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HOUSTON, Texas - Following a three-game road trip in which they went 2-1, the Owls volleyball team returns to Tudor Fieldhouse this Alumni Weekend looking to extend their three-game home win streak. Rice will host Middle Tennessee Friday at 6 p.m., followed by UAB on Sunday at 1 p.m.
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- The Owls return home following a three-game road trip to host both Middle Tennessee and UAB during Alumni Weekend. Rice is 7-2 at Tudor Fieldhouse this season and have won three straight home matches since their loss to Louisville on Sept. 19.
- Friday will mark the second meeting of the season against the Blue Raiders. Rice won 3-0 back on Oct. 10 in Murfreesboro to tie the all-time series, 1-1.
- The Owls will be facing the Blazers for the first time this season on Sunday. Rice leads the all-time series, 11-6, and will be looking for some revenge after UAB defeated the Owls in the opening round of last season's C-USA Tourney.
- In the latest RPI rankings of the season the Owls come in at No. 81, behind only Western Kentucky (41) amongst all C-USA squads. Rice's win over Marquette earlier this season looks better each week with the Golden Eagles checking in at No. 24.
- Through seven matches the Owls (6-2) currently sit in a third place tie with FAU in the C-USA standings.
- The Owls already have 11 shutouts in 2014 with at least nine matches left to play. Rice last posted 11 shutouts in 2011. Prior to their loss at UTSA, Rice reeled off four consecutive shutout victories for the first time since 2008.
- The Owls are off to their best 22-match start (16-6) since the 2008 campaign. That season the Owls went 23-8 and advanced to the NCAA Tournament.
- Sara Blasier currently ranks 16th in the nation in total assists (889) and is third in C-USA. With Blasier's average of 10.9 assists per set, the sophomore is projected to surpass 2,000 career assists this season.
- Jillian Humphrey is one just five Owls to have over 1,000-plus career kills (1,072) and 400-plus career blocks (469), joining Tiffany Carrethers, Natalie Bogan, Tricia Bowen and Tessa Kuykendall. Humphrey is only 31 blocks away from joining Kuykendall as the only players in Rice history to have 1,000-plus kills and 500-plus blocks.
- The Owls now rank in the nation's top 50 in six major categories: kills per set (23rd-14.0), assists per set (26th-13.1), team kills (30th-1,137), hitting percentage (35th-.260) and opponents hitting percentage (43rd-.163).


This module enables the student, to use computer modelling techniques, to analyse design solutions for a range of bio-technologies. Solid models linked to kinematic models will be utilised as well as finite element techniques.
Introduction to modelling and the role of modelling in bio-engineering. Including kinematic models, static structural, and transient dynamic models.
The development of a kinematic model using software such as opensim. The customisation of models and the measurement of forces.
The creation of a solid model of an orthopedic joint. The transfer of this model to a FEA package. The application of appropriate material models and the analyse of component stresses.
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Microsoft acquires Net-calling start-up
Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it has acquired a small company that specializes in voice communication over the Web, the second acquisition it’s made in that market in recent months.
The purchase of Media-streams.com, a 23-employee firm based in Zurich, Switzerland, gives Microsoft a set of business applications that tap voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology. VoIP services let people place phone calls over the Internet, usually at a discount to traditional phone services.
The deal, the financial terms of which were not disclosed, follows Microsoft’s acquisition of Internet calling start-up Teleo in August. While Teleo’s technology is aimed at consumers and has been incorporated into MSN, Media-streams’ applications are designed for businesses. Microsoft plans to link the software to its corporate instant message system and Office productivity applications.
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The standoff continued for several more hours while the suspect got out of the Hummer with one of his kids, leading police to think he was about to surrender. But then he got back into the SUV and shut the door. He repeated that about five times -- getting in and out of the Hummer.
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Begin with a monk in a monastery trying to save the scripture from burning from invading marauders. Then throughout history the bottle turns up and acts as a catalyst to unite couples in a way that they never thought possible. This is the premise of this collection of romance stories that are great for whiling away a few afternoons or for relaxing before bed.
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With the introduction of the new Emoji 5.0 standard back in March 2017, last year has seen a ton of new emojis. To be precise, a total of 239 new emoji characters have been introduced. Samsung with its Android 8.0 Oreo based Experience 9.0 has already provided all these new emojis to their users.
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What does the village hall mean to your village?
Village halls are a vital part of village life in the smaller communities of Suffolk and Essex.
David Emerson, chair of leading rural network ACRE, is to be a keynote speaker at an event in Suffolk this week, highlighting the vital importance of village halls at the heart of the community.
As part of a national campaign week to celebrate the 10,000 village halls throughout the UK, David Emerson and other speakers will stress that halls are particularly valuable at a time of increasing social isolation and diminishing of local services.
Being led by Community Action Suffolk, and to be staged at Westhorpe Village Hall on Friday January 25, the event will also feature talks from those involved in the recent regeneration project at the hall.
Community Action Suffolk engages with some 480 community buildings and village halls across Suffolk, which provide crucial hubs for social connections, networking, learning opportunities, celebrations, and community collaboration.
There are more than 350 village halls alone, of which 12 have been rebuilt since 2005 with many others being refurbished and upgraded to better meet the needs locally.
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Late last year Community Action Suffolk held its annual Village Halls Conference, at which trustees, operations managers, and parish councillors represented the large number of venues across the county. They emphasised the importance and value of maintaining Village Halls in rural communities and welcomed the news from Autumn budget of an £8m investment for village halls.
Pete Richardson, CEO of Community Action Suffolk, said: “We are delighted to be welcoming David Emerson to the region this week.
“This is a wonderful opportunity to have someone of such influence and passion meet with members of the community and learn about the valuable role our buildings play in life here in Suffolk.
“At Community Action Suffolk, we have been pleased to support a number of community building projects in recent months, including helping to leverage in £216,521 for village hall improvements.”
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In 2017, Jeremy Corbyn had just a handful of allies in the parliamentary party; he started his general election campaign more than 20 points behind the Tories; his own party’s central office was staffed by his internal opponents; and he controlled few, if any, of the levers of power within the Labour Party.
Yet he oversaw the party’s first election gains since 1997 and the biggest increase in its vote share since 1945, and he deprived Theresa May of her parliamentary majority. Meanwhile, the Corbynite ranks in parliament were boosted by the addition of charismatic younger politicians such as Dan Carden and Laura Pidcock.
Corbyn’s prize was the Labour Party itself. Within less than a year of the 2017 election, he had secured changes to the selection of MPs, the election of his preferred candidate as party general secretary, and the public obeisance of many of his former enemies. He came within touching distance of Downing Street in 2017, so imagine how he would fare in complete control of Labour.
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One of the many bad habits from those times that I indulged in while reading this book was trying to guess the author’s sources. Maguire and Pogrund have, I am certain, spoken off the record to almost everyone who mattered on both sides of Labour’s civil war. And in a major coup, the authors have managed to get as wide a range of protagonists as Richard Burgon, Tony Blair, Karie Murphy, Peter Mandelson and Andrew Murray to speak openly and publicly.
As you’d expect, the focus is largely on Westminster and the salaried staff at the top of the Labour Party and trade union movement. This isn’t a book about the history of British Euroscepticism, the origins of anti-Semitism on the left or in British society as a whole, the intricacies of trade policy or the consequences of ten years of public spending restraint, although those topics do, indirectly and directly, shape much of the book.
This is, ultimately, the story of a disaster. Many of the people Maguire and Pogrund spoke to have one aim in mind: to minimise their own share of the blame and to outsource as much of it as possible to someone else. This leads to one or two scenes that feel a little bit too perfect: I know that James Mills, John McDonnell’s first spin doctor, believed that Corbyn’s reaction to the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal – when he failed to condemn Russia – had cost Labour the election, because he told me so at the time. But I find it hard to believe that he really did kick a bin across the room and shout “That’s fucking cost us the election” when he heard the news.
It also results in a couple of eyebrow- raising (and strongly denied) anecdotes about Corbyn and his wife, Laura Alvarez, who surely refused to cooperate with Maguire and Pogrund. Alvarez is reported to have sabotaged a photo opportunity with ITV by demanding that her husband make her an oatcake, while Corbyn himself is said to have believed that a Commons amendment put forward by the Conservative MP Alberto Costa was in fact the work of the Portuguese prime minister Antonio Costa.
But, more importantly, the book contains a huge and detailed trove of revelations about Labour’s warring elites, from the jaw-dropping news that Ian Murray, now Keir Starmer’s shadow secretary of state for Scotland, almost became one of the founder members of the doomed Independent Group, to the precise details of how Corbyn’s decades-long friendship with his shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, was put under perhaps fatal strain.
Part of the book’s success is that the attempts by most of the participants to burnish their reputations fail. This was an era of Labour politics in which almost everyone involved deserves to come off badly, and in Left Out, they do. We are told that the strategy chief Seumas Milne is tactically astute but ultimately lazy, arriving late to every meeting. Labour’s deputy leader Tom Watson is simply lazy. The back-bench MP Gareth Snell convinces himself he must vote for a Brexit deal, working with Lisa Nandy and the Conservative chief whip Julian Smith to craft amendments, before going missing at the last moment again and again. The vast majority of Labour’s Remainers come to the cause belatedly and in a self-interested bid to save their own seats from the surging Liberal Democrats.
There are a handful of exceptions on both sides of Labour’s inner conflict, and the most surprising name on the list is Karie Murphy, who ran Corbyn’s office. Yes, Maguire and Pogrund report that she faced allegations of bullying, that doubts about her management style forced Corbyn’s oldest – but usually warring – allies Diane Abbott and McDonnell to band together to remove her, and that she had a tendency to believe that she could bludgeon her way through any problem through force of will. In one scene, Murphy declares, in a hush-hush meeting with Theresa May’s Brexit team, that “I’m just going to cut through the shit and tell you: I’m a negotiator.” This declaration fails to break a deadlock produced by immovable political pressures on both sides.
But reading about the challenges she faced, I thought: if I had to work with this bunch of jokers, I’d bully them too. The worst of the lot is surely Corbyn himself, who manages to combine indecision, stubbornness, and an unwillingness to deliver bad news in one fantastic package. I had many conversations with shadow cabinet ministers and close members of Corbyn’s inner circle convinced that their latest rough treatment at Murphy’s hands was unlicensed action. But, even when I was pretty sure that the order had come from the top, I had never really considered what it must have been like for Murphy. When she speaks to the authors about how she “never” went beyond Corbyn’s instructions, I felt more than a pang of sympathy: I appreciated for the first time how wearying it must have been to be continually tasked with doing the Labour leader’s dirty work. But perhaps she simply does a better job of rehabilitating herself than many of the others in this book.
Rehabilitation is also the central motive in the Guardian columnist Owen Jones’s This Land. His aim is the conscious rehabilitation of “Corbynism” as a movement and a moment in British politics, although he tempers this with what he sees as a no-holds-barred critique of Corbynism as an organisational and tactical force. As with Left Out, it is an account of the Corbyn era by someone who saw it up close.
The difference is that Jones was, as he writes, both an “observer and a participant”: not just someone who wrote about Corbynism, but someone who lobbied members of the party’s ruling National Executive Committee when they held the fate of Corbyn’s leadership in their hands. Jones had worked for McDonnell for three years; and had, prior to Corbyn’s election as leader, been the most prominent mainstream advocate for what we now think of as Corbynism.
Jones reveals early on his book that McDonnell offered him a role as an “unofficial adviser”, which he turned down, believing it to be incompatible with “journalistic ethics”. I know that Jones agonised throughout the Corbyn era about how to reconcile his positions as journalist-activist: bluntly, as he has admitted, he struggled to marry his view that Corbynism as practised was strategically naive and incompetently orchestrated with his sense of obligation to the movement and his beliefs.
Those beliefs are why, like Left Out, This Land is a story of palace intrigue, not particularly concerned with the structural forces underpinning the rise of Corbynism or the challenges it faced. Jones, for the purposes of this book at least, regards those forces as self-evident.
The biggest contribution of Jones’s book to our understanding of Corbynism is its confirmation that the essential parts of Left Out are true. Seumas Milne is indeed gifted but lazy, or, in the immortal words of Joss MacDonald, one of Corbyn’s speechwriters: “He doesn’t do his job. That’s a big weakness as executive director of strategy.” (Or, indeed, in most jobs.) Jones confirms that anti-Semitism in the Labour Party was a real problem, both before the Corbynites controlled Labour’s levers of power, and also afterwards, when they had no one to blame but themselves. And yes, Corbyn was hopelessly ill-suited to the role of leader.
Both books make the same diagnosis: that the Labour left would have been better off had McDonnell become Labour leader in 2015. Both books end with McDonnell – “Labour’s lost leader” as Jones describes him.
The shadow chancellor was certainly a more ruthless and effective politician than Corbyn. He was no more of an instinctive pro-European, but he understood quicker than most the need to pick a side over Brexit. And he moved swiftly to strengthen the party’s line after the attack on the Skripals. But being a good leader is not just about ruthlessness. It is also a question of morals and character, which none of the authors explore. This works fine for a tale of palace intrigue, but less well when the argument is over the merits or otherwise of a lost leader.
This Land’s chapter on anti-Semitism sums up the problem. Considering Corbyn’s 2012 defence of a mural consisting of a series of anti-Semitic tropes, and the way his inner circle handled the story when it erupted in 2018, Jones writes that, “It was a classic failing of the Corbyn era: resisting taking an unavoidable step, then suffering self-inflicted damage, and gaining no credit whatsoever for finally bowing to the inevitable.” But the central problem wasn’t the bad political decisions taken in 2018. It was that in 2012 Corbyn’s response to the removal of a mural with visibly anti-Semitic tropes was to ask, “Why?” This suggests he was either unable to recognise anti-Semitism when he was staring it in the face, or even that, despite his strong denials, he supported it.
McDonnell understood that Labour’s inability to demonstrate contrition on the racism within the party was a political albatross; and it ultimately contributed to the party split that did more than anything else to block Corbyn’s path to No 10. There is no evidence, however, that McDonnell understood that it was also a moral failing. The fact that as a backbencher he continues to appear on Zoom meetings with people expelled from Labour following allegations of anti-Semitism suggests that for him it was a question of optics and strategy.
Someone who shares or tolerates the same blind spot as Corbyn is not a “lost leader”. A book that argues he was has not understood the problem with Corbynism, which was about morality, as well as organisation and strategy. The biggest tragedy is that we all have to live with the consequences of its failure: a powerful Conservative government, and potentially ten years of Tory rule.
Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn
Gabriel Pogrund & Patrick Maguire
Bodley Head, 384pp, £18.99
This Land: The Story of a Movement
Allen Lane, 352pp, £20
This article appears in the 23 Sep 2020 issue of the New Statesman, The autumn of discontent

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Saudi Minister for Hajj and Umrah Dr Muhammad Saleh Bin Thahir Tuesday said collective efforts were underway to increase the number of Hajj pilgrims under the Vision-2030 by ensuring maximum facilities to Hujjaj and carrying out massive development projects at the Harmain Sharifain.
In an interaction with a delegation of foreign media here, the minister said more than three million pilgrims from across the world would perform Hajj this year. “This demands a very well-coordinated degree of responsiveness.”
The delegation comprising senior journalists from different Islamic countries is currently on a visit to the Kingdom to witness pre-Hajj arrangements being made by the Saudi government.
He said the kingdom and the custodian of the two Holy Mosques have the honor to host these pilgrims, adding that around three million pilgrims as routine visit Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah every year.
Dr Saleh said “We are bringing even more big developments costing $ 30 billion to host increasing number of pilgrims every year, which necessitates enhanced facilities and services.”
Elaborating development projects, the minister informed that Harmain Train project that encompasses Makkah Mukaramah, Medina Munawarah and Jeddah, would be a biggest ever addition in the transportation services for pilgrims, along with road network, buses and other means of communication.
This, he said, would save travel time and energy of pilgrims simultaneously. Moreover, a new airport in Jeddah that costs USD 35.0 million is also another dedicated service, he added.
Another demanding development relates to ‘housing project’ in which more than 500 residential units would be constructed, he said, adding this will help in accommodation management plan during the Hajj season.
Makkah’s current population is six million will eventually be added to the number of three million pilgrims during Hajj. This mighty mass will be managed by the government in a very systematic and technical ways this year.
The minister said “We are making Hajj and Umrah a ‘zero worry journey. If you lost your luggage, need health care or meet an accident, all these problems will be immediately solved,” he added.
‘Global Muslim Village’ will be a stunning project, reflecting culture of every Muslim country. “The Kingdom has a special project to build Global Muslim Village, at about 40 kilometers from Makkah,” he added.
The minister informed that Muslim Ummah around the world would establish their cultural sites at this place. They would also sell their own products, such as handicrafts etc.
There will be a metro service connecting this place to other sites and cities in next two to three years.
To a question by media persons, Dr Saleh informed that synchronized technological practices would be observed in shape of using smart communication technology.
Referring to modern smart phones and allied technology, he said “we are also attaching smart techniques to harmonize pilgrims. By 2030, Hajj will be facilitated with complete modern technology.”
Responding to another question, the minister reaffirmed full resolve of the Kingdom to ensure maximum facilities for the pilgrims with a highest possible degree of responsiveness in health, security, transportation and accommodation.
“We are making Hajj journey for all Muslims as comfortable as possible by creating an environment and atmosphere so that they will not feel themselves at strange place. They are doing Hajj not making a tour. When pilgrims are here and performing Hajj, they have hotline call with Allah,” he concluded.
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With a magnificent setting in the 22nd floor of the Emperor Building, itself part of the five-star Cinnamon Grand's complex, the luxury condo offered by Colombo Short Stay was an incredible place to spend our last night in Sri Lanka. Out on the balcony, with a bottle of red wine and a view that stretches over the Indian Ocean and most of the city, we couldn't have found a better spot to wrap up our journey.
The slow-moving, three-hour journey from Colombo to Kandy is one of the most spectacular train rides we've ever taken. The track leaves the smoggy metropolis quickly behind, and travels inland through regions of increasing beauty and altitude, until arriving at Sri Lanka's hilltop jewel, Kandy. Throughout the ride, we were captivated by the ever-changing landscape, and spent the trip poking our heads out open windows, or hanging carefree from the doors like the feckless punks we are (or, would like to be).
Immediately after visiting the quiet water temple of Seema Malaka, we decided to check out Gangaramaya. Built in the 1800s, this is the most important place of Buddhist learning and worship in Colombo. The sprawling complex is a bewildering assault on the senses. Packed with worshipers, tourists, clouds of incense, chanting, elephants (alive and stuffed), and a collection of everything even the slightest bit related to Buddhism, there is enough here to occupy a huge chunk of time.
Laid out in 1857 by the British governor Sir Henry Ward, Galle Face Green is a park separating the hectic life of Colombo and the Indian Ocean. The green is the city's largest open space and a popular spot during sunset, when hundreds of Sri Lankans come to fly kites, play cricket and eat ice cream.
In the middle of Beira Lake, the sleek Buddhist Temple of Seema Malaka rises elegantly from the tepid water. In comparison to the garishly colorful Sri Subravanian Kovil, which we had just finished visiting, Seema Malaka is a marvel of restraint.
Found on Slave Island, Sri Subramaniya Kovil is one of Colombo's most impressive Hindu temples. We were welcomed inside on a balmy February morning, and had a great time watching the ceremonies. When we left, it was with colorful dots on our foreheads and a beginner's appreciation of Hindu.
Walking around Colombo's Pettah neighborhood, you could be forgiven for thinking you'd landed in Tehran or Cairo. A bazaar with definite Middle Eastern flair, the Pettah is where Sri Lanka's multi-culturalism is at its most pronounced. The district has long been inhabited by Muslims, but a strong population of Sinhalese and Tamils contribute to an intoxicating mix of ethnicities in Colombo's most colorful area.
We had only walked about 100 meters into the seaside district of Colombo known as Fort, as far as the colonial clock tower, before having to turn around and walk back out. This neighborhood, the oldest and most historic in the city, has been a militarized zone since 1996, when a bomb-laden truck exploded in front of the Central Bank, killing 91 people and wounding over 1400. Although the Civil War has ended, half of Fort remains inaccessible.
Although the official capital of Sri Lanka is the nearby satellite city of Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte, Colombo is definitely the island's top dog. Boasting by far the largest concentration of people, industry and commerce, Colombo is a noisy, dirty, and vibrantly alive city; an ethnic melting pot both invigorating and exhausting.
Sri Lanka, the pendant-shaped jewel hanging off the earlobe of India, has had a number of names throughout its long history. Under British rule, the island was known as Ceylon. Arabs called it Serendib, the origin of the word serendipity, which hints at its beauty. And for a span of three months, Jürgen and I would be referring to it as "home".


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text: I have a 40 gallon tank that I have been in the process of setting up. I ran it bare bottom for at least a month, because I could not find a substrate I liked. I started out with floating plants. Then I saw some ludwigia repens in plastic pot, and after reading how hardy it was, I bought it, hoping I could keep it temporarily in the plastic pot until I got my substrate in. In fact, I did this with two onion plants, and a cryptocoryne also. The onion plants and crypt were fine. The ludwigia repens started to rot at the base in about a week, so I cut the stem above the rotting area, threw out the pot, and floated the ludwigia. About a week later, I got my substrate in (inert 3M colorquartz, T grade), and yesterday I planted the ludwigia in the substrate, and added a couple of Flourish root tabs. I'm hoping the ludwigia will not rot. This is a no CO2, low-demand plants only, kind of tank. Does anyone know why the ludwigia rotted when it was in the pot, and do you think it will do better in the substrate? I am also using a low alternating dose of Flourish and Flourish Iron.

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In the Audio Out sections you can select the devices that will be used for audio playback.
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In general you will use MME and DirectSound devices that use the same sound device. MultitrackStudio will automatically use the appropriate device.
The 24 bit buttons can be used to enable 24 bit recording/playback. It's recommended to enable this only if the sound device actually supports it, if it doesn't the sound device's driver may perform bad or even crash your computer in some cases.
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By Anayo Okoli
UMUAHIA—THE Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Umuahia, Abia State, has carried out two successful kidney transplant surgeries in collaboration with a team of doctors from University of Toledo Medical Center, Ohio United States of America.
The surgeries were carried out last week by the medical team led by Dr. Obi Ekwenna and both the donors and the receivers are said to be doing well at the hospital’s intensive care unit.
The kidney transplant surgeries were performed on a 37 year old businessman and native of Ohafia Abia state whose name was simply given as Mr. Oji and a 68 year old Medical Doctor and native of Umuahia whose name was identified as Dr. Charles.
A 57 years old civil servant named simply as Mr. Kalu donated the Kidney for Oji, while a 41 year old security man, named Innocent donated for Dr. Charles.
According to Oji, one of the recipients of new kidneys, he has had kidney problem for about four years.
Commenting on the transplant surgeries, the team Leader, Dr. Obi Ekwenna described them as “successful and excellent by any standard anywhere in the world” and attributed the success to the dedication of his team, FMC management led by its CMD Dr. Abali Chuku.
“Dr. Abali Chuku is a strong and committed leader. We met few years ago and he expressed the desire to have transplantation center in the South East, Nigeria, particularly in his FMC and I pledged to assist with my Team in Toledo”, Dr Ekwenna explained.
Accordi g to him, under their partnership with the FMC Umuahia, his team would work towards transferring skills and return to Nigeria to render more professional assistance including doing more transplantations.
In his remarks, the CMD, Dr. Chuku Abali said that the success of the transplantation has encouraged more on the hospital’s vision in Kidney Transplant Services with a target to provide an affordable and efficient kidney transplantation services in the South East and announced that hospital would perform al least 40 kidney transplantations in 2018.
Chuku however, solicited for effective collaboration in kidney transplantation from the public and corporate organizations and commended University of Toledo Medical Center in Ohio which he said is renowned for kidney transplanting.
“This university is globally known for kidney transplantation. After my induction into its Hall of Fame, I was asked what I would want the University do for me. And I chose establishing a Kidney Center”, the CMD said.
Source: Vanguard News

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The American Heart Association recommends eating fish – particularly fatty fish – at least twice a week on the grounds that omega-3 fatty acids benefit the hearts of healthy people as well as those who already have cardiovascular disease or have a high risk of getting it.
Research has shown that omega-3 fatty acids decrease the risk of arrhythmias (abnormal heartbeats), which can lead to sudden death. Omega-3 fatty acids also decrease triglyceride levels, slow the growth rate of atherosclerotic plaque, and lower blood pressure to an extent.
With so many benefits, why wouldn’t you want to consume more omega-3?
What is omega-3?
The term “omega” is used to designate unsaturated fatty acid families; saturated fatty acids, on the other hand, do not have an omega designation. Omega-3 refers to the family of fatty acids in which the first cis double bond (unsaturation) closest to the methyl end is in the third position. Omega-6 refers to the family of fatty acids wherein the cis double bond closest to the methyl end is in the sixth position.
Three types of omega-3s
Three types of omega-3s are alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). These are all members of the polyunsaturated family (PUFA), and they are considered essential because your body is unable to make them on its own. They play a crucial role in brain function as well as normal growth and development.
By the way, don’t be intimidated by their names. I still cannot pronounce them properly, and I use abbreviations when I talk about them with my clients.
Now, let’s take a look at some studies linking the consumption of omega-3 with good health.
The superior benefits of omega-3
The University of Maryland Medical Center states that omega-3 fatty acids reduce inflammation and might help lower the risk of chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, and arthritis. Omega-3 fatty acids are highly concentrated in the brain and appear to be important for cognitive and behavioural function, such as brain performance and memory.
In fact, infants who do not get enough omega-3 fatty acids from their mothers during pregnancy are at risk of developing vision and nerve problems. Symptoms of omega-3 fatty acid deficiency include fatigue, poor memory, dry skin, heart problems, mood swings, depression, and poor circulation.
It is important to have the proper ratio of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids in the diet. Omega-3 fatty acids help reduce inflammation, while most omega-6 fatty acids tend to promote inflammation. The typical American diet tends to contain 14 to 25 times more omega-6 fatty acids than omega-3 fatty acids, which many nutritionally oriented physicians consider to be way too high on the omega-6 side
Dietary sources of omega-3
Typical recommendations are 0.3 to 0.5 grams per day of EPA+DHA and 0.8 to 1.1 grams per day of α-linolenic acid.
These recommendations can be fulfilled by following the AHA dietary guidelines of eating two servings of fish per week with an emphasis on fatty fish such as salmon and herring. Plant food such as flaxseeds and walnuts contain an omega-3 fat called alpha-linolenic acid. It is easier for fish to convert alpha-linolenic acid from algae and other sea plants into EPA and DHA; humans can only do so to a very limited degree.
Although ALA is not harmful, you’ll ideally want to include the animal-based form in your diet as well. For those individuals who do not eat fish, have limited access to a variety of fish, or cannot afford to buy fish regularly, a fish oil supplement must be considered.
Why krill oil is better than fish oil
Krill – or “okiami” as the Japanese call it – are small, shrimp-like creatures that have been a cherished food source in Asia since the 19th century or possibly even earlier. According to Dr Mercola “Krill oil’s antioxidant potency is 48 times higher than that of fish oil. It also contains astaxanthin, a marine-source flavonoid that creates a special bond with the EPA and DHA to allow the direct metabolism of the antioxidants, making them more bioavailable”.
I have personally been consuming krill oil on a daily basis for the past few years, and my health has never been better. Of course, you should keep in mind that a supplement is only as good as its source and the way its processed. Dr. Mercola’s quality process is second to none. You can watch the video here.
A special note on the safety of eating fish
Fish and seafood are a major source of human exposure to contaminants like methylmercury and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). These levels are generally higher in older, larger, predatory fish.
The responsibility of regulating the quality of fish for human consumption is shared by individual states and two federal agencies. The Environmental Protection Agency regulates sport-caught fish, while the FDA regulates all commercial fish including farm-raised, imported, and marine fish.
The Environmental Protection Agency advises women who are pregnant or who could become pregnant as well as nursing mothers to limit their consumption of sport-caught fish to one six-ounce serving per week.
The Environmental Protection Agency also recommends that young children consume fewer than 2 ounces of sport-caught fish per week. The FDA recommends that women who are pregnant or nursing and young children eliminate shark, swordfish, king mackerel, and tilefish (also referred to as golden bass or golden snapper) from their diets completely.
In addition, they should limit their consumption of other fish to 12 ounces per week (approximately 3 to 4 servings per week) to minimize their exposure to methyl mercury.
The consumption of a wide variety of seafood species is the best approach to minimizing mercury exposure and increasing omega-3 fatty acids. Limit your consumption of farm-raised fishes because their contaminant levels are generally higher than wild water species.
At the same time, avoid larger fishes like shark, swordfish, and mackerel, which have the highest amounts of contaminants. Instead, you should focus on eating shrimp, light tuna, and catfish.


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There’s a lot of debate around the current Super Rugby format and former New Zealand flyhalf Andrew Mehrtens has added his voice to the chorus of criticism.
Guesting Fox Sports’ Super Rugby show, Mehrtens made the point that many others have made: straddling so many timezones is a little bit silly. And he didn’t mince his words.
“I think the competition is stupid at the moment. There’s no way, in 10 years’ time that we’re going to be looking at a competition that covers three massively distinct time zones.”
Mehrtens advocated for sticking to one region that has a vaguely similar timezone to help ease the stress of travel for everyone involved.
“Our best thing is to go just within this time zone here. It makes it a lot more logistically easy to manage for the teams and players. You fly overnight, a 10-hour flight to Japan, you can handle that because the time difference is not massive.”
He reckons doing away with teams from South Africa, Japan and Argentina could make rooms for teams from Pacific Island nations like Fiji, Samoa and Tonga to join the competition.
“In Asia and Australia and New Zealand and the (Pacific) Islands is where the future of this competition lies for us. The sooner we can get there the quicker we can develop it and the better.”
SANZAAR bosses met in London over the weekend and CEO Andy Marinos said that there was “robust discussion” which now requires even more discussion and consultation.
A formal statement on the future of the organisation, Super Rugby and the tournament format is expected in the coming days.
Some media reports in New Zealand have suggested that the tournament will be cut down to 15 teams with a side from South Africa and Australia getting the chop.

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Rousey vs. Carano set for UFC 175http://www.mixedmartialarts.com/news...t-for-UFC-175/
But tonight on a special edition of UFC Tonight, White joined the cast and officially announced that Carano had indeed signed to return to the UFC. And not only had she signed, but she would be immediately put into a title fight versus champion Ronda Rousey at UFC 175 as the co-main event.
UFC 175 is headlined by a middleweight title fight between Chris Weidman and Lyoto Machid and takes place in Las Vegas on July 5th.
“This is a huge moment for UFC and especially women’s MMA. We feel like this could be the most watched UFC fight ever,” said White.
Carano has been out of mixed martial arts since 2009, a loss to Cris Cyborg. Despite the layoff, she is being thrust directly into the title fight as the UFC likely did not want to risk devaluing the fight should Carano take and lose a warmup fight.
And if that wasn’t enough, White then announced that the two would also square off in the first ever, ‘bikinis only, jello MMA match.’ The UFC already received approval from the NSAC to hold this special rules match.


I came back yesterday at noon from the first test with all the equipment. As expected, the weather was a bit crappy, but quite ok (cloudy, no chance of meatballs, little rain). I’m still sick, probably due to the mounting stress, but I survived 🙂 I didn’t go very far though, but I’m happy to have maintained an average speed above 19km/h, or 12m/h. That was unexpected.
Adding the trailer, with almost all of the equipment (missing a couple kilos only) was the main test. The trailer itself is already 6 kilos, and the equipment about 12, by the last count. That’s a lot of weight to drag on the road ! I was quite apprehensive of the result in this area. The first couple hours were tiring for sure, and I could definitely feel I had to put in more power to progress. But I was able to make it through the few slopes I encountered, by changing gear often enough. Then, after this initial period, it was much easier. On the second day, I was accustomed to the trailer and its weight, and the increased effort it was requiring at all times. However, I’m not ashamed to say I will walk up the bigger slopes ! 🙂
Another point on the trailer is, as I’ve read everywhere, you forget about it while biking. It doesn’t affect the bike handling, the air resistance, or the balance. These were the main points that made me go against the panniers. It also doesn’t change the width of the bike, and you can go through the same places.
I had already tested the bike a bit the previous day, but this time I logged 120kms / 80 miles in a couple of days, and I went through all kinds of roads, including a forrest path and a busy, albeit large, road. I have a few quirks to correct by going back to the shop, especially on the gears switch, but it’s going quite comfortably. The butterfly handlebar also needs some getting used to, as it’s much lower than the handle on my previous bike. I sold said bike yesterday afternoon, and using it again was feeling like riding a wooden horse toy ! This new bike is definitely higher quality.
A point I didn’t expect to encounter is that the U-lock is almost useless outside of a city. I need to have the bike close to a thin post to use it. Trees don’t fit that description. So, I guess I’ll have to carry the older chain I have on top of the lock. Maybe I’ll get a newer one in the states.
Another point I tested was of course camping ! I have done no camping in the last 25 years, and boy did it evolve ! Here I am setting up the tent :
As far as I can remember, setting up a tent in the 80s was a pain, it was complex, and very long. Now you can do it, very quietly, in less than 10 minutes, without even thinking about it. Well I still have to progress though, as I’ve put the tarp cover upside down, and probably didn’t fasten it correctly. Still, the tent was up, and I was able to sleep in it 🙂
Putting everything back in the trailer is a bit longer, of course. It took me about one hour to roll everything back into place, in no hurry. It can probably be reduced to half an hour, maybe.
But mostly, I was happy to ride in this field test, as I was finally going from point A to point B – even if the next day I was coming back to point A ! It was more interesting to push forward, even getting lost along the way, rather than going around in a circle 🙂


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Duluth Boat, Sports, Travel, RV Show Kicks Off
Some vendors have gone to the birds.
DULUTH, Minn.- You know spring is almost near when the Boats, Sports, Travel and RV Show comes to the DECC.
The 53rd Annual Event opened Wednesday night, and will continue through Sunday.
There are dozens of vendors, from archery and hunting gear, to everything you need to head out on the lake.
FOX 21 News also has a booth, we encourage you to stop by and say hello.
Some of the vendors are for the birds.
New this year is “Extreme Raptors,” showcasing 16 different birds of prey, like a Bald Eagle, Falcons, and Vultures.
Sometimes, they catch people off-guard.
“They think it’s a taxidermy display of stuffed birds,” said Jonathan Wood, Master Falconer. “Then they see a bird turning its head or blinking an eye and they’re starting to catch on that these are live birds of prey. And they look; it looks amazing to see them sitting here so calmly.”
“They have a good trainer,” he added, winking.
Behind him, a falcon squawked in agreement.


A recently published US study finding that women who drink fluoridated water have lower IQ babies is being panned by a Bay of Plenty Medical Officer of Health Dr Neil de Wet, while being promoted by fluoride opponents.
Fluoride Free New Zealand says the results mean the 23 New Zealand councils that still fluoridate drinking water should stop using it immediately in order to protect the brains of the unborn.
Dr Neil de Wet says the study referred to is poor quality, has limited scientific value and is largely irrelevant to understanding issues regarding safety and effectiveness of water fluoridation.
“The safety of water fluoridation has been rigorously assessed many times over the last 60 years. There is a very strong scientific consensus and body of evidence that water fluoridation is safe and effective,” says Neil.
“It is very unlikely that the Bashash paper will withstand scientific scrutiny or make any meaningful contribution to this scientific understanding of the safety of water fluoridation.”
The study published on Tuesday in the US Government’s Environmental Health Perspectives finds that children born to mothers exposed to fluoride while pregnant, have significantly lower IQ scores.
This is particularly relevant to New Zealand where half of the population is currently subjected to fluoridation, says Fluoride Free New Zealand National Coordinator and Media Spokesperson, Mary Byrne.
Slamming Neil de Wet’s comment that the study is “poor quality”, Mary says the study was published in Environmental Health Perspectives, a monthly peer-reviewed journal of research and news published with support from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The study was conducted by a team of scientists from University of Toronto, University of Michigan, McGill University, Indiana University, Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Harvard School of Public Health, by a group of researchers who have produced over 50 papers on the cognitive health of children in relationship to environmental exposures.
It was funded by the US Government’s National Institute of Health and was a multi-million dollar study. This was the group’s first study of fluoride – their other studies mostly dealing with lead, mercury and other environmental neurotoxins.
This study offers confirmation of previous studies in Mexico, China and elsewhere, says Mary. Some of those studies had higher fluoride exposures than are commonly found in fluoridating countries, but many did not.
The sole study in a country with artificial water fluoridation is by Dunedin dentist Jonathan Broadbent. “That study found no association between water fluoridation and IQ and was trumpeted by fluoridation defenders,” says Mary. “But that study was shown to have almost no difference in total fluoride intake between the children with fluoridated water and those with non-fluoridated water, since at least half of the children in the non-fluoridated area were given fluoride supplements.
“This left only a small proportion of the study children without substantial fluoride exposure. Nor did this study look at maternal fluoride exposure during pregnancy, which could be the most vulnerable time of exposure.”
Neil also recommends the Broadbent study as a ‘recent high quality study by the University of Otago’ which has provided strong evidence that water fluoridation in New Zealand does not have an adverse effect on IQ. (Broadbent, et al 2015 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24832151)
The Ministry of Health recommended 1ppm until the 1990s when it reduced to a range from 0.7ppm to 1ppm, with a target of 1ppm. The US Human and Health Services have directed a maximum of 0.7ppm for fluoridation.
The paper also reports that in the USA, which is 70 per cent fluoridated, urine fluoride ranges from about 0.5 to 1.5 mg/L which fully overlaps the range found in the Mexican study.
“The child of a mother who was drinking water with 0.85ppm fluoride would be predicted to have 5 IQ lower IQ points than if the mother had drunk water with close to zero fluoride in it. This obviously has huge consequences for New Zealand children,” says Mary.
“Pregnant women in New Zealand in fluoridated areas likely have similar levels of urine fluoride as those in the Mexican study. Urine fluoride reflects total fluoride intake from all sources, not just fluoridated water.
“The study authors are cautious in their conclusions, as is common for scientists. But the implications of this study are enormous. There have been 58 other human studies looking at fluoride exposure and harm to the brain – 51 of them have found an association.”
*Original article online at http://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/163543-disagreement-over-fluoride-iq-study.html


Dont know how to get pads out of rear calipers without taking entire caliper off. Am I missing something simple? How do I get the pins out to put new pads in? I've done brakes on everything from a 71 Duster to an 05 Honda Pilot. This darned car makes me feel like an idiot. Wish I'd never bought it and now I'm stuck with it for a while. Brakes are a horror show. Front jerks to the left if you press hard and everything is grinding, squealing. HELP!!


|Representative of UN Women in Vietnam Elisa Fernandez Saenz, wearing a Vietnamese ao dai, delivers a speech at the event (Photo: VNA)
More than 100 female diplomats, representatives of international organizations in Hanoi, and spouses of foreign ambassadors in Vietnam gathered at the event.
The event, entitled Following the Traces of Silk, has been organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) in collaboration with the Vietnam Sericulture Research Centre (VIETSERI) and the Vietnamese silk brand De Silk to celebrate International Women’s Day. The event also aims to introduce to special guests the process of making Vietnamese silk.
The UN officer also said the Vietnamese government demonstrated a high commitment to placing culture at the heart of its ambitious development trajectory.
Delivering a speech at the event, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Thi Thu Hang said that since the special day international Women's Day was founded 113 years ago, the international community had made great strides in protecting and upholding the role and contribution of women.
At the event, the participants also had a chance to learn about the origin and development of Vietnamese silk weaving craft through a demonstration from the founder of the silk brand De Silk, Van Hang.


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Fountain pens have a long and fascinating history, dating back to the earliest days of writing instruments. From simple dip pens to the intricate and beautifully designed pens of today, fountain pens have evolved dramatically over time. In this blog post, we will take a closer look at the history of fountain pens, exploring their evolution and the innovations that have made them what they are today.
2. Evolution of Fountain Pens
Fountain pens have their roots in the dip pens of ancient times. Dip pens, as their name suggests, required the user to dip the nib into an inkwell to write. The fountain pen, on the other hand, was designed with a reservoir to hold the ink, eliminating the need to constantly dip the pen. This marked a major step forward in the history of writing instruments.
As fountain pens became more popular, innovations in their design and functionality began to emerge. One of the biggest innovations was the development of the fountain pen nib. The nib, which is the part of the pen that comes into contact with the paper, has undergone a great deal of development over the years. Today, fountain pen nibs are available in a variety of shapes, sizes, and materials, allowing users to choose a pen that best fits their needs and preferences.
Another key innovation in the history of fountain pens was the introduction of the cartridge system. This system allowed for much easier and cleaner refilling of the pen, as the user simply had to replace the cartridge when the ink ran out. This was a major step forward from the old-fashioned inkwells, and made fountain pens much more practical and convenient to use.
3. Fountain Pens in Modern Times
Despite the many technological advancements of the modern world, fountain pens have managed to maintain their popularity and continue to be widely used. In recent years, there has been a revival of calligraphy, with many people rediscovering the beauty and elegance of writing with a fountain pen. This has led to an increased interest in vintage fountain pens, with many collectors seeking out these beautiful and historic writing instruments.
In conclusion, fountain pens have a long and fascinating history, from their earliest roots as dip pens to the modern innovations of today. Despite the many advancements in technology, fountain pens continue to be widely used and remain an important part of our cultural heritage. Whether you are a seasoned calligrapher or simply a lover of fine writing instruments, fountain pens are sure to captivate and inspire.

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Undergraduate Module Descriptor
ANT3023: Theory and Methods of Food Preservation
This module descriptor refers to the 2022/3 academic year.
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Sue Shephard, Pickled, Potted and Canned: How the Art and Science of Food Preserving Changed the World, Simon and Schuster, 2001.
Harold McGee, McGee on Food and Cooking: An Encyclopedia of Kitchen Science, History and Culture, Hodder & Stoughton, 2004.
The Gardeners and Farmers of Terre Vivante, Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning: Traditional Techniques Using Salt, Oil, Sugar, Alcohol, Vinegar, Drying, Cold Storage and Lactic Fermentation, Chelsea Green Publishers Co, 2007.
Sandor Ellix Katz, The Arts of Fermentation: An In-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes from Around the World, Chelsea Green Publishing Co., 2012.
Andrew Whitley, Bread Matters: Why and How to Make Your Own, Fourth Estate, 2009.
Stanley Marianski and Adam Marianski, Curing and Smoking Fish, Book Magic LLC, 2014.
Michael Ruhlman and Brian Polcyn, Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking and Curing, W.W. Norton & Company, 2013.
Paul Kindstedt, American Farmstead Cheese: The Complete Guide to Making and Selling Artisan Cheeses (2005)
Andrew Lea, Craft Cider Making, Third Edition, The Crowood Press Limited, 2015.


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Bollywood star Alia Bhatt has slammed local news reports of her pregnancy.
The reports also suggested that the actress planned her pregnancy in a way that doesn’t affect any of her commitments.
Expressing disappointment over the coverage, Bhatt wrote on Instagram: “We still live in some people’s heads.
The report also stated that the Gangubai Kathiawadi star is currently in the UK and her husband “might go” and “bring his wife home”.
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Re: Dehumidifier water
There's a company here that sells a system to get "Pure Water From Air".
It's actually a converted dehumidifier with a plastic storage tank and a
little pump to deliver the water to a tap. They advertise as having local
health department approval so I guess its safe to drink, and probably for
At 08:33 AM 6/1/2001 EDT, you wrote:
>It seems to me that taking dehumidifier water and running it through one of
>the off-the-shelf tap water filters (Brita, etc...) would remove virtually
>all contaminants down to an acceptable level? Comments? I think about
>every time I empty my dehumidifier collector.
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The UK winner of a £121.3m EuroMillions jackpot – the third biggest prize of its kind paid out to a British lottery player – has decided to remain anonymous.
Camelot, which runs the lottery, said no details would be released about the person who won the fortune in Tuesday’s draw.
Andy Carter, a lottery spokesman, said: “It is great to be able to help this ticket-holder celebrate their amazing life-changing prize. They are the third biggest winner this country has ever seen and we will now support them as they begin to enjoy their stunning win.”
Last year UK players won or shared seven EuroMillions jackpots. In July 2011, Colin and Chris Weir became Europe’s biggest lottery winners when they scooped more than £161m, and in August 2012 Adrian and Gillian Bayford, from Suffolk, took home more than £148m.
This month a cross-party committee of MPs said the Gambling Commission should force Camelot to change the way it runs the national lottery to ensure more money goes to good causes.
A report by the public accounts committee said the money raised by the lottery for charitable causes had risen by 2% between 2009-10 and 2016-17, while Camelot’s annual profits had soared by 122% to £71m over the same period.
The MPs also said the lottery licence, which runs until 2023, was overly long and inflexible.


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Managing Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour
The parish council set up a working group to look at crime and behaviour that impacts on the lives of residents. This was prompted by the increase of visitors to Eynsford during the pandemic and lockdown period whilst options for getting out and about were limited.
We have reviewed particular areas of concern, and have consulted with Kent Police about the best ways in which to report and manage crime and anti-social behaviour.
Areas we have investigated are as follows:
- Lack of Social Distancing (particularly on Riverside and around the ford): we will be putting up additional signage about this.
- Anti-social behaviour: we have obtained advice from Kent Police which is attached here . Please report all incidents to the police.
- Lack of Toilet Facilities: we will work with local businesses such as the Tea Rooms to provide toilet facilities for visitors.
- Littering and Rubbish: An additional bin was installed on Riverside in the autumn to help to deal with the quantity of litter left at Riverside during the summer months. We are also lobbying Sevenoaks District Council about bins to separate recycling from general waste.
- Use of BBQs: signage is already up on Riverside. We will see whether this can be improved. Police have been informed about the byelaws.
- Misuse of river by 4x4s and horses: we are re-installing the chain across the river and will continue to monitor the situation, involving the police if necessary.
- Nuisance Illegal Parking: We have worked with SDC to create 'no loading/waiting' zones at areas at Riverside that suffer from illegal parking which often causes blockages. This has been approved and will be installed in April 2021.
- Drug use: reports of drug use should be sent to the police. A leaflet about this is included here.
- Local Watch Schemes: we discussed how to raise general awareness of crime in the village and how to encourage reporting and sharing of information. We have set out our ideas in more detail below.
Here is a useful presentation provided by the police about different types of crime and how to report incidents you may witness. Reporting is important, event for minor incidents, as this helps the police to join the dots and see patterns of crime. More reports of crime also bring more policing. Crime Awareness Campaign
Here is a report from our local police officers for 2020-2021.
Local 'Watch' Groups
We would like to encourage YOU to set up local groups within the village to monitor and report crime. We know that some streets already have WhatsApp or email groups that they use to share information. This is a great way to share information about crime or suspicious activity. It would also be great if your group leader could be in touch with neighbouring streets/areas, so that the information is 'passed along the chain'.
Important things to consider:
- Ask permission of people in your group to use their phone number or email address as it may be visible to others.
- Report all incidents to the police using 999 or 101 as appropriate.
- Communicate with the next group in case the criminals are working through the village.
- If people in your group have CCTV on their properties this information might be useful to the police.
- Let us know if you have set up a group (or have one already)
- Not everyone is online, or has a smartphone. Please be prepared to share information with some residents in other ways.


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The Fish and the Ring
ONCE upon a time there was a rich
baron in the north of England. He was a great magician and knew everything
that was going to happen in the future. So one day, when his little son was
four years old, he looked into his magic books to see the future of his son.
And he found out that his son would be married to a poor girl who had just
been born 1 in the city of York. The baron knew that the
father of the little girl was very, very poor, and he had five children
already. So the baron got on to his horse and rode to York. He saw the man as
he passed by his house. The poor father was sitting by the door, sad and
unhappy. So the baron got down off his horse, went up to the house and said,
"What is the matter, my good man?"
And the man said, "I have five
children already, and now the sixth has just been born. Where can I get the
bread to fill all their mouths?"
"If that is your trouble, I can help
you," said the baron, "I'll take away the last little baby, and you won't have
to think about it."
"Thank you very much, sir," said the
man, and he went in and brought out a baby girl and gave her to the baron. The
baron got on to his horse and rode away with the baby. Then as he rode by the
bank of the River Ouse, he threw the child into the river and rode off to his
But the baby girl did not sink. Her
clothes kept her up for a time, and she floated till she was carried to the
bank just in front of a fisherman's little house. The fisherman found her, and
he felt pity for the child. 2 He took it into his house and
gave it to his wife. So the little girl lived with the fisherman and his wife
till she was fifteen years old. She was now a beautiful young girl.
One day it happened that the baron and
some of his men were hunting along the banks of the River Ouse. It was a hot
day, and they wanted to drink. So they stopped at the fisherman's house and
asked for some water. The girl came out to give them water. They all noticed
her beauty, and one of them said to the baron, "You can read fates,
3 baron. Who will she marry? What do you think?"
"Oh, that's easy to guess," said the
baron, "some villager. Come here, girl, and tell me on what day you were
"I don't know, sir. I was picked up
just here by the river about fifteen years ago," said the girl.
Then the baron knew who she was, and
when they went away he rode back and said to the girl:
"I'll make your fortune, girl. Take
this letter to my brother in Scarborough, and he will take care of you for all
The girl took the letter and said,
"Thank you very much. I shall go to your brother."
Now this was what he had written in
Take this girl and put her to death
at once. 4
Your brother, Humphrey.
So soon the girl set out for
Scarborough. She slept the first night at a little inn, and that very night a
band of robbers broke into the inn. 5 They searched the girl,
who had no money, but they found the letter. They opened it and read it, and
thought it was a shame to kill the poor girl. The leader of the robbers took a
pen and paper and wrote this letter:
Take this girl and marry her to my
son at once.
Your brother, Humphrey.
He gave the letter to the girl and
told her to go to Scarborough.
So she went to the baron's brother.
This brother was a noble knight, and the baron's son was living in his house
at that time. When she gave the letter to the baron's brother, he ordered his
servants to prepare everything for the wedding at once, and the two young
people were married that very day.
Soon the baron himself came to his
brother's castle, and what was his surprise when he saw that his son was
married to the poor man's daughter. The baron took the girl out for a walk
towards the mountains by the sea. And when they were alone, he took her by the
arms, and was going to throw her into the sea. But she begged hard for her
life. "I have not done anything," she said, "if you spare my life,
6 I'll do all you wish. I'll never see you or your son again
till you wish it."
Then the baron took off his gold ring
and threw it into the sea. "Never let me see your face 7 till
you can show me the ring," he said and let her go.
The poor girl walked on and on, till
at last she came to a castle. She asked for work there and she was given work
in the kitchen.
One day the baron, his son and his
brother came to this castle: they were invited to the dinner. The poor girl
saw them through the window. She did not know what to do, but then she
thought, "They will not see me here in the kitchen."
So she went back to her work and began
to clean a great fish which she had to cook for the master's dinner. And as
she was cleaning it, she saw something inside it that shone like gold. And
what do you think she found? The baron's ring, the ring he had thrown into the
sea. She was very glad. Then she cooked the fish as nicely as she could, and
the servant took it to the hall.
Well, when the fish came on the table,
the guests liked it so much that they asked the master of the castle who had
cooked it. He said he didn't know, but called to his servants, "Send in the
cook who cooked that fine fish."
So they went down to the kitchen and
told the girl she was wanted in the hall. She put the baron's gold ring on her
thumb and went into the hall.
When the guests saw such a young,
beautiful cook, they were surprised. Only the baron was very angry and wanted
to hit her. But the girl went up to him and showed him her hand with the ring
on it. After that she took off the ring and put it down before him on the
Then the baron said, "What will be
will be," 8 and he told her to sit down and told the people
that this was his son's true wife. And he took her and his son home to his
castle; and they lived as happy as could be ever afterwards.
1 found out that his
son would he married to a poor girl who had just been born — узнал, что его
сын женится на бедной девушке, которая только что родилась
2 he felt pity for the
child — он пожалел ребенка
3 read fates — зд.
4 put her to death at
once — предай ее смерти немедленно
5 that very night a
band of robbers broke into the inn — в ту самую ночь шайка разбойников
ворвалась на постоялый двор
6 if you spare my life
— если вы пощадите меня
Never let me see your face
— Не смей показываться мне на глаза (букв. Чтобы я лица твоего больше не видел)
will be will be — Чему быть, того не