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An Ode To Mike Zunino
April 1, 2020 Bamos Appleby Baseball, Team Contributors
It's hard to write about baseball when there's no baseball happening. I've spent at least two hours today trying to think about how to make the fact the 2020 Seattle Mariners sent some players you've never heard of back down to their Triple-A affiliate interesting. I have unsurprisingly failed in this endeavour.
I could write about The Mariners Glorious Future™, of course. But over the course of this season – there will be a season, right? – there is going to be plenty of time to write about the swathe of brilliant prospects the Mariners are bringing through. Indeed, hopefully at some point I'll have actually had a chance to watch them play as well, giving me opinions that social media clips of Braden Bishop cutting Shed Long's hair, or Julio Rodriguez not knowing how to play Operation, can't.
As Mathew Roberson said on the brilliant Lookout Landing podcast before this whole "virus" thing happened – "It's not my fault I don't know who these people are, I'm just happy baseball is back".
So, what to write about? For me, because I feel like if I didn't write about him, my career as a writer on this site would be a big fat lie, and in lieu of an actual opening day – and because this week he welcomed his second child into the world – there's only one person or thing to talk about. His name is Mike Zunino, and he's the catcher for the Tampa Bay Rays.
Zunino is never far from my mind. Not only did the official Bat Flips & Nerds Twitter account tag me in a tweet where someone was disparaging Zunino's skills as a hitter last week, but I also own two shirts with his name on. That's probably one more than he does.
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Zunino does a good determined face, like your older teenage brother trying to take the lid off a jam jar. He's got a smile that looks like he hasn't got the joke. At 6'1" he's the kind of "sportsman tall" that means you don't realise how tall he is. He's kind of surprisingly big all round, but in an unshowy way, like the doors of your local library. He's Mike.
I follow his wife on Instagram, because Mr Zunino doesn't do the socials, you see, and I need more Mike in my life. Oh, and my wife crocheted me this motivational Mike Zunino message for Christmas this year. It sits proudly in my living room. Mike Zunino is always on my mind, and my mantelpiece. I may have problems.
At one point, Zunino was rated the #20 prospect in all of baseball by Baseball America. He spent six years at Seattle after signing in 2012 as the third overall pick in the amateur draft. Were those six years glorious? Not at all. Did they have moments of glory? Kind of. Is Michael Accorsi Zunino himself glorious? I mean, not really.
I think that Mike might be boring. His nickname – and the name he put on the back of his shirt for Players Weekend in 2018 – is 'Z'. Nine months on the road for five years in a row with at least 40 other people, and the best you get is 'Z'. I know technically that might be because of his teammates lack of imagination – you know, like you should always go to the barber with the worst haircut, because someone else in the shop will have done that to him so you can trust him more – but still. You imagine that boring inspires boring.
He married his wife at 22. No specific problem with that, I guess, but this quote – as reported in the Orange County Register – when talking about said marriage, something that for most people is a hugely joyous topic, really hammers it home.
"You play in the College World Series and get drafted and next thing you know you're playing minor league baseball, all within a month," Zunino said. "So, it was a fun experience, and then in the meantime I was able to get married".
IN. THE. MEANTIME.
Zunino's best hitting year for the Mariners was 2017's .251. He is a career .202 hitter. In 2017 and 2018, his last two years in Seattle, he struck out 310 times in 760 at-bats.
Among all of that, he's hit 104 home runs – including walk off homeruns in consecutive years against the Twins, made a Houston Astros Twitter account really grumpy by hitting a homer off of Dallas Keuchel, and caught James Paxton's no-hitter against the Blue Jays. Coaches and players alike love him for his work behind the plate
Film Room Discussion: #Mariners nobody, Mike Zunino hits a HR.
Were his actions afterwards acceptable?
When is this going to stop happening in our great sport?
Why does it always seem to happen against the Astros?
Should he be drilled?
Will this ever end? pic.twitter.com/oLnPACp0tb
— Astros Rants (@AstrosRants) June 6, 2018
(Before you read on, I urge you to actually click on the above, if only to hear the phrase "Mike Zunino, a loser, hits a home run" uttered just after the big man has creamed it 459ft into Houston sky).
So why do I love Zunino so much? He's an internet demi-hero, beloved of Mariners bloggers and #ExtremelyOnline fans. The aforementioned Lookout Landing guys, writing back in 2015, put in perspective who he is as a player, describing him as the "But what if he did, though?" player. We know he's got power, and he can crush a ball; we know he COULD be an all-star catcher – he was Defensive Player of the Year for his position in 2018. But what if he actually DID those things?
I hold a personal torch for Zunino. For about 10 years, until about 2014, I ran a clubnight in south London called Zonino (sample playlist: Clor, World In Motion by New Order, Art Brut, Talking Heads – it was a mess). It was named after a strange decision by the predictive text function on those old Nokia phones – whenever you typed in "Woohoo!", it suggested the word "Zonino" as an alternative. This nonsensical suggestion amused me enough to start using the word in chatrooms, and then in the wider world beyond.
Imagine then, you've been doing this for ages, and you visit SafeCo field in 2014 and discover that there exists a man with almost exactly the same name as this. I cannot begin to tell you how delighted it made me. He was an instant hero. I was smitten.
The fact that during the game I went to see in 2014 he hit an ultimately pointless double off Dallas Keuchel in a 7-2 rout (and struck out in his other three plate appearances – little did I know at the time that this was Peak Zunino) helped cement that love even more.
That everyone agreed he had POTENTIAL made me even more enamoured. I bloody love a player with potential. The thought of what might be, that wrapped in those huge arms and strong jaw lay a man capable of smashing the absolute grapes off a baseball. Almost even more so when it's unfulfilled.
Mike Zunino is one of the main reasons why I love this sport. For who he might be, for those wonderful things he's already done, and for the fact he's an enigma – in a world where I can watch the new M's first baseman hosting a live chat on Instagram, I have to follow Mike's wife to learn what he's up to really stands out.
He might not be in Seattle anymore, but he was my gateway in, and might serve as the perfect summation of what the 2020 (and beyond?) Seattle Mariners might become. They're full of potential, they all seem to be bloody lovely blokes, and they have promise.
But what if they make it? What if…
Bamos is covering the Seattle Mariners during 2020 as part of the growing team of writers at Bat Flips and Nerds. Follow him on Twitter @applebamos
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Palestinian Journalist Attia Darwish hit in the face by a tear gas canister. Photo: Nidal Al-whaidy
In the month of August 2019 Staat van Beleg could list 714 human rights violations (and 152 reports/ analyses). (see our archive). This month we write about the increase of Israeli violations against the Palestinian media.
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In April of this year we witnessed a sudden decline in the number of Israeli violations published by local news agencies. Before we could register around 700 to 800 or sometimes even more violations per month but in April we could only register 620 violations. In the following months this trend continued. In May we could register 603 violations and in June only 542. As from July we started to register the arrests per person which resulted in a higher number of violations.
We knew that violations increased rather than decreased as we witnessed on personal accounts on Facebook pages. When the local news agency Ma'an (English section) suddenly stopped reporting as from 19 June we expected something was seriously wrong and we started to raise questions. In the following months there were some alarming reports and events that answered some of these questions that we will share here.
"So far on our travels in Palestine we have witnessed a massive and desperate human rights catastrophe. – So it is not surprising that the perpetrator of these crimes is attempting to limit how much we can see and report on".
– Abby Martin (Telesur)-
Alarming reports and events on violations against Palestinian media
The first report we read comes from the Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza that registered 105 violations against Palestinian media during the month of May. Among the violations listed, the GMO noted that 11 media personnel were detained, a number were used as human shields and four were sentenced to terms in prison. The report also recorded eight attacks against journalists while they were at work, while two homes were raided, when mobile telephones, laptops and cars were confiscated. Furthermore, the report pointed out that the Israeli occupation authorities prevented journalists from covering 12 newsworthy events and fined six journalists. During the two-day military offensive against the Gaza Strip at the beginning of May, the Israeli army destroyed four media offices. At least 50 Facebook accounts and pages for Palestinian journalists and media centres, news websites and news agencies were closed during the month.
A second report comes from The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA). The report pointed to the high number of violations that affected the media freedoms in Palestine during the first half of 2019, where 'MADA" monitored and documented a total of 330 attacks compared to 277 attacks were monitored during the same period of 2018, a total increase of 53 attacks or 19%.
A third alarming report comes from Sada Social Center. The center documented a number of violations, most of them on Facebook. It said in July alone, Facebook committed 23 violations of the Palestinian content, ranging from the removal of pages and personal accounts, temporary bans and deletion of posts under false pretexts. During the same period, said Sada Social Center, WhatsApp Messenger blocked phone numbers belonging to Quds News Network 22 times. In August the center documented more than 17 violations against Palestinian content on social media. For instance Facebook committed 15 violations ranging from ban, removal, publication and deletion of publications. Restrictions were further imposed on the following Palestinian pages: Aneen Al-Qaidi, The Higher National Commission of the Great March of Return, Ramallah Mix, Jerusalem Committee – Yarmouk University, Qalandia Media Center, Palestine Media Center and Artist Qassem Al Najjar.
"Skyline International for Human Rights" said in a statement that Facebook has recently blocked several pages and threatened to block the page of QNN Arabic, among other pages like Taqaddumi and Bawwabat Al Hadaf News.
According to a press release issued by the "Freedoms Committee of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate" the frequency of photographers being targeted by the Israeli occupation is increasing with 232 violations against the Palestinian press in the first half of this year.
We shouldn't forget to mention that Google has intensified its censorship of left-wing, progressive and anti-war websites. Facebook also announced its intention to use artificial intelligence algorithms in its WhatsApp application, through which it will search the content of messages before encrypting and sending them.
These are just some of the many events where journalists were restricted or arrested during their work.
On 4 August field researcher Nasser Nawaj'ah of B'tSelem was stopped by Israeli soldiers at a military checkpoint near the Palestinian village of Khirbet Susiya, in the South Hebron Hills region of the occupied West Bank. The soldiers stopped Nawaj'ah only "when they saw he had B'Tselem reports in his car". Preventing the researcher from leaving, "one of the soldiers at the checkpoint claimed that they had to obtain confirmation that the reports do not constitute incitement material."
On 25 August Palestinian nonviolent media activist Mohammad Abu al-Hummus, a member of the Follow-Up Committee in al-'Isawiya,was arrested by Israeli forces. Two days after his arrest the District Court in occupied Jerusalem held a hearing, and decided to force Abu al-Hummus out of his town until September 15th, in addition to restricting his activities, especially his media work in addition to forcing him to pay a fine of 1000 Shekels, and third-party guarantee of 10000 Shekels. Abu al-Hummus said that he was taken prisoner, Sunday, for filming the soldiers and documenting their constant invasions and violations in his town. He added that his abduction, and the conditions of his release, are meant to prevent him from talking to the media, especially his interviews with Israeli media outlets, and his constant documentation of the ongoing invasions and violations.
On 28 August Israeli soldiers and police officers raided the office of Silwanic news agency. Jawad Siyam, the director of Silwanic, was summoned for interrogation. Siyam added that the police is alleging that he installed a wooden shed without obtaining a permit from the City Council, although the structure was built in 2009. He also said that the invasion into the media center is part of Israel's violations against Palestinian media outlets, especially since Silwanic exposes the ongoing Israeli violations against the Palestinians, their homes and properties, not only in Silwan, but in all areas of occupied Jerusalem.
At the end of January of this year Israel expelled an international observer force (TIPH) from the volatile West Bank city of Hebron. Since mid February Palestinian activists are trying to fill the void by launching their own patrols to document Israeli settler violence. But without the international observers local activists and journalists are in a vulnerable position and are facing Israeli assaults and restrictions on a daily basis. On 17 August Israeli occupation forces arrested journalist Abdel Muhsen Shalaldeh in Saer village in occupied Hebron.
What we also see is that arrests of journalists do not get proper media attention. There are so many arrests during the night raids that it is almost impossible to report all these cases separately. Sometimes names are not released and it is even not clear if there are journalists among the ones being arrested. By way of illustration we will here mention some of the arrests that were slightly covered by the local media. On 29 August Israeli soldiers raided the house of photojournalist Hassan Dabbous, and searched the home, damaging and ransacking his property before abducting him and taking him to an unknown location for interrogation. In Jerusalem, also on the 29th of August a young girl identified as Mais Abu Ghoush, a media student at Birzeit University, was taken prisoner during an IOF campaign in Qalandiya refugee camp. In another article we could read that her computer was being seized but there was nothing mentioned about Abu Ghoush being a media student. On 1 September Israeli forces arrested Widad al-Barghouthi, a media lecturer from the same Birzeit University. She is the mother of prisoners Qassam (journalist) and Karmal al-Barghouthi. In another article it was briefly mentioned that her son, journalist Quassam, was detained a week earlier. On 7 September Israeli forces arrested another journalism student at Birzeit University, Samah Jaradat, after breaking into her house in Bireh. At the time of writing we could only find one news agency mentioning that Samah is a journalism student. We can only guess how many of these cases will go unnoticed. Here we can also raise the question if there are enough professional journalists operating to guarantee a proper coverage of all these arrests. The number of Palestinian journalists held in Israeli jails has risen to 24.
Not only Palestinian journalists are subjected to Israeli violations and restrictions. During a recent nightly raid in the East Jerusalem Palestinian neighborhood of Isawiya an Israeli policeman threw a stun grenade at Haaretz photographer Emil Salman, even though no one was in the photographer's vicinity at the time. During the same raid the police demanded that a crew from Channel 13 television leave the site and reporter Yossi Eli was being arrested.
We can learn from local Palestinian news sites that the weekly marches in Gaza and in the West Bank are violently being oppressed by Israel. People – and among them journalists – get injured, are being arrested, their camera's are being confiscated and in the worst scenario they are being killed. We have footage of these violations since there are still journalists working in the field during these marches and demonstrations.
Unfortunately, what we witness more and more, mostly in the case of home demolitions and collective punishments, is that Israel is putting whole towns, villages or neighborhoods under military siege. During a siege journalists are either not allowed in the area or it is difficult to do their work and many violations will go unreported. What we see here is that activists are taking over in documenting violations. In the case of collective punishments a siege can last for months. To highlight the impact of such restrictions we will write about the large-scale home demolition operation that recently took place in the Wadi Hummus area of Sur Baher that came under siege ahead of the demolitions.
A day before the planned demolition a photojournalist Aqat Arqawi, working for APA agency, was hit and injured by a teargas canister in her pelvis during a rally in Bethlehem protesting the planned demolition.
Photojournalist Ayat Arqawi was hit and injured by a gas canister as Israeli forces attacked Palestinians taking part in a rally near Bethlehem. Photo via Social Media.
On the day of the demolition Palestinian and international activists from the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) were present inside the houses that were going to be demolished. In a report from ISM we can read that "due to the lack of media presence inside the family homes the extent of the violence and sadism perpetrated by IOF on Palestinian citizens and international activists has remained largely unreported. ISM activists are sharing their personal accounts of yesterday morning's events including being brutally beaten, tear gassed, pepper sprayed, strangled and laughed at in the process of non violent resistance even after compliance, but urge the international community to recognise the fact that the treatment of Palestinians is incomparable."
What we see here is that activists who are present to protect the Palestinian homes from demolition and to witness Israeli violations are violently restricted. Most cell phones were being confiscated before the activists were allowed to leave the houses. There was some overall coverage in the media but an absence of detailed official reporting about the huge amount of violations on home owners and activists. We expect that this is a precedent for future home demolitions. During these large scale demolition the number of violations can be very high so we can understand why Israel doesn't want prying eyes or press in the area.
Younes Arar is a prominent local activist and reporter posting daily updates of Israeli violations on the Palestinian people and their properties on his Facebook page. We mention him here because he often reports and shows footage of home demolitions in the West Bank. In the month of August he was blocked for several times by Facebook. However, Mr. Arar appealed every time and was back on Facebook soon after. This indicates that accounts are being blocked for posts with Palestinian content without justification. Mr. Arar told us that in 2018 his account was blocked by Facebook for about 150 days, five times for 30 days.
The outcome of all these media restrictions is that most of the personal accounts will not reach the international media. Luckily we have Gideon Levy, ironically working for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, who is a master in detailed reporting in the aftermath of events. Unfortunately we can not expect from Mr. Levy to make it up for a curbed Palestinian press by covering dozens of stories every month. What we read in the media is only a fraction of what is taking place in Occupied Palestine. We are missing out on inside stories and on violations.
ISMer's neck shows strangulation marks where she was dragged across the floor by Israeli border police with her Kaffiyeh. Photo: ISM
Other possible factors
We provided you with some reports and proofs of the increase in violations against Palestinian journalists and news agencies but there might be other possible factors contributing to the decline in official reporting.
When we talk about the coverage of news in Gaza we must consider the dire economic situation. Are the agencies still able to pay professional journalists and translators?
Another possible factor is the risk journalists take every week to cover the Great March of Return in Gaza. As we could witness journalists and medics are a profound target for snipers along the border fences. Already two journalists were killed since the start of the marches and 360 others got injured. Palestinian journalists know very well that their press vests and camera's will not protect them but instead harm them. Will journalists continue to take these risks to lose their lives?
This gap in local news coverage is a dangerous development. Where the mainstream media already tend to use Israeli newspapers as their source, the decline in the supply of local news will result in an even more unbalanced display of Israeli violations. We can all read the news on personal accounts and websites but many of these violations are not brought into official news and people will always ask for official sources. The outcome is a biased reality. It seems that we see a decline in Israeli violations but in fact this comes from Israel violating Palestinian media freedom. We may conclude that Israel in an effort to protect its status quo as tolerated occupier tries to silence everything that may harm or influence that status. We also may conclude that Facebook, Google and WhatsApp Messenger are complicit in these Israeli attacks on Palestinian media freedom.
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By Editorial Desk Last updated Sep 15, 2022
CPF's Director for finance, strategy and Investments, Joseph Rono
The County Pension Fund (CPF) is forecasting higher growth margins for the year, casting buoyancy on a rebounding investor confidence that had been disadvantaged from the economic fallout in the just determined general elections and the Russia-Ukraine war.
Speaking at a press conference, the Group's Director for finance, strategy and Investments, Joseph Rono projected a sharp rebound in the economy for the remainder of 2022, in what he believes will see the group surpass last year's net revenue it posted for the year ended December 2021.
"Yes, we have felt the impact but from our projections, we don't see those challenges hugely impacting on our pension side of business, in fact we are inching closer to our target for the year," noted Rono
The fund is targeting a net earning of Sh 32 Billion for the year 2022, up from Sh27.97 billion it posted last year. The firm returned a Sh19.49 billion in revenue for the year ended December 2020.
The firm is betting big on diversification of its investments to boost this year's performance having invested in other other assets likely not to be affected by the depreciating value of Shilling such as offshore vehicles and unquoted equities.
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The country's annual inflation rate has been rising on account of many macroeconomic factors including the Covid-19 pandemic but has intensified due to the ongoing European war.
The ensuing effect of rising inflation – which is a general increase in the prices of goods and services in an economy, has seen a slow growth in consumer spending among Kenyans, with most households opting for cheaper alternatives to the products they were accustomed to.
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If you're not a huge fan of creepy, add a little mystery! I've read Maisie Dobbs or the Alan Bradley series for the event. Can't wait to see what other books you choose!
I've read a few of the Flavia books, but I'm not caught up yet. I've been meaning to read Maisie Dobbs for ages. Thanks for the fantastic suggestions!
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I hopped over and checked out your post. You have some great books lined up for the challenge and I'm excited to see what you think of them.
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(1872–1959), Yiddish prose writer and playwright. Dovid Pinksi was born in Mogilev, Belorussia, where he received a traditional and secular education and became acquainted with Russian literature and theater. At age 13, he moved to Moscow and tried his hand at writing in Russian. In 1890–1891, Pinski lived in Vitebsk and was active in the local chapter of Ḥoveve Tsiyon. A year later, on his way to Vienna, hoping to study medicine, Pinski stopped in Warsaw, where he met Y. L. Peretz. Pinski remained in that city from 1892 to 1896. His first pieces in Yiddish were marked by his close collaboration with Peretz and the latter's circle, who were developing new and radical approaches to modern Yiddish literature in particular, and Jewish culture in general.
This approach influenced Pinski's creative output in those years. He became one of the main contributors to Yontev-bletlekh (1894–1896) and to the anthology Literatur un lebn (Literature and Life; 1894), publications under Peretz's editorship that played a pioneering role in disseminating radical and socialist thought among Jewish workers, to the extent possible under tsarist censorship. Peretz and Pinski positioned themselves quite close to the founders of the Jewish labor movement in Eastern Europe, and laid the foundation for Jewish worker literature in its various genres: serious fiction, popular scientific articles, and feuilletons. Pinski was also involved in distributing publications by the group, and he helped to organize zhargonishe komitetn ("jargon committees"), which established libraries and disseminated reading matter to workers. In his travels, he came into direct contact with groups that then formed the core audience for modern Yiddish literature.
Pinski mainly wrote short stories, but also published articles and brochures on popular science under the pseudonym D. Puls. Because the possibilities for Yiddish publishing in Russia were very limited, he also wrote for the radical Yiddish press in America. A significant number of his stories were printed there even before being published in Eastern Europe.
In 1896, Pinski settled in Berlin to study at the university. This move effectively marked the end of his East European period. In Berlin he continued to contribute to the radical Yiddish press in New York and remained active in Yiddish publishing endeavors. At that time he also made his first serious attempts at playwriting.
Pinski emigrated to America in 1899, remaining there until finally settling in Israel in 1949. His extensive literary output in America included short stories, novels, plays, and essays. Pinski's nationalist Jewish and Zionist ideology were major factors in his fondness for historical topics, both in his prose and in his dramatic works. Among the many plays he wrote, Der oytser (The Treasure) and Yankl der shmid (Yankl the Blacksmith) attained the greatest popularity. Der eybiker yid (The Eternal Jew), with its messianic content, was among the first plays produced by the Hebrew-language Habimah Theater in Moscow (Ha-Yehudi ha-nitsḥi; 1920).
Pinski's most significant contributions to modern Yiddish literature during his East European period were his short stories. They were published in 1910 in a three-part collection: Libe (Love) and Altinke (Old People) in volume one, and Arbeter-lebn (Workers' Lives) in volume two. Even the title of the second volume shows the writer's dedication to the working class; in it, he also included stories about characters on the margins of society who were not necessarily workers. The potential for artistic nuance in these stories was strongly limited by Pinski's tendency to polarize the characters, either through external class divisions or through their inner capacity to show initiative and readiness to struggle. His efforts to write about the modern world often resulted in artificiality and pathos. Many of Pinski's early pieces focused on the arousal of the strong and sometimes extreme feelings of individuals who collided with an insensitive and cruel environment. Pinski's early stories played a significant role in the modernization of Yiddish prose.
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Christi had her first acceptance to a "Call for Art" at the Sip, and the opening was tonight! The theme, "Peace". It was very nice to see her work hanging, and to see all her friends come to support her. I think they filled half the coffee shop.
Here are the photos that were accepted. The photo I took of them on the wall has lens flare, hence why you need to see the originals.
Here are some photos from inside The Sip. Enjoy!
The next morning we went to LaPorte, and drove by a neat place with old stuff, and private property stay off all over. So these were taken from the road.
I found out that Calumet College of St. Joseph, Whiting, IN, was hosting a free admission show for pop-culture and comic art. I was very happy to see Chris Guzman's work with his boxing gloves on display, and other fellow followers of Paul Henry's Art Gallery there, like Mary LeVan and Rick Therrio. Our region is full of talent, and people wanting to go see it.
Here a a few photos I took of the evening.
What is really cool, is that there will be a NWI Commic-Con February 21st, at the Halls of St. George, in Schererville, IN. This one is large, great for cosplay, and a very affordable price for admission. For more information go check out their FB page by clicking "here". You can see a vid on last years event by clicking "here".


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Man fires shotgun found in trash at B.C. needle exchange
A volunteer at a Nanaimo needle exchange found a loaded sawed-off shotgun in a garbage can and fired it, thinking it was a toy gun. Bystanders called 911 at 10 a.m.
Nov 2, 2017 1:24 PM By: V.I.A.
A volunteer at a Nanaimo needle exchange found a loaded sawed-off shotgun in a garbage can and fired it, thinking it was a toy gun.
Bystanders called 911 at 10 a.m. Tuesday after they heard a shotgun blast near Harris House Health Clinic on Franklin Street.
The 31-year-old volunteer was cleaning up garbage when he found the shotgun in a garbage can, said Nanaimo RCMP spokesman Const. Gary O'Brien. Fellow volunteers heard him make an off-the-cuff comment that he didn't think the shotgun was real.
"He picks it up, racks it and pulls the trigger," O'Brien said. "He pointed it at the ground, thank goodness."
The blast bounced off the pavement, but did not injure anyone.
Mounties in high alert responded to the area and told the man to put down the gun. He told police it was an accident.
Police seized the gun, which had no other rounds inside. The man will not face charges.
The RCMP does not know who put the shotgun in the garbage can or how long it had been there, but believe it was at least 24 hours. "This could have had tragic consequences if a child happened to come across it," O'Brien said.
Forensic investigators will check the firearm's serial number to see if it is recorded in any police databases and to determine whether it has been used in any reported crimes, he said.
"The message this screams is: 'You treat every firearm as real and loaded until such time you know otherwise.' "
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As we prepare to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we can hardly remain composed in our mourning. Rather than observe silence as the deepest mourning is solitary, we feel like shouting.
The Russian Orthodox Church said on Monday (15 October) it had decided to sever all relations with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in protest over its endorsement of Ukraine's request for an "autocephalous", or independent, church.
The Czech president refused on Sunday (7 October) to back down from comments slamming what he called a 90% unemployment rate among the country's Roma, earning a rebuke from campaigners and rights activists.
Romania's constitutional court ruled Thursday (27 September) that gay couples should have the same family rights as heterosexuals, a judgment that runs counter to a referendum next month seeking to interdict gay marriage.
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias on Thursday (20 September) hailed an agreement with Macedonia on changing its name and opening the way for it to join NATO and the European Union.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker made a point of delivering his plenary speech at the Three Seas Initiative forum in Bucharest in French, bucking the trend of other world leaders attending the event on Tuesday (September 18).
The euphoria triggered by the FIFA World Cup quickly gave way to divisive, ugly debates about national identity and race, around players of diverse ethnic origins. These controversies highlight the need for measured exchanges on belonging in today's Europe, writes Michael O'Flaherty.
The UK government has taken the somewhat unprecedented step of translating the executive summary of its Brexit White Paper into 22 European languages.
Germany plans to use public money to support companies which invest in Africa, part of a new "Marshall Plan" with which it hopes to tackle the roots of the refugee crisis that has convulsed European politics since 2015.
Riga's plans to impose Latvian as the main teaching language in minority schools has created tension among some of its ethnic Russian population, resurrecting a long-running dispute with Latvia's former Soviet masters.
The growing popularity of English as a medium of instruction at Dutch universities is ringing alarm bells among local lecturers and students, with some now even calling for government intervention.


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Neanderthals May Have Taught Humans to Join a "Cult" 130,000 Years Ago
The golden eagle has a special role in human culture. It was important to Neanderthals, too.
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The Altai Mountains — a jagged set of ridges named for the Mongolian word for gold — stretch from the Gobi Desert to the Siberian Plain. Fittingly, they are home to the golden eagle and, on occasion, nomadic hunters climb high up these mountains to capture golden eagle nestlings. These eagle hunters participate in a modern version of an ancient relationship — one that is so old it didn't originate with Homo sapiens at all.
Another sort of human once lived in the Altai Mountains as well: Homo neanderthalensis, aka the Neanderthals. In a study titled "Neanderthals and the cult of the Sun Bird," published this month in Quaternary Science Reviews, a team of anthropologists reveals that Neanderthals trapped and hunted golden eagles at least 130,000 years ago. Arguably, this means that Neanderthals were the first humans to practice catching these eagles with seven-foot wingspans, a behavior that the researchers think modern humans later learned from Neanderthals.
After combing through previous research on sites where Neanderthals lived, the four-person team — three of which are a family of scientists — noted the remains of golden eagles have been found at 26 sites. These were not the only birds the Neanderthals captured; bones belonging to vultures, other eagle species, ravens, and jackdaws have been found at Neanderthal sites as well. Because golden eagles nest at difficult-to-reach cliff edges, it's theorized that Neanderthals ambushed and caught them when they flew down to feast on carcasses.
A modern day eagle hunter in Mongolia.
The golden eagle seemingly was a bird of special importance to the Neanderthals. It's the bird of prey they captured most frequently, and the way it was butchered indicates that it wasn't sought out purely for food. Importantly, the discovered golden eagle wing bones have cut marks along them. Wing bones contain little meat, so the idea is that what was being sourced were their feathers. Additionally, the bones also contain cut marks between the legs and feet, a sign that the Neanderthals were removing claws and talons. Golden eagle jewelry specifically hasn't been found, but white-tailed eagle jewelry has, so it's likely the feathers served a similar purpose.
Co-author Stewart Finlayson, Ph.D., the director of the natural history department at the Gibraltar National Museum, tells Inverse that catching eagles for feathers and talons "suggests symbolic capacities not previously ascribed to Neanderthals."
"We are changing our understanding of the Neanderthals and reversing the notion that they were ape-like brutes," Finlayson says. "The idea has been that modern humans were much more intelligent and taught the Neanderthals. Here, we show that the practice of catching eagles began long before any modern humans arrived in Eurasia from Africa."
Cut marks found on bird bones discovered in Neanderthals sits in Gibraltar.
The context for associating symbolism with golden eagle feathers and talons is, however, decidedly human. These birds of prey are found across North America, Europe, and Asia. In turn, where they are found, there is a history of humans paying a certain level of reverence to the bird. In North America, indigenous tribes see the golden eagles as sacred and the emissary of gods. It's the national symbol of five countries and plays a role in the mythology of the Celts, Norse, Romans, and Greeks.
The overpowering of golden eagles by Neanderthals also represents a change in a power dynamic. Eagles once preyed upon another human relative, Australopithecus africanus, and even took down Neanderthal children. More archaeological finds are needed to demonstrate how Neanderthals mastered their own attacks, but the evidence they did is in the bones that surrounded their homes.
The Golden Eagle has played a prominent part in the cultures and traditions of people across Eurasia and North America. The Neanderthals have for a long time been considered incapable of systematically catching birds of any description. Recent work has demonstrated that not only were they able to catch birds, they also took diurnal raptors. In this paper, we show that Neanderthals selectively took the largest raptors at their disposal within Eurasia. Among these large raptors was the Golden Eagle, the most powerful and dominant of the raptors. Neanderthals and Golden Eagles co-shared the same habitats and landscapes across the Palaearctic region. We show that the long human/Golden Eagle association goes at least as far back as the Neanderthals.
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Barely Half of Colleges Validate Use of SAT, ACT as Success Predictors
By Catherine Gewertz on June 15, 2016 8:21 AM | No comments
Most colleges and universities rely to some degree on ACT and SAT scores in their admissions processes, but only half do research to establish that those scores are good predictors of success in college, a new study finds.
Released Wednesday, the study by the National Association for College Admission Counselingraises a question that goes to the heart of the debate about the transition from high school to college: When colleges and universities place significant weight on admissions test scores, is that practice based on solid research?
NACAC surveyed about 400 of its member colleges and found that 78 percent require students to submit SAT or ACT scores, but only 51 percent conduct what are known as "predictive validity" studies, which follow students as they progress through college. By tracking student behavior, such studies can show whether college-admission scores do a good job of predicting whether students will earn good grades and stay in school.
Research Urged to Support Role, Weight of Test Scores in Admissions
The new report says that conducting predictive validity studies of college admissions tests is more important now than ever because "recent changes in the content of the SAT, increased use of the SAT and ACT as high school assessment instruments, and the changing demographics of the student population who take the tests, could all affect the predictive validity of test scores."
NACAC undertook the survey as part of its ongoing effort to help its member institutions better understand the appropriate weight of various factors during the admissions process. A NACAC commission that looked into the use of standardized tests in admissions recommended in 2008 that institutions that use admissions tests conduct their own predictive validity studies.
Unsurprisingly, money is one of the big things that keeps colleges and universities from doing their own predictive validity studies. But NACAC's report includes an examination of 11 colleges that did conduct the studies, and all of those schools found that high school grades predict college success better than scores from admissions tests.
"Overall, it is clear that high school grades are by far the most significant predictor of college academic achievement. In addition, for all the schools interviewed for this project who examined the subject, standardized testing made a significant contribution to the ability to predict college academic performance."
How Should Grades, Test Scores, Shape College Admissions?
A number of other studies have reached the same conclusion, including this one that examined outcomes at test-optional colleges. Others, such as this one, by University of Minnesota researchers, have found that admissions tests and grades predict college performance about equally.
One study on the ACT's predictive power found that a student's high school grades and ACT scores do a good job forecasting his or her first-year college grades, but that it's first-year performance—not ACT scores—that predict a student's likelihood of staying in college in successive years. Another, done by ACT, found that students who scored at the organization's "college readiness benchmarks" were more likely to enroll in college after high school graduation, earn good grades, stay in college, and earn degrees.
The College Board has long argued that SAT scores, combined with high school grades, are the best predictors of college performance. It redesigned the SAT and gave that test for the first time in 2016, so it's too early to track the college performance of students who take it. But the College Board asked 15 four-year colleges to administer the pilot version of the new SAT to freshmen in the fall of 2014, and then report on their performance the following June.
It concluded that scores on the new SAT are positively related to students' first-year college performance, and are slightly better than students' high school GPAs at predicting success in first-year college courses. Begining with students who enter college in the fall of 2017, the College Board will conduct additional research to track students who took the new SAT through college to determine the relationship between those test scores and students' course grades, persistence in college, and college completion, a company spokesman said.
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Gang of nine Asian men arrested for 'grooming white teenage girls for sex'
By Jaya Narain for MailOnline
Updated: 11:01 EDT, 11 January 2011
A gang of Asian men has been arrested over claims they plied more than a dozen underage white girls with drink and drugs before turning them into sex slaves.
The vulnerable girls - some as young as 13 - say they were forced to work the streets as prostitutes and hand over money to the men.
The nine men - eight of them Asian - were questioned by detectives after officers swooped on a number of addresses.
Jailed: Last week two Asian men who prowled the streets of Derby in a BMW (pictured) were sentenced for grooming white girls
The arrests in Rochdale, Greater Manchester took place shortly before Christmas and are the result of a major inquiry into the sexual exploitation of teenage girls by men since 2008.
They come just days after a nationwide investigation was launched following a string of disturbing cases across the Midlands and the north involving men of Pakistani heritage grooming mainly white girls.
Last week Abid Saddique, 27, and Mohammed Liaqat, 28, were jailed for a total of 19 years after targeting underage girls.
The sexual predators - both British-born fathers of Pakistani origin who had arranged marriages in that country - cruised the streets of Derby in either a Range Rover or a BMW looking for vulnerable young girls to prey on.
The girls were 'chatted up' by the men at the roadside and invited to go for drives in the
car - one of which was dubbed the 'Rape Rover' - where they were plied with vodka or cocaine before being taken to hotel rooms, parks or houses to be sexually abused.
The case prompted controversy after former Home Secretary Jack Straw described some of the white girl victims as 'easy meat' for gangs who trawl the streets looking for sex.
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Research shows there have been 17 sex gang prosecutions since 1997 - 14 in the last three years - involving girls aged 11-16.
Last year a middle-class, privately-educated schoolgirl - also from Rochdale - was rescued after being forced to act as a sex slave to a gang of Asian men.
The troubled 14-year-old was targeted with vodka and cigarettes after being spotted by the gang wandering the streets.
She was made to have sex with a string of men before being pimped out as a white under age prostitute in Manchester city centre.
The girl was eventually saved when she flagged down a passing car whilst being chased down the street by one of the men.
Nine men - all Asian - were later jailed after admitting a series of serious sexual offences against the teenage girl including facilitating child prostitution.
The girl, who was forced to testify in a series of separate trials, is now working to put her life back together in a rehabilitation unit.
Retired police chief Mick Gradwell claimed pressure not to appear 'institutionally racist' led to a culture of silence over Asian sex gangs.
Mr Gradwell, a former detective superintendent in Lancashire, said: 'You have girls
being abused and raped and yet the most senior officers are refusing to comment on it. On what other subject would you get that?
'How many young girls have been abused and raped because of the reluctance of the authorities to say exactly what is happening?
'I worked on operations which had been set up to tackle, amongst other things, an element of Asian men who saw white girls as easy meat, as Jack Straw rightly put it. It was a persistent issue.'
He said: 'Some white girls are attracted to groups of Asian men because some are quite wealthy, shower them with gifts and drive round in fancy cars,
'The main pressure police have is being called institutionally racist if they highlight a crime trend like this. There's a fantastic reluctance to be absolutely straight because some people may take such offence.
'Rather than concentrating to solve and prevent it the bigger issue becomes 'Can we point out a crime trend in an ethnic minority'?'
In the latest inquiry detectives have arrested the men aged between 20-40 after 14 underage white girls claimed to have been targeted for sex.
The girls - several of whom are missing from home - said they had been plied with drink and drugs then taken to flats and houses for sex.
Some of the girls were also said to have been forced into prostitution and passed amongst various other men.
The suspects - who were all bailed until March - were arrested on suspicion of child sex and prostitution offences.
In the latest inquiry senior officers at Greater Manchester Police have held a high level 'Gold' meeting to discuss the welfare of the 14 young girls.
Chief Superintendent John O'Hare said: 'This is an extremely complex investigation and the welfare of the victims is absolutely paramount.
'Both GMP and Rochdale Council have working strategies in place to combat child exploitation and will work together to prosecute people who target vulnerable children and young people.'
Cheryl Eastwood, director for Children's Services at Rochdale Council said: 'The service has taken necessary steps to ensure appropriate support is in place for any young person who may be affected as a result of these arrests.'
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Ebola toll hits 2,400 as Cuba pledges medics
GENEVA, Nina Larson- The worst-ever Ebola outbreak has killed more than 2,400 people, the UN said Friday, as Cuba pledged the largest foreign medical team deployed so far in the west African health crisis.
World Health Organization chief Margaret Chan warned the spiralling epidemic of the murderous tropical virus demanded a stronger, faster response from the international community.
In the three hardest-hit countries, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, "the number is moving faster than the capacity to manage them," she told reporters in Geneva.
As of Friday, 4,784 people had been infected with Ebola and more than 2,400 of them had died, Chan said.
She did not specify if the figures also included Nigeria, which has reported 21 cases, eight fatal, since the deadliest Ebola outbreak on record began in Guinea at the start of the year.
Senegal has also seen one confirmed case of Ebola -- a Guinean student who has recovered.
While hailing that no other cases have yet emerged, WHO cautioned Friday that the country remains a "high risk" of further transmission.
Transmitted through bodily fluids, the tropical virus can cause fever, vomiting, diarrhoea, organ failure and internal and external bleeding, killing more than half of those infected.
There are no licenced treatments or vaccines for Ebola, but the WHO has endorsed rushing out potential cures and hopes a tentative vaccine will be available by November.
- Blood transfusions might help -
In the meantime, the UN health agency has said blood transfusions from people who have survived Ebola can be used to help boost antibody defence in those infected.
Hospital officials said Friday that an American doctor being treated for Ebola in Nebraska had been given such a blood transfusion from another American doctor who recovered from the virus.
Rick Sacra, a 51-year-old Christian missionary doctor infected with Ebola in Liberia, had been upgraded from serious to good condition, after a week of receiving plasma from recovered Ebola patient Kent Brantly and an unnamed experimental drug, they said.
While experimental treatments raise hope of eventually finding a cure, Chan stressed Friday that "the thing we need most of all is people" on the ground.
She welcomed a pledge from Cuba to send 62 doctors and 103 nurses to Sierra Leone, where more than 500 people have died.
The UN's announcement came as health officials in Sweden said they were conducting tests on a patient with a possible case of the virus.
Results are expected Saturday from the unnamed patient who "comes from a country in west Africa" affected by Ebola, a spokesman told AFP.
The WHO estimates that another 500 foreign health professionals and around 1,000 local doctors and nurses are needed to stop its deadly surge through west Africa.
The Cuban health workers will remain in the region for six months, Cuban Health Minister Roberto Morales Ojeda told the Geneva news conference.
All have "previously participated in post-catastrophe situations," and all volunteered for the mission, he said.
Cuba, which has a long tradition of sending its world-renowned medics to help with situations around the globe, has pledged the biggest team to date to take part in the Ebola fight.
The United States has already sent some 100 medics, and the African Union has pledged to send around 100 more, while a range of other countries have pitched in with smaller teams and other aid.
WHO and the Doctors Without Borders charity meanwhile each count around 200 international medical experts on the ground in the region, while WHO has 300 more on standby.
- 2,000 orphans in Liberia -
While welcoming the push in Sierra Leone, Chan said Friday the situation in neighbouring Liberia was especially desperate, without a single bed left to treat Ebola patients.
The UN vowed its peacekeepers, who have been there since the country emerged from 14 years of civil war in 2003, would "stay the course."
The UN mission would "help the people of Liberia and its neighbours to get through this terrible crisis," UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous told AFP late Thursday.
The UN children's agency warned Friday that the outbreak was already taking an especially dire toll on children in Liberia, which is expected to face an "exponential increase" in infections.
In addition to falling victim to Ebola themselves, many children are losing their caregivers, with some 2,000 orphaned in Liberia alone, said Sarah Crowe, head of UNICEF's crisis communication in Liberia.
Children who lose family members to Ebola meanwhile can face "deep stigma", and are often rejected by the community and forced to roam the streets without proper parental care, shelter or food, she said.
Around 20 percent of children who have lost family members to Ebola in Liberia are under the age of two, according to UNICEF.
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We want to get married; does my soldier need to ask permission?
You no longer have to ask formal permission to get married but some units do retain the tradition of asking the Commanding Officer for permission. It is probably best the soldier checks the form at their unit. The soldier does have to ensure that they update their details on JPA to let the army know they are married and any change of address. They should also update their Next of Kin details.
If you live on a camp within the wire, once you are married you should visit your Unit Welfare Office or Guardroom to be issued a dependant's card so you can have access to and from camp.
I am getting married soon but my soldier is currently based overseas. How can I join him and how do we apply for a quarter?
Ask your soldier to contact his Regimental Administrative Officer (RAO) for details on your entitlement to travel out there and removals cost. Unless you are getting married and moving abroad within three months of an assignment start date you are unlikely to be entitled to removals etc. so will need to factor these costs into your plans
To apply for a house, you need to apply via the paper 1132 form, rather than online. Ask your soldier's Unit Welfare Office for more details.
I am nervous about moving to a new area that I don't know. How do I meet people or know what's going on?
The Unit Welfare Office are a great first point of call and can help signpost you to information about the area and let you know of any coffee mornings or socials coming up.
The HIVE is an invaluable source of information. Details of your local HIVE are available here – HIVE Information Centres. They can provide you with information about houses, schools, nurseries, children's activities and much more.
We're getting married soon, how do I find out what I'm entitled to and where do I get advice on financial issues?
The Money Force website provides some great advice on dealing with your finances, from planning for emergencies, entitlements, budgeting and saving.
I am getting married soon, when can we apply for our quarter?
Quarters are referred to as Service Family Accommodation (SFA). You can apply for your SFA up to 4 months before your wedding date. The Amey Occupancy Services Team have 15 working days in which to offer you SFA.
You need to ensure that you apply as soon as possible to allow time for them to make you an offer, for you to accept and then arrange removals and any required furniture.
I am entering a civil partnership, are we entitled to SFA?
Yes, any service personnel who are 18 or over and married or in a civil partnership and have at least 6 months left to serve are entitled to SFA.
How do we apply for SFA?
All applications in the UK are made via the online E1132 form via DII or intranet enabled terminals. This means that the service person needs to complete the form. If they are away, eg on operations, you can ask your Unit Welfare Office to assist you in completing the form or can potentially complete a paper version of the form.
For more information on how to apply for SFA, click here. There is also helpful information on the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) website.
When we can we move into our SFA?
You can take possession of SFA up to 2 weeks before you are married to allow you to move belongings and kit in. You are not permitted to live in the property until after you are married.
What type and size of SFA will we be allocated?
The allocation depends on the number of children you have if your spouse is an Other Rank (ie Private, Lance Corporal) and the rank of your spouse if they are an Officer. For further information on entitlement to SFA, click here.
How do we pay rent and how much does SFA costs?
The rent comes directly out of your soldier's pay.
You are entitled to challenge the grading of your SFA or SSFA within 28 days of move in. Click here for information on rates and charges.
What if there is no SFA available in the area?
If when you apply for SFA, there is nothing available in the area, you will be given the option to accept a Non Availability Certificate (NAC), which means they will find a hiring for you (private rental). For more information on SSFA, click here.
I have a question about housing, who do I speak to?
A good first point of call is the Unit Welfare Office, who should be able to help or tell you the right person to contact. The Amey Occupancy Services Team is the main point of contact for housing and allocation of SFA.
Will the army pay for the removals for us to move into our first SFA?
No, the army does not pay for your first move into SFA, you have to fund and organise this yourself.
If you are moving overseas on marriage within three months of a new posting order you may be entitled to removals, your soldier should contact the RAO for details on removals funding.
Do I have to provide my own furniture?
The army can provide furniture for the house but you pay an increased rental price. This can be booked when you apply for SFA via the E1132 form. You do not have to have army furniture and can bring your own.
Will there be white goods in the quarter, eg washing machine, dishwasher?
No, you have to provide these yourself. The army do not provide them.
What if I don't like the SFA they have offered me?
You are able to turn down your first offer for personal reasons and will be offered a second property. However, if there is limited SFA available in the area, it may not be possible to offer you a different property at entitlement and you may not like your second offer. You cannot turn down your second offer for personal reasons unless they are exceptional.
Click here for more information about considering refusing your first offer and the implications of this.
What is a 'March In'?
March In's are now referred to as Move In's and is the appointment you have when you take over your SFA. You will be met by the local Accommodation Officer (AO). You will be able to look round and check the property is at the acceptable standard for you to move in. It is very important that any issues noted at the move in appointment are recorded on the move in paperwork before you sign for the SFA. For more details see the Moving In / Moving Out page.
What is the 14 day report?
When you move in, you should check the house is up to standard and report any issues or problems, including about the conditions of the property (eg marks on carpet) to the AO. At Move In, your Housing Officer should leave you with a 14 day Observation Report form to complete. More information about the 14 day report is available on the Moving In / Moving Out page.
You should not use the 14 day report to report any repairs needed to the property, eg broken tap and the report will not generate any necessary repairs. If something needs fixing and you are in the UK, you need to report to Amey on 0800 707 6000. If you are overseas you will need to contact your local housing maintenance provider.
We are getting married soon but my spouse has a disability, can the army help me?
Yes, if your spouse or child has a disability or additional need, you need to register this with the Army Personnel Centre. This is done through the Career Management Notification Proforma at Annex A of AGAI 108. If the disability or additional need is such that adaptations to SFA are needed, please click here for more information. There are more details in JSP 464, or click here.
We are moving into our first quarter, can I use the army doctor/dentist on camp?
Generally, no. The Defence Medical Services usually only provide medical and dental support to service personnel. In some areas, you may be able to register with the Garrison Medical Centre, rather than the local NHS GP, if you wish to. Ask at your Unit Welfare Office or HIVE for more details.
We are getting married and moving to a new area. We have a child who is on an NHS waiting list for treatment, what happens to their place on it?
The Armed Forces Covenant makes a commitment that families of members of the Armed Forces who are patients on an NHS waiting list have the time already accrued taken into account if they are posted elsewhere.
We've just got married and I am having some problems, where can I get some support?
In the first instance, you can contact your Unit Welfare Office who can support you and signpost you to other organisations who can help. If you would rather not contact the Welfare Office, the Padre is also a good source of help.
The Army Welfare Service can also provide support and to contact the AWS Intake and Assessment Teams (IAT) call: 01904 882053 or 882054 or email: AWS-HQ-IAT@mod.uk
SSAFA are a military charity who support service families and can be contacted via the SSAFA Forcesline
The Army Families Federation can also provide information and advice, email additionalneeds@aff.org.uk
We have children and are getting married and moving into a SFA. How do I apply for schools?
You need to apply to your Local Authority for a place at school. The OFSTED website can provide information and inspection reports for local schools. More information on schools admissions and general schools issues is available on the Admissions and Appeals page.
What happens if the school I want to send my child to has no places?
You will need to apply in the usual way and if you are unhappy with your allocated place, you may consider an appeal. More information on this is available on the Admissions and Appeals page.
What is the Service Pupil Premium?
This is a scheme which provides pastoral support to schools with children from service families. For more information, click here.
How do I find out about childcare in my new area?
The HIVE is a great first point of contact. The OFSTED website can provide information and inspection reports about local childcare providers, as can the Local Authority website. More information is available on the Early Years & Childcare page.
For all F&C information, please see the Foreign & Commonwealth section.
I am from a non-EEA country. I am currently in the UK and am planning to get married to a soldier. What do I need to do?
You need to read the information about marriage in the UK for foreign nationals, click here
Once married you will need to apply for a visa to remain here as the spouse of a soldier. Click here, then click on 'Visas to remain in UK (for applications on or after 1st Dec 2013)' then 'limited leave to remain' for all information.
**You should be aware that being married to a serving soldier does not give you an automatic right to remain in the UK, you must meet all of the requirements listed at the link above.
I am in a non-EEA country. I wish to come to the UK to marry my fiancée who is serving soldier. I wish to remain in the UK after our marriage.
You will need to apply for a visa to enter the UK using the online application form. You will need to select the 'settlement' option, then the 'marriage' option. You will granted a visa for 6 months. You will need to provide evidence that you will be getting married in the UK within 6 months. You cannot enter the UK on an normal 'visit' visa if you intend to remain in the UK, you need to apply for the correct visa to enter.
For information about getting married in the UK if you are a foreign national click here.
For further information about all of the requirements and the evidence you will need to provide for a visa for the UK, click here. You will need to meet the minimum income requirement as well as the English language requirement.
Once married you will need to apply for a visa to remain here as the spouse of a soldier before your 6 month visa expires. Click here, then click on 'Visas to remain in UK (for applications on or after 1st Dec 2013)' then 'limited leave to remain' for all information.
Please be aware that it is usually cheaper to get married in your home country and then to apply for the visa to enter as you would only need to apply for one visa.
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Experimental investigation of the influence of the liquid drop size and velocity on the parameters of drop deformation in air
R. S. Volkov, O. V. Vysokomornaya, G. V. Kuznetsov, P. A. Strizhak
Research School of High-Energy Physics
The Butakov Research Center
The deformation of water, kerosene, and ethyl alcohol drops traveling a distance of up to 1 m in air with different velocities (1–5 m/s) is recorded by high-speed photography (the frame of the cross-correlation camera is less than 1 µs). It is shown that the shape of the drops varies cyclically. Several tens of "deformation cycles" are found, which have characteristic times, drop size variation amplitudes, and number of shapes. It is found that the velocity and size of the drops influence the parameters of their deformation cycles. Experiments with the drops are conducted in air at moderate Weber numbers (We < 10).
Technical Physics
Published - 17 Aug 2015
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Volkov, R. S., Vysokomornaya, O. V., Kuznetsov, G. V., & Strizhak, P. A. (2015). Experimental investigation of the influence of the liquid drop size and velocity on the parameters of drop deformation in air. Technical Physics, 60(8), 1119-1125. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063784215080290
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In: Technical Physics, Vol. 60, No. 8, 17.08.2015, p. 1119-1125.
Volkov, RS, Vysokomornaya, OV, Kuznetsov, GV & Strizhak, PA 2015, 'Experimental investigation of the influence of the liquid drop size and velocity on the parameters of drop deformation in air', Technical Physics, vol. 60, no. 8, pp. 1119-1125. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063784215080290
Volkov RS, Vysokomornaya OV, Kuznetsov GV, Strizhak PA. Experimental investigation of the influence of the liquid drop size and velocity on the parameters of drop deformation in air. Technical Physics. 2015 Aug 17;60(8):1119-1125. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063784215080290
Volkov, R. S. ; Vysokomornaya, O. V. ; Kuznetsov, G. V. ; Strizhak, P. A. / Experimental investigation of the influence of the liquid drop size and velocity on the parameters of drop deformation in air. In: Technical Physics. 2015 ; Vol. 60, No. 8. pp. 1119-1125.
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Robotic Assistance Devices Announces First Security Guard Robot Deployment
Posted on November 7, 2017 April 23, 2019 by vin
Reno, Nev., Oct. 4, 2017 — On the Move Systems (OMVS: OTCPK) is pleased to announce that Robotic Assistance Devices (RAD), its wholly owned subsidiary, has deployed its first security guard robot at the headquarters of Romeo Power Technology in Vernon, Calif. The 113,000-square- foot facility will benefit from the addition of RAD robotic personnel, and will augment the existing security, safety and operational processes in place at the site.
"RAD is the perfect partner to help us increase safety, enhance productivity and control access to our facility," said Michael Patterson, Romeo, CEO and co-founder. "In addition, our partnership allows us to gather data from the artificial intelligence market, which we know will play an ever-growing role in our business."
Romeo is the exclusive battery pack technology partner to RAD. Romeo lithium-ion battery packs power RAD's fleet of security guard robots, providing 12 hours of continuous operation regardless of terrain or climate. Additionally, these advanced battery packs enable RAD robotics to experience four continuous years of use without replacement.
Romeo, founded by engineers and designers from SpaceX, Tesla, Samsung, Apple and Amazon, is an energy storage technology company leading the charge in battery pack innovation, safety and reliability for vehicles and stationary storage.
"We are pleased to deploy the first robot at Romeo Power Technology — part of our robot-as- a-service delivery model that differentiates us from other robotic and artificial intelligence providers," said Steve Reinharz, President, RAD. "As we move toward exceeding our 2017 delivery targets, we continue to experience significant and growing market interest in our solutions, which are designed to augment existing security teams."
The Security Guard robots, which are optimized with RAD's customized services and solutions, deliver a cost-effective solution to augment traditional manned guard services. The robots serve as force multipliers and remove security personnel from potentially dangerous situations, reducing liability. The combination of human personnel with robotic technologies creates a strong value proposition that results in new levels of security and streamlined operations.
About Romeo Power
Romeo Power makes the most powerful and energy-dense battery packs in the world. Top engineers and designers from SpaceX, Tesla, Samsung, Apple, and Amazon, started Romeo Power in 2015 with the belief that safe and reliable energy is crucial to the advancement of human health and economic development. Today, the energy storage technology company leads the charge in battery pack innovation, safety and reliability for vehicles and stationary storage. For more information go to https://romeopower.com.


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Q: Grid Scruffy products, leaping out of the area, css float: left: I am creating a grid of products where they getting left aligned and always getting in this way: http://i.imgur.com/dlUPvPf.jpg
this class would be in charge of organizing the product this way:

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width: 188px;
min-height: 218px;
margin: 0 12px 30px 0;
float: left;
background: url("../imagens/produto_img_prateleira.png") no-repeat 0px 125px;
}

The final form is getting that way
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HELP-ME PLEASE! THANKS ;)

A: If you have a fixed grid with four elements per row, and you want every 5th element to break onto a new row, you can use nth-child:
element:nth-child(4n - 3) {
    clear: both;
}

In your example case, that's:
.center_conteudo ul.Dot_ListaProdutosULClass li.Dot_ListaProdutosLIClass:nth-child(4n - 3) {
    clear: both;
}

Note that some older versions of IE do not support the :nth-child selector.

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MML Ireland backs management buy out at Fastway Couriers Ireland
Fastway Couriers (Ireland) is delighted to announce that MML Ireland has made a significant investment into the business, supporting management in providing an exit for the original shareholders.
The transaction was also supported by bank financing provided by AIB Corporate Banking. The investment will help drive the continued growth of the Fastway network in Ireland, which now handles over 15 million parcels a year and generates annual revenue of over €70 million.
Fastway Couriers (Ireland) was founded as a franchise in Ireland in 2001 having originated in New Zealand in 1983. It has grown rapidly in recent years and now has over 300 local courier franchisees across Ireland, each with their own business. Between these business owners and other staff, the Fastway (Ireland) network now facilitates the employment of over 550 people across the country. The network's recent growth has been driven by customers such as Shop Direct (Littlewoods Ireland), ASOS, Boohoo, MissGuided and iParcel. Its Parcel Connect business, is Ireland's largest pick-up and drop-off network and typifies Fastway's approach to technological development and service enhancement. Now serving over 850,000 users, Parcel Connect has fast become Ireland's leading platform for online shopping services.
MML Ireland is backing Fastway Ireland's existing management team, led by CEO Bobby O'Keeffe, who is maintaining a significant stake in the business. Mr O'Keeffe, formerly a senior operator with Intel for over 15 years, invested in the Fastway system initially by investing in the Midlands regional depot in 2002 before acquiring the Dublin region in 2005 and being appointed Group CEO in 2009. Under O'Keeffe's leadership Fastway in Ireland has moved from a local business-to-business model to a cross-industry delivery network, specialising in the eCommerce fashion and clothing delivery space.
The MML Ireland investment was made through MML Growth Capital Partners Ireland, a €125 million fund supported by Enterprise Ireland, AIB and a number of international institutional investors. The fund is dedicated to backing small and medium sized private businesses located on the island of Ireland.
Bobby O'Keeffe of Fastway Ireland commented:
"We are delighted to receive this investment and welcome MML Ireland into the Fastway Ireland team. We see it as a tremendous validation of our business. MML Ireland was our preferred investment partner due to their proven capability of working with growth oriented businesses. The MML Ireland team are flexible and creative in their approach and we believe they are the right people to help guide and support us to even greater success over coming years."
Neil McGowan, who led the deal for MML Ireland, said:
"MML Ireland is excited to partner with Bobby and his senior team. Fastway has a very strong reputation and is growing very quickly against the backdrop of a rapidly changing and developing eCommerce retail space. We have been enormously impressed with the team at Fastway and believe they are very well placed to drive the business to its maximum potential."
Colin Hunt, Managing Director of AIB Wholesale, Institutional and Corporate Banking, said:
"AIB is delighted to be partnering with MML Ireland and Bobby and the Fastway team. AIB is committed to backing Irish businesses across the full capital structure and the Fastway transaction is a great example of this support. We look forward to working with the Fastway team to further support the business over the coming years."
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