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Virginia Overview
Population Demographics
- 45.7% of people in Virginia are single and 54.3% are married.
- 86.1% of the population graduated high school or have a GED. 31.4% have college degrees.
- Men make up 49.1% of the population and females make up 50.9%.
- The top three races (in population) are: White [68.6%], Black or African American [19.4%] and Hispanic [7.9%].
- 89.2% of people in Virginia were born U.S. citizens, while 10.8% were born outside of the country.
- Virginia has a population of 8,001,024 and is the 12th most populous state.
» More about the Virginia Population including race, age and gender data.
- As of the last census, the Virginia unemployment rate of 5.9% was better than the 7.9% national average.
- Typical commute times differ throughout the state. However, overall 54.6% of works commute under 25 mins daily, 27.4% commute 25-45 mins, and 18.0% have a commute greater than 45 minutes.
- The poverty rate for Virginia is 9.5%.
- The median worker income in Virginia is $33,027.
- The average worker works 40 hours a week in Virginia.
» More about the Virginia economy including unemployment and income trends.
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Former failed presidential candidate Al Gore campaigned with Hillary Clinton in Florida, reminding Democrats that he lost the election against President George W. Bush because he didn't earn enough votes in Florida.
"Your vote really really really counts," he said. "You can consider me an exhibit A of that truth."
"You Won! You Won! You Won!" the crowd shouted repeatedly, as Gore tried to quiet his supporters by waving them down. Hillary Clinton nodded.
Florida Democrats chant "You Won! You Won! You Won!" after Gore reminds them he lost the state in 2000 pic.twitter.com/lg4AccClCb
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) October 11, 2016
Gore did not admit that he lost Florida, but rather stoked the conspiracy theory.
"Here's my point. I don't want you to be in a position years from now where you welcome Hillary Clinton and say 'Actually you did win, it just wasn't close enough to make sure that the votes were counted and whatever,'" he said. "Elections have consequences."


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A veterans group can restore a cross in the Mojave Desert under a settlement that ends a decade-old legal battle, the National Park Service said Tuesday. A federal judge approved the settlement on Monday, allowing the service to turn over a hilltop area known as Sunrise Rock to a Veterans of Foreign Wars post in Barstow and the Veterans Home of California-Barstow. The park will give up the acre of land in exchange for five acres of privately owned property within the boundaries of the Mojave National Preserve. The settlement involves a lawsuit filed in 2001 by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of a retired park service employee who argued that the cross was unconstitutionally located on government land. Federal courts ordered the cross removed. Congress ordered the land swap in 2003, but the courts said the transfer was an unacceptable end run around the constitutional issue. In 2010, the Supreme Court refused to order the removal of the cross and directed a federal judge to reconsider the land transfer plan.Continue reading the main story
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Rapper Busta Rhymes was arrested and charged with assault at a New York City gym Wednesday night after he allegedly threw a protein shake at a gym employees head, reports Rolling Stone.
According to witnesses, Rhymes was involved in a verbal disagreement with a Steele Gym employee on Tuesday after his videographer was denied access into the training facility to record the rapper's workout.
Rhymes and the front desk employee reportedly butted heads the following day regarding the same incident, which resulted in the rapper buying a chocolate flavored protein drink.
Sources reported Busta splashed water on the employee, who splashed him back, just before the dispute escalated to the point to which the rapper allegedly tossed his protein shake at the employee.
Police arrived on scene later and charged Busta with second-degree assault, per Rolling Stone.
"It's stupid," the rapper told NBC News 4 reporters after his arrest.
Busta was released Thursday morning, but has been ordered to appear in court on November 6.
The rapper's attorney, Scott Leemon, told the New York Daily News the entire ordeal is petty, and he believes someone is trying to take advantage of his client.
"It's ridiculous; it was literally a bottle of muscle milk," he said. "He did nothing wrong. This is a bunch of bull."
After he was released from jail Thursday, Busta let his followers on Instagram know he isn't phased by the incident, and that he plans to use the altercation as fuel in the studio to "turn the bullshit into GREATNESS."


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Video footage purportedly showing the iPhone 5 has leaked online, as Apple's next-generation handset edges ever closer to release.
The clip, which was uploaded anonymously to YouTube and shows the new kit alongside the current model, reveals that the handset clearly sports a larger screen than the 3.5-inch display that has been a fixture of every iPhone since 2007. This chimes with months of rumours that Apple will opt for a larger four-inch screen this time around.
Also in evidence in the clip is a smaller dock connector. Once again, this dovetails with separate leaks indicating that the iPhone 5 will not house the 30-pin port that has also been a long-time feature of the handset.
Alas, although the video shows the handset being switched on, the phone appears to stall at the 'connect to iTunes' messages. So we don't get to see the handset in action, complete with the shiny, new iOS 6 iteration of Apple's operating system.
The latest apparent leak from the Cupertino-based tech giant's supply chain comes amid mounting expectations that Apple will unveil the sixth-generation on September 12th.
As well as more screen space, the handset is thought to feature a muscular quad-core processor for graphical heavy lifting and multi-tasking, a Near Field Communications (NFC) chip and an improved eight-megapixel camera.


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Talented Banagher College Leaving Cert student Shauna Cleary recently reached the final of the Independent Colleges Young Journalist of the Year award. Her stylish and cutting commentary on our celebrity obsessed culture caught the eye of the judges at the esteemed journalistic school. Shauna attended the awards ceremony on Dawson Street in Dublin where the judges referred to both the large quantity of entries received from across the country, as well as the consistently high standard of writing on show. Shauna's entry was the only one from the Midlands region to make the final and she can consider herself very unlucky not to have scooped the overall prize given the excellence of her entry.
Shauna's shortlisted entry, titled 'A Delectable Decade', submitted on the theme of Entertainment:
A Delectable Decade
Phew! What a decade of entertainment it has been! Madonna found Jesus and Ireland found the Celtic Tiger (R.I.P.) And of course it was our once furry friend who gave birth to the glitzy, glamorous and generally scandalous new era that threatens to consume us all. Out went Dallas, ham sandwiches and Barry's Tea and in came Xposé, paninis and champagne cocktails. Over the past ten years we've witnessed everything from break-ups (Brad and Jen) to breakdowns (Britney) to break-ins (do not leave the spare key under the mat Paris!) It feels as though we have been whisked away by a glitter-soaked whirlwind of entertainment that's hit us with everything from bling to Jedward to wannabe WAGs to size zero. And let's not forget the eternally ubiquitous reality T.V. We've thrown celebrities into anywhere we could think of – jungles, farms, hotels and deserted houses. Why? Because we wanted to see them suffer of course.
Not only have these celebs taken over our newspapers, magazines, cinemas and televisions but now they have taken over the internet. One word….Twitter. In case you haven't heard of it (how's living under that rock going?) Twitter is social networking for stalkers. For those of us who have simply nothing better to do with our lives, we can sit at our computers all day and wait for Ashton Kutcher to tell us he has decided to have a second slice of toast for breakfast. Exciting times!
During our shaky journey through the decade we've waved goodbye to many celebrities who have left us for the golden gates of heaven (gates which look strikingly similar to the entrances of their mansions here on earth I might add!) Many of us were shocked by the deaths of Michael Jackson, Heath Ledger and Yves Saint Laurent. But as dust and chewing gum begins to settle on their stars along Sunset Boulevard, new stars begin to sparkle on the horizon. One person, one girl has given us hope…hope of a new, fresh and entertaining decade…Suri Cruise. Yes the kitten-heel clad, lipstick wearing toddler is definitely the celebrity to watch over the next decade. Others who are going to hit the celeb stratosphere in the next ten years include Susan Boyle, Taylor Lautner and Leona Lewis. (You heard it hear first!)
Can we endure another decade of entertainment? Are we physically and mentally prepared to deal with another ten years of deaths, births, marriages, divorces, falls from grace and comebacks? Either way we'd better brace ourselves as 2010 is well underway and we cannot afford to fall off the entertainment wagon. For not keeping up with hourly 'Breaking News!' on 'E!News' would be like committing social suicide.
For many celebrities, however, 2010 has started with a bang. For Tiger Woods it was a bang across the head with a driver. And for Jordan? Well she walked up the Las Vegas aisle to wed her first?, second?, third? husband. I've lost track at this stage-but hey, who's counting? I will now predict that her recent 'love' will deflate faster than her fifth breast enhancement.
And what about the poor unfortunate (rich, beautiful) Cheryl Cole? It turns out that husband Ashley has cheated…yet again!…on her. Well, this is news to me! A Ferrari-driving, Rolex-wearing premiership footballer who earns more than €100,000 a week has cheated on his wife! I am personally shocked! However common sense has prevailed and the Cole brand is no more. I'm sure you will all agree that Cheryl is now doomed to a life of loneliness as there is no hope of her finding another man! And fellow WAG Victoria Beckham? I predict that in the next decade she will achieve her long-term goal of reaching size minus 2 – if she's not already there; and in the later part of the decade she might actually disappear.
But what people are thinking as we aim towards 2020 is 'Does the end of the Celtic Tiger and economic boom mean the end of the entertainment world as we know it?' Personally I think not. Somehow I cannot see Rosanna Davidson, Lady GaGa or Paris Hilton giving up their fortunes to live like average plebs (that's you and me by the way!) That would be as likely as Jordan condemning plastic surgery, Victoria Beckham being diagnosed as morbidly obese or Chelsea footballers staying faithful to their wives. But what I can predict is an action-packed, scandal-filled, roller-coaster of a decade ahead. For who needs NAMA, Brian Cowen and the credit crunch when we can have MTV, Snoop Dogg and credit cards? So my advice is to sit back and relax because we're in for a bumpy ride. And let's be honest, would we have it any other way?


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Singapore: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has unveiled stiffer measures against corruption after high-profile graft scandals in the last two years that have tarnished Singapore`s reputation for clean government.
Lee said a one-stop corruption reporting centre will be set up, the manpower of the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) will be increased and procurement laws will be reviewed.
Singapore fell two spots to seventh place in global watchdog Transparency International`s 2014 index of perceived corruption released last month, but it was still ranked as the cleanest Asian country. Denmark topped the list.
"We can guess and surmise that it could have something to do and must have something to do with the high profile cases that we have seen in the last couple of years," Lee said in a speech to civil servants posted on his Facebook page late Tuesday.
The CPIB was rocked in 2013 after a senior official, Edwin Yeo Seow Hiang, was found to have misappropriated Sg$1.76 million ($1.3 million) worth of government funds to finance his gambling habit.
The same year, Peter Lim, former chief of the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF), was jailed for six months for receiving sexual favours from a female executive of a supplier company in return for business advantages.
The former head of the narcotics police was cleared of similar charges after a trial that captivated Singapore with its lurid details of sexual liaisons.
Smaller cases of irregularities involving procurement have also surfaced over the past two years.
"These cases hurt our reputation -- they hurt our reputation with Singaporeans, they hurt our reputation internationally," Lee said in his speech.
Large-scale graft cases remain rare in Singapore, a thriving business hub and financial centre, and the government has jealously guarded its reputation for being among the least corrupt in the world.
Singapore pays its civil servants some of the world`s highest government salaries in what it says is a deterrent to corruption.


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Archive for July, 2016
British Championships Get Under Way (29.07.2016.)
The British Championship started on Monday at the Bournemouth Pavilion and continues until next Friday. Of the 86 entries in the Championship section itself, 11 are GMs, namely, in order of strength, Michael Adams; David Howell; Gawain Jones; Nick Pert; Mark Hebden; Tamas Fodor; Danny Gormally; John Emms; Keith Arkell; Chris Ward & Peter Wells. Cornishman Adams must be clear favourite, but there are other Westcountry residents in the mix, including Jack Rudd (Bideford), Brian Hewson (Tiverton), Jeremy Menadue (Truro), Steve Dilleigh & Carl Bicknell (both Bristol).
Games may be followed live on the event website – britishchesschampionships.co.uk.
A feature of the early rounds in this kind of tournament, the Swiss system, is that the grandmasters are drawn against opponents from halfway down the list and one can expect quite a few "massacres", but this time most lasted up to 50 or 60 moves as the GMs played carefully, having no wish to finish up with egg on their faces by starting off with a surprise loss.
Here is an exception from Rd. 2.
White: K.C. Arkell (241). Black: Freddy Hand (192)
Queen's Gambit Accepted [D23]
1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 c6 4.Qc2 Unusual, but White clearly wishes to guide his highly-graded, 13 year old opponent onto less familiar territory, and gets his queen active on the queenside right from the start. 4…dxc4 5.Qxc4 Bg4 6.Nbd2 Nbd7 7.g3 e6 8.Bg2 Be7 9.0–0 0–0 10.Ne5 Bh5 Not 10…Nxe5? because of 11.dxe5 and Black must lose either bishop or knight. 11…b5. 11.Ndf3 Rc8 12.Bg5 c5 13.Rac1 h6 14.Nxd7 Nxd7 15.Bxe7 Qxe7 16.Rfd1 The rooks are connected laterally and have the promise of activity down the files ahead of them. 16…Nb6 16…cxd4 17.Qxc8 Rxc8 18.Rxc8+ Kh7 19.Nxd4 and given their open lines, the 2 rooks should be slightly stronger than the queen. 17.Qb5 Rfd8 18.Qa5 continuing the queenside probing. 18…Bxf3 19.Bxf3 cxd4 20.Qxa7 Qb4 21.Rxc8 Rxc8 22.Bxb7 Establishing 2 passed pawns. 22…Rc5 23.b3 Ra5 Black rightly wants to attack the pawns, but White's open lines enable him to prevent this. 24.Qb8+ Kh7 25.Be4+ f5 26.Bb1 Rb5 27.Qf4 Threatening d4. 27…Rd5 28.Rc1 Rightly grabbing the open file. 28…Rd7 29.Qe5 Threatening e5. 29…Re7 30.Rd1 Nd5 Black's hoping to get in Nc3 forking rook and bishop, but White has a clever resource. 31.Bxf5+ winning 2 pawns. 31…exf5 32.Qxf5+ Kh8 33.Qxd5 Rxe2 34.Qxd4 1–0 Resigns. Not 34.Rxd4? because of 34… Qe1+ 35.Kg2 Qxf2+ 36.Kh3 Qxh2+ 37.Kg4 Rxa2 and the win seems to have evaporated.
Last week's position was easily solved by 1.QxR+! If Black takes the queen either of the white rooks can come to the h-file to administer mate, or if he retreats to g8 the queen herself mates on g7.
Here we have a position from a 1999 game by John Emms (W). What winning move did he have?
Exmouth's New Grades 2016/17
The new Grading List is just out and here is a simplified version of the Exmouth Club's details. Mostly it shows a few minor shifts up and down, but the main point of interest is Jonathan Underwood achieving the magic 200 grade for his rapidplay track record.
The biggest change is a drop of 15 points by Meyrick Shaw, who can be consoled by the fact that he came 5th in the ECF's Player of the Year poll. If he drops a few more points next year he might come 4th. The 12 yr old girl who came 1st had the advantage of every one of her fellow pupils voting for her, it is alleged.
|Abbott, Mark V
|Belt, Malcolm
|Blake, Simon
|Dye, J
|Gosling, Brian
|Grist, Ivor G
|Hodge, Fred R
|Hurst, Kevin J
|Jones, Robert H
|Martin, Steven
|Murray, Steve
|Rogers, David
|Scott, Chris J
|Shaw, Meyrick
|Stephens, John
|Thomson, David
|Toms, David A
|Underwood, Jon
|Wensley, Oliver
Chess on the Radio? (23.07.2016.)
Back in the day, when Adam was a lad, or more precisely the late 1950s, the BBC radio put on a regular chess programme on Network 3 on a Sunday afternoon. Chess on the radio was always going to be a challenge, but they rose to it, and included talks, reminiscences and consultation matches, in which I clearly remember hearing a teenage Bobby Fischer's New York twang, as he consulted with Barden against Peter Clarke & Jonathan Penrose.
Another idea was to invite listeners to send in their best game, from which the experts would select the most promising six and these would take on, in a simultaneous match, the Yugoslav GM, Svetozar Gligoric, their games being analysed on air later by an expert.
One of the six was 19 year old Roger Scowen; now 76 he regularly plays in World and European Seniors events, and on the Westcountry congress circuit.
This was his game, with notes greatly reduced from those supplied by Leonard Barden from the book based on the series, The Chess Treasury of the Air.
White: S. Gligoric. Black R. S. Scowen.
French Defence - Winawer Variation
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 Qc7 This has been tried before with varying success, but it's probably slightly inferior to 6…Ne7 and if 7.Qg4 Nf5. 7.Qg4 f5 8.Qg3 8.exf6 would only develop Black's game after 8…Nxf6. 8…Ne7 Black was rather unlucky to fall into an opening variation that was thought to be quite good in Jan. 1960, but highly suspect by March. 9.Qxg7 Rg8 10.Qxh7 cxd4 So far the game has followed the textbooks, but now Gligoric played 11.Kd1 Mr. Scowen probably didn't know that White had already been successful with this move against Tal, Botvinnik & Petrosian, as development of the KB is unhindered. 11…dxc3 12.Nf3 Nbc6 13.Bg5 Bd7 14.Bb5 This powerful move virtually refutes Black's opening play. White's aim is to exchange all the minor pieces except his knight and Black's bishop, which will be severely handicapped by its own pawn chain. 14…a6 15.Bxc6 Bxc6 16.Bxe7 Rf8 17.Nd4 Qxe7 18.Qxe7+ Kxe7 Black's advanced pawn is weak, while on the other wing White has a pawn ready to advance. Now see how a GM transforms these advantages into a win. 19.Ke2 Rh8 20.f4 Rag8 21.Kf3 Rh7 22.Rab1 Kd7 23.Rb3 Rhg7 24.g3 Rh7 25.Rxc3 Rh3 Now Black threatens to regain material with R1xg3+. 26.Rb1 Rxh2 27.Nxc6 bxc6 28.Rb7+ Kc8 29.Re7 Rh3 30.Kg2 Rh4 31.Rxc6+ Kd8 32.Rexe6 Resigns.
This game illustrates the advantage you have when your opponent is saddled with a permanent weakness like a vulnerable pawn or blocked-in piece.
In last week's position, Mordue (W) played 1.Bxh7+ which is not exactly the prelude to a spectacular mating attack, but does win the defending pawn. 1…Kxh7 2.Qd3+ and he gets the d6 bishop back.
This position occurred in the 2007 West of England Championship in Exmouth, between Joshua Hall (W) and Alan Brusey. Can you advise White on a good move?
Next Up …… the Paignton Congress (16.07.2016.)
Like football, no sooner has the old chess season been put to bed than the next looms quickly over the horizon. This means the Paignton Congress cannot be so far away – in fact it starts seven weeks tomorrow, Sunday 4th September. Entry forms may be downloaded from the website chessdevon.co.uk. If necessary, further details may be obtained from the event Secretary, Alan Crickmore on 01752-768206 or e-mail email@example.com.
After his recent run of tournament successes the likely winner is local Grandmaster Keith Arkell, who has made this event virtually his own for over 20 years, so much so that other GMs seem to leave it to him without challenge, one exception being 2008 when Gawain Jones shared 1st prize with him. An extra 2 GMs would greatly add to the interest.
60 years ago, the winner at Paignton was Francis Kitto (5/7) with Andrew Thomas and Wolfgang Heidenfeld both on 50%. This was their individual game.
White: A. R. B. Thomas. W. Heidenfeld.
Grünfeld Defence [D78]
1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 g6 3.Bg2 Bg7 4.d4 Nf6 5.0–0 0–0 6.c4 c6 7.Nc3 h6 8.Ne5 Thomas was not one to hold back from taking the high ground when the opportunity arose. 8…Be6 9.f4 Nbd7 10.b3 dxc4 11.bxc4 Nxe5 12.fxe5 Nh7 13.Qd3 Qd7 14.Bb2 Bh3 15.Ne4 Bxg2 16.Kxg2 Rfd8 17.Nc5 Qc8 18.e6 f5 Taking the pawn would allow in the White Queen with 18…fxe6 19.Qxg6 to be followed by Nxe6. 19.Nd7 There is no immediate threat from the knight and pawn, and Black could bring his knight in from the rim, with something like Ng5. But Black opts to eliminate the knight & pawn immediately. 19…Rxd7. If 19…Ng5 20.Qa3. 20.exd7 Qxd7 21.Rad1 White is planning to control the d-file after playing d5 when possible. 21…Ng5 22.Ba3 Re8 23.d5 e6 24.h4 Ne4 25.dxc6 Qxc6 26.Qd7 Rc8 27.Qxc6 Rxc6 28.Rd8+ Kh7 29.Rd7 White's bishop threatens to move to either b2 or f8. 29…Rb6 29…Kg8 Black could try 30.Rxb7 Rxc4 but after 31.Rd1 there is little hope. 30.Bf8 The bishop cannot be further defended. 1–0
This was only revenge for Thomas as the two had met just a few days earlier in Rd. 4 of the British Championship at Blackpool, when Heidenfeld (B) won after sacrificing a rook in a French Defence.
The Jewish Heidenfeld (1911-81) was born in Berlin but ahead of the rise of Nazism emigrated to South Africa where he became National Champion eight times. After the war he moved to Ireland where he became their Champion six times. His autobiographical book of games is called Lacking The Master Touch, (1970) now highly sought after.
The solution to Dave Howard's 3-mover last week was 1.Bd7! after which White has four 2 move mates depending on what Black tries. For example, 1…Kf4. 2.Qf6+ Ke4. 3.Qf5 mate or 2…Kg3 3.Qf2 mate.
This position arose between fellow Bristolians Tyson Mordue (W) and Steve Dilleigh in a tournament in Torquay a decade ago. How did White win a small but significant amount of material?
Bristol Summer Congress Results (09.07.2016.)
In the Bristol League's Summer Congress last month top seed in the Open was GM Keith Arkell, and though his Rd. 3 victory over IM Chris Beaumont, the second seed, was compensation for Chris' victory two weeks earlier at the Cotswold Congress, his Rd. 2 draw against Steve Dilleigh prevented him from winning this year's Grand Prix outright.
Open: 1st Keith Arkell (242 – Paignton). 2nd Carl Bicknell (201 – Horfield). 5 players came 3rd=.
Major (U-155): 1st Vladimir Bovtramovics. 2nd= Robert Wallman (142 – Olton), Ian Bush (142 – Magdalen College School) and Lynda Roberts (148 – Thornbury).
Minor (U-125): 1st Lance Carter (113e – Maidenhead). 5/5. 2nd= Kevin Markey (Glos)& L. Abecassis.
White: C. Beaumont – Black: K. Arkell
Sicilian Defence – Maroczy Bind. [B39]
1.c4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6 5.e4 Bg7 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Nc3 Ng4 Contravening the unwritten rule of not moving the same piece twice in the opening. 8.Qxg4 Nxd4 9.Qd1 Ne6 10.Rc1 Qa5 11.Bd3 d6 12.0–0 Bd7 13.f4 Bd4 14.Bxd4 Nxd4 15.Nd5 Nc6 Not 15…Qxa2?? allowing 16.Nc7+ winning a rook or 16.Bb1 Qxb2 17.Rf2 winning the knight. 16.b4 Nxb4 17.f5 Nc6 18.c5 dxc5 19.Bb5 a6 Not 19…Qxb5?? 20.Nc7+. 20.Bxc6 Bxc6 21.f6 Bxd5 22.Qxd5 exf6 23.Rxf6 0–0 The key to the endgame lies in the pawn structure – Black's two islands of 3 pawns against White's isolanis. 24.Rcf1 Qc7 25.h4 Rae8 26.Rd6 Rxe4 0-1 White loses another pawn, so resigns. If 27.Rd7 Qe5.
His last round game was not without interest, as a crowd gathered round.
White: K. Arkell. Black: J. Marco.
King's Indian Defence [E60]
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.c4 Bg7 4.g3 0–0 5.Bg2 d6 6.0–0 Nbd7 7.d5 Nb6 8.Nbd2 e6 9.dxe6 Bxe6 10.Nd4 c6 11.Nxe6 fxe6 12.c5 dxc5 13.Qc2 Qe7 14.Nb3 Nbd7 15.Be3 b6 16.Bxc6 Rac8 17.Bb7 Rc7 18.Bg2 Nd5 19.Bxd5 exd5 20.Rad1 Nf6 21.Bg5 Qe4 22.Qxe4 Nxe4 23.Bf4 Rxf4 24.gxf4 Bxb2 25.Rxd5 Although Black is the exchange down, his 3 queenside pawns may yet play a part in the outcome. 25…c4 26.Nd4 Nc3 27.Rd8+ Kf7 28.Kg2 Nxa2 29.Nc2 a5 30.Rb8 Rc6 31.Rb7+ Kf6 32.Rb1 c3 33.e4 g5 34.Nd4 c2 35.e5+ Kg6 36.Nxc2 Rxc2 37.Rxb6+ Kf5 38.R1xb2 Rxb2 39.Rxb2 The queenside issues are resolved and attention switches to the other wing. 39…Nb4 40.fxg5 Kxg5 41.Re2 Nd5 42.e6 Kf6 43.Ra2 Nf4+ 44.Kg3 Nxe6 45.Rxa5 Ng7 46.Kg4 Ne6 47.f4 Ng7 48.Ra6+ Kf7 49.Rh6 Kg8 50.f5 Ne8 51.Kg5 Kg7 52.Ra6 Kg8 53.Ra8 Kf7 54.Ra7+ Kg8 55.Rd7 Ng7 56.h4 1–0
In last week's position, only Black's knight is preventing Qb5 mate, so RxN removes that defence and Black must do something about it, which does not include taking the rook, which is free to move away.
This new 3-mover from Dave Howard is unusual in having no White pawns. White to play.
Teignmouth Chess Club History (02.07.2016.)
Chess history can be a fascinating aspect of the game. This generally takes the form of biographies of great players with a collection of their best games. It can also take the form of the story of great tournaments or head-to-head matches, St, Petersburg 1914 being a classic.
Less common are the histories of individual chess clubs. In my archives I have several, including A History of the Metropolitan Chess Club 1890-1990, by Moore & Deery, and histories of the Plymouth and Exeter clubs.
The latest addition to this list is Teignmouth Chess Club 1901 – 2016 compiled by Bill Frost with numerous contributions from fellow members past and present and a joint publication by Chess Devon and Keverel Chess. It comprises 66 A4 pages with 46 photographs and numerous games, and costs £13 plus p&p. For copies, contact Bill Frost via firstname.lastname@example.com.
An excellent and valuable project, beautifully executed and finished.
The Teignmouth club was founded in 1901 and competed for the county championship (the Bremridge Cup) that year and every year it has been held thereafter. Although they had to wait a hundred years before they won it, their consistency is admirable.
The book recalls how, in 1965, ten club members took on the great Andrew Thomas in a simultaneous match.
White: A. R. B. Thomas. Black: R. H. Jones.
Sicilian Defence – Wing Gambit [B40]
1.e4 c5 2.b4 Having just given a talk on the virtues of the opening, A.R.B. felt duty bound to play it on this occasion. 2…cxb4 3.d4 e6 4.Nf3 Ne7 5.a3 d5 6.axb4 dxe4 7.Ne5 Nf5 8.Bb5+ Nd7 9.0–0 Bxb4 10.c3 Be7 11.Nd2 e3 12.Ne4 If 12.fxe3 Nxe3 winning the exchange. 12…exf2+ 13.Rxf2 0–0 14.Bxd7 Bxd7 15.Qh5 Bc6 16.Nxc6 bxc6 17.Bg5 Bxg5 18.Nxg5 h6 19.Ne4 a5 Once Black's a-pawn starts to advance in this opening it can become a nuisance. 20.Re1 a4 21.g4 Qh4 22.Qxh4 Nxh4 23.Ra1 Ra7 24.Ra3 Rb8 25.Rfa2 Nf3+ 26.Kf2 Nxh2! 27.Kg3 Nxg4 28.Kxg4 f5+ (a) winning the piece back and (b) obtaining 2 passed pawns. 29.Kf4 fxe4 30.Rxa4 Rxa4 31.Rxa4 Rb3 32.Rc4 Rb6 33.Kxe4 Kf7 34.Ra4 g5 35.Ke5 g4 36.Ra7+ Kg6 37.Ra8 Kh5 38.Kxe6 c5+ 39.Ke5 cxd4 40.cxd4 By this time, the other 9 games had finished and it was just him and me. 40…g3 41.d5 Rg6! vital to get the rook behind the pawn and in a position to protect the king and other pawn. 42.Ra1 If 42.d6 g2 43.Ra1 g1Q 44.Rxg1 Rxg1 45.d7 Rd1 and the h-pawn will queen. 42…g2 43.Rg1 Rg8 44.d6 Kh4 45.d7 Kh3 46.Rd1 Kh2 47.Rd2 Kh1 48.Rd6 g1Q 49.Rxh6+ Kg2 50.Rg6+ Rxg6 51.Ke4 If 51.d8Q Qe3+ 52.Kd5 (52.Kf5 Qe6+ 53.Kf4 Rg4#) 52…Qd3+ winning the queen. 51…Re6+ 52.Kf4 Qe3+ 0–1
Last week's Mansfield 2-mover was solved by 1.Nd3! and, because the rook is pinned, Black can do nothing about the threat of 2.Qf5 mate.
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MOSCOW - A voter from Siberia phoned President Vladimir V. Putin's Moscow campaign in the waning hours of the presidential contest here with a simple query. What would Putin do if he wins a second term?
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In all these workshops, students leave with their own boat already built and ready to finish and paint at home using the skills and knowledge gained during the workshop and the take-home instructions we provide. These are demanding but rewarding classes that are great for corporate teams, family groups, and friends. As few as two to as many as six can take the class. Locations, prices, and details vary so please read below and do not hesitate to email or call with questions. In some cases a "TBD" will indicate that information is forthcoming but that the class is scheduled and we're taking registration.
Echo Bay Dory SkifF - April 28-30, 2017 @ Chase Small Craft Wood Shop | saco, ME | $1,750 tuition (includes the boat)
Build your own rowing version of the popular Echo Bay in 3 days starting with the kit and finishing with a boat that you can bring home and paint! Order a sailing package in advance to leave with a kit to finish her out as a safe, fun, seaworthy sailing dinghy.
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Build your own 10' outboard skiff in a week. The Compass Skiff is a handy, handsome, fun skiff that takes up to 6hp outboard and is easily rowed. The Compass has quickly become one of our favorite skiff building workshops. Stay with us at beautiful WoodenBoat and build your own skiff.
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Build your own CIY from our kit with Clint Chase in his shop. This 4-person class will run a week and a lottery at the end of the week will determine the winner of the boat. Learn skills in setting up a perfect strongback, planking, and laminating wood. Take home some new skills and start your own boatbuilding project with greater confidence and know-how.
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This class will be a week long workshop building the beautiful Annie, one of the most famous of the St. Lawrence River Skiff models. Minutes from the shores of the River itself, this class will focus on setting up the building jig, planking the skiff, and turning over. One lucky student can be the winner of this bare hull to take home and finish the interior, or arrangements can be made to finish at the Wooden Boat Shop.
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A certified elementary school teacher is urgently needed for Shanxi Evergreen International School (SEIS). In this uniquely rewarding educational environment, teachers are intimately engaged in training and molding Evergreen's youngest cross-cultural workers while also enabling their parents to more fully invest in their work in the local community. Please contact us if you would like to serve in this integral position. Some financial assistance is available. Click here for more information about SEIS.
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IUPUI's Native American Heritage Month balances authentic heritage experiences and contemporary challenges
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A stone carving demonstration, a spirit pouch workshop and a session on misrepresentation and mascots are among events that make up an Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis observance of Native American Heritage Month in November.
"The Native American Heritage Month events represent a balance between accurately displaying authentic heritage experiences and talking about contemporary challenges facing Native Americans," said Charmayne Champion-Shaw, interim director of the IUPUI Office of American Indian Programs. The office is part of the IU School of liberal Arts at IUPUI.
Among the Native American Heritage Month events IUPUI is observing are:
• 20th anniversary of the American Indian Center of Indiana, 4 to 6 p.m. Nov. 8 at the Ruth Lilly Health Education Center.
• Diversity Film Series presents "Smoke Signals" at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 9 in University Library in the Lilly Auditorium.
• Stone Carving Demonstration with Eiteljorg artist in residence Duane Goodwin, 1 to 4 p.m. Nov. 10 at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art.
• Misrepresentations and Mascots: Indiana's Misrepresentation of Indians, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Nov. 15 in Room 323A, Cavanaugh Hall at IUPUI.
•Spirit Pouch Workshop with Eiteljorg artist in residence Duane Goodwin, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 17 at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art.
• Red and Black: A critical discussion on the intersection of race and identity, 4 to 6 p.m. Nov. 27, IUPUI Campus Center.
"As with other heritage months, the first question is do we really need them," said Champion-Shaw, interim director of the IUPUI Office of American Indian Programs. "The idyllic answer is I wish we didn't, but especially in Indiana, a state named after Indians, awareness about Native Americans is abysmal."
People who learn that she is an Indian often will say, "I didn't know Indians still existed," Champion-Shaw said.
For Hoosier school children, the history of Native Americans is usually compressed into a social studies chapter they may be assigned to read in fourth or fifth grade, she said.
A review of the elementary school social studies books used in Indiana schools found that all of them described Indians in the past tense, she said.
A goal of Native American Heritage Month is to provide as much information about Indians as broadly as possible in a short span of 30 days. She also hopes people will turn to educational programs about Indians, including a new Native American Indian certificate that will be offered at IUPUI starting next fall.
"I'd like to see people recognize that we are here and that we are contemporary," Champion-Shaw said.
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Smart Motorways
A smart motorway (formerly managed motorway) is a section of motorway in Great Britain that uses active traffic management (ATM) techniques to increase capacity by use of variable speed limits and hard shoulder running at busy times (source: wikipedia). Auto Express have provided more information – click here. 'Smart motorways are a technology-driven approach to the use of our motorways. They increase capacity and relieve congestion while maintaining safety. Smart motorways help make journey times more reliable. The hard shoulder is used for traffic, either permanently or at peak times. This creates an extra lane to provide additional capacity' (source)
- 05/2017 – Although smart motorways are becoming increasingly common across the UK, millions of motorists are unaware what to do in the event of an emergency on them – click here.
'Smart' motorways are also referred to as 'All Lane Running' motorways. The following documents are available:
- Concept of Operations IAN 16/12 – MM-ALR_Concept_of_Operations_v2_0
- Managed Motorways IAN 16/13 – Managed Motorways All Lanes Running IAN_161
- The prohibited lane enforcement camera handbook – prohibited-lane-enforcement-camera-handbook-first-edition-cast12916
Government must not ignore safety concerns of 'all lane running'
29 September 2016
The Transport Committee publishes the Government's response to its report on 'all lane running' motorway schemes, urging the Government not to ignore the safety concerns that were presented.
- Government response: All lane running
- Government response: All lane running (PDF 208 KB)
- Inquiry: All lane running
- Transport Committee
Minister's determined to press ahead despite safety concerns
In a report published in June 2016, the Transport Committee warned that Government should not proceed with 'all lane running' schemes while major safety concerns exist. The Committee argued that the permanent conversion of the hard shoulder into a running lane is a radical change to the nature of motorways and creates a real challenge for motorists. Click here for more information.
However, Ministers seem determined to press ahead with the latest design of all lane running schemes, ignoring the concerns expressed by MPs and other motoring organisations.
Chair's comments – Louise Ellman, Chair of the Transport Committee, commented:
"The Department for Transport is blatantly ignoring the safety concerns set out in our report. We had barely received the response to our report before the Government endorsed an all lane running scheme on the M4.
The Committee isn't arguing with the Government about the need for more capacity on our motorways, or their statement that motorways are our safest roads. We support smart motorways such as the M42 scheme.
But we take real issue with the Government's assertion that all lane running schemes on motorways are no different to other types of roads without hard shoulders. Motorways are a different class of road and drivers have different expectations when using them.
In the same response, Ministers recognise that the public needs to learn about variable speed limits and compliance with Red X signals on these motorways. Even then, we believe that education will fail without enforcement and ministers need to ensure that failure to comply is backed up with effective enforcement.
The Committee remains concerned about the size and spacing of Emergency Refuge Areas. While we are pleased that Highways England has committed to a review, the M4 proposal should not have gone ahead until the review is complete.
We are not the only people who are worried about this incarnation of All lane running schemes. In the course of our inquiry, there were genuine concerns raised by the emergency services, road workers and recovery operators. The Government cannot ignore them."
In 'all lane running', the latest version of smart motorways, the hard shoulder is used as a live lane of traffic. Previous schemes have only used the hard shoulder at peak times or to deal with congestion. In 2015, the Department for Transport forecasted that traffic on the strategic road network would increase by up to 60% by 2040. The Government sees smart motorways as a way of addressing this growth without incurring the costs of traditional motorway widening.
Plans are in place to permanently convert the hard shoulder into a running lane on around 300 miles of motorway. Highways England has a programme of 30 all lane running schemes to the value of circa £6 billion over the next nine years.
The Transport Committee published its report on all lane running on 30 June 2016.
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- Read the report conclusions and recommendations
- Read the full report: All lane running
31/05/2017 – Consultants ProCon Partners wins HE Smart Motorway contracts
Project controls consultancy ProCon Partners has won a series of projects with Highways England to ensure the smooth delivery of smart motorway installations across England.
The five projects, which have a combined overall value of £2.4billion, will cover the M4, M1, M6, M20, M23, A14 and A21.
ProCon will deploy their Live Reporting and Analytics Service to give real-time feedback on the progress of each project, which it was will enable Highways England to improve traffic flow for the hundreds of thousands of drivers who use the roads every day. Full story – click here


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Jack Drum provides a wide range of high quality accessible arts activities for people of all ages and abilities across County Durham and the wider region. We run regular weekly sessions during term time for children and young people at our base in the St.Cuthberts Centre, Crook as well as activities for adults and families through our Colour Your Life and Community Learning programmes.
We run a thriving youth arts café in the centre of Crook and have a lovely allotment in Roddymoor that we use to run outdoor arts and holistic therapy projects. Our outreach programme visits local schools, community centres, day care centres and residential homes around the County delivering unique projects that work towards live performances, film premieres and exhibitions.
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one), I'm clearly rather risk-averse. And the current parenting information overload is contradictory to a degree almost beyond parody. But I do want to highlight one phrase that I'm hearing, pretty much exactly as described in
this article about child car seats:
Have you ever reminisced about riding around in the "way back" without any seatbelts much less any child seats? Perhaps you even followed that line of thinking with a statement similar to "and we made it."
I just want to ask you to make one little emendment. If you are a Boomer or GenXer in the US, please say instead:
99.99% of us made it.*
And Generation Z will in turn be able to say (if they can manage to speak through their safety restraints):
99.9975% of us made it.
And there will be about 4500 more of them per year around to say it.
* That is, in 1970, 99.99% of American children 0-15 did not die in a car crash†. In 2011, 99.9975% of American children aged 0-15 did not die in a car crash. Or, in 1970, about 6000 children died in car crashes, and in 2011, only 1400 did (interestingly, the US population under 15 was about the same both years, 58 million vs 61 million).
† To be more accurate, since a child passenger would have to survive that 99.99% odds fifteen years in a row, 99.8% of us made it long enough to get our drivers' license. The crash mortality rate in 2011 for ages 15-19 was about six times that for ages 0-14 (13 per 100,000 vs 2), which is presumably because all those kids start driving themselves or riding in cars driven by their friends. In 1970, the ratio was four times higher (43 vs 10). Driving in the US is sufficiently safer now that being a teen driver in 2011 was only slightly more dangerous than being a child passenger in 1970.
Data from http://wonder.cdc.gov/cmf-icd8.html and http://wonder.cdc.gov/cmf-icd10.html. Key simplifying assumption: everyone under 15 is a passenger; everyone 15 and over is a driver.


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Some women end up meeting great people through online dating, but comic Erin Jackson isn't one of them. In fact, she says online dating actually led her to meet "the worst human being" she's ever met in her entire life.
In this clip from her comedy routine on "Wanda Sykes Presents Herlarious," Jackson expresses her frustration over spending money on a dating site in order to meet her bad date -- "I'm sure I could have met this dude outside a liquor store for free," she says -- and recalls what made the evening go very, very wrong.
First, the two went to dinner and Jackson realized they had nothing in common. When the check arrived, not only did her date ignore it at first, but he then asked her to help cover his half.
"He asked me to help pay for his because, 'I don't want to break this last $20. You know how it is, boo. Once you break it, it's gone,'" Jackson quotes. "That happened on a date in real life."
The real shock of the evening, however, came after dinner, when her date stopped to relieve himself in an alley.
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After winning two AFRIMMA awards – artiste and song of the year – Davido has dedicated his win to his late friends, DJ Olu and Tagbo.
The singer copped two awards at the just concluded Africa Muzik Magazine Awards & Music Festival (AFRIMMA) held in the United States on Sunday.
In tribute to his late friends, he took to IG to share a photo of the awards and dedicated them to his friends, writing,
One for Olu , One for Tagbo 🌹 ! Nothing but love , support , and positive energy came from you guys ! Thanks for you guys for keeping me motivated . This is 'OUR' Award. Thank you Afrimma ! Thank you Lord.


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- Multipurpose Functions: This indoor monitor offers multipurpose options for you to take advantage of. It will display accurate information about the indoor temperature, the humidity levels, a daily weather forecast, accurate time and an interesting alarm to use according to your preferences. Not to mention the display of highs and lows registered both in the case of humidity and temperature levels.
- Perfect LCD Display: The monitor features a modern LCD display on which all the information you need will be digitally displayed. The display is large enough to easily read the information thus being well informed all the time.
- Proper Support for Advantageous Health Care: Specialists seem to have simply thought of everything that a simple indoor monitor could do for you. This product displays timely humidity levels in your space which enables you to properly control your personal space safely. This will prove very advantageous for you especially if you have children or suffer from any kind of respiratory issues.
- New Alarm Function: The indoor monitor hydrometer also features an alarm function that comes as an extra benefit for users. You can even snooze it to make sure it will wake you up once again in 5 minutes and help you get ready for work.
- Modern Features, The Weather Forecast at Your Disposal: This modern indoor monitor displays the daily accurate forecast to keep you ready for everything. The way in which this feature functions is through the Boolean calculation technique in terms of both humidity and temperature features.
- Cool Moon Phase Feature: How about being well informed about absolutely everything, even the shape of the moon? This cool feature will add some fun to the table with this new stylish indoor monitor.
- Proper Performance for What It Was Intended: Although this indoor monitor brings numerous features on the table, its greatest advantage is that of accurately monitoring the temperature and humidity levels in your indoor air. It does the job well by making accurate records and displaying them properly on its display.
- Too Many Features Could Overwhelm You: This little indoor monitor seems to have more features than a huge device. While this is nice and all, you might feel overwhelmed with all the information displayed on its large but not infinite LCD display.
- Accurate Display of Information Only on a Proper Level Surface: If you want to make sure that your indoor monitor accurately displays the information about the temperature and humidity levels in your indoor air make sure you place it on a proper level surface that might not interfere with its functions.
All in all, this new Bengoo BEN921 humidity thermometer does a good job in displaying the information for which it was created. You will be daily informed about the temperature in your house as well as the humidity levels in your indoor air.
This way you will know when you might need to make some changes to make your personal space more comfortable for yourself. With the added benefits of using it as an alarm clock, a weather forecast reader and a funny moon shape displayer, you will have fun using this modern product from Bengoo.
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AcuRite 01226M Humidity Monitors
- Proper Indoor Temperature Measurements: The most important feature of this product is the way in which it manages to measure the indoor temperature and have it displayed for you. It shows it both in Celsius and Fahrenheit degrees thus being an efficient device for you to consider using.
- Accurate Humidity Level Measurements: This indoor monitor also offers the benefit of measuring humidity levels in the indoor air your breathe thus making it become two products in one.
- Useful Daily Records: The monitor creates and displays daily records for both humidity levels and the indoor temperature and displays it for you to easily read it and become well-informed about your personal environment.
- Modern Wireless Tabletop: The indoor humidity monitor features a modern wireless tabletop as well as a stylish magnetic-mountable type of design that will transform it into your new favorite home accessory.
- Useful Battery Indicator: As an extra benefit you will also get the low battery indicator function that will let you know whenever this new accessory needs to be recharged.
- Careful Handling is Required: The product needs to be carefully handled for proper operation. It can easily get damaged if something heavy drops on it especially as far as its display is concerned or in case you drop it on the floor.
- The Battery Starts Heating Up after a While: After using it for a while, some customers have noticed that the battery started heating up for no reason.
- Smaller than Expected: The indoor humidity monitor seems bigger in pictures than it actually is. Many customers have been surprised by its size once they opened the package. Yet it does its job well in balance with its price.
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AcuRite 00613B Indoor Humidity Monitor
- Good Price: The humidity monitor can be purchased for a low price so you will not have to spend a lot yet you will get the information you need well registered and properly displayed.
- Accurate, Small & Portable: This monitor offers accurate information while being portable and small in size which makes it the perfect choice wherever you need to check your humidity and temperature levels.
- Easy to Read Display: The monitor is small in size yet enables you to easily read the displayed information that you need.
- Digital Technology: The product functions based on digital technology.
- Celsius Readings: The temperature and humidity monitor enables Celsius readings which is unexpected taking into account its low price.
- Simple Design: The product does not feature a modern design.
- Good – Not Excellent: For the price you have to pay to purchase it, the monitor does a good job especially in the case of temperature levels but not so much as far as humidity measurements are concerned.
- Easy to Damage: In case you drop it or drop something on it it can easily get damaged. Also, you need to make sure that it is placed safe on a proper level surface if you want to take advantage of it for a long time.
In conclusion, we can say that AcuRite 00613B Indoor Monitor is a good choice of purchase for users interested in a simple product that will not cost a lot yet offer good results.
It works excellent in terms of temperature measurements and good enough in the case of humidity level records. Totally worth its price.


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Onlooking moms and children were impressed with the confident toddler. She marched through the sand without hesitation and straight up the long set of steps. She slid down like a pro. All smiles and cheers at her success.
Then the moment.
It was one of those moments where you just know nothing good will come of it. Maybe it was the cool and breezy conditions. Maybe it was the overcast skies. More likely it was the fact that my two year old decided to go down the slide on her belly. Feet first, thank heavens. I can only imagine what would have happened if she went head first on her tummy!
I watched her slide faster than she thought she would in her new position. I tried to watch her face but it was inches off the slide for the entire thrilling ride. She did try to look behind her toward the end.
The next thing any of us knew she had caught air only to land unceremoniously in the mud with a big splat! My muddy baby picked herself up and cried.
I think it's worth noting that I tried to comfort her without picking her up – something I would normally do! Why? Because I'm vain and she was covered in muddy sand. The boys were very concerned about their sister. What could they do to ease the pain of the moment? They stroked her back and repeated my words. "It's ok."
Promising to clean her up at the van was comfort enough for the torrential sobs to subside into regular cries. We gathered what little dignity we had left and walked back to the van. Half an hour to get everyone ready to go, eleven minutes to drive to the park, three trips down the slide, my baby was slimed, and I wasn't sure if I could convince her to stay any longer! Good times.
The boys went into overprotective mode with comments like
Parker: I hope those big kids just leave because they just teached Gwen to go down the slide that way.
Gavin: Was that scary Gwen? I'm sorry you were scared.
Only she wasn't scared and nobody made her do anything! She chose to go down a hello long slide that way all on her own. She was just mad that she was dirty. She is my daughter – irrational vanity and everything.
I cleaned up her skin the best I could with baby wipes. There was no hope for the clothes. I wiped out the inside of her flip flops but the ribbon and flowers were going to have to stay muddy. Gwen threw another fit when I told her to put her shoes back on. She would point angrily at the flowers and screech that they were dirty. Yep, that's my girl. Life is all about looking good.
Somehow I convinced her to be ok with the indignity of it all. The boys went back to the long slide while Gwen climbed around the play structure. But she refused to go down any slides. Soon she was sitting on the curb surrounding the play area pouting. Why didn't I think to bring my camera?
Eventually she dried and got over her poutiness. We finished out the time I had planned on us being at the park. Right as I was about to gather up the kids, Gavin ran over to me with muddy sand all over his face. Apparently he had face planted somehow. I just laughed. The whole experience was too funny and I couldn't believe I didn't have my camera.
At home I tried to get pictures.
BYU shirt – slimed
cute capris – slimed
cheap flip flops I spent 20 minutes decorating – slimed
Mommy band aid – slimed (Gwen was very upset about that!)
But the pictures didn't turn out so well. She had dried completely so it wasn't quite the same as when she was dripping. And it's pretty obvious that she had gotten over it.
By the way, the clothes came out clean but the flip flops look the same. Who knew they would survive the washing machine (gentle cycle) but not look any cleaner? If Gwen gives me a hard time about the dirty flowers I can always replace them and the ribbon too if needs be.


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Here is an I Love You card you can use for Valentine's Day. It is for Sketch Challenge #12 which posted on Saturday on Facebook . I decided to make two versions of this Sketch. I will post the secone card on Wednesday. Hope these cards give you some inspiration for your own cards and projects.
Stamps: Banners For You Photopolymer #141710
Ink: Berry Burst
Cardstock: Thick Very Vanilla
Berry Burst
Pink Pirouette
Bundle of Love Specialty Designer Series Paper #144143
Big Shot: Sweet & Sassy Framelits #141707
Punch: Banner Triple #138292
Other: Stamping Sponge
Berry Burst 1/2″ Finely Woven Ribbon #144133
Adhesives: Fast Fuse or SNAIL
Mini Stampin' Dimensionals
1. Cut your Thick Very Vanilla card base at 5-1/2″ x 8-1/2″. SCORE and fold at 4-1/4″.
2. Attach your Berry Burst Ribbon by running a strip of Fast Fuse 1-3/4″ from the bottom edge. Lay your Ribbon over the Fast Fuse. Trim the excess from the sides.
3. Choose two patterns of Designer Series Paper and cut a 1-1/2″ x 4-1/4″ strip of each. Punch one end of each strip with the Banner Triple Punch. Sponge around the edge with Berry Burst ink. Decide which will go on the bottom. Decide what the length will be. Attach it with Fast Fuse. Trim off the excess from the top and sponge the edge of the strip. Decide how short the second strip will be. Use Fast Fuse on the top edge and Mini Stampin' Dimensionals on the sides and tips. Attach, trim top, and sponge top.
4. Now for the Hearts. Choose the size of Heart Framelits you want. Cut the larger one from Berry Burst cardstock and the smaller one from Pink Pirouette cardstock. Sponge around the edges of both hearts with Berry Burst ink. Stamp your words in Berry Burst ink on the Pink Pirouette heart. Attach the Berry Burst Heart with Fast Fuse. Attach the smaller Heart with Mini Stampin' Dimensionals.
Your Card is finished!
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A First Look At Hedging Twitter
Options started trading on Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) last Friday, and on Monday Wunderlich Securities initiated coverage on the stock with a "sell" rating and a price target of $34 per share. Here's a look at two ways of hedging Twitter as of Monday's close.
1) Hedging With Optimal Puts
Extremely expensive. Uncapped upside.
These were the optimal puts, as of Monday's close, to hedge 1000 shares of TWTR against a greater-than-20% drop over the next several months.
As you can see at the bottom of the screen capture above, the cost of this protection, as a percentage of position value, was 18.96%.
2) Hedging With An Optimal Collar
Pays you to hedge. 20% upside cap.
If you were willing to cap your potential upside at 20% between now and June 20th, this was the optimal collar** to hedge 1000 shares of TWTR against a greater-than-20% drop over the same time frame.
As you can see at the bottom of the screen capture above, the net cost of this collar, as a percentage of position value, was negative, meaning you would get paid to hedge.
Note that, to be conservative, Portfolio Armor calculated the cost of this hedge by using the bid price of the call leg and the ask price of the put leg. In practice, you can often sell calls for more (at some price between the bid and ask) and buy puts for less (again, at some price between the bid and ask), so, in actuality, an investor opening the collar above may have gotten paid more than $300 to do so in this case.
Possibly More Protection Than Promised
In some cases, hedges such as the ones above can provide more protection than promised. For a recent example of that, see this post about hedging shares of Tesla Motors, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA).
*Optimal puts are the ones that will give you the level of protection you want at the lowest possible cost. Portfolio Armor uses an algorithm developed by a finance PhD to sort through and analyze all of the available puts for your stocks and ETFs, scanning for the optimal ones.
**Optimal collars are the ones that will give you the level of protection you want at the lowest net cost, while not limiting your potential upside by more than you specify. The algorithm to scan for optimal collars was developed in conjunction with a post-doctoral fellow in the financial engineering department at Princeton University. The screen captures above come from the Portfolio Armor iOS app.
The preceding article is from one of our external contributors. It does not represent the opinion of Benzinga and has not been edited.
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I'm terrified of one of my own stories.
I never would have thought that was possible, but oh look, it happened.
Most authors never publish their first novels. It's the second, tenth, seventeenth novel that ends up being the first one published, and that first one is abandoned and pulled out every so often as a reminder of how far the writer has come.
When I finally finished the first draft of A Lesson in Vanishing, I knew the likelihood of it getting published was slim to none. It's a hard story to categorize. It has elements of suspense, but it's not a suspense. It has elements of romance, but it's not a romance. So what the hell is this book? Trying to figure it out didn't matter so much, because I figured it wouldn't end up in any agent or editor's slush pile.
Well, I did manage to find a small press to I'd like to submit it to. And now I'm fucking terrified of my own story.
It has problems. While my main character, Frankie, is pretty well fleshed out, she's still got hiccups and bumps. The antagonist, Roger, has a lot more than a few hiccups. And don't get me started on Peter.
Then there's the whole new second part I've yet to draft.
Every writer wants to write a book that makes people go, "You wrote that book?" That book that gets under their skin, that they remember days and months later, that they recommend to friends and strangers alike. And don't lie and tell me you don't care about that kind of stuff. You totally do.
I want Vanishing to be that book.
Am I being egotistical when I say it could be? Yeah. I'm a writer. I'm allowed.
But putting in the work to make it that book scares me. I could fail, miserably. I write romance for one very big reason: it's easy. I enjoy it, sure, but it's also stupendously easy, at least for me. Vanishing was not easy. You'll probably all tell me it shouldn't be, and you'd be correct. I know it shouldn't be easy.
That's not going to stop me from putting it off and wishing it would just write itself. Because once the book is finished, finished finished, I'll have to actually submit it and while I can handle rejection, I'm not sure I can handle rejection for this particular story. This story holds so much of myself, my aches, my blood, my frustrations, that to have no one want it and to be forced to slide it back under the bed would require more Pepsi and chocolate chip cookies than there are in the world. That fear could very well lead me to bury Vanishing at the bottom of the drawer, unfinished. Because as long as it's incomplete, I don't have to worry about whether it's met my standards or not.
However, there's another story that I never talk about that I never thought I'd get to submit, and now…now it might stand a chance. I'll tell you about it on Friday.


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Trustworthy,upbeat,smooth,warm and engaging,lively.intelligent,enveloping
sultry/sexy, ,saucy,gritty/edgy
informative,pleasant,charming,gracious,kind, neighborly congenial,affable,friendly,helpful,adorable,playful,
quirky, down to earth and laid back.Decisive & authoritative
Conversational,comforting,real-person, confident
Professional for narrations, presentations,audio-books
Persuasive and polished, Sophisticated and soothing for
commercials, books, training manuals and documentaries.
Sweet,fun,humorous,energetic,cheerful and kid friendly for childrens stories,
cartoons,games,greeting cards and video animation
Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform
• Baby
• Child
• Teenage Girl
• Young Adult Female
• Middle Age Female
• Senior Female
Language(s) of Which I Am a Native Speaker:
• English - USA and Canada
I Offer my Services for these Recording Purposes
• Commercials
• Promos
• IVR, voicemail, phone systems, and on-hold messages
• Training, business presentations, sales, and web sites
• Audiobooks
• Videogames
• Documentaries
• TV shows and movies
• Movie and game trailers
• Podcasts
• Others (on-camera, infomercials, live announcers, spokespersons)
• Cartoon/Animation
Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)
• Non-Union Jobs
My Union Affiliations and Memberships
My Recording and Delivery Capabilities
• I will go to any designated studio in my area
• I have ISDN in my studio
• I can record and then deliver the audio files via Email
• I can record and then upload the audio files via FTP
• I can record and then deliver the files by regular mail
Pre-, Post- and Production Services I Offer
• I offer copywriting services
• I offer translation services
• I can deliver edited and finished voice tracks
• I offer radio ad production services
• I have a music library and can add music to any project
• I can add special effects to any project
My Home Base
, Michigan, United States
Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects
Voice parameters are adaptable,from a young child to an older woman, girl next door, authoritarian, teacher etc. Variety of dialects, Russian, Middle Eastern,Southern.
New York style Jewish girl,I speak Hebrew and Yiddish
Clear, confident,believable, warm engaging delivery
Impersonations include-fortune teller, valley girl, cowgirl,sweetie pie,super mom, knowledgeable big sister
sexy babe, mean girl, motherly old Jewish woman,
stoner, witch , fairy godmother,dizzy blonde,faux snob etc.
Comforting as a cup of tea with honey
Cool as the other side of the pillow
Rich as chocolate cake
Sweet as pie!
My Voice Experience
As a teenager I started working as a disc jockey at a rock and roll radio station. I have written copy and commercials and provided voiceovers for ads and presented the news/weather. In my twenties I was A DJ aboard The Voice of Peace, a pirate radio station anchored off the coast of Tel Aviv. The ship has since been sunk but I can be heard weekly in their current incarnation at WWW.TheVoiceofPeace.co.il.
Additionally I have provided voiceovers for commercials, books, training manuals and documentaries.
My Training
On air talent at
WSHJ Southfield, MI
WBRB Mt. Clemens, MI
WILS Lansing, MI
WWCK Flint, MI
WWMN Flint, MI
The Voice of Peace 100FM/1540AM Tel Aviv, Israel
Held positions as DJ (radio announcer), music director, program director, general manager. Wrote copy for news, commercials, public service announcements and produced various programming and promotions. Have experience providing voice for commercials, books, manuals and films for over 35 years.
My Studio Equipment
Sennhauser E835 Microphone and Yeti Microphone
Soundcraft -notepad mixer, Apogee One
Garage Band,Audacity, MacBook Pro
Additional Skills
Having background as an author and journalist lends itself to the ability to bring the written word to life as desired for the client. My experience as a hostess, and announcer will provide your product with the sound you require.
Payment Methods Accepted
• PayPal
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Contact Information
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Introducing a little preview of Phoebe 9 weeks new, she was an absolute star for her newborn baby portraits at my home studio in Plymouth.
When mum contacted me about booking a baby portrait session little Phoebe was already past the 5-14 day window that is advised to capture those squishy baby portraits. Mum had recently learnt this and decided to get in touch, as she really wanted those precious memories to treasure while little phoebe is still small, I was happy to inform mum that although this is the ideal window newborn baby portraits can be taken up to roughly 3 months old, its true that the ideal age is 5-14 day's as babies are more inclined to still like to be curled up as they were inside the womb and they are also more inclined to sleep longer as newborn babies do. I have however posed many older babies especially as mum has either been unaware of the ideal window or because mum or baby has spent some time recovering after birth.
As you can see at 9 weeks old little Phoebe was a dream baby and even let me get her into some props. She was very awake at time and it did take a little longer than some younger newborns but this is to be expected when working with slightly older babies, as they start to become more alert and taking more notice of their surroundings and start to adjust to the big world outside the warm comforts of the womb.
"Ashley was recommended to us by a friend. We wanted newborn pictures of our baby girl but were worried we had left it too late as she was already 8 weeks old. Ashley was absolutely fantastic, he captured both smiling and sleeping shots of our daughter. He was so patient and managed to get her to sleep several times which is no easy task! Ashley was extremely accommodating ensuring he got shots with all the props and outfits we chose even though we had run over time. We would highly recommend Ashley (the baby whisperer), not only is he a fantastic photographer but he has a fantastic way with children."
Please feel free to share this blog post or leave a comment below, I would like to know how many of you know the ideal age to get your baby or children portraits done within the first year as there are certain windows to capture certain milestones, please feel free to check out my baby portrait photography and my children portrait photography.
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