HURON — Alice Hamilton, 78, of Huron and formerly of Wessington, passed away Sunday, July 22, 2018, at her home.
Her memorial service will be 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, July 25, at the Bonilla Presbyterian Church in Bonilla. Burial will be in the Bonilla Cemetery at a later date. Her visitation is today from 1 to 7 p.m. at the Kuhler Funeral Home with family present from 5 to 7 p.m. A time of sharing will be held at 6:30 p.m. this evening.
Alice Schuldt was born December 23, 1939, at San Diego, Calif. to Floyd and Edith (Nielsen) Schuldt. She graduated from Erwin High School and went on to earn her teaching certificate at Northern State Teachers College.
On August 10, 1958, Alice married Herbert Hamilton at Erwin and moved to Wessington where they farmed, raised cattle, sheep, pigs, and had a fertilizer business. At her new home, she taught at Hitchcock for five years. She retired from teaching to become the person we know best, a farmwife.
Like most mid-western families, she was the glue that held everything together. She cooked, cleaned, settled disputes, tended to the livestock, did the books, and raised a family in her spare time. God will need to make room for the 30 cats, she once fed twice per day that will surely follow her.
She enjoyed gardening, baking, attending kids/grandkids events, visiting with anyone, and travelling the USA and the world with Zip/Hubbard dealers. Alice and Herb visited Germany, France, Finland, Estonia, Italy, and Australia.
She was a member of the BYY's extension club, 4-H leader, and was active in the Bonilla Presbyterian Church. She became the "mom" to anyone that worked on the farm which included over 40 trainees from more than 15 different countries.
In July of 2013, the progression of her Parkinson's disease necessitated Herb and Alice moving to Huron where she met Annie's angels who cared for her 24/7 until her passing. She continued to fight to attend her grandchildren's events and we enjoyed seeing her smile/smirk.
She was preceded in death by her parents and her aunt.
Grateful for having shared in her life are her husband, Herb of Huron; two sons and their wives, Scott and Paula Hamilton of Hitchcock, and Jeff and Suzanne Hamilton of Wessington; and seven grandchildren, Nicole (fiance' Andrew Roth), April, Grant, Kyle, John, Mark, and Kate Hamilton.
A memorial has been established in Alice's name.


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Q: Can I ask Acrobat Pro XI to open the PDF document through other applications? As I need to read help-documentation for Stata, I need to set Acrobat as the default PDF viewer. However, compared to Sumatra, the main drawback is that I can no longer obtain the following menu.

Is there a way to create such menu-entries in Acrobat, so that I can open other PDF editors from Acrobat? The use-case is: first, have Stata open the help-file correctly in Acrobat; and in Acrobat, with this file under view, open the same file (and show the same page, at best) in an external PDF viewer.

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Is there a way to create such menu-entries in Acrobat, so that I can open other PDF editors from Acrobat?

No. Acrobat does allow menu items to be added via folder level JavaScript but you can't use it to launch other applications in that way. You can cause PDF files to open, but they'd get opened by the default viewer... which is Acrobat... and defeats your purpose.

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Q: Overloaded method error in Scala Play Framework I am writing a method to set the session cookie properly after a user authenticates. Setting the cookies as follows does not work. The following snippet results in an error with the 'withSession' call:
Overloaded method value [withSession] cannot be applied to ((String, Long))
Code:
/**
 * Process login form submission.
 */
def authenticate = Action { implicit request =>
  loginForm.bindFromRequest.fold(
    formWithErrors => BadRequest(views.html.login(formWithErrors)),
    credentials => {
      val user = models.User.findByEmail(credentials._1)

      user match {
        case Some(u) => {
          Redirect(routes.Dashboard.index).withSession(Security.username -> u.id)
        }
        case None => Redirect(routes.Auth.login)
      }
    }
  )
}

'credentials' is simply a tuple with the email and password submitted by the user. If I get rid of 'withSession' part then it runs fine. If I move the 'Redirect' statement out of the pattern matching code then is works fine. Why does it not work as I have it above and how do I fix it?

A: I think withSession expects a String, String
Have a look at http://www.playframework.org/documentation/api/2.0.3/scala/index.html#play.api.mvc.SimpleResult
def withSession(session: (String, String)*): PlainResult = withSession(Session(session.toMap))


IRA S. BUSHEY & SONS, Inc.
The defendant moves to dismiss the complaint on the ground of want of jurisdiction or, in the alternative, for an order transferring the proceeding to the admiralty side of the court. A further ground for dismissal is that the issues tendered by the complaint have been adjudicated by prior judgments and orders of this court. The motion is supported by affidavits reciting the prior proceedings litigated in this court between the same parties.
There is a suggestion in the papers submitted on behalf of the plaintiff that the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure make no provision for dismissal of a complaint on the ground of res judicata. It is true that this defense is one required to be specifically pleaded in the answer, Fed. Rules Civ. Proc., rule 8(c), 28 U.S.C.A., and it is not mentioned by name as one of the defenses which may be presented by motion, F.R.C.P. 12(b). However it would be the utmost folly to construe the rules to forbid the assertion by motion prior to answer of a defense like res judicata, especially where the judgments relied upon are ones which were rendered in the very court which is asked to pass upon the motion. At the very least such a motion can be treated as a speaking demurrer within the spirit of the rules.
I am under the painful necessity of reciting, at least briefly, the history of the litigation out of which this motion grows. Prior to March 8, 1945, defendant had begun a proceeding to foreclose a preferred ship mortgage covering vessels owned by the plaintiff. After considerable wrangling in and out of court a consent decree was entered on March 8, 1945 in defendant's favor. Judge Byers presided over those proceedings.
On April 4, 1945, plaintiff began a suit on the equity side of the court to vacate the consent judgment and also to secure affirmative relief against the defendant by way of an accounting. A motion was made to dismiss the complaint, and this came on to be heard before me. I thought that since diversity was lacking the suit could not be entertained and suggested that plaintiff might file a libel of review on the admiralty side. Plaintiff appealed from the judgment dismissing the complaint, and the Circuit Court of Appeals (as it then was) per Judge Learned Hand modified the decision and judgment. W. E. Hedger Transp. Corp. v. Ira S. Bushey & Sons, 2 Cir., 1946, 155 F.2d 321. Judge Hand pointed out that the term of court during which the consent decree had been entered was still open at the time of the filing of the equity complaint, and, therefore, at least to the extent that no additional parties were involved, the complaint could be treated as a petition in the admiralty. But so far as new parties were concerned, whose presence gave the action the flavor of independence, Judge Hand ruled that the complaint should be dismissed for want of diversity. Certiorari was sought by the plaintiff and denied. 329 U.S. 735, 67 S. Ct. 100, 91 L. Ed. 635.
Thereafter plaintiff's complaint, now become a petition, was presented to Judge Byers and was dismissed for insufficiency as matter of law. The B & B No. 5, D.C.E.D.N.Y., 1947, 70 F.Supp. 578. An appeal followed and by a divided court the Court of Appeals affirmed. Ira S. Bushey & Sons v. W. E. Hedger Transp. Corp., 2 Cir., 1948, 167 F.2d 9. Judge Clark wrote for the majority; Judge Frank dissented. Rehearing was refused on March 16, 1948, and certiorari denied on October 11, 1948, 355 U.S. 816, 69 S. Ct. 36, 93 L. Ed. 371. The present complaint was filed on December 20, 1949.
Although plaintiff asserts that its present complaint is not identical with the pleading passed upon by Judge Byers and the Circuit Court of Appeals, it will be found that the differences between the two pleadings are verbal merely. The same claim is asserted, namely, duress, fraud and abuse of process. The object of the suit is the same, namely, to vacate the consent decree of March 8, 1945, and for an accounting. The same chain of incidents is relied upon to support the claim.
The plaintiff takes the position, and rather vigorously, that this time it does not wish to go back to the admiralty court; that this is 'an independent action'. Indeed it is said in the brief that now Judge Byers' term is over, and hence there is no jurisdiction on the admiralty side, as there was when plaintiff's first equity complaint was treated as a petition. One would suppose that such an 'independent' action would require diversity to support it, but the plaintiff denies this, and urges (1) that the case is within the ancillary jurisdiction of the court, and moreover (2) that a federal question is presented, namely, 'the construction of the Preferred Ship Mortgage Act'. 26 U.S.C.A. § 911 et seq. In short, plaintiff says that for some purposes its claim is independent and for others ancillary. Having in mind the almost exact identity between his complaint and that with which Judge Learned Hand dealt, 155 F.2d 321, 325, I suspect that his decision ought to bind me and that I need go no further. Perhaps I also ought to consider the possible impact of F.R.C.P. 60(b), which in its present form was enacted after Judge Hand's decision. But it seems unnecessary for me to confine decision to such narrow ground in the light of the history of the litigation between these parties.
If ever there was a case in which the Court of Appeals was at pains to examine and analyze the facts in detail, this is the one, 167 F.2d 9, and the majority felt that on the facts the plaintiff's substantive claim could not be supported, even as ancillary to the admiralty suit. Judge Clark says in the plainest English that nothing alleged by the plaintiff in its original equity complaint (treated as a petition), required a trial or the taking of testimony. As for the tenuous claim of the plaintiff that its present complaint is different, I may say that in its brief it points to only five paragraphs which contain what it calls 'additional allegations'. *fn1" These 'additional allegations' all deal with alleged improper motives and intentions on the part of the defendant during the course of the foreclosure suit. And Judge Clark, again in very plain English, said that in his approach to the problem he accepted plaintiff's charges about the motives and intent of the libelant (defendant here) set forth in the petition.
The fact that no proof was taken by Judge Byers before he rendered his decision dismissing the petition furnishes no reason against the application of the principle of res judicata. Sacks v. Stecker, 2 Cir., 1932, 62 F.2d 65. The Court of Appeals, as I have said, made careful appraisal of the facts, weighed the plaintiff's claim in the light of those facts, and found it without merit even sufficient to warrant a trial. The plaintiff now asks me to ignore all this and, in effect, to order the very trial which the Court of Appeals found unnecessary. I refuse to follow any such absurd course.
There remains one point to be considered, not raised before. Plaintiff now says, in the teeth of the language of the Court of Appeals, that all that was formerly said about its claim and all that was formerly ruled in connection with it must be ignored, because despite the absence of diversity it has now begun an independent action presenting a federal question. All that I think need be said about this contention is that if I am right in holding that the doctrine of res judicata applies, then the former decisions bind me not only concerning issues which were passed upon but issues which might have been raised and litigated. And actually the so-called 'federal question' is not at all the gravamen of the plaintiff's claim, for which reason the situation is probably governed by Gully v. First National Bank in Meridian, 1936, 299 U.S. 109, 112, 57 S. Ct. 96, 81 L. Ed. 70.


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Would convert 77,000 barrels of diluted bitumen daily into medium synthetic crude and an ultra low sulphur diesel.
CALGARY — The Alberta government is providing a $440-million loan guarantee to help a Calgary-based company build a bitumen upgrader east of Edmonton.
Value Creation Inc. says it's ready to break ground on the $2-billion upgrader that would convert more than 77,000 barrels of diluted bitumen each day into medium synthetic crude and an ultra-low-sulphur diesel.
Synthetic crude can flow easier through pipelines and the company says that would reduce the need for diluent or thinning agent while increasing pipeline capacity by up to 30 per cent.
"With our proprietary technology we are able to first clean up this very nasty bitumen … such that we can achieve much lower capital costs, operating costs, energy costs and greenhouse emissions," Columba Yeung, chairman and CEO of Value Creation, said Tuesday.
Premier Rachel Notley said the loan guarantee for the Heartland Upgrader is part of her government's strategy and is all the support the company will receive.
"We're just looking at the loan guarantee and … as you can imagine we've gone through an excessive amount of due diligence already. There would be much more due diligence that would go on between the letter of intent and the binding agreement being signed," she said at a news conference.
Notley said the project is expected to create more than 2,000 jobs during construction and another 200 full-time positions once the upgrader is running in 2022. It was its advanced technology that made it an ideal candidate for support, she said.
Alberta's official Opposition said there was nothing new in the announcement.
"We agree that Alberta needs to pursue more upgrading, refining and petrochemical developments. The question is how best to achieve that, and we look forward to seeing a complete economic assessment from the NDP," said Prasad Panda, energy critic for the United Conservative Party.
He suggested the problems facing Alberta oil and gas producers will remain unchanged.
Notley said she's unsure about the support the project would receive if another party were elected in the upcoming spring vote.
"When we introduced this program … at the time the energy critic for the official Opposition referred to the businesses with whom we would be partnering or supporting as folks that were lining up at the trough," she said.


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Karl IV:s familj () är en oljemålning av den spanske konstnären Francisco de Goya från 1800. Den ingår i Pradomuseets samlingar i Madrid.

Goyas målning är en enastående karaktärsskildring, ett realistiskt och föga smickrande grupporträtt av den kungliga familjen Bourbon i Spanien. Under Karl IV:s styre 1788–1808 steg Goyas stjärna i Spanien och år 1799 utnämndes han till förste hovmålare. Man kan dock anta att konstnären inte var imponerad av den familj som härskade över Spanien. Goya har lyckats att tränga bakom masken på kungligheterna och avbilda deras personligheter och karaktärer, liksom deras svagheter. Han tycks också ha lyckats med konststycket att både avslöja sanningen om sina härskare utan att själv störtas. Kungafamiljen lär ha varit nöjd med porträttet. Målningen färdigställdes efter noggranna studier i en serie oljeskisser av de individuella familjemedlemmarna.

Goya fokuserade framför allt på tre personer i familjeporträttet: kronprins och sedermera kung Ferdinand VII (nummer 3), drottning Maria Lovisa av Parma (7) och kung Karl IV (9). Karl IV var en svag regent som lämnade över regeringsmakten till drottningen och hennes älskare, Manuel de Godoy, som möjligtvis också var biologisk far till deras yngre barn (6 och 8). Kronprins Ferdinand skulle åtta år senare genomdriva en statskupp mot sin far och kort därefter själv bli avsatt av Napoleon. Vid tidpunkten för målningen letade Ferdinand efter en lämplig prinsessa. Goya förberedde sig för att måla in den nya familjemedlemmen, men eftersom Ferdinand inte hittat någon vid målningens färdigställande valde Goya att porträttera henne med ansiktet bortvänt (5). Två år senare gifte han sig med sin kusin, Maria Antonia av Sicilien och Neapel.

Goya inspirerades mycket av den spanske barockkonstnären Velázquez och denna målning innehåller referenser till bland annat Hovdamerna från 1656. En likhet mellan de båda målningarna är att konstnärerna målat in sig själva; Goya står i skuggan bakom staffliet (2).

Porträtterade
 Don Carlos, hertig av Molina (1788–1855) – kungens andra son
 Francisco de Goya
 Fernando, prins av Asturien och senare Ferdinand VII av Spanien (1784–1833)
 Maria Josefa (1744–1801) – kungens syster
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 Maria Isabel (1789–1848) – kungens dotter
 drottning Maria Lovisa av Parma (1751–1819) – kungens hustru
 Francisco de Paula, hertig av Cadiz (1794–1865) – kungens yngsta son
 kung Karl IV (1748–1819)
 Antonio Pascual av Spanien  (1755–1817) – kungens bror
 Charlotta Joakima (1775–1830) –  kungens äldsta dotter
 Ludvig av Parma (1773–1803) – kungens svärson
 Karl Ludvig av Bourbon-Parma (1799–1883) – kungens dotterson
 Maria Luisa (1782–1824) – kungens äldsta dotter, gift med 12

Goyas skisser

Källor
Pradomuseets webbplats

Målningar 1800
Målningar på Pradomuseet
Grupporträtt
Målningar av Francisco de Goya
Kulturella återgivningar av Francisco de Goya
Kulturella återgivningar av Ferdinand VII av Spanien
Kulturella återgivningar av Karl IV av Spanien
Kulturella återgivningar av Maria Lovisa av Parma

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The Practice of Architecture in California and Architectural Negligence
Architecture and Expert Witnesses
In litigation, the determination of architectural negligence, or malpractice as it is commonly known, has to be evidenced by testimony of expert witnesses. In assessing whether or not an architect conformed to the "standard of care," an expert witness must consider whether or not the architect used ordinary care and skill, that is, what a reasonably prudent architect would do in the same community and in a given time frame given the same or similar circumstances.
Establishing Architectural Competency in California
What seems like an extremely subjective evaluation can, however, make use of the results of a large body of research published by the California State Board of Architectural Examiners (CBAE), first in 1989, then ten years later in 1999. One of the missions of CBAE is to establish the minimum level of competency for an architect to be licensed to practice. Except for a short time in the 1980's, the CBAE has utilized the Architectural Registration Exam (ARE) produced by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB). Because of the perception that the national examination was neither rigorous enough nor sufficiently pertinent to conditions unique to California, the CBAE created, and used for a short time, its own examination, which was first administered in 1988.In the process of creating and later validating the new examination, the CBAE in 1986 hired CTB/McGraw-Hill to conduct a survey to identify and quantify the minimum architectural skills and competencies necessary to ensure protection of the public health, safety and welfare. This effort yielded a wealth of information about the nature of the practice of architecture in California, "information that has never before been collected, sorted, analyzed, studied and made available to the public in such depth" (CTB/McGraw Hill, Current Architecture Practice, 1989).The survey data, which was published in 1989, was first used to develop the California Architects Licensing Examination (CALE) and then later used to develop the oral California Supplemental Examination (CSE) after California returned to the fold of other states using the NCARB national examination. The 1989 report attempted to answer the elusive question of "What is architecture?" and "What qualifies a person to practice architecture?"
1989 Core Competencies
What emerged from the study, which incorporated surveys completed by hundreds of California architects, was, " … a clearer picture than we have previously had of the demands of architectural practice — and therefore a clearer definition of what competent architects need in daily practice, and in what measure." The top 10 of the total of 405 practice "aspects' rated by California architects were:
Understand the techniques for making buildings water and moisture proof
Understanding roof system slopes, applications, and flashing
Apply knowledge of material characteristics in meting fire safety requirements
Knowledge of roof drainage and water disposal
Prepare details for moisture and environmental control
Knowledge of flashing, drainage, and weatherstripping of wall openings
Design and detail of ramps and stairs
Determine any special safety and emergency egress requirements
Understand dampproofing and waterproofing subgrade walls
Use moisture barriers in concrete slabs on grade.
In January of 1997, the CBAE contracted with Professional Management Evaluation Services, Inc., (PMES) to develop a new test plan for the California Supplemental Examination (oral exam) for implementation beginning with the February 1999 examination administration. A comprehensive report on the survey and its interpretation, The Practice of Architecture in California, is available from the California Board of Architectural Examiners, 400 "R" Street, Suite 4000, Sacramento, CA 95814-6238, phone 916/445-3393. When comparing the results of the 1987 and the 1997 surveys, a significant pattern or shift in the practice of architecture can be detected. The ten highest priority issues identified by architects in 1997 were as follows:
Laws, codes, regulations and standards
Program information related to design solution
Communication of design decisions for project implementation
Relationships with relevant regulatory agencies
Integrate appropriate building systems and materials
Natural systems and the built environment related to a site or facility
Role of architect in relationship with client and users
Relationships with consultants and team members
Changes in Core Competencies Over a Decade
Moisture problems, followed by codes and regulations, ranked highest a decade earlier. According to CBAE, "this suggests that the profession is becoming more sophisticated and is accepting an expanded level of challenge. Building mechanics and technical considerations are still very important, but they have been joined by concerns dealing with design solutions, regulations, and regulatory agencies, and the expanding role of the architect as he/she interacts with clients, users and other consultants. Some of the differences in the two surveys may be the result of the change in the methodology used in constructing the survey instrument; however, a change has occurred adding relationships with people to the technical issues dealing with things."For expert witnesses ascertaining the standard of care for California architects, the expectations of what a practicing architect must know and do have both expanded and risen.Another point of view is that the shift in the focus of architecture from technical competence to understanding codes and regulations is less due to the profession becoming more sophisticated and accepting an expanded level of challenge, as the CBAE asserts, or whether the shift is due to the increasing, and often overwhelming, number of codes and regulations architects are being asked to comply with. Ten years ago, the Uniform Building Code consisted of one volume. Today it occupies three volumes. Add to that California's ever growing CCR Title 24 (some of which are applicable only to specific building types and only by specific regulatory agencies), ADA, an assortment of environmental agency regulations, and local ordinances and codes, and the job of keeping it all straight can be a full time job. The proposed changes to the International Building Code, for the year 2000 is over two inches thick. In the quest to protect the safety and welfare of the public, those who have undertaken the task of regulating building by heaping responsibilities on architects may be creating a system of complex rules as incomprehensible as to those of the IRS and, as a result, imposing a burden on architects beyond the capacity of any individual to carry.
Architectural Practice (26)
Building Codes (10)
Construction Litigation (8)
Construction Technology (17)
Early Views (1)
Project Progress (1)
Waterproofing (21)
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Viney, L. L. (2006). Applying personal construct models to work with people. In P. Caputi, H. Foster & L. L. Viney (Eds.), Personal Construct Psychology: New Ideas (pp. 3-15). England: John Wiley & Sons.
There is considerable pressure on practitioners who work with people to provide manuals or blueprints for approaching their tasks. However, personal construct practitioners believe that people are creative agents with free will, rather than robots or machines (Fransella, 2003; Kelly, 1955/1991; Raskin & Bridges, 2002; Rychlak, 2000), so that they resist providing such manuals. However, they do provide models that enable generalisation from one client to another or from one community to another. Models consist of a set of conceptual propositions. These propositions have consequences to be deduced (Hesse, 1967). Models and theories have similar structures (Hesse, 1967). Models are based on an underlying theory and inform both the planning of practice and interpretation of its outcomes. The scope of a model, then, is narrower than a theory. Each theory can have many models, but each model has only one theory. Theories need to be true, but models may not be. Models apply the ideas of a better known domain to a lesser known one (Harre, 1961). Models can also aid in uderstanding, generate new hypotheses, provide more information about the rules of inference about the phenomena, enable the expression and extension of psychological knowledge, help to evaluate the theories from which they spring and aid in the learning of skills by practitioners (Braithwaite, 1962; Harre & Secord, 1972). The propositions of models can also therefore be extended to aid us practitioners into strategies that we can follow. This chapter is about the use of models in personal construct practice. Some standards by which they can be judged are provided, as well as the functions that models can achieve. Two examples of models are then described: one for a client and the other for a community. The paper owes much to Dr Lindsay Oades, with whom I first explored the implications of models, but for personal construct research (Viney & Oades, 1998). Both he and the Wollongong Personal Construct Research Group have been very helpful in honing this chapter.


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Understanding birth injuries to mothers and babies | Robert A. Solomon, P.C.
Preparing for birth means preparing for the risks associated with it. While no one wants to think about the possibility of suffering harms during the birthing process or having a newborn harmed because of mistakes made during labor and delivery. Nonetheless, it is important to consider what is normal and what could be the cause of errors or negligence.
It is rather normal for mothers to suffer minor tears and muscle strains. However, they could also suffer serious tears, damages to their muscles and even pelvic fractures. These can be misdiagnosed or even undetected, resulting in other serious health issues down the line. Preeclampsia is also a serious health condition that mothers could suffer. This includes symptoms such as a rise in blood pressure, impairment of the liver and a decrease in urination. When this is not detected or misdiagnosed, this could have serious and even fatal consequences for both the mother and the baby.
A baby could suffer nerve damage during birth, and the consequences of this injury can vary depending on how severe the nerve damage is. The majority of these injuries are minor, resulting in the numbing and weakening of the affected area. However, in more serious situations, this can cause long-term effects, such as limb weakness, permanent loss of feeling, respiratory difficulties or even partial or complete paralysis. Brain damage is another feared birth trauma, which could be caused by oxygen starvation, compression, infection, misuse of instruments, interrupted blood flow and other similar instances.
A birth injury is an unexpected a tragic. Even if the error is minimal or minor, it could impact a newborn or a mother in significant ways. A medical malpractice action could help an injured patient hold a negligent medical professional accountable, also assisting with the collection of compensation.


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Top movies and series about hacking and cybersecurity to watch this summer
17 July 2020 by Vera Iurcu
This summer might look and feel a bit different as many of us might be spending more time indoors than usual. Luckily there are plenty of streaming services to help keep us entertained. If you've been wondering what movies and TV series are worth watching on Netflix, HBO, Amazon, or other streaming platforms, we've got some answers.
Last time, we gave you some recommendations of documentaries about the internet and cybersecurity to introduce you topics like privacy, hacking, data breaches, and more. Now we have options that show you how all those terms and practices find their way into our day-to-day. Some of the movies are based on true events, while others deal with current issues surrounding technology. And, of course, some are more accurate than others – but decades ago people also wouldn't have believed much of what's possible because of today's technology.
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The first season of "You" is set in modern-day New York City. Joe Goldberg, the main character, is a serial killer and former bookstore manager. He starts to develop an extreme, toxic, and delusional obsession for a girl and takes his love to extreme heights with a big help from social media. "You" explores the dangers of stalking and social media culture, emphasizing the lack of digital privacy. There is a big chance this movie will make you delete your social media accounts forever or at least make you think twice before sharing some personal news.
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This documentary is a story from 2015 when the online dating platform, Ashley Madison ("The Original Extramarital Affairs Site"), was hacked and the data of 27 million users of the page was disclosed on the internet. Besides the fact that the hackers exposed users' emails, names, postal addresses, sexual fantasies, and credit card details, the leak tore apart families and even drove some people to suicide. The magnitude of technology was shown as the vast majority of the "women" registered on the web were actually robots.
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Hampshire to become national coordinator of secure children's home placements
Government asks Hampshire County Council to coordinate secure placements for all local authorities from early May
By Tristan Donovan on April 4, 2016 in Camhs, Children, Looked after children, Residential childcare, Youth justice
All secure children's home placements are to be coordinated by Hampshire County Council from early May, the government has announced.
The plan will see Hampshire create a dedicated unit that will handle the national administration of secure home placements, including keeping track of what homes have vacancies.
Decisions on where to place children will, however, remain with the placing authority and the secure home.
The Hampshire-run unit will also collect and share data on demand for placements, the flow of children in and out of the system, and the characteristics and needs of the young people involved.
The unit will operate for up to 18 months, "pending decisions on long term change".
Greater coordination
In a letter announcing the plan, children's minister Edward Timpson said the move aims "to bring greater co-ordination to the way that local authorities place children into secure homes".
Timpson's letter also said the Department for Education (DfE) will be inviting secure homes to bid for funding to pay for activities to boost their capacity, including paying for specialist training on working with children with the highest need.
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Practical Application Of Blockchain Tech In 2020
admin on June 11th, 2020
For those who are well-associated with the fields of investing, banking, and cryptocurrency, for them, blockchain tech is a collective term. Bitcoin network has been working on this record-keeping technology.
In layman's term, blockchain is a public, distributed, and decentralized ledger, which is true to some sense. It is a chain of blocks, where the central notion is associated with the field of digital information, widely stored in the public database. The blocks here are made using digitalized informative pieces.
Blocks are designed to store information about some transactions like time, date, and dollar amount of recent purchases made from the e-commerce store. It further stores information about those people who are actively taking part in such transactions.
The information can further distinguish them from any other block. Right now, in 2020, people are likely to see a surge in this technique, which eventually help improve the traffic to your business. While looking for a modern tech trend of 2020, blockchain is likely to run at the top.
Mainstream use of blockchain in your business:
As there is always a growing concern of consumer privacy, major global chains, and even sensitive information circulation, people are aiming for the best tech solution to cover the issues with ease. Whenever a business gets to face any big obstacle, there remains a blockchain to solve it.
According to the Deloitte research team, many business leaders have already started using Blockchain. Regulatory problems indeed remain, but 86% of leaders believe that blockchain can easily reach mainstream adoption.
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Blockchain is of ultimate help in certain areas like healthcare. In the USA, medical error is stated as the third leading cause of death. Most of it is associated with the communication problems between the medical parties and other providers.
The healthcare industry needs to deal with strict privacy regulations, significant fragmentation of this industry, and even higher data costs. At this stage, blockchain might come as the most significant relief.
Traditional methods of sharing data can lead to vulnerable data theft. However, you can't say that with blockchain. Blockchain reduces this risk of losing data as it created a block of data, which anyone can access or change only with a key code.
So, now the patients have the liberty to share their information with the chosen providers only. They can even add records to health history, and there won't be any breach of information sharing.
One start-up company in London has already created its Blockchain platform. Here, they are storing and even sharing medical information within a safe and secure zone. You get to learn more about it.
It is way beyond that Bitcoin:
Blockchain has moved up a notch in 2020 and has crossed the primary Bitcoin platform. Now, it has entered multiple businesses, which are looking for a safe and secure transaction platform. Let's take the shipping sector, for example. Over $4 trillion of goods are shipped every year globally.
Around 80% of those get carried through shipping, and that calls for loads of paperwork. Trade documentation for processing and then administering those goods is likely to be around one-fifth of the current physical transporting cost.
So, right now, the logistics firm, along with a technology company, is developing a joint globalized trade platform digitally. For that, the members are using blockchain technology.
Thanks to this technology, the companies can create immutable and shared transactional records and offer the disparate partners some access to any form of information anytime. This is just one example of what the encrypted and immutable blockchain solution can do, and it goes way beyond that.
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The Capabilities that Businesses can Achieve:
In a general sense, capabilities can define the higher-level functions, which businesses can achieve by using the blockchain technology within their system. Blockchain has three significant capabilities involved, such as resilience to data loss, operation and shared governance, and verifiable state. Businesses can quickly identify around 11 added capabilities in coding.
Furthermore, businesses can easily use blockchain systems to offer a complete transactional history that was consensus approved.
This information is mandatory to use for auditing the system and ensuring that it gets to follow some appropriate rules.
Not just for the miners, but even the non-miners can use the information for verifying whether their systems are operated and governed correctly or not.
In case the transactions are designed to store information related to real-world or digital resources, then it is vital to staple the resources to the on-chain identifiers.
The blockchain system might need provenance information at this stage to offer audit information for such resources. This information is mainly used for tracking down off-chain assets, digital on-chain assets, and off-chain digital assets.
An increase in federated blockchains:
Blockchains can only showcase their power if everyone within the chain agrees to work with the same protocols. You can classify the blockchain networks as public, private, hybrid, or federated. The most common ones among the lot are private and public.
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Perfect combination with IoT:
Right now, the Internet of Things is growing at a fast pace, but security always remains a significant concern. At this stage, blockchain comes as a handy help. With some of the challenging safety measures coming up, the IoT market might look for a renewed security measure. So, blockchain is here to provide some hope to the IoT world.
Coming age for Blockchain:
Going through the information clearly states that 2020 is going to be the coming age of blockchain, especially in public sectors. Governments are now looking for some globalized coordination and asking significant questions around ways to deploy blockchain technology.
They will be talking about data sharing and identity models too. Shortly, blockchain will be exploring the world of government tech-based cases with ease.
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Diplodus vulgaris
Family : Sparidae
Text © Giuseppe Mazza
English translation by Mario Beltramini
The Twoband bream (Diplodus vulgaris) loves sandy bottoms with rocks around © Giuseppe Mazza
Often present in the public European aquariums, the Common two-banded seabream (Diplodus vulgaris Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817) belongs to the class of Actinopterygii, the ray-finned fishes, to the order of Perciformes and to the family of Sparidae.
The name of the genus come from the Greek "diplous" = two, and "odous" = tooth, therefore "double tooth", with reference to the incisors, present on both jaws.
The name of the species comes from the Latin "vulgaris" = common, and, as a matter of fact, it is quite easy to fish.
It is very frequent in the entire Mediterranean basin, and, beyond the Gibraltar Strait, it is found on the Atlantic coast, northwards up to England, and southwards up to South Africa, including the Azores, Madeira, Canary and Cape Verde Islands. After the Cape of Good Hope, it goes northward for a while along the Indian Ocean coasts.
Ecology-Habitat
The scenery preferred by the common two-banded seabream is a nice sandy seabed with a rock amidst. It adapts also to the rocky seabeds, but less than its congeners, and in any case it is tied to the sand, where it looks for molluscs and small worms. It does not love the variations in salinity and therefore it is difficult to find in the brackish waters. It can go down up to 150 m of depth, but, usually, it does not exceed the 30 m.
Morpho-physiology
Typically oval and flat, rather tall, has modest size. Even if it may reach the 45 cm, it seldom exceeds the 30 cm and the most commonly fished specimens measure 20-25 cm with a weight of 500-600 kg.
At once identified by two black bands. Blue and brown appear during the reproductive time © Giuseppe Mazza
The mouth is small, with 8 incisors per jaw followed by two rows of molars.
The dorsal fin, unique, has 11-12 spiny rays and 14-15 soft; the anal 3 spiny and 14 soft; the ventral ones have one spine only and 5 soft rays. The pectoral ones are long and falciform, the caudal is slightly forked.
The body is unmistakable. Paler and brighter than its congeners, it has two great vertical black bands: the first goes from the head to the beginning of the dorsal fin, and the second precedes the tail, spreading in the juveniles also to the last part of the dorsal and the anal.
Thin golden stripes, but nothing to do with the wide ones of the Saupe (Sarpa salpa), are visible on the sides, especially in the juveniles. During the reproductive period, the head assumes a typical bluish colouration and, between the eyes, on the front, appears a brown band.
Ethology-Reproductive Biology
Mainly carnivorous, the common two-banded seabream nourishes of small crustaceans, worms, molluscs and some seaweed.
It reproduces in autumn, with floating eggs, and also the larval forms are pelagic. Only when they reach the 15-20 mm the approach, in schools, the coasts, often together with the youngs of the Sharpsnout seabream (Diplodus puntazzo ).
By the 17 cm of length, the common two-banded seabreams are capable to reproduce, and after a first period where their sex is uncertain, they finally become males or females. The vulnerability index of this species is of 48 over 100.
Sargus salviani Valenciennes, 1830; Sargus vulgaris Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817.
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Gold nanoparticle forms the fundamental basis for all of Emergex's vaccine constructs
These toxicology results help pave the way for a Phase I clinical trial in 2019 of Emergex's first vaccine candidate targeting Flaviviruses
Oxford, UK, 24 October 2018 – Emergex Vaccines Holding Limited ('Emergex'), a biotechnology company pioneering a new approach to synthetic vaccine development in the field of infectious diseases, today announces the successful completion of preclinical toxicology testing on the gold nanoparticle carrier system that forms the fundamental basis for Emergex's entire infectious disease vaccine platform.
Toxicology studies complying with good laboratory practice (GLP) were successfully completed in standard industry models using Emergex's gold nanoparticle at a range of doses. No toxicological effects, as measured by key markers, were detected at any level of dosing, confirming the safety of the gold nanoparticle in these models.
The gold nanoparticle forms the central core (or "scaffold") for immunogenic peptides that together form the final construct for development. The particles can be made to measure less than 5 nanometers in diameter. They act as the carrier system for immunogenic vaccine constructs that comprise synthetic peptides derived from highly conserved components of the disease-causing virus, microbe or pathogen. These peptides have been reverse-engineered using post-infectious blood to identify and select peptides that elicit the strongest cell-mediated immune response. The excellent safety profile demonstrated in these successful preclinical studies now enables Emergex to progress further toxicology testing on viral vaccine constructs in Emergex's development pipeline and, provided they are successful, first-in-man Phase I safety studies.
Emergex's first vaccine candidate is scheduled to enter Phase I clinical testing in 2019. It contains immunogenic peptides that are derived from viruses such as Dengue and Zika within the Flavivirus family. The Flavivirus vaccine is designed to universally target this viral genus.
Due to their small size, Emergex's vaccines can directly enter immune processing cells and trigger cell-mediated immune responses within infected host cells. The small size also enables administration via microneedle patch technology which is less invasive than conventional needle vaccination. Using this administration method the vaccine enters the dermal level of the skin, which then directly stimulates the immune system. Emergex's vaccine technology can also be applied for the development of vaccines for other pathogenic microbes such as antibiotic resistant bacteria.
Laurens Rademacher, Emergex's Chief Technology Officer commented: "These results are a significant milestone as we advance towards clinical development of our Flavivirus vaccine. The excellent safety profile that we have seen on our base gold nanoparticle in these preclinical studies provides us with renewed confidence in a significant part of the contributing technology. We therefore expect the regulatory process for the upcoming clinical phases to be attainable within our anticipated timelines, ensuring that we remain on course to achieve our vision of providing vaccines that are effective, affordable and safe."
Emergex's business model is to create International Vaccine Repositories of post Phase I vaccines that act as a first-line of defense against existing, emerging and emergency infectious outbreaks and that will be subscribed to by governments, non-governmental organisations and/or charities. Access to these are repository is expected to provide Emergex with initial revenues.
Emergex Vaccines Holding Limited ("Emergex"), a UK-based biotechnology company headquartered in Oxford, is pioneering a new approach to vaccine development in order to address some of the world's most immediate health threats including Flaviviruses, such as Dengue Fever and Zika as well as Filoviruses, such as Ebola and Marburg viruses, and seasonal and pandemic influenza.
The Company has developed a novel and ground-breaking approach to vaccine manufacturing. It utilises 100% synthetic components that have been validated in previous research, to activate T-cells of the immune system to destroy infected human cells. It uses unique technologies together with scientific insights to develop and manufacture vaccines at a fraction of the time and cost of conventional vaccines. These are administered using a skin patch technology which is practical to administer and suited to regions that are infrastructurally-challenged as well as for more advanced regions of the world.
Emergex is initially focussed on creating an internationally accessible, clinical-grade vaccine repository for use by governments, non-governmental organisations and charities, to act as a first line of defence against existing and newly emerging infectious outbreaks.
Emergex is committed to making a positive impact in the communities that are most affected by these infectious outbreaks, where a lack of affordable and effective treatments adversely impacts health and prosperity. Emergex is a member of the Social Stock Exchange in London, the world's first regulated exchange dedicated to businesses and investors seeking to achieve a positive social and environmental impact through their activities.
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When a kind woman found two stray kittens in her yard, she began feeding them to ensure that they didn't starve. Shortly thereafter, she made a discovery. The three-week-old brothers had noticeable abnormalities in their eyes, prompting the woman to take them to the vet.
The kittens, named Stevie and Isaac, were born with deformed eyelids, causing irreversible damage to their pupils. To avoid infections, they underwent surgeries to remove their blind eyes. Luckily, the vet was able to save Isaac's one good eye by reconstructing his eyelid.
The kittens recovered quickly and were back to playing less than a day after their surgeries. They've now found forever homes with loving families. Stevie, who is fully blind, relies on Isaac to help him navigate and alerts his brother when he gets confused. Isaac responds immediately to his brother's cries, offering help and comfort.
There's a lesson to be learned by the special bond the two brothers share and their refusal to be limited by their disabilities – that life can be lived to the fullest, despite your obstacles!
Animals are aware and sentient beings who feel love and devotion to members of their families as seen in the short video above. I have seen many stories of animals working hard to save family members of some problem or sickness. Also, they can just be close friends with another animal entirely. They should NOT be treated like non thinking, caring beings. Anyone who enjoys stabbing, beating, killing animals for fun is a nasty human.
Beautiful comment! Bless the two little kittens and their loving mom who adopted them and cared for them. And you too April for your kindness and compassion!:D People like you and loving adorable animals make me so happy to be alive!
Awwwwwww, thank God this kind woman decided to feed these very young kittens, so very young they would surely have starved without her, especially given the problems with their eyes. And for her to take these babies to the vet after realizing something was wrong with their eyes and them being strays, is phenomenal. This is something kind, loving people do. The fact that Stevie must rely on Issac for navigation and that Issac knows this and is right there for Stevie just shows……..animals are not dumb, animals know love and love one another. Anyone who thinks animals are dumb don't have much sense, they're kinda dumb themselves. Thank the family who adopted these special brothers together so they can spend their lifetime together, not to be separated and grieve for one another. There are kind folks out there amongst those hideous monsters that only want to hurt animals!


With a lush urban garden, expansive outdoor seating and a menu that celebrates fresh, locally-sourced regional cuisine, Rico's American Grill offers a casual dining experience along the bustling Phoenix, Arizona 16th Street corridor in uptown Phoenix. Cultivated from land once mined for natural resources, menu favorites include fresh chopped salads, decadent burgers, and grilled seafood. Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, Rico's menu is focused on fresh, favorites that are inspired by and feature seasonal ingredients from the restaurant's vibrant urban garden including the Squaw Peak Chopped Salad, Farm Burger and Grilled Salmon with Jalapeno Polenta.
Rico's fully-stocked bar offers a variety of adult indulgences from tasty beer flights to signature Rough Riders brew. The bar also features an extensive collection of tequilas and specialty margaritas for your sweet and salty cravings.


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Contact the Ojai Ranger District for current conditions: (805) 646-4348 X 0. Open Mon-Fri, 8-4:30pm.
Trails Alert - The water level is knee deep to waist high at the crossings along the Sespe River to Willet Hot Springs and Sespe Hot Springs. Use caution and plan to get wet!
Cherry Creek Rd is closed. Target shooting at Cherry Creek is prohibited.
Portrero Seco Road (6N03): north of Ojai remains closed for repairs due to storm damage from 2011. There is no estimated opening date on this route.


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Fuel runs short at South Korean petrol stations as union plans strike alongside truckers
A notice reading 'Temporary Closure' is posted at a gas station in Seoul on Dec 5 amid a nationwide strike by unionised truckers. PHOTO: EPA-EFE
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UIWANG, South Korea - A nationwide strike by South Korean truckers has led nearly 100 petrol stations across the country to run dry, government data show, and a national trade union said it would launch a general strike on Tuesday in support of the drivers.
The truckers' strike over a minimum pay programme, which began on Nov 24, has seen two negotiation sessions between the union and the government, but so far there has been no breakthrough.
The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) said it held rallies at 15 sites across the country, with about 25,000 unionised workers attending as part of its general strike.
As supplies of fuel and construction materials run low, the South Korean government has stepped up pressure to end the strike.
Last week, the government issued a "start work" order to force 2,500 striking drivers in the cement industry back on the road.
President Yoon Suk-yeol on Sunday ordered preparations to issue a return-to-work order for drivers in sectors such as oil refining and steelmaking, where additional economic damage is expected.
The anti-graft Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) said it kicked off an investigation last week to investigate whether the truckers' union unfairly refused to work. The union is not cooperating with the probe, a KFTC official said on Tuesday.
The KCTU, an umbrella union under which the truckers' union falls, has called the President's "start work" order the equivalent of martial law and says the government should negotiate.
At one of its demonstrations near the Uiwang container depot, where striking truckers are camping out, KCTU chief Yang Kyung-soo said the truckers are on the "front lines" of protecting workers' lives and rights. Leaders of member unions made financial contributions to the ongoing strike by truckers.
Mr Lee Bong-ju, head of the truckers' union, said unionised truckers would raise the level of their protest starting on Wednesday.
As of Monday afternoon, nearly 100 petrol stations had run out of fuel. About 60 per cent of them were in Seoul and Gyeonggi province, a densely populated region near the capital, according to Korea National Oil Corp data. That is up from the 21 petrol stations that the ministry had said were out of fuel on Nov 29.
Amid soaring fuel costs, as many as 25,000 truckers are calling on the government to provide a permanent minimum-pay system known as the Safe Freight Rate, which was introduced temporarily in 2020 for a small portion of more than 400,000 truckers.
In their second strike in less than six months, those truckers are fighting the bitter cold and the government's narrative that they are well paid "labour aristocracy".
Mr Yoon has said the government will not give in to the union's demands and likened the strike to North Korea's nuclear threat. The government has said it would extend the current programme for three more years.
The impact of a general strike is unclear and depends on participation, said KCTU spokesman Han Sang-jin.
Another KCTU official said some workers in the service and construction sectors had launched "solidarity strikes", but did not know how long they would continue.
"By being here, we are hoping to cheer up our truckers," Mr Park Dae-ku, an unionised worker at a government-run science museum, said. Mr Park took a few hours off to join the rally at Uiwang but is not planning to walk out of work.
The strikes have disrupted South Korea's supply chain. Losses are expected to have grown in several industries, but traffic at ports has improved slightly to 69 per cent of its pre-strike average since the back-to-order was issued, according to the government. REUTERS
North Korea slams South Korea's Yoon, warns sanctions will fuel more hostility
Major Korean Union joins truckers' protest as strike broadens


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HomeWalkingThe Kentish Thames WalkThe Kentish Thames 5, High Halstow to All Hallows and the London Stone
A finale to the Kentish Thames walk featuring the ever widening Thames, the famous Egypt Bay, the lost resort of All Hallows and a site of the London Stone which marks the end of the river.
The maps below represent the first part of the walk, followed by the second part. They are not to the same scales.
Date researched
Explorer 163, Land ranger 178
Distance and Time
14.91 Km / 9.26 Miles, 3 hours
At full tide the route along the foreshore at Dagnam Saltings is impassible. Use the alternative route.
Start and finish points
Start Longfield Road bus stop, High Halstow. Finish at the British Pilot pub, All Hallows
Buses run to the start and finish from Rochester and Chatham on Mondays to Saturdays. Full details here.
In High Halstow there is a pub about 500 metres to the west of the start point. About 200 metres south of the pub is a shop. In All Hallows the British Pilot pub does basic food. There is a shop in All Hallows near the entrance to the Holiday Park, just off the alternative route.
At High Halstow at the Community Centre, between the walk beginning and the pub.
Route instructions
GPX file for the main route High Halstow – All Hallows
GPX file for the alternative route All_Hallows_alt
Get off the bus at Longfield Road, High Halstow. This is shortly after the pub if you are coming from Rochester.
1)Walk north up Longfield Road. Follow this as it turns to the right.
A)You may want to start by visiting the RSPB Northward Hill reserve. Access to this is by turning left half way up Longfield Road.
Turn right here along the Saxon Shore Way.
3)After about 200metres see a path off to the left along a field edge. Take this. Towards the end of the field the path leaves the field edge and makes for a post marked with yellow tape slightly to the right of the field corner. This stretch of path may be ploughed up. If it is please contact Medway Rights of Way prow@medway.gov.uk.
After this post walk north downhill through bushes and trees. The path emerges at a lane. Turn left (north) here. Follow the lane past Decoy Farm to Swingshole where the lane turns into a track. Keep straight ahead on the track.
4)After about a kilometre on the track look for a stile on your left. Go over this and another stile to the north-west.
5) See a raised bund in front of you. Ascend this and walk to the right along it, heading towards Egypt bay.
B)This is the supposed site of the prison ship from which the convict Abel Magwitch had escaped in "Great Expectations" . The marshes were less developed at the time and you can imagine what a desperate life it would have been to be imprisoned here.
Continue round the east side of Egypt bay and then bear right following the bund next to the Thames. Your navigating is now simple. You keep to the Thames, rounding lonely St Mary's Bay, and continuing towards Dagnam Saltings. The path turns south east and you pass through a gate.
6)Shortly after this gate, as the Thames begins to curve away from the path, look for a path which descends to the left, going to the beach.
You must now make a decision. The main route goes along the foreshore. At high tide some of the route is likely to be covered in water. A particular problem can be found at point (7) where there is a pill box in the estuary which marks a place where two inlets meet the Thames. At high tide these fill with water and there is no way round them. You need to get beyond this point before the tide comes up. If in any doubt take the alternative route.
You can find tide tables here
The main route
Descend to the beach and walk east along the foreshore. Pick whichever route is the most comfortable. The Thames has eroded the land so the foreshore is south of where it is shown on most maps. At point 7 you will see a war defence pill-box in the mud. This marks the point at which the main right of way joins our route although there are no signs. After this there appears to be something of a vague path which is above the high water line.
8)Reach civilisation, represented by a large caravan park and a boat club. Turn left on a concrete path and then right to walk along the Thames on a path next to the boat club. This soon opens up into the lawns of the Caravan Park. On your right is a leisure complex with pools and amenities, but this is only open to customers of the site. Walk along the green promenade to its eastern end. Pass out of the site into open country.
The alternative route
If you are taking the alternative route continue on the main path to a metal gate. Here you ignore turns to the right and left and continue straight ahead.
(The route on the left is the right of way through Dagnam Marshes. I have walked it and do not recommend it. It is mainly on bunds that are overgrown with grass so that it is hard to see where to put your feet. It is punctuated by descents to one plank bridges and there are places where it is easy to get lost, ending up on the wrong side of an uncrossable drainage ditch. At point 7 it is necessary to cross an inlet which is full of water at high tide. There is no bridge.)
The track continues straight ahead and then turns right. Soon meet a signposted junction. Turn left here. Keep straight ahead, ignoring a path to the right. Shortly after this look out for a partly hidden signpost, and steps on the left hand side of the track, opposite a telegraph pole. Go up the steps and walk east through the middle of fields.
(When I was here in 2013 the path in the first field was planted over with rape. If this is the case when you are here please report this to prow@medway.gov.uk.)
Continue more or less straight ahead to Dagnam farm (now a rather incongruous posh house). Bear slightly left to avoid the house and then keep straight ahead after you have passed it. Meet a small lane called Homewards Road. Keep going in the same direction. This is a one way road. Any traffic will be coming from behind you.
Shortly, come to a junction. Turn left here and follow the lane round to the entrance to the caravan park. Immediately before the park there is a sign on the right indicating a public footpath. Take this. At the end turn left on a track. Stay on the track heading east when the footpath turns right.
F) Pass Slough Fort The fort is sited on a livery yard that offers a petting farm and horse rides
At the end of the track you will see the entrance to the caravan park on your left and a shop diagonally across to your right. Turn left down the left hand side of the road into the caravan park. Pass the entry gates. Just before a chalet on the right near the road you will see a waymark. Turn right here across the road and down the lawn towards the next waymark, which is on another road. Turn right down the road and straight ahead at a junction, following waymarks. The road bears left. Follow it. When you are nearly at the sea you will see a small footpath next to a caravan, partly obstructed by its parking bay. Walk down the path to meet the main route at the point where it leaves the site and enters open country.
C) Wikepedia says about All Hallows "It was just after the First World War that Kent County Council and London County Council proposed the transformation of the remote and inhospitable marshland hamlet of All-Hallows into a major seaside resort, after the fashion of Victorian Herne Bay. By the 1930s the river front at Avery Farm, about a mile north of the village, was set to become a holiday resort.
Alhallows-on-Sea was planned as the best holiday resort in Europe, and was to have the largest swimming pool in the UK with the first artificial wave generator in Europe, and an amusement park four times the size of the Blackpool pleasure beach complex……..
The railway line was constructed with these proposals in mind. A large 1930s style pub, the British Pilot, was built"
A vaguely art deco block of flats was also built. But the rest of the development never happened. Nowadays All Hallows consists of some 1960's housing, a 12th century parish church (grade one listed) and the large Haven Holidays caravan site with its rented and owned caravans and chalets.
Some people get snotty about caravan parks and regard them as a blot on the landscape. Certainly many site owners do their best to play up to this stereotype by cramming too many vans into a site. Other people get snotty about All Hallows, arguing that it is a mud resort, not the seaside. Tom King, author of the Thames Estuary Trail, reports that, as a child, his wife could be reduced to tears by the promise of a visit to All Hallows.
My parents had a caravan when I was young and I think that the detractors miss the point. The point of a caravan is to get away from it all, to go somewhere where your day to day cares have no place and to be different from what you normally are. Other ways of doing this are to retreat to your shed, or your hobby, or to jet off on a mini break, or to buy a second home. But if you want to avoid jet set pollution, or taking someone else's home, a caravan fairly near your home is ideal. If there are facilities on site to keep the kids happy and a safe enough environment that you do not need to supervise them, so much the better. And what could be more different from where most people live than All Hallows, where you can take in the wildness of nature and then retreat to the safety of your caravan?
You might be interested in the Trip Advisor reviews for the site. It looks as if the site has emerged from a period when it did not deliver what it said in the brochure, but now things are looking up. Notice that no one criticises the lack of beach or having to stay in a caravan.
9)But for a walker, a caravan site is not getting away from it all enough, and our walk needs a destination. Carry on along the river bank. The navigation, on top of a bund, is easy.
10)Continue until the path turns south beside the river Yantlett. This is our destination. In the estuary before you you can see two edifices, pointing towards the sky. The furthest of these is the London Stone.
E)The London Stone marks the southern end of the Yantlett Line. The northern end is marked by the Crow Stone in Southend. Historically the Yantlett Line marked the boundary of the City of London's ownership of the river bed and the foreshore. The City controlled all of the river west of here as far as Staines. Nowadays these rights are vested in the Port of London authority, which also controls the estuary from Teddington Lock to Margate.
According to Wikepedia "The overall height of the monument is about 8 metres. The main column has an inscription, now illegible. The plinth on which it stands has an inscription listing various worthy gentlemen who were probably involved in the re-erection of the stone in Victorian times. They include Horatio Thomas Austin and Warren Stormes Hale, sometime Lord Mayor and founder of the City of London School."
People have made their way out to the London Stone at low tide, but have returned very muddy! I have not tried it and cannot tell you how safe it is. Make sure you know what you are doing before making the attempt.
Why end here?
There are many places that could be seen as the end of the river Thames, but I think her is the best candidate. Grain faces the Medway rather than the Thames and east of here are places that make successful claims to be seaside resorts. We do not talk about Southend on Thames or Whitstable on Thames. West of the Yantlett Line Canvey, Leigh and All Hallows say that they are "on sea" but not everyone believes them. Beyond this point we may be in the Thames estuary, but we are not on the river Thames.
And we have, like the caravanners, "got away from it all" to somewhere probably very different from where we have our day to day lives. At first sight there is no one here, as you might expect if you had got away from it all. But of course we are not alone. In "the Thames Estuary Trail," Tom King records being taken to examine the mud under Southend pier where he was shown oysters, prawns, shanneys, pea crabs, peacock worms, starfish and other species. No doubt many of them are here too in the mud. Your ears will tell you why the river Yantlett is considered an ornithologist's paradise. Where the grass is unmown it is also teeming with life. And before you is the Thames and the sea. Walkers often say that they go in to the mountains to realise how small they are, but great rivers and the ocean can have the same effect.
When it is time to go retrace your steps for about 500 metres. You can then see a track going off to your left, initially downhill and then through a gate.
11) Follow this track back to the British Pilot Pub. The bus stop is opposite.
.E)The British Pilot is hardly changed from when it was built. It is a typical example of the post first world war style where it was decided to replace the old Victorian gin palaces with something more salubrious. How long can pubs like this continue to survive? It is now the only pub in All Hallows.
On the opposite side of the road is another caravan site. This is on the site of the old All Hallows Station. The site is private, but from the main entrance you can just see the old railway water tower, which has been preserved.
Just up the road from the bus stop you can still see the 1930's flats that were built at the same time as the station and the pub. What must it have been like to live in them when none of the nearby houses were around?
If you are lucky, your bus to Rochester will be a double decker and you can climb upstairs to enjoy the view on the way back to the known world.
Thanks to Medway Council rights of Way Department for advice about navigating Dagnam Saltings. However responsibility for the route is mine alone.