Big recruiting news, and the status of Trey Murphy III, then spring football. “The Jerry Ratcliffe Show” with Chris Graham dives deep into a busy UVA sports week.
Jerry Ratcliffe established a reputation in covering University of Virginia athletics and the Atlantic Coast Conference in addition to many other sports during four decades, and brings to JerryRatcliffe.com his vast experience and knowledge.
Ratcliffe’s work has been recognized both statewide and nationally, resulting in more than 80 awards, from the Associated Press Sports Editors Association (first place nationally), the Virginia Press Association, the Football Writers of America, and the United States Basketball Writers of America during his career. He also was awarded the prestigious Earle Hellen Sports Media Award by the Middle Atlantic Section of the PGA of America for outstanding media contributions toward the promotion and support of golf, the PGA, and the Middle Atlantic Section.
Ratcliffe has been selected as the Virginia Sportswriter of the Year on four occasions by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.
During his career, Ratcliffe has covered national college championships in football, basketball, baseball, women’s basketball, golf, tennis, lacrosse, soccer, track & field, and cross country. He has covered dozens of bowl games and at least a dozen Final Fours.
He also covered eight Super Bowls and the Washington Redskins and NFL over the course of 16 years, has covered the Major League Baseball playoffs, NASCAR, and one of his great loves: golf. Ratcliffe has covered 10 U.S. Open championships, the Masters, the PGA Championship and numerous other golf events on the Tour and amateur events on the national, state, and local levels.
A Heisman Trophy voter since the early 1980s and a charter member voter of the John Wooden Award, Ratcliffe has served as an AP voter over the years in both major sports, as president of the Atlantic Coast Conference Sports Media Association, and created the ACC’s Bob Bradley Courage and Spirit Award, basketball’s equivalent to football’s Brian Piccolo Award.
He has also served on advisory boards for the First Tee of Charlottesville and the Virginia chapter of the National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame.
About Chris Graham
Chris Graham, the editor of The Augusta Free Press, an award-winning journalist and editor, is marking his 26th year in journalism in 2021.
An author of seven books, Chris co-wrote, with Jerry Ratcliffe, Team of Destiny: Inside Virginia Basketball’s Run to the 2019 National Championship, published in 2019, and also co-wrote a book on the history of University of Virginia basketball, Mad About U: Four Decades of Basketball at University Hall, which was published in 2006.
Chris is a sports broadcaster with experience as a play-by-play man and color analyst on ESPN3 and ESPN+ broadcasts of college baseball, college football, collegiate wrestling and women’s water polo.
In the spring of 2021, Chris will serve as the play-by-play voice on radio broadcasts for VMI football, marking his fifth season as a broadcaster for Keydets’ radio broadcasts.
He is a member of the Football Writers Association of America, the U.S. Basketball Writers Association and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association.
From 2009-2014, Chris was the play-by-play voice of the Waynesboro Generals, a team competing in the Valley Baseball League, a premier college summer baseball league affiliated with Major League Baseball and the NCAA.
The former co-host of ACC Nation, a syndicated radio show that ran for four years, ending in 2007, and regular guest host of WMRA’s Virginia Insight, Chris is currently a contributor to The Mark Moses Show on 95.9-The Fan in Melbourne, Fla.
Chris also served as a member of the creative team and on-air TV commentator for Awesome Wrestling Entertainment on AWE’s Night of the Legends live pay-per-view event in 2011.
Chris wrote a book on that experience, The Worst Wrestling Pay-Per-View Ever, that was published in 2018.
He is also the former co-host of Viewpoints on WVPT, a weekly news affairs TV show that aired from 2016-2017.


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Michel Foucault is one of the most preeminent theorists of power, yet the relationship between his militant activities and his analysis of power remains unclear. The book explores this relationship to explain the development of Foucault's thinking about power.
Using newly translated and unpublished materials, it examines what led Foucault to take on the question of power in the early 1970s and subsequently refine his thinking, working through different models (war and government) and modalities (disciplinary, biopolitical and governmental). Looking at Foucault's political trajectory, from his immersion in the prisoner support movement to his engagements with the Iranian revolution and Solidarity in Poland, the book shows the militant underpinning of his interest in the question of power and its various shifts and mutations.
This thorough account, which includes the first translation of a report edited by Foucault on prison conditions, will provide students in contemporary political theory with a better understanding of Foucault's thinking about power and of the interplay between political activities and theoretical productions.

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The husband of the woman with whom Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) had an affair asked Ensign for millions of dollars, he admitted in a television interview set to air Wednesday night.
Doug Hampton, who had been one of Ensign's top aides before leaving his office in April or May 2008, told political columnist Jon Ralston the wealthy Republican senator paid Cindy Hampton $25,000 in severance money when she left about the same time. In the interview, Hampton tells Ralston he asked Ensign for millions in restitution money.
"I used you for my own pleasure not letting thoughts of you, Doug, Brandon, Blake or Brittany come into my mind," Ensign wrote to Cindy Hampton. "I betrayed everything I believe in. I lie to myself over [and] over. I justified my actions because I blamed my wife."
"Doug has been a great friend to me over the years [and] I threw all of that away over wanting to feel good," Ensign went on. "I take 100% responsibility for my actions. Plain and simple, it was wrong; it was a sin."
Doug Hampton alleges the letter was written in the presence of Sen. Tom CoburnTom CoburnWill Trump back women’s museum? Don't roll back ban on earmarks Ryan calls out GOP in anti-poverty fight MORE (R-Okla.), a roommate of Ensign who has steadfastly refused to comment on his colleague's affair.
John Hart, Tom Coburn's communications director, released a statement Wednesday afternoon to the Las Vegas Sun.
"Dr. Coburn did everything he could to encourage Senator Ensign to end his affair and to persuade Senator Ensign to repair the damage he had caused to his own marriage and the Hampton’s marriage," according to the statement. "Had Senator Ensign followed Dr. Coburn’s advice, this episode would have ended, and been made public, long ago."
Ensign admitted last month that he had an affair with Cindy Hampton, who had been the treasurer for both his campaign and his political action committee. In the wake of the revelation, Ensign resigned his post as chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee.
Leaks orchestrated by Ensign allies pointed the finger at Doug Hampton, who the allies said was trying to extort money from the senator. Hampton sent a letter revealing the affair to a Fox News anchor, though a producer never forwarded that information.
Ensign's affair was largely overshadowed by subsequent revelations of an affair in which South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) traveled to Argentina to see his mistress.
But the two-part interview, set to begin airing Wednesday night on Ralston's influential "Face to Face" program, is likely to put Ensign in the spotlight once more. During the interview, Hampton said Ensign should resign from the Senate.
An Ensign spokesman did not immediately return an e-mail seeking comment.
This story was updated at 6:30 p.m.

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Your contact lenses or a sensor implanted in your brain could some day send health updates to your smartphone and even your doctor.
A new technology called interscatter communication that's being developed at the University of Washington would allow small devices, such as contact lenses, implantable sensors and credit cards, to communicate with everyday devices, like smartphones and smart watches.
"Wireless connectivity for implanted devices can transform how we manage chronic diseases," said UW researcher Vikram Iyer, in a statement. "For example, a contact lens could monitor a diabetics blood sugar level in tears and send notifications to the phone when the blood sugar level goes down."
Researchers at the Seattle university built a few proof-of-concept demos for applications that previously had been impractical or impossible to create. One demonstration was for a smart contact lens and another was for an implantable neural recording device that could communicate directly with a smartphone or watch.
The research is funded by the National Science Foundation and Google Faculty Research Awards. Google has shown particular interest in the technology and was conducting its own research into smart contact lenses that can test diabetics' blood glucose levels two years ago.
Using wireless chips and miniaturized glucose sensors embedded between two layers of soft contact lens material, the smart lenses were being designed to test blood sugar levels in the user's tears.
When it announced the research in 2014, Google said its scientists were experimenting with using LED lights in the lenses to alert users if their glucose levels were off.
The UW research could solve the communications problem for many devices, including sensors and credit card, as well as contact lenses.
The interscatter communication works by converting Bluetooth signals into Wi-Fi transmissions over the air that can be picked up by a smartphone or smart watch. That enables these devices, which have very little power, to communicate with other devices without any extra equipment.
UW's research team, which is made up of computer scientists and electric engineers, said that by using common mobile devices to generate Wi-Fi signals, they can use 10,000 times less energy than they would using other communication methods.
"That means that we can use just as much bandwidth as a Wi-Fi network and you can still have other Wi-Fi networks operate without interference," said electrical engineering doctoral student and researcher Bryce Kellogg, in a statement.
Aside from the medical applications, the UW researchers said that interscatter communications also could be used to enable smart credit cards to communicate with each other.
For instance, if two people want to split a restaurant bill, they might simply tap their cards together to share the information.
"Providing the ability for these everyday objects like credit cards – in addition to implanted devices – to communicate with mobile devices can unleash the power of ubiquitous connectivity," said Shyam Gollakota, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at UW.


In 2014, Kolkata actor/director Prasun Chatterjee was ready with his dream script. He’d woven a tale about the friendship between two boys in a village in West Bengal in the backdrop of the demolition of Babri Masjid in 1992. Chatterjee was aware that his film, without a song and dance sequence or stars, would be difficult to sell to producers. But he hoped to be able to convince at least someone. For three years, meetings went fruitless.
But in March this year, he abandoned the idea but not the film.
Chatterjee and a small crew travelled to the Indo-Bangladesh border in Murshidabad and shot the trailer for Dharmik, bearing the expenses from their own pockets. They put it up on the Kolkata-based crowdfunding platform Beeyodo, hoping to get potential viewers to contribute Rs 43 lakh to make the rest of the film.
“I am a great fan of Ritwik Ghatak and I believe strongly in the idea that he repeated often: It is a sin to lose faith in people,” says Chatterjee. “Now that there is a way to reach out to people directly with your idea, I decided to bypass the struggle with producers.”
The campaign started in July and so far, Dharmik has collected nearly Rs 30 lakh. The film will start shooting early November.
“Crowdfunding helped us in multiple ways,” the filmmaker says. “People helped us by transferring money, sharing the information with others and even contacting us and handing over money in cash personally. People transferred as much as Rs 60,000 online and as little as Rs 50.”
Like Chatterjee, Indian filmmakers with scripts that are unlikely to get traditional producers excited are increasingly going the crowdfunding route, says Priyanka Agarwal, CEO and co-founder, Wishberry, a crowdfunding platform.
Two feature films Rainbow Fields by Bidyut Kotoky and Out of Time by Arijit Lahiri are currently on Wishberry, hoping for funds from the general public.
Funding from fans
Approaching people to help make a film has a long history in India. Shyam Benegal made Manthan, a film inspired by the dairy revolution, using contributions from 5 lakh dairy farmers in 1975.
But with online crowdfunding, the numbers have increased manifold. Platforms like Ketto or Wishberry now see films looking for funding. Ketto’s last campaign, for the Hindi-English film Hindrapura directed by T Mohanraj, Jiya Rawat and Pratik Narayanan Kutty, ended on September 20 and raised Rs 61,000.
“Indians have become more e-payment friendly, accolade-winning filmmakers have inspired other filmmakers, big names like Illayaraja and Nandita Das have come on-board by campaigning for films like Punyakoti and the 2016 film Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Aata Hai?” Agarwal says. “Digital distribution platforms like Netflix and Amazon have helped in expanding monetising options. With every success story the cycle keeps rolling.”


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Following is a guest advisor commentary from color cosmetics expert Jane Hollenberg.
Cosmetics & Toiletries: In recent years, how has the color cosmetics industry fared?
Jane Hollenberg: The industry has done very well and continues to grow. Color cosmetics are fun, and consumers enjoy the effects they create. For the most part, the major trends we see fall into two categories: the natural look and the bold, dramatic look.
C&T: How do you, as a chemist, see these trends translating to (and from) the bench?
JH: Although no new color additives are available, color manufacturers have created new combination pigments and morphologies that have allowed chemists to respond to fashion. By developing more transparent, platy substrates like silica and borosilicate to produce pearlescent pigments, higher reflection and multiple color-change effects are possible, to add drama to lip, eye and nail color.
Other types of effect pigments have enabled the formulation of foundations to answer the consumer need for a flawless complexion that is “camera-ready.” Chemists formulate with translucent, light-scattering combination pigments, spherical particles, extra fine conventional colors and reflection pigments to make a variety of products that can be layered to create the appearance of “perfect” skin. Rather than the opaque, made-up look of traditional concealers and foundations, flaws can be concealed and color-corrected, and the face sculpted by multiple, thin translucent layers of primer, color corrector, foundation, shadow and luminizer.
C&T: What do you see as the future for color cosmetics?
JH: I’m not sure what the future holds. Regulations on pigments make it difficult to imagine any new pigments in the foreseeable future. It took the industry multiple attempts and some 30 years to get Carbon Black back. I think at the moment, it’s about finding creative ways to reconfigure the existing approved pigments.

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New PVHS principal wants kids to be proud
By Alex Headley
This year, Pinson Valley High School has a new principle, Dr. Terrence Brown. This will be Brown’s first time in the top seat but he has served as assistant principal at several schools.
“I want kids to be proud of Pinson Valley,” Brown said. “We can be a nationally recognized school. It’s an exciting school because it is so significant to the community. This is my opportunity to provide for the community.”
Brown worked as an assistant principal at Clay-Chalkville High School and Homewood High School for two years each. He also served five year at Gardendale High School. Before that he taught science at Clay-Chalkville for almost six years.
Brown’s main goal this year is to build excitement about the school.
“I want the kids excited to be here, that’s the big thing.” Brown said.
Brown wants to build excitement within the community at large as well.
“We have people in the community that are helping,” he said. “We just need more of them.”
To build that excitement, the school is looking to bring back tailgating at athletic events and is looking forward to community involvement in athletics.
“We have to celebrate academics too,” he said. We have lots of kids that can do very well. We have to project that outwardly.”
Brown said the job can he hard work, but is also fun.
“Education is the great equalizer,” Brown said. “Post-secondary education is important to this generation. Kids need to be able to transfer jobs. We have to build those basic survival skills.”
Brown is a native of Mobile, Alabama. Brown has a degree in physics but found his way into education after college.
“Education called to me because I had teachers that brought me along every step of the way,” he said. “You never know what these kids can do. I want them to have choices.”
Brown, a father of two, believes that everyone should have access to quality education. His parents taught for 35 years each.
“If we genuinely love children, even the ones that are hard to love, we can do good things.” Brown said. “We have to always treat people fair, with dignity and respect.”


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Wedding Boxes from Caroline Ross Photography
Caroline Ross photography offers beautiful hand made linen covered flash drive boxes with all the final images from your wedding day. All the images on the USB (up to 1600 images) have been fully edited and are ready for print. The couple also gets an additional 100 images to have extra editing on them (fixing hair, teeth whitening, skin blemishes and the odd bald spot), and those images are printed out on archival paper and added to the USB box.
Wedding Albums from Caroline Ross Photography
Caroline Ross photography offers wedding albums in a variety of sizes and include custom stamping on the front of the album. The pages in the shown album are soft and include 100 pages. Additional pages, up to 300, are available. Hard pages are also available, with a maximum of 80 pages. Soft pages are preferred for the large amount of images the album is able to fit and the simple layouts achieved when you have lots of pages to work with. Matching clamshell cases are also available, and come included in the bride and groom’s album. Shown below is an 8×11 album with linen cover, custom stamping and a matching clamshell case. A variety of sizes and colours are available and 2016 weddings will come with a USB case in a complimentary colour to the album.

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From their description: "Knit Top with horseshoe neckline, cap or elbow length sleeves and a seamless four-leaf-clover-shaped peplum."
Bust size, 30-55 inches. You measure yourself and play dot-to-dot to incorporate your bust, waist, and shoulder-to-waist-over-bust-apex measurements into the pattern.
Did it look like the photo/drawing on the pattern envelope once you were done sewing with it?
Were the instructions easy to follow?
Mostly. I had trouble in 2 spots:
1) Instructions call for 1/2" fusible stay tape along the shoulder-arm seams and also a 1/2" seam allowance. I wasn't sure if that meant I stitch on or off the tape. I asked the pattern designer, and she promptly responded, "I tend to lay the interfacing about 1/8" from the raw edge, and my stitching ends up on the interfacing." She also added, "...even if the stitches don't hit the interfacing, the interfacing still prevents the seam allowance stretching and I think would still work."
2) I didn't quite understand how to attach the peplum (instructions say "Near the slashes, peplum fabric and Top fabric will not align"), which left me wondering if I was supposed to pull up the peplum so that the point of the slash was even with the shirt waist (leaving little triangle "ears" of peplum above the top fabric) or if I was supposed to keep the top edges aligned except for the legs of the slash. This step from the sewalong provided the clue I needed - that is, the latter, with a tiny itty bitty seam allowance at the nadir of the spread-out slash.
What did you particularly like or dislike about the pattern?
Like: 1) It's an interesting looking top, flattering, customizable. It looks unusual, but not in a gawkish, costumey way. 2) The peplum length (size 30s) worked out really well for me (I'm 5'4"), but I did not hem it (used a serger to make a rolled-hem edge).
Dislike: 1) I'm not crazy about cut-on sleeves in general, but I thought I'd try this one. Conclusion - still not a fan, it looks a little bunchy in the armpits when my arms are down. 2) The long sleeve length ended at a very odd point on my forearms, and the lack of sleeve shaping made it unflattering. I chopped off 5 inches from the sleeve and hemmed by folding over and coverstitching. 3) The narrow, deep neckline looks a little odd to my eye. I would make it wider, next time.
ITY jersey (100% polyester) from Gorgeous Fabrics.
Pattern alterations or any design changes you made:
In her blog, the designer mentions possibly dropping the waist seam placement in short-waisted people. I tried that by keeping the narrowest part of the pattern in line with my true waist and then widening as I extended the length by 1 inch. This inexplicably looked very frumpy on me. I went back to the original length and attached the peplum at the true waist - so much better. Hard to believe an inch made such a difference, but it did.
As I mentioned above, I also cut off the sleeves, did not do the binding on the sleeve hem, and used a roll-edge hem on the peplum. In addition, I topstitched the neck edge (2-needle cover stitch) to stop the binding from flipping downward and topstitched the waist seam (1-needle chain stitch) to keep the seam allowance pointing downward.
Would you sew it again? Would you recommend it to others?
I might sew this again. If I kept the cut-on sleeves, I'd have to do a forward shoulder adjustment. I'd widen the neckline. Or I could modify the body of a TNT t-shirt pattern to match the waist measurement and placement and just attach the peplum to that.
I do recommend it, it's a flattering top for so many body shapes and sizes. I also like supporting independent pattern designers, and I appreciate that the designer was quick to answer my question.
Random other thoughts:
Random gusts of wind: Beware of wearing this on a windy day, the peplum flies up all over the place like the Marilyn Monroe subway picture. Wear a high-waisted skirt or pants underneath, unless you want to display your belly!
Cut-and-tape patterns: I think this is the .pdf pattern that has broken my proverbial camel back. I can never get adult patterns to really tile 100% accurately over dozens of sheets, and I think I'd rather spend the extra $ and wait a few days for a printed copy. I'm still willing to do .pdf patterns for kids clothing, but no more adult patterns.
Notions: I didn't realize fusible stay tape was something you could just buy on a (noncurling) roll in the desired width. I cut mine from tricot fusible interfacing, and MY GOD, that was a pain in the kiester to fuse because it curled like crazy. It probably took me an hour to apply the tape to the 2 shoulder seams.
Stitches: I used the "lightning" stretch stitch on the seams (first time using this stitch) and also finished all seam allowances on a serger. I hate my lightning stitch, it turns out. Horrible, slow, thread-heavy stitch, terrible to rip out. I much prefer a plain zig zag.
Negative ease in the waist: I was worried about the pattern note that indicated the waist was drafted with 1" of negative ease. Did I really want to emphasize my lack of waist by bringing the fabric in extra tight? But as it turns out, it doesn't seem to have any negative ease at all. It doesn't hug or bind, it looks and feels comfortable.
Peplum slashes: I made the peplum part twice. First time, I cut all the way to the dots and had no room left for the seam allowance. Second time, I cut 3/8" into the diagonal and had enough room left for a real seam allowance. When I serged over it, part of the serging went into the air, but I think the seam is reasonably secure.
Fun, flattering top! I am enjoying wearing mine!
More pics on my blog

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Can my pet catch COVID-19?
As a virus that originated in animals, there has been concern in the community that people could catch COVID-19 from their pets, but a JCU veterinarian says there’s no evidence of this.
James Cook University Head of Veterinary Science Professor Margaret Reilly said there have been no cases identified to date of pet-to-human transfer of SARS-CoV2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
“We’re aware of an international case of dog that tested positive to the virus in January,” she said. “Since then, there have been several positive cats and dogs around the world, as well as tigers and lions at a zoo in the United States.
“In these cases it is believed humans transferred the virus to the animals.”
Dr Reilly said there’s a test available for cats but it will only be recommended under very specific circumstances.
“Cats need to be heavily sedated or anaesthetised to take the sample,” she said.
Prof Reilly is giving a free public webinar about animals and COVID-19, including how we can keep our pets and their humans safe from the virus. She will be joined by Associate Professor Janice Lloyd, who will talk about managing pet behaviour when we’re working or studying from home.
The webinar is on Tuesday 5 May at 7pm.
Prof Margaret Reilly
Head of Veterinary Science, JCU

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This week, Lutron has surprised pretty much everyone by revealing a new smart lighting solution, called the Aurora Smart Bulb Dimmer. While a lighting product is pretty much par for the course with Lutron, the shocking part of the Aurora is that it is designed for usage with another company’s product line, Philips Hue. Through its participation in the “Friends of Hue” program, Lutron has set out to solve what is one of the smart light bulb’s biggest problems, the physical switch installed on the wall, which makes a smart bulb “dumb” as soon as it is toggled.
The Aurora Smart Bulb Dimmer is designed so that it works with, and not against the existing switches in your home. The dial, which installs over an existing toggle switch in your home, can be added in “2 minutes”, and more importantly, can be installed without any wiring. This is achieved by attaching a small base plate over a toggle switch in the “on” position. This base locks the toggle switch, which prevents it from being accidentally turned off, and the a dial piece is snapped on, covering the entire toggle portion of the switch. Of course, the dial is shaped as one would expect, a simple white circular design, and features a “hidden” LED, allowing for a clean look, avoiding the pitfalls that have plagued other attempts to tackle the smart bulb problem. Without any “extras”, the dial blends into the background of a home, and makes the entire installation look just like a traditional dimmer switch.
Since the dial, is well, a dial, it can be turned left or right as one would expect. These actions turn the brightness of the connected Hue light bulbs up or down, and enables a sense of finer control over the light levels in your home. Toggling the lights on and off can also be accomplished by just touching the dial as well, removing the need to explain how to go about using the lighting in a home to friends and family. The Aurora is powered by a small “coin” battery (CR2032), and the company has given it a life expectancy of “4+” years, but this will vary according to the amount of use. In most cases, we would advise those interested in battery powered devices to assume half of what is rated, but Lutron has proven that they know how to handle low power wireless devices, as evidenced by the company’s Pico Remote line, which seem to last pretty much forever.
Even though the Aurora Smart Bulb Dimmer was designed for usage with the Philips Hue lineup, there may be ways to get them to work with other brands. The Aurora uses the Zigbee 3.0 protocol for its connectivity, which is a standard that attempts to ensure operability between devices. Zigbee has been around for years, and is a favorite when it comes to low cost devices that communicate with a hub, and there have been many success stories regarding getting interoperability. So with this being the case, we are pretty confident that we could see the Aurora playing nicely with other ecosystems just a few days after launch. Also it should be noted that the use of a Zigbee bridge is not required, and the Dimmer can connect directly to 12 bulbs. This of course, means that the Dimmer can be used when your home network is down, which is a great thing to see.
The Aurora Smart Bulb Dimmer is available for pre-order now, and is set to ship in June of this year. The Dimmer will be available for $39.95, and after the initial roll out on the Philips Hue Store, it will be available at retailers such as Amazon, Best Buy and The Home Depot.
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The assumption has been, of course, that the Democratic presidential nomination in '92 is valueless. President Bush will be invulnerable, even running again with his dim vice president, so what is needed is the sort of candidate whose resume will be enhanced by a worthy loss.
Maybe it will work out that way. The dearth of active Democratic candidacies would seem to argue that view. But it isn't so farfetched to see quite a different outcome. First, let's look at the idea that the Republicans cannot be beaten:Bush's masterful handling of our victorious war makes him invulnerable, the reasoning has been. But the smart missiles already seem long ago, and now it is the starving Kurdish babies that are our image of the war. By the time we get to vote, that too will have receded.
What will be left, perhaps, is a sense that little was actually solved by the war. Saddam Hussein is still in power. So is just about everybody else who was in power before the war. Our friends are as difficult as ever, and our enemies as despicable, so what was it all about? It is not possible to predict what force the war will have in the minds of voters, but it is by no means certain it will be a dominantly favorable issue for Bush.
The party in power never allows a recession in an election year. Well, the Republicans would surely like to have that one be so, but what with squabbling among the nabobs who run monetary policy, and very limited options because most of the cards have already been played over the past 10 years, economic health may be beyond their control.
Make no mistake: The U.S. economy is crippled, and it's not just no-account poor people who know it. Anybody trying to get a job knows it, and anybody running a business knows it. If monetary policy intended to stimulate the economy has the effect of igniting inflation, this recession could be a powerful negative for the GOP.
The federal deficit, which continues to spiral under the "fiscally conservative" Republicans, will be important to some voters.
Finally, for all the growing registration of voters as Republicans across the country, and the president's popularity in current polls, the GOP remains in the public mind the party of the rich and the would-be rich. That is an image the Democrats could exploit.
If the Democrats continue to be a federation of splinter and minority groups, attempting in their fractious way to recreate Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, their nominee will simply be the next in a series of foreordained losers. While the two big parties each can manage to hold the full range of beliefs, even these hugely broad parties need a definition.
The Republicans are ongoing, but for the Democrats this is an era to become something new or cease to exist. The elements are there to create a "progressive" agenda that feels comfortable to those of us who have been around for a few decades or more, and yet be attractive to voters and potential voters who have thought more about the problems of their own lives than about party loyalties.
(Andrew Barnes is editor, president and chief executive of the St. Petersburg Times.)


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Festival Coach Hire
Manchester is one of England’s most famous cities and a major contender for the entertainment capital of the North if not of the entire country. This city became the centre of a musical revolution between the late 1970s and the 2000s with bands like Joy Division, New Order, the Smiths, the Stone Roses and Oasis taking the country by storm. Manchester also holds the distinction of being the northern base of the burgeoning Acid House scene in the late 1980s. A number of festivals are held at the city and some festival-goers choose the Manchester coach hire option to get to and from events.
Parklife Festival, Heaton Park.
Parklife Festival, located at Heaton Park in the M25 2SW postcode area, is a live music event held on the first weekend of June and featuring an array of artists working in different genres. The 600 acre park, once the estate of an aristocratic family before being sold to the Manchester City council at the turn of the century, contains Heaton Hall which is a grade 1 listed building designed by architect James Wyatt in the 17th century for the estate owners. Artists that have performed at this festival include Snoop Dogg, Grandmaster Flash, Grace Jones, Dizzee Rascal and Fatboy Slim.
Manchester International Festival, held all over Manchester.
The eighteen day Manchester International Festival, occurring in July every two years since 2007, is held in venues across the city and showcases the works of a variety of artists working through a range of mediums. Artists that have appeared at the festival over the years include Damon Albarn, Björk, Sinéad O’Connor and Massive Attack. The 2009 event included a collaboration between Kraftwerk and Steve Reich as well as an exhibition by the “grandmother of performance art” Marina Abramović while 2015 included a contemporary musical adaptation of Alice in Wonderland.
Festival Coach Hire in Manchester.
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Deadly Acrobatics Rule In Novel New Touch Fighter FlipChamps
From the indie developer behind the fantastic retro platformer Owen’s Odyssey comes a fascinating new fighting game called FlipChamps that blends strategy and reflexes together with touchscreen mechanics in a uniquely engaging way. This lo-fi battle of wits from indie developer Brad Erkkila uses a simple concept that’s one part Fruit Ninja and one part Street Fighter where players move around different parts of the screen by tapping on corresponding podiums in order to pick up energy for their weapon and jockey for position. At the start of each match players can pick from one of four weapons much like picking a character in a fighting game with each weapon presenting players with a wildly different strategy to employ. For example, the laser allows players to incinerate any enemy on a vertical space whereas the mine will force them to watch their step when they go to pick up energy orbs. While it’s currently only a single player experience with two great modes, one of which is a neat survival mode, the developer also plans to add in some kind of multiplayer component which should really open up this games potential. Until then you’ll still have a blast taking on the AI in this unique touch-centric fighting game.

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INDIA BATSMAN Suresh Raina has expressed his disappointment after failing to make it into the national squad for the upcoming Champions Trophy in England.
Raina divulged that he was expecting a comeback call as he had been performing well in the ongoing IPL 10. As reported by HT, the southpaw stated that he will let his bat do the further talking and reckoned that he is confident about making a comeback one day.
“What can I say now? It’s really disappointing and hurting. I was expecting a comeback call this time. I have been performing well and consistently, proving myself in the ongoing IPL season. Certainly it is not on the expected lines but I would let my bat do the talking as I am sure of my comeback in the Indian squad one day.”
The Gujarat Lions skipper has scored 434 runs in 12 games this season and although his side has lost all the chances of breaking into the top four, he wants to focus on the remaining two games and give his best.
“Right now I am focusing on my remaining matches in the IPL and would try to score as much as I can for the team’s victory. Wins in the remaining matches will lift the spirit of the team though we have already missed the cut for the play-offs.”
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And nobody told Elvis Presley what to do ‘cause he was a very strong person and we had a great relationship. And I took care of mine. He’d take care of his. And he didn’t let anybody tell him what to do.
- Colonel Tom Parker
From a 1987 interview on Nightline with Ted Koppel
Colonel Thomas Andrew Parker, the man behind Elvis Presley, died on January 21, 1997, exactly 14 years ago today. He was a man of mystery and his name is quite deceiving. It sounds like the moniker of a Southern gentleman. However, Colonel Tom Parker was actually Dutch-born and his real name was Andreus Cornelius van Kuijk. He was not a true colonel either. In 1948, then-Louisiana governor Jimmie Davis bestowed the honorary title of “colonel” upon him.
Born in Breda, Netherlands on June 26, 1909, he was the seventh of eleven children. As a boy, he worked as a carnival barker in Breda. At the age of 18, he immigrated illegally to the United States to seek his fortune. After a year in the U.S., he went back to Holland briefly. In 1929, when he was 20, he returned to America and found employment with carnivals. He eventually enlisted in the U.S. army and assumed the name “Tom Parker” in order to cover up the fact that he was an illegal immigrant.
Tom Parker began his army career at Fort Saffer in Hawaii. In the fall of 1931, he and another private were transferred to Fort Barrancas in Florida. It was then that Parker decided to go AWOL for almost five months. He did return to the military base until February 17, 1933 and was charged with desertion. His punishment was solitary confinement where he developed a psychosis. As a result, he ended up in a mental hospital and was discharged from the army due to his lack of mental health. After his discharge, Parker returned to the carnival circuit and tried to pass himself off as a West Virginian. He finally settled in Tampa, Florida where he became director of Tampa’s Humane Society and Tampa’s chief dog officer.
By 1938, Tom Parker was a music promoter and he was guiding the career of popular singer Gene Austin. In the late 1940s, he worked with country music stars such as Minnie Pearl, Canadian singer Hank Snow and June Carter. This ultimately led to his involvement with Elvis Presley. In August of 1955, Parker booked Elvis as the opening act for Snow and it wasn’t long before he took control of the rising young singer’s career.
Parker soon acquired a controlling interest in Elvis Presley’s management contract. By November 21, 1955, he had negotiated a deal for RCA to acquire Presley’s contract from Sun Records for the then-lucrative sum of $35,000. Elvis received $5,000 from the deal.
Under the management of the cigar-chomping Colonel Parker, Elvis Presley went on to become a cultural icon of the 20th century. Parker remained Elvis’s manager until the singer’s death on August 16, 1977. Parker himself died in Las Vegas almost thirty years after the passing of his famous client. The “colonel” was 87 at the time of his passing.
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From Romanzo Criminale to Suburra, books (and films or TV series) that have put the Italian capital at the centre of the crime fiction map.
Our series dedicated to the genre of gialli takes us through various Italian cities, from North to South, from the mainland to the islands. This time we go to Rome with our tour guide in this "Italian journey", Dr Barbara Pezzotti.
Gialli are Italian crime fiction books. The name comes from the covers of a popular Italian series of crime fiction stories launched by publisher Mondadori in 1929, which were yellow (in Italian: giallo).
Barbara Pezzotti is a Monash University lecturer and the author of the book The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction: A Bloody Journey, published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press in 2012.

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If the unarmed clash between Indian and Chinese military on the Ladakh plateaus in June 2020, and having led to the death of several dozen soldiers from both camps, did not lead to a massive military escalation between the two countries, it led to Beijing and New Delhi to review the deployment of their forces in this highly strategic region on the borders of the Himalayas. On both sides, from nmany heavy military forces have been deployed nearby of this zone of tension, so as to be able to respond, if necessary, to an attack in a short time. Thus, numerous observations made it possible to establish that the People's Liberation Army was deploying long-range anti-aircraft systems there, while, at the same time, New Delhi increased its air force demonstration missions near this border.
Recent satellite observations, however, have highlighted the intensity of the efforts made by Beijing to ensure supremacy in this theater, with important work aimed at facilitating the access and movement of troops in and to this area, such as roads and railroads, many infrastructures to accommodate these additional forces, and this while the exercises of the PLA on the Tibetan plateaus are now experiencing a density and intensity never seen before. At the same time, these same observations made it possible to identify very important efforts on the part of the air forces of the People's Liberation Army, with a view toincrease its presence and combat capabilities directly on site. In fact, 5 of the main aerodromes on the Chinese west coast have undergone, or are still undergoing, major works aimed at increasing their military operational capacities, while at the same time, 3 new aerodromes with long runways are under construction. on this theater.
Thus, the two main aerodromes near the Ladakh plateaus where the 2020 clashes took place, Hotan in the north, and Ngari-gunsa in the south, were added a new parallel runway to accommodate and implement a larger number of 'devices, as well as new taxiways. In addition, hardened shelters, to protect aircraft in the event of an attack, have been added, and air defenses have been greatly increased around airfields. Kashgar airfield, located further north in Xinjiang, has also received new hardened shelters, and has seen its infrastructure extended to accommodate heavy bombers like the H6, while long-range air defense systems, probably HQ9, were deployed to protect the site. At the same time, a new military airfield with a long runway is being built in Tashgorgan, on the border between China, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, strengthening the response capacities of the air forces of the United States. 'APL in the region.
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Citizens of Balti, Moldova’s second-largest city, will benefit from more energy-efficient district heating thanks to a series of investments from the heating utility CET Nord, financed by the EBRD and the Eastern Europe Energy Efficiency and Environment Partnership (E5P) fund of which the EU is the largest donor.
As a result, consumers now have more control of their heat consumption and only pay for the heat they use. The new technology will also reduce operating and maintenance costs, improving energy efficiency and cutting CO2 emissions.
The project is a collaboration between the EBRD, which has provided a €7 million loan and a €740,000 grant, and the E5P multi-donor fund which has contributed a €3 million grant.
Marco Gemmer, Head of Operations at the EU Delegation to the Republic of Moldova, said: "Launched by the Swedish Presidency of the EU in 2009, the E5P is bringing tangible benefits to the citizens of Moldova. The EU and several of its member states are the largest contributors of the initiative. This is one of the many ways the EU is helping to improve the quality of life in the country.”
The E5P facilitates investments in energy efficiency and environmental projects. Active in Moldova and other Eastern Partnership countries, the E5P is funded by the European Union (the largest donor); the Czech Republic; Denmark; Estonia; Germany; Lithuania; Norway; Moldova; Poland; Romania; the Slovak Republic and Sweden.
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Economics Analysis on Excessive Demand of Land Resources in Process of Urbanization
- 10.2991/emle-15.2015.32How to use a DOI?
- Economics Analysis; Excessive Demand; Urbanization; Land Resource
Land is the foundation of human survival. The sustainable use of land resources is the fundamental guarantee of human survival and development. And the sustainable use of land resources is the basis for sustainable development of social and economic, too. In recent years, with the rapid development of economy and rapid urbanization, the land resources which as carrier of urban space, is more scarce and get into many difficulties. It has restricted seriously the process of urbanization and the sustainable development of urban economy of our Country. Rational and sustainable utilization of urban land resources has become one of the hot issues and widely concerned by people. This paper has discussed about this issue and put forward to some countermeasures and suggestions.
- © 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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But the Supreme Breakfast Sandwich really isn’t new, it’s just a reincarnation of the chain’s Enormous Omelet Sandwich – which was widely criticized in the media during its original release in 2005 due to the sandwich’s high caloric, salt and fat content. Despite the criticism, by all accounts it sold well.
The Supreme Breakfast Sandwich features two fluffy eggs, two sizzling sausage patties, and crispy bacon topped with two slices of melted American cheese, all piled high on a warm toasted hoagie bun.
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The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) paid US$10 million to vendor RSA in a "secret" deal to incorporate a deliberately flawed encryption algorithm into widely used security software, according to a Reuters report that is reigniting controversy abo...
Even if Apple has few high-resolution iPad Mini tablets to sell in November, it will still unveil the new device this month, risking a repeat of last year's iMac debacle, an analyst argued today.
Microsoft and its latest purchase target, Nokia, have lined up big announcements on September 23 and October 22, both likely to involve some form of tablets.
Apple CEO Tim Cook is believed to have recently visited China to talk with local carriers, with the topic of conversation expected to have been market growth and the rumoured low-cost iPhone, dubbed iPhone Lite or iPhone 5C.
The second-generation 7-in. Nexus 7 tablet, which Google may unveil next week, includes two cameras and is expected to run Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean), according to leaked photos and video.
Apple promised to investigate a report that a young Chinese woman was electrocuted when she answered her iPhone 5 while it was plugged into its charger.
Reports are suggesting that Pegatron, who are a manufacturing partner of Apple, has announced plans to in increase the number of workers at its plant in China by up to 40% in the second half of this year
They're good enough for government work: The US Department of Defense has cleared use of devices running the BlackBerry 10 operating system and Samsung's secure version of Android called Knox.
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iPhone chip round up: Apple's low-cost iPhone to use Qualcomm's Snapdragon mobile system on a chip; Intel could produce chips for Apple, but Apple already designing products based on TSMCs 20-nanometer specifications; Apple hires for chip R&D in Isra...
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The nursing BSN at Hood College is ranked #9 in Maryland and #12 in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area on Nursing Schools Almanac’s Top U.S. Nursing Schools 2022.
Take advantage of the RN Scholarship Program. Our partners at Frederick Health offer up to $22,000 in financial aid for nursing students who agree to work at Frederick Health for a pre-determined period after graduation.
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- Hood College Nursing Handbook
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The Hood College Department of Nursing strives to prepare nursing students for reflective, culturally humble nursing practice through the systematic study of the liberal arts and the science of nursing. By promoting the exploration of innovative practices, the incorporation of technology and research, and the pursuit of knowledge and clinical judgement, we inspire nursing students to advocate for the improved health of the individuals, families and communities.
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Million Hearts® aims to prevent at least one million heart attacks and strokes by 2022. Since 2012, the national Million Hearts® initiative has coordinated cardiovascular disease prevention activities across public and private sectors to improve health across communities. Million Hearts® measures include the “ABCS”: Aspirin therapy, Blood pressure control, Cholesterol management and Smoking cessation. The work of Million Hearts® 2022 is to improve the ABCS to decrease the risk for cardiovascular disease. Hood College is focused on the measure of blood pressure control.
Hood College is a participating organization in the National Interprofessional Education and Practice Consortium to Advance Million Hearts®, contributing to The Ohio State University’s (OSU) goal of providing 100,000 biometric screenings across the U.S. by 2022. Hood Million Hearts® recruits nursing students who are trained as Million Hearts® Fellows and provide biometric screening and coaching to Hood Million Hearts® participants on our campus and in the greater community.
To register for Hood Million Hearts: https://www.hood.edu/hood-million-hearts
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PESHAWAR: A transgender person was killed and another was injured in a firing incident in Peshawar on Wednesday.
Transgender Association president Farzana told media that the two transgender persons were targeted when they were returning home after attending a function in Palosai area. The deceased transgender person was identified as Gul Panra, while the injured was identified as Chahat.
The injured transgender person was shifted to Khyber Teaching Hospital. Hospital sources said Chahat has received six bullets and her condition is critical.
Farzana said the assailants were wearing veils and they escaped after attacking the transgender persons. The body of the slain transgender person was shifted to Khyber Medical College for post mortem.
Police have initiated investigation into the incident. Police said it is ascertaining the reason behind the incident. It said the culprits involved in the incident will be arrested soon.
The transgender community in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa condemned the attack on innocent transgender persons and demanded immediate arrest of the culprits. They also demanded security for the vulnerable segment.
Taimoor Kamal, a social activist working for the rights of transgender persons, said in a recent interview with TNN that about 65 transgender persons have been killed since 2015, mostly in the name of honour.
Taimoor Kamal said most of the culprits involved in murder of transgender persons escape punishment due to weak prosecution. He said another big reason behind murder of transgender persons is so-called disloyalty in friendship. He said some friends kill transgender persons after accusing them of making ‘friendship’ with other people and they consider it disloyalty with them and then take ‘revenge’.
Taimoor said that being a human being, a transgender person also has a right to make friends according to their own free will and denying of this right is violation of basic human rights. He said that transgender persons are being subjected to torture and sexual abuse in KP regularly. He said many times transgender persons receive death threats and sometimes the culprits go ahead with their treats and take lives.
Taimoor said this problem can be resolved only if we give status of equal citizens to transgender persons and provide them justice and other facilities.


Brent Barnes, Pesticide Management Division
For some of us military veterans, returning to civilian life is a transition that requires a little help.
|Brent Barnes is assistant director|
Pesticide Management Division
Before I left the U.S. Army, I had the chance to participate in a wonderful transition program called Northwest Edge that helps veterans enter Washington State and federal employment. This led to a Washington State Veterans Fellowship, a number of informational interviews and job shadowing opportunities and, finally to the position I currently fill, for which I am very grateful.
But not every veteran wants to work for the state government. Some want to farm.
WSDA had been hearing about efforts around the country to help veterans transition into agriculture. We would occasionally get calls for information about organizations involved in this type of work.
While there was interest in sharing this information, most websites I found focused on recruiting veterans for vacant agency positions or linking to benefits available to veterans based on their honorable service. I believed what WSDA needed was a web resource for those who wanted to become farmers, ranchers, or find another way to enter the industry that we support.
The result is www.agr.wa.gov/aginwa/veterans - a website sharing links for a range of resources that might be useful to a military veteran seeking a future in agriculture.
Creating this website is one result of WSDA’s interest and intent to help veterans.
We can now provide an online resource that I hope will serve as a clearinghouse for subjects such as assistance for beginning farmers, small farm loans and grants, education, ecotherapy and mentorships.
I hope this small effort will help those who want to enter the agriculture industry, whether in Washington or anywhere transitioning service members relocate.


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Some dog lovers take their affection towards their dogs to the extreme. Some think its reasonable to spend up to $30,000 on their dog's house, or should I say mansion. People seem to spoil their dogs for their own enjoyment, I doubt dogs really care if they have a Hacienda or just a wooden box!
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Tracy and I awoke Saturday morning, wrapped in our blankies that we are much too old to need. We spent a little bit of time on Facebook finding people whom we had met the night before. Then, we got ready to head to Sioux Falls in order to get to our 11:00 AM pedicure appointments. After we were ready to head out, we decided we should stop at Country Peddler consignment shop downtown Brookings. Our thrifting adventure produced cute blue flats, a herringbone trench coat, a bright red purse, and a purple shirt dress for Tracy. It also caused us to be so late getting to Sioux Falls that we had to cancel our appointments to spoil our toes.
Instead, we decided to visit an antique shop that one of Tracy’s friends had recommended. It is an adorable little shop called Lost Marbles that is located in the building that The French Door used to be located in on Minnesota Avenue. We spent a lot of time trying on vintage clothing and making up hilarious stories about the people we found in old photographs. The trip did produce one of the coolest treasures of the weekend. Because I teach reading, I was instantly drawn to an old photograph of a girl reading a book. When I brought it home, my dad started taking the old frame apart to put it in the new one I had bought. When he pried the back of the frame apart, he found another photograph of the girl when she was a toddler! So, I ended up getting two great, vintage photographs for the price of one.
The rest of Saturday was filled with a scrumptious lunch at Nick’s Gyros with our mother. Then, we went to Hobby Lobby and the mall. After we were completely tired of shopping, we hopped back in the Impala and drove over to Brandon to spend the evening with my best friend Kamille and her family. Kamille is hilarious, and she is married to Kent who is a total nut, and they have a fabulous little girl named Finley who is probably the sweetest, funniest baby I know. We had a night full of laughs, singing, prank phone calls, gossip magazines, and Facebook. It reminded me of college when I would take a mini vacation to Flandreau, SD. Kamille and I would hole up in her apartment and have the best time together.
My Saturday in Sioux Falls reminded me of all the things I miss about that city. I love the freedom of having an abundance of activities to keep me occupied. I miss being able to visit friends on a whim. And I especially miss spending time with my sister. She is absolutely hysterical and can make the most normal activity into an adventure full of tear jerking belly laughs.
Missing Sioux Falls, but glad to be home on the ranch,
The Displaced City Girl


This is a developing story.
Here's the latest version of this story with new information: UPDATE: School bus driver charged in crash that killed Woodmore Elementary students
UPDATE: Bus driver Johnthony Walker, 24, has been arrested and charged with five counts of vehicular homicide, reckless endangerment and reckless driving, according to Chattanooga Police Chief Fred Fletcher during a news conference this evening at 11:30 p.m. Standing near the site of the Woodmore Elementary bus crash on Talley Road, Fletcher said five children died on the scene.
Fletcher said he could not say if any fatalities occurred at Erlanger hospital, and added that the driver may face additional charges in coming days.
No other vehicles were involved in the crash and the Chattanooga Fire Department was involved in extricating victims who were trapped on the bus.
The Hamilton County Department of Education confirmed there were 37 Woodmore Elementary students on board the bus. Their grades range from kindergarten to fifth.
Of the students involved in the crash there were five confirmed fatalities, six critically injured, six admitted to hospitals but not critically injured and 20 treated and released by local hospitals.
The Hamilton County District Attorney's office reported one additional fatality at a local hospital.
Families of the students who died on the scene have been notified, Fletcher said, but not all families of the children on the bus have been reunited with their families at this point. Emergency officials are working to reunite all families, Fletcher said.
Interim Hamilton County Schools Superintendent Kirk Kelly is at the hospital with grieving families.
Traffic investigators are still processing the scene and the National Transportation Safety Board has launched an investigation into the crash.
If anyone gave a student a ride to a hospital from the bus please contact the Chattanooga Police Department, Fletcher asked.
Six children have been confirmed killed in the Woodmore Elementary School bus crash, and several students remain in critical condition, according to the Hamilton County District Attorney's office.
The bus crashed into a tree off of Talley Road about 3:20 p.m. this afternoon. Five children were killed in the crash and one died at the hospital, officials report.
Chattanooga Police Chief Fred Fletcher called the site of the crash a crime scene during a press conference tonight, and said authorities are currently investigating what caused the crash.
"One contributing factor may be speed," he said.
The bus was carrying 35 students and 23 were taken to a local hospital, according to authorities.
It took emergency crews more than two hours to get all of the students off the bus, which was toppled on its side.
Two bloodied students laid on stretchers in a front yard nearly an hour after the crash receiving attention from first responders.
Others who weren't rushed to the hospital walked away clutching their parents' hands, looking dazed with cuts on their faces.
Chattanooga Police Chief Fred Fletcher called the crash "every public safety professional's worst nightmare."
"Our hearts go out, as well as the heart's of all the people around me, to the family, the neighborhood, the school and all the people involved in this," Fletcher said, with city and county officials at his side. "We assure you we're doing everything we can to help everybody be as safe as they can, get the care they need and get the support they need."
Schools will be open tomorrow and extra personnel will be on staff to help children deal with this tragic situation, said Hamilton County school officials.
Children's Hospital at Erlanger is treating patients and working with the families. Parents of Woodmore students were running up the street toward the hospital.
An announcement was made over the hospital public address system that the hospital was in a code triage.
Gov. Bill Haslam commented on today's crash:
"We've had a tragic event involving a school bus down in Hamilton County. We're going to do everything we can to assist in any way. It's a sad situation anytime there's a school bus with children involved, which there is in this case. We will do everything we can to assist in what I think is going to be a very sad situation."
Following the crash the portion of Talley Road immediately north of its intersection with Brainerd Road was closed to traffic.
Stay with the Times Free Press as more information becomes available.


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Macroeconomic Issues in Foreign Aid
AbstractThe macroeconomic rationale for aid relates to its ability to supplement savings, foreign exchange and government revenue, thus contributing to growth. This processes presumes a simple Harrod-Domar context in which growth is driven by physical capital formation. However, the macroeconomic reality of aid is more complicated. Three areas of complication are discussed: (i) the effects of aid on fiscal behaviour, (ii) debt problems and (iii) Dutch disease effects. In the long run, rather than merely filling gaps, aid should help close gaps, since reliance on future aid and foreign borrowing is thus diminished and economic policy autonomy is increased. Closing the savings gap entails financial and technical support for mobilisation of domestic savings. Closing the trade gap entails supporting a macro environment conducive to export growth, helping to expand and improve physical infrastructure and direct support for export activities, notably those of a non-traditional nature. Closing the fiscal gap entails support for increasing government revenue and improving expenditure management, which is the more delicate task since donors and recipient governments have to carefully balance the disadvantage of lower-than-needed government spending against the disadvantage of higher, and potentially distortionary, taxation.
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