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British Rail Class 56
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|British Rail Class 56
Electroputere LDE 3500
Electroputere-built 56 006 at Doncaster Works in 2003 painted in rail blue livery
The British Rail Class 56 is a type of diesel locomotive designed for heavy freight work. It is a Type 5 locomotive, with a Ruston-Paxman power unit developing 3,250 bhp (2,423 kW), and has a Co-Co wheel arrangement. The fleet was introduced between 1976 and 1984 with a total of 135 examples manufactured.
The first 30 locomotives (56 001 - 56 030, factory classification LDE3500) were built by Electroputere in Romania, but these suffered from poor construction standards and many were withdrawn from service early for extensive rebuilding before re-entering revenue service.[2] The remaining 105 locomotives were built by British Rail Engineering Limited (BREL) at Doncaster Works (56 031 to 56 115) and Crewe Works (56 116 to 56 135). Enthusiasts nicknamed them "Gridirons" (or "Grids" for short), due to the grid-like horn cover on the locomotive's cab ends fitted to nos. 56 056 onwards.
- 1 Technical details
- 2 Background
- 3 Operation
- 4 Previous Operators
- 5 Current Operators
- 6 Fleet Summary
- 7 Rebuilding
- 8 Preservation
- 9 Accidents and incidents
- 10 References
- 11 Further reading
- 12 External links
Technical details[edit]
When specifying the Class 56, British Rail chose its bodyshell design to be based on the Brush Traction Class 47 design, minus some features like the obsolete headcode panel. According to the Romanian railway factory nomenclature, the locomotive was named Electroputere LDE 3500, with LDE coming from Locomotivă Diesel-Electrică (Diesel-Electric Locomotive) and the 3500 being the planned horsepower output.
When introduced, the Class 56s were arguably the first of the "second generation" of UK diesel locomotives.
The engine is a direct descendant of English Electric CSVT types, its closest relative being the 16CSVT used in the Class 50. Technical advances included significantly uprated turbochargers, gear driven camshafts in place of the timing chain used on Class 50s, and uprated cylinder heads, fuel pumps and injectors. The engine was nominally rated at 3,520 hp (2,620 kW), but was set at 3,250 hp (2,420 kW) for rail use.
Electrical equipment[edit]
A key difference between the Class 56s and the earlier designs of the 1950s and 1960s is the use of self-exciting alternators rather than direct current (DC) generators for the generation of traction current and auxiliary supply. This produces a far more robust power unit, and greatly reduces the risk of flash-overs and other earth faults. Traction supply was rectified since the type employs DC traction motors. Many auxiliary machines (such as compressors and traction motor blowers) used the unrectified 3-phase AC output of the auxiliary alternator, and therefore run at a speed proportional to engine r.p.m.
The Class 56s were the first British Rail diesel type to be built with air train brakes only, using the Davies and Metcalfe E70 system. Earlier designs had variously been fitted with vacuum train brakes, or a dual braking system.
In 1974, British Rail placed an order for 60 freight locomotives, with BREL's Doncaster Works and Brush Traction, Loughborough to each build 30.[3][4] Because of capacity constraints at Loughborough, Brush sub-contracted its order to Electroputere in Romania.[5]
Subsequently the number ordered was increased to 135 and they were numbered as follows:
- 56 001 to 56 030, built by Electroputere, Romania
- 56 031 to 56 115, built by BREL, Doncaster Works
- 56 116 to 56 135, built by BREL, Crewe Works
Construction of the class was moved from BREL's Doncaster Works to Crewe to allow for the commencement of the Class 58 construction at the former works.
Some locomotives were renumbered into the 56/3 series from 2006. This was used to initially identify refurbished locomotives introduced by Fastline but was later used for locomotives with less extensive overhauls. There are no technical differences to the 56/0 class.
In service the Class 56s proved to be a strong and capable locomotive, and less prone to wheelslip than the Class 58s. However, maintenance needs were high by modern standards, and notwithstanding significant investment by Transrail and Loadhaul in their Class 56 fleets in the 1990s, the class could not compete with the more modern Class 66 in terms of availability or maintenance costs.
Previous Operators[edit]
British Rail[edit]
On 4 August 1976, 56 001 and 56 002 were loaded for shipping from Zeebrugge to Harwich.[6] They were towed from Harwich to Tinsley on 7 August.[6] Initial trials were conducted on the Settle-Carlisle Line.[7] Subsequent examples (of the Romanian deliveries) went to Barrow Hill depot for preparation and subsequent commissioning on test trains from Tinsley, usually to Peterborough West Yard. The test train consisted of a rake of rail-carrying flat wagons, with a former East Coast Metro-Cammell Pullman vehicle marshalled immediately behind the locomotive. Testing of Doncaster-built examples was completed using the traditional Doncaster works test train, running north along the East Coast Main Line.
One class member, BREL-built no. 56 042, was chosen to test the CP3 bogies that were fitted to the Class 58s. It was the first of the class to be withdrawn in 1991 after only 12 years service and scrapped three years later in 1994 at Toton TMD.
DB Cargo[edit]
The entire class passed to English Welsh & Scottish (EWS) in 1995, when it purchased the Loadhaul, Mainline Freight and Transrail Freight freight companies from British Rail. Withdrawals commenced in the 1990s, with the last withdrawn on 31 March 2004.[8] Some were reinstated for use on construction trains connected with the LGV Est in France, although all such locomotives have now returned to the UK.[9]
In September 2011, DB Schenker (as EWS had become) placed its remaining 33 stored class 56s up for sale[10] with most expected to be sold for scrap.
UK-based locomotive provider Europhoenix[11] tendered for three of the DB Schenker locomotives (56 018, 56 115, 56 117) for export to Hungarian freight operator Floyd.[12] They finally bought 56 101 (from preservation), 56 115 and 56 117. With 56 101 moving to Europhoenix, 56 018 has been sold to preservationist Ed Stevenson. 56 101 arrived in Hungary on 19 June 2012 with 56 115 and 56 117 following later in the year. These have been renumbered 0659-001-5, 0659-002-3 and 0659-003-1 respectively.
In late 2011, DB Cargo UK sold 27 Class 56s for scrap to European Metal Recycling. These were 56 006, 031, 032, 037, 038, 046, 049, 051, 058, 060, 065, 069, 073, 074, 077, 078, 081, 087, 090, 094, 096, 104, 105, 106, 112, 113, 133.[13] Despite the mass sale of scrap, 56 078, 56 087, 56 094, 56 105 and 56 113 were sold on to Colas Rail while UK Rail Leasing has bought a number of Class 56s, to form a pool of hire locomotives.
In 2006, two locomotives (56 045 and 56 124) were overhauled at Brush Traction and renumbered as 56 301 and 56 302 for Fastline, the British freight company launched by Jarvis. They were used on intermodal traffic. The small fleet never achieved particularly impressive availability, and there were significant problems with bogies, turbochargers, and low power. Fastline dispensed with Class 56 operation due to the loss of intermodal traffic and operated Class 66s on their coal traffic until March 2010 when the company went bankrupt. 56 301 was put into store, and 56 302 was purchased and run by Colas Rail. 56 301 was later purchased by the Class 56 Group as a replacement for their own 56 040 Oystermouth, which had just suffered a serious failure. 56 040 was subsequently stripped of spares and scrapped at Barrow Hill.
FM Rail[edit]
56 125 was returned to service after a less thorough overhaul by FM Rail and numbered 56 303. 56 303 was returned to RVEL (successor to FM Rail) and sat out of use at Derby but in September 2009 it was repainted into Great Western Railway green livery, to mark the 175th anniversary of the Great Western Railway in 2010. The loco was expected to move to the Severn Valley Railway in October 2009 to participate in their 2009 diesel gala, before being used as part of the GWR 175 celebrations next year, but its involvement was subsequently shelved. The loco is however in use with the freight spot hire market, having twice been hired from RVEL to Colas Rail in late 2009 to work the Boston to Washwood Heath steel train and return empties. Since 2011 56 303 has been part of the BARS fleet, based at Washwood Heath.
British American Railway Services (BARS) / Devon & Cornwall Railways (DCR)[edit]
Formerly preserved 56 057 (renumbered 56 311) and 56 003 (renumbered 56 312) are now operated by British American Railway Services under their Devon and Cornwall Railways subsidiary (formerly Hanson Traction), these were frequently hired to Colas Rail to work their intermodal services between Dollands Moor and Hams Hall, steel diagrams between Boston and Washwood Heath and their Dagenham to Dollands Moor "Transfesa" workings in London, supplementing Colas Rail's own class 47/7 fleet. British American Railway Services currently use 56 311 and 56 312, along with 56 303, on their own freight flows including scrap metal flows between Cardiff and the North-East, landfill flows between Wembley and Calvert and for stock moves. During 2011, 56 312 was repainted into the same grey livery as 56 311, but with advertising for the National Railway Museum's forthcoming 'Railfest 2012' event displayed on the body side (this has since been removed). 56 128 (which was to have become 56 313) is also owned by BARS. In December 2013 it was moved from Wansford (Nene Valley Railway) to their facility at Washwood Heath for evaluation for a possible mainline return but work has not been proceeded with. 56 114 was stripped of usable parts and dispatched for scrapping during March 2012 and was cut up immediately after arrival at EMR Kingsbury. BARS 56 091 returned to service in April 2013 but has since been sidelined due to power unit issues. 56 103 was returned to service with BARS during July 2014. 56 301 remains under long-term hire to BARS. In November 2017 all six remaining locomotives (56091, 103, 128, 303, 311, 312) were put up for sale.[14] Only 56303 was operational.
UK Rail Leasing[edit]
Leicester-based UK Rail Leasing operates Class 56's on a spot-hire basis. They acquired a number of locomotives from DB Cargo, that had returned from working on high speed rail construction lines and returned 56 081, 098 and 104 to operational condition as of July 2014 at their Leicester depot. All three are in unbranded original Railfreight livery.
Railways Illustrated for June 2014 reported that UK Rail Leasing were considering upgrading a Class 56 with new engines and electronics. There would be two 1,900 hp engines, making a total of 3,800 hp. The magazine emphasises that this is "blue sky thinking" and is not likely to happen soon.[15]
Further information was published in Today's Railways for March 2016. Three different options were now being considered. These wre: two main engines, a single main engine, or a single main engine plus an auxiliary engine. It is expected that a re-engined Class 56 would cost around £1.8 million, compared to £3 million for a new locomotive.[16]
In December 2017 two further locomotives (56 311, 312) were acquired from BARS/DCR. However in 2018, 16 locomotives, the majority of their fleet, were sold to GB Railfreight.[17]
Current Operators[edit]
Colas Rail[edit]
As of 2015, Colas Rail Freight operates a fleet of 56 078, 087, 094, 105, 113 and 302 on a rotating basis on all its freight movements (most often seen on its 6E07 Washwood Heath to Boston Docks steel train, and 6M08 return). These locomotives are serviced at Washwood Heath.
GB Railfreight[edit]
In June 2018 GB Railfreight acquired 16 of the Class 56 locomotives owned by UK Rail Leasing, together with various parts.[17] Some may be returned to traffic quickly whilst others may be re-engineered. The locomotives were previously owned by DB Cargo and subsequently hired to Fertis, for high speed rail construction trains in France, before returning to the UK and were later acquired by UK Rail Leasing in 2014 for spot hire. Only 56081, 56098 and 56104 had been made operational by UKRL, with the majority stored at Leicester depot.[18] Locomotive (56128) ex DCR/BARS was acquired from CF Booth (scrapyard) and collected from there by GBRF directly. 56009, 031, 032, 037, 069, 311 subsequently moved to EMD Longport for Re-engineering in July 2018.
In April 2019, GB Railfreight announced that it had awarded Progress Rail a contract to repower the 16 locomotives that it bought from UK Rail Leasing. The locomotives will have their existing engines replaced by EMD 12-710 series engines, and will receive updated electronic controls. The work is planned to be undertaken at Progress Rail's Longport site and the first locomotive is expected to be completed in May 2020. The rebuilt locomotives are to be redesignated as Class 69.[19][20]
DC Rail[edit]
In mid 2017, Devon & Cornwall Railways was bought by Cappagh Group a waste contractor. Branded as DC Rail the company acquired ex Fertis locomotives 56103 and 56091 from it former parent BARS. Both locomotives are now in traffic.
DC Rail are also current owners of the Willesden 'F' Sidings in London, just south of Wembley. Contracts out of the yard include loaded Spoil trains to Calvert Land Fill in Buckinghamshire. With more flows expected in the coming months.
Floyd Zrt. (Hungary)[edit]
Floyd acquired 3 locomotives for use in Hungary. Two 56101 & 115 for operations in 2012 and 56117 as a spares donor in 2013 [21]. 56115 suffered damage to one cab after hitting a lorry on a level crossing. Subsequently it was repaired using a cab supplied by UKRL from 56106 in 2017 and 56117 was also brought into use. [22]
Fleet Summary[edit]
Fleet summary 2018 [23]
|Colas Rail
|56 049,[24] 051, 078, 087, 090, 094, 096, 105, 113, 302(124)
|DC Rail
|56 091, 103, 303(125) (stored)
|Offered for Sale by Devon & Cornwall Railways in 2017, acquired by successor company DC Rail. 56303 was accident damaged stored at Wembley.
|Floyd Zrt. (Hungary)
|56 101, 115 & 117.
|GB Railfreight
|56 007, 009, 018, 031, 032, 037, 038, 060, 065, 069, 077, 081, 098, 104, 106, 128, 311(057), 312(003)
|16 from UK Rail leasing (of which 2 ex BARS). Only 56 081 & 098 are operational, the remainder stored or non working. 106 is missing one cab (Believed exported to repair 115). 56128 ex DCR acquired from CF Booth (scrapyard). To be converted to Class 69 with EMD710 engine.
|Class 56 Group
|56 301(045)
|Preserved - Mainline registered. Available for spot hire.
Numbers in brackets are former numbers of renumbered locomotives.
- Fleet summary 2013. The Class 56 Group has published a list of locomotives still in existence at 10 May 2013. This also includes locomotives stored, in mainline use and preserved.[25]
Sixteen locomotives are slated for rebuilding with new engines as British Rail Class 69.[26]
Although multiple members of the class have been purchased for preservation, most have re-entered mainline service. There are presently only three class 56s that are technically preserved.[27]
|56 006
|BR Blue
|UKRL, Leicester
|Owned by Class 56 Group
|56 097
|Railfreight Triple Grey (Coal Sector)
|Great Central Railway (Nottingham)
|Fastline (Unbranded)
|Owned by Class 56 Group, on hire to BARS.
Accidents and incidents[edit]
- On 14 June 1988, locomotive No. 56 062 was hauling a freight train that overran signals and was derailed at Copyhold Junction, West Sussex. Recovery of the locomotive was a protracted affair. On 18 August, the locomotive was returned to an upright position. Its engine and alternator unit were removed on 4 September. The body was lifted from the bogies on 2 October. All were transported to Doncaster Works where the locomotive was rebuilt.[28]
- On June 1991, 56002 came to grief whilst powering an MGR service at Caverswall, Blyth Bridge, Staffordshire. The locomotive remained on site awaiting recovery for around a month with one cab crushed by its MGR wagons. The 1977 built locomotive was withdrawn 8 May 1992 after only 15 years service and scrapped two years later at Doncaster MPD in March 1994, the second of the fleet to be withdrawn.
- ^ Platform 5 pocket book no.1. 2001. p. 51. ISBN 1-902336-15-1.
- ^ "The Locos that Came in From the Cold". The Railway Magazine. December 2000 – January 2001.
- ^ BR orders 60 interim freight locomotives Railway Gazette International October 1974 page 371
- ^ Sixty new freight locomotives ordered The Railway Magazine issue 883 November 1974 page 574
- ^ Romanian Built Locomotives for BR The Railway Magazine issue 902 June 1976 page 284
- ^ a b Toms 1978, p. 100
- ^ Toms 1978, p. 101
- ^ EWS has big loco switch-off The Railway Magazine issue 1236 April 2004 page 64
- ^ Fertis 56 unveiled The Railway Magazine issue 1241 September 2004 page 59
- ^ "Items for disposal". Archived from the original on 12 December 2010.
- ^ "Europhoenix: low cost 25 kV AC electric locomotives for Europe". Europhoenix.eu. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
- ^ "Floyd'S World". Floyd.hu. 16 June 2004. Archived from the original on 9 February 2014. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
- ^ Railways Illustrated: 9. February 2012. ISSN 1479-2230. Missing or empty
- ^ https://www.railwaymagazine.co.uk/devon-cornwall-puts-12-loco-fleet-up-for-sale/
- ^ Railways Illustrated (136): 15. June 2014. ISSN 1479-2230. Missing or empty
- ^ Pritchard, Robert (March 2016). "UK Rail Leasing looks to a re-engineered future". Today's Railways. No. 171. Sheffield, England: Platform 5 Publishing. pp. 50–51. ISSN 1475-9713.
- ^ a b https://www.railmagazine.com/news/fleet/gb-railfreight-buys-16-class-56s-from-uk-rail-leasing
- ^ http://www.rail.co.uk/rail-news/2014/ukrl-launch/
- ^ Railway Gazette. 3 April 2019 https://www.railwaygazette.com/news/traction-rolling-stock/single-view/view/progress-rail-to-repower-gb-railfreight-locomotives.html. Retrieved 3 April 2019. Missing or empty
- ^ "GBRf confirms Class 69 conversion". RAIL Magazine. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
- ^ https://www.railwaymagazine.co.uk/5928/from-the-archive-brits-abroad/
- ^ http://www.ukrl.co.uk/news/ukrl-supports-class-56s-in-hungary/
- ^ http://www.class56group.co.uk/easter-fleet-status/
- ^ http://www.class56group.co.uk/56049-colas-freight-debut/
- ^ "Class 56 Fleet List (updated 10/05/13)". Class56group.co.uk. 10 May 2013. Archived from the original on 23 February 2014. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
- ^ Dunn, Pip (June 2019). "GBRf signs for 16 Class 69s". Railways Illustrated. No. 196. p. 10.
- ^ "Class 56 Fleet List (updated 10/05/13)". The Class 56 Group. 10 May 2013. Archived from the original on 23 February 2014. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
- ^ Earnshaw, Alan (1991). Trains in Trouble: Vol. 7. Penryn: Atlantic Books. p. 46. ISBN 0-906899-50-8.
- Lowe, P. J.; Russell, D. F. (1980). "The class 56 freight locomotives of British Rail". Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. 194 (1980): 65. doi:10.1243/PIME_PROC_1980_194_070_02.
- Russell, D.F. "Operational experience with Class 56 freight locomotives". Railway Engineer International. 3–5: 16. ISSN 0141-6049.
- Toms, George (1978). Brush Diesel Locomotives, 1940-78. Sheffield: Turntable Publications. ISBN 0902844482. OCLC 11213057.
- "The Class 56 story". The Railway Magazine. Vol. 146 no. 1188. April 2000. pp. 36–43.
Further reading[edit]
- Baylis, Alan Brooke (1982). BR Class 56 Diesels. Bradford Barton. ISBN 9780851534480. OCLC 931233780.
- Bulmer, Keith (2009). Grids: The Class 56 Story. ISBN 9780955826436. OCLC 615817155.
- Loader, Martin; McKenna, Pauline (1996). Class 56 Photo File. Vanguard. ISBN 9781900872010. OCLC 43223257.
- Meskell, Nick (2005). Class 56 Pictorial. Train Crazy Publishing. ISBN 9780954803520. OCLC 171537593.
- Shannon, Paul (2005). Rail Portfolios: Classes 56 & 58. Ian Allan. ISBN 9780711030961. OCLC 62224164.
- Cooper, Basil (April 1983). "What's in a Class 56?". Rail Enthusiast. EMAP National Publications. pp. 28–33. ISSN 0262-561X. OCLC 49957965.
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to British Rail Class 56.
- Class 56 Group - owners of preserved loco no. 56045 now 56301
- Class 56 Diesel Photo Gallery
- Electroputere Catalogue Entry for LDE 3500 HP-BR
- The Class 56 section of Ste's railway gallery[dead link]
- General railway photographs in Britain BR Brush Class 56 at Paul Bartlett's Photographs


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SECPTA offers many activities for members and their families, and many ways to get involved! Below is a list of the standing committees and their description. The chair and co-chair for each committee is listed on the Contact Us page. There are always ways to get involved and help out! For more information, contact the president or membership chair, who can help you get connected with other parents like you.
Chair: Ellen Gerges
Maintains current copy of by-laws and standing rules. Reviews and updates the by-laws as needed at least once every three years. Obtains by-laws approval from Ohio PTA.
Monthly Activities
Chairs: Lori Hobrath & Molly Sunkle
Committee has at least 2 co-chairs. Planning Co-Chair - Oversee planning of monthly activities from September through May (note: planning begins in July), ensuring that a variety of events are planned and that events do not conflict with each other or with other SECPTA functions. Train committee members on scheduling events and getting reimbursed. Prepare monthly sign-up sheets and activity descriptions for the newsletter. Track budget and set activity supplement amounts to stay within budget. Plan activities as a part of the committee. Plan end of year Member Appreciation activity (if budget allows). Sign-up Co-Chair - Collect, record and verify sign-up information, working with members to resolve discrepancies as needed. Enter sign-up information into Excel spreadsheet. Communicate sign-up information to activity planners. Work with the Treasurer to make deposits and refunds as needed. Plan activities as part of the committee.
Children's Parties
Chairs: Christina Peters & Vacant
Plan and execute two themed parties for member families.
Chair: Vacant
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Chairs: Cherish Davies & Nicole Kane
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Generates and facilitates fundraising activities to provide funds for the running of the PTA.
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Chair: Vacant
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Compiles a record of pictures and printed material to reflect yearly happenings and events. Periodically displays book at meetings.
Homecoming Parade
Chair: Whitney Lutch
Coordinates unit's involvement in the annual Strongsville Homecoming Parade or Homecoming festival.
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Membership and Membership Drive
Volunteer Hrs & Drive - Cherish Davies
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Amanda Walter- Coordinator
Rose Faulhaber- Editor
Committee has 2 co-chairs. Coordinator - Sets deadlines and acts as central collection point of all officers' newsletter articles monthly. Typeset and/or lay out newsletter in Microsoft Word, Publisher or HTML format. Sends broadcast e-mail of newsletter to members monthly, using list provided by Membership Chair. Requires good computer skills. Editor - Responsible for proofreading newsletter and ensuring accuracy of information and compliance with SECPTA bylaws.
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Organizes small groups of children and parents for the purpose of socializing. Attends the annual membership drive to promote playgroup participation. Holds sign ups in August and September. Groups are formed and begin to meet in early October. Maintains communication with participants throughout the year, adding new members to existing groups as new families join SECPTA.
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Sunshine & Flowers
Chair: Kelly Zamiska
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Date: 30th April 2011
Time: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Venue: Kuvempu Kalakshetra, K R Road, Next to Kempegowda Hospital, Basavangudi, Bengaluru
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2020 Men's Stumpjumper Comp Carbon 29 – 12-Speed - Gloss Chameleon / Hyper
When designing the frame with the stiffness targets being a main goal, we developed a radical new sidearm design. The front-end and rear-end are connected at three points, and the sidearm helps keep all these points super stiff and connected, all while taking about 100 grams out of the rear-end. More explicitly, this minimizes frame flex when the rear suspension is active.
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Planet Earth Draws Viewers and Basic Cable Quarterly Ratings
Discovery's Planet Earth miniseries held strong in its second week on Sunday (April 1), averaging 5.4 million and 5.9 million viewers for back-to-back new episodes at 8 p.m. and 9 p.m., respectively. The special, which runs for three more weeks, premiered March 24 to an average 5.7 million viewers over three hours , according to Nielsen Media Research.
PlanetEarth took third in the weekly basic cable ratings, beat by Nick's Kids Choice Awards, which drew 6.1 million viewers March 31 from 8:00 p.m. to 9:45 p.m., and Monday night WWE wrestling on USA, which averaged 5.5 million viewers March 26 from 10:00 p.m. to 11:10 p.m.
With the Earth numbers factored in, Discovery placed seventh in the basic cable rankers for first quarter (Jan. 1 through April 1), with an average 1.4 million total viewers during prime. USA ranked first for the quarter, with 2.7 million viewers followed by non-ad-supported Disney with 2.5 million, TNT with 2 million, TBS with 1.7 million, Fox News with 1.6 million.
Disney posted first quarter's top two programs with the Jan. 12 premieres of the movie Jump In! and the series Cory in the House. Jump drew 8.5 million viewers from 8:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. and Cory drew 7.7 million from 9:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. TNT's Feb. 18 NBA All-Stargametook third for the quarter with an average 6.9 million viewers from 8:47 p.m. to 11:20 p.m. It was followed by three installments of 10 p.m. Monday-night WWE wrestling on USA on March 12, Feb. 26 and March 5.


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Perfect Rhythm (Fair Oaks series - Buch #1)
298 pages
(107,000 words)
ace spectrum · asexuality · celebrity · lesbian · nurse · pop star · singer
Pop star Leontyne Blake might sing about love, but she stopped believing in it a long time ago. What women want is her image, not the real her. When her father has a stroke, she flees the spotlight and returns to her tiny Missouri hometown.
In her childhood home, she meets small-town nurse Holly Drummond, who isn't impressed by Leo's fame at all. That isn't the only thing that makes Holly different from other women. She's also asexual. For her, dating is a minefield of expectations that she has decided to avoid.
Can the tentative friendship between a burned-out pop star and a woman not interested in sex develop into something more despite their diverse expectations?
A lesbian romance about seeking the perfect rhythm between two very different people—and finding happiness where they least expect it.
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978-3-95533-862-6 (paperback)
978-3-95533-863-3 (mobi); 978-3-95533-864-0 (epub); 978-3-95533-865-7 (pdf)
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published in A Widow's Awakening Book, Change, Christmas, Death, Grief, Life After Loss, Saying NO!, Widowhood by Maryanne | November 27, 2018 | No Comment
This the 2nd blog in the Fall 2018 Life After Loss blog series:
Taking Death to Parties – Mentioning Loved Ones Who Have Recently Passed Away
Unfortunately, it's usually up to the person grieving the recent loss of a loved one who gets stuck bringing death to the party.
'Tis the season for celebrating
But guess what? If you have recently experienced a significant loss, such as the death of a loved one, you may be in a rather fragile state (to say the least) and "getting out of the house and being around other people" is not necessarily the wisest option. But if parties do seem to be in your near future, then read on.
If you have recently lost a loved one and this is your first Christmas without that person:
Please be aware that the people who you are spending the holidays with may not realize the importance of mentioning your loved one. Instead, they may think that by not mentioning him or her, this will be better because they don't want to 'hurt you' or 'make you cry.'
Now, this may be okay with you…
But if it isn't and you discover, to your growing disbelief, that everyone is politely avoiding the elephant in the living room—the fact that you have recently lost a significant person (or pet) in your life—you have four choices:
#1. You say nothing and internalize the hurt and anger (not recommended).
#2. You say to someone that not mentioning your loved one really hurts.
#3. You bring up a memory of the person yourself and share it.
#4. You leave—either in agonized silence or after a spectacular hissy-fit (highly recommended… please see below).
If you are hosting a party or family function and one of your guests has recently experienced the loss of a loved one:
Here's an excerpt from my book, A Widow's Awakening, that you might find of use (the following scene took place two months after the sudden death of my 32-year-old husband):
"HE'S GONE!" I scream, "BUT HE'S NOT FORGOTTEN!"
Then I run out of my cousin's front door, leaving behind a house full of family trying to celebrate my mother's seventy-fifth birthday. However, since there's a snowstorm on this particular evening in early December, I have to stop at the front door, after my embarrassing outburst, to put on my jacket, mittens and boots. Only then do I charge down the icy front walkway, stomping as angrily as possible in my new ridiculously high-heeled boots. I climb into my car, slam the door and slowly inch my way home on icy roads.
"They didn't toast Sam!" I blubber into the phone from my living room.
"Adri?" says Dawson, on the other end of the line. "What's wrong?"
"I was (sob) at my Mom's birthday and my family didn't even include him (sob) in the toast before dinner. I just can't believe them!"
"Do you want me to come over?"
"Could you?"
A few minutes later the doorbell rings. But it's not Dawson; it's Dale's wife.
"So they sent you, huh?" I say.
"I'm pretty pissed off."
"Oh, we gathered that."
"I can't believe my own family. Not one person mentioned Sam the whole night – not even at a goddamn toast to my mother."
My sister-in-law winces. "Everybody feels just terrible about that but I think we all figured we'd try and give you a break from the hurt."
"Hah!" I give a shrill laugh. "Well that certainly didn't work."
"You're right. We screwed up and I'm sorry."
"Mentioning Sam's name and talking about him," I say, "is really important to me because if we don't, he'll be forgotten."
"You do know, Adri, that at that dinner table tonight, Sam was on every single one of our minds?"
I shrug. "If no one says anything, how would I?"
The doorbell rings. I let Dawson in.
"Well," she says to him. "We messed up."
"It happens," he replies. "It's hard to know what to say sometimes."
"Here's a tip then," I say. "Not mentioning Sam is gonna bury him a hell of a lot faster than the dirt they threw on his grave."
I get the double-goldfish (both mouths drop open). Is the nice-widow façade finally crumbling?
And there you have it
If you are honest and open with the people who love and support you, then most people will try and do better—if they know better. Unfortunately, it's usually up to the person grieving the recent loss of a loved one who gets stuck bringing death to the party. Even though loss and grief are facts of life; they can be significantly alleviated when shared memories—instead of avoidance—are put on the table.
Because an elephant in the living room should not be ignored.
Some parties aren't worth attending anyway
If you feel obligated to socialize during this festive time of year, do be aware that someone's casual (perhaps callous) remark might feel rather like that elephant has just sat on your chest. This excerpt from A Widow's Awakening reflects the ultra-sensitive state a newly bereaved person may find themselves in:
At the Christmas party, I soon realize that being the widow of a fallen officer watching her dead husband's teammates trying to party is a like a drug addict in rehab, watching other addicts shoot up. I'm not emotionally equipped to observe the reality that life is going on without Sam. So off to the buffet I waddle.
With a heaping plate of food in one hand and a beer in the other, I find a seat in the living room and a woman I've never seen before sits beside me.
"And who are you?" she asks.
"Umm…my husband was the police officer who just passed away."
"Oh now, which one was that?" she says loudly, waving her wineglass. "There's been so many lately, I get them all mixed up!"
Her callous reference is to another other young police officer who died three months before Sam. He'd been struck and killed by a drunk driver on his way home from work, leaving a young widow and two-month old daughter behind. Both Sam and I had been working the night that officer died. I'd taken a report from the officer over the phone a few hours before his death; Sam had attended the scene of his crash.
"When they pulled him from the car," Sam had said to me the next day, "and I saw his uniform, it was brutal. I was so angry."
When Sam had first arrived at the collision scene, it was believed there had been two people in the vehicle that hit the officer. So Sam and several other officers had searched for that possible second person. As it turned out, there was only the one person in the vehicle: the drunk driver who died at the scene.
"So you thought there might have been two bad guys?" I'd confirmed with Sam.
"Yeah," he'd said, "and I totally wanted to catch whoever had done that to him."
Recalling this conversation now makes me realize that the 'bad guy' isn't always a person. Just because the drunk driver died didn't mean there wasn't a bigger issue to be addressed. One less drunk on the road isn't the end of impaired driving. I think about the map in Sam's duty-bag, folded open to the location of his death. Maybe it is a clue pointing me in the direction of the 'bad guy issue,' whatever that might be.
After the party, Nick, Angela and I trundle clear across the city to yet another one. I still haven't mastered the use of the word 'no.' Friends and family are obviously concerned about me, judging from the number of social invitations coming my way. But the busier I allow myself to be, the more anxious and upset I am when alone again.
'No' is one of the most beautiful words in the English language
Consider giving the gift of 'no' this Christmas. If you don't have the energy to bring death to parties, stay at home and focus on activities that bring you some semblance of comfort and joy.
Maryanne Pope is the author of A Widow's Awakening, the playwright of Saviour and the screenwriter of God's Country. Maryanne is CEO of Pink Gazelle Productions and Chair of the John Petropoulos Memorial Fund. To subscribe to the Life After Loss blog series, please sign up here.
published in Inspiration, Saying NO!, Travel by Maryanne | May 4, 2018 | 10 Comments
Non Madame – Parisians Know How to Say No
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."
– Henry David Thoreau
Bonjour Mesdames et Messieurs!
Parisians know how to say no. I lost count of the times Heather and I were given a polite but firm no over the past ten days.
Me (in a restaurant): "Can we sit here?"
Waiter: "Non Madame."
Heather (en francais, in grocery store): "Can I pay for my groceries in this line?
Cashier: "Non Madame."
Random tourist in front of Sainte Chapelle: "Can I go in the church?"
Security guard: "Non Madame." (fair enough – it was closing for a concert)
Sometimes the reason for the no is clear; other times not so much. But it doesn't matter. No is no. I love it. As a woman who has struggled with the art of saying no for (gulp) half a century, I loved the ease with which the Parisians could do so – politely, firmly and with no obligation to provide an excuse or reason.
So when the cashier at the boulangerie around the corner from our sweet little VRBO (Mon Petit Maison) tried to give me a tattered and torn 5 euro bill in change, I shook my head, smiled and said, "Non Madame."
She was NOT pleased. But you know what? That's just too damn bad. If you can give a no, you can take one, too.
And that, mes amis, is a little lesson on boundaries for today 🙂
Here are some more photos from the ever so lovely (except when the streets are on fire during protests, as they were the night before we left) Paris:
A few more Paris photos to come in next week's blog…
Related blogs by Maryanne
Maryanne Pope is the author of A Widow's Awakening, the playwright of Saviour and the screenwriter of God's Country. Maryanne is CEO of Pink Gazelle Productions and Chair of the John Petropoulos Memorial Fund. If you would like to receive her regular weekly blog, please sign up here. As a thank you, you'll receive a short but saucy e-book entitled, Dive into this Chicago Deep Dish – Ten Bite-Sized Steps for a Yummier Slice of Life.
published in Anger, Book Reviews, Boundaries, Depression, Health, Saying NO! by Maryanne | June 6, 2017 | 4 Comments
In Sickness & in Health – When The Body Says No
"When we have been prevented from learning how to say no, our bodies may end up saying it for us."
– Gabor Maté
If you haven't read Gabor Maté's book, When the Body Says No; The Cost of Hidden Stress, I highly recommend it. I borrowed a copy from a friend a year ago and read it in small chunks, here and there, as there was an awful lot of content – and supporting case studies – to consider, in terms of the role we play in our own health. It is not a particularly comfortable read but it is extremely enlightening.
"It is a sensitive matter to raise the possibility that the way people have been conditioned to live their lives may contribute to their illness."
– Gabor Maté, When the Body Says No
Drawing on scientific research and the author's decades of experience as a practicing physician, When the Body Says No examines the effect of the mind-body connection on illness and health and the role that stress and one's individual emotional makeup play in conditions and diseases such as arthritis, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, irritable bowel syndrome and multiple sclerosis.
Here are a just a few highlights from the book:
"People have always understood intuitively that mind and body are not separable. Modernity has brought with it an unfortunate dissociation, a split between what we know with our whole being and what our thinking mind accepts as truth."
"Our immune system does not exist in isolation from daily experience."
"Many of us live, if not alone, then in emotionally inadequate relationships that do not recognize or honour our deepest needs."
"When emotions are repressed, this inhibition disarms the body's defences against illness."
"Repression – dissociating emotions from awareness and relegating them to the unconscious realm – disorganizes and confuses our physiological defences so that in some people these defences go awry, becoming the destroyers of health rather than its protectors."
"The blurring of psychological boundaries during childhood becomes a significant source of future physiological stress in the adult. There are ongoing negative effects on the body's hormonal and immune systems, since people with indistinct personal boundaries live with stress; it is a permanent part of their daily experience to be encroached on by others. However, that is a reality they have learned to exclude from their direct awareness."
"The research literature has identified three factors that universally lead to stress: uncertainty, the lack of information and the loss of control. All three are present in the lives of individuals with chronic illness."
"Repression of anger increases the risk for cancer for the very practical reason that it magnifies exposure to physiological stress. If people are not able to recognize intrusion, or are unable to assert themselves, even when they do see a violation, they are likely to experience repeatedly the damage brought on by stress."
"Physiological stress is the link between personality traits and disease. Certain traits – otherwise known as coping styles – magnify the risk for illness by increasing the likelihood of chronic stress. Common to them all is a diminished capacity for emotional communication."
"The gut, or intestinal tract, is much more than an organ of digestion. It is a sensory apparatus with a nervous system of its own, intimately connected to the brain's emotional centres."
"Gut feelings, pleasant or unpleasant, are part of the body's normal response to the world – they help us interpret what is happening around us and inform us whether we are safe or in danger."
"The repression of negative emotion is a chronic and significant source of damaging stress."
"Characteristics of many persons with rheumatoid diseases is a stoicism carried to an extreme degree, a deeply ingrained reticence about seeking help."
"Repressed anger will lead to disordered immunity. The inability to process and express feelings effectively, and the tendency to serve the needs of others before even considering one's own, are common patterns in people who develop chronic illness."
"The less powerful partner in any relationship will absorb a disproportionate amount of the shared anxiety – which is the reason that so many more women than men are treated for, say, anxiety or depression. (The issue here is not strength but power: that is, who is serving whose needs?)
"Healthy anger leaves the individual, not the unbridled emotion, in charge."
"Health rests on three pillars: the body, the psyche and the spiritual connection. To ignore any one of them is to invite imbalance and dis-ease."
For further information about the book and author, here is the link.
Related blogs by Maryanne:
Anger in the Garden – Pruning Back for Future Growth
When Our Body Says No, We'd Be Wise to Listen
Back Off Baby – You Just Crossed My Boundary
Maryanne Pope is the author of A Widow's Awakening, the playwright of Saviour and the screenwriter of God's Country. Maryanne is the CEO of Pink Gazelle Productions and Chair of the John Petropoulos Memorial Fund. If you would like to receive her regular weekly blog, please sign up here.


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Up early and all set up just in time for … rain! But not too much to cancel our big install day (this was third time lucky, after all) so we drank cups of tea and devoured the weather forecast websites while we sat in the car and waited for the rain to pass.
Today I was able to use a new (to me) material I've been really curious about – special glass beads made for road applications. I have several sacks of tiny round sparkles that road workers throw into still wet paint to make signs & lines reflective. We have used them in this anamorphic piece, so if you make it down to see the moon – check out how sparkly it is! Rainbow moon! ♥
Lots of people stopped to say hello and ask questions – apparently this artwork has been eagerly (and I suspect trepiditiously) anticipated by many of the local residents. I honestly didn't realise so many people love that spot as much as I do.


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Miles Jupp goes on Dracula's trail
Miles Jupp is to follow in the footsteps of one of Bram Stoker's vampire-hunters for a one-off Radio 4 travelogue.
The comedian will use the Dracula novel 'as it has never been used before' – not as a horror story but as a train timetable in the show, The Trainspotter's Guide To Dracula.
He aims to retrace the route of Jonathan Harker, the English solicitor who was the hero of the original 1897 novel. The book starts with him being dispatched to Transylvania to act as an estate agent for Count Dracula, and the very first line reads: '3 May. Bistritz. Left Munich at 8:35pm, on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late.'
It is not the only time he complains about the late running of the service. 'It seems to me that the further East you go the more unpunctual are the trains,' he says. 'What ought they to be in China?'
Jupp's challenge will be to reach Dracula's castle more quickly than Harker did, avoiding discontinued services, closed lines and delays.
In the book, Harker suffers a mental breakdown after his experiences with the vampire, before teaming up with Van Helsing back in London to track down Dracula's lairs.
The Trainspotter's Guide To Dracula will air at 11.30am on October 31, one of several Halloween themed shows to be broadcast on Radio 4.
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|Notice Convening the Extraordinary General Meeting
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July 12, 2019
Announcement no. 13
The Board of Directors hereby convenes an Extraordinary General Meeting of BioPorto A / S (the "Company"):
August 15, 2019, at 2.00 pm (CET),
At the Company's address
(Parking in Waterfront Shopping)
The Board of Directors proposes election of the following two new board members:
2. Michael S. Singer.
The background and other management positions of each candidate are described below. Both candidates are considered independent in accordance with the Danish Recommendations on Corporate Governance. The competency profile for the entire Board of Directors is available at the Company's website, www.bioporto.com.
Christopher Lindop (born 1957, American citizen)
Christopher Lindop qualified as a CA and CPA and was previously a partner with Arthur Andersen and E&Y. In 2003, Christopher Lindop took the position as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in Inverness Medical Ltd., before he became CFO and EVP Business Development at Haemonetics Corporation Ltd. (HAE) in 2007. Since 2017, Christopher Lindop has been CFO at Quotient Limited (QTNT). From 2007 until 2018 Mr. Lindop was a member of the board of directors of Parexel International (PRXL) where he served as Chairman of the Audit Committee and member of the Nominating and Governance Committee. He has considerable experience in management of US listed health care and diagnostic companies and within finance and reporting, corporate governance, mergers & acquisitions, funding and strategy development and execution.
Michael S. Singer (born 1973, American citizen)
Michael S. Singer has since 2016 served as Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) and co-founder of Cartesian Therapeutics, Inc., a US biotech company with clinical candidates for novel immunotherapies to cure cancer. Before this he was co-founder and CSO of Topokine Therapeutics, Inc. where he was responsible for pre-clinical and clinical development of the company's topical medicine candidates for fat reduction. Topokine was sold to Allergan in 2016. Early in his career, Michael S. Singer was a physician and surgeon, among other places at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA, before in the period 2006-2012 founding and divesting Health Honors Corporation and leading Translational Medicine at Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research as a director. Michael S. Singer possess significant experience and skills in designing and executing pre-clinical and clinical development processes in biotech and health care companies. He is MD cum laude and Ph.D. (neurosciences) from Yale University, CT.
For access to Full Notice, Registration Form and Proxy - and Vote by Correspondence see the below link.
The proposal may be adopted by simple majority.
At the time of convening, the share capital of the Company amounts to DKK 174,944,375. The share capital is fully paid-up and divided into shares of nominally DKK 1.00. Each share carries one vote (corresponding to a total of 174,944,375 votes).
The convening notice, including the agenda, complete proposals, information on voting rights and share capital on the convening date, the form for proxy and voting by correspondence are available on the Company's website, www.bioporto.com. Until and including the day before the general meeting, shareholders may address questions regarding the agenda or documents for the general meeting to the Company in writing.
The right of a shareholder to attend the general meeting and to vote is determined relative to the shares held by the shareholder on the record date. The record date is one week before the general meeting. The shares held by each shareholder on the record date is calculated based on registration of the shareholders' ownership in the shareholders' register and notifications about ownership received by the Company for entry into the shareholders' register, but which have not yet been registered.
The record date is August 8, 2019.
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Naama Bay Sharm EL Sheikh
Naama Bay This is a classical visit when you are in Sharm El Sheikh. The place is nice with the extended beach. It has a great view of the sunset. The good weather will help u enjoy …
Naama Bay is a natural bay in Sharm El Sheikh resort and is considered the main hub for tourists in the city, as it is famous for its cafes, restaurants, hotels, and bazaars


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Too little resources? Too little innovation?
Are you sure, that your efforts were accompanied with optimal effort?
Changes and complexity increase, are you well-prepared?
Team Coaching during the Idea Investigation
…is a process, in which the quality of ideas is lifted on a high level in a very efficient way, to make the project's decisions easier and with more certitude. Your teams obtain a professional attendance in order to achieve the best results from their ideas.
½ a day preparation workshop (purpose, method explaining and planning)
2 - 3 days Team Coaching – by the hour (depending on the period of the Short Investigation Phase)
*Remark: The effort can vary and has to be defined for a concrete project.
About the method:
There are unfortunately lots of cases, in which the teams either get bogged down in the details, or work aimlessly in different directions. That costs a lot of time, causes costs and leads over the intent.
The Short Investigations have been established to handle optimal with resources, time and risk.


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Dynamic Assessment
Full list of publications
Being Scottish In Italy
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Cognitive benefits of bilingualism and attitudes towards minority languages
I have conducted a series of research studies into the cognitive benefits of bilingualism in children who speak minority languages with colleagues from the Università di Cagliari, Italy, that have involved young children from Sardinia (who spoke Italian and Sardinian) and the Western Isles of Scotland (who spoke English and Scottish Gaelic). The first of these studies was published in 2013 in the
International Journal of Bilingualism
After a press release by the
University of Strathclyde
the research results were picked up the BBC news web-site and received wide-ranging coverage in over 20 countries and 100 web-sites across the world, as well as national newspaper coverage in the Herald, the Scotsman, the Times and the Times Education Supplement. I was interviewed by BBC Radio Scotland for their Newsdrive programme, and have since contributed to a DVD on the promotion of learning languages produced by
Bòrd na Gàidhlig
In November 2012 I was one of the speakers at the ESRC Festival of Social Science Event Talk in two languages: A problem or a skill? In December 2012 and February 2013 I was an invited speaker at the
Gaelic Education Leaders Annual Conference
organised by Bòrd na Gàidhlig.
In 2017 I published an edited book entitled "
Bilingualism and Minority Languages in Europe: Current trends and developments
" with Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto. In August 2017, after a press release by the University of Strathclyde, my research on attitudes and perceptions towards the minority languages of Gaelic and Sardinian was picked up by the
BBC news website
and reported nationally in Scotland. I was interviewed on the Good Morning Scotland programme on BBC Radio Scotland and interviewed for various newspaper articles.
See the links column for a selection of some of the web-sites that reported the research results.
BBC News
European Commission
The British Council
Yahoo news
Times Education Supplement
Morsmal (part of UNESCO)
Medical Daily
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The elf showed up when I least expected him to. But isn't that always the way with elves?
I was in the stall with my horse, Lucy, putting the curry comb to her to loosen up all that dead autumn hair and make way for her winter coat to grow in. We'd been on a long ride and I'd already given her a bath; it was beginning to get dark outside. I was alone in the barn, just me and the horse, when I heard his squeaky voice.
"Dr. Anderson?"
Only my students call me that, and I wasn't at the university, so I thought I was hearing things. But Lucy's ears were pointed straight forward like radar, and she let out a soft nicker.
"Is somebody looking for me?" I asked. "I'm in here."
"I know," a voice said from outside the stall.
Lucy's stall is solid planking for three feet, with iron bars making up the top half of the stall and the sliding door. I couldn't see anyone out there until I walked right up to the bars. Then I saw the gold bell on the top of his green hat.
It was E.J. Elf, all right. I'd met him two years earlier when Santa had crash landed the sleigh near the Everglades and Lucy had to pull him out.
The fact is, I'd often questioned whether or not the incident had ever happened or if I'd just fallen off the horse and knocked myself into dreamland, but Lucy still has the special set of beads that Santa had given her that night, so I had no choice but to believe it had been real.
"Well I'll be!" I said to the elf. "I never thought I'd see you again. What brings you here?"
"I wanted to ask Lucy if she'd pull the sleigh again this year," the elf said.
"You want Lucy to pull the sleigh again?" I asked. "Why? What happened? Don't tell me you put the jet engines back in and crashed again."
"No, no," the elf said, petting Lucy's nose. "The sleigh's fine."
"And you got rid of the GPS?"
"Yeah. That wasn't working out either. No, we got rid of all the new gadgets."
"Then why do you need Lucy?"
My horse was listening intently the whole time. The elf had told me that Lucy could understand me, and I know that horses are psychic. Lucy and I have been together for over three years, and now I can understand what she's thinking too. I knew the horse was just as confused as I was.
"It's that 'Occupy Wall Street' thing," the elf said. "It's spread to the North Pole "Who's occupying the North Pole?
Have the elves gone on strike?"
"No. It's the reindeer. They won't work. They've given new meaning to the phrase 'reindeer games.' That's why we need Lucy to pull the sleigh."
Lucy pinned her ears back and let out a long whinny. It was clear to me that she wasn't about to cross a reindeer picket line, even if she did want to pull the sleigh. I patted her on the withers to reassure her.
"The reindeer," I said. "That makes no sense."
"Yeah, well, you tell them that," the elf replied. "They're mad about the banks and corporate greed."
"Well, I've got to say I'm not too happy with the banks myself. Now they want to charge me fees just to use my own debit card. I'm going to have to go back to the old days of cashing checks and carrying around cash. It'll be a cold day in hell before I'll pay someone else to let me use my own money. And let's not even talk about the yo-yo that's my pension fund! And the fact that CEOs are getting raises and firing the workers!"


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Journal of Open, Flexible, and Distance Learning
2005 Volume 9, Number 1
Alison J. Fields
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 7
Learning management systems and the realities of using open source software
Philip Roy, Massey University
Open source software has gained prominence thanks to the Internet and the ability to establish communities, share ideas, and distribute software. It embraces the academic ideals of cooperation and ... More
pp. 5-14
Teacher education for cultural diversity: Online and at a distance
Jae Major, Christchurch College of Education
While student populations in English-speaking contexts are becoming more culturally and linguistically diverse, teaching populations remain predominantly monocultural and monolingual. It is... More
pp. 15-26
Design of web-based courses for secondary students
Michael Barbour, University of Georgia
This study considers the perceptions of course developers, teachers, and students on the characteristics of effective Web-based design for secondary school students. Through interviews and document... More
pp. 27-36
E-lectures within an integrated multimedia course design
Koenraad Kuiper, Colin McMurtrie & Gregor Ronald, University of Canterbury
Course design should be student-centred in that courses are designed for students. But the consequences of that imperative differ from course to course and from student to student. This paper... More
pp. 37-45
Flexible learning templates for dispersed learners: Expanding the role of the content expert without pain
Michael Alford, Carolynn Oleniuk & Sharon Roffey, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) provides training for staff at 200 locations worldwide and in an extreme range of conditions. This article describes the... More
pp. 46-57
Determination of New Zealand tertiary institution e-learning capability: An application of an e-learning maturity model
Stephen Marshall, Victoria University of Wellington
A significant challenge facing most tertiary institutions is identifying organisational strategic and operational priorities for investment in e-learning capability-in short, containing the rising ... More
pp. 58-63
Research in progress: Learning from adopters and resisters of e-learning in New Zealand polytechnics and institutes of technology
Hugh Barr, Stephen Bright, John Clayton, Stephen Cox, Beverley Gower & David Mitchell, Waikato Institute of Technology
The exponential growth of e-learning practices in higher education has resulted in an increasing interest in the ways in which faculty members in tertiary institutions perceive e-learning and the... More
pp. 63-66


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New York's career colleges make a great choice for many students, as they offer an affordable way to get the education you need to be successful. Of course, this education will require some level of investment, and it's not always affordable for every student to be able to attend school. If this is the case for you, you can take advantage of financial aid programs that are available to New York students. The New York Student Financial Aid Administrator Association offers a variety of different resources that can help you find the money you need for school, through scholarships, loans, grants, work study programs, and other financial aid options.
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QUETTA – Three people including a woman were killed in different incidents of violence, while a tehsildar of Bolan district escaped a bomb blast Thursday.
Armed assailants opened indiscriminate fire in Killi Mubarak area here, killing a person identified as Mehrab Bakhsh on the spot.
The motorbike-riding assailants managed to flee from the scene. The body was shifted to Civil Hospital for medico-legal formalities. However, motive behind the murder is yet to be ascertained.
In another incident, two people including a woman were shot dead in Sibi district. Levies sources said that armed men shot dead a woman and her alleged lover Zahid Ali who were on way to Sibi for court marriage.
Their bodies were shifted to a local hospital for autopsy and later handed them over to heirs for burial. A case has been registered and further investigations were underway.
Moreover, a tehsildar escaped a bomb attack in Bolan district. Levies officials said that Qazi Pervez was on his way after examining a development work when explosives planted along the road near Sanihampada went off.
However, Qazi remained unhurt in the blast but his three guards Nasrullah, Zehshan and Arshad sustained injuries.
"Explosives were detonated through remote controlled device," sources said.
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What happened to that email?
Posted by sqlwiseguy on September 10, 2009
This question:
Created script to send mails using sp_send_dbmail- working like a charm.
Now searching for a way to get result code of sent mail (like Success = Recipient got it,
Failure = Did not get regardless of the reason).
I mean SP return codes 0 (success) or 1 (failure) refer to correct mail Profile, not missing Recipient, etc.
Frankly not sure this is possible as it looks like outside Sql Server authority/responsibility?!
asked in this thread on SQLServerCentral prompted me to do some research into Database Mail. The result of the research is that there is no way to get this information from SQL Server.
Basically the way Database Mail/sp_send_dbmail works is that the message is placed in a Service Broker queue (sp_send_dbmail returns success), the external Database Mail executable reads the queue and sends the message to the designated SMTP mail server. If the mail server accepts the message then Database Mail is done and the status is set to sent. So, if you have an incorrect email address or the receiving server refuses it, SQL Server has no way to know. In order to find this out you would need to use a valid Reply To or From email address and monitor that mailbox.
Here's the query I use for checking Database Mail:
msdb.dbo.sysmail_faileditems AS SF JOIN
msdb.dbo.sysmail_event_log AS SEL
ON SF.mailitem_id = SEL.mailitem_id
Let me know if you have any better ways to find errors for Database Mail.


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Linux Tools Project/Autotools/User Guide
The Autotools plug-in for Eclipse extends the CDT (C/C++ Development Tools) to add support for maintaining and building C/C++ projects that use GNU Autotools.
The GNU Autotools are a set of tools used to make a project portable to multiple systems or build environments. The tools aid the developer to create a configure script which is meant to be invoked prior to performing the build. The configure script may perform tests such as testing the current platform, the OS, what is locally installed, or any number of things. Parameters can be passed as well to provide information that is not calculable (e.g. what will be the target platform the project will be run on). Results of tests and parameters are used to create the Makefiles for the build or in some cases, additional files such as header files or code sequences.
What gets tested is fully controllable by the developer by way of special input files which are fed to the Autotools. Typically, the most commonly used Autotools are 'autoconf', 'automake', and 'aclocal'. The 'autoconf' tool takes a 'configure.in' or 'configure.ac' input file and creates the 'configure' script previously discussed. It is possible to have multiple configure scripts in various subdirectories, but a project should be designed so there is one top-level configure script that calls any lower-level ones automatically.
The 'automake' tool takes a 'Makefile.am' input file and creates a 'Makefile.in' file which is used at configuration time by the configure script as a template for creating a Makefile. Each Makefile will have its own corresponding Makefile.in file. There may be if/else logic used to determine what ends up in the Makefile or there may be requests to directly substitute variables calculated in the configure step.
The 'aclocal' tool creates a repository of macros that are specified directly or indirectly in the 'autoconf' input files. Such macros are provided to perform commonly used tests or actions (e.g. test that a certain header file exists or find the C compiler). The macros are written in a language called m4 and the developer is free to create their own macros to add to the repository.
For more details on the GNU Autotools, see http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/ and http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/
Creating an Autotools Project
There a number of ways to create an Autotools project. The first method is through the CDT C and C++ Project wizards which can be activated from the File -> New -> C Project and File -> New -> C++ Project menu items, respectively, which are available while in the C/C++ Perspective. These two wizards can also be located by clicking on the File -> New -> Project... menu item and then opening the C/C++ folder found there.
Looking at the C Wizard, we see that there is a GNU Autotools category.
Opening the category, there are two choices: Empty Project or Hello World Ansi C Project. The Empty Project means that no files will be supplied to the new project while the Hello World project will supply a sample hello world program that uses Autotools for configuring the build. The C++ Project Wizard also has the same GNU Autotools category and two project templates: an Empty Project and a Hello World C++ sample program. If you are creating the project from scratch, it is recommended that you use the Hello World sample project and make modifications. Otherwise, you will need to create a configure script for the Autotools plug-in to invoke at build time or provide a Makefile so the configuration step does not fail.
The C and C++ Wizards can also be used when importing an existing Autotools project. For example, when importing a project from CVS using File -> Import... -> CVS -> you are given the choice to "Check out as a project configured by the new project wizard".
From the New Project menu, open the C/C++ category and choose either a C Project or C++ Project, depending on the type of project being imported. If the code is both C and C++, choose C++ Project.
This will bring up the C Project Wizard as displayed earlier. In this case, choose the Empty Project from the GNU Autotools category.
Another method to create an Autotools project is to convert an existing project to an Autotools project. For example, if we import a project from SVN or CVS and do not configure using the new project wizard, the project will simply be downloaded into the workspace. At this point, it cannot be built or access various tools from the CDT.
To convert it, select the project in the Project Explorere then open the File -> New -> Convert to C/C++ Project menu item as found in the C/C++ Perspective. If in another perspective, this same wizard can be found by selecting File -> New -> Project... -> C/C++ -> Convert to a C/C++ Project. This brings up the C/C++ Conversion wizard.
Note how there is a set of projects that are candidates for conversion. These are any projects that are not already C or C++ projects. A C or C++ project includes regular CDT Managed Make and Makefile projects. Also note that the project you selected is already checked off when the wizard opens.
There is a choice of C or C++ project and a set of project types to choose from. Select the GNU Autotools category and this will convert the project to an Autotools project. Once converted, this project will not show up as a candidate project in the conversion wizard.
The final way to create an Autotools project is to use the Autotools Conversion wizard. This wizard allows one to convert from another form of C/C++ project to an Autotools project. Again, you need to first select the project you wish to convert. After selecting, go to File -> New -> Other -> C/C++, open the category, select "Convert to a C/C++ Autotools Project" and hit the Next button.
This brings up the following dialog:
Again there are candidates for conversion. This list contains all projects that are not currently C or C++ Autotools projects. You are given the choice of C or C++ as with the other conversion wizard. Hitting the Finish button is all that is needed, but if you hit the Next button and continue on you can select referenced projects, if desired.
Prior to running a build, the Autotools plug-in runs the configure script. Parameters to be passed to configure may be entered via the Project -> Properties -> Autotools -> Configure Settings UI shown below:
You will notice how the actual configure script name is editable. It is not recommended you change the name of the configure script as this is standard for Autotool projects. However, one use of this text input is to add flags to set prior to invoking the configure script. For example, you might want to set the command to: CFLAGS="-g -debug" configure to have the CFLAGS environment variable overridden while configuring. The same applies to the autogen.sh script settings. You may set flags in a similar manner.
For configure, there are a number of standard parameters that apply to generated configure scripts. Each parameter has its command line name presented so you can look it up in Autotools documentation. In addition, tool-tip hover help is provided.
Under the Advanced category, there is a free-form line called "Additional command-line options" where you may enter any options in their command-line format. This is useful for entering custom options that your configure script supports (e.g. --enable-feature-x or --with-lib-y). It can also be used for any of the standard parameters as well if that is more familiar tor you. Parameters in this list are appended to the end of parameters derived from the standard option entries (i.e. you could get two specifications of a parameter). In the case of multiple specification, behavior is the same as it is on the command line.
In some cases, a project may choose not to invoke the Autotools ahead of time and instead require this be done prior to configuration. The input files that are fed to the Autotools are provided, but the output of the Autotools are not. This may be done to lower the download size and additionally to avoid having to constantly regenerate the output files as the Autotools are updated. In such cases, an autogen.sh script may be provided which is simply a script that runs the various Autotools required. This script may or may not run the configure script at the end. Alternatively, there is also the autoreconf tool which can be invoked to recursively run through the source tree and run all Autotools where the input files are newer than the output files (this includes the case where no output file is present). Any options required when invoking the Autotools can be encoded within the input files themselves.
The following defines a priority list of scenarios that the Autotools plug-in checks for when performing the configure step and how each one is handled.
- A config.status file exists and configure script options have not changed since the last configuration
- The config.status file is created as part of running a generated configure script. It itself is a script file and indicates a configuration has already been performed. If the configure options have not changed since that configuration, there is no need to do a full reconfigure. A simple check is performed by calling the config.status script with the --recheck option. This will verify that the generated Makefile exists and is up to date.
- A configure script exists
- In this case, the configure script is run with any configuration options specified in the project properties.
- An autogen script exists
- In this case, the autogen.sh script is run and following that, a check is made to see if config.status has been created, indicating that the configure script was run. If has not configured, the configure script is run automatically if it was successfully created.
- A Makefile.cvs file exists
- A Makefile.cvs is an alternate form of autogen.sh/configure script. In this case, the file is fed to the make command. If a configure script is created and not run as part of this process, it is run automatically.
- default case
- At this point, there is no configure script or autogen.sh script and configure has not been run previously. A last resort is to run the autoreconf command with -i to recursively search the source tree and invoke Autotools for any input file that is older than its output target (or if the target is missing). If this generates a configure script, it is run automatically.
If after all of this, the top-level Makefile is not created, an error is generated and building stops.
The entire configuration step is performed by a special builder that is added when an Autotools project is created or converted from another project. The special builder runs the configure step and is positioned to run prior to the Makefile builder.
From the Project -> Properties -> Builders tab for a project you will see:
Do not uncheck the Autotools Makefile builder nor change the order of the builders. Modifying this will result in undefined behavior.
The configure step is run in a special Configuration console added by the Autotools plug-in. This console is separate from the Build console which is used to display the results of the make command invocation.
To see the Configure console, click on the console selector button (icon looks like a T.V.) found in the Console View as follows:
Note that the configure console output is per project and shows configuration output for the last build of the project. It is not saved between Eclipse sessions.