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Construction is supposed as one of the most growing businesses in this recent world. It requires various appliances and tools to develop construction tasks. A crane is designed especially for lifting and carrying objects and moving them from one place to another. EOT cranes are the most uncomplicated of all cranes utilized for maintenance implementations in many industries.
Single and double girder EOT crane are widely used by industries. There are a number of EOT crane manufacturers and double girder EOT crane manufacturers who offer the best quality.
While you are going to buy any of these cranes, you should evaluate and look carefully its features such as quality and durability. There a lot of well-known double girder EOT crane manufacturer and double girder EOT crane manufacturers. In their companies, you will find large varieties of EOT crane design.
Uses Of EOT Cranes In Material Handling Industry
EOT cranes are one of the most commonly used cranes in the material handling industry. The EOT crane manufacturers and double girder eot manufacturers explain that EOT cranes are flexible and can make the heavy loads handling process really comfortable. These cranes are used in a variety of industries. And the best thing is that you can get one customized machine for your business that perfectly suits all your needs.
Here are some of the industries that make use of EOT cranes:
Bulk material is loaded from industries and moved to warehouses. Now unloading and shifting of such tons of weight is not possible to be done manually. It's not even safe plus the labourers can get strain and injuries while handling such load manually. So, the overhead cranes are used in warehouses to bring the load from the dock areas. Also, the load to be transferred further can also be handled with the help of an overhead crane.
Assembling industry
As we all know that parts of bigger machines are prepared separately and then, these are assembled to give a final look. Since the developing of parts is quite messy, it's done at a place away from the assembling area. The parts are heavy, and it's not easy for humans to bring them to the assembling area. Not only is it hard, but it also takes a lot of time. The productivity of the industry slows down and to prevent that, overhead cranes are best.
Transportation Industry
Transportation of even smaller goods can be robust when these are in bulk. Transportation of heavy items like machines is even more complicated. You need an overhead crane to put the things to be transported on rail cars or open trailers. Not only it will make the process fast, but you will find that the goods get transferred safely.
Storage Industry
There are several heavy items in storage places, and that need to be moved here and there continuously. Storage areas can have bulk paperwork, vehicles, machinery, and household appliances as well. Overhead cranes are quite helpful in such places as they help in the safe movement of heavy units.
What are the qualities of a good quality EOT crane manufacturer
They should have functional capabilities such as robust and perfection in dimension. These qualities have moved to choose one who providing productive and well-operated hoist devices of several types.
The crane industry has noticed a great growth rate regarding technological developments. So, it is essential for each eot crane manufacturer to use the latest technology while making cranes. That is why; all manufacturers are alerted that they are being up to date with all the necessary accessories.
A normal EOT crane should be strong, effective, long-lasting, provide high execution and very easy to maintain. The cranes are used in different sources such as shipping, mining, construction and many more. The flexibility of a crane is also considered a vital element since it helps to use a crane in an efficient way.
N.B- The U.K. is the most versatile manufacturer of double girder cranes, providing a comprehensive range for lifting requirements of all kinds. All their double girder overhead cranes are made to order – meaning they can be built to any size and adapted to handle any load.


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October 26, 2018 at 5:00 am – The Daily Inter Lake
The homeowners who live in Hartmanns Trailer Court in Libby have bought the community from the previous owners. The community now known as Libby Creek Community is a new resident-owned community that has formed a nonprofit cooperative corporation managed by its members.
In most manufactured-home parks, homeowners own their homes and pay a "lot rent" or "lot fee" to the park owner for the use of the land. In resident-owned communities, the lot rent goes to the cooperative and is used for the good of the community.
Housing that is affordable to working and low-income families is disappearing across Montana. Resident-owned communities preserve an important source of unsubsidized affordable housing for working families, seniors and people with low incomes. In most places in Montana, owning a home in such a community is about half as expensive as renting an apartment.
Danielle Maiden, the cooperative housing specialist for NeighborWorks Montana, was the lead staff person on this project. She grew up in Libby, graduated from Libby High School in 2004 and has a strong connection to the community.
"Libby is reinventing itself," Maiden said. "There is a revitalization taking place and a big effort from the residents to bring new economic opportunities to the area. The resident-owned communities program naturally promotes pride in ownership and provides the resources to make capital improvements in the Libby Creek community upon purchase."
The purchase was financed by Glacier Bank and NeighborWorks Montana. There are 12 homes in the community. The co-op members elect a board of directors to conduct the day-to-day business.
Libby Creek is the 10th resident-owned community in Montana. The resident-owned communities program helps to provide safe, secure and affordable housing in perpetuity, and it eliminates the fear of rent increases or being evicted without cause, according to NeighborWorks Montana.

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The lehendakari, Iñigo Urkullu, has assured this Monday that the Basque country will respond with "all the firmness democratic and institutional" to any step that would give the extreme right-wing Vox or its allies of PP and Citizens in the path of "disassemble" the self-government to the basque or to outlaw the PNV, as stated by the spokesman of Vox, Ivan Espinosa de los Monteros, during the last televised debate, and that has been followed promising in the elections that you have attended since Saturday.
"the Face of this threat represents an extreme right-wing and extreme, cast into the mount, and who is willing to disassemble, against the will of the whole of the basque society, everything built in the area of self-government, I do solemnly affirm that any intention of attack or assault to the self-governing basque, their institutions, their political parties or the democratic sensibility of the basque society are met with all the firmness democratic and institutional of the Basque Government and its president", has said through the social networks. "I expected that parties of the implementation of state have responded [to the words of Vox]", lamented Urkullu.
Urkullu bet for a "legal consultation, and agreed" to strengthen the self-government the spokesman for The PNV, Aitor Esteban, denies the greeting to the Vox, Ivan Espinosa de los Monteros, after the debate Aitor Esteban: "What I Am obligated to give the hand to this people Vox? It's not. Are fascism"
The basque country president has reminded that the leader of the Vox "is not a stranger to the political basque" because "he was an mp of the PP" and "was part of the Human Rights Commission of the Chamber Vasca" when was chaired by the Urkullu. "I know in first person what was the attitude of Santiago Abascal in those circumstances". So, she has asked, "if you ever renounced the agreements with the PNV when needed and supported he being a leading member of the PP". "We are what we are and we are what we were. Between the one and the other, appear the contradiction, consistency and inconsistency, and the ability or inability of self-criticism", has reflected.
through social networks, Urkullu has referred, in this way, the "repeated" statements of representatives of Vox on their intention to outlaw the PNV, and to the references to him as its leader, Santiago Abascal, who, in his opinion, "go beyond the playing field of the election debate between political parties."


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How to: Configure Garbage Collection
This article is relevant to entity models that utilize the deprecated Visual Studio integration of Telerik Data Access. The current documentation of the Data Access framework is available here.
Garbage Collection is an integral part of the .NET Framework world. The .NET's garbage collector (GC) manages the allocation and release of memory for your applications. Garbage collection in Telerik Data Access is extremely important because of the number of potential references in the first level cache.
Telerik Data Access allows you to configure the type of the references maintained by the cache of the OpenAccessContext. There are three possible modes:
- Strong - specifies that all references can't be reclaimed.
- Weak - specifies that a reference is maintained using a System.WeakReference allowing the garbage collector to reclaim the object.
- Auto - specifies that references to fetched data are strongly held and references to user instances are weakly held. When data is fetched from the server (or the second level cache), it is put into state objects. These state objects are then put (or updated in) the first level cache. The first level cache will reference the state instances with a string reference, until the persistent object (that the state holds the values for) is generated. Then the first level cache strong reference is updated to a weak reference as the user application is now responsible to hold the reference to the object. In this way, fetched data is not lost due to GC activities, but the data can be eventually garbage collected when the application has lost the reference to that data.
The default cache reference type behavior is Auto.
Configuring Cache Reference Type Behavior
There are two possible ways to configure the cache reference type behavior (garbage collection) - by using the Model Settings Editor or by using the BackendConfiguration class in the code.
Using the Model Settings Editor
In order to configure the cache reference type behavior by using the Model Settings Editor:
- Open your domain model in the Visual Designer.
- Right-click on an empty area and select Show Model Settings.
- In the Model Settings Dialog navigate to the Backend Settings -> Runtime Configuration tab page.
Modify the Cache Reference Type option.
Using the BackendConfiguration Class
The second way for configuring the cache reference type is to use the BackendConfiguration class. To do this use the CustomizeBackendConfiguration partial method by implementing it in a separate code file for your partial context class. Modify the cache reference type in the following manner:
public partial class EntitiesModel
static partial void CustomizeBackendConfiguration(ref BackendConfiguration config)
config.Runtime.CacheReferenceType = CacheReferenceType.Weak;
Partial Public Class EntitiesModel
Private Shared Sub CustomizeBackendConfiguration(ByRef config As BackendConfiguration)
config.Runtime.CacheReferenceType = CacheReferenceType.Weak
End Sub
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Thus far, we've written a couple of articles examining the ways that owners of both successful and unsuccessful franchises run their operations, and found several broad themes:
- Great NFL teams tend to have owners who make wise hiring decisions at the general manager and head coach positions and empower their upper management to use their expertise to run football operations.
- But good owners are seldom completely detached from their teams. When they are involved in team management, owners of successful franchises tend to take a consultative approach and act to facilitate open discussion amongst their front office and coaching staff leaders. Unlike many owners of bad teams, good team owners do not allow bad situations to fester for long. Two notable examples of good team owners intervening to correct bad situations are Bisciotti's firing of Super Bowl winning head coach Brian Billick, and Jeffrey Lurie's termination of the failed Chip Kelly experiment.
- None of the best teams were characterized by meddling owners, whereas several of the poorest teams were (Redskins, Browns, Raiders under Al Davis, Colts under Bob Irsay).
- Many of the owners of the worst teams look at their teams, and fanbases, and cities as resources to extract, rather than assets to invest in. However, some of the owners of the poorest teams buck this trend, such as the Raiders under Mark Davis and Jaguars under Khan.
- The two cases of great teams having intergenerational leadership (Steelers and Colts), stand in stark contrast to the terrible teams with intergenerational leadership (Cardinals and Lions). The Steelers were imbued with a philosophy from their founder that put winning above money-making in a league where the early owners of the Cardinals, Lions, and Bills all used their teams as cash cows for their financial gain. One could easily argue the "new" management of the Redskins has been similarly inclined for most of its tenure, reaping the easy revenues of an NFL franchise and strip-mining its assets - like FedEx field - as they fall into disrepair. The Colts, who suffered the same fate under Bob Irsay, were fortunate enough to eventually be guided by a son who went in a completely opposite direction and turned the team's fortunes around both on and off the field.
- Nearly all of the great teams turned around or improved dramatically after an ownership change (Patriots, Colts, Seahawks, Eagles, Ravens). And, several of the poor teams appear to be on the right track after an ownership change (Bills, Cardinals, and, potentially, the Raiders). Among this group, there's no evidence that poor ownership transforms into good ownership over time. This doesn't bode well for the Redskins. The two franchises with persistent ownership are the Steelers and the Packers (being owned by the City of Green Bay), which are probably the most consistently great franchises in NFL history. But the two losingest franchises of all time, the Lions and Cardinals have also remained the same families' hands for over half a century.
- As long as the great teams stay under their current ownership, we suspect they will continue to see success, in large part because of their ownership philosophies. Among the bottom dwellers, the Bills and perhaps the Cardinals, who have both experienced ownership turnover in the recent past are probably best poised to change their fates going forward.
This article will focus on a deeper dive into theme #6. In particular, this finding:
Among this group, there's no evidence that poor ownership transforms into good ownership over time.
In the 14 teams that we looked at - the 7 best and 7 worst - over the course of the past 20 years (and in some cases, a bit further back), the pattern was unmistakable: The owners of the best teams were often associated with a fairly dramatic improvement in the direction of the franchises they purchased, with the ultimate success - a Super Bowl victory - almost always coming within two decades of them taking control (Kraft, Bisciotti, Irsay, Allen; Lurie took a little longer).
Among the worst teams, however, there was essentially no evidence that long-time terrible owners: Bill Bidwill (Cards), Fords (Lions), Ralph Wilson (Bills), Bob Irsay (Colts) eventually became good owners. To the extent any of those teams have improved (Colts) or will improve, it's because their prior owner shuffled off this mortal coil. With a relatively young - and distinctly terrible - owner in Dan Snyder (55), that got us thinking.
Have Terrible Owners Outside These Ends of the Spectrum Ever Turned Things Around?
With an in-depth review of the ownership groups of all 32 teams in the league being beyond the scope of my capacity at this point, we contemplated potential candidates. Matt offered a few teams for consideration: The Saints, The Cowboys, The Vikings, and The Rams. I proceeded to delve a bit more into the histories of each, focusing on the last 30-40 years primarily.
The Saints
The Saints end up being a classic example of new ownership turning around - positively - the direction of an otherwise lackluster team. From 1967-1984, the Saints were owned by John Mecom, and were largely horrible (78-176-5).
They were purchased by Tom Benson in 1985, and although it took him 25 years to hoist the Lombardi, he fielded a respectable team almost immediately, posting three 11+ win seasons in his first 8 years. Recall, Daniel Snyder has never had even one. Benson's record as owner of the team, through 2017 was 271-256, a dramatic improvement over the bad old 'Aints days.
The Cowboys
As much as it pains us to admit it, Jerry Jones purchase of the Cowboys franchise, at least in his earliest days of ownership, was a wild success. Jones bought the Cowboys from Bum Bright (27-26) in 1989. Jones proceeded to guide a team that won 3 Super Bowls in his first 7 seasons. In 31 years of ownership, Jones' record is a very respectable 270-226, even if his teams' successes of the 1990s are a distant memory.
Jones is - potentially - at risk of falling into the "late stage Al Davis" category, but it appears that his son, Stephen Jones, stepping into a leadership role - unfortunately for us - may have cut off that possibility.
The Vikings
While it's true the Vikings have never won a Super Bowl in their 60 year history, the reality is that they've been a respectably decent franchise for most of the last 50 years. Their current owner, Zygi Wilf, has owned the team since 2005 and has a 126-112-2 record. The previous owner, Red McCombs, had a 64-48 record from 1998-2004. Before that, Roger Headrick, the owner from 1991-1997, was - coincidentally - also 64-48.
The Rams
Stan Kroenke has been the owner of the Rams since 2010, eventually moving the team from St. Louis back to Los Angeles. The team has been less than mediocre under him, with a record of 73-86-1, with their only real highlight during his tenure coming with their Super Bowl appearance in 2018. It certainly would surprise very few if, ultimately, Kroenke ended up among an eventual list of bottom-tier owners, but, at this point, he's not the counter example we're searching for: A bad owner who eventually turned things around.
But Kroenke hasn't always been the team's owner, and the Rams did enjoy significant success in the period before Kroenke bought the team. Those were the Georgia Frontiere years. My arm's length, visceral associations with the Frontiere ownership period (1979-2007) weren't particularly positive going into this exercise: I vaguely recalled the controversy of her moving the team from LA to St. Louis in the mid-1990s, as well as a perception of the Rams as also-rans during much of that period, at least until the "Greatest Show on Turf" showed up in the late 1990s.
Frontiere hadn't expected to own an NFL franchise. She had started her career as a Las Vegas showgirl and nightclub singer and she ended up inheriting the Rams when her husband, Carroll Rosenbloom, died of a heart attack swimming in Florida in 1979.
For her first 20 years (1979-1998), the Rams were largely a moderately competitive to bad team (140-172), winning several playoff games in the 1980s, but dropping off the map completely for much of the 1990s. In her last 9 seasons as owner, however, she did manage to turn things around, overseeing a Super Bowl victory in 1999 and a 81-63 record over that period.
In Dan Snyder's first 20 years as owner of the Redskins, he was a remarkably similar 139-180-1. He didn't manage to win a Super Bowl in his 21st season, like Frontiere, but might there otherwise be cause for optimism?
Grasping At Straws
After a decade in which the Rams went 63-96, Frontiere hired a coach with NFL experience who had taken his prior team to the playoffs 4 times, eventually winning an NFC championship with them. Dick Vermeil, formerly of the Eagles, was hired in 1997 and coached the Rams for three years, leading the franchise to its only Super Bowl title, in 1999. On the trail to his eventual Super Bowl victory, Vermeil was asked about Frontiere:
"I felt very comfortable around Georgia," Vermeil said. "I talked to a lot of people who worked for her and was told ownership never interfered with the team. Therefore, I had no concern."
It wasn't always that way, however:
"[Frontiere] sits there while she straightens the seam of her skirt and says, 'I'm so unhappy about the way things are going,' " former Rams defensive end Fred Dryer [1972-1981] once said about her. "She's run the [Rams] franchise into the ground."
As the Rams packed up for St. Louis in 1995, the LA press was brutal:
Management—and I use the word loosely—of the Rams tore down this team, piece by piece, pad by pad, then sold it like a chop-shop sells a Corvette. This team that has been so completely mismanaged is St. Louis' problem now, and wait until the suckers there get stuck paying the tab...I can still see Frontiere—standing there wearing bunny-rabbit earrings—introducing the coach who was going to turn this team around, her old friend, Chuck Knox. A man who went out and actually made the team worse, just when you thought such a thing wasn't possible.
There was a very strong sense that Frontiere's actions in the lead up to the move were aimed primarily at extracting more money from the franchise, though perhaps that changed when she brought the team back to the town of her birth, St. Louis.
After years of criticism, Frontiere, like Dan Snyder, had become reclusive with the press, rarely granting interviews. However, by the Vermeil years, she at least seemed to have a better reputation among Rams' players:
"Mrs. Frontiere is really a unique owner," [defensive tackle] D'Marco Farr said. "She's so down to earth. I mean, we don't really deal with her a lot on the football level. It's more when we're out in the community [doing charity work]. That's where we see her. And that's her strength. But she'll talk to us after games, tells us how proud she is. And that's what it's all about, right? Trying to impress the boss. We love her."
Ron Rivera, like Vermeil, took his first team to 4 playoff births and an NFC championship. Also, like Vermeil, Rivera is seen as a player's coach - as a man of integrity who cares about his players not just for what they can do for him on the field, but how they can develop as men.
In their second stint, both men were given assurances from ownership that they were in charge of their own destiny, and that there wouldn't be interference. The challenge now becomes, can Snyder, like Frontiere, remain a person of his word and stay out of his coach's way?
Do you believe that Dan Snyder is capable of making the conversion from bad owner to good one?
This poll is closed
Yes, everyone is capable of personal growth.
No, we're doomed.


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ECRAF Congress 2020 = ECRAF Webinar 2020
The ECRAF Executive Committee (EC) has decided to cancel the physical ECRAF Congress and General Assembly in September 2020 due to the Covid-19 situation in Europe. (For more details, please see: Executive Committee Skype meeting MIN APR_2020 and Executive Committee Skype meeting MIN MAY_2020 We are instead planning to arrange a 1½ days Web Seminar (ECRAF Webinar 2020) 08th and 09th September with day two as a reserve day or a half day seminar in case of many topics. We are planning to use Microsoft Teams for the "Webinar" and we are now looking into the technical setup for this. The Webinar will include topic from Germany, the General Assembly and the Congress 2020. We are planning to arrange a Technical Microsoft Teams Setup meeting 04th September 0900-1100 so we can be best prepared for the Webinar. Invitations for the Webinar will follow before summer break 2020. Please consider if you have topics for the Webinar and return your topics in order to the invitations.
Please have a look into the "ECRAF Strategy and Action Plan 2020-2024" and return your comments NLT 12th June 2020, silent procedures rules.
The drafted ECRAF statutes will be one of the topics for the Webinar.
For more info, please have a look into Letter to ECRAF delegates Congress 2020
The ECRAF Executive Committee hope you are all well and able to have a normal life due to the Covid-19 situation.


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© Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Fox News host Tucker Carlson discusses 'Populism and the Right' during the National Review Institute's Ideas Summit at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel March 29, 2019 in Washington, DC.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Tucker Carlson rejected Sidney Powell's conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.Those comments could be bad news for the other Fox News hosts who pushed the false theories, a judge said.They could help prove the "actual malice" threshold for Smartmatic's defamation lawsuit, according to the judge.A New York judge said in a ruling that comments from Fox News host Tucker Carlson could be crucial in proving that the right-wing media company defamed Smartmatic, a technology company falsely accused of rigging the 2020 election.
New York State Supreme Court Judge David B.Cohen made the observation in an opinion published Tuesday for a lawsuit Smartmatic brought against Fox News, its hosts Jeanine Pirro and Maria Bartiromo, former host Lou Dobbs, and election conspiracy theorists Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, which asked for $2.7 billion in damages.Cohen granted Pirro's and Powell's motions to dismiss the lawsuit against them but permitted a number of Smartmatic's claims to continue against the network , Dobbs, Bartiromo, and Giuliani.
One of the issues at the heart of the case was whether Fox News acted with "actual malice" when Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani, who were acting as lawyers for then-President Donald Trump's campaign in November 2020, made false claims about Smartmatic, and when Dobbs made similar claims on his Fox Business News show and on social media.
The "actual malice" standard, which is crucial for some defamation lawsuits , means that Smartmatic may need to prove that Fox News recklessly disregarded or purposefully avoided the truth in order for its case to succeed at trial.
In his opinion Tuesday , Cohen wrote that Tucker Carlson, another Fox News host, may have given Smartmatic some of the ammunition it needs.Unlike Pirro, Dobbs, and Bartiromo, Carlson asked Powell to substantiate her claims that Smartmatic rigged election results and denounced her when she didn't turn up with the proof she promised.
"Ironically, the statements of Tucker Carlson, perhaps the most popular Fox News host, militate most strongly in favor of a possible finding that there is a substantial basis that Fox News acted with actual malice," Cohen wrote.
Given the fact that Powell didn't give Carlson the evidence that Smartmatic flipped votes, that the Trump Campaign told him the evidence didn't exist, and that election security specialists and government experts publicly said that claims of election-rigging were nonsense, there's enough evidence that Fox News avoided the truth to allow Smartmatic's lawsuit to proceed, Cohen wrote.
"Powell never provided the evidence requested by Carlson, and President Trump's campaign advised Carlson that it knew of no such evidence," Cohen wrote.
"Therefore, there are sufficient allegations that Fox News knew, or should have known, that Powell's claim was false, and purposefully ignored the efforts of its most prominent anchor to obtain substantiation of claims of wrongdoing by [Smartmatic]."
The fact that Dobbs said that Powell revealed to him "groundbreaking new evidence" that Smartmatic, the rival election technology company Dominion Voting Systems, and "foreign adversaries" had "orchestrated" an attack on election system made the comments only more damaging, Cohen wrote.
"It is incongruous that Dobbs emphasized evidence' of fraud referred to by Powell while there is no indication that Carlson ever received any substantiation of her claims," he wrote.
Smartmatic might not need to meet the 'actual malice' standard Smartmatic may not even need to prove that Fox News acted with "actual malice" in order to win its lawsuit, Cohen suggested in its rulings.
The standard typically applies only to public figures who accuse others of defamation, or "limited purpose public figures" who have some measure of public standing.
But Smartmatic's technology was used in only one county in the 2020 election.In court filings, Smartmatic has argued that it could only be considered a "public figure" because of "the controversy created around it by the Fox defendants" — an argument that Cohen hasn't yet ruled on.
"Even assuming that Fox News did not intentionally allow this false narrative to be broadcasted, there is a substantial basis for plaintiffs' claim that, at a minimum, Fox News turned a blind eye to a litany of outrageous claims about plaintiffs, unprecedented in the history of American elections, so inherently improbable that it evinced a reckless disregard for the truth," Cohen wrote in the ruling.
Fox News did not respond to Insider's request for comment about the judge's ruling.However, a spokesperson for the news channel said in a statement Tuesday that it plans to appeal Cohen's decision allowing the lawsuit to proceed against the company.
Smartmatic, in November, filed a separate lawsuit against Powell in federal court in Washington, DC.Because Cohen dismissed the accusations against Powell on jurisdictional grounds, the election technology company is likely to continue its claims against her there.
Smartmatic's lawsuit is one of numerous defamation cases triggered by conspiracy theories falsely alleging Trump won the 2020 election rather than now-President Joe Biden.Dominion Voting Systems has also filed a slew of defamation lawsuits against Fox News, Powell, Giuliani, and other right-wing media organizations and activists.
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Belfast Mela is returning for its 12th year with a host of fabulous festival activities.
The family festival will return to Botanic Gardens on Sunday, August 26, to celebrate cultural diversity .
Organised by ArtsEkta, this year's Belfast Mela is set to provide a wonderful family day out to celebrate Northern Ireland's increasing cultural diversity with music, dance, food and much more from around the world.
Nisha Tandon, Executive Director, ArtsEkta said: "This is the 12th year of the Belfast Mela and each year the festival continues to go from strength to strength. This year we wanted to highlight the hugely important part families play at Mela so as well our popular baby rave Bollywood style there is also a new magical journey around the world in Culture Land, mesmerising theatre shows in the Tropical Ravine and much more specially for families to enjoy a wonderful world of diversity in Botanic."
The Belfast Mela Festival will transform Botanic Gardens into an exotic magical garden with up to 30,000 expected to enjoy the sights, sounds and aromas from a wealth of nations.
A special addition to this year's programme will see Botanic go to Bollywood in a spectacular finale show featuring over 100 local performers.
The festival will run from 12 noon until 6pm on August 26.
Tickets are £7 for adults; £6 concession and a family ticket costs £15, covering entry for 2 adults and 2 children under 16. Access to the main family attractions at the event are free of charge.
For more information go to http://www.belfastmela.org.uk.
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- New Thar to come with multiple engine and gearbox options.
- To get a long list of features and hard-top, soft-top options.
- To come with a decent safety kit including dual airbags as standard.
The all-new Mahindra Thar is easily one of the most highly-anticipated launches of the year. It was expectedto be revealed in full earlier this year, but the arrival of thenew-gen off-roaderwas delayed by the COVID-19 outbreak. The all-new Thar will now finally make its world premiere on August 15.
With the new Thar, Mahindra is looking to appeal to a wider audience. In a recent interaction with Autocar India, Dr.Pawan Goenka, MD and CEO, Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd, confirmed the new Thar will offer much more in terms of everyday comforts than the outgoing model. "The current (outgoing) Thar didn't have many creature comforts, and with the new one, we wanted to make it a mainstream vehicle. Not the third or the fourth vehicle in a family. We had to bring in all the creature comforts, all the modern-day amenities and yet maintain the DNA of the Thar", he stated.
Where the original Thar had few comforts to speak of, the new model will pack in a touchscreen infotainment system, a colour multi-info display, rear parking camera and power-folding mirrors. Standard safety kit will include dual airbags, ABS and rear parking sensors, while a factory-fitted, removable hard-top is also expected to be on offer.
While the original Thar was on offer only in diesel-manual configuration, the new Thar will be available with multiple engine-gearbox options, including petrol and automatics for the very first time. It will debut a new 2.0-litre petrol engine from Mahindra's mStallion family that will get a 6-speed manual as standard and the option of an automatic. It is expected that diesel-powered versions will, however, be the mainstay of the range. The diesel engine will be a near-140hp version of Mahindra's 2.2-litre mHawk unit. A 6-speed manual gearbox will be standard while an Aisin-sourced 6-speed torque converter automatic will also be on offer. Both engines will be available with a four-wheel-drive system.
Goenka confirmed that the new Thar will be launched relatively soon. "We are working towards the timeframe mentioned (September – October)", he added.


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CLOSE BUT NO TONY By Peter Filichia
Which races were the closest in Tony history?
We could ask this question of all two-dozen plus categories that have come, gone or stayed during the awards' august seventy-four-year history. But for today, let's limit it to musical performers in their four slots.
This list isn't intended to imply that those who wound up winning and spinning a Tony didn't deserve the prize. Instead, this is a look at actors and actresses who may well have been only a few votes away from bounding onto a stage during a spring night and accepting their trophies.
Alan Cumming, the 1997-98 Best Actor in a Musical winner for his Emcee in CABARET, may well have had some sleepless nights because of Brian Stokes Mitchell and his Coalhouse Walker, Jr. in RAGTIME. He had such a difficult assignment, playing a victim who refused to leave it at that and became a terrorist. And yet, Mitchell never came across as insane or, miraculously enough, vindictive. He simply wanted the justice due him. And, oh, did he do justice to Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens' score. As a result, Mitchell had to be only a few spokes shy of the wheels of a dream.
Note that Cumming won the Best Actor in a Musical prize for the same role that had garnered Joel Grey a Best Featured Actor in a Musical Tony. This was in 1967, when billing was still ruling the Tonys; if your name was under the title, you could forget about being nominated in the leading categories.
This practice didn't sit well with William Daniels, who was so dynamic in 1776 and was rarely offstage. Daniels famously turned down the nomination, saying that he was a leading actor.
That decision may well have cost Jerry Orbach the 1975-76 Best Actor in a Musical prize for his Billy Flynn in CHICAGO.
For had Daniels been nominated as Best Actor in a Musical, he would have gone head-to-head with Orbach in PROMISES, PROMISES. Considering that 1776, which had opened the day before the Tony-nominations cutoff date, wound up winning most of the awards, Daniels almost certainly would have emerged victorious.
So Orbach won instead.
Don't misunderstand; Orbach sold the Burt Bacharach-Hal David songs wonderfully well and was indeed beautifully sensitive and tender as Chuck Baxter. (Yes: Lennie Briscoe could be sensitive and tender.)
But Daniels was better in a more difficult assignment.
So Orbach might have lost for his Billy Flynn because voters felt that he'd already won a Tony because of a flaw in the nominating process. James Naughton would win for his Billy in the still-celebrated longest-running-ever revival that Broadway has ever seen, so why didn't Orbach? He was superb as Billy; I can still remember the 100%-serious expression on his face when he said to Roxie – not trying to crack a joke at all, mind you – "Believe me, if Jesus Christ had lived in Chicago today – and if he had five thousand dollars and had come to me – things would have turned out differently."
Here's betting that events would have turned out differently for Orbach in 1976 had Daniels been eligible. That's especially likely, considering that his loss was to George Rose in Broadway's first revival of MY FAIR LADY.
For Rose wasn't Henry Higgins in that revival but Alfred P. Doolittle.
Yes, he was marvelous, as the revival cast album displays. But Doolittle is a featured role, as the Tonys acknowledged in 1957 when Stanley Holloway was correctly placed in that category.
In fact, Holloway lost the 1956-57 Best Featured Actor in a Musical race because he didn't have a little bit of luck. The winner was Sydney Chaplin for BELLS ARE RINGING, who was actually the show's leading man but – here we go again – billed under the title.
BELLS' leading lady, Judy Holliday won Best Actress in a Musical, but wouldn't you love to know how many more votes she received than FAIR LADY's Julie Andrews? Well, obviously the Tonys made it up to Andrews when she did CAMELOT, right? Nope – Elizabeth Seal in (and as) IRMA LA DOUCE won the prize. That Seal was the only woman in her musical – how could you not notice her? – may be one reason that Andrews was egregiously overlooked. But she couldn't have been too far behind – any more than Ethel Merman was for her Rose in GYPSY when Mary Martin in THE SOUND OF MUSIC won. Wouldn't you love for some still-alive venerable vote counter of that 1959-60 campaign to come forward and tell us how many votes caused Merman to lose?
There's a metaphor in Mandy Patinkin's having two distinct roles in SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE while George Hearn had three in LA CAGE AUX FOLLES: Albin, Zaza and, when you think of it, Jean-Michael's "Mother." Hearn won, but Patinkin had to be right up there in the vote count. In each act, he gave a forthright performance without any of the (way) over-the-top, look-at-me histrionic singing for which he'd already become infamous. That's all the more remarkable considering that he was playing two very passionate characters.
On Tony night in 1974, Debbie Reynolds of IRENE stayed put in her seat as Glynis Johns of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC walked to the stage. Make no mistake: Johns was marvelous. But in a way, she belonged in the Featured Actress category; NIGHT MUSIC is almost – almost – an ensemble show.
Johns has one solo (need I tell you what it is?), appears briefly in two other numbers as well as the finale and that's all you'll hear of her on the cast album; she, along with Hermione Gingold, are the only principals you won't hear in "A Weekend in the Country."
(However, if you get the LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC soundtrack, you'll find that Gingold does appear in the number. Sondheim wrote a new section for her that turned out to be, of course, very witty.)
In contrast, in IRENE's first act alone, Reynolds had four solos and half of one duet, as you'll hear on the most entertaining cast album. She had to do quite a bit of dancing, too, while Johns had virtually none. IRENE was definitely a vehicle that Reynolds drove to success, so many voters must have been driven to vote for her.
For Featured Actor in a Musical, Walter Willison in TWO BY TWO must have been in a close race with winner Keene Curtis of THE ROTHSCHILDS. Willison got the show's biggest hand after singing the driving Rodgers-Charnin song "Something, Somewhere" and got the show's second-biggest burst of applause after warbling the much-admired ballad "I Do Not Know a Day I Did Not Love You."
And yet, Willison's greatest contribution to TWO BY TWO may have been his staying in character and not succumbing (as all his other castmates did) to Danny Kaye's shameless antics after his accident put him in a wheelchair and on crutches.
Losing to a castmate whom you then have to see eight times a week must be hard. That's what A CHORUS LINE's Priscilla Lopez experienced after Kelly Bishop won as Best Featured Actress in a Musical. Lopez had to kiss that prize goodbye and point herself towards 1,513 tomorrows, when she won in this same category for A DAY IN HOLLYWOOD – A NIGHT IN THE UKRAINE.
What's so wonderful is that these two have been able to do what Franklin Shepard and Charley Kringas could not: they're still good friends. More than once, I've seen them attend shows together.
There are others. Jane Krakowski in GRAND HOTEL, showing style, grace, attitude, and charm that belied her twenty-one years, must have been neck-and-neck with Randy Graff for CITY OF ANGELS. Kathleen Freeman in THE FULL MONTY might have won had she – and her musical – not suffered at the juggernaut unleashed by THE PRODUCERS, which helped Cady Huffman ascend to the stage.
In every political race, we're told how many votes everyone received. Why can't it be the same with the Tonys?
Peter Filichia can be heard most weeks of the year on www.broadwayradio.com.


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Monday 18 February 2008
Karita Mattila´s Salome
Karita Mattila is the best Salome I´ve heard since Ljuba Welitsch, The timbre of Mattila´s voice is just incredibly moving in a way that´s difficult to explain, but which is apparent from the video clips below.
Confrontation with Jochanaan - Paris (James Conlon conducts, Falk Struckmann is Jochanaan)
Final scene - part 1:
Final scene - part 2:
Posted by Operalou on YouTube
Salome, Final Scene Part 1, Metropolitan 2004, Audio with clips from the production:
Salome, Final Scene Part 2, Metropolitan 2004, Audio with clips from the production:
Salome, First Confrontation with Jochanaan, Metropolitan 2004, Audio with clips from the production:
Salome, Second Confrontation with Jochanaan, Metropolitan 2004, Audio with clips from the production:
4 comments:
- Bogplukkerne said...
Thangs for the lovely sound clips! Salome is one of my absolute top three operas.
Karita Mattila surely has a lovely voice and great radiance to judge by the still pictures. She has a rather beautefull depth to her voice - almost to much timbre in her lower registre for a soprano.. :-)
While it would be wellcome with som collour to most of the meek soprano parts, it doesn't suit my Salome. On the contrary it makes her too round and womanly and deprives her some of that young teenage love run comletely mad.
I miss some more of the hill but sweat intensity and I am not bewitched by the climaxes as I have experienced with Inga Nielsen. To me she is and was the ultimative Salome both on stage and on recording. Nobody as her gives the part so much sweatness, madness, young girl innocens and intens power. Furthermore her voice is very clear and without the sharp attacks which Marita shares with many sopranos in the forte.
But that is minor details which comes to my mind because she really is very good and I would very much like to experience her performance one day.
Britt - 20 February 2008 at 21:43
- Bogplukkerne said...
... miss some more of "over" the hill... :-)
Britt - 20 February 2008 at 21:44
- mostly opera... said...
One of the things, which I find so fascinating about the role of Salome, is the wide range of interpretatory possibilities. I completely agree that Inga Nielsen was a superb Salome as well, bringing quite another quality to the role with her crystal-clear soprano and completely on-pitch singing (which, agreed Karita Mattila is not always).
Furthermore, Inga Nielsen was superb live and I am fortunate to have experienced her several times in Copenhagen.
I am seriously considering to try to catch some of Mattila´s performances at the MET this autumn if at all feasible..(depends on my economy-at-the-time as well).
I´ll try and upload some sound-clips with Ljuba Welitsch, who had an utterly distinct voice and brought yet another quality to the portrait.
By the way, I am curious to hear what your other two favourite operas are? - 22 February 2008 at 19:41
- Bogplukkerne said...
Well, that's a tough question, the bold remark being some what retoric. But Elektra has to be one of the two and I guess that Tristan and Isolde most be the other - closely followed by the complete Ring.
I also have a very soft spot for Mozarts "enfürung aus dem Serail" as it was the first opera learned by heart as a new and green opera fan now almost 20 years ago :-)
Britt - 22 February 2008 at 20:10


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The Traveler Stories Series. Each month we feature a story (or two) written by another fellow traveler, who shares with us their own travel experiences. This month, meet Courtney, the beautiful Aussie travel blogger at Courty Stelt. She shares with us her love story with travel and the 5 ways in which travel has changed her life.
It was about halfway across the Pacific Ocean when I realised what I'd done.
I was nineteen, and I was en-route to Los Angeles on my first real travel experience; I'd hopped on a plane, all by myself, to live and work in an American summer camp for 4 months. I'd only just left my family home, and I could barely wash my own clothes, let alone look after other people's children all day every day.
What if it was a huge mistake, and I ended up on the first flight back to Australia, with my tail between my legs? I'd never travelled alone before, nor had I ever been overseas, and I was full of a sickening, nervous excitement that just didn't feel right.
Luckily, my freak-out only lasted a couple of hours, and by the time I landed I was so captivated at the new world surrounding me that I'd completely forgotten about my fears. I'll never forget that feeling – the moment I realised that I had discovered something that would change my life forever.
Travel has since become my first true love, and it has also become my favourite teacher in the school of life. Here are 5 ways travel has changed my life:
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#1: Travel has taught me independence
Growing up in a small town on the Far South Coast of NSW in Australia, I always relied on my family and friends to support me through the tough times. With plenty of schoolmates and an extended family that stretched across half the town, I never lacked in finding someone to look after me, to allow me to lean on them in times of need, or to simply keep me company when I was lonely.
The first thing I learnt from that first trip overseas was independence. I wasn't used to doing things on my own, and by stepping out of my comfort zone by going on my first overseas trip alone made me feel liberated and free. I realised that I was capable of looking after myself, no matter what.
#2: Travel has allowed me to experience new cultures
Travel is all about experiencing new cultures, and seeing firsthand how the rest of the world live. We are all humans, but we couldn't be more different in our ways of life. For example, we all eat and drink, and obviously, we all need to use the bathroom.
I'll never forget the first time I visited Asia and experienced their squat toilets. Terrified about falling in, it took me a few encounters before I worked up the courage to give it a go. Afterwards, I couldn't stop laughing at how unusual it was, and I'm sure there are Asian travellers who visit my home country and laugh at how unusual our toilets must seem.
Learning about new cultures is what helps us understand them, and if everyone understood each other's cultures, perhaps there wouldn't be as much hate in our beautiful world.
#3: Travel has given me new friendships
Some of the most incredible friendships that I have developed over the past few years have been because of my travel experiences. I've met some of my closest friends in hostels, at summer camp orientation, during study abroad, or simply out and about during an adventure. There are countless faces without names forever embedded in my memory, from
the couple I shared steins with at my hostel in Munich during Oktoberfest to the two girls I joined for a picnic at an outdoor cinema in Houston. I may not remember their names, but I'll never forget the experiences we shared. As for those I have kept in touch with, our friendship is cemented by the memories of the best days of our life, and the special bond we share through our love of adventure will never be forgotten.
#4: Travel has given me a passion
There's something amazing about having passion.
Regardless of what you're passionate about, the feeling you get when you immerse yourself in something you love is the closest thing to pure happiness. If my love for travel didn't exist, I honestly don't know what else I would be doing. I have other interests, but travel is something so close to my heart that it is often all I can think about. It's something I truly enjoy, and something I am so passionate about that I have dedicated all my spare time to creating a blog about it!
#5: Travel has made me humble
Finally, one of the most important ways travel has changed my life is that is has made me a much more humble person.
While I am in no way wealthy nor well-off by Western terms, it wasn't until I travelled to countries poorer than my own that I realised how truly lucky I was. Riding horses through La Romana in the Dominican Republic and watching people scavenge through the waste to find food or other items of value almost broke my heart. Being harassed by spruikers who wandered the beaches in Seminyak, Bali, trying to sell cheap bracelets and sarongs may have seemed annoying at the time, but at the end of the day, they were just trying to feed their families.
It is only when you put yourself in their shoes that you are able to comprehend the struggles that so many people in our world endure every day, and it is then when you are able to appreciate your own way of life.
Travel has changed my life in many ways, but the biggest change has been to my perspective. My perspective on life, and on the world, will forever be challenged by the experiences that I undertake through my travels. For that, I will always be grateful.
Courtney is the travel obsessed Aussie girl from the blog Courty Stelt. She shares stories of her travel adventures, and shares travel advice for other fellow travellers. She is adventurous and has a love for all things outdoors. Follow Courtney's journey through her Blog, Twitter, and Instagram.
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18 Comments on Travel Inspiration – 5 Ways Travel Has Changed My Life
Thanks for featuring me! xx
Thanks for sharing your story with us Courtney!
Great insight. I totally agree with these and felt the same benefits of foreign travel. 🙂 Keep it up!
Totally! I agree wholeheartedly
Thank you!
I totally agree, travel truly is life changing. I know I am a richer person for my adventures and its most definitely in my blood. I'm always surprised when I meet people who don't have a passion for it. I look forward to learning many more lessons that only travelling can deliver ?
I completely agree! I feel that I have become a better person because of travel…from all the experiences I have had and all the wonderful people I have met along the way.
awesome post and I wholeheartedly agree with everything you said, it sounds like you have had many wonderful experiences. I travelled before I had children and I remember when I got pregnant with my first people were like "its too hard to travel when you have kids, you won't do it" what I found is that I travel even more with my children, the reason being is that travel can only make you richer as a person and I already see the how my oldest (6) has benefited from it.
Thank you for sharing Hannah. I so agree with what you said – I have been traveling my whole life, because my parents felt that travel would be such a great education for my sister and I. I feel so blessed to have been able to see so many places growing up. And I feel that in the end, it's really made me so much more mature and tolerant.
I felt exactly the same when I was 18 and on a plane for a year working holiday in the UK! I was SO YOUNG! But I survived…. and I never stopped travelling.
I actually follow Courtney on Instagram & love her photos so it was nice to stumble across this & get to know her a little. She really expressed herself views thoughtfully & I can feel her passion for travel in her words. Look forward to more of your feature stories, this is a great series!
Hi Sheena, that's so nice to hear. I'm glad you enjoy my photos and stories! x
yes!!!! 100%! travelling taught me to be more open minded & understanding
I really enjoyed reading this post. The ways it's changed you (Courtney) are so similar to me! I've always suffered from anxiety and depression, and traveling has really helped me with both of those – throwing me into new experiences! Aren't we lucky to live in an age when world travel is possible?
Travel is indeed an instrument of transformation. The more you travel, the more you discover about yourself and also the more you change from within. I feel that travel is indeed a great change agent.
Really enjoyed this read, Courtney, and all your points resonated with me so much… ESPECIALLY the bit about the toilets in Asia! My first trip to China was when I was 10, and for the first few days, I was so petrified of the squat toilets that I wouldn't go until we had a "normal Western toilet". One time this even led to my uncle (the general manager of a hotel) letting me into one of the rooms just so I could do my business in the middle of a dinner we were having. So embarrassing!
Agree so much with all of these and can totally relate to them.. One that is really high up for me is the being humble one. So gratefull that I get to go on all these adventures and meet amazing new people!
Fantastic Page & Blog


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4.4 The Unification of China
Ancient China 4.4 The Unification of China
Chaos of Warring States leads to New Philosophies
Scholars try to restore Social order, Harmony, & Respect for authority
3 Philosophical Systems
Confucianism Daoism (Taoism) Legalism Yin Yang often symbolizes Confucianism = Balance in society = balance in universe. Symbol for Daoism is often the Bagua, which mixes personal, social, political factors of life with elements in the Universe and Nature. Legalism doesn't have a symbol. The bottom one is the Chinese character for justice.
Yin & Yang Opposite rhythms of the universe
Yin: Earth, Feminine, Passive, Tiger Yang: Sky, Masculine, Active, Dragon
Confucius (551 – 479 BC) China's greatest scholar
Social harmony & good Govt. depend on the duties of 5 relationships ruler & subject father & son husband & wife older brother & younger friend & friend Confucius (Romanized version of name) (Real name was Kung Fu Tzu = master of Kung) wanted to reform society. Wanted to be a public leader but because the Duke of Liu (his employer) sought greedy endeavors, Confucius retired felleing as if he were a failure. Yet he is one of the most influential people in history. The GOLDEN RULE: Do not do unto others what you would not want done to yourself = coined by Confucius 500 years before Christ.
Confucianism Dominant philosophy of China Values
was supported by some Emperors Values Social Order through Filial Piety Education is important to society Everyone has Civic Responsibility Govt. jobs (civil service) should be based on Merit Relate Education to the Meritocracy = Education = merit = trained civil service = well run bureaucracy
Confucian Civil Service
Focus of Education = train Civil Servants = govt. workers A trained civil service = Bureaucracy Candidates were required to pass a test on Confucian ethics Anyone could take it, but only rich could afford the education needed.
Chinese Emperor (in Yellow, the color of divinity) receiving the Civil Service test of a student of Confucian philosophy. Dates from the Song Dynasty (1100s AD)
Daoism The Dao = "The Way" = universal force that guides nature
Founded by Laozi (6th Century BC) The Dao = "The Way" = universal force that guides nature Harmony comes from Nature = study nature to become one with the Dao = achieve internal harmony.
Laozi believed that things in nature do not strive for fame or fortune but just exist "as is." Therefore, humans cannot hope to change outcomes in nature, but instead seek knowledge of nature through the Dao. Governments should leave people's lives alone and instead let them be in harmony with nature. Nature provides an alternative to social and political chaos.
Daoist Practices Internal Harmony thru… Tai Qi
Traditional Chinese Medicine Astrology Acupuncture is the use of tiny needles inserted into various points of the body to relieve pain. It is thought these points are channels from which Qi (CHI) flows. Making sure your Qi is in good order will restore your Ying and Yang to balance and bring good health.
Chinese Daoist astrology map: or Zodiac = Each animal naturally behaves a certain way. Humans born on that respective year have those personality characteristics.
Legalism Founded by Li Si
Order thru strong govt. that provides rich rewards & harsh punishments. Govt. controls thoughts & actions Li Si = "Lee-Say" was chief minister to Emperor Qin Shi Huang Di
Confucian Scholars are buried alive under order of the Emperor (in yellow). Their books are burned to control thought.
The Qin Dynasty 221-202 BC Founded by Qin Shi Huangdi
United China under an Autocratic Emperor. Used Legalism to crush all political & intellectual threats. Qin (Chin) is where we get the name China from. Qin built the 1st unified Great Wall using forced labor. MAP: Blue is great wall.
Qin Shi Huangdi = Son of Heaven, the First Emperor of China (united)
View of the Great Wall from Space: the only recognizable man-made structure that can be viewed from space.
Terracotta warriors of Qin's tomb = all are unique, still thousands of them are buried in the rock.
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With Pompey often finding themselves at the top end of League One, dipping into the fourth tier may not always be their first choice in the current climate, but it may not be avoidable.
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Harry Pickering, Crewe Alexandra
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Of course technically that doesn't make him a League Two full-back anymore, but his performances in the fourth tier certainly show he should be plying his trade in League One next season.
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However that doesn't mean that he shirks on his defensive duties. In League Two he registered 4.9 interceptions, 9.4 recoveries in the opposition half and two clearances per 90 minutes.
The defender has one year remaining on his current contract with an option for a further year, so Crewe can afford to ask for a fee for Pickering.
In that sense, he may not be the most reasonable signing, and with Crewe now in League One he might be tempted to stay, however with Pompey knocking on the door of the Championship he might see a move to Fratton Park as his best next step.
Joseph Mills, Forest Green Rovers
Forest Green captain Mills is out of contract at the New Lawn and although he has been offered a new deal, he is yet to sign and could be tempted by a move away.
Mills is more of an attacking full back and can play at left-wing, meaning he would provide ample cover to Ronan Curtis and be an option at left-back.
He has been a constant attacking threat for Mark Cooper's side this season and has seven goals and six assists to his name in 24 games this year.
At 30, he is an experienced player and could be a cheap option for Kenny Jackett, with free transfers set to be a huge part of of the summer window.
Pompey would need a more defensive defender to balance the squad as tackling isn't one of strong points and he focuses more on bombing down the left and threading key passes.
Nevertheless, he is an option Pompey could explore as they look to bolster their options.
Ibou Touray, Salford City
Touray has been ever present for Salford this season, missing just two league games this season for the Ammies.
At left-back, he has scored three goals and set up four more as an attacking presence for Graham Alexander's side and recently had his contract extended to cover next season.
He has made 91 appearances in a three year spell at Moor Lane, but with the club now set for another season in League Two after finishing 11th this year, a League One move could be a tempting prospect for Touray.
His set piece delivery is one of the best aspects of his game as well as his long passing and dribbling, with runs down the line a prevalent aspect of his game.
Like Mills, he can also play at left midfield and could be ample cover for Curtis, if the winger stays at Fratton Park.
Touray is not an easy man to get past either, being dribbled past just 0.5 times per 90 minutes of football and registers almost two tackles per 90.


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In her address, Ms. Utley offered seven key pieces of advice for women in packaging, processing and other engineering-focused careers. Tips ranged from reading "The Art of War" to keeping the ledger of commitments to personal and professional life in equal balance.
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