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When it comes to the world of fantasy literature and movies, wizards have always held a special place in our hearts. These mystical beings possess extraordinary powers and play pivotal roles in shaping the narratives they inhabit. One crucial aspect of creating a memorable wizard character is choosing the perfect name. In this article, we will explore the significance of naming a wizard in English, delve into the history of wizard names, and provide valuable insights on how to create compelling and authentic names for these enchanting characters.
The Significance of Naming a Wizard
The name of a wizard is more than just a label; it is a reflection of their identity, powers, and personality. A well-chosen name can evoke a sense of mystery, power, or even vulnerability, instantly capturing the reader’s imagination. It sets the stage for the character’s journey and can even foreshadow their destiny.
Furthermore, a wizard’s name can serve as a powerful tool for world-building. It can provide insights into the magical system of a fictional world, its cultural influences, and the history of its magical practitioners. A carefully crafted name can transport readers into a rich and immersive fantasy realm.
The History of Wizard Names
The tradition of naming wizards dates back centuries, with roots in various mythologies and folklore. In ancient Greece, for example, the name “Merlin” was associated with a wise and powerful magician. In Norse mythology, “Gandalf” was the name of a dwarf who possessed magical abilities.
However, it was not until the rise of modern fantasy literature in the 20th century that wizard names truly began to flourish. Authors like J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling, and Terry Pratchett introduced us to iconic characters such as Gandalf, Albus Dumbledore, and Rincewind, whose names have become synonymous with the genre.
Creating Compelling Wizard Names
When it comes to creating wizard names, there are several factors to consider. Here are some valuable insights to help you craft compelling and authentic names for your magical characters:
1. Consider the Magical System
Before naming your wizard, take a moment to consider the magical system of your fictional world. Is it based on elemental powers, ancient rituals, or arcane knowledge? Incorporating elements of the magical system into the name can add depth and authenticity to your character. For example, a wizard who specializes in fire magic could be named “Pyroth” or “Ignatius.”
2. Reflect the Character’s Personality
A wizard’s name should reflect their personality and traits. Is your character wise and mysterious, or perhaps mischievous and unpredictable? Choose a name that captures these qualities. For instance, a wise and mysterious wizard could be named “Elysian” or “Mystara,” while a mischievous and unpredictable one might be called “Loki” or “Trickster.”
3. Consider Cultural Influences
When naming a wizard, consider the cultural influences within your fictional world. Are there specific mythologies or historical periods that inspire your magical realm? Incorporating elements from these cultures can add depth and richness to your character’s name. For example, a wizard from a Celtic-inspired world could be named “Aisling” or “Branwen.”
4. Use Linguistic Techniques
Linguistic techniques can be a valuable tool when creating wizard names. Experiment with different sounds, syllables, and word combinations to evoke a sense of magic and mystery. For example, combining soft sounds like “s” and “l” can create a soothing and mystical effect, while harsher sounds like “k” and “x” can convey power and strength.
Examples of Memorable Wizard Names
To further illustrate the power of a well-chosen wizard name, let’s explore some examples from popular fantasy literature:
- Gandalf – J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” series
- Albus Dumbledore – J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” series
- Rincewind – Terry Pratchett’s “Discworld” series
- Morgana Le Fay – Arthurian legends
- Merlin – Arthurian legends
These names have become iconic in the fantasy genre, instantly recognizable and evoking a sense of wonder and magic.
Naming a wizard is a crucial aspect of creating a memorable and immersive fantasy world. A well-chosen name can capture the essence of a character, provide insights into the magical system of a fictional world, and transport readers into a realm of wonder and enchantment. By considering the magical system, reflecting the character’s personality, incorporating cultural influences, and using linguistic techniques, authors can create compelling and authentic names for their wizard characters. So, let your imagination soar and unleash the power of a well-named wizard!
1. Why are wizard names important in fantasy literature?
Wizard names are important in fantasy literature because they help establish the identity, powers, and personality of the character. They also contribute to world-building and can provide insights into the magical system and cultural influences within the fictional world.
2. How can I create a compelling wizard name?
To create a compelling wizard name, consider the magical system, reflect the character’s personality, incorporate cultural influences, and use linguistic techniques. Experiment with different sounds, syllables, and word combinations to evoke a sense of magic and mystery.
3. Can I use real-world mythologies to inspire wizard names?
Absolutely! Real-world mythologies can be a great source of inspiration for wizard names. Incorporating elements from different mythologies can add depth and richness to your character’s name.
4. Should I consider the historical period when naming a wizard?
If your fictional world is inspired by a specific historical period, considering it when naming a wizard can add authenticity to your character. However, it is not necessary to strictly adhere to historical accuracy if it doesn’t align with your creative vision.
5. Are there any naming conventions specific to wizard names?
While there are no strict naming conventions for wizard names, certain linguistic techniques and sounds can help evoke a sense of magic and mystery. Experimenting with different combinations of sounds and syllables can lead to unique and compelling wizard names.


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Former All Blacks winger Waisake Naholo is excited to be back in the New Zealand rugby scene after a tough stint in the United Kingdom.
Naholo was confirmed yesterday to be part of Canterbury’s National Provincial Championship squad.
He played eight years for Taranaki before he joining London Irish at the end of 2019.
TVNZ reports that Naholo feared no one would want to sign him due to his troublesome right knee and decided to come home to extend his career.
The Nadroumai villager had surgery on his troublesome knee last year and while it fixed his issues, he added it may have taken some speed out of his game.
Naholo will team up with Manasa Mataele and Chay Fihaki for Canterbury in the NPC.
Canterbury takes on Auckland in its first NPC match at Eden Park on the 8th of August.


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Title: Violet Midnight
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Blending in with her college co-eds proves difficult for vampire Hunter, Emma Martin, considering the mystical tattoo on her wrist glows whenever Vamps are near. And after three months of silence, the glow is back with a vengeance.
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Cured of Covid but neighbours need proof
“Dear All, This is to inform you that… and family is out of quarantine.”
This was the message sent on Thursday to residents of a housing complex in south Calcutta by its welfare association after one of the residents who had tested positive for Covid-19 completed 14 days of isolation.
“Please get yourself tested after 14 days. Step out only if the result is negative.”
This message was verbally communicated to a resident of a standalone apartment block by the residents’ welfare association when he tried to step out of his flat after completing seven days of isolation following his discharge from a hospital, where he was treated for Covid-19.
The first message helped the person who recovered from Covid step out of home without facing any resistance from neighbours. The recipient of the second threatened to go to police.
In the absence of any clear communication from the health department, the residents’ welfare associations of many housing complexes and standalone buildings across Calcutta are deciding when a resident will step out after recovering from Covid.
A guideline issued by the Indian Council of Medical Research states: “After one week from sample collection or detection of Covid-19 symptoms, if a patient does not have fever and other symptoms for another three days, then no further test will be required and the doctor will discharge him/her with a certificate from the hospital or safe home. The patient must stay under home quarantine for an additional seven days before returning to normal life.”
Many people who suffered from Covid told Metro that health department officials had called them up during the period of isolation but did not tell them when they could resume normal life.
“I received two calls from the health department. On both occasions, the callers were very polite and wished me good health and speedy recovery. During the first call I was given a number, which the official said I could call if
I developed any symptoms,” said a resident of Kasba, who was discharged from hospital a week back following his recovery from Covid-19.
“The second call came a couple of days back. The caller wished me good health before hanging up. He did not tell me whether I could resume normal life,” the man said.
The secretary of his building’s residents’ welfare association asked him to get yet another Covid test done and step out only if the report was negative.
A Garia resident who has recovered from Covid alleged that members of the residents’ association of his building threatened him after accusing him of stepping out before completing the mandatory quarantine period. He said he had isolated himself at home for seven days after returning from hospital.
“I received a call from a Covid patient who was under my observation, requesting me for a certificate that he could end his isolation. I told him he had completed 14 days and could go out but he said his neighbours might create problems,” said public health expert Abhijit Chowdhury.
Chowdhury — a mentor of Covid Care Network, an organisation of doctors, government officials and people who have recovered from Covid — said the network was getting calls from people who alleged that residents’ associations were not allowing them to return to normal life.
Health department officials said there was a protocol for the callers on how to communicate with Covid patients or those who have recovered from the disease. “Maybe some callers are not telling the recovered person when they can end their quarantine. We are looking into the problem,” an official said.
Physician Amitabha Saha said several welfare associations have doctors as members and they were taking the decision after calculating the number of days a person should be in quarantine. “This is beneficial for the patient and their neighbours. A clear communication can dispel confusions,” he said.


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EXCLUSIVE: Comedy writer-producer Vijal Patel has signed a two-year overall deal with ABC Studios. Under the seven-figure pact, he will join ABC Studios’ new comedy series for ABC Family Tools as a co-executive producer. Patel, repped by APA and attorney Bruce Gellman, spent the last three seasons on the ABC/Warner Bros TV comedy series The Middle, most recently as a supervising producer. His series credits also include the Fox sitcom ‘Til Death.
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Former Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMA) Artiste of the Year, Eugene Kwame Marfo who is professionally called Kuami Eugene is currently in Nigeria.
The OPEN GATE hitmaker who recently dropped his latest single dubbed “Take Away” arrived in Nigeria a few hours ago and he will be having a media tour in Nigeria for a few days.
He made this known in a post he shared via his official and verified Twitter page and he is embarking on this tour to support the latest single, ‘Take Away’ which was released on Friday, 20th May 2022.
After the release of the song, it has debuted on the Apple Music Top 100 in several countries across the globe during its first week of release. Kuami Eugene would be appearing on Nigeria’s most prominent media outlets and bloggers to promote his records as well as his brand.


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On social media, Pakistani top actress Sanam Saeed published a portfolio of his most recent photos, which quickly went viral.
The photo has received over 7,000 likes, including one from fellow star Ayesha Omar
One of her photos has received hundreds of likes and several comments from the app’s users. In the comments area, they praised her attractiveness and appearance.
“Metallica,” read the caption on the photo.
The celebrity has a sizable social media following, having at least 790,000 Instagram followers. She keeps her admirers up to date by sharing photos and videos on her Instagram account.
Sanam Saeed has been in blockbuster films such as Daam, Shukk, and Aakhri Station, as well as the film Dobara Phir Se.

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Dream with us a little. Dream of a school — your neighborhood school, the one you still attend, the one you attended years ago.
Think of what you'd like there. A bookstore and coffee shop? Adult computer classes, art classes? A YMCA? A community health clinic? A professional theater company to lead student drama classes during the day and mount its own productions at night?
Here's the rub. If you live in Cincinnati, you don't have to wake up.
In the next 10 years every school in the Cincinnati Public School (CPS) district will be entirely renovated or rebuilt into a "community learning center" — an amalgam of school and community center — that will operate 12-15 hours a day, seven days a week.
These centers are to be focal points in Cincinnati's neighborhoods, the community lifting its children when parents alone don't have the resources, while the promise of youth and change in turn lifts community elders.
CPS Board Member Jack Gilligan brought the idea to Cincinnati from New York, where he saw the revolutionary centers help poor, urban communities pool their strengths to support their children.
An illustration: When students went home with eyeglasses from a school's new health clinic, parents took younger siblings to the school to ask for the same. When they couldn't afford the care, they volunteered in the lunchroom. The community tapped and shared its resources and that, in essence, is what the new centers are all about.
What's even more amazing is that the communities themselves are designing the community learning centers. Residents, teachers, parents, business leaders, social workers — everyone is being drawn into the process, because everyone has something to contribute.
In turn, the centers will offer something for everyone, from GED and art classes to a more closely-knit community with better educated students. The community engagement process allows people to redesign not just their schools but the way their whole community works.
"The park board, the recreation commission, the board of health, the library board — all of them are doing things in the neighborhood but not always in a coordinated fashion," Gilligan says. "To get them thinking in terms of not just doing their own thing their own way but coming into a community effort and joining a community effort — that will make the total impact greater than the sum of the parts."
In fact, everything having to do with the new initiative seems that way — aspects complementing each other and creating something greater than their sum.
Guiding the community engagement processes is CPS consultant Darlene Kamine, whom Gilligan calls the "mother bee" of the process. She says community learning centers are spreading nationwide; there are already about 8,000.
But Cincinnati is among the very few with a "three-pronged approach" to the new centers, Kamine says. The first prong is the centers themselves; the second is the community engagement process; the third is a facilities master plan that will renovate or rebuild every school building in the district.
Not a minute too soon
And it's a good thing, too. No one's blind to the fact that Cincinnati's public schools, like most schools in urban centers across the country, aren't faring well. Our educational institutions, as well as the students they struggle to serve, are failing many of their tests.
Gilligan, who served as Ohio's governor from 1971-75, has some insight into the decline.
"Urban centers in Ohio, as well as most of the rest of the country, are confronted by the fact that the power and the legislative bodies are concentrated in the suburban areas, because that's where the people are — the people who vote and pay taxes," he says. "State policies by and large have tended to reflect that political fact."
In fact, CPS will shrink from 69 to 66 schools because of declining enrollment district-wide.
"Too many people in legislative bodies and administrative offices at the state level haven't realized they cannot possibly afford to neglect this big element," Gilligan says. "If these kids aren't educated and motivated and incorporated into the life of the community, they are going to be a great drag on the future of the community."
Half or fewer than half of the kids who enter public high schools in Cincinnati graduate with a diploma, he says. That number's on par with other urban centers around the country.
"The inner city kids quite literally do not have available the kind of support mechanisms that are available to the suburban children, beginning with family structures and home life," Gilligan says.
They don't have "soccer leagues and so on characteristic of middle income children in the suburbs," he says.
In many cases they don't have yards. Or heat. Some kids don't even have homes.
When they're getting educated by the streets, not school, how are they supposed to catch up?
"Enter a high-tech society without a diploma? Your chances of making the grade are next to zilch," Gilligan says.
They are going to be "virtually unemployable, virtually dancing on the very edges of society."
While the state legislature has trouble coming up with the money to run a proper public school system in Ohio, Gilligan says the number of people in prison has shot up in 25 years from fewer than 10,000 to 43,000 today.
Ohio's in good company. The United States today houses a larger proportion of its population behind bars than any industrialized country, he says. Every one of those imprisoned former students costs taxpayers $20,000 to $25,000 a year. Then, after five or 10 years "we dump them out on the street again" having gained nothing but a prison record.
"That's a pretty cockeyed way of running a society," Gilligan says. "This is a way, I think, to get it turned around."
Tax levies and bake sales
Of course, money has always been a problem. Hence the bumper sticker: "It'll be a great day when schools have all the money they need and the Air Force has to have a bake sale to buy a bomber."
But this time there is money, and it's no paltry amount: Nearly $1 billion will be spent on CPS community learning centers over the next 10 years. The school levy that local voters passed in May 2003 ensured matching funds for state grants that will update all of Ohio's public school facilities.
"This money is not being spent on the riverfront to build stadia, not on Fountain Square in support of chain stores and hotels," Gilligan says. "This money's going to be spent in every single one of Cincinnati's neighborhoods."
What's breathtaking right now is not just the money finally available for schools but the attention the project is attracting from longtime residents and city council. Gilligan says Councilman David Crowley has led council in committing to offer help in any way it can.
But we're not picnicking in Elysian Fields yet, and community learning centers can't bridge all the gaps.
"Of course there are limitations: money, time, energy and so forth," Gilligan says.
Not all communities have the same resources, and CPS can't invent them. Some communities are going to have access to more and stronger residents and partners, more financial investment. CPS has finite time and money.
"Some are going to do better than others," Gilligan acknowledges. "Part of our job, if there is a perceived need, is to see what we can do working from a central point to make those resources accessible in those neighborhoods where they have not existed or at least been adequately developed."
But in this case what's lacking in community financial resources can be made up for by the numbers and energy of community members involved.
"It amounts to the kind of people that we're able to attract and empower," he says.
Some schools have been reluctant to embrace the new community learning centers model because they're already overburdened. Gilligan says they tell him, "We've got enough on our plates. We're swamped. Please don't bring more stuff in here on top of us."
He hopes hesitant school staff will soon see the greener days ahead.
"We hope they'll be ready to learn that no one's imposing burdens on them," he says. "Their jobs can be better and they can have a greater impact on the kids."
Some Clifton residents, for instance, are still unhappy that their neighborhood school is closing while a German-language magnet school, Fairview Elementary, moves in. The school board listened to their concerns but in the end stuck with the decision.
But for the most part the board has honored communities' requests. The Master Facilities Plan released in 1997 first recommended closing the elementary school in East End, then bowed to requests to not only keep it open but make the school kindergarten through 12th grade so the children of this largely Appalachian community would be more likely to graduate (see East Beginning, issue of Feb. 4-10).
CPS soon will consider some Lower Price Hill community members' similar request to make Oyler Elementary School a K-12 facility so kids will continue and graduate. The school board also agreed to rebuild Pleasant Ridge Elementary on its current site instead of moving it closer to Kennedy Heights.
The community engagement process is a "little different in each neighborhood where it's being tried," Gilligan says, so no two community learning centers will end up looking or operating exactly alike.
"There's no cookie cutter recipe for this," he says. "The secret of it is if you get the people of the neighborhood — the parents, merchants, social workers, everybody else — get them together and decide what they want to do with their neighborhood, what their neighborhood needs, the resources available, they're going to be as different as the neighborhoods are."
Pleasant Ridge Elementary
"There's never been a network like this," says Chris Reece, a member of the Pleasant Ridge Community Council who has lived in the neighborhood 23 years.
Mary Lennard has volunteered for seven years to sing with kindergartners there. She says she's involved because "we had to make all of the schools (into) schools that we wouldn't mind our children attending."
During the community engagement process, everyone wishing to participate attends a series of meetings in which the community votes on, ranks and narrows down its priorities. The top priorities — say, "art" or "green" (environmentally friendly) — are then divided among committees. Committee members brainstorm about exactly what they want and how to find partners to make it happen. They present their findings to an architect, which the community chooses from one of three "pre-qualified" by CPS.
After the school is designed, the community engagement process picks back up to strengthen ties with partners.
Reece and Lennard say Pleasant Ridge has six committees pursuing its objectives for the new community learning center: performing arts, health, after-school programs, adult education, academic enrichment and green.
"We brain-stormed everything we could think of," Lennard says. "What wasn't already in the community as a resource?"
Such options as a public library, post office and police substation were eventually ruled out.
Christy Vonderschmidt's two children are too young to attend the school yet, but she's involved because one day they will. She helps spread word of the community engagement process in her children's play group. Getting young families involved means they're more likely to stay in the community, she says.
Though losing the old building upsets some community members, "the alternative would be to lose the public school," Reece says. There's been a school at that site for more than 100 years; she promises that the school's Rookwood water fountain and other treasures will be preserved.
The construction segments have been arranged so that students in a school under renovation will temporarily move to a school left empty by its own students' move to a new school, so honoring the Pleasant Ridge community's request for the school to stay was no easy task.
"What the board ended up doing was really quite phenomenal," Reece says.
She found that the hardest part was "taking these rather free-form ideas and trying to solidify them into something tangible like partnerships. It was really difficult at first."
"It was like Odyssey of the Mind creativity teams with children," Lennard says. "You find out a lot more about who's here and the talent here."
Shroder Paideia Academy
The conversion of schools into community learning centers is proceeding in four segments of about 30 months each, spread over 10 years. Shroder has found it difficult to catch up after being bumped up to the first segment from a later one.
Even so, the process has whipped up a lot of interest — a students' focus group requested more honors and advanced placement classes, and some students from the seventh- through 12th-grade academy even serve on the "core group" of the process.
Paideia is an educational model that uses seminars in which students read and then discuss material from many core classes, fostering critical thinking skills.
Developing community relations is especially interesting for an alternative magnet school that draws kids from across the city. Add to that the fact that CPS decided to move the school from Kennedy Heights to Madisonville, and it's been an altogether hectic and unique process.
Even so, "the staff and the students are very excited about our new school and, since everyone has that input, it has made it a wonderful experience," says Principal Sammie Croley.
Though the new building has already been designed, Croley still holds hope for more partnerships with local businesses. She'd like to see a Barnes & Noble bookstore annexed to the school, where students could work retail and everyone could visit in a coffee shop and browse the books.
Nearby Fifth Third Bank and Coca-Cola are other possible partners. Ethicon Endosurgery Inc. is already a primary partner, supplying teachers with paper and paying for field trip transportation.
Talbert House is a Shroder partner already in place. Four staff members work in the school to help provide one-on-one conflict resolution, services for small groups or entire classroom curricula, according to Julie Weikert, coordinator of the social service program for Talbert House.
Talbert House's Partnerships for Academic Success (Project PASS) provides similar services for a handful of other schools, but since Talbert House has agreed to partner with the entire CPS district its role likely will expand.
Weikert says she's seen PASS make a difference in students' conflict resolution, problem solving and anger management.
"I definitely have seen an improvement in terms of how students handle their problems," she says.
Winton Hills Academy
Located in a community largely served by the low-income housing projects run by the Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA), Winton Hills Academy is one of the schools furthest along in the first segment, Kamine says. Partners from the Winton Hills Medical Clinic and CMHA are already housed in the old school. Now their staff members are as much a part of the school as the school staff.
"CMHA is also one of the few agencies that has the capacity to really understand and take on the role of community resources coordinator," Kamine says.
CMHA had already been doing just that, operating from an apartment before it teamed up with the school, she says.
Gilligan likes to tell this story: As parents gathered to discuss what they wanted, one woman piped up and said, " 'Well, you know, a group of us, three or four of us, get together from time to time and read poetry. Could we have someone teach us how to write poetry?' That, in Winton Hills, is breathtaking."
The dropout rate in this largely Appalachian community in Lower Price Hill is staggering, edging up on 80 percent. Students often don't finish school because they're reluctant to go to high school in another part of town.
"It's really a remarkable neighborhood when we're trying to restore the concept of neighborhoods," Kamine says. "In other parts of the city, Lower Price Hill is an example of a very strong and cohesive neighborhood. But at the same time they want to do better for their children and for themselves."
One of the few students who made it to senior year is a steady presence at community engagement meetings, where locals have requested adult education, a library, and — in an urban neighborhood largely founded by factory workers — a quiet green space to sit in peace, Kamine says.
The elementary school already has a lot of support and interest from potential partners such as the Urban Appalachian Council, the Lower Price Hill Community School, the Boys and Girls Club, the Cincinnati Recreation Commission, a city health clinic, a social service agency, Project Connect and Family Services.
Jake Kroger is director of Lower Price Hill Community School, which offers GED preparation courses, hosts classes through Cincinnati State College and teaches literacy to many in the community, including a number of Latino students.
"I've been impressed with (the community engagement process) and the receptiveness of the public school system to listen to the recommendations of a neighborhood," he says.
Kroger says that a K-12 school close to home would be "culturally appropriate" and reduce the dropout rate. He might then be able to shift his school's mission.
"With the success of the new K-12 school, we would work with many, getting them into college through our connection with Cincinnati State," he says.
But he doesn't expect GED classes to be phased out anytime soon.
"Since the dropout rate has been at this level for a long time, the number of adults close at hand who have not finished high school is quite large," he says.
He'd like to dispel the stereotype of Appalachian communities that says there isn't a great interest in education. In fact, Oyler was founded 35 years ago by people similarly concerned about their children's education, Kroger says.
Clifton Elementary School is a magnificent building, says neighborhood resident and Fairview parent Bill Gordon. Cliftonites are deeply attached to it and to the idea of having a neighborhood school, so the CPS decision to close it was a blow.
Though it's moving to a site adjacent to the old school, Fairview Elementary can't take its place, because Fairview is a German-language magnet school whose students learn German an hour a day, beginning in kindergarten. School leaders are willing to offer summer classes and tutoring for those wishing to catch up and enroll, but the school's not for everyone.
"Residents really felt like it was a slap in the face," Gordon says. "The neighborhood's wishes were not being respected."
It was a serious issue, he says, and CPS dealt with it seriously, holding three hearings for residents to air their concerns. But, in the end, the decision stood.
CPS did commit to work with the community to at least save the old scool building, a prime neighborhood concern.
As Fairview's engagement process has unfolded, meetings between Fairview staff and parents and Clifton residents continue "to ensure a satisfactory resolution of the issues," Kamine says.
Carol Brammer, a Clifton resident and Fairview parent, wants to stress that the community learning center isn't just for the Gaslight District in which it will sit but for the entire Clifton community, including University Heights, Fairview and Clifton Heights. If people understood what was happening, interest would skyrocket, she says.
"If people really understood the impact this could have as part of urban revitalization, bringing urban-quality living back to Cincinnati," there would have been hundreds at the engagement meetings instead of a steady 60, Brammer says.
It's natural that this community, so close to multiple hospitals, didn't choose a health clinic as one of its priorities, as many other communities have. With so many artists and UC professors living in Clifton, it's also natural that the community wants to prioritize the arts in the new school.
Brammer and Gordon try to sneak in some last words.
"I really want to encourage other communities to start as early as you can and pull in as many different constituencies as you can," Brammer says. "Be very open to the process, let it unfold."
"I want to thank Jack Gilligan, whose idea this is," Gordon says.
"I want to thank CPS and the community at large for investing in our public schools," Brammer adds. ©


Giants | Tyler Sash added to active roster
New York Giants S Tyler Sash was added to the active roster Monday, Oct. 8, after completing a four-game suspension for violating the NFL's substance abuse policy.
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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison buys Hawaiian island of LanaiJun 22nd, 2012 | By AJ Anderson | Category: Business
And now Oracle’s Larry Ellison has a Hawaiian island.
The tech giant has bought the Hawaiian island of Lanai, the governor of the 50th state said.
“It is my understanding that Mr. Ellison has had a longstanding interest in Lanai,” Gov. Neil Abercrombie said in an Agence France-Presse story. “His passion for nature, particularly the ocean, is well known, specifically in the realm of America’s Cup sailing.
Ellison, Oracle’s founder and CEO, bought 98 percent of the 141-square-mile island from its owner, Castle & Cooke, a Los Angeles-based company headed by businessman David Murdock, AFP reported.
While no purchase price was disclosed, the Maui News previously reported the asking price was between $500 million and $600 million.
Lanai, called the pineapple island, is described as having nearly 50 miles of coastline, two resorts and zero traffic lights, according to a Bloomberg News story. Some of its luxury hotels and rugged rural areas can be reached only by vehicles with 4-wheel drive, the story noted.
Lanai is home to 3,200 residents. [Read More...]

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Well, GNS is the go-to place in the country for radiocarbon dating, which uses a carbon radioisotope (carbon-14) to date material up to around 50,000 years old.
This is generally used for carbon-dating organic material like sediments, wood, bones and plant matter.
This resource is designed to provide online information concerning the radiocarbon dating method.
But the impetus behind the upgrade from the existing aging particle accelerator is climate science research.
A mass spectrometer is an instrument that uses a series of magnets to bend a beam of ions and then physically count how many there are, so with AMS radiocarbon dating, we can measure a carbon-12, 13 and 14 beam, and we measure the ratio of 14 to 13, and from that, we can tell how much C-14 is in the sample.
So the most important things about AMS radiocarbon dating as opposed to conventional is that the sample size is much, much smaller.
Dr Christine Prior is Team Leader of the Rafter Radiocarbon Laboratory at GNS Science.
In this video, she compares conventional and accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon dating.


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When opting for vision correction using LASIK it is important to consider the risks concerned.
Though most of these risks are minimal with the help of a highly experienced cornea specialist like Dr. John Goosey in Houston, TX, it is important for anyone who wants to undergo LASIK surgery to weigh the pros and cons of that decision very carefully.
The LASIK doctor is best if a cornea specialist since LASIK surgery is surgery that reshapes the cornea. The surgeon should not only be highly qualified and experienced but should also have a good record of accomplishment. Dr. Goosey has successfully completed
People should also pick an eye hospital or clinic that offers the best pre- surgery and post-surgery services for LASIK patients to reduce the associated risks even further. Since vision is such an important thing people should do everything they can to retain theirs; and, vision correction using LASIK is very often the answer. And, Dr. Goosey along with his professionally trained and qualified staff do everything possible to minimize all risks. Dr. Goosey is trusted more by other doctors and physicians for the vision correction of their eyes and the eyes of their families. That is why he is known as the Specialist’s Specialist.
It is important to consider all the factors that will influence the surgery result before making the right option. A cornea specialist for other LASIK vision correction would be the best people to advice a patient on what is most suitable for individual surgical needs in relation to their preferences.


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For Art Lovers
Our relaxed, country setting comes with so many perks. We’ve got musical theatre, street festivals and events, and great places to just soak up the ambiance.
Theatre on the Ridge in the historically designated Town Hall 1873
has a fantastic summer festival that includes a world musical premiere of Willow Quartet and their take on the children’s classic The Wind in the Willows. The adventures of Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger come to life!
There’s also the Lake Scugog Studio Tour every year where you can experience the personal creative spaces of our artists, and don’t miss the Meta4 Gallery in Port Perry. “This is a superb area for artistic talent,” says painter Birgitta MacLeod, co-owner of the gallery cooperative that has showcased “fresh and exceptional” works solely by Ontario artists since 2005. She’s lived in Scugog for almost 20 years and raised her family here, appreciating all that the area has to offer. “It’s so welcoming and safe, we have the lake, the countryside is beautiful, lots of fresh, local food. It’s a fantastic community.”
Meta4 focuses on Scugog artists in particular, building relationships and creating conversations about their art with the public. “Ultimately, we’re about connecting people with art and handmade,” she says. “When you buy something beautiful, it evokes something special. Or if you do a workshop, you create and you come away with those memories.”
Make a full day of self-discovery with a workshop on pottery, metal smithing or drawing botanicals with lunch included near the studio at the Piano Inn and Café or Marwan’s Global Bistro. Check out our other artistic endeavours here.

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Past glory gives way to congestion
Straddling both Old and New Delhi, Daryaganj is among the actively populated areas of central Delhi. Close to Delhi Gate, this place is popular for its commercial set-ups. Ansari Road, a part of Daryaganj, is a more settled and quiet residential area.
With the advantage of being located in the heart of Delhi, the price of properties have spiked over the years, primarily because of the bus and metro rail connectivity. In fact, with the New Delhi Metro station close by, people can reach the airport in about 45 minutes.
As per the current Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) plans, a Metro station will be set up at Delhi Gate too. The work for extension of the Metro route from Badarpur to the Central Secretariat corridor to Kashmere Gate is already in progress and is likely to be operational in the coming months.
Fast and steady commercialisation with massive construction work has meant that Daryaganj, once known as the river trading post because of its closeness to the river Yamuna, is losing its famed greenery.
“As a result, most residents in this area are selling their properties and moving to lush green areas in the NCR,” says Praveen Sharma, a resident.
The narrow lanes of Daryaganj are too congeste d w i t h p a rke d ve h i c l e s . “Cleanliness, in addition to parking, is an issue here,” says Sushil Kumar Malik, a local shopkeeper. Whereas some lanes are well maintained, the main roads are uneven with potholes in most parts of Daryaganj.
Street dogs are a nuisance too. “We are fed up with the stray dogs. “On repeated requests, the municipality had taken the dogs but only to free them after two days,” says Alka Gupta, who has been living here for 42 years now.
Because of its commercialisation, Daryaganj remains somewhat safe for women as people of various classes live here. “Most of the shopkeepers and other workers close their shops after 6 pm and move out of here, leaving only the residents, thus making it safe for women to walk,” says Sharma.
Residents have also initiated a number of safety measures - a good number of watchmen are spread across the area. Few lanes also have CCTV cameras.
Typical plot areas here start at 60 sq yard and go up to 400 sq yard. However, smaller plots are difficult to find these days. Current land valuation is ₹ 3 lakh per sq yard. Prices of plots have nearly doubled during the past five years, and what cost ₹ 10 lakh in 2010 is selling for nothing less than ₹ 20 lakh now.
Apartments are available for ₹ 75 lakh onwards for 1BHK units, ₹ 1.15 crore for 2BHK and ₹ 2 crore for 3BHK units.
Around 95% residential properties have been taken by private builders for construction of residential and commercial properties. Construction i s restricted beyond third floor in this area. The cost of ground floor is much higher than top floor apartments.
Rental prices range from ₹ 15,000 for 1BHK to ₹ 45,000 for 3BHK apartments. The 2BHK apartments are priced at around ₹ 20,000.
“The demand for residential properties is consistently evaporating in this area. However, the demand of commercial properties is growing,” says Virender Kumar Jain, a property dealer in this region. “We are anticipating a steep rise in property prices anytime soon.”

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Creating at least 400 jobs
The Curraghinalt project will directly create over 400 well-paid jobs, across a range of skill sets, during the construction and operation phases.
The skills this mine will develop can provide well paid jobs for a generation, contributing to building a sustainable economy in the region and especially in the West.
These jobs are well paid. For example, a fully-trained underground miner would earn around £40,000 per year.
In addition to the 400 plus direct jobs that will be created many more will be created indirectly and in the supply chain. For example, suppliers to the mine may need to hire new workers in response to spending by the mining industry. Induced jobs are created when employees of the mine and their suppliers use their wages to purchase goods and services. This multiplier effect relates to all sectors but is generally higher in the mining industry.
As well as creating more than 400 jobs, we’re already invested in the local community. So far, we’ve spent £3.5 million in the immediate local area, £16 million in County Tyrone and £27 million in Northern Ireland.
The anticipated spending on the proposed mine project is expected to cost hundreds of millions of pounds. Expenditure will include salaries, materials, equipment, machinery and reclamation costs.


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June 13, 2016 07:57 AM
A shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, was on the minds of many Minnesotans Sunday.
The city of Golden Valley celebrated its first Pride Festival on Sunday, which included an interfaith service, food trucks, inflatables, community booths and multiple concerts. There was also a moment of silence to honor the victims of the shooting.
In the 2010 census, 2.2 percent of Golden Valley households self-identified as gay, which is the highest proportion for a community in the state of Minnesota.
The celebration ran from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Brookview Park. The event was privately funded and organized.
Later in the day, a vigil for the victims of the nightclub shooting was conducted by Outfront Minnesota at Loring Park in Minneapolis.
"Community breeds positiveness and community breeds taking care of each other, and when we accept each other with our diversity we grow to value each other and then when we value each other we accept each other, then we start to support each other, so it's circular," Jerry Rubino, with the Twin Cities Gay Men's Chorus, said.
Rainbow-colored lights will also illuminate the Lowry Avenue bridge and the Interstate 35W bridge to honor the victims of the mass shooting.
Gov. Mark Dayton, who requested the I-35W bridge be lighted through Thursday, issued the following statement in response to the mass shooting:
The horrific act of hatred and terror in Orlando was an unfathomable attack upon all of humanity. Our hearts go out to the innocent victims of that heinous assault.
Meanwhile, Minneapolis Police Chief Janee Harteau issued a statement Sunday afternoon regarding the shooting:
On behalf of the entire MPD, we are sending our thoughts and prayers to the victims of the shootings in Orlando. Along with the rest of the nation and law enforcement community, we grieve with the victim's families and the people in Florida. The mass shooting that's occurred is shocking, sad and intolerable. The MPD wants to reassure residents and visitors in our city that we remain vigilant and committed to ensuring people are safe at large scale events with significant crowds. We continue to be in constant communication with our federal partners to make that possible. We stand with and protect all of our citizens in the fight against violence of any kind, including crime driven by hate to instill fear.
U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar also released a statement regarding the shooting:
"This is a sad day for Orlando and a sad day for America. Innocent people were slaughtered by a man who was motivated by hate and terror and extremism. I stand with the LGBT community today, and my prayers are with the victims. We must root out terrorism abroad and at home."
Jennie Lissarrague & Rebecca Omastiak
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Games and sporting activities are similar: both are physical or psychological tasks or competitors that entails the application of skills and that which is done for fun. Nevertheless, a video game is an interactive contest or activity where people take part against each other and do such physical activities based upon a given set of guidelines. If you are wondering exactly what these games are; they can be categorized into countless categories. These categories include sporting activity, problem, card, electric motor ability, logic as well as memory. They are likewise identified by the type of products utilized to play them.
Among one of the most typical video games is card games. This includes baccarat, casino poker, cribbage, as well as Craps. In the United States alone, card games are the most preferred with youngsters, followed by video games, electronic parlor game as well as video game. Board games such as Chutes and Ladders, Scrabble, and also Monopoly, were also very popular amongst children. A few of these parlor game consist of Chess as well as Danger, while others such as Chess and also Checkers are played in the country.
One more popular game played by kids is dominoes. Dominoes are composed of a number of dominoes which are laid on top of each other, turning into one layer. The dominoes are decreased in a heap, one at a time, by using the dominoes’ bar, or pressing one’s fork versus the board to drop it in. The initial layer is dropped initially, complied with by all the layers in succeeding stacks. The gamer who knocks all the layers of dominoes off the board initially is the champion. A few of these parlor game use counters for playing, but a few use coins.
Chess competitions are rather popular globally, and they include lots of gamers from around the globe. Chess is an open resource code that is originally created by Richard Wagner (though he made improvements to it after that). In a video game of chess, the pieces are represented by a chessboard, with the chess items either using squares on the chessboard or producing the squares by pushing their pawns one space onward or one angled area forward. A player can check among his/her chess pieces to make that piece become visible to other players, however only if that piece is not already visible to any individual. There are many different variations to the game of chess, such as the Rook vs Rook variation, and the English style, which make each player starts the video game with another piece than the various other gamer.
Dominoes and also counters are not the only chess items to be made use of; other players have small plastic items, called “symbols.” These tokens might be had fun with using dominoes, or with counters, or with both. They are small plastic items that are played by pressing their own pieces right into a square on the chessboard and afterwards having those pieces knock their symbols off the board. When all the symbols have actually been knocked off the board, the player with the most tokens at the end wins. In some cases the dominoes as well as counters can change hands after a certain variety of turns; often the gamer with one of the most symbols has to pass his turn, in order for other players to match their turn.
A lot of video games played by people today, consisting of Chess, are had fun with collections of playing cards. These sets of cards are referred to as “sticks,” and also each player utilizes a particular variety of sticks. There are no cards used in typical Chess play, so there are no factors connected with them. A typical video game of Chess is played with a basic deck of playing cards.
Lots of people believe that video clip and also computer games are only for teens and also young adults. Nevertheless, that is one area of the international gaming sector. Beyond the quick-gratifying computer or computer game, you come to a globe in which the gamer is now an energetic individual in the story of a video game. You are not limited by your gender, age or physical disabilities.
The major article in this collection focuses on board games. Board games are a team of video games with a shared motif of using a selection of tools to pass between players. The tools may be counters, chips, dice, or other tools. Some of these tools are used to represent real items and also others may represent various other points also, relying on the style or specific policies of the game.
One of one of the most popular games around right now is dominoes. In a dominoes game, gamers take turns dropping dominoes from a certain line. As soon as all dominoes have been dropped, that line is gone and also one more player takes their turn tossing a dominoes from that exact same line. Dominoes are falling swiftly towards the ground. The main post in this series will certainly concentrate on gambling establishment gambling games.
Gambling establishment gambling games make use of a version on the dominoes style. Players are given playing cards consisting of twenty-two feasible cards. The players after that pick one card from the deck as well as place it encounter up in front of them. Gamers can then position their dominoes onto the having fun cards using a spade or other tool.
Another popular game includes some form of abstract gameplay. In abstract chess, players are provided collections of twenty-four having fun cards. They after that take turns picking which card from among the collections they want to play with. The twenty-four having fun cards are set up in the shape of a chessboard, as well as the things of the video game is to make as a number of your items into playing cards as feasible. 안전놀이터
Lastly, we will certainly cover a fundamental video game of approach. In this genre of gameplay the players are not really certain what their goal is. They couldn’t care less regarding clearing the board of all chess items, or they couldn’t care less about making their challengers not able to position their pieces on the board. These games come under the category of Abstract Approach. Gamings in this category usually have the most affordable risks, as they do not call for a large amount of ability to play. This implies they are best for gamers that have only a little time to play.


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It’s been seven years since my husband and I, finding ourselves with an empty nest once our three children had left home, sold all of our possessions in favour of setting off to travel the world. During that time, we have travelled around the whole world twice.
I’m often asked about my favourite place in the world. I’m also asked, now we find ourselves unexpectedly back in Scotland, but keeping socially distant and without the benefit of spending time with our family and friends, where I’d really like to be right now and why?
And, the truth is, I’d really like to be where we’d been planning to spend 2020.
That’s on a tiny island in the eastern Caribbean Sea called Utila. It’s the smallest of the Bay Islands just off the coast of Honduras. It’s not a place that many people know about or have heard of and so it almost feels like a secret place.
Utila sits on the Meso-American reef – the second largest coral reef in the world – tucked away in a bay where the water is warm and clear and the life is laid back and slow. I’ve heard of Utila being called the ‘Key West of the 1950’s’ as it’s kind of timeless and underdeveloped.
The island’s power shuts down often, internet is sporadic, there is one bank, and supplies come onto the island from the mainland twice a week by boat. Utila is known for its scuba diving. There are thirteen scuba dive centres along the one main road.
Seven years ago, we too came to Utila for the scuba diving. My husband did his three-month Dive Master internship on the island and the time we spent there set our expectations for all of our travels to come. We fell in love with the island and the people. Intoxicated (sometimes quite literally as the rum is delicious) with the no news, no shoes, snoozing in a hammock, never really knowing what day it is kind of lifestyle.
It’s not easy to get to Utila (or leave once you are there). We flew from the UK via New York and onto Houston Texas (for an overnight) before flying onto San Pedro Sula Honduras and a connection to La Ceiba on the coast. All the time the planes were getting smaller.
At La Ceiba we had a choice of a two-hour bus to the ferry or a twenty-minute flight.
On our last leg, we flew in a Cessna. I’d never been in such a small plane before.
I remember being terrified and exhilarated in equal measures.
At the end of that summer, we moved on to explore Asia, and I fully expected we’d find another Utila somewhere. Perhaps amongst tiny islands in the Sulu Sea between the Philippines and Malaysia or off Thailand. And, if not there, then surely somewhere in Indonesia between Bali and Lombok? But there really is nowhere else in the world like Utila.
And, I’d really love to be there right now.
Please visit https://thebackpackinghousewife.com to read more of Janice's fantastic adventures.


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Saturday, 4 February 2012
Canvaswork has been a bit of a love/hate thing for me.
I love that it is fairly straightforward, even more so than cross stitch, and the geometric designs really appeal.
But sometimes I hate the feel of the canvas and it always catches my threads as I'm stitching.
Here is one thing I have done with canvaswork recently ...
A little brooch and a magnet, which is handy for when you drop your pin box all over the car park/living room floor! It also keeps the random sewing pins in my workbox in one place!
I'm now working on a new canvaswork piece, which I hope to finish in a couple of weeks.


Despite opposition from 18 EU Member States* a ban on pesticides from Ecological Focus Areas (EFAs) remains a distinct possibility for 2017.
A Delegated Act including 14 changes has been adopted on greening by the Commission. The Council and European Parliament will in the coming months take a position, which involves accepting or rejecting changes, but not making amendments or changes to the text. Following this, the Delegated Act should come into force.
Read: the recent history of this process in a earlier post on ARC2020
Almost 3/4 of all EU land is subject to CAP greening, with one of the following – EFAs, permanent grassland and crop diversification – compulsory. 70% of cereal crop land is subject to EFA.
A presentation by Pierre Bascou of DG AGRI in February suggested that one of the aims of the current push for simplification is to “harmonize some specific requirements to better achieve the environmental objective of EFAs”. His presentation includes reference to banning pesticides from EFAs as one of 14 simplification changes mooted by the Commission:
“Ban on using pesticides on productive or potentially productive EFAs (i.e. nitrogen-fixing crops, catch crops and green cover, land lying fallow and strips along forest): During the minimum period of presence or retention; Taking into account the specificity of under-sown catch crops.”
The minimum retention period is 8 weeks for catch crops and six months for land lying fallow. Land lying fallow and nitrogen fixing crops make up the majority of EFA options selected in the EU.
The Act itself cites arguments by both opponents and proponents of the ban, in particular with regard to nitrogen fixing crops. Some feedback during the consultation process focused on the ban on plant protection products (PPPs) on several EFAs, in particular nitrogen-fixing crops (NFCs). Farmers’ organisations and agricultural businesses questioning whether it would be technically feasible or economically viable to cultivate to cultivate such crops. This, they argued, would reduce the ability of the European Union to gain crop self-sufficiency in this crops.
Environmental and other NGOs considered such a ban “vital for protecting biodiversity within the farming sector, and for encouraging pollination, soil fertility and natural pest control” and for the “credibility” of the greening process.
Agrafacts reported that as some Member States had already placed limits on the use of inputs on EFAs, which made the case for harmonisation of the rules stronger – in this case, towards a ban of pesticides. However “the Commission is unlikely to increase the area of farmland dedicated to biodiversity from 5% to 7%, as the proposed ban on the use of plant protection products on productive EFAs is seen as a “concession”” the media organisation also reported.
* FR, UK, HR, CZ, DK, EE, FI, EL, HU, LV, LU, LT, RO, PL, PT, SI, IE & SE;
All ARC2020 articles on CAP and pesticides


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We have launched a campaign to encourage people to instruct a solicitor when making a personal injury claim. This is prevent the growing number of people who are settling their claims for much less than they are worth.
If an injured person uses a solicitor and wins their case, the insurance company will have to pay the compensation to the injured person and the costs of their solicitor. Many insurance companies have been trying to prevent the injured person instructing a solicitor who is an accident specialist, so that the insurance company saves money by paying less compensation and not having to pay the solicitor.
Litigation and Personal Injury solicitor and accident specialist Vijay Srivastava explains,
“When a road accident occurs, people always exchange insurance particulars. This means that the insurance company gets your contact details before there is time to instruct a solicitor. When the insurance company recognises that their customer is at fault, they then contact the injured person directly to offer for example to repair their car, arrange for a hire car and pay them immediate compensation (without getting any medical evidence to confirm the extent or the long-lasting effects of the injury), typically in the sum of £1000.”
Settling straight away can be tempting to the injured person because it is a quick fix, without much hassle and inconvenience, but in many cases the injured person is doing themselves a huge disservice. The reality is that most of these injured people are settling their claims for less than they are worth. Firstly the injured person doesn’t know how much their claim is truly worth (because they are not experts) and secondly the way the courts value compensation based on what your injury is and the longer you have been suffering the larger your claim. Settling your claim on day one generally means you have settled at an undervalue. By not getting any medical evidence you simply don’t know what your injuries are, how long you are going to be suffering for, whether there are going to be any long-term effects and consequently you don’t know how much your claim is worth.
Always speak to an ‘Accident Specialist’
“We are currently running a case where an insurance company offered £1000 to our client. Our client refused to accept this amount and instructed us. We value the claim in excess of £20,000. We have another case where the insurance company offered our client £1000. He did not accept that amount but instead instructed us. We value the case in excess of £50,000 and consequently the insurance company has now increased their offer to £10,000. We are also dealing with a case where our client was offered £1000. He did not accept it and instructed us. Our investigation of his medical condition and the obtaining of the appropriate medical reports (including a report from a neurologist) showed that the accident had caused damage to blood vessels leading to his head which now cause him dizziness. He has a manual job which involves a lot of bending, consequently he is unable to perform his job any more. His claim will be worth significantly more than £1000.”
For more information or to speak to one of our accident specialists about a possible claim please call us on 0161 785 3534.
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Sunday, 16 October 2016
Head teacher is mortified by her behaviour
"Gillian Rew, who was the principal of Arbroath High, told a fitness to teach panel that she drank more than a bottle of wine while on a school trip with sixth year students in Lockerbie."
"She also admitted making `inappropriate comments` and engaging in `improper contact` with S6 pupils during an evening disco at the adventure weekend in September 2014."
"She told at the General Teaching Council for Scotland hearing: `I honestly don’t think they (the pupils) were uncomfortable. I think they saw it as a bit of light-hearted banter`."
"Presented with witness statements from pupils, she accepted some of them may have felt uncomfortable with her behaviour."
One pupil after the incident said they were `all uncomfortable and awkward`. Another said: `I was shocked`."
"`I am mortified,` Mrs Rew told the hearing. `I think the word mortified is actually not quite strong enough to describe my actions`."
"She added: `Throughout my career I have always placed their care and welfare at the heart of my practice, but on this occasion, as child protection officer, I fell short.`"
She also said that she had consumed about eight glasses of sauvignon blanc from a box and could not remember what had happened.
If we are to believe her then we must accept that she honestly did not think (the pupils) were uncomfortable with what she could not remember doing.
Yeah right. Another child protection officer bites the dust.


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Deciding the songs for your wedding reception can be tough and stressful. Luckily the Jamaica Wedding DJ is here to help you pick the songs for your special day.
We all know that your Ceremony is a major and romantic part of your wedding where the exchange of “personal commitment” vows are taken place. We always get a musical taste of what our couples love and also what they have on their “do not play” list.
In the beginning of the reception, we recommend playing popular music to get everyone on the dance floor.
Here’s 20 songs that you should play at your Reception;
Marry Me by Train –
Party Rock Anthem by Lmfao
Happy by Pharrell
Marry You by Bruno Mars
Lucky by Jason Mraz ft Colbie Caillat
I’m Yours by Jason Mraz
I’ve gotta feeling by The Black Eyed Peas
Just the way you are by Bruno Mars
Give me everything by Pitbull ft Ne-Yo, Afrojack, Nayer
Like i’m gonna lose you by Meghan Trainor ft John Legend
Everything by Michael Buble
I wanna dance with somebody by Whitney Huston
Marry Me by Jason Derulo
Get Lucky by Daft Punk ft Pharrell
Cha Cha Slide by Mr. C
Sweet Home Alabama
Wabble by V.I.C
Living on a Prayer by BonJovi
Sugar by Maroon 5
Cheerleader by OMI
It’s now time to get your groove on and dance the night away!


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A friend in Tennessee recommended Cafe 4 in Knoxville for a quick bite to eat. It had recently opened, and will hopefully do well. Not only is it a restaurant, but also a cafe/coffee shop (with baked goods!), but it’s also a music venue! What a good, smart use of space. I wish SLC had something like this… Anyways, here’s a few photos:
I really dig the interior of this place. The espresso was pretty choice, but the baked goods: YUM! I thoroughly enjoyed the coffee cake pictures below. No idea if they bake it in-house or not, but it really doesn’t matter to me, because it was GOOD! =)
Yea, seriously! Look at all those nuts, that brown sugar crumble! TASTY! The cake was a bit dry, but that’s how I think coffee cake should be. I wish I could remember the price, but I have no idea. I’m sure it was reasonable. I also tried some raspberry…. er… thing, but I don’t remember what it was, or how much it was. And obviously, I didn’t even remember to photograph it. Oh well… it was good. Go to Cafe 4!

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Two Gloucestershire police stations, earmarked for closure a decade ago, will be open to the public once more.
Lydney Police Station in the Forest of Dean, which was re-opened a year ago, is now trialling a public reception.
Barton Street in Gloucester will follow suit as soon as the building has been adapted to receive visitors.
A further commitment to local policing.
A year go we re-opened Lydney as an operational police station.
Whilst it didn\’t have a public reception is was staffed. But now we\’re going one step further with trialling a public reception.
We\’ve led not followed
Gloucestershire like many forces during the decade of austerity reverted to an on demand style policing.
Community police was pulled back to plough resources into dealing with the demand coming in.
That was an operational decision and one I understood but did say we must not forget our communities.
Local police stations show we are there
On being re-elected in 2016 I had a mandate to push for neighbourhood policing and it was \”re-introduced\”.
The move to re-open police stations are in contrast to other parts of the country where a recent survey showed that more than half of UK police stations have closed during the last ten years.
I have always believed in the value of strong community links and Gloucestershire Constabulary was one of the first to revert to a neighbourhood model.
Improving the ways people can contact the police was a commitment I made on re-election in 2016.
Although there are now lots more ways to get in touch, many people miss being able to walk into a police station and talk to an officer face to face.
I wish we could have more
“We can’t turn the clock back completely but I hope to be able to announce plans for more ‘blue light centres’ in the future, but sadly we cannot go back to a police house or station in every town and village.
But that visible presence in our communities remains a committment of mine and will for as long as I am your commissioner because ‘Every crime matters, every contact counts’ is the ‘golden thread’ of my refreshed Police and Crime Plan”.
The Constabulary’s approach to neighbourhood policing was further enhanced by the re-introduction of dedicated superintendents to act as local crime commanders.
Forest of Dean Commander, Superintendent Jane Probert said on the decision to re-open Lydney\’s reception:
\”Lydney has two front of house staff working part-time Monday to Friday 9 a.m. – 1 p.m., which we will review in a couple of months based on demand and foot fall. Coleford remains open full-time.
The Forest South Neighbourhood Team operates from Lydney and includes police officers and PCSOs and is led by a Sergeant. It is also used as a base for the Tutor and Assessment Unit, so we have experienced Police Constables tutoring new recruits who are beginning their journey in policing.
Both teams are responding to community needs, calls for service as well as proactive policing operations in the community”.
The history time line:
- 2011 Lydney Police Station appears on a list of Gloucestershire Police Stations earmarked for closure by the former Police Authority
- 2012 Ownership of the building on Lydney High Street passes to the PCC following his election. Although earmarked for closure by the former Police Authority as part of a major programme of budget cuts, the PCC’s aspiration is to re-establish it when finances permit
- 2015 The station is mothballed and operational resources are directed from Coleford
- 2017 the Constabulary seeks to lease out the property with no interest.
- 2020 PCC announces Lydney Police Station will re-open

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Mariah Carey might be music royalty, but she's not the "Queen of Christmas" … at least not legally.
On Tuesday, Nov. 15, U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board denied MiMi's attempt to trademark "Queen of Christmas," "Princess Christmas" and "Christmas Princess," TMZ report, citing a press release.
Back in August, the "Hero" singer attempted to trademark the holiday-friendly terms as an extension of her massive hit "All I want For Christmas Is You." Mariah, TMZ said, planned to use the "Queen of Christmas" title for fragrances, lotions, nail polish, jewelry, cups, mugs, chocolate milk, coconut water, ornaments, toys, dog clothing, masks, lingerie and sweatshirts.
At the time, several singers ripped Mariah for the trademark filing. Full-time holiday singer Elizabeth Chan claimed nobody should hold the legal rights to the title.
"Christmas has come way before any of us on earth, and hopefully will be around way after any of us on earth," Elizabeth, who released an album titled "Queen of Christmas" in 2021, told Variety. "And I feel very strongly that no one person should hold onto anything around Christmas or monopolize it in the way that Mariah seeks to in perpetuity. That's just not the right thing to do. Christmas is for everyone. It's meant to be shared; it's not meant to be owned."
She told the webloid, "Christmas is a season of giving, not the season of taking, and it is wrong for an individual to attempt to own and monopolize a nickname like Queen of Christmas for the purposes of abject materialism."
Darlene Love, the original singer of "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)," which was released in 1963, also objected, claiming David Letterman declared her the "Queen of Christmas" 29 years ago.


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Carnaval San Francisco Presents
Carnaval SF 40th Anniversary Mardi Gras Fat Tuesday Party!
Tuesday, February 13, 2018 | 6:00pm -10:00pm
Carnaval San Francisco is kicking off its season by hosting 14 FREE Fat Tuesday Mardi Gras celebrations in various venues across San Francisco's Mission District on
Tuesday, February 13 from 6pm to 10pm.
All are welcome to meet friends, family, and neighbors in the heart of San Francisco’s Latino Cultural District to enjoy live samba drummers, dancers winding through the party, and lively music from salsa and soca to cumbia and rumba. Guests are invited to wear costumes, masks and beads in celebration of the holiday. A percentage of sales in all venues will go to support Carnaval San Francisco-CANA, a 501(c)3 Nonprofit Organization.
Donations are welcome and can be made on our site or on the the day of the event: http://www.carnavalsanfrancisco.org/donate
*Photo by MarcoSanchez.net
*FREE ADMISSION IN 14 VENUES
21 & Over: Make-Out Room, Latin American Club, El Rio, Pop's Bar, Asiento, Blondie's Bar
All Ages: Bissap Baobab, Cha Cha Cha, Artillery A.G., El Valenciano, Radio Habana Social Club, Laundré, La Reyna Bakery, Zoe's Bar & Restaurant.
*BUY A TICKET FOR A DANCE CLASS IN ONE OF THESE 3 VENUES
All Ages: Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, Dance Mission Theatre, ABADÁ-Capoeira San Francisco. Visit their websites for more information.
Where can I see all of the Mardi Gras Fat Tuesday venues and scheduled performances?
Click on Google Maps link to see all the venues and schedules. *Note, schedules and performances will be updated, so stay tuned: http://bit.ly/2AuprQo
What are my transportation/parking options for getting to and from the event?
BART: Get off on either 16th Street or 24th Street stations
What can I bring into the event?
Masks, beads, costumes, instruments, festive apparel!
How can I contact the organizer with any questions?
Email Rodrigo Durán at [email protected]


Interview between Stewart Coffin and Louis Potter (founder of the Academic for Economic Freedom) following up on Potter's article titled Free Land in the March 1967 Green Revolution.
Coffin, Steward and Potter, Louis
"Dialog on Free Land,"
Green Revolution: Vol. 5
, Article 25.
Available at: https://research.library.kutztown.edu/greenrevolution/vol5/iss7/25


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Nightmare on Wall Street? … Traders Were Spooked
Traders navigated a frightful reality Wednesday as the market sell off continued and indexes closed in the red across the board.
The Dow closed at 33,587.66 points to fall 1.99% (dropping 681.50 points on the day). The Nasdaq dropped to 13,031.68 points for a 2.67% tumble while the S&P 500 crumbled 2.14% to 4,063.04 points.
May is typically a weak month, partly from the adage of “sell in May and go away” along with a market tendency to be overextended following a seasonally strong run into earnings after the first quarter. This year there’s the added fear of inflation and a steady stream of freshly minted stimulus dollars moving through the economy.
News pundits are hammering the airwaves and digital landscape with cries of such elements undermining the economy and the stock market.
Whether or not the alarm over these factors is justified or hyped is a hot topic of debate. The reality is traders gave into fear and the selling hit the market for a strong pullback for the midweek session.
Was this really a “nightmare” on Wall Street… or an exciting new phase?
Simpler’s team considers this a trader’s market.
Every stock or sector needs to catch its breath, and stocks across many sectors are out of breath. The expectation is that the stronger assets will rebound for a renewed rally.
This isn’t considered a classic “buy the dip” environment, but a phase where opportunistic traders with the skill and experience can execute trades in any direction the market shifts.
Chart patterns and signals aren’t yet clear that key rally points have been met (staying cautious for further extremes). The market may need more of a breather before buying opens up again.
Traders are also looking for opportunities — long and short — from a bigger picture viewpoint such as countries and currencies. Sometimes to get into the action it pays to look outside the box… expand the trading plan.
There is much to this market that can fuel a trader’s optimism after realigning based on what the market is giving today.
We Saw: Continued selling across the market —
- All three indexes closing down
- Inflation fears, news hype impacting decisions
- Counterpoint seeing market action as growing pains
We’re Watching: Cautiously for hard signals to buy into the action —
- Working the short side with caution
- If bearish, make plans for quick exits
- Few setups as we hold for patterns to develop


- Whether variable rate N management based on management zones (that were categorized by a series of yield maps over time) would increase canola yield in areas with consistently high production
- Economic return and efficiency of fertilizer use from variable rate management of N
- Variability related to current soil test recommendations
- Digital elevation, landform and remote sensing data corresponding with canola yield
The major objective of this project was to determine if variability of nitrogen (N) fertilizer according to management zones (based on statistical analysis) would increase canola yield in areas with consistently high production. Factors such as the digital elevation of the fields, overall landform, and remote sensing data were also to be collected for analysis to determine patterns in canola yield. Fields were selected at seven different sites with one or more field-scale trials based on the availability of 3 to 5 years of GPS located yield monitor data to determine management zones. The management zones were then categorized with high or very high yields in the high zone; average yield in the average zone; and low yields in the low zone. Fertilizer treatments were randomly located across management zones, with either 0, 50, 100, or 150% of N fertilized recommended being applied.
The result of this project was a new method for variably applying N fertilizer based on temporal and spatial variability of historical crop yields, and this knowledge was made available to the public. It was clear that analysis with fields as a variable in the statistical model improved interpretation of the effects of management zones and fertilizer treatments, particularly for the year 2015. Yield zones and fertilizer management influenced canola yield in analyses but were highly influenced by variability between farms. The absence of differences between higher fertilizer rates across most zones indicated a need to revisit soil test recommendations.