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The economy and lack of jobs has been the topic of many debates in the last several months, and has left many people wondering what they could do to open up new career paths for themselves. If you love to exercise, love eating healthy, and/or love helping people, a career as a Certified Personal Fitness Trainer may be for you!
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It's no secret that fitness gyms and other fitness clubs in Texas are always hiring trainers, and with new attendees on the rise, the potential to find a job as a Certified Personal Fitness Trainer has never been easier. Becoming a Certified Personal Fitness Trainer is not as difficult as you think…as a matter of fact, NESTA makes it really easy to complete the course. Many other schools don't provide any resources, and on top of that their Certifications are usually only valid for 2 years!
NESTA, which is short for National Exercise & Sports Trainers Association, is a leader in providing certification programs that are not only accredited and accepted in Texas, but they are also widely accepted overseas. Just this fact alone greatly expands the job market and opportunities for someone that holds a NESTA Certification.
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There's an old Hollywood axiom: casting is 99% of directing. That may seem like an exaggeration, but reality is, the cast is what the audience sees, not the director or the writer or the guy holding the microphone. For that reason, if an actor is miscast, or worse, just plain out of his league, the entire movie suffers.
Some of these movies are actually quite good, though they may suffer a bit from the obvious miscast actors who stand out for all the wrong reasons. Some of the other movies, however--some that miscast more than one actor--sunk under the weight of the distraction. That's also not to say that all the actors on this list are without talent (though some are), or for that matter bad people. That does not, however, absolve anyone of bad acting.
12 Katie Holmes, Batman Begins
Batman Begins is one of the great comic book films, and one of the most overlooked. Besides two big-budget, higher profile sequels, the reason comes down to two words: Katie Holmes. Holmes delighted TV audiences with her work on Dawson's Creek, but when it came to the big screen, Holmes was out of her element against some of the world's best actors. Moreover, that Holmes was supposed to be playing an assistant district attorney when she still looked like a teenager didn't help.
11 Sofia Coppola, The Godfather 3
The Godfather series represents one of the best, most complex movie trilogies in cinema history. Yet Part III, despite several Oscar nominations and strong reviews & box office, gets a bit of a raw deal as the "bad" movie of the series. Far from godawful, the movie does have problems: chief among them, inexperienced actress Sofia Coppola in the pivotal role of Michael Corleone's daughter. In fairness, the movie doesn't provide her with much motivation (just why is she having an affair with her cousin?), and Coppola only took the role under duress. Still, calling Coppola miscast understates the wild effect her performance had on the reputation of the film.
10 11 & 12. George Clooney & Arnold Schwarzenegger, Batman & Robin
Now, Batman & Robin has a litany of problems which transcend the casting: bad jokes, boring direction, garish design and a turgid story. A good cast could probably rise above the bad material though, so let's face it: George Clooney, as Batman, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, as Mr. Freeze, grate like nails on a chalkboard. Both are deprived of the charm and action that made them stars, and the movie remains the nadir of the genre.
9 Nona Gaye, The Matrix Reloaded
Like Batman & Robin, The Matrix Reloaded has more problems than just the casting. An impenetrable script, gratuitous rave scenes and action overkill throw the whole movie off balance, but the lack of compelling new characters sinks it. Nona Gaye, replacing the late Aaliyah, brings nothing to the role of a human refugee trying to hold her family together. As a result, the scenes in Zion, the last human city, have zero interest. Given that they comprise a good portion of the movie, that's a bad thing.
8 Madonna, Dick Tracy
In 2000, the Razzie awards named Madonna worst actress of the century, a dubious honor for which she beat out the likes of Faye Dunaway and Bo Derek. A lot of it had to do with Madonna's career choices to appear in bad films. An exception: Dick Tracy, Warren Beatty's underrated foray into comic book films. Beatty puts Madonna's presence in the film to good use, though her unfocused performance jars the audience every time she's on screen.
7 Malin Ackerman, Watchmen
Watchmen represents one of the most ambitious superhero epics ever put to screen, and one of the best adaptations from difficult source material. So what hurts it? Malin Akerman in the crucial female role of Laurie Jupiter/Silk Spectre. In fairness, Akerman has a good deal of appeal, beauty and comic timing. She's woefully miscast here though, playing the role of the tortured superhero with bland stiffness.
6 Adam Driver, The Force Awakens
Hold the lightsabers, people! The Force Awakens brims with nostalgia and offers a lot of fun to Star Wars fans. It makes a huge casting mistake, however, in selecting horse-faced actor Driver as the villainous Kylo Ren. Driver has no charisma, is in no way frightening, and the character's many tantrums recall the worst acting moments of the prequel series. With at least two movies to go in this new trilogy featuring Driver, fans should hope that a better director gives his character more nuance, or allows Driver to bring more dimension to the role. A speech coach to make him sound like less of a grunting neanderthal would help too.
5 Halle Berry, X-Men
Has any actor, in the history of comic book films, been as miscast as Halle Berry in X-Men? Playing African weather goddess, Storm, Berry strikes so many wrong notes she threatens to kill the whole movie. That a bad wig and phony accent burden the actress does not help matters, either.
Berry has shown incredible dramatic talent in films like Things We Lost In The Fire and Monster's Ball, and her beauty has few equals among men or women in any era. But that cannot rescue her from miscasting. She's tolerable in the sequel X2 only because she's allowed to lose the accent and have better function in the plot. Really, her performance is even worse in X-Men: The Last Stand, though given all the boneheaded moves that film makes, Berry comes off looking somewhat better by comparison.
4 4 & 5. Brandon Routh & Kate Bosworth, Superman Returns
Like Clooney & Schwarzenegger, Routh and Bosworth occupy the same item here. Superman Returns teems with nostalgia and love for the classic Superman mythos, but finds none of the charisma of the character. Could that have anything to do with the lack of charisma from its leads? Routh seems cast more to look like Christopher Reeve than because of his own acting ability, essentially posing his way through the film. Bosworth fares even worse, offering none of the spitfire tenacity or wild intelligence that makes Lois an icon.
3 Robin Williams, The Butler
2 James Franco, Spider-Man 2
Please don't throw stones. Franco has given some great performances, and totally looks the role of prep school frat boy Harry Osborn in the Spider-Man films. His acting, however, doesn't quite match his chiseled jaw. Franco never displays the neurotic obsession that motivates the character, nor does his descent into madness have any emotional resonance. Of course, that he spends the whole movie trying to kill Spider-Man only just sort of stopping when he finds out his best friend slings the webs doesn't help, either.
1 Keanu Reeves, Bram Stoker's Dracula
Reeves has given some fine performances, though his unusual surfer-type voice can make him difficult to cast. Nowhere is this more evident than in Bram Stoker's Dracula, Francis Ford Coppola's Gothic horror blockbuster. Like Katie Holmes in a certain other film about a batman, Reeves just feels out of his league opposite some of the greatest actors alive. His English by way of surfer accent doesn't make him any more convincing, and while he gives the part his all, he can't overcome his miscasting.
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This 2009 film is a film about a film….an interview with an ambitious film director doing a film about Wayne Dyer. The vignettes of a harried mother, a driven businessman and the director show the angst in choosing a life of trust in the process vs controlling the process. We can ALL relate to that!!
This is a wonderful inspiring film that is easy to watch (it takes place in a beautiful location) and still carries it's message of discovering our true calling in life and then having the courage to go with it. I recommend it as a suggestion to clients since there are lots of life skills shown in this and it is non-confrontational to one's personal belief systems.
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I am using SmartSDR 2.1.30 with a Flex 6700. When I open a popup window on the panadaptor, I get a white box with 3 options – Tune Guides, Create Slice, and Create TNF. They are also white. If I move the mouse pointer to any one of the options, letters of that item turn black on a dark blue background. I can't see the letters well enough to read them. Is there a setting I need to change in order to make them white?
Without any parameter changes (that I know of), I get a black box with print and very easy to read.
A total guess, but do you use a non-standard windows theme? Maybe it is picking something up from that.
No special windows theme here. I also moved the SmartDR screen to my other 2 monitors. Same problem!
I cannot duplicate the behavior described. Have you made any other changes to the display different than the defaults?
No changes! Maybe I need to re-install 2.1.30???
I doubt a reinstall would make a difference. Can you post a screen capture of what you are describing?
Tried a few times...and I get a very readable print....
Attached are 2 pictures showing the problem!
This looks to be something local to your PC. When I mouse over the line the background shading highlights and the text color and intensity stays the same.
What is interesting is I do not see your mouse pointer in the area highlighting the 2nd line
What is interesting is I do not see your mouse pointer in the area highlighting the 2nd line
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CCNA Routing & Switching Boot Camp Training Details
Duration35-40 houres
TypeOnline Training
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The Routing and Switching CCIE™ certification boot camp is a five-day intense class designed for people who are actively seeking their CCIE™ certification. This boot camp uses a combination of lecture and hands-on laboratory exercises to teach participants how to design, deploy, and maintain a large network. It is focused on the operational design and scaling principles of routing protocols used in large-scale networks. The premise of the boot camp is to provide adequate hands-on practice with techniques used in implementing protocols such as OSPF, BGP, Multicasting and QOS to mention a few, in a large network so that students learn the techniques and can use them in their production network.
- Training by Realtime Expert trainer
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- Field experience using, maintaining, and troubleshooting Cisco® Routers and Switches.
- CCNP® certification or equivalent knowledge.
- Passing of CCIE™ R&S Written test is optional but recommended.
- The format is 40% theory, 60% Hands-on.
- It is a 20 days program and extends up to 2hrs each.
- The format is 40% theory, 60% Hands-on.
- It is a 5 days program and extends up to 8hrs each.
- Private Classroom arrenged on request and minimum attendies for batch is 4.
Course Content
- Section 1: Catalyst 3550 switches and features
- Section 2: Frame-relay
- Section 3: RIPv2
- Section 4: EIGRP
- Section 5: OSPF
- Section 6: BGP
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- Section 8: Multicasting
- Section 9: IP-Services
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So wow. I didn't actually begin Fridays at Home until about halfway through the year when I realized I really enjoy sharing my Adventures in Homeownership. 🙂 I did, however, want to do a recap of everything I've done to the house in the past year.
January: nothing.
February: begin looking at paint samples for the dining/reading room.
March: keep staring at paint samples and paint.
April: get lumber for bookshelves, hire Danny to build bookshelves.
May: begin looking at paint samples for the exterior of the house and trim.
June: painting begins.
July: painting continues.
August: rearrange living room furniture.
September: exterior paint is finished, and I paint the front door.
October: nada.
November: choose paint colors for kitchen and cabinets and refinish and paint cabinets.
December: ahhh. sweet peace. oh wait, I forgot Dad's big garage reno. wooow.
All in all, I had two total room redos, an exterior house change, and small projects all for under $4,000. Of course, that's doing a lot of the work myself, but heck, that's a lot of change (as in metamorphosis AND coinage) for a year. Overall, though, I'm pleased. What's on the agenda for 2012?
– Save money. You know, because it's kind of important to have some spare change for these home projects.
– Do touch ups and small projects.
– Paint detached garage to match exterior of house.
– Possible reno of butler's pantry into half bath (late summer, perhaps?).
– Redo back deck (if half bath goes through, may be put off until 2013).
– Add crown molding to main rooms.
– Create window seat in kitchen.
– Paint laundry room and make it more efficient.
It's funny. I hate lists for my reading but LOVE lists focusing on house projects. Now I just can't wait to start marking some of these off in the new year.Â
So – what have you done this year in terms of improving your space?


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Two weeks ago, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments surrounding President Trump's travel ban. The arguments centered around whether the president had authority to issue such a ban, whether the ban targeted Muslims, and how long the ban would last. Public responses have fallen largely into two camps: that the ban is a continuation of presidential campaign prejudice against Muslims, or that the ban protects national security based on confidential information.
A telling article in the Salt Lake Tribune last week gave some historical context for the Supreme Court situation. During World War II, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 which authorized the removal of Japanese-Americans to internment camps because of a potential threat to national security. Fred Korematsu refused to be removed, was arrested, and argued that the order was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court ruled that the executive order was constitutional and that national security took precedence over protection against racial prejudice. This court case was not the only source of presidential authority over national security in relation to race and migration, but it was a symbolically important one.
"Forty years later," Salt Lake Tribune columnist Robert Gehrke writes, "an attorney named Dale Minami persuaded a court to vacate the conviction [against Korematsu] based on new evidence that the government had lied about the ground for the interment order." In 1983, Korematsu won an appeal against the original Supreme Court decision, and in 1988 the federal government issued $20,000 in reparations to each surviving interned Japanese-American.
So, what does this court case mean for today's travel ban? And why are you reading it on a Mormon History blog?
Let me deal with the former, first. The emphasis on national security, which has taken extreme importance for the past half-century during our "wars" against communism and terrorism, is one that can and should be questioned by authorized officials. The impetus for Executive Order 9066 was most directly based on falsified information that the federal government assured the Supreme Court was valid in Korematsu v. United States. What measures exist to prevent such a mistake from happening again? Just the court briefs by each side, amici briefs from outsiders, and the authority of the Supreme Court.
This is not just an issue about national security, but also one about immigration law. Since the federal government fully assumed control of immigration to the United States in 1891, its history of migration policy has been largely restrictive. For over forty years, from 1921 to 1965, U.S. immigration law explicitly restricted entry based on national origins in a system that gave preference to Western (read white) Europeans. For most of that time period the system banned Asians. In the middle of this forty-four year span, the federal government contracted roughly 400,000 Mexican laborers per year to work in the American Southwest, particularly through the Bracero Program. Maybe it's coincidence that the Bracero Program began the same year as Executive Order 9066. After having created networks of labor and movement across the U.S.-Mexican border for over twenty years, the Bracero Program ended in 1964. The 1965 immigration law placed a 20,000 visa cap for each country. The decades-old labor networks and social networks persisted even though law changed (which resulted in hundreds of thousands of Mexican laborers suddenly becoming "illegal"). In the public mind the "Latino Threat Narrative" became a newly charged danger to national security.[1] To say that American immigration law in the twentieth century had a race problem is to vastly underestimate this history. Immigrant threats to national security have not escaped this problem of race in the past. It seems logical, then, that we should be aware of the problem of race for our current immigrant-threat-to-national-security-problem.
Just a quick note: this isn't the first time that a president has invoked the restriction of migration based on national security in our modern era. It is, however, the first time that a president has used national origin as the logic for restriction since 1965. In particular, the Trump travel ban goes against the 1965 Immigration Act by limiting migration from specific countries. Critique from the Left, then, has warned against a return to the racist system of restriction based on national origins and has argued that this history cannot be ignored, and that it has been up to the American public to identify, critique, and fight for racial equality and migrant rights.
Now let's deal with the latter question: why is this on a Mormon History blog? While the language of race has been fairly explicit in immigration law, the language of religion has not. The separation of Church and State implies a highly sensitive awareness for overt and conspicuous religious discrimination. Nativist groups have expressed their opposition toward Catholic and Jewish migrants. But, in the early twentieth century, law targeted those particular threats through perceived moral and racial degradation, instead of using explicitly religious identification. This seems to be true for other religious migrant groups, as well. In particular, the federal government targeted Mormons through the language of polygamy in the 1879 Evarts Circular and 1891 Immigration Act. This legislation danced around the separation of Church and State by cloaking its rhetoric in secular language and by specifying the intersections of multiple identities: Mormons=polygamists. The strength of the laws, then, depended on the strength of stereotypes: when Catholics, Jews, and Mormons could pass as monogamous and moral (white) citizens in the first half of the twentieth century, then they could avoid these particular moments of animus against religious migrants. The point here, though, is that, in terms of immigration, religious prejudice hasn't existed in explicitly religious language. In the current context, this forces us to ask: does the current travel ban target Muslims even if it doesn't use explicitly anti-Muslim language? Does simply saying that the travel ban isn't religious make it not religiously motivated? We should be aware of the covert and inconspicuous nature of religious prejudice.
Scholars of Mormonism have already made this point, particularly in relation to the supposed Muslim nature of Trump's travel ban. The question that now rests with the Supreme Court is whether this history of identifying religious and racial prejudice can justify an inspection of confidential information for the claim that the travel ban is in the name of national security, rather than in the name of religious prejudice. This question is one that the Mormon past is now formally and informally a part of.
[1] Douglas S. Massey and Karen A. Pren, "Unintended Consequences of US Immigration Policy: Explaining the Post-1965 Surge from Latin America," Population and Development Review 38, no. 1 (2012): 1-29.


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New Floats for Manchester
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Assistant Harbormaster Tim Cronin works on a new floating dock in the parking lot near the boat ramp Monday behind Manchester Town Hall. Cronin and Harbormaster Bion Pike began building an new set of floats for the town in mid-January, but were delayed by the blizzards. They are now about halfway through building 23 new floats for the 2015 boating season.


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Kolkata, Oct 3 (IANS) Chile defender Nicolas Aravena feels England and Mexico are the two teams they need to guard against in their Group F when they begin their Under-17 football World Cup campaign here at the Salt Lake Stadium on Sunday.
"England and Mexico are the two toughest teams in our group," Aravena told reporters ahead of their practice session at a private ground here.
While England have never won the youth World Cup, Mexico have laid their hands on the crown in 2011 at home.
Chile play England first on Sunday before locking horns with Iraq on October 11 and finishing group engagements three days later with Mexico.
"I will try hard to give my best and keep my place in the team," Aravena said.
Since they were hammered 0-5 by Brazil in the U-17 South American Championships earlier this year, four new players have joined the squad and will be vying for a place in the side.
"We have some things to sort out on the field. We are working out on that," Aravena, who plays for CSD Colo-Colo football club in Chile, said.
On a different note, Aravena said before watching the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer superhit Bollywood film "Chak De! India", he did not know much about the country.
"Before watching 'Chak De! India' I knew little about India. But after watching the film I got to know more," he said.
This is Chile's fourth U-17 World Cup outing and their second in a row. The Chileans' best finish of third place came on their debut in 1993.
La Rojita recorded their only clean sheet from 13 games in a 2-0 victory over Tunisia in 1993.
Chile qualified for India by coming second in the South American Under-17 Championship, thereby equalling their best finish in the 1993 edition of the continental event.
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Spent some time outdoors yesterday. Paazu (my shiba) likes the snow, and since we're not seeing much of the latter in the south of Sweden, it was a good opportunity to play with him a bit. Snapped quite a bit of photos while out, they'll trickle out on my Instagram this week, I'm sure. Some are already there, including this smug bastard enjoying a cigar by the sea in the evening.
That's not what you want to see however, so here's Paazu jumping for a treat, and something to print and put on the fridge. Maybe that'll help start your Monday.


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What's that noise? A 6.45 alarm! But there was no lounging and pressing the sleep button countless times this morning. We sprang out of bed, raring to go. Quick ablutions and then it was up with the steadies and we were off. The latest check-in for our crossing was 7.50 and we were there in plenty of time – despite missing the turning and having to do a quick three-pointer – no mean feat with a caravan behind! The morning was already heating up as we arrived and this was to set the tone for the weather for the whole holiday, although we did not know it then.
As it was term-time, there was the usual procession of excited school kids running up down the train but all of a sudden – there we were in France! We had a journey of around 320 miles (5-6 hours) ahead but very soon stopped for breakfast at the first Aire we could find. Coffee and pains au chocolate (or PACs as we came to know them). Delicious. It was hot!
Our route (see here – avoiding Paris at all costs!) took us through Abbeville, Rouen, Alencon, Le Mans, Saumur and finally to Camping de Chantepie, where we had 2 nights booked. We had made plenty of stops on the way and finally arrived at around 5.30. We were delighted with our pitch, which we felt was probably the most stunning ever, with an amazing view over the Loire.
We swung into our setting up routine and were soon sitting overlooking that view with a reviving cuppa. Lovely.
The fan which we had brought with us was very quickly plugged in and was to be our saviour over the ensuing days as it was so hot – particularly at night. We packed the duvet away and spent most nights to come under just a sheet and occasionally a throw on top in the chilly hours of the morning.
After a brief relax, it was time to go off on a victualling expedition. Luckily, there was a brand new E. Leclerc in Saumur and we not only shopped there but ate there – much better food than UK supermarkets in our opinion. We then had a quick flip round Saumur to get our bearings.
It was a beautiful evening and the crowning glory was watching a couple of air balloons drifting by. I was very envious. This is a common sight along the Loire and we have some pictures in a later post.
We got back to the 'van and unpacked our purchases and then fell very happily into bed with the Cribathon standing at 2-0 to Mr S.


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Research findings, observations and discoveries
This section of the site outlines some of the observations and discoveries made in this research project. They are listed here.
Simulacrum and guardian at Pordenack Point
Ancient sites in West Penwith are clustered in two quite distinct areas, north and south. The north has quoits and the south has double menhirs.
There are two areas mysteriously empty of ancient sites, in the northeast and southwest of the peninsula. The area of Penzance and east toward Hayle is also noticeably empty of sites.
This is one of the big discoveries of this research project - an integrated system of ancient site alignments covering West Penwith, established in the neolithic period and providing the basis for the location of later sites built in the bronze age, especially stone circles.
In the southern half of the peninsula is a series of double menhirs not found in the north. There are some in Wales though.
There are some fascinating parallel alignments in Penwith and in the Scillies and also between them, as well as a system of four parallel alignments between Penwith and the Lizard peninsula.
Some alignment nodes such as Boscawen-ûn, St Michael's Mount and the Botrea Barrows have somewhat symmetrical arrays of alignments passing through them, sugsting geometrical patterns in the Penwith alignment system - though there is more research to be done on this.
The earliest alignments in West Penwith, linking the neolithic quoits, all form an interesting pattern.
Hills form a key element in forming the Penwith alignments system, and as sighting points from many ancient sites.
Studying the alignments passing through an ancient site not only suggest why it was placed there, but also can give hints about its dating.
Insights into the para-technologies created by the people of the neolithic and the bronze age, and teir purpose.


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As I've mentioned before, I use Windows Server 2003 x64 as my desktop OS so I am always particularly interested when I get a support problem from a customer that appears to be specific to the 64-bit environment. A case in point happened recently when I had a problem report that the customer could not use the 'set next statement' feature in Visual Studio 2005. At first we thought the problem was specific to AMD64 machines as the customer had not seen the problem on Intel EM64T systems and I could not reproduce it either (I run a Dell Precision 670 with dual Xeon EM64T capable CPUs). However later it turned out I could reproduce it - I don't know what I was doing wrong.
The repro was simple:
Ensure you are compiling to 64-bit and set a breakpoint inside the exception handler and allow the code to reach the breakpoint. Once there, right click on a line within the try block and try to 'set next statement' on the context menu:
The result is this dialog:
(For the benefit of search engines and others, the error says "Unable to set the next statement at this location. The attempt to unwind the callstack failed.")
The dialog lists a number of reasons why this might not be possible right now but the point is if you compile to 32-bit it works just fine.
After a bit of messy debugging trying to capture some dump files at the exact point of failure (so I could remote them out to the development team) and a bit of emailing back and forward with Redmond, it turns out the answer is annoyingly simple..
You can't do it here.
Why not?
It turns out that we cannot do it because of the way that exception handling is implemented on 64-bit processors. If the current instruction pointer (IP) is within a catch block we cannot set the new IP to within the try block (or anywhere else not in the catch block for that matter). This is because setting the next statement is not as simple as setting the value of the instruction pointer register in current thread context. We need to fix up other registers etc that may be getting used for local variables and such like. In fact we even have an internal error code relating to the situation, CORDBG_E_CANT_SET_IP_OUT_OF_CATCH_ON_WIN64, which is mentioned in Mike Stalls blog on this and other SetIP failure cases.
Visual Studio tries to cope with this situation by intercepting the exception but is unable to because we are already on our second pass. By the time the catch clause is executed the exception dispatch is at the end of the second pass.
There are a couple of ways to cope with this:
1) Don't get to the catch block in the first place - set the Visual Studio debugger to stop on the exception and go from there
2) Step out of the catch block and then 'set next statement' to where you want.
It'd be nice if Visual Studio gave a slightly more helpful error message in this situation, since it is expected (at least from an ICorDebug API point of view). I'll file a bug against Orcas and see if we can get that improved.
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A brief description of the working biological filter
Biological filtration relies on the activity of specific bacteria cultured in the filter to break down toxic waste products into less harmful substances. The bacteria occur naturally and are used to break down domestic sewage in special treatment plants. Water treated at these plants is so clean that it is often recycled for domestic use.
In effect, a biological filter on a Koi pond is really a small sewage treatment unit, exploiting the natural sequence of biochemical reactions that occurs in the nitrogen cycle.
There are two stages in the breakdown of ammonia in a biological filter system, each stage involving different types of bacteria to 'power' the detoxification process. In the first stage, ammonia is broken down to nitrite by a number of different nitrifying bacteria, the most important of which is NITROSOMONAS. A second group of nitrifying bacteria, principally NITROBACTER, converts the nitrite to nitrate. (These two stages, and how they relate to other steps in the nitrogen cycle, are clearly shown in the diagrams). Both these groups of bacteria are aerobic, i.e. they need oxygen to thrive and thus purify the water.
The nitrifying bacteria require an oxygen level of at least 1mg/litre in the water continuously flowing through the medium. Sediment building up in the bottom of a filter can deplete oxygen levels in the water and encourage the growth of anaerobic bacteria (those that thrive in the absence of oxygen, rendering the filter ineffective. It is vital, therefore, to keep sediment to a minimum in the filter. The second chamber in a filter system is usually the biological filter and contains a medium that will provide a large surface area on which the nitrifying bacteria can grow. Again a variety of different, and equally effective, media is available. It really does not matter what type of filter medium you use, provided that the system is capable of breaking down the poisonous waste products into harmless ones.
Installing a biological filter system to a pond does not guarantee an immediate improvement to the water quality, ammonia and nitrite levels are likely to fluctuate in a new filter and it may take from six months to a year before the filter has finally matured. You may notice that the concentration of ammonia in the water increases dramically, sometimes to dangerous levels, once you introduce koi into a new pond. These high levels of ammonia may take only a matter of days to subside in summer, but up to several weeks during the winter months. This is because these filters are biologically active and thus their efficiency is affected by external parameters, such as the weather, water temperature and pH value, and the number and size of fish in the pond.
The growth and reproduction of bacteria are inhibited by cold, for example; both will cease at temperatures below 5c .With these fluctuations in mind, it is important to check pond water quality regularly, after installing a new filter system. Get into the habit of taking ammonia and nitrite readings every week and recording these analyses on paper. If you run into difficulties with koi health, it is useful to have a record of any preceding water quality problems. Both freeze dried and live bacteria cultures of nitrifying bacteria are available; adding one of these preparations to the biological filter on a new pond, or to an established pond in the spring, will boost the filtration process.


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COEUR d'ALENE - Teachers in the Coeur d'Alene School District found out Tuesday just how much, or how little, they will be receiving as bonuses under the state's pay-for-performance plan, and many of them aren't happy about it.
A group of teachers at Lake City High School say they're particularly upset because they're receiving bonuses and they know teachers at one district school, Borah Elementary, won't be receiving any extra cash this year.
"It actually makes me physically ill," said Lake City teacher Amy Bellamy. "Everybody is carrying this huge burden around. It's just so wrong."
The teachers are considering ways they can pool some of their own bonus money to ensure the Borah teachers know they're appreciated by their peers.
Under the pay-for-performance plan, teachers at some schools will receive a full share of the bonus amount and others will receive a partial share. The shares are determined based on students' results on the Idaho Standards Achievement Test.
Individual districts were given the option of adding their own additional criteria. In Coeur d'Alene last year, the school board decided to use the state ISAT guideline alone. That decision was based on a recommendation from a committee of teachers, principals and Coeur d'Alene Education Association leadership.
If a teacher in the Coeur d'Alene School District receives the full amount, according to the preliminary numbers, that teacher will receive slightly more than $4,000.
Sandy Midgley, a teacher in her 13th year at LCHS, said teachers at her school learned they will receive half a share.
Midgley said she called all the schools in the district to find out how much of a share each teacher will receive.
Midgley said she was told teachers at several schools are slated to receive full shares: Coeur d'Alene High, Canfield Middle and Skyway, Dalton, Sorensen, Ramsey and Winton elementary schools.
Teachers at Woodland and Lakes middle schools are slated to receive a quarter-share, Midgley said, and Borah teachers will receive nothing.
Midgley does not know how much teachers at Bryan, Atlas or Hayden Meadows elementary schools will receive. She never received calls back from those schools.
Based on her information, Midgley said it appears the teachers at schools in lower socio-economic neighborhoods are getting lower bonus amounts.
"Those teachers are dealing with issues that affect student success on the ISAT," Midgley said. "There are more at-risk kids, transient populations, fewer stay-at-home parents working one-on-one with these kids."
She said the argument that not receiving bonuses will motivate teachers to work harder is "absurd."
"Those (Borah) teachers are hopeless, frustrated, sad, unappreciated, and they don't have any immediate control over what those students do on an ISAT," Midgley said. "They work so hard with these little ones."
In high school, the ISAT is given to sophomores only, and Midgley said that as a senior government teacher, she's receiving a bonus when her teaching hasn't directly affected the students' test results.
Lake City teacher Andrea Partington said students in lower socio-economic areas often need to be taught skills that go beyond the ISAT, and for some of them, school is their most stable environment.
"These teachers nurture and care for these children, and by its very nature, this clientele is not going to be high-achieving," Partington said.
Coeur d'Alene school officials confirmed that building principals met with their teachers after school Tuesday and told the teachers whether they would be receiving any extra cash.
School district spokeswoman Laura Rumpler and Rosie Astorquia, the district's director of secondary education, told The Press the district would not release the information to the public at this time, because the state department of education requested that they wait until Nov. 9, the date all districts should have their final calculations completed.
The Press is making a public records request for this information.
Rumpler said, although the numbers are preliminary, they wanted the teachers to hear them first, in person, from their own administrators, to allow the teachers time to process the information, before it is made public.
School districts are expected to receive the bonus money by Nov. 15, and distribute it by Dec. 15.
The pay-for-performance plan is one of three education referendums voters are being asked to consider repealing on the Nov. 6 ballot. A winning "no" vote on Proposition 2 would repeal the merit pay program effective Nov. 21.
Idaho schools chief Tom Luna, one of the creators of the education reform package that includes the pay-for-performance plan, sent out an email Thursday to schools and media advising that it's uncertain if teachers will receive the bonuses.
"The question is whether or not districts would then have legal authority to distribute this funding to teachers after November 21," Luna wrote. "The State Department of Education has been working with the Attorney General's office on this issue for several months. The answer to this question remains uncertain as of today; however, we have asked the Attorney General's office for further guidance and will forward their official opinion on the matter to you as soon as we receive it."


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I recommend reading Freedom Flotilla: "Israel is Threatening to Attack Us" over at Mantiq al-Tayr all about it. From there:
1. The quote in the title headline is from the video below featuring Huwaida Arraf, an American-born Christian woman of Palestinian heritage married to a Jew, Adam Shapiro, the head of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). Rachel Corrie was with the ISM when she was murdered. Ms. Arraf is talking about the Freedom Flotilla, a group of ships heading to Gaza to break the illegal Israeli blockade of Gaza's shore. In addition, the Flotilla is not just carrying "humanitarian aid" – you know, shitty food that Jews occupying Palestine wouldn't eat themselves, they are carrying construction materials so that Gaza can rebuild itself after the terrorist murderous Israeli invasion of Gaza about a year and a half ago. Said invasion being a series of war crimes against the Palestinian people that was bravely supported by both houses of the Congress of the United States of America, a fact which all decent Americans are utterly ashamed of.
Here are a couple of other articles on the general topic. This one's from Veterans Today and this one's from Counterpunch.
And here's a spanking new AP article about the flotilla. Posted one hour ago.


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Back in the midsts of time, before the New 52, Nick Spencer was the writer of Supergirl. And then suddenly, half way through his first issue, he wasn't.
At the show, Spencer told people that the reason was that editorial just didn't like what he was giving them, which is why he only wrote two thirds of the issue, having it finished by the now-ongoing writer James Peaty. However on release, he says the positive reviews saw them change their mind – but by then Nick had signed by Marvel.
Sounds familiar doesn't it? So what was he going to write on Supergirl. Well, with this unused Supergirl cover by Amy Reeder, he told us on Tumblr.
The idea for the story was pretty simple: Kara learns how to be a leader. She had, to that point, been almost exclusively used as either a solo character, or in a supporting role on a team. I felt like someone wearing that 'S' on their chest would find people looking to them for answers when things got bad.
The villain was intended to be the Luthor-Brainiac hybrid clone that Geoff Johns seeded in Adventure Comics. That scene in the one issue I did half of, with Lois running into the Planet offices, the original line was "Who here knew Lex Luthor had a son?"
The original hope had been to use Aqualad here, too.
The story beats that really stand out, to me:
I know I wanted to have a scene where the fight gets really hectic, and Impulse runs away, with Kara really calmly and sympathetically talking to her about it, just the two of them, in the aftermath. That was supposed to be the big moment that Kara comes into her own.
The entire team (except for Kara) were gonna get captured, and Kara would go to Superman, Batman, & Wonder Woman for advice— and from there, putting together ANOTHER team to rescue them (I forget who all was on that one- Black Alice, Klarion, Shining Knight, Arrowette, I think).
The whole thing would climax at the launch party for the Flyover app, and the last scene was Impulse pulling Damian onto the dancefloor.
My secret hope was that the whole thing could work as a back-door pilot of sorts for a new Young Justice series.
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At first glance Newt Gingrich comes off like he is Pro-Life but when looked at closer you find something quite disturbing. There's an article on CNSNews.com talking about Newt's interview with ABC News's Jake Tapper on Friday December 2nd. In this interview former speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said he believes life does not start at conception but at "implantation and successful implantation" because if you say life begins at conception "you're going to open up an extraordinary range of very difficult questions."
Rep. Bachmann put out a statement on Friday, expressing disagreement with what Gingrich had told ABC News.
"Newt Gingrich stated today that life begins at implantation not at conception," said Bachmann. "But those who are truly involved in the life issue know that life begins at conception. Additionally, the former speaker's description of the life issue as 'practical' is a rejection of the most sacred principle that each and every life has value, a principle recognized by our founders in the Declaration of Independence of the most basic right with which every human is endowed. This along with his inconsistent record on life is just one more indication that Newt is not dedicated to protecting the lives of the unborn and doesn't share the most basic of conservative principles."
One of the questions that arise is, "Does Newt Gingrich support "The Morning After Pill" also known as the "Plan B Pill"? This pill aborts a pregnancy, if taken before implantation.
It seems that Newt Gingrich cannot make up his mind on this issue. At the Thanksgiving Family Forum Dr. Frank Luntz asked Newt the same question, "When do you believe life begins?" Newt responded, "I believe life starts at conception".
Three weeks later on ABC News Mr. Gingrich changed his answer to "I believe life starts at implantation and successful implantation". The next day Gingrich posted a statement on his campaign website saying he does believe "human life begins at conception".
Gingrich's campaign also posted a questionnaire he submitted to the National Right to Life Committee on Nov. 23 in which he stated that he believes abortions should be legal in cases of rape and incest.
In an interview that was conducted in Iowa on Friday and posted on the website of ABC News, Tapper asked Gingrich directly when he thinks human life begins.
"Abortion is a big issue here in Iowa among conservative Republican voters and Rick Santorum has said you are inconsistent," Tapper told Gingrich. "The big argument here is that you have supported in the past embryonic stem cell research and you made a comment about how these fertilized eggs, these embryos are not yet 'pre-human' because they have not been implanted. This has upset conservatives in this state who worry you don't see these fertilized eggs as human life. When do you think human life begins?"
Gingrich responded: "Well, I think the question of being implanted is a very big question. My friends who have ideological positions that sound good don't then follow through the logic of: 'So how many additional potential lives are they talking about? What are they going to do as a practical matter to make this real?
These inconsistencies should be taken into consideration before we elect another politician that will say one thing and do another. After having three and half years of being lied to, we need to elect someone that we can trust will do what he says and has the record to prove it.
That is why I support Senator Rick Santorum for President. He is consistent in what he says and has a track record to prove it. Even if you don't agree with something he says at least you know he won't change his mind just to get a vote. That is integrity and good character, which are two things our next President needs to have.
Rick Santorum is a champion of faith, family and life. You can trust Santorum because he does what he says and has the record to prove it.
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America's Higher Ed Assistance Programs About to Crack Under Intense Pressure
WASHINGTON, D.C. – During a speech to the American Association of Community Colleges today, Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, said that he was concerned the nation's funding of financial assistance programs for higher education could crack under the intense pressure of increased enrollment.
"If things do not change dramatically, I am concerned that our system of funding for higher education is going to crack under pressure," said Senator Enzi. "Since 2008, federal funding for student aid programs has been increased dramatically and in a way that draws in more and more students. This has been a needed boost for thousands of students during one of the worst recessions in American history. However, it has also strained the limits of federal student aid programs, and without change, is simply unsustainable."
Senator Enzi said there are already significant problems in sustaining federal student aid programs like the Pell Grant program. In the past ten years, funding for the Pell Grant program has gone from roughly $7 billion to over $40 billion and the number of students served has nearly tripled. However, this dramatic increase in funding has proven insufficient to meet the needs of the thousands of new students made eligible by changes to the program. Over the past two years, Congress has been forced to make a number of ad hoc changes in order to fill funding gaps, but efforts to preserve Pell Grants have come at the expense non-traditional and community college students. While Pell funding is sufficient for the next two years, the Congressional Budget Office has projected that the program will need substantially more money next year in order to maintain the current maximum grant.
"I am disappointed that many of the proposals in the President's budget appear to just be spending more money without doing anything to address the underlying systemic forces that are straining federal student aid programs," Senator Enzi said. "We cannot afford to wait two more years to address another shortfall in these programs. If we do, whatever is done will again be at the expense of America's students."
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Another school year is almost at it's end, and I'm always so proud to show off the hard work of my incredible students. So I hope you enjoy the tour. Here a a few of the panels. The wall above (a very difficult space to work with) was put up by seniors Brandon Liao and Marisela Herrarte, and the wall below was hung by seniors Robert Dohring and Marylou Bunn. I like how Robert and Marylou sponged a bit of paint to the top and bottom of the panel, and then did a little paint splatter throughout the middle.
This very dark and difficult corner was artfully arranged by junior Jason Kwon and senior Ashlee Chang. They enjoyed and welcomed the challenge. And below we have the finished panel of seniors Jullian Kho and Kate Lee. I posted a preview of this wall a couple of weeks ago because I was very excited about the hand prints that they stamped onto the background paper. I think both the girls did a fabulous job grouping the art on top of the prints.
Next we have the wall stylings of seniors Kyoung Lee and Hannah Park (above). One of Hannah's signature design trademarks this year has been to drizzle paint down the length of her pieces, and she and Kyoung pulled it off very tastefully on their panel. And lastly, I'm featuring the most difficult wall of all. It not only has a door to contend with, but 2 light switch lines and boxes, as well as wood beneath the plastic wall cover which makes pushing the t-pins in a real pain. Seniors Anne Guu and Sam Chon tackled this wall head on and worked it out! All of you did a fantastic job, thank you for making my room look so gorgeous!


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Have you ever landed on a glacier? I have and it was the most amazing experience of my life. A two and a half hour drive West of Whitehorse on the banks of Kluane Lake is the abandoned town of Silver City and a dirt airfield that is home to Icefield Discovery. This is where one of the most awe inspiring adventures of your life will start. A glacier flightseeing adventure that is only rivalled by the Grand Canyon and the Amazon River in size and scope. The largest non-polar glacier in the world is in Kluane National Park and the best way to experience it is 1000 feet up in the air With Icefield Discovery. This a glacier flightseeing adventure is more than just a plane ride over ice, this is your chance to land on ice 700 meters thick and walk in snow that no man has walked on before. Welcome to the Yukon and one of the best adventures of my LIFE!
If you have never been to Kluane National Park and Reserve before it is absolutely gorgeous and almost untouched by man. Here is a map showing you where it is located on the Alaskan Highway and why Whitehorse is a great base camp if this is an adventure you are up for.
We arrive at the Icefield Discovery airfield excited and anxious. I have to be honest I don't know what to expect. The four of us have signed up for the Ultimate Experience. We have cameras, warm boots and a sense of adventure. We are ready.
(1.5 hours) Fly over the St. Elias Mountains in a ski plane and land on the icefield. Our landing site is just across from Mt. Logan at the Icefield Discovery Base Camp. This is the opportunity to get out on the snow, take some great photos and absorb the vastness and silence of the largest non-polar icefield in the world. $325 per person (max 4 passengers)
It is such a tiny office for what promises to be an epic adventure. After the waivers are signed we get to know our pilot and our plane. Our pilot's name is Tom Bradley and we will be flying in on a turbo charged Helio Courier on wheel-skis.
We are strapped in and ready to fly.
The approximately 1.5-hour trip starts out with us flying high over the river that drains into Kluane Lake from the glaciers. Within this past year, the river flow changed and it no longer feeds into the lake which means that water levels have dropped almost 30%. We can see the effect as we fly over. What was once covered in water is now alive with grass and other flora. Can you say climate change?
As we are flying our pilot Tom is talking to us. Filling us in on what we are seeing and what we can expect to see. He has probably forgotten more about glaciers than I have ever known.
This portion of the flight has us taking the high road. By that I mean we are flying fairly high up so that we get a bird's eye view of the mountains, rivers and glaciers below us. We keep our eyes focused on the mountain slopes as we may be lucky enough to see mountain sheep. No luck so far, just these beautiful and majestic mountains carved by glaciers and water.
We are now entering the land of glaciers. From this high up it looks surreal and so smooth. The ice looks just like a river flow with dark bands which we are told is rock and debris picked up by the moving ice. These debris bands are created when two flows meet and continue on. The debris which was once at the edge of the flow becomes the centre of the combined flow. It is quite awe inspiring to imagine the pure force of nature that is taking place beneath us.
As we fly deeper into the ice fields the mountains seem to get smaller. This is not the case. The mountains are just buried in snow. 600 to 700 metres of snow to be exact.
There is a base camp which in better weather conditions we would have landed at, but our pilot has decided not to chance it as the weather is changing rapidly. Instead, he finds us an ice field that is safe and untouched by man. With our plane outfitted with skis, we can land with no trouble at all.
With the engine still running we are allowed to get out and walk in snow no one has walked on before.
After 20 minutes it is time for us to reboard our plane and head back to Silver City. We will take a similar route back, however, this time we will fly much lower to the ground so we can get a different perspective of the glacier and the topography.
What looked relatively smooth on the flight up has a much different look on the way back. Here we can see how the glacier is cracked and riddled with rivers from the melting ice. There are even small pools easily seen at this distance. They are a bright turquoise blue. Shining like gems on the surface of the glacier. Tom tells us that this colour indicates these pools of glacier water are rich in oxygen. It hasn't had the chance to "escape" as it has been trapped in ice for thousands of years.
It only seems like we were gone for 20 minutes but in fact, it was over 1.5 hours. Our approach to the air strip in Silver City takes us over Kluane Lake and the reflection of our plane in the lake is how I am feeling after this experience. I feel very small on this planet.
This glacier flightseeing adventure has left me speechless, which is a rare thing for me to be. If you only do one thing when you are in the Yukon this has to be it. Hands down one of the most amazing things I've ever done.


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The Little Dictator / HaDiktator HaKatan
Professor Yossi Kleinmann is a non-charismatic history professor lecturing on political leaders in totalitarian regimes. Neither his students nor his domineering wife show him any respect. At a Sabbath weekend celebrating the 90th birthday of his wife's grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, Yossi suddenly finds himself in a surreal situation which forces him to confront history, his family and himself.


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The Scandinavian Countries, 1720-1865: The Rise of the Middle Classes - Vol. 1
The Scandinavian Countries, 1720-1865: The Rise of the Middle Classes - Vol. 1
Archibald Carey Coolidge, in the second volume of the American Historical Review, made "A Plea for the study of the History of Northern Europe," and it was he who founded the excellent Scandinavian collection in the Harvard College Library. Comparatively few American scholars responded, however, and as late as 1932 the Committee of the American Historical Association on the Planning of Research pointed to Scandinavian history as a neglected field. The book here submitted to the public is the result of eight years' study in an effort to sketch the outlines of Scandinavian history since 1720 and to present a guide for the more specialized work without which a satisfactory understanding of these peoples will remain impossible.
In spite of the inadequacy of historical literature on this subject, the Scandinavian countries are today the cynosures of believers in democratic procedures. There more truly than anywhere else, it is often maintained, evidence may be found that when honestly and sincerely applied the democratic way of life is capable of solving the most acute problems of modern society. Enthusiastic visitors return to the United States every year with fulsome praise for the neatness and orderliness of Scandinavian institutions and for the practical sense with which these countries attack the perplexing issues of our time. They are pointed to as proof that neither Communist nor Fascist extremes are necessary. But when these admirers are asked why the Scandinavian countries seem to be more successful than others in making democracy work the answers usually refer to some mysterious virtue denied to other nations. The historian will never accept so specious an explanation. He will seek tangible facts, discoverable only in history. I hope that the present volume will contribute toward an understanding of the real Scandinavian, a human being with his full share of vices as well as virtues, who has been an equal participant in the development of modern civilization, subject to a somewhat peculiar material environment, and blessed with a long period of peace.


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Hi Larry, Wow, what a deal. You made out like a bandit on that. That 3f will still work in .45/70s. My shooting buddy ordered 6 pounds of Swiss from Graf last week, and I need to go to his house today and get it. Right now I am the Company Ordnance Sergeant tasked with all the loading. He felt obligated to buy the powder since he has been helping me expend my supply in the past. Like I told Hank, I am going to load 20 rounds early next week with Japan wax lubed bullets and see how they do. But if you beat me to it, let me know how the Swiss shoots. I am going out of town tomorrow and will be out of pocket until Friday afternoon. I'll be in touch. Regards, Ken
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British exam board Edexcel announced last week that five pieces by female composers will be included as set works in the 2016 A-level syllabus, marking the first time that female composers have been a required part of the curriculum. Amazingly, the move is almost entirely the result of the impassioned efforts of 17-year-old student Jessy McCabe. McCabe first wrote to Edexcel to make them aware of the lack of female composers in their syllabus. Edexcel's head of music wrote back: "Given that female composers were not prominent in the western classical tradition (or others for that matter), there would be very few female composers that could be included."
But McCabe wasn't done. She launched a petition on Change.org, attracting almost 4,000 supporters, and wrote open letters to the education secretary, Nicky Morgan, the executive director of exam regulator Ofqual, Ian Stockford, and Pearson UK's managing director, Mark Anderson. Thanks to McCabe's efforts, music students will now be expected to study works by Clara Schumann, Rachel Portman, Kate Bush, Anoushka Shankar and Kaija Saariah.
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- India Women cricket team captain Mithali Raj commented on BCCI's reported plan to hold a Women IPL event, which would be the female counterpart to the Indian Premier League
- Present at a press conference at BCCI's headquarters in Mumbai, Mithali and Jhulan Goswami said that in order to host a Women IPL, the India Women cricket setup needed to be strong at the domestic level
India Women Cricket team captain Mithali Raj and pacer Jhulan Goswami commented on Tuesday on BCCI's reported intention to hold an Indian Premier League-like event for India Women Cricket team. Mithali Raj said that a Women IPL event would only make sense when the BCCI first makes sure that there is a "strong domestic" setup for India Women Cricket.
Need quality players for Women IPL, says India Women Cricket Team Captain Mithali Raj
Mithali Raj was present alongside Jhulan Goswami at the BCCI headquarters in Mumbai on March 20, 2018, ahead of the India Women Cricket team's Tri-Series. India Women Cricket team captain Mithali said, as reported by DNA India,
"It's important to have the pool of players, who will be qualified to play IPL kind of a league. As I mentioned (in) India A (team) itself we need quality players. Once we have those many players then it will be wise enough to have an IPL."
Exhibition Matches scheduled for India Women Cricket during IPL 2018
It is also reported, that in a bid to advance closer to the concept of a Women IPL, the BCCI is organising exhibition matches for women during the upcoming 11th season of the Indian Premier League.
The BCCI thought the moment right to organise such exhibition matches during IPL 2018, as it would be easier to realise the practicality of holding a Women IPL, especially with the growing popularity and success of India Women Cricket team stars such as; Harmanpreet Kaur, Mithali and Jhulan Goswami. These exhibition matches would also lay the groundwork for a women IPL event.
Mithali presses for a "strong domestic setup"
Mithali Raj said, "You can feed in any domestic (players) but then there will be a stark difference between an international player and domestic player. It might go against promoting women's cricket. So, I personally believe that when you have strong domestic set-up and churning quality players then giving them an opportunity in IPL makes sense."
Women in Blue's veteran pacer Jhulan Goswami agreed right away with her Test captain, and said, "That is absolutely right, the domestic set up needs to be a little more stronger."
India Women Cricket team will be a part of the upcoming T20 cricket tri series, involving Australia Women Cricket team and England Women Cricket team, and Mithali Raj says that it is the right time to get her team's combination right, as both England and Australia are tough contenders in Women's World Cricket.
"The team is now preparing for the T20 World Cup this year and it's important that before the World Cup we need to have combinations right. And for that if we have to have few changes in the squad, irrespective of whether the result goes our way or not, it is important because we see the bigger picture preparing for the World Cup," Mithali said.
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