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National School Partnership are currently working with Into Film on Fantastic Mr Fox: Learning through Film - a new resource and literacy learning pack for KS2 / Secondary pupils across the UK .
They're supporting the launch by giving away 200 free copies of Fantastic Mr Fox, the exciting film adaptation of this Roald Dahl classic. The resource features fun, curriculum focused activities that use film to inspire learning and when signing up and becoming a film club leader, teachers gain access to:
It is also worth looking regularly at the National Schools Partnership website - as they work with many partners to provide resources and ideas across the curriculum and phases, e.g. oral health and dental messages.
Apply before half term to qualify for a £10 discount!
Our course Social Media - make it work for you!, run by Bev Humphrey, will be held at Gants Hill Library, Ilford, Essex on 18 November 2014. The closing date is 4 November 2014. Bookings received by 24 October 2014 are eligible for a discount.
Come along and learn all you need to know about using social networking in libraries for professional development and as a marketing and professional tool.
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Our course Tracking and Mapping: Proving the Impact of a School Library, run by Adam Lancaster, will be held at Central Library, Prince Consort Road, Gateshead NE8 4LN on 12 November 2014. The closing date is 24 October 2014.
Testimonials from previous sessions of this course include -
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Grade 3/4 £18,638 - £26,539
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Small Heath School is a highly successful split site, inner city school. We were recently judged to be outstanding by OFSTED for the fourth consecutive time. Our split site school contains two resource centres which are home to our study and homework clubs. Both resource centres include high quality multi media facilities and a laptop loan service operates for students. We are seeking a person with good ICT skills and passion for working with students and staff to continue to raise standards of reading and literacy and to contribute to our whole school focus on learning. There will be opportunities to contribute to our out of hours learning programme
If you are interested then:
please come and visit us or
telephone Mrs Frances Wilson, Deputy Headteacher for an informal discussion or:
Visit our website www.smallheathschool.org.uk for further details and an application form.
"Leaders, teachers and parents expect every student to achieve highly. …Students get the support and help they need to make excellent progress" Ofsted 2014
Closing date: Midday on 6th November 2014
Small Heath School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be required to undertake a DBS Enhanced Disclosure.
Salary: According to experience and qualifications this is likely to be in the region of Grade 6/Senior Officer 1 (£22433 to £26539 per year).
Hours: 37 hours per week for 42 weeks per year.
The Ecclesbourne School in Duffield is exceptional. Rated outstanding in four successive Ofsted re-ports, we provide a first class education in a happy, well-ordered and purposeful atmosphere. We are a non-selective school and committed to an inclusive community ethos. We challenge all members of our community to achieve their best.
"Learning together for the future" means that everyone who studies or works at The Ecclesbourne School is encouraged to broaden their experience and to be a lifelong learner. We employ ambitious people who want to progress and we support and encourage them to do so.
We are looking for a self-motivated professional who will take a strategic role in the management, development and promotion of the library to ensure students and staff have ready access to as broad and relevant a range of reading matter, reference materials, research tools and information services as possible, in order to support teaching and learning throughout the school, facilitate independent learning and encourage reading for pleasure.
We are an equal opportunities employer and we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check.
Closing date: Midday on Friday 7th November 2014
For an informal discussion about the role or to arrange a visit to the School please contact:
Tina Spencer-Keyse, HR Manager.
Telephone 01332 843257,
Email TSpencer-Keyse[at]ecclesbourne.derbyshire.sch.uk
For more information and an application pack please visit the School website
The early bird discount for our one day conference on 'Reading for Excellence' ends on Wednesday 15th October - so make sure you get your application in this week! The course promises to be an essential day of professional development for anyone concerned about the reading for pleasure agenda. Full details are available here
It is intended for anyone in school interested in reading for pleasure so download our flyer and put it in the staffroom for your colleagues to see.
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Young readers have voted The Worst Thing About My Sister by Jacqueline Wilson and Nick Sharratt the book that makes them happiest. It has topped a UK-wide online poll which celebrates the first-ever Chatterbooks Week (11-18 October) and all the fun to be had via national charity The Reading Agency's ever-growing network of Chatterbooks reading groups for children.
Voting took place via the Summer Reading Challenge website, which gives children all-year-round access to a whole range of exciting reading-related activities (see 'Notes to editors'). The Worst Thing About My Sisterscored 17.88% of the total votes, leading a 'top ten' of titles which had been selected to enter the online poll as favourite 'happy books' amongst children using the Summer Reading Challenge website.
In second place was Gangsta Granny by David Walliams (published by HarperCollins Children's Books) with 13.77% of the total votes. Third place was taken by The Twits by Roald Dahl with 12.50% (published by Puffin). For a full list of all the ten books shortlisted for the online poll vote, please see 'Notes to editors'.
Launched in 2001, Chatterbooks is now the largest network of reading groups for children aged 4 – 12 years: over 10,000 young readers around the UK are now part of over 800 Chatterbooks groups. They are run in libraries, schools and other settings by librarians, teachers, teaching assistants, or anyone with a passion for reading. Bestselling children's author Jacqueline Wilson is the official Chatterbooks patron.
At each Chatterbooks session children talk about what they are reading, take part in fun activities inspired by the best children's books, and choose new books to take home and read. Because the Chatterbooks network is supported by The Reading Agency's publisher partners and many children's authors and illustrators, Chatterbooks groups get access to offers, competitions, opportunities to find out how authors are inspired to create their work, together with advice and support on running a group. Chatterbooks groups are an ideal way to build on the reading for pleasure momentum generated amongst children by the Summer Reading Challenge. For advice on setting up and running a Chatterbooks group, go to: readingagency.org.uk/children/practitioners-guides/running-chatterbooks.html
All around the UK, activities are taking place to celebrate Chatterbooks Week, with existing groups encouraged to send in pictures to email@example.com, post to Facebook at www.facebook.com/SummerReadingChallengeUKor tweet @readingagency with #cbxweek
The best picture will win the group who sent it a visit from a top 'Chatterbooks champion' children's author.
A wide range of partners including The Reading Agency are working together under the aegis of Save The Children on the Read On. Get On campaign, with the goal of ensuring that by 2025 every 11 year old child will be able to read well: achieving this objective will require every adult around those children to be able to read well too.
National Non-Fiction November is the Federation of Children's Book Groups' annual celebration of all things factual. Born out of National Non-Fiction Day, 2014 marks a new departure, with the whole month now being a celebration of all those readers, authors and illustrators who have a passion for information and facts.
One of the projects this year is '30 days of Adventures in the Real World'. On each day of November FCBG will highlight a different aspect of non-fiction for children and young people. Interviews with non-fiction authors and illustrators, competitions, book lists, activity sheets and opinion pieces will be found in a variety of locations including magazines, on the radio, and online across a wide variety of websites. You will be able to take part in your own 30 day adventure by following the daily links on the Federation of Children's Book Group's website and also via other social media outlets, using the hashtags #RealWorldAdventures and #NNFN
Why not continue the work you may have started on the Information Book Award Shortlist books - and check out our SLA website for activity sheets for each of the 2014 shortlist books.
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Draper pleads for more time to raise British game
Friday 08 April 2011
Roger Draper celebrated his fifth anniversary as chief executive of the Lawn Tennis Association this week but insisted yesterday that he should not be judged for another five years. While Britain's men, with the exception of Andy Murray, are less successful than when he took charge, Draper said it was too early to assess his reforms. "I've always said it takes 10 years to transform a sport," Draper said at the National Tennis Centre at Roehampton.
Although there has been some improvement among the British women, with Elena Baltacha and Anne Keothavong reaching the top 100 and Heather Watson and Laura Robson winning junior Grand Slam titles, the men have struggled. When Draper took office there were three Britons ranked in the world's top 100 (Murray, Tim Henman and Greg Rusedski) and nine in the top 300. Today Murray is the only Briton in the top 200, while James Ward and Dan Cox are the only others in the top 300. Draper, however, said it would take time for the improvements that had been made in areas such as strength and conditioning, nutrition and scheduling to take effect.
The average age of players in the world's top 100 is now 27, while the average age of players reaching the top 100 is 24. A problem for Britain is that not enough players stay in the game beyond their early twenties. Draper said that 10 per cent of French players with a world ranking eventually reach the world's top 100 compared with only 1.6 per cent of Britons. "We need to keep players in the game for longer," he said.
Draper pointed out that commercial progress had seen the LTA's turnover increase by 25 per cent over the last four years. "We run ourselves like a FTSE 250 business, not like a village fete committee," he said.
"We don't come in and think every day: 'How can we bugger up British tennis today?' We actually come in and work very hard to try to improve all of these things. The reason British tennis has lurched from one thing to another is because every five years it gets ripped up and started again. You need continuity."
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"On the one hand you could argue it has been a mistake in terms of instant results," he said. "Where I think we will actually see the benefits of people like Paul Annacone and Steve Martens and Carl Maes is the impact they've had on a lot of the young British coaches."
Pointing out that the LTA is happy to support players who train overseas – Watson is based in Florida and Robson in Paris – Draper said it was wrong to expect the governing body to produce champions. "Freddie Flintoff wasn't produced by the ECB and Wayne Rooney wasn't produced by the FA," he said.
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Blending Buddies
Students put word cards together and use the word parts to create correct words. In this phonics lesson plan, students practice pronouncing consonant blends and vowel sounds, demonstrating an awareness of beginning, middle, and ending sounds in words.
1st - 3rd Language Arts 27 Views 207 Downloads
Blending is Fun
Use a poster picture of a slide to illustrate the blending of phonemes in words. First show your youngsters basic examples like cat and cap. Then have learners work in pairs to create some blends of their own! Provide words for them to work with.
K - 2nd Social Studies & History 3 Views 55 Downloads
Sound Stretching
Practice sound stretching by blending some long sounds to make a word. Learners start with simple words such as bed, dog, sun, and banana with the teacher leading the class. After practicing, students apply what they have learned by reading early reader books.
K Language Arts 3 Views 15 Downloads
Reading Bugs
Review the phonemic sounds of the alphabet letters before examining how to blend letter sounds to make a word. During this teacher-modeled activity, learners make word bugs out of three phonemes that blend together. As an assessment, read Cat and Mouse and have listeners raise their hands when they hear a word they created.
K - 1st Language Arts 3 Views 42 Downloads CCSS: Adaptable
Blends and Digraphs
Demonstrates how to form words by using given blends and digraphs. Each slide contains a given blend or digraph and an illustration of the word that the learner will then say. For example, the blend bl- and -ock is shown with an illustration of a block.
K - 2nd Language Arts 3 Views 6 Downloads
Blending Steps
An impressive PowerPoint lists steps for blending sounds to decode a word, with emphasis being placed on the vowel sound. Learners listen to an example and then practice decoding words. The list includes some vowel sound patterns (r controlled vowels, i making a long e sound) that require sound/symbol knowledge the students may not possess.
2nd - 3rd Language Arts 3 Views 6 Downloads
Phoneme Blending Accuracy (Mico Version)
Which word is Mico trying to say? A puppet helps make phoneme blending fun as you challenge your scholars to blend segmented words. Mico (or a puppet of your choice) has trouble saying words without separating the phonemes. Using the picture cards here (which can be printed in multiple sizes), have them guess which of three he is trying to say.
Pre-K - K Language Arts 3 Views 4 Downloads
Blending Board Game
Work on sounding out blends with this fun snake visual! Learners can start at the head of the snake and roll a die to move along his segments. Each segment has a different blend in it such as sm, cl, and bl. Use this game in stations around your classroom for partners or small groups to work on.
Pre-K - K Language Arts 3 Views 28 Downloads
Clothe Batik and Color Blending
Fabric dyeing and textile art has been around for hundreds of years. Budding fabric artists explore the Batik dyeing technique and color blending as they create unique and personal designs. The full step-by-step procedure and materials list make this a great art instructional activity.
10th Visual & Performing Arts 3 Views 4 Downloads
The Blending Slide
Use this silly story about consonants and vowels to illustrate basic consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words. Using a picture of a slide, move different letter cards down to create word combinations. Learners get to manipulate the letter cards on their own after the guided learning piece.
K - 1st Language Arts 14 Views 79 Downloads CCSS: Adaptable
Treasure Chest
Segmenting and blending phonemes helps budding readers understand words. Use this strategy in an engaging game where partners test each other's auditory processing using familiar words. Using picture cards and a chart (included), partners take turns drawing cards.
K - 1st Language Arts 3 Views 19 Downloads
Onset and Rime Slide
Discover onset and rime blends using this interactive activity which will appeal to your kinesthetic learners. Using the sliding templates provided, budding readers try different onsets with each rime. They practice reading skills by blending the two into a word.
K - 1st Language Arts 6 Views 40 Downloads
Picture Slide
Here is another fun and engaging way to help youngsters build phonological awareness. In pairs, they use the provided picture cards to sound out segments of words. As they slide the picture together they say a segment of the corresponding word.
Pre-K - 1st Language Arts 3 Views 22 Downloads CCSS: Adaptable
Kids use their phonological know how to identify and segment onset and rime blends. Double rime picture cards (cat and hat) are chosen, then matched to onset cards that make each word, such as /k/ sound for cat and /h/ sound for hat. Onset and double rime picture cards are included.
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See Amy Beach by A. F. Block (1999).
See F. M. O'Brien, The Story of the Sun (1928, repr. 1968).
Beaches extend from a low waterline landward to a definite change in material or physiographic form, such as the presence of a cliff or dune complex marking a clear demarcation of the edge of a coast. The surf zone is the area between the landward limit of the waves and where the farthest seaward wave breaks. The foreshore, the active portion of the beach, is a seaward-sloping surface extending from the low tide limit of the beach to the crest of a ridge, called the berm, formed by storm waves. Water motion landward and seaward across the foreshore is called swash and backwash, respectively. The foreshore's slope angle is related to the size of the beach material and the vigor of the waves. The backshore extends landward from the berm as a broad terrace or gently landward-sloping surface, often broken by one or more beach ridges. Seaward of the surf zone is the offshore zone, which commonly contains a trough and an offshore bar where the waves begin to break before reforming and dispensing their energy on the beach. Along low sandy coasts, such as the Eastern coast of the United States, a long, narrow beach, called a barrier beach, is commonly separated from the coast by a narrow lagoon. Where a beach extends from land and terminates in open water it is called a spit or a hook.
Beaches undergo a cyclical migration of sand between the beach and the offshore zone caused by seasonal changes in the supply of sedimentary material and by the changes in intensity and direction of the approaching waves. The action of tides causes daily cycles of cut and fill. Waves approaching the shore obliquely move the sediment along the beach in a zigzag pattern called longshore transport. Since beaches are mobile deposits, they owe their existence to a constant replenishment of sand. In many coastal areas a deficiency in the supply of sand from human intervention or the natural changes in the coastal environment results in serious erosion problems. Artificial replenishment by pumping sand onto the beach from offshore or halting the moving sand from longshore drift by building breakwaters are two solutions to erosional problems.
See W. Bascom, Waves and Beaches: The Dynamics of the Ocean Surface, (1980).
Hopping terrestrial crustacean (family Talitridae). The European sand flea (Talitrus saltator) is about 0.6 in. (1.5 cm) long. The long-horned sand flea (T. longicornis), found on the North American Atlantic coast, has antennae the same length as the waxy white body, up to 1 in. (2.5 cm) long. During the day, sand fleas lie buried near the high-tide mark; at night, they forage for organic debris. The common sand flea (Orchestia agilis, or platensis) lives along Atlantic coasts of Europe and the Americas.
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Sediments that accumulate along sea or lake shores. One type of beach occurs as a sediment strip bordering a rocky or cliffy coast. A second type is the outer margin of a marine plain. The third type consists of narrow sediment barriers stretching for dozens or even hundreds of miles parallel to the general direction of the coast. These barriers separate lagoons from the open sea and generally are dissected by tidal inlets. Certain sediment forelands, such as spits, points, and tombolos (which connect an island with a mainland), occasionally are called beaches.
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City (pop., 2000: 425,257), southeastern Virginia. It is situated on the Atlantic Ocean and Chesapeake Bay. Founded in 1887, it developed as a resort after a railroad was built linking it with Norfolk. After World War I it became an important base in the national coastal defense system. In 1963 it and the former Princess Anne county merged to become the City of Virginia Beach. Its economy is based on tourism and military installations. Cape Henry Memorial is in the city and the Cape Henry Lighthouse (1791) is nearby.
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U.S. rock group. The band was formed in California in 1961 by brothers Brian Wilson (b. 1942) on keyboards and bass, Dennis Wilson (1944–83) on drums, and Carl Wilson (1946–98) on guitar; their cousin Mike Love (b. 1941) on drums; and Alan Jardine (b. 1942) on guitar. Within a year they launched a string of surfing-oriented hits marked by close vocal harmony, including "Surfin' Safari" and "California Girls." By 1966 they had released more than 10 albums, including Pet Sounds (1966), considered their best. Despite Brian Wilson's reclusiveness due to stress- and drug-related breakdowns, the band continued to make recordings into the 1980s and toured into the 1990s.
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City (pop., 2000: 87,933), southeastern Florida, U.S. It is situated on an island across Biscayne Bay from Miami. Until 1912 the site was a mangrove swamp. John S. Collins and Carl F. Fisher pioneered real estate development and built a bridge across the bay; the area was dredged to form an island measuring 7.4 sq mi (19 sq km), with an 8-mi (13-km) beach. The city, incorporated in 1915, is now a luxury resort and convention centre. It is connected with Miami by several causeways and is noted for its Art Deco architecture.
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City (pop., 2000: 461,522), southwestern California, U.S. The site was originally an Indian trading camp, and Spanish ranches were located there in the 18th century. Laid out as Willmore City in 1880 and incorporated in 1888, it was renamed for its 8.5-mi (13.5-km) beach. The discovery of oil nearby in 1921 led to rapid growth. An earthquake in 1933 caused extensive damage. It is connected to the Los Angeles harbour by the Cerritos Channel. The British ocean liner Queen Mary has been moored in the harbour since 1969.
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City (pop., 2000: 189,594), southwestern California, U.S. Located on the Pacific coast, it was first called Shell Beach and after its subdivision (1901) was known as Pacific City. To encourage its promotion as a seaside resort, it was renamed Huntington Beach for the railroad magnate Henry E. Huntington. Its major economic assets are oil wells and refineries.
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Coastal city (pop., 2000: 64,112), northeastern Florida, U.S. Located south of Jacksonville, it was founded by Mathias Day in 1870 and incorporated in 1876. In 1926 the cities of Seabreeze, Daytona, and Daytona Beach were incorporated as Daytona Beach. The Ormond-Daytona beach of hard, white sand has been used for automobile speed trials since 1903. The city is known for the Daytona International Speedway.
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(born Sept. 5, 1867, Henniker, N.H., U.S.—died Dec. 27, 1944, New York, N.Y.) U.S. composer and pianist. A precociously brilliant musician, she performed as soloist with major orchestras in the U.S. and Europe. As a composer she was devoted to German Romanticism rather than American themes or sources. Her best-loved works were her songs. Her Gaelic Symphony (1894) was the first symphony by an American woman. Other works include a piano concerto (1899), the choral pieces The Chambered Nautilus (1907) and Canticle of the Sun (1928), the opera Cabildo (1932), and a piano quintet (1907).
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(born Sept. 5, 1867, Henniker, N.H., U.S.—died Dec. 27, 1944, New York, N.Y.) U.S. composer and pianist. A precociously brilliant musician, she performed as soloist with major orchestras in the U.S. and Europe. As a composer she was devoted to German Romanticism rather than American themes or sources. Her best-loved works were her songs. Her Gaelic Symphony (1894) was the first symphony by an American woman. Other works include a piano concerto (1899), the choral pieces The Chambered Nautilus (1907) and Canticle of the Sun (1928), the opera Cabildo (1932), and a piano quintet (1907).
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you dont seem to know anything about atheism<quoted text>Well really atheism requires more faith. They are foundationless and their rationale is so varied and inconsistent. Consider the entire basis of what they believe is based on wat they do not believe and that is based on what someone else believes. Imagine if you lost a million dollars in silver dollars and you chose to try not to find it, you refused to use a medal detector and although it was lost in Africa, you are in Europe trying to prove it is not lost. Basically atheists do not want to find something that if found would be priceless.
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The history of the Los Angeles Lakers suggests they should be able to bring aboard a major star in 2014, when they could have large salary cap space. Some members of the Lakers' management, however, have long faces -- particularly when it comes to potentially signing LeBron James next summer. "Within the organization there isn't a single person that believes we can bring LeBron aboard," one source close to Lakers management said. "I don't know if we'll get a star player," Mitch Kupchak recently said. Two reasons the Lakers are not in strong position to land a star is they might not have all that much cap space and Kobe Bryant has gained a reputation as a difficult teammate. Ramon Sessions left the Lakers for the Charlotte Bobcats in free agency last offseason and sources with knowledge of his thinking say tricky Laker politics, where the blame tends to fall everywhere but with Bryant, was also on his mind. "Pau [Gasol] is a two-time champion and a...
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To Be, or Not to Be: Carbon Markets Post 2020?
The US Submission on Elements of the 2015 Agreement has recently appeared on the UNFCCC website and outlines, in some detail, the approach the US is now seeking with regards "contributions". Adaptation and Finance are also covered, although not to the depth of the section on Mitigation.
The submission makes it very clear that the US expects robust contributions from Parties, with schedules, transparency, reporting and review. There is also a useful discussion on the legal nature of a contribution. None of this is surprising as the US delegation to the recent COPs and various inter-sessional meetings has made it very clear that real action must be seen from all parties, not just those in developed countries.
But the submission makes no reference to the role of carbon markets or carbon pricing. Only in two locations does it even refer to market mechanisms and this is only in the context of avoiding double counting. This is coming from the Party that gave the world the carbon market underpinning of the Kyoto Protocol, which in turn has given rise to the CDM, the EU ETS, the CPM (in Australia) and the NZ ETS to name but a few, so perhaps reflects the current difficulty Parties are having keeping carbon price thinking on the negotiating agenda.
I would argue that without a price on carbon emissions, the CO2 emissions issue will be much more difficult to fully resolve. Further to this, while individual countries may pursue such an agenda locally, the emissions leakage from such systems could remain high until the carbon price permeates much of the global energy system. This then argues for an international agreement that encourages the implementation of carbon pricing at a national level. The Kyoto Protocol did this through the Assigned Amount Unit, which gave value to carbon emissions as a property right. While there is no such "Kyoto like" design under consideration for the post 2020 period, the agreement we are looking for should at least lay the foundations for such markets in the future. The question is, how??
In the post 2020 world, carbon pricing is going to have to start at the national level, rather than be cascaded from the top down. Many nations are pursuing such an agenda, including a number of emerging economies such as China, South Korea, South Africa and Kazakhstan. Linkage of these carbon price regimes is seen as the key to expansion, which in turn encourages others to follow similar policy pathways and join the linked club. The reason this is done is not simply to have carbon price homogeneity, but to allow the transfer of emission reduction obligations to other parties such that they can be delivered more cost effectively. This allows one of two things to happen; the same reductions but at lower cost or greater reductions for the expected cost. The latter should ideally be the goal and is apparently the aspiration the USA has, given it states that the agreement should be "designed to promote ambitious efforts by a broad range of Parties." The carbon price is simply a proxy for this process to allow terms of trade to be agreed as a reduction obligation is transferred.
All of this implies that the post 2020 agreement at least needs a placeholder of some description; to allow the transfer of reductions to take place between parties yet still have them counted against the national contribution. As it stands today, it is looking unlikely that explicit reference to carbon pricing or carbon markets will make its way into the agreement, but perhaps it doesn't need to at this stage. On the back of a transfer mechanism, ambition could increase and a pricing regime for transfers could potentially evolve. If that happens to look like a global carbon market in the end, then so be it.
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Jordi Gomez, the recipient of that card at the Stadium of Light is available to Martinez after the FA rescinded the decision. Elsewhere, Antolin Alcaraz remains absent with a groin problem while Franco Di Santo could start now that he is fully recovered from the knock that has dogged him over the last couple of weeks.
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Shocking new court documents report that actor Dennis Hopper is too frail to undergo chemotherapy for prostate cancer and that the ongoing -- and increasingly nasty -- divorce battle with his wife Victoria has drained his savings.
His attorney, Joseph Mannis, states in the filing -- obtained by TMZ -- that because Hopper is so terminally ill, he is unable to defend himself in divorce proceedings. "It is doubtful that Mr. Hopper will ever recover sufficiently to be subject to a deposition," one of the actor's doctors declared.
The document reportedly lists Hopper, 73, as weighing a little more than 100 pounds. In previous court filings, Hopper had expressed hope that chemo would improve his condition enough to work again.
The main contention with his wife of over 14 years is over the amount of spousal support he believes he can afford. In the legal documents, Hopper states he is capable of paying her $5,000 a month, but no more. Because he is unable to work, the actor's finances are stagnant and his accountant states his liquid assets total about $300,000.
"Hopper has basically lived on income derived from new acting services," his CPA reportedly wrote.
Victoria does not believe Hopper is in financial peril, however, claiming he has earned millions in recent years by selling his artwork. He claims that in the last 9 years he has only profited $45,000 from the sales.
Hopper filed for divorce in January. The divorce has also been tripped up by Hopper's requests for visits with the couple's 6-year-old daughter.
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i wonder if he has any gold teeth she can pull out of his head.
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Cancer isnt discriminatory it claims all types of ppl!but if he needs a caregiver I would be happy to!
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What an evil witch of a woman she is.....the man is DYING, shortly you could have it all, whatever "all" is. But to put him through all this and keep his daughter from him at a time like this makes me wish you a miserable rest of your life!
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Ultimately, it was Dennis that filed for the divorce. I'm sure they both have their drawbacks as a spouse, but somehow, I imagine he's the worst of the two. And I don't believe or care that he has 'no money' left. Boo hoo, SIR Hopper. Where's all that money from your career? Sink it all into that dream of being a painter? Sell some paintings. They will sell, and they don't even have to be good.
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Well put. Hats off to you.
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Dennis is one cool Dude and I hope and doubt he's broke. Let his wife of only 14 yrs go get a job and let this amazine actor enjoy his remaining years. "So if what I say is true...you're great great great grandfather...is an eggplant" Man I love this guy!
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I love you baby forever....Untill you get sick then bye bye and don't forget the money you have I will need it to find another sucker, get a job you bbbiiccchhh
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Okay, maybe I am wrong here, but I believe it was Hopper who filed for divorce, not her.
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What do you mean "was a fan"? He's still here. I'm hoping he can still beat this.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- A day after Tennessee coach Butch Jones challenged his team to practice better, the Vols made significant strides on Wednesday as they continued to prep for Saturday's game against the second-ranked Oregon Ducks in Eugene, Ore..
Offensive coordinator Mike Bajakian was pleased with the progress and how focused the Vols were after a sub-standard session on Monday.
"We responded today and I was happy to see that, especially after coming off (Tuesday's) practice," said Bajakian. "We came out today with an even greater focus to execute, perform the techniques and mechanics that we ask them to perform. From Tuesday to Wednesday it's been a big jump and we'll continue to make that jump into Saturday.
"These guys want to be coached and they want to be challenged. They're a good group of kids. I like being around them and when they're hungry for that type of process, where they want to improve on a daily basis, it makes our job that much easier."
Meanwhile, Jones said defensive end Maurice Couch, who has been linked to five Southeastern Conference players, including his former teammate, Tyler Bray, receiving improper payments from an agent's runner, will not play in the Oregon game due to heat exhaustion suffered in Tuesday's practice.
The report by Yahoo sports also implicated players at Alabama and Mississippi State.
Bray and Couch reportedly received hundreds of dollars from the "runner" before and during the 2012 football season.
In honor of remembering those who lost their lives after the horrific events of Sept. 11, 2001, Jones donned a NYPD hat for practice on Wednesday. The hat read "New York's Finest" on the back as a tribute to the first responders that went into action 12 years ago today.
There are three key elements to the Tennessee defensive game this weekend against Oregon. Leveraging, pursuit and tackling in open space.
The Vols improved on each from week one to week two, but still have a ways to go according to the defensive coaches.
With Oregon's potent run game, open field tackling is the key to stopping the Ducks.
"That has been huge throughout the week, talking about tackling and tackling in space in particular," said defensive coordinator John Jancek. "Talking about leveraging the football, they have a lot of speed, they can break down angles very quickly."
"Their run game is extensive; they have a lot of different things that they could throw at you, you have to be on point in a lot of different areas," continued Jancek. "Our focus has been on leveraging the football, obviously great pursuit and tackling in space."
Open field tackling is not just something the safeties have to worry about this week. All facets of the defense have to be ready to tackle in space.
"Our pursuit from our defensive line will be key in running to the football," said defensive backs coach Willie Martinez. "All of the things that we pride ourselves in doing as far as playing fast, playing assignment, execute and run and play hard every play."
The other key? Finishing plays.
"Finish plays," said Martinez. "That is the key, finish the play. Once it is finished, snap and clear and get on to the next play. Even if you had a really good play or you didn't have a good play, there is no time to sit there and think about it with this group."
By far, the most talked about topic this week has been tempo. Whether it's Oregon or Tennessee, it's all about the tempo.
"Tempo is a huge part of our offense and it's very important at all times," said offensive coordinator Bajakian after Wednesday's practice. "Whether [we're playing] Oregon, Western Kentucky or Austin Peay, we're emphasizing that and want to pick up the tempo."
For the Ducks' home opener against Nicholls, 57,769 came through the gates of Autzen Stadium, which has a listed seating capacity of 54,000. So Bajakian knows the packed house may play a role in the trenches, but thinks the Vols can still push the tempo on Saturday.
"The noise level causes you to do some stuff procedurally," said Bajakian. "But we still aim to move up-tempo and keep the defense on their heels with how quickly we play."
Through two games, Bajakian is happy with his offense's ability to adjust the tempo.
"We've done a good job of changing tempos," Bajakian said. "We monitor that throughout the course of the game and obviously postgame. We've executed – when we're checking plays at the line of scrimmage – we're going fast and have done a good job of pushing the gas pedal and then stepping on the brakes a little."
When playing uptempo, having a signal caller that can remain poised under any circumstance is crucial. The Vols have exactly that in junior Justin Worley.
"We always try to push him, but he is even-keeled, and that's what we want," said Bajakian. "We want our guys to never be too high or too low.
"He does a good job of having a solid temperament about him. We're always on him about improving, and he has that mentality too, so it's not like we have to push him that hard."
While Worley's temperament is right where it needs to be, Bajakian knows there are areas his quarterback must improve on this week.
"As is always the case, we just have to play pitch-and-catch when it's there," Bajakian said. "As windows close more quickly - whether it's man coverage or zone coverage - we have to have better ball location. That's the No. 1 improvement he needs to make."
Redshirt senior defensive lineman Daniel Hood has been through it all during his time on Rocky Top.
And through it all he has continued to be the smart, steady presence that he is.
Jones and Co. came to Tennessee to try and establish consistency with the football program; Hood is an example of that.
"Daniel Hood, he has been the rock for us to be honest," said defensive line coach Steve Stripling. "He has been stable, highly intelligent, given us great leadership, and is the model of consistency. A lot of the players are still up and down where Hood is really consistent.
"He is the field general," said Stripling. "He is a very intelligent young man, we talk in terms of level two football, which is identifying back sets, recognizing run-pass, all of those different type of things. He is one of few that can do that."
Jancek also likes what he sees out of Hood and the effort that he gives in practice every day.
"I love Dan," said Jancek. "He does everything we ask him to do, he is very smart, he gets lined up perfectly all the time, he helps out other guys get lined up."
Hood's hard work has already paid off in 2013 as he recorded his first career interception. The Knoxville native lined up in the correct spot, got his hands up at the right time, batted the ball into the air and caught it at the right moment.
Jancek was excited for his veteran lineman.
"In the first ball game when I saw him get that interception, I was really happy for him," said Jancek. "I know he has worked really hard and had a long road up to this point and it great to see him playing and playing at a high level."
A Vol that has been ever-present on the sidelines through the first two games will be back in action against Oregon this weekend as Jacques Smith has returned to practice this week.
Smith will provide an extra burst of energy for the Vols, according to Stripling.
"We anticipate Jacq being a nice shot in the arm for us to give us some burst of energy, fresh legs, some juice," said Stripling. "We are excited about having him back."
Smith, who has been out since the beginning of fall camp with a broken thumb, got back into action on Monday and has been shaking the rust off since.
"There is a rust factor," said Stripling. "I think a lot of these young men, when they come off and they haven't been on the field for a few weeks they think they are just going to jump out there and it is going to be smooth and it is not."
"He has experienced the rust factor," continued Stripling, "but it is great that we had him early in the week practicing, and we can knock some of the rust off."
Also of note, freshman Corey Vereen also returned to practice this week, but has been limited after injuring his meniscus during fall camp. Stripling says that he is doing good, and when he is ready to go he will be put in.
Though Oregon is talented offensively across the board, the Vols' main objective is stopping the team's leader quarterback Marcus Mariota.
Mariota has thrown for 433 yards through two games this season also adding 235 yards on the ground for a team leading 26.1 yards per rush.
"I will tell you he is scary," Stripling said. "He really is. When you think of quarterbacks and their speed, a lot of quarterbacks are potentially dangerous, he is dangerous. He has great speed."
"One of the things that we do is study the scrambles and obviously this young man can really scramble," continued Stripling. "Quarterback draw and scramble is very effective. It is something we are highly aware of."
When Mariota turns on the steam, he is hard to stop. That is why the Vols have to be in their correct gaps, ready and waiting.
"You have to mix it up on him," said Jancek. "He is very athletic, he has tremendous speed, a great burst, when you see him on film, he just out runs angles. You have to have a plan, that is for sure."
That plan is to get lined up, and make plays.
"You just play disciplined and execute the defense," said Martinez. "We recognize how talented he is. Every time you have a talented quarterback, that is where it all starts on offense. We just have to execute and like I have been saying, get lined up, play with great leverage and make plays in space."
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Additions and improvements are coming to Camp Jordan Arena in the near future. At the Thursday night meeting of the East Ridge city council, approval was given for buying new playground equipment. It will come from Gametime, a locally-based company. The VP of Marketing lives in East Ridge and made a proposal to set up the playground at Camp Jordan so his company could use it for ... (click for more)
Damon Lee Jones, 15, was killed Thursday night in an ATV accident in Walker County. It was reported he was riding with a 17-year old, when they tried to enter a church parking lot, but ran into a cable barrier. The accident happened on Dunwoody Road in LaFayette. The other rider, identified as Timothy J. Wallin, was not injured. (click for more)
Tom was my boss for most of my 36 years at Carta. At the ceremony where I was awarded my 30-year service award, Tom said, "Don disagrees with 85% of my decisions, but I wish I had 80 more employees just like him." This kind of indicates our relationship. When I asked him to help with my plans for a reunion for the group of Veterans that I served with in Vietnam, he quickly ... (click for more)
I suspect you've heard by now that a doctor in New York City, who volunteers with "Doctors Without Borders," just got back from the African nation of Guinea on October 17 – last Friday – and on Thursday tested positive for the deadly Ebola virus. Luckily, he came in actual contact with only a few people but he reportedly rode a subway, took a taxi, went on a three-mile run and ... (click for more)


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released a list of recognized Kinect voice commands, helping new Xbox One owners become better acquainted with their all-seeing, all-hearing camera pal.
The list documents everything from basics like "Xbox, on," to more specific commands regarding the console's Snap functionality. It also reveals a handful of alternate commands, allowing you to amaze and bewilder your friends by using the more colloquial "Xbox, show my stuff!" instead of "Xbox, go home."
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