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'Room' given five performances in downtown Manhattan
In between his duties as the artistic director at the Greenwich Boys and Girls Club, Rocco Natale has devoted more than five years of his life to creating a new play, "Room at the End of the Hall."
The play received a successful, script-in-hand reading in New York City this time last year, and now Natale will get to see his story move another big step closer to a full production, with five public workshop performances at the Fourth Street Theatre in Manhattan March 6 to 8.
"All of the big pieces were there last year, but we've been going over it with a fine tooth comb, line by line," Natale said last week of the revisions that have been done with his director Ross Evans and with producer-actor Sean Hudock. "We've just been going over it meticulously for the past year."
The March production will be done in a theater with a set and costumes and with no scripts in hand. While the five performances are, technically, a workshop situation, the added design elements will make it feel much more like a professional production than the February 2013 reading in a midtown studio space.
"We were asking people to suspend their disbelief last year, but this time we have a beautifully designed set and costumes," he said.
"And I will finally get sand," Natale added, laughing, of a more realistic presentation of the play's New England seaside home than he had last year.
"Room at the End of the Hall" follows the reunion/road trip of brothers Malky and Doug, who return to their closed-up family home in search of a diary they hope will contain answers to a terrible tragedy in their past. As they try to get into the house -- their keys don't work properly -- we learn about the brothers' past relationship, which has consisted of Doug coping with Malky's mental illness and getting him out of one jam after another.
At the March performances, Hudock will once again be playing Doug and Claybourne Elder will return as Malky.
Natale said he considers himself very lucky to have kept his production team together for this new run of shows. "Room" is one of the first public ventures of the Wild Root company that Hudock formed recently to produce the work of new writers (he and Natale have been friends since they attended Greenwich High School together).
"The play has been a dream come true for me and you rarely get the cast you imagined. I certainly had Sean in mind when I wrote it, but Claybourne is so great in this," the playwright said of the Drama Desk Award nominee.
"All of the stars have aligned for me," Natale said of keeping his director and cast together for a year.
"It's an intricate play and the relationship between the brothers gets tighter and deeper. ... It's such a simple story, but such a complex relationship. I think it is so much more complex now that the two actors know each other well," the playwright said of what Hudock and Elder have taught him about "Room at the End of the Hall."
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`Rent' honor
Trumbull high school student Larissa Mark will receive the first Dramatists Guild of America, Inc. Defender Award on Monday, Feb. 24, for her work in support of the Thespian Society's production of "Rent."
Mark will get the prize at the Lamb's Club in New York City as part of the Dramatists Guild's annual awards night.
Mark is president of her school's Thespian Society, which had planned to stage Jonathan Larson's musical "Rent" in March 2014 until principal Marc Guarino put the show on hold last fall after he determined it was too controversial.
Mark launched a petition drive, put up a website, spoke to the media and, in the words of the Drama Guild, "focused community resistance in a remarkably effective way."
The school eventually agreed to reinstate the production on its original March schedule.
According to DLDF president John Weidman, "When a provocative piece of theater is cancelled anywhere, it has a chilling effect on the production of provocative theater pieces everywhere. In this instance, it was Larissa Mark's effort, commitment and leadership that ensured Jonathan Larson's right to be heard."
In last week's "Stage Buzz" column on the Greenwich actor Austin Cauldwell, appearing in the off Broadway play "Intimacy," I made a mistake on the director's name. He is Scott Elliott not "Ellis."
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SCHAUMBURG, Ill. (AP) — Backed by a crushing television ad advantage, Mitt Romney sought a strong Illinois primary victory Tuesday to solidify his lead over Rick Santorum in the battle for the Republican presidential nomination. It was the latest-in a string of must-win industrial state contests for the front-runner.
Romney held a second advantage as well, this one in the competition for Illinois delegates to the party convention next summer. Santorum was ineligible for 10 of the 54 at stake after failing to field a full slate.
Neither Newt Gingrich nor Ron Paul campaigned extensively in the state.
Romney and Santorum did, though, and not always in respectful tones.
"Senator Santorum has the same economic lightweight background the president has," Romney said at one point. "We're not going to replace an economic lightweight with another economic lightweight."
Santorum had a tart reply. "If Mitt Romney's an economic heavyweight, we're in trouble."
Including Romney's victory last weekend in Puerto Rico, the former Massachusetts governor had 522 delegates going into the Illinois voting, according to The Associated Press count. Santorum had 252, Gingrich 136 and Paul 50. If Romney continues on the same pace, he will lock up the nomination before the convention opens in Tampa, Fla., next August.
However, the Santorum campaign argued Tuesday that the race for delegates is closer than that.
Santorum contends the Republican National Committee at the convention will force Florida and Arizona to allocate their delegates on a proportional basis instead of winner-take-all as the state GOP decided. Romney won both states.
Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator, has been seeking to make up in broadcast interviews what he has lacked in advertising money.
On Monday, his campaign began before sun-up and ended well after dark, including four appearances at rallies around the state as well as an extraordinary 19 radio and television interviews. He accused Romney anew of putting his signature on a Massachusetts health insurance law that is similar to the one Obama pushed through Congress.
Romney cut short his planned time in Puerto Rico, site of a primary last weekend, to maximize his time in Illinois. He has eked out victories in other big industrial states over the past few weeks, beginning in Michigan on Feb. 28 and Ohio on March 6. Defeat in any would be likely to trigger fresh anxiety within the party about his ability to wrap up the nomination.
In Illinois, as in Michigan and Ohio, Romney enjoyed an enormous advantage in television advertising. His campaign and Restore Our Future, a super PAC that supports him, outspent Santorum and his super PAC by $3.5 million to $500,000, an advantage of 7-1.
Illinois was the 28th state to hold a primary or caucus in the selection of delegates to the nominating convention, about halfway through the calendar of a Republican campaign that has remained competitive longer than most.
A change in party rules to reduce the number of winner-take-all primaries has accounted for the duration of the race. But so has Romney's difficulty in securing the support of the most conservative of the GOP political base. Santorum and Gingrich have struggled to emerge as the front-runner's sole challenger from the right.
Whatever the reasons, the race appeared unlikely to end soon, with Santorum and even Gingrich vowing to campaign into the convention.
Next up is a primary Saturday in Louisiana where Santorum projects confidence following twin triumphs a week ago in Alabama and Mississippi. There are 25 delegates at stake.
Behind Louisiana is a three-primary night in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Wisconsin on April 3, with 95 delegates combined at stake.
Santorum is not on the ballot in Washington, D.C., but is ahead in opinion polls in Maryland. Wisconsin — adjacent to Illinois — shapes up as the most competitive primary of the night.
David Espo reported from Washington
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SCHAUMBURG, Ill. (AP) — Backed by a crushing television ad advantage, Mitt Romney sought a strong Illinois primary victory Tuesday to solidify his lead over Rick Santorum in the battle for the Republican presidential nomination. It was the latest-in a string of must-win industrial state contests for the front-runner.

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Today, I was lamenting over my laundry pile.
Correction. Piles.
I've been sick for the better part of a week, so my normally semi-contained pile has really gotten the best of me.
In addition to the normal towels/whites/lights/darks/jeans/Shane's work clothes/delicates/Lola's clothes loads, I've also been trying to de-germ: which means all blankets, all comforters, and all pillows must go through the hot wash//double rinse cycle.
My laundry room is not pretty. And, I won't lie--it's kinda been makin' me grouchy. (I justify it by saying a laundry room in this state would make anyone grouchy....but, even so, I know my attitude has been stinky.)
Me: *grumblegrumblesighgrumbledeepbreathgrumblesigh*
Colin, meanwhile, is observing me.
"Mommy, what's wrong?"
"Oh, Colin...I'm just bummed out 'cause I have all this laundry to do."
"Oh, Mommy....here, I will help you!"
He began pulling clothes out of the dryer and putting them into a basket. Then, once the basket was filled, he took it down to my room for me so that I could fold it. (There may or may not have been several other baskets in my bedroom, also waiting to be folded. Ahem.)
When he came back to the kitchen, he said to me,
"Mommy? When I get to heaven, you know what I'm gonna ask Jesus for? Not anything for me .... I'm just gonna ask Him to give you this certain super power....the kind that when you snap your fingers, all your laundry will be done and folded for you!
Now, I'm not sure if He will do that....so we better not get our hopes up or anything....but I'm sure gonna ask Him for you anyway!"
And, suddenly....this Momma wasn't so grouchy anymore.
I love that kid.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
I love how little minds think
Today, I was lamenting over my laundry pile.
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
From our house to your house
Luke 2:11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
Friday, December 17, 2010
Song of the day--my original
(Everybody now! "At the Copa....")
Happy weekend, everyone!
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Song of the day--take TWO
Colin, returning from school yesterday: "Mom! I learned new words to 'Jingle Bells' today!"
And then, he proceeded to sing....
"Dashing through the snow
in a one horse open sleigh
o'er the fields we go
crashing in the trees!
The snow is turning red
I think I might be dead
I woke up in the hospital
with stitches in my head!"
Monday, December 13, 2010
Song of the day
Cameron's version:
"Angels we have heard of flying....
Sweetly thinking holy things....
King and shell see staaaaaa-aaaay old*."
*enter Cameron's proud, gap-toothed grin {and Mommy's giggles} here.
A nearly perfect Saturday
Maybe not quite as good as Buddy's day: "First we'll make snow angels for two hours, then we'll go ice skating, then we'll eat a whole roll of Tollhouse cookie-dough as fast as we can, and then we'll snuggle."
But nearly perfect for me!
Friday, December 10, 2010
Christmas with Mrs. Claus
Just like last year, last Saturday we went to our local library and saw Mrs. Claus.
Now, you may remember that we don't "do" presents from Santa here at our house, but my boys still know who Santa is and get very excited when they see him at the mall or in movies (especially one of our holiday faves--ELF!!) We had a great visit with Mrs. Claus, and a very fun morning at the library!
- A Mario Kart game for the Wii (check)
- A sword fight game (i.e., Wii Sports Resort--check)
- Bears jersey #54 (Urlacher--check, coming from Grandma Jane)
- Lip balm.
- Below is Cameron's cookie.
- It is half-eaten--that is as far as he got, thank God.
- I was not present when he created this monstrosity--rather, was with Ethan on Mrs. Claus' lap.
- If you can believe it to be humanly possible, Colin's cookie was worse. *sigh*
but was most enthralled by the candy cane!


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All the information provided above constitutes only a generalized description of stolen goods markets. You must combine the basic facts with a more specific understanding of your local problem. Analyzing the local problem carefully will help you design a more effective response strategy.
To understand the dynamics of the stolen goods markets in your own area, interview known offenders and informants.§ It is important to talk with those who steal, sell, deal, and use stolen property, as well as those who might know about them. See Appendix B for a sample offender interview relating to stolen goods markets. You should routinely solicit the following groups for information:
§ See Problem-Solving Tools Guide No. 3, Using Offender Interviews to Inform Police Problem Solving, for further guidance.
You should also ensure that the general public can easily and confidentially report suspicious activity related to stolen goods to the police.50
Evaluation of the Market Reduction Approach in England found that reviewing old case files and interviewing officers in the field can also reveal intelligence about offenders and fencing hot spots.51, §§
§§ You can analyze qualitative data about stolen goods market locations and operators using qualitative research software.
Where possible, you should analyze at least a few years' worth of such data, because this will reduce the likelihood of making strategic decisions based on temporary and uncharacteristic data peaks or troughs.52 In addition, you should analyze crime location data for fencing incidents using crime pattern analysis techniques on geographic information system software.
The importance of both quantitative and qualitative analysis of the kind recommended here cannot be overstressed if scarce resources are to be best deployed where they are most likely to be effective. And the SARA model of problem solving (Scanning, Analysis, Response and Assessment) should be used in order to reach the right solution to your particular theft problem.
The kind of research outlined above may not be possible for police officers facing competing demands for their time. This particular expertise/time not available risk factor should be analyzed very early on in the planning and design of your stolen goods market reduction initiative. Possible solutions to this, if it is a foreseeable problem, may be to work in formal partnership with freelance academics or some other kind of crime analysis unit such as in university, police or government departments.
The best solution to a local stolen goods problem may not be the most immediately feasible and intuitive one, but may instead come as a unique breakthrough borne of complex and painstaking analysis.
In addition to local criminal justice agencies, the following groups have an interest in the stolen goods trading problem, and you should consider the contribution they might make to gathering information about the problem and responding to it:
§ See www.e-victims.org
The following are some critical questions you should ask in analyzing your particular stolen goods markets problem, even if the answers are not always readily available. Your answers to these and other questions will help you choose the most appropriate set of responses later on. Some of these questions can be answered only through in-depth interviews with thieves. It is important to note that these questions should be asked before new anti-fencing initiatives begin and then again once they have had a chance to bite. By way of example, after an anti-fencing initiative, any recorded falls in theft, accompanied by (1) a decrease in perceptions of ease of selling and buying among offenders (2) and/or increases in risks and decreases in the perception of the rewards of selling and buying stolen goods, would indicate that it is the police operations that have had the desired effect on falling theft levels rather than some other cause. Such measures are most important in finding out what works in reducing stolen goods markets and when seeking to attribute causes to falling theft figures. Similarly, such qualitative data may also explain increases in theft levels if offenders reveal the existence of new buoyant markets for stolen goods.
§ See Problem-Specific Guide No. 58, Theft of Scrap Metal, for further information.
Tips for Understanding Local Stolen Goods Markets
- Interview a sample of people who work in the wholesale and retail goods sectors. Without talking about crime, find out how and why goods are rejected by or shipped away from the retail stores that originally bought them, and where they end up.
- Map possible stolen goods market hot spots. Discuss with colleagues, informants, offenders, ex-offenders and other experts such as government officials or criminologists why certain areas might be conducive to stolen goods markets.
- Photograph store signs in your jurisdiction that seem to invite thieves to sell stolen goods there. Again, discuss with crime experts of the type listed above.§
- Conducting representative surveys of theft victims and of the general public at the county, city or town level is expensive, is time-consuming, and due to the specific characteristics of local crime problems offers little useful information for local initiatives.
§ These tips are modified from Felson (2002).
Measurement allows you to determine to what degree your efforts have succeeded, and suggests how you might modify your responses if they are not producing the intended results. You should take measures of your crime problem before you implement responses, to determine how serious the problem is, and after you implement them, to determine whether they have been effective. You should take all measures in both the target area and the surrounding area. A longer time frame is usually necessary for measuring the impact of responses to stolen goods markets.54 For more-detailed guidance on measuring effectiveness, see Problem-Solving Tools Guide No. 1, Assessing Responses to Problems.
Although seeking to reduce theft, burglary, and robbery by reducing the stolen goods markets that motivate thieves is a simple and compellingly logical idea, the reality is more complex. Stolen goods markets are remarkably adaptable to efforts to close them down. Goals are often difficult to achieve, and even if positive results are achieved, they can be hard to measure with certainty.55 It is important therefore to set achievable, measurable goals.
The following are potentially useful measures of the effectiveness of responses to stolen goods markets. These measures are divided into two groups: those that measure the impact on the problem (outcome measures), and those that measure your agency's responses to the problem (process measures).
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'Rocket dust' kicks up storms on Mars
Mars dust Explosive vertical storms cause the layers of dust that float kilometres above the Martian surface, new research suggests.
The research by scientists including Dr Aymeric Spiga from the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, combined orbital observations from the European Space Agency's Mars Express probe, with computer simulations.
"Local dust storms [on Mars] play a key role in the dust cycle, yet their life cycle is poorly known," write the researchers in a paper on the pre-press website ArXiv.org.
"Our findings on dust-driven deep convection have strong implications for the Martian dust cycle, thermal structure, atmospheric dynamics, cloud microphysics, chemistry, and robotic and human exploration."
Spiga and colleagues focused on an individual, isolated dust storm, which allowed them to see more clearly what was happening than would have been possible in a more complicated environment.
They found sunlight being absorbed by atmospheric dust particles was radiated into the surrounding air, increasing temperatures by up to 20°C, causing the air to rise at speeds of up to 10 metres per second.
This explosive vertical convection, which they've termed "rocket dust storms" or "conio-cumulonimbus", lifts dust particles to altitudes of 30 to 50 kilometres into the Martian troposphere. These dust clouds are then transported horizontally by large-scale winds, forming detached layers of dust.
At night the convection loop stops, but the dust particles float down to the ground only very slowly, resulting in a significant quantity of suspended material remaining in the air the next day when the convection loop starts up again.
The modelling shows the storms reach maximum altitudes in tropical regions throughout the northern spring and summer.
"This can be easily understood since in spring/summer the northern hemisphere receives more incoming sunlight than the southern hemisphere, hence is more prone to strong rocket dust storms conducive to high-altitude detached layers," they write.
The dust layers could be a significant source for atmospheric warming and supply of convective energy, say the researchers.
"Thus we expect rocket dust storms to have a strong impact on the Martian climate which need to be taken into account on global climate models," they say.
Understanding rocket dust storms is also "critical" for the exploration of Mars because the storms may produce strong electric fields, lightning and radio emissions, just like thunderstorms on Earth, they add.
High resolution modelling
Planetary scientist Dr Jonti Horner from says University of New South Wales believes this is the first time modelling has been done on this scale.
"Previously, scientists used global climate modelling which looks at the overall behaviour of atmosphere on a planet-wide scale," says Horner.
"That's good when you don't have a lot of data, but it doesn't pick up localised weather events."
"This new simulation provides finer local resolution for areas of tens of kilometres to a few hundred kilometres across, which is about storm size," he says.
Greater understanding of the Martian atmosphere may also provide a better understanding of Earth's climate, adds Horner.
"The Martian atmosphere is less complicated that Earth's, and so provides us with a test-bed to study individual events without a lot of complications.
"Even though things are a bit different, you'll maybe learn new things about the Martian atmosphere which you can apply to Earth."


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As part of AdvisorOne's Special Report, 20 Days of Tax Planning Advice for 2013, throughout the month of March, we are partnering with our Summit Business Media sister service, Tax Facts Online, to take a deeper dive into certain tax planning issues in a convenient Q&A format. In this 11th article, we look at the tax implications of real estate ownership.
Q. In general, what are the tax benefits of real estate investment? What limitations may restrict enjoyment of those benefits?
The rental and management of real property is generally considered a trade or business even if the owner owns only one property, is actively engaged in another profession or business and carries on all management activities through an agent, or, continuously, over a period of several years, experiences losses from the operation of the business. However, it has been held that where activities were minimal, rental of a single residence was not a trade or business.
Credits against tax liability may be taken for certain investments in low-income housing or rehabilitation of old or historic structures. Use of these credits may be subject to certain limitations. See heading "Limitations" below.
An owner of residential or nonresidential improved real property (either used in a trade or business or held for the production of income) may deduct each year amounts for depreciation of the buildings, but not the land itself, even though no cash expenditure is made. Furthermore, the depreciable amount is not limited to the owner's equity in the property.. However, the deductions may be subject to certain limitations. See heading "Limitations" below. Also, where accelerated depreciation is used, which would not be true for residential rental property or nonresidential real property placed in service after 1986, part or all of the amount deducted is subject to "recapture" on sale of the property. "Bonus depreciation" has been extended, as well as 100 percent bonus depreciation for some business assets placed in service before 2012, by the 2010 Tax Relief Act.
An investor in improved or unimproved real estate may generally deduct each year amounts paid for mortgage interest (subject to certain limitations, see heading "Limitations" below). However, prepaid interest must be deducted over the period to which the prepayment relates. A further limitation on deduction of interest is that construction period interest must be capitalized. The interest subject to capitalization may not be reduced by interest income earned from temporarily investing unexpended debt proceeds.
The investor in real property is permitted to deduct amounts paid for real property taxes (subject to certain limitations, see heading "Limitations" below). In the year of acquisition the buyer may deduct the real estate taxes allocable to the number of days the buyer owns the property. "Taxes" that are actually assessments for improvements (e.g., sidewalks, sewers, etc.) and that enhance the value of the property cannot be currently deducted, but must be added to the investor's basis in the property (i.e., capitalized) and deducted through depreciation allowances over the recovery period. A further limitation on deduction of real estate taxes is that construction period taxes must be capitalized.
An investor in real estate may deduct each year "all the ordinary and necessary expenses paid or incurred during the taxable year in carrying on any trade or business" and all ordinary and necessary expenses paid or incurred during the taxable year (1) for the production and collection of income; (2) for the management, conservation, or maintenance of property held for the production of income; or (3) in connection with the determination, collection, or refund of any tax. Routine repair and maintenance expenses are deductible in the year paid as business expenses or expenses incurred in connection with property held for the production of income, but the cost of improvements must be capitalized (added to the owner's basis in the property) and recovered through depreciation deductions. Amounts paid for repairs are deductible if the amounts paid are not otherwise required to be capitalized. Capital improvements increase the value, prolong the life, or alter the use for which the property is suitable.
The first $5,000 of "start-up" expenses is deductible, but not until the year in which the business begins, and the rest must be amortized over a 180-month period, beginning with the month the business begins. The $5,000 figure is reduced by the amount that start-up expenses exceed $50,000. Expenses included in this category are those (other than interest and taxes) incurred in connection with investigating the creation or acquisition of a new business, creating an active trade or business, and "any activity engaged in for profit and for the production of income before the day on which active trade or business begins." The expenses must be expenses that would be deductible if incurred in connection with an existing active business.
Generally, accrual basis taxpayers may not deduct expenses payable to related cash basis taxpayers before the amount is includable in the income of the cash basis taxpayer. The rule applies to amounts accrued by a partnership to its partners, by partners to their partnership, by an S corporation to its shareholders and by shareholders to their S corporation.
On disposition of the property, the owner may generally defer tax on gain by exchanging it for "like kind" property. Alternatively, the buyer may be able to spread out the recognition of gain by using the installment method of reporting; however, an interest surcharge applies to certain installment sales of property with a sales price exceeding $150,000. Furthermore, the installment method of reporting is unavailable for sales of real property held by the taxpayer for sale to customers in the ordinary course of the taxpayer's trade or business.
Because of IRC Section 1231, net losses on disposition may be treated as ordinary losses instead of capital losses, unlimited by the $3,000 cap on the ordinary income offset by capital losses.
Special Benefits and Limitations
Special benefits or limitations may apply to certain kinds of real estate investment: low-income housing, "rehabs" and vacation homes. In addition, an investor can develop vacant land within limits without being classified as a "dealer." As a general rule, an investor takes the same deductions and credits and recognizes income whether the investor owns the property directly or has an interest in a limited partnership that "passes through" the deductions, credits, and income. However, if a publicly traded partnership is taxed as a corporation, investors are unable to take partnership deductions, credits, and income on their own tax returns.
If the property is used in an activity in which the investor does not materially participate, deductions and credits are subject to the passive loss rules; however, if the property is used in a rental real estate activity in which an individual actively participates, a special exemption for up to $25,000 of passive losses and the deduction-equivalents of credits with respect to rental real estate activities may apply. Active participation is not required with respect to the low-income housing or rehabilitation tax credits.
Losses incurred after 1986 with respect to real estate activities are subject to the "at risk" limitation.
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We believe sport is part of the greater school curriculum and pupils must participate in a summer and winter sport.
We encourage maximum participation irrespective of a pupil's skill level. Involvement in sport is essential in the
development of life skills and the establishment of a life-long healthy living programme. Team sport develops a
sense of camaraderie amongst the pupils and a vibrant school spirit, in addition to enhancing their ability to work
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Those who excel on the sporting field are offered opportunities to test their mettle against top sporting schools, and are
given a chance to be considered for possible provincial selection. We produce winners and strive to perform above the
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The College offers swimming, cricket, tennis, horse-riding, hockey, rugby, netball, cross country, athletics and golf.
We have a number of advantages in the sporting arena: we are considered to be one of the top equestrian schools in
Gauteng. We play in the A League Boys and Girls hockey as well as A league Cricket.
Our sporting facilities are phenomenal with an Astro turf, Pitch cricket nets, heated Swimming pool, Netball and Tennis courts.
Cornwall Hill College offers a diverse cultural programme in the form of music, art, drama and extensive co-curricular activities.
We have a vibrant musical tradition at the College and our purpose built Music Centre caters to the needs of every pupil in a
relevant and contemporary manner. In the Preparatory Phase, the pupils have two class music lessons per week, while music is
offered in the Senior College as a choice subject to matric level. An in-house collection of guitars and keyboards provide each
pupil with hands-on instrumental experience, regardless of talent or ability. Alternatively, pupils may choose the co-curricular
option, which offers a wide variety of instruments and styles of music. Private tuition is offered in a range of instruments such
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Ample opportunities abound for budding musicians to perform individually or in groups. In this way, they are able to
derive maximum enjoyment and benefit from their music involvement. The College currently boasts an orchestra and jazz
band, a sax trio, flute choir, string ensemble, two marimba bands, various choirs and eight other ensembles. The pupils
perform at various music competitions, concerts and eisteddfods.
Investment in music technology has given the College an additional edge in this field. The computers in the music department
feature the latest software that enables pupils to compose, record, produce and arrange their own compositions, keeping them
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In the time when Barack was Barry and Americans had yet to hear the phrase "Yes We Can," the current President of the United States lived just like a regular college student in an apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. According to New York Magazine, the very two bedroom, pre-war apartment where President Obama lived during his time at Columbia is now up for rent for a pricey $2,400 per month.
Curbed points out that the unit was listed for $1,900 per month just two years ago. Obama's former digs features two bedrooms, one bathroom, a galley-style kitchen, exposed brick, and hardwood floors.
The public listing is certainly capitalizing on the crib's claim to fame, proclaiming, "Live like the President!!! Who knows, you might just end up in the White House one day." While we're all likely to agree that's a stretch of the imagination, we have to admit that living like Obama (albeit for a steep $2,400 per month) is pretty sweet.


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ASMR Research & Support has been running the first video experiment for nearly the past two months or so, and we received plenty of volunteers who watched the video and answered the questions that followed. Thanks for pitching in by the way, those that did!
Now the first video trial will be closing, sort of, today (December 30th), with the results of it being compiled. After this the primary run of the second trial will commence sometime next month, probably.
You can still sign up for the research effort over at the Research & Support website and take part in the first video trial – which I've learned that even though the primary run has closed, will remain open for those who haven't yet participated. So it's not closing permanently, but the results of the trial so far will be compiled and the second trial will take place soon after. Hope you understand all that. Those who have all ready done the first trial will just head on to the next one.
Speaking of which, I'm probably not at liberty to talk about this at length, but for a spell, I might be adding more duties to my my list when it comes to work for the research team. One of those duties is now a position in the Experimental Research & Oversight Division, which Jenn has pretty much taken care of by herself up until now. Jenn will be busy for the next while and so I'll be temporarily taking over the processing of applications for the video trials. My colleague, Domagoj, might also lend a hand.
Also remember the ASMR forums are there with volunteer forums opened for those registered on the website. Here you can read about the latest news that's going on concerning the trials, as well as communicate with other volunteers and forum members too.
Once again, thank you for you participation in these video experiments. The more people that do them the better, as we can really assemble some proper data and have one more credible research item for the team's portfolio which we can eventually one day use to approach a scientific or social studies body for a possible research grant.


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It seems that Activision, the biggest video game publisher in the world, wasn't exactly thrilled with the Wii U's launch. Why? Forget Call of Duty's performance, it's the console's potential for Skylanders that has Bobby Kotick and co. worried.
During the company's latest earnings call, Kotick was asked about the future of the money-printing Skylanders franchise, specifically about the breakdown of install bases between the existing consoles. He replied "we were somewhat disappointed with the launch of the Wii U. We're concerned about the install base for 6-11 year-olds."
Considering publishers are usually coy when making public statements about platform holders, that's a surprisingly blunt assessment of the console, albeit one that must be supported by numbers or... he wouldn't have said it.
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Its the cheek of the RFU that stands out in the article.
I dont think Im against scholarships for kids from less privileged backgrounds.
I dont think Im against scholarships for kids from less privileged backgrounds.
My mates eldest is up for a scholarship for Bedford school through rugby and youngest is likely to as well, whatever you think bout private/public schools, it will do tem good if they get in
i have no issue with having foreign players in the national squad via long term residency, etc, but this is all getting a bit sill now.
Both France and england have huge pools of players to select from (wales, scotland and ireland less so, but still more than NZ!), yet they strive to build around those that they can grab from elsewhere - what does it say for the non-Polynesian players out there in academies when they see some lad coming into the side on a scholarship and financial backing just because of their heritage - that sounds like they are developing / selecting on ethnicity which is totally out of order imho.
there are really good young rugby players from all over the world who given the right coaching can become world class, so maybe we need to start looking for those traits in our academies, irrespective of the player's heritage, rather than pinning our hopes on someone becoming stellar just because of where they come from.
why not have the club support 'in school' rugby training during the week as well as weekends - that way the kids get up to speed faster and become better players.
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Neil-H, the RFU complain about other countries apparently stealing their players when they are busy doing it themselves, does that not count as cheeky. I have no issue about the English academy programs but don't decry similar programs in the other UK countries. At present, I suspect the Scarlets are much more satisfied with theirs than most of the English clubs. It does help to have such a large player base for England to do well at U20. Incidentally, its not just Polynesians who are attracted by scholarships to the likes of Hartbury and Millfield, the great Gareth Edwards had his near free time at Millfield.
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why not have the club support 'in school' rugby training during the week as well as weekends - that way the kids get up to speed faster and become better players.
This already happens - the RFU has a scheme whereby the Northampton schools are linked to a local club. The local club provides in school coaching support as well as a destination for the lads who want to play on a Sunday. As with all things school related thought, time and resources are limited so the level of engagement of schools in the process is mixed.
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I mentioned before that our boys took Minor League baseball team names this year. Catlin was represented by three teams at the rookie level: the Bats, the Grasshoppers, and our team: the Mud Hens.
We were fortunate to take a wonderful little family/team trip over to Indianapolis at the end of June to watch the real Toledo Mud Hens play, and we had an absolute blast!
We all got dressed up in our Mud Hens gear and headed to the stadium after dinner at TGIFriday's.
Daddy and the boys
The fam!
{Minus Lolee girl, who stayed home with Grandma Jane :)}
Our friends (and Colin's head coach) Nate and Kara, and Colin's best friend Colden/sister Addie
More friends/another coach! Ryan and Laine, and their son/Colin's friend Bennett
Same story! Our friends (and assistant coach) TJ and Amy, and their son/Col's friend Reef
Cameron checking out the giant field!
The boys were in heaven. They thought this was just the coolest!
Now, we were at the Indianapolis Stadium--so all of us in our Mud Hens' gear really stood out! We were able to get the boys down near the dugout, and the real Mud Hens took notice of all of our little Mud Hens and signed some autographs!
{L to R: Blake, Colden, Bennett, Colin, Cameron}
Getting, as Col put it, "real life autographs"
The boys loved it!
L to R, back row: Cameron, Colden, Reef, Colin, Blake, Bennett
Front: Brayden and Ethan
The boys (and siblings) stood at the front and watched for a long time.
It was an exciting night and even though the Mud Hens lost, the boys had a great time!
L to R: Reef, Isaac, Bennett, Sebastian, Hayden, Ethan, Blake, Jackson,
Brayden M., Colden, Colin, Cameron, Addie, Brayden N.
Such a wonderful group of kids and parents--so thankful we got to be a part of this special night with all of them! Great, great memories!


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New England editorial roundup
The Providence (R.I.) Journal, Jan. 10, 2013
Venezuelan President Hugo Ch�vez's inauguration for a third term, which was to have taken place Thursday in Caracas, where he would be sworn in before the National Assembly, has been postponed, a move with constitutionally dubious implications. He is reportedly on life support in a Cuban hospital with a lung infection, following an operation for cancer in December, his fourth in 18 months.
Little information has been released by the Venezuelan government, but many observers rate his prospects of survival as poor.
Of three possibilities � a healthy, dead or long-dying president � the third may be the worst, at least in the short term, for oil-rich Venezuela and the region, promising ongoing political crisis until he dies. The Venezuelan constitution stipulates a new election in 30 days after the demise of the president.
The former army colonel has been hailed, or reviled, as Fidel Castro's heir, importing the Cuban revolution to the Latin American mainland. The ailing Castro has in fact ceded the Cuban presidency to his younger brother, Raul Castro, but Ch�vez has kept the regime afloat with very generous subsidies of oil and money. It has been a second wind for the Castros, whose regime's demise was earlier predicted in the early 1990s, when their patron, the Soviet Union, collapsed.
The Venezuelan president has styled his socialist program, broadly supported by the country's poor, as evidenced in his October re-election, a "Bolivarian" revolution. That is in honor of Simon Bolivar, who liberated Venezuela from Spain in the 1813 and campaigned over the next decade to end Spanish domination in the New World, liberating what are now Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.
Certainly Ch�vez has had broad influence in the region, promoting governments with leftist agendas in several of those countries. His activities have been especially destabilizing in neighboring Colombia, which has fought, with apparent success, a long insurgency by Ch�vez-supported guerrillas.
Ch�vez has nationalized the OPEC-member country's oil industry, whose biggest export market is the U.S. This and such other policies as currency controls have resulted in broad capital flight, food shortages and inflation of more than 18 percent. Declining oil revenues have been blamed on below-standard maintenance at oil facilities as a result of the nationalizations. A huge refinery explosion last August killed 41 people and spiked oil prices around the world.
Ch�vez has been a thorn in the side of the U.S., attributing to it, and to the CIA in particular, all manner of evils. He has also given comfort to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Bashar al-Assad, presidents of Iran and Syria, respectively, and other antagonists of the U.S. and the West. The regime is also suspected of abetting the otherwise unlikely infiltration of al-Qaida and other jihadist elements into Latin America, where they are active in smuggling and other criminal enterprises.
For these reasons, Ch�vez's dire condition is of interest far beyond the borders of Venezuela, though infighting appears to have already broken out in the murky political atmosphere of Caracas between his designated successor, Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro, a former bus driver, and Diosdado Cabello, head of the National Assembly. His foe in last October's election, Henrique Capriles, may be in a strong position in a new election, assuming it is held. All are in uncertain times as we await the post-Ch�vez era.
The Brattleboro (Vt.) Reformer, Jan. 11, 2013
A new report released this week by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation confirms what most of us have suspected for quite some time: Test scores alone are not enough to measure a teacher's true performance and effectiveness in the classroom.
In fact, the report says tests should not represent more than half the total teacher evaluation score.
The three-year project, Measures of Effective Teaching, identified great teaching by combining three types of measures. In the first year of the study, teaching practice was measured using a combination of student surveys, classroom observations, and student achievement gains. Then, in the second year, teachers were randomly assigned to different classrooms of students. The students' outcomes were later measured using state tests and supplemental assessments.
The teachers whose students did better during the first year of the project also had students who performed better following random assignment. Moreover, the magnitude of the achievement gains they generated aligned with the predictions, according to the foundation.
The report shows that a more balanced approach � which incorporates the student survey data and classroom observations � has two important advantages: ratings are less likely to fluctuate from year to year, and the combination is more likely to identify teachers with better outcomes on assessments other than the state tests.
One of the new conclusions of the report is that having a second person, other than the principal, evaluate a teacher greatly enhances reliability.
"If we want students to learn more, teachers must become students of their own teaching. They need to see their own teaching in a new light," Tom Kane, professor of Education and Economics at Harvard's Graduate School of Education and leader of the MET project, said in a release. "This is not about accountability. It's about providing the feedback every professional needs to strive toward excellence."
Of course, good feedback is only one element in identifying and ensuring effective teaching practices. Equally important is using that feedback for more targeted professional development to help teachers improve their practice.
A recent opinion piece in the New York Daily News summed it up best: "Evaluation alone doesn't make teachers better. It is what school leaders do with that information to provide educators with better training that will make the difference. We must concentrate our efforts in this area now. If not, we risk having an evaluation system that prioritizes accountability but leaves teachers without the support they need to grow and improve."
That's according to Dave Levin, co-founder of KIPP charter schools, and Tim Daly, president of TNTP, an organization that helps school districts recruit and train effective teachers.
They conclude that, "With teacher effectiveness and teacher evaluation in the spotlight, the focus on accountability needs to be augmented by a reinvigorated and re-imagined effort to invest in the development and success of our educators. Our children will realize their potential when we help our teachers realize theirs."
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How does an Olympian get ready before a big event? If you're Olympic medalist Jenny Jones, you get some quality Dowager Countess sass on. That's right, nothing but "Downton Abbey" for Jones.
Jones, who took home the bronze medal for Great Britain in Slopestyle, said she calmed her nerves before the big day by watching the crossover hit drama.
"Actually last night I watched 'Downton Abbey,'" Jones told press after medaling.
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The official "Downton Abbey" Twitter account congratulated Jones with an appropriate pun. See the full tweet below.
Jamie Anderson took home the gold for the US and said she has a different way of relaxing before the event.
PHOTOS: "Downton Abbey" stars in and out of costume
"I put on meditation music, burnt some sage, got a couple of candles going and was just trying to do a bit of yoga and meditate," Anderson said. "Yoga always comes through for me. It's all about the good vibrations and then I slept really good and just did some mantras and relaxed, and it worked out for me.''
Very cool indeed @jennyjonessnow! Excuse the pun... http://t.co/iu0Cf3sQrL #Downton — Downton Abbey (@DowntonAbbey) February 10, 2014


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It's time for another Christmas mood board! As much as I'm a fan of modern white and grey colour scheme for Christmas, I quite like the more traditional take with brown and red as well. I used mostly natural materials to create this mood board; paper rosettes made of the pages of an old book, brown paper wreath was made using craft tape, brown paper wrapping topped with decorative ribbons, doilies, coloured wooden beads, and wooden numbers and wooden scrabble tiles to personalise packaging and gift tags. Handmade red felt balls give a nice festive twist to my plain wooden beads.
The little cubes are made out of natural straw and are a part of 'himmeli', a traditional Finnish Christmas decoration I am still putting together! As you may know, I am a huge fan of good old plywood and those tags with little snowflake cut outs, as well as the plywood deer are amongst my favourites for this Christmas.
PS. I have a recipe for those rye ginger bread cookies you see in these photos. I will post that too soon!


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This Is My Pencil. This Is My Pencil Pretending To Be A Gun. One Is For Writing. One Is For Mandatory Suspensions.
from the school-admins-looking-to-shutter-known-arms-dealer-OfficeMax dept
A majority of human beings would look at two 7-year-old boys pretending their pencils are guns and say something about "boys being boys" or "someone's going to poke their eye out" and leave it at that. Those who craft and enforce zero tolerance policies see something more sinister. They see "threatening behavior" that must be dealt with swiftly and with as little thought as possible.
The end result? Two 7-year-old boys with otherwise clean records were handed two-day suspensions for pointing their pencils at each other and making shooting noises. This ridiculous punishment was (of course) defended at length by school administration.
Suffolk Public Schools spokeswoman Bethanne Bradshaw said a pencil is considered a weapon when it's pointed at someone in a threatening way and gun noises are made.Really? Administration thinks a pencil becomes a weapon when "gun noises are made." (They don't actually think this, of course. They've just crafted a policy that states this, thus preventing administration members from "erroneously" coming to independent conclusions.) I can see a pencil being considered a weapon if it's being "pointed" (in a stabbing motion) at a sensitive area like an eyeball or a neck. Then a pencil is a weapon.
When two boys point pencils at each other and make shooting noises, a pencil is still a pencil and their imagination is doing all the heavy lifting. All it would take to "disarm" these kids is asking them to stop. Which is what a teacher did.
On the suspension note, the teacher noted that the boy stopped when she told him to do so.Problem solved. No one is harmed and the perpetrators were left with nothing but non-threatening pencils. Why this was written on a suspension note, rather than on a simple concerned note to the parents or better yet, on NOTHING AT ALL, is beyond me. But Bradshaw has an answer for every question and a terrible excuse for every idiotic zero tolerance policy.
"Some children would consider it threatening, who are scared about shootings in schools or shootings in the community," Bradshaw said. "Kids don't think about 'Cowboys and Indians' anymore, they think about drive-by shootings and murders and everything they see on television news every day."Do they? My kids don't think about that kind of stuff. Then again, they rarely watch the news. Would my boys be "threatened" by a pencil gun? I doubt it. They're probably packing a pencil or two themselves during the school day. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that these hypothetical, hypersensitive children who bruise whenever the wind changes direction do not actually exist, at least not outside of statements like Bradshaw's. They're straw children.
Bradshaw also defended the moronic policy using this gem:
Bradshaw said the policy has been in place for at least two decades.So... you're saying the administration has been stupidly overreacting since back when MTV still played music videos and no one has once thought that maybe a few policies might need to be updated or relaxed or given a good once over with a dose of context or common sense? Rules can be changed, even big, important ones. (See also: Amendments 1-27 to the Constitution, but pay close attention to nos. 18 and 21.) Nothing's so inflexible that anyone should be reduced to the rhetorical level Bradshaw is, fending off irritated parents with "Yeah, it's a shitty policy but what are you going to do. It has tenure."
Bradshaw doubles down on the importance and inflexibility of "rules" as well.
"It's an effort to try to get kids not to bring any form of violence, even if it's violent play, into the classroom," Bradshaw said. "There has to be a consequence because it's a rule."Yeah, I get it. A rule is a rule. And enforcers like Bradshaw are throwing stuff on kids' permanent records that wouldn't pass the laugh test in the real world. Will this file note that the two boys "pointed pencils at each other and made shooting noises?" Or will it state something to the effect that the boys broke the school's policy on violence and threatening behavior? My guess is the latter, which will allow anyone perusing the record to imagine the worst.
We can only hope that having these stories reported widely might push a few administrators to consider loosening or removing these so-called "zero tolerance" policies. Unfortunately, to date most administrators (and their policies) seem impervious to public ridicule, and every school-related tragedy just results in a newer, more rigid set of unbreakable rules. Until the day comes when kids can be kids without being suspended for pretending pencils are guns, parents might want to sit their kids down and have a long talk about safe pencil handling and the requirements and responsibilities that come with the "conceal-and-carry" permit they'll be needing before being allowed to start the next school year.
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Blu-ray may be at the cusp of victory over HD DVD in the next-gen format war—especially with Netflix's decision to stop offering HD DVD rentals—but some of the decisions its backers made in the format's infancy may be coming back to haunt them. A Connecticut man has filed a lawsuit against Samsung and a bunch of John Does in federal court over what he calls the "defective" Samsung BD-P1200 Blu-ray player.
At issue are some significant title-compatibility problems with the player. In his complaint, plaintiff Bob McGovern says that a number of movies he purchased after buying his BD-P1200 wouldn't play on the device. He also accuses Samsung of failing to offer firmware updates to remedy the problem, saying that the consumer electronics giant "does not intend to provide future firmware updates or otherwise repair" the problematic player.
As one of our readers pointed out via e-mail, the P1200 has a checkered reputation when it comes to hardware reliability. A massive thread in the AV Science forum is filled with numerous complaints about the player. "I have had the BDP 1200 for 7 weeks. Not a finished product," reads one post. "Should not have been brought to the market until it was fully beta tested. Would not play Blu-ray Weeds. Was told needed updated software."
In other words, the P1200 has had problems from the outset, and Samsung has not been able to fix them to the satisfaction of its customers. But there are a couple of other issues that could be lurking in the background, issues that are not named directly in the lawsuit, but may be contributing to the obsolescence and playback problems cited in the lawsuit.
First, there's the question of the BD+ layer of DRM certified last summer. Not long after movies with the bonus DRM began shipping, owners of some players—including the BD-1200—began reporting playback issues. As Wired pointed out in its coverage of the Samsung lawsuit last week, McGovern's frustrations and resulting lawsuit may be due in no small part to the extra layer of DRM now a part of the Blu-ray spec.
The Samsung player's hardware profile is another one of the issues. All Blu-ray players have a hardware profile which denotes the base set of requirements that a player must support in order to be certified. The first of those was Profile 1.0, which made local storage, network connectivity, secondary audio, and secondary video decoders all optional features.
The meager requirements of the 1.0 profile mean that Blu-ray players which fail to implement the optional features won't be able to take advantage of picture-in-picture, which requires secondary decoders. 1.0 players are also unable to store local content, lacking the 256MB of storage mandated by the 1.1 profile. Profile 1.1 discs should still play on 1.0 players, however, but the extra features will not work.
As we pointed out in our coverage of the 2.0 spec, there's no upgrade path for older players due to the changed hardware requirements—a simple firmware update will not suffice. (If you want the most future-proof Blu-ray player available, we suggest the PS3.)
McGovern's suit seeks class-action status for his lawsuit as well as the usual damages and attorneys' fees.
This story has been updated to highlight some of the speculative nature of the analysis.
Further reading
- If you have PACER access and want to check out the complaint, the case number is 2:08-cv-00663


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A category is a group of pages that are in some way similar enough to group together. Maybe the category speaks to function on your wiki — such as templates, images or users. Or maybe it describes something about the page content, like characters, books, or locations. You can add a category link to any page, and it will automatically be listed on a category page with other similarly-linked pages.
In other words, categories are structural, navigational tools. And they can be found in the article header and at the bottom of the page.
Why categories are important
Categories help organize the community and make it easier for readers to find related content. Ideally, every wiki page should be in at least one category. Since categories can be within other categories, you can start to build a structure — a "category tree" — which lets your readers move around your site. For example, a person might start on a page in Main characters, then move up to Characters, then move back down again to Minor characters and then on to Minor characters from season 7. They're able to do this because Main characters acts as the trunk of a tree on which the branches of the other categories about characters are hung.
Aside from these navigational uses, proper categorization is crucial to a number of other processes, like:
- the mobile main page
- DynamicPageList usage on your site
- many bot usages
- the "Related Pages" module
These and other features won't work as well if your wiki's category structure is weak.
Adding a page to a category
To add a category, begin by going to the page you wish to categorize. Then use either the category module at the bottom of the page, or an editor, to add your category.
From the category module
Use the category module, and you don't have to open an editor. Just go to the bottom of the page, where the existing categories are.
- Click on the Add category button, and start typing in a category name.
- You can use an already-established category (suggestions will appear as you type) or add a new one.
- Once you are done, hit save and the category will appear on the article.
If you would prefer not to use this ability, you can disable it by going to your personal preferences. Once there, click on the Editing tab, check the box next to Disable Category module and then save your preferences.
While editing
How you add categories while editing depends on which of our three editors you choose to use:
In the VisualEditor you first have to click on the dropdown menu to the left of the Cancel button and pull down to Categories.
Once you're in the Categories dialogue box, enter a category into the top field. Existing categories will show up as you type in more letters. You can then just select from that list.
If you want to change the way the page is sorted, you can do that in the second field. Most of the time, you'll probably go with the default — which is just the way the title naturally appears. But for people, you might want to sort by last name. So if the page is named Charlie Brown, you might enter Brown, Charlie in that second box.
Once you've got things how you want them, click on Apply changes. This only makes the category a part of your potential edit, though.
To publish the change to the live page, click on Save page when you're returned to the main editing pane of the VisualEditor.
Classic rich-text editor
On the right hand side of the editor is a Categories module. Click to expand this and you will see a list of the categories already present.
- To add a category, type the category name in the input area above the existing categories. As you type, you will see suggestions appear.
- Click the pencil next to each category to edit that category's settings.
- Click the trash can to remove the category.
Source editor
While in source, you can add the category name as a link to the bottom of the page itself (e.g.
[[Category:Help]]), or use the category module in the right rail.
By default, existing categories appear in the category module in the right rail. However, if you choose to disable the category module in your preferences, they do appear at the very bottom of the page.
Sort parameters
- When clicking the edit icon next to category names, you can define a "sortkey" for that category. This sortkey defines at what point the article appears in a category page's listings, e.g., sort a first last name page under last name.
- If an article example is the introduction for category example, a blank (space) or * (asterisk) sortkey puts it near the begin of the category.
- If the article is in many categories, you can add
{{DEFAULTSORT:<sort key>}}in the article while editing in source mode to sort the article in all the categories the same way. This will save you from having to edit each category's parameters individually.
Category pages matter
As soon as you add a category to a page, that category will appear in Special:Categories. And you can reach the category page by clicking on the category link, or by entering the address into your browser. So the category sort of works.
But, as you can see from the picture at the right, the category page still needs to be created. Until it exists, the category is partially powerless. It won't be suggested when you try to add it to another page. You can't use it on a Mobile Main Page. And it's not a full member of your Special:CategoryTree.
So take the time to fully create your categories.
Creating a category page
Because categories without category pages aren't suggested, you'll save yourself a lot of time if you create a category before you put a single page into it.
To do this, start a new page — called Category:Name — in any of our editors. Add a sentence or two which explains what the category is about. Then add the page to another category that has already been created.
For instance, let's say your wiki is about the Marvel Universe, and you're starting a category about female heroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (aka Earth-199999). So you create the category Female superheroes (Earth-199999) by adding the text:
Female superheroes of Earth-199999 came from every part of that Earth, exhibiting a wide range of powers, both meta—human and mortal. This category collects pages on this wiki about them, as well as many images and videos featuring their exploits.
Then you add it to Category:Earth-19999 and hit Publish.
This step is crucial, because once you publish a category page, it then will be usable by the category module. That is, it will appear as an auto-suggestion when you try to add it to other pages.
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San Francisco married couple Bradford Wells and Anthony John Makk, who faced deportation to Australia, gave a special thank you to House minority leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco for intervening, and said today's court rulings end 21 years of worry and fear. They also thanked Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Immigration Equality. "It's a beautiful day," Wells said, thanking the "ladies from California."
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Is it just me, or was anyone else looking forward to reading about angry robots that were upset about bundling causing triple sales?
I believe they'll use the old "Hope and Change" slogan all over again.
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As the tail prop runs off the same drive as the main rotors, it too will slow its spin as the X2 speeds up, but it delivers more thrust by increasing the angle at which its blades cut the air. Thus as an X2-type craft accelerates towards maximum speed, all its blades will actually be slowing right down.
A somewhat similar effort to produce a high-speed stacked rotor chopper was attempted decades ago in the form of the XH-59A experimental craft. But the XH-59A suffered from severe, damaging vibration at high speeds and the idea never caught on. Today's X2 boasts modern superstiff rotors and active vibro-damping gear, and Sikorsky says that it can go at 250 knots while shuddering no more than a regular copter at top speed. Another big score for the X2 over the XH-59A is that all three of its eggbeaters run off a single turbine, where the earlier effort required no less than four engines (two for the rotors and two for thrust). Engine hours are one of the main factors in helicopter maintenance and running costs, so craft developed from the X2 should be considerably cheaper to buy and run.
Not many military aircraft are single-engined, of course, but there are a few: for instance the US Army's veteran Kiowa Warriors, used in roles collectively described as "armed scout". The Kiowa can spot targets for more heavily-armed Apache attack choppers or other aircraft, or attack them itself using Hellfire missiles, Hydra rockets or a variety of guns (it can also carry Stinger missiles for defending itself against enemy aircraft). Unlike an Apache it can instead carry a handful of passengers or other small payloads about.
The US Army really ought to replace its Kiowas soon, and the X2 "Raider" would seem an ideal candidate: it too could carry light armament or small numbers of personnel. Not that many helicopter roles genuinely call for doubling of speed, but presumably military scouting is one area where the X2's legs would be really useful. The only other VTOL aircraft with high speed right now is the famous V-22 Osprey tiltrotor, but this is twin-engined and has various disadvantages including severe downblast and a propensity to melt its landing pad. (Though the Osprey is somewhat faster at 270 knots top end.)
So Sikorsky ought to be onto a winner here with its Raider. But the US Army, like others around the world, is looking down the barrel of spending cuts in the near future: and helicopter "armed scouting" is scarcely the most treasured of its many missions and types of kit. Certainly the service has been happy enough to let Sikorsky make all the running so far, coughing up nothing to help with the development of the X2 to date.
Whirlybird watchers may be waiting a good bit more than four years for the Raider's first flight. ®
*The famous G-LYNX, a specially pimped Westland Lynx, still holds the ordinary-helicopter speed record at just over 216 knots (249 mph/401 km/h).