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Sir Nicholas Shackleton
Earlier stages show the slowly evolving nature of glaciation (and the intervening interglacials) on the earth. Nick teamed up with Neil Opdyke, a paleomagnetist who was able to recognize (and date) reversals of the earth's magnetic field, to provide a timescale for these changes in oxygen isotopes, and this provided a chronology that could then be used to understand the frequency of glaciations and rates of change. Once a fairly reliable timescale was established, it soon became apparent that there had been regular sequences of glaciations and interglaciations that were related to orbital forcing (changes in the earth's position in relation to the sun, as elaborated by Milankovitch). This was described in a landmark paper in Science (1976) "Variations in the earth's orbit: pacemaker of the ice ages", co-authored with colleagues Jim Hays and John Imbrie. From this many more studies of orbital forcing, extending far back beyond the Quaternary period also evolved from the marine oxygen isotope stratigraphy. In particular, the CLIMAP (1981) project emerged, in which paleoceanographers mapped ocean conditions at the height of the last glaciation, by identifying in each sediment core the position where the isotopes in benthic forams were most enriched (indicating maximum ice on the continents). While many of the initial CLIMAP conclusions have been substantially revised, Shackleton's isotope chronology remains as an essential tool in understanding earth history.
Having identified a universal chronometer for continental glaciation—not in the moraines and outwash deposits that provide the direct evidence of former ice sheets, but far away in the deep ocean basins—researchers were then able to better understand the history of other terrestrial records, such as the vast loess (wind-blown silt) deposits of China, and the emerging ice core records from Antarctica and Greenland. Furthermore, since the isotopic record in the oceans registered ice growth and decay on land, it effectively provided a proxy for sea-level changes that could be checked with sea-level terraces from areas where the land had risen (such as on the Huon Peninsula of New Guinea, and in Barbados), preserving a record of past sea-level changes in the coral reefs now exposed on land. By comparing the reef-based sea-level history with the benthic foram-based record, Shackleton (with colleagues John Chappell and others) was able to assess the extent to which deep ocean temperatures may have changed over time, which would have confounded the simple paleoglaciation index he originally formulated. Shackleton subsequently argued that changes in glaciation could not be fully explained by orbital forcing, and that feedbacks involving carbon dioxide must have played a critical role, thereby highlighting the importance of changes in the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, in the past and in the future.
Nick Shackleton's research, arising from his original Ph.D. thesis on isotopic variations of tiny marine organisms, had an enormous impact on earth sciences. He had the insight to understand the implications of his measurements and they literally transformed how we now view earth history. For his discoveries he received many honors and awards. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Foreign Member of the U.S. Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, and numerous other societies also honored him. He was knighted for his "services to science"; with Willi Dansgaard (who made similarly far-reaching studies of oxygen isotopes in precipitation and applied these to ice cores) he received the Crafoord Prize (considered as earth sciences' "Nobel Prize"); he was also awarded Japan's Blue Planet Prize, the Milankovitch Medal, and most recently the Vetlesen Prize.
Though he always considered himself, "just a geologist", Nick had many other talents, most notably in music. He was an accomplished clarinet player and had a passionate interest in the history of that instrument. He was considered a world expert for his knowledge of antique clarinets and he had his own unique collection. At Cambridge University, where he spent his entire career, Nick gave lectures on Quaternary geology and paleoclimatology, but he also taught the physics of music. Perhaps it was his knowledge of harmonics that played a critical role in his understanding of orbital forcing and its impact on earth history. At the tri-ennial ICP conference, Nick would always organise a Paleo-musicology concert where the many musically talented scientists (and occasionally their more-talented children) would entertain the rest of us. Nick was a true Renaissance man and he leaves a very important legacy to both musicology and the earth sciences. Besides all this, he was a nice guy and an inspiration to all who came into contact with him.
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Religious Exchange Programme at Emirates
Primary school children celebrate religious diversity
Arsenal in the Community celebrated the finale to its annual Arsenal for Everyone initiative this month. The scheme, which is delivered by the Club and funded by the Premier League – PFA fund draws parallels between the diversity of the Arsenal squad and the Club's local community. This year, children from 30 local primary schools between the ages of eight – 11 received Religious Education lessons at their school. The lessons which are devised in partnership with the Islington Faith Forum were accompanied by a football coaching session to promote team work and fair play and a trip to Emirates Stadium to put the initiative into context.
Thanks to support from Islington Faiths Forum the finale event gave pupils from St John's Highbury Vale, Islington and Glebe and Moriah Schools from Harrow an opportunity to learn more about different religions through engagement and small sessions with local representatives from each of the six major world religions – Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Sikhism. Each representative brought along various items relating to their faith which they used to explain various practices and traditions. As part of the day, children were also invited to participate in a session of music and meditation.
Reverend Fiona Weaver, lead Chaplain London Met University and Islington Faiths Forum members said: "As a confirmed gooner and season ticket holder it was such a privilege to be a part of such an exciting event matching faith and football. Being able to interact with such a diverse group of children -many of whom asked some very good and searching questions - was a positive experience.
I admire the enthusiasm of Arsenal in the Community and hopefully we can make this a regular fixture in the season!"
Alan Sefton, Head of Arsenal in the Community said: "Thanks to funding from the Premier League, we've been able to expand our Arsenal for Everyone programme. We hope that drawing upon the experiences of the team and highlighting their different nationalities and faiths, Arsenal Football Club is used as a relevant example of cohesion in action."
The project focussed primarily on the objectives of the Key Stage 2 national curriculum which includes developing pupils' knowledge and understanding and exploring faiths to help them understand and respect different values and traditions. The colourful materials used in the classroom draw parallels with Arsenal Football Club and its players. The project's title and content reflects Arsenal's ongoing work to celebrate diversity and equality at Arsenal Football Club and the Gunners' endeavours to attain the advanced level of Kick it Out's Equality Standard.


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We discussed some of our favorite ways to use fresh produce and ate a locally sourced meal full of wonderful fruits and vegetables.
Recipes for Lesley's salads are below.
Sweet and Sour Tomatoes
2 pounds of assorted heirloom tomatoes, seeded and cut into chunks
1 bunch green onions, sliced thin
2 tablespoons of chopped, fresh cilantro
2 tablespoons of honey
¼ cup of seasoned rice vinegar
1 tablespoon of olive oil
1 teaspoon of kosher salt
1 ½ teaspoon spice mixture (recipe follows) or 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon and 1 teaspoon ground cumin
Put tomatoes, green onions and cilantro in a bowl and set aside.
Heat olive oil in a sauce pan. Add spice mixture and heat until bubbly, about 2 minutes.
Slowly add honey and rice vinegar. Cook for 3 more minutes or until a little thick and gooey.
Pour mixture over tomatoes, cilantro and green onions. Season with salt and let sit for about 5 minutes before using.
Spice Mixture
½ teaspoon cardamom pods
2 teaspoons fenugreek
½ teaspoon coriander seeds
4 cinnamon sticks, crushed
2 star anise
1 teaspoon black mustard seeds
3 tablespoons of cumin seed
Turn temperature to medium high heat and toast the spices until the seeds begin to pop and the pan is lightly smoking. This should be extremely fragrant at this point. Do not burn the spices. Remove from heat and let cool. Grind all together in a coffee grinder. Store in a tightly covered jar in a dark place.
Mushrooms w/ Lemon and Parmesan
2 pound fresh cremini mushrooms, sliced thin
2 cloves garlic, chopped fine
Juice and peel of 2 lemons
½ bunch Italian parsley, chopped fine
½ pound of parmesan reggiano
2 tablespoons good olive oil
Kosher salt
Mix mushrooms, garlic, parsley, lemon juice and peel, olive oil and salt in a bowl. Shave parmesan on top w/ a vegetable peeler. Serves 4 to 6.
Watermelon, Basil and Feta Salad w/ Balsamic Vinegar This may sound nuts as a salad but you have to try it to taste how luscious basil and watermelon can be together. Adding the feta and balsamic even out the sweet, sour, bitter and salty flavors.
One small watermelon will make enough salad for 10 to 12 people so you can double the recipe for a crowd.
½ of a small watermelon, peeled and cubed
20 basil leaves, sliced thinly
½ cup feta cheese, crumbled
3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
3 tablespoons olive oil
Kosher salt
Toss watermelon and basil in a bowl. Mix in vinegar and olive oil and lightly toss. Mix in feta and season with salt. Serves 6.
Water melon is also great in smoothies. You can freeze it and use as the ice so as not to water down the flavor. Same goes for strawberries and pineapple too. Put a cup of yogurt into a blender. It can be vanilla or plain. Add about a cup of cut up watermelon and a few whole strawberries. To make it a little sweeter, add a tablespoon of your favorite jam. Add about a ¼ cup of orange juice and blend it up. This will make about 3 cups of smoothie. Jamba juice eat your heart out!
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Poor H-Rod doesn't seem too comfortable in front of the camera here.
Poor H-Rod doesn't seem too comfortable in front of the camera here.
"Since I've been with the Reds in 1989, we've never had a farm system this loaded," Bowden said. "If we were the New York Yankees and had unlimited dollars, we could have traded for Colon, (Jeff) Weaver, Rolen, (Cliff) Floyd, (Kenny) Rogers and Finley and gotten them all -- and still held onto our top five prospects. That's an amazing statement."
Is it "next season" yet?
One of my favorite games this season.
"No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference." ~Tommy Lasorda
"You only have to bat a thousand in two things; flying and heart transplants. Everything else you can go 4-for-5."
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x - Cincinnati 91-59 .607
Now time to move onto "y" and then "z"
Marty B. has the weekend off, and will not be in the booth when they clinch this weekend. This will be the first time he won't have the call.
1st pick of the 2022 baseball amateur draft
Seconded.One of my favorite games this season.
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It's fun to see the Reds win and all but what's happened to our power? We hit one HR on the roadtrip. That's not like this team
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hey guys, i am looking into buying a trailer for my Polaris 6-wheeler and to haul a layout blind and decoys. how big of trailer would you guys recommend?
also what would a good brand be to buy? sorry for dumb questions, ILgoose
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2500hdon37s wrote:so im a bit confused, do you want to be able to tow your 6x6 on it too??
if so i recomed something like a 6x10 or 6x12 utlity trailer and make some 2-3ft tall wood sides to hold in decoys
but look around your town/city for some good trailers, most should be pretty well built. but some good brands that have held up for me, my family, and friends around here are DOOLittle, PJ, Haulmark, Maxwell, Feather-lite, and lots of other good brands out there.
I'd also recomend atleast a 14in wheel, you'll have less trouble, and should be easier to find parts for the axle and hubs if you need them. (I highly doubt you will with a new trailer) but id also look for a used trailer they can usualy be had pretty cheap, ive seen trailers that are only say a year or 2 old go for 60-65% of the new price.
oh and BTW those 6x6s are sick! my friend has a 4x4 ranger and it blows or mule out of the water!
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Project street rod Bronco
Maybe this forum is better suited for my question.
I would like to start a project street rod truck. I would like narrow/tub.
I realize that purchases are unique for each application.
However I have a chance to pick up some parts from a fellow that is not going forward with his project.
I have a spare frame that I would like to do the modifications on, and later transfer the body to. Without having the body prepared to start stuffing tires under and measuring for widths I will need to approach it via measure ments.
I want to see if it is possible to use the rear end that he has narrowed already. He also has the wheels and tires that I would like to use.
At this point I believe with a few quick measurements that the current set up appears to be about 4 inches too wide.
Even if I can't use everything I still would like to pick up many of the parts that he is selling. (- the rear housing?)
I will do this to an old style Bronco... right off the bat the stock frame is straight above the rear axle, I'll need to c channel to allow the truck to sit lower.
To stuff `18 tires I will need to offset this C channel by one inch inboard. I also would like to make sure the wheels are centered in the rear uncut wheel well so I may need to move the axle back around an inch or so...
I would like to mock this up on paper (cad) once all is determined go forward.
Can anyone that has done this chime in... Need to understand the approach others have used.
I also want to convert this to mustang II type suspension in front. For all the modifications the fabrications would be easier without the body to worry about.
It appears that it may be more difficult to attempt this on just a frame. Maybe this is not the best approach? Is it best to have the body unmounted and set back on the frame along the way to be used as a constant reference?
Since posting this the other day I gave it some thought.
I thought that I could begin by putting the vehicle in the garage on stands similar to the anticpated height. Using a square to follow the contour of the inner quarter and lay this out (draw) on the garage floor. I can do this to follow the frame and any other points of reference ie center of axles,etc...
Once I have points of measurement I can easily figure out where the tire needs to be for clearance to the quarter panel. Then measure in the wheel and width of tires and lay this dimensions also on the floor.
Account for the disk brake roters and then I believe I have the appropriate rear end width.
I can mark up all new width dimensions for the frame in addtion to where I want the new Axle center line.
Once finished grab all measurements and put them on paper or in the cad drawing.
This should give me all of the x/y dimensions
I want to keep the inner wheel wheels looking as stock as possible so I believe I can just measure up from the frame to just under the wheel tubs so that the frame will remain under the inner fenders. (I realize that I will have to split and move inboard perhaps they may need to be widened as well.
With all the dimensions I can modify the extra frame to get it set for the body.
Does this sound like a realistic approach or can anyone provide advice that may be easier? I guess I'll need to do some heavy searching to see if there are builds that show how it was done.
start measure back from the inner quarter reference line indicating the dimensions of the wheels
the floor markings I can begin
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The first thing that you need when narrowing a rear end is the car (or truck). The next thing that you need are the wheels and tires. You need to put the wheels and tires under the car and get them into the correct position and measure between the wheel mounting surfaces to get the total width of the rear end. Subtract the thickness of the brake rotors or drums. This is the easiest and most comon way to do this. You can start with the rear end, but you must make some carefull measurements to get the wheels and tires right.
If you want to use these used rear end parts then you will have to get another set of wheels and tires to fit. You might be able to send the axles back to the manufacturer and have them cut down some more and resplined, then narrow the housing again. Be sure to get the pinion offset correct for the car that it will be going in.
I do have the truck, and the wheels and tires will be here early next week however it will not be as easy as tucking the wheels under the truck to determine the rear end size. Just to get the tires under the truck modifications will need to happen.
The Wheel wells and frame would need to be cut just to get things under the truck.
My goal is to use a spare frame and do all the modifications to the frame. At a later time I would cut and set the body on the completed drive train.
You make an interesting point. "Be sure to get the pinion offset correct for the car that it will be going in."
It sounds like you are saying that just because it is a ford and you are using a ford rear does not necessarily mean that the pinion offest is correct.
Broncos come with Ford 9" however If I went with a used housing that was already narrowed it could be cut with an offset to match another vehicle type correct?
This is definetly something I did not know.
A couple of tips I can think of is;
Establish your vehicle centerline and axle centerline and make all measurements from that.
After the vehicle is level front to back, side to side, Plumb-bob to the floor and mark, from two like points on the front of vehicle and two like points on the rear of vehicle. Make your centerline on floor from these reference points. Transfer the centerline to the vehicle and mark it.
A common laser found in the lumber yards is a big help when transferring the centerline to the vehicle. Make sure you level the laser!
It is a good idea to drill 1/8" holes in several places along the centerline to permanently locate the centerline for future use.
Find center line of the front spindle, usually the lower ball joint grease jerk is damn close as an example. Plumb-bob this to the floor on both sides. Measure back your intended wheelbase with marks on floor, both sides, measure for squareness with front marks and put your axle centerline on the floor. Transfer this to the vehicle with 1/8" holes in a couple of places if you can.
Now you have your vehicle center line and axle center line. Make all measurements from these lines and keep your world square, you will not go wrong.
If you have wheels and tires coming, how did you arrive at the correct back-spacing for the wheels? If these wheels are with the parts you will be getting, it might be easier to get different wheels with different backspacing rather than shorten the housing/axles, etc.
In my opinion it is better to center the pinion with your vehicle, mandatory for drag or hi-performance, but the housing can be centered for better looks in a custom show car type application, etc.
If you will be using a very short drive shaft, better center the pinion.
Thanks for the measuring and pinion tips...
There is no way that I can use the wheels and tires I want without narrowing the housing. I am going for Pro street type of truck. The wheels/tires combo were selected on appearance and the deal I got.. The rear housing will need to accomodate. 18" wide Sportsman S/R radial and Centerline warrior wheels
As the other fellow said many folks buy the wheels they want and work backwards to figure out the appropriate width for the rear. Same here, only want to do the drive train on a spare frame and transfer the body onto it once the drivetrain is complete. The fellow I am purchasing many parts from has a housing but I will not be able to use it unless I narrowed it further and bought new axles.
So I am not purchasing it... Once parts arrive I can determine the width I need.
In the mean time, I figure I would try to get some advice
it is your choice however if I had in hand a rear already narrowed that was close enough then I would use it..the idea of scribing a center line and center lines of the axles on the garage floor is a good one..i use a plumb bob to line with to the center but then I am an old guy..also measure from suspension mounting point when squaring the chassis as frame rails can be a bit off..
I have tried most all of it and now do what is known to work..
Browse the Project Journals and Photo Albums, there's lots of information and pictures there.
Here's a link to my Photo Album, I show back-halving an older Nova, for 18.5 tires. Not the same as a Bronco, but gives some ideas for the frame rails.
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You will have to determine the overall outside measurement, outside tire bulge to outside tire bulge that will fit in the wheel wells where you want them. Then set your mounted tire/wheels that far apart and measure the distance between the wheel centers to determine the overall width of the rear end, axle flange to axle flange, including the brake rotor or drum, etc.
Also you must know what the inside measurement is from inside of the tire bulge. Leave yourself about 2" between the frame rails and each tire bulge. That will tell you how far apart the frame rails can be.
If the back spacing is to much on your wheels, you may not have enough room for the suspension components.
Take your time and think it out. The cheapest, the easiest, and the best route to go are rarely the same.
The pinion offset on all Chevy car rear ends is 1/2 inch to the right of center. I'm pretty sure that the Bronco has more pinion offset than that. Many people are using the Explorer 8.8 rear end in their projects, which has a lot more pinion offset than 1/2 inch. The drive shaft doesn't line up with the tunnel in the floor. Just check the pinion offset in a stock Bronco rear end and try to keep it the same on the new rear end.
2" clearance bulge to frame, that sounds like quite a bit... I was thinking 1" was conservative. Why so much? there should not be any items protruding from frame rail near tires. I'll need to move the frame inboard at least 2.5" per side inboard.
backspacing is 5" on 15 inch wide rims
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I am getting excited, still wrapping up my 4x4 Bronco and already rolling into next project.
74 waiting in line...
Prostreet similar to look I am going for but... I want to chop the top and only have a slight rake.(Keep quarters as original)
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I keep hemming and hawing on the approach.
Do you think that I should reconsider doing this on a spare frame?
Would it be much safer doing the rear while the body is mounted?
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A luncheon with Gertraud Auer Borea D'Olmo, the Secretary General of the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue. A light lunch will be served at this event. About Gertraud Auer Borea D'Olmo: Gertraud Auer Borea D'Olmo is the Secretary General of the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue. Prior to this role, which she assumed in 2005, she worked at the Bruno Kreisky Forum in Project Management: Middle East Youth Peace Forum. From 1991 to 1995, she was a staff member at the Federal Minister for Education and the Arts, International and Cultural Affairs Adviser in Vienna, Austria. From 1980-1991 she was a free-lance professional, working with Centre Pompidou, Vienna Festival and Lainer-Auer Architects. Her expertise is in languages, architecture, theater and international politics.


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Duck hunters,
I encourage you to read this article that I located on the delta waterfowl homepage. It seems that the research has been conducted, and conservationists know what needs to be done in order to get our waterfowl populations back to where they should be. All that is left for us to do, is raise a little money.
FWS Regional Office: More Money Needed in the PPR
Erosion of Dollars Hurting Duck Production on Breeding Grounds
How much habitat will it take to sustain healthy duck populations for future generations of waterfowlers to enjoy?
What kind of habitat do we need, and where do we need it?
First the good news: Thanks to years of scientific research, Geographic Information System (GIS) technology and a lot of old-fashioned elbow grease, the Region 6 Refuge Division of the US Fish and Wildlife Service finally has the answer to those questions.
Now the bad news: The price tag to permanently protect the habitat necessary to sustain waterfowl production at its current level is a whopping $1.4 billion, and that just covers the prairie breeding grounds in the US. Canada is another story.
More bad news: At current funding levels, the Service estimates it will take 155 years to protect the wetlands and 406 years to lock up the grasslands necessary to guarantee duck production into the future.
Fortunately, Lloyd Jones and Ron Reynolds have no intention of waiting that long, and they hope duck hunters won't either.
Jones and Reynolds were the driving force behind the Prairie Pothole Region Waterfowl Production Area Conservation Strategy, a science-based, no-nonsense evaluation of how much habitat is necessary to "ensure the long-term viability of waterfowl populations in the US Prairie Pothole Region (PPR)."
The results of that evaluation might shock hunters who have been lulled into believing that after 70 years of conserving waterfowl habitat, the job is nearly done.
"We need to permanently protect another 1.4 million acres of wetlands and 10.4 million acres of grasslands," says Reynolds, who heads up FWS' Habitat and Population Evaluation Team (HAPET). "That's what it will take to maintain our current capability to attract and produce ducks on the US side of the pothole region."
"We've permanently protected 1.5 million wetland acres and 1.2 million upland acres," says Jones, refuge coordinator for Fish and Wildlife's Region 6. "That's enough habitat to accommodate 27 percent of the breeding-duck population that settles here."
Jones and Reynolds believe securing the $1.4 billion to protect the remainder of the breeding stock will require a concerted effort by the only group with a vested interest in getting the job done—waterfowl hunters.
"Duck hunters can be proud of what their conservation dollars have accomplished," says Reynolds. "Since 1958 their duck stamp dollars have permanently protected a lot of habitat across the breeding grounds."
"Over 90 percent of the wetlands and grasslands already protected on the U.S. breeding grounds were secured with duck stamp dollars," echoes Jones. "The rest is a combination of other public lands and habitat acquired by state agencies and conservation organizations.
"But we still have a ways to go, and we won't get the job done without the help of duck hunters. I don't see anyone else stepping up to do it."
The evaluation not only identifies how much habitat is necessary, it's very specific about what kind of habitat must be preserved. "We've targeted only quality habitat," says Jones.
When it comes to breeding habitat, saving the best-of-the-best means small wetlands and big blocks of grass.
"The wetlands most critical for duck production are the small, shallow wetlands in crop fields," says Reynolds, noting that 10 one-acre wetlands attract three times as many nesting pairs as one 10-acre wetland. "Those little temporary and seasonal wetlands are also the most at-risk. Currently the only protection these wetlands have is Swampbuster."
Jones and Reynolds are particularly concerned about efforts to divert duck stamp dollars from their intended purpose.
"It has actually been suggested that we replace the duck on the duck stamp with a non-game bird," says Reynolds. "Some bird-conservation initiatives that have not received much funding are looking to the duck stamp program as a source of money. We need to support other initiatives, but not at the expense of a program built by duck hunters.
"We have to protect the duck stamp—by the duck, of the duck and for the duck."
Jones says the duck stamp is critical because it's the only funding program ear-marked for ducks, and therefore is the most reliable source of dollars. He'd like to see hunters support an increase in the cost of duck stamps—"We haven't had an increase since 1991".
But increasing the revenue stream from duck stamp sales is only part of the solution to a challenge likely to require a myriad of additional funding sources.
"For one thing, we need to tap into NAWCA," Jones says. NAWCA stands for the North American Wetlands Conservation Act, and it's a Congressional appropriation intended to support the goals of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan.
Unfortunately NAWCA grants must be matched 50-50 by non-government dollars, and non-federal match is harder to find in the sparsely populated PPR than in some other areas of the country.
"We need duck hunters across the country to support their state agencies' contributions to waterfowl conservation on the breeding grounds, where it will do the most good," says Jones.
"More and more NAWCA has become an all-bird funding program," says Reynolds. "People have forgotten Congress' original intent, which was a funding mechanism for the North American Plan and its priority conservation areas."
(Editor's Note: To date, less than 15 percent of NAWCA dollars spent in the US have come to the PPR, and less than nine percent have gone to the Dakotas and Montana, the states responsible for over half the ducks produced in this country.)
If $1.4 billion sounds like a lot of money, it is. But Jones believes it would be money well spent.
"Waterfowl hunting generates $1.4 billion in economic activity each year," says Jones. "When you think about it, a one-time investment of $1.4 billion to permanently protect the habitat necessary to support a $1.4 billion industry is a pretty good investment."
Unfortunately, the meter is running.
"That $1.4 billion figure is today's dollars," Jones emphasizes. "It doesn't take into account increases in land values driven by farm subsidies."
Indeed, land values have skyrocketed across the Missouri Coteau in South Dakota, and as a result the cost for taking grass easements there has in some cases doubled.
The current price tag also doesn't factor in possible losses in Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) lands. "For every acre of CRP we lose down the road, we have to add another acre to the grasslands we'll need to protect," says Reynolds.
Reynolds and Jones recognize that any effort to allocate more money for the breeding grounds is likely to meet with resistance from waterfowl and wildlife managers—and even some duck hunters—in other parts of the country.
"We don't want less money going to other regions," says Reynolds, "but we need more money coming here. We've documented that if you don't do it on the breeding grounds, you're not going to do it. We need to get that message across to duck hunters so they can help us find ways to get more money to the pothole region."
Jones and Reynolds make a compelling case for spending duck hunters' dollars on the prairie breeding grounds.
"If you look at the factors that influence change in mid-continent mallard populations, you'll see that 91 percent of those factors exist on the prairie breeding grounds," says Jones, citing research published by Steven Hoekman. "In other words, if we want to increase the mallard population there's only one place to get the job done, and that's on the prairie breeding grounds."
Jones says that while the US portion of the PPR accounts for just seven percent of the traditional survey area, it attracts 21 percent of the nesting ducks. Also significant is a production index showing that the US produces more broods relative to the number of breeding ducks than does Canada.
"The US pothole region has always held its own when it comes to duck production," says Reynolds, noting that the gap in the production index widened in the 1990s, partly because of wet conditions in the US, partly because of CRP and partly because of more intensive agricultural practices north of the border.
The Region 6 office didn't set out to identify population and habitat objectives; the original goal of the exercise was to advocate increasing the amount of federal duck stamp dollars coming to the prairies.
"At one point Region 3 and Region 6 were only getting 44 percent of the duck stamp dollars," says Jones. "We wanted to make a scientific case for 70 percent of duck stamp dollars coming to the Prairie Pothole Region, where the ducks are produced."
The PPR did get a welcome increase recently when Fish and Wildlife Director Steve Williams announced that 50 percent of the duck stamp dollars would be directed to the pothole region.
In the meantime, Jones and Reynolds decided to take their research one step further. "We realized the issue was bigger than accessing more money," says Jones. "We recognized a need to identify wider, broader objectives. We decided to set our habitat objectives based on population goals."
That job is now complete. All that's left is raise the money to meet those objectives.
And that brings us full circle to the group that has provided that source of funding since the migratory bird conservation stamp was authorized 70 years ago—duck hunters.


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It's no easy task running an urban school district anywhere in America, but it was an especially tough week for the superintendent of the Kansas City Missouri School District. As if it wasn't enough that revelations, first reported in the Kansas City Star, of a secret plan by the Missouri Education Chief and two big time Kansas City foundations to take over low performing schools in his Kansas City district, he's s confronted by a Missouri Supreme Court ruling that permits students in the Show-Me-State to transfer out of unaccredited districts. With the school district being vacated, the Kansas City Public School district will be forced to pick up the price tag for the student's move.
In the Normandy school district, which is just outside of St. Louis and is about a quarter of the size of the Kansas City school district, they lost their accreditation in 2012 and students were given the option to transfer out to suburban schools. They lost 25 percent of their student body and the district is paying out 15 million dollars a year to those other districts for tuition and transportation costs. They are on track to be bankrupt by March.
The district was also dealing with a controversy over a secret plan by the Missouri Education Commissioner Chris Nicastro who, in partnership with two of the biggest foundations in Kansas City, was trying to set up a special state school district for unaccredited schools that would hire a new superintendent. All this revealed in emails that come to light as part of a freedom of information request and took place long before your test results were known in August which revealed the district had actually received enough points to achieve provisional accreditation.
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Terry Farrell: Postmodernism and its Legacy
October 19, 2011 Leave a comment
"Postmodernism was all-encompassing, not a style but an era, and as a phenomenon it was about holistic connectivity, the broadening of all viewpoints." Terry Farrell, 2011.
Coinciding with the Victoria and Albert Museum's major Postmodernism exhibition will be a discussion at the RIBA about the legacy of postmodernism; amongst the speakers representing some of the movement's protagonists will be architect Terry Farrell. But, has enough time lapsed since the end of the movement to assess or even appreciate its legacy? Some of its greatest examples in architecture are still considered controversial. Many postmodernist buildings – even the most well-known – are not protected, and the consequences can be currently witnessed in Camden where the Hawley Crescent façade of the former TV-am studios, designed by Farrell in the early 1980s, is being torn down. A model of its façade forms part of the V&A's exhibition, one exhibit amongst many that together analyses the wide spectrum of material and cultural outputs of postmodernism, including: architecture, music, cinema, fashion and dance.
The upcoming talk, 'The Legacy of Postmodernism', will see Sir Terry Farrell, Nigel Coates, Piers Gough, Sean Griffiths, Kester Rattenbury and Jane Pavitt discuss the legacy of the movement on architecture and design in the UK. 6.30pm – 8pm, 25 October 2011.
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That's some list. I can only say I've dealt with a few. Here's how I rate them:
Personal Defense and Handgun:
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There is one that is not on the list that I just "discovered".
Fuquay Guns & Gold
(919) 552-4945
513 Wake Chapel Road
Fuquay Varina, NC 27526
Haven't been in but decided to give them the shot as my FFL for my SIG that's coming in. They're five minutes away from my house and only $25 for the transfer fee. I'll have more of an opinion once the transaction is completed, but so far so good.
UPDATE: Fuquay Guns and Gold
Decent selection of guns, OK prices, but ammo killed them. I wanted some Gold Dots and the guy tied to push some Federal +P+ ammo on me saying it "Was the best defense ammo available". Well, I hate it when people say something is "the best". I told him I'd stick to the Gold Dots, that they didn't have, and picked them up at another shop.


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Concession - £22
Executive Coach Travel
£75 (This trip will only run if sufficient number are met). Price includes: Executive tabled coach, continental breakfast, dinner, hostess service, soft dinks, tea and coffee.
Coaches depart from Queensland Rd at 08.30am SHARP. The return journey should take approximately 4 hours and 45 minutes. Queensland Rd is to the right as you look at the Armoury Shop from the Hornsey Rd roundabout.
Parking your car at Emirates Stadium / London Gateway
When coming by car to meet the away coaches, please be aware that Controlled Parking Zones are in operation around the stadium. The only day you will be allowed to park unrestricted is on a Sunday. For games when coaches leave on a Monday - Saturday we will try to get use of our car park but due to enforced security this may not be possible. We would advise that where possible you should use public transport, with Holloway Rd being the closest tube station on the Piccadilly line.
CPZ's are in operation at the following times.
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We still have use of London Gateway services. London Gateway is at Junction 2 of the M1 and accessible from both sides of the motorway. This service has been provided free of charge and with no restrictions. If you would like to leave your car at any of the above please ask when booking for further details.
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Do you intend to travel on the coach to every premiership fixture of the season with us? If yes then why not join our scheme. We will take your money automatically one month before the away fixture saving you the worry of a phone call, and send your coach boarding passes out in the post to you. As an incentive to join this scheme all members on the scheme will be entered into a free prize draw at the end of the season.
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By Richard Clarke
Arsène Wenger refused to blame complacency for his Arsenal side allowing a second successive comeback on Sunday.
Robin van Persie and William Gallas seemed to have given the visitors an unassailable lead at Upton Park but goals from Carlton Cole and Alessandro Diamanti drew West Ham level in the final 14 minutes. That came just five days after AZ Alkmaar had equalised deep into injury time when Arsenal were cruising to a third successive Champions League win.
Neither draw is likely to be that damaging, Wenger's men are top of Group H and actually rose to third in the Premier League with the point they gained in East London. However both games felt like defeats.
"It is not complacency," said Wenger afterwards. "We just have to continue to play in a rigorous way, respect the game we love and the pass. That is what we forgot sometimes and we have paid for it.
"We play at top quality and at the moment we do not get rewarded for what we produce."
That said, Wenger implied Sunday's draw was more disappointing to him than Tuesday's.
"In the Champions League it can happen that you are 1-0 up and are caught on a free-kick in the last minute," he said. "Today it has not to happen.
"At 2-0 we lost the way we want to play the game. And when a team comeback to 2-1 and you are away from home you are always under threat to go to 2-2."Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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When Anson Dorrance was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame on August 2, 2008, it marked one more milestone moment in the career of a man whose coaching prowess became legendary at a young age. Because Dorrance has not yet retired from his coaching career, he was only eligible for election on the "Builders of the Game" ballot and he won election to the Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility on that ballot.
Like fine wine - with age - the coaching career of Anson Dorrance only gets better. Dorrance proved that again in 2009 as he led his team successfully through one of the most competitive College Cup fields in history as the University of North Carolina won its 21st overall national title and its 20th NCAA crown. Dorrance thus became the first coach in NCAA history to win 20 championships coaching a single sport.
Head coach of the North Carolina women's soccer program since its inception in 1979, Dorrance has built and guided a well-oiled winning machine. Under his direction, the Tar Heels have collected national and conference championships at a stupendous rate, compiled an overall record staggering in its numerical verity, established records likely never to be approached and procured the esteem befitting a dynasty.
At an institution familiar with such incomparable achievement, especially with regard to its storied basketball program, it might be possible to think that Dorrance's accomplishments could somehow fade to the background. But what he has done in Chapel Hill is simply impossible to disregard.
Thus, when an expert panel employed by ESPN announced its list of the Best Coaches of the Past Quarter Century on July 28, 2004 - coincidentally headed at the No. 1 spot by legendary Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith - it came as no big surprise that another deserving Tar Heel mentor made the list.
That Dorrance, who was ranked No. 24 on the list, was one of only two coaches in the prestigious collection to coach an Olympic sport on the collegiate level only speaks louder about his recognized greatness.
More accolades were bestowed on Dorrance with his induction into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame on May 19, 2005 and to the National Soccer Hall of Fame on August 2, 2008. He earned those honors while still in the prime of his coaching career, further testament to his ongoing legacy.
Fitting Accolades From Basketball's Winningest Coach
It is said that greatness recognizes greatness.
Perhaps there is no better example of that than the quote Dean Smith gave Football News Magazine in 1997. Smith was asked by Football News about Carolina's preseason No. 1 ranking in football and what it was like for some sport other than basketball to be ranked No. 1.
Coach Smith's reply? "This is a women's soccer school. We're just trying to keep up with them." Coach Smith's clever retort was his way to give Dorrance his due.
From the person who was then the winningest head coach of all-time in one sport to the winningest head coach of all-time in another sport, the comment struck Dorrance as the ultimate honor. As Dorrance has said, "So much of what we have tried to do in our program is modeled after what Dean Smith has done and accomplished. To have our program compared favorably to his by the man himself is enormously humbling."
Similarly, Dorrance's immense loyalty to Carolina mirrors the loyalty Smith possessed for his adopted school. In 1994, when Dorrance decided not to continue his duties as the head coach of the U.S. Women's National Team, the choice perplexed many.
Some thought he relinquished the honor in order to avoid the pressure that comes with being the leader of what was then the defending World Cup championship squad. But Dorrance's decision had everything to do with allegiance to his alma mater.
The glory that came with coaching the U.S. to the championship in the first-ever Women's World Cup in 1991 was not enough to pull Dorrance away from his true professional love - working full-time with the Tar Heels. He wanted to increase the level of excellence that soccer fans had come to expect from the record-shattering program he had molded. To do that Dorrance knew he would have to dedicate all of his coaching energy to the University. With more elite-level players emerging from high school and club teams than ever before, the playing field in the college game was leveling out; Dorrance knew that for UNC to remain at the top, he would have to throw himself into the process with renewed vigor.
"College programs like ours require a lot of work," says Dorrance. "At that point in time we had been surviving by just doing the minimum amount of work. We certainly couldn't continue to be successful by doing just the minimum. We needed the extra time to stay competitive in an increasingly tough college game."
A prime example of what Dorrance meant about a leveling playing field is the fact UNC has captured "only" six of the past 14 NCAA championships from 1998-2011 when compared to the era from 1982 through 1997 when Carolina dominated the competition, winning 14 of 16 titles. Despite the improved nature of the competition, UNC's 21 all-time titles still dominate the second-highest total - three by Notre Dame. There is only one other school - Portland - which has joined UNC and Notre Dame as multiple national champion winners.
Simply Staggering Numbers
It is difficult to comprehend Dorrance taking Carolina's women's program to any greater heights than what it has already achieved. Yet, for a program consumed with striving for excellence, a national championship every season remains the goal.
It is this relentless attitude that has helped the Tar Heels win a mind-blowing 21 of the 31 national championships that have been decided in the history of collegiate women's soccer. Only two other schools in the country have won as many as two titles - Portland in 2002 and 2005 and Notre Dame in 1995, 2004 and 2010. Five other schools have won one each - George Mason (1985), Florida (1998), Santa Clara (2001), USC (2007) and Stanford (2011).
Carolina has also captured 20 of the 24 Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament championships since the sport was given title status by the league in 1988. Carolina's all-time record in ACC Tournament play is 58-1-4 and the first loss did not come until 2012. UNC also won the initial 1987 ACC title when it was held in a round-robin format at the end of the regular season to determine the champion.
All told, the Tar Heels are 728-44-26 in the 33-year history of the program, a winning percentage of .929.
When Carolina decided to make women's soccer a varsity sport in 1979, Dorrance became a two-sport head coach as he was already in his third year coaching the men's team at Carolina. Dorrance's brilliance at coaching women manifested itself almost immediately as it took just three years before the Tar Heels won a national championship, capturing the 1981 Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) national title. Beginning with that championship, the Tar Heels have won 67.7 percent of the titles ever decided in the sport.
Carolina went on to claim three national titles in a row after the NCAA began sponsorship of the sport in the fall of 1982. UNC netted NCAA championship game wins in 1982 over UCF, in 1983 over George Mason and in 1984 over Connecticut. The Tar Heels made it to the NCAA title game in 1985, but lost to George Mason 2-0 on the Patriots' home field - the first of only eight losses in NCAA Tournament play for Carolina to go along with 108 wins and two ties.
A String of Nine Straight Championships
That loss to George Mason, remarkably, was the last time the Tar Heels lost any game in the decade of the 1980s. Beginning with the season opener in 1986 and continuing into the 1990 season, Dorrance's Tar Heels won 97 games and tied six matches over a stretch of 103 contests.
In 1986, Carolina defeated Colorado College 2-0 in the finals at Fairfax, Va. A year later, the Tar Heels downed Massachusetts 1-0 on the Minutewomen's home field in the title game. The 1988 campaign saw the Tar Heels defeat NC State 4-1 in the title game in Chapel Hill. A year later, Carolina defeated Colorado College 2-0 in the championship contest at Raleigh, N.C.
During this era, the ACC also began championship competition with UNC winning the inaugural title in 1987 in a round robin format. NC State claimed the 1988 title on a penalty kick shootout against the Tar Heels but Carolina regained the title in 1989 and has won all but three conference tournament championships since then.
Connecticut snapped a 103-match UNC unbeaten streak that had started in 1986 by defeating the Tar Heels 3-2 in overtime at Storrs, Conn. on September 22, 1990. The Tar Heels rebounded from that lone defeat to win their fifth straight NCAA crown in 1990, avenging the only blemish on their season by beating the Huskies in the final game 6-0 in Chapel Hill.
Tackling The Challenge of the National Team
Along the way, Dorrance's love of a challenge prompted him to take the coaching job for the U.S. Women's National Team just a year into its existence in 1986. In a short time, Dorrance took the National Team to the vertex of the world's most popular sport. On November 30, 1991, Dorrance led the U.S. to a 2-1 win over Norway to claim the initial World Cup championship. The win came just six days after assistant coach Bill Palladino, acting as interim head coach, led UNC to a 3-1 NCAA title game win over Wisconsin for Carolina's sixth NCAA title in a row.
Dorrance was the architect of the World Cup triumph, a win tinged with a Carolina Blue hue. Not only was Dorrance coaching the U.S. team, but nine of the 18 players competed collegiately at North Carolina and his assistant coach was former UNC player Lauren Gregg.
The next year, Dorrance assembled what many soccer observers have labeled the best college soccer team in history. That edition of the Tar Heels finished the season undefeated (25-0), claimed the ACC championship for the fourth straight year and won the NCAA title for the seventh consecutive time. Carolina's 9-1 NCAA championship game victory over Duke was as thorough as the final score would lead one to believe and was a nonpareil way for the Heels to finish the year.
In 1993, UNC won the NCAA championship with an unsullied record of 23-0. The Tar Heels whitewashed George Mason 6-0 before what was then a collegiate women's soccer record crowd of 5,721 fans at Fetzer Field. Mia Hamm capped her brilliant career at Carolina that day and went on to win unanimous national player of the year honors for the second year in a row.
92 Wins in a Row
Amongst all the coaching jobs that Dorrance has done during his career, the one that culminated in the 1994 NCAA championship might be the most impressive. Dorrance was able to rally the Tar Heels after arch-rival Duke ended a 101-game unbeaten streak by beating Carolina 3-2 on October 19, 1994. The loss came 17 days after Notre Dame had snapped a 92-game Carolina winning streak by playing the Heels to a scoreless tie.
UNC ran the table after the loss to Duke and NCAA Tournament wins over NC State, Duke, Connecticut and Notre Dame added a 13th national title to Dorrance's coaching resume. Tar Heel midfielder Tisha Venturini was selected as the 1994 National Player of the Year, marking the seventh straight season in which the national player of the year came from the ranks of Carolina players.
The 1994 season presaged a sea change in the college game. With the proliferation of available talent and the vast increase in the number of college programs, parity was quickly becoming a part of the women's game. While the Tar Heels still led the way in terms of consistent excellence, one of the big news stories of 1995 was the fact Carolina failed to win the national title in women's soccer for the first time in 10 years. The Tar Heels, seeded No. 1 in the NCAA bracket with a 25-0 mark, were upset by Notre Dame 1-0 in the 1995 NCAA semifinals.
Relinquishing the title to Notre Dame in 1995 only fueled the team's competitive fire the next season. Dorrance took a team that returned nine starters and molded it into another victorious unit by season's end. In the ninth game of the season, Notre Dame defeated the Tar Heels 2-1 in overtime and became the first college team to beat UNC in successive meetings. Carolina regrouped and the Tar Heels whipped William & Mary, James Madison and Florida in the opening three rounds of the NCAA tourney before defeating Santa Clara 2-1 on its home field in the semifinals. Two days later UNC proved it was still at the acme of women's college soccer, beating defending champion Notre Dame 1-0 in overtime to claim the 1996 crown.
A Dynamite Defense in 1997
Dorrance turned in another magnificent coaching job as the Tar Heels wound up in the winner's circle again in 1997. Honored by Soccer Buzz and Soccer Times as the national coach of the year, Dorrance spearheaded a Carolina campaign that resulted in a 27-0-1 record. The 27 victories were an NCAA record and UNC tied its own NCAA record by shutting out 22 opponents during the campaign.
After seeing the 1998 NCAA title elude the Tar Heels, Carolina fans were able to find solace in the performance of the U.S. team, which competed in the 1999 Women's World Cup. The 20-person roster featured eight Tar Heel players - Mia Hamm, Kristine Lilly, Carla Overbeck, Cindy Parlow, Tisha Venturini, Tracy Noonan, Lorrie Fair and Tiffany Roberts - and UNC alumna Lauren Gregg as a U.S. assistant coach. The Tar Heel-laden composition of the World Cup Team, which reclaimed the championship it had relinquished in 1995, once again stood as a testament to the indelible contributions Dorrance had made to U.S. soccer prominence.
Back-To-Back National Championships
Basking in the glow of a World Cup title featuring so many ties to the program, Carolina's collegiate dominance seemed to be in doubt when just eight games into the 1999 season the Tar Heels sported a 6-2 record. The two losses were the most in a season since 1985. But Dorrance led Carolina to 18 wins in a row and another NCAA championship. Lorrie Fair earned national player of the year accolades, but in many regards the 1999 team was a squad without star presence, just incredible unity of purpose.
A year later, the 2000 Carolina team suffered the program's most losses in a season in 20 years but again won ACC and NCAA titles. Three times in six NCAA Tournament games, Carolina trailed its opponent 1-0 midway through the second half. All three times, the Tar Heels came from behind to win 2-1 in regulation time en route to another national title.
After a two-year hiatus from the awards stand, UNC reclaimed the NCAA title in 2003 with its most dominant team in a decade. Carolina became the first team since the Tar Heels of 1993 to go undefeated and untied, finishing with a perfect 27-0 mark in winning its 15th straight ACC title and its 18th national championship. Led by co-national players of the year Lindsay Tarpley and Catherine Reddick, Carolina outscored its opponents 132-11, including an amazing 32-0 margin in six NCAA Tournament matches.
In 2006 Dorrance turned in one of the best coaching jobs of his career in piloting UNC to its 19th national championship. He was the unanimous choice as the national coach of the year after leading Carolina to a 27-1 balance sheet. The Tar Heels accomplished these heroics while starting six freshmen for most of the season. In fact, seven freshmen took the field for the start of the second half of UNC's 2-1 NCAA championship game win over Notre Dame. It was a team which lost its season opener at Texas A&M, its first setback in a lidlifter since 1983, and then stormed back to win 27 matches in succession.
In 2008, UNC captured its 20th national championship with a team that started 4-1-1 but went 21-0-1 in its final 22 matches. Led by national player of the year Casey Nogueira, who led the nation in scoring with 25 goals, Carolina defeated two undefeated teams in the College Cup, beating UCLA 1-0 and Notre Dame 2-1, to win the NCAA title. Nogueira scored two second-half goals to rally UNC past the Fighting Irish in the final game.
A year later, the Tar Heels turned in one of the best defensive efforts in school history en route to a 21st national crown. Senior defender Whitney Engen was a National Player of the Year honoree and the defensive MVP of the ACC and she led a team that allowed only 12 goals and posted 19 shutouts. Carolina allowed only two goals in the final 11 games of the season as the Tar Heels rallied to win the ACC Tournament hardware over Florida State 3-0 and the NCAA Tournament title over Stanford 1-0.
Dorrance's Start In Coaching
Ironically, Dorrance's career plans did not originally include coaching a women's team. He began his coaching career at Carolina as the designated head coach for the men's team in 1976 during Marvin Allen's last year as head coach. He took over as men's coach the following year and served for 12 years in that role, posting a 172-65-21 record. His team won the ACC Tournament championship in 1987. He took the Tar Heels to the 1987 NCAA College Cup semifinals and the second round of the 1988 NCAA Tournament. Dorrance's .708 winning percentage is tops among Carolina's men's soccer coaches all-time and his 172 wins rank third in school history behind Elmar Bolowich, whom Dorrance brought to Carolina as an assistant men's coach in 1987, and Dr. Marvin Allen, the founder of the program in 1947, and the man who coached Dorrance at Carolina.
Since being named the women's head coach in 1979, Carolina has a 728-44-26 record under Dorrance and only six times in 33 years have the Tar Heels lost more than two games in a single season. The Tar Heels' 20 NCAA crowns are more than any other women's NCAA Division I sports program in the history (Stanford women's tennis is second with 16), and the 21 national championships overall are more than any single sports program in ACC history, men's or women's.
A Host of National Players of the Year
Over the years, 17 different Tar Heels have been named national players of the year under Dorrance's direction - April Heinrichs in 1984 and 1986, Shannon Higgins in 1988 and 1989, Kristine Lilly in 1990 and 1991, Mia Hamm in 1992 and 1993, Tisha Venturini in 1994, Debbie Keller in 1995 and 1996, Staci Wilson in 1995, Cindy Parlow in 1996, 1997 and 1998, Robin Confer in 1997, Lorrie Fair in 1999, Meredith Florance in 2000, Lindsay Tarpley in 2003, Catherine Reddick in 2003, Heather O'Reilly in 2006, Yael Averbuch in 2006, Casey Nogueira in 2008 and Whitney Engen in 2009.
North Carolina begins the 2012 season with a 308-17-8 all-time home record. In the program's 33-year history, totaling 798 games, Carolina has shut out opponents 512 times and has been held scoreless in just 30 games.
Coach of the Year Honors Galore
Dorrance has been named national coach of the year for coaching both women and men. He earned women's national honors in 1982, 1986, 1997, 2000, 2003 and 2006 and he was named men's national coach of the year in 1987.
Dorrance has been named the Southeast Region coach of the year in 1989, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2006 and 2008. In 1987, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1996, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2008, he was named the ACC Women's Soccer Coach of the Year.
In 1996, Dorrance received the highest honor possible from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America when he won the Walt Chyzowych Award for lifetime coaching achievement. In 2007, he won the Bill Jeffrey Award from the NSCAA for raising intercollegiate soccer to new heights through his long-term dedication to the game. In 2011, the NSCAA accorded him its prestigious NSCAA Honor Award.
Honors from His Peers at Carolina & Beyond
Dorrance was inducted into the Order of the Golden Fleece in 1988, Carolina's highest honorary society which includes Carolina students, faculty and staff.
In 1994, Dorrance added another cherished honor when the athletic department designated him a "Priceless Gem." This honor is reserved only for those individuals who have contributed in extraordinary ways to the successful athletic climate at the University.
In 1995, Dorrance's program was profiled in a full-length documentary film entitled, "Dynasty." The movie focused in particular on the Tar Heels' amazing nine-year national championship run from 1986 through 1994, and it included in-depth interviews with both current and former Tar Heel players. Another documentary about the UNC program, "Winning Isn't Everything," was released in DVD format following the 2007 season.
In the fall of 2003, Sports Illustrated On Campus magazine named UNC's women's soccer program as the greatest college dynasty of all-time.
Dorrance has also coauthored two books. He combined with Tim Nash to write "Training Soccer Champions" in 1996. It sold out in its first printing and did equally well in its second press run. Dorrance also co-authored the award-winning "The Vision of a Champion" with Gloria Averbuch. It was published in 2003 and almost immediately went to second and third printings. In 2006, "The Man Watching" by former Sports Illustrated writer Tim Crothers debuted to smashing reviews and amazing sales success.
Following the U.S. victory in the Women's World Cup in 1991, Dorrance received an Honorary All-America Award, one of the most prestigious of its kind, from the NSCAA.
In 1991, Soccer America named Dorrance one of the 20 most influential men in American soccer during the previous two decades. Soccer America followed that up in 1995 by naming Dorrance as one of the 25 most influential people in the history of American soccer. Dorrance was one of only three coaches on that list and the only women's coach tapped.
In 2002, Dorrance was selected for the North Carolina Soccer Hall of Fame, joining his mentor, Dr. Marvin Allen, who was in the initial class inducted into the Hall.
Dorrance In His College Years
A 1974 University of North Carolina graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and philosophy, Dorrance originally enrolled at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas, where he spent one semester studying and playing soccer. He then transferred to Carolina to play for Marvin Allen.
Dorrance's natural gifts on the pitch led to his selection to the All-ACC Team three times as an undergraduate and he won All-South Region honors in 1973. He was named in 2002 as one of the Top 50 men's soccer players in ACC history. He was also one of the top intramural sports performers on the Carolina campus during his days as an undergraduate.
After graduation, he organized youth soccer leagues in both Connecticut and North Carolina. He was the founder of both the North Carolina Youth Soccer Association and the North Carolina Senior Soccer Association.
Dorrance has an "A" level coaching license from the U.S. Soccer Federation. He was a charter member of the NCAA Women's Soccer Committee and he also served as the women's chairman of the Intercollegiate Soccer Association of America. He is the former chairman of the NCAA Men's and Women's Soccer Rules Committee and one of the few coaches in the country to qualify as a national staff coach for the U.S. Soccer Federation and the National Soccer Coaches Association of America. He formerly was involved in training coaches and awarding coaching licenses as part of the NSCAA Coaching Academy. In the summer of 2003, he was named to the Board of Directors of the National Soccer Hall of Fame.
Dorrance's summer soccer camps for women are the most popular in the nation. The camps sell out well in advance. Dorrance has even hosted a version of the famous camp in England.
Dorrance also made a seamless transition to his role as the color analyst on the WUSA Game of the Week on Saturday afternoons as shown on PAX TV from 2001-03.
The Dorrance Family
Dorrance was born on April 9, 1951, in Bombay, India, and he is married to M'Liss Gary Dorrance. The couple celebrated their 38th wedding anniversary in August 2012.
M'Liss is a former professional ballet dancer who teaches at the Ballet School of Chapel Hill, which she cofounded in 1980. She was retired in 2007 from Duke University where she taught and served the Dance Program for 32 years. When M'Liss is not watching soccer games on the weekends she is rehearsing her choreography for Chapel Hill Dance Theatre productions.
The Dorrances have three children.
Michelle, a graduate of New York University, is an internationally renowned rhythm tap dancer residing in New York City where she is on the faculty at Broadway Dance Center. Michelle was featured in the cover article of the March 2008 issue of Dance Magazine and on the cover of Dance Teacher magazine in 2012. She also performed for four years in STOMP, NYC, the off-Broadway hit, following a year in the national tour production. Michelle won a 2012 New York Dance and Theater Award, better known as the "Bessie", for "Outstanding Production of a work that stretches the boundaries of a traditional or culturally specific form." Most recently, she was named one of the recipients of a 2012 Princess Grace Award for Choreography.
Natalie, a UNC graduate, is currently on leave from the Greensboro public schools. She and attorney husband David Harris, a UNC law school graduate, are the proud parents of Finley Dorrance Harris. The Dorrance family's first grandchild was born in April 2009.
Donovan, a 2009 graduate of Chapel Hill High School, is a senior at Carolina and continues to pursue interests in philosophy and music.
Dorrance's soccer origins stem from his youth when he lived overseas. He resided in India, Kenya, Ethiopia, Singapore, Belgium and Switzerland while growing up. His family moved all around the world following his father's assignments as an international businessman. Additional members of the Dorrance Clan residing in Chapel Hill include Anson's mother, Peggy, and his brother Pete, a co-owner of six prominent Triangle area restaurants, and Pete's wife Dolly Hunter, a former UNC head field hockey and softball coach. All are avid fans of the UNC women's soccer team.
Year Record Pct. ACC Reg. Sea. ACC Finish ACC Tour. National Tourn.
1979 10-2-0 .833
1980 21-5-0 .808
1981 23-0-0 1.000 Champion
1982 19-2-0 .905 Champion
1983 19-1-0 .950 Champion
1984 24-0-1 .980 Champion
1985 18-2-1 .881 Second Place
1986 24-0-1 .980 Champion
1987 23-0-1 .979 3-0-0 First Champion
1988 18-0-3 .929 1-0-1 Second Second Champion
1989 24-0-1 .980 4-0-0 First Champion Champion
1990 20-1-1 .932 4-0-0 First Champion Champion
1991 24-0-0 1.000 4-0-0 First Champion Champion
1992 25-0-0 1.000 4-0-0 First Champion Champion
1993 23-0-0 1.000 4-0-0 First Champion Champion
1994 25-1-1 .944 5-1-0 Second Champion Champion
1995 25-1-0 .962 7-0-0 First Champion Tied Third Place
1996 25-1-0 .962 7-0-0 First Champion Champion
1997 27-0-1 .982 7-0-0 First Champion Champion
1998 25-1-0 .962 7-0-0 First Champion Second Place
1999 24-2-0 .923 7-0-0 First Champion Champion
2000 21-3-0 .875 4-3-0 Tied Second Champion Champion
2001 24-1-0 .960 7-0-0 First Champion Second Place
2002 21-2-4 .852 4-1-2 First Champion Tied Third Place
2003 27-0-0 1.000 7-0-0 First Champion Champion
2004 20-1-2 .913 9-0-0 First Second Third Round
2005 23-1-1 .940 9-1-0 First Champion Quarterfinals
2006 27-1-0 .964 10-0-0 First Champion Champion
2007 19-4-1 .813 9-1-0 First Champion Third Round
2008 25-1-2 .929 9-0-1 First Champion Champion
2009 23-3-1 .870 7-3-0 Third Champion Champion
2010 19-3-2 .833 8-2-0 First Semifinalist Third Round
2011 13-5-2 .700 6-3-1 Third Quarterfinalist Third Round
Overall Record: 728-44-26 (.929) 20 ACC Tournament Championships
ACC Regular Season Record: 153-15-5 (.899) 20 ACC Regular-Season Champonships
ACC Tournament Record: 58-1-4 (.952) 20 NCAA Tournament Championships
AIAW Tournament Record: 4-0-0 (1.000) 1 AIAW Tournament Championship
NCAA Tournament Record: 110-8-2 (.925) 30 NCAA Tournament Appearances
Goals For: 3,131 1 AIAW Tournament Appearance
Goals Against: 399 2 5 NCAA College Cup Appearances
Carolina Players Active In National Team Player Pools
(Source U.S. Soccer.com)
2012 U.S. National Team Player Pool (6): Yael Averbuch, '08, MF; Whitney Engen, '09, D; Ashlyn Harris, '09, GK; Tobin Heath, '09, MF; Meghan Klingenberg, '10, MF; Heather O'Reilly, '06, MF.
U23 National Team Player Pool (2): Amber Brooks, '12, D; Casey Nogueira, '09, MF.
U20 National Team Player Pool (5): Crystal Dunn, '13, D; Bryane Heaberlin, '15, GK; Kealia Ohai, '13, F; Taylor Ramirez, '14, MF; Anna Sieloff, '13, GK.
U18 National Team Player Pool (2): Caroline Lindquist, '15, MF; Reilly Parker, '15, MF.
U17 National Team Player Pool (1): Summer Green, '15, F.
Canadian National Team (2): Robyn Gayle, '07, D; Ranee Premji, '12, MF.
New Zealand National Team (1): Katie Bowen, '15, D.
Years indicated are final season of play at UNC; positions listed are those played on their respective national teams.
Carolina's Influences On The Game
• Current and former UNC players have been staples on World Cup rosters as both players and coaches. The 1991 U.S. World Cup roster featured nine players and two coaches; the 1995 U.S. World Cup roster featured seven players and two coaches; the 1999 U.S. World Cup roster featured eight players and one coach; the 2003 U.S. World Cup roster featured six players and two coaches; the 2007 U.S. World Cup roster featured five players as well as one former player being on the Canadian roster; the 2011 U.S. World Cup roster featured two U.S. players and one coach and there was one player on the Canadian roster.
• Olympic Team rosters have also been filled with Tar Heel coaches and players. The 1996 U.S. Olympic Team included seven players and two coaches; the 2000 U.S. Olympic Team included six players and two coaches; the 2004 U.S. team included six players and two coaches; in the 2008 Olympic Games four players competed on the U.S. squad and one player was on the Canadian roster; in 2012, two Tar Heels competed for the U.S. and one for Canada.
• 50 Carolina players have earned caps with the United States National Team since its founding in 1985.
• Nineteen current and former players are listed as members of National Team player pools in 2012. This group includes six on the U.S. National Team, two on the U23 National Team, five on the U20 National Team, two on the U18 National Team, one on the U17 National Team, two on the Canadian National Team and one on the New Zealand National Team.
• North Carolina featured the largest alumnae class of players drafted by teams for the inaugural season of Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) in 2009 with 13. Four Tar Heels played on WPS champion Sky Blue FC in 2009. In 2010, four Tar Heels will were taken in the top eight picks of the WPS draft and seven players were chosen overall. In the 2010 season, UNC was represented by 17 players in WPS. In the 2011 season, UNC was represented by 15 players in WPS. In 2011, three Tar Heels — Yael Averbuch, Whitney Engen and Ashlyn Harris — were members of the WPS champion Western New York Flash.
Carolina's National Team Coaching Connections
•Anson Dorrance, '73, was the head coach of the U.S. Women's National Team from 1986-94. He was the head coach of the 1991 World Cup Team which won the gold medal.
•Lauren Gregg, '83, was an assistant coach with the National Team from 1987-99. She was an assistant coach at the 1991 World Cup (gold), 1995 World Cup (bronze), 1996 Olympics (gold) and 1999 World Cup (gold).
•April Heinrichs, '87, was an assistant coach with the National Team from 1995-2000 and the head coach from 2000-05. She served on staffs for the 1995 World Cup (bronze), 1996 Olympics (gold), 1999 World Cup (gold), 2000 Olympics (silver), 2003 World Cup (bronze) and 2004 Olympics (gold).
•Bill Palladino, '72, was an assistant coach with the National Team from 2002-03. He served on the staff which won bronze medal at the 2003 World Cup.
•Marcia McDermott, '87, was an assistant coach with the U.S. National Team. She served on the staff which won the silver medal at the 2011 World Cup.
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Tamron Celebrates 60th Anniversary with Compact, High-Power 15X Zoom
January 25, 2011
Tamron (Commack, NY, www.tamron.com) is marketing the world's most compact, lightweight lens with a 15X zoom ratio. The new Tamron 18–270mm f/3.5-6.3 Di II VC PZD DSLR ultra-high-power lens features a 62mm filter diameter, VC (Vibration Compensation) image stabilization and a Piezo Drive, the company's first standing wave ultrasonic motor system for SLR lenses. Designed exclusively for digital SLR cameras with APS-C sensors, the 18–270mm zoom weighs just 15.9 ounces while measuring 3.8 inches in length, 2.9 inches in diameter. It features 16 elements in 13 groups and a minimum focusing distance of 19.3 inches. Although the new lens currently supports only Nikon and Canon mounts, a Sony compatible version is expected in the near future. Street price: $649.


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This WINDOWS ONLY guide will teach you to jailbreak your iDevice using Sn0wbreeze 2.9. The current version of Sn0wbreeze 2.9 is 2.9.3.
Sn0wbreeze is a Windows only alternative jailbreak tool to redsn0w. Redsn0w is also Windows compatible. You will need to have the firmware of your iDevice on your computer somewhere. If you do not then don't worry; there will be a link in Sn0wbreeze that lets you download it right from the software.
Sn0wbreeze supports all iDevices EXCEPT iPhone 4S, iPad 2, and Apple TV. The following firmwares are supported:
- 3.1.3
- 3.2.x
- 4.0.x
- 4.1
- 4.2.1 - 4.2.8
- 4.3 - 4.3.3
- 5.0.1
iOS 4.3.4/4.3.5/4.4.x/5.0 support coming soon
You can download Sn0wbreeze v2.9.3 from mod.my/sn0wbreezewin293.
First, launch Sn0wbreeze. Your window will look like the one below. Click on the OK button:
Next you will be prompted to click the Arrow button:
After you click the arrow you will be brought to a screen that asks you to browse for your .ipsw firmware file. If you have it on your computer already, then click the Browse button. If you don't have it yet click on the iOS Firmwares are downloadable here! button and follow the prompts. Download time varies according to your internet speeds, the file will appear on your desktop when it finishes:
Since we are just going to click browse, the next window that pops up will ask us to find our firmware. Select it and then click the Open button:
After you click open, Sn0wbreeze should automatically discover what iDevice type you are using (iPod touch 4G in this case) along with the firmware version. This means it was successful. Now you want to click on the Arrow button once more to move forward:
Sn0wbreeze will now ask you what mode you want to use. For this guide we are going to keep it as simple as possible. Click on the Simple Mode button:
Now that you've done that, Sn0wbreeze will work through building your custom, pre-jailbroken .ipsw firmware file. You have the option to play Pacman while you wait, if you want to. But for now, we're going to click the No Thanks, I'll stick to the spinner. button. Then, we just wait for it to complete:
When Sn0wbreeze finishes making your custom .ipsw firmware file, it will be present on your desktop after you are prompted with a message that tells you the firmware was made successfully. Process by clicking on the OK button:
The next step is to put your iDevice into DFU mode. Plug it into the computer, and then do this by holding down home and power for 10 seconds. Then, without releasing home, release power and continue holding home for another 15 seconds. When your iDevice has a black screen while attached to the computer, it is in DFU mode. If it says to connect to iTunes, then you goofed up. After it is in DFU mode, click the Start button:
Sn0wbreeze will then run iREB to put your iDevice into 'pwned' DFU mode. This mode will allow the iDevice to accept a custom firmware file from iTunes. The screen should look like this:
After iREB finishes (it should take a couple of seconds), you will get a message saying that you are in 'pwned' DFU mode. Click on the OK button:
Look on your desktop to confirm that Sn0wbreeze made a custom .ipsw file:
If it's there, then open up iTunes, hold down the shift key and click on the Restore button. It will prompt you to search for a firmware file. Open up the firmware file that we just showed you above; the name starts with, "sn0wbreeze..." Once you do that, iTunes will begin restoring your iDevice to the pre-jailbroken firmware. Just wait for the device to reboot and you will notice Cydia on your home screen. While the device is restoring, you should notice a Sn0wbreeze logo on your iDevice screen that resembles the one below:
Congratulations! You've just jailbroken your iDevice with Sn0wbreeze!


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UPDATE 7/4 Finally done, now with tutorial comments:
TUTORIAL
Here's the updated template:
OK, This must be the toughest part of the costume - especially building it from scratch. Research and development is a freaking bear. No wonder these things are so expensive! This project is ongoing so here's my progress so far...
THE BASE
I decided on balsa wood as a base. It's lightweight and cheap. I didn't want to mess with making functional pouches, because...well...it would take until Episode3 for me to finish.
THE LEATHER
I started by going to a leather shop and rummaging through their scrap bins. I spent about $40 in scrap leather and leather dye (I guess it would've been cheaper to do vinyl). My leather scraps were in odd shapes, so I had to develop a pattern that would make the most of the pieces I had. I made a pattern (download it here) that you can print out - and it is already to scale. So you just print and cut.
I cut out the leather and glued it to the wood using Liquid Nails - but I'm sure you could use anything. Use a rubber band to hold the leather while the glue dries.
Also, cut out 12" strips for the pouch flap. This will vertically wrap around the pouch. For stitching, I used quilting thread. It's thicker and more visible than regular thread. You'll also need a leather needle for your sewing machine ($2). Then you'll need a Mrs. to coach you on the sewing machine - or just do it for you. (Thanks to Mrs. TK-409!)
I'll post more photos as it progresses. I'm certainly not the expert on this - all knowledge I have on the ammo belt is from this forum - you guys are awesome. I'm not going to be making & selling these. I simply offer the tutorial for those that want to "do-it-yourself."


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Every season a number of Arsenal players go out on loan to gain valuable first-team experience. The 2011/12 campaign is no different and 19 Gunners are currently away from the Club.
Arsenal.com track their progress throughout the season. Our Arsenal's Loanees page offers an overview of all the players and below is the latest instalment of our Loan Watch feature with reports from their latest matches.
Craig Eastmond
Wycombe 5-0 Hartlepool
Saturday, February 25
Craig Eastmond made his Wycombe debut on Saturday, playing 85 minutes of their comfortable 5-0 victory over Hartlepool at Adams Park on Saturday.
Chelsea 3-0 Bolton
Saturday, February 25
Ryo played the whole of Bolton's 3-0 defeat to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Saturday. Despite the loss, the Japanese winger impressed for Owen Coyle's side.
Carlos Vela
Real Sociedad 1-0 Mallorca
Sunday, February 26
Carlos Vela played 89 minutes of Real Sociedad's 1-0 win over Mallorca on Sunday, grabbing an assist for the winning goal along the way.
Palmeiras 3-3 Sao Paulo
Sunday, February 26
Denilson played the full 90 minutes of Sao Paulo's state championships 3-3 draw with Palmeiras on Sunday.
Nicklas Bendtner
West Brom 4-0 Sunderland
Saturday, February 25
Nicklas Bendtner played the second half off the bench in Sunderland's 4-0 defeat to West Brom at The Hawthorns on Saturday.
Alcoyano 0-3 Huesca
Saturday, February 25
Wellington played the second half of Alcoyano's 3-0 defeat to Huesca on Saturday.
Samuel Galindo
Gimnastic Tarragona 0-1 Xerez
Saturday, February 25
Samuel Galindo played 25 minutes as a second-half substitute in Gimnastic Tarragona's 1-0 defeat to Xerez on Saturday.
Chuks Aneke
Charlton Athletic 2-0 Stevenage
Saturday, February 25
Chuks Aneke played 15 minutes as a second-half substitute in Stevenage's 2-0 defeat to Charlton at The Valley on Saturday.
Sead Hajrovic
Aldershot 4-1 Barnet
Saturday, February 25
Sead Hajrovic played the first half of Barnet's 4-1 defeat to Aldershot at the Recreation Ground on Saturday.
Gavin Hoyte
Crewe 3-3 AFC Wimbledon,
Saturday, February 18
Gavin Hoyte played 36 minutes as a second-half substitute in AFC Wimbledon's 3-3 draw with Crewe at the Alexandra Stadium on Saturday.
Joel Campbell
Valenciennes 2-0 Lorient
Saturday, February 25
Joel Campbell played three minutes as a second-half substitute in Lorient's 2-0 defeat at Valenciennes on Saturday.
Rhys Murphy
Preston 0-0 Walsall
Saturday, February 25
Rhys Murphy played five minutes as a late substitute in Preston's goalless draw against Walsall at Deepdale on Saturday.
Sanchez Watt
Shrewsbury v Crawley
Monday, February 27
Sanchez Watt's Crawley face Shrewsbury at New Meadow on Monday.
Vito Mannone
Hull City
Vito Mannone's Hull City did not have a Championship fixture this weekend.
Andrey Arshavin
Zenit St. Petersburg 2-1 Lokomotiv Moscow
Monday, February 27
Andrey Arshavin did not feature in Zenit St. Petersburg's 2-1 victory over Lokomotiv Moscow after completing his move to the Russian outfit on Friday.
Henri Lansbury
West Ham 0-0 Crystal Palace
Saturday, February 25
Henri Lansbury was an unused substitute in West Ham's goalless draw with Crystal Palace on Saturday.
Daniel Boateng
Swindon 2-0 Accrington Stanley
Saturday, February 25
Daniel Boateng did not feature in Swindon's 2-0 victory over Accrington Stanley on Saturday.
Kyle Bartley
Inverness CT 1-4 Rangers
Sunday, February 26
Kyle Bartley did not feature in Rangers' 4-1 victory over Inverness Caledonian Thistle on Sunday.
Pedro Botelho
Espanyol 1-2 Levante
Saturday, February 25
Pedro Botelho did not feature in Levante's 2-1 victory over Espanyol on Saturday.


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Hi, I'm hoping you can help me. I have a class of 7 year olds who have completed 2 years doing a pre junior course. They are about to start a Junior A course involving reading, writing and grammar. I also have a new student who is 10 years old. She has never had a private English lesson before and has only studied English for 1 year at her regular Greek school, which is not of the standard as a private school. I am going to give her a test taken from my Junior A grammar book. My question is if she doesn't pass the test can she be put in a class of children that are 3 years younger than her? Is this acceptable?
Thank you in advance.