Cut flowers are actually pretty bad for the environment. Which seems weird considering they're such a natural thing. Of course there's a couple ways to minimize your impact, i.e. buying local, buying in season but I just wanted to avoid them altogether. Another reason for doing so was since we were doing everything ourselves, it was just another thing to transport and take care of. Keeping them well hydrated in the heat of August (08-18-18) was going to be a bother. So while I love flowers, I was okay with not using any in our wedding.
I opted for sola wood flowers from fellow Etsy shop ZONsGarden, SolaWoodFlowers.com, and Save-on-Crafts.com. Accompanied with faux greenery from Joann.com (mixed fern garlands to be exact) and feathers I got on Ebay. The birdhouses were half from Joann and half from Michaels, 20 needed total but I got a couple extras just in case. I picked houses with heart cut outs because they were the obvious choice for such occasion lol. The first flowers I ordered were these roses from Save on Crafts. I expected them to be brown but they turned out to be this burgundy red. So I painted them a coppery color to match our color scheme.
My husband helped paint the birdhouses but we quickly realized it was much more effective to hand paint them instead (to get all nooks and crannies of the houses) so I went over them with FolkArt acrylic paint.
I set the houses atop various candle holders I found a thrift store a couple years back for my parents silver wedding and added on to those with others I collected later on. They're mostly metal but a couple were plastic and even ceramic. They were all painted with primer then Rust-Oleum white textured paint.
Well the bird houses were hot glued onto thin wood slices I got from Amazon, then atop the candle holders. They needed to have some sort of base to hold both the birdhouse and flowers. My mom and I sorted out all the flowers evenly as possible, making a small arrangement with all the components for each centerpiece. We used floral wire and tape to give each flower a stem. Each piece was similar to each other but none were exactly the same.
I really liked how they turned out. It would've been nice to have added even more flowers but I had to stay within a budget. They looked good nonetheless, not too busy I think. We also did a small nest with sola wood flowers and a tea light candle. I made table numbers with cardstock and number stickers. They were held by these small bird place card holders from Oriental Trading. For each chair there was a mini nest with Jordan almond "eggs" as a favor. In the end, I think they looked unique and complemented our overall theme quite well. A cute idea for the love bird themed wedding that isn't crazy about bird cages lol.


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This week's gospel tells the parable of the master who entrusts his property to his servants while he is away abroad. Each receives a different number of talents, according to their ability. The parable tells us that the one who received five talents made five more. The one who received two made two more but the one who received one was frightened and buried the talent until his master returned. As always the gospel parables can be read and interpreted in so many different ways. That is why they are lasting texts and can be returned to again and again with new insights being gained each time.
As I read this parable today it talks to me about our faith communities, parishes and diocese and how we have been entrusted with such incredible gifts. It reminds me that we are at a time when we are in need of new investments of our talents in order to continue the gospel mission entrusted to us by Jesus.
Our world and our society has changed so much that we cannot just sit back and bury our talent. We cannot simply do the things that we have always done, in the same way and expect to spread the gospel to the next generation. New investments of time and talent are called for in order to bring about a gospel culture in our communities. Pope Francis has reflected on this in Evangelii Gaudium:
I dream of a "missionary option", that is, a missionary impulse capable of transforming everything, so that the Church's customs, ways of doing things, times and schedules, language and structures can be suitably channeled for the evangelization of today's world rather than for her self-preservation. The renewal of structures demanded by pastoral conversion can only be understood in this light: as part of an effort to make them more mission-oriented, to make ordinary pastoral activity on every level more inclusive and open, to inspire in pastoral workers a constant desire to go forth and in this way to elicit a positive response from all those whom Jesus summons to friendship with himself (Evangelii Gaudium 27)
We are going through some structural changes in our parishes and diocese at the moment. The measure of their success will indeed be whether or not the 'missionary option' dreamt about by Pope Francis can be achieved. We are currently transitioning the governance of our parish schools to the newly formed Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools (MACS) Limited. The dream is that with an administrative load removed from parishes we will be able to concentrate more fully on pastoral and gospel inspired activity.
We are also discussing at the parish level, ways in which we can better collaborate across the parishes of Camberwell, Balwyn, Deepdene, and Surrey Hills Wattle Park. The dream is that the diversity across our parishes can open up possibilities for many more expressions of faith within our communities. Our newly formed Social Justice Network is one example of people coming together from across our parishes in order to work for common, gospel inspired areas of social justice.
I am hoping that we can find more ways of sharing the rich talents of our parishes and parishioners over the coming year.
This week's parable reminds us that we are not just care-takers of our talents but risk-takers in the name of gospel proclamation.
Fr Brendan Reed

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The children learnt how Christian charities support families all over the world and campaign to give them a 'fair deal' in life. We explored this through playing The Orange Trading Game. The game is set in the fictitious country of Imaginique where many families struggle to make a living through orange farming.
The class were divided in to farming families, money lenders, market traders and cost of living collectors. Each week (every 5 minutes), the cost of living collectors would collect money from each family whilst they worked as hard as they could to produce oranges to sell to the market traders.
Throughout the game, various situations occurred where additional financial costs were incurred by the families. During times of difficulty for the families, the money lenders were quick to offer short term loans which had to be repaid along with high levels of interest.
Kandinsky Class dissect a heart!
As part of our science topic about 'Animals and Humans', we learnt about how the heart works and why it is such an important organ in our body. However, there is no better way or learning about it than to see it for ourselves so we spent a fun-filled and blood-splattered afternoon dressed in lab coats, goggles and plastic gloves using scalpels to cut open some hearts and see the different sections of them for ourselves!
Kandinsky Class are Blood Cells!
To help understand how the circulatory system works, Kandinsky Class were given the task of physically recreating it using each other and basic symbols to represent the heart, lungs, body and oxygenated and deoxygenated blood cells. They then had to re-enact how the system would respond to bodily changes such as exercise, stress or rest.
Kandinsky Class spent a fun-filled afternoon exploring Judaism through looking at Jewish artefacts, playing traditional Jewish games and eating Jewish food! They also tried on Jewish clothes and looked at how Jews pray. They learned a huge amount and showed excellent British values of respect and tolerance of other people's beliefs.
Kandinsky Class visit Paradise Wildlife Park!
To finish off and excellent literacy topic based around the conflict between animals and humans in the wild, Kandinsky Class went on a hugely enjoyable school trip to Paradise Wildlife Park where they saw some exotic creatures like snow leopards and white lions, got to feed animals such as alpacas and pygmy goats, listened to an educational talk about conservation and enjoyed playing in the adventure playground there! They were very well behaved and respectful of the public and learned a great deal amount animals and their habitats.
To help remember and support the learning in science about how harmful microbes attack the body, Kandinsky Class created dramatic role plays where some of the group were pathogens trying to attack the body and the rest were acting as the 3 lines of defence they had to get through in order to make the person ill. Kandinsky Class thoroughly enjoyed this and many students showed excellent ability in drama.
Kandinsky Class are Weather Reporters!
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To help raise money to buy a defibrillator for the local community, Kandinsky Class organised and ran a series of competitive fitness based activities for the school. They helped raise £705 for the cause!
In mixed year group teams, Kandinsky Class learned how to formally debate motions linked to our literacy topic on the conflict between animals and humans. They had to prepare points to talk about and also make 'points of information' to attack the other teams points. They all spoke confidently and clearly and had a fantastic time!
Kandinsky class were fortunate enough to enjoy a visit from Dr Gibson, a scientist working on finding a vaccination for TB. We spent an afternoon experimenting with microbes, using real life lab equipment including a microscope and learning about what being a scientist means. Dr Gibson was very impressed with Kandinsky's excellent scientific knowledge and enthusiastic attitude towards their learning!
In Year 5/6, we are learning about classification and about the similarities and differences between living things. We decided to try and classify a range of plants by looking for them in the school field then bringing them in and placing them in a classification key. We had a very enjoyable afternoon doing this and learnt a lot!
In Year 5/6 we studied the life and art of Wassily Kandinsky and attempted to recreate some of his famous paintings using an abstract, non-objective style. We then wrote our own biographies, taking care to talk about only key moments in our lives and using engaging and interesting language to descrbe these moments.
As I am sure you are aware, the Standard Assessment Tests (SATs) are due to commence the week beginning 14th May 2018. This letter is to clarify the requirements for the school and for you as parents for the duration of the week.
Each day of the SATs will begin with an early morning breakfast, starting at 8:15am, which every child is expected to attend. We feel it is an important part of the process for the week that all children have the opportunity to discuss and relax prior to taking each test. The breakfast supplied to your child will be healthy and support them in the high level of focus and energy required for the tests.
Equipment and resources required to complete the tests will be supplied by the school and your child will not be able to have their own pencil cases or other personal equipment with them during tests.
All children must attend the tests during this week. Any situations that arise related to illness of inability for your child to attend must be communicated to the school as soon as possible. For further information for parents, please visit the school's website and an information document can be found attached to Kandinsky's class page. For detailed information concerning all elements of the SATs please visit https://www.gov.uk/ and search Standard Assessment Tests.
Your child has worked particularly hard this year in the areas of the curriculum pertaining to the tests and as recognition for their hard work, Mrs Stark and I have agreed to thank Year 6 with a non-uniform day and a celebration on Friday 18th May; Lots of treats, music and maybe even a film as a big thank you from us at Hertford St Andrew.
For any further information or support prior to the tests, please do not hesitate to contact me. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for supporting your children in their learning leading up to the tests. I am sure you will join me in wishing all of them the best in their SATs and in keeping them all as positive as they have been in their attitudes.
Year 6 have been looking at the human body and how vital certain aspects are for our survival. We have been studying the Circulatory System with discussions and research into finding out how blood travels around our bodies to deliver important nutrients and oxygen to our organs. The children identified the main arteries and measured their pulses with an emphasis on understanding how the heart pumps litres of blood under high pressures.
Following our discovery of the human blood flow, Kandinsky then started to look at the human skeletal structure and how this is designed to protect and support us. With this in mind, the class were given the challenge in a practical investigation of how a structure can support a given weight. Each group were supplied with 10 sheets of A4 paper and just 1 metre of sellotape and were challenged to build a stable structure, as high as possible, to support he weight of tennis ball. This was to support their understanding of how the human skeleton is designed to support us in out every day lives. Attached are the pictures to show the designs and structures that they came up with.
Next week the class will be enjoying another practical challenge when we look to understand how the human digestive system works. It will be a rather messy experience!!
We arrived at Chauncy School and the Basketball court was quite big and lots of fun. We started practicing before playing the first game and the hoops were higher than we expected but we still scored points in them, luckily.
Our first game was against Tower. Our first basket was scored by Ryan and it was a smashing shot straight into the net not even hitting the ring. Then it was 10-2 to us in the first 10 minutes because of our great teamwork. Next half, Ryan scored one but accidently got elbowed in the face, then Kira scored another one which took us up to 14-2 because every goal was 2. Thanks to Ryan and Levi, that took us up two 18-2 and then the game finished.
After that we had a 20 minute rest so we would be ready for the next game which was against Bayford. Bayford finished their game against Tower which they won and this game had to be decided; whoever wins was through to the final play-off.
We were 4-0 down then until Ryan came off the bench and made it go to 4-4 and then Levi scored and made it 6-4. Then Bayford scored which took it to 6-6 and right at the end it came to 18-16 to them sadly but we never gave up and we tried our best but Bayford deserved it.
Last week, throughout the whole school, was anti-bullying week. In our class we were asked to make some posters, one about what bullying is and one about what you should do if you are a bystander. All classes had to do something, but we all did something different.
After a few days of making our posters, Friday's assembly rolled around. All classes had to have some students to come to the front to show their work. In our class it was Taylor, Lucy, some other pupils and I (Luke May).
Year 6 had the opportunity to visit Cuffley Camp to take part in lots of team building activities. Seen in the local news recently, Cuffley Camp is a woodland area that is set over a piece of land the size of 9 football pitches. Having been in existence for over 70 years, it has played a valuable role in giving children outdoor learning experiences.
Our first tasks of the day centred on problem solving activities. Split into groups, the children had to work out how to travel from one point to another using certain apparatus with very clear guidelines. There were four different activities to challenge the children with the groups rotating until all had had their turn on each. It took lots of brain power, teamwork and physical effort to reach their goal.
After a short walk to the low level climbing course, new groups were formed and the children were challenged with having to travel around the course without making contact with the ground - an extremely difficult task, especially when having to carry their own crates to bridge the gaps between apparatus. All of the groups were fantastic and it was pleasing to see everyone being so active.
Next came the orienteering activity with the class now being able to work in pairs or threes. A series of arrows were dotted around a woodland course which dictated whether the children should go under, over or through. After walking through the first lap as a class, the children were challenged to get around the course as fast as they could and as many times as they could in a set time. Again, so wonderful to see all the class charging around and in some cases getting exceptionally muddy!
Lastly, we had the challenge of building our own shelters using only the fallen braches and other natural materials that were in a specified area. Split into different groups again, it was interesting to see the very different approaches to the task. Once the set time was up, the groups had to sit inside their shelters and have them tested by having water poured over them!! With a very successful design, the boys managed to stay dry. Unfortunately, the other groups got a bit of a soaking!
It was a wonderful day with lots of valuable teamwork taking place and we all had lots of fun. A very valuable experience for us all.
Hertford St Andrew had the honour to play their first match this year against Bayford at home.
The kick of started approximately 3.45pm. Five minutes in Ryan scored bottom corner of the net. Then Bayford were hungry for goals and they made it 1-1. Just before half time Ryan scored top corner to make it 2-1. After half time Ryan scored again to make it 3-1. 10minutes later Ryan scored to make it 4-1. They would not give up though and two minutes later Bayford made it 4-2. After some great defending by Maison, Ryan crossed it in and Malacai finished it into the goal which made it 5-2. Even with such a lead, Bayford were excellent in their attitude and fought back to score two more goals. It was 5-4 to us and we had to defend really well right up until the final whistle.
After such a fantastic game, we all enjoyed the drink and biscuits that were kindly prepared by Mrs Garbutt. It was a fantastic game played in a very positive way and Bayford were a great team to play against.
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Compound: John thinks writing is fun and playing is noisy. This is two basic sentences linked by a conjunction. Writing is fun. Playing is noisy.
Complex: John, who thinks writing is fun, thinks playing is noisy. Here the two parts of the sentence do not make two sentences because one part doesn't make sense on its own: John thinks playing is noisy = sentence. Who thinks writing is fun = not a sentence as it doesn't make sense!
Complex: John thinks writing is fun because he likes to use his imagination. John thinks writing is fun. = sentence. Because he likes to use his imagination. = not a sentence!
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Paragraphs are sentences about one main idea. When there is a change of time or place you need a new paragraph. They are also used in speech when a new person starts talking. They also make stories look less scary by breaking them up into smaller chunks that are easier to read. Go through your writing and look for places where there is a change of time or place and add in some paragraphs.
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On Monday Steven, Luke, Kira and I went to Bayford University for a science day. When we got there we walked into the café to find that we were the first group there. We started talking. Then the other groups started to arrive. We then went up two flights of stairs to get to the laboratory. After we put our bags and coats under the table to get on with the work.
Then we all went downstairs with Sam, an astrobiologist, to look at tardigrades. We found out that tardigrades can live in space, in the deepest part of the ocean, in one thousand times more radiation than a human can withstand and many more places. The tardigrades were transparent and you could see their insides. Everyone was very careful to not knock over the sample dishes. When it was time to go back to the lab, we went back up to find that Mark, an astrophysicist, had put three bags of Martian soil, from three different places, on our desks.
After a snack we went back up, we were seeing if life is on Mars. We wore gloves and goggles and we had a beaker full of sugar which we dissolved. We fed the pipette into the bag and squeezed the end to get the water out. After this we took of our goggles and gloves so we could have lunch.
After we had our lunch we walked back up to design a heat shield. Our design was foil, stainless steel mesh, cork, sponge and more foil. We put Polyfilla in between the layers to stick them together. Our heat shield started to melt after a few seconds but we were still the winners of that part. We then had to design a parachute for the lander. We all had a clear ball to represent the lander. We had put a lot of tape on the ball we had and made the parachute out of plastic wrap and black paper. I tried to make a design but I couldn't follow what my group were doing. After this we went onto the top floor and dropped the parachute. Our time was 3.06 seconds. After we got our coats and went outside to look at the telescopes at the observatory. There was a laser that worked 24/7 every day. After we went back to school.
Year 6 had the pleasure of welcoming Chris and Mark from the University of Hertfordshire for a very informative session on particles followed by a planetarium experience. Chris started by introducing the class to the difficult concept of particles and how they are the building blocks of all matter. We were told how the Higgs Boson theory was put forward by Peter Higgs and is the elementary particle in Standard Physics. We learnt about the CERN particle collider (also known as the Large Hadron Collider) in Switzerland and the mass of certain matter and anti-matter particles. All of the children constructed their own particles and decorated them relative to the particle's family name.
Mark then took over and showed the class the planetarium experience which was set up in an inflatable dome in the hall. The class focussed on the people that went into space and what they first spoke about. Believe it or not it was about the smell! Mark then spoke about the effects that comets had when they crash landed on Mars and how without water we can see the impact craters and how on Earth we can't see these due to the bodies of water. We learnt how we can fit all the planets in our Solar System into Jupiter as it is so massive. The display was in 3D and we were told how the people who went into space would have to spend £20,000 on a Coke!! The children really enjoyed the session and it was a great scientific learning experience.
A massive thank you to Miss Raw for organising such a fun and engaging day from all of us in Year 6.
On Wednesday 18th January, Year 6 were fortunate enough to be able to spend the day visiting Duxford Imperial War Museum. It was a very chilly day but the children were very excited about the visit and were not disappointed. After off-loading our lunches in the special eating area (which is situated in a VERY large aircraft hanger!) we made our way to the Land Warfare exhibition. It was quite a distance away but well worth the effort. The class were able to experience many aspects of WWII, from artillery and tanks to how it felt to step off a landing craft on D-Day. Teigan shared some very interesting information about how most of the soldiers lost their lives on such an important point in history.
We then moved on to an aircraft exhibition where Cody shared his knowledge of particular bomber aircraft and the children tried on some authentic clothing with Gloria looking very comfortable in the bullet proof vest. Eddie found out about the fastest recorded speed for an aircraft and what type of engine was used to achieve this. Lots of searching and excellent questions about all of the different aircraft in the museum were asked by all of the class.
We returned to the large aircraft hanger and looked at a range of aircraft and a separate exhibition that displayed many aspects of the paratroopers that took part in the war effort. Particularly enjoyable for some as this included a high number of guns and other 'explosive' artefacts. After visiting another BOAC aircraft we were rather tired and ready for our trip back to school. All of Year 6 had a fun filled and informative day which will be a great support for our topic of children in WWII.
Year 6 have been using their creative minds and applying this to the latest writing competition that KS2 have entered. With the chance of their work being published, the class had to create a crazy creature and write a mini saga that would have the reader engaged using only 100 words. We spent some time planning and drawing their creations and shared some truly wonderful ideas. All of the class found it rather challenging to keep their word count to the level required and we had many who went way over their target (Eddie managed to get to 124 before he was stopped and had much more to add!).
On a hot summers day, Severus, a very tall and terrifying creature, made his way across the edges of Earth. He was minding his own business when suddenly Jasper and Paradot, Severus' enemies, came out of nowhere. Severus, immediately reacting, used his extraordinary power of laser vision to fight his enemies. Luckily for the peculiar creature, Severus won the battle and was victorious. Unfortunately, he couldn't remember which way he had come from. He was so confused that he started to put his mind on other things. Where was he? What would he do? Will he find his way back?
Four children from Hertford St Andrew were invited to take part in the Every-1-In festival on 1st December at Wodson Park.
We found the morning fun because we were able to participate in sports that we have never done before, such as: table top cricket, boccia, sitting volleyball, new age kurling and archery. We were given the chance to try all the sports which was good. During the morning we stayed in small groups of eight and before we had a go at each sport we were shown what to do by the young sports apprentices who explained everything clearly and then supported us during our go. Even though each go was exciting, the atmosphere was calm with a limited amount of noise. I enjoyed the sitting volleyball because when the ball went out of bounds you had to bottom shuffle to it. The morning was organised very well and we all had a great time.
Kandinsky focused on a book that we read as a whole class, Skellig by David Almond.
Plot Summary. Michael has just moved into a new neighbourhood. His house is undergoing remodelling and his parents are preoccupied with the new baby, born prematurely. He meets a creature in the broken-down garage. Is it a bird? A human? Something else? His friendship with Skellig (the creature), and with Mina (the girl next door) are the centre of the story.
We enjoyed the story and decided to write a recipe for a meal that would be enjoyed by Skellig and to discuss and debate some of the particular issues that the story contained. After the class decided which key points were better suited to lead to healthy discussion, the class split into girls and boys to add even more spice to the situation. With Jessie as the chairperson the class debated issues such as: Mina being home schooled and whether Michael should have told an adult about Skellig. One of the deeper points chosen by the children was whether Skellig should have saved Micheal's little sister, Joy.
It was a very mature and very enjoyable debate with excellent points made by both groups. Some important skills were developed and we definitely have some future politicians amongst us!
On 2nd November, six Year 6 members attended the Hertford and Ware District basketball competition at Presdales school in Ware. Our first match wasn't our best because we didn't exactly know what we could and couldn't do. Our first team on included Jessie (me), Eddie, Ryan and Gloria with Olivia and Cody as subs. The score in the first match was 10 points to Bengeo and 4 points to us.
However, there were some highlights of the evening, such as me falling on my behind, Gloria getting a ball on the head, Ryan getting hurt in EVERY place possible, Cody and Eddie skidding into the wall and Eddie sliding from one court onto another. Thankfully Olivia didn't get hurt one bit.
Our other matches were quite successful and in the end we managed to get 4th place with three losses, one draw and four wins. Even though we didn't get into the top three and didn't receive any medals we were still really proud of ourselves because it was our first ever basketball tournament. Then, the next day we got an email from Sandy Edwards that after looking at the scores again we actually managed to get third place and we received our bronze medals in the Friday assembly.
Year 6 have been working very hard on their poetry this week to celebrate National Poetry Day and to enter a competition where their work could be published. Each individual has worked exceptionally hard and the whole class have delivered quality pieces of poetry. I look forward to reading them in the book when they are published. Below are a few examples of their efforts.
I see light but I also see dark.
It floats around my feet.
Of the past, the present and the future.
Then I realised, I was flying, I am dead.
It is warm in the heat.
And it's smooth beneath my feet.
For our Take One Picture week, Year 6 have been working with the paintings of our class artist, Kandinsky. We researched key facts about the artist to give a better understanding of the forms of artwork that he produced. The class established the fact that Kandinsky was the first artist to use abstract forms of work which he started to produce in 1910. Our aim was to base our own work on a piece called 'Dominant Curve'.
Each member of Year 6 has produced their own artwork on their own memory, dream or aspiration for the future. For art enthusiasts to understand some of the content of the work, the children have also written brief descriptions about part of their artwork.
Year 6 would like to thank Mr Caruana for coming in and delivering yet another new experience to us, especially as it was an exceptionally hot day and even hotter with all the kit on. With only a couple of days to go until the end of the year, Year 6 were instructed in the basic principles of fencing and all had a wonderful time learning a new skill. An excellent opportunity to try another sport just before their transition into secondary school.
On Thursday 26th May, four children from Year 5 were invited to the Bayfordbury Science Observatory for a fun filled day of science activities. From designing a system to protect an egg dropped from the roof of the building to spending time in the Planetarium discussing the Polar star and our solar system. The children were a credit to to the school and a special mention to Eddie who asked a series of excellent questions. Well done to Sophie, Jack, Marie and Eddie.
Our fun filled science day.
Kandinsky have been working hard in Maths and our focus has been on ratio. After some lessons introducing ratio and to build their knowledge and understanding, we used a fruit cocktail session to put ratio into a real life context. The children worked exceptionally well in mixed ability groups where they had to design 5 fruit cocktails with one part of the ratio equating to 50ml. They then mixed their cocktails and marked each one out of 10. They could then increase the ratio volume of the winning mixture and enjoy the fruits of their labour. A fantastic job by all!!
Mrs Bond and Kandinsky have been working hard in their Art lessons this half term and have produced some excellent 'Carnival' head dresses. Year 5 took lots of time in designing and making their finished articles which included lots of varied materials and very bright colours. I think you'll agree that the children look absolutely fantastic and are very proud of the finished article.
Year 5 using their heads!


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South Korea's fourth largest shipbuilder is reportedly filing for bankruptcy protection. The Wall Street Journal(WSJ) reported 20 October 2016 that a Texas court had granted STX Offshore and Shipbuilding Company a temporary restraining order to block creditors from seizing its US assets. The paper reported the company had filed chapter 15 bankruptcy papers with the same Texas court. STX executive Jang Yoon-keun, was quoted in court documents as saying the shipbuilder would "suffer irreparable harm" if US creditors were allowed to seize the company's assets. A favorable ruling would make the company immune to such actions. The company leadership is known to be planning to sell the company.
By May 2016 STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co. had failed to come out of a state of complete capital impairment even after it used up 4.5 trillion won (US$3.8 billion) of funds received from the creditors in 2013. Accordingly, the creditors were highly likely to put the company under court receivership. The court receivership was interpreted to follow the financial authorities' shipbuilding industry restructuring plan to save the nation's top three shipbuilders and close down ailing small and mid-size shipbuilders. STX Shipbuilding went into a debt restructuring program with the creditors in 2013 due to its liquidity crunch. However, the company failed to be out of the state of capital impairment as its operating losses continued. The government and the KDB have eventually decided to abandon STX Shipbuilding after they had been "juggling bombs".
Once STX Shipbuilding is placed under court receivership, STX Group, which was founded by Chairman Kang Duk-soo, will be completely dissolved. In that case, STX subsidiaries which are barely keeping its head above water with the self-restructuring agreement, such as STX Heavy Industries and STX ForceTec, are highly likely to go belly up one after another.
The international industrial group STX, with approximately 39,000 employees, aimed to be a global top player in its core areas; shipping and trade, shipbuilding and machineries, plant and construction, and energy. STX Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. is a Korea-based company active in the shipbuilding industry. It focuses on designing and building ships with capacities ranging from 30,000 to 80,000 deadweight tons. The Company's product portfolio consists of tankers, container ships, bulk carriers, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and liquified natural gas (LNG) carriers, pure car carriers and naval vessels. Since 1962, with its outstanding shipbuilding technologies and world's best productivity, STX Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. has played a key role in the development of the shipbuilding industry. The company has the layout and capacity to build customized LNG Carrier, VLCC, and Large Container Ship and others. STX Shipbuilding is renowned and acknowledged for its extensive shipbuilding orders and high quality products in the world.
The company was founded in 1962 as Daehan Shipbuilding Ironworks. In 1967 the company was renamed Dongyang Shipbuilding Industrial Co., Ltd., and in 1973 is was renamed as Daedong Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. In 1973 it built Korea first container ship (G/T 2,000Ton class).
In December 2008 STX Shipbuilding held a ceremony in Jinhae Shipyard to celebrate successfully launching a 51,000 DWT class oil product tanker and a 2,700 TEU class containership that have been built in the dry dock for the 27th and 28th vessels, respectively. STX Shipbuilding has accomplished the highest productivity ever in the shipbuilding industry by developing 28 ships with (13 batches on one dock in a year) in 2008, which is attributed to the company's successful method of launching three ships simultaneously in one dock in March and November this year. The new shipbuilding method that make three ships launch simultaneously is the outcome of STX Shipbuilding's devotion to and dedication in enhancing the production and management technology, and of the further improvement of the existing method of launching two ships simultaneously. In other words, the new method maximizes the productivity and space availability by building five ships in a dock simultaneously and launching three ships successfully.
STX plans to get started its global business through the acquisition of Aker Yards and the completion of Dalian Shipyard in China, enhance its capability including securing its own technology, strengthening its ability to respond to the market conditions and expanding the chance to invest overseas, and create opportunities for seven sub-regions to do business on their own. Under the plans, it has established the strategies to jump into the reputable "Global Top Enterprise."
STX group has gone through the European Commission's in-depth antitrust investigation into its takeover the Norwegian shipbuilder Aker Yards, the world's largest cruise shipbuilder, effectively confirming its takeover of Aker Yards. The final approval allows STX to exercise its voting rights attached to its 39.2% stake in Aker Yards as the largest shareholder. STX group said on 06 May 2008 that they have been approved by the European Commission for the acquisition of the Aker Yards shares, after an in-depth antitrust investigation, launched in December 2007, into whether the transaction might allow STX to monopolize the cruise ship market. The European Commission concluded based on the decision from the antitrust probe that effective competition on the shipbuilding markets including the cruise shipbuilding would not be significantly impeded as a result of the proposed transaction, adding that it granted STX to exercise its voting rights attached to a 39.2% stake in Aker Yards to preserve its right as the largest shareholder. The EU's final decision has been long predicted since early last April that the commission would decide to allow STX to exercise its voting rights only at the special shareholder meeting. At the time, STX group successfully secured that the existing members of the Board remains as such by exercising the temporary voting rights, in defiance of the Havyard Invest AS, another shareholder, calling for a special shareholder meeting to propose to elect a new board of directors.
STX Europe ASA (former Aker Yards ASA) is an international shipbuilding group which aims to be the leading builder of cruise and offshore vessels. The group has a strong position in terms of developing state-of-the-art concepts, technology, processes and products for customers around the world. STX Europe ASA comprises 15 shipyards in Finland, France, Norway, Romania, Brazil and Vietnam, and is also a part owner of three yards in Germany and Ukraine. STX Europe had approx. 16,000 employees. Formerly known as Aker Yards ASA, the group changed its name to STX Europe in November 2008.
Despite unfavorable market conditions including high oil prices, resource scarcity and environmental problems, the group has set up the vision aimed at taking advantage of growing opportunities for doing business in resource-rich countries of the Middle East, Central Asia and Southeast Asia to accomplish its new goals.
Shipbuilding & machinery division set its 2012 goal of earning KRW 24 trillion in sales through leaping into the global top shipyard and engine maker. It plans to specialize in the ship portfolio based on three major production hubs of Korea, China and Europe, and enhance its competitiveness. It also presented its vision to win in the increasingly fiercer global competition through developing high value-added ships and specialized technology.
STX Pan Ocean playing a key role in shipping & trading division plans to record the turnover of KRW 14 trillion in 2012 and join the rank of world's top five shipping companies. While trying to sustain its competitive advantages in the dominant business of bulk carriers by expanding a fleet of ships, it plans to diversify its businesses, including LNG carriers, VLCC, PCTC and container carriers. In addition, STX Pan Ocean has decided to advance into relevant businesses including ports & combined logistics.
Plant & Construction division specialized in overseas construction markets and plant construction has established its 2012 business goal of the turnover of KRW 9 trillion. The division plans to expand its business portfolio including construction of residential complexes, development of overseas cities, and construction of maritime and industrial plants.
Energy division has decided to actively participate in developing resources overseas and the industry of new renewable energy. It has strategies for achieving the turnover of KRW 2 trillion through developing natural resources such as energy, minerals, grain, and water resources, and advancing into the industries of new renewable energy and power plants.
Having focused on 500-ton small frigate construction like Patrol Killer Guided missile (PKG), STX sought to achieve recognition of its frigate construction ability through building 2,500-3,000 ton frigate. Accordingly, the Korean builder could build a foundation to step up in special ship construction area, one of its strategies for early completion of autonomous agreement.
STX Offshore & Shipbuilding signed a shipbuilding contract for Ulsan-grade Batch-I Succeeding Ship (No. 6 Ship) that is a future frigate with the Defense Acquisition Program Administration on 27 September 2012. The shipbuilding project is about securing future frigates with enhanced combat capabilities and survivability through domestic shipbuilding and STX Offshore & Shipbuilding proved the capability of building such ships by receiving orders for No. 6 ship following No. 4 & 5 ships.
STX had a keel-laying ceremony of two next generation frigates (FFX-?), attended by officials from Defense Acquisition Program Administration and Defense Agency for Technology and Quality at its Jinhae Shipyard at 11am on 05 November 2013. The Korean builder was currently constructing a total of three next generation frigates, including the other one awarded in 2012.


An innovative show acted out by and telling the stories of the local armed forces community comes to the Waterside later this month, from March 26 to 28. The cast, which range in age from 15-89, consists of nine veterans, three Service personnel, two military wives, two cadet instructors and a Reservist family member. Several back stage and front of house roles have also been given to people from the armed forces. Below we tell the stories of two of the people involved in Contact, produced by Bravo 22 Company.
Barbara Hurman, 89, from Aylesbury, is a Second World War veteran who served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service as a sergeant from 1943 to 1947.
She volunteered to join the Army when she was just 17 years old in order to help the war effort. As a proficient typist, Barbara joined the Royal Signals Corps where she became a Teleprinter Operator. Working at the vast underground communication centre at Fort Southwick in Portsmouth, she would send and receive messages via the teleprinters regarding troop movements.
She remembers being on night duty before D-Day on June 6 1944. After finishing duty and going to bed, she was woken by friends early that morning to watch gliders carrying troops across the Channel and the bustling activity in the harbour ahead of Operation Overlord.
Following D-Day she volunteered to go abroad and joined the Central Mediterranean Forces, serving in Italy for two years. She was in Bari on VE Day but continued to serve in Italy and was posted to Milan, Caserta, Naples and Padua until 1947 when she returned to be demobbed.
Helen Barrett's husband is an RAF physiotherapist and the family currently live at RAF Halton.
The 37-year-old mother of three has had to uproot her family many times, moving all over the UK in support of her husband's Armed Forces career.
Helen gave birth to her first child while her husband was serving in Afghanistan in 2009. She said: "I wanted to get involved with Bravo 22 Company to put the story of the military wife across. When my husband is deployed on operations, it's suddenly as if I'm a single parent again.
"Many people aren't aware of the challenges faced by Armed Forces families – every time you move location, you have to make new friends, find new school places for the children and find out where all the local services are, on top of learning to navigate a new city or town.
"Not knowing where you will be living in a year's time is both exciting and unsettling for the family.
The Bravo 22 Company team are asking local schools to get involved in a free workshop for pupils on Monday March 23 at the Waterside Theatre about the making of the project.
Those who come along will get the opportunity to meet some of the Bravo 22 Company team.
In addition, free tickets are available for pupils from local schools to see Bravo 22 Company in their first performance of Contact. The Company is offering a special schools performance on March 25 at 2.30pm as well as a question and answer session after the show.
It is also offering free places for teachers at the theatre on March 28. Those who attend will learn more about the exercises and lesson plans that are included in the education pack.
The project is run by The Royal British Legion, in co-operation with Aylesbury Waterside Theatre and Buckinghamshire Armed Forces Community Covenant and supported by LAMDA (London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art).


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Eliza Henderson Boardman Otis (alternate spelling, Bordman; pseudonym, One of the Barclays; 27 July 1796 – 21 January 1873) was an American philanthropist and novelist, and a social leader in Boston, Massachusetts.

Biography
Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1796, Henderson was the daughter of William Bordman, a Boston merchant, who afterward changed his name to William Henderson Boardman; he married Eliza Henderson, the daughter of the High Sheriff.

After her husband's death in 1827, she went to Europe, residing there for several years to educate her children.

Upon her return to Boston, she became a leader in social circles and philanthropy.  In 1840 she organized a fair and its proceeds were used for the completion of the Bunker Hill Monument. She organized a ball and with its proceeds, she secured $10,000 towards purchasing Mt. Vernon. She was the first to celebrate George Washington's birthday regularly, and finally induced the legislature to make 22 February a legal holiday. During the American Civil War, she established the Bank of Faith and was interested in the relief of soldiers. She headed Boston's Evans House home and hospital, receiving a vote of thanks from the mayor and council.

She was the author of The Barclays of Boston, a novel (Boston, 1854); and contributed to the Boston Transcript under the signature of "One of the Barclays".

Personal life
On May 6, 1817, she married lawyer Harrison Gray Otis (1792–1827), the eldest son of U.S. Senator Harrison Gray Otis. They were the parents of Arthur Henderson Otis, Ellen Otis, Harrison Gray Otis, and Edmund Dwight Otis.

Otis died in Boston in 1873.

Legacy
Her portrait, by George P. A. Ilealy, is held by The Bostonian Society.

References

Attribution

Bibliography

1796 births
1873 deaths
19th-century American novelists
19th-century American women writers
American women novelists
American women journalists
People from Boston
19th-century American philanthropists
Social leaders

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The Worcester Columbus Day Parade is a one-mile march down Shrewsbury Street on Sunday, October 7, 2018 at 12:30 pm. The parade starting point is at the corner of Aitchison Street and Shrewsbury Street and ends at Washington Square near Union Station.
The Mission of the Worcester Columbus Day Parade Committee is to uphold an annual Italian tradition which delights the community as well as the City of Worcester. The Worcester Columbus Day Parade is a time to honor and celebrate and remember our Italian ancestors that despite extreme adversity, prejudice, and suffering upon arriving in this country, showed determination and strength to not only build successful lives for themselves and their families, but also to contribute in building a strong and successful nation that honors and respects people of all nations.
The Worcester Columbus Day Parade Committee has proudly evolved into a multicultural celebration. Parade participants demonstrates their cultures, heritage and accomplishments, as part of our multicultural City of Worcester.
"Family" is the key word of this event. The sole mission of the Worcester Columbus Day Parade Committee is to plan and present a family oriented event, as we welcome all community groups and organizations to participate. The Worcester Columbus Day Parade Committee is a non-profit 501(c)3 volunteer organization.
The Worcester Columbus Day Parade Committee reserves the right to select participants that demonstrates the family goals.


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Q: Using nested For Loops to create a table of numbers and stars I need to print a table that looks like this if the user entered a 5 using nested for loops:
****5
***45
**345
*2345
12345

I've been working on this for hours and the closest I got was:
int size = scan.nextInt();
    for (int i = 1; i <= size; i++)
      {
         for (int star = size-1; star >= i; star--)
             System.out.print("*");

         for (int k = 1; k <= i; k++)
             System.out.print(i);

         System.out.println();
         }

Which outputs this:
****1
***12
**123
*1234
12345

A: You have too many loops; I find it easier to reason about zero based looping so I'm going to use that. Iterate i and j from 0 to size. If j + 1 is greater than size - i - 1 then we want to print j + 1. Otherwise, we want a star. Like,
for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
    for (int j = 0; j < size; j++) {
        if (j + 1 > size - i - 1) {
            System.out.print(j + 1);
        } else {
            System.out.print('*');
        }
    }
    System.out.println();
}

For size = 5 that outputs (as requested)
****5
***45
**345
*2345
12345

If you simply must have one based indices, that would be
for (int i = 1; i <= size; i++) {
    for (int j = 1; j <= size; j++) {
        if (j > size - i) {
            System.out.print(j);
        } else {
            System.out.print('*');
        }
    }
    System.out.println();
}

A: If you want to keep your loops and avoid if statements, you can tweak last loop by changing
for (int k = 1; k <= i; k++)

into
for (int k = 1+size-i; k <= size; k++)

Btw I also find it way easier to start loops from 0, so updated code would look like this:
int size = scan.nextInt();
    for (int i = 0; i < size; i++)
    {
        for (int star = size-1; star > i; star--)
            System.out.print("*");

        for (int k = size-i; k <= size; k++)
            System.out.print(k);

        System.out.println();
    }

I hope it helps

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Old-Time Radio In Review
by Elizabeth McLeod
When you first hear "old time radio," whether you're rediscovering a lost part of your youth or you're discovering a form of entertainment you never knew existed, there's a real sense of excitement. But what happens when the "newness" of OTR wears off. Can these fifty or sixty year old programs really stand up as entertainment?
That's the question I hope to tackle in this monthly column, posted to the new OldRadio Mailing List and The Nostalgia Pages. I'll be considering many different shows, some familiar, some obscure -- but all of them available to modern listeners. I'll try to put the programs into some sort of historical perspective -- and I'll offer my candid opinions on whether they've stood the test of time. You may agree -- or not. Either way, I encourage you to listen for yourself -- and discover the world of Old Time Radio.
"And Now, Let's See What's Going On Down In Pine Ridge...."
Setting a Spell with Lum and Abner.
They started out as a rather transparent imitation of the most popular radio show in the country.
They became one of radio's most enduring favorites -- and, in fact, their reruns are with us yet.
Chester Lauck and Norris Goff. You know them better as Lum and Abner. For nearly twenty-five years, they were a fixture on the air -- most often in the most humble and yet the most difficult of radio formats: the fifteen-minute nightly comedy serial. And yet, as enduring as they were -- and as beloved as they are today, they spent much of their careers in the shadows of other performers. Part of this is the inevitable results of their own origin.
The story is familiar: Lauck and Goff were hometown entertainers in Mena, Arkansas at the turn of the thirties who were enlisted to do their blackface act in a local benefit show -- but when they ran into throng of corked-up rivals backstage, they spontaneously switched to a "hillbilly" routine. The rest, the legend would have it, is history. Success on local radio was soon followed by a network shot, and "Lum and Abner" were on the way.
The story is true up to a point -- but there's a bit more to it than that. While both Lauck and Goff were small-town Arkansans, it would be stretching it to claim they were dyed-in-the-overalls mountaineers. Both were college men from prosperous families -- in other words, their background was quite a bit more refined than their characterizations would lead one to expect. And both Lauck and Goff were sharp. They had been around. They knew what was going on in the world -- and when they suddenly found themselves working in radio, they knew what would work. Because it was already working, six nights a week, and forty million people were already listening.
In 1931, radio *meant* "Amos 'n' Andy," the seed from which much of the "Golden Age of Radio" would sprout. And so it should come as no surprise that when Lauck and Goff began to turn their informal cross-talk routine into a show with network potential that they used the established "Amos 'n' Andy" format as a very specific model. It's not too difficult to think of Lum Edwards and Abner Peabody as simply different aspects of Andy Brown: Lum representing his blowhard egotism and Abner his innocent gullibility. Similarly, the solid and reliable Dick Huddleston aptly fills the Amos Jones role. The dull-witted lackey Cedric Weehunt corresponds quite closely to Lightnin' Washington. Grandpappy Spears fits into the plots in much the same manner as Brother Crawford. And of course, the devious Squire Skimp might have learned his trade at the knee of one George "Kingfish" Stevens.
Clearly, when "Lum and Abner" hit the network air, it was simply one of the legion of comedy serials trying to ride the coattails of the "Amos 'n' Andy" craze. But what made Lauck and Goff special -- and, in the end, what made them successful -- was the fact that they moved beyond simple imitation to create a unique niche all their own. They took the format they'd appropriated from Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll and infused it with their own distinctive comic vision.
"Comic" is the key word. Early on, Lauck and Goff must have recognized that melodrama was the dominant ingredient in the "Amos 'n' Andy" formula: listeners were more often on the edge of their seats with anticipation than they were falling off their chairs with laughter. And this was where "Lum and Abner" was different. Where Amos and Andy struggled thru the stark, often grim business of earning a living in Depression-era Urban America, Lum and Abner lived in a world quite isolated from the realities of the 1930s. Pine Ridge was an escape from the struggles of the Depression, not a reflection of them. And even more, Pine Ridge was a world built on absurdity.
In the creation of loopy nonsense, Lauck and Goff had few peers. Only in Pine Ridge would the citizens eagerly buy discount eyeglasses from a man at the carnival -- and then spend a full week wondering why they kept crashing into each other. Only in Pine Ridge would Lum decide to corner the market on hogs by starting a chain letter -- and then decide to celebrate his success by having a statue of himself constructed from poured concrete. And on and on it went.
Night after night, Lauck and Goff presented a world where the rules of common sense didn't apply -- and where it was just so easy to forget about those bills you had to pay, that job you didn't have any more, those men from the finance company pulling up the truck outside. When the real world looked like that, who *wouldn't* rather head on down to Pine Ridge? During the thirties, "Lum and Abner" offered some of the finest pure escapism on the air.
As the thirties gave way to the forties, all of the comedy serials seemed to start running out of ideas. "Amos 'n' Andy" abandoned the format entirely in 1943, leaving the field pretty much to "Lum and Abner." Lauck and Goff had managed to avoid the burnout which hit Correll and Gosden in the early forties, in part because they were only on three nights a week, and had taken frequent vacations. They also took the liberty of rerunning entire plotlines from time to time, usually with only a slight rewrite - a "cheater" technique which meant little at the time the shows were originally broadcast, but which can be a bit annoying when listening to the recordings decades after the fact.
Lauck and Goff finally solved their problem by delegating the responsibility of writing the show to others, and the addition of Roswell Rogers to the staff around this time brought an infusion of fresh ideas. Some of the forties-era plots carried on in the finest Pine Ridge tradition - Lum's fake broken leg, the escaped library lion -- while others were just a bit *too* absurd to work: the advent of Robert the Robot, for example. And one of these forties plotlines rose beyond absurdity into the realms of brilliance: 1942's saga of Diogenes Smith and his search for an honest man stands, hands down, as one of the great radio serials of all time -- an expert mixture of high comedy, pathos, philosophy, and social commentary.
Great comedy serials don't often make great situation comedies. They depend too much on the day-to-day flow of the storyline and the depth of the characters to translate well into 30-minute weekly doses. "Amos 'n' Andy" managed the transition only by turning into a completely different sort of program. "Lum and Abner" tried to stay true to its roots, and the transition flopped. The half-hour "Lum and Abner Show" of 1948-50 has its moments, but it's nothing special.
Which is rather sad. Because at its best -- in the serials of the mid-thirties thru the mid-forties -- "Lum and Abner" was something very special indeed. And because Lauck and Goff were careful to preserve their many thousands of recordings - it still is.
Elizabeth McLeod is a journalist, researcher, and freelance writer specializing in radio of the 1930s. She is a regular contributor to "Nostalgia Digest" magazine and the Internet OTR Digest Mailing List, maintains a website, Broadcasting History Resources, and is presently researching a book on Depression-era broadcasting. Elizabeth is always looking for 1930s radio recordings in all formats -- uncoated aluminum or lacquer-coated discs, vinyl or shellac pressings, or low-generation tape copies. You can contact her at lizmcl@midcoast.com


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Q: Sum horizontally with array Trying to use the following code to sum horizontally and create a dummy total. So, each variable in the array is a dummy flag. I want to count the number of dummy flags per row.
data rep;
    set clean;
    array missU (9) util_92013  util_32014  util_22014  util_72013  util_82013  util_12014  util_42014  util_122013 util_62014;
    do i = 1 to 9;
        totalU = sum(of missU(i));
    end;
    drop i;
run;

I continue getting NOTE: Missing values were generated as a result of performing an operation on missing values.

A: You don't need a loop.
data rep;
  set clean;
  array missU ... ;
  totalU = sum(of missU[*],0);
run;

As user667489 pointed out in comments, adding a zero to the sum function will avoid a missing value being generated when all flags are missing (if that's desired).


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Empire's greedy little eyes look around. What's next?
What's next for mass murder, chaos, destruction, contamination, geopolitical advantage, and, oh yeah, HUGE profits for the banksters and military industrial complex? Ah yes, SYRIA!
And all we have to do is establish a pretext for "going in." Hmmm. Okay. Done! Who cares about Syria. Certainly not the American public who are numbed, distracted, addicted, bottom-lined, addled, mind-controlled, and way too burdened by debt to even stand up straight much less get their heads out of the sand.
Luckily, we do have a few sterling journalists who don't drink the kool-aid. Assange and Wikileaks, Anonymous, Greenwald, Poitras, Abby Martin, Matt Taibbi . . . Here's another one.
David Swanson, in a white hot heat, tells it like it is.
Forgive me, but who the SNAFU made that decision? Does the commander in chief have any say in this? Does he get to make speeches explaining how wrong it would be to attack Syria, meet with top military officials who leave the meeting to prepare for attacks on Syria, and go down in history as having been uninvolved in, if not opposed to, his own policies?
Threatening to attack Syria, and moving ships into position to do it, are significant, and illegal, and immoral actions. The president can claim not to have decided to push the button, but he can't pretend that all the preparations to do so just happen like the weather. Or he couldn't if newspapers reported news.
"The Defense Department has a responsibility to provide the president with options for all contingencies," said the so-called Defense Secretary, but do any of the contingencies involve defending the United States? Do any of them involve peace-making? If not, is it really accurate to talk about "all" contingencies?
In fact, Chuck Hagel only has that "responsibility" because Obama instructed him to provide, not all options, but all military options.
"Obama also called British Prime Minister David Cameron," says the LA Times, "to talk over the developments in Syria. The two are 'united' in their opposition to the use of chemical weapons, the White House said in a statement issued after the call." Well, except for white phosphorus and napalm. Those are good chemical weapons, and the United States government is against bad chemical weapons, so really your newspaper isn't lying to you at all.
What did Obama say to CNN on Thursday?
Obama didn't reply to that lie, but spouted some vacuous rhetoric.
But you promised, whined Cuomo, that chemical weapons use would be the crossing of a Red Line!
Obama replied that international law should be complied with. (For the uninitiated, international law actually forbids attacking and overturning other nations' governments — even Libya's.) And, Obama pointed out, there are options other than the military.
I've found that when Obama starts talking sense like this, he's actually moving rapidly in the opposite direction. The more he explains why it would be wrong and illegal and stupid and immoral to attack Syria, the more you can be sure he's about to do just that.
2. The United States itself possesses and uses internationally condemned weapons, including white phosphorus, napalm, cluster bombs, and depleted uranium. Whether you praise these actions, avoid thinking about them, or join me in condemning them, they are not a legal or moral justification for any foreign nation to bomb us, or to bomb some other nation where the U.S. military is operating. Killing people to prevent their being killed with the wrong kind of weapons is a policy that must come out of some sort of sickness. Call it Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
3. An expanded war in Syria could become regional or global with uncontrollable consequences. Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Russia, China, the United States, the Gulf states, the NATO states . . . does this sound like the sort of conflict we want? Does it sound like a conflict anyone will survive? Why in the world risk such a thing?
4. Just creating a "no fly zone" would involve bombing urban areas and unavoidably killing large numbers of people. This happened in Libya and we looked away. But it would happen on a much larger scale in Syria, given the locations of the sites to be bombed. Creating a "no fly zone" is not a matter of making an announcement, but of dropping bombs.
5. Both sides in Syria have used horrible weapons and committed horrible atrocities. Surely even those who imagine people should be killed to prevent their being killed with different weapons can see the insanity of arming both sides to protect each other side. Why is it not, then, just as insane to arm one side in a conflict that involves similar abuses by both?
6. With the United States on the side of the opposition in Syria, the United States will be blamed for the opposition's crimes. Most people in Western Asia hate al Qaeda and other terrorists. They are also coming to hate the United States and its drones, missiles, bases, night raids, lies, and hypocrisy. Imagine the levels of hatred that will be reached when al Qaeda and the United States team up to overthrow the government of Syria and create an Iraq-like hell in its place.
7. An unpopular rebellion put into power by outside force does not usually result in a stable government. In fact there is not yet on record a case of U.S. humanitarian war benefitting humanity or of nation-building actually building a nation. Why would Syria, which looks even less auspicious than most potential targets, be the exception to the rule?
8. This opposition is not interested in creating a democracy, or — for that matter — in taking instructions from the U.S. government. On the contrary, blowback from these allies is likely. Just as we should have learned the lesson of lies about weapons by now, our government should have learned the lesson of arming the enemy of the enemy long before this moment.
9. The precedent of another lawless act by the United States, whether arming proxies or engaging directly, sets a dangerous example to the world and to those in Washington for whom Iran is next on the list.
10. A strong majority of Americans, despite all the media's efforts thus far, opposes arming the rebels or engaging directly. Instead, a plurality supports providing humanitarian aid.
In sum, making the Syrian people worse off is not a way to help them.
But — guess what? — the evidence suggests strongly that the latest chemical weapons claims are as phony as all the previous ones.
Who would have ever predicted?
2 Responses to Empire's greedy little eyes look around. What's next?
endeavor minus citizen mandate…this latest show of arrogance is beyond stunning.


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There was nobody brave that day – D-Day veteran remembers storming the beaches
D-Day veteran George Simms. (Pat Hurst/PA)
Gripped by fear as deafening bombs exploded and bullets tore past him, killing comrades left and right, Royal Marine Commando George Simms was one of the first on the beaches on D-Day.
As the ramp dropped on his landing craft, the 20-year-old former butcher's boy from Manchester gripped his rifle and jumped into the waist-deep sea water as "all hell broke lose" when the enemy opened fire on the beach ahead.
Two years earlier he had walked into a Royal Navy recruiting office as a volunteer wanting to "do the hardest thing" and the officer pointed him to the Marines.
Now 95, he was selected for the Commandos, the elite unit to act as the "tip of the spear" and first to land on Sword Beach as the biggest air and seaborne invasion in history launched in Normandy.
Waiting for him were land mines, anti-tank obstacles, dive bombers and machine gun boxes manned by thousands of German soldiers.
"I don't honestly think there could ever be a day like that day on D-Day, when we were in action," Mr Simms said.
"Fear. Fear. Absolute fear. There was nobody brave that day, nobody saying 'Come on lets go and do it'."
Ex-Royal Marine George Simms, 95, recalls the D-Day landings (Pat Hurst/PA)
But Mr Simms, and thousands of others like him, had to do it to liberate Europe from the Nazis.
So at 08.45am on June 6 1944, the landing craft carrying Y Company, 41 Royal Marine Commando went ashore as Operation Neptune, the first wave of the invasion force landed.
Mr Simms said: "We knew we were going into battle but we never realised what it was going to be until we did it.
"We had two machine guns on the beach, both raining on the spot where we landed, and we had that many casualties you wouldn't believe it.
"Hundreds headless, because the machine gun on the beach was fixed for heads as soon as you landed."
Most of his officers were killed in a direct hit on the boat they were on and he lost contact with his comrades in Y Company amid the chaos.
They were left to try to dig in in makeshift trenches, the soft sand offering little cover from the incoming fire.
"The boat was hit so we just got split up and I never saw any one of my unit that day," Mr Simms said.
"It was bloody unbelievable, you had to be in it to know it.
"Low flying airplanes flying over the top of you and dropping bombs on you, bombs, not just machine gun fire."
More than 600 men were killed in action on Sword Beach alone in the first hours of D-Day, but the Allies managed to get a foothold, creating a beachhead for the landing of thousands of troops and tanks.
The Marines' job was to puncture the German defences to open the way for the 8th Infantry Brigade to go ashore.
Twenty-four hours later Mr Simms was carried from the battle by comrades, severely injured.
Ambushed in a fierce counter-attack, he was blasted by an anti-personnel bomb, his body peppered with shrapnel.
Evacuated back to England, he spent VE Day in hospital but eventually made a good recovery, though he still has metal fragments in his body.
"I had a lot taken out … pieces as big as a ha'penny," he said, though Mr Simms counts himself as one of the lucky ones.
George Simms, (fourth row from front, third in from right) and his Royal Marine unit in 1944 (George Simms/PA)
"All my closest friends, lads that I joined up with, was all killed.
"Most of them were sergeants and corporals and that, Bert Heywood and people like him, and they were smashing bloody friends, really looked after me and yet … I can't bear to go back.
"We should be proud of what we did and what our comrades did, but it was so horrendous.
"Ninety percent of them never made it back. That's why they disbanded 41 Commando because we got so heavy casualties."
Close up of George Simms' unit – Mr Simms is second row from back, fourth from left (George Simms/PA)
After the Allied victory Mr Simms felt he had "had enough" of war and joined the fire service, again serving the public for 30 years before retirement.
In the run-up to D-Day he recalls the months of gruelling training at the RM Commando Training Centre at Achnacarry Castle, near Fort William in the mountains and forests of Scotland.
Despite his wheelchair Mr Simms still retains an impish wit and barrack-room humour.
"We did a lot of mountain climbing in Scotland," he said, "and when we landed on D-Day the beach was as flat as a f****** pancake.
"Typical, train for months on bloody mountains to get us to do that, and when we get there it's flat."
Mr Simms and wife Connie, now dead, had three sons and he now has 11 great-grandchildren.
He lives at Broughton House, a home for armed service veterans in Salford, Greater Manchester.
For years he found it difficult to talk about his experiences but believes what the war meant should not be lost on younger generations.
"Everybody will tell you the same – you never talk to your direct children but you talk to your grandchildren about it," he added.
"There's a big Jewish school near us. And they have groups of children that come in to us and they sit round us and talk to us.
"You know the first thing they said to me, one of 'em, I said 'Come on, ask me some questions, 'cos I don't know what to tell you.'
"She said 'Did you win the war?'
"I said 'I hope so, you wouldn't be here now.'"
Broughton House is appealing for funds to build and run the UK's first £14 million Veterans Care Village, on its site. For more information and to help the appeal visit http://www.broughtonhouse.com/about-us/
D-Day veteran appeals for return of medal lost during 75th anniversary event
D-Day veterans return to Normandy beaches to remember fallen comrades
Woman 'disgusted' as uncle's grave among those damaged in run-up to D-Day
Alford Transport Museum marks D-Day commemorations with military vehicle event
Broughton House
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Q: "unfortunately API demo has stopped" - PhoneGap unaltered HelloWorld app does not run
Note: I am a total Cordova/PhoneGap newbie (former ActionScript programmer)

Hello. I am trying to run this 101 tutorial:
http://docs.phonegap.com/en/3.5.0/guide_platforms_android_index.md.html#Android%20Platform%20Guide
It works fine until the Deploy to Emulator section, where I run this line:
$ cordova emulate android

My emulator opens, but just displays the following message:
Unfortunately, API demo has stopped

I have read all the posts here with "unfortunately API demo has stopped" in them, to no avail sadly. Being 100% new to this, I would have absolutely no idea where to start debugging.

If it helps:

*

*When the emulator starts, the "phone" shows a screen that reads "Connect your charger" which I get past by clicking the "menu" hardware button, at which point the "Unfortunately..." message appears; and

*there is no HelloWorld.xml file.

A: I FIXED IT!!!
config.xml was missing this line:
<content src="index.html" />


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Generally of thumb, these examples can take 3-4 days to process at the laboratory however I would certainly expect that your mold assessor make call as well as provide a verbal record as soon as the outcomes become available adhered to by a written report within a couple of days. An extra point to be aware of, when it concerns the report complying with a mold examination a great mold assessor will certainly not just send you a copy of the lab record. He/She needs to able to with confidence analyze the results as well as supply them along with referrals to resolve the concern in plain English!
NB. Must you reserve a mold evaluation it is essential that you maintain doors and windows shut as high as possible for the 12 to 24 hrs previous to the assessors check out. This will enable that the mold and mildew assessment results are precise. It will certainly allow the mold assessor to detect odours as well as air examples will not consist of excess outside air.