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'On to 1964-65! No national trophies! Never seen us beat Rangers! Desperation setting in!'
By Editor	 12 October, 2018 No Comments
WE have been focusing on Celtic supporters and their own stories this week as we try to assist you all through the painfully slow period caused by the international break. Laughing at the very thought that someone thought that Alex McLeish is a competent, modern football manager is another recommended pastime. He got lucky with a formation 15 years ago and basically that's all he's got. Dreadful last night, absolutely dreadful.
Anyway back to tales from Celtic supporters and DidsburyCelt has this week been taking us through a journey that for him started in the 19650s and into the early 1960s – not the best time for Celtic supporters, success wise. You can read the earlier instalments HERE and HERE.
The 1960s Part 2 – This is my third instalment for The Celtic Star of "Supporting Celtic from Near and Far."
On to 1964-65! No national trophies! Never seen us beat Rangers! Desperation setting in!
A frustrating goalless draw at home to Partick Thistle, in those days always troublesome opponents, in the first League Cup tie was followed by four wins (scoring 18 including 5 at Firhill for goodness sake for the loss of only 3) meant that a 0-2 defeat at Kilmarnock was academic as we had already won the section. In the middle of that sequence we had won our opening league match 3-1 at Motherwell.
Then it is 5 September 1964. Another day that I will remember as long as I live!
In the week leading up to the game one of my school friends claimed that someone he knew had met Charlie Gallagher in town and that Charlie had said, "We have to beat those H*** on Saturday." True or not it just turned the screw one or two notches. Buses from Barlanark to Shettleston were invariably crowded and so it was a walk which always just entailed carrying on to Celtic Park.
In those days I wore my St. Mungo's Academy uniform even on a Saturday. On top I had a raincoat. During the match the rain poured down incessantly and continued on the way home. I was dripping wet. My father had to help to peal my clothes from me. The dark blue dye from my blazer had soaked through and stained even my vest and my skin. I didn't care. I was ecstatic. We had skelped Rangers 3-1.
The early play brought concern in that if it were true as to the conversation reported above then Charlie hitting the post with a penalty was not an ideal start. Fortunately Stevie Chalmers had put us in front before the interval and scored again early in the second half and then The Bear notched a third.
Even the loss of that goal with around 8 minutes left made no difference. I recall looking at my watch and thinking, "You're too late Rangers." A day or two later I remember my dad telling my grandma, "He was soaking wet but he was happy." An understatement if ever I heard one.
Were we to experience the good times? Little did we know! 9 March 1965 was only six months distant and a revolution in which Scottish football not to mention football coaching overall would be transformed was soon to be underway.
On the Wednesday a surprise League Cup defeat 0-2 at East Fife was not much of a concern and a comfortable recovery, 6-0, the following midweek in the second leg put us in the semi-final where we defeated Morton 2-0 on the last day of September.
Frustratingly following that win over Rangers we drew 1-1 in both of our next two league matches and lost the other game that month. In October we won four and lost one league match but crucially were defeated 1-2 by Rangers in the League Cup Final.
In the UEFA Cup we had eliminated Leixoes (Portugal) 1-1 away and 3-0 at home to set up a tie with Barcelona. Where have I heard that name since? We lost 3-1 at the Camp Nou but could not do enough at Celtic Park to turn the tie round having to settle for a 0-0 result.
November saw two league defeats and two victories and December two victories and one defeat.
January produced three losses including 0-1 at Ibrox, two draws and an 8-0 hammering of Aberdeen at Paradise. Inconsistency? Yes, and frustration!
February was much better with four wins from four matches. Crucially two of those were Scottish Cup ties 3-0 at St. Mirren and 1-0 at Queen's Park. A 3-2 home victory over Kilmarnock in the Scottish Cup quarter final preceded a 6-0 win at Airdrie (Scottish League) in Jock Stein's first match in charge.
With Jock at the helm we had hopes of a cup success and in the semi against Motherwell a Bobby Lennox equaliser cancelled a Joe McBride opener and when Joe repeated the dose Bertie Auld with a penalty secured a 2-2 draw.
That was an interesting incident. With the ball at his feet and the Motherwell defence retreating Bertie accelerated towards them as they pulled back into their own penalty area. From my vantage point his speed of thought and action resulted in two defenders almost being forced to tackle him simultaneously.
Always tricky with a strong possibility that one will commit a foul. I still believe that that was what was in his mind and since we had played badly and looked as if we would need something special to dig us out of the mess one of Bertie's wiles was just what was required. He took the penalty himself and saved the tie. The replay was a routine 4-0 win setting up a final against Dunfermline Athletic, Jock's previous club.
Another day to remember for ever!
24 April 1965 saw a pulsating final against The Pars who were twice a goal ahead with Bertie equalising each time. His first was a headed effort after the ball had hit the bar and shot up into the air. Bertie was first to react and ended up in the net with the ball and at least one defender. The second was a drive from about eight yards out.
The winner was memorable for so many reasons not least that it was a sublime effort from Billy McNeill that master of the art as he rose to head a Charlie Gallagher corner (the master of that art) from the left and thunder the ball into the net with Bobby Lennox crouching below him trying not to impede him as he soared through the air.
A major trophy at last! Oh how I celebrated.
A few weeks before I had bought myself a (reel to reel) tape recorder with my birthday money. Before I set off with my mates to the game I had set it up and left my father precise instructions as to how to start it running to record the commentary on the radio.
I must have listened to it a hundred times. I worked on a building site at the time and I even took the recorder, which weighed a ton, to work one day for one of the boys in the time clerk's office to listen. (Say it quietly but on the following Wednesday evening we played our final league match of the season at Dunfermline and lost 1-5. Funny old game football!!)
With the trophy hunt off and running I looked to what 1965-66 might have in store. The League Cup Section saw defeats at Dundee United and at home to Dundee sandwiching a win at home to Motherwell which were then followed by three victories to put us on top of the section.
Two comfortable wins against Raith Rovers set up a semi final against Hibs on 4 October 1965 at Ibrox. Joe McBride, my all time favourite Celtic player, put us in front early on but by around the hour mark we were 2-1 down. We pounded Hibs and with stoppage time looming and reluctantly thoughts turning to having to face defeat a wag standing near announced, "I'll settle for a draw."
That hardly lightened the mood but almost immediately after that a cut back from Tommy Gemmell and a shot from Bobby Lennox brought unconfined relief and joy. Somehow the ball squirmed under the goalkeeper's body. Extra time produced no more goals but the replay two weeks later provided four without reply and so we were in another final against Rangers.
In a typical O*d F*rm encounter two early penalties for Celtic were converted by John Hughes. Late on Ian Young was unfortunate to score an own goal when Ronnie Simpson tried to punch clear but the ball ricocheted off his team mate into the net. It was tense for the last few minutes but we held on and so another trophy was in the bag.
I was really starting to enjoy this.
By now I was attending virtually all home games and most away fixtures in Scotland.
The League Championship had started with wins against Dundee United and Clyde but we lost at Ibrox and then won five games in a row. Now I suffered one of my great frustrations. Regularly we had problems against Partick Thistle and this match on 6 November 1965 followed the pattern. To add to the difficulty they had a reputation of "lying down" to Rangers and so as the match progressed at 1-1 and we missed chance after chance I found myself almost in tears of anguish as I screamed "We'll NEVER win the league." (I always had a loud voice.)
Of course Rangers were going just as well as we were and at this early stage I was starting to despair. We won our next seven league matches and that took us to 3 January 1966 and a home match against Rangers. Played on a frosty pitch we were off to the worst possible start when a shot from Davie Wilson in the first minute was deflected past Ronnie Simpson. We were all over them after that but still a goal down at half time.
What a second half!
Straight away Stevie Chalmers levelled and just after the hour mark put us ahead. By seventy minutes Charlie Gallagher had scored one of his scorchers when the ball exploded off the underside of the crossbar and into the net following a John Hughes cutback. The most memorable goal for me on a glorious day was number four. Wee Jimmy touched a free kick sideways to Charlie Gallagher who played it square to Bobby Murdoch.
That famous referee Tom "Tiny" Wharton (here he is again) was right in the ball's path. He executed the most delightful movement as he allowed the ball to run through his legs. Bobby crashed it in from thirty yards. Boy, I enjoyed that one. In the last minute Jimmy Johnstone hit the post and Stevie Chalmers put the icing on the cake of a 5-1 trouncing and had scored a hat trick into the bargain.
We had qualified for the European Cup Winners Cup and had two fairly straightforward ties against Go Ahead Deventer and Aarhus and had then drawn Dynamo Kiev. On the Saturday after the Rangers game we beat Dundee United and then on the Wednesday beat the Ukrainians 3-0. A 1-1 draw two weeks later saw us into the semi-final. With the final arranged for Glasgow I was starting to dream. We paid a high price for that success.
The tie had been switched to Tbilisi to beat the cold weather in Kiev. The flight home was utterly horrendous due to delays for bad weather and technical problems with the plane. The party eventually arrived in Glasgow at 11pm on the Friday. Jock arranged a light training session at Celtic Park following which the players had a few hours sleep and then went to Tynecastle to play Hearts. Unsurprisingly we lost 2-3 which allowed Rangers to draw level at the top of the table.
Into February and two Scottish Cup victories accompanied two league wins and one loss 0-1 at Stirling often a tricky venue! March saw the next Scottish Cup tie at Tynecastle. An excellent match! Interestingly for the second game in succession Billy McNeill played at right back that day with the somewhat inexperienced John Cushley at centre half.
I remember John coming onto the pitch with Jock shortly before the game and The Boss standing with him in the area of the field of play that to a great extent would be his responsibility pointing and then turning and gesticulating. Clearly Jock was passing on his advice and experience. What a bonus for a good player who probably was at Celtic Park at the wrong time in view of the other great defenders who were around.
Willie Wallace put Hearts in front and Bertie Auld equalised immediately. Alan Anderson gave Hearts a half time lead but Joe McBride put us level again and Stevie Chalmers put us in front. Five minutes from time Johnny Hamilton, a Hearts stalwart, ensured that a replay would be required on the following Wednesday. We had a good night in Edinburgh and caught a late train home to Glasgow. That Wednesday evening was very beneficial for Celtic.
Jimmy Johnstone and Bobby Murdoch had us in front at half time and then Stevie Chalmers settled the tie after 52 minutes. Willie Wallace pulled one back with five minutes to go but we were through to the semi-final. Unexpectedly Rangers, who had been top of the league although only on goal average but with a game in hand on Celtic, lost 2-3 at Falkirk. Obviously that squared up the number of league matches played but crucially it damaged their goal average sufficiently to allow Celtic to move into top place. We remained there for the rest of the season.
Hearts now did us a favour holding Rangers to a 1-1 draw at Ibrox while we beat St. Johnstone 3-2 at home. We had a cushion of a one point lead and an even better goal average. It was still tight at the top but we were never really in danger as far as the title was concerned.
Two cups: two semi-finals! We defeated Dunfermline 2-0 in a match that we controlled and where we were worth more goals. The first leg of the Cup Winners Cup semi at Paradise was a bit disappointing in that we missed some really good chances which could have put us in a very strong position. While it may have been a bit of bravado Jock seemed happy with the one goal that Bobby Lennox notched just after half time. Nonetheless Anfield would be tough! The atmosphere in our house was very tense as my dad and I waited for the highlights on television. Liverpool went at us from the start but we held firm for about an hour.
There had been some comments about "emotional scenes" at the end of the match. From that my dad was confident but I was worried. Sadly I was correct. Around the sixtieth minute we conceded and again about five minutes later. We desperately needed a goal and at the death Bobby Lennox raced onto a ball from Joe McBride and scored or so it appeared.
Unbelievably the linesman had his flag up for offside. An appalling decision! Sadly many Celtic fans over reacted and caused some trouble. Totally wrong of course! That can never be condoned or excused but I have to admit that even more than fifty years later I still feel cheated.
Four days later on the Saturday we played out a 0-0 draw against Rangers in the cup final. On the Wednesday night a screamer from Johansen skimmed the turf and deprived us of the trophy.
We just missed a treble. If fate had been kind we would have had a virtual home match in the European Cup Winners Cup Final. Surely we would have won that! How could we better that? We did not have to wait long to find out.
Time for a little reflection!
Looking back now (50 years later as I write this) I am not sure that the enormity of what we were achieving and were to achieve had really sunk in. In many ways it is only now that I am able to put it into perspective as I realise what the club has done in 2016-17, an invincible treble, and 2017-18 with the League Cup back in the trophy cabinet, the League title back home where it belongs and the Scottish Cup which has always had a very special place in our hearts nestling beside.
An unprecedented double treble!
Who could have ever imagined this? Over and above that we have brought through some wonderful young players with the development squad promising more. They regularly remind me, not that I need much reminding because the memories are so strong, of the wonderful young players in the reserves at those glorious times in the 60s and 70s. No wonder they were known as The Quality Street Gang.
Those kids gave us great football as they progressed and the promise, greatly fulfilled, of success in the future just as the present youngsters do. It was a great time to be a Celtic supporter. It always is even in difficult periods and that situation is very much the case these days, a great time to be a Celtic supporter. I am able to tell my sons to savour these wonderful times and to try to help them appreciate the glory and joy of Celtic although I have to admit that mostly I feel sure that I am preaching to the converted.
It may seem strange to have given you my reflections at this point rather than waiting until I had reminded us all of 1966-67 but I feel that that season being our greatest ever it should not end a period but commence one. I promise that you will not have long to wait.
DidsburyCelt
Also on The Celtic Star today – and it really does help the site if you click on a few of these other stories while here…
Lion Bites Brendan! – 'Rodgers has his own ideas, but they're not my ideas'…See HERE.
Anti-Celtic Actions? 'I'll take the abuse, the hate, and get on with it,' OG, KT…See HERE.
'Arzani is quick, takes people on, and reminds me of Jinky,' Willie Wallace…See HERE.
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Closer to a Cure? Researchers at centres in the US and Scotland have discovered ways to target Leukaemic Stem Cells (LSCs).
Researchers at centres in the US and Scotland have discovered ways to target the Leukaemic Stem Cell (LCSs). TKI therapies do not eradicate the disease in the majority of people as they do not switch off the abnormal stem cell that all CML cells develop from. In a small minority develop resistance to this class of drug. Teams on both sides of the Atlantic have been working hard to find ways to target Leukaemia Stem Cells.
Findings, reported online in Cancer Discovery, raises prospects for improved therapy of TKI-resistant CML and/or eradication of disease by addition of EZH2 inhibitors "Our findings suggest inhibition of Ezh2 should be considered as a way to eradicate CML when used in combination with current targeted therapies. It offers a promising approach to shortening the duration of therapy in order to achieve a cure."
In another paper published simultaneously by Cancer Discovery, a team of Scottish scientists report similar findings using a different research approach.
"In CML, TKI-persistent LSCs remain an obstacle to cure, and approaches to eradicate them remain a significant unmet clinical need. We demonstrate that EZH2 and H3K27me3 reprogramming is important for LSC survival, but renders LSCs sensitive to the combined effects of EZH2i and TKI. This represents a novel approach to more effectively target LSCs in patients receiving TKI treatment."


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Andy Katz | NCAA.com Correspondent | April 4, 2018
Duke, Nova, Kansas lead early look at 2019 contenders
2018 One Shining Moment
Villanova is the current team of the decade with two titles in three seasons and is on target to compete for more.
But tapping the Wildcats as a 2018-19 preseason No. 1 without knowing player decisions would be premature.
Rosters are in flux. Players are declaring for the NBA draft. Some will stay, some will simply go through the process and pull out by May 30.
Oh, and then there are the transfers. The market is flooded and late-season acquisitions could go on well into the summer.
But that shouldn't stop anyone from at least earmarking the teams that have a chance to make the Power 36 Summer Edition.
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And there are plenty.
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An actual Power 36, yes a 1-36 ranking with a No. 1 team, will be available for your delight and debate later in the spring after the NBA draft withdrawal deadline.
For now, let's just consider which teams start out the spring as contenders for spots.
This shouldn't come as a shock but the ACC and rising SEC could dominate the rankings with a slew of teams.
Let's go in conference order for candidates among the 11 leagues that should provide the teams for the rankings (after conferring with the respective leagues):
American: Expect UCF, Cincinnati and Houston to be the teams to watch early. If Tacko Fall, BJ Taylor and Aubrey Dawkins are all healthy and ready to go, then UCF could be the team to beat. But don't ever dismiss a Mick Cronin-coached team. Houston loses Rob Gray but the program has elevated itself to NCAA tournament status. Tulsa, Temple and Memphis (with new coach Penny Hardaway) have the personnel to crack the top group, but wouldn't make the Power 36 in the summer. And I refuse to dismiss Wichita State or SMU. These programs/coaches are too good and have proven that they will be in the mix.
Tacko is ready to do BIG things in his final season.
Yup, @tackofall99 is back!
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— UCF Men's Basketball (@UCF_MBB) April 4, 2018
A-10: This is a tricky one. Will there be a team in the Power 36? Maybe not to start, but there are plenty of teams vying for spots. The consensus seems to be to lean toward Saint Joseph's with Charlie Brown and Lamar Kimble back or Saint Louis with Jordan Goodwin, Jalen Johnson, Hasahn French and Javon Bess. But, don't for a second dismiss Davidson. The Wildcats have a star in Kellan Grady. Yes, Peyton Aldridge is gone, but Davidson will be in the mix to win the league. Book it. Rhode Island is still a toss-up based on who returns and the unknowns seem to be VCU and Dayton. Regardless, the league should be deeper.
Villanova wins its second NCAA title in three years
ACC: The ACC could dominate the top of the Power 36 with Duke as the possible No. 1, considering the Blue Devils have the top three players in the class of 2018 matriculating this fall. Expect North Carolina, Virginia, Louisville, Virginia Tech, Florida State, Miami, Notre Dame, NC State and Syracuse to all vie for spots in the Power 36 throughout the season. Experience will matter, though, as it always does. And that's why locking in Duke as the top team in the country based solely on talent may not be so simple. None of the four teams that made it to San Antonio relied mostly on freshmen.
Big East: Villanova could/should be the class of the league, assuming the Wildcats don't get gutted by early-entry decisions. Let's assume that there isn't a mass exodus, and with the addition of Cole Swider, the Wildcats should be right back near the top. Donte DiViencenzo is more than capable of being the star once Jalen Brunson is gone. But never assume everyone stays.
The Big East was top heavy with senior-laden teams. So, there will be a bit of reshuffling. Marquette could be the sleeper team with Markus Howard, Sam and Joey Hauser and transfer Ed Morrow. Providence still has Alpha Diallo, Nate Watson and David Duke. Xavier returns Naji Marshall and Paul Scruggs, Quentin Goodin and Kaiser Gates.
Loyola Chicago's clutch shots in the tournament
Big Ten: The Big Ten will once again be a tough read. The early-entry decisions at Michigan will indicate where the Wolverines fall. But they've proven to never be discounted. Michigan State did lose Jaren Jackson and Miles Bridges but the depth is still in place for the Spartans to make a play. Ohio State is headed for a rebuild. Purdue, too, but not a complete overhaul at all.
The risers could be Maryland with Anthony Cowan and Kevin Huerter back, Wisconsin (return of D'Mitrick Trice and Kobe King to go along with Brad Davison in the backcourt), Nebraska (based on early-entries), Northwestern and Iowa. Penn State won the NIT but the momentum was halted with Tony Carr now gone. Still, the Nittany Lions will be in the chase for a bid. Let's see how the rosters shake out at Indiana, Rutgers, Minnesota and Illinois. So, if you haven't noticed, it's way too premature to project this league.
Big 12: Kansas will be tabbed to win its 15th-straight league title and could make a play for the top spot in the Power 36, even with Devonte' Graham and Malik Newman gone. Kansas got to the Final Four in what was considered a down year for them. Ha! Lagerald Vick and Udoka Azubuike headline its returning talent. Quentin Grimes and Devon Dotson come in. Kansas State got to the Elite Eight way ahead of schedule. The Wildcats will be loaded with upperclassmen with Dean Wade and Barry Brown Jr. This team came together well in the NCAA tournament and should carry the momentum into the fall. Iowa State could be the sleeper that rises up and should be in the Power 36 with Lindell Wigginton, who declared for the draft but hasn't hired an agent, a likely stud returnee.
West Virginia did lose its heart in Jevon Carter and Daxter Miles Jr., and Sagaba Donate is testing the NBA draft process. Still, Esa Ahmad could anchor a strong returning nucleus. TCU has three starters back including Jaylen Fisher. Texas Tech lost five seniors but Jarrett Culver could give the Red Raiders plenty. Let's take a wait and see approach with Texas. There is oodles of talent in Austin, but the Longhorns could get hit hard by early entries. And clearly dismissing Oklahoma State, Baylor and Oklahoma isn't an option, either. This league is always deep.
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MVC: Loyola-Chicago wasn't a fluke. The Ramblers earned every bit of their Final Four appearance. And the loss of Donte Ingram, Aundre Jackson and Ben Richardson will hurt. But the return of Clayton Custer, Lucas Williamson, Cameron Krutwig and Marques Townes make the Ramblers a threat to be in the rankings at the beginning and end of the season.
MWC: Nevada could be a beast if everyone returns. That's a big if. Cody and Caleb Martin, as well as Jordan Caroline, could all be tempted to leave. But if they are given the right advice that they're not locks and come back then there is no reason to believe Reno won't be hopping again come March. New Mexico could be loaded, too, with a host of transfers ready to deliver for the surprising Lobos. San Diego State and Boise State should also once again be in the hunt for bids and cameos in the poll.
Pac-12: Arizona is in a complete overhaul, so the Wildcats won't be in the Power 36. Washington will be — and very high. The Huskies return each key piece of the team that won 21 games and added Jamal Bey. That's four seniors back for Washington, including Matisse Thybulle. Five returning starters mean the Huskies are going to be very good. Oregon will have Kenny Wooten back and Bol Bol to watch. There is enough returning, even if without Troy Brown, for the Ducks to fly high again.
UCLA should be right back where it belongs with Prince Ali and Alex Olesinski. Remember, Cody Riley and Jalen Hill, who were both suspended for the China theft incident, return. Don't sleep on Arizona State with the losses of Tra Holder, Shannon Evans and Kodi Justice with a host of transfers and the return of Remy Martin, Mickey Mitchell and Romello White. Stanford's appearance here all depends on Reid Travis. If he's back, then so are the Cardinal. They were close this past season. This should be a breakout year for Jerod Haase. Daejon Davis, Oscar Da Silva and KZ Okpala lead the charge.
Colorado has McKinley Wright IV and that keeps the Buffaloes around for me. Dismissing Oregon State and Utah would also be a mistake. The Utes could build off this year's NIT runner-up finish.
New season starts today.#TougherTogether pic.twitter.com/vrrh3QcN8O
— Washington Men's Basketball (@UW_MBB) April 3, 2018
SEC: The SEC could have 11 teams vying for bids and spots in the rankings. No joke. But a lot of that will depend on all of the early entries. Seriously, it is still premature to bank on who will be in or out. But Kentucky, Auburn, Tennessee, Florida, Arkansas, Texas A&M, Mississippi State, Vanderbilt, Alabama, LSU and Missouri are all worthy of consideration throughout the poll from the top 10 to the bottom. The only three real rebuilds in the league are Georgia, South Carolina and Ole Miss. Choosing who will be in the poll once the returning players are known will be the toughest chore of any league.
There were highs and there were lows. We grew to love this team, as we know you did. We didn't capture our ultimate goal of winning the championship, but this season was undoubtedly a success. We faced adversity, we grew up and we captured an SEC championship. #EmbraceTheJourney pic.twitter.com/jgzuFaEy33
— Kentucky Basketball (@KentuckyMBB) March 30, 2018
WCC: Gonzaga is top 10 good again. Losing Johnathan Williams and Silas Melson is a hit but Zach Norvell Jr. and Rui Hachimura are stars. Josh Perkins will be a senior, Killian Tillie a junior, Corey Kispert a sophomore. And the coaching staff is banking on Brandon Clarke to be a star. BYU is an unknown but could surprise. Saint Mary's is never off the map, even in a retooling season.

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Tory ministers have been accused of "robbing Peter to pay Paul" after parliament's spending watchdog branded NHS finances "unsustainable", warning they could derail the recently announced long-term plan.
In its annual report on the health service, the National Audit Office (NAO) found that by offsetting surpluses and deficits in spending, the NHS was effectively hiding regional differences in finances and patient experience.
The probe revealed that while the health service almost achieved financial balance in 2017/18, NHS trusts racked up a combined deficit of £991m – much of which was accounted for by just 10 trusts.
The government handed out £3.2bn in loans to support trusts unable to afford staff costs and pay suppliers – an increase of almost half a billion on 2016/17. It is a sign "that the underlying financial health in some trusts is getting worse", the NAO said.
Meanwhile, waiting times continued to slip, with just 88% of A&E patients seen within four hours in 2017/18 against a target of 95%.
According to NAO estimates, it would also cost £700m to reduce waiting lists for non-urgent treatments – up from 2.5 million patients in 2012/13 to 4.1 million – even back to levels seen in March 2018.
However, the watchdog warned that the NHS long-term funding settlement announced by Prime Minister Theresa May earlier this month, which will see an additional £20bn a year pumped into the health service by 2023/24, must not be used to exclusively deal with short-term pressures – a mistake that has been made in the past.
"There is a risk that the extra funding will not be used effectively due to staff shortages as more money may be used to pay expensive agency staff or will go unspent as individual healthcare providers may not be able to recruit the staff to deliver additional activity," the report read.
It will also be "very difficult to make the NHS sustainable" without a long-term funding settlement for social care, it added.
Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said Tory ministers were "robbing to Peter to pay Paul by moving money designated for longer-term investment into day-to-day spending", accusing the Conservative Party of imposing "the biggest cash squeeze in history" on the NHS.
But NAO's auditor general Amyas Morse went on to call the long-term settlement "a positive and welcome development", saying that if the funding is spent wisely "we can expect to see a less turbulent financial context than the last few years".


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Downtown tower could shatter price record
By Nancy Sarnoff on September 20, 2011 at 5:46 PM
Downtown's Hess Tower at 1501 McKinney
Downtown's brand new Hess Tower is up for sale, and it could shatter the price record for Houston, according to Real Estate Alert, a commercial real estate publication.
The 29-story Hess Tower could fetch up to $444 million — or $525 per square foot, the report said. The Trammell Crow-developed property at 1501 McKinney is 844,763 square feet. Before Hess signed a lease for the entire building, the property used to be known as Discovery Tower because it sits on the edge of Discovery Green.
From Real Estate Alert:
That per-foot valuation would be an eye-popping 71 percent higher than the market's record of $306/sf, set earlier this year. It would also be the most ever paid for a Houston office property on an absolute basis, exceeding the current high-water mark of $367 million.
The estimated value would translate into a capitalization rate of roughly 6%. The Hess lease, which runs until 2026, calls for a triple-net rent of more than $30/sf that will bump up by 4.5% every three years starting in 2015.
Downtown's Bank of America Center holds the existing record for total sales price.
CB Richard Ellis is marketing the property.
Nancy Sarnoff | Real estate reporter and blogger
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Manufacturer: Leland Corporation
Ivan "Ironman" Stewart's Super Off Road Arcade Game *
Ivan "Ironman" Stewart's Super Off Road is an arcade video game released in 1989 by Leland Corporation. The game was endorsed by professional off road racer Ivan Stewart.
In the game, up to three players compete against each other or the computer in racing around several top-view indoor off-road truck tracks of increasing difficulty. There are eight different tracks and 99 races altogether on most versions . All races are raced more than once. First place results earn the player points to continue in the championship and money with which to upgrade their truck or buy more nitro. The goal is to reach the end of the season with the most money earned. This is one of the first games where the player could upgrade his or her vehicle by earning points or money , a system that is used in many racing games today.
This game was taken in on trade by a local customer and is in remarkable shape for it's condition where it has spent most of it's life in a private home environment. The steering wheel cap is missing off the left (red) steering wheel but in no way effects gameplay. A few minor blemishes have been touched up but nothing very significant and nothing more than what you would expect for a classic arcade game now 30 years old!
Super Off Road has been checked out by our technicians and a brand new light fixture was installed for the marquee illumination. Super Off Road is working great and needs nothing besides you and two friends to take the challenge of trying to get 1st Place.
Great opportunity to own a well loved, collectible classic arcade game that is becoming hard to find in any condition.


Here is my 2014 DG335 in Pelham Blue #77.
This guitar is in amazing condition, it has spent almost all of its life in a display cabinet and barely been played (Maybe 30 mins total being generous).
Comes with all the original certificates.
It does have a minor blemish on the headstock from the hangar which is visible in the last picture.
Please feel free to contact and/or make an offer. I would be willing to deliver this in person with right offer.
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Moneyproperties have supported Star Throwers for many years, our Company Director Mick Money is a Patron for the charity and also does great work in spreading awareness of their work.
"I have been a keen supporter of Star Throwers for many years now mainly through my good friend and previous patron Les King who sadly passed away three years ago now. However, prior to his passing Les asked me if I would continue with his good work for Star Throwers by becoming a patron, this was an honour I gladly accepted.
Firstly, I set up the Les King memorial football matches which are played in July in conjunction with Wymondham Town Football Club and the Rotary Satellite Group of Wymondham as a pre season opener and in three years this event alone has raised over £12,000 in Les's name.
Secondly, I was founder member of the Rotary Satellite Group of Wymondham which has raised much needed funds for Star Throwers through quiz nights and metal detecting events over the past three years.
Lastly, my family business Moneyproperties donates 1% of our fee for selling your home to Star Throwers which is really appreciated by our customers who also like to get involved in supporting a local charity which does so much for those affected by cancer.
My one wish is that more and more local businesses will get involved in raising much needed funds for local charities such as Star Throwers and supporting the local community."
Mick Money - Company Director.
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Across The Universe is an album released by Trip Shakespeare in 1990. It was the band's first release on A&M Records, the major label that they had signed with earlier in the year.

Title

The title's echo of a particularly trippy Beatles song recalls lead songwriter Matt Wilson's preoccupation with the British Invasion band:

There's a part of us that's plainly trying to make epic, gorgeous music that can be admired on at least a couple of levels ... There are people who will say: "Rock 'n' roll is supposed to be simple, three-chord stuff like Keith Richards plays." But when you get right down to it, I guess we find ourselves more in the Beatles' school than in the Rolling Stones.

Reaction

TrouserPress.com called Across The Universe a "too-rare example of an indie act benefiting musically from major-label treatment"—citing an "increased rock edge that doesn't detract from the gentle charm" of tracks like "Snow Days", "Gone, Gone, Gone" and "The Crane"—the latter being the closest thing the album had to a hit.

New York Newsday praised the album's "original melodies, soaring, driving hooks, and precise, daringly oddball lyrics", but complained that "the jokey tone often descends into feyness, then facetiousness," and said the "overbaked singing accentuates the overly florid lyrics of otherwise engaging songs". The Toronto Star called Across the Universe "odd stuff, but completely engaging."

The band itself was less than satisfied with the album. "We did not succeed on Across the Universe," Matt Wilson later said. "There was kind of a compromise between what the label wanted on there and what the band wanted." Despite this attempt to tailor the product for the record-buying public, Across the Universe sold a disappointing 33,000 copies—a showing characterized by Wilson as "bad, really bad."

Songs

The album opens with "Turtledove", described as "a love song written, logically enough, from the point of view of a male bird."

"Pearle" is a murder ballad rerecorded from the band's self-released debut album, Applehead Man. The "new version...demonstrates how much Trip has grown; the playing is more confident and interactive than ever, with an increased rock edge," wrote Trouser Press.

Calling "Snow Days" "Trip Shakespeare at its best", Newsday described it as "an eccentric blues about the kind of blizzard that shuts down school...a lovely evocation of childhood in the Minnesota winter."

"Every time we worked on the song in the studio, it seemed to snow," bassist John Munson claimed of "Snow Days". "When we were mixing the song in New York, it snowed there for the first time
in years on Thanksgiving," said Matt Wilson.

"Drummer Like Me" is said to "credibly capture the social misfortunes of the band member who often gets the least respect."

"The Slacks" has been called a "tale of strange sexual discovery", and "a naughty dance song about a one-eyed lady from France with a fatal weakness for magic trousers."

The lyrics of "Honey Tree" were co-written by Matt and Dan Wilson—the first Trip Shakespeare words not credited solely to Matt. "The honey tree is someplace beyond this world", Dan said of the song. "The garden where that romance takes place is other-earthly. It's real, in the same way that a dream is real".

Track listing
All music by Matt Wilson and Dan Wilson except as indicated. All lyrics by Matt Wilson except "Honey Tree" by Matt Wilson and Dan Wilson.
 "Turtledove" – 3:36
 "Pearle"  (Matt Wilson, Larry Abitz) – 3:46
 "Snow Days"  (Matt Wilson) – 4:04
 "Drummer Like Me"  (Matt Wilson) – 3:50
 "Gone, Gone, Gone" – 4:41
 "The Slacks"  (Matt Wilson) – 4:00
 "Unlucky Lady" – 2:35
 "The Nail" – 3:11
 "The Crane" – 3:24
 "Late" – 3:28
 "Honey Tree"  (John Munson, Matt Wilson) – 4:20

Notes

Trip Shakespeare albums
1990 albums
Albums produced by Fred Maher
A&M Records albums

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At a recent bookstore event, I experienced a cringe-worthy moment. Oddly, my distress involved a pair of shoppers interested in buying my novel, THE NAMESAKE. It's not that these patrons were creepy or threatening. In fact, they were friendly, talkative. Heck, they looked like they'd walked straight out of a breakfast cereal commercial. The thing is, it wouldn't have been a fiber-rich brand for grownups or health-conscious teens. Nope, this mother/child duo squarely fit the sugary-kid-cereal demographic.
So what made me write a story that would lead to bookstore angst and uncomfortable coffeehouse interactions? Hard to say. I actually didn't set out to write about sexual abuse—certainly not of the clergy variety—but it's a topic that matters to me, and it has a way of surfacing in my writing, both my poetry and fiction. Once it became clear that the story needed to "go there," I fully committed to telling it. Well, after some unsuccessful attempts to twist the tale in other directions.
Writing honestly about abuse meant facing some dark moments throughout the process, and questioning myself every step of the way. It was very difficult to put Evan, a character I'd grown to love, through the emotionally excruciating experience of uncovering his father's painful past. There were moments when I considered just giving up. But creating THE NAMESAKE was not a task I took lightly; it felt important, and not just for my own sake. At every turn, I imagined my future readers and how they might respond. It seemed like a disservice to them to back away from telling Evan's story.
Some adult readers have called THE NAMESAKE too graphic and depressing for YA readers. While I agree the content is dark and mature, I actually took great pains not to be overly graphic. Most of the abuse is not described in detail. I honestly believe the book feels graphic because of the reader's ability to imagine and visualize the horrors I've hinted at in the novel. Having Evan's father suffer sexual abuse rather than Evan himself was a conscious choice; I felt it would provide the reader a protective emotional cushion. And while I knew the presence of hope was essential, it was equally important to honor those who've survived abuse by portraying that experience realistically, minus sugarcoating.
Those probably well-meaning adult readers overlook something crucial when they say the book is too heavy for young adults. It's the fact that teens today are aware of more than we may wish they were—this has probably always been the case. They're aware because they, or people they care about, are struggling with similarly tough content in their own lives. When we write authentically about dark, controversial material—obviously tempered with hope and humor—we show respect and concern for their experience. Maybe we even help one or two of them to cope with the darkness of their own lives. At least, I hope so. For me, that would be the best possible outcome of the journey I went on in writing THE NAMESAKE. Knowing the book had been meaningful to even one young person, making him or her feel less alone and somehow more understood, would make it all worthwhile.
As for that mother/child team who were interested in buying my book, I told them it was "rated fourteen and up for mature content." The mom said, "Well, maybe we'll read this one together." Definitely another squeamish moment. But I fought the instinct to wrench the book from her hand. Instead, I happily inscribed it and sent them on their way, secure in the belief that each book finds the reader it's meant for, and that a kid whose mom supports him in reading a "tough" book is a kid whose parent believes in preparing him for the real world. And I swear my daughter will get to read THE NAMESAKE one day soon, when she—or maybe it's me—is really ready.


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Myshkin was born on a certain day and died on a certain day - and some things happened to him in between. These things presented him with ethical questions, and this book is a record of his attempt to answer those questions.
Discovered by his son after Myshkin's death, A Good Life is one man's reckoning with the life he has led and the choices he made. It is at once a philosophical handbook for living and a pause-resisting narrative.
A Good Life is one man's life (birth, death, education, religion, morality, illness and so on) told through a philosophical lens. It is a riveting examination of the ethical questions we face and the decisions we must make and a defence of the idea that at the beating heart of morality we find love. And it is written with the conviction that, on their own, moral rules and principles are childish things - risible and easily refuted. It is only a life in its entirety that can be morally judged.
A Good Life is sometimes profoundly funny, sometimes deeply serious. It is as listenable as a novel and as provocative as the best philosophy. It is the finest work to date by a charming and brilliant thinker.
Mark Rowlands was born in Newport, Wales. He is a professor of philosophy at the university of Miami and the author of 16 books, including the best-selling The Philosopher and the Wolf, also published by Granta. His books have been translated into more than 20 languages.


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Aug 1, 2019 - Energy & Environment
Trump Organization subpoenaed by Manhattan prosecutors over hush money payments
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Michael Cohen. Photo: Atilgan Ozdil/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
The office of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance has subpoenaed the Trump Organization for records related to hush money payments made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels by Michael Cohen during the 2016 presidential campaign, the New York Times reports.
Why it matters: The Southern District of New York said earlier this month that it had "effectively concluded" its federal investigation into the payments without charging anyone except for Cohen, who is currently serving out a 3-year sentence for campaign finance violations. State prosecutors are now investigating whether the Trump Organization falsely listed its reimbursement of Cohen for the $130,000 payment to Daniels as a legal expense, which would be illegal under New York law, per the Times.
Vance's prosecutors have also reportedly subpoenaed American Media Inc., the publisher of the National Inquirer, which admitted in December to making a $150,000 payment "in concert with" the Trump campaign to suppress a story about an alleged affair Trump had with former Playboy model Karen McDougal.
An attorney for the Trump Organization called the subpoena a "political hit job," telling the Times: "It's just harassment of the president, his family and his business, using subpoenas as weapons. We will respond as appropriate."


Episode 76 of the PSVRlife is live! This week Danthol and Ryan talk about the Lenovo Mirage camera editing woes, Polybius, Rec Room, Skyrim VR, Obduction VR, Star Trek Bridge Crew, PlayStation VR Worlds, and 2MD: VR Football.
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Antaeotricha thomasi is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by William Barnes and August Busck in 1920. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado.

The wingspan is 21–24 mm. The forewings are yellowish creamy white without any markings and the hindwings are pale yellowish white.

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Moths described in 1920
thomasi
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UB earns high marks in green power usage
By Buffalo Healthy Living on April 24, 2019 / Lifestyle, News
Tags: Buffalo, Environment, green power, UB
Buffalo tops the Mid-American Conference, and ranks No. 10 on Environment America list
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Tis the season for sustainability rankings in higher education, and the University at Buffalo fares well on two lists that track green power usage among the nation's colleges and universities.
For the second straight year, UB tops the Mid-American Conference (MAC) in green power usage, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 2018-19 College and University Green Power Challenge, the results of which were revealed on Earth Day (April 22).
Since April 2006, EPA's Green Power Partnership has tracked and recognized the collegiate athletic conferences with the highest combined green power use within the program. The Individual Conference Champion Award recognizes the school that uses the largest amount of green power in a qualifying conference.
Of the 36 conference winners this year, UB ranks No. 2 in green power usage. The university uses more than 224 million kilowatt hours of green power — equivalent to the electricity consumption of more than 21,000 average American homes annually — which represents 100 percent of the university's annual electricity use.
UB trails only the Southeastern Conference champion University of Tennessee, Knoxville, which uses more than 250 million kilowatt hours.
In addition to the EPA ranking, UB is among the top 10 colleges in the country for renewable energy use, according to Denver-based advocacy group Environment America Research and Policy Center.
The rankings are important because they come at a time when prospective students are choosing which college to attend. Sixty-three percent of students surveyed for the Princeton Review's 2018 "College Hopes & Worries Survey" reported that information about a college's commitment to the environment would influence their application or enrollment decisions.
"Rankings such as these matter because we know that today's prospective students care deeply about sustainability issues and are making their college decisions based in large part on how well a university fares in this regard," said Laura Hubbard, UB's vice president for finance and administration.
"It's also a point of pride for the university as we continue celebrating Sustainability Month with dozens of events that span the range of what it means to be sustainable."
UB is No. 10 on the Environment America list, which was compiled by gathering data from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) and ranking 180 qualifying colleges using their Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS) scores from the past three years.
To account for differences in school size, Environment Americadivided the amount of renewable energy each school produced or purchased by the number of full-time equivalent students.
Of the 180 schools that have reported their renewable energy data to the STARS system, 91 percent are using some amount of renewable energy.
Southwestern University in Texas was No. 1 on Environment America's list. The school purchases Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) from wind farms equivalent to 100% of its electricity consumption.
Environment America's report notes that campuses across the country are cleaning up their transportation systems by transitioning away from fossil fuel-powered vehicles and moving toward electric vehicle fleets — something that UB is currently considering.
The University at Buffalo is a premier research-intensive public university, the largest and most comprehensive campus in the State University of New York. UB's nearly 30,000 students pursue their academic interests through more than 300 undergraduate, graduate and professional degree programs. Founded in 1846, the University at Buffalo is a member of the Association of American Universities.
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Written by stoplovingeverything November 28, 2007
You're the One Who's Dead, But Look Who's Talking
A trip to the Dentists today, but first: May Kevin Dubrow find nothing but zebra-swirl microphone stands where he's going. I once saw Quiet Riot for free —for free – in a NJ club in 1999 or 2000. They were horrible. But the crowd delivered. There were guys present who hadn't left their basements since […]
If This Be Error and Upon Me Proved
Last night I dreamed musicians in this internet-addled age made albums for reasons they no longer could articulate, but knew they needed this sham, the album, to lay onto their moneyed fans as an object, a thing to own, but deep in their hearts they know the album is an artistic vehicle fading faster than […]
Dream Covers # 5436.6
Scott Walker will cover "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" with Kronos Quartet. Although that's predictable, if mind-blowing. Let's say Walker will please cover Xiu Xiu's "I Broke Up (SJ)." Radiohead will cover Roky Erickson's "I Have Always Been Here Before"I Met Rocky [sic] Erickson – Daniel Johnston and Jad Fair The Drones will cover the Scientists' "We […]
Written by stoplovingeverything November 8, 2007
Cartoon Composers and Tom Waits Singing in a Puerto Rican Rowboat
My daughter's allowed one cartoon, maybe once a day, usually less. It's 20 minutes, and has no commercial interruptions* at all. It's not Gabba Gabba Hey, although that sounds cool, but GGH comes on at 11 am or so, and my kid is a kid who goes outside on adventures after 10 am, and doesn't […]
What Not to Say to a DJ
Like some, I've played records in public for others. Sometimes it's a blast, especially when in a bar not serving food, with drunks and rock fans, the kind of people who offer to fight you if you play Justice but get blissfully confused if you unleash Aphex Twin's "Come to Daddy" after Sabbath's "The Mob […]


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Abstract deadline for the 3rd Annual Ray Browne Conference on Cultural and Critical Studies has been extended to January 18, 2016. Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted to https://orgsync.com/10612/forms/165745. Panel, roundtable, performance, poster, artistic display and other non-traditional session proposals are welcome and should include a 300-word abstract and contact information for all participants. Full conference website: www.bgsu.edu/raybrowne.
Theories about the concept of time have challenged the way we see and experience the world around us, and time pervades every research project imaginable. Yet time defies a single meaning for the world's populations, past and present. Timelessness, too, is critical to understanding social constructs, nostalgia, memory, etc. This year's Ray Browne Conference on Cultural and Critical Studies is inspired by scholarly and popular attempts to grapple with conceptions of time in the past, present, and future.
From interpretations of memory/loss to the popularity of dystopian future narratives, and from film reboots to social justice, the concept of time shapes understandings of our cultures and ourselves. By studying time and its influence on politics, popular culture, and everyday life, we seek work that asks how the "here and now" is shaped by the "before" and helps create the "after." Examining critical and popular relationships with time reveals the impetus behind nostalgia machines, science fiction, the technological advances of our near-future, and other aspects of continuity and change.
This year's conference theme draws on multiple disciplines and perspectives on time, reconsidering ways of writing about, discussing, and even experiencing time. We invite scholarship that addresses the impact of time on our understandings of the past, present, and future, in the broadest sense. Submissions are welcome in, but not limited to, the below subject areas.
Subject Areas: Subject area listings are suggestions only. All papers will be considered for conference acceptance regardless of subject area or topic. If you have a paper you wish to submit, but do not feel it fits within any of the subject areas listed below, please choose [Other] on the submission site.
Undergraduate Sessions: We welcome all undergraduate student papers in this subject area. Undergraduates are also welcome to submit their abstracts to one of the above subject areas for consideration.
The third annual Ray Browne Conference on Cultural and Critical Studies is co-sponsored by Culture Club: Cultural Studies Scholars' Association and Popular Culture Scholars Association within the School of Cultural and Critical Studies at Bowling Green State University.


Religious communities that choose to function independently face particularly acute restrictions, Forum 18 News Service has found, with some being arbitrarily denied the registration necessary to be able to function and barred from renting anywhere to meet legally. One independent Baptist church in the capital Minsk was forced to go underground after being refused registration. It had been told it would get registration if it joined the country's main Baptist union. The KGB secret police continues to monitor that church and other religious communities. A Messianic Jewish congregation finally gained registration in March only after it joined the Baptist union and changed its name so that its Messianic Jewish affiliation was no longer obvious. Pastor Nikolai Khaskin told Forum 18 "we had to be flexible".
Although the authorities have so far held off from closing down two religious communities eligible for liquidation under the restrictive 2002 religion law - the charismatic New Life church and the Hare Krishna community in Minsk – officials have warned both communities not to meet. "We're afraid to meet at our temple," Sergei Malakhovsky of the 200-strong Hare Krishna community told Forum 18 News Service, pointing out that constant police checks would result in "a huge fine equivalent to approximately 1,500 US dollars". New Life church and the Hare Krishna communities in Minsk and Bobruisk are among many religious communities denied compulsory re-registration and whose activity is therefore illegal. In April the pastor of an unregistered Baptist church was also fined.
BELARUS: Final warning for Minsk charismatic church?
State authorities in Minsk, Belarus' capital, have given the charismatic New Life Church a second official warning under the religion law, Forum 18 News Service has learnt. Under the law, two official warnings are sufficient grounds for banning the church. The latest warning states that the church's pastor, Vyacheslav Goncharenko, organised and held "prayer readings and sermons on premises not specially designed for the holding of religious events… without corresponding permission from the [state] administration…" The church is appealing against this, arguing that the court hearing was accompanied by procedural violations so it cannot be grounds for either an official warning or liquidation. Procedural violations included insufficient time to prepare a defence due to delivery of the court summons on the eve of the midday hearing, and admission of only seven out of 100 defence witnesses due to the small size of the courtroom – and only after the verdict was announced. The official warning was issued after Pastor Goncharenko's conviction for "illegal" religious activity and a fine imposed on him of 30 times the monthly minimum wage.
Pastor Vyacheslav Goncharenko of the embattled Minsk-based charismatic New Life Church has been fined the equivalent of 30 times the minimum monthly wage in Belarus for organising religious services without state permission. Describing the brief court session to Forum 18 News Service, church administrator Vasily Yurevich complained that there was no opportunity to prepare or present a defence, since Pastor Goncharenko was summoned only the evening before the midday hearing and members of the congregation were not permitted to enter the courtroom. New Life was issued an official warning in December 2004 after Yurevich was himself fined on similar charges, and the church faces closure under Belarusian law should it receive a second such warning. While state officials have repeatedly denied to Forum 18 that they are waging a campaign against the 600-strong congregation, a 2000 state analysis of a sister charismatic congregation warns that it poses "a significant threat" to Belarusian society.
The authorities' latest move against the charismatic New Life Church in Minsk is to cut off the electricity supply, forcing the church to borrow a generator to provide electricity. The power cut off came a day after the state energy inspectorate surveyed the building by order of Minsk's senior religious affairs official, Alla Ryabitseva. "We won't leave the property," church administrator Vasily Yurevich told Forum 18 News Service. "We're ready to fight to the end." The authorities have made a series of hostile moves against the church, including fining Yurevich 150 times the minimum monthly wage for organising religious worship without state permission. On 14 March, New Life received a letter from Minsk city administration denying the church re-registration under Belarus' religion law. The letter claimed that re-registration was not possible because the church building is designated as a cowshed, the church has allegedly given insufficient information about the election procedure of the church council chairman, and the basic forms of church activity are allegedly not given in line with the requirements of the 2002 religion law.
Pastor Vyacheslav Goncharenko of the Minsk-based charismatic New Life Church is again facing prosecution for organising worship without state permission, he has told Forum 18 News Service. The 600-strong congregation of New Life Church has been worshipping at a disused cowshed ever since being barred from public facilities. The head of Minsk city administration religious affairs department, Alla Ryabitseva, challenged by Forum 18 why it was impossible to change the use of a cowshed, Ryabitseva replied, "read our laws". Asked which particular law forbade the conversion of cowsheds, she claimed only to deal with the religion law. "Read Article 25 – that says exactly where you can pray and where you can't." Told that it did not mention cowsheds, she retorted: "It doesn't say you can't pray in casinos either, but people don't pray in casinos!" Questioned about a disused railway carriage close to New Life used by an Orthodox community, Ryabitseva maintained that the parish was not worshipping in the carriage but had four years earlier acquired land at the site "in the proper manner."


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Ragnar Benson Construction is overseeing modernization of the LATC Union Pacific facility.
Since its founding in 1922, Ragnar Benson Construction has made a name for itself as one of the Chicago area's leading builders for its professional, innovative and collaborative approach to projects. The company continues to expand and evolve with industry demands while maintaining its reputation for the quality of its workforce and integrity of its management.
Ragnar Benson Construction got its start building sidewalks in Chicago and in the 1980s began performing work for the railroad industry. Headquartered in Rockford, Ill., the company is owned by Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives (IEA). Since 2005, Ragnar Benson has been owned by William Charles Construction. In 2019, both comapnies were acquired by IEA. Today, the two companies continue to work closely together, sharing management and resources to bring added value and greater scalability to its customers in the heavy civil construction, remediation and rail markets.
Today, Ragnar Benson Construction is involved in several markets throughout the country. Light and heavy rail make up a bulk of the company's work today, including projects with the Chicago Transit Authority and Union Pacific. It also oversees construction projects in the education, healthcare, environmental and power sectors.
The company specializes in construction management, general contracting, preconstruction and design/build services. In addition, it also has the ability to self-perform a majority of the work on its projects. "We have a strong self-perform aspect to our business," President Dave Bergstrom says. "We literally self-perform all civil, electrical and environmental activities excluding laying track."
Union Pacific Los Angeles Transportation Center
Ragnar Benson Construction is overseeing the modernization of the Los Angeles Transportation Center (LATC) Union Pacific Intermodal Facility. The company has performed a number of projects for Union Pacific in the past, including the Global IV Intermodal Facility in Joliet, Ill., and the Port Laredo Intermodal Facility in Texas.
"LATC is an existing intermodal terminal that seems to have gone through a number of iterations over its history, and we are currently modernizing the terminal," Bergstrom says. "What's unique about this terminal is the coordination effort with operations and integrating our construction activities around operational traffic coming in and out of the job site."
The LATC Intermodal Facility will be completed over eight phases. Ragnar Benson began working on the project in February 2018 and is about 75 percent complete to date. "When you work on phased projects, it's more meticulous and the biggest challenge becomes working around the existing operations. In addition, we are working in downtown Los Angeles, which is quite a congested area. It's not a problem, it just means you do things differently. For example, we are pouring concrete at night rather than when there is heavy traffic."
Ragnar Benson Construction is removing the existing pavements and track, installing new pavement, parking areas and foundations. The intermodal facility will be equipped with a new automatic gate entrance and Ragnar Benson Construction is installing a bridge to provide additional access to the facility.
"We are updating the infrastructure they had," Bergstrom says. "Pavements do wear out and there is a need to maintain tracks. Every once in a while, there is a need for a blanket change and this isn't the first time this facility has been redone. As we are digging down, you can see all the different phases of modernization that has been done on the facility."
One of the biggest changes Ragnar Benson Construction has seen in the rail industry is an emphasis on longer trains due to precision-scheduled railroading, which is a system for trimming down wait times and boosting cargo efficiency. "Precision railroading has changed the way the railroads do business, creating longer trains and move movements on the trains," Bergstrom explains.
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Maintaining safety on every site is critical, but especially so in dangerous intermodal yards. "You have trucks going all over the place, so it all comes down to communication with operations and we have been very successful in doing that," Bergstrom says. "We have two full-time safety personnel on the job site to keep an eye on everything and we have had no lost-0time accidents or incidents on-site."
Ragnar Benson Construction has worked with a majority of the subcontractors on the LATC project, including Ryan Contractors that is constructing the new building and canopies, W.A. Rasic Construction that is performing the underground utility work, Griffith is performing the paving work and Aldridge Electrical is performing the site electrical work. Pulice Construction is constructing the bridge to the intermodal facility. The LATC intermodal facility is expected to be completed in third quarter 2020. "The LATC project is operating at a high level that is meeting all safety, budget and quality goals," Bergstrom says. "We attribute this to the high level of coordination and communication the overall team has established and we look forward to continuing this trend to the completion of this project."
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Above: Avishai Sadan MBA '14, Dean of the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC
In his annual Commencement address for the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC, Dean Avishai Sadan always reminds graduates to be dedicated to a lifelong pursuit of knowledge at every stage of their careers. This spring, he serves as a living example of that commitment to education by becoming a USC alumnus himself.
On May 16, Sadan will graduate from the Executive Master of Business Administration Program at the USC Marshall School of Business. He started the program in August 2012, attending classes on Fridays and Saturdays every other weekend alongside his busy schedule both as a leader, educator and clinician at the Ostrow School of Dentistry and as a husband and father of two.
Continuing his education has been a longtime goal, Sadan said, and the EMBA program provided him with a perfect opportunity.
"Much of what I learned can be applied here at the Ostrow School of Dentistry. As the dean of an academic institution with this much history and activity, a lot of the information provided in the EMBA program is very applicable," he said. "The program had both breadth and depth—covering everything from accounting and finance to macroeconomics and entrepreneurship—and it felt great to expand my horizons."
Sadan said he hopes his experience shows Ostrow students, including the classes of 2014, that education should continue throughout one's career, whether it be a formal degree program or otherwise.
"It's important to make sure that you always feel stimulated and challenged and that you continue to find new perspectives and learn new things. Education needs to be a lifelong pursuit, no matter what form it takes," he said. "I'm very grateful to have had the opportunity to learn from and connect with fascinating people through the EMBA program and become a Trojan alumnus myself."


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The Warmth of Other Suns
Make Yourself
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2010) is a highly-acclaimed historical study by Isabel Wilkerson, which received the National Book Award for Nonfiction. This work tells the story of the The Great Migration and the Second Great Migration, the movement of African Americans out of the Southern United States to the Midwest, Northeast and West from approximately 1915 to 1970. The book intertwines a general history and statistical analysis of the entire period. It includes the biographies of three persons: a sharecropper's wife who left Mississippi in the 1930s for Chicago, named Ida Mae Brandon Gladney; an agricultural worker, George Swanson Starling, who left Florida for New York City in the 1940s; and Robert Joseph Pershing Foster, a doctor who left Louisiana in the early 1950s, moving to Los Angeles.
The main title of the book is derived from a poem by author Richard Wright, who himself moved from the South to Chicago, in the 1920s. Parts of that poem, published in Black Boy, 1945, with emphasis added, are excerpted here:
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Make Yourself is the third studio album by American rock band Incubus, released through Epic Records on October 26, 1999. The album has been certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and produced three charting singles—"Pardon Me", "Stellar", and "Drive"—all of which reached the top three of the Billboard Alternative Songs chart, with the latter topping the chart and also becoming the band's sole top ten hit to date on the Billboard Hot 100, where it peaked at number nine.
Make Yourself saw the beginning of the band's stylistic shift from the funk metal of previous albums into a more melodic, groove-oriented alternative rock approach. This is apparent in the lack of slap bass and guitar palm muting, which can only slightly be found in "Out from Under". Brandon Boyd does minimum of rapping in the album compared to their previous albums Fungus Amongus and S.C.I.E.N.C.E. which the rapping was found extensively on those albums. The drums are also quieter as just a single pedal is used, this is again heard on later releases.
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Lover's Lane, The Other
Hallow's Eve, The Other
Horror Night, The Other
Shadows From The Past, The Other
Passion For The Kill, The Other
The Last Man On Earth, The Other
The Ghost Of Hollywood, The Other
The Other, Isis
Monster Bride, The Other
Menage A Mort, The Other
This Is Not An Exit (This Is The End), The Other
We Are The Other Ones, The Other
The Other, John Frusciante
The Other, Hades
The Tell Tale Heart, The Other
In The Dead Of Night
Making Out On A Night Like This
The Moon Is Full, The Air Is Chilled
And Soon You're Gonna Be All Mine
Our Passion Running High
My Claws Between Your Thighs
Girl You're Begging For My Bite
We'll Be Alright
Hunting In The Dark
We'll Be Alive
You And I Tonite
We're Alright Yeah, We're Alright
My Teeth Are Drawing Blood
White Skin Now Coloured Red
You Cry In Pleasure, You Moan In Pain
Our Union Sealed In Blood
The Change Is Imminent
You're The Queen Of The Lycanthropes
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Left You Alone
My Mind Was Blank
I Needed Time To Think To Get The Memories From My Mind
What Did I See, Cannot Believe
That What I Did To You Was Real And Not Just Fantasy
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Michael Muchmore DxO Optics Pro 7 DxO Optics Pro 7 will get the best possible results from camera raw files, doing the best job of removing image noise and chromatic aberration we've seen. It adds some impressive adjustment tools, too, but it lacks basic workflow capabilities and isn't absolutely crash-proof.
Unparalleled corrections tied to specific lenses and camera sensors. Fantastic recovery of image detail, noise reduction, and geometry correction.
No image import feature. Few image organization and workflow tools. Doesn't impress as much with non-raw camera files. 32-bit-only app. Edits can only be applied to the whole image?no adjustment brush. Not rock-solid?stopped working a couple times.
DxO Optics Pro 7 will get the best possible results from camera raw files, doing the best job of removing image noise and chromatic aberration we've seen. It adds some impressive adjustment tools, too, but it lacks basic workflow capabilities and isn't absolutely crash-proof.
DxO is better known for its embedded camera software and image-testing software, but the French company is increasingly sharing its expertise and strong academic ties with digital photographers. The results are little short of amazing, letting you get the most accurate and therefore lifelike images possible from your digital camera. Optics Pro 7 differs from most imaging software, such as Adobe Photoshop ($699, 5 stars) and its little brother, Photoshop Elements ($99.99, 4 stars), which offer lot of doodads to gussy up your photos. It also differs from professional workflow apps like Lightroom ($299, 4.5 stars) which offers an abundance of importing and organizing features. Instead DxO's $99 Optic Pro 7 can be thought of as a dedicated digital photo correction tool. It will be of interest not only to photography professionals, but also to enthusiast who want to get the most accurate images from their digital SLRs or high-end point-and-shoots.
DxO Optics Pro 7 does most of its work with simple-to-use automatic presets. Optics Pro 7's default is to use "modules" developed specifically for your camera body and lens combination. To jump the gun on my evaluation a bit, my results were remarkable, particularly with raw camera files—the program can benefit JPG shots as well, but results on raw camera files are far more impressive. Optics Pro brought out submerged detail and eliminated obvious image noise and chromatic aberration better than Lightroom's similar equipment-specific correction. Lightroom's profile presets only correct geometric distortion, chromatic aberration, and vignetting. DxO adds noise reduction, color correction, and sharpening to Lightroom's, and DxO actually does a much better job at eliminating chromatic abberation.
Of course, these corrections depend on DxO having the data for your camera and lens in its database. Most popular DSLRs are represented, such as those made by Canon, Nikon, Pentax, and Sony, as well as some point-and-shoot models from the likes of FujiFilm, Panasonic, and Samsung. But if you have a lesser-known or not-really-enthiusast-level point-and-shoot, you're probably better off keeping your $99. The company expects to offer profiles for over 5,000 camera+lens combinations by the end of 2011, and 10,000 in 2012.
Unlike Adobe Lightroom, Optics Pro offers no workflow and few image-collection organization tools: There's no import feature at all—you simply choose a folder from the directory tree in the inaptly named Organize tab, the first one you start working in. Other software like Lightroom and Apple Aperture lets you apply adjustments and tagging during import. As soon as you open an image, Optics Pro applies its best-guess corrections, and if you do nothing more than accept this, your photos will be much improved from the default. I tested using raw image files from a Canon EOS T1i, a 7D, and a Sony a580.
DxO Optics Pro 7 comes in both Windows and Mac OS X flavors, and a free trial edition gives you access to its full feature set for 31 days. The 200MB installer creates only a 32-bit app on your system. That's one complaint I have with Optics Pro 7: for working with the huge photo files you get from high-end DSLRs these days, 64-bit would seem desirable. I tested on a quad-core 3.4GHz AMD Windows 7 64-bit system with 4GB RAM.
DxO Optics Pro 7's interface is clear, and mostly self-explanatory, with three tabs for its three modes—Organize (an overstatement), Customize, and Process. The first time you use any of these, an explanatory message box appears as part of the program's "first step wizard." Though it does let you rate images with 1 to 5 stars, DxO Optics Pro doesn't offer tons of organizational tools, the way Adobe Photoshop Elements or Lightroom do—forget things like face recognition, color coding, and extensive tagging.
During your first trips through the app, switching to any of the three modes pops up an explanation box, but you can disable these as you get more comfortable with the interface. As you'd expect, the image takes up the lion's share of the program window in the center, and below this a filmstrip-like image browser tray shows images available in the selected folder. Your mouse wheel zooms the main image view in and out. You can also fit the image to the window, set it to actual pixel size, or use a slider or percentage dropdown to zoom.
Cursor choices include a pointer, hand tool, and magnifier. Clicking the pointer over your image shows you the original, un-optimized image. You may be amazed by how much noise and other distortion appears when you click back to original. A double-image button lets you view the original and corrected images side-by-side, and the final toolbar item lets you choose a preset to apply.
Bottom Line: DxO Optics Pro 7 will get the best possible results from camera raw files, doing the best job of removing image noise and chromatic aberration we've seen. It adds some impressive adjustment tools, too, but it lacks basic workflow capabilities and isn't absolutely crash-proof.


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from django.db import migrations

class Migration(migrations.Migration):

    dependencies = [("records", "0005_auto_20150426_1426")]

    operations = [
        migrations.AlterModelOptions(
            name="record",
            options={
                "ordering": ["created_on", "id"],
                "verbose_name": "Record",
                "verbose_name_plural": "Records",
            },
        )
    ]

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