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How do you get beautiful women in your life?
Guys don't tend to talk about this stuff. Maybe once in a while your friend might tell you that your opening line was lame or that your clothes are out of style, but most men's lives are not full of messages and advice on how to succeed with women. There's no common male equivalent to women's magazines which are filled with articles like "How to get a guy!", "How to keep him!", and "How to rock his world!"
For a long time, men either had game or they didn't. Those who did just seemed to effortlessly attract beautiful women. Those who didn't were frustrated or settled and lowered their standards.
I knew I wasn't a "natural" but I wasn't going to settle either. Several years ago, I found other men on the internet who had the same outlook. From different parts of the world, with different ages, backgrounds, looks, and taste in women, all we had in common was a belief that picking up women was a skill that could be learned like any other.
"Picking up" beautiful women is a testable and repeatable process.
We weren't interested in armchair theories or conventional wisdom. We'd all been told to "be yourself" or "smile" or "just tell her how you feel" and it didn't work. So we started from scratch and applied the scientific method. In different cities and countries around the world, we went to bars, clubs, restaurants, coffee shops, malls, and lounges and tested and refined different tactics and reported the results. Over time, we found certain things that "worked" consistently with especially beautiful women. We started to see patterns. Eventually, we pulled different techniques that were successful and reproduce-able into a coherent step-by-step system.
That's when the results took off. Virgins started having one night stands. Average guys dated models and dancers. Divorced guys who'd been out of the market for years found themselves dating younger women they'd thought were unattainable. Today, Love Systems is the most successful dating coaching outfit in the world. Our offerings include our flagship book Magic Bullets , the Love Systems' Routines Manual (with hundreds of word-for-word scripts that the masters use and step-by-step instructions to make your own), and our weekend bootcamps. All of our instructors are former students, which is really inspiring; it shows that our teaching model works, and that our system can work for anyone.
Some of what we're doing now is very advanced and detailed – like in any field where the basic questions have been solved. But as an introductory article, we'll keep things simple. And we'll focus on smartphones. Of course, your choice of phone is not anywhere near the most important thing to succeed with women, but a smartphone CAN give you an advantage in certain situations, and we'll explore those in this article.
The only bit of theory I have to feed you first is the Emotional Progression Model. At Love Systems , we've built a seven-step model for consistently successful pickups. The phases, in order, are:
- Approaching – You're a stranger to her. These are things you say and do to start a conversation.
- Transitioning – Taking that initial conversation and shifting it into a more general and flirtatious interaction.
- Attraction – Where you get her interested in you.
- Qualification – Where you make her work for your interest and build a connection based on more than her looks.
- Comfort – Where you solidify mutual attraction into an emotional and/or physical connection.
- Seduction – Closing the deal.
- Relationship – Where you steer the subsequent interaction into anything from a traditional boyfriend/girlfriend relationship to a friends with benefits situation.
You can get a more detailed guide to the Emotional Progression Model here. And a full treatment of each phase (and more) is in Magic Bullets .
In any case, there are three different parts of the pickup where you can use a smartphone to your advantage:
- During the initial "pick up" or meeting (i.e., when you first start talking to her at a bar or coffee shop or wherever you meet her).
- When getting her phone number.
- To see her again (to go on a date or to hook up with her that night).
Let's discuss these individually...
1. During the initial pickup
The phone helps you most during the Comfort phase. If you're at a bar, this might be half an hour into the interaction, when you've temporarily separated her from her friends and you're sitting together in a quiet area of the bar. Part of the Comfort process is getting to know each other. So if you're telling a story about your sister, for example, and you happen to have a picture of her on your phone, show her. If you're telling a story about an interesting or exotic pet, show her. It makes you and your stories seem more real.
You can use pictures in subtle ways to solidify her attraction to you. For example, women tend to be attracted to men who other women are interested in. (We call this "pre-selection" and this is one of the eight sure-fire triggers to create attraction that we talk about in Magic Bullets ). So you can be telling her a story of something funny that happened on a recent camping trip, and then show her a picture of your camp... which just happens to be of you and at least one beautiful woman. Don't point her out or draw attention to her. If she asks, don't be defensive. Say something like "oh that's my friend Kayla. You guys would really get along; she has the same crazy sense of humor that you do." Act as if beautiful women are a normal part of your life. You can use video in the same way.
Music is deeply important to many women – women tend to appreciate experiences (and men for that matter) that can put them through different emotional states. So if you start talking about music, and there's a song or a band that you're excited about and that she might like, don't be shy. Show that you are passionate (women like men who are passionate about anything... the passion is far more important than the interest or hobby in question) and excited to have her listen to such-and-such a song. And then pull out your headphones for her and play the song on your smartphone. Better still, pull out your headphones with a splitter so that you can both listen simultaneously. That's a shared experience just between you two, which builds intimacy and comfort in itself. It's like you two are in your own little world for a minute, listening to your own music, separate from the world around you. That's the kind of shared experience that can help build comfort.
2. When you get her phone number
With some of the basic techniques we teach, it's actually fairly easy to get a beautiful woman's (real) phone number. It's significantly more challenging to get her to meet up with you again. Beautiful women – especially younger ones – have a reputation for being "flaky" or difficult to get on the phone, difficult to make plans with, and unreliable in terms of following through with those plans.
Before getting into how your smartphone can help you with this, let's take a quick look at the underlying social dynamics. Let's say a typical, attractive, social woman is out at a restaurant with her friends. While waiting at the bar, an interesting man approaches her. A few minutes later, he asks for her phone number so they can "go out sometime." At that moment, she genuinely would "go out" with this man "sometime"...
... but it doesn't turn out that way.
Going out "sometime" is different from going out Thursday night. To see her "sometime" all you have to do is be more interesting than doing nothing. That's a pretty low standard. She can agree to that, especially when she is "in the moment" and enjoying his company. However, most beautiful women receive far more exciting social invitations and social obligations than they have time for.
For her to go out with you, you need to be more interesting than anything else going on at that time, like friends, hobbies, work, other dates, or relaxing at home. That's a tough standard to meet, especially considering that when you call her, she's probably not in the same open, social, interested emotional state that she was when she met you. Especially when she met several other men in the intervening time. What, you thought you were the only guy who noticed her? Or that after talking to you for a few minutes and giving you her number that she considered herself off-limits for other men? She might have liked all the attention and flirting, but she doesn't have time to go on nine dates this week. When you call, she is going to look for reasons NOT to go out with you.
Moreover, meeting up with strange men is scary for most women. She might not feel safe. She might worry it will be awkward if she doesn't like you. Women also tend to be more analytical than men about social situations. She may wonder why you'd even call her when you only met for a few minutes and you know so little about her. Are you desperate? Or are you a player?
To have a good chance of seeing her again, you need to establish some Comfort with her during the first interaction. This means you need to Open, Transition, Attract, and Qualify her first. I don't care if you only have 10 minutes. You just have to play faster. If you haven't been through this process, the phone number you get is most likely useless. But even if you do, getting her phone number the right way gives you far more chances of her answering when you call and seeing you again. Here's how:
- Have something specific you're inviting her to do. She should plan to come with you to see your friend's concert on Friday, not to "hang out sometime."
- Bait her into suggesting the date and let her chase you. Drop little hints of things you're going to do or want to do, and see if she tries to become part of those plans or says something like: "that sounds fun." Then you can invite her along.
- Focus on the date, not the phone number. The phone number should be an afterthought.
- Don't make the date, or the phone number exchange, the last part of your interaction. That can make you seem like a player. Stay at least 5 minutes afterwards.
- Impress her friends. When she goes home, her friends should be excited for her that you guys are meeting up later and not wondering who that creepy guy was. Peer group approval is much more important for most women than for men.
- Program your number into her phone as well. Many people will not answer the phone if they don't know who is calling. Have her program your name as something silly like "my hero." Better still, make it something relevant to your interaction. When she sees that name pop up on her phone, she'll smile and be reminded of the emotional state she was in when she first met you.
- Deliberately set up callback humor. Like in the above example, if you have a running joke during your interaction where you have a nickname for her, and later you phone her and call her by that nickname, it often puts her back into that emotional state. She'll be back in the world of being out, having fun, and meeting men, as opposed to whatever she was actually doing when you called.
Smartphone tip: Transfer some interesting and unusual pictures into your phone. Associate one of them with her phone number when you program her in. Make sure she knows what it is, by having her call you to "test" that it works. Use this picture for callback humor. Let's say you associate a picture of a dorky-looking girl with her number. When you call her, immediately start talking about this dorky girl (describe the picture so she remembers) who is in your phone and how you are curious about her. Pretend you think it's her. When she gets the joke, it will help put her back in the moment where she met you and was having fun. It's also a subtle tease on her, which solidifies attraction.
3) To See Her Again
As I mentioned previously, women tend to be far more concerned than men about how they are perceived by others, especially around their sexual morality and decision-making.
For now, let's stick with the basic scenario of you meeting a woman when she's out with her friends at a bar, and she's not going to leave them to go home with you no matter how much she likes you because she doesn't want to risk her reputation.
Always ask her who she is with and how she got there. In some cities (like Los Angeles) it's very common for one woman to drive and to pick up her friends on the way to the club. In others (like New York), women will often arrive separately and meet up once they're there. Once you know her situation, you'll know how long it will take her to be alone and where she'll be. Later that night, just before she's about to be alone, send her a text message inviting her to a convenient (for her) late-night bite to eat or afterparty.
Use your smartphone to make yourself stand out and your offer enticing. If you want her to meet you at another bar or a cool afterparty, record and send her a quick video from the party, maybe you and your friends inviting her (and her friends if necessary) to come join you. If it is you and your friends, make sure they're not all guys – cool looking men and women should be telling "Jen" (or whatever her name is) that she should come to the party. Put the directions straight into google maps or mapquest so it's easy for her.
We have a concept at Love Systems called compliance. I won't really get into it here, other than to say that you don't want to be asking a woman to invest or work more than she wants to. Even answering the phone (from a stranger she met the night before at a bar) is an investment if she's not sure how interested in you she is the next day. That's why we called text messaging "the low compliance alternative" (to a phone call).
One of the great things about smartphones is how powerful they are with text messages:
- You can store your outgoing text messages. One of our instructors at Love Systems is great with this. Using the same scientific method, he has discovered the most effective text messages to send after the initial meeting, to go for the one-night-stand, to keep him in her head in the days after if he didn't get the one-night stand, to set up a future date, and so on. So he's built up a database of the 3-5 best text messages for any occasion, and just sends them out when needed. You too can test, learn, and run experiments.
- Smartphones thread text messages, so you can see your whole conversation with a woman as if it were a chat. You don't ever have to wonder if you've already sent her a given text message. You can always refresh your memory about her and what she's said. And when your phone "time-stamps" each text, you can get an idea of the rhythm of your conversation. You don't want her to think you are pushing too fast or are too available. So, if she responds to each of your text messages with about a 15-minute delay, you can go slightly faster to speed things up, but don't respond right away. And once in a while, give a big delay. If the usual pattern is (for example) every 15 minutes, at some point wait a few hours. It shows without saying anything that you have other things to do, and makes her wonder and think about you. She might even text you to find out if she inadvertently offended you or did something wrong. Now in her head, she is chasing you. This is good.
- Stay in her head by once in a while sending (even as a mass text message to a bunch of women you've met) a picture or video of something funny that happened. Don't try to impress her and it doesn't have to be romantic or about her in any way. A guy on the street with a funny sign with your comment "be careful tonight, the crazies are out" is light and interesting, doesn't betray too much interest, and keeps yourself in her head.
- Record your phone calls so you can improve. With most beautiful women, at some point between the first meeting and seeing them again, you're going to have to talk to them on the phone. There is a strategy and art to this call (this is what we call "phone game"... there is a chapter on it in Magic Bullets ) and as you're learning it, you may as well record yourself so you can evaluate and improve after each call. Just put her on hold, activate a three-way call to your voicemail, skip your greeting, and then conference her back in. Now the two of you are talking and your voicemail is recording.
- Some beautiful women don't date men they've just met once (see "when you get her phone number" above for some of the reasons why). Your best chance to see her again is to see her "out" somewhere, usually when you've both got your friends with you. If you do a good job the next time you see her, you might graduate from "random guy from the bar" to "that interesting guy Chris" (or whatever your name is). And then you have a better chance of seeing her alone. So how do you do this? Use the mass text message feature. Send a message to all the women you met that week like "Great show at House of Blues tonight - you should drop by." She probably won't, but it might start a conversation about meeting up somewhere. Even if not, it puts you back in her head and shows that you lead an interesting and exciting life that isn't dependent on her.
One thing I hope you take away from this article is how the subtle little things matter a lot. Dating science isn't about the "killer pickup line" or the magic secret that unlocks women's hearts. It's about understanding the system and doing enough of the little things right to succeed with women.
Your journey might have started with smartphones, but don't let it end there. Dating science is real. It works. It's not manipulative, it's not only for certain kinds of guys, and it's not [insert whatever excuse you're making here].
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Rowing Results: Queens Regatta
Queen's Regatta, 9th May 2015
Last Saturday, in the scenic setting of Castlewellan Forest Park, crews from all over Ireland descended upon the lake to compete in the Queen's Regatta. The conditions for racing were perfect, with bright sunshine and a gentle tail-wind following the crews down the 6-lane course.
The racing commenced with Harry Hetherington in the first race of the day, a heat of the Junior 16 1x. Off the start Harry got well into the race and dropped two boats from St Michaels, Limerick, and was racing closely with Three Castles, Dublin and Methodist College, Belfast. Over the 1,500 metre course no more than 1 length separated all three boats. Coming into the final 500 metres Harry made a push and moved up from third to second and started to challenge MCB for the lead, but in the closing 150 metres the Three Castles sculler attacked and moved swiftly from third to first. With only two crews making it through to the final Harry missed out by the narrowest of margins coming third at the line.
The next event was the Junior 18 1x of Nick Reid. Nick had won this event the previous weekend at Portadown, but knew the competition would have stepped up a level. In a heat of three boats, only the top two would qualify. Off the start Nick dropped to third and worked hard to find his rhythm. He finally found it and started to push back on the sculler from Commercial, Dublin. He was reeling him in over the entire course, but the distance lost at the start proved crucial, as RBAI missed out on a final spot again in agonising circumstances.
The Junior 16 coxed quad of Michael Honan, Harry Hetherington, Jamie Dickson, Tom Glynn and James Emery was the first Inst crew out after lunch and they were the first crew of the day to make it through some tough heats. Their race featured Portadown, Methodist and Three Castles. After a solid start they managed to competently pull away from Portadown to secure a top three finish and a final berth. In their final they faced the same Methodist and Three Castle crews, as well as Bann Rowing Club, Commercial and St Michaels. The boys opted for an aggressive approach and attacked hard from the start. They were up with the race pace initially but in the second half dropped back to unfortunately finish 6th. It is a good step forward for a young and developing crew.
Next up was the Junior 18 2x of Brent Whiteside and Angus Harley. This crew was disappointed to underperform in their final in Portadown and went off in suitably aggressive fashion to try and make amends. The race was very close, with the opposition from Methodist, Carlow and Commercial just managing to slip away over the distance. In the closing few hundred metres the crew were unable to pull back the margin and missed out on qualification by a single spot.
The last two events of the day featured three RBAI crews set on making up for their frustrations earlier in the regatta. In the men's novice coxed quad, two Inst crews (Harry Hetherington, James Emery, Morgan Lavery, Daniel Lowry and Patterson in the "A" boat and Michael Honan, Conor Craig, Jamie Dickson, Peter Bowman and Darragh Patterson in the "B" boat) lined up against each other along with crews from Queen's University, Belfast Rowign Club and Methodist College. After solid starts from both boats them found themselves ahead of both Queen's boats and racing for podium spots. The "B" boat was trying to chase down the Belfast crew for second, but was being kept honest by the "A" boat in fourth. At the line the crews remained in that order in a very good performance from some young and inexperienced oarsmen.
The last event was the Junior 18 coxless quad of Nick Reid, Angus Harley, Brent Whiteside and Michael Gaston. After some earlier heartache the boys were set on putting in a good performance against some strong opposition from Commercial and Carlow, two powerhouses in Irish junior sculling. Off the start the three crews were dead-level and they remained like this for 1,250metres of the course. It was the tightest race of the day and it was anyone's to take. At the line the boys final push brought them home in second place. A very good result at the end of a difficult day at the office, against some classy opposition.
Well done to all the boys over the day and thank you to all the supporters and coaches (Mr Warnock and Miss Piele) for their contributions.
The next event for the Club will be this Saturday, 16th May, at Belfast Sprints Regatta on the boathouse straight at Stranmillis. More details will follow later in the week.

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The news that councillors have voted to allow Peterborough City Council chief executive Gillian Beasley to take on a trial role running Peterborough City Council and neighbouring Cambridgeshire County Council has sparked a major local debate. Here, we summarise some questions raised on our website - peterboroughtoday.co.uk - and put them to the in-demand Ms Beasley...
It's been said that if you can carry out this job share successfully the city council may not need a full-time chief exec... what's your response to that?
Since the financial crisis local government has changed. Authorities have seen their government grants fall by 40 per cent since 2010. We need to make savings in the region of £19 million at Peterborough City Council next year.
One of the ways of maintaining efficient and effective public services for residents is to look at sharing services with other authorities. For example, we have a shared planning service with Fenland District Council but each authority retains their planning committee.
I see myself as another shared service. It's a 12-month trial, with a review after six months, and it's vital that we're all honest with each other about how it is progressing.
However, if at the end of it, Peterborough councillors don't think they need a full-time chief executive then I would work with them to effect that change.
But we are only a few days into the shared role so there's a long way to go yet….
Conversely, others have said this is a big role that might be too much for one person... how can you do the job of two chief execs?
There has been some research done into shared chief executives and there are two key ingredients needed, that I believe are in place, to make this a success.
The first is that I am already an experienced chief executive after accepting the role here in 2002. This isn't a job you would give to a person with little experience at this level.
My knowledge and experience will enable me to look at each council's agenda and work out the issues that I need to be in control of.
I will also work out the areas that I need to keep my eyes on and what is important to the respective local politicians.
But good leaders also have good people in the important positions that surround them. Both the senior management teams at Peterborough and Cambridgeshire are of very high quality and this gives me confidence that it will be a successful arrangement.
I would not have taken on this shared role if I thought that it would harm either council.
I truly believe that it will bring benefits to the residents of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. It also received the unanimous backing of both sets of councillors – and their trust and respect is vital.
We thought very carefully about bringing these two jobs together and there has been a lot of preparation. I have the desire to make it work and my family are backing me 100 per cent.
What are the main challenges of this new role?
Achieving a balanced budget for each council will be my most important challenge. Peterborough needs to save in the region of £19 million next year and Cambridgeshire about double that.
There will of course need to be difficult decisions made, but councils have to do things differently and be more innovative.
In Peterborough we've seen this innovation, for example, with our libraries. We needed to make a saving but we didn't want to close libraries because residents told us how important they were to them.
So we became one of the first councils in the country to use self-service technology to actually extend opening hours. Now we're talking to other councils who are interested in following in our footsteps.
I think it's also about bringing the community along with us during the setting of council budgets. We need to have honest discussions with residents about their priorities in these cash-strapped times.
What do you hope to achieve in this new role?
A major priority for me is to understand which services we can share between the two authorities.
This won't mean establishing one-size-fits-all services because Cambridgeshire and Peterborough are different and have their own priorities. But what it could mean is bringing the same department at each council closer together.
This would enable the sharing of best practice, innovation and would allow us to maintain good services for residents at a time of growing demand and a reduction in council funding.
You can't share everything and what I hope to do is quickly identify the services that can be shared and bring departments closer together.
Sharing services is also done for greater efficiency and I would be being disingenuous to ignore the fact that this could lead to further job cuts. But both councils have handled these difficult decisions with individual staff members up to this point and I will ensure this will continue.
How will Peterborough benefit from the creation of this role?
As already mentioned, benefits will come from sharing services and best practice between the two councils.
But another benefit will be that as chief executive for both authorities it will give us a louder voice nationally.
Peterborough is one of the fastest growing cities in the UK and Cambridgeshire one of the fastest growing counties.
We have some important discussions coming up with government on things like councils retaining all their business rates and the prospect of greater devolution for the area.
I feel that working together through a shared chief executive, alongside the district councils, we can make our case most convincingly to government for the benefit of every resident in the city, and in Cambridgeshire.
If successful, does this role open the door to a merger of Peterborough City Council and the county council?
That one isn't my decision and I would always respect the political will of the councils that I support.
At the heart of this secondment agreement is that both councils retained their own sovereignty. No matter who's the chief executive at either council, it is the elected members that make the decisions for their area and their residents.
Do you see the role becoming permanent?
We've done a lot of planning and preparation to give this shared role every success – however it is a trial.
What is vital is that we are all honest with each other. If something isn't working we need to discuss why not and move forward. Another benefit to this arrangement is that both council leaders have a good relationship with one another.
It's obviously hard to predict the future. But if it works well for councillors, brings benefits to residents and I feel that it's effective, there is of course a chance it could become permanent.
However, at this stage, it's for an initial 12 months and they'll be a review at half way. It's too early to say of course, but if everyone is happy in a year's time – it would be a discussion to be had.
It's clearly a compliment to you personally and the city council that the county council has made this approach. How do feel about that?
I don't think I've ever been that good with compliments.
What motivates me to work the hours that I do and to take on this challenge is that I want to deliver the best services possible to residents. I want to know that I am, alongside my officers, making a positive difference.
If the changes I establish help, for instance, more people to live independently in their own homes or result in more children staying with their families then I will be very satisfied.
Rather than tell you how I feel about it, I can tell you that my 83-year mum is proud of me. When I told her the news she looked at me and said 'If you think you can do it, I trust you'.
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Villa Maria Mar in Corralejo, Fuerteventura, sleeps 4. Villa Maria Mar can be found in the north of this Canary Island, and close to the restaurants and beaches.
Villa Maria Mar sleeps 4 people in 2 bedrooms - 1 double bedroom (with en suite), and 1 twin bedroom. The living room has a satellite TV & DVD player, there is Wi-Fi at Villa Maria Mar too. The kitchen has a hob, oven, microwave, dish washer, fridge/freezer and a coffee machine.
Outside Villa Maria Mar has private pool with sun loungers, a barbeque and a covered terrace area.
The nearest shop, bar and restaurant are ½ kilometre. With the centre of Corralejo being 1½ kilometres. The beach is 1½ kilometres from Villa Maria Mar too.
At the end of your holiday the airport is a 40 minute drive from Villa Maria Mar.


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Biggleswade Offices
Beautiful new office spaces for Business in the Bedfordshire town of Biggleswade.
Biggleswade is a town with a strong sense of community. 21% of people here volunteer at least once a month, and 9% take part in civic roles. Overall, the majority of the Biggleswade population strongly feel part of their neighbourhood and community.
The town boasts two football clubs - Biggleswade Town and Biggleswade United, also rugby, cricket, athletic, badminton, tennis, and netball clubs amongst other sporting pursuits such as archery, bowling, squash, snooker and even pigeon racing.
Saxon Pool and Leisure Centre includes a heated swimming pool, and is home to the Biggleswade Swimming Club. Biggleswade United F.C. play in the Spartan South Midlands League Premier Division, and in 2007 began a bid to become the first English football team to be managed by a collective membership online. Biggleswade Town F.C. play in the Southern Football League, Division One Central, and have their home in the Carlsberg Stadium in South Biggleswade.
Arts and Entertainment
Biggleswade boasts its own radio station, BigglesFM 104.8 which serves both Biggleswade but also neighbouring Potton and Sandy. More traditional musical pursuits can be found with Biggleswade & District Choral Society, a gospel choir, drum and bugle corps and and old time music hall society all meeting regularly in and around the town.
Residents enjoy line dancing to Egyptian style belly dancing, and more conventional dance with over four different groups within the town, and can extend their talents to the stage with theatre classes, and the Biggleswade Amateur Theatricals, locally known as BATS.
As Biggleswade does not yet have a cinema, local residents set up the Ivel Flix Film Club with regular showings. Other varied clubs and societies include the Biggleswade History Society, Biggleswade & District Art Society and Camera Club, Biggleswade Flower Club and the Catherine Lace Makers - lace being a traditional Bedfordshire craft.
In May 2000 Biggleswade became twinned with Erlensee near Frankfurt in Germany. A tree in the town was planted to commemorate the occasion, and the town fosters strong links with Germany.
Each year runners from Biggleswade enter events in Germany with the Erlensee teams and runners from there come to Biggleswade to take part in the Sandy 10 race. The annual carnival in Biggleswade features a special float for Erlensee, and in November students from there come to Biggleswade in a work experience exchange. Back in Erlensee, there is now a Biggleswade Strasse in celebration.
The beautiful River Ivel runs through Biggleswade, and the town is surrounded by miles of footpaths, cycle ways and bridleways through beautiful arable countryside. The Greensand Ridge Walk passes not far from Biggleswade. Bedfordshire countryside is rolling, and accessible for all.


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Originally trading as Humpidge, Holborow & Co,
in 1899 the company was reorganised; their steam-engine business was sold and the works were devoted to the manufacture of gas and oil engines becoming Dudbridge Iron Works.
In 1903 Managing Director James Dickerson Humpidge was killed
'A FLY-WHEEL BURSTS. FITTER KILLED AND DIRECTOR INJURED. At Dudbridge Ironworks, Stroud, Saturday, a new 120-h.p. gas engine was being tried when the fly-wheel suddenly burst, and the fragments flew into hundreds of pieces. A fitter named French was killed, and Mr. J. D. Humpidge, a director of the firm and President of the Gloucestershire Engineering Society, who was watching the operations, was seriously injured about the head. The roof of the works was wrecked, and a piece of iron weighing 3cwt. pierced the roof and descended into another room, narrowly missing the men there employed.'
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text: Noah: even thought it would be basically an opposition of terms, this film is not a particularly subtle epic. The brutal, allegorical story is pure Old Testament, but some of the undertones inserted by Darren Aronofsky (preservationism and religious fanaticism chiefly among them) are a product of our time. Well-done, with solid special effects and good performances from the cast (Russell Crowe, with the most conflicted character, is the stand-out). However, at the end, the heavy hand ends up being somewhat excessive.


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The Shenzhen airport will start an adaptive renovation of the international area of Terminal C and the long-distance domestic flight boarding area Aug. 25.
The renovation project, which is expected to be completed by the end of the year, aims to optimize transfers for international passengers and improve the facilities.
The renovation involves areas totaling 7,000 square meters that cover the long-distance domestic flight boarding area, the international transfer area and the inspection area for international departures.
The airport will double the number of security check passages to 10 and increase the size of waiting areas at the long distance departure halls, according to the Shenzhen airport.
International passenger turnover reached 1.648 million between January and July this year, an increase of 29.5 percent over the same period last year, thanks to the opening and growth of 19 international routes in 2016.
According to the development plan, the airport's yearly international passenger turnover will reach 5.5 million by the end of 2020, accounting for 10 percent of the total passenger turnover. Now, the airport handles more than 40 million passengers a year.
In another development, the Shenzhen airport opened its urban waiting hall at Zhongshan Passengers Port on Friday to serve travelers using the ferry service from the west bank of the Pearl River to the Shenzhen airport.
Air travelers can access check-in and luggage consignment services at the service hall before taking the ferry to the port of the Shenzhen airport, which takes about 45 minutes.
Travelers from Zhongshan must leave their homes 4-5 hours ahead of their flights at the Shenzhen airport if traveling by car or bus.
Now, they can go directly to Terminal C for departure by taking a shuttle bus from the port to the Shenzhen airport, which operates on 15 minute intervals, and they don't need to carry their luggage as it will be transported to the airport and consigned with their flight.
The Shenzhen airport has set up more than 20 urban waiting halls in eight cities, mostly in Pearl River Delta cities, and operates more than 20 bus routes between the airport and the waiting halls.


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Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
The modified Reynolds equation in conjunction with the modified Coyne-Elrod rupture model is used to investigate the inertia effect on the pressure distribution in converging-diverging bearings. The modified Reynolds equation is solved analytically for infinitely long bearings, including the cylinder-plane bearing and the journal bearing. The results showed that the fluid inertia tends to stretch the fluid film and to move the film rupture point farther downstream. The effects are profound even at a moderate value of the reduced Reynolds number, Re* ≈ 0.13 based on the minimum film thickness.
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Address: Östra Sjögatan 3, 392 31 Kalmar
Dating back to 1654, Rosenlundska huset is the oldest building in Kalmar's central district of Kvarnholmen.
The conversion of the old Nordstjernan brewery into housing was completed in July 1984. Efforts to preserve the brewery atmosphere were successful, to the extent that the conversion project earned itself a Europa Nostra cultural heritage award in 1985, having competed against 185 other European projects.
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I'm not one to really sit and watch the news. Mostly because it's a lot about Trump and celebrity gossip and whatever else. But the one thing I do pay attention to is anything to do with the environment. Now I'm not going to get all preachy on you or anything (well, not really) but what are you doing to either help or hinder the environment. Climate change is much more than a hashtag and we are living (and breathing) the effects of our day to day right now, so who knows what will happen to our children's children. Hopefully, I'm guilting you just enough to get you to think twice about a few things. Not sure where to start? Here are our top five tips to do your bit for the environment about town.
Keep Cup
If you don't have a keep cup in 2018 what is happening. If you need an incentive (apart from not clogging the world with landfill) most places will give you a discount for bringing your keep cup in with you. Also just an FYI, it doesn't have to be a fancy keep cup either, it can literally be your mug from home, or a DIY coffee bowl if you want to!
Say no to single-use straws
You really don't need that straw, trust me, you really don't. Once you start living straw free (and guilt-free that you're not killing the dolphins) you'll wonder why you ever needed straws in the first place. If you do want to wrap your lips (I couldn't think of a way to make that sentence sound less dirty so I just won't finish it) local company sprocket and steel have you covered, so you can BYO your own metal straw. Also, many establishments (shout out to the folks at Money Penny) have ditched single-use straws altogether. What a time to be alive.
Say no to plastic bags
They say it takes 21 days to build a habit. So maybe it might take 21 trips to the shops but eventually, those reusable bags will be your number one bae. Just say no to using a plastic bag if you've only got a few things, or better yet bring your own bag. It's heaps of fun.
Look Newcastle isn't exactly the place to take your car anyway. Walk where you need to be in town, or park just that little bit further away and know you're doing your bit for the ozone layer. It's also the best time of year to get some fresh air and enjoy the sights and smells that greet your senses as you take a stroll to work. Ps, walking not your thing? The kind folks at Bykko might have you covered on that front.
Shop Locally, live sustainably
The farmer's markets are alive and well in Newcastle kind people. Go and visit the people who grow the food, love the food, and care about the food. And yes they leave spots on their apples but they also leave the birds and the bees. Also, it's very, very easy to over budget on food, buy less, live happier, etc.


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Comments 1 by Anne-Evan Williams
I am the mom of a struggling reader as well. We started out journey a long time ago. I tried many different things at home to help him improve reading such as - have him read out loud, NOT making him sit still, and using a timer to avoid power struggles. You can see them all here - http://www.jennascribbles.com/struggling-readers/encouraging-young-struggling-readers-a-mom's-perspective/
Again, I am not a reading expert but last year my son got very good grades and his reading has improved so much.
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|Welcome to the Jungle
The first of the September "big books" arrived in my mailbox today. At 2 1/2 pounds and 652 pages, InStyle magazine took up so much space there was barely room for the bills. Flipping through it had me thinking of fall, though the temperature is sitting squarely in the mid 90s. Fall in Houston is generally a state of mind. The Galleria Mall, eternally 72 degrees, is more like it. So I spent some time tonight checking out what's in the stores as they begin to unveil their fall selections.
I report thus: The state of the agora is... desperate. I was assaulted by a hodge podge of styles, sensibilities, silhouettes and fabrications. Granted there are still bathing suits and sundresses on the racks in a riot of colors and patterns, but the cacophony didn't stop there. It's as if the designers or buyers or whoever makes these decisions have thrown up their hands to say, "We don't know want they want. So let's give 'em everything."
Normally you'll have the Preppy look "in" one year and "out" the next. Or there will be a Folkloric feel. Or it's first cousin, Tribal. One year will be Minimal; the next will be Animal. There will be a Good Idea replaced by another Good Idea. What I saw was all of it at once, and that's a Bad Idea.
|Too much pep for its own good?
And where to stash this abundance of apparel? There were not enough racks in Macy's to contain it all. The fractured floor plans of most retail stores make shopping difficult enough. Designer sub-shops mean you have to cover the space of a football field to see all the black cardigans. Just try to make sense of the styles when even the sub-shops have sub-shops! I was drowning in a sea of plenty. I couldn't see a tree for the forest. Just as I am overdoing the metaphors so was I undone by the flotsam and jetsam of unedited plethora.
It was clear that if you were not a Dedicated Follower of Fashion you would run from the mall, straight to the nearest Jamba Juice and forget the whole thing. Or you would head home, fire up your computer and fill your shopping cart on L.L. Bean's website. So peaceful.. so organized... so... boring.


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Aster Briar - author of 'Chalk' - a comedy novel about a barrister who causes chaos wherever he goes.
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Now let me get something straight from the very beginning. I don't know what the publishers have put on the outside covers or sales blurb of this book that made you buy it. It is really nothing to do with me at all, but probably made up by some pimply-faced postgraduate marketing boy – to whom, of course on one level, I am extremely grateful. I fear though, that whatever summary has been provided may well prove to be inadequate. Like most things in life you cannot merely summarize a book in a few words. People are, of course, much more complicated than things, and some people more complicated than others. This book is about one such man – Chalk – whom I first met a great many years ago. It most certainly does not contain everything that I could tell you about him, but relates to an important part of his life.
I am not in the habit of apologising but feel that I owe you at least an explanation. This story of Chalk that I recount does not begin at the beginning, but a few months after he had moved to the Chambers of Theobald Tench in London. I hope that you will understand why I have started the story here later.
Chalk cast a lecherous eye over the new pupil barrister. Mentally he was imagining the soft curves of her flesh that lay beneath her crisp white blouse. For a glimmer of a second he regretted not volunteering to have a pupil, but it was only for a moment. There would be other ways that he might influence Madeline.
Madeline's neck was curved gracefully forward as she stood reading. Chalk's attention was on the soft blond hairs on the nape of her neck, his fertile mind was wandering elsewhere.
"When you 'ave a moment Sir".
It was the now sarcastic barrow-boy tone of 'Arry the ageing junior clerk.
Chalk didn't register the intrusion immediately.
"When you 'ave a moment Sir." The forcefully repeated question brought Chalk back to the reality of the clerks room with the glum realisation that 'Arry was shoving a tiny looking brief in his face.
"Middlesex Crown Court, ten o'clock. If you dan't urry you'll be late". 'Arry seemed to smirk as he roughly handed over the skeletal set of papers tied neatly in pink ribbon. It was hardly the sort of papers that a man of Chalk's many years of call ought to have been given.
Chalk looked at his watch with an air of resignation. He had twenty minutes to get there - he was going to be late.
Clerks. Bloody useless leeches the lot of them, Chalk thought to himself. Chalk had a low opinion of barristers clerks in general. He regarded them with the same distaste as one might regard a tapeworm in ones stomach which greedily devoured a sizeable portion of any meal that you cared to eat.
Smiling with a fixed grin that was only too obvious to 'Arry, he slowly made his way out of the front door of Chambers. He wouldn't give that jumped up barrow-boy the satisfaction of watching him hurry.
Out of eye sight, Chalk speeded up his pace as fast as his slightly portly frame would allow. He carried his brief unnecessarily in his hand, while his red barrister's bag that held his wig tin and gown was flung casually over his left shoulder. The red bag was a sign of respect - given to junior barristers by leading counsel for good work done on a case. Chalk had purchased his own when he last moved Chambers which was not that long ago.
Chalk would, of course, have been deeply offended if anyone had thought less of him for behaving as he did. He was simply upholding the best traditions of the Bar that might otherwise die out.
It was a warm morning as Chalk hurried through the grounds of the Middle Temple, and then down a short flight of stairs onto the short road that led to the underground. After sweating through the barriers and down the stairs at Temple underground station, Chalk finally managed to park his plump figure down on a chair in the underground train carriage. His figure was such as to creep into the seats on either side of his own. Chalk pulled a handkerchief out of his pocket and mopped his brow.
With a little anticipation he tentatively tugged at the pink ribbon of his brief. He was aware that there were a few people watching him with interest. With a flourish his chubby fingers finally pulled at and untangled the excessively long piece of pink brief ribbon which he flung over his left shoulder. Casting his eyes about from side to side he pretended to read his instructions for a moment. Chalk deliberately furrowed his brow with an appearance that would display to any onlooker, he hoped, the air of the importance of the documents which pages he turned.
The instructions to counsel from the solicitors explained the hardly contained glee that 'Arry had when he had given the brief to him. Chalk's instructions were short and to the point. He was to represent Garry Melchet at his sentence hearing.
Garry Melchet had few, if any, redeeming features. He had been told that he was going to jail by the Solicitors. He had been told that it would be for a long time. Melchet was a thug who was well known to the Courts; a man who was first in the queue when brawn was being dispensed but, sadly, last in line when compassion and good sense were being handed out. What was worse, being equipped with a moral compass that pointed in a different direction to most people, he had failed to see anything wrong with the beating that he had given his victim – the reason that he once again was enjoying the hospitality of one of Her Majesties' prisons. Unhelpfully, for both himself and the man that would soon be mitigating on his behalf, it seemed that he had told the Police and Probation officer that if he was given the chance, that he would do it again.
As much as Chalk looked, as much as Chalk's inventive mind worked - he could think of nothing to say for the man.
Minutes later, Chalk was making his way into the court building and setting off all of the security alarms with the metal clips on his braces underneath his pin striped three piece suit. Chalk was now very late and ignored the protests of the security guards as he rushed to the robing room. He quickly fumbled with his winged collars, trying but failing to thread the stud point through the hole in his wing collar and then snapping the end of his collar stud in the process.
While Chalk enjoyed the pomp, ceremony and superiority of wearing a wig, gown, detachable winged collars and bands worn by all of Her Magesties' barristers, one of the drawbacks was the time that it took to prepare for court, an enterprise made worse by the need to thread a collar stud through a heavily starched button hole with large fingers. Never one to give up in the face of adversity, and being of an inventive and resolute character, Chalk started looking around himself for the solution. There were a number of wig tins in the room. Any one might hold a suitable stud, but he was equally aware that their owner might be stood nearby too. To Chalk it appeared that he had two choices; to go into court with his wing collar awry or to borrow a stud from a fellow barrister. Now while Chalk would not like me to accuse him of any sort of eccentric vanity in his choice of attire, he was a man who considered himself to have high standards in the drapery department.
As such the decision was really made by through the application of simple logic. He was going to be late anyway – and, as such, what harm a few more minutes? In the end Chalk waited until everyone had gone before helping himself, delving through a rather ornate black lacquered wig tin until he found a little box that held two sets of studs. (Whilst Chalk would no doubt insist that he was doing nothing wrong, I fear that discretion forbids me from giving any more details of the name that was painted in fine gold lettering on the top of the wig tin). There is a fine tradition of helpfulness at the bar, and Chalk comforted himself in the belief that the owner of the stud would no doubt have willingly helped him had he been there to ask – especially as he had chosen the cheaper plastic pair.
"Would Counsel for Mr Melchet please attend Court four." The tannoy boomed out loudly. "Counsel for Mr Melchet to Court four - immediately".
Chalk shuffled along out of the robing room and up the nearby stairs before entering the expectant Court four. Prosecution counsel was sat rather obviously waiting, as was the judge. The Court usher grimaced at Chalk as he walked into the room that had the expectant air of an execution or public flogging. Chalk thought for a moment as he bowed a deep, and slightly affected bow towards the judge. As he rose up to face his tribunal – to study the man that he had to offer an explanation to he was rather taken aback. The judge's face, that only a mother could love, was red with anger. That itself was in clear contrast to his otherwise fish-like qualities. Any reader who is familiar with the wolf fish will immediately understand the terrible sight that met Chalk's gaze. As Chalk was scowled at he first of all noticed the array of large and misshapen teeth that protruded from the judge's oversized top jaw. The judge's bottom row of small sharp teeth simply added as menacing looking contrast. The man's large flat nose appeared to be engulfed by two saucer-like cheeks that held a disproportionate prominence in the man's face. On each side of his nose a deep furrow dragged down to the edge of his mouth. The cheeks themselves puffed up in a way that made his eyes, themselves hooded by large folds of flesh that resembled a rugby player's ears and framed by caterpillar thick bushy eyebrows, look particularly hollow and intimidating.
You will, of course, understand that Mr Chalk was not the sort of barrister who would weigh up the fee that he would be paid for every case – but for a flicker of a moment, Chalk knew that the meagre recompense that the brief would pay him would in no way compensate for what he was about to endure.
"You are late", the Judge growled at Chalk.
"I most sincerely apologise, My Lord". The judge was a circuit judge and should have been addressed as 'Your Honour', but it would do no harm to butter him up by referring to him in the mode of address for a more senior or High Court judge – although Chalk having seen the judge's teeth once, was eager to ensure that he did not make the man smile. A happy medium would suffice.
"My Lord, I must apologise for being late, but you see…" Chalk paused for a moment still struggling to think up the excuse that his predicament urgently required… "You see, My Lord there was an accident…" another pause. Chalk knew that he had to think up something not too serious as to make the news, but bad enough to excuse a delay.
"My Lord there was a most distressing incident on the underground".
The Judge looked a little taken aback.
"You see there was a damsel in distress, threatening to throw herself in front of the next train. My Lord will understand that I felt obliged to muster my best powers of persuasion to prevent her from committing that act."
The judge began to look unimpressed, the array of his top teeth again protruding through his large lipped mouth. Perhaps it was Chalk's far from self effacing manner that had done it, but he continued with the resignation of a man who realised that if he were to challenge Chalk and explore the rather dubious explanation any further that he might be there all day.
"Mr Chalk, I think that you might be needing those same best powers of persuasion when dealing with your client. Do you mind very much if we proceed?" There was thinly veiled sarcasm in the last question, with the judge forcing a 'smile' that Chalk found almost as disconcerting as it was phoney.
Chalk felt that he had won his small victory, but it also suddenly dawned on him that he had yet to meet his client who was just being brought up from the cells to the holding area immediately behind the dock. He could hear the gaoler's keys jangling in the lock.
"Your Honour, (the observant amongst you will have noted that Chalk had reverted to the correct mode of address) might I please have a moment with my client. My delay in getting here has meant that I was unable to meet him."
With an air of resignation the judge looked down at him. "Of course, Mr Chalk. What difference a few more minutes"?
There was an almost palpable look of anticlimax from the others in the room as a public execution had been promised and, in the end, the executee was being allowed to walk away from the guillotine with his head still firmly on his shoulders. The look between both Prosecutor and usher conveyed the same air of despondency – ' Modern judges – they are not what they used to be'.
Chalk shuffled to the back of the court and was let out through a door into the stark glossy magnolia painted waiting area that was behind the dock of the court and inside the cell area that smelt of institutional cleaning fluids.
Sat on a bench at the side, and handcuffed to a guard was a scruffy looking man. As Chalk approached the man he stood up straight, towering over everyone else in the room. Melchet was a man mountain who must have stood at least 6 feet 8 inches. He was built like an ox, and completely dwarfed the security guard that was cuffed to him. The guard seemed to be dragged to his feet as Melchet stood up.
"Good morning Mr Melchet, I am Chalk, your barrister".
Chalk was not one to beat about the bush with his clients, and he most certainly didn't have time to exchange pleasantries today.
"Mr Melchet, you realise that you are in serious trouble today. You will be going to prison for a long time".
"Yes Guv".
"Is there anything that you want me to tell the judge about you that might help?"
"That's your job Guv."
Chalk paused for a moment trying to think of a different approach to taking instructions from this man. Melchet was obviously not a man inclined to help himself as most defendants would in his situation.
"Can you tell me what your plans are when you are released from prison?"
"I'm going to find the scrawny little runt and do 'im good next time."
"Very well, but I don't think that I can tell the judge that on your behalf now can I"? Chalk, despite being towered over by the man was used to straight talking. He persisted in trying to find something to say.
"Have you any family Mr Melchet? Anyone that needs you?"
"Are you taking the piss?"
Chalk realised that this was unlikely to be a good area to explore.
"What do you feel about where you are, I mean being in prison?"
"Are you all right in prison?"
"What do you think? How would you like it being locked up with men every day? What are you, a faggot?"
Chalk was beginning to sweat a little now, and he pulled his handkerchief out and dabbed his brow again. Melchet regarded the whole action with suspicion.
"You are a bloody faggot aint yer", he said gesticulating with his left hand – the action abruptly jerking about the hapless figure of the gaoler who was now regretting joining himself to Melchet with the handcuffs.
Chalk could see that he had lost Mr Melchet's confidence, and he was not getting anywhere with his questions. In his mind he could see 'Arry's face as he had handed him the brief in Chambers but a short time ago. The bloody little worm knew full well what he was sending Chalk into. Well, Chalk had had enough.
"Mr Melchet", Chalk lowered his voice to a loud whisper. "I have got something to tell you". Chalk beckoned the man closer.
Garry Melchet leant towards his brief, and Chalk leant in close as if he was going to whisper something conspiratorial into his ear.
Just as Melchet's face came close, Chalk stuck out the first two stubby fingers of his right hand and jabbed them hard into Mr Melchet's eyes. There was a moment's pause before Melchet erupted in a howl of rage and pain. The guards closed around Melchet, restraining him as Chalk retreated with a certain efficiency of movement to the doorway that led back into the courtroom.
In the courtroom beyond, the bored finger strumming of the judge had suddenly been interrupted by the anguished howl that came from behind the door at the back of the courtroom. Everyone in court was suddenly woken up to the grunting sobbing noises now emitting from the holding area that grew suddenly louder as the door opened and Chalk stepped calmly into the room.
"Your Honour, I am ready to proceed", he cheerfully told the concerned looking judge.
Within minutes Mr Melchet was brought into court, staggering into the doorframe as he was blindly led into his seat. His bloodshot eyes were streaming and he could hardly see where he was.
As he sat muttering to himself at the back of Court the Prosecution barrister opened the cruel facts of the case. One where extreme violence had been used against a seemingly innocent bystander in a completely unprovoked attack. The Prosecutor sat down at the end of his address with a sense of satisfaction – hopeful that the judge's anger at being kept waiting would manifest itself in a severe sentence. Gary Melchet certainly deserved one.
Chalk waited a moment before he stood up. Theatrical to the last.
"Your Honour, I have experienced a rare thing indeed today".
There was a murmuring from the back of the Court as Melchet recognised Chalk's voice.
"Mr Chalk", the judge interrupted "I think that your lay client might want to give you further instructions".
Chalk half turned towards Melchet; "No need to thank me Mr Melchet", he waived his arm theatrically towards his client and then turned back to the judge.
"As I was saying Your Honour, I have experienced a rare thing today". He paused for effect. "It is a rare thing when a man - well some may have even gone so far as to say a wretch…" From the back of the Court came a stifled groan, that could easily have been mistaken for a sob, "who has been so transformed by the realisation of what he has done as the man that stands before you today".
Chalk paused again for effect, grabbing hold of his braces and proudly sticking out his stomach.
"Everything possible has been tried with Mr Melchet before today, and, as Your Honour is completely aware, absolutely nothing has worked. Until this morning that is".
A growling sob came from the back of court as Melchet rubbed his streaming eyes. His large frame started bridling at the sound of Chalk's voice, causing the four gaolers to grip hold of their charge a little more tightly.
"Today, for the first time in this wretched man's life he has realised the enormity of his crimes. Your Honour has heard first hand his howl of anguish when the truth struck home. Your Honour can see," Chalk turned to point at Garry Melchet, "that this giant of a grown man is literally sobbing with remorse at the back of court. Has your Honour ever seen such remorse in a man with his convictions?"
Aware that the effects of his jab would start to wear of soon, and aware that Mr Melchet was unlikely to help his own cause when he recovered, Chalk kept his address to the judge short.
Minutes later Chalk was walking triumphant from the courtroom - Mr Melchet having received a suspended term of imprisonment. The Learned Judge having found truly exceptional circumstances in the very real and genuine remorse that he had seen. Chalk had decided that it was better not to go and see Mr Melchet as he would normally do when he had achieved such a triumph. Instead he headed back to the robing room.
As Chalk untied his bands, and undid his winged collar - packing them both neatly away in his wig tin - he mused over another incredible result. Despite the best efforts of his clerk 'Arry, he had triumphed yet again. Chalk congratulated himself on his wit and intelligence. 'Fleet of mind' he told himself. 'The mark of an outstanding barrister' one of his law lecturers had once told him - 'Fleet of mind'.
Chalk emerged into the street with his red bag proudly slung over his shoulder. It was a lovely spring morning and now that he had time to, he noticed how brightly the sun was shining. Chalk smiled at a young lady walking past. She smiled back at him and Chalk allowed himself a second glance at her as she passed him.
It was a fortunate thing that Chalk had allowed himself that pleasure for, over her shoulder, he noticed a large figure coming around the corner. It was Garry Melchet – not long released from captivity, and now carrying a clear plastic bag that held most of his worldly goods. Chalk turned the other way and started to walk quickly, hoping to disappear without being noticed.
Looking back over his shoulder he was alarmed to see that Melchet had spied him. Despite the brilliant result that he had got for the man he did not look pleased. As Chalk stepped up his pace, so did Melchet. As Chalk started to run, Melchet ran too. Chalk looked about him with desperation and then saw his salvation. He managed to jump onto a bus that was just about to leave its stop, and watched with a mixture of fascination and horror as Melchet chased after the bus along the road. Every time the traffic stopped Melchet would gain ground. As the bus took off again he would be left far behind. It was ten blocks before Melchet gave up the chase.
As the bus turned the corner, the last thing that Chalk heard was Melchet's gruff and out of breath voice shouting "I will get you Mr Chalk. Don't you worry, I'm going to get you".
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Why Learning Space Matters Edutopia
Think about your classroom when you were in school. You know what you liked and what you didn't like—so how can we change our classrooms today? The physical surroundings, including comfort, lighting, and visual displays all affect the way young students feel and learn. Edutopia makes suggestions on how to affordably alter your classroom in a "neuroscience-compatible" way.
Teaching Children Empathy NY Times
Harvard University's Making Caring Common project recently released a report on the values that adults send to children, lacking value in empathy. "Empathy... is a function of both compassion and of seeing from another person's perspective, and is the key to preventing bullying and other forms of cruelty." This piece dives into 5 suggestions that Harvard project believes will develop empathy in children.
With new school year, new rules for parent engagement have begun Chalkbeat New York
NYC's Chancellor Carmen Farina and teachers' union President Michael Mulgrew discuss how to use the new contract for parent outreach effectively. With the new mandate, the Chancellor hopes to see improved schools as "communication about academics and social-emotional development" become more prevalent. Teachers must use 40 minutes of their time after school on Tuesdays for parent engagement activities, and "80 minutes on Mondays to be spent on in-school teacher training."
How to Integrate Social/Emotional Learning Into Common Core Huffington Post
Do the Common Core State Standards undermine social-emotional learning? Many educators think so. In a recent Ed Week op-ed, an elementary principal argued that teachers were too busy teaching Common Core to address the social-emotional development of their students. I've heard the same argument from many teachers. This is troubling given that researchers strongly suggest that the learning process is 50 percent social-emotional and 50 percent cognitive.
Teachers are itching for a research-based approach - why don't we give it to them? New Statesman
You would be unimpressed if your doctor relied on intuition and "common sense", rather than the best lessons from up-to-date research, as the basis for deciding your course of treatment. In contrast with medicine, school teaching is not typically considered an evidence-based profession. If medical interventions are to be determined by research into practices that work, why should the education of our children be different?
Two NJ colleges launching 'social-emotional' training for teachers to reduce bullying NJ News
Rutgers University and the College of Saint Elizabeth are teaming up to launch an online training program to help teachers reduce bullying, campus officials said. The Social-Emotion Learning — or SEL — program will train teachers nationwide to help students manage their emotions, make better decisions and develop concern for others, developers said.
Holding kids back 'traumatic' Fairfax New Zealand News
Fifty years of research shows holding children back a year at school does more harm than good - but political legislators have ignored it, a visiting American education professor says. The insecurities associated with a child feeling like a failure have long-term effects on their education and lead to anti-social behaviour, Professor Emeritus David Berliner said...
This Research Roundup was compiled by Chanelle Spencer, Research Fellow at NSCC
Our series of blog posts focused on social-emotional learning (SEL) continues. In this post, we introduce you to P169M, a District 75 school using SEL as a common language to enrich individual and group instruction needs.
Developing a positive school climate is a partnership effort between the entire school community of educators, administrators, mental health professionals, students, and parents. Schools and districts across the nation are speaking to this effort in a number of innovate ways. In this post, we introduce you to Mickey Mantle School, a District 75 school developing a common language supportive of academic, social and emotional needs. Read on for the first of a series of blogs highlighting schools promoting high levels of social-emotional awareness and understanding.
By: Barry Daub, Principal, P811M-The Mickey Mantle School, New York, NY
By Yena Kwak
Yena Kwak is currently a 10th grader at Tenafly High School. Her story, From Middle School Student to Bully Prevention Advocate, appeared
in the June 2013 issue of School Climate Matters. The piece featured her perspective of the bullying climate of her then school, Tenafly Middle School, and her desire to engage and encourage students to become active upstanders. Here she describes her personal experience as a student and as a representative at NSCC's Summer Institute. Read on for ways educators across the nation can support youth facing similar struggles.
Learning and Growing
School is where students take their first baby steps into society. This is where they begin to learn the essential social and emotional skills such as communication, cooperation, empathy and reflection. To learn these effectively, students need an environment where they feel accepted and safe. Problems such as bullying can interfere with this-students may be afraid, anxious and even terrified of their peers because they don't know when and if they will be bullied. Bullying is both psychological and physical, where you feel nervous and also suspicious of the intentions of your peers. This
trauma distracts students from a successful learning experience. Adding to this, victims seclude themselves from others in the same school society, which sometimes leads to being ignored or facing rumors and name-calling. Gradually, victims become alienated in the school. To them, their school climate couldn't be any worse.
Perfect Solutions Don't Exist
Bullying, in my opinion, has no perfect solution. Many schools emphasize talking to adults when bullied, but I think this keeps the bully victim quiet. From around the age of ten and up, students become embarrassed and unwilling to talk to adults. They think they are mature enough to solve bullying problems by themselves and that time will solve everything. Also, and this is from my own experience, they're afraid of exclusion. When I was bullied in my previous school, I did consider consulting the school counselor, but I decided against it because I was scared. I thought if I "tattled" on my so-called friends, I would become completely friendless and excluded. I never thought about making new friends because everyone seemed to be involved in
separate cliques. I definitely knew it would be difficult to squeeze into a new group of friends. So, I maintained my silence and tried to ignore the bullying. I had little success with this. When I was in the 6th grade, I was involved in a group called "peer leaders" where students helped other students overcome bullying. I found it easier to help others than to help myself. Even after becoming a satisfactory peer leader, I couldn't solve my own issue. The problem was the peer leader program educated students to help others but it didn't teach the peer leaders how to deal with bullying if it happened to them.
What Can You Do?
Adults in my school did the best they could to support students. Students sometimes just don't know what they need or, if they do know, they don't know how to communicate the feeling. i believe the best way the adults can help bullied students is to be mindful of things going on around the school, especially in the cafeteria. From my experiences, I would say the first step is breaking the mindset of having separate, private cliques. This is especially a problem among girls. A student involved in a clique may make friends with other students but once that student is surrounded by her clique, she becomes much more comfortable communicating their personal problems.
If adults help students break this mindset, new friendships can be formed in the more receptive school society. Another way to help the students is to eliminate the thought that school supervisors exist only to punish bad behavior without wanting to know more about what happened and why it happened. If staff members connect with students outside the classroom in a different situation such as playing a sports game or being available after school to talk, student perspective changes and students become more open to communicate their personal problems.
In addition to breaking student opinion, students need to know how hard their teachers are working to improve the school climates. This summer, I attended NSCC's Summer Institute. From a student point of view, I was extremely touched by the determination of the school leaders to improve their school climates and address bullying problems in their communities. I was very grateful for the invitation and felt included as a student representative.
Sometimes students need to know that staff are as concerned (if not more) about the problems students are facing. This is something important I learned from the Summer Institute. If I could, I would share with students one thing: I would tell them that their school leaders are striving very hard to achieve the goal of creating the best school climates possible.
Read more about schools in action and upstander efforts by connecting to our School Climate Matters newsletter.


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Nevada Hot Springs
From Austin, Nevada, head east on 50 and then south on 376. Make an immediate left on NF 001. After 5.6 miles you'll reach a fork. Go left for another 1.6 miles and you'll find the metal tub. Continue on another 500 or so yards to reach the second pool. Spencer Hot Springs are primitive pools with a few nice manmade additions. First, you have the option of skinny dipping in a large metal tub. Being closest to the heat source, soaking here can get pretty steamy. When you're ready to take it down a notch, use the diverter to adjust the temperature…or make a dash to the in-ground spring. Some nice rock shelving has been added to this natural pool for comfortable seating. In either pool, you'll enjoy views of the open desert landscape backed by the peaks of Central Nevada's Toiyabe Range. Look out for the local brood of wild burros while you bathe.
Spencer Hot Springs


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Both IBM (NYSE:IBM) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) are a part of old tech, with histories spanning multiple generations. Hewlett-Packard was founded in the depths of the Great Depression, bringing a sound-testing device to market in 1938. IBM, formerly the Computing Tabulating Recording Co., traces its roots back 60 years earlier, before the turn of the 20th century.
Moving forward, you'll find two companies facing difficulties in this new tech paradigm. IBM reported lower revenue last fiscal year than in 2008, the height of the Great Recession. Hewlett-Packard also reported higher revenue in 2008 than it did last year. The two CEOs have taken different approaches to shareholder returns going forward, and investors need to ask which CEO has the better plan: IBM's Ginny Rometty or HP's Meg Whitman.
IBM's high-margin focus combined with an aggressive share repurchase program
First of all, it's pretty safe to assume that IBM's revenue growth will be hampered going forward as well. The issue isn't one of operations, but rather one of choice. Recently, IBM has been on a divestiture spree. It sold its x86 server business to Lenovo earlier this year and it announced that it was selling its chip business to Globalfoundries when reporting disappointing earnings earlier this week.
In turn, IBM seeks to return value to shareholders through a combination of its generous capital return policy and a focus on higher-margin businesses. In an interview today, Rometty acknowledged IBM's poor performance but said the company is reinventing itself by focusing on data analysis and cloud computing. "The strategy is correct," she said. "Now it's our speed of execution that needs to improve."
One area where speed isn't a concern is IBM's capital return policy. The following chart will give you the proper context about IBM's cash moves over the past five full fiscal years:
The company has engaged in a rather aggressive capital return policy. Since 2009, it has given back over $80 billion to shareholders, with $64 billion coming from share repurchases. The end result is a company that has reduced its shares outstanding by nearly 18%. And after the drop, IBM is valued at a price-to-earnings ratio of 10 and a dividend yield of 2.4%
Hewlett-Packard goes a different route
Hewlett-Packard has also engaged in buying back its stock, although not at the same scale as IBM. However, going forward, the company is looking to split the company's consumer-facing business into a company called HP and a business-oriented company named Hewlett-Packard Enterprises. The company expects that a spinoff will let each business be more nimble and will allow for the divestiture to "unlock value" (read: command higher valuation multiples). Right now, the company trades at a price-to-earnings multiple of 13 and a dividend yield of 2%.
And it is possible, but these two sections face different threats: Hewlett-Packard's consumer-facing business is facing struggles in both its PC and printer businesses. And while a good part of that is weak hardware markets overall as PCs are being disrupted by tablets, HP is strongly affected by this trend. In Enterprise, Hewlett-Packard finds a better growth story in terms of macroeconomics, but intense competition from IBM, Dell, EMC, Microsoft, and Amazon.com.
Final thoughts
While both companies seek to adjust to the new tech world, I think IBM is the stronger play. First, I think the argument about unlocking value isn't a strong one for long-term investors. Although spinoffs tend to outperform for the first three years after the divestiture, long-term fundamental investors need to consider intentions. Does the split improve the company fundamentally, or is a CEO reaching to compensate for lack of growth and no clear path forward operationally?
Sadly, I think the latter is the case with HP. While Whitman has spoken ad nauseum of HP's turnaround, it still hasn't materialized yet. So right now, IBM is a higher-yielding investment that's cheaper on a price-to-earnings ratio after its post-earnings drop, with a plan to enrich shareholders.
IBM's plan appears to be buying back shares and growing its margins, rather than revenue, to add value for shareholders. And while the company disappointed some shareholders by reneging on its wildly ambitious $20 EPS target by 2015, the company still lowered its shares outstanding by 18% in five years. In short, I like IBM's shot in the high-margin cloud space and enterprise moves with Apple more than I like Hewlett-Packard's enterprise and consumer chances.
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