when they anticipated As. The 2002 row hastened the departures of the then education secretary (Estelle Morris) and the chairman of Ofqual's predecessor. Ministers may sometimes wish to pose as guardians of standards but they associate themselves with higher failure rates at their political peril. Better by far to let success rates rise and claim the credit.
Gove should understand that exams are rationing devices. Success rates depend not on objective measures of performance but on the availability of the rationed goods: university places and positions in elite professional occupations. Fifty years ago, when barely 6% went to university, fewer than half the entrants to A-level were awarded passes. Now, with higher education available to 36%, the pass rate from a far larger pool of candidates is close to 100%, and more than 25% get A grades. Even universities, which complain that A-level students lack the skills and knowledge of their predecessors, hand out firsts and upper seconds to more than 60% of their students against barely half in the mid-1990s.
A Britain stricken by economic stagnation may not be able to support a university system at its current size. Nor, despite the talk of skills shortages, may it be able to sustain its number of high-quality jobs. That is why ministers wish to curb grade inflation. Just as greater success rates raise expectations, so lower rates depress them. If young people fail their exams, they may then blame their own inadequacies for lack of opportunity, not politicians' misguided economic policies.
But general educational qualifications, which serve as currency in job markets, have a natural tendency to inflation, just as monetary currency does. Politicians fret over both, but it is usually a losing battle.
When inflation rises 5%, workers are no better off with a 5% wage rise. Similarly, young people find that A-levels and degrees – their value debased because they are plentifully available – are no longer passports to the same careers as they were, say, 50 years ago. Nor are the higher grades of GCSE as valuable as the old O-level grades to which they are supposedly equivalent. Professions such as law and accountancy, once available to entrants with a single A-level, are now closed to anybody who lacks a degree. Journalism, where even editors frequently held nothing more than a couple of O-levels, has become an almost entirely graduate occupation. Increasingly, employers will accept nothing less than an upper second, and even require postgraduate certificates.
Some qualifications entail knowledge and skills of direct relevance to the jobs that demand them. Most don't. Their content is irrelevant. Their holders may (or may not) be more cultivated, reflective and wise after long periods of study. But there is scant evidence that they make better lawyers, accountants, bankers, managers and journalists.
The main effect of increasing access to A-levels and degrees is not, as originally intended, to ensure that elite jobs are open to talent from all backgrounds. On the contrary, longer periods of education and extended hurdles of certification favour the offspring of advantaged families, with their greater financial resources, greater reserves of cultural capital and greater access to elite institutions. By paying private school fees (or higher prices for houses close to favoured state schools) and supporting postgraduate study, today's middle classes buy prestigious jobs for their children just as elite families once bought army commissions and civil service positions.
Forty years ago, when the left still had vigour and ambition and the deleterious effects of the qualification spiral were already evident, bold reforms were widely debated.
First, it was suggested, employers and professional bodies should be prohibited from setting entry barriers in terms of general educational qualifications, such as five higher grade GCSEs or upper second-class degrees. Discrimination against the uncertificated, it was argued, is as unjust as discrimination against black or disabled people. Job candidates should be selected on specific competencies, skills and knowledge. Second, schools and universities, instead of acting as gatekeepers issuing passports for elite positions, should introduce "achievement reports" detailing what young people know, what skills they have acquired, their personal qualities, and so on. Grades or marks should be issued for specific parts of the syllabus, not for overall performance.
The arguments for such changes, restoring educational goals to primacy in schools and universities, are stronger than ever. But Gove moves in the opposite direction: making exams more traditional and ending a recent trend towards splitting them into discrete "modules" that could form the basis of achievement reports. He prefers fighting a losing battle against grade inflation to asking if grades are needed at all and creating a system fairer to young people and more valuable for employers.

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It had taken fifteen memorable minutes—from the time she was hooked, that is. Before that, he must have used four night crawlers, which she kept stripping off. He could feel her each time, big and emboldened with each success. He was just as good at bait-fishing as fly-fishing and he could not believe, with how cunningly he threaded the crawler on the hook the fourth time, that she would get away with it, but she did. He preferred fly-fishing, but this early in the season on the Clark Fork, he fished bait the first part of the day. There was an art to it, which fly-men denigrated too easily because of the majority of lazy bums who practiced it grossly. But he had been taught better, by an expert who showed him precisely how to bounce a No. 3 split shot on the bottom so that it entered a hole repercussively; then you let the hook dribble, and, afterwards, lie and drift: it would generally be hit just then.
But he had never lost four struggles in a row before. She had to be big, bigger than what he already had, and canny, the canniest. He prided himself on his reflexes, but this one had hit the hook contemptuously, presenting a direct, almost personal challenge. That was why, even knowing she was too big, he went on. You were allowed five trout now, only one over fourteen inches. He always wanted his limit because his family were fish eaters, but he really couldn't kid himself that the second trout was only, say, thirteen inches. No, he knew what it was: in this hole it was the mate of the twenty-inch brown trout he already had in his creel. He couldn't be exactly sure, but he knew. Others scoffed at the idea of mated fish in a hole, but it happened too often to him to be a fish story.
What this fish did, finally, was head straight upstream. He had had that also happen before with big browns. They gained, not leverage, but some slack that way and could conceivably slip the hook. But walking from spit to spit, he kept above her as she moved to the upper end of the hole and the run. Then he stepped into the sandy margin of the river. He could see her now, long and trembling, facing upstream (visioning him sidelong?), trying to gain something on him. He marveled at her. He switched hands on the rod, pulled around his black-hung net with his right hand, grasped it expectantly, strained her toward him with his left, and then, doubtless because she was tiring and incapable of a horizontal or downward plunge, just holding herself rigid in the flowing water, he was able to scoop from behind as he eased up on the rod, and he came upwards with the net and fetched her out of the water.
Quickly, back on one of those shallow spits, on a hump of dry gravel, where he had let drop his rod, he held her aloft in the net with both hands. Then, on the ground there, he took her out of the net, felt her gravid with eggs (and felt her heart—no, it was the pulse in his own fingers) and used his pliers to dislodge the hook. He admired and eye-measured her—twenty-one inches, he supposed—for an extended moment. The long, big-bellied trout, prostrate and glass-eyes on the gravel (his looming image beginning to dim and spark out along her nerves), banged her tail twice and gasped. He wet his hands again and lifted her gently and stepped a pace into the water and put her in, holding her steady and upstream (the light zooming again along her nerves, exploding in her brain), and she was gone like a speckled bolt out of the run, up the channel above, back in time and the river.
He sat down soon afterwards and took off the spinning reel from the fly rod that he had been using lately for both kinds of fishing. He took out his Medalist reel from his inside fishing vest pocket and put it on the rod, stringing up for fly-fishing, choosing Grey Wulff, thinking about four more medium rainbow before the day Garcia was over, especially with evening at hand and hatches due. He put the Mitchell reel in his canvas creel, next to his one allowable over-length fish. The thought had certainly come to him, with the mate heavy in the net and then beautiful on the ground of the spit, to keep her too and call it a day; he was human. But he was not only a law abider, but a career-long upholder of the law. Also a pragmatist, believing in the results of strict wildlife management. Also, in the three-quarters of an hour of his engagement to that fish, he had graduated from competition with love for her—contemptuous, courageous, gleaming, beautiful—and a good part of him, the best part, wanted fervently to let her go. He, too, was at shameless shifting odds with himself.
He flicked his fly, going upstream along one of the several channels. He caught a trout off an oxbow. It put up a pretty good fight before he brought it in, with the lax confidence or casual indulgence of a man who has already landed his big ones, and he dressed it out promptly, as was his habit, and put it in the creel with the other. That's when he first saw the other two fishermen.
There was something in the way they were standing together, conferring, that disturbed the day. No, the impression was a vagary only, and he stood up and followed on his way upstream. Actually, he had had the idea of going back downstream to a favorite spot for end-of-the-day fishing, but he went up-stream of them, who had been standing on shore opposite him and facing downstream as if to go that way themselves.
He must have struck his second Grey Wulff rainbow five minutes later around the next bend. Seeing the two men again, walking upstream and pausing to watch, flustered him, and he brought the trout in quickly but awkwardly, skipping him along the surface twice before beaching him where he stood on another midstream spit.
When he glanced up, after creeling the fish, they were still there, opposite him, waiting. They did not say anything—no cheers or halloos—and neither did he wave amicably, as was his custom with solitary strangers met on the stream. They weren't solitary, though, and something about them—their common slouch and premeditative languor instead of a riverside busyness of their own—alerted him. Alarmed him? No, why jump to professional conclusions, he thought, as he made a wide inner stream circuit away from them, across several narrow channels he knew in the widest part of the riverbed. He even forgot about them in his encounter with a rainbow that leaped about five times in a trough of swift water. He thought he might lose the jumper but didn't. He netted him finally, and, walking up to a shallower stretch, he mounted the raised bank and on a margin of bankside cottonwoods he slit and emptied the fish. His rod and creel were on the ground, and he returned to the water to clean the trout and came back up to the bank, and there they were.
They stood, slightly apart from one another, facing him about ten paces away, above him, gazing at him at once curiously and—what, what?—appraisingly. Well-equipped and spiffily outfitted, he was as attractive as the contents of his creel was; they would clean him out, thoroughly. A passing phase of river rats. There they stood, waiting for him.
Nonetheless, he put his last trout into his creel, brushing the spinning reel inside when he did so. Still crouching, looking directly at them now, he nodded.
"Howdy," one of them said.
The other touched his grease-spotted John Deere hat in a half-salute.
They had probably seen him take the big brown female, maybe even her mate before that. Exactly when they had decided to pirate him he didn't know: early on, or braving themselves to it as they walked along and watched him, somewhat later? It made no difference. They stole John Deere parts—maybe whole tractors—and ripped off fisherman as easily as anything. Not a new breed, just an expanding one. He opened his creel perceptibly and put his left hand in the opening, which faced the other two. He knew they'd think, at first, that the gesture of his was involuntary, nervously protective of the catch bulging inside. But he kept his hand there.
"We ain't had no luck," the first man said. He sort of lounged where he stood.
Sure, he thought. His heart began to bruise his ribs, but he held himself preternaturally steady. His mouth was dry. The last of the sun streamed through the cottonwoods in dimming rays. His hand and wrist opened the creel aperture some more, and he felt the spinning reel and grasped it now and pulled it toward the wide mouth of the creel; he did not quite take it out, but laid it cross-wise at the opening, his hand loosely grasping it, half-revealing it, gleaming blackly in the declining light, and half- concealing it. He did not stand up.
"What the hell—"the second one said, taking a step forward but then halting.
"Wha—?" said the first, not moving anymore either.
"And since it won't do to have witnesses, I'll do the both of you." He paused momentarily. "I tell you what—maybe I've got nothing in here at all, maybe I'm bluffing. But if I've got what you think I have in my hand, I'll never pull it out but to use it. I'm so fed up enough with the likes of you"—now he flipped the brake switch, like a safety, so they could just barely hear it—"that I see everywhere these days that I might finish you off anyway, right here. Now who the hell would guess it's me—or anyone in particular?" He moved his bulked left hand out from the creel just perceptively. "Both of you left in a lonesome heap here. Nobody's downstream right now and nobody upstream—you've scouted that. Now, you going to take a chance—or take off?" His covert hand moved again, just a little.
They moved. They didn't look back. They scampered. Maybe he was capable of giving it to them both in the back, they thought.
He stood up. He was lucky that his brake switch, half-broken since May, made a snapping noise lately. His mouth still felt fry, especially in the corners. He pulled on his shoulder creel belt.
He walked through the cottonwoods. They wouldn't circle around and come back after him either. He felt pretty certain.
Actually, he wasn't exactly sure what he felt inside him. Sweet safety, and something extra-exhilarating he allowed to linger.
Three pasture gates and twenty-five minutes later, out by the road where his parked car stood, old man Reynolds, who had given him permission to cross his ranch to the river, was standing by his tractor.
Old man Reynolds half-noticed the conjunction in the judge's reply. "Reached yer limit?" he asked, walking toward him.
"You might say that." Then he hefted and shook his creel a little for Reynolds to appreciate the plumping noise the heavy trout bag made inside.
There was something—again—a mite mysterious in the judge's answer that Hiram Reynolds did not quite get. Anyway, when the judge said, "Come," Reynolds followed him to the hood of the judge's car, where the judge placed and opened his creel wide for Reynolds to see fully.
"Here," the judge said, ferreting out another plastic bag that he kept in the creel and transferring a trout into it for Reynolds.
"Thank-ee," old man Reynolds said and took it and turned back to his tractor.
"You're so right," the judge replied. His emphasis cryptic again.
There was that extra note. Reynolds waited for more, but that was all. "Well, anytime you want," he said sincerely, the tribute beside him not counting. "You have a good day," he said, starting off.
There it was again, old man Reynolds thought.
Jesse Bier grew up in Hoboken, New Jersey, and served in World War II. His most recent novels, The Cannibal and Ocho Rios, were published by Milltowne Press. His new novella "After Dying," is forthcoming. He is professor Emeritus at the University of Montana and continues to write in Missoula, Montana.


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Оторте́н (), оригінальна мансійська назва Лунт-Хуса́п-Сяхи́л () — гора на Північному Уралі, розташована на кордоні Свердловської області з Республікою Комі (Росія). Найвища вершина гірського хребта Поясовий Камінь (1234 м). Популярний об'єкт спортивного туризму.

Етимологія
Гора знаходиться в регіоні проживання мансі. Корінному населенню вона була відома здавна. Оригінальна народна назва вершини Лунт-Хусап-Сяхил або скорочено Лунт-Хусап в дослівному перекладі означає «Гора гусячого гнізда» чи просто «Гусяче гніздо». Її пов'язують з місцевим озером Лундхусаптур, чия назва в перекладі означає «Озеро гусячого гнізда» або «Озеро одинокої гуски». Коріння обох топонімів лежить у давній мансійській легенді, за якою, під час Всесвітнього потопу на озері вижила одна-єдина гуска.
Згідно з іншою версією, мансі побачили у куполі гори схожість із гусячим гніздом.
Серед дослідників трагедії на перевалі Дятлова побутує думка, що назва "Отортен" перекладається як "не ходи туди". Насправді це не відповідає дійсності, оскільки "не ходи туди" мовою мансі звучить як "тув ул мінен".

Росіяни, колонізуючи Північний Урал, дещо змінили звучання етнічних назв. Наприклад, гірничий інженер М. І. Стражевський, який відвідав околиці гори у складі експедиції Е. К. Гофмана в 1847 році, описував місцевий краєвид так: «Прямо на південь від моєї точки спостереження лежить передня частина Потуорн-ньйоля; за ним високо здіймається Мотю-Чахль, а за ним, ще більше прикрашаючи красу гірського краєвиду, височіє Лунт-Хужем-Чахль, зубчастий кам'яний кряж, з якого витікають Лосва і Мотю зі своїми притоками».

Втім, цим спотворення не обмежилось. За кілька кілометрів на північ від Лунт-Хусап-Сяхила лежить менша вершина, яку мансі називали Вот-Тар-тан-Сяхил. З нею пов'язують сюжет мансійської казки про скам'янілого богатиря Отортена (власне Отортен перекладається з мансійської як «гора, що випускає вітри»). В ході картографічних робіт російські дослідники помилково привласнили назву Вот-Тар-тан-Сяхила вершині Лунт-Хусап-Сяхил, одночасно спростивши її звучання до Отортен. Ця помилка усталилась, таким чином, сучасна офіційна назва гори не відповідає історичній мансійській.

Опис
Отортен лежить у центральній частині мерідіанального хребта Поясовий Камінь і є його найвищою точкою. Згідно сучасних метричних даних висота цієї гори становить 1234 м, однак у 1950-х роках її помилково визначали у 1182 м. Сусідні вершини незначно поступаються їй розміром, займаючи приблизно той же висотний діапазон (800—1100 м). Найближча до Отортена вершина — гора Моттьовчахл (1095 м) — височіє за 3 км від нього у напрямку північного сходу. Ще одна відома вершина навколишньої місцевості — гора Холатчахль (також гора Мерців, Солатчахл, 1096 м) — віддалена від Отортена на 14 км у південному напрямку.

Обриси зазначених гір м'які, їхня форма конусоподібна, вершини згладжені, схили відносно пологі, не пересічені глибокими долинами водотоків чи іншими формами ерозійного рельєфу. До висоти 650—700 м Отортен вкриває тайга, вище цієї позначки вона переходить у рідколісся, вершина гори взагалі безліса і вкрита кам'яними розсипами. На вершині багато місць з відслоненнями гірських порід. Крім них характерна риса Отортена — дивовижної форми скелі-останці, яких особливо багато на західному відрозі гори. Вони утворились внаслідок вивітрювання материнської породи і в деяких місцях схожі на вулиці і брами, тому це скупчення іноді називають «кам'яним містом». На південному схилі Отортена на висоті 885 м розташований давній льодовиковий кар, який в ході геологічної історії також набув згладжених обрисів і тепер виглядає як заглибина. Цю виїмку наповнює легендарне озеро Лундхусаптур. З нього бере початок річка Лозьва. Крім цих водойм на Отортені є два струмки: один у лощині над озером, а другий біля підніжжя гори.

Значення
Гора Отортен розташована на крайній півночі Свердловської області, в Івдельському міському окрузі, на кордоні з Республікою Комі. Навколишня місцевість вирізняється вкрай незначною густиною населення, яке складають переважно мансі, що займаються напівкочовим оленярством і мисливством. Промислової чи транспортної інфраструктури поблизу вершини немає.

Гора Отортен із середини XX століття привертає до себе увагу любителів спортивного туризму. Спочатку піднятись на неї було почесно з огляду на відносно значну висоту вершини та, особливо, її віддаленість від осередків цивілізації. З 1950-х років сюди здійснювали багатоденні походи досвідчені мандрівники у складі добре підготованих туристських груп. За сучасною класифікацією Отортен відносять до класу складності 1А, 1Б.

У 1959 році до Отортена вирушила група під проводом І. О. Дятлова. Не діставшись цієї вершини, група у повному складі загинула на горі Холатчахль за таємничих обставин. Це підігріло цікавість до обох вершин, тому в XXI столітті Отортен залишається популярним напрямком туризму, але тепер вже не з міркувань складності, а з точки зору історико-пізнавального туризму. Як правило, Отортен відвідують під проводом мансійських провідників в рамках походів до Холатчахлю, перевалу Дятлова і плато Маньпупуньор. В 2018 році біля підніжжя гори інтернаціональною групою волонтерів облаштовано гірський табір Отортен, який включає модульні будиночки і санітарну зону. Користування обладнанням табору безкоштовне для всіх бажаючих

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Bring your family and friends for a special night at one of the best Italian restaurants in Las Vegas. Sample our appetizers and antipastos while unwinding at our lively wine bar, where you'll enjoy a sophisticated ambiance, an incredible selection Italian cuisine and a superior selection of fine wines.
Athena was great! Food, ambiance. Best cappuccino.
Great food and great service. Also the prices are reasonable.
Decent Italian, nice room and good service. The food is average. My Ceasar salad was dry and on the small side for $9. My entree was linguini with clams. Lots of clams, no grit. White sauce had a good flavor and was savory. My wife had pizza which had a thin crust but a little soggy in the middl and sparse on the edges. With a little tlc it would have been perfect.
Service was not good. I think our server had to many tables.
I would have rated you higher but my Lasagna portion was extremely small (compared to the other dishes) and it was cold...not warm, cold.
Food is always amazing, service is outstanding thanks to Russell. We enjoy dining here a couple times a month.
food was great. service was great. everything was great. what more needs to be said.
Well we sat for at least 10 minutes before we flagged down a manager who ushered a waiter over. Mind you that same waiter made eye contact at least 3 to 4 times and never once asked if we were helped. For the balance of the dinner the waiter who was given our table essentially focused on the other 3 tables she had when we came in. Ignored us almost entirely while making multiple trips to the other tables. Manager tried to make up for it, but frankly service here continues to decline. Food great, service awful.
Great service and awesome food. Definitely will be coming back again.
It was a great experience. We didnt have to wait for anything. We split a ceaser salad, which was very light and a good suggestion by our waitress. Bread was good and a nice surprise. We ordered the baslamic chicken pizza and chicken parm. Both were very good. Pizzas are big enough to share. I also had this lemonchello drink that was very very good!
The problem with this restaurant is not that food is horrible. It's decent not great. The problem is that they haven't changed the menu in a long time and the appetizer choices are very limited and the entree choices could reflect a better selection. The spaghetti with marinara is poor. Almost not fresh/over cooked and the sauce is sour versus flavorful. We have tried the Osso Bucco twice. It is soggy and tough. I don't think it's made fresh. I think it's frozen and microwaved in my opinion. If you can't make it fresh everyday than take it off the menu. There is no room for restaurants to be using frozen food. Everything needs to be cooked to order. I think they need a better head chef or executive chef and more inventiveness and change to the menu. The team doesn't seem excited about what they serve.
Service is generally good. Unfortunately the assistant servers never seem to know which items go to who at the table. That's a lack of commitment to excellence. I don't mean to be tough. I'm just giving an honest assessment and hopefully management will make changes and to help potential diners know what I have experienced.
Outstanding service, everyone was very attentive and friendly!
the food was great. the service was great. wasn't overly noisy for a friday night.
Always wonderful! Love this cute restaurant with excellent, inexpensive, delicious food! Love the servers here too!
Good food and yummy desserts. Ravioli, lasagne, even gluten free pasta, everything tasted good. We tried several desserts...the canoli, pistachio ice cream and lemon something...all were delicious!
This restaurant is over-priced and although we had a great server, the service was very slow. We sat for a long time before they even took our drink order. The comparable Italian restaurant at Boulder Station is 100% better than this one.
everything went well- we reserved for 4 people but 7 people came and the waitress immediately adjusted table arrangements with a smile.
It's kinda pricey for average food. And I was charged twice. The staff were friendly. But should pay better attention.
The food was delicious as usual. We got the $39. special and both meals were spectacular. The service was awesome. Our waitress was fantastic!
Always a fantastic time at Pasta Cucina! The staff are always really pleasant and welcoming, wonderful FRESH food! 10/10 would recommend to anyone looking for a nice Italian dinner.
The stuffed mushrooms were very bitter. In fact we just took one bite. We didn't them. I thought the waiter would have taken them off the bill. When we told the waiter the mushrooms were very bitter. He remarked; well maybe the main course will take the bitterness away. The mushrooms remained on the bill. The waiter also briefed us on the menu specials, as we started to order he said I'll be right back. He returned 10 minutes later. Offered to refill our glasses of water after we were done with our meal.
Pasta Cucina is a great value. The food is expertly prepared for a very reasonable price. There's no turn-over in the staff so the service is very good. Table busing was a little hasty (little training needed here) but overall a great value. Our waiter (Jose) was very much a professional. I'd have no problem bringing family or business guests to this location and feeling like we gave them a dining experience.
they have been running a special for a while, and it's definitely worth a shot. two salads (choice of two kinds), two entrees (choice of three kinds), and two gelatos for desert. $39.
Very nice. Sat outside of bar. The only thing I didn't feel comfortable with was a couples' service dog on the other side of the bar rails. Awkward.
Good food, great service. Reasonable prices.
Great food, great chicken and pasta dishes. Priced very reasonably in a nice setting. A favorite place to visit when in Vegas.
Russell the waiter is very rude. He gets upset when you do not order what he thinks you should order. I think he wants you to order expensive items to increase his tip as he told us not to order off the special menu. Also after the meal he told us how many points were used but did not bring us our receipts.We had to ask him twice before both couples got their respective receipts and you can tell that he was annoyed by this request.. In the future we will ask to not to be served by Russell.
We sat at the bar and our bartender was fabulous! She was very accommodating.
Overall a good experience. Food was good and plentiful - no complaints. The service was also very good. We did have one issue -- the stench of cigarette smoke coming in from the casino. The stench really brought the experience down a notch or so.
We had dinner at Pasta Cucina on New Year's Eve...it was a good experience and we enjoyed the food. We will definitely be back again.
We go every year for New Year's dinner. We also go for our anniversary and Valentine's day. We love the food and service.
Great place to eat with a big or small party. Great food and service.
Pasta Cucina is a nicely decorated restaurant with a warm and up-scale atmosphere. The menu provides diners with a wide array of choices. The staff is very courteous. We were seated and served promptly. The dinner itself was very tasty and satisfying. Even though the location is open to the casino there was a sense of privacy. We have dined at Pasta Cucina on may occasions always feeling positive about the experience.
Food was great as always, we will definitely be back!
Aside from feeling unwelcomed by the host, I definitely like the atmosphere and food of Pasta Cucina. I suggest making an open table reservation as there are times when this restaurant is busy and waits can tend to be a little long. They have an extensive list of wines although I don't drink and prefer water. I've tried the Lasagna and Penne so far and am always satisfied. Like any other Italian restaurant, portions are large and can most times feed two people with one dish.


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The Starting 5: Baylor Bears long and talented but not deep
By Matthew Postins
Between now and the beginning of conference action in Big 12 men's basketball, HeartlandCollegeSports.com contributor Matthew Postins will watch at least one game for each Big 12 team and assess where each team stands in the final weeks before league action. Today it's the Baylor Bears.
That 1-3-1 trap is going to be trouble
Or it can be a 1-1-3, depending upon how head coach Scott Drew wants to configure it. While the Big 12 teams I've watched to this point rely heavily on man-to-man defense, Baylor remains primarily a zone team in the halfcourt, with some man mixed in. What will make this year's edition difficult is the utter height of its frontcourt. Against Texas Southern Drew started 7-foot forward Jo Lual-Acuil Jr., 6-foot-9 forward Nuni Omot and 6-foot-9 forward Tristan Clark. To start the game Drew went with Omot in the middle of the zone and Lual-Acuil up top. Good luck trying to make a skip pass against these two, long-armed athletic giants. The athleticism of these three players gives Drew plenty of options to configure his favorite zone defense to combat the many offensive weapons in the Big 12 Conference.
Depth could be an issue for these Bears
To this point just seven Baylor players are logging 20 or more minutes a game and one of them is hurt. That's forward Terry Maston, one of the real "glue guys" for this Bears team. His injured hand is expected to keep him out of the lineup until January. Leonard Allen, a 7-foot sophomore who enrolled in August, is on medical leave. Add to that list Mario Kegler and Freddie Gillespie, two transfers who are on redshirt, and Drew has four of his 14 rostered players not playing basketball. Baylor had only six scholarship players available in their game against Randall and Maston is the only reinforcement coming. Drew is managing the roster well in non-conference, but when Big 12 play begins one can expect the bench to get shorter. Is there enough quality depth to make it work?
Nuni Omot's emergence comes at a great time
One of the nice surprises thus far has been the impact of Omot, who came to Baylor last season after a well-traveled career that took him to Division II Concordia-St. Paul and then Indian Hills Community College in Ottuma, Iowa. Last year he came off the bench for Baylor and averaged four points per game. Thus far he's the Bears' third-leading scorer at 12.3 points per game. He has a solid dribble-drive to the basket and is an above-average 3-point shooter (43.5 percent on the season). He's also not a player you want to put on the free throw line, where he's shooting 87.5 percent. Maston's absence has allowed Omot to grow into the role of a featured performer and those additional minutes should pay off in Big 12 play.
Manu Lecomte is a player worth keeping up with this season
Between his time at Miami (FL) and Baylor he may be the Big 12's most seasoned point guard and he runs a solid game on both sides of the floor. What he has that some other points don't have is an above-average 3-point shot (he's hitting 43.9 percent of the time this season) and it forces opponents to defend just a bit differently, especially when Lecomte doesn't have the ball in his hands. Defenses can't sag and help off the point guard when the ball is out of Lecomte's hands the way they can with point guards with lesser shots. He's quick enough to defend the opponent's top ball handler, but Drew will probably look to Lecomte to expand his assist-to-turnover ratio entering Big 12 play (right now it's just 2-to-1). His game is impressive and the Bears can lean on his experience in big games with teams like Kansas, West Virginia and Oklahoma, all teams that play consistent and intense man-to-man in the halfcourt.
Was the schedule hard enough to prepare Baylor for Big 12 play?
That might be a dumb question, considering Baylor's track record at this point. But let's explore it. Baylor's toughest stretch in non-conference was a four-game slate with Wisconsin, Creighton, Xavier and Wichita State in late November and early December. The rest of the schedule featured games that would be best described as happy meals games and Baylor dominated, as one might expect. Baylor's start to Big 12 action is brutal. The Bears open with Texas Tech — now a Top 25 team — followed by TCU, Texas, West Virginia, Iowa State, Oklahoma State and Kansas. That might be the toughest seven-game stretch to start Big 12 action. Baylor could master it or it could falter a bit. Many of those teams use transition-reliant game plans, stiff man-to-man defense and have reliable 3-point threats. Is Baylor up to it talent-wise? Absolutely. Do they have the depth to manage it? That's the question I have at this point.
Drew doesn't get enough credit for the rebuild on this program. It was a disaster when he inherited it. I remember going to a Baylor-North Texas game in Denton in Drew's first season and, well, he didn't have much to work with. No one wanted that job after Dave Bliss. Now the Bears are a consistent winner and a consistent NCAA Tournament team. That shouldn't change this year, but they need Maston back in the lineup ASAP after the calendar turns to January and they cannot afford any other major injuries as they try to navigate one of the deepest Big 12 Conferences I've seen in quite some time.
Next: Pete Mundo will tackle Kansas State, while I check in with TCU and Texas Tech.
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COVID-19 Hospital Preparedness Program
The North Carolina Healthcare Foundation (NCHF) received a second round of funding from the US Department of Health and Human Services, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) under the COVID-19 Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) and is now seeking requests for proposals (RFP) from interested North Carolina non-profit and for-profit hospitals. This funding is intended to support the urgent preparedness and response needs of hospitals, health systems, and health care workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 outbreak.
NCHF will use an RFP solicitation process to assess new and ongoing needs to determine where these funds can have the greatest impact. Given North Carolina's diverse population and the health disparities that have been exacerbated during the current pandemic, NCHF seeks to provide funding to programs and activities that have the greatest potential to address these disparities.
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Grant Activities
Update existing pandemic or emergency preparedness plans to include COVID-19 preparedness activities, such as approaches for the assessment, transport, and treatment of persons suspected or confirmed to have COVID-19.
Update the existing patient transport plan to include an approach that allows for intra- and inter-state transport of potential or confirmed COVID-19 patients, as necessary.
Purchase PPE per CDC guidelines and with attention to supply chain shortages, and share, in real-time, situational awareness regarding PPE models/types and supply levels with their health care coalitions (HCCs) and state or jurisdiction public health department.
Provide training of staff, specifically focusing on health care worker safety when caring for a COVID-19 patient (e.g., PPE donning/doffing, rapid identification and isolation of a patient, safe treatment protocols, and the integration of behavioral health support) and early recognition, isolation, and activation of the facility's updated pandemic or other emergency preparedness plan.
Examine physical infrastructure needs, which may include minor retrofitting and alteration of inpatient care areas for enhanced infection control (e.g., donning/doffing rooms).
Reconfigure patient flow in emergency departments to provide isolation capacity for PUIs for COVID-19 and other potentially infectious patients.
Consider alternative or innovative models to reconfigure patient flow or transition to inpatient care, as necessary, such as leveraging alternative care sites (e.g., ambulatory surgical centers) or telemedicine to ensure all patients reach care.
Identify alternate care sites (on facility grounds or within close proximity) and additional sites (offsite) for sub-acute care patients to increase capacity.
Plan and implement expanded telemedicine, telehealth, or other virtual health capabilities to ensure that appropriate care can be provided to individuals in their homes or residential facilities when social distancing measures are used to reduce virus transmission and that specialty care providers can provide consultation remotely.
Train health care workers on how to leverage telemedicine and telehealth to deliver care or how to incorporate telemedicine into daily workflows.
Provide training and technical support, as necessary, to EMS agencies and 9-1-1/Public Safety Answering Points on screening 911 callers to direct non-acute patients to the appropriate care setting and to implement evolving protocols related to the dispatch of EMS for COVID-19 suspected patients, and EMS response in general.
Ensure the capability to maintain continuity of operations, leveraging alternative or innovative models, such as alternative care sites or telemedicine to support other critical operations.
Create alternate care sites (e.g., temporary structures, etc.) to provide surge capacity for patient care, or increase the numbers of patient care beds at a facility.
Consider including a focus on individuals at risk for high morbidity and mortality from COVID-19 in the development and execution of activities described above, including collaborating with health care facilities that directly serve these individuals such as long term residential and home health care. The CDC has developed evolving guidance to define at-risk individuals for high morbidity and mortality from COVID-19, which can be found here.
Fund Eligibility
All North Carolina non-profit and for-profit hospitals are eligible to apply. VA and military hospitals are not eligible. Funding can be used to support efforts in non-hospital settings, but the applicant must be a hospital. All applicants must have a Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number and an active System for Award Management (SAM) registration. SAM is the federal repository into which an entity must provide information to do business with the federal government.
Apply for Funds
The application period ended on October 30, 2020.
For questions related to this grant opportunity, send an email to covidhpp@ncha.org.
Fund Distributions To Date
An initial round of grant sub-awards was made in early May 2020, directed at supporting and strengthening the preparedness capabilities of NC's 20 Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) and other small and rural hospitals under 50 beds (using the federal SHIP grant eligibility criteria).
In early December, an external grant selection committee awarded $2.78 million to 21 hospitals and health systems. This funding will support the ongoing efforts of hospitals to serve their communities while also strengthening their ability to protect patients and staff.
Congratulations to the following awardees!
Alleghany Memorial Hospital
Appalachian Regional Healthcare System
Ashe Memorial Hospital
Atrium Health, Division of Emergency Management
Brynn Marr Hospital
Catawba Valley Medical Center
Cone Health
Erlanger Western Carolina Hospital
Forsyth Medical Center Foundation
Granville Health System
Pardee Hospital Foundation
Sampson Regional Medical Center
Southeastern Health
St. Luke's Hospital
University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Foundation
WakeMed Health and Hospitals
NCHA Staff Contact
Dean Higgins
North Carolina Healthcare Foundation
dhiggins@ncha.org
Tatyana Kelly, CHC
VP, Planning/Strategy & Member Services
tkelly@ncha.org
Erika Sands
esands@ncha.org


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Another Creationist Exhibit Plans Northern Kentucky Home
By the Editor on August 27, 2012 in Around_the_Web
If the dream of a New Jersey group comes to life, another creationist attraction will locate in Northern Kentucky. Founders of the Creation Science Hall of Fame, which now exists only as a website, would like to build a brick-and mortar structure along Interstate 75. The group will consider vacant land and the renovation of an existing site.
The Creation Science Hall of Fame was developed as a website in 2009 and is devoted to sharing the beliefs of creationism. It includes a directory of living and deceased inductees and a brief profile of each. The section dedicated to deceased inductees begins with the Renaissance period. The list includes Leonardo da Vinci, Sir Isaac Newton, Samuel F.B. Morse, Louis Pasteur and George Washington Carver. Living inductees include Ken Ham, founder of Answers in Genesis and the Creation Museum. The museum will focus on biographical exhibits featuring individuals rather than historical artifacts.
Tags:BIG Problems, BIG Questions, Culture, God-Universe, Survival & Reproduction, Tribalism & Religion, Values & Virtues