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Join the largest robotics competition in Singapore, National Robotics Challenge (NRC). NRC is an exciting
game-based robotic competition that provides an opportunity for participants to develop their creativity and problem-solving skills in a fun and engaging way!
Updated timings for CoderZ Coding Challenge 2021:
ZOOM will be accessible from 8:45AM. All Participants are requested to join us punctually.
The Opening Ceremony and briefing will start promptly at 9AM. CoderZ League Training Camp will commence from 9:30AM
1. The challenge documents for the following categories have been updated:
1) WRO Regular Category
2) WRO WeDo Regular Category
3) WRO Open Category
4) WRO Future Engineers Category
2. The Randomization guide release date has been brought forward to 22nd of October 2021 instead of 25th of October 2021. This affects all 4 WRO categories of challenges.
3. With the shift in the NRC competition timeline from September to November as a result of tightened national SMM measures back in August, we will like to inform you that we will not be sending teams to WRO International Finals this year.
4. Due to the Covid Phase 2 (Heightened Alert), are the competitions still going to be on the same dates?
Answer: The competition dates have been postponed and updated. Please refer to the respective categories for the updated dates.
5. Do we need to buy competition parts?
Answer: Respective competition requires its own extra parts to be purchased. Please refer to the respective competition challenge booklets.
6. Do we need to have a coach?
Answer: Yes, it is stated in all the challenge booklets that an adult (over the age of 20) has to be registered as a coach for each team.
7. If my school only has SPIKE Prime, and I want to send my students for the WeDo competition, am I allowed to loan WeDo sets from Duck Learning?
Answer: Yes, please send a request to email@example.com. Or you can directly contact the Duck Learning Education Executives if you have their number.
8. Can we change the team members after we have registered a team?
Answer: Yes, but must be done by 6th of August 2021. Team members can be changed before the submission for the qualifiers, but it is on a case to case basis. An email must be sent to firstname.lastname@example.org to request for this change. It is subject to approval by the NRC Organizing Committee.
6. Is it mandatory to use the play table for the competition ? Can students put the mat on the floor and complete the mission ?
Answer : Students can put the mat on the floor and complete the mission.
1. As written in the rules, there is no restriction on the software and controller, do the students need to explain the code if they choose Arduino?
Answer: Teams will be judged on Programming. Please refer to the Judging Criteria in section 3 of the WRO Open Challenge document.
1. Where can I buy the Wooden Traffic Blocks?
Answer: By purchasing the mat from us from the website, we will also be shipping the traffic blocks out to you.
2. What can I do about the walls of my playfield?
Answer: You may choose to use a plastic-corrugated board (or similar) for the walls. Distance between the walls in one straightforward section may not be constant but the exterior wall should not cross the yellow line and the interior wall should be completely inside of the internal section of the track (the square 1000 mm x 1000 mm); The corners of the walls could be rounded. The colour of the walls must be black.
1. Is it only open for Singapore students or for foreign students here on dependent pass too?
Answer: Yes, as long as you are based in Singapore. You may join the competition.
2. How will the age be calculated?
Answer: Age is calculated based as of this year, 2021. For example, if you were born in 2010, you would be considered 11 years old.
3. What does randomization mean?
Answer: For the WRO WeDo Junior Challenge, built up LEGO elements have to be placed on the playfield in a specific order prior to the match. This order is called ‘randomization’. Organisers will release the randomization order for all teams to follow. The dates for randomization release can be found in the challenge documents. The randomization order will be published on the NRC website.
4. The software for WeDo, is it online?
Answer: Yes, you can download it from the relevant app store of your device. Search for WeDo 2.0
5. Is the software whitelisted for school laptops?
Answer: Yes, it is. But all coaches are urged to check with their institution’s IT department.
6. During the filming, can the coach remove the fire if all the ‘water’ bricks are placed at the right positions?
Answer: Yes, the coach is allowed to. refer to Section 7.2 in the WRO WeDo Junior Challenge Document
7. Are specific colour combinations needed or can there can be some different colour if the colour is not available in the bricks at home?
Answer: For building of the Game Objects, teams must use LEGO bricks of the exact colour. All teams must use the exact colour bricks. This is to be fair to all teams. Teams may choose to purchase the WRO Brickset kit (45811) from the NRC shop at www.nrc.sg.
8. Must the robot be 25x25x25? I cannot find it in the challenge booklet.
Answer: The team’s robot must fit in the Base Area.
9. Are the use of attachments and alignment jigs that the team can swap/use at base area allowed?
10. As asked in the webinar, what is the role of the fire in the playfield? For example, will there be any penalty if the fire is being pushed out of position or destroyed?
Answer: The fire acts as a barrier to the robot’s movement during the games. There are no penalty points for the robot moving the Fires Game Object
11. To confirm, as long as the game object is within the base area, the kids are allowed to move it? For example, aligning of the object in front of the robot before moving off base or removing the object that the robot grabs.
12. To confirm, are the teams allowed to use other non-electrical Lego parts such as those used in EV3? It is a good time to teach slightly more advanced building techniques through this competition.
Answer: Yes. Teams are allowed to use any other LEGO element. However, the controller, sensor and motors must be from the LEGO Education WeDo 2.0 set only.
13. Once the robot rescues the people and brings them to the base area, then can I move these people aside to the corner of the base area?
14. Once the robot transports the trees to the replant area and they fall down. Is it acceptable?
Answer: Yes. As long as the Game Object is not broken and is completely within the Replant Area
15. The robot moves to the parking Area, stops, the chassis of the robot is completely within the Area . In the ongoing mission, the robot will have to cross the parking area. So does this mean while crossing the parking area the mission will be considered as completed?
Answer: No. The robot must be completely in the Parking Area at the end of the match. This is when time is up.
1. Does the robot need to be fully dismantled before the Robot finals?
Answer: No, it can be pre-assembled.
2. Based on my understanding, any software can be used for WRO challenges as stated in the WRO regular challenge document. If we were to choose other operating systems on ev3 like ev3dev - brickman instead of the default, may I ask whether it is allowed in this year's NRC competition?
Answer: Yes. It is allowed.
3. How will the randomization work?
Answer: It will be announced 2 weeks prior to the deadline for the qualifying rounds and all teams will be given the same randomization. This will be released on the website. Do take note that the randomization is not the same as the surprise rule and the surprise rule is not applicable for the qualifying rounds.
4. How will the surprise rule work?
Answer: Teams invited for the Finals must attend a briefing in the morning of the Finals. The Surprise rule will be shared with all teams. The Surprise rule will also be released on the website. The surprise rule is only applicable for the finals.
5. What if I upload 3 of my best runs onto Google Drive?
Answer: Only the latest video will be taken into consideration. Please upload ONLY your best run. If you do end up uploading a new video, please do remember to delete the older video(s) in the Google Drive folder.
6. Do I need to submit the Robot Codes?
Answer: No, you do not.
7. How can I prove the size of my robot?
Answer: The best way will be to show the robot on camera and to hold a ruler beside to clearly show that it’s below 25cm on all sides (L x B x H).
8. Are robot clones allowed?
Answer: No. Each team must have its own robot designed and built by the students themselves.
9. What needs to be shown in the video for qualifiers?
Answer: Video must be able to visibly show the entire playfield and the robot completing each task clearly for marks to be scored during the mission run.
10. Can international students or students on dependent pass participate in NRC ?
Answer: Yes, but all participants must be residing in Singapore during the competition period
11. Are specific colour combinations needed or can there can be some different colour if the colour is not available in the bricks at home?
Answer: For building of the Game Objects, teams must use LEGO bricks of the exact colour. Teams may choose to purchase the WRO Brickset kit (45811) from the NRC shop at www.nrc.sg.
12. Is the play table mandatory for competitions? Can students put the mat on the floor and complete the missions?
Answer: The Competition Table is not mandatory. However, it is highly encouraged for the teams to have the table to place the mat on. In the event that teams do not have a competition table, they can still place the mat on the floor and compete.
13. Do we need to provide research links?
Answer: It is highly recommended to share and prove where your ideas, inspiration and help came from.
14. When presenting, can everyone present from their own device and not from 1 laptop?
Answer: Yes, participants may choose to come online from their own devices.
15. Are we allowed to use Python?
Answer: Yes you are.
16. Are technic sensors allowed?
Answer: Yes it is, as long as it is Hitechnic.
17. Are we allowed to connect multiple brains to build a robot?
Answer: No. For the Robot Games component, your robot should only have 1 controller.
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Song Of The Sea
Irish animation is a small industry, which has managed to punch above its weight in recent times thanks to the work of people like Tomm Moore and studios like Brown Bag Films. They may not be big enough to have Pixar on the run, but they are making waves. Moore’s The Secret Of Kells had enough of a following to get an Oscar nomination; the resulting kudos were enough to propel Moore along the road to his next project, with a whole heap of funding from various European sources helping it as well. An animated story taking a huge dose of inspiration from Celtic mythology and other Irish artistic legacies, is Song Of The Sea worthy of the critical praise that saw it too receive Oscar recognition last year, ahead of its Irish theatrical release recently?
Ben (David Rawle) and his mute younger sister Saoirse live in an isolated Donegal lighthouse with their distant father Conor (Brendan Gleeson), Ben dimly remembering the disappearance of his mother on the night of Saoirse’s birth. During a visit from an interfering grandmother (Fionnula Flanagan) Saoirse finds herself led to the ocean by mysterious lights, and it is not long before she and her brother are drawn into a cross-country adventure of selkies, witches and giants, with Saoirse the key to the opening of Tir na Nog.
Song Of The Sea was a really interesting experience. A nuanced and well-made animated film, it is the kind of refreshing thing that serves both to enchant and inspire: a true testament, in a visual sense at the very least, of all that is possible in the world of animation.
Here is something for everyone to enjoy. The story is both fantastical and accessible: dark and emotional enough to satisfy the older crowd, but with enough whimsy and wonder that smaller patrons will not find themselves lacking for stuff to appreciate. And, more than anything else, it is just very, very Irish, in a way that so many films just aren’t: Irish in its visual style, Irish in its story, Irish in its cast. Sure, a cursory glance at the credits throws up some surprising names when it comes to patrons, but Song Of The Sea is a film wrapped up in a very Irish identity. I don’t want to come off as some kind of film nationalist, this country has produced lots of great films, and will again. But this film is particularly Irish, made by people who have a deep love for this country and the myths that it has played host to.
The narrative pulls a mirror act, contrasting the story of Ben, Saoirse and their father with mythological figures from a past long forgotten by most. At its heart, it is a story about grief and how different people approach it. Poor Ben, abandoned by his mother very early, finds a cipher for his mourning through tormenting and badly treating his sister Saoirse. She finds solace in silence, while their father, lost in a dream of a time that can never be again, is like a barely functioning zombie. It is, from the start, a touching family drama, but it does not take very long, thankfully, for the stuff we have all come to see begin to take centre stage.
From the moment that Saoirse dives into the Atlantic, transforming into a creature of legend and swimming with seals, you get whisked into a world of half-remembered poetry sprinkled with a modern garnish. Selkies, nefarious owls, trad-playing fairies, craven witches, old tales told by soothsayers, visions in the night sky, giants, Tir na Nog and the things that go bump in the night: Song Of The Sea is full of them all, but manages to blend them into a modern set narrative, in a way that a lot of media often fails to do.
But it never forgets that it is, at heart, a story of siblings, a brother and sister naturally sundered by various tragedies and heartaches, who must find a common bond if they are to overcome the unexpected and dangerous obstacles ahead of them. An expansive narrative, with a strong backbone: just what you need, and Moore is able to get inside the mind-set of children with ease. Sibling relationships are complex things, and Moore understands that. With that strong emotional core, Song Of The Sea is already hooking its audience in very early on.
There isn’t anything too inventive in the general gist of the plot of course, and elements of it – like the last 20 minutes or so – are conventional enough. It’s no spoiler to say that a happy ending is to be expected, as Song Of The Sea isn’t going to be challenging its audience too much in that regard. Much of the film is wrapped up in melancholy and sadness, not unlike the stories that it takes its inspiration from, but a modern take results in a more modern conclusion.
The tale unfolds in an almost episodic way, like chapters in a much larger story. The escapades vary in tone and message: sibling disputes becomes muddled memory becomes dealing with grief becomes the bottling up of emotions. There are no real antagonists, bar the serial abuser that is depression: much like the recent Inside Out, Song Of The Sea makes the point that feeling sad is a necessity for good mental well-being, a natural part of the grieving process, a message that should resonate more than ever in the modern age (the role of Conor, and his empty driftwood nature, is a poignant look at the silence that infects Irish masculine identity).
A section that obviously takes place in a 1980’s Dublin, even if not named directly (every bit the “big smoke”), seems to give the impression that the Irish people have left too much of their past behind, content to bury the fairies and their forts underneath buildings, roundabouts and lighthouses, in essence, losing what makes us Irish in the first place. This is portrayed melodramatically at times, but is effective for the most part. Ben and Saoirse’s wandering journey home is one where they must learn that all of this fairy stuff is worth discovering anew, and preserving.
It’s a hard enough task: the world of fairies in Song Of The Sea is an abandoned forgotten one, where the ancient races turning to stone is indicative of the stoic and cold way that such legends are sometimes treated nowadays. The fact that the parables of old actually become real – and in numbers – might lessen the impact of this more allegorical point, but its central thesis is to be noted. It isn’t one that I happen to agree with, and Moore does over-egg it at times in the last half, but it’s hardly surprising to see such a message in a film of this nature. That dark streak is still present throughout – if this film has one message, it’s that heartache and depression are inevitabilities in life, it’s how you deal with them that is important – but it is also, nominally, a movie for children.
The lack of a villain is usually a terrible flaw in a film such as this, but Song Of The Sea is more intelligent than your standard Disney fare: the rejection of convention works well in this case, and makes the film stand out even more. The closest we get to one has a depth to her that is surprising and delighting, tying back into the dual nature of the modern day story and the tales that it is intentionally aping. If the film has a flaw, it’s in its length: perhaps 15 to 20 minutes too long for the actual story it wants to tell, Song Of The Sea seems to want to luxuriate in its surroundings and artwork just a bit longer than it really has to, and a degree of tightening up would not have gone amiss.
Rawle has already made his chops on TV of course, but he also has a talent for voice acting it seems, as he gives Ben all of the right kinds of emotion for a boy on the cusp of becoming something else, and struggling with the transition when it comes to his sister and changing surroundings. There is bitterness and love at different turns, and throughout Rawle carries a passion and believability in everything he says. Gleeson will probably never have an easier role to play in his career, Conor meant to be an emotionally dead man for the majority of the film, which isn’t exactly hard to play. Flanagan, always a delight, is one of the films highlights, in a dual role that ties in directly to the films two-pronged look at Irish myth.
The visuals are stunning. Radiating various shades of blue and green, Tomm Moore’s film takes us on a journey through the sea, through the wilds of Ireland, through the dinginess of its city centres. There is an obvious care and love put into every finely crafted frame. Jutting islands covered in ancient lines, underground lagoons of hair and shadows, the home of the dreaded witch Macha and her jars of emotions, they all come together, painted and animated in a way bound to catch the eye, to inflame the visual sense. There is more than a little hint of Ghibli at times (in elements of the story too, if we are being honest) and it’s clear that the Japanese giant has left its mark on Moore’s consciousness, especially in those sections featuring Macha, which do invoke memories of Spirited Away. In Ghibli’s best way, old traditions have been reworked into something new, and that famed studio’s current state of paralysis in its creative direction/control means that we should perhaps be discussing successors to its legacy.
Regardless, Song Of The Sea remains its own thing for the most part, and it is the quintessential Irishness of it all makes it all the more thrilling for an Irish audience (though I can imagine that others might not be as captivated). But even beyond that, there are things to admire: the contrast of light and shadow, the way that the film plays with false perspective and the intense amount of time and effort put into something as simple as background clouds and weather. It’s always gratifying to see an animated film, in a time and place where 3D has become pedestrian, actually pull things off that impress.
Musically, the film is a serious stand-out as well, utilising classical Irish instruments and tunes, with band Kila mixing up modern and ancient themes flawlessly. The titular song, a haunting melody that is at once a dirge and a celebration, repeats much, and while probably overplayed by the conclusion, added that right sense of melancholy and epicness to the unfolding narrative. Credit to Lisa Hannigan for that, and her voice is just right for everything that the actual “Song of the Sea” has to be.
We are currently living in – I can’t really say “enjoying” I’m afraid – an age where 3D animation is king, even if the multitude of offerings from that sub-genre are becoming less and less thrilling to behold, exemplified by the rather disappointing Minions (but countered by the already mentioned Inside Out). 2D animation needs to work harder than ever to be noticed, and that genre as a whole could do a lot worse than look to the example of Song Of The Sea. True, it is a bit lengthy, melodramatic at times, and a bit too high and mighty with some of its messages. But it is also stunning in its visuals, unique in some artistic and inspirational choices, and overall a grand endeavour, which exhibits Celtic artistry and fable with flair and panache. Animation will always struggle to be taken seriously in the larger world of film, but Song Of The Sea is one film that shows exactly why it should be. Recommended.
(All images are copyright of StudioCanal).

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Every year the New Media Management team heads to New York City over spring break to get the opportunity to meet with industry insiders. The media industry is moving quickly so it can be challenging to keep up to date. This class is our chance to ask industry leaders from all types of industries and all levels of the company about those changes.
This blog will provide an overview of the companies and people (most of them Newhouse grads) that meet with us throughout the week.
The Guardian – Monday Morning
Here we sit, the 2016 New Media Management (NMM) graduate students, in New York City for our Case Studies in New Media Management class. We are just getting started for our first morning and right away we get hit with a amazing presentation from The Guardian.
Meghavaty Suresh, a New Media Management graduate from 2015, brought in her boss, Rachael Post to talk to us about branded content. Rachael is the Director of Branded Content for Guardian Labs, a division of The Guardian. The two of them gave a great presentation where we got to learn the details for media companies are hustling to make money in the new media landscape.
Rachael and Prof. Masiclat (NMM Director) came up with a list of all the attributes that someone looking to join the media world should have; tech savvy, creative, managerial, entrepreneurial, problem solving, gutsy (fail fast), positive and resilient.
MDeziel Media – Monday Morning
Melanie Deziel is one of the most sought after names on the lecture circuit for Branded Content. She essentially invented branded content during her time at The Huffington Post. She then moved onto The New York Times and wrote the amazing piece, Women in Prisons, sponsored by Netflix and Orange is the New Black. She then moved onto Time Inc. and eventually decided to start her own consulting company centered around branded content.
During Melanie’s time with us she ran us through an exercise where we built branded content for a product for a variety of newspapers and magazines. It was interesting to hear her take on how the brands, the agencies and the media companies work together.
CoxReps – Monday Afternoon
Opening up the afternoon session are Rachel Clayton and Xiaowei Wang, both Newhouse graduates. Rachel is the VP of Insights/Analytics/Programming & Marketing and Xiaowei works for Rachel as a Digital Marketing Analyst at CoxReps.
CoxReps has a very interesting model where they bring both a large cable network and a specialized online marketplace to the table when selling advertisements.
Forrester Research – Tuesday Morning
Our Tuesday morning presenter was Dr. James McQuivey, VP, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research and author of Digital Disruption, Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation.
During the morning session he walked us through some industry leading products and how his company forecasted their success. Some of the products we discussed were the Apple Watch, Google Glass and Amazon Echo. His grasp of the digital landscape was awesome and the models he shared with us gave us a new perspective of the future of tech.
Foursquare & Swarm – Tuesday Afternoon
Jonathan Crowley, Product Development at Foursquare and Swarm, stopped by in the afternoon to provide us with an awesome overview of the dramatic rise of Foursquare.
Hearst, Proximo Spirits & UM Worldwide – Wednesday Morning
Bethany Devendorf (Hearst), Dylan Beyer (Proximo Spirits) and Edward McLaughlin (UM Worldwide) were graduates of the 2012 New Media Management class. They provided our class with a look into where we could end up in our career.
They hold positions in brand management, sales engineering and integrated planning. Their companies are very representative of the industry as a whole. Proximo is the customer, Hearst is the publisher and UM Worldwide is the agency (note: this is representative only).
One of the more interesting things they talked about was how important storytelling is to their job. The ability to build a brand falls on a company’s ability to tell a story that connects with their target audience.
2U and MEC Global- Wednesday Afternoon
Jennifer Krist (2u) and Ipsitaa Panigrahi (MEC Global) stopped in to discuss their respective companies and experiences. Both were graduates of the New Media Management program in 2015. They both got a dual degree. By turning their one year program into two they got their MBA along with the New Media Management degree.
Ipsitaa spends a lot of her time building queries from large datasets and analyzing them for patterns. Her life lives in big data. Jen on the other hand is a search engine optimization (SEO) coordinator. Here job is to coordinate the functions of many teams within and outside her company.
Viacom – Thursday Morning
Andrea had some really interesting insights into the inner workings of the TV world and how content gets placed onto mediums like Hulu and Netflix.
Ark Investments – Thursday Afternoon
Catherine Wood (CEO/CIO), James Wang, Tom Staudt, Lisa Dodd and Sebastian Benkert stopped by from their NYC office of Ark Investments. Both Tom Staudt and Lisa Dodd are New Media Management graduates.
Catherine’s fund invests in disruptive technologies. One of the areas they spend a lot of time learning more about is blockchain technology, the backbone of the bitcoin. Their ability to learn more than anyone about an industry is instrumental to their success.
Our week has now come to an end. We got to meet and question some amazing people in the industry. What I found the most interesting is the many different industries that new media management graduates have the opportunity to work in. Every industry now has an interest in content management, SEO and disruptive technologies. This is what our program specializes in so we are very much in demand.


1972 Chevy Truck Ignition Switch Wiring Diagram – Let’s begin by examining the different types and functions of the terminals found in the ignition switches. These include terminals for Coil, Ignition Switch, and Accessory. Once we’ve determined the function of the terminals it is possible to determine the various components of the ignition wiring. We will also talk about the functions as well as the Coil. We’ll then turn our attention to the accessory terminals.
Terminals for ignition switch
There are three different switches on an ignition switch that provide the battery’s voltage to a variety of places. The choke is powered by the first switch. The third switch regulates the ON/OFF switch of the ignition switch. Each manufacturer has their individual color-coding system that we’ll go over in a separate article. OMC follows the same system. Connectors can be attached to the ignition switch in order to add an electronic tachometer.
Even though many ignition switch terminals don’t come in original form, the numbering may not match the diagram. Check the continuity of all wires to ensure they are correctly plugged into the ignition switches. A cheap multimeter can aid in this. After you’re satisfied with the integrity of the wires, it is time to install the new connector. If you are using a factory-supplied ignition switch, the wiring loom is different from the one used in your vehicle.
Before you can connect the ACC outputs to the auxiliary outputs of your car, it is important to understand the basics of these connections. The ACC and IGN connectors are the default connections for the ignition switch. Although the START, IGN, and ACC terminals are primary connections to the radio or stereo, the START/IGN terminals are the primary ones. The ignition switch is the one that turns the engine of your car on and off. On older vehicles, the ignition switch terminals are marked with the alphabets “ACC” and “ST” (for distinct magnet wires).
Terminals for coil
The first step in determining the type of ignition coil is to understand the terminology employed. The basic ignition wiring diagram illustrates a variety of connections and terminals. There are two primary and secondary connections. Each coil is equipped with a distinct operating voltage. To determine the type of coil you have the first step is to determine the voltage at S1, which is the primary terminal. S1 must also be inspected for resistance to determine if it’s an A, Type B, or an A coil.
The coil’s low-tension component must be connected with the chassis positively. This is the ground on the ignition wiring diagram. The high-tension side provides the spark plugs with positive. To reduce the noise the body of the coil must be connected to the chassis. But, it’s not necessary to electrically connect. The diagram of the ignition wiring will also indicate the connections of the positive coil terminals. Sometimes, a defective ignition coil is identified with a scan in an auto parts shop.
The black-and-white-striped wire from the harness goes to the negative terminal. The positive terminal is connected to the white wire, which has the black trace. The black wire connects to the contact breaker. If you’re not certain about the connections of the twowires, use an old paper clip to take them from the plug housing. Make sure you verify that the connections have not been bent.
The ignition wiring diagrams illustrate the various wires utilized to power the vehicle’s various components. Typically, there are four different color-coded terminals for each component. The red symbol represents accessories, yellow represents the battery and green for the solenoid for starters. The “IGN terminal allows you to start the car, manage the wipers, or any other operation features. The diagram demonstrates how to connect the ACC and ST terminals to the rest of the components.
The terminal BAT is where the battery is. The battery is vital for the electrical system to get started. Furthermore, the switch won’t start. A wiring diagram can tell the location of the battery in your car. The ignition switch is connected to the battery of your car. The BAT terminal connects to the battery.
Certain ignition switches provide the option of an “accessory position” that allows users to adjust their outputs independently of the ignition. Customers may want to utilize the auxiliary output independently of the ignition. Use the secondary output by connecting the connector to the ACC terminal on your switch with the same colors. This is a convenient feature however it does have one significant distinction. A majority of ignition switches feature an ACC position when your car is in the ACC mode and a START position when it is in IGN.


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Loft Mentor Series Reading with Diane Wilson
Location: The Loft at Open Book (Performance Hall)
Day of the Week: Friday
Time: 7:00 - 9:00 pm
• Regular: $10.00
• Member: $5.00
The Loft presents a 2017–18 Mentor Series Reading with Diane Wilson and fellows Preeti Kaur Rajpal and Lara Palmqvist.
Diane Wilson is a prose writer who uses personal experience to illustrate broader social and historical context. Her memoir, Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past (Borealis Books) won a 2006 Minnesota Book Award and was selected for the 2012 One Minneapolis One Read program. Her 2011 nonfiction book, Beloved Child: A Dakota Way of Life (Borealis Books) was awarded the 2012 Barbara Sudler Award from History Colorado. Her work has been featured in the anthologies A Good Time for the Truth, Yellow Medicine Review, American Tensions, Fiction on a Stick, Homelands: Women’s Journeys Across Race, Place, and Time; and many other publications. She has received awards from the Bush Foundation, Minnesota State Arts Board, the Jerome Foundation, and the East Central Regional Arts Council, as well as residencies at Camargo, Hedgebrook Writers’ Residency, Norcroft Writers’ Retreat, and Ragdale. She is a past editor for Minnesota Literature, former board chair of SASE: The Write Place, and the founder and editor of The Artist’s Voice. Wilson is the Executive Co-Director for the Dream of Wild Health farm in Hugo, MN, and a 2013 Bush Fellow.
Preeti Kaur Rajpal is a poet and nonfiction writer. She first started writing poetry with June Jordan in her Poetry for the People program. She's been published most recently by Blueshift Literary Journal, Spook Mag, and Jaggery Lit. She can be found online at http://preetikaur.wordpress.com.
Lara Palmqvist received her BA in biology from St. Olaf College and her M.Th. in peace work from Uppsala University in Sweden. Her work has appeared in publications such as The Washington Post, Ploughshares.com, The Rumpus, The Cossack Review, South Dakota Review, and Blue Earth Review. Her writing has been honored with awards from the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP), Anderson Center at Tower View, Marble House Residency Program, Ox-Bow School of Art, Kimmel-Harding-Nelson Center, Saari Residence in Finland, and the Sozopol Fiction Seminars in Bulgaria. She is also the recipient of fellowships from the National Science Foundation, Rotary International, and the U.S. Fulbright Commission, through which she taught creative writing in Ukraine.
Advanced tickets guarantee a general admission seat and help cover the Loft's costs to host the event. Advanced tickets are non-refundable. Pay-what-you-can tickets are available at the door 30 minutes prior to the event on a first-come, first-served basis. No one turned away for lack of funds. Doors open 30 minutes before the event. Seating is general admission (not assigned).

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TAMPA — Big Mike brought his dominant stuff to the mound on Wednesday night.
Facing the Phillies' regulars, Michael Pineda threw five perfect innings and struck out eight in the Yankees' 3-1 exhibition win.
"He's had better games, but in this spring training I would say today was the best I've seen of him," Gary Sanchez said of Pineda through a translator. "And the first time he was out there (against the Tigers), he was pretty good too."
Pineda's fastball was blazing, the bottom was dropping out of his slider and his changeup was working too.
At one point, the 28-year-old righty struck out four in a row — including all three hitters he faced in the third inning.
Pineda threw 53 pitches, 37 for strikes. Joe Girardi was originally going to pitch him four innings, but Pineda's pitch count was so low that the manager kept him out there for another. He didn't even reach his 60-pitch limit.
In his first two starts of the spring, Pineda had gone a combined five innings, allowing two runs on four hits while striking out six.
Last season, Pineda went 6-12 with a 4.82 ERA and 27 homers allowed in 175.2 innings. He struck out 207 and walked 53, but struggled to finish off hitters and innings. Loss of focus was admittedly an issue.
"We really believe in Michael. I just think that last year some of it was he couldn't finish innings and then he had some bad luck at times," Girardi said. "But I think this guy's really big for us this year, he really is."
You never know what you're going to get with Pineda. But what he gave the Yankees on Wednesday night makes you understand why so many people are high on him if he can ever manage to figure it out on a consistent basis.
"I had great command," Pineda said. "All my pitches were working really well and that's what I'm looking for."
Backup catcher Austin Romine came out of the game after getting struck in the right hand by a wild pitch from Chad Green in the seventh inning. Kyle Higashioka replaced Romine. Precautionary X-rays on Romine were negative.


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Content originally from Care Quality Commission
In the last edition of this Insight series, we looked at the evidence so far about how urgent and emergency care services have been affected by the pandemic during this winter, and discussed what action CQC has been taking to provide constructive support.
Part of this support was working with frontline clinicians from emergency departments to publish the Patient FIRST framework in October 2020, as a tool to help support those working in NHS trusts and the wider health and care system to understand learning from the pandemic and share good practice.
The framework contains a number of practical examples of actions that can be taken at a departmental, trust and wider system level to maximise capacity, maintain effective patient flow, and keep staff and patients safe.
During October and early November 2020 we applied our ‘transitional regulatory approach’, through which our inspectors held discussions with executive directors of trusts with major emergency departments around our key questions of safe, responsive and well-led.
Informed by the transitional regulatory approach process, the monitoring of situation reports data, and intelligence from local inspections teams, we have identified around 13 emergency departments for inspection from winter last year.
This article looks at the first five of those inspections, which took place between 30 November and 21 December 2020, seeking to identify the key factors affecting services’ ability to provide a good standard of care, as well the challenges they faced. The full inspection reports can be found on our website:
- Medway NHS Trust – Medway Maritime Hospital
- Norfolk and Norwich NHS Trust – Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
- North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust – Peterborough Hospital
- Pennine Hospitals NHS Trust – Oldham Hospital
- Wye Valley NHS Trust – Hereford County Hospital
The inspection reports emphasise the extremely challenging circumstances that providers have faced during the pandemic. This, combined with the fact that all of the inspections were based on risks, mean it is not surprising that inspectors identified concerns with waiting times, delays and other issues.
While the detail varied across inspections, the key factors identified as affecting services’ ability to provide a good standard of care in emergency departments were:
- Onward capacity
- Delayed transfers of care
- Staffing levels and staff absence
- Leadership and governance
- Systems to mitigate risk.
All of the hospitals were undergoing, or had recently undergone, physical changes to the urgent and emergency care departments, including the children’s emergency department. This generally meant a change in the use of spaces to allow for the triage and streaming of patients down COVID and non-COVID pathways. These changes were constantly being reviewed to meet the changing number of patients attending with COVID.
There were examples of this working well, but for others it was causing confusion, and issues with crowding and the ability to social distance. This had an impact on flow and, in turn, delays.
In one department a ‘warm pathway’, designed for people with possible symptoms but no diagnosis, had set up rapid testing. However, as only three tests could be completed per hour, and the average wait for a result being four hours, this was causing delays and risk of exposure to COVID-19.
Two of the hospitals were struggling with the triage and assessment of patients. Inspectors found the process was not well-embedded and witnessed patients waiting too long for triage and ineffective systems to identify if patients were in pain or deteriorating. Assessments were not always done while people waited to be admitted, treated or discharged, which meant they were at increased risk of harm, for example pressure damage to patients’ skin.
Most of the departments were not queuing or cohorting patients in corridors to avoid overcrowding and maintain social distancing during the pandemic. However, this had a knock-on effect on ambulances. Patients were being held in ambulances, either awaiting treatment or until a place on a ward could be found.
The implementation of rapid assessment and treatment (RAT) systems was helping to address problems in some departments. However, progress was slow in one case, with just under half of patients not meeting the hospital’s 15-minute handover target in December 2020. At another hospital there were long ambulance handover delays where medical and nursing staff were not able to ensure patients waiting in the ambulances always received timely clinical intervention. The delays also had an impact on ambulance crews’ wellbeing and their ability to respond to other patients in the community.
At one hospital, inspectors did witness queuing in corridors. They raised concerns, as this did not allow for adequate social distancing and, at times, patients’ privacy and dignity was compromised. In another, the children’s emergency department did not allow for a one-way system and the corridors were too narrow to allow for adequate social distancing.
In some departments, reconfigurations had caused problems for mental health services. For example, a safe and private room for patients presenting with mental health needs was now being used as an area to don and doff personal protective equipment, and the identified replacement was not suitable. A similar situation was found at another department where a repurposed ‘plaster room’ was not fit for purpose as a mental health ‘privacy room’.
There were positive examples where trusts had put in place systems or mitigations to improve the impact on patients, for example:
“We observed improvements in the physical environment where patients were rapidly assessed and treated (RAT). The new RAT process was introduced in August 2020, was now consultant-led between the hours of 10.00 to 20.00, with the ED consultant cover continuing for 16 hours out of every 24.
“There were clear clinical care pathways and protocols in place, with pre-agreed parameters for patients being seen in designated areas.
“Due to the small size of the department, while some areas were permanently ‘green’ or ‘blue’, others changed according to the proportion of patients categorised as ‘green’ or ‘blue’ as it altered throughout the day. This was done against a written standard operating procedure. We found this system effective and intuitive.”
The trusts in these examples were seen to have good processes for triage and assessment to ensure patients were seen in an appropriate order. We also saw ongoing monitoring to ensure that any deterioration in patients’ conditions, while they were waiting, was identified and responded to swiftly. One member of staff described their pride in the new triage system, which had created more space and improved patient flow.
At all the hospitals inspected, inspectors found that the wider capacity of the hospital was a factor on delays in the emergency department.
Hospitals wards were operating routinely at capacity, often having been reconfigured themselves to allow for the social distancing and streaming requirements of the pandemic, and this was affecting patient flow.
“Staff told us there had been significant delays in ambulance turnaround times, as patients were being held on ambulances due to capacity issues within the emergency department and the wider hospital.”
There was one example of a patient who had spent 19 hours in the emergency department as they waited for a side room to become available on a ward. At another, inspectors saw three people waiting for an inpatient bed. They were told by nursing staff that there were lengthy delays for patients waiting for an inpatient admission, due to limited bed flow. They said this was across the trust as a result of limited daily discharges. The increased number of patients in departments waiting for admission meant that other patients could wait longer to be seen and treated because of the impact on space and staff availability.
Delayed transfers of care
Incidents of delayed transfers of care were part of the flow problems in hospitals. The factors explicitly referenced in these inspection reports that prevented patients moving on were:
- waiting for patient transport
- delays in discharging patients into the community
- delays in COVID-19 testing to enable discharge to an external care provider.
Transfers from A&E to external mental health providers was an issue for one department. The waiting time for a crisis bed and for travel arrangements to be made could take between two hours and three days.
These issues tended to be problems outside of the emergency department, but caused flow problems that impacted on their performance.
Staffing levels and staff absence
Some of the hospitals we inspected were not able to meet the intended staffing levels due to a shortage of staff. At some, this shortage was attributed to recruitment and retention issues and staffing levels were maintained through using locum doctors and agency staff.
Other hospitals were experiencing increased levels of sickness and absence linked to the pandemic. Incidents of self-isolation, shielding requirements, positive COVID cases and staff absence due to stress and anxiety directly impacted on some hospitals’ ability to cover all the shifts in the emergency department.
“Staff told us there were frequent closures of assessment areas, often due to staff shortages, which contributed to increased delays in the emergency department. Managers told us the surgical assessment unit was frequently blocked and at the time of the inspection, the clinical decision unit was taking no patients due to a lack of staff.”
The staffing challenges in the emergency department were causing delays. Inspectors were told of an example where staff shortages at night placed additional pressure on incoming staff, with higher numbers of patients in the morning and delayed discharges. Other issues were the ability of staff to access senior staff for support, and the capacity to progress initiatives designed to reduce delays, such as pathway development. One hospital had a mitigation plan where it reduced or cancelled medical training to increase staff availability and provide clinical cover.
Other impacts were on staff morale, with some staff describing how it affected their ability to provide well-timed care, as well as feeling unsupported by other departments and the executive team.
Leadership and governance
All the themes identified so far link back to the leadership and governance at the services, the oversight they had, and what actions and mitigations they were taking to manage the risk.
Some hospitals did have oversight and risks were well managed.
“We reviewed the emergency department (ED) risk register and found this was up to date and reflected the existing risks within the ED. These included patients waiting for more than 12 hours on trolleys, overcrowding in the ED, offloading times for ambulances, managing social distancing, and maintaining safe staffing levels. The trust had action plans and mitigation in place, for example, social distancing guidance, ED risk assessments and dedicated risk and safety escalation plans to manage capacity and flow.”
However, at other hospitals there was no clear governance structure in place and risks were not effectively managed.
“Managers were able to describe the three biggest risks to the department. However, the team did not include recurring delayed handovers of patients from ambulance crews as one of their biggest risks. Although they were aware of the issue, they did not appear to take ownership of the risk or have a system to mitigate it.”
In practice this meant inspectors witnessed site meetings that didn’t result in any actions for patients who had been in the department for 12 hours, illustrating clearly how poor oversight and governance contributed to the delays.
Another hospital had defined the risks in the emergency department. There was a governance route and documented evidence of root cause analysis, lessons learned and action plans; however actions then remained outstanding. Similar situations were found at other hospitals where the actions taken to try and address known risks and issues were not always effective.
Findings were polarised on the standard of leadership and culture across the services. In some services leaders were visible and approachable and staff spoke positively and with pride about working in the department. At others, staff felt unsupported by the executive team and low morale was a problem.
Systems to mitigate risk
Most of the hospitals had appropriate systems and new initiatives in place to try and address the challenges in their emergency departments. Inspectors were told of regular on-site meetings and designated posts in the department to address and anticipate demand. An example of this working in practice is described below.
“Appropriately senior staff were present, and the meeting was organised and well chaired. At the time of our inspection, the department and the hospital were experiencing stress from the number of patients attending. The meeting noted that the emergency department’s majors area was full, and that the department was ‘just coping’. Because it was expected that the department would reach capacity later in the day, staff were reminded of the standard operating procedure to enable patients to be cared for in the corridor or waiting ambulances. The planned staffing level for the nightshift was in place, but because of the expected demand the status was flagged as ‘amber’ and two additional members of nursing staff were requested.”
There was work to develop pathways to identify clear routes for patients, but also to divert patients from A&E to more appropriate or specialised treatment.
“There were a variety of pathways to enable patient flow, including same day emergency care for non-frail acute medicine, surgical assessment unit, gynaecology assessment unit, and a primary care service, depending on the need to reduce admissions and support earlier discharges.”
Much of this, however, was still in development. Some examples, such as the ‘navigation project’, are detailed below.
Some had digital systems to track patients through hospital, which helped with patient flow. There were standard operating procedures to address known issues. Examples of these were also seen in action and illustrated the pressures departments were facing.
“There were standard operating procedures in place to allow patients to be cared for in ambulances or, in extremis, in the corridor should the emergency department capacity be exceeded. Observed in practice on the day, there was a situation that meant patients were unable to be sent to a ward as planned because of an emergency that was taking place on the ward.”
Some of the hospitals were demonstrating good partnership working with ambulance trusts. Emergency department staff worked with hospital ambulance liaison officers (HALO) to support patient flow. Ambulance crews could pre-alert departments to the arrival of certain conditions and be greeted by HALO to divert patients for speedy treatment. They attended hospital meetings to support good communication and could oversee patients in corridors during busy times so ambulances could be released.
However, inspectors often found staffing pressures and increasing demand had an impact on the effectiveness of many of these systems.
“The leaders described the initiatives the service was implementing internally, such as the new nurse co-ordinator role in the department and in-reach from medical consultants and therapy teams. Similarly, they described initiatives with external partners to reduce demand on the service, including a range of community and primary treatment pathways to deflect patients to more appropriate care services, and to improve flow within the hospital and the department. However, we did not see these reflected in the service’s key performance figures which, due to increasing demand on the service, were continuing to deteriorate.”
“There were clear and effective arrangements for transfer to other services. The service worked with others in the wider system and local organisations to plan care. The trust was participating in a national ‘Navigation Project’ to reduce congestion in the ED waiting room. The trust told us this enabled them to appropriately redirect 20-30% of walk-in attendances to alternative appropriate care facilities, not just internally within the trust but also to other services located in the community, for example the city centre care or the patients’ own general practitioner (GP).
“As the COVID pandemic progressed and staff sickness increased, the ability to cover the ED navigation process reduced as direct nursing care was prioritised to ensure safety in the department.”
Inspectors also saw initiatives that were yet to be fully embedded or ‘currently under-utilised’, which meant any impact on performance was yet to be seen.
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Erik ten Hag’s furious outburst about some bibs spells disaster on his first day at Manchester United, while things have been noticed and dilemmas identified and, spoiler alert, all of it is just the most egregious unmitigated click-seeking b*llocks.
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Erik ten Hag’s first day on the job at Manchester United inevitably takes up plenty of column inches because it’s Manchester United. But it’s also tricky because how much can you really say about ‘man turns up for work’ when a lot of it was covered in exhausting depth yesterday anyway?
If you’re the Mirror, what you can do is notice things. Five of them, handily. That is always the best number of things to notice on these occasions.
So let’s have a look at what the Mirror have been noticing.
First, Ten Hag addressed the squad. Well noticed. So what did he say? Well the Mirror don’t actually know that part. They were noticing things, not listening to things. Be reasonable. They do have plenty of info, though.
‘The Manchester Evening News report that Ten Hag addressed the group of players for “several minutes” at the start of the session, flanked by assistants Steve McClaren and Mitchell Van der Gaag.’
Okay, so in thing one of the five things the Mirror noticed we are already actually at things the MEN noticed, but okay. So what did Ten Hag actually say?
‘He will have hoped to have made a positive first impression as photos showed him looking both assertive at times and smiling warmly at others.’
You can see why these features changed from ‘five things we learned’ to ‘five things we noticed’, can’t you? It’s a subtle yet significant difference. It would, for instance, be absurd to claim that we ‘learned’ that Erik ten Hag is an adult human capable of displaying different emotions and expressions with his face. But you can’t deny it is a thing that can be noticed. Pad that out with some speculation about probably wanting to make a good first impression rather than a bad one and you’re 20 per cent of the way to a kick-ass feature and hopefully nobody will realise – or notice, if you will – that you haven’t actually noticed anything either.
Right, what else can the Mirror notice? Or not, as the case may well be.
Number two, Manchester United players who were on loan last season but are currently not on loan were back at Manchester United, because Manchester United is the club that employs them and this is the first day of pre-season. Now there may be some intrigue over the futures of Donny van de Beek or Axel Tuanzebe, but their contractually-mandated presence at training tells us precisely nothing about those futures even if we cannot deny it is a thing that has been noticed. Because what you’ve noticed there is ‘People turn up to work in line with their contracts’. Apart from a few very, very rare examples during high-profile transfer sagas involving ‘wantaway stars’, this is the sort of thing that fails Mediawatch’s First Test of Newsworthiness: is what’s being reported more interesting than the exact opposite? Any of those lads not turning up for their first day under the new manager – now that’s a story and something entirely worth noticing.
Number three, there were some United youth players, including Robbie Savage’s son, involved in the training session. You know what? This one is fair enough. Well done, everyone.
Number four is cryptically entitled ‘Point to prove’. Now can you really notice from training session photographs that Marcus Rashford and Jadon Sancho have a point to prove? It’s true, but it’s not something we have learned or noticed only this week. This is basically a variation on number two’s ‘people turn up to work’ theme only even less noticeable.
And number five is that Erik ten Hag kicked some footballs during the training session. Again, when what you’re noticing is ‘former professional football turned manager can do some keepy-uppies’ you can see why even people with no shame had to switch from claiming to have ‘learned’ these things.
The cut of his bib
But wait a minute, lads. What’s this headline elsewhere at the Mirror? Sounds like your eagle-eyed noticers have missed something actually worth noting and indeed noticing here.
‘Erik ten Hag’s furious bib dressing down speaks volumes after Man Utd players’ first day’
What? Furious? Dressing down? Bib? After the Man Utd players’ first day? This is definitely better than those other things that were noticed. Sure, we know he was ‘assertive at times’ and also ‘smiled warmly’ but we didn’t know he was ‘furious’. We’re intrigued. Just what did those Man Utd players do with or to those bibs to so enrage the new manager?
Now, you are in all likelihood not a first-time Mediawatch reader and as such we know you are are an intelligent and might we add disarmingly attractive sort who is already miles ahead of us here. You’ve already spotted that the key word in this headline is ‘after’ haven’t you? We knew it! What did we say? Intelligent and so, so attractive. Why ‘after’ when it could be ‘at’ or ‘during’? Because, of course, Bibgate has absolutely two-fifths of f*** all to do with Manchester United, or Ten Hag’s first day there, and is in fact about an incident that happened when he was the new manager of Dutch side Go Ahead Eagles a decade ago and the players left their bibs in a messy pile at the end of a training session. But Go Ahead Eagles, with all due respect to the 1965 KNVB Cup runners-up, do not attract the same amount of clicks as Manchester United. So out comes a headline that cleverly implies otherwise, because deliberately deceiving your readers is how you win at the internet these days.
Ten Hag once got cross about some bibs. Ten years ago. It does indeed speak volumes; just not about Ten Hag or Manchester United.
It’s not just keepy-uppies and opening addresses and bib outbursts for Ten Hag, though. The Mirror have yet more troubling news.
‘Erik ten Hag dilemma as new Man Utd boss starts work at Carrington training ground’
Oh, this sounds bad. A dilemma, remember, is a situation where one is forced to choose between two unfavourable outcomes. Not what you need on your first day. Especially after all the unpleasantness with the bibs.
It takes 10 paragraphs of waffle about coaching acumen and medical tests and other stuff that actually happens on the first day of pre-season training before we get to any mention of a dilemma. We’re starting to think this dilemma might not be all that. Especially as by the time we get there it has already shifted form being Ten Hag’s dilemma to ‘a familiar coaching dilemma for him that the Dutchman will face in these first few days of working with the group’.
We’re going to summarise, because again there are a great deal of words dedicated to the ‘dilemma’. It is essentially this: you have to balance ball work and tactics and technical training with strength training to avoid injuries in the early stages of preseason. What makes this dilemma’ in any way specific to Manchester United or Ten Hag? Absolutely nothing beyond clicks.


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Brought together by their mutual love and appreciation for authentic Funk & Soul music. The Brooks never ceased to amaze since the release of their first album in 2014. Aside from being part of the most recent Montreal Jazz Festival as the opening act for Charles Bradley and setting the main stage on fire twice with their funky rhythms. The Brooks also opened for artists such as the Doobie Brothers and Kool & The Gang, along as being invited by festivals such as Montreux Jazz Fest and Osheaga.
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We figured to help us wind down one of our most musically diverse lineups to date, we'd shut down Ship Point for Year 20 by giving the festival Massive something of a musical sampler platter, and hit as many of those sonic satisfaction spots as we could. Making their west coast debut and headlining the night is Montreal funk powerhouse THE BROOKS. Brought together by their shared love of that real authentic funk shit, their music is definitely informed by that music they love, but their tunes are no homage; The Brooks are a true north original. One of our country's hidden musical gems, The Brooks won't be hidden for much longer and we couldn't be more excited to bring them to you!
When a musical legend keeps whispering to you about a band, you kind of have to listen. That's how we found THE SCOTCH BONNETS – thanks to the constant insistence from David Hillyard of The Slackers. The Baltimore crew plays some of the bounciest punk-reggae tunes going today and are sure to be a shot in our arms on day 5, as we're all dragging just a little bit. Heating things up before The Scotch Bonnets is one of Canada's hottest purveyours of groove, BOOGÁT. Fresh off a Juno nomination for Best World Music album for his phenomenal San Cristobal Baile In, Boogát is setting the music world on fire with his powerfully funky mix of hip-hop, salsa, cumbia and reggaeton. The Quebec City native, born to immigrant parents from Mexico and Paraguay, sings in French and Spanish, paying homage to his whole, rich musical heritage. Getting things kicked off for our main stage closing showcase is inarguably one of the straight-up smoothest bands Vancouver Island has ever produced, Nanaimo's BOOMSHACK. The festival favourites are guaranteed to get your feet moving while concurrently soothing your soul with their warm, funky grooves.


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I mentioned in my last post that I made self watering thingys for a couple of my house plants here is the first one...
|Self watering device made with a terracotta pot and a saucer which you glue together then seal with silicone.|
|then you bury it in your planter and pour the water in the hole in the bottom (top now) of the terracotta pot and the water slowly seeps through the terracotta to water your plant.|
I got the idea for this a long time ago when I seen a video about ollas which I thought was really cool. There are some tutorials at the end of the video. The second one I made was a lot simpler and the method I think I would use in the future and it is...
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“Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall has tested positive for Covid-19 and is self-isolating. We continue to follow government guidance,” the statement read.
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lovelostlady Posted November 30, 2004 Share Posted November 30, 2004 one of my best friends wrote this in an email to me when she found out about our breakup. i cried when i first read it and it really does give me a lot of comfort. some of I'm sure will agree with me in believing that we've all experienced something beautiful and maybe this will be of some comfort to you as well... "think of the naive girl you were then and be proud of all that's happened since then...you have had someone appreciate you in every way imaginable. i have never had that, and i am jealous. its always a give and take and that has come with a lot of pain that right now seems borderline intolerable but you must know that you have undergone a beautiful thing. even the pain, the harsh breakup, the flood of human emotion and connection that has gone through you two is absolutely incredible, its the thing that amazing novels are written about, that painful songs lament over, and in our society such a love seems more and more impossible. i have gotten over boys, i have never gotten over however their poor treatment of me. i have been faced with intense cruelty, manipulation, and words i've waited my whole life to hear that were used only for the wrong reasons. you haven't. everything that has taken place between you is real and you shouldn't want to ruin those memories with new bad ones, such as confrontations and drawn out high emotion talks that go nowhere." Quote Link to comment
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We're excited to announce we launched a brand new website on Sept. 1. If you have questions or comments let us know in person, by phone, via email, or on social media.
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