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The Central Provident Fund (CPF) Board on Tuesday announced that beginning January 1, 2012, approximately 362,500 CPF members will enjoy an average savings of 12 per cent on their annual Home Protection Scheme (HPS) premiums.
'Members who join the HPS scheme on or after January 1, 2012 will get to enjoy the new rates, while existing members paying annual HPS premiums will pay the lower premiums when they renew or adjust their HPS coverage on or after January 1, 2012,' said the CPF Board.
Existing members who are eligible for the lower premium rates will be notified via letters from the CPF Board upon successful payment of their next premium due on or after January 1, 2012.
Members can also check their new HPS premiums from their online CPF Statement of Accounts in the month of premium deduction by logging in with their Singpass to the CPF website.
Potential home-buyers can estimate the new HPS premiums on the HPS calculator on the CPF website from January 1, 2012.
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One Pan Taco Pie is a twist on the taco, and your family will love it!
There was a time when I was growing up that my great-aunt came to visit us. I had never met her before this time, and I don't recall seeing her anytime after, but for whatever reason it was, when she came to visit, she stayed for quite a while. There isn't really much I remember about Aunt Golda. I remember that she was super strict, so she and I didn't get along very well. She was legally blind, but I don't know if she was born that way, or if it developed later in her life. Because she was blind she thought that my hair was red, and I hated that! Which is quite funny now, because I have two children with red hair! 🙂 Although she was legally blind, this woman could cook! She could cook better than most people who have perfect vision! She certainly didn't let her handicap hold her back.
I remember this one dish in particular, because even after she went back home, my mother continued to make it. Taco Pie, although the name sounds perhaps strange, the flavors are anything but.
When I was a kid I was super picky when it came to food, and because there was something in that taco pie besides meat and cheese, I didn't want anything at all to do with it! Now, that I'm older and not as picky anymore, I make taco pie a lot. Lucky for me, my kids aren't picky. This dish is one of our favorites, and I know that y'all will love it just as much as we do.
Starting with a handful of ingredients, and 5 steps, this One Pan Taco Pie is a great meal to enjoy on those busy school nights. These 6 ingredients you can grab the next time your in Walmart. Ground beef, shredded cheese, all-purpose baking mix, milk, eggs, and Pace Picante Sauce or Pace Thick and Chunky.
Ok, I know your wondering why I've also included the V8+Energy drinks in the photo, but I'll tell you that at the end! First let's make this One Pan Taco Pie!
In a large pan over medium to high heat, cook your ground beef until it's cooked through. Then toss in 1 tablespoon of our Better than the packet! Homemade taco seasoning, or one pouch of whatever taco seasoning you have on hand.
Pour in 1 tablespoon of water and 1/4 cup Pace Picante Sauce. Stir to combine.
You can bake this in the pan that you have cooked the meat in, if it's oven safe. Or you can toss it in a baking dish. I decided to bake it in a separate dish because I've had some trouble with my cookware recently. When you're ready to bake; toss 3 eggs into 1 1/4th cup milk.
Pour in 3/4 cup all-purpose baking mix, and whisk to combine. (a few lumps may remain, and that is normal)
Sprinkle the meat with 3/4 cup shredded cheese. And pour your batter evenly over the top.
Bake for 30 minutes, or until the top is golden brown! Serve with additional Pace Picante Sauce and sour cream, if desired!
Now, about that V8+Energy drink in the photo above; I have found the perfect afternoon pick-me-up! It gives me the perfect little boost to push me through cooking dinner, and finishing up our home school day. My personal favorite is the Pomegranate Blueberry! However there is also Peach Mango, Orange Pineapple, Black Cherry, Diet Strawberry Lemonade, and Diet Cranberry Raspberry. What I really love about this drink is, it doesn't taste like a vegetable! It's made with green tea, which is where the natural energy comes from, so you won't crash later. As a busy mom, I already crash enough as it is. Ha! I don't need a crash from my beverage choice.
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One Pan Taco Pie
One Pan Taco Pie is a twist on the taco, and your family will love it!
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 tablespoon of our homemade taco seasoning or 1 pack of your favorite
- 1 tablespoon water
- 1/4 cup Pace Picante sauce or Pace Thick and Chunky
- 1 1/4 cup milk
- 3 eggs
- 3/4 cup all-purpose baking mix
- 3/4 cup shredded cheese
- Preheat your oven to 400 degrees.
- In a oven proof pan, cook your ground beef until no longer pink, over medium to high heat.
- Pour in your taco seasoning, 1 tablespoon water, and Pace Picante Sauce or Pace Thick and Chunky.
- Stir to combine.
- In a medium sized bowl, whisk together the milk, eggs, and all-purpose baking mix. Set aside.
- Sprinkle the cheese over the top of the cooked meat.
- Pour the batter evenly over the top of your meat mixture, and place in the oven.
- Bake for 30 minutes or until the top is golden brown.
- Serve with additional Pace Picante sauce, Pace Thick and Chunky, and/or sour cream.
Nutrition Information:Yield: 5 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 476 Total Fat: 28g Saturated Fat: 12g Trans Fat: 1g Unsaturated Fat: 13g Cholesterol: 214mg Sodium: 722mg Carbohydrates: 17g Net Carbohydrates: 0g Fiber: 1g Sugar: 3g Sugar Alcohols: 0g Protein: 36g


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This weekend, as the newest member of San Diego Surfrider's Executive Committee, I attended the chapter's leadership retreat. Our Chair is ex-Navy so he was able to rent cabins at Del Mar Beach on the Marine Corps base at Camp Pendleton.
"The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul." - Wyland
30 January 2016
25 January 2016
Full Moon Sunrise Surf
22 January 2016
Great Way to Start the Day
At last night's Surfrider chapter meeting, I made tentative plans to meet Jon and Jason for a mid-morning session. Jon ended up surfing a little farther south and earlier while Jason and I paddled out at Hennemans.
The crowd was light and a breeze put a slight chop on the water. I rode a bunch of waves on my 7'2" although most closed out. A head-high drop on a right made me hoot, and it was one of those days when I capped off the session by riding straight to the cobblestone beach. Stoked!
|Hennemans, and Jason thinking maybe Sewers would be better
10 January 2016
What Lies Beneath, Part II
After heavy rains kept me out of the water most of last week, I was jonesing. Plans to surf Crystal Pier with Mike and Steve were scuttled when I couldn't find parking – which is typically for June but unusual in January.
The longboarders weren't sharing and I was on my 6'2" since I'd planned on beachbreak, but still I rode some fun waves. I got a nice drop on an almost head-high right, and my last wave was a carvey left that took me all the way in before the tide dropped too low.
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I'm using Angular 2+ and Angular CLI.
How do I add font-awesome to my project?
I'm using Angular 2+ and Angular CLI.
How do I add font-awesome to my project?
After Angular 2.0 final release, the structure of the Angular2 CLI project has been changed - you don't need any vendor files, no system.js - only webpack. So you do:
npm install font-awesome --save
In the angular-cli.json file locate the
styles[] array and add font-awesome references directory here, like below:
"apps": [ { "root": "src", "outDir": "dist", .... "styles": [ "styles.css", "../node_modules/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.css", "../node_modules/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.css" // -here webpack will automatically build a link css element out of this!? ], ... } ] ],
Place some font-awesome icons in any html file you want:

Stop the application Ctrl + c then re-run the app using
ng serve because the watchers are only for the src folder and angular-cli.json is not observed for changes.
addons does? I see it's documented as "Configuration reserved for installed third party addons.", but I cannot find any handling in the Angular-CLI code.
– Arjan
Nov 2 '16 at 14:15
addons filed... This has been in my attention for a while now.. I will update my answer once i find something.
– AIon
Nov 2 '16 at 15:46
addons property is no longer used. It's sufficient to include the
font-awesome.css file under
styles. See github.com/angular/angular-cli/blob/master/docs/documentation/…
– 0x2D9A3
Feb 13 '17 at 10:37
If you are using SASS, you can just install it via npm
npm install font-awesome --save
and import it in your
/src/styles.scss with:
$fa-font-path: "../node_modules/font-awesome/fonts";
@import "../node_modules/font-awesome/scss/font-awesome.scss";
Tip: Whenever possible, avoid to mess with
angular-cli infrastructure. ;)
ng build && ng serve -w. It's easier and safer to let scss build style + fonts than trying to change angular-cli infra ;)
– soywod
Dec 5 '16 at 15:47
~ instead of
../node_modules/, e.g.
@import '~font-awesome/scss/font-awesome.scss';
– m4js7er
Mar 12 '17 at 18:43
.css import from
~font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css and it works fine (default fa-font-path) for angular4/cli
– Tim
Aug 24 '17 at 7:31
The top answer is a bit outdated and there is a slightly easier way.
install through npm
npm install font-awesome --save
in your
@import '~font-awesome/css/font-awesome.css';
or in your
$fa-font-path: "~font-awesome/fonts";
@import '~font-awesome/scss/font-awesome';
Edit: as noted in the comments the line for fonts must be changed on newer versions to
$fa-font-path: "../../../node_modules/font-awesome/fonts";
using the
~ will make sass look into
node_module. It's better to do it this way than with the relative path. The reason is that if you upload a component on npm, and you import font-awesome inside the component scss then it will work properly with ~ and not with the relative path that will be wrong at that point.
This method works for any npm module that contains css. It works for scss as well. However if you are importing css into your styles.scss it won't work (and maybe vice versa). Here is why
There are 3 parts to using Font-Awesome in Angular Projects
Install from NPM and save to your package.json
npm install --save font-awesome
Styling If using CSS
Insert into your style.css
@import '~font-awesome/css/font-awesome.css';
Styling If using SCSS
Insert into your style.scss
$fa-font-path: "../node_modules/font-awesome/fonts";
@import '~font-awesome/scss/font-awesome.scss';
Usage with plain Angular 2.4+ 4+

Usage with Angular Material
In your app.module.ts modify the constructor to use the
export class AppModule {
constructor(matIconRegistry: MatIconRegistry) {
matIconRegistry.registerFontClassAlias('fontawesome', 'fa');
and add
MatIconModule to your
@NgModule imports
imports: [
declarations: ....
Now in any template file you can now do
<mat-icon fontSet="fontawesome" fontIcon="fa-area-chart"></mat-icon>
Angular2 RC5 and
angular-cli 1.0.0-beta.11-webpack.8 you can achieve this with css imports.
Just install font awesome:
npm install font-awesome --save
and then import font-awesome in one of your configured style files:
@import '../node_modules/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.css';
(style files are configured in
zone.js:101 - GET http://localhost:4200/node_modules/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.css 404 (Not Found) ... file actually exists but looks like
localhost:4200 is not running from the root of this folder ... How to package up font-awesome to
localhost:4200 root folder ...
– microchip78
Sep 8 '16 at 20:25
firstname.lastname@example.com and style file configuration in
angular-cli.json is not working ...
– microchip78
Sep 8 '16 at 20:29
1.0.0-beta.11-webpack.8 ?
– shusson
Sep 8 '16 at 22:27
UPDATE 8 Oct 2019:
You can use a new package https://www.npmjs.com/package/@fortawesome/angular-fontawesome
npm install @fortawesome/fontawesome-svg-core @fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons
FontAwesomeModule to imports in
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import { FontAwesomeModule } from '@fortawesome/angular-fontawesome';
imports: [
declarations: [AppComponent],
bootstrap: [AppComponent]
export class AppModule { }
Tie the icon to the property in your component
import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { faCoffee } from '@fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons';
selector: 'app-root',
templateUrl: './app.component.html'
export class AppComponent {
faCoffee = faCoffee;
Use the icon in the template
<fa-icon [icon]="faCoffee"></fa-icon>
You can use angular-font-awesome npm module
npm install --save font-awesome angular-font-awesome
Import the module:
import { AngularFontAwesomeModule } from 'angular-font-awesome';
imports: [
export class AppModule { }
If you're using Angular CLI, add the font-awesome CSS to styles inside the angular-cli.json
"styles": [
NOTE: If using SCSS preprocessor just change the css for scss
Example Use:
<fa name="cog" animation="spin"></fa>
There is an official story for that now
Install the font-awesome library and add the dependency to
npm install --save font-awesome
Using CSS
To add Font Awesome CSS icons to your app...
// in .angular-cli.json
"styles": [
Using SASS
Create an empty file
_variables.scss in
Add the following to
$fa-font-path : '../node_modules/font-awesome/fonts';
styles.scss add the following:
@import 'variables';
@import '../node_modules/font-awesome/scss/font-awesome';
Run ng serve to run your application in develop mode, and navigate to http://localhost:4200.
To verify Font Awesome has been set up correctly, change
src/app/app.component.html to the following...
{{title}}
After saving this file, return to the browser to see the Font Awesome icon next to the app title.
Also there is a related question Angular CLI outputs the font-awesome font files the dist root as by default angular cli outputs the fonts in to the
dist root, which is by the way not an issue at all.
../ from in front of
– Alf Moh
Oct 20 at 17:08
Thought I would throw in my resolution to this since font-awesome is now installed differently according to their documentation.
npm install --save-dev @fortawesome/fontawesome-free
Why it is fortawesome now escapes me but thought I would stick with the most recent version rather than falling back to the old font-awesome.
Then I imported it into my scss
$fa-font-path: "../node_modules/@fortawesome/fontawesome-free/webfonts";
@import "~@fortawesome/fontawesome-free/scss/fontawesome";
@import "~@fortawesome/fontawesome-free/scss/brands";
@import "~@fortawesome/fontawesome-free/scss/regular";
@import "~@fortawesome/fontawesome-free/scss/solid";
@import "~@fortawesome/fontawesome-free/scss/v4-shims";
Hope this helps
After some experimentation I managed to get the following working:
Install with npm:
npm install font-awesome --save
add to angular-cli-build.js file:
vendorNpmFiles : [
add to index.html
<link rel="stylesheet" href="vendor/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css">
The key was to include the font file types in the angular-cli-build.js file
angular-cli-build.js in the latest webpack branch
– shusson
Sep 14 '16 at 1:50
For Angular 6,
npm install font-awesome --save
node_modules/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.css to angular.json.
Remember not to add any dots in front of the
Many instructions above work, I suggest looking at those. However, something to note:
 did not work in my project (new practice project only a week old) after installation and the sample icon here was also copied to the clipboard from Font Awesome within the past week.
 does work. If after installing Font Awesome on your project it isn't yet working, I suggest checking the class on your icon to remove the 's' to see if it works then.
Font Awesome gives you
scalablevector icons that can instantly be customized—size, color, drop shadow, and anything that can be done with the power of
Create a new project and navigate into the project.
ng new navaApp
cd navaApp
Install the font-awesome library and add the dependency to
npm install --save font-awesome
Using CSS
To add Font Awesome CSS icons to your app...
// in angular.json
"build": {
"options": {
"styles": [
Using SASS
Create new project with SASS:
ng new cli-app --style=scss
To use with existing project with
src/styles.css to
angular.json to look for
styles.scss instead of
// in angular.json
"build": {
"options": {
"styles": [
Make sure to change
styles.css to
Create an empty file
_variables.scss in
Add the following to
$fa-font-path : '../node_modules/font-awesome/fonts';
styles.scss add the following:
@import 'variables';
@import '../node_modules/font-awesome/scss/font-awesome';
There are many good answers here. But if you tried all of them and still getting squares instead fontawesome icons, check your css rules. In my case I had the following rule:
* {
font-family: Roboto-Light, Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif !important;
And it overrides fontawesome fonts. Just replacing
* selector to
body solved my problem:
body {
font-family: Roboto-Light, Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif !important;
body should work, be sure, that you don't override the font somewhere else, may be you overriding it in
h* or
p tags as we are usually do.
– Commercial Suicide
Oct 24 '17 at 18:48
This post describes how to integrate Fontawesome 5 into Angular 6 (Angular 5 and previous versions will also work, but then you have to adjust my writings)
Option 1: Add the css-Files
Pro: Every icon will be included
Contra: Every icon will be included (bigger app size because all fonts are included)
Add the following package:
npm install @fortawesome/fontawesome-free-webfonts
Afterwards add the following lines to your angular.json:
"app": {
"styles": [
Option 2: Angular package
Pro: Smaller app size
Contra: You have to include every icon you want to use seperatly
Use the FontAwesome 5 Angular package:
npm install @fortawesome/angular-fontawesome
Just follow their documentation to add the icons. They use the svg-icons, so you only have to add the svgs / icons, you really use.
Edit: I'm using angular ^4.0.0 and Electron ^1.4.3
If you have issues with ElectronJS or similar and have a sort of 404 error, a possible workaround is to uedit your
webpack.config.js, by adding (and by assuming that you have the font-awesome node module installed through npm or in the package.json file):
new CopyWebpackPlugin([
{ from: 'node_modules/font-awesome/fonts', to: 'assets' },
{ from: 'src/assets', to: 'assets' }
Note that the webpack configuration I'm using has
src/app/dist as output, and, in dist, an
assets folder is created by webpack:
// our angular app
entry: {
'polyfills': './src/polyfills.ts',
'vendor': './src/vendor.ts',
'app': './src/app/app',
// Config for our build files
output: {
path: helpers.root('src/app/dist'),
filename: '[name].js',
sourceMapFilename: '[name].map',
chunkFilename: '[id].chunk.js'
So basically, what is currently happening is:
dist assets folder
Now, when the build process will be finished, the application will need to look for the
.scss file and the folder containing the icons, resolving them properly.
To resolve them, I've used this in my webpack config:
// support for fonts
test: /\.(ttf|eot|svg|woff(2)?)(\?[a-z0-9=&.]+)?$/,
loader: 'file-loader?name=dist/[name]-[hash].[ext]'
Finally, in the
.scss file, I'm importing the font-awesome .scss and defining the path of the fonts, which is, again,
dist/assets/font-awesome/fonts. The path is
dist because in my webpack.config the output.path is set as
So, in
$fa-font-path: "dist/assets/font-awesome/fonts";
@import "~font-awesome/scss/font-awesome.scss";
Note that, in this way, it will define the font path (used later in the .scss file) and import the .scss file using
~font-awesome to resolve the font-awesome path in
This is quite tricky, but it's the only way I've found to get around the 404 error issue with Electron.js
Starting from https://github.com/AngularClass/angular-starter, after having tested a lot of different configuration combination, here is what I did to get it working with AoT.
As already said many times, in my
$fa-font-path: "~font-awesome/fonts" !default;
@import "~font-awesome/scss/font-awesome";
Then in webpack.config.js (actually webpack.commong.js in the starter pack) :
In the plugins section:
new CopyWebpackPlugin([
{ from: 'src/assets', to: 'assets' },
{ from: 'src/meta'},
{ from: 'node_modules/font-awesome/fonts', to: 'assets/fonts/' }
In the rules section:
test: /\.(eot|woff2?|svg|ttf)([\?]?.*)$/,
use: 'file-loader?name=/assets/fonts/[name].[ext]'
I wasted several hours trying to get the latest version of FontAwesome 5.2.0 working with AngularCLI 6.0.3 and Material Design. I followed the npm installation instructions off of the FontAwesome website
Their latest docs instruct you do install using the following:
npm install @fortawesome/fontawesome-free
After wasting several hours I finally uninstalled it and installed font awesome using the following command (this installs FontAwesome v4.7.0):
npm install font-awesome --save
Now it's working fine using:
$fa-font-path: "~font-awesome/fonts" !default;
@import "~font-awesome/scss/font-awesome.scss";
<mat-icon fontSet="fontawesome" fontIcon="fa-android"></mat-icon>
Using LESS (not SCSS) and Angular 2.4.0 and standard Webpack (not Angular CLI, the following worked for me:
npm install --save font-awesome
and (in my app.component.less):
@import "~font-awesome/less/font-awesome.less";
and of course you may need this obvious and highly intuitive snippet (in module.loaders in webpack.conf)
test: /\.(png|jpe?g|gif|svg|woff|woff2|ttf|eot|ico)(\?(v=)?(\d+)(\.\d+)*)?$/,
loader: 'file?name=graphics/[name].[ext]'
The loader is there to fix webpack errors of the kind
"Module parse failed: \node_modules\font-awesome\fonts\fontawesome-webfont.svg?v=4.7.0 Unexpected token (1:0)"
and the regexp matches those svg-references (with or without version specification). Depending on your webpack setup you might not need it or you may need something else.
Add it in your package.json as "devDependencies" font-awesome : "version number"
Go to Command Prompt type npm command which you configured.
I wanted to use Font Awesome 5+ and most answers focus on older versions
For the new Font Awesome 5+ the angular project hasn't been released yet, so if you want to make use of the examples mentioned on the font awesome website atm you need to use a work around. (especially the fas, far classes instead of the fa class)
I've just imported the cdn to Font Awesome 5 in my styles.css. Just added this in case it helps someone find the answer quicker than I did :-)
Code in Style.css
@import "https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.0.7/css/all.css";
If for some reason you cant install package throw npm. You can always edit index.html and add font awesome CSS in the head. And then just used it in the project.
For webpack2 use:
test: /\.(png|jpe?g|gif|svg|woff|woff2|ttf|eot|ico)(\?(v=)?(\d+)(\.\d+)*)?$/,
loader: "file-loader"
instead of
You can use Angular Font Awesome package
npm install --save font-awesome angular-font-awesome
and then import in your module:
import { AngularFontAwesomeModule } from 'angular-font-awesome';
imports: [
export class AppModule { }
and import the style in angular-cli file:
"styles": [
see more details about the package in npm library:


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UPDATE: Fans believe the Smash Bros. Ultimate could be about saving Luigi's soul.
Nintendo is pulling no punches ahead of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and just killed off Luigi. The slimmer, taller, companion of Mario is no stranger to ghosts thanks to Luigi's Mansion, but the ghost hunter extraordinaire has now joined their ranks.
With Super Smash Bros. Ultimate promising every character will be part of the latest installment in the long-running brawler franchise, there are still a few spots free on the team. Metroid's Ridley has already been confirmed, but now there's a big question mark hanging over Luigi's future with the game.
Related: Every Character Appearing in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
The highly anticipated Nintendo Direct stream revealed that Castlevania's Simon Belmont is among those newcomers joining the roster of fighters, but this was nothing compared to the murder of fan-favorite Luigi. A video showed the adventurous Luigi exploring Castle Dracula before a surprise appearance from Death. Just when it looked like Simon could come to the rescue, Luigi's fate was sealed. Wasting no time, the grim specter swung its scythe and murdered Luigi. Safe to say, fandom has had a major reaction and Luigi has started trending on Twitter.
Can we talk about how Luigi literally passes out from sheer terror and then DEATH HIMSELF actually KILLS him??? pic.twitter.com/K5DLGFUrgp— Tylor (@theSirToasty) August 8, 2018
Pour one out for our boy Luigi he actually straight up perished— Virum (@Virum_SD) August 8, 2018
First he gets possessed by a tennis racket in Mario Tennis Aces, then he literally gets his soul ripped out of him in Smash. Nintendo has been putting Luigi through hell this year pic.twitter.com/Idv6ISOCXy— Typing of the Red (@Jiikae) August 8, 2018
since luigi died maybe we can contact his spirit with one of those luigi boards ive been hearing so much about— PEN (@yopenbo) August 8, 2018
Me when they killed Luigi during the #SmashBrosDirect pic.twitter.com/jGMD2gZo2C— rach 💘 (@enchantdlocket) August 8, 2018
After some 35 years on this Earth, it turns out that it takes more than a Poltergust 3000 to fend off the Grim Reaper. Luigi's clip ended with his ghostly visage still trapped outside his body. It is interesting to note that none of the other Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Direct clips featured the poor plumber, suggesting this is more than just a marketing ploy. At least there's room for Waluigi in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate now.
Although the Smash Bros. Ultimate lineup has an impressive array of monster hunters and skilled fighters, the clip showed the dangers of Castle Dracula and what could become everyone's favorite new level when the game hits the Nintendo Switch. The introduction of Simon is also a big talking point, but it is hard to justify the tragic loss of Luigi as a means to an end.
What could've been a temporary death has now been added to Smash Bros. canon, but the casualties don't end there. Although Mario and Mega Man also took a beating, both appear to have lived to fight another day and didn't have their souls literally ripped from their bodies. That being said, the Direct presentation ended with King K. Rool taking out his own bloodlust as he added Dedede to the list of deceased characters. Who's next Nintendo?
More: Super Smash Bros. Director Says Ultimate Could 'Ruin' Future Games
Source: Nintendo


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What do you wear most of?
Dresses, skirts, jeans, shorts?
Definitely in the summer, shorts and tank tops or capri pants with t-shirts....in the winter/fall, khaki pants with long sleeved t-shirts.
At work I alternate between dress pants and dresses.
I use to wear skirts a lot and now I'm a jeans and T-Shirt or a nice blouse kind of person a lot lately.
I don't wear dresses. Although I have some, I just don't wear them. I've never been a dress kind of person. I think it's because back in junior high and part of high school, I had to wear dresses. I hated it....lol
During Summer I'm all about shorts. :)
Jeans. Sometimes when it gets warm I'll wear old jeans that are cut off capri length. For church and stuff, I'll wear skirts. I like to wear skirts, just don't have much of any place to wear them.
dresses, skirts then clothing that go with knee length leggings


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DISH Network TV is very popular with the thousands of customers who use it. As a result, the comapny is growing rapidly. Unlike the regular transmission quality of analog television, Dish Network offers superb, one hundred percent digital, high quality signal.
One of the main advantages to DISH Network TV is something called Personal Video Recording (or PVR). This fantastic device lets you record as many programs as you like. On top of that, you can pause or rewind in the middle of live programming. While it's true that a service called DirectTV also offers a similar option; with the Dish Network you do not have to pay an additional monthly fee to access this great technology.
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Fleetwood is home to many beautiful and historic buildings which offer fascinating insight into the past. The Former Fielden Institute and Library on Dock Street is one of them.
This Grade II Listed Building is on Dock Street, Fleetwood, not far from the market. It was built in 1863 and designated as listed over 100 years later, on 31 March 1978.
It's now in private ownership. The owners have made a great job of bringing the facade of this beautiful building back to life.
The Former Fielden Institute and Library on Dock Street
First – The Whitworth Institute
The building was originally built in 1863 by Benjamin Whitworth. According to the 1861 census, he was a Manchester cotton broker and ship owner, and lived on Queens Terrace in Fleetwood at the time.
It was the site of a former Mechanic's Institute. The new building was to have a similar role in offering a social centre for working people and a place of education and recreation.
The design was by builders Thomas Atkinson who built many of the original Fleetwood buildings.
It's in the Venetian Gothic style, built in red brick with ashlar dressings, on two storeys with an ashlar parapet. You can still see 'Public Hall and Reading Room' carved above the entrance, and the year 'AD 1863'.
Next – The Fielden Institute and Town Library
In 1887 the building was bought by Samuel Fielden who gave it to the town as a library. It was gifted to the town on condition that the Improvement Commissioners adopted the Free Public Libraries Act.
After a period of indecision they did this, and it became the Fielden Free Library. The change is minuted in their records book on 23 August 1887.
The upstairs room, later the lending library, was Fleetwood's main public meeting hall for over 20 years. Sometimes over 350 people would attend public events and the original musicians gallery was still visible above the library issue desk. The building was used as such until 1988.
The Co-op Hall on East Street, capable of holding over 600 people, then became the main meeting hall.
Incorporating Fleetwood Museum
In 1976, still in its use as a library, the building was altered to accommodate Fleetwood Maritime Museum. The galleries were in the basement, which formerly contained the billiards room from the old Fielden Institute.
Fleetwood Museum remained there until 1991. Then it moved to its current premises in the former Town Hall on Queen's Terrace.
And Currently… Private Ownership
After the Library relocated in 1988 and the Museum moved in 1991, the building passed into private ownership.
It was briefly an advertising agency in the late 1990's.
Today, it is owned by private owners as a residential house.
Find out More
If your name is Fielden you might be interested in the Fielden Society
Listed buildings in Fleetwood: Wikipedia
Fielden Free Library: Wikipedia
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Eric McCormack Scores Honor at Point Honors Los Angeles Gala 2018!
Eric McCormack flashes a smile with his award in-hand while attending the Point Foundation's 2018 Point Honors Gala held at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday (October 13) in Beverly Hills, Calif.
The 55-year-old actor was joined at the event by his wife Janet Holden, Cheyenne Jackson, musical guest Leona Lewis, Adam Shankman, Nico Santos and his boyfriend Zeke Smith, and Thomas Dekker.
Eric was presented the Point Impact Award by Cheyenne at the event celebrating future LGBTQ leaders, honor our champions, and support Point Scholars from around the nation.
"Huge thanks to the @PointFoundation for the incredible work they do for #LGBTQ youth, creating scholarships and leaders," Eric tweeted. "And thanks to my friend @cheyennejackson for his beautiful words ❤"
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Before starting at Pitt in the Fall of 2013, I earned a BA in Political Science, Policy Studies, and History from Rice University in Houston, Texas. After graduation I worked as a World History, AP World History, and Economics teacher at a Houston high school that serves low-income students.
World History
Latin America & the Caribbean
Digital Humanities
Social & Economic Inequality
Representative Publications
"Data on Inequality and the Inequality of Data: The Last Two Centuries," Journal of World-Historical Information, Vol. 2-3 (2015)
Research Interests
Master's Research Topic:
Title: "Scales of Inequality: Changes in Global Disparities from 1750 to the Present"
Advisor: Patrick Manning
I am interested in the interaction among different scales of human economic and social inequality, from the local to the planetary. Specifically, my research addresses how inequality is measured, described, and visualized and what forces create, sustain, and shift patterns in the distribution of wealth and well-being. One aspect of my work looks at the global scale of inequality in the recent past, while the other prong of my investigation examines inequality for a single understudied region, the Caribbean, back through the end of the 18th-century.


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Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) spoke out about FIFA's pay inequity on the Senate floor on Monday, putting forth a formal resolution to demand that the international soccer governance board fix the fact that women's World Cup champions earned just $2 million while the men's world cup team winners earned $35 million. The men's USA team was actually eliminated in the second round, and earned $8 million for doing so.
He said that the common argument against pay equity in FIFA — disparities in revenue — should be no excuse. "Revenue should not be and cannot be used for discrimination. … In fact, they ought to ask how many people watched that women's soccer people. Most people would give anything to have that viewership," he said.
Indeed, the women's World Cup final drew a record-breaking 20 million viewers.
Leahy continued: "The 2014 women that took part in the tournament are role models, not just to girls but to men and boys across the world. They should be awarded for their grit, their performance and teamwork rather than devalued for their gender."
He pointed out that Wimbledon, which concluded last weekend, awarded winners Serena Williams and Novak Djokovic the same championship pay. Wimbledon implemented the pay equity policy in 2007. (Unfortunately, Williams may be earning pay equity on the court, but her white opponent Maria Sharapova earns more in endorsements off the court.)
"With the resolution I'll introduce today, let the Senate be on record in support of fair treatment for all world cup champions, and we urge FIFA to change its policy, just as the All England Club did years ago," Leahy concluded. "The fight for gender equality continues."
Women also face other forms of inequity in FIFA, including being forced to play on artificial turf, which tends to rip the skin on players' knees and shins.


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BIRT Analytics by Actuate
Actuate's business analytics software allows business analysts to take information from one or more data sources and present it in easy-to-understand graphical formats for business insights that can be seen instantly. BIRT is your on-ramp to predictive analytics with do-it-yourself visual data mining.
KnowledgeSEEKER by Angoss
Powerful, Market-Leading Decision Trees for Data Driven Decisions
Widely known for its industry leading, patented Decision Trees and its graphical wizard-driven interface, KnowledgeSEEKER is a data mining and predictive analytics software tool helping data analysts and business users with data exploration, development and deployment of predictive models. It allows users to quickly develop insights to advance their business objectives-unlocking actionable knowledge from their data assets.
Angoss Decision Trees
Angoss Software is highly recognized for its patented, market-leading Decision Trees – which are at the core of KnowledgeSEEKER and provide an intuitive interface for building and exploring segments, discovering relationships between variables, performing variable reduction and much more.
With an easy to use point-and-click interface, Angoss Decision Trees can be grown manually by creating custom splits or automatically using segmentation algorithms, or using a combination of both methods. This visual, real-time exploration aided by many usability features such as pan and zoom, variable search, and copying and pasting splits saves time for significant productivity and efficiency gains.
Angoss Strategy Trees
Unique, patent pending Angoss Strategy Trees are the first of their kind for building and deploying predictive strategies. Strategy Trees combine the usability of Angoss industry-leading Decision Trees with an intuitive, visual and collaborative approach for strategy design, authoring and validation workflow. Strategy Trees combine customer segments, scores, business rules, and calculations – applying user-defined treatments and actions to support decisioning and the development of business strategies, actions & optimization.
Strategy Trees allow users to analyze an unlimited number of key performance indicators (KPIs) within a single graphical tree view – eliminating the need to create multiple trees and compare segments against them. As a result the user gets a holistic view of all strategic options at a glance and greater control over planning next actions.
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KnowledgeSEEKER provides users with a powerful automated canvas for building, displaying, refreshing, and reusing analytic workflows. The user friendly visual canvas enables the creation of a workflow in minutes with a few simple drag and drop steps – eliminating the need to write code, increasing efficiency.
Workflow process nodes are simply dragged onto the canvas where they can be connected to form a workflow and run individually or in batch sequentially with the ability to add new data or refresh with the click of a button. The workflow provides instant visual documentation of analytical tasks.
RapidMiner Server by RapidMiner
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RapidMiner Server seamlessly integrates with not only RapidMiner Studio but other data sources across your enterprise. Add your own specialized algorithms, extend into your in-house databases, and combine your sources to form a truly comprehensive environment that takes your results to the next level.
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Collaboration is key with RapidMiner Server. Shared repositories allow you to work with coworkers and contributors throughout your organization and beyond, using interactive dashboards you build to meet your specific needs. Assign specific tasks, pool your resources, and share information with everyone in your team at once, from anywhere in the world. We make it easy to access, monitor, and share your analysis anywhere, anytime.
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KNIME Analytics Platform - A Quick Summary
KNIME is the leading open platform for data-driven innovation helping organizations to stay ahead of change. Use our open-source, enterprise-grade analytics platform to discover the potential hidden in your data, mine for fresh insights or predict new futures.
SAP InfiniteInsight by SAP
Make smarter decisions and win more customers with SAP InfiniteInsight for predictive analytics
With traditional predictive analytics, you can expect to spend a great deal of time on activities that are manual, repetitive, and prone to human error. SAP InfiniteInsight (formerly KXEN) has changed all that – automating most of the effort so that users can gain unprecedented customer insight and make forward-looking decisions with ease.
STATISTICA by Dell
The STATISTICA line of software consists of a fully integrated line of analytic solutions that were developed and refined over the past 25 years. During this time, feedback from hundreds of thousands of users helped shaped STATISTICA into solutions for many different industries across the globe. Our products have received the highest rating in every published (independent) comparative review in which it has been featured since its first release in 1993.
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FICO® Decision Management Platform by FICO
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PolyAnalyst derives actionable knowledge from large volumes of text and structured data, delivers this knowledge to decision makers in easy to comprehend custom reports and incorporates it in business processes in the form of predictive models. PolyAnalyst Features
Covering the complete data analysis cycle from data loading and integration to modeling and reporting, PolyAnalyst offers a comprehensive selection of algorithms for automated analysis of text and structured data. Numerous data analysis problems in various application fields are readily solved by PolyAnalyst.
The system enables users to perform numerous knowledge discovery operations:
The new version of the system, PolyAnalyst 6 is an analytical system of the new generation. We redesigned the system from ground up to include all features we had on our customers' wish list. What makes PolyAnalyst 6 different? Here are just a few unique features of the system:
IBM SPSS Software by IBM
With SPSS predictive analytics software, you can predict with confidence what will happen next so that you can make smarter decisions, solve problems and improve outcomes.
Oracle Advanced Analytics by Oracle
Extend Oracle Database into an Advanced Analytics Platform
Oracle Advanced Analytics extends the Oracle Database into a comprehensive advanced analytics platform through two major components: Oracle R Enterprise and Oracle Data Mining. With Oracle Advanced Analytics, customers have a comprehensive platform for real-time analytics that delivers insight into key business subjects such as churn prediction, product recommendations and fraud alerting.
Revolution R Enterprise by Revolution Analytics
Scales Analytics Beyond the Reach of Legacy Tools
Statistical analysis of big data brings seemingly limitless opportunities to improve business results by predicting customer behavior, preventing fraud and waste, predicting maintenance events, reducing cost, predicting medical outcomes and hundreds of others.
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As important as appearance can be, the benefit of braces goes beyond just aesthetics. Straight teeth help an individual more effectively bite, chew and even speak. Straight teeth contribute to healthy teeth and gums. Teeth become easier to brush, clean and floss.
Signs Your Child May Need Orthodontic Treatment
If you notice a problem with your child's teeth or if your dentist recommends you to take them to an orthodontic provider, it is in your child's best interest to make an appointment.
Signs of Possible Orthodontic Problems:
Difficulty chewing or biting
Early or late loss of baby teeth
Mouth breathing
Thumb and finger sucking
Crowding, misplaced or blocked out teeth
Jaws that shift or make sounds
Biting the cheek or roof of the mouth
Teeth that meet abnormally or not at all
Jaws and teeth that are out of proportion to the rest of the face
Orthodontic treatment has progressed over the years. Dr Tirza Harley offers treatment options for children, teens and adults that are customised to suit each person's specific orthodontic needs. These include:
Damon Fast Braces
Clear (Ceramic) braces
Invisalign – clear plastic aligners
If no orthodontic action is taken, treatment option become limited, more difficult to treat and the long-term stability may be compromised.
The Invisalign treatment consists of a series of clear plastic, removable aligners created precisely to gently and gradually move the position of your teeth. These trays have minor pressure points built into them so that they move your teeth in small increments every couple of weeks. Straightening crooked teeth will usually require 12-24 trays of gradual repositioning, with the trays worn 22 hours per day (you can take them out for eating and cleaning). Invisalign is popular with adults since it is more discreet than traditional braces. Talk to us about payment plans to spread the cost of your treatment over an extended period.
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For more information, visit the Invisalign Australia website.
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By B15m1lah. Chair. At Saturday, June 30th 2018, 03:26:49 AM.
The size of the back of the chair is one of the most important features. For an executive chair to be truly comfortable, the top of the back of the chair should be no lower than the middle of the back of the person's head who will be using the seat. In a truly comfortable office chair, a person should be able to lean back and have their head rest against the back of the chair or a headrest. Many lower quality chairs have backs that extend up almost to the back of a person's head, but not quite. If a person leans back in one of these chairs, their head hangs over the back and it is quite uncomfortable.
If you experience neck pain look for a chair that comes with an adjustable headrest. Again you will need to measure your back to ensure you do not pick a chair that has a back that is too high or too low, otherwise your headrest may end up turning out to be detrimental rather than helpful. Many people suffer from lower back pain from having a chair that does not have proper lumbar support which is why it is crucial to find a chair that offers built-in lumbar support, adjustable lumbar support, or air lumbar support to prevent lower back pain.
A church chair is secondly a chair that is in compliance with any and all legal requirements that are in force in the particular jurisdiction where your church is located. We find that many churches are unaware that when a room reaches a specific number of people occupying it (you will have to contact your local officials to determine this limit for your area) rules can go into effect for your seating. For example, in some areas your chairs may be required to be "affixed" the floor. In other areas, the ability to effectively connect your chairs to each other may be non-negotiable. The fire-retardant requirements for the fabric and foam that make up a part your chairs may be stricter in some localities than others. The simple truth is that your chairs should be in compliance with those codes in force in your location. Please know again that this truth is not related to the appearance of your church chair. Instead it has everything to do with honoring authority.


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December 2019
Nth Degree did a wonderful job at my work Christmas party, from the stage set up, lights and most importantly the music. Extremely professional. The music was a great mix and incorporated a wide selection of music genres. DJ Thomas kept the crowds interests and the dance floor was always rockin', from the start of the night to the very end. Absolutely fabulous. Would absolutely hire again.
October 2019
Booked him on the 12th for our wedding. From set up to takedown, every aspect was perfect and made for a perfect night!!
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September 2019
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July 2019
Jason did an incredible job for our wedding! The dancefloor was bumping the entire time!
Both Tom and Jason were great with communicating with us and providing us feedback. We gave Jason a pretty big ask with regards to editing down our first dance song in an unconventional way. There was also the added pressure of following a brass band when it came to keeping people on the dancefloor and Jason delivered! It was the perfect mix for both the young and older crowd and we've received a ton of complements! Thank you!!
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July 2019
Tom - Nth Degree DJ - blew it out of the park! He was very professional and prepared and full of ideas! He took my ideas for songs and came up with a NON robotic dance mix that suited all my guests, which he based on the energy and crowd. We chose the VJ service, which was Big T.V screen and a projector which played the music videos for the songs he chose to play. The Vitamin String Quartet was an amazing way to start the pre-ceremony off (classical music to rock songs). I truly enjoyed working with Tom, it was one stress I didn't have to worry about, as he took care of it all and I trusted his taste for music...which was him going with the crowd and having the wisdom to know what to play and when to play it. I met Tom before my wedding. He plays at the Retro Road Show (look it up), so if you want to here him before signing up, it is every third saturday of the month. I fell in love with him there (it was his music that actually brought me and my husband together ---and his pen that got his number). Can't express how fabulous Tom is!
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Gestures as Image Schemas and Force Gestalts
Towards a Dynamic-systems Account of Enacted Schematicity
Embodied image schemas are central to experientialist accounts of meaning-making. Research from several disciplines has evidenced their pervasiveness in motivating form and meaning in both literal and figurative expressions across diverse semiotic systems and art forms (e.g., Gibbs 2005; Hampe 2005; Johnson 1987; Lakoff 1987; Talmy 1988). This talk aims to highlight structural similarities between dynamic image schemas and force schemas, on the one hand, and hand shapes and gestural movements, on the other. Such flexible correspondences between conceptual and gestural schematicity are assumed to partly stem from experiential bases shared by incrementally internalized conceptual structures and the repeated gestural (re-)enacting of bodily actions, as well as more abstract semantic primitives (Lakoff 1987) and experiential gestalts (Gibbs 2005). Indeed, gestures typically consist of evanescent, metonymically reduced hand configurations, motion onsets or movement traces that minimally suggest, for instance, a PATH, the idea of CONTAINMENT, an IN-OUT spatial relation, or the momentary loss of emotional BALANCE. So, while physical in nature, gestures often emerge as rather schematic gestalts, which, as such, have the capacity to vividly convey essential semantic and pragmatic aspects of high relevance to the speaker. It is further argued that gesturally instantiated image schemas and force dynamics are inherently meaningful processes involving, for instance, metonymy, metaphor, and frames (e.g., Cienki 2013; Mittelberg in press).
In this talk, I first briefly discuss previous work on how image schemas, force gestalts, and mimetic schemas may manifest in hand gestures and body postures (e.g., Cienki 2013; Mittelberg 2010; Wehling 2017; Zlatev 2014). Drawing on Gibbs' (2005) dynamic systems account of image schemas, I then introduce an array of tendencies in gestural image schema enactments (Mittelberg 2018): body-inherent/body-impacting (body as image-schematic structure; forces acting upon the body); environment-oriented (material culture including spatial structures), and interlocutor-oriented (conversational interaction). Adopting a dynamic systems perspective (e.g., Thompson and Varela 2001) thus puts the focus on how through operating in gesture image schemas and force gestalts may function as cognitive-semiotic organizing principles that underpin a) the physical and cognitive self-regulation of speakers; b) how they interact with the environment and make use of gesture space while talking; and c) intersubjective instances of resonance and understanding between interlocutors, or between an artwork and its beholder (Mittelberg 2013). Examples of these patterns are enriched by motion-capture data stemming from American English and German multimodal discourse, showing how numeric kinetic data allow one to measure the temporal and spatial dimensions of gestural articulations and to visualize movement traces. In this way, motion-capture technology may provide new, three-dimensional insights into the dynamic, gestalt-like nature of bodily enacted schematicity.
Cienki, A. J. 2013. Mimetic schemas and image schemas in cognitive linguistics and gesture studies. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 11(2): 417-432.
Gibbs, R. W., Jr. 2005. The psychological status of image schemas. In B. Hampe (ed.), 113-135.
Hampe, B. (ed.). 2005. From Perception to Meaning: Image Schemas in Cognitive Linguistics. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Johnson, M. 1987. The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination and Reasoning. Chicago UP.
Lakoff, G. 1987. Woman, Fire, and Dangerous Things. Chicago UP.
Mittelberg, I. 2010. Geometric and image-schematic patterns in gesture space. In V. Evans & P. A. Chilton (eds.), Language, Cognition, and Space: The State of the Art and New Directions, 351-385. London: Equinox.
Mittelberg, I. 2013. Balancing acts: Image schemas and force dynamics as experiential essence in pictures by Paul Klee and their gestural enactments. In M. Borkent et al. (eds.), Language and the Creative Mind, 325-346. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
Mittelberg, I. 2018. Gestures as image schemas and force gestalts: A dynamic systems approach augmented with motion-capture data analyses. Cognitive Semiotics, DOI:10.1515/cogsem-2018-2002.
Mittelberg, I. In press. Peirce's Universal Categories: On their potential for gesture theory and multimodal analysis. Semiotica.
Talmy, L. 1988. Force dynamics in language and cognition. Cognitive Science 12: 49-100.
Thompson, E. & F. Varela. 2001. Radical embodiment: Neural dynamics and consciousness. Trends in Cognitive Science 5. 418-425.
Wehling, E. 2017. Discourse management gestures. Gesture 16(2): 245-276.
Zlatev, J. 2014. Image schemas, mimetic schemas, and children's gestures. Cognitive Semiotics 7(1): 3-29.


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A 16-YEAR-OLD girl and a woman have been arrested after cocaine worth around £350,000 was found hidden inside tubs of chocolate at Gatwick Airport.
The pair were detained by Border Force investigators at the West Sussex airport's South Terminal after they arrived on a flight from Antigua on Saturday.
Inside a suitcase was cocaine weighing around 7.7lb (3.5kg) which would have a street value of around £350,000 when cut, Border Force said.
The girl and the 39-year-old woman, both from the Walsall area of the West Midlands, were arrested in connection with the discovery and later freed on bail until June 8.
Ingrid Smith, Border Force assistant director for Gatwick's South Terminal, said investigators were on alert round the clock for Class A drugs and banned substances.


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Sustainable Land Management and Restoration: An SDG Accelerator
Land degradation is a barrier to sustainable development. It is a serious problem that is destabilizing communities on a global scale, with 40% of the world's degraded land occurring in areas with the highest incidence of poverty. Adoption of sustainable land management (SLM) policies and practices helps promote sustainable development in a number of ways, contributing to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 15: Life on Land as well as other related goals, including SDG 1: No Poverty, SDG 2: Zero Hunger, SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation, and SDG 13: Climate Action. As such, UNDP considers SLM to be an "SDG Accelerator" which provides options to simultaneously meet these goals in a cost effective and ecologically sound manner.
GC-RED seeks to build social and ecological resilience in drylands and other fragile ecosystems. Drawing on decades of experiences and expertise, the Centre supports programme countries in scaling up their SLM and ecosystem restoration efforts, using a three-pronged approach through:
- Capacity development, advocacy and policy advice;
- Adoption and demonstration of evidence-based, locally-appropriate technology and techniques; and
- Enhanced access to environment and climate finance.
Land Degradation Neutrality
SDG Target 15.3 states: By 2030, combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a land degradation-neutral world."
Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) is defined as "a state whereby the amount and quality of land resources, necessary to support ecosystem functions and services and enhance food security remains stable or increases within specified temporal and spatial scales and ecosystems." It is a positive aspirational goal that aims to maintain and improve the amount of healthy and productive land resources over time and in line with national sustainable development priorities. A LDN approach was developed based on the belief that a reversal of current trends is indeed possible. There is an improved understanding of the kinds of actions that can halt and reverse a great deal of the damage done. New opportunities to manage land in a fundamentally new way are also emerging. In particular, land management options that sequester carbon can provide enormous ecological and economic benefits in the fight against climate change. More >
In partnership with the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), UNDP is helping countries achieve LDN or SDG Target 15.3 by 2030. More specifically, UNDP provided technical and financial support for:
- Organization of regional capacity building workshops on LDN target setting for the UNCCD Country Parties in Africa, Asia and the Commonwealth of Independent States regions.
- Voluntary LDN target setting in five pilot countries in Africa and Asia (i.e. Kenya, Mauritius, Lebanon, Kyrgyzstan and China).
A side event was organized in partnership with the Global Mechanism of the UNCCD and the governments of China, Kenya and Lebanon during the 13th Conference of the Parties to the UNCCD to showcase good practices and lessons learned from the process of establishing LDN targets under different policy, institutional and socio-ecological environments. More >
UNDP is supporting the implementation of the new UNCCD Reporting Framework for 2018-2030. The Centre participated in the capacity building workshop organized by the UNCCD in Cairo in May 2018 to: 1) help country parties prepare their first national report as per the agreed reporting manual; and 2) to highlight the contribution of the UNCCD reporting to the national reporting on the SDGs, particularly on SDG Target 15.3 on Land Degradation Neutrality. The new reporting framework represents a major leap forward in the implementation of the Convention. It provides a solid foundation for monitoring progress towards land degradation neutrality and the achievement of SGD15.3 by 2030.
Global Land Outlook
The Global Land Outlook (GLO) is an ambitious policy initiative led by the UNCCD Secretariat to determine the future course of land policies and land management practices across the globe. The GLO consists of a comprehensive report on the status and trends in the use and management of land resources to better inform relevant policy and planning processes.
GC-RED, as a key partner of the GLO, provided technical and financial support for the development of the relevant working papers and background documents for the GLO report. These include the working paper on land and climate which was integrated into a brochure titled Land Matters for Climate: Closing the Gap and Approaching the Target and launched at the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP21). It argues that the adoption of more sustainable land management, rehabilitation and restoration, up till now largely untapped, would provide a rapid and low cost reduction in emissions that would not only help close the emissions gap but also provide significant co-benefits to the rural poor and other vulnerable communities.
The first edition of the GLO (GLO1) was launched in Ordos, China, at the UNCCD COP13. During the launch event, UNDP stressed the institution's commitment to continually support the implementation of the GLO recommendations on the ground. More >
Building on its substantive contribution to GLO1, GC-RED, together with ICARDA, UNCCD and other partners, jointly published a research article "A Framework for Scaling Sustainable Land Management Options" in the in the international scientific journal, Land Degradation and Development.
The scoping meeting for GLO2 was organized by the UNCCD, and hosted by UNDP, in New York in May 2018. 27 experts participated in this meeting presenting diverse perspectives, expertise and experiences from around the world. They agreed that GLO2 should have a strong "solutions orientation" and target the "technical advisors to decision-makers" in the private, public and NGO/CSO sectors - i.e. those with the power to affect change. Additional preparatory activities are planned in 2018 including the development of the theory of change, the elaboration of the terms of reference for the expert advisory group and contributing authors, as well as mobilizing financial resources to pursue this ambitious initiative.
Economics of Land Degradation
The Economics of Land Degradation (LDN) Initiative is a global assessment on the economic benefits and costs of land and land-based ecosystems. The Initiative highlights the value of sustainable land management and provides a global approach for analyzing the economics of land degradation. It aims to make the economics of land degradation an integral part of policy strategies and decision-making by increasing the political and public awareness of the costs and benefits of land and land-based ecosystems.
Since 2014, UNDP, through GC-RED (and previous Drylands Development Centre or DDC), has been a partner of the ELD Initiative. UNDP has provided support to the Options and Pathways to Action work group of the ELD Initiative to help engage stakeholders at the country level in close collaboration with the UNDP Country Offices to contribute to ensuring the policy relevance of ELD Initiative outputs. In this context, GC-RED facilitated consultations with a broad array of relevant stakeholders in four selected countries in Africa (i.e. Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and Tanzania) introducing the ELD Initiative and generating concrete feedback and guidance on the possible application of the ELD Initiative approach on the ground.
Findings from these consultations contributed to the final ELD Initiative reports which were launched in 2015: i) The value of land, prosperous lands and positive rewards through sustainable land management; ii) a report for policy and decision makers, Reaping economic and environmental benefits from sustainable land management; and iii) The economics of land degradation in Africa: benefits of action outweigh the costs.
The consultations in Kenya, Sudan and Tanzania were funded by the Government of the Republic of Korea, channeled through the UNCCD Secretariat; while consultations held in Somalia were funded by the Government of Germany/GIZ. Project activities were implemented under the framework of UNDP's Integrated Drylands Development Programme and carried out by GC-RED in close collaboration with the UNDP Country Offices in the selected countries and the Options and Pathways to Action working group of the ELD Initiative headed by the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). More >
The current phase of the ELD Initiative support to Somalia (Dec 2017- Nov 2019) is undertaken as part of Component 1 of the EU-funded "Reversing land degradation in Africa through scaling-up evergreen agriculture" project commissioned to the GIZ-ELD Initiative. It builds on the previous ELD Initiative support which successfully brought together a wide range of relevant stakeholders to form a targeted consultation process aimed at developing a holistic view of the biophysical state and trend of land and their socio-economic implications.
Land and its resources remain the key development priority for Somalia, as featured in its National Development Plan (NDP) and as reflected in the recent formulation of the National Action Programme to Combat Desertification (NAP). Concerted efforts are therefore needed to translate the plan into action and implement integrated sustainable land management actions. This requires effective advocacy campaigns, based on thorough analysis, targeting different stakeholders from policy makers to local land users. Although the first round of the ELD Initiative in Somalia contributed significantly to the improved understanding of the impact of land degradation on livelihoods and the economy, quantitative analysis to convince and inform policy and decision-making processes is still lacking in the country, where institutions have not yet fully recovered from the effects of civil war and recurrent natural calamities.
The current phase of the ELD Initiative therefore supports Somalia in implementing some of the key recommendations outlined in the ELD country report, NAP and the National Capacity Self-Assessment (NCSA) with regards to addressing the impacts of desertification, land degradation and drought (DLDD) and promoting SLM. A close link to the LDN Target Setting Programme led by the UNCCD in support of countries achieving SDG 15.3 has also been established.
GC-RED in close collaboration with the UNDP Somalia Country Office will strengthen Somalia's ability to assess the costs of land degradation and economic benefits of investments in SLM/evergreen agriculture.
Targeting key institutions from the national research and policy sector, concrete activities will focus on the development of an economic assessment of selected land degradation phenomena and land use options. Training on-the-job will provided for both policy-makers and researchers, in particular for young professionals as potential future leaders and decision-makers, including tutoring by international experts, development of economic monitoring and decision-making tools and exposure to the international research community through learning events.
The macroeconomic benefits of sustainable land use methods will be widely communicated to stakeholders and decision-makers of relevant sectors, targeting different levels of governance and different stakeholders, and using stakeholder-specific communication materials resulting in a multi-sectoral policy aiming at related policy innovations and action.


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"SHAUN THE SHEEP is hot to trot to land this year's festive chart-topper, I can reveal. And WALLACE & GROMIT's pal could be the main challenger to the winner from the X Factor herd because I hear his track Life's A Treat is not half baa-d. And he has had words of encouragement from comic VIC REEVES - his voice in 1995's Oscar-winning short film Wallace and Gromit in A Close Shave."
Where to start? "I hear...it's not half baa-d" - an opinion that could be formed by any 3 year-old who watches the Shaun the Sheep TV series, as "Life's A Treat" is the theme tune.
Vic Reeves didn't do Shaun's voice in A Close Shave - Shaun doesn't speak, and never has. He just bleats.
The Vic Reeves connection is that he performs "Life's A Treat", and it will be Vic who actually performs the Christmas single - so it won't even be Shaun the Sheep in the running for the Christmas number one, it'll be Vic Reeves.
Ewe need to do better research, Vicky.
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Walter Baranger is Senior Editor for News Operations, managing communications and logistics for Times news bureaus.
Since our newsroom moved to computers in 1978, there have been two major eras at The Times: Before Hurricane Katrina, and after.
In both what we covered and how we reported it, Katrina was a turning point.
The Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, the World Trade Center bombing in 1993 and the Sept. 11 attacks were staggering in scope and human cost, but the surrounding civil infrastructures were left intact; not so with Hurricane Katrina. And the collapse of basic engineering — levees, electricity, mobile phones, water, sanitation systems and others — presented challenges our journalists rarely see outside war zones.
Also, Katrina had a vast and unprecedented geographic scope that stretched up along the entire Gulf Coast to the federal offices in Washington and our newsroom in New York. At the height of our coverage, nearly 100 reporters, editors, photographers and support staff contributed reporting from around the country, either full or part time.
Katrina first made landfall in Florida on a Thursday, as a fairly mild hurricane with winds of about 80 miles an hour, barely strong enough to qualify as a Category 1 storm. Joseph B. Treaster, who had covered many hurricanes for The Times, arrived in Miami a few hours ahead of the storm. He moved to Mississippi in anticipation of the storm's next move and was joined by a dozen Times journalists spread along the Gulf Coast.
When it became apparent that Katrina would hit New Orleans, Joe battled outbound traffic jams and road blocks, reaching the city before the storm's arrival. The Times was one of a few major news organizations with a reporter in the city during the storm.
As the storm front passed, our reporter Felicity Barringer and a Times photographer based in California, Jim Wilson, persuaded the state police to allow them into the evacuated city of New Orleans.
As Felicity wrote to the newsroom staff in 2005: "The next three days provided a kaleidoscope of searing images — vigilantes, looters, a few people who were dry and complacent and hundreds who were sodden, hungry, sick and desperate. All this was captured in Jim's camera and in my scribbled notes. We had only our cellphones and computer modems, and cell service was completely undependable. On Wednesday, I couldn't even tell the desk that we had made it past the checkpoints."
Simply driving around New Orleans was an acquired skill, with roads slickened by sewage-contaminated muck, collapsed trees and many street signs blown down. For several weeks, our reporters who had passed through certain neighborhoods had to be decontaminated by National Guard troops. And it was heart grippingly odd to drive the wrong way on Interstate 10 even though that is what state police directed us to do. Even local police officers often lost their bearings, what with the freeway signs reversed and familiar landmarks in seemingly unfamiliar places.
The day after the storm, Ralph Blumenthal, The Times's Houston bureau chief, drove our photographer Vincent Laforet into New Orleans with a F.E.M.A.-organized rescue unit, planning to camp inside a Sam's Club store.
"We were supposed to be housed inside, but there was too much damage so we spent the night in the parking lot." Ralph wrote in 2005. "Vince and I slept in the back of the S.U.V. in sleeping bags I had brought. There were no toilets. I ate from a stash of peanut butter sandwiches my wife had made me, and Vince had some of the convoy's packs of snack bars and crackers and cheese. (I offered him some of my sandwiches, but he doesn't like peanut butter.) There was no gas in New Orleans and of course we had left our supply locked up in my car in Baton Rouge, but we got by.
"The next two days we got out in the flooded city in a small motorboat owned by a man from New Iberia who was hoping to rescue people, and Vince got up in a sheriff's helicopter for the first aerial pictures of the devastation. On Tuesday night, the rescue group moved from Sam's Club to the New Orleans Saints' training camp. That night I slept on the ground and Vince stayed in the truck. There was no cellphone service in New Orleans so to file we drove the 70 miles to Baton Rouge, where Vince could transmit his pictures and I could dictate to the recording room."
Although armed with satellite telephones and GPS, reporters sent into the bayou country south of New Orleans frequently got lost or delayed because downed trees and power lines forced them into circuitous routes
Then there was the human misery.
Tyler Hicks, a veteran photographer of many wars, was shocked at the sight of unattended bodies floating in New Orleans, with stunned passers-by seeming to take no notice.
From the Graphics Archive: Mapping Katrina and Its Aftermath
A selection of maps published in The New York Times that shows the storm's impact.
Joseph Treaster rode out the storm in New Orleans's emergency center in City Hall, filing reports to New York. His article after the Superdome evacuation is a classic no-nonsense eyewitness account by a journalist with more than 30 years of international (and hurricane) experience.
Shaila Dewan visited the huge temporary morgue set up by the federal government, and followed the wrenching stories of the next of kin, many of whom had difficulties identifying and claiming bodies.
Logistics were crucial to our coverage. We still had a longtime institution known as the Recording Room, where reporters on telephones could dictate to a typist (something akin to yelling "Hello honey, give me rewrite" into a candlestick telephone).
We learned how to ration water, food and gasoline, which were all in short supply throughout the southern Gulf region, as Kate Zernike discovered when she met up with another Times reporter, Abby Goodnough, in Alabama:
"Abby and I had cheese and crackers, then slept in her Ford Expedition (I have a whole new enthusiasm for an S.U.V.), which was good because my car stank of gas. (We had to throw out some of the food I bought; even it smelled of gas.) Abby's car would become, as she called it, 'our house.' We showered with hand sanitizer and, in one extremely indulgent moment, each washed our hands using an entire small bottle of Dasani water, and drove to the emergency operations center to use the Porta Pottys."
I flew into Dallas with suitcases of satellite telephones, then filled a rental car with camping supplies and drove to our temporary bureau in Baton Rouge. My most valuable purchase turned out to be a hunter's camouflaged folding chair, because its footprint exactly coincided with the paltry nine square feet we were allocated in the state emergency operations center in Baton Rouge; we stashed supplies and food in the chair's hidden pockets, then assigned reporters to sit and wait for official announcements and the governor's news conferences.
The Times owned two small regional newspapers in Louisiana, The Daily Courier in Houma and The Daily Comet in Thibodaux, both some 50 miles southwest of New Orleans. They were convenient bases, but the worst-hit areas were farther east, so as the story moved, so did we: first, into a rented estate near the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge; then an R.V. parked in the median of Canal Street bordering New Orleans' French Quarter; then a lovely rented home along Audubon Park; and finally a permanent bureau residence in the Garden District.
When Hurricane Rita hit a month after Katrina, we were ready with satellite communications, military-style precooked meals, generators and other preparations in New Orleans, Houston and Baton Rouge. We reported the mass evacuation of millions of residents, then hunkered down as the storm passed.
Hurricane Katrina helped The Times prepare for Hurricane Sandy, which devastated the Northeast in 2012. When electricity and the cellphone network failed for a week or more in parts of the greater New York City area, a much wider array of newsroom staff were equipped with mobile technologies, including MiFis. The company still holds regular monthly meetings to discuss how we can continue delivering the news during an emergency, and we have an editorial production system that is far easier to use from outside the newsroom than was available in 2005.
The Times has been using satellite phones since 1990, but, mindful that telephone dictation is not acceptable in a web-powered news cycle, immediately after Katrina, the company began investing even more in the latest mobile and satellite technologies, a never-ending process. The Recording Room, a vestige of the 1920s, faded away.
New Orleans is still recovering from Katrina and Rita, and our reporters chronicle its renaissance and its stumbles. But for the dozens of Times journalists who lived through it, Katrina is a career touchstone by which they measure other assignments.
As Kate Zernike wrote, "I was eating yet another peanut butter sandwich in my car when someone came by and asked, 'Excuse me, are you with the media?' We both thought we recognized each other; indeed, it was Ian Urbina, my relief. I handed off the phone Abby left me, plus the blankets, hand sanitizer, food and water. I could not get a flight out of the area that night; the closest I could do was Birmingham the next morning. So I drove 420 miles to Atlanta instead, just to spend the night in a bed."
A few weeks later, Sheila Rule, a senior editor, announced to the staff that "We sent an email to those covering events in New Orleans and the Gulf States, reminding them that The Times offers confidential counseling and referrals designed to assist employees and their families in a variety of ways."
In many ways, the Hurricane Katrina story is continuing.
In September 2005, Times reporters and editors who covered Hurricane Katrina wrote about their experiences for Ahead of The Times, our internal newsletter.
- Kate Zernike, a reporter on the scene, chronicled the complicated logistics involved in covering the storm.
- Joseph Treaster, a reporter with decades of experience, described his journey to Superdome.
- David Frank, then deputy picture editor, recounted his experience photographing the scene.