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California vows immediate inspections of facilities housing children separated from parents
David and Margaret Youth & Family Services facility in La Verne is one of three where 100 or so kids that were separated at the border from parents are reportedly being housed. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
By Paloma Esquivel,
Esmeralda Bermudez, Nina Agrawal
June 23, 2018 10:45 AM PT
California regulators said Saturday they will immediately begin inspections at facilities where scores of immigrant children who were separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border under a Trump administration crackdown are being held.
Michael Weston, a spokesman for the Department of Social Services, said Saturday that state officials were reinspecting facilities run by groups that have federal contracts to house unaccompanied children. The inspections were underway on Saturday, and were initially focusing on providers that work with the youngest children, he said.
Several facilities in Southern California are now housing children, including the David & Margaret Youth and Family Services in La Verne, Crittenton Services for Children and Families in Fullerton as well as Nuevo Amanecer Latino Children's Services and International Christian Adoptions, which place children in foster homes.
Most of the kids in the L.A. area are under 9. They are reportedly being housed in facilities and foster homes run by at least four nonprofit agencies.
Officials with the Office of Refugee Resettlement, the federal agency charged with managing the children, did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
According to federal contracting data, three of the agencies have been awarded three-year federal grants that will pay them $2.7 million to $22 million to shelter and find foster care for unaccompanied minors.
It remains unclear how long the children will be at the facilities.
The process of reunifying families that have been separated at the border could take months, federal officials said Friday. Lawyers, advocates and lawmakers said the path ahead remained murky and chaotic, and the Trump administration failed again to provide clear direction on how to resolve the issue.
Federal officials say about 2,300 children have been detained apart from their parents since May, when the administration began holding many adults who had crossed the border illegally and charging them with misdemeanors, rather than allowing them go free while awaiting asylum hearings — a process President Trump has derided as "catch and release."
On Wednesday, Trump signed an executive order intended to halt the separation of parents and children by instead detaining families together. Since then, his administration has struggled to articulate a plan to put the families back together or determine what effect doing so would have on enforcement, given the limited bed space for families.
On Friday, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said he was trying to get information about the kids in his city.
His office said he knows about the facilities housing them and is monitoring the situation. He has requested details from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, but the agency has not yet responded, his office said.
Meanwhile, Garcetti said he was working to find ways to support the kids, through donations and community outreach.
"The biggest gap, if the federal government would take us up on this, is matching … kids and parents," Garcetti said. "I don't see any system for that right now."
Paloma Esquivel
Paloma Esquivel is an education reporter for the Los Angeles Times. She was on the team that won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for public service for investigating corruption in the city of Bell and the team that won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news for coverage of the San Bernardino terror attack. Prior to joining The Times in 2007, she was a freelance writer, worked in Spanish-language radio and was an occasional substitute teacher. A Southern California native, she graduated from UC Berkeley and has a master's in journalism from Syracuse University.
Esmeralda Bermudez
Esmeralda Bermudez writes narrative stories about the lives of Latinos for the Los Angeles Times. She was born in El Salvador, raised in the Los Angeles area and graduated from USC.
Nina Agrawal
Nina Agrawal is a former staff writer for the Los Angeles Times. She previously reported for WLRN-Miami Herald News and for the Latin American affairs magazine Americas Quarterly. A Southern California native, Agrawal is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and School of International and Public Affairs.


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Why Del Monte grows pineapple in Thika and why it doesn't take any grown by smallholders
October 2, 2015 Why Del Monte grows pineapple in Thika and why it doesn't take any grown by smallholders2015-10-02T07:42:58+00:00 # 𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠, Fruits, Pineapple farming 3 Comments
Ever wondered by Del Monte grows pineapple in Thika and why it doesn't take any grown by smallholders?
The story goes many years when some pioneer farmer first grew some pineapples in Karimoni, Thika in 1920s and they thrived well. An earlier attempt to plant them near Nairobi had flopped.
But it was not until 1949 that a company was established in Thika by two businessmen to supply fresh fruits to Nairobi and other settler-dominated towns. The demand grew fast and this company was taken over by Tancot group which established Kenya Canners company as a thriving enterprise in Thika.
Kenya Canners was to can the fruits and was to rely on smallholder schemes to supply the fruits for canning and export. The small holders were paid 15 dollars per tonne which would translate to Sh1,560 at the current rate.
As the factory and demand expanded, more farmers got interested in growing a cash crop. The company worked with the colonial government in recruiting more farmers especially in Gatundu, Kiambu.
As expected, the company could not handle the crop and by Independence in 1963 its owners had no capital to expand. The new Jomo Kenyatta government started looking for a company that would manage the pineapple industry and in 1964 they reached out to Del Monte, a US company that was growing pineapples in Hawaii.
Del Monte had faced some restive workforce in Hawaii and wanted to expand to Africa where there was cheap labour. They also wanted to grow pineapples in a plantation.
In order to agree to invest in Kenya, Del Monte wanted some land to lease. That is how the government took over a sisal farm known as Anglo-French Sisal and handed it over to Del Monte in 1965 which pays an annual rent. The government also issued a regulation restricting pineapple planting to those licensed by the Canning Crops Board.
Two years later, pineapple was designated a special crop which gave the ministry powers to manage its growing and marketing.
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Under the new agreement, Kenya Canners was to be managed to Del Monte and it was to grow its own crop. It was to also take supplies from local farmers. But in 1968, it decided to stop buying from locals and that it should have a monopoly. The company argued that smallholder production was not meeting international standards.
The government did not intervene and it was more concerned with growing the export market and diversifying from tea and coffee.
Kenya Canners named was later dropped to Del Monte Kenya. In 2002, Cirio Alimentare acquired a 98% stake in the company, and following this the company changed its name to Cirio Del Monte Kenya Limited.
That is how Cirio Del Monte Kenya Limited became one of the largest pineapple exporters and why locals still have no factory to take their fruits.
The company produces canned solid pineapple, juice concentrates, mill juice sugar and cattle feed. Actually, Kenya's largest single manufactured export is canned pineapple, and the country ranks among the top five pineapple exporters in the world, both of which feats are direct results of the company's existence and operations.
In 2011 the company's annual revenue was estimated at $4.5 billion Kenyan shillings and its processing
Del Monte harvests only the first ratoon to avoid poor quality. The offcuts obtained during harvesting are then replanted. Because of the scanty rainfall in the area, Del Monte irrigates the crop to stabilize production. The firm relies heavily on imported fertilizers, fumigants, pesticides and hormones to achieve high yields and faster maturation.
READ ALSO: A simple guide to spinach farming in Kenya
Del Monte, pineapple
Kenyan pineapple farmers at a good position to fill the international pineapple deficit
3 Comments Already
suleiman mwayaga suleiman - November 24th, 2015 at 1:50 pm none Comment author #95 on Why Del Monte grows pineapple in Thika and why it doesn't take any grown by smallholders by Farmers Trend
hey admin am interested in pineapple farming can pineapples do well in coast regions of kenya
Andrew Mbogholi - December 11th, 2015 at 1:54 pm none Comment author #96 on Why Del Monte grows pineapple in Thika and why it doesn't take any grown by smallholders by Farmers Trend
Sule, they sure will do well as climate is ok…just worry on water and soil type (depending on what part of Coast).
James Rege Osongo - April 27th, 2016 at 10:12 am none Comment author #97 on Why Del Monte grows pineapple in Thika and why it doesn't take any grown by smallholders by Farmers Trend
Pineapple is a crop plant with noble attributes and novel genetic traits that make it a valuable solution to common abiotic and biotic stresses on agriculture in Kenya.
Being a molecular biologist with deep interest in gene manipulation for a better exploitation of both factors of production and production factors,I would recommend for a participatory strategy regarding crop improvement for increased yield and decreased poverty indices, respectively.
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using FLS.Data.WebApi.Resources;
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
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Last week I did really well with our meal plan. There was only one meal that I didn't make and had something completely different. That was because we enjoyed the sunshine and had a BBQ instead!
The pulled pork last week was a huge success. I didn't get round to making the pork lasagne thanks to a lack of time and a clingy toddler but we did have a lovely pulled pork pasta dish. Out of the one piece of pork I came up with 3 Pulled Pork Meals .
This week I have one less meal to plan as the hubby is taking me to the Cake and Bake show in Manchester *squeals excitedly* on Friday so I think that we are going to finish our day out with a take away.
We have just completed the last week of the Guardians Live Better Challenge for food waste and I can honestly say that we have reduced the amount of food that we are throwing away which is great! We have got into the habit now of not throwing foods straight away, we are now looking and thinking of how we could use them before binning! This next month the focus is on energy consumption. With the amount of baking that I do this really will be a challenge!
This week I am planning to cook 2 vegetarian meals, that is if the hubby and Joseph do not moan! I am wanting to do this for a couple of reasons but mainly to get some more goodness inside all of us. But also I have been feeling a bit bloated this last week so it'll also help to loose a few pounds in time for summer! I do enjoy vegetarian food so it will make a nice change.
After the weekend I always like to have a light meals at the beginning of the week. I make a bolognese sauce and bake with a cheese topping.
This is a new dish for us. I have got some root vegetables (carrots, swede, parsnips) in the fridge so I think that I am going to chop them up and cook in some vegetable stock and use pearl barley instead of arborio rice.
As hubby and Joseph enjoyed sausages so much last week, I will be cooking them again. Also, if truth be known, I bought two different varieties of sausage last time I went to the market to try. So this week we will be trying the pork and black pudding variety.
I will be making this on Thursday and will be using up any used vegetables that may be in the fridge before I get my fresh delivery of vegetables on Friday. I am going to layer the sweet potato with the other vegetables and bake in a cheese and mustard sauce.
This week on Saturday I am planning to make some homemade pizzas for our family night.
One of my favourite, low cost pieces of meat is a shoulder of pork.
On our last trip to the local market to stock up on meat I bought a shoulder of pork that weighed about 3.5kg for a budgeting £12! The butcher cut the joint into three equal pieces.
The best thing about pulled pork is the amount of meat that you actually get.
From one piece weighing between 1kg and 1.5kg we have enough meat for 2 days worth of meals.
This week for my Cheap Budget Meal recipe I am going to show you what I did this week with our pulled pork.
Serve with boiled potatoes and the homemade coleslaw.
I made this meal for £6.07 and had enough meat leftover for the following day!
You have got two options on how to serve.
You can either serve the pulled pork sauce on top of a bed of pasta.
Mix the pulled pork sauce with the pasta, place in an oven proof dish, cover with grated cheese and have as a pasta bake.
The extra ingredients for the second days meal only cost £1.71.
In total, for two days meals, it cost me £7.78. We got 6 adult sized portions and the twins had 3 meals each!
That's a budgeting 86p per portion!
Leftovers can be used to make a new dish. Enjoying leftovers more often reduces food waste and saves you money!
I am sharing this post with Cold Tea and Smelly Nappies Thrifty Thursday check out some great money saving tips!


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Pedestrian fatally struck by train at Malton GO station
December 31, 2021, 9:18 p.m.
Peel police are investigating after a pedestrian was fatally struck by a train at the Malton GO station Friday night. (James Morrison-Collalto/CBC - image credit)
Police are investigating after a pedestrian was fatally struck by a train at the Malton GO station in Mississauga.
Peel police responded to a call just after 7 p.m. at the station. The tracks have been temporarily closed as police investigate.
GO Transit confirmed the death in a tweet via its Kitchener Train account.
"Fatality investigation east of Malton GO still ongoing," it wrote. "Emergency workers on site and GO train will not be able to move through the area until given permission."
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador is reporting one new death as a result of COVID-19. In a tweet today, health officials say a woman over 70 years of age has died in the Eastern Health region which includes St. John's. The death is the 26th in the province since the onset of the pandemic. A total of 12 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19. Officials reported 384 new infections Sunday, including 272 in the Eastern Health region, 54 in Central Health, 43 in Western Health and
Top news stories today | January 16th – Midday
Health unit revokes order pausing arrival of temporary foreign workers over COVID-19
WINDSOR, Ont. — Health officials in the Windsor, Ont., region have revoked an order that halted the arrival of temporary foreign workers for several weeks due to concerns about COVID-19 outbreaks in the agricultural sector. The notice issued Tuesday told employers to cancel or postpone the arrival of temporary foreign workers until at least Feb. 2. It warned that those who fail to comply with the order could face charges or fines. On Friday, the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit rescinded the ord
How the flouting of COVID-19 restrictions by leaders damages credibility and trust
It's a form of déjà vu for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and it involves government staffers, pandemic-era social gatherings and subsequent apologies. Johnson offered one such apology this past Wednesday for attending a BYOB garden party in May 2020 involving dozens of Downing Street staff, held in contravention of COVID-19 restrictions that Britons were supposed to be following at the time. He acknowledged public "rage" over the fact that "the rules are not being properly followed by th


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Albert Pujols' quote after 700th HR shows how much Dodgers mean to him
By Thomas Carannante
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 23: Albert Pujols #5 of the St. Louis Cardinals waves to fans during a ceremony in his honor and Yadier Molina's before the game against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium on September 23, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images) /
It turns out that St. Louis Cardinals fans owe the Los Angeles Dodgers a big "thank you" when the 2022 season concludes. And no, it (hopefully) won't be because LA once again faltered against the Cards in a playoff series.
This pertains to Albert Pujols, who slugged his No. 699 and 700 home runs at Dodger Stadium on Friday to etch his name deeper into baseball history. The love he received from the home crowd and his words in the postgame really describe how meaningful this relationship was in 2021, when Pujols was with the Dodgers for 85 games.
There's no denying, from a statistical standpoint, that Pujols had a sort of a Baseball Renaissance when he latched on with the Dodgers after being released by the Angels. Pujols, in part-time duty, slashed .254/.299/.460 with 20 runs scored, 12 homers and 38 RBI while mashing against lefties. He provided leadership in the clubhouse and was reinvigorated as a member of a winning team.
If you don't believe the numbers, that's fine. But you simply have to believe what came out of Pujols' mouth after Friday's series of events. He paid respect to the crowd at Dodger Stadium and revealed how much of an impact his stint with the team had on his career.
If not for LA scooping him up and giving him a meaningful role, who knows what his 2022 would've looked like. Would he have even returned?
"To be able to do it here at Dodger Stadium, where my joy for the game came back, was pretty special." - #AlbertPujols pic.twitter.com/E7ZkUVYQIH
— Matthew Moreno (@MMoreno1015) September 24, 2022
Albert Pujols shares how the Dodgers changed his career for the better
"Where my joy for the game came back!" What more needs to be said?! Turns out just about everyone withering away with the Angels (except for Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani) has an adverse effect on countless talented MLB players.
Pujols was never quite the same after signing with the other LA team (only one All-Star season in a decade) and was really starting to fall off in a sad way since the start of the 2017 campaign. Perhaps that's what happens when your team finishes at the bottom of the division (which isn't very good!) more times than not.
Then, all of a sudden, a tight NL West race and playoff berth helped inspire Pujols and brought forth his unforgettable 2022 season, where he's batted .264 with an .860 OPS, 145 OPS+ 21 home runs and 58 RBI across 103 games.
Nice roar from the Dodger Stadium crowd as Albert Pujols emerges onto the on-deck circle for what might be his final at-bat in this ballpark.
— Fabian Ardaya (@FabianArdaya) September 25, 2022
He's not done yet, either! Just six more RBI over the final two weeks of the season and he'll be tied with Babe Ruth for second on the all-time list. Twelve of those historic home runs and 38 of those historic RBI came with the Dodgers, too.
Just documenting this for everyone out there counting.
Dave Roberts' double reaction to Albert Pujols' 700th HR was every Dodgers fan
Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts watched Albert Pujols' historic 700th home run from the dugout and ... pretty much nailed the reaction.


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Groundbreaking Ceremony Marks Progress for Frederick Towne Mall Redevelopment
April 19, 2016 / Octavo Designs / Uncategorized
By Nancy Lavin, Frederick News-Post
The small scoops of overturned dirt outside the Frederick Towne Mall were barely noticeable to passersby.
But to the mix of elected officials, community leaders and developers who donned hard hats and picked up shovels on Saturday, the groundbreaking represented the first tangible sign of progress toward reviving the long-vacant site.
The project to demolish the former mall at 1301 W. Patrick St. and redevelop the space as a four-building shopping center complete with a 155,000-square-foot Wal-Mart has been in the works for several years. Until Saturday, though, the outward appearance has remained unchanged, fueling public perception that the redevelopment was stalled or had fallen through entirely.
"Until recently, they really hadn't had anything to see," said Justin Kiska, president of the Golden Mile Alliance. "I think this proves that things are really happening now on the Golden Mile and at the Frederick Towne Mall."
Kiska was one of several local leaders who spoke at the groundbreaking ceremony before a crowd of roughly two dozen people. Others, including Frederick Mayor Randy McClement and representatives from the project developer DLC Management Corp. and property owner Rockwood Capital, shared similar words of praise for the significance of the event.
Richard Griffin, city economic development director, pointed to the additional 500,000 square feet of retail development the project will bring — on top of the 1,600,000 square feet existing on the Golden Mile — as evidence of the continued success of the area's redevelopment.
"Out here on the Golden Mile, it's a really amazing retail story," Griffin said.
The new Wal-Mart and additional 16 retail shops planned as part of the four-building Frederick Towne Center project will create additional incentive for businesses and customers to come to west Frederick, McClement added.
The project has faced several delays since receiving the go-ahead from the city Planning Commission in 2014. The proposal required a series of state approvals and permits, as well as modifications to the complex heating and cooling system to ensure that Boscov's, which will become part of the new development, can remain open during the demolition and new construction.
Dave Severn, an attorney representing Rockwood Capital, acknowledged that the road to approval had been long and arduous, paved with "an extraordinary series of obstacles."
A few remaining state permits, most notably from the Maryland State Highway Administration, are still pending, but Severn said he hoped to receive final approval within the next month.
The timeline for demolition and new construction will be largely dependent on when those final details are ironed out. Severn said work on the HVAC system would start "fairly soon," followed by demolition within the next six months.
The demolition and new construction will take about 12 to 16 months, with the 16 retail pad sites slated to open by December 2017, Severn said.
As of Saturday, the 40,000-square-foot shopping center that is part of the project had no confirmed tenants, according to Adam Greenberg, the mid-Atlantic director of leasing for DLC Management Corp. However, Greenberg said the company was in negotiations based on letters of intent with at least 10 potential tenants.
He said he anticipated finalizing leases within the next few months.
The project also includes two smaller buildings anticipated to become restaurant sites. Greenberg could not comment on the status of those buildings because his company is not handling those leases.
The project will also include a mixed-use path and park space along Rock Creek on the site's northern edge, according to site plans approved by the city. Other improvements include walking paths, a sheltered bus stop, landscaping and connections to adjacent roads and sidewalks.


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Violette Szabo
SZABO, Violette, G.C. (1921-1945)
Plaque erected in 1981 by Greater London Council at 18 Burnley Road, Stockwell, London, SW9 0SJ, London Borough of Lambeth
VIOLETTE SZABO. G.C. 1921-1945 Secret Agent lived here SHE GAVE HER LIFE FOR THE FRENCH RESISTANCE
Secret agent Violette Szabo was the first British woman to be awarded the George Cross. As her blue plaque at 18 Burnley Road in Stockwell records, she gave her life for the French Resistance.
Special operations officer Violette Szabo was posthumously awarded the George Cross for her bravery in occupied France where, under interrogation, she revealed nothing to the enemy © Imperial War Museums (HU 16541)
Born in Paris to an English father, Charles George Bushell, and a French mother, Reine Leroy, Violette moved to 18 Burnley Road with her family in 1935 and attended the London County Council school in Stockwell Road. The Bushells' home consisted of the basement, ground floor and one room on the first floor of the house. When the war came, she was still living at number 18 and was working in the perfume department of the Bon Marché store in Brixton, but her ordinary life was soon transformed.
In 1940 Violette met and married a French officer of Hungarian parentage – Étienne Szabo – who almost immediately joined the Free French forces in north Africa. She continued living with her parents until early 1942, when she moved to a flat at 36 Pembridge Villas in Notting Hill, which was to be her last home. Her daughter Tania was born in June 1942.
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Following her husband's death in action in October of that year, Szabo – described by her father as 'always the tomboy ready for excitement and adventure' – joined the French section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE).
Known as a crack shot, and for her striking good looks, she was sent into occupied France twice: first in April 1944 and for the second and final time two months later, when, shortly after her arrival, Szabo was captured by the Germans. After months of captivity – and refusing to speak under interrogation – she was executed along with two SOE colleagues at Ravensbrück concentration camp.
Szabo was awarded the George Cross posthumously and the award was presented to her infant daughter in 1946. Her story reached a wider audience with the 1958 film Carve Her Name with Pride, which featured several scenes filmed in Burnley Road.
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Q: Copying over information from parent object into child object So I have a parent entity Producer and its child ProducerNS.
ProducerNS inherited all the properties of Producer and an additional field, lets call that anyColumn
I have an object Producer and I want to copy over the object into ProducerNS like so,
Producer producer = getproducer();
ProducerNS producerns = producer;
producerns.anyColumn = 'hellobunnies';

However, I know the above syntax is incorrect. Can I transfer over all the properties without doing so individually? (Producer has a lot of fields) If so, how?

A: You want to do a deep copy of your producer object into your producerns object.
Have a look here for ideas for doing a deep copy in c#, keep in mind that your subclass obviously has your additional property which you will need to take into consideration: How do you do a deep copy of an object in .NET (C# specifically)?
here is a post specifically for subclass copying: How to "clone" an object into a subclass object?
Another option would be to use reflection to get a list of properties from your producer object and use the values of each property in your producerns object. This could be done in a simple foreach loop

A: The best way to achieve what you want without manually implementing copy constructor is to have your getproducer() function to become generic:
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Reading: 1970 British Cohort Study
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1970 British Cohort Study
Matt Brown
Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education
The 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) is one of Britain's world famous national longitudinal birth cohort studies, three of which are run by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies at the Institute of Education, University of London.
BCS70 follows the lives of more than 17,000 people born in England, Scotland and Wales in a single week of 1970. Over the course of cohort members lives, the BCS70 has collected information on health, physical, educational and social development, and economic circumstances among other factors.
Since the birth survey in 1970, there have been nine 'sweeps' of all cohort members at ages 5, 10, 16, 26, 30, 34, 38 and most recently at 42.
Data has been collected from a number of different sources (the midwife present at birth, parents of the cohort members, head and class teachers, school health service personnel and the cohort members themselves). The data has been collected in a variety of ways including via paper and electronic questionnaires, clinical records, medical examinations, physical measurements, tests of ability, educational assessments and diaries.
The majority of BCS70 survey data can be accessed by bona fide researchers through the UK Data Service at the University of Essex.
How to Cite: Brown, M., 2014. 1970 British Cohort Study. Open Health Data, 2(1), p.e6. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/ohd.al
(1) Overview
The 1970 British Birth Cohort Study (BCS70) is an ongoing, multidisciplinary, longitudinal study. It takes as its subjects all those currently living in England, Scotland, and Wales who were born in a single week of 1970.
BCS70 began as the British Births Survey, when information was collected about the births and social circumstances of over 17 000 babies born in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The study aimed to examine the social and biological characteristics of the mother in relation to neonatal morbidity. Sub-studies were carried out at 22 months and 42 months as part of a project known as the British Births Child Study, 1972-73. This was designed to explore the effects of foetal malnutrition on the development of the child (Chamberlain & Davey 1975, 1976; Chamberlain & Simpson 1977, 1979).
Since 1970 there have been nine further attempts to gather information from the whole cohort. With each successive attempt, the scope of enquiry has broadened from a strictly medical focus at birth, to encompass physical and educational development at the age of five, physical, educational and social development at the ages of ten and sixteen. In adult sweeps at ages 26, 30, 34, 38 and most recently at 42 the study has focused on the factors central to the formation of adult identity in each of the following domains of life: lifelong learning; relationships, parenting and housing; employment and income; health and health behaviour; citizenship and values.
The information collected forms a high quality data resource for scientific investigations across a full range of domains of individuals' lives and across different points in time in them.
Health information collected by the study is summarised below:
Information from childhood sweeps: Birth circumstances, birth weight, breastfeeding, general health, child development, specific conditions, disabilities/ special needs, hospital admissions, immunisation, medication, accidents, menstruation, diet, eating problems, exercise, sexual activity, smoking, drink and drugs, behavioural problems, mental health, well-being, personality, locus of control, self-esteem, social judgement, sleeping problems, medical assessments (height, weight, head circumference, audiometry, speech, co-ordination, blood pressure/pulse, vision), cognitive assessments, parental health, parental smoking, parental drinking.
Information from adult sweeps: General health, specific conditions, disability/limitations, menopause, weight, accidents, mental health, well-being, sleep, smoking, alcohol, drug use, diet, exercise, sedentary behaviour, cognition.
Description: The 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) follows the lives of more than 17,000 people born in England, Scotland and Wales in a single week of 1970.
BCS70 began as the British Births Survey, in 1970. BCS70 has followed participants throughout childhood into adulthood and aims to continue to track their lives right through to the end.
(2) Methods
Since the birth survey there have been nine sweeps of the study at age 5 (1975), age 10 (1980), 16 (1986), 26 (1996) 30 (2000), 34 (2004), 38 (2008) and 42 (2012).
The birth survey involved the use of questionnaires completed by the midwife present at the birth of the study members. In addition, information was extracted from clinical records.
At age 5 and age 10 parents of the children in the study were interviewed by health visitors, and information was gathered from the child's class teacher and head teacher, from the school health service, and from the children themselves via means of questionnaires and assessments.
The age 16 follow-up comprised 16 separate survey instruments, including parental questionnaires, class teacher and head teacher questionnaires, and medical examinations. In addition to completing educational assessments, the cohort members themselves answered questionnaires on a wide range of different topics and were asked to keep two 4 day diaries, one on nutrition and one on general activity.
The age 26 follow-up took the form of a postal survey. Further follow-ups occurred at ages 30, 34, 38 and 42. These all involved computer aided interviews with study members (with the age 38 follow-up being conducted via telephone). At age 34 information was also collected from the children of study members (for 50% of the sample).
More information about each follow-up is provided on the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) website.
Sampling strategy
The BCS70 follows the lives of all people born in England, Scotland and Wales in one particular week of April 1970. In addition, in advance of the age 5, age 10 and age 16 follow-ups the sample was augmented with immigrants born within the relevant week.
Since 2000 the majority of the data has been collected via Computer Aided Interviewing (CAI) which allows the complex routing of the questionnaire instruments to be automatically controlled. Consistency checks are built into the CAI program to minimise the potential for erroneous data entry. The CAI instruments are rigorously checked prior to fieldwork. Pilot studies are conducted prior to commencement of the main stage of data collection in order to fully test the data collection instruments and all fieldwork procedures.
Study members have been guaranteed anonymity. Identifiable data is not included in the datasets made available for research. Researchers accessing the data via the UK Data Service must abide by the terms of an End User Licence which forbids any attempt to identify an individual. Datasets judged to have a greater disclosure risk are made available via Special Licence which involve additional access conditions.
Over the years, those responsible for the study have been concerned that appropriate procedures for ethical review and consent are followed but the approach has changed significantly. Currently in the UK, probably the most important route for ethical approval for studies like BCS70 is the National Health Service (NHS) Research Ethics Committee (REC) system. NHS Research Ethics Committees (RECs) are appointed by the Strategic Health Authorities in England, their equivalents in Scotland and Wales and the Health and Social Care Business Services Organisation in Northern Ireland. RECs safeguard the rights, safety, dignity and well-being of people participating in research. They review applications for research and give an opinion about the proposed participant involvement and whether the research is ethical. REC ethical approval has been sought for BCS70 follow-ups from 2000 on. Earlier sweeps pre-dated the establishment of the MREC system. Available records suggest that there was only internal ethical review for these surveys.
(3) Dataset description
GN 33229 – 1970 British Cohort Study – available at the UK Data Service.
Format names and versions
SPSS, STATA.
Dataset creators
UK Data Service End User Licence
Accessibility criteria
The majority of BCS70 survey data can be accessed by bona fide researchers through the UK Data Service at the University of Essex. Anyone wishing to access the data will need to register with the UK Data Service before downloading. Some datasets are only available via Special Licence, or via the UK Data Service Secure Lab. Access arrangements comply with ESRC Research Data Policy.
Research metadata, including basic frequencies, is available using NESSTAR at the UK Data Service. The Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) website provides copies of the questionnaires and documentation used in the study. The CLS data dictionary offers further metadata including variables and frequencies.
Repository location
The core M1 dataset can be found via the following DOI: http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02760.v8. However, all MIDUS projects and data can be found on the ICPSR repository website (http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/) by using the search term "MIDUS".
DOI and publication date for each dataset at the UK Data Service are provided below:
7473 1970 British Cohort Study: Forty-Two-Year Follow-Up, 2012 10.5255/UKDA-SN-7473-1 06-Mar-14
6557 1970 British Cohort Study: Thirty-Eight-Year Follow-Up, 2008-2009 10.5255/UKDA-SN-6557-2 27-Aug-10
6941 1970 British Cohort Study: Partnership Histories, 1986-2008 10.5255/UKDA-SN-6941-1 25-Jan-12
6943 1970 British Cohort Study: Activity Histories, 1986-2008 10.5255/UKDA-SN-6943-1 25-Jan-12
5585 1970 British Cohort Study: Thirty-Four-Year Follow-Up, 2004-2005 10.5255/UKDA-SN-5585-2 27-Mar-07
5641 1970 British Cohort Study Response Dataset, 1970-2005 10.5255/UKDA-SN-5641-1 27-Apr-07
5613 1970 British Cohort Study: Employment Histories, 1996-2004 10.5255/UKDA-SN-5613-1 16-Apr-07
5218 1970 British Cohort Study: Partnership Histories, 1986-2000 10.5255/UKDA-SN-5218-1 29-Jul-05
5558 1970 British Cohort Study: Twenty-Nine-Year Follow-Up, 1999-2000 10.5255/UKDA-SN-5558-2 29-Jan-07
3833 1970 British Cohort Study: Twenty-Six-Year Follow-Up, 1996 10.5255/UKDA-SN-3833-2 21-May-98
4715 1970 British Cohort Study: Twenty-One-Year Sample Survey, 1992 10.5255/UKDA-SN-4715-1 10-Sep-03
3535 1970 British Cohort Study: Sixteen-Year Follow-Up, 1986 10.5255/UKDA-SN-3535-2 14-Jun-96
5225 1970 British Cohort Study: Sixteen-Year Head Teacher Questionnaire, 1986 10.5255/UKDA-SN-5225-1 11-Aug-05
6095 1970 British Cohort Study: Sixteen Year Follow-up, Arithmetic Test, 1986 10.5255/UKDA-SN-6095-1 14-Jan-09
3723 1970 British Cohort Study: Ten-Year Follow-Up, 1980 10.5255/UKDA-SN-3723-2 18-Sep-97
7064 1970 British Cohort Study: Ten-Year Special Needs Survey, 1980 10.5255/UKDA-SN-7064-1 04-Sep-12
2699 1970 British Cohort Study: Five-Year Follow-Up, 1975 10.5255/UKDA-SN-2699-2 24-Apr-90
2690 1970 British Cohort Study: 42-Month Subsample, 1973 10.5255/UKDA-SN-2690-1 13-Mar-90
2666 1970 British Cohort Study: Birth and 22-Month Subsample, 1970-1972 10.5255/UKDA-SN-2666-2 28-Nov-89
(4) Reuse potential
The 1970 British Cohort Study is a resource for research and policy community. The study follows a large sample of individuals born over a limited period of time through the course of their lives, charting the effects of events and circumstances in early life on outcomes and achievements later on. The scope of enquiry is extremely broad and the data is therefore of great potential value to researchers from a wide range of disciplines. The Centre for Longitudinal Studies website contains a searchable bibliography of publications based on data collected by the study. As of May 2014 there are over 700 publications listed.
All staff at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies and the organisations previously responsible for the management of the study, the fieldwork agencies who have collected the information on our behalf, the Economic and Social Research Council who have provided the majority of the funding in recent years and the cohort members themselves who have supported the study over the course of its life.
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Adare, Newcastle West and St Kierans have 100% records in the Irish Wire Products Limerick SFC, while Rathkeale are the only side with four wins from four in the Griffin Coaches Limerick IFC.
Champions Adare are guaranteed a semi final.
Although missing Shane Doherty and Robbie Bourke, Adare booked their October 5-7 semi final spot last time out.
They play St Senans, who are in pole position for a quarter final spot. But Ballylanders and Monaleen are also vying for the two quarter finals spot. A draw or win will guaranteed the Foynes-Shanagolden side progress. Indeed they can lose and still progress, pending results elsewhere.
St Senans were without Ian Ryan in their previous round win over Na Piarsaigh, while Ray Flaherty and David Finnerty were forced off injured during that Clarina tie.
Like St Senans, Ballylanders have their progress in their own hands when they play Na Piarsaigh with a win over draw moving the south Limericks side into the last six.
Na Piarsaigh, who haven't used any of their six All Ireland SHC winners in recent games, need a positive result if they are to move off the bottom of the group table and avoid a relegation play-off.
In Kilmallock, Monaleen and Drom-Broadford meet. Kingpins for a long number of years the losing side could find themselves in relegation trouble. Of the two, just Monaleen can force their way into the quarter finals.
West Limerick neighbours Newcastle West and St Kierans meet in a winner-takes-all semi final decider.
The losing side will advance to the September 21-23 quarter finals.
The second quarter final place will be filled by either Fr Caseys or Ballysteen who also meet in a decisive encounter. A draw will be enough for the Abbeyfeale men to advance.
The third game in the group, Oola v St Patricks, is a relegation tie with the losing side into the play-off against the bottom side from Group One.
With Mungret getting a walkover from Bruff in an earlier round the final standings in this group could get tricky with scoring average no longer eligible.
Five of the six teams are still in the hunt for the three knockout places.
Pallasgreen and Athea are currently top of the table but Claughaun, Glin and Mungret all have aspirations on progress.
Relegated from the senior ranks last year, Rathkeale have already confirmed their semi final spot.
They play last year's finalists Galbally in the final round. The south Limerick side are one of four teams battling for the two quarter final spots.
Also in contention are Galtee Gaels, Gerald Griffins and Castlemahon.
All three could also be in relegation trouble if Mountcollins get a result against Castlemahon.
Bruff are also confirmed to be one of the team's in the relegation play-off to determine who drops down to the junior ranks for next season.
Round 5: Oola v St Patricks, Friday September 14 in Knocklong at 7.30pm; Adare v St Senans, Saturday September 15 in Newcastle West at 5pm; Ballylanders v Na Piarsaigh, Saturday September 15 in Bruff at 5pm; Drom-Broadford v Monaleen, Saturday September 15 in Kilmallock at 5pm; Ballysteen v Fr Caseys, Sunday September 16 in Newcastle West at 2pm; St Kierans v Newcastle West, Sunday September 16 in Knockaderry at 2pm.
Round 5: Pallasgreen v Bruff, Friday September 14 in Doon at 7.30pm; Glin v Claughaun, Friday September 14 in Mick Neville Park at 7.30pm; Athea v Mungret, Friday September 14 in Kilbreedy at 7.30pm; Galbally v Rathkeale, Saturday September 15 in Kilbreedy at 5pm, Galtee Gaels v Gerald Griffins, Saturday September 15 in Ballyagran at 5pm, Castlemahon v Mountcollins, Saturday September 15 in Killeedy at 5pm.


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Hate Crime towards Faith and Religions - Croydon Hate Crime Awareness Week 2018
Wed, 17 Oct 2018 16:00	in Discussion Forums
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018
The Dialogue Society partnered with Croydon Voluntary Action (CVA) as part of Croydon's Hate Crime Awareness Week 2018 to organise and chaired a panel discussion, addressing issues such as Islamophobia and hate crime towards all faiths religions with representatives from Croydon Metropolitan Police Service, Croydon Voluntary Action (CVA), Victim Support London, Faiths Together in Croydon, the Refugee Council, Lingua House Project, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community UK, Asian Resource Centre (ARCC) and Tell Mamma.
Some of the Questions to be Discussed
What is religious hate crime?
With hate crimes on the rise, what factors do we feel have contributed to this?
What issues are different religious groups facing in terms of hate crime or hate incidents, prejudice or ways in which everyday life is generally made more difficult?
Does the wider community need to become more aware of different religious groups and contribute to making public spaces safer, more welcoming and easier to access? If so, what needs to be done?
What specific spaces in Croydon are welcoming and safe for different religious groups and which aren't? Why?
In what ways is the wider community and institutions supportive or non-supportive of different religions?
What else could be done to support those affected by religious hatred?
What are bystanders of hate incidents? What can be done about this?
How likely do people feel to report hate crime against them? Why/Why not?
About Croydon's Hate Crime Awareness Week
Croydon's Hate Crime Awareness Week comprised seven thematic discussion panels as well as other activities led by a host of community organisations. Each panel discussed in depth the nature of hate crime and incidents occurring in the borough through shedding light on community experiences and how residents, the voluntary sector and public organisations were both responding to what was happening on the ground and finding ways to prevent the conditions that give rise to hate crime.


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Fantasy Novel Review: The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
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My attempt to read as many of this year's Hugo finalists as I can had led me to several popular works that I had either not gotten around to or had actively avoided. One of the latter was The Poppy War, with its reputation for a jarring tonal shift and some absolutely brutal war scenes. But R.F. Kuang's debut has no shortage of glowing reviews, and with its nomination for Best Series combined with a perfect fit for 2021 Bingo, I thought I'd give it a shot. Happily for me, it turned out to be one of the most pleasant surprises of my Hugo reading (for some values of "pleasant").
The Poppy War opens a trilogy drawing strong inspiration from the Second Sino-Japanese War, but where the Chinese analogue has access to powerful but incredibly dangerous magic. At the center is Rin, a girl from the rural South desperate to gain admission to an elite military school and escape her reluctant adoptive parents. But, with the elite expecting invasion from the island empire to their East, a berth in military school promises to throw her into the middle of the incipient conflict.
By picking up Rin's story so early, The Poppy War delivers a fairly tropey academy arc—with a gifted protagonist who must overcome rampant prejudice and who finds solace with a brilliant but eccentric mentor—followed by a shockingly brutal military fantasy. It sounds like this ought to be jarring, and some readers find it so. But even if a reader were to come in knowing nothing about the book, the academy arc is packed with hints about how dark the story will go, from the brutality of the sparring sessions to the extended discussion of genocide and its place in the most recent clash between Rin's homeland and their Eastern neighbors.
The reception of the book's opening third will depend heavily on the audience's attitude toward fantasy schools, as The Poppy War doesn't really break new ground in that respect. Personally, while I dislike "lack of sleep is a sign of discipline and recipe for success" subplots, I generally enjoy school settings and found the opening to be well-written and easy to like, even as it set the stage for the horrors that were to come. And then comes the war, where the promised dark turn comes to fruition. The quality of the writing continues apace, and The Poppy War remains difficult to put down. But it also becomes difficult to read, with Kuang putting the particular brutality of this conflict on full display—a choice that makes this a poor choice for the squeamish, but a choice that seems only appropriate given the real world inspiration, where even the Wikipedia entry veers heavily towards the grimdark.
In the midst of all of the brutality is an elite force of powerful warriors and the constant struggle between the power at their fingertips and its devastating consequences. Rin and her fellows repeatedly face opportunities to rescue their people, but by means that might destroy as much as they save. The wrestling with this power forms the emotional core of the novel, carrying through from the academy training to the beginnings of conflict and further into its horrifying development. And Kuang paints an astounding picture of these struggles, with every right choice a battle, every wrong choice sympathetic, and plenty of choices where even the reader can't see the proper way forward.
The Poppy War is not flawless, and some of the academy characters tend a little toward the flat side. But a consistently engaging, well-paced narrative, a fantastic exploration of the use of large-scale weapons and the inevitable collateral damage, and a compelling portrait of characters grappling with impossible decisions make it well worth the read. And with a heart-wrenching climax of its own and myriad plot threads left open, it succeeds both as a novel and as a series-opener.
Recommended if you like: academy arcs, military fantasy, moral complexity.
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Overall rating: 18 of Tar Vol's 20. Five stars on Goodreads.
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garik16 says:
Pretty close on my thoughts, although I thought the school parts worked better than you did (and I think it a necessary evil to set up later book conflicts). One disagreement though: "lack of sleep is a sign of discipline and recipe for success" isn't really where I think the book went, as the book uses that as a clear sign of how out of control Rin is even from the start – everything she does to get ahead, because of her lack of other resources, is unhealthy and dangerous. Rin succeeds because of it, sure, but that success only leads to bad outcomes, and emboldens her to continue down this dark and wrong path
tarvolon says:
I liked the school arc quite a bit, but I enjoy school tropes. I might've downplayed too hard to try to counteract my bias in favor of that sort of storyline—it's well-worked, but I don't think it's going to impress someone who isn't there for some of the magic school tropes.
You're right about the signs of Rin being out-of-control early—I've just always found test-taking on no sleep to be actively counter-productive and have a bit of lingering annoyance with the trope, even if it did serve to set up some good character work.
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Tigerair chaos as Bali flights cancelled for a second day
HUNDREDS of travellers' holiday plans are in disarray after all Tigerair flights in and out of Bali were cancelled again today and early tomorrow.
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TIGERAIR flights in and out of Bali remain on hold as the airline continues negotiations with the Indonesian government.
Thousands of Australian holiday plans were thrown into disarray when the airline grounded its scheduled daily return flights from Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth early Wednesday morning. A statement from the airline said the Indonesian government had imposed new "administrative requirements" on the airline for its Bali service operations.
However, Agus Soebagio, a spokesman for Indonesia's directorate-general for air transportation, rejected claims Jakarta had unexpectedly imposed new requirements and instead accused the budget airline of breaching its licence.
"Tigerair has been flying from Australia to Bali using a limited chartered plane licence and not the AOC 129 licence for regular scheduled flights," he said.
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More than 400 Tigerair passengers have been stranded in Bali after the Indonesian government unexpectedly cancelled an agreement that allowed the airline to fly to the archipelago nation. Picture by Raiza Andini
"The chartered plane licence is valid for a limited period of time, usually three to six months, after which it can be extended. We don't provide any grace period.
"They are proposing for an extension but we found out that they have been selling tickets to the general public, which is not allowed under such permit."
It said ticketing should be controlled by the airline's parent company Virgin Australia.
Tigerair Australia CEO, Rob Sharp released a statement this morning saying the airline had been "fully compliant" with the existing agreement with the Indonesian government.
"Tigerair Australia currently has approval from The Director General Air Communication and Director Air Transport to operate between Australia and Bali until 25 March 2017.
"This involves selling tickets in Australia between Australia and Bali. Under the existing agreement, we are not able to sell tickets in Indonesia and we are fully compliant with this.
"We are not proposing any changes to the agreement — we are operating under the same approval we have been for the last 8 months."
Stranded passenger Suzana Pozvek of Melbourne at Bali Denpasar airport. Picture by Raiza Andini
Mr Sharp said the airline was working with the Indonesian government to commence flying to Bali as soon as possible and has asked the government for a "grace period" while they work through the new requirements together.
Tigerair flies about 900 passengers on daily return services to Bali from Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth and has been flying to Bali since March last year under an interim arrangement that allowed it to use Virgin-supplied pilots until the airline received regulatory approvals from Indonesia.
Australians Josh Dixon and Tyson Templeton told News Corp Australia at Denpasar International Airport that they were meant to leave Indonesia to go back to Melbourne on one of the cancelled Tigerair flights.
But they were now going home via a Virgin Australia flight instead, which would take them to Brisbane first, then onto Melbourne. They said they were "a bit angry, and annoyed" because of the inconvenience.
Cyri, Claire and Enzo Dureigne family were meant to be on a flight from Bali to Perth but their flight was also cancelled.
"The lady we spoke to from Tiger told us to go and get our own way home. She said 'go and get the flights, because you might struggle to get back to Perth in the next few days"," Mr Dureigne said.
Mr Dureigne said they had no communication from Tigerair afterwards, and decided to buy three tickets on a flight from AirAsia for about $1500 in order to get home faster.
"We are going back today," he said.
"We had no communication from Tiger."
He also said that Tigerair left them a note under their door informing them of a Virgin Austrlaia flgiht that was going Sydney tonight at midnight, and they could return to Perth from there.
"It's atrocious, it's very hard for young families, people try to go back from holidays and people in Perth trying to go on holidays," he said.
"We're probably gonig to be out of pocket by probably $1000."
According to The Australian, government officials in Australia's embassy in Jakarta were drafted in to hold urgent talks with the Indonesian government and defuse the situation last night, but were not able to settle the regulatory impasse.
As such Tigerair was forced to cancel all flights in and out of Bali for a second day running as well as its Friday morning flights.
The departure board at Bali's Denpasar Airport showing flight cancellations. Picture by Raiza Andini
Virgin Australia will operate two recovery flights from Bali today to bring as many affected customers back to Australia as possible.
Further information about the Tigerair services that will not be operated can be found on the Tigerair website. Passengers on services that will not be operated and passengers that will be accommodated on Virgin Australia's replacement flights will be contacted directly by Tigerair.
Customers currently in Australia who are affected by the cancellation of today's Tigerair services will be offered a full refund and customers in Bali will be offered free of charge seats onto Virgin Australia services.
All other Tigerair flights (all domestic services) remain unaffected by this decision.
A statement from the airline apologised for the cancellations.
"Tigerair Australia sincerely apologises for the inconvenience caused by this decision and we are working to resume flights as soon as possible."
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Roger Dale Propest, 77, of Duncan passed away Sunday, November 4th, 2018 in the Comanche County Memorial Hospital.
Services will be 10:00 AM Friday in the Ray Of Hope Church with Reverend Mike McCord and Ronnie Bernard officiating. Interment will follow in the Duncan Cemetery under the Bailes-Polk Funeral Home.
The family will receive friends for visitation fro 6-8 PM on Thursday.
Roger was born June 12, 1941 at Montague, Texas the son of Jessie Santford and Linnie Mae (Phillips) Propest. He and Shirley Roberts were married at Mangum, Oklahoma on April 27, 1963.
He worked as an oilfield lease operator for the Stephens and Johnson Operating Company. He enjoyed working on cars, bowling, and most loved spending time with his family especially his grandchildren and great grandchildren. He was a member of the Moose Lodge and attended the Ray of Hope Church. He was preceded in death by his parents brothers Steve Propest, Johnny Glenn Propest and a sister Phyllis Lynn Propest.
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Imagination. A lot of people hear that word and think of small children coloring outside the lines, typically not building huge contraptions or clothes made of duct tape. Students in Destination Imagination (DI) think otherwise.
Charlotte Taylor, a manager of DI for several years, and junior Thomas Schnaible, a DI team member, shed some light on what DI is and why it's important.
"Just recently I did a project in my English class, I was overly prepared because DI opened my mind up to so many different things, and the ways it helps me is endless," Schnaible said.
The non-profit company Destination Imagination started in 1982 as a way for children elementary age to college age to expand their knowledge and curiosity in art and Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) fields.
"Challenges were in areas like science, engineering, improvisation, fine arts and community service," Taylor said. "No matter what your interest, there is a challenge for you.
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What if Alex Rodriguez Had Been Traded to the Boston Red Sox?
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2005: Alex Rodriguez to the Red Sox, The Curse Continues
Time for the next installment of this "What if" scenario involving the then year anniversary of the trade that never happened, Alex Rodriguez to the Boston Red Sox.
The 2004 season brought a Red Sox division title but a first round exit in the playoffs.
The 2005 regular season was impressive for the Red Sox as they won 106 games and won the AL East by 18 games.
The Red Sox lineup was potent. David Ortiz had another huge year, Hanley Ramirez would win Rookie of the Year, Carlos Beltran who signed as a free agent would be well worth the money and Alex Rodgriguez put up MVP type numbers. Hanley was the full time DH this season as AROD is the SS. Will be interesting to see if the Sox move him to third base in the future.
Mark Teixeira of the Texas Rangers would end up winning the AL MVP for the Texas Rangers along with the Triple Crown. A strong case could be made for AROD being the MVP. AROD had the highest WAR in baseball at 11.6 to Teixeira was at 10.2. Both really impressive seasons. Alex led the Red Sox to a division title and 106 wins while Tex led the Rangers to a last place finish and a record of 62-100.
1918 was the last Red Sox title and 2005 would not be a title year either as the Sox lost in the first round of the playoffs, this time to the Oakland A's. Alex Rodriguez can't be blamed though as he played well in the series. David Ortiz struggled and the Red Sox were without Curt Schilling who was injured. Pedro Martinez did not pitch in the playoffs because he was involved in a brawl during the final regular season game and was suspended for five games. Talk about some controversy! Pedro will be a free agent now. Will he come back?
The Atlanta Braves would go on to win it all behind Eric Chavez. Chavez won it all with the A's the year before and then signed a big free agent deal with the Braves moving Chipper Jones back to left field.
Being a big Nomar Garciaparra fan I was hoping that this new history would play out differently for him. It appears that he is headed on a huge demise. The Cubs finally signed him to a 2 year deal worth $5 million just before the season began and then traded him to the Houston Astros for Wade Miller. Nomar is not in the best of moods and his numbers at the plate look pretty bad.
Manny Ramirez had another solid year but he is playing for a last place team and appears to be eclipsed in stardom by his teammate Teixeira.. Don't forget to follow me on twitter @thepeskypole6
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The 2004 Red Sox Can't Get It Done
Quick refresher, we turned back the clock to 2004 and made the Alex Rodriguez trade to the Red Sox happen. Is the trade a bust already? Alex Rodriguez and the Boston Red Sox were not able to win it all in 2004. It is hard to blame Alex though as he had a great season.
Johnny Damon CF 156 661 129 196 44 9 22 98 324 79 78 19 5 .297 .370 .490 .860
David Ortiz 1B 161 638 139 204 36 7 55 172 419 82 126 0 1 .320 .396 .657 1.053
Alex Rodriguez SS 156 611 138 190 28 3 42 116 350 92 118 15 9 .311 .405 .573 .978
Bill R Mueller 3B 158 585 100 168 38 1 21 93 271 93 70 0 1 .287 .386 .463 .849
Jason Varitek C 127 509 91 149 24 0 17 84 224 53 124 1 4 .293 .370 .440 .810
Mark Bellhorn 2B 146 505 70 117 35 3 14 74 200 95 124 2 2 .232 .355 .396 .751
Magglio Ordonez RF 123 447 73 129 26 4 18 84 217 41 53 0 0 .289 .350 .485 .836
Trot Nixon RF 109 380 62 92 21 2 13 57 156 42 75 0 0 .242 .320 .411 .731
Kevin Youkilis 3B 85 293 45 77 19 0 9 46 123 42 53 1 0 .263 .364 .420 .784
Kevin Millar LF 70 283 43 86 24 0 9 42 137 33 50 0 1 .304 .395 .484 .879
Miguel Cairo 2B 48 190 36 55 10 2 9 24 96 12 28 7 1 .289 .344 .505 .850
Doug Mirabelli C 54 134 23 28 4 0 7 25 53 14 37 0 0 .209 .301 .396 .696
Pokey Reese 2B 111 109 15 27 3 1 1 12 35 12 23 3 1 .248 .328 .321 .649
Gabe Kapler RF 30 93 6 23 3 1 1 12 31 6 23 0 1 .247 .301 .333 .634
Brian Daubach RF 50 79 17 23 9 0 4 18 44 13 19 0 0 .291 .400 .557 .957
David Ortiz had a monster season as well. It was enough for the Red Sox to win the division and tally 100 wins but not win a title.
Moneyball finally paid off as the Oakland Athletics finally won it all. The Cardinals, just like in real life in 2004, would fall in the World Series.
Barry Bonds and Travis Hafner would take home MVP for the NL and AL while Curt Schilling would win the AL Cy Young Award.
The surreal moment of the season was a trade between the Red Sox and Yankees. The Red Sox shipped prospect Kevin Youkilis to the Yankees for second baseman Miguel Cairo and pitcher Brad Halsey. The Yankees were obviously in need of a third baseman and the Red Sox lost confidence in Mark Bellhorn. Remember when every Red Sox fan in the world lost confidence in Bellhorn during the 2004 postseason. Thankfully Terry Francona did not.
Manny Ramirez had a good year but nothing spectacular and his team was never in contention
Nomar Garciaparra had a below average season for him and could this be the rapid decline that we saw in real life?
Offseason News
Magglio Ordonez signed with the defending World Champion A's but the Sox signed prized free agent Carlos Beltran while they let Johnny Damon walk.
Nomar Garciaparra has yet to sign with a team as we get ready for the 2005 Opening Day.
The Red Sox are picked to win 96 games but finish behind the Tampa Bay Rays in the AL East. The Yankees signed Jeff Bagwell in the offseason but did not upgrade their pitching.
Randy Johnson signed a free agent deal with the Mariners
Hanley Ramirez is slated to play third base and DH for the Red Sox in 2005. Will the Red Sox use him as trade bait? Stay tuned.
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Derek Jeter Retirement: Setting the Record Straight
Derek Jeter announced that 2014 will be his final season and the media began to wax poetically about his greatness. Don't get me wrong, Jeter is a great player and had a great career and he won the great shortstop debate between Nomar Garciaparra and Alex Rodriguez. I tip my hat to him. He played hard and did play the game the right way. I have posted many times about Derek Jeter on this blog. You can see all my posts about him right here.
However, the nonsense about his leadership and unselfishness makes me want to puke. Derek has an ego and is selfish just like any other pro athlete. The media likes to compare him to Joe Dimaggio with his "quiet class". I agree with that comparison. He is a lot like Joe, and that is not a compliment. I blogged about this in my post called The Captain?
Rick Sutcliffe gushed about how Jeter was all about winning and if he felt the Yankees were better off without him ten years earlier he would have retired then. Really Rick? It was interesting he picked ten years ago since that was the year the Yankees traded for the best shortstop in the game and Jeter did not move from his position. What a leader. I blogged about his lack of leadership in a post titled The Derek Jeter Debate Continues.
Jeter was a great player but he was overrated. That is not his fault. That is a product of playing for the Yankees. He had his flaws, mainly defensively where he was below average his whole career. I addressed that in a blog post when it was suggested by some that he was better than Chipper Jones. In that post titled Why Chipper Jones is Better Than Derek Jeter, it becomes clear that he is not in the class of Larry Wayne Jones.
I also blogged Will Derek Jeter Prove Me Wrong? By retiring, he has in a way. I really thought he would hang on to the real bitter end and really put the Yankees in an awful situation. Maybe he finally did put the team first.
I don't hate Derek, I just hate this false narrative. I even wrote him a love letter which is fitting since tomorrow is Valentine's Day. Here it is My Love Letter to Derek Jeter. Happy retirement Derek.
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Alex Rodriguez Traded to the Boston Red Sox: A What if Simulation
Ten years ago the Boston Red Sox were close to pulling off a blockbuster trade that would have sent Alex Rodriguez to the Boston Red Sox in exchange for Manny Ramirez.
The trade did not go through because of the financial aspect of the deal. The Player's Union would not allow Alex to take a slight pay cut.
What if this trade did go through? Would the Red Sox still have broken the curse? Would AROD's career have turned out differently?
With the help of Out of the Park Baseball we get to find out all the answers. It is time to simulate the deal just as it was supposed to go down.
Alex Rodriguez goes to the Red Sox and will wear his customary #3 and play shortstop. Remember, AROD was coming off a monster 2003 season at the plate and in the field. He was the best defensive shortstop in the game. I have always had an issue with Derek Jeter for not being the one to volunteer to change positions. I blogged about it in a post called The Captain?
With Rodriguez on board, the contingency trade also went through as Nomar Garciaparra was traded to the Chicago White Sox for Magglio Ordonez.
Alfonso Soriano who was dealt to the Rangers in the real life trade that brought AROD to the Yankees is now returned back to the Yankees in this simulation.
The real deal fell apart because of the contracts, for this simulation I have kept the contracts exactly the way they were. The Red Sox will not get an AROD contract discount. Here is how the contracts of the traded players look:
2004: $22 million
2004: $5 million
The preseason predictions are very kind to the Red Sox predicting them to win 98 games and run away with the AL East. The 2003 team was pretty good but now they are adding Keith Foulke, Curt Schilling and Alex Rodriguez. Of course, the 2004 Red Sox will be without Manny Ramirez.
Stay tuned. The plan is to simulate one season a week. Follow me on twitter @thepeskypole6
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