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January 5, 2017 John Wadsworth
directed by Rian Johnson
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A self-styled sleuth sits at a kitchen table, crunching through some cornflakes, talking business with a drug lord. The mobster's mother, a little old lady in a pastel dress, bustles about fixing up an apple juice. He takes a break from nibbling an oatmeal cookie to kiss her on the cheek for her troubles, an affectionate gesture at odds with his hard-headed demeanour. She shuffles out and the hospitality ends. The visitor is left with a choice: he must offer some information, or have it beaten out of him.
Brick follows Brendan, a surly loner-cum-investigator who, after receiving a cryptic phone call, finds his ex-girlfriend's body in a ditch. He interrogates leads and searches for clues, as we would expect, but the case centres on his Southern Californian high school. Many of the scenes take place in corridors and on sports fields. The suspects are students who don't seem to do a lot of studying. Instead, they play dress-up, taking on the role of brooding detective, femme fatale, or henchman.
The film's nods to hardboiled genre precedents are both knowing and numerous. Brendan's only ally is a seemingly omniscient classmate called The Brain, an homage to the noir informer. While his forerunners dwelt in dingy taverns, hunched over the bar, he slumps by the lockers with his rucksack. The dialogue that Brendan and The Brain share is dense, littered with slang, and delivered at bullet-speed: 'They'd flash their dusty standards at the wide-eyes and probably find some yegg to pin.'
The conspicuous setting, young cast, and raw energy give the film the feel of a high-budget high-school production, but there is no playing to the camera here. The figures that inhabit this stylised, impermeable world do so with a swagger and a straight face. Just as the titular block of heroin lures in the town's adolescent gangsters, Brick drags us towards its dark, dense epicentre. Those seeking instant gratification will do so in vain; it's our nerves that take a hit.
Words by John Wadsworth
View the teaser trailer for Brick here. Watch a supercut of the film's extreme close-up shots here, courtesy of a Vimeo user called Roman Holiday. Read an annotated script on Rian Johnson's website.
Mike D'Angelo has analysed Brick's opening scene for The A.V. Club, with further comments from Rian Johnson. Lauren Schwartz's making-of documentary, Building Brick, can be seen here.
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Supermodel Lara Stone Says Her Body Used to Feel "Like a Gimmick"
Here's the advice that changed everything for her.
By Alison Syrett Cleary Updated Feb 12, 2019 @ 9:00 am
Credit: In a Valentino dress. Photo: Yelena Yemchuk.
Lara Stone has petted wild wolves, made out with a mannequin, and hoisted furniture above her head all for the sake of creating a memorable photo. But just don't ask her to pose underwater.
"I will squeeze my eyes really tight and puff out my cheeks," the Dutch model says, recounting one particularly intense underwater bondage-themed shoot. "I was like, 'Oh my god, I can't do this,' so the crew let me sort of float on top of the pool."
Credit: In Chloé vest, Stephen Jones Millinery hat, and Gaspar gloves. Photo: Yelena Yemchuk
If anyone has earned the right to negotiate new terms on set, it's Stone. Scouted as an "awkward, pimply, and lanky" 14-year-old during a family holiday in Paris, she spent eight years doing small catalogue jobs before landing her first high-fashion break: an exclusive spot in Givenchy's fall 2006 couture show (at the special request of Riccardo Tisci, the brand's creative director at the time).
Credit: In a Louis Vuitton jumpsuit and blouse and Stephen Jones Millinery headband. Photo: Yelena Yemchuk
Other major houses, like Prada, Versace, and Calvin Klein, were quick to take notice of her icy blond hair, insolent pout, and, of course, signature Botticellian curves. In an era when waifish figures were still dominating the runways, the rising star's womanly (albeit tall, leggy, and slim) shape was a refreshing change.
But despite all this outward success, there were times when Stone felt uncomfortable in the body that was garnering so much attention.
Credit: In a Maison Alaïa coat, Berluti hat, and Balenciaga boots. Photo: Yelena Yemchuk
"At first, it seemed everyone was like, 'Oh, look, she has big boobs,' " Stone says. "It felt like a gimmick." It also didn't help that nearly all her contemporaries were sample size or smaller. "I was self-conscious about being bigger than everyone else but didn't want to go on a crazy diet," she says, reflecting on that period of self-doubt — and some wise words from fellow model Guinevere van Seenus that helped her see it through. "She was like, 'Just be proud of who you are and how you look and everything will just fall into place.' And it did," says Stone.
This advice seems to have stuck. Now 35, Stone says she's stopped wasting energy worrying about how she may or may not appeal to clients. "I don't have to work with every single person in this industry to be happy."
Speaking on the phone from her home in London, Stone certainly sounds content as she describes Alfred, her lively 5-and-a-half-year-old son with her ex-husband, comedian David Walliams. While Alfred is still too young to fully understand what mom does for a living, he's developed a head for style by proxy.
Credit: In a Marc Jacobs coat and neck scarf and Wolford tights. Photo: Yelena Yemchuk
"He likes to dress smartly," says Stone. "For him that means wearing his favorite tie-dyed NASA T-shirt. He's very much into accessories and will tell me to wear the most sparkly pair of shoes." Stone, on the other hand, prefers a simple pair of sneakers. Most of the time she's dressed for "normal mom things": school drop-offs and pickups, long hikes through her neighborhood park, and building Legos with Alfred. ("He gets big sets every Christmas, but they're really for me," she says.)
Credit: In a Balenciaga coat, Berluti hat, and Balenciaga boots. Photo: Yelena Yemchuk
Although Stone's schedule these days revolves around being a parent, she remains a regular on some of the industry's more revered catwalks, including Max Mara and Alexander McQueen last fall.
Something else that hasn't changed? "I still find runway shows absolutely terrifying," she admits. "It's not my favorite thing, having all those people staring at me."
Luckily, her most captive audience is far less intimidating. "I'm usually in jeans with a topknot, so Alfred loves when I get dressed up for an event," she says with a laugh. "He goes, 'Mommy, you look like a princess. You're beautiful!' " We second that, kid.
Styled by James Valeri. Hair: Martin Cullen for Streeters. Makeup: Petros Petrohilos for Streeters. Manicure: Emma Welsh for Frank Agency. Production: Chantelle Shakila Tiagi.

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Diagnotes is bringing secure, mobile communication to a doctor near you
By Joshua HallMarch 22, 2016
Healthcare mishaps happen so frequently that nearly everyone has a story. Whether a grandmother gets medication intended for another, or a child with asthma gets a double dose, the cause of medical mistakes can often be tracked to a breakdown in communication.
Doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals do their very best (often amidst chaos or unreasonable workloads at a minimum) and care deeply for patients. It's the outdated systems and strict HIPAA regulations that have so far hamstrung healthcare enterprises from communicating faster and better with modern devices — like the ones the rest of us use every day.
Dave WortmanChairman, CEO & Co-founder of Diagnotes
"Fax machines, pagers and a desktop computer at some far-away nurse's station are still the norm in hospitals and physician offices because the rules and regulations have made it difficult to apply innovative, new communication and collaboration technologies like we've done in virtually every other industry," said Dave Wortman, chairman, CEO and co-founder of Diagnotes — a HIPAA-compliant software-as-a-service platform that enables and tracks patient-centric communication — text messaging, in particular.
The phenomenon of bringing digital tools into healthcare is still relatively new, driven to a great extent by the 2009 HiTECH Act which provided incentives for healthcare providers to adopt and use electronic health records while addressing privacy and security concerns. Implementing EHR systems has been the IT focus for most healthcare organizations since then, also impacted by the dramatic shift in payment and reimbursement policies based on patient outcomes rather than the number of procedures performed. While EHR systems are a big step forward, they haven't magically solved everything and new challenges have emerged.
"The vast majority of healthcare spending is now coming from the consumer as a result of high deductible plans and health savings accounts instead of being hidden behind insurance payment walls, and traditional retail metrics are starting to take hold. Metrics like patient satisfaction matter more now than ever," Wortman said. "There is a huge opportunity for us [Diagnotes] because healthcare is undergoing a major transformation and we have a platform that solves several of the biggest problems providers are facing while serving as a complement to EHR systems."
The Diagnotes platform allows entire healthcare enterprises to communicate with each other using their own devices — smartphones, tablets and computers — with secure access to patient records and workflows that identify doctors and nurses on call. It's an effective collaboration system that functions according to the way people communicate today with texting usually being a first choice and phone calls second in preference.
The benefits to healthcare providers can be significant because studies show communications problems impact both cost and quality — two factors that are top-of-mind for every provider.
Using Diagnotes, providers and staff can communicate with individuals or groups via secure text messages and phone calls that are routed to the right person based on specialty, location and availability. Key patient data like X-rays or lab results can be attached to text messages, and all activity is documented and archived for care continuity and billing purposes.
The newest frontier for Diagnotes is engaging patients and caregivers themselves via bi-directional secure text messages and phone calls so that providers can use a single platform for all communications. For example, a doctor simply gives her patient a 10-digit phone number to text with questions and the entire exchange takes place within the Diagnotes platform, which is documented and HIPAA compliant.
Diagnotes is available via iOS, Android, and web apps. In addition, administrators have access to web-based administration and reporting capabilities.
Based on early results of doctors and patients texting one another, medication adherence has gone up by 50 percent among participating patients.
The addressable market for Diagnotes is huge with more than 5,700 hospitals and about 780,000 physicians throughout the U.S. Now that the bulk of healthcare organizations have implemented some form of EHR, Wortman and his team believe the time is right to scale the company nationally because these organizations are turning their attention to solving the communications problems that are wasting money and negatively affecting quality of care.
The company has 20 active clients today that are a mix of hospitals/health systems and physicians groups including IU Health, Community Health Network, Eskenazi Health, and Hospice On Call. They are targeting more hospitals and health systems, post-acute care organizations, nursing homes, hospice and home healthcare groups for customer acquisition outside of Central Indiana.
"We have a unique solution that fits the way healthcare organizations work. We're in the right market at the right time with the right platform to mitigate risk, reduce costs and improve quality for a wide variety of healthcare enterprises," Wortman said.
In an effort to raise the visibility and accelerate the growth of Indiana tech companies, each week we will spotlight a growing company with a compelling story. In particular, we will spotlight scale-up companies that are rapidly emerging and could become our community's future success stories. Visit this page to learn more the Tailwind program and see if your company qualifies.
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So, I'm not usually a network person. But for one of my projects, I have been working on building an Android app that can control a robot over a local network. The idea is that we will have an Android phone or tablet talking to a Ubuntu PC. I feel like this might be useful information for someone starting from scratch (like I am) so I figured I would post it online here.

Now, all that this requires is writing to and reading from sockets, which isn't terribly complicated.

In Python, opening and closing ports is handled with the [socket package](https://docs.python.org/2/library/socket.html). So it's pretty easy to write up a little server in python to run some tests:

```python
#!/usr/bin/env python

import socket

s = socket.socket()
host = socket.gethostname()
print "Hostname = ", host
port = 12321
s.bind((host,port))

s.listen(5)

while True:
    c, addr = s.accept()
    print 'Connection from', addr
    msg = c.recv(4096)
    print msg

    c.close()
```

And a client to go along with it:

```python
#!/usr/bin/env python

import socket

s = socket.socket()
host = socket.gethostname()
port = 12321
s.connect((host,port))
s.send('Test!')
```

With these two, whenever I run the client I will get output that looks like this:

```
Connection from ('127.0.0.1', 42337)
Test!
```

<p class="message">
When running these python scripts, note that if you want to want the port you are opening to be visible across the network you need to set the hostname to "0.0.0.0".
</p>

Nice, right? So let's try to write the Java version of that code. Java defines Socket in a similar way, so we could do something like this:

```java
Socket s = new Socket("localhost",12321);
```

If so, we will run into a couple problems with Android, though. For one thing, Android does not allow you do to any networking in the main thread: you'll get [this wonderful exception](http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/NetworkOnMainThreadException.html). This issue is described pretty clearly [here](http://developer.android.com/training/basics/network-ops/connecting.html).

For another, we need to make sure you give your Android app the right permissions, as shown in this manifest file:

```xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.mycompany.app" >

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>

    <application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
        <activity
            android:name=".MainActivity"
            android:label="@string/app_name" >
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
    </application>

</manifest>
```

So, the core questions are:

  * How can I send the information I need between my server and the Android tablet?
  * Should I just be using something like [rosjava](https://github.com/rosjava/rosjava_core) since this is a robotics project?

I'll update on what we end up deciding soon!

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The desire to look best, better than the rest and availability of money has made a simple profession of tailoring into an art called Fashion Designing. People have realized that clothes are not simply about putting two things together and stitching them. It's a creative art, wherein lot of in depth knowledge about colours, cuts and matching is required. With the film and television industry titillating the mind of young generation, the interest in dressing up has really caught on. This has prompted many to choose fashion designing as career. Tapping this potential are many institutes which provide fashion designing courses across the length and breadth of our country.
Fashion Designing is the creative art to apply aesthetics to clothes or accessories. It has really become popular in our country as around the world. Surprisingly it's the Tier 2 and 3 cities where the craze to adopt fashion designing is more as compared to the big metros. Of course it's the big cities which lead as far as quality fashion designing education institutes are concerned. Students from small cities prefer to come and study in big cities as the exposure to the trade and education quality is better.
Apeejay Institute of Design, New Delhi.
Many of these institutes like the NIFT, has branches in many parts of the country. The students can enroll in the branch nearest to their home towns. Some branches are better known for their education quality but the course is at par at all the centers across the country. Some of the institutes like NIFT and NID conduct a national level entrance test for admissions, while the other institutes intake students on the basis of marks scored in 10+2.
2 year Masters in Design, M.F.M. and M.F.M. Tech.
The prospects in this field are immense. With the growth of the export in textile and apparels from India and the retail market booming with the economical liberalization, the demand for professionally qualified workforce in this field is rocketing sky high. Garment Export houses, retail chains, online retailers are some of the potential employers. Creativeness and a relative professional degree take you a long way in this field.
Besides, the best part of making fashion as your career is that it gives you a freedom to work independently and start up your own boutique or a fashion house. No wonder the fashion designing courses are so much in demand these days.
"Being a freelance Marketing and Human Resource consultant for the last 17 years, Manoj Malhotra has had the opportunity to gain exposure and thorough knowledge about people and their behavioral patterns and an insight into varied fields." He regularly contributes her ideas about different educational information like IT courses, about interior designing courses, medical courses and many more.


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Adult & Child Baptisms. It is always such a special time in a church family's life, when young children are baptized. We were blessed to have baptized several children over the past year. In addition to children's Baptisms, we had an adult baptized before he joined the church. We have had additional adults join as well.
Birthdays and Anniversaries. One Sunday a month, after Worship services, we celebrate birthdays and anniversaries of our church family.
Bonfire & Weiner Roast. Each fall, the congregation gets together for a bonfire and wiener roast. Toasted marshmallows and s'mores are always enjoyed by those who attend.
Chancel Choir. Our Chancel Choir presented special music at our 7:00 p.m. Christmas Candlelight Worship Service.
Children's Message. Each Sunday morning during worship, a children's message is presented. The children enjoy this special time of the service.
Luncheons and Christmas Party. The Pastor and his family have prepared luncheons and Christmas parties for the congregation every Holiday Season.
Miss-Match Sunday. In an effort to chase the winter blues away, we celebrated a Miss Match Sunday.
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25th Anniversary. Pastor Bob Martin and his wife Peggy, celebrated their 25thWedding Anniversary last September.


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January 25, 2021 Toni Bilandzic
What does the data tell us about this season's unpredictable Serie A title race?
It has been a long time since the Serie A was so competitive and tense. Juventus have won the title for nine seasons in a row and most of those times, they won it by a large margin. Napoli, Roma and Inter were the teams that have come close to dethroning Juventus in the last nine seasons, however they all ended up short on that account. This season, however, reminds us of the period at the beginning of this century when there were quite a few teams that could win the title. Some of the top teams are looking to exploit Juventus' unexpectedly bad campaign thus far and push for the title. We are witnessing an AC Milan renaissance with the veteran Zlatan Ibrahimović as the key figure of their successful season so far, while the likes of Roma and Inter Milan also have credible shouts to be in the title race.
Through this data analysis we will take a look at the numbers of the Serie A clubs so far and compare them across different statistics. This analysis will show us which teams could have an advantage over their table rivals based on the data. From the top seven teams only Inter will not participate in the knockout phase of European competitions which could be an advantage for them in this season's tight schedule.
Performance and expected goals model
The first graph we will analyze consists of created metrics called defensive and offensive performance. Both metrics are in percentage value and they represent the team variance between xG and goals.
There are four teams that are overperforming for both expected goal values on this graph: Sassuolo, Napoli, Juventus and Inter. We can see that Sassuolo are overperforming defensively by around 40% with only Milan and Hellas Verona in front of them. However, both Milan and Hellas Verona are underperforming offensively while Sassuolo are the biggest offensive overperformer with around 20% better outcomes than expected. Juventus, Napoli and Inter are close on the graph, and also on the league table. It is a little worrying for Juventus that they are overperforming in both metrics but they sit in 4th place meaning they haven't played at the level everyone expects them to be at. Hellas Verona are the biggest defensive overperformer and big praise goes to Marco Silvestri for this. Silvestri has managed to keep 5 clean sheets and concede 18 goals in 19 matches making Verona the team that has conceded the least number of goals in the league. Udinese have not shown too many poor performances this season, however they are the biggest underperformers and could probably be in the top half of the table if they had a better conversion rate. Fiorentina are a team that has made a negative surprise on this graph given the number of well-known players they have in their squad.
The next graph will show us xG values to see the quality of the team based on the quality of chances created and allowed.
Based on this graph we can see why Sassuolo and Hellas Verona are such big defensive overperformers, since both teams are in the top left quarter which means they concede a lot of chances and don't create many chances. The top seven teams are accompanied by Udinese in the part of the graph with teams that create many chances and don't concede many chances. Atalanta, for the second season in a row, are allowing the lowest amount of xG against per 90. Most people wouldn't mention them as the team that has the best defence, but their high pressure keeps opponents far from their goal for most of the match. The two Milanese clubs are the only two clubs with more than 2.3 xG per match, but they are conceding more xG against per match than the other top teams. Genoa, Parma and Crotone are creating small amounts of chances which has led to their low position on the table. Newly promoted Benevento are looking way better than Crotone in their comeback season in Serie A. Benevento have created way more quality chances and are allowing slightly fewer quality chances than Crotone which is the reason why they are in a safe position in the middle of the table. Cagliari have conceded the most xG against per match and they are the worst team in the league when it comes to conceded goals (37).
In this section, we will take a detailed look into teams' shooting and passing tendencies, while also analysing how dangerous they are from set-pieces. First we will take a look at how often teams shoot and what is their average shooting distance.
Napoli are shooting the most in the league, but they shoot from further distances. This is understandable when you have quality inside forwards who tend to shoot from outside the penalty area when they cut inside on their stronger foot. Inter, Atalanta, Juventus and Roma shoot more than 13 times per match and tend to shoot from closer distances to goal. However only Inter from the mentioned teams shoot from a much closer distance and it is part of their philosophy to deliver the ball into the penalty area for their deadly duo Romelu Lukaku and Lautaro Martinez. Fiorentina shoot from closer distances as well, but they are low volume shooters and they should tend to shoot more often. Crotone are the only team in the league which shoot from more than 19 metres on average which is a clear indicator of their lack of patience during attacks and tendency to shoot whenever possible.
On the next graph we will evaluate the passing tendencies of Serie A teams. It will show us which teams are more direct and which teams tend to play more positional football. The size of the circle represents the average possession in %.
We can see that Sampdoria are the most counter-attacking team in the league with the lowest average possession while tending to attempt a lot of long passes and avoiding lateral passes if possible. Claudio Ranieri's tactics were successful for Leicester and he has tried to replicate that with the Sampdoria squad as well, even playing in a similar formation. Hellas Verona, Genoa and Spezia are the other teams that tend to play more direct football. Juventus play the most positional football in Italy, patiently building attacks and avoiding playing too many long balls. Sassuolo play the lowest amount of long passes per 100 passes and they seem like an unusual team given all the graphs we evaluated so far. They are the biggest overperformers in the league, however their playing style doesn't indicate that their primary objective is to prevent opponents from scoring before making direct fast-paced attacks. Instead Roberto De Zerbi demands patient build-up which has proved successful for Sassuolo this season.
The last graph in this section will show us how dangerous teams are from set-pieces in Serie A.
Juventus are the team which shoots the most after set-pieces. They are the only team that are shooting more than five times per match, on average, following set-piece situations. Napoli and Benevento have a lot of set-pieces and they manage to shoot often following them. Atalanta and Inter have the least number of set-pieces per match but they manage to attempt an above-average number of shots after set-pieces. Only Benevento have scored more goals from set-pieces than Inter with 10 goals compared to Inter's 8 goals from set-pieces. Genoa are the only team that hasn't scored from a set-piece situation so far which is concerning for them because set-piece goals could give them a boost in their fight to avoid relegation.
In all the graphs over this section, we can see that Atalanta, Inter, Milan and Juventus are very hard to separate on these metrics, and therefore decide which of these teams is playing better than the other. It is interesting to see such similar numbers from the top teams which sets up the second half of the season for a close title race.
In this last section, we will take a look at teams' success in duels and also their tendency to press higher and active attempts to regain possession. The graph below shows how successful teams are at defensive duels and aerial duels.
The best defence in the league based on expected goals models shows why they have shown such quality in their defending. Atalanta are winning more than 3% more defensive duels than the next team on this chart, Genoa. They are the best for aerial duels success rate as well. We can see that Juventus, Milan and Sassuolo are the other teams who are above average in both metrics. Inter are below average for defensive duels success rate, but they are strong at aerial duels which is to be expected given the aerial ability of their players, especially the centre-backs. Crotone and Genoa win the lowest amount of aerial duels; this lack of aerial quality should worry Genoa and it is surely a reason why they still haven't scored from set-pieces.
In this graph we can see teams' PPDA per match (passes allowed per defensive action) and recoveries in the final third per match. We haven't mentioned Bologna in this analysis yet, but they are trying to press the most in the league and they are pretty successful given the amount of recoveries high up the pitch. They are followed by Hellas Verona, Juventus and Milan. Juventus and Milan are also successful in their pressing actions, but Atalanta are the most successful team in terms of high pressing. Parma have separated themselves from the rest as the team that defends deep in their own half with a tendency to defend more passively.
Based on the defensive statistics we can conclude that Atalanta's quality stands out compared to the other teams.
Through this analysis, we evaluated various metrics that indicate how the Serie A teams perform compared to each other. Based on performances so far, we are facing an unpredictable race for the title given the number of serious contenders. It will be interesting to see whether Pirlo will find the winning formula for Juventus' bid for their 10th title in a row, or if one of his ex-clubs breaks this winning streak. Atalanta's defensive numbers show that they cannot be ignored as a contender, because they also can outscore anyone on their day. Every Serie A fan should be excited for the second half of the season.
Recruitment and data analyst for Total Football Analysis. Spending hours watching football games and video scouting players.


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How to beat the Government's Car Tax Increase
But act quickly- it comes into affect on April 1st!
Alistair Ryder
Local car, truck and van buyers could save hundreds of pounds if they buy and register a new vehicle before April 1st and beat the Government's car tax increase. Next month marks the introduction of a radical change to the Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) imposed on new cars registered in the UK, and motorists who miss the March deadline to register a new car are likely to find themselves paying up to £700 more in road tax over five years.
To beat the tax increase, car buyers must order and register their vehicle by March 31st. A vehicle registered on or after April 1st 2017 will be subject to a first year VED charge based on its CO2 emissions. The only vehicles exempt from the charge will be those emitting no CO2 at all. A petrol or diesel vehicle emitting between 91-100g/km of CO2 will be subject to a £120 first-year charge and then £140 per year for each of the next five years. Vehicles in the next bracket of 101-110g/km will be subject to a £140 charge from year one.
The radical changes to the Government's VED rates mean that a petrol car with emissions of just 99g/km CO2, which will cost £0 to tax for five years if registered before April, will now be subject to total VED charges of £680 over the first five years.
A Nissan Juke is one of the vehicles likely to be affected by the tax increase
As an example, buying a Fiat 500 1.2 petrol before 1 April will incur a total tax cost for the first three years of ownership of £40. First year VED is currently zero-rated and each year thereafter costs just £20. Register the exact same vehicle on or after April 1st and it will incur annual VED costs of £140 – a difference of £380 over three years. The same is true for popular crossovers like the Nissan Juke 1.5 diesel, but those considering either car could save hundreds of pounds by ensuring that they buy and register their car before the end of March.
A DVLA expert explains what you need to know about car tax changes
Any vehicle costing over £40,000, regardless of CO2 emissions, will also incur additional VED charges of £310 per annum from years two to six.
Fraser Cohen, Managing Director of Glyn Hopkin said, "People thinking about buying a new car, truck or van have less than a week left to beat the impending VED changes. We're already seeing a significant uplift in demand – in part because of the tax changes, but also because of the significant deposit contributions currently available across many models."
Glyn Hopkin represents 12 brands, including Nissan, GTR, Renault, Dacia, Fiat, Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Suzuki, Honda, Mitsubishi, Jeep and Infiniti. The independent group's first dealership opened in Romford in January 1993 and Glyn Hopkin now has more than 40 showrooms across London and the South East.
For more information on the April tax changes and how they may affect you, please visit glynhopkin.com/news/upcoming-alterations-to-the-vehicle-excise-duty-ved/.
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Long Conversation, an epic relay of one-to-one conversations among some of the Bay Area's most interesting minds, took place over 6 hours in San Francisco on Saturday October 16, 02010. Interpreting the Long Conversation in real time was a data visualization performance by Sosolimited; an art and technology studio out of M.I.T.
Long Conversation was presented with a live performance of 1,000 minutes of composer Jem Finer's Longplayer.
This is one conversation out of the 19 that took place as part of the Long Conversation. Media links for the other Conversations are available here.


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Our mandate with iMotoHR was to develop a mobile application with GPS functionality for members of the Fédération Québécoise des Motos Hors Route (FQMHR).
The FQMHR, responsible for the development of this sector of activity in Quebec, represents two types of users: trail motorcyclists and park motorcyclists. The federation lists more than 7,000 kilometers of marked and accessible trails with 23 private parks throughout Quebec. The federation wanted to offer its users a powerful navigation tool that could meet the needs of two types of off-road motorcyclists. iMotoHR is the best solution to achieve this goal since it allows users to located themselves on the trail network and to easily find points of interest such as shops and off-road motorcycle parks nearby.
The iMotoHR mobile application, centerpiece of a project made for the FQMHR, promises to be a revolution in the field of off-road motorcycling in Quebec. Optimized for iOS (iPhone and iPod Touch) and Android devices, it provides off-road motorcyclists in Quebec a powerful navigation tool.
Whether it is for federated trails accessible to off-road motorcycles, parks, services or tourist attractions, iMotoHR lists and positions them on the map. The user can see his position relative to the network with the precision of a local or regional map, while keeping an overview of the province network. The application quickly became a must for off-road motorcycle enthusiasts!
An updated version of iMotoHR for mobile tablets, allowing users to fully take advantage of their device. The interface has been redesigned to use the free space on the screen to its fullest. This makes the use of iMotoHR HD much more easy and comfortable.
The iMotoHR.ca website contains all the information about the mobile application. In addition to maximizing the application's visibility, the website allows users to get in touch with Appcom for any question, suggestion or support request. It was developed in line with the highest industry standards and is perfectly suitable for all screen sizes and popular browsers (Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer). In addition to having access to all the documentation relating to the application, users can find the download links to get the application.


My name is Brenda Scott and I am a retired Perioperative Registered Nurse. I enjoyed a very long nursing career and worked full time for 34+ years at our local community hospital. Working in the operating room meant many hours of "on call" and many hours of overtime in addition to my regular hours, but it was a challenging and rewarding career and I would not change anything about it. My husband retired in 2006 and I retired in 2008 and we have loved the new found freedom that retirement has given to us. During our working years my husband and I also raised two children. Both are grown now and have left the nest and we have a delightful two year old grandson. We are very blessed.
I've always loved dolls, especially tiny baby dolls for as long as I can remember. In fact I still have 4 of my favorite ones. This passion has been shared with both my mother and sister who both love and collect dolls. My sister designs knitting patterns for my small babies and my mother brings them to life with her knitting needles and crochet hook. I would like to also give credit and a special thank you to my talented friends on eBay & Facebook who have also created some of the beautiful outfits seen in some of these pictures.
Years ago my mother and I took a weekly class of porcelain doll making with a wonderful and talented lady named Stella. Although I enjoyed that type of doll making I always longed to sculpt my own doll and many times had said to my mother "Someday I am going to sculpt my own doll."
My quest to sculpt a doll began after retiring when I stumbled upon the MacPhersons Arts and Crafts website in St. Mary's, Ontario. When I was viewing their online site I noticed they had a one day class for sculpting a 6 inch one-of-a-kind (OOAK) baby. I told family and they surprised me with a gift certificate for the class and thus the journey began. The class was taught by Dawn McLeod and when I finished that day and took home my very first sculpted baby I was hooked! I continued to practice, watch tutorials on YouTube, etc, trying to get all the info I could to improve my work. Later I took another class at MacPhersons Arts and Crafts in St. Mary's with Dorothy Stevens.These two talented and wonderful artists were always so helpful during and after the classes that I would like to extend a thank you to both of them. They helped me immensely with not only information but with lots of encouragement.


School meals at the Academy are provided by Entrust in partnership with Chartwells, please see below the current menu.
Please click on the link below for the current menu and prices.
Please see the files below regarding allergen information for school meals, from our provider Chartwell's. Please click the link to access the pdf (i.e. Week 1, Day 1 = W1D1).


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Peekskill Daily Voice serves Peekskill, NY
Peekskill Police Uncover Organized Property Theft Ring
K Reakes
John Maxwell of Peekskill was charged with identity theft and stolen property charges. Photo Credit: Peekskill Police
Deputy Stabbed During Incident In Putnam, Sheriff Says
Alert Issued For Wanted Man Who Allegedly Stole Woman's Phone...
Fraudulently Purchased Packages Being Delivered To Innocent A...
PEEKSKILL, N.Y. -- Peekskill police investigating a string of property thefts from local vehicles throughout the city have uncovered a much larger and more organized ring, with the arrest of a second man, said Peekskill police.
Detectives investigating the case served a search warrant at the home of John Maxwell, 23, on Buena Vista Ave., on Tuesday and arrested the Peekskill man on felony identity theft and stolen property charges after finding a credit card reported stolen from a vehicle in Peekskill in late November, police said.
Maxwell's arrest follows last week's arrest of Tyler Daniel, 24, who was charged with multiple counts of criminal possession of stolen property after thousands of dollars in stolen property was found in his possession, police said.
Police were led to Maxwell after their initial investigation took them to multiple locations around Westchester County where Daniel used stolen credit cards to illegally purchase electronic equipment, police added.
During the investigation, police identified Maxwell as an additional suspect which led to the search warrant and subsequent recovery of additional stolen property, officials said.
Police now believe that Daniel, Maxwell, and at least one other individual have been entering vehicles for at least the last five months, and stealing thousands of dollars in cash, property, and credit cards which were then used to purchase thousands of more dollars in electronic equipment throughout Westchester County.
Chief Eric Johansen praised those involved in the investigation for their diligence which has at least temporarily put a stop to the larcenies plaguing the city for the last several months.
"To get in your car first thing in the morning to find that valuable property has been stolen is incredibly frustrating, and then to find that you have once again been victimized by identity theft leaves a victim with a double shot feeling of being violated," Johansen said. "One can only hope that the criminal justice system takes these crimes seriously and recognizes the dozens of victims that have not only had their property stolen but have also had to go through the process of restoring their identity's which often takes hours and even days of corresponding with banks, credit card companies, and fraud protection services."
Daniel, who was arrested Wednesday, Feb. 8, was released after posting $1,000 bail following his appearance in Peekskill City Court.
Maxwell was released without bail following an appearance in Peekskill City Court on Wednesday.
Both could face additional charges as the investigation continues, police said.
Anyone with information on additional suspects or potential crimes are asked to contact the Detective Division at 914-737-8000.
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Nikon Microscope Camera Control Unit DS-L3 | EINST Technology Pte Ltd.
Nikon's newest and most versatile microscope camera control unit DS-L3.
The Digital Sight DS-L3 is Nikon's new stand-alone microscope camera controller. The DS-L3 stand-alone control unit is versatile, easy-to-use and provides effortless camera control and microscope operation via mouse or touch panel operation (finger or stylus).
Easy to see and easy to use, the large built-in 8.4″ 1024 x 768 touch-screen monitor allows setting and operation of the camera head at the touch of a finger or stylus.
With the DS-L3 viewer iOS application, images can be easily captured, saved and shared right through the iPad.
The App is available for free on the iTunes App Store.
From image acquisition to setting of shooting parameters, measurement, and export of image data, all operations can be performed easily via touch-screen.
Optimal imaging parameters for each sample type and observation method can easily be set through the icons. A choice of five modes for biological imaging and four modes for industrial imaging are available, and up to seven custom modes with freely confi gurable shooting parameters can be set.
The DS-L3 reduces or eliminates diagonal line jaggedness in images and improves color reproduction as well, reducing unevenness in sample colors caused by cameras.
The DS-L3 includes a wide range of tools for annotation, drawing, measurement and calibration.
The DS-L3 can be controlled via PC using Nikon's NIS-Elements software (available separately). The DS-L3 can also be used as is for advanced analysis and image processing.
Images acquired or under observation can be viewed simultaneously on the DS-L3, a projector, a PC monitor, etc. Through split-screen display, simultaneous viewing of an acquired image and a live image is possible, as is upload of images to an FTP server.
Saving to a wide range of media (CF cards, Microdrive, USB memory devices, etc.) is possible, as is network transfer. Direct printing to PictBridge printers is a standard feature. Print scaling can be set and adjusted.


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Stocks making the biggest moves after hours: Avis, Stryker and more
In this article GT HOLX IDXX Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A customer waits for his car at the garage of Avis Budget Group at the San Francisco airport. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in after-hours trading. Avis Budget Group – Shares of the budget
Homebuilders say they're on the edge of a steeper downturn as buyers pull back
A worker drills plywood on a single family home under construction in Lehi, Utah, on Friday, Jan. 7, 2022. George Frey | Bloomberg | Getty Images The once-hot housing market is cooling off at an alarming rate, and some homebuilders say it will only get worse come the new year as new orders dry up.
Infrastructure Act funds will help Kentucky with abandoned coal mines
Kentucky will benefit from $74 million in federal funds from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Actto tackle the problems created by abandoned coal mines. The announcement came from Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland at a press conference in the state's capital earlier this month. "We have a once-in-a-generation investment to address these sites with
Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott list their first shared home for $21.9M
Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott have listed the Beverly Hills mansion they purchased together as their first shared residence. Jenner, 25, and Scott, 31, seek just less than $22 million for the sale. They bought the property for $13.45 million in 2018; the current listing price, if it fetches that sum, would make for a
Ethereum flashes a classic bullish pattern in its Bitcoin pair, hinting at 50% upside
Ethereum's native token, Ether (ETH), looks poised to log a major price rally versus its top rival, Bitcoin (BTC), in the days leading toward early 2023. Ether has a 61% chance of breaking out versus Bitcoin The bullish cues emerge primarily from a classic technical setup dubbed a "cup-and-handle" pattern. It forms when the price
2 metrics signal the $1T crypto market cap support likely won't hold
Cryptocurrencies broke the $1 trillion market capitalization resistance on Oct. 26, which had been holding strong for the previous 41 days. Despite Bitcoin's (BTC) modest 5.5% weekly gains, the aggregate value of 20,000 listed tokens increased by 8.5% between Oct. 24 and 31. Total crypto market cap, USD (in billions). Source: TradingView The cryptocurrency market
Team Finance hacker returns $7M to associated projects after exploit
Four projects have received some $7 million worth of tokens from the hacker behind the $14.5 million Team Finance exploit on Oct. 27. Over the weekend, the attacker confirmed in a series of messages that they would keep 10% of the stolen fund as a bounty and return the other tokens to the affected projects. The
Ethereum price hits $1.6K as markets expect the Fed to ease the pressure
A $250 surprise rally took place between Oct. 25 and Oct. 26, pushing the price of Ether (ETH) from $1,345 to $1,595. The movement caused $570 million in liquidations in Ether's bearish bets at derivatives exchanges, which was the largest event in more than 12 months. Ether's price also rallied above the $1,600 level, which
Analysts looking past the week's FOMC meeting
With a 75 basis point rate hike expected, analysts will focus on clues about the Federal Open Market Committee's thought about slowing future increases. "We expect the Federal Reserve to raise the fed funds rate by another 75 basis points at the November meeting, followed by a 50 basis points hike in December," noted Scott
Bitcoin fails to break the $21K support, but bears remain shy
Bitcoin (BTC) rallied on the back of the United States stock market's 3.4% gains on Oct. 28, with the S&P 500 index rising to its highest level in 44 days. In addition, recently released data showed that inflation might be slowing down, which gave investors hope that the Federal Reserve might break its pattern of


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Q: Javascript copy to clipboard I am trying to copy some text to clipboard in a web page. I set a textbox, with its display set to "none" and populate it with some text. Then when I button is clicked, I try to set the clipboard to its content but I keep getting null.
I tried two ways of setting the clipboard: set the value of a hidden field "hfCTC" and calling ShowCTC2() and setting the value of input "ToCopy" and calling ShowCTC() and the alert shows null in both cases.
I don't want the button to do a postback, so I return false in js functions.
<input type="text" id="ToCopy" style="display:none" />
<asp:HiddenField runat="server" ID="hfCTC" />
<input type="image" id="ibCTC" src="images/CTC.png" onclick="return ShowCTC();"  />

function ShowCTC2(){
    if (document.all) // IE only
    {
        if (window.clipboardData && clipboardData.setData)
        {
            var ctrl = document.getElementById('<%=hfCTC.ClientID %>');
            var textToCopy = ctrl.value;
            window.clipboardData.setData('Text', ctrl.text);
            alert (window.clipboardData.getData ('Text'));
        }
    }
    return false;
}

function ShowCTC(){
    if (document.all) // IE only
    {
        window.clipboardData.clearData ("Text");
        select_all();
        alert (window.clipboardData.getData ('Text'));
    }
    return false;
}
function select_all() {
    var text_val = document.getElementById('ToCopy');
    text_val.focus();
    text_val.select();
    if (!document.all) return; // IE only
    r = text_val.createTextRange();
    r.execCommand('copy');
}

If I comment out the clearing of clipboard line in ShowCTC() and do a manual Ctl-C to copy something, the alert shows what I copied but the setting of clipboard data through code seems to fail.

A: This post solved the issue:
MSIE and addEventListener Problem in Javascript?.
I changed the code to the following:
<input type="image" id="ibCTC" src="images/ibCTC.png" class="js-textareacopybtn"  />
<textarea class="js-copytextarea">Hello I'm some text</textarea>

function bindEvent(el, eventName, eventHandler) {
  if (el.addEventListener){
    el.addEventListener(eventName, eventHandler, false);
  } else if (el.attachEvent){
    el.attachEvent('on'+eventName, eventHandler);
  }
}

var copyTextareaBtn = document.querySelector('.js-textareacopybtn');
bindEvent(copyTextareaBtn, 'click',function(event) {
      var copyTextarea = document.querySelector('.js-copytextarea');
      copyTextarea.select();
       try {
        var successful = document.execCommand('copy');
        var msg = successful ? 'successful' : 'unsuccessful';
        alert('Copying text command was ' + msg);
      } catch (err) {
        alert('Oops, unable to copy');
      }
    });

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Last Sunday evening, I had a mild moment of surprise when I realized I didn't know when Easter was going to be. I actually thought it was last Sunday, until I heard someone say something about the following weekend. We're not Christian, so it wasn't a big deal, but it was something of a start when I thought I'd missed it entirely.
So if you are Christian and do celebrate Easter, happy Easter!


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All this weeks classes, we will play and dance with the 2 opposite forces of gravity 'pulling' down, and the anti gravity rising up.
Already since a long time the opposites of 'forces' or energies have inspired my classes. I feel them when I move; when I press down through my body, my body rises. When I exhale I feel the weight of my body sinking down, when I inhale I feel expansion going up. When I am in handstand I feel that only the press down through the hands will bring the rest of my body into more extension. When I am basing my partner, their weight helps me to be empowered and keep them balanced in the air.
More energetically I notice the inspiration of spirit, makes me manifest on this earth, it is the grace of God, of Shiva that is manifesting through mother earth, shakti. I feel in life sometimes I need to be strong, and make decisions, be clear and find direction. And sometimes I need to be soft, receptive and receiving, go with the flow.. all is there to find balance in opposites.
Look at the picture of the unification of Shiva and Shakti, in many pictures shown as the 2 energies united in one body. Shiva, spirit descending, Shakti earth rising, and both cannot be without the other. The dance of light and dark, feminine and masculine, yin and yang, giving and receiving, rising and falling.
How do the opposite energies dance in your life? How do they express in your body?
Dieke Bikker deelt in deze blog haar ervaringen als yoga teacher.


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What to Expect from Jamba
Seth Jayson, The Motley Fool
Jamba (NAS: JMBA) is expected to report Q2 earnings on Aug. 5. Here's what Wall Street wants to see:
The 10-second takeaway
Comparing the upcoming quarter to the prior-year quarter, average analyst estimates predict Jamba's revenues will expand 6.2% and EPS will increase 52.0%.
The average estimate for revenue is $70.2 million. On the bottom line, the average EPS estimate is $0.38.
Revenue details
Last quarter, Jamba notched revenue of $55.1 million. GAAP reported sales were 3.8% higher than the prior-year quarter's $53.0 million.
Source: S&P Capital IQ. Quarterly periods. Dollar amounts in millions. Non-GAAP figures are normalized by S&P Capital IQ and may vary to maintain comparability with normalized estimates.
EPS details
Last quarter, non-GAAP EPS came in at -$0.10. GAAP EPS were -$0.11 for Q1 against -$0.15 per share for the prior-year quarter.
Source: S&P Capital IQ. Quarterly periods. Non-GAAP figures are normalized by S&P Capital IQ and may vary to maintain comparability with normalized estimates.
Recent performance
For the preceding quarter, gross margin was 35.5%, 40 basis points better than the prior-year quarter. Operating margin was -1.8%, 40 basis points better than the prior-year quarter. Net margin was -2.3%, 50 basis points better than the prior-year quarter.
The full year's average estimate for revenue is $244.6 million. The average EPS estimate is $0.40.
The stock has a three-star rating (out of five) at Motley Fool CAPS, with 845 members out of 904 rating the stock outperform, and 59 members rating it underperform. Among 180 CAPS All-Star picks (recommendations by the highest-ranked CAPS members), 164 give Jamba a green thumbs-up, and 16 give it a red thumbs-down.
Of Wall Street recommendations tracked by S&P Capital IQ, the average opinion on Jamba is buy, with an average price target of $16.50.
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Kim Jong-min (born 19 April 1947) is a North Korean footballer. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

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1947 births
Living people
North Korean footballers
North Korea international footballers
Olympic footballers of North Korea
Footballers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Place of birth missing (living people)
Association football defenders
Footballers at the 1974 Asian Games
Footballers at the 1978 Asian Games
Asian Games medalists in football
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Medalists at the 1978 Asian Games
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Interview with CAFL Coaches Clint Dolezel and J.W. Kenton
Updated: October 5, 2016
Beijing, China – September 25, 2016
LTM camera crew speaks with CAFL Coaches Clint Dolezel and J.W. Kenton, plus Beijing QB Chris Dieker, during a scrimmage work out with the Beijing Lions and Shenzhen Naja, as they prep for the 2016 CAFL Super Series starting October 1st in Beijing, China.
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With the official announcement of approval from the China government, the new professional league will be called CAFL (China Arena Football League), and the Beijing based operating company, formerly known as Ganlan Media International, will carry the same name.
"We think this acronym says it all," said David Niu, the President of AFL Global, the founding corporation based in Conshohocken, PA, USA. "The league, and all of our efforts, are unique to China. We want to highlight the fact that we are playing American-style football, not to be confused with soccer. And we want to emphasize that this is China's first ever professional league, played by the best players in the world."
Many of the rosters will feature Chinese players, who have been learning and training for the arena game specifically for over a year, at 6 select Chinese Universities, under the guidance of AFL Global.
CAFL headquarters are located in Beijing, with leadership comprised of senior media executives and sports professionals with an array of government and commercial experience.
Fore more information, contact Lou Tilley at LTilley@Tilley.tv


American Urbex started as a proof-of-concept graduate school program demonstrating how free online resources could be used to create rich education content. It is a project that has taken on a life of its own beyond the classroom. As American Urbex grows it has gained attention outside of the urbex community. Fortunately most of it has been positive. That's something I'd like to continue moving forward into the future.
If you have any feedback for American Urbex please leave a comment. I will address it as best I can.
PS: There are more podcasts coming.
I've been following your project for quite some time now and I find it very interesting!
I often skim through urbex photos thinking that a while ago these places that are now abandoned and in the process of being reclaimed by nature had people working and living there. It is one of those moments when one would say "if walls could speak"!
You do a terrific job researching and uncovering some of the stories – in a way, you're making those mould-covered walls speak.


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'It was so overcrowded that four people fainted'... why Northern passengers are protesting at Manchester Victoria tonight
Angry passengers are planning to make their point with a demonstration at the station on Thursday night. This is what they are complaining about
Damon WilkinsonReporter
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Crowded platforms at Victoria station after signalling issues caused widespread delays on November 14 (Image: Matt Goodwin (Twitter))
Angry passengers will gather at Victoria station tonight to protest about train operator Northern's 'abysmal' performance.
The demonstration is being organised by campaign group Northern Resist to highlight 'the awful service and incompetence' of Northern and the Department for Transport.
Kate Anstee, who is helping to plan the event, claimed it is a 'natural progression' for passengers to become 'more active' in voicing their displeasure at how the railways are run in northern England.
Travelling on Northern's trains is 'mentally and physically exhausting every single day', the 36-year-old social justice advocate said, adding: "The service is abysmal".
Ms Anstee, who pays more than £2,100 a year for an annual ticket so she can travel to work from Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, to Swinton, Greater Manchester, said four people fainted on overcrowded rush hour trains last week, while a leaking train toilet on Monday caused damage to people's bags and footwear.
Overcrowding on a Northern service (Image: Phil Taylor)
Repeated delays and cancellations are causing anxiety and stress leading to panic attacks, she explained.
The way trains are being run by Northern is 'not sustainable' and the company should be stripped of its franchise, she added.
A spokesman for Northern said: "We are aware of the planned event and have had a constructive meeting with the organisers and British Transport Police (BTP).
"We will continue to work with them and BTP to help to facilitate a peaceful protest outside Manchester Victoria station."
Northern Rail train heading to Manchester Piccadilly (Image: Mark Waugh Manchester Press Photography Ltd)
The chaotic introduction of new timetables in May 2018 saw up to 310 Northern trains a day cancelled, and punctuality and reliability problems continue to blight the network.
Office of Rail and Road figures show just 55.8 per cent of Northern trains arrived at stations within one minute of the timetable in the 12 months to November 9, compared with the average across Britain of 65.3%.
German-based Arriva holds the Northern franchise, which is due to run until March 2025.
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Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has taken the first step towards potentially taking the franchise away from the firm by issuing a 'request for proposals'.
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The Department for Transport said in October it was 'developing contingency plans' for replacing the existing deal with a new short-term management contract with either Northern or the Government-controlled Operator of Last Resort (OLR).
Northern says it has faced unprecedented challenges which were 'outside the direct control of Northern' such as the late delivery of major infrastructure upgrades including electrification in the North West and installing new and longer platforms at Leeds station.
It blames delays in the building and delivery of new trains from Spanish manufacturer CAF for missing a deadline of replacing all outdated Pacer trains by the end of the year.
The firm has also been hit by strike action in the ongoing dispute over the role of guards on trains and lower than expected economic growth.
These factors have had a significant impact on its revenue, compared with expectations in its original 2015 franchise business plan.
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Camden Hills football eager for return to playoffs
Camden Hills ready for 2022 football campaign in 8-man
Stalcup Award takes its place among Windjammer lore
Camden Hills football concludes season with accolades at team banquet
Camden Hills football eager for 2021 eight-man campaign
Camden Hills football coaches to host conditioning program
Camden Hills football players suit up ahead of Oct. 7 virtual fundraiser
Camden Hills names Chris Christie new head football coach
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Camden Hills football to host spaghetti supper, reflect on season
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ROCKPORT — Following a year layoff due to the pandemic and being ineligible for the MPA playoffs in 2019, the Camden Hills football program will make their first playoff appearance since 2018 when they travel Friday, Oct. 29 to Edward McMann Field at Morse High School in Bath challenge the Shipbuilders in an eight-man football quarterfinal game that will begin at 7 p.m.
Morse is entering the contest as the No. 2 seed and sports a 5-2 record while Camden enters as the No. 3 seed sporting a 4-2 record. The two teams met twice during the regular season and each team earned a win against the other. Both also lost to No. 1 seed Waterville.
The Rockport-based Windjammers bested Morse early in the season 60-42 as the 'Jammers seized control with a fourth down stop late in the third quarter to build on their 34-30 lead at the time. Up to that point the teams had literally traded touchdowns on each possession except for the end of the first half. Senior tailback Hunter Norton scored six touchdowns in the contest for Camden Hills, carrying the ball 30 times for 359 yards and playing stellar defense.
The rematch occurred earlier this month in Rockport when the Shipbuilders spoiled Camden Hills' homecoming and senior night celebrations with a 44-30 victory.
The second game nearly mirrored the initial contest as the teams were tied 22-22 at the half. The 'Jammers took an early second half lead on a long Norton touchdown but was stymied by an improved Morse defense as well as costly turnovers.
Norton, quarterback Ryan Clifford, cornerback/running back Mason Chadwick, tight end and defensive end Enzo Russillo and offensive lineman and defensive end JJ Harrington as seniors are now in the home stretch of long and storied careers. The five players have a combined 49 years in the red, white and black dating back to early youth days with Five Town Football.
The Windjammers are a young squad with only nine upperclassmen, and 24 freshmen and sophomores. They are led by second year head coach Chris Christie.
"We are excited to return to playoff football," said Christie. "The process of getting to this playoff year started last fall when a group of very committed athletes endured the 2020 season. We kept the momentum, with a new group of freshman players, going into this season and the playoffs."
On Morse, Christie added, "We are excited for another opportunity with Morse. We have a great amount of respect for their entire program. I hope we can put on a show for the Jammer fans!"
Carl Chadwick contributed to the reporting of this article.
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TN GOP's 'Red to the Roots' Program Targets Local Offices
With state-level elective offices firmly in its control, the state Republican Party is now ready to move on to local-level offices with a new "Red to the Roots" program, says Tennessee Republican Chairman Chris Devaney.
The idea is to encourage county Republican parties to designate nominees for city and county elective offices where they can. Currently, most cities and counties have nonpartisan elections for local office, though state law generally allows county parties to designate party nominees if they wish — exceptions including cases in which a city or county charter specifies bipartisan elections.
"We've had a lot of success with our state-level candidates," Devaney said, referring to the GOP supermajority in the Legislature and Republicans holding the governor's office, both U.S. Senate seats and seven of nine U.S. House seats. "Now, we're ready to look at the local offices — county mayors, sheriffs and maybe a few judgeships."
"These are places where Democrats still have a hold," he said. "It's their bench" for candidates who could in the future seek a state-level office. With local-level partisan campaigns he said, "We can build our bench."
This entry was posted in local campaigns, local government, Republican Party and tagged elections, local, office, partisan, program, red, red to the roots, republican, roots, Tennessee, to on July 22, 2013 by Tom Humphrey.
New State Procurement Office Claims Savings of $113 Million
While the head of Tennessee's newly centralized procurement system provided examples to legislators of savings to taxpayers last week, declaring they collectively total $113 million to day, state Rep. Jeremy Faison offered another example that didn't sound so good.
Chief Procurement Officer Mike Perry's examples included a dozen "ballpoint stick pens" that previously cost the state $1.55 for a box of a dozen versus 47 cents today and a ream of paper, previously $3.10, now $2.77.
Office supplies counted for $8 million of the projected $113 million in savings, a figure that includes comparing new multiyear contracts with old ones as well as some one-time purchases. The biggest projected savings, $33 million, was on Oracle software through "strategic sourcing," which involves negotiating with current contract holders.
In the latter case, the vendor initially said that new software needed to bring TennCare computers into compliance with new provisions of federal law would cost $39 million, Perry said. After the negotiation, the price was $6 million.
This entry was posted in budget, business, Comptroller and tagged fiscal, justin, Mike, office, perry, procurement, review, savings, Tennessee, Wilson on June 17, 2013 by Tom Humphrey.
Personal Relationships a 'Common Thread' in State Contracts?
A board composed of three state officials has upheld the Department of Correction's award of a $241 million contract to a company that employs Correction Commissioner Derrick Schofield's wife, though its bid was more than $15 million higher than a competitor.
The decision of the state Procurement Office's "protests board" was announced to members of the Legislature's Fiscal Review Committee, some of whom have separately raised questions about the contract for providing medical services to inmates in the state prison system.
But because of what Chairman Bill Ketron described as "a squirrley situation," no questions were asked at the panel's meetings this week and the committee instead approved a temporary extension of the current contract, which is scheduled to expire at the end of this month.
The panel also put off inquiries into two other state contracts that Ketron said have at least the appearance of a "common thread" in that they were awarded to companies that have some connection to government insiders.
This entry was posted in Bill Haslam, government programs and tagged bill, centurion, contracts, derrick, Haslam, ketron, office, procurement, schofield, state on June 11, 2013 by Tom Humphrey.
Chicago Firm to Profit from Its Recommendation on State Leasing
A Chicago-based real estate services firm that recommended Tennessee government unload six state-owned office buildings will benefit financially as the state moves to lease new space in the private market, reports Andy Sher.
According to state General Services Department documents, Jones Lang LaSalle is poised to take 4 percent off the top on deals with private companies for leased office space in Chattanooga, Nashville and Memphis.
Hired as a consultant to review and assess 33 state-owned buildings, Jones Lang LaSalle last year recommended closing five "old and obsolete" state buildings. The list included the 59-year-old State Office Building at 400 McCallie Ave. in Chattanooga and the nearby James R. Mapp Building, which is newer. Both buildings require expensive repairs; the firm said it would be cheaper to build new or move into leased space than renovate.
Then last month, the General Services Department quietly inked a five-year contract with Jones Lang LaSalle to manage and maintain all state property overseen by the department as well as leasing.
"We do not see a conflict of interest," said Kelly K. Smith, General Services' assistant commissioner for communications. "The services were publicly procured through an open bid process that was approved by the State Building Commission."
The department employs 126 people for the duties that Jones Lang LaSalle will assume July 1. The employees will lose their state jobs but can apply for work with the firm, although there is no guarantee they will be hired.
Jones Lang LaSalle beat out CBRE United States for the contract, Smith said.
Smith also noted that Jones Long LaSalle recommended the state build and own new space in Chattanooga as opposed to leasing commercial space because it was cheaper.
"However, the state evaluated their proposal and decided to move forward with the leasing option," Smith said.
The State Office Building (former Interstate Life Building) and the Mapp Building collectively required $15.8 million of capital investment to continue operations. Yet both would have been functionally obsolete and expensive to operate.
…Smith said General Services chose the leasing route for several reasons, including that it "offered greater flexibility to meet the needs of our clients/tenants."
Jones Lang LaSalle estimated that over 20 years, the state would save $28.4 million on a new, smaller, more efficient building in Chattanooga. Leasing is expected to save $18.4 million over the same period, according to a February report by the firm.
…What employees think they're seeing from Republican Gov. Bill Haslam's administration and especially from Cates "is an execution of a certain political philosophy, which is privatization" of what many think of as public functions, McConnell said.
But he said he's skeptical that privatization is always a big cost saver.
"The prime goal [for the private contractor] is to make a dollar, and every decision they have to make about what they're going to do has to be filtered through that."
This entry was posted in Privatization and tagged chattanooga, jones, lang, lasalle, leasing, memphis, Nashville, office, Privatization, space, state on June 1, 2013 by Tom Humphrey.
State Contracts for Office Space Management; Projects Savings
The state is outsourcing the management of its portfolio of its office properties, a move that will require about 125 employees to apply for jobs with the vendor taking over that work, reports The Tennessean.
Officials expect to save roughly $50 million over the next five years from Chicago-based real estate services firm Jones Lang LaSalle taking over facilities management for 10.5 million square feet of state-owned and leased office properties statewide starting July 1.
Under a previous contract, Jones Lang LaSalle conducted an assessment of 33 major state properties that led to the recommendation that the state should reduce its footprint to 1.4 million square feet by the second quarter next year.
That will come from a combination of moving some employees to space in underutilized state-owned buildings and completely leaving state-owned properties deemed as too costly to maintain and operate.
"We're having an expert handle the facilities management for us," said Steve Cates, the state's General Services commissioner, who in addition to the $50 million in savings sees Tennessee avoiding $25 million in one-time costs, plus $3 million annually, by not having to purchase and maintain the necessary technology and equipment, as well as set up a call center.
…Under the five-year contract, Jones Lang would be paid a management fee of up to $5 million a year. The company also will continue to help General Services with business
analysis to determine whether to spend on buildings and capital projects across the state.
The affected state employees were informed last month the state would no longer be employing people in job categories such as facilities administrators, facilities managers and building maintenance workers. They're eligible for interviews for positions available under the new operating model, said Peter Uber, a Jones Lang managing director.
This entry was posted in jobs, Privatization and tagged Cates, contract, Haslam, jones, lang, lasalle, management, office, Privatization, Steve on May 29, 2013 by Tom Humphrey.
Bill Would Create Bureaucracy to Cut Bureaucracy
State Rep. Glen Casada and state Sen. Jack Johnson, both Franklin Republicans, have filed a bill that would create an Office of the Repealer, whose job would be to identify potentially unnecessary rules and regulations to be repealed, reports The Tennessean.
The repealer would offer recommendations to the governor, the state legislature and the secretary of state.
"We're using bureaucracy to cut bureaucracy," Casada said. "We're using government against itself."
House Bill 500, filed Thursday, calls for adding the repealer's position to the secretary of state's office. If the bill were to pass the legislature and be signed into law by Gov. Bill Haslam, the repealer would be asked to find state law and rules that are "unreasonable, unduly burdensome, duplicative, contradictory or unnecessary."
The repealer would make nonbinding recommendations to the secretary of state and the legislature every three months and to the governor once a year.
More than 30 lawmakers, including House Democratic Caucus Chairman Mike Turner of Old Hickory, have signed on as co-sponsors of the measure.
Note: The news release is below.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged bill, Casada, Glen, legislation, office, repealer on February 5, 2013 by Tom Humphrey.
On 'Obsolete' State Structures & the T3 Plan
A study commissioned by the state has found four state office buildings to be "old and obsolete" — the Cordell Hull State Office Building and John Sevier State Office Building in Nashville, the Donnelly J. Hill State Office Building in Memphis and the Chattanooga State Office Building.
The latter is the central focus of an Andy Sher article in the Chattanooga Times-Free Press. It was found to need $8.5 million in renovations, purchased by the state for $5.85 million in 1981 and subsequently renovated.
John Fetz, senior managing director of Jones Lang LaSalle, told State Building Commission members this summer they should start looking to move offices in all four buildings into other space.
…In its study for a proposed state "master plan," Jones Lang LaSalle examined 33 of the 156 buildings managed by the Department of General Services. The 33 buildings collectively amount to 4.6 million square feet of office space.
The consultants identified an estimated $241.1 million worth of problems requiring immediate or short-term investments in the 33 buildings. They also called for a modern facility management and operation model.
The Jones Lang LaSalle study dovetails with Gov. Bill Haslam's ambitious statewide Transforming Tennessee for Tomorrow (T3) plan.
T3 aims to move a number of operations and employees from leased office space into state-owned buildings.
The Department of General Services aims to slash operating costs by concentrating workers more closely and boosting efficiency through updated office environments that spur greater collaboration, according to the plan.
Officials aim to cut the amount of owned and leased office space by nearly 1 million square feet from the present 5.47 million square feet over 10 years and save close to 10 percent, or $102.7 million, in operating costs.
Under Jones Lang LaSalle's proposed facility recommendations, Tennessee could save $18.8 million in operating costs a year.
…Final recommendations on the Chattanooga building are still under review, said Kelly Smith, spokeswoman for General Services Commissioner Steve Cates.
The building is one of the state's most underused, figures show. The state could move many Chattanooga employees from leased space to that building, or agencies now in the building could move to leased quarters, Smith said.
Smith said a decision would come later this year or early in 2013.
She said the state for years has not "invested the capital needed to keep the buildings up" adequately. The Haslam administration took office 20 months ago.
This entry was posted in Bill Haslam, government programs and tagged buildings, consultants, lasalle, office, state, T3, Tennessee, tomorrow, Transforming on September 17, 2012 by Tom Humphrey.
Could John Ford Return to Political Office? There's a Law, but….
When former state senator John Ford returned to Memphis last week after four years in federal prison, his TV news cameo raised the unlikely prospect of a political comeback, according to The Commercial Appeal.
"You watch what I do," Ford told reporters before disappearing into a halfway house where he's banned from media contact. "I am not down. I am not out. I am way out in front."
There's a state law that says people convicted of a felony involving a political office can never run for public office again.
The law change marks the end of an era in Tennessee, where politicians once could return to offices they'd disgraced.
Yet, Ford might have some wiggle room.
One of the law's primary sponsors, former state Rep. Frank Buck, said last week he's unsure if the law applies to Ford, who was convicted in April 2007, just weeks before it took effect July 1.
"It may or may not apply to him," said Buck, a Smithville, Tenn., attorney. "You'd have to ask the attorney general on that one. I had some questions, too. You get always into the ex post facto situation."
Previously, disgraced officials found plenty of opportunity to reinvent themselves.
Former Memphis city councilman Rickey Peete did just that, going to prison in 1989 for bribery only to win re-election and return to prison in 2007 — again for bribery. In so doing, he earned a nickname — 'Rickey Re-Peete.'
Politicians such as Peete became eligible to retake office after getting their voting and civil rights restored in a court of law. They can still get their rights restored under the new law — they just can't hold elected office.
The law says the ban applies to state government as well as "any political subdivision." Cities and counties are considered political subdivisions of the state.
"They ought to be eternally banned from office," offered Buck, who said his bill was motivated by repeated scandals he witnessed over his 36 years in the legislature. "Something needed to be done."
Whether Ford, now 70, even wants back into politics is an uncertain question.
His brother, Joe Ford, thinks not.
"I doubt it. They passed that law where you can't go back," said Ford, a former Shelby County commissioner and one-time interim county mayor. "When we're together we don't talk about politics. I don't want to speak for him. But that would be something he would have to decide."
This entry was posted in crime, Legislature and tagged buck, felony, Ford, frank, john, law, office, political, return, state on August 26, 2012 by Tom Humphrey.
Mayfield, Cart, Horse and Congressional District Offices
If Scottie Mayfield wins Tennessee's 3rd District congressional race, he would be the first non-Chattanoogan to capture the post since the 1890s, observes Chris Carroll.
With that in mind, some of the Scenic City's public officials have wondered whether the dairy executive would keep Chattanooga's congressional office or open an office closer to his Athens, Tenn., home.
The answer may be both.
In an interview Saturday at the opening of his Chattanooga campaign headquarters, Mayfield smiled, hesitated and said he hadn't considered the congressional office question. First, he said, he must beat U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann and two others in the Aug. 2 Republican primary before squaring off against the Democratic nominee in November.
"It's a cart-before-the-horse issue," he said.
But in a subsequent conversation amid chatty supporters and coolers bursting with Mayfield milk and lemonade, he said he would keep a Chattanooga office "for sure," adding that he might establish an Athens office "for my own convenience." Mayfield also said he would staff an office near Oak Ridge, where numerous U.S. Department of Energy programs are housed.
This entry was posted in Congressional campaigns and tagged chattanooga, district, mayfield, office, scottie on July 5, 2012 by Tom Humphrey.
Governor Removed from Office (by Capitol renovation work)
By Erik Schelzig, Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Gov. Bill Haslam has relocated to temporary office space while the state Capitol gets renovated.
The work on the more than 150-year-old building includes repairs and upgrades to heating and air conditioning, plumbing, and electrical systems.
The $15 million project is scheduled to be completed in December.
Much of the mechanical and electrical equipment being replaced was installed in 1955.
The governor and about 35 staffers have decamped to the 27th floor of the nearby William R. Snodgrass Tennessee Tower while the work is under way.
The end of the legislative session last week signaled that work on the Capitol could begin. Staffers packed up offices and art handlers got to work covering up busts to protect them against damage.
The governor's suite in the Capitol includes a reception area, a conference room and his personal office. The deputy to the governor, the administration's top lobbyist and the finance commissioner have also vacated their offices on the main floor of the Capitol.
The change is perhaps most striking for Haslam staffers with offices on the subterranean level. The level was designed as an armory and fuel depot, but was converted into offices in the 1950s.
Those aides — including Haslam's communications and legal teams — now have windows with unobstructed views of city.
Also affected by the Capitol renovations are the offices of the House and Senate clerks and the state's treasurer, comptroller and secretary of state.
The work was originally scheduled to take place in 2011, but the newly sworn-in Haslam administration didn't want to immediately move out of the Statehouse upon taking office.
Construction fencing is going up around the Capitol grounds, and all public entrances will be locked for the duration of the project.
The Capitol was completed in 1859, but the General Assembly began using the unfinished building six years earlier.
This entry was posted in Bill Haslam and tagged capitol, governor, Haslam, office, relocated, removed, renovation on May 8, 2012 by Tom Humphrey.


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