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Windscreens, shade screens, privacy screens – regardless of the name, this product is very useful for a wide variety of applications Tennis courts, baseball / softball fields, residential & even construction sites benefit from a quality windscreen.
The windscreen selection process can be very confusing if you aren't educated. The result is often over or under-buying, resulting in the wrong material for your application – costing you more money than needed, or causing you headaches in the long-run with maintenance due to screens falling apart prematurely. The worst scenario is spending hundreds of dollars, dozens of hours installing – only to have the windscreens tear after a couple windy seasons.
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Our Experience with Windscreens
Our vinyl & fabric shops have been building custom windscreens for more than 25 years. We are proud to offer the widest variety of windscreens in the business, with the highest quality materials & craftsmanship.
- Tennis Courts
- Baseball / Softball Fields
- Parks
- Golf Courses
- Home & Garden
- Construction sites
- Mountain ski resorts
- Improved appearance – chain-link fences are upgraded overnight
- Privacy – excellent for city parks on busy streets
- Wind reduction – helps minimize gusts which may affect events
- Shade – makes tennis courts & ballparks more comfortable during hot summer months
- Block out distractions or unsightly areas – allows your players to focus on what's in front of them
- Provides excellent visual background for players – helps baseball & tennis players see the ball better – commonly referred to in baseball as the "batters eye".
Our Windscreens come standard in 6'H or 9'H but can be custom sized to ANY height or length.
We recommend ordering your windscreens in 50′ – 75'L increments for ease of installation and future maintenance – which allows for sections to be easily removed & replaced.
TIP: Some windscreens are manufactured slightly shorter than conventional fence sizes, which makes installation easier, and allows the screen to be stretched properly reducing wrinkles. For example, many fences are 4′, 6′ or 8'H – in which case the proper windscreen sizes are 3'8″, 5'8″ or 7'8″ give or take an inch.
Material Types
- VCP / VCM (Vinyl Coated Polyester Mesh)
- Polyethylene (Heavy duty plastic material)
- Open Mesh Polypropylene (Lighter duty plastic material)
- Closed Mesh Polypropylene (Lighter duty plastic material)
- Privacy Screens (Solid Vinyl)
ArmorMesh with Heat-Sealed Seams
Vinyl Coated Polyester (aka Vinyl Coated Mesh) is often manufactured in the US, but some versions are also imported from China. This material is a higher quality product, but quality can vary widely so buyer beware.
Designed using 50% Vinyl & 50% polyester, Vinyl Coated windscreens are some of the most durable windscreens available, and optimal for baseball fields, tennis courts, and other high-wind areas. Coated screens are designed to withstand the elements, will not fray when cut, and will even allow your personal silk-screen logos to adhere nicely.
- Pros: Economical material available in lighter ounces (8 oz). Can be very durable in higher ounces (14 oz).
- Con: Being a coated product, the coating can eventually wear away, causing material to become brittle.
A plastic based material, commonly used in plastic applications like soda bottles & netting.
- Pro: Heavy-duty material, durable in all climates. Extruded black material, will never fade or chip.
- Con: Plastic based material which can be bulky and not very flexible.
- Tips: Knitted is superior than Woven. High-Density Knitted Polyethylene is the best.
Open Mesh Polypropylene
A plastic based material, used in a wide variety of sports & consumer applications. Typically used indoors due to lower quality material.
Open mesh windscreens allow more air-flow, are lighter-weight & more economical. These screens are not recommended for high-wind areas & long-term use.
- Pro: Softer material, takes up less space when folded up than others.
- Cons: Weaker overall material, tends to become brittle after being exposed to harsh conditions.
Closed Mesh Polypropylene
A plastic based material, used in a wide variety of sports & consumer applications. Typically used indoors due to lower quality material.
Closed mesh windscreens allow limited air-flow, and work great for applications requiring increased privacy & greatly reduced air/light flow.
- Pro: Softer material, takes up less space when folded up than others.
- Cons: Weaker overall material, tends to become brittle after being exposed to harsh conditions.
Privacy Screens
Great for applications requiring increased privacy & greatly reduced air/light flow. Common applications are school gym divider curtains.
Trade Names
- Tuffy (10 oz VCP) — 5 year warranty
- ArmorMesh (14 oz VCP) — 5 year warranty
- Enviro Screen (5.5 oz Polyethylene) — 4 year warranty
- Extreme Screen (9 oz Polyethylene) — 7 year warranty
- Puffy (VCP)
- DuraScreen (VCP)
Features & Accessories
The details of a windscreen are what sets it apart, and will affect it's life-span.
- All of our windscreens include EMBEDDED UV Inhibitors for maximum sun protection, instead of surface coated.
- All windscreens also come standard with Brass Tooth Grommets, spaced 18" on ALL FOUR sides.
- All custom windscreens taller than 6 ft now come with a free CENTER "lacing lip" with additional grommets to secure the windscreens in the middle, preventing billowing & breakage from wind.
Brass grommets on bound reinforced hems.
3-Ply hem sewn with two rows of lock-stitched threadSeams
- Heat-Sealed – 2-ply with the material folded back on itself.
Logo Printing
- Digital Printing
- Screen Printing / ChromaBond
- Read our detailed Windscreen Logo Review
Team logos & lettering can be applied to most all of our custom windscreens to give your fence a professional touch and encourage team spirit, or even sell space to sponsors to help pay for the field.
Digital Printing
- Economical
- Efficient
- Wide variety of colors for same cost
- Ink has shorter life-span than paint
- Logos are not as bright after years of use, compared to painted / screen-printed logos
- Some logos / letters must be sewn to windscreen, creating 2 layers
- Some logos will have white mesh backing, unless factory has large enough machine to digitally print entire sheets of colored mesh
Screen Printing / Painting (Chroma-Bond)
- Extremely durable
- Longer life-span than material logos are printed on
- Always maintains bright appearance
- Crisper appearance than digital
- Much more expensive than digital logos
- Longer overall process
- Multiple colors require additional screens / up-charge
Air Vents (Half Moon or Rectangle)
Available in half-moon or 6" x 12" block style. Recommended for high-wind areas to help with air-flow & prevent damage to the windscreens or your fence. These are installed just above the lacing-lip. Recommended spacing is every 8 – 12 ft.
Lacing Lip / Grommet Line
A hemmed row of reinforced fabric & grommets, this adds an attachment point, reducing movement from wind. Greatly reduces stress on screens, and a key to extending life-span of screens in windy areas. Lacing lips are installed at seam points on custom sized windscreens, and included standard at the mid-point on all screens taller than 6 ft. Additional lacing lips can be added as needed for a cost – you can't go wrong with additional grommet lines.
Lacing lip for tennis court windscreens over 6' high.
Available in full spectrum of colors. Match your team colors to highlight your area. Darker colors are optimal to make more discreet and provide dark background – Forest Green & Black are most popular.
We can even build with multiple colors to match your team colors. A popular style is a 2-color combo with a base color on the bottom 80% and a 2nd color on the top 20% for a highlight.
At this point you have probably learned far more about windscreens than you ever thought existed or wanted to know. It's important to take all key areas into consideration when comparison shopping – material type, features are vastly different. Let us be your guide in the maze of windscreen options.
Contact Us today for a quote today on your custom windscreen project, or shop online here.
Thanks for reading.
Chad Schneider, Operations Director
Practice Sports, Inc.


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- The 1.1200 neighbourhood now comes into focus.
EUR/USD keeps pushing higher on Wednesday, boosted by the recent surpass of the 1.1140 region, where sits the 200-day SMA.
Immediately above emerges the 1.1200 area ahead of late December highs in levels just shy of 1.1240 and August's peak at 1.1250.
The bullish view is seen unaltered as long as the 55-day SMA at 1.1095 underpins.
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text: Teens Teen Life Print Establishing Rules for Teen Cell Phone Use By Amy Morin, LCSW facebook twitter instagram Amy Morin, LCSW, is a psychotherapist, author of the bestselling book "13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do," and a highly sought-after speaker. Learn about our editorial policy Amy Morin, LCSW Updated on September 19, 2019 Adam Hester/Photographer's Choice RF/Getty Images More in Teens Teen Life Growth & Development Behavior & Emotions Health & Safety Dating & Sexuality Establishing cell phone rules for teens can be a little tricky. After all, most parents didn't grow up owning a cell phone so knowing what's appropriate and what isn't can be a challenge. Technology also changes so quickly that it can also be hard to keep up with the latest devices, social networking sites, and apps. Rules for Teen Cell Phone Usage Without clear guidelines, many teens struggle to handle the responsibility of owning a smartphone. So it's important to establish rules that will help your teen make healthy choices. No Cellphone Use Before School Most teens don't have much time to spare before school and texting or surfing social media can waste a lot of precious minutes. So start the day off right by saying, "No phones in the morning." If your teen happens to get ready early, you might consider allowing him to use his smartphone for a few minutes as a privilege before he heads out the door. Follow the School Rules Each school makes its own cellphone policies. So, investigate the policy at your child's school and make it clear that you expect her to follow the rules. If your teen gets in trouble at school for using his cell phone when he's not supposed to, support their discipline policy. After all, it's important for your teen to learn he'll need to honor the cell phone policy of future employer's or college professors as well and it's an important life lesson to learn. No Cell Phones at the Dinner Table Don't allow anyone to use their phones during meals. And practice being a good role model. Don't respond to text messages or emails while you're eating. Teach your child appropriate cell phone etiquette. No Cell Phones During Family Time Stress the importance of interacting with one another in-person. Make it clear that during family activities, cell phone use is prohibited. Whether you're visiting with extended family or you're playing a game of catch, discourage bad cell phone habits, like ignoring friends to text someone who isn't present. No Cell Phone Use During Homework Time Replying to text messages or keeping up with social media can be a huge distraction for teens who are trying to study. Set limits on cellphone use during homework time, especially if your teen's grades are suffering. The Cell Phone Must Be Turned in Before Bedtime There really isn't a good reason why a teen would need her phone during the wee hours of the morning. Teens who keep their phones in their rooms at night are likely to respond to text messages or social media updates in the middle of the night and it can interfere with your teen's sleep. Although there are several reasons why teens shouldn't sleep with smartphones in their bedrooms, one main reason the pressure many teens feel to respond to messages at all hours of the night. You can take that pressure off by establishing a rule that says phones aren't allowed in your teen's room overnight. Establish a rule that clearly states what time the phone must be turned off in the evening. Then, charge the phone in a common area of the home, such as in the kitchen. No Cell Phone Use While Driving Unfortunately, many teens get into fatal car accidents because they were replying to a text message while driving. Help your teen problem-solve ways to reduce the temptation to use the phone while driving. The best solution is usually to shut off the phone while driving. At the very least, consider installing a smartphone app that prevents texting and driving. No Cell Phones in Bedrooms Many teens just aren't ready to handle the responsibility of having a cell phone in their bedrooms. They may not be able to resist risky behavior such as sexting or downloading inappropriate content. Restricting your teen from using his phone in his bedroom can seem extreme, but for some families, it can be the best way to teach appropriate cell phone use. How to Create a Behavior Contract Once you've established clear cell phone rules, create a behavior contract. Include the rules and the consequences your teen will experience for breaking any of the rules. You also might include what will happen if your teen loses her phone, breaks it, or incurs data overage charges. Then, have your teen review and sign the contract. That way, you'll know she is clear about your expectations and any restrictions you might impose if she violates the rules. Was this page helpful? 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Held in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea since 1913, RHS Chelsea is the world's most prestigious flower show. Nowhere makes gardening more fashionable than Chelsea, with a catwalk of colour and creativity, brightest new ideas, the latest plant trends and the pinnacle of garden design, this show is one the world wants to see.
One of the biggest attractions at RHS Chelsea are the spectacular Show Gardens. Unrivalled in their ability to create the extraordinary, with the largest and most oustanding gardens, they act as perfect examples of horticultural excellence and innovative landscape design.
Traditional designs, materials and methods are revitalised by new approaches to craft and craftsmanship with smaller show gardens. Representing some of the most imaginative and inspiring designs these smaller gardens put a modern twist on timeless rustic ideas.
The jewel in RHS Chelsea's crown is the Great Pavilion, which plays host to over 100 nurseries, new and old. An array of Tradestands transform the showground into a shopper's paradise, each selling the very best in garden structures, accessories and products, and complementing the quality of the gardens and floral exhibits on the show.
Combine all this with fashion-forward thinking, celebrity visitors, and a Royal victory, and it's no wonder RHS Chelsea is the highlight of the horticultural calender and an eminently fragrant, colourful part of the London Spring Season: Burke's Peerage and Gentry defines the Chelsea Flower Show as "the first event of the London 'season' heralding the start of the British summer".
Since 2002 Classic Garden Elements created many a stand at the Chelsea Flower Show. Showing off our structures at their best: Planted with roses by world renowned Rose Nursery Peter Beales.
In 2005 we were awarded with the prestigious 'Certificate of Merit' of the Royal Horticultural Society.


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createOffer() method of the
RTCPeerConnection interface initiates the creation of an SDP offer for the purpose of starting a new WebRTC connection to a remote peer. The SDP offer includes information about any
MediaStreamTracks already attached to the WebRTC session, codec, and options supported by the browser, and any candidates already gathered by the ICE agent, for the purpose of being sent over the signaling channel to a potential peer to request a connection or to update the configuration of an existing connection.
The return value is a
Promise which, when the offer has been created, is resolved with a
RTCSessionDescription object containing the newly-created offer.
aPromise = myPeerConnection.createOffer([options]);
myPeerConnection.createOffer(successCallback, failureCallback, [options])
- An
RTCOfferOptionsdictionary providing options requested for the offer.
RTCOfferOptions dictionary
RTCOfferOptions dictionary is used to customize the offer created by this method.
- To restart ICE on an active connection, set this to
true. This will cause the returned offer to have different credentials than those already in place. If you then apply the returned offer, ICE will restart. Specify
falseto keep the same credentials and therefore not restart ICE. The default is
offerToReceiveAudioOptional (Legacy)
- A legacy option which can contain a Boolean value indicating whether or not the remote peer should try to send audio. If this value is
false, the remote peer must not try to send audio data. The default is
true.Note: You shouldn't use this legacy property. Instead, use
RTCRtpTransceiverto control whether or not to accept incoming audio.
offerToReceiveVideoOptional (Legacy)
- A legacy option which can contain a Boolean value indicating whether or not the remote peer should try to send video. If this value is
false, the remote peer must not try to send video data. The default is
true.Note: You shouldn't use this legacy property. Instead, use
RTCRtpTransceiverto control whether or not to accept incoming video.
- Some codecs and hardware are able to detect when audio begins and ends by watching for "silence" (or relatively low sound levels) to occur. This reduces network bandwidth used for audio by only sending audio data when there's actually something to broadcast. However, in some cases, this is unwanted. For example, in the case of music or other non-voice transmission, this can cause loss of important low-volume sounds. Also, emergency calls should never cut audio when quiet. This option defaults to
true(voice activity detection enabled).
Deprecated parameters
In older code and documentation, you may see a callback-based version of this function. This has been deprecated and its use is strongly discouraged. You should update any existing code to use the
Promise-based version of
createOffer() instead. The parameters for this form of
createOffer() are described below, to aid in updating existing code.
- An
RTCSessionDescriptionCallbackwhich will be passed a single
RTCSessionDescriptionobject describing the newly-created offer.
- An
RTCPeerConnectionErrorCallbackwhich will be passed a single
DOMExceptionobject explaining why the request to create an offer failed.
- An optional
RTCOfferOptionsdictionary providing options requested for the offer.
Return value
Promise whose fulfillment handler will receive an object conforming to the
RTCSessionDescriptionInit dictionary which contains the SDP describing the generated offer. That received offer should be delivered through the signaling server to a remote peer.
These exceptions are returned by rejecting the returned promise. Your rejection handler should examine the received exception to determine which occurred.
- The
RTCPeerConnectionis closed.
- No certificate or set of certificates was provided for securing the connection, and
createOffer()was unable to create a new one. Since all WebRTC connections are required to be secured, that results in an error.
- Examining the state of the system to determine resource availability in order to generate the offer failed for some reason.
Here we see a handler for the
negotiationneeded event which creates the offer and sends it to the remote system over a signaling channel.
Note: Keep in mind that this is part of the signaling process, the transport layer for which is an implementation detail that's entirely up to you. In this case, a WebSocket connection is used to send a JSON message with a
type field with the value "video-offer" to the other peer. The contents of the object being passed to the
sendToServer() function, along with everything else in the promise fulfillment handler, depend entirely on your design.
myPeerConnection.createOffer().then(function(offer) { return myPeerConnection.setLocalDescription(offer); }) .then(function() { sendToServer({ name: myUsername, target: targetUsername, type: "video-offer", sdp: myPeerConnection.localDescription }); }) .catch(function(reason) { // An error occurred, so handle the failure to connect });
In this code, the offer is created, and once successful, the local end of the
RTCPeerConnection is configured to match by passing the offer (which is represented using an object conforming to
RTCSessionDescriptionInit) into
setLocalDescription(). Once that's done, the offer is sent to the remote system over the signaling channel; in this case, by using a custom function called
sendToServer(). The implementation of the signaling server is independent from the WebRTC specification, so it doesn't matter how the offer is sent as long as both the caller and potential receiver are using the same one.
Promise.catch() to trap and handle errors.
See Signaling and video calling for the complete example from which this snippet is derived; this will help you to understand how the signaling code here works.
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Die Definition von 'createOffer()' in dieser Spezifikation.
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Browser compatibility
Vollständige Unterstützung
|Edge Vollständige Unterstützung 15
|Firefox Vollständige Unterstützung 22
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|Safari Vollständige Unterstützung 11
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Vollständige Unterstützung
|Firefox Android Vollständige Unterstützung 44
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Course Title: Global Climate Change
Part A: Course Overview
Course Title: Global Climate Change
Credit Points: 12.00
Course Code
Learning Mode
Teaching Period(s)
City Campus
145H Mathematical & Geospatial Sciences
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Sem 2 2007,
Sem 2 2008
City Campus
145H Mathematical & Geospatial Sciences
|Sem 2 2006,
Sem 2 2007,
Sem 2 2008
Course Coordinator: Dr Colin Arrowsmith
Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 2042
Course Coordinator Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Course Coordinator Location: 12.11.17
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
Course Description
Over the last two million years climate and environmental change has significantly affected the distribution and development of biota, including humankind. Humans themselves can and have become agents of environmental change. This course will investigate the nature and causes of past environmental change (during the Quaternary period), investigate forecasts of future change, and look at both the impacts on and effects of human beings in global environments.
Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development
At the successful completion of this course you should be able to:
1. describe and understand the physical processes contributing to environmental change
2. discuss past (Quartermary) and present physical environments of the Earth
3. discuss the methods by which past environmental changes are inferred
4. describe the impact of environmental change on the nature and distribution of biota, including human beings
5. describe the impacts of human activities on environmental change.
This course contributes to the development of the following Program Learning Outcomes:
1.1 Describe the fundamental and applied scientific knowledge that underpins the geospatial sciences.
1.3 Understand specialist bodies of knowledge in geospatial science
1.4 Discern research directions and advances within geospatial science.
2.1 Apply standard and advanced techniques to solve a range of measurement and data management problems.
2.3 Be proficient in the recording, storage, management and reporting of spatial information.
3.1 Design and implement creative solutions to complex problems.
3.2 Interpret and critically analyse results and make informed judgments on the appropriateness of solutions.
3.3 Apply critical and analytical skills in a scientific and professional manner.
4.1 Communicate effectively by means of oral, written and graphical presentations to peers and a wider audience
5.1 Appreciate the environmental, social, legal and international aspects of actions and decisions in the geospatial sciences.
5.2 Demonstrate a clear understanding of professional expectations and ethical requirements.
6.1 Be self-motivated and personally responsible for your actions and learning
6.2 Work with others and contribute in a constructive manner to group and team activities.
Overview of Learning Activities
Learning happens through the academic semester. Specifically, the activities are:
Fieldwork activities
Prescribed Reading
Problem Solving
Report writing
Overview of Learning Resources
As a student enrolled in this course you have access to extensive learning resources provided in the school and in the RMIT Library. Our library offers comprehensive services and facilities, geared to assist you in completing your studies successfully. Furthermore prescribed preparatory readings (available on the DLS), discussion boards, specific computer software in Computer Labs, Web resources plus recommendations for further readings will be used as additional references. More details will be provided during the course.
Overview of Assessment
Students will be assessed via a combination of examination, mid-semester test, field reports, student based projects and assignments.


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Physical Education plays a vital role in our everyday lives because it has an important role in keeping us fit, healthy and active. If you are fit you recover faster from illness and injury and you generally have a great work ethic. Good fitness improves our performance in general everyday activities and contributes to a healthy active lifestyle.
Miss N Gore | Subject Leader – PE | ICT
Miss A Doyle | Teacher
Mrs S Robson | Teacher
Miss G Pemberton | Teacher: Dance | PE
Facilities outside
At Prenton we have an outdoor climbing traverse wall, two outdoor basketball courts and three outdoor netball courts, one of which is a championship court. We have a field which has a four lane running track, two rounders pitches and a 9 v 9 football pitch. We also have a wide range of outdoor equipment to enable students to take part in active playground activities at lunchtime.
Sports Hall Area
Indoors we have a Sports Hall which is equipped with four badminton courts, basketball, netball and volleyball courts. We have numerous fitness equipment and pedometers that allow us to train and test students. We have two 6mm trampolining beds and a half inch bed which is good for beginners. We are also set up for both indoor and outdoor cricket at which we have enjoyed a great deal of success.
Gym Area
In the gym every student has their own 6×4 mat on which to perform. We have a variety of gym equipment including four mini trampettes, two Reuther boards and 2 springboards as well as a plethora of boxes, benches, beams etc. This area is also able to accommodate basketball, netball and volleyball practices. We also have Video Equipment packs and Flip Cams.
Curriculum provision for Years 7, 8 and 9
In year 7 students are taught as forms and their fitness is benchmarked so that they have a starting point at which to try and improve. The course is built around gymnastics, netball, badminton, volleyball, football, tag rugby, athletics and rounders.
All students receive a double lesson per week. Each half term students are introduced to a different sports and the skills techniques, rules and tactics associated with that sport.
Students learn how to lead the class in a warm up and do an independent three part warm up. They take on basic leadership roles as umpires, referees, scorers and timekeepers.
Students play small sided games that gradually build into full sided games culminating in an interform tournament.
The GCSE Curriculum
Core PE is focussed on students understanding how to keep themselves fit and active.
Students cover a range of fitness activities as well as having the opportunity to work in the fitness suite or experiencing a range of games and sports.
Choosing GCSE PE As An Option?
We currently use exam board Edexcel / Pearson.
The weighting currently is 60% practical and 40% for theory work.
Students receive an extra three lessons in addition to two general PE lessons.
There is only one piece of coursework to complete. Students who opt for GCSE PE must have strong practical skills; playing for a team outside of school or pursuing a particular sport can be a real advantage.
The theory elements of the course cover: healthy active lifestyles, cardiovascular system, respiratory system, muscle system, skeletal system, performance in physical education.
The help the girls with their theory revision, there are some GCSE PE revision websites:
Extra Curricular
Recreational clubs take place at lunchtime with the more competitive clubs taking place after school.
Currently we run the following clubs and activities at lunchtimes:
Monday: Fitness Suite for KS4 students, Netball Club for Year 7, Dodgeball
Tuesday: Football Club, Cheerleading Club
Wednesday: Cricket Club, Rugby
Thursday: Netball Club, GCSE Intervention
Friday: Basketball Club, Gym Club
After school we have:
Tuesday: Match Fixtures with other schools, Trampoling Club, KS4 Netball
Wednesday Rugby Club, Fitness (Zumba, aerobics etc.)
Thursday: Match Fixtures with other schools, Volleyball Club, Tennis Club, Trampolining Club
Friday: Basketball Club, Boxing
Matches feature regularly in all sports such as: netball, basketball, volleyball, football, cricket and rounders.


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- Rectangular pink glass trinket dish
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- Hand pasted with gold foil to base and border
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An All-American Celebration on Independence Mall
Join the National Constitution Center for an array of patriotic festivities surrounding Independence Day, including the interactive Independence Day show, exploring the history of the Declaration of Independence and how the definition of "We the People" has expanded since Thomas Jefferson penned the famous words "…all men are created equal…" in 1776. Programs will include special scholarly talks on the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964—a pivotal moment in expanding those rights mentioned in Jefferson's Declaration. Visitors also can create Colonial-era arts and crafts and stop by the museum's Revolutionary War encampment on the museum's front lawn. Colonial musical performances will take place throughout the week as well as appearances by some other famous historical figures (in the form of reenactors).
In the case of inclement weather colonial programming will take place inside the museum.
Independence Week Offerings include:
Flag Raising and Lowering Ceremonies
9:15 a.m. and 4:45 p.m.
Join our staff each morning for a spirited Flag Raising Ceremony, and then again in the evenings as we reverently lower it.
Independence Day Show
10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 4:30 p.m.
From parades to protests, cannons to flag waving, explosive words to fiery demonstrations, this show takes an in-depth look at this exciting celebration of freedom from the early days of American independence to the present day.
Flag Etiquette Workshop
10:45 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 1:45 p.m., 2:45 p.m.
Visitors will discover the history and symbolism of the American flag and learn all about the proper way to treat it.
The Star-Spangled Banner: A History of Our National Anthem Show
11:15 a.m., 12:15 p.m., 1:15 p.m., 2:15 p.m.
Learn the story of Francis Scott Key, the Battle of Fort McHenry, and the flag that inspired our national anthem, which is celebrating its 200th anniversary this year!
In the Army Now Military Etiquette Workshop
11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m., 3:30 p.m.
Learn the ins and outs of army life, including a brief history of lesson (did you know George Washington was America's only 6-Star General?), the military's rank structure, the proper way to salute or march, and popular military phrases.
Giant Flag Folding
12 p.m.
Help us fold our giant 20X30 foot American flag on the front lawn!
Family Fun Activities
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
o Patriotic Craft Stations
At our patriotic craft stations, children and their families can make Uncle Sam, Lady Liberty, and George Washington hats; star wands and wreaths; and crepe paper flags.
o Independence Story Corner
Families can spend some quiet time away from our other more lively activities at our story corner and listen to beloved tales of our nation's founding.
o Patriotic Karaoke
Visitors can sing their favorite American tunes.
o Thank-A-Vet Letter Writing Station
Take a moment to write letters of gratitude to the men and women who have served in the military.
o Colonial Demonstrations
Experience what life was like before modern technology with hands-on, Colonial-era demonstrations, including paper and candle making.
o Eighteenth Century Games
Try your hand at Hoop-and-Stick, Graces, Nine Pin, and other popular games played by children during the Revolutionary Period.
The 1776 Experience—Revolutionary War Encampment
(July 2 to July 4)
10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Front Lawn
Revolutionary War re-enactors will set up encampment right on the National Constitution Center's front lawn! Children and their families can practice mustering with the troops, stop by the medical tent to visit the wounded, visit the blacksmith shop for a new sword, or try their hand at carpentry or leatherwork.
Demonstrations include:
o Military Muster Demonstrations
o Revolutionary War Medicine
o Blacksmith and Craftsman Shop & Home Front Demonstrations
Other special events include:
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Wawa Hoagie Day
9:30 a.m. – 8 p.m. Free Wawa hoagies will be distributed on the lawn in front of Independence Visitor Center at 12 p.m.
Admission to the National Constitution Center is FREE on July 2, courtesy of Wawa
Life, Liberty, & the Pursuit of Deliciousness. 5 tons of hoagies will be assembled at the National Constitution Center and served free to thousands of people outside the Independence Visitor Center on Independence Mall. Join in this patriotic event as Wawa salutes our military, fire, and police. The National Constitution Center will offer free admission to all visitors on July 2, courtesy of Wawa, as well as special programs, live musical performances, and an exhibition on the history of the hoagie. Click here for more information.
Thursday, July 3
"Songs of Liberty, Loyalty, Libations and Love"
10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
A spirited concert of period music and folk songs as performed by Jan and John Haigis, specialists in early American music!
Meet & Greet with Thomas Jefferson
12 – 2 p.m.
Friday, July 4
"Songs of Liberty, Loyalty, Libations and Love"
10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
A spirited concert of period music and folk songs as performed by Jan and John Haigis, specialists in early American music!
Meet & Greet with Benjamin and Deborah Franklin
12 – 2 p.m.
Saturday, July 5
Meet & Greet with Martha Washington
10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.


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AOI Delhi State Conference 2011 Report
BM Abrol Trophy for AIIIMS(Best Clinical Meeting)
The 34th Annual Conference of Otolaryngologists Delhi State was held on 25th ,26th & 27th of March 2011.The Conference was attended by more than300 leading ENT doctors of Delhi & NCR.
Emenent doctors from Various parts of INDIA like Prof.Kirtane,Prof Pusalkar & Dr Meghnadh were invited to give guest orations on important topics.
The Conference started with Pre- Conference CME which was conducted by the Deptt.of ENT Sir Ganga Ram Hospital Laser assisted Surgical Techniques were shown & a case of Cochlear Implantation was demonstrated by Dr Anil Monga. Annual Conference was held on 26th & 27th at the PEIMER Auditorium of RML Hospital.
The Conference was inaugurated at a simple & elegant function by Padam Bhushan
Dr B K Rao chairman of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.
During the course of the Conference, various academic activity like paper presentation for post gradutate students,Panel discussion by emenent ENT surgeons,Lecturesand
How i do it sessions were held.
Post Conference the General body discussed various issues facing the ENT surgeon.
Promenent issue was the formation of cartel by various Cochlear Implant Companies with few ENT Surgeons & refusal to supply the implant to highly trained & experieced ENT surgeons,thereby depriving their patients the benefit of Cochlear Implant.An unanimous Resolution was passed against the Restictive Trade Practives done by cochlear implant companies.
Dr Anoop Raj HOD MAMC stressed to first approach the companies & also to seek legal assistance if needed.
The Conference was sucessfully organized by:
Dr Anil K Monga-President
Dr Alok Agarwal-Organizing Secretary
Dr Manish Munjal-Treasurer
All 3 are consultants of the Deptt. of ENT Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.


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Video: Peter Crouch says c**t a bit too close to the TV microphone
Lanky striker gets sweary
The problem with pitchside microphones is that you never know what they might pick up. Take, for instance, Peter Crouch during Tottenham's victory over Liverpool on Sunday.
Unable to bring a cross-field ball under the control of his famously good-touch-for-a-big-man, a frustrated Crouch indulged in a little industrial language as he booted the ball out of play.
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It is for two trophies – one 71cm high and the other, 45.7cm – that the world's strongest teams will contest in Bangkok from 20 to 27 May 2018.
The Thomas Cup, the older and the larger of the two, is the handsome prize awarded for the World Men's Team Championships. Made by Atkin Bros of London, the silver-gilt trophy consists of a cup on a plinth, with the figure of a player atop the lid. Its name honours Sir George Thomas, legendary Founder-President of the International Badminton Federation (now BWF), who was keen that badminton should have its own version of the Davis Cup in tennis.
The Thomas Cup has come a long way – but it did not have an auspicious start. Shortly after Sir George proposed the idea for an international men's team championships in 1939 (just five years after IBF was founded), World War II broke out. The plan however was not shelved, and in 1946, at the Council's first AGM since 1940, the men's championship was planned for 1948-49.
Nations were divided into four zones: Pan American, Asian (East and West), Australasian and European. The competition was to be held once in three years, the format consisted of best-of-nine ties: five singles and four doubles. In the first final, Malaya overcame Denmark 8-1. Sir George presented the trophy to winning captain Lim Chuan Geok.
The Thomas Cup would go on to see many more famous battles. Malaya swept the first three editions, but by 1957-58 it would be Indonesia that rose like a phoenix, decimating all challengers for the next two decades. The only interruption to its reign was in the 1966-67 edition when Malaysia was awarded the tie due to spectator trouble in the final at Jakarta. Changes were made to the format soon after. Until 1966-67, the inter-zone winners had to play the defending champions in the final of the 'Challenge Round' for the trophy, but after that year, the Challenge Round was abolished.
The arrival of China into the international fold in the early 1980s provided another twist. The Chinese, despite their limited international exposure until that time, proved they were already world-beaters. The final, against holders Indonesia, would prove to be one of the most riveting encounters of all time: 5-4 for China on their debut, with Han Jian the star of the event by beating three-time All England champion Liem Swie King 15-12 11-15 17-14. By the next edition (1984), two significant changes were brought about: the Thomas Cup was to be conducted simultaneously with the Uber Cup every two years instead of three, and ties would be fought over five matches instead of nine. More changes in the qualification format would be made in subsequent editions.
Overall, Indonesia leads the tally with 13 titles; China is second with 9. The powerhouses suffered a shock semi-final defeat in the 2014 edition to Japan, who went on to take their first ever title beating Malaysia in an exciting final in New Delhi. At the last edition, in 2016 (Kunshan), the Chinese fell in the quarter-finals to Korea, who, in turn, lost to Indonesia. Denmark, having beaten defending champions Japan in the quarter-finals and Malaysia in the semi-finals, completed their fairytale run, clinching the trophy with a 3-2 result over Indonesia. History was made in 2016 with the Danes becoming the first non-Asian team to win the Thomas Cup.
The World Women's Team Championships was proposed in 1950 by England's great pre-War player Betty Uber (supported by New Zealand's Nancy Fleming), and eventually came into being in 1956-57. The trophy, donated and designed by Betty Uber, consists of a female player on a swivelling globe, mounted on a plinth, and was made by London's silversmiths Mappin and Webb. The format in its early years consisted of three singles and four doubles; from 1984 onwards, the number of matches per tie was reduced to three singles and two doubles, similar to the Thomas Cup.
Although there are similarities between the two championships, there was a difference in the early patterns of dominance. The USA, headed by such stalwarts as Judy and Sue Devlin and Margaret Varner, picked up a hat-trick of titles in the first three editions beginning 1956-57. The balance of power then shifted to Asia, with a 5-2 victory for Japan in the final of a captivating final against the USA in 1966. Japan went on to win four of the next five editions; the only interloper being Indonesia (1974-75).
China arrived with a bang in 1984, and but for three occasions (1994, 1996 and 2010), have won it every time since. In the last edition in Kunshan, China comfortably defended their title, beating Korea 3-1 in the final.
While the 2014 edition enabled the top 16 teams based on team rankings to be selected for the finals, 2016 saw teams qualify based on their performances in the continental team championships. All five continental winners, besides semi-finalists from Asia and Europe, and the hosts and defending champions will automatically qualify. The rest of the 16 places will be taken by teams according to their team ranking (cumulative world ranking of their top three singles and top two doubles pairs). The same system has been persisted with for the 2018 edition.
The Thomas Cup is the prize awarded for the World Men's Team Championships, while the Uber Cup is the prize for the World Women's Team Championships. Sixteen teams from five continental confederations will battle it out at the TOTAL BWF Thomas & Uber Cup Finals in Aarhus in May 2020.
The defending champions and the hosts are assured of automatic qualification. The five continental championships serve as qualifying events. The four semi-finalists each from Asia and Europe, and the winners of Pan Am, Oceania and Africa also qualify; the other spots in the final list of 16 are taken based on the world ranking.
When the Thomas Cup started in 1948-49, participating nations were divided into four zones: Pan American, Asian (East and West), Australasian and European. The competition was to be held once in three years, the format consisted of best-of-nine ties: five singles and four doubles. Until 1966-67, the inter-zone winners had to play the defending champions in the final of the 'Challenge Round' for the trophy, but after that year, the Challenge Round was abolished.
The Uber Cup came into being in 1956-57. As with the Thomas Cup, the format in the early years of the Uber Cup consisted of three singles and four doubles.
For the 1984 edition, two significant changes were brought about: the Thomas Cup was to be conducted simultaneously with the Uber Cup every two years instead of three, and ties would be fought over five matches instead of nine.
In the men's and women's team championships, the team's ranking is the sum of the individual ranking of its top three singles players and top two doubles pairs on a certain cut-off date.
Indonesia are the most successful team in the Thomas Cup with 13 titles, while China are the most successful team in the Uber Cup with 14 titles.
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Dear Members,
There was some truly awesome training this week at as classes kicked off at our Three Kings and Diocesan School branches - check out some cool photos from Three Kings here!
Can Adults Begin Martial Arts Training?
We sometimes have people ask: "Can I start Taekwon-Do at my age or is it just for the kids?"
Taekwon-Do is for all ages, and within the Taekwon-Do community in New Zealand there are members aged 3 to about 75! While we have many kids in our club who enjoy Taekwon-Do, we also have members who have started Taekwon-Do as adults and derive much enjoyment and benefit out of their training (and many of whom train with their kids too!).
Taekwon-Do Gets You Active!
Taekwon-Do is a great way to get fit and strong. We do a range of activities in our classes including fitness work, pad work, fundamental movements, stretching, flexibility work and more. Unlike working out at a gym, you get to train with other people, become part of a community and learn some awesome martial arts and self defence skills at the same time.
You Can Start at the Beginning
Sometimes people say "But I've never done anything like this before!" Don't worry - because no-one coming along to start Taekwon-Do for the first time is expected to be fit and know how to do everything - that's why you come to training! No-one starts out knowing everything and every single person you train with knows what it's like to start at the beginning - because that's where they started out too. Over time you'll gradually increase your fitness, improve muscle tone and, of course, improve your Taekwon-Do techniques and skills.
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Kickstarter Course for Complete Beginners Aged 13+
If you're aged 13+ (or know someone who is!) and keen to give Taekwon-Do a go, we are running a three-week course in March on Tuesday and Thursdays at 6.30pm.
Apply for the Kickstarter Course here
Movie Nights at the Dojang - Face Painting, Balloon Animals & More!
If you haven't been to a movie night at the dojang before, you're missing out on a very cool and unique experience! Unlike any movie night we've held before, there will also be face painting and balloon animals - making it a great night for the whole family! You'll also be helping out Miss Roisin Giles and Miss Jacky Geurts as they fundraise for their World Championships campaigns. There are two movie nights coming up for you
What: Frozen and 21st Jump Street
What else: Face painting, balloon animals, food, drink, beanbags...
When: March 27th. Doors open at 6:30pm, first session at 7:30pm, second session at approx. 9:15pm
Where: Warrior- 198 Marua Rd
What: Croods and American Hustle
What else: Face painting, balloon animals, food, drink, beanbags...
When: April 17th. Doors open at 6:30pm, first session at 7:30pm, second session at approx.9:15pm
Where: Warrior- 198 Marua Rd
$10 presale - Buy your tickets from your instructor or online here:
http://moviefundraiser.weebly.com/ or $15 at the door.
Tickets include complementary popcorn. More food and drink available for sale.
Have a great training week!
Best wishes,
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New SPARC M7 software-in-silicon capabilities include security, SQL, and capacity features.
In a presentation that referenced the release of six generations of SPARC in five years, numerous customer successes, and 20 world-record performance benchmarks, Masood Heydari, Oracle's senior vice president for hardware development, described unparalleled features of the latest SPARC processor—the SPARC M7—and its software-in-silicon technology.
Heydari called the SPARC M7 processor "the most extreme expression of hardware and software engineered to work together," during a presentation Monday at Oracle OpenWorld.
SPARC M7 and SPARC M7-based systems are more than chips and server chassis, he said. "It's not just hardware. It's a complete platform—hardware, software, and developer tools—all of it available today."
SPARC M7 processors and systems are more than just chips and chassis, said Oracle's Masood Heydari.
Heydari highlighted a number of hardware improvements of the SPARC M7 over the previous generation SPARC processor, including the doubling of processor cores, the 4-fold increase in cache per core, the doubling of memory bandwidth, and the tripling in IO bandwidth. He then dived deep into new software-in-silicon capabilities in SPARC M7, including security, SQL, and capacity features.
SPARC M7 security in silicon delivers two key features: hardware-assisted encryption and silicon-secured memory. Hardware-assisted encryption uses crypto accelerators to deliver fast end-to-end encryption of popular security ciphers (such as AES and SHA). Silicon-secured memory protects against attackers accessing data in memory. This memory protection is always on, and it has a near-zero impact on performance.
SPARC M7 SQL in-silicon features include in-memory analytics acceleration by using data analytics accelerator (DAX) engines and make the new SPARC M7-based systems superior platforms for running Oracle Database 12c In-Memory. Heydari pointed to examples of 10- and 83-times performance improvement for Oracle Database 12c In-Memory running SQL through the DAX engines on SPARC M7-based systems.
SPARC M7 capacity in silicon dramatically reduces memory utilization. Capacity in silicon includes inline decompression that enables aggressive data compression and high-performance data access.
New Oracle Solaris releases deliver enhancements...for SPARC systems.
—Masood Heydari, Oracle Senior Vice President, Hardware Development
Heydari also pointed to the new Oracle Solaris 11.3 and Solaris Studio releases. The new Oracle Solaris releases deliver enhancements for secure deployment, compliance, and secure access for SPARC systems, while the new Solaris Studio works with silicon-secured memory in SPARC M7 to let developers debug memory access issues. He described how one application development organization was able to use SPARC M7 silicon-secured memory and Solaris tools to quickly resolve existing bugs that were previously difficult to locate, debug, and secure.
Heydari noted that Oracle Software in Silicon Developer Cloud is open and available for developers to access a SPARC M7 system virtual machine to test their existing code, sample code available in the cloud service, or new application code. He also reminded attendees that free access is available to members of Oracle PartnerNetwork.
The SPARC M7 system family includes six new systems, available for order today. Heydari called out the individual member systems from the SPARC "family portrait." SPARC T7-1, T7-2, and T7-4 include one to four processors and address entry-level to midrange computing requirements. SPARC M7-8 and -16 systems address high-end computing and are vertically scalable from 1 to 8 and 1 to 16 processors, respectively. Oracle SuperCluster M7 is the flagship SPARC M7-based engineered system, and it completes the SPARC system portfolio.
Heydari said that with the SPARC M7 hardware, Oracle is "delivering the most efficient and the best integration with Oracle software. And we're delivering incredible performance."
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The 2016 United States Presidential Candidates and Mars: Uncanny Connections
Michael R Svehla, MA
Agent 0720 with C*I*A
The Democrat and Republican Presidential candidates vying for their respective parties' nominations, and the Presidency of the United States, are a strong and memorable group of savvy people, each for their own reasons. A common thread among the three Democratic contenders (assuming Joe Biden runs) and the top-polling Republican contenders is a strong natal Mars. Mars symbolizes the application of energy in the form of action. Mars is desire, aggression, personal energy, will, drive, determination, and ambition. No doubt that a Presidential candidate must possess these qualities, or at the least, those who have them enjoy a major advantage in the nomination process. What is striking and extraordinary about the current top Presidential candidates in both parties, with perhaps one exception, is a strong natal Mars placement for each.
Mars is strong in his home sign Aries. He is also strong in his classical dignity Scorpio (at least one prodigious and experienced astrologer uses Scorpio as Mars' exaltation), and Mars indeed is strong in what is usually considered to be the sign in which he expresses his energy most easily, exaltation, in Capricorn. The pioneering, fiery, cardinal, rash, independent, courageous, and aggressive Aries sign suits Mars well. Mars in Scorpio is vengeful, intense, and passionate, and perhaps most importantly he is in his overlord's (Pluto's) sign, a nice placement for Mars to express his activity while exuding raw power. In Capricorn, Mars is very utilitarian and grounded, using structure and controlled energy to push his limits and move forward pragmatically with his desires. While all of the candidates do not have Mars in Aries, Scorpio, or Capricorn – though more than expected compared to random chance amazingly do – the Mars influence in the top candidates' charts is a thick thread that connects the candidates via their natal charts.
Democratic contenders
Hillary Clinton
Clinton has a fiery Mars by sign (Leo) and house (ninth). As a fiery planet, Mars acclimates well to both a fiery sign and house, though neither his own. The strongest feature of Clinton's Mars, however, is the exact conjunct to his overlord, Pluto! Mars has direct access to Pluto's raw power in Clinton's chart. Scorpio Sun also suggests that Mars has influence in Clinton's chart/personality, along with Scorpio ascendant, although the Sun-Pluto mutual reception steals the show. Hillary's aggressive, relentless drive to prove herself and attain power in professional life is very characteristic of Pluto, but also symbolizes her use of a fiery, fixed, and determined Mars.
Biden has Mars in Scorpio, connecting Mars to Pluto by sign. Mars also has a second connection to his overlord, making a square to Pluto in Leo. Mars is additionally accentuated by virtue of three other planets, including Sun, in Scorpio, forming a four-planet stellium. As with Clinton, Biden's chart basically boils down to Sun-Pluto in mutual reception. However, Mars also certainly has his say in Biden's natal promise. No doubt that a long political career, currently as second only to the President of the United States, and a charming demeanor beguiling opponents with swift and sometimes ruthless actions, is characteristic of Biden's powerful Mars in Scorpio.
Bernie Sanders
Sanders' Mars is in late Aries and retrograde. Not as much information can be inferred regarding his Mars placement due to lack of birth time, but Mars is definitely strong in Aries! He has Moon in Aries as well, and Mars opposes Venus in Libra, suggesting that a direct, passionate approach to obtaining what he wants can be attained by appealing to others and cooperating. Taking a no-nonsense, realistic, blunt approach in expressing his ideas has thus far proven successful based on polls and throngs of interested members of the public attending his campaign speeches. The pioneering, personal initiative he exudes is characteristic of productive use of Mars in Aries.
Republican Contenders
Donald Trump
Trump's aggressive approach to life, business, and his recent entry into national politics contains strong elements of his use of Mars. His Mars is in late Leo, Sun's sign, and characterizes his blunt, and some might observe, very ego-centered, approach to reaching voters, campaigning, and expressing himself in formal, public debates. The key to understanding Trump's actions is Mars pushing on his natal ascendant. The Mars in Leo desires aggravate and influence his outer personality. He is quick, fierce and fiery, and his Mars is well exemplified by a remark to an opponent in a recent debate: "I promise, if I wanted it, I would have gotten it". Of interest, his progressed Mars is currently in detriment in Libra. At this time, however, progressed Mars makes a nice sextile to natal and progressed Pluto.
The soft-spoken, articulate Carson has Mars closely conjunct Pluto in Leo, in later degrees than Clinton (he was born about four years after she was). Carson's time of birth is unknown, preventing further inferences about his Mars. However, Mars-Pluto in Leo packs quite a punch. Relentless drive and determination, manifesting via the Sun's sign, has served him well in a demanding, stressful career as a neurosurgeon, and no doubt will continue to serve him well as a Presidential candidate. Behind the calm, analytical demeanor is a passionate, determined readiness to take action and achieve objectives.
"Bush has Mars in early Aries. While Bush's chart contains many characteristics of leaning towards collaboration rather than independence (Sun in Aquarius, Saturn in Libra, Venus conjunct Mars in the seventh house), his self-described eighty hour work weeks, career as a politician, and will to succeed his father and brother as the Chief Executive of the United States shows a passion to serve and personal drive to attain quite a lofty objective."
Ted Cruz
Cruz has Mars in Scorpio, and Mars dominates the Scorpio stellium in his chart, also consisting of Venus and Jupiter. Mars has a tough opposition to Saturn, simply illustrating the difficult and demanding work Cruz went through to develop his sharp mind, accumulate allies and influence in the political world, and seek the nation's highest office. Of great interest, Cruz's natal Mars is close to the US natal chart ascendant at 8 Scorpio and is therefore also in the US first house (Aleksandr Imsiragic's US natal birth chart rectification used).
Carly Fiorina
Mars in Capricorn symbolizes Fiorina's bias towards tangible action, and aggressive pursuit of a career in the business world, culminating in a run for President. Her birth time is unknown, however, Mars conjuncts her Capricorn North Node, makes a wide trine to her Sun in Virgo, and possibly conjuncts her Moon. Mars also forms an exact sextile in her chart to his ruler, Saturn, indicating a duplicate link from Mars' passion, assertion, and ambition to Saturn's structure and authority. A very well spoken, public, and driven Fiorina stems in part from her strong, earthy, detailed and structured Mars.
Marco Rubio
Rubio's chart deserves mention. He is still among the mix of candidates with chances to obtain the Republican nomination. Mars does not appear to be a strong planet for Rubio, although obtaining a time of birth might prove otherwise. Mars in Aquarius is conjunct North Node, however, indicating passion, drive, and ambition acting with his purpose and future destiny. Mars is also trine Sun in Gemini and Uranus in Libra, contributing activity and energy to thoughtful self-expression and communicating new ideas, necessary for a successful Presidential campaign.
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Dr. Springer is board certified in Allergy and Immunology. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (FAAAAI) and the Amercian College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (FACAAI).
Dr. Springer specializes in infant, pediatric, adolescent and adult allergy, asthma and clinical immunology.
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Is it possible to make your own confectioners' sugar? You bet your hot cross buns you can! I got in a pinch the other day when I realized we didn't have any powdered sugar and I needed it right away. I remembered seeing online that you could easily make your own just using granulated sugar and a blender.
Was it just that easy? YES! Just take some sugar, maybe one cup at a time, and blend. You keep adding more sugar as needed. I have to stress that it has to blend a long time to get the smooth texture all the way around. I noticed that my blender was getting super-hot by the end of the process.
I would probably never make this again unless I was in a pinch. Sadly it's just as easy to buy it as it is to make your own, but it sure is nice to know you can if you need it. Also, it didn't seem to matter how long I blended the sugar I could never get it perfectly smooth. Most of it was smooth, but not all.
So what did that mean for me? My chocolate frosting was grainy and ruined! Ugh! I was disappointed but it was fun seeing the results. I am sure if you waited long enough your sugar would be perfect!
- 1 cup Sugar
- 1 tbsp Corn starch
- Blend well in a blender until a nice smooth powder forms.
- Check for graininess and keep blending if needed.
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There's good news this morning for Gotham: New Yorkers are living longer than ever before.
The average lifespan of a New Yorker has gone up by 19 months since 2001, which is better than the national trend.
Life expectancy has reached 82 years for women and 76.3 years for men, Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas A. Farley said yesterday.
The results, published in the city health department's Annual Summary of Vital Statistics, concluded the overall death rate remained at a historic low and deaths from many causes had actually declined.
Between 2007 and 2008, deaths due to HIV fell by 4 percent in New York, drug-related deaths dropped by 13 percent and cardiovascular disease claimed 284 fewer lives.
"Helping people live longer, better lives is the core responsibility of government, which is why nearly every initiative we take on is focused on that goal," New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at a news conference. "The steady, continued increase in life expectancy demonstrates the remarkable progress we have made and the need to continue to press forward with bold health policies."


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Quick Fact: Beck falsely claims that under the Senate health care bill, "You don't get a single benefit until 2014"
During his November 19 Fox News program, Glenn Beck falsely claimed that under the Senate health care bill, "All of the benefits of this bill don't kick in until when? You don't get a single benefit until 2014." He later added: "[G]uess what, you're not going to get jack for five whole years" after the bill is passed.
From the November 19 broadcast of Fox News' Glenn Beck:
BECK: All of the benefits of this bill don't kick in until when? You don't get a single benefit until 2014. But the taxes that we just went over, when do they start? Hmm. Wait a minute. So I'm not going to get any benefit, but I'm going to pay all of those taxes. We're taxing the American public ten years in order to pay for five years of coverage.
Well, first of all, once the coverage starts, you're never going to be able to afford it. Did somebody invent a garbage powered Delorian that can time travel when it hits 88 miles per hour? Because I'm not aware of it. You can't keep taxing ten years for taxes and only pay for five years. The space time continuum doesn't work that way.
What politician would stand at the podium and say, "I know we're in a recession, unemployment, double digits and climbing, deficit is $12 trillion -- we'll be $24.5 according to whitehouse.gov -- $24.5 trillion in ten years. But I'm going to add all these taxes here, and guess what, you're not going to get jack for five whole years. Anybody who taxes you with all of this stuff, this much, and the economy continues to go down, our deficits continue to go up, how does that politician get re-elected?
Fact: Numerous benefits from the health care reform bill would " be available in the first year after enactment" of the bill.
According to a document put forth by Senate Democrats summarizing the "Immediate Benefits" of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act , the bill includes numerous benefits that would "be available in the first year after enactment" of the bill. Indeed, WashingtonPost.com blogger Ezra Klein published the following list of benefits that the Senate bill would provide "before 2014" :
1) Eliminating lifetime limits, and cap annual limits, on health-care benefits. In other words, if you get an aggressive cancer and your treatment costs an extraordinary amount, your insurer can't suddenly remind you that subparagraph 15 limited your yearly expenses to $30,000, and they're not responsible for anything above that.
2) No more rescissions.
3) Some interim help for people who have preexisting conditions, though the bill does not instantly ban discrimination on preexisting conditions.
4) Requiring insurers to cover preventive care and immunizations.
5) Allowing young adults to stay on their parent's insurance plan until age 26.
6) Developing uniform coverage documents so people can compare different insurance policies in an apples-to-apples fashion.
7) Forcing insurers to spend 80 Epercent of all premium dollars on medical care (75 percent in the individual market), thus capping the money that can go toward administration, profits, etc.
8) Creating an appeals process and consumer advocate for insurance customers.
9) Developing a temporary re-insurance program to help early retirees (folks over 55) afford coverage.
10) Creating an internet portal to help people shop for and compare coverage.
11) Miscellaneous administrative simplification stuff.
12) Banning discrimination based on salary (i.e., where a company that's not self-insured makes only some full-time workers eligible for coverage. [Ezra Klein's WashingtonPost.com blog 11/19/09]


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As a part of my Reflections on 2015 post I was going to include my 'favourites' of 2015, but when I realised just how many categories I had, it became obvious that it needed its own post. One of the things I love most about blogging is reading everyone's monthly favourites posts, whether it's just beauty favourites, the TV shows everyone's been enjoying for the month or just a bunch of unrelated things that have made someone happy for the past 30 days.
I should point out before I jump right in that whilst some categories include only things that were released in 2015 (e.g. films), others are just things that featured heavily this year, or things I discovered for the first time.


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Thanks to Education Officer Pete Murray for the following blog and videos from the Osprey Stand at Birdfair! Many thanks to Mike Dilger, Tim Mackrill and everyone else for joining Sam at the Osprey Tent, and to Sam for being such a star!
Interviews- Wild Inspiration 2018
The Bird Fair Interviews
This year the Rutland Osprey stand hosted a series of short interviews which we captured on video for your interest and entertainment.
Sam Newcombe is 12 years old and a very enthusiastic school Osprey Ambassador at Bourne Grammar School. He arranged interviews with TV personality Mike Dilger and other members of the Rutland Water team at Bird Fair.
In the first interview see how Mike gets Sam to do a "duet" impersonation of a pair of his favourite South American birds doing their display dance.
Mike Dilger interview
Sam was invited to Rutland Radio by presenter Rob Persani. Rob always visits Bird Fair. Here are two short interviews with both Rob and Sam getting a chance to ask the questions!
Rob Persani and Sam interviews
Sam also talked to people who have and continue to make essential contributions to conservation work at Rutland water, the Lyndon Reserve and to the Rutland Osprey Project.
Sam's BirdFair Blog
Early Friday morning I was woken up by a THUD, as my brother slammed the wardrobe shut. I was about to shout at him for waking me up early, but then I realised that it was The BirdFair!
I quickly got dressed into my Rutland Osprey top and rushed downstairs to help my Mum pack the car with our picnic & waterproofs (just in case!).
We drove past the VTC, down the bumpy track that seemed to be never-ending and finally got directed into Red carpark. When we arrived, we met up with Jackie & Pete (Rutland Osprey Education Officers) and helped them carry all the equipment over to our stand. When we reached the entrance gate my brother and I received really cool multi-coloured bracelets whereas the adults got sad pink ones. Once at our stand, I helped Pete set up all of the electronic equipment that we needed for the weekend such as the TV & the laptop.
By this time more of the Rutland Osprey Team had arrived to help run the stand. My brother Alex was in charge of the merchandise stand with the help of Lyn (another volunteer) and my Mum. The pin badges were extremely popular and we had to get additional supplies in!
Then I interviewed Ken Davies (author of the 'Ozzie' books) who was quite surprised because I hadn't warned him that I was going to interview him! It went quite well and I managed to find out that there could be another Ozzie book in store for us!
Another person I managed to interview was Holly Hucknall (Education & Community Engagement Officer at L&RWT) who told me about how she discovered her love of wildlife.
Then there was time to have a walk around. I went straight to the RSPB stand and got another pin badge to add to my collection (a fox). After that my mum wanted to talk to our friend Duncan who does some amazing sculptures out of glass. Then I went dashing over to the really popular BTO bird ringing stand and watched them ring a couple of birds.
About half an hour after we got back to the stand it was time for one of Jackie's pop up talks on Osprey's. Quite a few people turned up and listened and they were very interested.
Before we knew it, it was 2pm in the afternoon. The sales were going increasingly well and all the team were happy about the amount we had raised so far. Whilst my mum and my brother went off to look in the Art Marquee I helped out on the stand by answering people's questions on the Rutland Osprey project.
My mum and my brother came back after about an hour and then we went to get ice-cream!! By the time we had eaten our ice-cream it was nearly time to go but we managed to make a few more sales before BirdFair closed.
I woke up early and raced downstairs. Mum was waiting for me because she had already made lunch and packed it, So I quickly grabbed a Frosties bar and legged it to the car. My brother wasn't going that day because he was quite tired after Friday.
When we reached the BirdFair we were lucky again and got directed to red carpark. When we reached the gate all we had to do was show the security people our bracelets and they let us through.
When we reached the Rutland Osprey stand we found that Paul Stammers was already there and had been there since 7:30am!!! About 20 mins later Anya Wicikowski arrived to help set up the stand again but disappeared soon after. I had volunteered to help on the stand for about 5 hours while mum could either help or wander around and see the parts of BirdFair she didn't get to see on Friday.
I managed to catch up with Lloyd, Rutland Water Reserve Officer and convince him to be another of my victims/interviewees. During that interview I learnt a lot from Lloyd about all the bird ringing he's done since being a teenager.
At 9 o'clock Birdfair officially opened for the second day. It was very quiet at the stand for the first couple of hours and soon enough, Jackie gave another pop-up talk. That was even more popular than the one on Friday and she got a big round of applause. After her speech the merchandise was very popular and we sold quite a lot. Finally, it was our lunch break and me and mum popped off to try and find a bench to eat our lunch.
When we returned it was about 1:30pm and I went to find Mike Dilger so I could interview him. I found him but he asked me to fetch him in 15 mins so he could have his coffee and lunch. When I finally went to get him, I was really happy – until the last question of the interview but you'll have to watch the interview on the website to find out why!!!!
Time soon flew and before we knew it was 4:30 and just as Pete was packing up the camera gear Anya turned up so I could finally interview her before BirdFair closed.
I woke up feeling very tired because of the two very busy days so far but I was sad as well because I knew it was the last day of the BirdFair. So, I trudged downstairs to get ready for the final day.
When we got down the stoney track we got directed into the green car park for a change. As we did the day before, we showed security our bracelets and we were in. We headed straight to the Rutland Osprey stand and found Paul Stammers and our friend Becky already there.
Paul was sweeping the grass off the floor of the stand and gave the broom to me so I could do it. But I passed the broom straight to my mum so she could sweep instead! We weren't on the stand that day so we could walk around wherever we liked, which was lucky because mum wanted to get more ornaments for our shelves. But I stayed on the stand because my interview with Tim Mackrill was at 10:30am. The interview was great because I found out all about the translation project going on in Poole Harbour. It was fascinating and great to talk to someone who has loved ospreys from an early age like me!
That morning we made a few more sales and a couple of kind people offered donations. I also helped out by talking to lots of different people about the Ospreys and I surprised myself with the amount I knew.
Before we knew it was 12:15pm and my brother, my mum and I all went to watch Birdless Point Brain to support our friend Abigail (a trainee reserve officer) who had been volunteered to take part in it. Sadly, she was knocked out in the second round but she got a massive round of applause for a really good answer.
After that we went back to the stand for a bit and chatted to a few more visitors. Then it was time for the BirdFair pantomime, The Wind in the Willows. It was incredibly funny because none of the performers (including Jess French, Mike Dilger, Nick Baker – to name a few) knew what the script was until about 5 mins before they performed. They all mucked up their lines and where they were meant to stand!
After the pantomime we went straight to Tim Mackrill's talk on the Osprey's of Poole Harbour. It was amazing and there were so many people there that some of them had to stand during it.
After the talk we went back to the osprey stand and helped start to pack up. It was the end of BirdFair 2018. On our way out we caught up with Lee on the BTO Bird ringing stand and checked what they had ringed over the weekend. I'd missed a grasshopper warbler being ringed which I was a bit gutted about – never mind, they'll be other years.
As our final memory of the BirdFair, my mum, my brother and I had a (very bad) selfie by the BirdFair sign.
Can't wait for BirdFair 2019!!
By Samuel Newcombe
(Rutland Osprey Ambassador)


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Ernest Gold
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About Ernest Gold
When he died early 1999, Ernest Gold was best remembered as one of Hollywood's most successful film composers and one of the busier composers in television during the '70s and '80s. If things had been different in the world of the '30s, however, Gold might've been one of the last of the post-romantic composers on the European continent, making his way melodically in stark opposition to a musical world increasingly dominated by atonalism and jarring non-melodies. What made that impossible, and sent Gold (like such older contemporaries of his as Miklós Rozsa and Franz Waxman) to the United States, was Hitler. So Ernst Gold (as he was born and raised in Austria) came to Hollywood as Ernest Gold, and became one of the last European romantic music figures to carve a name for himself in film music.
Gold was born on July 13, 1921, to a Viennese family with long connections to music. His maternal grandfather was a student of Anton Bruckner and subsequently became the president of the Society of Friends of Music, a fraternal organization founded by Johannes Brahms. His mother was a singer and his father an amateur violinist who had once studied music with the operetta composer Richard Heuberger. The family was not only musically inclined but very open-minded in what they permitted the boy to aspire to -- reportedly, even at the age of ten, just about at the point when music was entering talking pictures in a serious way, he expressed the desire to become a film composer in Hollywood, no less, and as a teenager he was known for attending movies simply to hear the scoring. Among those whose work impressed the young Gold was Max Steiner, a fellow Viennese descended from an equally well-established family, some 40 years older than he, who had made his way in Hollywood very nicely.
Gold started playing the piano and violin at age six, and by the time he was eight he'd begun composing songs. He might've been a younger rival to Erich Wolfgang Korngold, a composer-performer prodigy of 30 years earlier (who also ended up in Hollywood), writing a full-length opera when he was 13, but for the fact that the Vienna of the '30s was too chaotic a place for a boy of any talent -- especially from a Jewish family -- to make too much of an impression. In the waning days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, there had been room for the young Korngold to make a name for himself as a latter-day Mozart, but in the Austria of the mid-'30s, there was mostly danger for someone of Gold's ethnic and religious heritage. Hitler's rise to power in 1933 in Germany put a mortal threat just across a lightly guarded border, maintained more by good manners and a very shaky and unenforceable treaty from World War I, which fell with the first approach of German troops five years later.
Gold attended the State Academy of Music in Vienna until the beginning of 1938, when he and his family fled Europe. They arrived in New York in 1938, where the 17 year old resumed his music career by presenting a piano concerto that received a performance that same year at Carnegie Hall. The NBC orchestra also performed one of his symphonies, and he seemed to have the beginnings of a music career, except that the kind of music that Gold wrote was out of favor with the critics of the day. They all seemed to compare his composition to "movie music," and meant it as an insult.
Gold didn't think it an insult, however, and liked what he heard of film music, and so he ultimately moved to Hollywood. He arrived there in 1945, a year in which all of the major studios were anticipating a major business downturn, yet his work was impressive enough to land Gold a job, initially as an arranger and orchestrator, mostly in B-movies and low-budget genre films. Had he been born a little earlier and arrived at the end of the '30s, Gold might've followed the route of men like Hans J. Salter into the ranks of the music department of Universal Pictures or one of the other major studios, for a permanent, full-time job that offered the possibility of getting bigger, better movies at some point. Instead, in 1945 Gold's early movie work carried him from programmer to programmer, at smaller majors like Columbia Pictures and larger B-studios like Republic Pictures, mostly involving Westerns, melodramas, and the occasional crime thriller, such as Universal's Smooth as Silk. For Lippert Pictures he scored the sci-fi adventure Unknown World, which has retained some interest among genre enthusiasts, but most of Gold's first ten years in Hollywood were a struggle to make worthwhile music while making a living and setting the stage for a real career -- during the course of his early years in Hollywood, he also married vocalist Marni Nixon. Gold's best opportunities during this period came as an arranger and orchestrator, for which he got to work on two high-profile Columbia Pictures productions, Knock on Any Door and In a Lonely Place, both directed by Nicholas Ray and both scored by George Antheil.
Gold had studied with Antheil, his older contemporary, and served as his orchestrator on a wide range of film projects, including the music for such odd films as John L. Parker's hour-long chiller Daughter of Horror (best known as the movie that is being shown in the theater in the Steve McQueen movie The Blob, when the monster of that title attacks). Antheil himself took a step up as a composer when he was engaged by Stanley Kramer to score the high-profile melodrama Not as a Stranger and engaged Gold to orchestrate the music. More work for the two followed from Kramer, including The Pride and the Passion in 1957. By 1958, Gold had gotten his first film composition assignment from Kramer in the form of The Defiant Ones, which received multiple Academy Award nominations and represented a huge step up for Gold from the B-movies he had been scoring -- when Antheil fell ill that same year and was unable to work on Kramer's film On the Beach, the music director's spot went to Gold. On the Beach was as high a profile film as you could make in 1958, dealing with a controversial subject (nuclear annihilation) and with a true all-star cast. Gold was able to come up with an expressive score despite the edict imposed on him by the producer that the Australian anthem "Waltzing Matilda" was to be used as often as possible in the background music. Gold became Kramer's preferred composer for the next 20 years, working on every major picture that the producer made. The big break for Gold as a popular composer came in 1960, and not from Kramer, oddly enough -- that year, he scored one major film for Kramer, Inherit the Wind, which was a hit with critics and the public. But it was Gold's music for Otto Preminger's production of Exodus that yielded his first (and only) enduring popular music hit.
Ironically, Exodus was also one of the most involved film projects of Gold's career -- rather than hiring the composer to score the movie after it was shot, Preminger hired Gold during pre-production and had him present during and around the actual shooting of the movie, which meant that Gold spent almost a year on the film, an unusual luxury for a movie composer (strangely enough, Miklós Rozsa had a similar arrangement in working on Ben-Hur at just about the same time and also got superb results). The film, dealing with the creation of the State of Israel, was a box office monster, but even more successful was Gold's main theme, a rousing, memorable, almost-Straussian piece that was covered by hundreds of artists in arrangements for everything from full orchestra to electric guitar, perhaps most successfully as a piano duet by Ferrante & Teicher.
After that, Gold's name was made in Hollywood and popular music circles. Kramer used Gold on most of his films from then on, including Judgment at Nuremberg and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, all of which sold extremely well, based on their own merits and the connection, by way of the composer, to Exodus. Ironically enough, United Artists, which released the film Exodus, never had the original soundtrack, which belonged to RCA Victor -- the label eventually released a re-recording, and after Exodus they held onto the soundtrack rights of anything Gold wrote for any movies released by UA.
Gold's film work for the remainder of the '60s was focused on such high-profile Kramer productions as A Child Is Waiting, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Ship of Fools, and The Secret of Santa Vittoria; the composer was equally adept at comedy and drama, and well able to write in various period styles as well. Gold took a break from film work in the late '60s to write the score for the Broadway musical I'm Solomon, and after Kramer's theatrical film output slackened with the dawn of the '70s, he turned increasingly to writing for television. Made-for-TV features such as the excellent Footsteps and Tom Horn were sandwiched around occasional theatrical features such as Cross of Iron and Fun with Dick and Jane. During the late '70s, as Gold's career was beginning to wind down, his son Andrew Gold emerged as a successful pop recording artist with the songs "Lonely Boy" and "Thank You for Being a Friend." Gold kept himself busy when he wasn't writing film scores with the Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Senior Citizen's Orchestra, which he founded in the 1980s. He died in 1999, 11 years after writing his final film score, for the television adaptation of Gore Vidal's Lincoln. ~ Bruce Eder
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