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Man seriously injured in hit-and-run in Ashington after three men chased car with bat
The collision was reported just after a separate incident in the same area and police are treating them as linked
Katie CollingsBreaking News Editor
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An investigation is under way after a man was left seriously injured in a hit-and-run in Ashington.
Shortly before 5.30pm on Thursday, police were called to Hawthorn Road with a report that three men, one believed to be carrying a bat, were chasing a car.
Officers attended the scene and then received a subsequent report that a pedestrian had been injured following a collision with a dark coloured vehicle on Chestnut Street.
The vehicle had then made off from the scene.
Emergency services attended and the 25-year-old male received treatment but was later taken to hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries.
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Police say additional officers were also deployed to the scene to speak to witnesses and locate the vehicle and its driver.
At this stage, the two incidents are being treated as linked to one another.
Detective Sergeant Peter Morgan, from Northumbria Police , said: "We have received a number of calls from concerned members of the public about these two awful incidents in Ashington.
"I would like to reassure the public that we have a number of officers in the area carrying out enquiries to help us build a picture of the events which led up to this awful collision which has left a man seriously injured.
"However at this stage we do believe the victim and the offender are known to each other and there are is no wider risk to the public.
"We will be carrying out extra patrols to reassure the public and anyone with concerns, or information should make themselves known to an officer."
Anyone with information is asked to call 101 or email 2671@northumbria.pnn.police.uk quoting log 829 121219.
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By PrisonHealthMatters Posted on Dec 6, 2019 2019-12-02
HMIP Health Notes: HMP & YOI Bronzefield, Nov-Dec 2018
This report was on an unannounced inspection of HMP & YOI Bronzefield between 26 Nov to 06 Dec 2018, and was published in April 2019.
"Bronzefield was an overwhelmingly safe prison…. There was, however, evidence to suggest that the population of prisoners held had become more challenging in recent years, with many experiencing significant mental health problems." – Peter Clarke
General Points of Interest:
The catchment area had increased and now included 95 courts, up from 71 at the time of the last inspection.
The proportion of remand prisoners had increased since the previous inspection and was now almost one third of the total population, including a large number from London.
The number of prisoners moving through the prison was large, with 71% of sentenced prisoners had been in the prison for less than 6 months. In the previous 6 months, 1057 prisoners had been released.
There had been a 50% increase in the number of prisoners accessing substance misuse support services wen compared to the previous inspection in 2015. The use of segregation had also doubled during this time.
Incidents of self-harm remained high – 925 incidents took place in the previous 6 months.
Healthy Prison Outcomes:
Purposeful Activity
Outcome Ratings:
Outcomes for Prisoners
Reasonably Good
Not Sufficiently Good
Key Points of Interest: Health, Well-Being and Social Care:
There were 12 nurse vacancies during the inspection, but regular agency staff were used to manage them. Permanent staff were being recruited on an ongoing basis. All health care staff received clinical supervision.
Electronic record keeping was good and some positive interactions between staff and prisoners were observed. Interpretation was used appropriately for prisoners who did not speak English.
The service had identified issues with infection prevention and control across all clinical areas. Work was in progress to address those concerns.
Emergency equipment was located appropriately across the prison and trained health care staff provided a 24-hour response. Officers were aware of medical emergency codes and ambulances were called promptly.
Prisoners accessed health care services by applying for them through the electronic kiosks. Administrative staff only dealt with applications on week days. A process for reviewing applications at the weekend was introduced following feedback during this inspection.
The health care service had received 93 complaints in the 3 months prior to the inspection. A confidential process was now in place and responses were polite and timely and addressed the issues raised.
Health promotion material was displayed throughout the prison. Health service information was available in reception, but it was only in English. Smoking cessation support was provided through a daily clinic and involved peer workers and custodial and health care staff.
Prisoners arriving late in the evening were still seen by a nurse and a GP was on site until 9pm. An out of hours' GP service was available. A comprehensive second screening followed within 72 hours.
GPs in reception initiated opiate substitution therapy, but clinical resources for ongoing treatment were stretched. The number of prisoners receiving methadone or buprenorphine had risen by almost 50% to 172 since the previous inspection, but the number of substance use prescribing clinics had not increased, which meant that reviews and changes to treatment regimes could be delayed. Limited resources also affected managerial oversight and service development.
Access to health care was reasonable. Triage drop-in sessions were available on each house block, and nursing staff held other clinics, including those covering sexual health, phlebotomy and long-term conditions.
The nurse-led inpatient unit had 18 beds for prisoners requiring physical care or mental health support. An admissions policy was in place, and patients were appropriately located there. Officers, nurses and mental health staff provided compassionate, caring support for patients in the unit. Regular handovers ensured staff were aware of patients' care needs and plans. Management oversight was appropriate and patients were regularly risk assessed. A weekly multidisciplinary meeting enabled staff to receive updates on inpatients and to discuss those of concern across the prison, which was good.
External hospital appointments were well managed. 4 escorts were available every day. The reasons for any rescheduling were recorded, but few appointments were cancelled because of a lack of officer escorts.
Medicines were mostly obtained promptly, but prisoners complained about delays. The pharmacist robustly oversaw prescribing, which included a clinical assessment of all medicines. A pharmacist-led clinic was held once a week.
Medicines were administered from the health care centre and 4 house blocks, 4 times a day. Officers supervised medicine administration, but their ability to control prisoners and ensure confidentiality between administration areas was varied.
Fridge temperatures were routinely monitored and were within acceptable ranges. The supply and administration of medicines were recorded on SystmOne. Staff explained the process for following up prisoners who missed doses.
The in-possession policy ensured the person and the medicine were assessed. Prisoners ordered their own in-possession medicines; nurses ordered it when necessary.
There was a procedure for accessing medication out of hours, but no written policy, which was addressed during our inspection.
Audits of controlled drugs (CD) registers took place regularly and CD keys were managed robustly. Apart from the CD cupboard in the health care department and one of the house blocks, CD cupboards did not comply with legal requirements. In the morning nurses dispensed CDs from the original pack into bottles, which they labelled with the name of the prisoner and the medicine. Two nurses witnessed this process and signed the register. Nurses took the bottles to the house blocks and administered the drugs without a witness. This unacceptable practice ended during the inspection following feedback.
A well-attended drug and therapeutics committee met regularly. Prescribing data on potentially tradable and high cost medicines were reviewed.
In our survey, 69% of prisoners reported having a mental health problem and 41% of them said they had received help for their problem while in the prison. Prisoners could refer themselves to mental health services via the electronic kiosk, but information about mental health services was confusing because 2 providers were offering mental health support. Police, court, prison and health care staff could also refer prisoners.
A daily referral meeting took place during which mental health practitioners discussed all new referrals and allocated prisoners appropriately. Of the 205 prisoners referred to the service in the 2 months prior to inspection, 64 had been accepted by the team for a mental health assessment. Others were referred to other services or further information was requested. Of the 123 prisoners on the caseload at the time of the inspection, 12 were being treated under the care programme approach (CPA).
Mental health staff were well integrated into the rest of the prison and provided good support to those in the segregation and inpatient units. Practitioners attended assessment, care in custody and teamwork (ACCT) case management reviews for prisoners at risk of suicide or self-harm related to their caseload. However, more work was ongoing to improve their involvement in the process.
In the 6 months prior to the inspection, 9 prisoners were transferred to external mental health units under the Mental Health Act. Only one had been transferred within 2 weeks of their assessment.
A community worker was part of the mental health in-reach team and provided good support to prisoners, both prior to release and for up to 6 months post release.
A weekly multidisciplinary meeting to discuss prisoners with complex health issues was well attended by a wide range of staff, including representatives from the offender management unit and local authority social services departments. As a result, well-informed decisions could be made regarding their release and transfer.
The integrated substance misuse service had developed good links with community providers to enable treatment to continue on release, and local agencies conducted pre-release assessments at the prison to plan ongoing support. Prisoners consistently received harm reduction information, and overdose prevention now included naloxone training to treat an opiate overdose.
As part of the survey, 36% of prisoners rated the overall quality of the health services as being either very good or quite good.
Recommendations: Health, Well-Being and Social Care:
Clinical substance use services should be sufficient to meet demand and have effective managerial oversight.
All clinical areas should comply with national standards for infection prevention and control.
Barrier protection should be well advertised and widely available.
Stock medicines should be stored appropriately and audited regularly so that supplied stock can be reconciled against prescriptions issued.
Prisoners referred to primary mental health care services should be assessed within two weeks.
Patients requiring a transfer under the Mental Health Act should be transferred within the current transfer time guidelines (a repeated recommendation).
Good Practice: Health, Well-Being and Social Care:
The daily smoking cessation clinic provided prisoners who smoked with easily accessible support to help them give up.
The gym offered a wide range of healthy lifestyle programmes that were specifically tailored to individual prisoners' needs.
Dentists provided prisoners with a range of treatment options, recorded prisoners' consent and offered a clear rationale to inform prisoners' choice of procedure. This meant prisoners had an influence on their care and knew what options were available.
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The evolution of the galaxy's most powerful army is captured in these figures! The clone troopers fight for the Republic, to try and save the galaxy from chaos. But secret plans change their loyalties, and they help the evil forces of the Sith to take control! No longer known as clone troopers, they are now Stormtroopers, the loyal soldiers of the Emperor, enforcing his harsh will throughout the galaxy!


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Spinal Cord Injury Zone / News	/ 2010 / August / 19th
Human stem cells restore motor function in mice
Published: August 19, 2010 | Source: universityofcalifornia.edu
IRVINE — A UC Irvine study is the first to demonstrate that human neural stem cells can restore mobility in cases of chronic spinal cord injury, suggesting the prospect of treating a much broader population of patients.
Previous breakthrough stem cell studies have focused on the acute, or early, phase of spinal cord injury, a period of up to a few weeks after the initial trauma when drug treatments can lead to some functional recovery.
The UC Irvine study, led by Aileen Anderson and Brian Cummings of the Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, is significant because the therapy can restore mobility during the later chronic phase, the period after spinal cord injury in which inflammation has stabilized and recovery has reached a plateau. There are no drug treatments to help restore function in such cases.
The study appears in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE and is available online.
The Anderson-Cummings team transplanted human neural stem cells into mice 30 days after a spinal cord injury caused hind-limb paralysis. The cells then differentiated into neural tissue cells, such as oligodendrocytes and early neurons, and migrated to spinal cord injury sites. Three months after initial treatment, the mice demonstrated significant and persistent recovery of walking ability in two separate tests of motor function when compared to control groups.
"Human neural stem cells are a novel therapeutic approach that holds much promise for spinal cord injury," said Anderson, associate professor of physical medicine & rehabilitation and anatomy & neurobiology at UC Irvine. "This study builds on the extensive work we previously published in the acute phase of injury and offers additional hope to those who are paralyzed or have impaired motor function."
"About 1.3 million individuals in the U.S. are living with chronic spinal cord injury," added Cummings, associate professor of physical medicine & rehabilitation and anatomy & neurobiology. "This latest study provides additional evidence that human neural stem cells may be a viable treatment approach for them."
The research is the latest in a series of collaborative studies conducted since 2002 with StemCells Inc. that have focused on the use of StemCells' human neural stem cells in spinal cord injury and resulted in multiple co-authored publications. StemCells Inc., based in Palo Alto, Calif., is engaged in the research, development and commercialization of stem cell therapeutics and tools for use in stem cell-based research and drug discovery.
According to Dr. Stephen Huhn, vice president and head of the central nervous system program at StemCells Inc., "the strong preclinical data we have accumulated to date will enable our transition to a clinical trial, which we plan to initiate in 2011."
Desirée Salazar of UC San Diego, Nobuko Uchida of StemCells Inc. and Frank P.T. Hamers of the Tolbrug Rehabilitation Centre in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, also contributed to the study, which received National Institutes of Health and California Institute for Regenerative Medicine support.
About the Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center: Promoting basic and clinical research and training in the field of stem cell biology at UC Irvine, the center is a leading international institution in stem cell research and clinical applications. It consolidates existing research strengths and clinical initiatives at UC Irvine and serves as a nucleus for growth via collaboration and new recruits. The center provides an organizational structure for all areas of stem cell research, supports premier graduate training, maintains a core stem cell facility and equipment, hosts guest researchers and annual meetings, and contributes to research and dialogue on policy and ethical issues related to stem cells.
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A look back at Alberta farm revenue in 2020
By ATB Financial 5 March 2021 1 min read
Farm cash receipts* in Alberta increased by 3.1 per cent ($458.5 million) last year. This followed an increase of 11.0 per cent in 2019 ($1.5 billion).
Crop receipts increased by 7.6 per cent ($524.3 million) while livestock receipts decreased by 4.0 per cent ($280.2 million).
The drop in livestock revenue was largely due to a 5.8 per cent ($310.5 million) decline in cattle receipts. Statistics Canada notes that the decline in cattle receipts was the result of "reduced capacity at meat processing plants, especially during the early months of the pandemic."
Wheat (including durum) crop revenue was up by 9.7 per cent ($200.1 million) last year. Canola revenue rose by 9.8 per cent ($238.4 million).
Cannabis, which represents about 7.6 per cent ($565.5 million) of total crop receipts, edged up just slightly by 0.4 per cent.
Although just 2.3 per cent ($170.7 million) of total crop receipts, lentils posted the largest annual increase at 138.7 per cent ($99.2 million).
Nationally, total farm cash receipts increased by 8.1 per cent ($5.3 billion) in 2020. Crop receipts rose by 14.2 per cent while livestock receipts fell by 0.8 per cent.
*Farm cash receipts represent the cash income received from the sale of agricultural commodities as well as direct program payments made to support or subsidize the agriculture sector.
Answer to the previous trivia question: The Atlanta Flames move to Calgary for the 1908-81 NHL season.
Today's trivia question: Which country bought the most lentils (in dollar value terms) from Alberta in 2020?
Farm cash receipts in Alberta increased by 3.1 per cent ($458.5 million) last year


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Polly Jean Harvey (born 9 October, 1969) is an English musician, singer-songwriter, composer and occassional artist.
Primarily known as a vocalist and guitarist, she is also proficient with a wide range of instruments including piano, organ, bass, saxophone, and most recently, the autoharp.
Harvey began her career in 1988 when she joined local band Automatic Dlamini, featuring long-term collaborator John Parish, as a vocalist and saxophone player. However, in 1991, she formed an eponymous trio and subsequently began her professional career. The trio released two studio albums, Dry (1992) and Rid of Me (1993) before disbanding, after which Harvey continued as a solo artist. Since 1995, she has released a further six studio albums with collaborations from various musicians including John Parish, former bandmate Rob Ellis, Mick Harvey, and Eric Drew Feldman and has also worked extensively with record producer Flood.


Two men broke into a woman's Hurst home and confronted her Friday morning, police said.
Police were called about 11:15 a.m. to a home in the 900 block of Mountain Terrace, near Bedford Euless and Precinct Line roads.
The resident was working out of her home Friday morning when she heard the doorbell ring. She didn't answer it, but heard a loud crash at the back door soon after, police said.
When the homeowner walked into the living room, she was confronted by two men.
One man reportedly pointed a handgun at her but said nothing. Both men ran out the shattered back door and the homeowner ran out the front, police said.
A detailed suspect description was not provided.
Anyone with additional information is asked to call Hurst police at 817-788-7180.


Instant payments service provider Paytm allows its users the choice to use the app in their proffered language, including Hindi. Users may have noticed a notification, "Namaste! Ab Paytm app Hindi mein bhi," as-soon-as they login into the Paytm app. Notably, Vijay Shekhar Sharma-led firm has provided options, and users can switch to any language including English, Hindi, Telugu, Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Odia.


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10 minutes with Will Meyrick
6 October, 2020 by Expat Living 3 Min Read
https://expatliving.hk/chef-will-meyrick-opens-monsoon-restaurant-in-hong-kong/
We chat with Will Meyrick, the "street food chef with a global attitude", to discover the delights of his latest Hong Kong restaurant opening, Monsoon.
About the chef
Will Meyrick's career led him from London to Sydney before he was wooed to Asia by opportunities in Bali, Thailand and Hong Kong. Ultimately, it was Bali that claimed Will's heart, and where he chose to establish his Sarong Group. Today, he's a household name in Indonesia thanks to appearances on the Top Chef television franchise, plus Back to the Streets on the Asian Food Channel.
Will also has a slew of successful restaurants under his belt; Sarong (San Pellegrino Asia's 50 Best Restaurants Award winner); Mama San (the Miele Guide Asia's Top 500 Restaurants Award winner); Hujan Locale in Ubud; and Billy Ho Izakaya Japanese in Canggu – and now Monsoon.
What can diners expect at Monsoon?
We've created signature street dishes from around the region as well some signature standouts that I've collected from my travels. Standouts include the Chiang Mai Duck Larp – crispy duck crackling with lemongrass, fresh herb, coriander, served with butter lettuce; and the Ancient Royal Beef Salad – beef brisket simmered in coconut, shredded bamboo, lemongrass and roasted chilli sauce.
Chef Gede Budiana is heading up the Monsoon kitchen; you've worked together before, right?
Yes, Budiana was one of the first chefs I met and worked with in Bali. He was part of the opening team at Sarong, my fine-dining restaurant in Seminyak.
What is it about Southeast Asian food that you love most?
The history and the culture behind each dish!
You're in Australia at moment; right? What's your usual base?
That's right; I'm in Perth – I've been here since March because of COVID-19 travel restrictions. I'm usually based in Bali and I've been in Asia almost 20 years now. I fell in love with the rawness of Asian culture, the heritage and the bold flavours.
This has been a turbulent year for many industries, including F&B. Are there any silver linings for you?
Money comes and goes; you must always have some savings and be prepared to rebuild – nothing is forever. As for the F&B industry, we have to be willing to adopt new technology and be flexible when it's just not practical to travel to train the team in person. If anything, this is a return to the basics as we slow down the process, document all the recipes, and create an archive that the culinary team will always be able to refer to for consistency and authenticity.
Will the pandemic affect how you interact with the team at Monsoon?
We're embracing technology while also acknowledging the world situation. So, I've been doing my best to set up Monsoon remotely. Although I can't be in Hong Kong personally, I've regularly liaised with Budiana and the Monsoon team via video conferencing and working live online with Zoom.
What's the first place you want to travel to when things open back up?
Back to Scotland to see my mother!
Any thoughts on upcoming food trends?
I expect that takeaways and meals cooked at home based on a restaurant experience will be big. This is why we're launching Monsoon at Home, a series of insightful online cooking demonstrations that will be distributed via the restaurant's social media channels, so Southeast Asian food lovers can create the dishes at home.
Monsoon restaurant is at Shop 1044-45, 1/F, Elements, 1 Austin Road West, Tsim Sha Tsui. Current opening hours are from 11am to 10.30pm. 2511 0100 | monsoonoriental.com.hk
This article first appeared in the Autumn 2020 issue of Expat Living magazine. Subscribe now so you never miss an issue.
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I had to overcome several challenges to build a replica of this 37 year old calculator. My goal while designing the replica was to enable the software from the original Busicom ROMs to run unaltered and provide an input/output experience as faithful to the original as possible.
I used many of the techniques in the Busicom 141-PF replica in an earlier project of mine, a single board 4004 "trainer". In that project, I gained experience with the MCS4 family and how to interface these chips with standard TTL devices. This served me well in keeping the parts count low.
The original 4001 ROMs used in the Busicom were designed to work with the 4004's unique bus structure. Since these were mask programmed, no direct replacement was possible. As part of the evolution of the 4004/4040 family, Intel's developed the 4008 and 4009 "Standard Memory Interface" chips, and later combined them into a single chip, the 4289, to allow these early microprocessors to interface to standard ROMs. I had used the 4289 chip my single board 4004 trainer, so I was already familiar with it. Ironically the 40-pin 4289 is huge compared to the 16-pin 4004.
The two-phase clock in the original calculator was generated using a discrete transistor oscillator. Later Intel introduced the 4201 single chip clock generator, which I used to generate the clock in the replica.
I had already collected a 4004 chipset. The only original chips I was missing for the calculator replica were the 4003 shift registers. These are simple enough in function that I decided to use a PIC 18F1320 microcontroller to emulate them. My first version of the replica was functioning with three PICs in place of the 4003's. Tim McNerney graciously donated three real 4003's and I was able to easily modify my replica to use them instead of the PICs.
The keyboard in the original calculator was made using a discrete matrix of reed switches. I thought it would be nice if the keys had a look of authenticity about them. Browsing eBay, I found a calculator with a similar style of keycaps. Given the age of the calculator, the switches were most likely the mechanical contact type that I needed. After receiving this calculator, I went about disassembling the keyboard. The keyswitches were mounted on a metal frame. By cutting this frame into sections and rearranging, I was able to match the original Busicom layout.
The printer used in the original calculator was a second generation flying drum "line printer" made by Shinshu Seiki, better known as Epson. The Model-101 printer was developed specifically for use in official timekeeping equipment at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics. The Model-102 printer I salvaged from an old Monroe 1330 calculator. It is electrically and mechanically indentical to the original printer that Busicom used, except for the drum's custom character-set is different, most notably the special symbols in the right two columns. To make numbers print correctly without modifying Busicom's software, I added a hardware shift register to delay the printer's index pulse (aka "vertical sync") to compensate for the digits being offset by three sectors.
I had some question early in the design about how the printer's analog sync pulses were converted to clean digital signals the original calculator. A full schematic does not exist. By studying the Busicom "source code" originally reverse-engineered by Brian and Barry Silverman and extensively analyzed and commented by Lajos Kintli, I was able to determined that some of the discrete components in the original calculator were being used to condition the printer signals. The printer signals are conditioned in my replica using comparators and TTL logic.
The replica is constructed using wire-wrap techniques on an old Garry wire-wrap prototyping board. This robust, solder-free approach made it easy to change the circuit as needed, and offers an attractive "vintage look" perfect for reproducing a 1970's era legacy project.
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This hardware emulator converts the printer interface signals that come from the calculator hardware into ASCII characters output over the PIC's serial port (configured by default to drive an external RS-232 level shifter). This interface can be used to drive a serial LCD display, PC running a terminal emulator, etc. The emulator also provides the calculator firmware running on the 4004 with the all-important "heartbeat" sync pulses. Without the proper timing pulses, the calculator won't work at all!
I built the exerciser to test the emulator. This was necessary because my own hardware replica wasn't quite working yet (and then Bill "scooped me" :-). The exerciser runs on a separate PIC connectected to the emulator PIC. It generates all the signals that the calculator would send to the printer, and responds to the index pulses. I extracted the test data by running calculator examples on an instrumented 4004/Busicom simulator written in Java.
I used the CCS C compiler to deploy the emulator on the PIC. In test mode, the code probably still compiles with gcc and runs under POSIX with little or no modifications.
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First book in the 'Escape from the Immortals' - a series of novels that will explore the soul's power to nurture—or to destroy.
After many years of research in the Amazon, Psychologist Victor Furst finally acquired the shamanic ability to detect psychic vampires and retrieve the souls of their victims. As happens with endeavors driven by passion, his discoveries would not come without sacrifice—his wife, Evelyn, grew tired of his absence and left—taking his precious daughter, Miriam, with her.


Space is limited. Sign up today! Use coupon code 15OFF to receive a $15 discount on registration. Offer ends April 3. Registration closes April 8. Who should attend? High school sophomores, juniors, and seniors, as well as college transfer students are invited to join us for an eye-opening weekend on the campus of Welch College. Parents and youth sponsors are invited and encouraged to attend all events as well. Why should I come? This is your chance to experience all the aspects of life on campus in a little over 24 hours. If you want to make the most informed college decision possible, you need to make a campus visit, and Welcome Days is a great way to experience life at Welch College. What can I expect during my visit? The simple answer: You will experience life at Welch College. You'll sit in on classes, attend chapel, tour the campus, eat in the cafeteria, stay in the dorms, and participate in events on Thursday and Friday. Visitors will have the opportunity to interact with current students and faculty members. You and your parents will learn about financial aid options, the admissions process, and more. It's our goal to answer all of your questions! What's the cost? If you register before April 3, with coupon code 15OFF the cost for this exciting weekend is $35—this includes all your meals, your room, admission to all events, and a Welch College t-shirt. If you register after April 3, the cost is $50—this includes all your meals, your room, admission to all events, and a Welch College t-shirt.


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The general purpose of this study was to determine to which extent the religious needs of Bloemfontein secondary pupils are gratified by religious programmes on TV1. Furthermore, the aims of the study were to determine which religious programme on TV1 are the most popular, and whether certain demographic variables influence adolescents' viewing motives and choice of programmes. The religious needs of the target group were investigated as well as to determine which extent it is gratified by religious programmes. Results showed that the primary reason for adolescents watching religious programmes is to be informed about religious questions. It was furthermore found that actuality programmes with a discussion format and music content are the most popular. Certain programmes proclaiming the Gospel are likewise very popular. Practical Christianity, music needs and teenage problems seem to be areas wherein adolescents receive inadequate gratifications regarding religious television programmes.


The Washington Post has a gamer for a 4A playoff semifinal last night, where Wise HS walloped DuVal by 31 points for a major upset. It's of interest only to that very small segment of readership who follows Maryland prep hoops, and of course, family and friends of the players. So while there's only one comment on the story, it's not a surprise that the comment comes from the grandmother of DuVal's leading scorer Michael Cunningham, who had only six points in the loss.
Writes "grandma of number 1,"
I just wanted to go on record in defense of my grandson's, Michael Cunningham, weak performance last night by letting readers know that he was battling a severe cold. He called me early in the day and asked could I bring him cough medicine or something because his throat was sore and he was stopped up but he wanted to be at the game. I found out when I got to school that he also had a fever. I should have taken him home but being the kind of person he is, a total team player, he insisted he would be better by game time. I left him some mild over the counter medicine but had no idea that he hadn't eaten all day because his throat eas sore so I feel totally responsible for his lackluster performance last night. Now know this, this is not an excuse because basketball is a team sport and last night the best TEAM won. I just wanted everyone to know why Michael was so off his game.
She's wonderful. I want to hug her.


The Internet is a wonderful, expansive and potentially dangerous world. We need to know where our children are going on-line, with whom they are talking and what they are doing--just as we demand of them in person.
There is an abundance of research, that being on-line makes people less inhibited and more willing to say and share things they never would in person. This is absolutely true for our children, too. Children take far more risks on-line than they do in person. And it is often not because they don't know what they are doing or that they don't know with whom they are communicating. Children are "digital-natives" in that they are very comfortable on digital devices and are very savvy to how the technology works. However, their brains are still only however old they are and so their judgment is often greatly lacking when it comes to on-line behavior. The use of social media is rampant among all segments of society--our children are no different. It is critical to help them navigate this exciting and fun media responsibly.
We would never give our child the keys to the car and say, "I trust you. Be careful and use good judgment. You know what our family believes in." It should not be any different with the Internet. Our children need our supervision and guidance.
If you have questions or would like assistance in navigating this tough parenting challenge, please feel free to reach out to Sarah Miller, School Counselor.


A year ago Wednesday, two Reuters journalists were arrested in Myanmar. Authorities put them on trial under the state secrets act and sentenced them to seven years in jail. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo had been investigating the extrajudicial killing of 10 Rohingya men during the military's crackdown on the stateless minority last year.
Hundreds demonstrated in Yangon to express their support for the journalists and social media was covered with the "Thumbs up" symbol that became popular during the trial of the two journalists.
"There is a huge threat to all journalists," says Kyaw Min Swe, the executive director of the Myanmar Journalism Institute in Yangon.
"Freedom of the press has declined over the past three years" he says.
"It is worse than in the previous years. If you compare two years, much more journalists are facing trial and much more journalists are arrested."
At the time, one year ago, the guilty verdict sparked global condemnation, including from US Vice President Mike Pence.
Reuters hired prominent rights attorney Amal Clooney to assist with the case.
Earlier this week, the two reporters were also featured in Time magazine's Person of the Year issue alongside other detained journalists, or journalists who were killed this year, including the Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, who was allegedly murdered by Saudi security forces in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, on October 2 this year.
Despite worldwide campaigns to get them free, the two journalists remain behind bars, and an appeal against their seven year sentence is set for later this month.
The judicial process which lead to the imprisonment of the pair is widely regarded as a sham and revenge.
The two journalists were reporting on the September 2017 massacre of Rohingya muslims in Inn Din village led by Myanmar security forces.
During the trial, one police officer, a whistleblower, told the court his superior ordered a setup to entrap the reporters.
But this testimony was ignored by the judge.
Where does Aung San Su Kyi fit in?
Meanwhile, Aung San Su Kyi, Myanmar's defacto leader and arguably the country's most powerful civilian, remains silent.
After long years of house arrest she had became an icon of human rights activists and a symbol for free speech.
Her silence has disappointed the human rights community as she doesn't live up to the status she was assigned when she was detained herself.
"We've seen the Birmese government coming under intense pressure over the arrest and trial and jailing of these journalists," says Mark Farmaner, director of the Birma Campaign action group in London.
"And it really has drawn attention to the fact that under the NLD [National League for Democracy – the ruling party], freedom of expression, media freedom, has not improved, and is actually getting worse in the country."
"But it is Aung San Suu Kyi herself who is stubbornly refusing to release these journalists."
"So even though it was the military which framed these journalists and the military which wanted to press ahead with the prosecution, the civilian side of the government, headed by Aung San Suu Kyi is able to release them, and is choosing not to," he says.
The big unknown is why Aung San Su Kyi is not speaking out on these kind of issues: she's also been silent on army violence against the Rohingya itself, the topic of research of the two journalists, the ethnic cleansing and genocide of which the UN and human rights organizations accuse the Myanmar military.
One answer is that she grew up in a military family herself, and now does not want to compromise the hand that fed her as a child.
Another one is that she made a deal with the devil, in this case the army: when she was released from house arrest, she could play a symbolic political role, but nothing more.


Since moving to Northern Europe, I've been obsessed with trying to maximize my exposure to light, especially during the winter. Oddly enough, I've since been experimenting trying to spend more time in the dark.
This all got started listening to Paul Bogard talk about his book The End of Night. His premise is that we have very little exposure to true darkness anymore, and we're losing something with more than sentimental value.
For over a year now, I've been experimenting with not always having the lights on in the evening. I use nightshift on my computer and phone plus use darker themes anyway. In the winter if I really need some light towards the late evening, candles usually do the trick. There's a certain warm glow that just plain nice from orangish light anyway. I'm not neurotic about any of this—I'll turn on the light if need it, but try to keep it to a minimum after I get home from work.
The results have been noticeable: I'm more tired at bedtime and either my night vision has improved or I'm better at using other senses to compensate for not seeing as well. I'm more in tune with seasonal cycles, meaning that I'm ok with six hours of sleep during short summer nights, yet naturally gravitate closer to nine during the long dark nights of winter.
Another surprise is that my body is also shifting to biphasic sleep on its own accord. If I had my druthers, I'd sleep from nine to one and then from three to seven. This, obviously, makes a normal social life all but impossible. My compromise is nine hours in bed with a one hour break during the middle of the night.
I'm not for turning back the clock and pretending to live in a pre-modern society. Still, with a few hacks we can trick our bodies into being a lot closer to that state, which is likely where they function best.


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Oscar&Oscar: Design duo with shared passion for furniture
Ox restaurant in Belfast
Aether and Echo bar, Belfast
Belfast's Howard Street restaurant
By Jamie Stinson
November 4 2014 9:00 AM
Belfast design duo Oscar&Oscar have turned heads creating some of the most stylish restaurants in Northern Ireland by focusing on using reclaimed materials with a history behind them.
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Orla Maguire and Martin Barrett - trained architects, and self-confessed furniture hoarders - have designed restaurants such as OX, Howard Street, Belfast bar Aether and Echo, and Harry's Shack on the Strand beach in Portstewart.
The first project they undertook was Ballyhackamore Italian tapas restaurant Il Pirata, which opened in January 2012. Their most recent design was Newtownards coffee shop Haptik, which opened around three weeks ago.
Oscar&Oscar - so named because each partner owns a dog called Oscar - has now turned its attention to OX Cave, the Oxford Street restaurant extension to their current space.
The business started up after they realised they both had a talent for picking quality pieces of furniture.
Mr Barrett said: "Furniture came about because we always had a bit of an eye for it. We always collected bits and pieces, and it made sense to take advantage of that."
There is no one thing that attracts them to a certain piece, but a combination of many factors. Ms Maguire said: "We both have a similar eye, and we look at something and know straight away we really like that. There's an immediacy in the what you like about it. Whether it's the form of it, the shape of it, whether it's the production of it, it's the whole combination."
Ms Maguire said the most important thing they've learnt since they started the business was building the right contacts in the industry.
"The first year we started was spent trying to find the right people to go to and developing relationships with them.
"So now if we need timber, instead of going to some reclamation yard we can go straight to the guy who is going directly into the building site.
"For OX Cave we sourced an amazing parquet floor, which you couldn't buy nowadays.
"There are ups and downs to that process in that you can never be too sure what you are going to have, but so far it has worked really well," Ms Maguire added.
The pair are also starting to do design homes, something that Mr Barrett has a particular passion for.
Mr Barrett said: "It's exciting to see if we can do what we're doing with restaurants in the home."
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'It's ridiculous': Residents in the 5 states without lotteries feel Powerball envy
Utah, Nevada, Hawaii, Alaska and Alabama do not have a lottery. The third-largest lottery prize in U.S. history has people clamoring for a chance to win. A mix of reasons have kept them away, including objections from conservatives, concerns about the impact on low-income families.
In the 5 states without lotteries, a case of Powerball envy
WEST POINT, Ga. (AP) — Loretta Williams lives in Alabama but drove to Georgia to buy a lottery ticket for a chance at winning the $1.5 billion Powerball jackpot. She was one of many Alabama ticket-buyers flooding across state lines Thursday.
The third-largest lottery prize in U.S. history has people across the country clamoring for a chance to win a mega jackpot
By KIM CHANDLER and MARK THIESSEN Associated PressWEST POINT, Ga. (AP) — Loretta Williams lives in Alabama but drove to Georgia to buy a lottery ticket for a chance at winning the $1.5 billion Powerball jackpot. She was one of many Alabama ticket-buyers flooding across state lines Thursday. The third-largest lottery prize in U.S. history has people around the country clamoring for a chance to win. But in some of the five states without a lottery…
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JDIFF 2015: A Chair with Wings
Tags: A Little Chaos, Alan Rickman, Aleksandr Sokurov, Apres Mai, Barry Lyndon, Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Brenda Fricker, Bret Easton Ellis, Brian O'Malley, Cinderella, Cineworld, Cloud of Sils Maria, Conor McMahon, Danny Huston, Dare to be Wild, Don McKellar, Eileen Gray, Faust, Force Majeure, Francois Ozon, From the Dark, Gerard Barret, Glassland, Grainne Humphreys, IFI, In Cold Blood, Ivan Kavanagh, Jack Reynor, Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, Jan Harlan, Jason Schwartzman, JDIFF, JDIFF 2015, Jean Renoir, John Carpenter, Julie Andrews, Kenneth Branagh, Kim Cattrall, King Vidor, Le Corbussier, Lenny Abrahamson, Let Us Prey, Liam Cunningham, Listen Up Phillip, Liv Ullman, Love/Hate, Mads Mikkelsen, Mary McGuckian, Matthew Goode, Miss Julie, Movies at Dundrum, Muriel's Wedding, Noah Baumbach, Olivier Assayas, Orla Brady, Partie de Campagne, Pat Murphy, Peter Bogdanovich, Pressure, Red Army, Richard Brooks, Riverbank Arts Centre, Robert Sheehan, Russell Crowe, Ryan O'Neal, Salvation, Sensitive Skin, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen Horne, Stitches, Tana Bana, The Accidental Tourist, The Americanisation of Emily, The Canal, The Crowd, The Decent One, The Last Man on the Moon, The Lir Academy, The New Girlfriend, The Pavilion, The Price of Desire, The Road Within, The Salt of the Earth, The Savoy, The Scren, The Sound of Music, The Water Diviner, Toni Collette, Vincent Perez, Vivienne de Courcy, Volta, What's Up Doc?, While We're Young, White Tiger, Wim Wenders
The programme for the 2015 Jameson Dublin International Film Festival promises a number of international guests, including Julie Andrews, Kenneth Branagh, Russell Crowe, Kim Cattrall, Alan Rickman, Ryan O'Neal and Danny Huston, and intriguing films from diverse countries and eras.
The JDIFF 2015 programme was officially launched this morning by Festival Director Grainne Humphreys, who invoked The Accidental Tourist's image of travel writing as giving the reader a chair with wings. The 'Around the World' programme features nearly 140 films from nearly 40 different countries across 11 days. Humphreys invoked the Festival's mission to amplify and complement the world cinema which is available to Irish audiences, noting that 70 to 75% of the films screened at the Festival will never be screened again in Ireland. And when such one-off screening opportunities have in the past few years included such titles as the riveting Russian WWII movie White Tiger and Aleksandr Sokurov's Faust it only underscores the importance of the Festival.
The Festival, in response to audience feedback, is expanding into new venues Movies at Dundrum, The Pavilion, and Riverbank Arts Centre, and introducing some double screenings. It is also ramping up its Picture House outreach project in hospitals and care homes, a project whose patron is Oscar-winning actress Brenda Fricker. A final new venue will be the Bord Gais Energy Theatre which will host the finale interview with Julie Andrews. That closing gala screening of The Sound of Music with Andrews, and Kenneth Branagh's unveiling of his latest blockbuster directorial outing Cinderella, is indicative of a desire to make the Festival accessible to the most casual of cinemagoers rather than the intimidating preserve of cinephiles.
Julie Andrews and Kenneth Branagh will both receive Voltas, and there are many other guests in attendance between the 19th and 29th of March. As previously mentioned hereabouts Russell Crowe will be presenting his directorial debut, The Water Diviner, in which his character travels to Gallipoli in 1919 to search for his soldier sons, missing since 1915's bloody landing on the Turkish peninsula. Another actor-director, Alan Rickman, will present his new movie A Little Chaos, in which Kate Winslet attempts to introduce a little anarchy to the gardens of Versailles under the watchful eye of Rickman's King Louis XIV. Actor-producer Kim Cattrall meanwhile will give an acting masterclass to the students of the Lir Academy, and introduce episodes of her new satirical Canadian TV series Sensitive Skin co-starring Don McKellar.
The 40th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's period epic Barry Lyndon is marked by a screening in the Savoy with both star Ryan O'Neal and producer Jan Harlan, with Lenny Abrahamson leading a public interview afterwards, while O'Neal will also be on hand for a screening of Peter Bogdanovich's 1972 neo-screwball comedy What's, Up, Doc? And if all that weren't enough to get you excited a Talking Movies favourite, the effortlessly charismatic Danny Huston, will do a Q&A after his new suspense thriller Pressure, in which he and Matthew Goode are trapped in a deep-sea station where mind-games soon jeopardise survival.
A strong line-up of Irish features encompasses genres from horror to rom-com, biopic to gangster. The Festival will be opened by Mary McGuckian's The Price of Desire, a beatiful and compelling depiction of Irish modernist designer Eileen Gray's collaboration with Le Corbussier on an iconic piece of archiecture, with stars Orla Brady and Vincent Perez in attendence. Love/Hate actor Robert Sheehan will be attending a screening of his new film The Road Within, and will participate in the Actors in Conversation event, part of this year's Screen Test programme. Gerard Barret and Jack Reynor, fresh from Sundance glory, will present Glassland, in which Toni Collette's alcoholism pushes her son Jack Reynor into a clash with the Dublin underworld. Game of Thrones star Liam Cunningham lets rip against the Gardai in Brian O'Malley's tense Let Us Prey, a homage to John Carpenter's ouevre, while Conor McMahon dispenses with the comedy of Stitches for straight horror in From the Dark in which a couple in a farmhouse are terrorised. Also featured in the programme are Pat Murphy's Tana Bana, Ivan Kavanagh's The Canal, and Vivienne De Courcy's colourful Dare to be Wild.
The Out of the Past season is always a Festival highlight and this year showcases Richard Brooks' 1967 version of In Cold Blood starring Scott Wilson and Robert Blake as the killers immortalised by Truman Capote's investigation of their brutal crime, PJ Hogan's 1994 Abba-loving Australian comedy Muriel's Wedding which made a star of Toni Collette, Jean Renoir's Partie de Campagne based on a story by Guy de Maupassant, Arthur Hiller's The Americanisation of Emily starring Julie Andres and James Garner in a tale written by Paddy Chayefsky, and King Vidor's silent classic of urban alienation The Crowd with live accompaniment from pianist Stephen Horne.
The Reel To Reel documentary strand features a trio of intriguing titles. The Last Man On The Moon will see directors Mark Craig and Gareth Doods in attendence for a Savoy presentation of their account of the Eugene Cirnan, the only man to travel to the moon twice. Fellow NHL fans will be as excited as Talking Movies to see the engaging and moving Russian documentary Red Army, about the greatest ice hockey team ever assembled in the 1980s Winter Olympics and their playing careers in North America. From Germany meanwhile The Decent One unveils the private documents, journals and photographs of the SS comander Heinrich Himmler to present an intimate portrait of a family man quietly engaged in genocide.
The bread and butter of the Festival is its eclectic selection of features. The prolific and inimitable François Ozon's latest film is The New Girlfriend, Olivier Assayas follows up autobiographical Apres Mai with the Cesar-winning psychodrama Cloud of Sils Maria, and Wim Wenders returns with The Salt of The Earth. Actor Mads Mikkelsen takes on the Old West with some Refn-like brutality in The Salvation, director Liv Ullman takes on August Strindberg's iconic play Miss Julie, Noah Baumbach addresses the effects of technology on individual lives more successfully than Jason Reitman with While We're Young, Jason Schwartzman antagonises everyone as an obnoxious writer in Listen Up Philip, and another Bret Easton Ellis 2014 favourite Force Majeure makes its debut here.
The full programme will be available on the festival website jdiff.com at 7pm tonight with online booking opening at 7.30pm. Tickets can be booked at the Festival Box Ofiice on 13 Lower Ormond Quay from 26th February, or at Ticket Offices in Cineworld or the Light House from 14th March.


April 10 (Renewables Now) - Taiwan installed over a gigawatt of solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity in 2018, up from 523 MW a year earlier, and a record for the country, says EnergyTrend.
United Renewable Energy Co Ltd (UREC), the company formed through the combination of Taiwanese solar manufacturers Gintech Energy (TPE:3514), Solartech Energy (TPE:3561) and Neo Solar Power (TPE:3576), was the top module supplier last year with total shipments of about 500 MW. AU Optronics Corp (TPE:2409), or AUO, ranked second.
The top inverter supplier, similar to 2017, was Taiwan's Delta Electronics Inc (TPE:2308).


Thrilled to be hosting the final stop (along with tour organiser, Caroline of Bits About Books) Ross Greenwood's Fifty Years of Fear. My thanks to the author for an ARC of this book and Caroline for inviting me to be on the tour! First let's find out a bit about Ross Greenwood before I share my review!!
I had the absolute pleasure of reading this book way back in the early stages as a beta reader, and let me tell you – it was a story that really had me questioning everything!
The book opens in 1966 and we are taken through various decades as this story unfolds. Violence as a way of life, relationships, dysfunction, mental health, fear, loss, buried secrets, decisions/choices and a journey of discovery are the main themes that stuck out for me. The reader follows Vinnie as he tries to piece together his past and uncover a truth that made me wonder if it was better off buried …. what a story!
There is a steady build up of pace as the story unfolds – for me, it felt almost like a coming of age crossed with crime fiction…you know something is going to happen, you just don't know when. There is a great narrative and the reader becomes entwined in this emotive story- the voice was strong and it made you listen! Tension and atmosphere were present and hung in the air like a thick mist – the reader is just pulled into this piece of fiction whether you want to or not!
There are so many unique and interesting characters in this story – Vinnie being one. He is a complex and perhaps even a slightly unintentional unreliable narrator. What a journey he is on! He tries his best to be "the good son" in stark contrast to his brother, Frank – but just cannot do right. Frank is a bully and uses violence as a means to an end – but he is so protective of his brother – you have to admire that. And their mother – well jaysus …that is all I am going to say about that!! Vinnie's wife played a poignant role in his life and some aspects of her story were just so tragic. There were definitely aspects of this story that I just wanted to know more about or expanded on a bit more, but it didn't stop me from enjoying the book as a whole.
In short, this is definitely a book I would recommend. It is not a thriller, but a book you need to sit back and absorb – each word, each page and each chapter. Captivating, complex and enthralling – grab a copy of Fifty Years of Fear now! You won't regret it!
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Hoi An lanterns illuminate Google's homepage
AsemconnectVietnam - An image of Hoi An ancient city in Vietnam's central province of Quang Nam with symbols of Chua Cau (Bridge Pagoda) and colourful lanterns was featured on Google's homepage on July 16.
This is the first time a Vietnamese destination has been honoured on the Google Doodle – a special temporary presentation that celebrates holidays, events, achievements and people.
The stunning doodle of Hoi An on Google's homepage conveys a global notion that the historical town has remained largely unchanged for several centuries.
The image of Hoi An with symbols of Chua Cau (Bridge Pagoda) and colourful lanterns was featured on Google's homepage on July 16.
According to Google Doodle, by the light of the full moon, residents of the town burn incense and light small lanterns, floating them on the river until hundreds of colorful lanterns illuminate the water.
Situated on the north bank of Vietnam's scenic Thu Bon River, right where it empties into the East Sea, Hoi An was one of the busiest trading ports in Southeast Asia from the 15th to the 19th century, it said.
While the name Hoi An means "peaceful meeting place," the seaport has been abuzz with activity since the second century. The surrounding area, known as Quang Nam province, produced cinnamon and ginseng, as well as textiles and ceramics, enticing traders from all over Asia and Europe.
By the 1600s, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Indian, Filipino, Indonesian, Thai, French, British, and American ships would come and go, while Chinese and Japanese traders rented waterfront houses in the seaside city.
Business tapered off when silt accumulation in the river made it difficult for larger ships to navigate. Fortunately, the city was spared from modernization for over 200 years, leaving the original street plan and buildings intact.
In 1999, Hoi An was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Seventeenth-century Japanese traders built the lacquered wood Chua Cau or "Bridge Pagoda," with entrances guarded by statues of monkeys and dogs.
Hundreds of timber-frame buildings and Chinese temples line narrow streets that are now popular with sightseers, historians, and filmmakers, seeking to experience and recapture a bygone era.
Earlier in July 2019, Hoi An surpassed popular cities in the world like Tokyo and Rome to top the world's best city by the New York-based magazine Travel & Leisure.


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This film compares the varying fortunes of one of Britain's most iconic tourist destinations with those of Tobago in the Caribbean. Following the stages of Butler's Model the film explores Blackpool before the railway age, Blackpool in its heyday, the decline of Blackpool's tourism trade and possible futures for the town. Supported by maps, archive footage and interviews, the DVD challenges students to think about the concept of tourism and incorporates suggestions for sustainable development of smaller tourist destinations – an alternative to the boom 'n' bust of large scale tourism developments.


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