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Centrally Managed Virus Protection Service
Mcafee 8.8 P2/P3 Deployment Update
As part of on-going support and maintenance of the Centrally Managed Antivirus Service (EPO), HCC will commence the release of Mcafee VirusScan Enterprise 8.8 P2/P3 on Friday 6 December. This will be a phased rollout and will take a few weeks to complete in all subscribing schools.
The upgrade will happen automatically and there should be no user interaction required by school. Desktops, Laptops and Servers will update once they have been plugged into the network for a period of time. The update has been piloted in several schools and will be rolled out in a phased process over the period of 2/3 weeks in December.
The McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.8 Software is used by desktops, laptops and servers to detect and clean virus's from the Operating System. McAfee 8.8 also offers improved spyware protection.
Mcafee Agent 8.8 Patch Compatibility
The upgrade will be monitored closely by HCC to ensure that machines are accepting the update and there are no issues.
McAfee 4.8 Patch1 Update
As part of our ongoing support and maintenance of the Centrally Managed Antivirus Service (EPO), Hampshire IT will be releasing McAfee Agent 4.8 Patch 1 to all connected machines in the county. The upgrade will be seamless and will not interrupt operation of any school systems. It is only available to schools who subscribe to the Anti Virus component of the SLA.
The McAfee Agent is the software used by desktops, laptops and severs to communicate with the central system in Winchester.
There are several points to note:
McAfee Agent 4.8 Patch 1 Supported Operating Systems
Systems already connected to Hampshire IT McAfee EPO
Systems with a working installation of a McAfee Agent that is communicating with the EPO Servers here will receive McAfee Agent 4.8 Agent automatically.
EdICTNet and HSS networks
Any new systems built after the initial deployment of McAfee 4.8 Patch 1, will always have a base level of the McAfee Agent installed on them; this will update automatically on successful connection to the systems at Winchester to McAfee Agent 4.8 Patch 1.
Third party networks
Any new systems on a third party network or indeed a brand new third party network will need a McAfee Agent installed on them either manually or via your network provider's chosen deployment method (eg.Group Policy).
In the case of Windows XP, Windows 7, Server 2003 or Server 2008 systems the current McAfee Agent MSI (v4.5) which is in circulation will be adequate for installation. Once installed it will automatically update to McAfee Agent 4.8 when it communicates with the EPO system here.
Server 2012 and Windows 8
Please note that network providers using Windows 8 or Server 2012 will need to contact Hampshire IT to obtain installation files to upgrade the system directly to McAfee Agent 4.8. McAfee Agents versions below 4.8 will not work correctly. We will also need to arrange a manual deployment of McAfee 8.8 to these machines; automated deployment will follow in the few months.
About Centrally Managed Virus Protection
Centrally Managed Virus Protection is an automated service providing updates for McAfee AV software for schools subscribing to the anti virus element of the Hampshire IT SLA and who are connected to HPSN SWAN.
The majority of Hampshire schools purchase the McAfee virus scan licence via the Hampshire IT SLA and are responsible for ensuring they remain current with relevant McAfee software updates. Rolling out upgrades can be time consuming and disruptive, and schools therefore have the option of using the centrally managed service to automate and simplify deployment.
To participate schools must subscribe to the virus protection element of the Hampshire IT SLA and be connected to SWAN/HPSN2.
How does ePO work?The service is delivered using McAfee ePO (Electronic Policy Orchestrator), the diagram shows how this has been implemented in Hampshire. By using this model, we achieve the following benefits:
- Schools McAfee virus protection software (engine and signature files) is kept fully up to date.
- Fully automated service.
- Significantly reduced risk of virus infection in schools.
- Hampshire IT and nominated school contact are automatically alerted in the event of any virus activity.
- Consistent with the corporate Hampshire County Council virus protection services.
- Completely secure within the SWAN/HPSN2 environment.
- No training required for the standard service.
- Provides Hampshire IT with real time technical information about the school IT infrastructure (eg, OS and service pack version, free hard disk space, memory size, etc) necessary for support and major project rollout purposes. Please note: Hampshire IT will have no access to any school data.
Impact for schools
Initial setup
We can automate the initial ePO set-up process for schools with networks supplied by Hampshire IT, but this isn't possible for schools running third party networks. Instead, we can provide you with a free of charge MSI (Microsoft Installer) for you to install the relevant McAfee agents across your network. You can also arrange with your network supplier to install them, who might charge for this work.
After ePO has been set up, schools are responsible for making sure that the McAfee software remains installed on all connected client machines, following these instructions. If your McAfee icon is missing from any client computer following migration to ePO, then it has not installed properly and you should contact the IT Help Desk immediately.
Ongoing McAfee Updates (engine and signature files)
Once the relevant McAfee agents are installed across the school network all approved software updates will install automatically.
Adding new network clients
We have configured EdICTNet to automatically install the relevant McAfee agent onto any new machines added to the network. However, this is not possible for third party networks. You will need to arrange deployment of the agent to all new client machines (via MSI) or arrange with your local supplier to do this for you. Your supplier may charge for this work.
Replacement network
Please contact the IT Help Desk if you are having a replacement local area network installed by a third party supplier but you still require Hampshire IT to provide automatic McAfee anti virus monitoring and updates. Regardless of whether you currently subscribe to this centrally managed service we will still need to configure your server as a Superagent and provide you with the latest McAfee agent. If you are having an EdICTNet installed, there is no need to do anything; this will all be taken care of for you as part of the installation service.
Service charges
The ePO service charge is included in the McAfee Virus Scan option in the Hampshire IT SLA and there are no additional charges for the service, which includes:
- Initial connection to new automated service (as already indicated above, third party network schools may need assistance from their local supplier).
- Auto deployment of Hampshire IT approved McAfee software updates.
- Any virus related help call (from SLA).
- Adding a school specific exception (i.e. file which should not be auto scanned for viruses).
- Setting up virus email notifications for nominated school contacts.
Hampshire IT reserves the right to charge at £75 per hour for any additional requirements such as:
- Local management of the ePO console and associated training.
- Amending standard ePO policies/rules.
- Running/setting up reports for individual schools.
(Additional requirements are unlikely to exceed one hour.)
Hampshire IT responsibilities
- Assistance with the initial connection to ePO.
- Ongoing monitoring of ePO.
- Provide early communication of any version updates etc.
- Assistance in clearing a virus outbreaks should one occur.
School responsibilities
- We would suggest that schools do regular spot checks as a 'belt and braces' approach to ensuring machines are kept up to date with the latest virus definitions etc, and report any machines that appear to be out of date to the IT Help Desk.
Further information:
Contact us
For urgent issues, call the IT Service Desk on 01962 847007. For anything else, see our contact page.


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Mining and dining in the CBD
It's appropriate that a café on the edges of what used to be Johannesburg's old mining camps is named Gold Mine Café. The restaurant is in Anderson Street in Marshalltown, on the margins of the city's mining district.
That part of town is home to mining houses — Anglo American and BHP Billiton, as well as the Chamber of Mines — that did more than most companies to shape South Africa's identity. Gold Mine Café is a restaurant on the ground floor of the Reef Hotel, co-owned by a pair of entrepreneurs: one a Zimbabwean, Isaac Chalumbila, and the other a German national, Gustav Krampe.
Although the hotel was opened in 2010 in time for the World Cup, the café has only been in operation since September this year.
Explaining the mining feel of the restaurant, hotel manager Nooria Wagener said: "This is the Reef Hotel; we have [embraced] the gold theme." If truth be told, its mining ambience owes more to the city's postindustrial landscape than to the rough-hewn and uneven realities of actual mining.
Still, it's quite an intriguing ambience, be it the chipped walls, the waiters clad in black overalls and orange helmets sans the customary torchlights, the giant image of headgear on a wall behind the bar that confronts the diner on entry, or the mining paraphernalia that's strewn carelessly around.
Or even the old kitchen tables that appear to have been weathered in a solution of chemicals. If you last did chemistry decades ago, just try to think of the table your grandmother would have used around 1968.
Lee Messinger, the interior designer responsible for the project, happened to be enjoying her breakfast when I sat down with the manager of the hotel.
"We wanted a canteen-style environment — something relaxed and easy that set it apart from the rest of the hotel," she said.
Wagener added: "We want anybody from the street to [be able to] walk in." Outside, women workers in orange overalls, shovels in hand, were walking up and down the street. I half expected them to walk in and demand a cup of coffee.
Open from 6.30am to 11pm every day of the week, this is just not a café in the old coffee-shop sense of the word. Although beverages containing caffeine are served to the corporate brigade (Standard Bank's headquarters are nearby), one imagines that much later the same clientele will return for sundowners. And if the temperature of the drinks served at that time of day falls noticeably, the ingredients grow more potent.
This explains the wine glasses hanging upside down from a rack that's suspended from the concrete ceiling using rusted rods. Or perhaps it's a postmodernist gesture suggesting how one would feel after imbibing copious amounts of beverage from the said glasses.
Part of the vast café is on a platform (perhaps the proprietors are thinking of hosting live gigs) with the bar area in the middle. On the other end there is a kitchen; if you are the fussy type, you could actually watch your food being prepared.
On your table you will find the menu, laid out before you as a place mat. The emphasis is on meat and the wide variety of dishes is reflective of the tastes of office workers in this neck of the woods: burgers and chips, with the Hawaiian option coming complete with a fried pineapple ring on top; ox-liver curry for those who like their fare old-fashioned; a worker's chicken meal consisting of a whole grilled bird, chips, a loaf of bread and Coca-Cola, as well as a small, unimaginative selection of sandwiches.
The point, I guess, is that this hearty fare is sold at last season's prices. One will have to travel far back in time or out to the city's periphery to find a meal priced at less than R40. And, on most days, lucky city slickers can enjoy a lunch buffet comprising the "chef's choice". This three-course meal comes at a mere R55.
If you want to explore both Johannesburg's present and its past, this is a good place to start.
The Gold Mine Café is located at 58 Anderson Street, Marshalltown. Visit reefhotels.co.za for more information.

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Can I create in T-SQL a stored procedure that loops through rows and concatenates data into a variable, as I do in Visual Basic (VB)?
There are two basic ways to solve problems in T-SQL: row-by-row processing or set-based logic. Row-by-row processing is similar to what you might do in a procedural language such as VB. Usually, you implement row-by-row processing in T-SQL by using a T-SQL—based cursor. You can use a cursor to loop through a data set, concatenating data to an existing variable, but that approach is inefficient. Let's look at a simple example of how to use a cursor, then contrast the cursor to another approach to prove that cursors are an inefficient way to process data. (Experienced T-SQL developers can skip to the part of this answer in which I discuss Listing 3 to see an interesting T-SQL construct that you can use to concatenate data to a variable during a set-based operation.)
Listing 1 shows a simple example of how to use a cursor to calculate the sum of freight for all rows in the Northwind database's Orders table. This example calculates the correct value of 64942.6900 for the sum of the freight column across all rows in the Orders table, but it took 130ms to run on my laptop. Although 130ms might not sound like a lot of time, it's slow for such a small amount of data.
Listing 2 shows a better way to determine the sum of freight for all rows in the Orders table. The SUM() function is the traditional way to use SQL to solve this type of problem. The solution generates the same answer but is faster than the cursor method, and the code is clearly simpler. My laptop showed that the query ran in 0ms; however, because the SQL Server GETDATE() function is only accurate to within plus or minus 3ms, my test time was really between 0 and 3ms.
Listing 3 shows another set-based solution that generates the correct answer and runs in 0ms, but this solution looks like row-by-row processing. Many T-SQL developers don't realize you can use T-SQL this way. Only in rare cases would you want to use this approach instead of the built-in SUM() function because you'd be reinventing the wheel—using built-in functions is easy and simple. However, the solution that Listing 3 shows can be handy when you encounter a problem that a built-in function can't solve—such as the problem that Listing 4 demonstrates.
The code in Listing 4 shows how you can use Listing 3's approach to concatenate and pivot string data into a single variable. Listing 4's code sums data across an integer column, but it also concatenates the string value of stor_id for each row in the Pubs database's sales table into a comma-delimited string.


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Hataway speaks to Lions about Borger Community Initiative
A local citizen is doing her part to see that children who need a meal during the summer months will have that opportunity.Last Wednesday Jennifer Hataway spoke before the Borger Noon Lions Club about a potential summer feeding program.She has been a part of the Borger community for six years and is a pediatric physical therapist. Her husband Jayson was the vice principal for Borger Middle School for two years and is now the principal at Crockett Elementary. Seeing both sides of physical and emotional issues with local children, she spoke at the Lions lunch meeting announcing her Borger Community Initiative proposal. This program will offer a prepared meals to the economically disadvantaged children of the community on each Saturday of the summer weekends along with fun activities to help build relationships. Hataway said that 45 percent of Borger ISD students from preschool through 8th grade qualify for a program that will provide free or reduced lunches depending on their financial qualifications. "We might conclude that when they are not in school during the summer months or during the weekends, a large number of Borger kids are going without food," she said. "We might also conclude that in many cases if a parent is not able to provide his or her child with food, the child may also be deficient in healthy, and positive social and emotional interactions." Being hungry can cause a child to act out in bad behavior at school or any thing harmful out side of the school that requires law enforcement. Hataway found out that Amarillo had such a program and decided that with the right resources that the City of Borger could do just that to help community kids feel full and involved. Leigh Fuller of the High Plains Food Bank is interested in assisting people in Borger in developing a pilot program that would run on Saturdays during the summer months and are qualified for full coverage for the prepackaged meals that would be cooked at the food bank and then sealed and delivered to Borger where they would be reheated and served at the park. The only thing they lack to get this program up and running is a 501c3 non profit facility to store the food and an oven to heat up the food. Hataway stated that they are looking at having the Borger Community Initiative at the park out by the airport that has just the right amount of space.


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Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program promotes healthy eating habits in schools across Illinois
Nearly $5 million awarded to 239 schools for 2013-14 school year
SPRINGFIELD, IL — The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) announced today that 239 schools in Illinois will participate in the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (FFVP) during the 2013-14 school year. The schools, both public and private, will share equally in more than $4.98 million.
"We are excited to administer this valuable federal program, which teaches our schoolchildren healthier choices by introducing them to more fruits and vegetables,†said State Superintendent of Education Christopher A. Koch. "Research clearly has shown that proper nutrition contributes to learning, and this is an excellent program to boost health and education.â€
The complete list of Illinois schools in the Fresh Fruits and Vegetable Program is available on the Illinois State Board of Education's website at http://www.isbe.net/nutrition/pdf/ffvp-awardees13-14.pdf.Â
The nationwide program was created to increase the fruit and vegetable consumption among students by providing free fresh fruits and vegetables to students outside of regular school meals. Participating schools can spend $50 to $75 per enrolled student during the school year, with the majority of those funds being spent on fresh produce. All of those receiving FFVP grants already participate in the National School Lunch Program.
A study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture released in March 2013 backed up the program's goals by confirming that students in participating schools are consuming more fruits and vegetables. The report is available at http://www.fns.usda.gov/Ora/menu/Published/CNP/cnp.htm.
"We are encouraged to see these students getting more vitamins, calcium and other nutrients in their diets,†said State Board of Education Chairman Gery J. Chico. "Participating schools are also offering more nutrition education, which will contribute to lifelong healthy habits for our kids.â€
FFVP provides all students in participating schools access to a variety of free fresh fruits and vegetables at least twice a week. It allows schools to make available the additional produce anytime during the regular school day, except during breakfast and lunch.
The goal is to expose students to lifelong healthy eating habits. For example, schools can incorporate nutrition education into numerous daily classroom activities such as math, health, geography and science, by developing lesson plans involving fruits and vegetables. Some schools have initiated a "Vegetable of the Day†to entice students to try produce they might otherwise not have access to and increase nutrition education efforts.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture first piloted the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program in 2002 and it was expanded to include all states for the 2008-09 school year. Each school will be reimbursed on a monthly basis for allowable expenses up to the school's total awarded amount. The fresh produce purchased under this program cannot be used to replace fruits or vegetables already being served to students at breakfast or lunch.
For the latest news from the Illinois State Board of Education, follow us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Illinois-State-Board-of-Education/136022251779 or Twitter at https://twitter.com/#!/ISBEnews. Visit the official ISBE website at http://www.isbe.net.


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What sets Blue Sun Properties apart from other rental management companies is that owners Jeff and Lucinda Phillips have been in the shoes of both the renter and owner.
"We aren't like other rental management companies; we are vacation property owners too and we understand the investment made and the desire to maintain our beautiful vacation homes while realizing a return on our investments," Phillips said. "On the flip side, we were vacationing guests here for years and understand what our guests have come to expect from a top-notch rental management company."
After the couple sold a successful online business in 2007, they were set to retire � even though they were only in their early 40s. However, after the market started to crash in 2008, the Kentucky residents decided to invest in property and bought three beachfront condos in Panama City Beach. It was through their experience as rental property owners that they decided to start their own rental management business. Representing their "home states" they named the company Blue Sun, after "The Bluegrass State" and "The Sunshine State" where they split their time.
"We left our new investments with the management companies at the time only to find that we were constantly disappointed with the cleanliness, maintenance, and revenue," Phillips said.
Through word of mouth, Blue Sun Properties started to work with other owners and eventually grew from an inventory of three rental properties to 61.
"What started as a husband and wife owned and operated company has grown to include one customer care specialist, two reservations specialist, and one dedicated maintenance person," Phillips said. "We are a team of six dedicated professionals with years of experience in property management and customer service. We don't just want customer satisfaction, we want customer enthusiasm."
Blue Sun Properties also works with Emerald Coastierge to provide concierge services to guests. Whether you'd like to rent a bicycle, have a private, in-home chef cook dinner or if you need a relaxing massage, you are taken care of.
With their background in web development, Jeff and Lucinda Phillips have brought that expertise to Blue Sun Properties by creating mobile apps for guests and owners.
"Owners will have access to an owners� portal where they can view reservations, make personal reservations, view owners� statements and even submit maintenance requests," Phillips said.
When it comes to renting out properties, Blue Sun makes sure that the price is right.
"If you are looking for just a warm body in your property, then we probably are not the right management company for you," Phillips said. "No deep discounts. Our company is about forging long lasting relationships with our guests and owners, not the dollar."
Instead, it is the mission of Blue Sun Properties to sustain property value through proactive upkeep and effective marketing.
"It is our mission, as vacation property owners, to maintain and enhance our property value by providing proactive maintenance and care for your property as if it were our own," Phillips said. "It is also our mission, as vacation rental managers, to maintain and enhance the perceived rental value of your property through effective presentation, advertising, and guest screening to effectively maximize your return on your investment."
As 30A homeowners and with a majority of rental properties in Bay County, Jeff and Lucinda have a love and appreciation for the two beach communities and for what they bring to the area.
"We love Panama City Beach, but we also love 30A," Phillips said. "The two areas are very different. One is energetic and free spirited and the other is sophisticated and laid back. I love them both. The focus of this business has always been about our love for this magnificent stretch of the Gulf Coast."
Blue Sun Properties LLC is located at 17220 Panama City Beach Pkwy. For more information, call 888-447-7804 or visit www.bluesunproperties.com.


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Cyclists to visit Custer County tomorrow
Since 1988, more than 200 bicyclists each year have taken four or five days out of their schedules to enjoy a ride together across various parts of Nebraska. This year, Tour de Nebraska will be coming our way, and some Custer County organizations are making sure we are ready. This year's tour began Wednesday, June 19, and will conclude Sunday, June 23, with planned stops in Westerville, Broken Bow and Callaway. The 306-mile ride began in Doniphan early Wednesday morning, with cyclists riding that day to Loup City for an overnight stop. Thursday's route takes the riders from Loup City to Callaway, with a rest stop in Westerville. That stop is being hosted by the Broken Bow Public Schools Foundation. John Smith is chair of the BBPS Foundation committee that has been planning the rest stop, which will include a tent for shade - donated by Trotters, Inc., picnic tables - loaned by Joel and Jaimee Bailey, water refills, port-a-potties, and sweets and fruits for the riders to purchase. The rest stop will be at the top of the hill in Westerville, just north of the stop sign. The tour is expected to arrive in Westerville some time between 9 and 11 a.m. The BBPS Foundation will also hand out maps to the riders of all restaurants and eating establishments in Broken Bow. All 13 of those establishments have agreed to provide a free drink with the purchase of a meal for all riders that day. The cyclists plan to stop in Broken Bow for lunch and a short break before proceeding to Callaway, where they will spend the night. The Callaway Chamber of Commerce is planning a big welcome for the riders Thursday afternoon, and a potluck dinner Thursday evening at the Community Center from 5-7 p.m. The Chamber will also have cars or golf carts available to transport riders around town. There will also be a 20-minute historical focus driving tour available for any riders interested in participating. The riders will depart Callaway early Thursday morning in route to Holdrege, where they will stay Friday night, then to Blue Hill for their Saturday night layover before returning back to Doniphan Sunday. Most of the bicyclists will camp out on their overnight stays, but host homes will be provided in Callaway for those riders who require a bed. Co-host for the event, Susan Rodenburg of Lincoln, says this year's tour will feature 210 bicyclists from all across Nebraska, as well as 17 different states and Canada. Another 20-25 crew members will accompany the tour. Please be sure and warmly welcome the Tour de Nebraska today as they travel through Custer County. We all also say a big thank you to the Broken Bow Public Schools Foundation and Callaway Chamber of Commerce for taking on the huge task of of not only providing rest and food stops, but also showing these more than 200 people what a great place to live this area is!


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Here's a roundup of Regency romances, all priced at under a buck! Click on the cover for the Amazon product page.
The Duke Takes a Bride – .99
Who said being bad wasn't oh so good?
Benedict Devlyn, Duke of Banbury, has one thing on his mind and it isn't mar-riage. But things take a turn for the worse when his menacing and aunt throws a hitch in his plans to remain the most sinful and talked about man in the ton. After all, a man cannot keep the reputation of being The Devil Duke when he is leg-shackled to some simpering spinster.
But his aunt, bless her heart, thinks she's dying, and believes her nephew's be-havior is the only thing standing in the way between her entrance to heaven or hell. So she very lovingly and selflessly sets him up. With his childhood nemesis.
A young woman who, though she claims it was an accident, has nearly killed him thrice through her lack of grace and manners. It matters not that the minute he sets eyes on her at the Christmas ball, his blood boils with lust. He refuses to al-low himself to fall prey to his aunt's ministrations.
That is, until he is compromised and stuck in an engagement to a girl who claims she'd rather jump from a moving carriage than marry him. Funny thing that, for the very minute she says no, he finds his heart very much wants to say yes. When she doesn't leap at the chance to marry him, he sets about to not only prove that he's worthy of her favor, but also worthy of her heart.
Baldwyn Sinclair, the Duke of Paisley, returns to London in the dead of winter at the request of his over-bearing grandmother to find she has forged a betrothal contract on his behalf… without his knowledge. Now he is to be married to none other than the girl who used to throw mud at him in order to gain his attention.
He is not happy about the prospect, but he is nothing if not devoted to duty.
Anastasia Trent has been in love with the Duke of Paisley since she was seven years old and has spent her life pining for him, fantasizing about the moment they would see each other again. But when he makes it clear that her imaginings are in vain, her disappointment drives her into the arms of a dangerous man.
It is up to Baldwyn to rescue her once again, to save her from herself, and to find perhaps, along the way, exactly what his own heart was searching for.
Redeeming the Deception of Grace– .99
Lady Grace Hashiver has perfected the art of hiding behind a sarcastic wit when it comes to dealing with the rakish Ewan Emmett Duke of Greys, her childhood tormentor. Her wit protects her from betraying the attraction and desire she feels whenever she is around him.
Ewan Emmett, Duke of Greys is perfectly thrilled to torment Grace at every opportunity, until an old acquaintance begins an honest suit for Grace's hand. When Ewan begins to feel the pangs of jealousy causing him to question his reasons for his constant teasing of Grace, he discovers a depth of emotion he didn't know he harbored towards the golden haired beauty. Suddenly he is no longer the tease, but on the receiving end of the torment as he wonders if he's to late too fight for her love.
Scandal on Half Moon Street – .99
All the Honorable Anne Kirkhoven wants is to be wrapped in the arms of the man she loves, Frederick Shaw, Esquire, barrister, solicitor, writer of the best Gothic romance novels in England, and surely a future Member of Parliament. But despite Frederick's many perfections, Anne's mama has forbidden her to speak with him, much less marry him, and until Anne attains her majority, all they can do is wait.
But now the most notorious duke in the ton, Ernst Anton Oldenburg, the First Duke of Cumberland (and some say a foreign prince), is making a public point of assessing her… attributes, sending shivers to portions of her anatomy she'd rather not name. Who's the right man? And will her reputation survive the Duke's assault long enough for her to find out?
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Lady Amelia Partridge has no time for the frivolity of the London social scene. She is much too busy. In addition to her work with the Ladies Literary Society, she has a mission – ed-ucating poor children in the city. She also has a secret life, one she fears might drive away the young duke who has become increasingly important to her.


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WASHINGTON — As the battle over health care lurches toward a conclusion, President Obama is confronting an increasingly sharp divide on the Democratic left, with liberals in the Senate and the House split on a critical question: How much of what they want is enough?
In the Senate, where time is running out for Democrats to meet the president's deadline of passing a bill by Christmas, liberals signaled on Tuesday that they would hold their noses and vote for a version of the measure that would strip out some of their most cherished provisions, including an expansion of Medicare and the possibility of a government-run insurance plan.
But the House seemed unwilling to fall in line. The majority leader, Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, said flatly on Tuesday that the House would not "simply take the Senate bill" and adopt it unchanged.
And Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor and presidential candidate who is a respected voice among liberals, stirred the pot on the Democratic left by saying, "the best thing to do right now is kill the Senate bill" and start over.
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"Now, let's be clear," Mr. Obama said after the hourlong private meeting. "The final bill won't include everything that everybody wants. No bill can do that. But what I told my former colleagues today is that we simply cannot allow differences over individual elements of this plan to prevent us from meeting our responsibility to solve a longstanding and urgent problem for the American people."
The meeting underscored the sense of urgency for Mr. Obama, who has made passing a health care overhaul his highest legislative priority. He is leaving on Thursday night for Copenhagen to attend a conference on climate change, and he acknowledged that "there are still disagreements that have to be ironed out" and "work to be done in the next few days."
In the Senate, Democratic leaders said they were confident they could resolve those disagreements because liberals seemed willing to make concessions to get a bill passed. The latest version of the Senate legislation omits a new government-run insurance plan to compete with the private sector, and the expansion of Medicare to allow people as young as 55 to buy into it.
"We are very disappointed," said Senator Sherrod Brown, Democrat of Ohio, who is a leading liberal in the Senate. Still, Mr. Brown said, "I'm going to vote for the bill — there's too much at stake."
Speaking to reporters after the White House session, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, cast the liberals' dilemma this way: "Many of us who are on that side of the caucus really felt we had to weigh on balance what remains. And what remains is dramatic, and we just don't want to lose the opportunity, the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."
The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, is still putting the bill together, but he and other leading Democrats sounded confident after the session with Mr. Obama that they would get the 60 votes they need to overcome staunch Republican opposition. Mr. Reid sketched out a timeline in which he would move Friday to bring the debate to a close and would hold final votes on the bill on Dec. 23 or 24.
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As Democrats debated among themselves, Republicans made clear that they would fight the bill every step of the way in the Senate. "Our Democratic friends are about to walk off a political cliff here," Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said Tuesday. "Do we really want to change one-sixth of the economy without a single Republican vote?"
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Other issues flared Tuesday as well. The Senate rejected a bipartisan proposal to allow imports of prescription drugs from Canada and other countries where prices are often lower; the provision fell 9 votes short of the 60 needed. The Senate also turned down a Republican effort to revise the bill to eliminate any tax increases for individuals with incomes less than $200,000 a year and for couples with incomes less than $250,000. At the same time, Democrats are trying to negotiate a compromise on abortion coverage that would help win the vote of Senator Ben Nelson, Democrat of Nebraska.
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Two teams way out of the playoff picture are the late attraction Thursday night when the Sacramento Kings visit the Phoenix Suns at US Airways Center.
These two teams are in the cellar of the Pacific Division, but the Kings rattled a playoff team on Wednesday.
The Kings went to Oracle Arena and bested the playoff-bound Golden State Warriors, 105-98. The Kings had the worst road record in the NBA at 6-30 and hadn't beaten a team with a winning record away from home until Wednesday night.
Isaiah Thomas led the way for the Kings, especially in the third quarter. Thomas hit five 3-pointers in the third to score 17 points in the quarter. He finished with 31 points after a career-high seven long balls.
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DeMarcus Cousins, Marcus Thornton and Tyreke Evans, who rode in a car to the game earlier on Wednesday as he was ill and didn't think he could play until that morning, also scored in double figures for Sacramento.
A long season for the Suns can't end soon enough. They lost to the Utah Jazz, 103-88 on Wednesday for a fourth consecutive setback and the eighth in their last nine games.
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Wes Johnson, who was considered a bust as the No. 4 pick in the 2010 NBA Draft, has emerged of late for the Suns. He had 22 points in the loss, but has scored 20-plus in his last two and gone for double figures in eight of 13 games in March.
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University of Montana Students Compete For First Ever Golden Grizzly Award [AUDIO]
Talented UM students will be competing in artistic categories for the Golden Grizzly at the first ever Entertainment Management Awards on Friday, November 30th.
Program manager Sonja Grimmsmann says the EMAs will showcase talented UM students and provide them with an opportunity to be discovered. Award categories include music, visual art and dance.
Participants auditioned in front of an EMA team, who selected finalists to perform at the main event in front of a panel of judges and a live audience. The judges will select three top performers to receive awards and a gift bag, and the winner of the People's Choice Award also will receive a Golden Grizzly and a gift bag. In addition, the first place winner will receive $300, the second place winner will receive $200 and the third place winner will receive $100.
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Skip to comments.The London Riots of 2011, A Prepper's Perspective
Posted on 04/06/2013 9:50:23 AM PDT by Old Sarge
Greetings, Folks!
Here is one of my series of AAR's, specifically dealing with the event of the 2011 riots that spread across Great Britain. I have assembled this material from several sources, with observations and lessons learned following.
On August 4th, 2011, police made a "search-and-stop" arrest of Mark Duggan, a 29-year-old black man. The arresting officers were part of "Operation Trident", a London Metropolitan Police unit responsible for gun crime within the black community. Police spokesmen stated that a loaded blank-firing pistol, converted to fire live rounds, was recovered from the scene. The gun was wrapped in a sock, a practice allegedly used to avoid leaving evidence if it was fired. In the course of the ensuing incident, the police fired twice, killing Duggan with a single gunshot to the chest. Paramedics pronounced Duggan dead at the scene.
On August 6th, 2011, Duggan's relatives and local residents marched from Broadwater Farm to Tottenham Police Station. The demonstrators wanted information from police about the circumstances of Duggan's death. A chief inspector spoke with the demonstrators, who demanded to see a higher-ranking officer. A younger and more aggressive crowd arrived at the scene around dusk, some of whom were carrying weapons. Police responded strongly to a 16-year-old girl who threw a missile at them. This was the flash point which led to the riot.
The unrest which started in Tottenham, a suburb of north London, quickly spread to neighboring areas by August 7th. Several small groups of hooded youngsters began arriving in cars, buses and trains. Local residents described "hundreds" of men and women entering appliance stores and emerging with TV's and other electrical goods. Upon police arriving, the looters attacked, throwing rocks and the contents of dumpsters at officers. Police initially met the rioters aggressivley, but as the sheer volume of riots began to increase, the police were quickly overwhelmed, and in several instances simply failed to respond to the riots at all.
The morning of August 8th was quiet, but by evening areas across London were affected by widespread looting, arson and violence, with significant outbreaks in major suburbs outside the city center. Similar riots were reported outside London notably in Birmingham, Bristol, Gloucester, Gillingham and Nottingham. In London, parts of the Underground were closed off, and all 32 boroughs were on riot alert. Shops all over the city were looted, then burned. Time Magazine wrote, "Not since the Blitz during World War II have so many fires raged in London so intensely at one time".
Londoners, horrified at the scale of the rioting and looting, began to take matters into their own hands. In the suburb of Ealing, rioters attempting to vandalise two pubs in this area were "discouraged" by the customers and staff. Asian, Turkish and Kurdish-owned shops formed protection units to defend their businesses against looters. Groups of citizens and shop owners formed in Enfield, Eltham and Southall, in an attempt to prevent looting. A senior police officer said that these vigilante groups were hampering police operations. Police clashed with a bottle-throwing crowd of about 200 vigilantes in Eltham, containing members of the English Defence League. Jack England, the EDL's south-east regional organiser, claimed to be combining 50 EDL members with local vigilantes to control the streets.
Rioting and looting quieted down somewhat during daylight on August 9th, and the evening saw a largely quiet night. Many shops and businesses closed early across the capital after reports of another night of widespread violence in London. The police response was now far more aggressive; streets were flooded with 16,000 police officers, with Special Constables being requested to report for duty to assist their regular colleagues. A "Zero tolerance" approach was adopted, and any attempt at disorder was quickly halted.
By August 10th, the London riots had spawned unrest in cities across Britain. Liverpool, Gloucester, and Nottingham all reported unrest by large mobs, resulting in numerous arrests and arson. Numerous smaller towns had their police and first responders on standby alert, though many areas escaped the unrest. The weather played a factor at this point; persistent heavy rain in parts of England had an effect on numbers of rioters or wandering groups on the streets.
By August 11th, the disturbances had finally begun to peter out across the nation. Only sporadic reports of vandalism occurred. The nation began to take stock of the result of the chaos. There were a total 3,443 crimes across London linked to the disorder. Emergency calls saw a 400% increase, from 5,400 normally to 20,800. At least 100 homes were destroyed in the arson and looting. The riots caused the irretrievable loss of heritage architecture. The Association of British Insurers said they expect the industry to pay out in excess of £200 million ($400 million USD). Official government sources estimate the cost will most likely exceed £500 million ($1 billion USD).
The following timeline illustrates how rapidly the violence progressed and escalated across London, then across Britain as a whole.
5:30 PM - About 120 people gather outside Tottenham police station after protest march.
8:20 PM - Violence begins. Bottles are thrown and two police cars are set alight.
10:15 PM - Tottenham post office is burned.
10:45 PM - Riots spread with attacks on police cars, public transport, and retail shops.
11:45 PM - Police begin to gain control of a section of Tottenham High Road, allowing the fire brigade to begin tackling fires.
1:30 AM - BBC and Sky News crews are attacked south of Tottenham High Road and both organizations pull out staff in response.
4:30 AM - Riots spread to Wood Green, looting of retail shops in Tottenham continues. The London Fire Brigade has dealt with 49 primary fires in the Tottenham area and received more than 250 emergency calls.
12:00 PM - Twelve districts in Greater London affected by riots. Police announce that 26 officers have been injured and 55 arrests made so far.
11:30 PM - Rioting and violent clashes with police break out in Enfield. In Brixton, around 200 people, many masked, pelt police officers with stones and bottles. Two separate cordons are established and businesses are advised to close. In Streatham, shops are looted and the owner of one shop is hospitalized.
12:45 AM - The mainly Turkish and Kurdish owned shops in Wood Green and Turnpike Lane form protection units to defend their businesses against looters.
2:00 AM - Scotland Yard releases statement saying that small and mobile groups of looters are targeting areas across London.
12:00 PM - Rioting and looting now spreads to 44 districts across Greater London.
8:00 PM - First signs of trouble outside London: reports in Birmingham as windows are smashed, and around 200 people confront police in the city center.
9:00 PM - Rioters clash with police in London suburbs of Croydon and Clapham Junction. Businesses and vehicles are attacked and set on fire. Police withdraw after coming under attack; more looters arrive.
9:15 PM - First Riot-related Death: Trevor Ellis, 26, is found with bullet wounds in a car in South Croydon and later dies in hospital. Two others arrested at the scene.
10:30 PM - Widespread rioting and looting reported in London suburbs of Hackney and Croydon. People are seen queuing in stores to acquire stolen goods; one serious assault reported.
10:45 PM - Second Riot-related Death: Richard Bowes, 68, is critically injured after confronting looters and trying to put out a dumpster fire. Police and emergency services are obstructed by rioters trying to reach him. He is taken to hospital and dies from his injuries a few days later.
2:30 AM - Arson continues in several districts. Car fires reported and there is widespread looting in Ealing, including a warehouse grocery and shopping mall. A bus is stolen by rioters and crashed.
2:45 AM - A police officer is run over by rioters in Wembley three men are later arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
4:00 AM - A Facebook group, Post-Riot clean-up: Lets help clean up London is set up. By lunchtime, hundreds of people are working to clean the streets. Similar clean-ups taking place in other riot affected areas, including London suburbs, and cities of Birmingham and Bristol.
2:00 PM - Many shops and businesses closing early in riot-affected areas, heavy police presence from early afternoon. In London, Asian and Turkish owned shops largely stay open, guarded by employees and their family and friends.
10:25 PM - Around 200 people, including members of the English Defence League (EDL) gather in Eltham, southeast London, with the aim of protecting their community.
11:30 PM - Riots reported in Gloucestershire, Nottingham, and Liverpool.
12:00 AM - Riot-related Deaths: In Birmingham, three men were killed in a hit-and-run incident while attempting to protect their neighborhood from rioters and looters.
10:45 PM - Police make several arrests of alleged EDL supporters, after dispersing a crowd of men gathered earlier in Eltham.
11:15 AM - Sports venues begin cancelling activities due to riots.
8:00 PM - Increased police presence on the streets from the afternoon on. No repeat of the large scale disturbances of previous days. Persistent heavy rain in some parts of England.
1:00 AM - Candlelight vigil held for three men killed in Birmingham. Magistrates courts in London and Manchester sit throughout the night to process those charged for disorder-related offences. Only isolated reports of rioting by this time; the crisis is considered to have passed.
Total casualties for riots: 5 civilians dead, 16 civilians reported injured; 186 policemen, including 5 police dogs, and 10 firefighters were injured.
The trigger event of the 2011 riots - the shooting of Mark Duggan - is still mired in controversy after the event. The official government report of the Riots, Communities and Victims Panel goes to phenomenal lengths to state that the 2011 riots were not racially motivated, nor were the looting and arson that followed perpetrated exclusively by the black underclass.
Mark Duggan would be best described, in America parlance, as a "gang-banger". Unnamed police sources claimed via The "Daily Telegraph" that Duggan was a "well known gangster" and a "major player and well known to the police in Tottenham". Operation Trident had Duggan under surveillance; police state that they suspected Duggan was planning to commit a crime connected with the death of his cousin, fellow gang member Kelvin Easton. The Telegraph claimed that Duggan was bound to avenge the death by the "street code" of the gang. That he was stopped by police with an illegal weapon in his possession, would support the claim.
The statistics put forth by the Panel Report provide a cross-section of the rioters. The report estimates that between 13,000 - 15,000 people were actively involved in the riots. More than 4000 suspected rioters have been arrested, and nine out of ten were already known to the police. The overwhelming majority of those brought before the courts have been male and had prior convictions. At least 84 people had committed 50 or more previous offences each. Three-quarters were aged 24 or younger. Of those arraigned, 46% were Black, 42% White, and 7% Asian. In some areas, up to 61% were unemployed. Nationally, 40% of adult rioters were on government benefits.
The report breaks down the rioters into catergories:
Organised Criminals, often from outside the area.
Violent Aggressors, who committed the most serious crimes, such as arson and violent attacks on the police.
Late night shoppers people who deliberately traveled to riot sites in order to loot.
Opportunists people who were drawn into riot areas through curiosity or a sense of excitement and then became caught up in the moment.
Spectators people who came just to watch the rioting.
One recurring theme throughout reports and articles is the impact of social media on the spread and damage from the looting. The BlackBerry Messenger service was used by looters to organize their activities, and that inflammatory and inaccurate accounts of Mark Duggan's killing on social media sites may have incited disturbances. One of the many messages shared between users was the following:
"Everyone in edmonton enfield wood green everywhere in north link up at enfield town station at 4 o clock sharp!!!! Start leaving ur yards n linking up with your [n****s. F**k] da feds, bring your ballys and your bags trollys, cars vans, hammers the lot!!"
Blackberry Messenger, commonly referred to as BBM, acted as a preferred method of communication during the riots. Rioters had the ability to instantly contact specific individuals or broadcast a message to an entire contact list, spreading information about where the riots were currently taking place, safe routes along roadways to travel, and police activity. While Blackberry has become increasingly popular among teenagers, the technology was originally intended for business communication. As a result, a secure server allows messages to pass back and forth without the risk of public access; since this was the major form of communication, it was difficult for the authorities to track the movements of the rioters, allowing them to gather with less interference.
This instant and secure communications tool also produces what are known in America as, "Flash Mobs".
Much like BBM, Twitter helped shape the London riots. The origins of the riots was communication through BBM and a search for BBM on Twitter supports this. With access to Twitter as a communication medium, social media was used to rapidly spread messages of revolt among the rioters.
Interestingly, mobile phone operators T-Mobile and Orange prioritized police requests for information about the phones that were used to plan the riots that hit British cities. A statement from the owners reads:
"Everything Everywhere, which owns the T-Mobile and Orange brands and operates more than a third of UK mobile phones, confirmed that police had begun sending requests for information under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA)."
The RIPA Act requires phone companies to hand over data about the locations calls were made from, the owners of phones, and lists of calls made to and from a particular handset.
Self-defense is being given a second look. On Amazon.com, sales of baseball bats and truncheons increased significantly overnight as a result of the riots. One politician stated, "We are already seeing a community kickback. People are angry. This is their neighbourhoods that are at stake." Political commentator Nile Gardiner suggested that the British Government should prompt a debate which will allow British business owners the right to keep and bear arms.
(NOTE: Sources used here include Wikipedia, Time, The UK Daily Telegraph, and "Five Days In August: The Riots, Communities and Victims Panel Report of 2012")
We have seen natural disasters as the cause of societal breakdown, as in the 1977 New York blackout, and Hurricane Katrina in 2005. In this event, we see a social incident as the trigger. Simmering animosity of both a social underclass and a criminal element seized an opportunity as it presented itself, to usher in days and nights of mayhem. In this event, we see several unique characteristics:
- The frightening speed in which chaos expanded from one neighborhood, to nearby towns, to an entire metropolitan area, and finally, nationwide;
- There was no "grid-down" component to this event, nor was there a dropoff in communications. Municipal services remained online for the entire event, as did radio, TV, Internet, and voice/text communications;
- Lawlessness erupted on a massive scale heretofore unheard of. Police and essential services were overwhelmed and inadequate during the initial stages of the crisis. Order and public safety reasserted themselves, notably WITHOUT any intervention from military assets - civilian authorities eventually rose to the challenge, but only after catastrophic damage was inflicted, and public confidence in authority had evaporated;
- The new dimension of voice/digital technology has proven to be what is referred to in the military as a "force multiplier". Criminal elements used social media and secure, instant communications to coordinate attacks, maintain watch on police, and organize themselves into what almost could be called "insurgent" elements;
- Midway during the event, several incidents of law-abiding innocents rising up and taking charge of the collapsing situation appeared. Some local communities began banding together for mutual defense. Others confronted the horde and faced them down. Britain is essentially a disarmed society, but there have been attempts to revisit the concept of self-defense;
Racial tensions in America have been at critical mass for generations, as evidenced by the 1968 Watts riots, the 1992 Los Angeles riots, the racial undercurrents in the aftermath of Katrina, and potentially as a result of the upcoming Zimmerman Trial. We also observed the potential for orchestrated civil unrest, at the RNC Convention in Tampa, FL, and the veiled threats in conjunction with the 2012 election cycle. Whether the expected collapse comes as a result of natural, social, or manufactured events, it is incumbent upon the prepared to be aware of new technologies, their creative uses, and a swiftly morphing situation against which one can only react, no matter how detailed the preparations may be.
I now yield the floor for discussion.
Here is something I wrote last year, regarding a real-life urban SHTF.
I'd really like comment and discussion about this one.
Thank you for pulling all this information together and posting.
Sarge. Wait. In the opening lines it's stated the cops are responsible for gun crimes. What? LOL! Anyway, good AAR and instructive for many. Main point, stay away from population centers if you can. Stay prepped for an onslaught of pop center zombies to stray from the confines of said pop centers when things go to hell in a handbasket. They'll be hungry and cold. Possibly available to be made even colder.
My comment: "They are already practicing."
28 teens arrested in chaotic wilding assault along Chicagos Magnificent Mile
And remember this didn't happen on the south side in some slum these was one of Chicago showcases.
Does anyone think that "trigger" really caused all that? 99.9999% of the rioters never even heard of the guy or incident before they went looting I bet. As soon as rioters show that police are impotent, they flared up in other places.
It's a zombie mentality.
Notice that those defending their homes and businesses against the zombies are put down by the police. The same police that didn't bother to even show up at many of the riots because they knew they couldn't do anything. Yet they have the temerity to tell people not to defend themselves.
Which would embolden the zombies of course.
The Brits should announce that anyone taking part in the riots would lose all their public benefits. They have so many CCTV cameras in many cities that this could actually be done.
It would be a little different here, since the police have guns, and if the London situation would have broken out here, people would have gotten shot.
I too fear the prospect of civil unrest however. Remember the OWS riots? The plan to blow up a bridge? Our government has addicted people to its handouts, and when the handouts can no longer be given, you're going to have a lot of angry, poor youths and their parents out in force. We are raising the same feral youths as in Britain, the most recent example being the little shit who shot a baby in the face.
Just make sure you have a gun or preferably guns plural. When a mob of thirteen year old hoodlums start breaking into your house, you may just need an AR-15.
During the gun control debates, the Dems said that strict gun control in Britain and Australia caused mass murders to drop to nothing, I guess they didn't take into acount what happens during urban riots.
Does anyone think that trigger really caused all that?
In this incident, the protest that went down bad was the epicenter of the riots. It was the "excuse" needed for the "redistribution of wealth" to commence.
Notice that those defending their homes and businesses against the zombies are put down by the police. The same police that didnt bother to even show up at many of the riots because they knew they couldnt do anything. Yet they have the temerity to tell people not to defend themselves.
Oh absolutely, and thank you for noticing the point I was trying to make!
They have so many CCTV cameras in many cities that this could actually be done.
Oddly enough, the Panel Report states they were using CCTV to positively ID the arrested looters in order to prosecute. And a good deal of the looters already had strings of priors. But of course, the Brits have a history of releasing feral animals back into the wild (just as Americans do).
Gibs-Me-Dat (n.) Annuities, in the form of goods, services, or material (usually welfare checks) given predominately to blacks, in exchange for their tacit agreement to reciprocate by not burning down Americas cities.
Yo Trayvon, who you be votin' fo' in 2012?
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I contacted my son during those riots. He is considered upper class along with his wife who is upper class. He, nor any of his class were the least bit concerned about the rioting of the lower class. He said the rioters would get tired and hungry and stop. The upper class mainly does not live where the riots were. It was simply a minor inconvenience not to go through those areas until the riots stopped.
There were a lot of different town names in your post. London began as a place by the River Thames. It was no different than many small areas that had names. As London grew, all those small named places became part of the ever expanding London town. So, a number of the "towns" you listed are really the city of London. So, if you are in London and drive around, you don't know that you just went into or through another "town". Those areas will have officials just as a small town here. Our small towns are defined, you know you are there, but, in London, you don't know it as city goes for many miles in all directions.
My son lives outside London in an area where mainly millionaires live. It is a genteel area with no, or few, lower class people. The police in that area went to help with the riots.
I say the above to point out the riots, that I thought were bad, were not a concern among the upper class. It was merely a nuisance that they knew would stop when the rioters got tired and hungry.
Some of you may disagree with my observations, but after many years of being there immersed in all the people, I believe what I wrote is true. Also, with my Texas accent, I was a novelty to their friends but would have gotten no where if I hadn't been the mother/mother-in-law. And, being an American was another strike against me. Being from Texas WAS a help as they still think we ride horses and wear cowboy hats every day with guns on both hips.
Damn near identical to what went down in L.A. after Rodney King.
Most of L.A. is suburbs though — the blacks basically trashed their own neighborhoods.
Seeing Reginald Denny attacked live was a real shock and frankly told me all I need to know about who the real racists are in our country.
Had I been a FReeper back then I would have probably been in better shape, had it spread to where I was.
But also being in L.A. meant I was prepared for Earthquakes so could have at least be OK for a week or so (in fact I did have to depend on myself for about a week when the Northridge Quake hit).
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>> Our small towns are defined, you know you are there, but, in London, you don't know it as city goes for many miles in all directions.<<
Again, the same as Los Angeles. One large megalopolis, defined by many "towns:" Van Nuys, Pacoima, Encino and interspersed with cities and unincorporated county areas.
You can drive 3 AM Saturday (the only time to do so uninterrupted) for 1.5 hours in an approximate circle and pass through 25 "towns."
Many places in Texas, you can drive at 3 pm on a Wednesday for 1.5 hours and pass through 2-3 towns. I think I'll stay right here.
The net result this is that police will be far less aggressive in dealing with black criminals, which is the intended result of the riots.
It's a meme that keeps getting repeated, and it's false. They did not trash anything of their own. They did not damage their own property.
From their viewpoints, they trashed property in the neighborhood BELONGING TO OUTSIDERS.
The net result is their being relocated elsewhere, with new stuff bought by the government for them. Via Section 8, they are likely to be relocated NEAR YOU.
>>It's a meme that keeps getting repeated, and it's false. They did not trash anything of their own. They did not damage their own property.<<
You are 1/2 right. They trashed their NEIGHBOHOODS, not their own stuff. Many/most of those neighborhoods never rebuilt and now people have to drive for miles even for basic groceries and items.
As for Section 8, that has been around for gar too long and has indeed resulted in some neighborhoods going downhill. But that isn't directly a result of the riots.
I lived there my whole life — I know.
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Opinion: School Cheats in Atlanta
Assistant features editor David Feith on the cheating scandal at Atlanta public schools. Photo: Associated Press
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... I ... it ... really doesn't teachers and administrators were indicted in Atlanta last week for inflating students' test scores and an investigation that touched fifty schools ... system features editor David fights is here to take the heat ... any worse than this in our public schools ... um how did this us can work and how how far up to the Cup ... it might even when all the way to the tothe very tough in fact the mean that an individual that that that's been ... indicted by the injury is Beverly hold of the superintendent of the system ... for about a decade and into thousandnine was actually named ... superintendent of the year because of the on paper at least turn around an improvement in Atlanta schools ... either some amount of that and and and I was open she was fit them let's let's the meaning of these indictments and think Dongguan attorney let's get that up on the screen ... the former super Tennessee say six district administrative six principles ... and there's more ... to assistant principal six testing for nears fourteen teachers ... on that and it wasn't this on the front page of every newspaper in the country I mean this is ... such a mean site and ... buy of a public schools in one of our nation's largest cities ... that's right and and it's it's it's an amazing sign of ... of what it's like ... for especially in these urban areas ... for systems to be ... donated essentially by their extremely rigid ... I've bureaucracies ... the students who were the languishing in the system over the course of the year is when this malfeasance was going on ... didn't have the option to put a different school rated have the option to have their parents pay for private school then have the option to have their parents ... moved to a neighborhood where the schools were ... better in the scene painted by the sort of behavior ... I the kids were ... trapped ... and they were that way for the whole five six perhaps more years that this ... Ayah senior administrator and her lieutenants were ... essentially cooking the books in masking the fact that students were in line I mean one options of course to educate these children federal it which they did not choose to do that as she did she ... um ... the news might come back and say well this is an indictment of national standardized tests ... they can teach to the test it's ridiculous to discounting every month that's the problem what would you say that we can make the same argument for for the Olympics are for the Torah from here we have a big problem and doping in cycling does that mean we shouldn't be measuring the Times of of competitor is a mean we can rest assured ... if this scandal were concentrated in ... charter schools let's say which it wasn't ... we'd be hearing from unions ... this is ... an ... object lesson in why charter schools I know it ... because it wasn't in charter schools that it was in district schools were curing all it does is simply a lesson in accountability ... being no good ... the Medicare debate here about what the lessons are of the scandal ... is is just enema of ... its less or shush says it's more it's it's a political ... football people are making of it but they will ... miss knowing that somehow I wasn't against accountability just doesn't seem to wonder what it's a disgrace we've got the two thousand eleven investigation results can come up on the screen ... forty four Lana schools hundred and seventy eight educators implicated uh hundred and fifty ... have resigned ... by David Issa ScanPix or to charter school movement in Atlanta any chance of that we we can hope so that there is ... there is or a review presence of of of Charters ... to a substantial degree there but they're there could be more actually ... over the past few years there were some ... jockeying among ... the voters the state Supreme Court there are some complications but the short of it is that while this cheating scandal was going on actually got harder ... to authorize charter schools in the state of Georgia ... that was turned back to that by the voters in November but it's amazing that wall this is going on ... you also saw the difficulty of actually reforming the system that is not only broken but is subject to this kind of guy misbehavior sometimes like all systems are where there's money ... in prestigious belt so the Federal Housing Administration nine gives people wanna say can afford an Atlanta ... blows up their finances something of the public schools not educating the children ... your email and I knew she'd get angry ... assistant features editor David fights thank you so much for being with him


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Uribe is mired in a miserable slump (yes, even more miserable than his Dodger career totals). Since rejoining the team from injury on June 11, he's 5-for-49 with three doubles, two runs scored three walks and 15 strikeouts. Even worse, he's on an 0-for-25 streak right now.
When the Dodgers signed him, Uribe was coming off a big postseason with the Giants. Well, that's what Ned Colletti would tell you. In reality, he went 7-for-47 with two home runs and eight RBI. Unfortunately, those two home runs came at "clutch" times, thus leading people to believe Uribe was some kind of postseason hero.
He's actually one of the worst players in baseball and the Dodgers just need to cut their losses short with him.
There are two things keeping him around right now: his defensive ability (which isn't exactly Adrian Beltre-esque no matter what his 21.2 UZR says) and the fact the Dodgers have zero third base depth in the minors. Why do you think guys like Elian Herrera and Luis Cruz have even seen time in the majors this season?
The Dodgers drafted Corey Seager to be the eventual long-term third baseman, but he won't be ready for at least three years -- and that's being extremely optimistic. Other than that, guys like Josh Fields (not a prospect), Jake Lemmerman (more of a utility/middle infielder) and Pedro Baez (can't hit) are the next guys in line and they're not exactly realistic options.
But as for right now, the Dodgers are better off playing Jerry Hairston at third base the majority of the time. But since he's not an every day player, playing career minor-leaguers like Herrera and Cruz (and maybe even Adam Kennedy) are better options than Uribe. He's a black hole at the plate and has no business being on a Major League roster right now.
The Dodgers -- mainly Colletti -- have a really hard time known when to cut bait. If there was ever a time he was going to own up to his mistake, this would be the time. The fact that guys like Mike Petriello, Eric Stephen and Jon Weisman are saying there's a chance Uribe could be designated for assignment means there's some hope.
If the Dodgers sack up and actually DFA Uribe, they won't stick with the trio Herrera, Cruz and Kennedy for long. My expectation is they would step up trade efforts for a third baseman, particularly guys like Chase Headley or Jed Lowrie (who plays short but could slide over to third).
First thing's first, though: time to trim the excess fat (pun intended).
Minor league moves
The Dodgers made a number of minor league moves this week. Here are some of the more notable ones:
- Seager was assigned to Ogden and has already played in a couple games
- Steven Rodriguez was signed and went straight to Great Lakes
- Angelo Songco was promoted from Great Lakes to Rancho Cucamonga
- Darnell Sweeney was promoted to Great Lakes from Ogden to take Songco's spot
Rodriguez, the Dodgers' second-round pick, going to Great Lakes doesn't surprise me, but him signing for slot ($610,800) surprises me. That means the Dodgers will have to pay a luxury tax which comes in a little less than $75,000. The expectation was the Dodgers could get Rodriguez signed cheaper than slot to offer Seager a little more to forgo his commitment to South Carolina and because Rodriguez was overdrafted a bit.
Songco was rehabbing at Great Lakes and actually struggled a bit: .175/.281/.367 with six home runs. The home runs and walks were nice, but the .175 batting average was not -- especially since he played in the league a couple years ago. No clue how long he'll be in Rancho, but I'd like to see him in Chattanooga before the season ends.
Sweeney, the Dodgers' 13th-round draft pick, had a solid triple slash in 16 games: .303/.380/.379 for a glove-first shortstop. Drawing nine walks (against eight strikeouts) and stealing 10 bases were both positives for a 21-year-old fresh out of college.


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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2004 News Releases > May 2004 > Dr. Cook retires after 40 years
Dr. Cook retires after 40 years
PLAINVIEW - It's not every day that college professors get to hear a student vocally express his dislike for a class. But after more than 35 years in the classroom that is exactly what Dr. Don Cook faced a few years ago at Wayland Baptist University.
"I hate poetry," a student told Dr. Cook after being called on several times.
The student had sat through class without his text "or, apparently, his brain," Cook said. "I told him that I didn't expect him to love poetry, but to try to understand it."
Again the student responded with, "I hate poetry!"
That's when Dr. Cook did something he had never done before. For the first time in his accomplished career, Dr. Cook kicked a student out of class.
"It made me think I should have done it more often," he joked.
It was the final class before Spring Break and Dr. Cook wasn't sure the student would return. As it turned out, he did return . this time with his textbook and his brain, and an enthusiasm that lasted the remainder of the semester. Dr. Cook now considers that student a good friend.
The Louise Joachim Professor of English is one of two long-time Wayland professors who have officially retired with the end of the Spring 2004 semester. Dr. Phillip Almes retired after 20 years of teaching at Wayland. Both professors were honored with the title Emeritus professors in their field at Wayland's Spring Commencement ceremony last Saturday.
Dr. Cook, who started teaching at Wayland in 1964, holds an undergraduate degree from Hardin-Simmons University, a master's degree from the University of Texas and a Ph.D. from Texas Tech University. Prior to coming to Wayland, Cook taught high school English and Spanish, served as an elementary principal, coached girls' basketball, sponsored the senior class and the yearbook and he drove a school bus.
Since joining the Wayland faculty, Dr. Cook has received numerous awards, including the Louise Joachim Endowed Chair in Literature, the Maloney award for excellence in teaching and he has twice been selected as Wayland's nominee for the Minnie Stevens Piper Professor award. Dr. Cook is also an accomplished writer of poetry, having work published in many journals throughout the southwest and in several anthologies.
Dr. Cook, who chaired the Division of Languages and Literature for 33 years, has been with Wayland through some good times and some not-so-good times, admitting that he has kept an unwritten list of "Top 10" disappointments. He was quick to point out, however, that none of them was serious enough to make him want to leave Wayland.
In 40 years, Dr. Cook has seen many faces wander the halls and has worked with six administrations. He has watched Wayland grow, expanding its reach around the world. But the most telling tale of his longevity may have come recently when he realized he was teaching the grandchild of a former student.
"It made me feel a little bit older than I wanted to feel," he chuckled.
Even though Dr. Cook is officially retiring, he said he will continue to teach. After all, he says there is nothing better than watching students come to grips with advanced grammar and linguistics, or discovering that Shakespeare didn't always pen literary masterpieces.
"Just because everybody thinks Shakespeare is the greatest writer in the world doesn't mean that all of his plays are good," Cook said. "He wrote some dogs. When students see his superiority along with the inferiority, I think they have a better appreciation for the difficulty of producing good literature."
Dr. Cook also discovered early in his teaching career that maintaining a relaxed atmosphere in the classroom helped students better grasp the material.
"My first two or three years, I had an image of what an English teacher should be like based on the teachers I had," he said. "I found very quickly that that wasn't necessarily the way I wanted to be.
"I found that while education is not pure entertainment, students responded to literature better when there was some levity in the classroom. I have never felt that the classics were to be so revered that you couldn't parody them and make light of some icons."
Dr. Cook has no major, life-changing plans for his retirement. He is looking forward to spending more time with his wife, Lannie, his three children and six grandchildren. The Cooks will celebrate their 46 th wedding anniversary in August. Lannie has been a major part of Dr. Cook's professional life whether she was typing his dissertation, entering grades in the grade book or proofreading and editing his writing.
"She has been extremely supportive," he said. "We will enjoy each other's company. We have had some practice at it."
Cook said he will miss seeing new students in his classes and watching them as they grow into successful adults. He will also miss the relationships he has built at Wayland. Several of the people he is leaving behind were here when he began 40 years ago: Dr. J. Hoyt Bowers, Dr. Bill Hardage and Joe and Freda Provence.
"We use the word family ." Cook said. "I like to think we are a little bit better than a family. A lot of families I know squabble all the time. I think we are above that. It is really a very warm relationship . professionally and personally."


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Like it or not, we live in an increasingly digital world. For good or bad, social media create a more open and connected world – one that allows people to share details of their lives with family and friends.
While divulging daily minutiae online is fun for some, for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, that seemingly ubiquitous status update could put detailed information at their abusers' fingertips.
"[Social media are] kind of a really easy tool for someone to get information, which is a danger for anyone, but then specifically when you're in that situation – be it dating or domestic violence," Turning Point's Molly Horton said. "For someone to have that information, it heightens that danger."
A simple post can reveal where a survivor is, who he or she is with, and what they're doing – a move that can put them at risk.
Facebook responded with a recently released privacy guide for survivors of abuse created in partnership with the National Network to End Domestic Violence. The guide mentors survivors about the privacy controls they can place on their profiles to keep from being exposed to their abusers, all while allowing them to maintain important connections with family and friends and resources.
Simply telling a survivor to sign off these popular networks isolates them further.
"When it comes down to it – [social media are] one of the biggest things that we have out there for people to communicate with each other," said Horton, a child advocate at the county's domestic violence agency. "You're asking for someone to cut off a lot of their important relationships and something that gives them an outlet."
The most dangerous time for a victim of abuse is when he or she is preparing to leave or has left an abusive partner, said Cindy Southworth, from the National Network to End Domestic Violence, on Facebook's Safety page that announced the new guide.
"It is critical that survivors have the information they need to navigate their lives safely and, in today's digital age, a significant part of our lives are online," Southworth said.
While advocates applaud the efforts of Facebook, they say it's important to remember that these behaviors can carry over to any social media network, email and text messages.
Even maintaining a presence on these sites can open the doors to abuse in a way that advocates never have seen before. The signs of abuse are not always cuts and bruises, Horton said.
"We're often associating abuse with physical abuse, and not recognizing the signs of verbal, emotional and even stalking behaviors like that," Horton said.
Behaviors such as continually sending hurtful messages, checking up on someone's whereabouts or a barrage of comments, posts, messages, texts and emails.
"That constant invasion of [one's] personal space," Horton explained.
"[Social media are] something that feels really positive, and something that you have a lot of control over, but at the end of the day ... there is that darker side of social media that could really lead someone down a dangerous path," she said.
On the Net
Facebook's privacy guide, created in conjunction with the National Network to End Domestic Violence, provides tools for protecting one's privacy and maintaining safety. It can be found at http://shawurl.com/stl.


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Sentinels trip up Pilgrim
The Pilgrim football team got its regular season off to a rough start this past Friday, as it lost its opener to Division IV Smithfield 33-12 at home.
The Pats fell behind 14-0 in the first quarter before a 50-yard, second-quarter touchdown reception by Kevin Blanchette brought them back within 14-6.
But the Sentinels running game was too much, as they upped their lead to 20-6 at halftime and scored two more touchdowns in the second half. A one-yard touchdown run by Pilgrim's Damian Brown in the fourth quarter made little difference, as the game was already out of reach.
Smithfield scored all five of its touchdowns on the ground, and it got 189 yards rushing from Dave Parrillo and 132 yards rushing from Ethan Palleschi.
While the Pats fell to 0-1, the game was a non-league match-up and does not count toward their Division II-B record. They will open their league season this Friday when they host Shea at 7 p.m.
Shea won its non-league opener 22-6 over Lincoln over the weekend.


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We're Rude
Sure, we're in the South, but we're not known for our southern charm. According to Foursquare, South Florida is home to one of the rudest cities in the world. Boca Raton recently got on their list, prompting the city's mayor to proclaim 'Boca is Nice Day'.
Mark Randall, Sun Sentinel
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Linux VPN Services
The automated Cisco AnyConnect VPN provided by the University of Alaska Fairbanks has support for several Linux distributions through a Java-based client. The automatic installer requires Oracle Java version 6 or better and will not work properly with OpenJRE at this time. As of August 2011, all modern linux distributions use OpenJRE by default and will either need to use the manual bash script installer below or OpenConnect.
Cisco AnyConnect Automated Installation
For RedHat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop releases using the Oracle/Sun Java binaries:
Cisco AnyConnect Manual Installation
In the case that the automated installation tool fails to detect the operating system due to Java incompatibility (the use of OpenJRE/OpenJDK), a manual installation of the client through the bash script below can be used:
Cisco AnyConnect Manual Installation Tool
The Installation Tool will need to be given execute permissions for the user (the equivalent of 'chmod u+x'). Then, run the installer with superuser access through a terminal.
A free, open source alternative to using Cisco's AnyConnect VPN client is OpenConnect. OpenConnect is designed to support Cisco's proprietary VPN service while offering a more complete, integrated networking package on Linux platforms, through both a terminal and Network Manager. More information on OpenConnect can be found on the OpenConnect website.
Installation of OpenConnect
OpenConnect is usually separated into two packages: the standalone openconnect package and the Network Manager package. The openconnect package is the only requirement, but the Network Manager integration package is the interface being supported below.
Once you've installed OpenConnect and the Network Manager components, the configuration is fairly straightforward:
- First, select Configure VPN from the VPN Connections menu under Network Manager
- Next, click Add
- A new window will pop up, select the Cisco AnyConnect Compatible VPN (openconnect) option
- The Editing VPN Connection menu will pop up, there are only two settings that need to be configured:
- Connection Name: change this to "UAF VPN" or "SW VPN" depending on which you choose to use
- Gateway: change this to either "uaf-1.vpn.alaska.edu" or "swf-1.vpn.alaska.edu"
- Save these settings
- Now, connect to the newly configured VPN through Network Manager. You must click the connect icon before it prompts you for your University credentials.


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