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PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge presiding over a racial profiling case against an Arizona sheriff's office chided the sheriff and his top aide on Monday for mischaracterizing his findings, telling them he's unimpressed by what he called their apparent "double dealing."
U.S. District Judge Murray Snow said he was disappointed with the inaccurate statements that Chief Deputy Jerry Sheridan, the top aide for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, made about the case during an October training session with rank-and-file deputies.
This is the latest in a yearslong string of criticisms against the agency led by the self-proclaimed "America's Toughest Sheriff," who's made waves nationally by cracking down on illegal immigration and forcing inmates to wear pink underwear.
Sheridan, standing at a podium dressed in his beige uniform, told the judge he got the facts wrong and acted with emotion. He says he made the remarks out of frustration with declining morale among his deputies after Snow concluded last year that the agency has racially profiled Latinos.
Sheridan's voice rose in volume when he explained his frustrations, saying they grew out of the media's misrepresentation of the judge's rulings and Arpaio critics calling the agency racist.
"I heard every word you said loud and clear," Sheridan told the judge.
Sheridan and Arpaio were called into court Monday to answer questions about the Oct. 18 training session. In a video of the session, Sheridan appears to suggest to sheriff's deputies that they weren't obliged to make their best efforts to remedy the agency's constitutional violations, the judge wrote in a ruling a week ago.
The video shows that Arpaio addressed the deputies after his chief aide, saying Sheridan's thoughts echoed his own. "What the chief deputy said is what I've been saying," Arpaio said.
The judge also took issue with a remark that Sheridan made during the training session in which he complained that his agency was being put under the same kind of court supervision as the long-troubled New Orleans Police Department and added, "That tells you how ludicrous this crap is."
"I am not really impressed with what appears to be double dealing," Snow told the aide.
Ten months ago, Snow concluded Arpaio's office systematically racially profiled Latinos in its immigration and regular traffic patrols and unreasonably prolonged the detentions of people during traffic stops. Arpaio has vigorously denied the racial profiling allegations and appealed the ruling.
The judge required Arpaio's office to install video cameras in hundreds of the agency's patrol vehicles, set up a seven-person team of sheriff's employees to help implement the judge's orders and carry out additional training to ensure officers aren't making unconstitutional arrests.
The sheriff sat silently behind his attorneys throughout the hearing while Sheridan and an attorney spoke for the agency. Arpaio made a brief statement outside court without answering reporters' questions.
"This is a court issue," he said. "Certain items were discussed in the court, and we'll see what happens."
At the hearing, Sheridan and the sheriff's lead lawyer acknowledged that Sheridan sent the wrong message to deputies, but they said they wanted to comply with the judge's orders in good faith.
"I also intend to have my orders respected," Snow said.
The judge said Sheridan and Arpaio are protected by their right to free speech, but that it's another matter to provide bad information when instructing deputies.
In response to complaints that the agency is providing inaccurate information on the case, Snow said lawyers on both sides will summarize the judge's rulings and put those statements in a letter that Arpaio and Sheridan will sign and give to all sheriff's employees.
Several hours after Monday's hearing, the sheriff's office released the video in question.
In parts of the recording that have not yet been made public, Sheridan tells deputies they must follow the judge's requirement that they document the race, ethnicity and sex of people during traffic tops based on the deputies' perceptions.
"I'm sorry you have to do this," Sheridan says. "I wish we didn't have to waste our time doing this, but it's a necessary evil to fix this."
Later in the video, Arpaio tells the officers that he'll appeal Snow's racial profiling decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.
"There's only one sheriff elected — one — and you are looking at him," Arpaio says. "I am going to fight anyone that tries to take away the authority of the elected sheriff."


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Sunday, August 28, 2011
Show & Share 2 {Features}
I had blast at the Show & Share party last week! You my friends are amazing! I absolutely loved looking at all the great projects you've been working on! Such great ideas! Thank you to everyone that linked up! The best part of the blogging world is getting to know all of you! Here are some of my favorites from last week.
The most viewed link was from Ginger Snap Crafts.
What a cute way to display your jewelry!
Check out this darling skirt from The Orchard in Bloom.
I want one of these in my closet! She designed this for a Shabby Apple contest...show her some love and vote for her and she's doing a giveaway for one!
Blissfully Ever After made these Restoration Hardware knockoff baskets.
Check out these bathroom storage jars from Clean and Scentsible
I'm loving this Anthro Cardi knockoff from Bugaboo Mini, Mr and Me
This table from Forever Decorating turned out beautiful!
You know I'm LOVING grey and yellow right now and
I'm loving these pillows by The Tanner's - A little crafty-ness
How fun would this liquid play dough from Kadydid Designs be?
My daughters would absolutely love this! It's a must do before summer ends!
Would you believe that these adorable bracelets from The Letter 4
are made from Popsicle sticks? So cute!
Love this idea from My Handcrafted Home. Just think of all the possibilities! I need to raid my husbands ties. Any not worn in the last 6 months are mine :) Ok I'll ask first.
You have got to check out this artwork from Gardners to Bergers. Beautiful!
Thanks again to everyone for linking up! I hope to see you and all the fabulous things you've been working on again this Wednesday! If I featured you today please grab a featured button. Happy creating! Enjoy!
Posted by Marie at 10:35 PM
Labels: Show and Share, Show and Share {features}
5 comments:
- Rhiannon said...
Thanks so much for the feature! I managed to find about eight ties my husband never wore (and didn't notice I'd taken!).
- August 28, 2011 at 11:44 PM
- Kadydid Designs said...
Thanks for the feature! I hope your girls enjoy the activity as much as my boys did!
- August 29, 2011 at 5:34 AM
- Eve said...
Thanks so much for featuring my skirt and helping to spread the word about my giveaway.
- August 29, 2011 at 6:00 AM
- Unknown said...
Thank you so much for featuring my baskets!!! Luckily, they were easy to make and inexpensive :0) Love your blog and party!
Thanks again,
- August 30, 2011 at 3:20 PM
- From Gardners 2 Sergers said...
Thank you so much for featuring my map art! I couldn't be happier about it!
Now I wanna make myself some Rest Hardware baskets!
By the way, I tried to grab a featured button but was unable to. Every time I tried to copy it, a new page would pop up instead.
Just wanted to let you know!
Thanks again!
- August 31, 2011 at 2:13 PM
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The ADA addresses State and local government services, activities and policy making under the Department of Justice's ADA Title II implementing regulations. The ADA, under Title II, Subpart A, covers public rights-of-way. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has rulemaking authority and enforcement responsibility for Title II, while USDOT is legally obligated to implement compliance procedures relating to transportation, including those for highways, streets, and traffic management. Section 504 responsibilities not detailed specifically in Title II of the ADA are: Rest areas on Interstate highways must be accessible; and pedestrian overpasses, underpasses, and ramps constructed with Federal financial assistance must be accessible.
The NMDOT's Office of Equal Opportunity Programs administers the Department's ADA Program and has an ADA Coordinator on staff. The ADA Coordinator advises planners, designers, contractors, inspectors, project managers and others to help ensure that pedestrian facilities in the public right of way are readily accessible to and usable by pedestrians with disabilities.
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Environmental Justice/Limited English Proficiency Policy Statement
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NMDOT is utilizing a new application system which helps the NMDOT DBE Program manage the administrative and data intensive burden that is part of diversity management.
B2GNow-Contractor and Subcontractor Payments
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Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Certification
The goal of the DBE program is to make sure there is equal opportunity in the award of US DOT-assisted contracts for highway, transit, and airport projects. The program is intended to provide a "level playing field" on which DBEs can compete fairly. To make certain that only bona fide minority firms participate, the NMDOT has a comprehensive DBE certification program.
Rebecca Lopez, (505) 570-7978
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
NMDOT STAR Newsletters
DBE Supportive Services is operated as part of the NMDOT's DBE program and is in place as part of compliance with federal regulations related to federally assisted highway projects. The primary purpose of the program is to provide training, assistance, and services specifically for the benefit of women and minority businesses. The goal is to increase their activity in the program and to facilitate their development into viable, self-sufficient organizations capable of competing for, and performing on federally assisted highway projects.
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Contractor Compliance Program (CCP)
The CCP review process determines if prime and subcontractors use fair hiring, employment and training practices and take Affirmative Action to ensure that applicants and employees are treated equally. It consists of a comprehensive evaluation of each aspect of these practices and the resulting conditions.
Joseph Knight, (505) 629-6981
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
The NMDOT On-the-Job Training (OJT) Program establishes apprenticeship and training programs targeted to move women, minorities, and disadvantaged individuals into journey-level positions to ensure that a competent workforce is available to meet highway construction hiring needs, and to address the historical underrepresentation of these groups in highway construction skilled crafts.
Joseph Knight, (505) 629-6981
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Customer Services
Help! I Need Somebody!
In a hurry? You'll find 99% of the questions we get asked in one of these sections:
- How It Works / How To Order
- Your Voucher
- Locations
- Delivery & Returns
- Voucher Extensions / Replacements
If your question relates to a particular product, you'll usually find that we answer product-specific questions somewhere on the page.
Email Us
Being gigantic nerds and socially unacceptable, we tend to prefer emails. That way, if you're a girl, you won't see how flustered and sweaty we get. And, also being nerds, we are online almost constantly. Except when we are crying.
Email us at any time of the day or night, 365 days a year, 52 weeks of the Trivector. We'll try to get back to you within four hours (during weekday office hours).
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How it works
Picking and buying a gift voucher is a breeze. Our gift Sherpas have trawled the British Isles to unearth the best possible gifts and experiences. We want to provide you with amazing pursuits and activities that you will never forget.
If you're buying it for someone else, a favourite dentist or that lady you came out of, a unique gift from us will delight and amuse.
If you want to be reward yourself just for being you, kudos! Treat yourself or visit the experience page and hit the 'send to a friend' button to drop the mother of all hints.
Q: How Do I Order?
You've rifled through all our things good and proper, seen our mighty offers and picked one just for you, now do this:
- Click the ADD TO BASKET button
- You'll see your shopping basket - click 'Checkout Now'
- Provide all your billing and delivery details
- Add a personalised message (such as 'Happy Pancake Tuesday Day')
- Choose standard or 'next day delivery'
- Pay, confirm your order and get psyched!
Your lovely stuff will be sent to you by your chosen delivery method the same working day if your order is placed prior to 3pm.
Q: What Will I Receive With My Order?
Everyone likes things. But what things will you get and subsequently like? Your voucher pack arrives in plain wrapping, so no one can guess if it's a surprise, and contains the following:
- An individually produced voucher lovingly personalised to your specifications (plus all the info on how the thing works).
- A sheet filled with all the information needed for the experience, what will happen, where the toilets are, how the toilet work, the opening hours of the toilets, that sort of thing.
- Plus a delightful presentation envelope for the voucher.
Every single one of our magical vouchers is produced and coded individually by experts. All the relevant information is on there, including a brief description of the activity, the agenda, what to wear and where you are going wrong in your life. Plus if there's any restrictions connected to the activity or gift you've picked, we'll let you know.
Q: How Do I Exchange My Voucher For An Experience?
Vitally, we'll tell you what to do with the voucher to swap it for your amazing experience. We've got rid of the old method of meeting on a bridge at dawn, us on one side with the experience, you on the other with the voucher, then both sides slowly walk towards each other. It's easier than that now.
Q: How Long Is My Voucher Valid For?
The vast majority of our vouchers are valid for 10 months.
Q: Can I Upgrade My Order?
For a bit more dosh, you can upgrade and receive the voucher in a rather spiffy gift set.
Got Questions?
Is grandma too old for skydiving? Can I bring my imaginary friend bungee jumping? Where are clouds born? All these questions and any others pertaining to your experience can be answered by contacting us here.
Confused? Troubled? Looking for romance? Call us on 020 8275 5256.
Q: What Do I Do With My Voucher?
Hurrah! Who knew a humble voucher could bring such happiness. Activate your voucher here. You'll need to enter your voucher code, PIN and your contact details.
When you do all that junk, you'll see everything you need to know such as locations, booking numbers and what you'll be doing on the day. Just pick the date and contact the supplier to book your experience.
Q: Can I Get Directions For My Experience?
Check out the product page of your experience and you'll see a 'Location' section. The location section lists all of the available venues for your experience.
Sadly we're unable to disclose full location details on the site. But once you've placed your order, you'll get a comprehensive list of locations and their contact numbers.
Q: I Want to Use a Location Not Listed On the Website. Is that possible?
Unsurprisingly, you can just use the locations we mention on the site. Because they are the locations. We've picked them on purpose.
These are the only places you can go and where your voucher will be valid.
Q: Can I Contact the Location Before I Purchase the Experience?
Sorry, we can't dole out specific contact details of our suppliers like so many free peanuts prior to purchase.
Your voucher will have a comprehensive list of venues and their contact details. Then you can contact away with the locations and ask them difficult, personal questions.
Or we can contact the supplier on your behalf prior to purchase. Just give our Customer Services team a ring-a-ding on 020 8275 5256.
Confused? Troubled? Looking for romance? Call us on 020 8275 5256.
Q: Do I Have To Select a Specific Date When Ordering?
No! Why would we do that to you? It's all totally casual dude. When you buy a gift on our site you don't have to pick a specific date.
You don't know when Simone or Nero are going to want to go and do their thing, so all Wish.co.uk activity vouchers are open dated. Then the lucky sod you bought the lovely thing for can pick their own date (subject to availability).
The vast majority of Wish.co.uk vouchers are valid for 10 whole human months, so there's loads of time to arrange their experience of a lifetime.
Once they've been magically activated, your vouchers can be exchanged for free at any time while valid. Whoever holds the voucher just needs to go here and get to it.
Q: When Can I Go and Do My Fun Thing?
Hold your horses there Captain Excitable. Wish.co.uk just provides experiences on behalf of many companies. We don't have a garage full of skydiving and buggy racing gear round the back. So we can't really tell you all available dates. But we know who can. The people providing the experiences!
Once you have got your grubby mitts on a Wish.co.uk voucher, get in touch with the supplier of the experience directly. They'll tell you what's up and give you all the pertinent information. Just don't start going on and on about how excited you are and all that. They are busy people.
If you haven't got a Wish.co.uk voucher yet, what's wrong with you? But if you don't have one and would like to find out if a specific date is available, get in touch with our delightful Customer Services Department on 020 8275 5256 and they'll be overjoyed to contact the supplier for you.
Q: Can I Hold a Date Until My Voucher Arrives?
Wish.co.uk are just agents, matey. And not the cool sort of secret agents, with guns and hats and jetpacks. We can't hold a date for you. But, and this is a big but, after you've bought your voucher, you can get in touch with the providers of your experience and sort everything out with them.
Or you can contact our Customer Services department on 020 8275 5256 they'll get in touch with the supplier of the experience for you and see what dates are free.
Then if your special chosen date is all free and good and fine, we'll be highly delighted to take your order over the phone AND give you the unique reference number (URN), so that you can contact the supplier immediately to secure your date with no trouble or nothing.
Q: Do I Need to Pre-Book My Experience?
No, just turn up at the owl sanctuary and start playing with the owls... We jest, pre-booking is essential. Our suppliers tend to prefer it when people let them know they are coming.
Wish.co.uk highly recommends that you book as early as possible to avoid bitter, loin-grabbing disappointment.
Confused? Troubled? Looking for romance? Call us on 020 8275 5256.
How to order
Q: How Do I Place An Order?
You've come to our website and have seen what you want. We like your style. Now, simply complete the following easy steps:
- Click 'Add to Basket'
- You'll see your shopping basket - click 'Checkout Now'
- Enter your billing & delivery details
- Add your personalised message
- Choose 'free delivery' or 'next day delivery' (£7.50)
- Pay and confirm your order.
You will receive an order confirmation by email with your order number. If you order before 3pm, your order will be dispatched the same day by your chosen delivery method. Now that's what I call service.
Hate computers? I don't blame you. If you would prefer to place your order by phone, please call us on 020 8275 5256.
Q: How Can I Pay?
You can pay by PayPal or any Visa or Mastercard credit/debit card - even ones with puppies on them. (Not to get all Jerry Seinfeld, but who does that, really?)
Sorry, we can't accept American Express or Google Checkout at the moment. We've got a rumble going on with those guys. In the car park, after work.
Q: How Can I Use My Discount Code?
When you click ADD TO BASKET, you are taken to a page titled Shopping Basket. Underneath the delivery information is a grey box where you can select 'yes' to the 'gift vouchers' question.
Make sure you click 'Apply Code' or the discount won't kick in. You will see the discounted amount in red on your total. Only one discount can be applied per order.
Q: Help! I'm Stuck...
If you are experiencing difficulties placing your order on our site we'll do it over the phone.
Please call our Customer Services department on 020 8275 5256 and a member of our team (hopefully Diego, he's terrific) will be happy to put your order through.
Q: Are My Personal Details Safe?
When you place an order, your payment details are entered directly onto our secure servers provided by the good folks and robots at SagePay. Wish.co.uk doesn't even see them let alone store your credit card details at any stage so you have 100% peace of mind. If we did, we'd be in Rio by now.
All your personal data is kept super-safe at Wish.co.uk. Our checkout process is encrypted with industry standard SSL encryption - the very same process used to keep online banking secure.
If you asked to join our newsletter, details of how to opt-out of our mailing list are detailed in every newsletter. We will never disclose your personal details to a third party under any circumstances.
Q: Can I Personalise My Voucher?
Oh my goodness, yes you can and how!
When you checkout, you will be given the option to enter a real message. This can include your recipient's name, any personal message such as 'Happy Birthday', 'Congratulations', 'Sorry about the shark attack' or 'You're Fired' and details of who the gift is from.
This message will be printed on the voucher itself. Alternatively, if you leave the message blank, 'Have a fantastic experience!' will automatically be printed. Which is almost better in a way.
Q: Can I Pick Start Date for the Voucher?
We do not offer the facility to post-date vouchers. Your brand new shiny voucher, will automatically be valid for 10 months from the date of purchase.
If you're purchasing a voucher on special offer, it might have a set expiry date. To find out if this applies to you, please look in 'Notes' section of the product page on the website.
Q: Do I Need to Pick a Location or Date When I Buy?
Not a bit of it. When you buy an experience voucher, you don't need to specify the location or date you wish to attend. We wouldn't do that to you. I mean, look at your little face. This decision will be left to the recipient once they've got the voucher.
Q: I don't have an email address (even though we are in the second decade of the 21st Century)
That's quite odd, but fair enough. If you don't have email, you can still place your order. When you reach the field asking for an email address, simply write email@example.com. Then you can carry on to the payment page.
Please make a note of your order confirmation reference when you have completed your purchase, as you will not receive an order confirmation email.
Q: What Will I Get With My Voucher?
I'm glad you asked. Your gift experience voucher it will be sent out in plain, dignified packaging by your chosen delivery method. You'll get;
- An individually personalised voucher.
- An information sheet with details of how to activate your experience voucher.
- A presentation pack for the voucher.
Don't panic if you're buying the experience for someone you live with. The voucher comes in highly discreet packaging, just like those 'art' magazines your dad gets. It will just have your address (to help the postman) and our return address on the packaging (but without mentioning our name).
Splash out £6.50 extra at checkout, and you can get upgraded. Then you'll get our special presentation tin plus a key ring, and a lanyard for the recipient to display their voucher with pride.
Q: Can I Order By Phone?
Why the heckings not! Make a note of the product code(s) of the gift you are interested in and call the customer services department on 020 8275 5256.
Confused? Troubled? Looking for romance? Call us on 020 8275 5256.
Q: How Long Will It Take For My Voucher to Arrive?
We offer an unprecedented 2 delivery options for our vouchers.
#1. First Class Royal Mail (Free!) 1 - 5 working days:
- Orders placed before 3pm (Mon - Fri) will be dispatched that very same day.
- Orders placed after 3pm (Mon - Fri) will be dispatched the following working day.
- Orders placed after 3pm on Friday, or over the weekend or on Bank Holidays (such as Whitsun), will be dispatched the next working day.
#2. Signed for Next Day Courier Delivery (£7.50):
- Orders placed before 3pm, Mon - Thurs, will be delivered the following day before 5.30pm.
- Orders placed before 3pm on Friday will be delivered on Monday before 5.30pm.
- Orders placed after 3pm on Friday will be delivered on Tuesday before 5.30pm.
- This delivery type will require a signature.
- This delivery type is not available over weekends and Bank Holidays.
- Delivery times for tangible items (eg: food, wine, hampers, gadgets and that sort of stuff) vary from product to product to product. Have a look at the thing you ordered on our wonderful website to see specific delivery instructions and cut-off times.
Q: Do You Offer Special Delivery?
We offer a courier service through the fine men and women at Parcelforce for our gift experience vouchers. But does it cost money, you ask? Yes it does! The service costs £7.50 per order.
- Orders placed before 3pm, Mon - Thurs, will be delivered the following day before 5.30pm.
- Orders placed before 3pm on Friday will be delivered on Monday before 5.30pm.
- Orders placed after 3pm on Friday will be delivered on Tuesday before 5.30pm.
- This very special delivery type will require the signature of a human.
- Special delivery is not available over weekends and Bank Holidays.
Q: Can I Send My Gift Abroad?
Fair enough, shouldn't be a problem, we'll send them wherever. Depends where they are and if the country they're in has a postal service to know when they'll get them.
But you can't use our super special next day courier service abroad. That's only for United Kingdomers.
All of this doesn't apply to tangible products (wine, books and hampers etc) which can only be sent to addresses in or on the UK mainland. These precious lovelies are provided externally by a whole host of different suppliers using a baffling variety of courier services, so we can't deliver these items abroad.
Q: Can You Deliver to Ireland?
By First Class Royal Mail, absolutely no problem whatsoever. We would be delighted to do that. More than delighted. It would be another life goal reached. But our next day courier service does not deliver to Ireland and for that we are eternally shamed.
Also our tangible items range (such as wine, books and hampers) are sent out via various via external couriers and so we can't send those things to Ireland either. But that's OK, they already have those things in Ireland. Too many in fact. It's a bit of a problem.
Q: How Long Will I Have to Wait for My Non-Voucher Gift To Arrive?
Short answer: it depends. Slightly longer answer: delivery times for tangible items (eg: food, wine, hampers, gadgets) vary depending on what it is.
Have a look at the product details page on our site carefully and all the delivery gumpf should be there.
Q: Will I Get Anything With My Voucher?
As well as your voucher, which will be sent in plain packaging (just in case you upstairs neighbour does that thing where he sets fire to vouchers) you will also get...
- An individually produced and personalised voucher.
- A sheet bearing all the information you need for your booking and your experience.
- A delightful presentation pack for your voucher.
The voucher packaging is designed to be completely anonymous, so you won't give away the surprise if the recipient lives with you. 'Oh look', you'll bellow unconvincingly, 'there's no mail of any interest at all. Just this bill from the vets. How disappointing'.
But really you'll have their big surprise right there in your hand. There will just be your address on the outside, plus our return address without our name on it, because we like surprises even more than free advertising.
Q: Will My Gift Fit Through My Weird Letterbox?
Single gift experience vouchers are about DVD sized. Not like a full box set of I Claudius, but certainly the size of Jaws IV: The Revenge. That will fit through normal, Vatican-sanctioned letterboxes.
If you ordered a whole shed load of gift experience vouchers that ain't going to slip through your letterbox. So if it's a great big thing, ask Harriet, or someone similar, to wait in for it and open the door when they knock. If Harriet has Tai-Bo that day, we'll leave a delivery note with further instructions.
All our tangible things (eg, food, wine, hampers, gadgets) are sent to you by someone else. These things will go their own way delivery wise, so have a look at the product page on the site and carefully glance at the delivery instructions. Most of these things will be too big for your letterbox and will probably have to be signed for.
Q: Help! My Billing Address and Delivery Address Are Different...
We'll take our lead from you and whatever you put in 'delivery details' bit when you ordered.
If your billing address is different, thank you for being awkward, we appreciate your individuality but this will not affect the delivery of your order. Your billing address is simply where your credit/debit card is registered to and where your bills are sent.
Q: What is a Billing Address?
The billing address is where your credit/debit card you're using to pay with is registered.
Your gift won't be sent to your billing address. It will be sent to the delivery address you entered. If they are the same place, you've got nothing to worry about.
Confused? Troubled? Looking for romance? Call us on 020 8275 5256.
Your Voucher
Q: Do I Need to Pre-book the Experience?
Pre-booking is essential when you buy one of our vouchers. The guys and gals who supply our experiences can't cope with people who don't pre-book first. If you want to go on holiday, you don't just turn up at the airport and run towards a plane while waving your arms, do you?
Book early, you'll get the most choice and be excited for much longer. Bookings are made directly through the people providing the experience.
To book a date with your supplier (not a romantic date, a date for your experience), contact them and make sure you have your voucher reference number so they can work out what you are. Find all the supplier's contact details you need by logging on to our activation site.
All bookings are subject to availability. Obviously.
Q: I've Not Received an Order Confirmation Email
It happens sometimes. Please check your email account's spam folder, and make sure you gave us the right email address and didn't add an errant smiley in there.
If you are still having troubles, please contact our Customer Services team on 020 8275 5256. Have your order number ready, so they can make sense of your ravings.
Q: Can I Change the Date of My Experience?
You'll need to talk to the supplier of the experience if you want to change any dates or times.
Wish.co.uk provides these experiences on behalf of tons of companies so they have all the knowledge when it comes to your specific booking. Don't worry, they're lovely. We only deal with lovely people.
Q: Can I Bring My Posse With Me?
Sort of depends on what you are doing and where it is. In some places it will be fine, in others it will be completely daft.
Sorry for the vagueness, but you can get all the answers on spectators in the 'Agenda' or 'Notes' section of the product page. Or it might be on your voucher.
If you are still baffled and you've got nine people in the mini-van ready to go, get in touch with the supplier of your experience. They will be able to tell you instantly.
Q: Can Someone Else Use My Voucher?
Your experience vouchers are not held in anybody's name prior to booking your specific experience, so give it to whoever you wish. A passing hobo, the man from the clutch place, Linda...
There might be a personal message on the voucher such as 'Dear Auntie Sue, I know you're 90 but I really want you to go skydiving. Love, Brian'. But that doesn't mean only Auntie Sue can use it. It can still be passed on.
Q: I'm Trying to Redeem My Voucher Online But It's Not Working...
Step by step instructions on how to redeem your choice voucher exist right here.
Q: Who Is My Voucher From?
We can't help you with the grammar or the voucher. Data Protection Laws mean we can't tell you anything about the voucher purchaser. But you can work it out right? Have a look, see if anyone's got a sly grin on their face and a twinkle in their eye.
Confused? Troubled? Looking for romance? Call us on 020 8275 5256.
Q: My Voucher's About to Run Out. Can I Extend It?
If your voucher is getting near to its expiry date, we'd be delighted, absolutely delighted to extend it for our standard admin fee of £20. If the price of your experience has gone up, you'll have to pay the difference, plus the admin fee. Then you'll get an additional 10 human months to use your voucher.
If you wish to extend your voucher, please call 020 8275 5256. Make sure you've got your voucher knocking about when you do this.
When your voucher has been extended, you'll get an email with an attachment to your unique extension letter. Please print this letter and keep it safe as proof of your voucher's new validity.
Please note, your voucher is only extendable if it's still within the expiry date.
Q: My Voucher Has Already Expired, Can I Extend It?
Unfortunately when a voucher expires we are unable to extend it. It's all laid out in our Terms and Conditions, which are accepted at point of purchase, that states vouchers can only be extended prior to their expiry date
The expiry date is right there on the voucher so you know the validity period even if you aren't the original purchaser.
Q: What's The Cost to Extend My Voucher?
There is a standard administration fee of £20 to extend vouchers. Then you'll get an additional 10 months to use it. If the experience you are extending has increased in price, you'll have to pay the difference, plus the twenty quid fee.
For all you voucher extending needs, please call 020 8275 5256.
Q: How Long Is The Validity Period Of My Voucher?
Most vouchers are valid for 10 whole months, unless we told you something different when you bought it at the time of purchase.
Vouchers can be extended for an administration fee of £20 as long as you do it before the voucher expires.
If your voucher is still valid and you would like to extend it, please call 020 8275 5256.
Q: When I Extend My Voucher, Will I Get a Brand New One?
Nope, an email will ping into your box with a confirmation letter attached. Print this beauty and keep with your voucher as proof of its new validity. You'll need to show both, voucher and letter, to the supplier of your experience.
Q: I Have Lost/Misplaced My Extension Letter
We'll arrange to get a new one to you. Please call us on 020 8275 5256 with your voucher reference and we will arrange a copy of your letter to be dispatched by Royal Mail First Class post like the class act we are.
Q: Your Website Says My Gift Is No Longer Available?
If you get a message saying the product is no longer available, it just means your voucher was bought on special offer with certain restrictions, one being that it couldn't be extended past the expiry date.
But you can exchange your voucher to an alternative experience via the activation website. Read about how to do so here.
When you have done the exchanging, you'll be emailed a brand new voucher with a brand new expiry date, usually valid for another brand new 10 months unless it isn't. If it isn't, we'll tell you.
Confused? Troubled? Looking for romance? Call us on 020 8275 5256.
Replacement Vouchers
Q: Can I Replace My Voucher?
If you have lost, misplaced or damaged your voucher we can rebuild it for a standard £10 administration charge.
Please contact our Customer Services department on 020 8275 5256, quoting your reference number. A member of the team will take a secure payment over the phone.
Q: Can I Change the Personal Message On My Voucher?
That sounds like a highly thorny issue, but you can change your message if you wish. But you'll have to get a replacement voucher, which will cost you a £10 administration charge.
Please contact our Customer Services department on 020 8275 5256, quoting your voucher reference number. A member of the team will take a secure payment over the phone, and will add/change any details at your request, including your personal message and delivery address.
Q: Is There a Charge to Replace Vouchers?
We can send you a copy of your voucher. There will be a £10 administration charge.
Please contact our Customer Services team on 020 8275 5256, quoting your reference number. A member of the team will take a secure payment over the phone.
Confused? Troubled? Looking for romance? Call us on 020 8275 5256.
Q: How Do I Exchange My Voucher For Another?
Whatever floats your boat, exchange away, as long as it's for another experience (not a castle in Tuscany or something) and providing it is still within the expiry date.
If you want to make a voucher exchange, please log in at our voucher activation page.
Once you are all logged in you'll be taken to a webpage displaying a map and the product information for your voucher. At the bottom of the page there's a 'Show me more' button. As well as showing you more, this is where you can make the exchange. Just follow the on-screen instructions.
Q: What's The Fee For Exchanging My Voucher?
There is no administration charge to make an exchange, but if the experience you are exchanging costs more than the old one, you'll have to pay the difference. We weren't born yesterday.
Q: How Long Does Exchanging Take?
Once you've done all the exchange gubbins online here your new voucher will be sent to the email address you provided straight away. Your old voucher will be useless once your online exchange is done, so chuck it.
Remember the new one will be an E-voucher, you will not receive a new voucher in the post.
Q: Does Exchanging Extend the Validity Of My Voucher?
Yep, if you exchange your gift experience voucher you'll get a new voucher with a brand spanking new validity period.
Most of our gift experiences have a 10-month validity period, but some (eg, special offers) might be valid for a more limited period. Head to the product's description page to have a look at the 'notes' section. All restriction information can be found there.
Q: I Don't Want My Experience - Can I Exchange It?
You May exchange your voucher for another experience as long as it is still within its expiry date. If it expired in the mid 1950s, you might have some trouble.
To exchange, please log on at our voucher activation page.
See the information about your product? Do you? Look at the bottom of this page; you'll see a 'Show me more' button. The 'more' it can 'show' pertains to your voucher and there you can find exchange info.
Returns & Refunds
Need a refund? Our refund policy can be found in our Terms and Conditions which you agree to during checkout. Here's a link.
Q: How Do I Get a Refund?
Experience vouchers are fully refundable within 60 days of receipt (providing you haven't booked in for your experience). Outside of this period, you can still get an exchange but there will an administration charge (£20 or 20%, whichever is greater).
If you wish to arrange a refund, please send us your voucher, with a letter telling us why you're sending to back, to:
Wish.co.uk Kingmaker House 15 Station Road New Barnet Herts EN5 1NZ
Only the card of the original purchaser of the gift can be refunded we're afraid.
If it's after 60 days, don't despair, we can still swap your voucher for another experience on the website, up to the value of your original voucher. Have a look at the Exchanges page to find out more.
Q: How Do I Get a Refund for Tangible Goods?
Personalised items and Print and Go tickets can't be refunded which we explain at the point of purchase.
All tangible gifts available on Wish.co.uk's website are provided through external suppliers, so if you want a refund, you need to talk to them.
Q: I Accidentally Ordered Twice.
We understand, it happens to everyone. Once both your orders have arrived, return one to us immediately with a covering letter explaining that you have made a duplicate purchase and dropped a clanger. We can fully refund orders within 7 days of receipt. You should post unwanted voucher(s) with your covering letter to:
Customer Services Wish.co.uk Kingmaker House 15 Station Road New Barnet Herts EN5 1NZ
Please send your voucher back via a signed for delivery to make sure its gets to us safe and sound. We can't be responsible for things lost in the post.
We can only give the money back to the person who bought the original experience via their credit/debit card.


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"Calls for workstyle innovation have grown, and the company was challenged to develop a means to implement a telework system, such as working from home or from a satellite office. This triggered our efforts toward the company-wide deployment of VDI."
Motoaki Nakamura Director of the Group Common Service Division, IT Strategy Headquarters of Fujitsu
In the second half of 2015, Fujitsu started an initiative to deploy VDI throughout the company and its group companies in Japan. This project targets 80,000 out of a total of 110,000 Fujitsu Group employees, with the goal of completing the deployment in the first half of FY2017.
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The following rules were written by Arkhemedes but they have been edited and changed since they first appeared in the New Domain Lord of Ravenloft thread from the Gardens of Stone.
1) This PBP will be run with the Pathfinder D&D rules.
2) One of the biggest rules that Baron Samedi emphasized when he first set down a set of rules for the PBP is that no PCs will be allowed to attack other PCs. Normally, I might agree with this. But in this case I do not. The reason for this is that I don't want any players thinking that they have nothing to fear from certain other characters. The fear of not knowing who you can and cannot trust is a big part of Ravenloft and there may be times, for example, when, unknown to you, your buddy has been turned into a vampire, and you won't find out until he attacks you. Part of Gothic horror, after all, is a sense of paranoia and a fear of the unknown which means that characters (and players) should not be absolutely sure of anything.
3) Keeping the above rule in mind, I do however highly advise players to run good characters for two reasons: One - to keep unnecessary backstabbing out of the game; and Two - more importantly, to give the player the best chance possible to continue playing his/her character. What does this mean? For those who may be unfamiliar with certain rules of Ravenloft, every time a character does anything that might be considered evil or anything related to necromancy a Powers Check is made. A Powers Check is a percentile dice roll to see if the evil Powers that rule over Ravenloft take note of that character's action. If the Powers do take note they might reward that character with some kind of power or ability while at the same time slowly begin to transform the character into a monster. If a character fails enough Powers Checks it becomes a monster, which means it also irrevocably becomes an NPC run by the DM. So the less good a character is, the more likely it is to eventually turn into a monster. For evil characters (run correctly) it is only a matter of time. For neutral characters, it will take longer, but they might also eventually become monsters as well.
Now, despite the fact that I advise all players to run good characters, I'm not entirely opposed to let one or two players slip in with neutral or even evil characters, provided that they realize it might be a real short run for that character. Chances are, the other good characters will get wise to any evil character in their midst long before it gets turned into a monster and will either be forced out of the group or killed.
4) Because of this, and for other reasons, I do not want any of the players to reveal any information about their characters whatsoever (most especially alignment) that isn't obvious by that character's appearance (except to me of course). In other words, when we start up the play by post, each player will introduce their character by giving a description of the character's physical appearance and nothing more - not even the character's name. Everything else will be revealed through role playing. Now, in the interest of trying to develop a balanced party, the players will be allowed to state to each other that they are running one of the following:
Warrior (if running a fighter, paladin, ranger, monk, barbarian or similar)
Divine Spellcaster (if running a cleric, druid or similar)
Arcane Spellcaster (if running a bard, sorcerer,wizard or similar)
Rogue (if running a rogue, gypsy <the class>, thief or similar)
All other info will be revealed to the DM only via PM or through e-mail. Once we have figured out who will be playing and they have figured out who will be playing which of the above four kinds of characters the players will then fill out a character sheet at home and then e-mail a copy of it to me. Then every time a character moves up in level, and the player has made all the appropriate adjustments to his/her character sheet, then that player will again notify me via e-mail or PM about the changes made so that we can both have accurate copies of the character sheets.
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Thanks to the great ears and investigating skills of the TJMS crew and Huggy Lowdown, it has been pointed out Katt Williams claimed Faizon Love called the police on him.
Tueday night, Katt Williams, was recorded by the TMZ camera crew getting arrested because the police believed he had a gun.
In the video, you can hear Katt Williams say, "Faison called the police on us and then ran in the club." Which the TJMS crew believes is comedian Faizon Love or best known as "Big Worm" from "Friday."
Katt Williams was later released without being pressed with any charges.
Neither party has responded to the report.
There could be thousands of Faizon named men in Los Angeles, although we doubt it.
What do you think really happened? Or is it just a squabble between two fading comedians?


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- There's a problem with your network setup.
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MANCHESTER � Working nurses have a new online option for obtaining advanced degrees.
The New Hampshire Department of Education has approved Southern New Hampshire University to offer online bachelor's and master's degree programs in nursing.
Online nursing programs include: Bachelor of Science in Nursing (RN to BSN) and Master of Science in Nursing (MSN).
The university's online nursing programs, developed by doctoral-prepared nursing faculty, feature curricula based on new standards for the 21st-century healthcare industry as defined in the Institute of Medicine report, ''The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.''
The nursing programs were created based on Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education accreditation requirements. SNHU is a provisional member of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and is seeking CCNE accreditation.
"SNHU values the experience and knowledge working nurses already have. Our new online nursing programs are designed to augment their learning and transform their practice, enabling them to advance in their careers through affordable education," said Kathleen Polley-Payne, nursing department chair.
SNHU's nursing programs were born out of a groundbreaking partnership formed with the Community College System of New Hampshire to offer a seamless, integrated pathway from an associate degree in nursing through the master's level. The partnership features dual admission processes, shared curricula development, scholarships and financial aid, as well as shared advising and faculty.
The programs are an affordable, convenient option for registered nurses from all over the U.S. They were designed for the working professional challenged by geographic distance, family responsibilities and increasing financial challenges and feature tuition rates that are among the most affordable in the country.
"This work demonstrates SNHU's continued commitment to providing high-quality degree programs at low costs to students based upon the needs of the local and national communities," said Dr. Gregory W. Fowler, vice president of Academic Administration. "Nursing is an area in which we are perfectly situated to use our experience in blending academic excellence with the use of technology to provide nurses with the skills they will need to meet the 2020 goals of the nursing profession."
Enrollment for the bachelor's and master's degree programs will begin in October.
Please contact Chief Nurse Administrator Kathleen Polley-Payne at 603.314.7882 for more information.
Southern New Hampshire University is a not-for-profit, regionally accredited university with an 80-year history of educating successful professionals. SNHU has a total enrollment of more than 17,000 students in more than 180 undergraduate and graduate degree and certificate programs, available online, at our main campus in Manchester, and at our regional centers in New Hampshire and Maine.
SNHU was the only university to make Fast Company's 2012 list of the World's 50 Most Innovative Companies, ranking 12th overall.
SNHU to begin offering online nursing degrees
MANCHESTER � Working nurses have a new online option for obtaining advanced degrees.


text: Turfway Park daily averages up for holiday meet Friday, January 2, 2009 12:00 AM General FLORENCE, KY . . . January 2, 2009 . . . Turfway Park closed its 2008 Holiday Meet with slight increases in average daily handle both on-track and from all sources. Daily on-track wagering on Turfway races was $127,992, an increase of 0.3 percent, while daily all-sources wagering on Turfway races was $2,775,799, up 1.8 percent."In light of the current economy, we are pleased to post even slight gains in activity," said Turfway Park president Robert N. Elliston. "I've seen blog comments that argue who's more important to tracks today, players or fans. We don't answer the question as either-or but as both. For players, our horsemen allowed us to offer attractive field sizes—10.4 compared to 10.1 last year. Additionally, we promoted the value of Turfway payoffs and provided information on playing our Polytrack surface. For novice fans, we aggressively marketed Turfway as a great place to have a lot of fun without breaking the bank. While we don't change admission and can only estimate attendance, we estimate that daily attendance rose almost 10 percent during the meet, most due to increases on Fridays and Saturdays." Although the track posed declines for the meet as a whole, the drop at least in part reflects differences between the 2007 and 2008 calendars. Races were held only 21 days in the 2008 Holiday Meet, while the 2007 meet ran 27 days. In 2008, one full card was lost to frigid wind-chill temperatures. Two were lost to the track's tradition of closing Christmas Eve and Christmas day, which in 2008 fell on Wednesday and Thursday; in 2007, the two days fell on Monday and Tuesday, when the track was already scheduled to be dark. The remaining difference resulted from a shift in the calendar that put opening day three days earlier in 2007.Racing six fewer days in 2008, the track posted $2,687,822 in on-track wagering for the meet, a 22 percent decline, and $58,323,060 in all-sources wagering, a drop of 20.9 percent.Pompell, Maker, and Ramseys earn meet titlesJockey Tom Pompell earned his first Turfway riding title with 20 wins from 168 mounts. Bill Troilo was second with 19 wins from 89 mounts, including the Gowell Stakes with Step Out Smartly. A four-win day last Saturday, including the Holiday Cheer Stakes with Officer Rocket, helped propel Orlando Mojica into third place with 17 wins from 100 mounts Mike Maker saddled 12 winners from 39 starters to win his fourth Turfway training title, each earned consecutively beginning with last year's Holiday Meet. Among his wins were the Holiday Cheer Stakes with Officer Rocket for Ken and Sarah Ramsey and the Prairie Bayou Stakes with Canela for Scarlet Stable. Bill Connelly was second with eight winners from 39 starters, and Bill Helmbrecht was third with six winners from 29 starters.Officer Rocket's win was one of eight for the Ramseys, who sent out 25 starters en route to their fourth consecutive leading owner title and seventh overall at Turfway. Billy Hays was second with six winners from 23 starters. Dawn Martin, who also tied for fourth in the trainer standings, was the meet's third-leading owner with five winners from 13 starters.


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At global robots we have many years of robot experience. We have seen many different uses for robots in a vast range of industries. They are in principle a simple piece of equipment and therefore highly adaptable.
The 6-axis industrial robot is certainly the most flexible type and can be used in many different ways. In addition there are more specialist robots such as the ABB IRB 340 pick and place robots that are used in quite specific applications. Some applications are very simple and have been done thousands of times before, but we are finding more and more industries that are turning to automation and more specifically robots, to increase production and quality while lowering costs and waste.
With the prices of used robots so low and the pressures on manufacturing companies so great robots are no longer the preserve of the motor industry. For every application listed below there are hundreds of derivative and related possibilities. With hundreds of thousands of robots installed worldwide in industries as diverse as sawmills to pharmaceuticals robots have time and again provide huge gains in productivity, safety, economy and quality.


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Women's hockey made its debut at the Olympics Games in Nagano in 1998 with a six-team field comprising Canada, the United States, Finland, Sweden, China and Japan. As winners of every previous Women's World Championship (1990, 1992, 1994 and 1997) Canada was expected to bring home the first women's Olympic gold medal, but the tide was clearly turning in the months leading up to the tournament. A 15-game pre-Olympic series between Canada and the U.S., saw the Americans post an 8-7-0 record. The United States also defeated Canada handily at the Three Nations Cup in Lake Placid prior to Christmas 1997.
Having won all of the medals available at the previous World Championships, Canada, the United States and Finland were clearly the class of the Women's Olympic tournament and proved it in their opening games as Canada beat Japan 13-0, the U.S. beat China 5-0 and Finland beat Sweden 6-0. Canada, however, struggled through its next three games, managing only a 2-0 win over China, a 5-3 win over Sweden and a 4-2 win over Finland while the Americans ran up victories of 7-1, 4-2 and 10-0 over Sweden, Finland, and Japan. Leslie Reddon was struggling in goal for the Canadians, though Manon Rheaume was solid. However, the two were not providing the type of clutch goaltending the Americans were receiving from their duo of Sarah Tueting and Sara Decosta. This point was made clear when the Canadians and American met to close out the preliminary round. Reddon allowed the U.S. to score six goals in a span of 11:53 late in the third period as the Americans turned a 4-1 deficit into a 7-4 victory and finished with a perfect 5-0 record. Canada was 4-1, but would have its chance for revenge in the gold medal game.
Meanwhile, Finland had proven to be the best of the rest, finishing the preliminary round with a record of 3-2. China, who had defeated Japan and Sweden by scores of 6-1 and 3-1, provided the opposition for Finland in the bronze medal. The Finns were 4-1 winners behind a goal and an assist from Rikka Nieminen, who led the tournament in scoring with 12 points on seven goals and five assists. Sarah Tueting and Manon Rheaume provided solid goaltending for their respective countries in the gold medal clash between the United States and Canada, but Tueting proved just a little bit better as the Americans carried a 2-0 lead into the game's final minutes. Danielle Goyette (who was the tournament's leading goal-scorer with nine goals despite the death of her father shortly before the Olympics) got Canada on the scoreboard at 15:59 of the third period, but an empty-net goal at 19:52 sealed Canada's fate. While American captain Cammie Granato led her teammates in celebration, the Canadian women could not conceal their disappointment in taking home a silver medal from the most important tournament of their lives.
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WASHINGTON - The United States remains in armed conflict with al-Qaida and its affiliates, a fight likely to last a decade or two, senior Pentagon officials told Congress on Thursday in arguing against changes to the 2001 military force law used in the war on terror.
Acting General Counsel Robert Taylor and Michael Sheehan, an assistant secretary of defense for special operations, said the authorization for the use of military force is an effective law and expressed concerns that any congressional revisions would restrict combatant commanders.
The law "suits us very well," Sheehan told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Republicans, Democrats and civil libertarians expressed serious concerns that the law - enacted just days after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks - amounts to a blank check for the president. More than a decade after the law, President Barack Obama has used it to target terrorists worldwide with fatal drone strikes, including on Americans overseas.
The law gave President George W. Bush the authority to launch the invasion of Afghanistan and target al-Qaida, saying the commander in chief has the authority to attack "nations, organizations or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on Sept. 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons."
The issue came to the forefront earlier this year as Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., waged a nearly 13-hour filibuster of John Brennan's nomination for CIA director over the president's authority to use drones in the United States. The Senate eventually confirmed Brennan.
Lawmakers have argued for changes to the law to deal with emerging threats and ensure greater congressional oversight. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said the authority in the law is out of proportion and no longer applies.
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Racing took place from 20-22 July 1912 with the prize giving on 27 July; however the games themselves commenced on 5 May 1912.
The 1912 Olympic Sailing Competition rationalised the number of classes to just four following just two entrants in the 12-metre at London 1908 and no 15-metre entrants. The 10-metre made its first appearance at an Olympic Sailing Competition but the smaller boats proved most popular, as seen from the entrants chart (1912 Olympic Report) below.
The three new nations marked their entrance into Olympic sailing with success. Finland picked up silver in the 10-metre class and bronze in the 8- and 12-metre class. And Denmark won silver in the 6-metre class whilst Russia won bronze in the 10-metre class.
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Great Britain and France had been the only ever presents before 1912 with both nations well represented at Paris 1900 and London 1908. However there were no British entries in 1912 whilst the French had two in the 6-metre class. Phoebe did not start whilst Mac Miche (pictured right), skippered by Gaston Thube went on to win gold sealing France's third Olympic sailing gold and 15th medal in total.
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At the 1908 Olympic Sailing Competition three points were awarded for a race win, two for second and one for third. This system was changed for 1912 with the points awarded to the three first boats in each class being seven for a win, three for second place and one for third.
The 1912 Olympic Report stated that, "This method of calculation possessed the additional advantage of reducing the number of ties that had to be re-sailed." However, this system resulted in three re-runs to determine the silver and bronze medals in the 8- and 10-metre class and all the medals were decided in the re-run in the 6-metre class.
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The 1916 Olympic Games were originally scheduled to take place in Berlin, Germany with the sailing held at Kiel. However the games were cancelled due to World War I. Antwerp, Belgium was selected to host the 1920 Olympiad in April 1919. Post War Belgium managed to demonstrate the Olympic spirit by gathering enough resources in a limited amount of time to host the games.


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During November, the Leonid meteor shower will produce up to 15 meteors per hour.
Although the Full Moon that occurs on the same day as the Leonids' peak — November 17 — will diminish the view, 15 meteors per hour still will radiate from the constellation Leo the Lion.
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The Leonid meteor shower will produce streaks of light emanating from the constellation Leo the Lion this fall. This annual shower is active November 6–30 and peaks November 17 when up to 15 meteors per hour are visible.
Unfortunately, the Moon becomes Full the morning of the Leonids' peak. During this phase, it rises around sunset and sets near dawn, so its light will drown out many "shooting stars."
"Your best bet is to observe in the hour before dawn," said Astronomy magazine Senior Editor Richard Talcott. "If you can, locate yourself so that trees or buildings block the setting Moon."
Observers may have luck seeing bright fireballs, though, as Leonid meteors hit Earth's atmosphere at 44 miles per second (71 kilometers per second) and are likely to produce such brilliant streaks.
Meteors appear because motes of fast-moving dust collide with Earth's atmosphere. The friction between these tiny particles and the atmosphere causes the dust to vaporize and leave a trail of light in the sky. Meteor showers occur when Earth' passes through a comet's stream of debris — discarded dust that traces the comet's orbit.
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Team USA's Steve Cash, one of the top sled hockey goalies in the world, came from The Disabled Athlete Sports Foundation - Paralympic Sport St. Louis.
Biweekly, USParalympics.org will spotlight one of the Paralympic Sport Clubs making a difference in the Paralympic Movement. Created in 2007 by U.S. Paralympics, a division of the United States Olympic Committee, the community based Paralympic Sport Club program involves youth and adults with physical and visual disabilities in physical activity and sports in their community, regardless of skill level. The program currently has 183 active Paralympic Sport Clubs in 46 states and Washington, D.C. To find Paralympic Sport Clubs and other adaptive, disabled and Paralympic sport opportunities in your community, visit the Paralympic Resource Network.
When Kelly Behlmann, a physical therapist, founded The Disabled Athlete Sports Foundation – Paralympic Sport St. Louis, in May 1997, her was goal to create an organization that would provide athletic and fitness opportunities to children with physical and visual disabilities. With no organization like that to be found at the time, Behlmann seized the opportunity to start one, and DASA was born.
"In the clinic we were always working on what was broken instead of enhancing and growing the abilities the kids already had," Behlmann said. "So I decided to start a non-profit and DASA was started."
DASA works year round with athletes in a variety of programs. As Behlmann said, "We don't say no to anything," so you'll see DASA athletes swimming, playing sled hockey, track and field, soccer. You name it, and there's a great chance DASA does it. And if they don't, they will help a disabled athlete find a way and a place to participate.
What began with five people playing wheelchair basketball in Behlmann's driveway has grown into an organization that serves more than 400 athletes, among them are Steve Cash and Ryan Duemler.
Cash competed in the Torino 2006 Paralympic Winter Games and Team USA earned the bronze medal. Four years later, he recorded five consecutive shutouts, leading Team USA to the gold medal at the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games. Duemler, meanwhile, is a swimmer with his sights set on the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Paralympic Games.
Cash, from Overland, Mo., was introduced to sled hockey in 2003 through DASA's Junior Blues Sled Hockey Program. Duemler got his start with DASA playing a variety or sports and is now in training in Colorado Springs.
"Ryan's story is really exciting and a true result of what DASA was founded for," Behlmann said. "He became inspired, working hard on his own, got good grades and was a good student and now he has taken it all the way to Colorado Springs."
The successes of DASA, including those of Cash and Duemler, have resulted in a relationship with the U.S. Olympic Committee, which sees DASA as an intricate part of spreading the word of Olympic driven sports for people with disabilities. DASA will host Paralympic Academies in the future and, with the help of the USOC, DASA will have Olympic and Paralympic athletes and coaches available at these academies to offer sport opportunities to children and adults of all abilities.
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