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PLAINVIEW, Texas (PRWEB) February 23, 2013
Sometimes $7,500 can seem like the world. It certainly did to a group of students at Wayland Baptist University recently when an anonymous donor gave them the money to buy food.
The food wasn't for the students at Wayland, but it was for students — young elementary students at Plainview's Thunderbird Elementary School. The generous gift made it possible for students involved in Wayland's Diakonia group to implement a backpack program aimed at ministering to the families at the school.
According to Wayland sophomore Nicole Adams, the idea for the Diakonia program, in general, is based on the biblical passage in Matthew 25 where Jesus tells his followers in verse 40: "The King will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.' "
"That actually came up in a Bible study Dr. (Richard) Shaw was doing," she said. "We wanted to be able to connect students at Wayland with the community," the psychology student from Amarillo said.
Shaw, who is the director of the Wayland Mission Center, explained that the term Diakonia means service or ministry and the Bible study to which Adams referred started about 18 months ago. As the students began to express an interest in serving, Shaw sent them out into the Plainview community to visit with agencies that were serving the needy. In particular, he explained, the students were interested in agencies that were ministering to the hungry.
As it turned out, he continued, the students discovered that there were many agencies targeting the hungry, but there was one segment of the community that seemed to lack any particular focus . . . the children.
As the Wayland students considered the results of their canvas of the community, they realized that in many instances children came from homes where the parent or parents were working on the weekends. In particular, that was true in the Thunderbird area and it exacerbated a situation in which the school already was seeing a significant part of its student population on the free-and-reduced-lunch program.
According to Thunderbird Principal Andrew Hannon, of the approximately 470 students attending the school, more than 90 percent are in the free-and-reduced-lunch program.
Adams was one of the students who visited with administrators at the school and learned firsthand of the need to help students in the Thunderbird neighborhood.
The idea, she said, was to put together a small backpack with food that could be prepared by a child, without adult supervision, that was nutritious. The packs contain cereal, fruit wraps, non-perishable milk, and canned stew with pull-up tops, among other things. Once assembled, the packs would be given to students at the end of the day on Friday to take home for the weekend. Then if the parents were out of the home over the weekend working, the children would be able to prepare their own meals.
The program was one that fellow student Rachel Bartel was familiar with from her hometown of Pampa. She and Adams took the lead roles in getting the project going, although Bartel has since graduated and now works for Wayland.
Hannon explained that once the plan was developed, school administrators sent notes home to the parents encouraging them to allow their children to participate in the backpack program. He pointed out that backpacks only would be sent with children whose parents approved and initially a few responses began to trickle in.
Then the unexpected happened. A local company, Cargill Meat Solutions, announced that it was going to close its facility, throwing more than 2,000 employees out of work. While there is no way to confirm the correlation, when Adams met with her fellow students the week after the announcement to prepare the bags, she had news for them. The request for backpacks had jumped from around 20 the week before to more than 80 that night.
Shaw saw a connection in the ability of the program to meet the unexpected need. Of the closing of the plant and subsequent uncertainty that sent through the community he was specific: "The Lord knew that (was going to happen). We had no clue."
Hannon said he is glad the university students have chosen to partner with his campus and he said the program has been well received.
"You can see it in the way the kids are responding to it. They enjoy the food," he said, adding that his elementary students are really good about bringing back the backpacks.
From the university students' perspective, the whole project has been a thrill to be a part of. Adams explained that once word got out about what her group was wanting to do, others in the community stepped up to make it happen.
"Nancy Keith at Wayland Housing heard about it and she used the money from the fines from the students in the dorms (to purchase backpacks for the project)," Adams said.
Northside Baptist Church, which is located across the street from Thunderbird Elementary, donated a room for the students to use to store the food and prepare the backpacks.
Then, there was the monetary donation.
"For me ($7,500) is a lot of money. That's more money than I can imagine," she said. "It's a breath of fresh air to find someone who has that kind of a heart, and to do it anonymously proves they're not just doing it to get recognition for themselves. It lets me know that they believe in our cause and that there is a big God backing our cause."
Zaca Wilson, a freshman religion major from Fritch, is helping Adams spearhead the project. He sees it as a way to hopefully open the door for a greater relationship with the families in the Thunderbird neighborhood.
"I'm praying that when the kids see this they will see Jesus behind it. I'm also praying that it will spread to the families, not just the kids. I'm hoping that the relationships we start will extend beyond the school," he said.
He and Adams also are hoping the program will expand beyond Thunderbird Elementary to other schools in Plainview. Anyone interested in getting more information about the backpack program or making a donation to support it may contact the Development Office at Wayland at 806-291-3425.


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We are just one week away from the start of Mondial du Vent in Leucate, France and four weeks from the first slalom event in Mexico; the MINI kiteboard world cup. After a great start to the season in Dakhla, Morocco, with perfect wind and waves, the next stop will be in the challenging conditions of Leucate. Leucate is located in Languedoc Roussillon in southern France at the base of the Pyrenees. It is one of the windiest destinations on tour because the tramontane can blow up to 50 knots.
This event brings many riders from all over the world and Europe due to its convenient location, great media coverage and almost guaranteed wind. The competition is one of the toughest on tour with many freestylers registering and battling for the win. When Tramontane is on the wind is offshore making the spot perfectly flat and very good for freestyle. The wind tends to be gusty because it funnels down a Valley but still the top riders are able to land some spectacular moves on this great spot.
The organizers and city of Leucate really do a great job promoting the sport and providing things to do for everyone. When the freestyle is not running many other activities are available to keep you entertained for the whole day.
Go check out the website: www.mondial-du-vent.com to see last year's videos and everything that will be happening in 2013.
The MINI kiteboard World Cup Mexico slalom events will be starting on May 9 in Riviera Nayarit, Mexico. This will be the start of the slalom tour PKRA 2013. The new slalom discipline on the PKRA is very exciting, and will bring a new format of competitions that will be high-speed, high performance and nonstop kitesurfing action. The will be fun for the competitors because it's fast and technical and great for the spectators because it will be close to the beach and very competitive.
If you would like more information about this event go to http://www.prokitetour.com/event.php?id=150
The events will be broadcasted live every day and daily pictures, press releases and videos will be available on www.prokitetour.com, Facebook and twitter.
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Yesterday the Packers held a private Halloween Party in a secret location outside of Green Bay. If you happened to be on Twitter from 2-4am, an unidentified user was sending out photos taken from the event earlier in the day. Thankfully, the Ranter intern staff was able to capture these awesome photos of the Packers in Halloween costumes before they were deleted from Twitter. Check 'em out.
Donald Driver in epic homemade Death Star costume
John Kuhn as a vending machine
Desmond Bishop and Jordy Nelson ain't afraid of no ghost
Mike McCarthy, proud Trekkie
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The Golden Retriever Club of Greater Toronto (GRCGT) is for owners and breeders of Golden Retrievers who share the same interests in training and exhibiting their dogs and in the welfare and betterment of the breed. The GRCGT is an affiliate of the Golden Retriever Club of Canada (GRCC) and a member club of the Canadian Kennel Club (CKC).
Members of the Club are active in agility, conformation, obedience, rally, tracking, field work, and more with their dogs. Throughout the year, we hold CKC events in these areas to promote the versatility of the Golden Retriever. The GRCGT maintains a strong interest in the welfare and development of our breed as part of an ongoing public education program that has been in place since the Club was founded in 1986. The program includes training workshops and educational seminars for our members and an annual health certification clinic in conjunction with a local veterinary hospital. Members of the GRCGT were the founders of a rescue and adoption service for unwanted and displaced Golden Retrievers, known as The Canadian Golden Retriever Adoption Service.


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Executive Summary – Brookens Library
**The below information is from the 2006-2016 UIS Strategic Plan. For information on the current 2018-2028 Strategic Compass, visit https://www.uis.edu/strategiccompass/ **
The development of this strategic plan for Brookens Library coincides with the 30th anniversary of the Brookens Library building—the building was dedicated on May 19, 1976. The last quarter of the 20th century brought an unprecedented amount of change in libraries as we saw card catalogs first "freeze" and then disappear, computers become ubiquitous, and the internet become the gateway to information. During the same period of time, state funding for higher education began to erode even as inflation in the prices of library resources (many of them now in digital format) continued unabated.
Library policies and practices have not kept up with the rapid technological change or with the change in budgetary realities. In addition, librarians have generally been unprepared for changes in user behavior, in particular the degree to which college students have embraced the web and the various digital tools that are now available to them.
The timing of this strategic planning process, then, could not have been better. It provided an opportunity for the library to re-imagine its future as it enters its next thirty years. The central themes of this plan are people working together creatively and using technology ingeniously to provide excellent library resources and services to the UIS community. A question hangs in the air—does the building still matter? The answer is an emphatic "yes." The library is the campus building that best embodies the spirit of learning, discovery and reflection that define a liberal arts education.
As the UIS strategic plan was bold to state as its strategic intent that it would be one of the best small public liberal arts universities in the nation, so we in the Brookens Library say that we intend to be the exceptional library that defines a great public liberal arts university—an environment that inspires learning and serves as the heart of the campus intellectual community.
Jane Treadwell
University Librarian and Dean of Library Instructional Services
April 28, 2006
Brookens Library Strategic Plan: Executive Summary
1) Purpose
- Mission StatementAt the heart of the intellectually rich, collaborative, and intimate learning environment of UIS, Brookens Library selects, organizes, preserves, and provides access to and instruction in the use of information resources for research, discovery, and lifelong learning.
- Vision StatementWorking together creatively and using technology ingeniously, we provide excellent information resources and services to the UIS community.
- Guiding ValuesBrookens Library strives for excellence in all of our endeavors. We value:
- Communication that is open, creative, consultative, and responsive to individual differences and to user and organizational needs;
- Flexibility in our services and in the use of our resources to provide for functionality and innovation;
- Creating an environment of discovery that facilitates learning and that meets
the patrons where they are;
- Patron-centered service that assures a positive and unified atmosphere; and
- Accessibility by making our diverse services user-friendly.
2) Strategy for the Future
- Statement of Strategic IntentBrookens Library will be the exceptional library that defines a great public liberal arts university—an environment that inspires learning and serves as the heart of the campus intellectual community.
- Environmental AssessmentThese environmental factors present challenges and opportunities for Brookens Library:1. Enrollment growth and new general education curriculum will create increased demand for library materials and services as demand from existing customer groups continues unabated.2. Online learning—the growing number of students enrolled in online programs and courses places unique demands on the library.3. Information technology—the library must adapt its services to patrons for whom the internet is the first stop in seeking information.4. Physical space—the current library space does not meet the expectations of users and does not provide adequate space for collections.5. Budget—Pressures of inflation in the cost of library materials, salaries for skilled knowledge workers, and renovations to the physical space require additional funding at a time when state funding for higher education is static or declining.
- Competitive/Benchmark AnalysisThe Brookens Library exceeds the libraries of IBHE and COPLAC peers on most measures captured by the ACRL (Association of College and Research Libraries) statistics. Only two out of eight peer libraries had greater volume counts, and only three had greater total library expenditures. Significantly, the peers that exceeded UIS on these measures also reported library renovations and/or expansions in the past ten-fifteen years.Compared to the libraries of the private liberal arts colleges selected for benchmarking in the UIS strategic plan, the UIS library held over 100,000 more volumes than the nearest competitor and also had a larger total budget than the other libraries. Again, the libraries closest to UIS in total volumes and library expenditures had undergone renovation and expansion in the past five-fifteen years.
- Key Strategic IssueThe overriding strategic issue facing the Brookens Library is how, with limited financial resources, to provide excellent library resources and services to the growing student population that includes undergraduate and graduate students who may live on campus, commute, or receive their UIS education online.
- Strategic Goals1. Excellence in Information Resources through Superior Access
- Brookens Library will adjust, adapt, and expand its collection in alignment with the priorities of UIS.
- The Library will put into place technological solutions to help our users locate and retrieve information quickly and efficiently.
- The Library will demonstrate its commitment to partnerships that enhance the services it can provide.
- The library will pursue alternative funding sources for critical initiatives and maximize the impact of its spending through cooperative purchases that lower costs.2. Services that Anticipate and Respond to User Needs, Preferences, and Trends in Higher Education
- Discern real user needs and respond to them in a timely and efficient manner.
- Design services that anticipate user needs and preferences.
- Monitor trends in higher education and scholarly publishing for innovative practices the Library should adopt.
- Promote Library services through a vigorous, active, and ongoing marketing campaign.
- Enhance outreach to the local and regional community.3. Active Participation in Curriculum Development and Instruction
- Create an academically successful and information-literate student body.
- Expand reference/point-of-need services.4. Physical and Virtual Spaces That Are Open, Inviting and Inspiring
- Improve physical spaces.
- Improve virtual spaces.5. Faculty and Staff Members Who Are Innovative, Collaborative, and Exceptionally Customer Service Oriented
- Develop a program of customer-service training for new and current library employees.
- Continually review library policies and processes to test for alignment with mission and strategic intent.
- Increase support for faculty and staff professional development.
- Encourage staff to develop innovative and cost-effective solutions.
- Continue to actively pursue collaborative relationships.6. Communication that Facilitates Service, Access, Learning, and Assessment
- Develop and support an effective internal communication system.
- Promote the centrality of the library to the mission of the campus
- Stretch Ideas1. Integrate access tools to support patron research with goal of one search box access to resources.
2. Find ways to fulfill all resource needs for our distance learners.
3. Assign a personal library advisor to each UIS student.
4. Offer librarian office hours in academic departments, student commons areas, and other areas outside of the library building.
5. Merge Access Services and Reference service points.
6. Investigate the possibility of a minor in Information Studies.
7. Create an internet café on Level One of the building.
8. Seek funding for the renovation of Brookens Library.
3) Resources Plan for Achieving Strategic Goals
- Resources NeededWe estimate that $14,682,000 will be required in one-time costs, of which $14,000,000 is the current estimate for a total renovation of Brookens Library. Recurring costs associated with this plan total $392,967 representing costs for new staff, inflation in the prices of library resources, equipment replacement, and software licenses.
- Resource Procurement StrategyThe Library plans to seek grants and other private funding for many of the start-up and other one-time costs associated with this plan; however, recurring funding will be required to insure the long-term viability of new library services. In general, UIS needs to protect the investment that it has already made in building an exceptional library and extend that commitment into the future. Partnerships with the other two University of Illinois libraries allow the Brookens Library to enhance the number and quality of electronic resources that we provide to the UIS community. These partnerships and other consortial relationships must be sustained.
4) Monitoring and Evaluation
Performance results are included under each thrust as part of the Strategic Goals statements in Section 2.


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We dog owners know our dogs love us - but it's great that science is now agreeing with us. Clive Wynne knows the science - and the love - of dogs, and he discusses his book Dog Is Love. What do you do if you want veterinary advice but can't necessarily get to the veterinary surgery right then? Now Vet-AI has come up with an app called Joii. Eminent veterinarian Sarah Warren talks about Joii, and a range of other subjects including the stress on veterinary professionals. Plus, hear the DogCast Radio News, with dog related stories from around the world.
In this episode you can hear Mark Winik talk about his debut novel, The Dog Healers, and listen to Julia Robertson explain why she founded the charity War Dogs remembered. Plus there's the DogCast Radio News, and what Mischief the German Spitz puppy has been up to.
In this episode you can hear about Service Dogs UK, a fantastic charity which trains assistance dogs to support veterans of any service - military personnel, police, firefighters, paramedics and the coastguard - who develop Post Traumatic Stress Disorder due to their job. Also, listen to Dr Jody A Dean, a clinical psychologist talk about how her book, Roxie the Doxie finds her Forever Home, is helping children understand and talk about adoption and other family issues. Plus the DogCast Radio News and some thoughts on the alpha dog myth.
In this episode you can hear about Muffin's Halo for Blind Dogs, and what motivates people to enter their dog in a fun dog show. In the DogCast Radio News, listen to stories about the latest dog related research. Plus there's a new member of the DogCast Radio team!
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Using a Person-to-Person Approach in Your Job Search
The person-to-person approach to job searching de-emphasizes technology and can be effective in a few scenarios. For example, your exclusion rate from interview offers may be high when the employer uses online recruiting tools. Interview offers aren't appearing because you're not perceived as an A- or B-list candidate.
Remember that most jobs are found in small businesses. Many such businesses aren't yet using modern job-search tools and will value your person-to-person approach.
When technology seems to always kick you to the curb during a job search, consider back-to-the-future strategies that are most advantageous to you. Play on your turf. Get personal:
Develop your own job leads. Perform substantial research and target your resume for a direct application.
Network to a referral-chain. Ask each of 20 or more people whom you call daily: "Who else should I be talking to?"
Contact the hiring manager directly. Follow up on job ads, but to diffuse the crushing competition attempt to figure out who the hiring manager is and contact that decision maker directly. You can even write a resume letter to that person, but do not mention the job ad.
Mention that you've been researching companies where your excellent qualifications might be a good fit. If this "happy coincidence" causes the hiring manager to send your resume to the HR department, now it arrives from an important executive and will likely be examined.


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China GDP Growth, Plus Twitter and Google Headlines, As Dow Gains 162
For the third straight day, the Dow Jones Industrial Average scored big, rising 162 points Wednesday on some good-lookin' Chinese econ data and Federal Reserve headlines.
1. China's economy slows to 7.4% GDP growth
Chinese economic data is a little more sour than sweet right now. China's economic growth, as measured by gross domestic product, all the services and goods (often poorly made and occasional poisonous) made beyond the Great Wall, fell to 7.4% in the first quarter of 2014. That's just below the 7.5% Chinese officials are targeting for the full year, but above the 7.3% that U.S. economists were expecting.
Keep in mind that unlike a fortune cookie's surprise, China's economic slowdown isn't entirely unexpected -- it's been slowing slightly over the past couple of years. The command-style government has been instituting multiple reforms as its once-booming real estate sector eases down and exports have begun showing weakness.
The takeaway is that as the world's second largest economy and key trade partner for most products you use (including whatever you're reading MarketSnacks on right now, most likely) is a solid barometer of global economic health. China's economy has been humming along for decades (by comparison, U.S. economic growth has been between 1%-3% the past few years), so we assume the 7.4% GDP would still make General Tso proud.
2. After climbing 11%, Twitter drops 2%
On Tuesday, Twitter bought Gnip, a company that sells raw Twitter data to companies. Want to know what people are tweeting about your brand? Gnip tells you (for a price). Selling data to companies is just a small part of Twitter's strategy (about 7% of revenues in 2013), but Wall Street "favorited" the news and bid up the stock 11%. It was the biggest single-day jump since Twitter went public.
Twitter also hired a Google exec, Dan Graf, who's the master of the Google Maps App. Nobody knows what Twitter's new consumer product head will do, but the big hire/big acquisition combined to blow up the stock price to $45 Tuesday.
Why's the stock down 2.4% Wednesday? One reason could be the big test coming up for the stock. Twitter's half-birthday (its IPO was in November) is on May 6, which is when the "lockup" period ends. It's Twitter stock's D-Day -- for the first time the major original investors that own over 50% of the stock can sell their shares.
It's totally customary for new IPO stocks to have a six-month lockup period. What's uncommon is that the two co-owners and many other big shareholders pledged not to sell any shares when the lockup ends. Twitter is their baby, and they're not going to sell out on it. Still, investors are queasy about that day. Owners with 46.6% of the shares have promised not to sell, but a tweet is not a firm promise, so some big chunks of stock could get dumped onto the market and kill the stock price.
3. Weak mobile ad pricing hurts Google's earnings
Google announced $3.5 billion profits for the first three months of 2014, missing Wall Street estimates. Earnings climbed 3% and overall revenue was up 19% from last year, but the stock is down over 3% since the disturbing news of lower ad prices.
More mobile Internet use means less money ad money for Google. It's tougher to shop on your iPhone than on a desktop, so advertisers won't pay as much to Google for mobile ads. Consumers' migration to mobile is hurting Google just as it was hurting Facebook last year.
But Facebook seems to be figuring mobile out, and Google promises it will, too. The number of "paid clicks" grew 26% year over year, but "cost per click" fell 9%. Google's stock climbed 40%, but Wednesday's flat earnings report definitely made Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page want to switch their Gchat status to "invisible."
4. Fed's Beige Book describes winter's economic punch
It's not a pretty shade, but the Federal Reserve's "Beige Book" has some serious color on the state of the economy. The report is published eight times each year, and according to the April version released Wednesday, both consumer spending and overall economic growth improved across each of the central bank's 12 districts -- but the theme of "the book" was Mother Nature.
The takeaway is that the report highlighted how badly winter affected the U.S. economy, and it wasn't until March that Uncle Sam started to rebound. Maybe the Fed writers don't have access to a thesaurus, because the word "weather" was referenced 103 times -- the brutal cold and blizzards across much of the country discouraged consumers from hitting retail stores, kept potential home-buyers indoors instead of at open houses, and slowed the pace of manufacturing and deliveries. #NotSoHot.
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Jodi Arias "rewarded him by stabbing him in the heart," a prosecutor alleges
A woman charged with stabbing her lover 27 times and shooting him in the head has gone on trial, with attorneys debating whether Jodi Arias planned the attack or fought off Mormon playboy Travis Alexander in self-defense.
In a drama being televised nationally, the pretty 32-year-old dabbed away tears as testimony began this week in a Phoenix courtroom. Jurors have been shown photos of everything from Arias and Alexander having sex to brutal crime scene pictures of Alexander's body, curled on a shower floor, his throat slit.
If convicted of the murder, Arias could become the fourth woman on Arizona's death row.
Deputy County Attorney Juan Martinez said Wednesday during opening statements that Alexander was one of the greatest blessings of Jodi Arias's life.
"She rewarded him by stabbing him in the heart," said Martinez.
The prosecution says the couple met in 2006 in Las Vegas. Alexander, an executive at a marketing company, invited Arias, a new recruit, to the executive table and extolled the Mormon religion. They carried on a long-distance relationship until Arias moved from Palm Springs to Mesa, according to the prosecution.
When she learned Alexander was still dating other women, Arias didn't stop sleeping with him, the jury was told. But, Alexander told his friends, Arias slashed his tires, stalked his dates with other women and hacked into his email and bank accounts, the prosecution said.
The last straw may have been when Alexander, 30, invited Marie Hall, a church acquaintance, on a company trip to Cancun. When several days passed with no word from Alexander, Hall testified that she grew concerned. She says that, on June 9, 2008, she and Alexander's roommate entered his bedroom and found the bloody crime scene.
Arias allegedly stabbed Alexander 27 times, slit his throat and shot him in the head.
As the evidence against her mounted, Arias repeatedly changed her story. First, she said she hadn't seen him in months, according to prosecutors.
Then, after police found a camera in Alexander's washing machine with photos of the two having sex that day, as well as photos of her dragging his body across the floor, she claimed that a couple dressed in black broke into the house and killed him.
Finally, she said, she killed Alexander in self-defense.
"Had Jodi not chosen to defend herself, she would not be here," defense attorney Jennifer Willmott told the jury.
Her defense says she fought off Alexander after he violently attacked her for dropping his camera – the same camera that would capture her dragging his corpse across the floor.


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I have my iPhone headset plugged into my Macbook Pro so that I can listen to some proper music and have my Iphone 4 lying next to my MB Pro.
Now, of course, it would be really really fancy if there was a way I could proxy my incoming iPhone calls to my MB Pro via Bluetooth (essentially turning my MB Pro into a bluetooth headset) so that I can still pick up calls with my iPhone headset, even though it is plugged into my MB Pro.
Is there a way to do this?


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Fenn's, Whixall and Bettisfield Mosses
Straddling the English border, near Whitchurch in Shropshire and Wrexham in Wales, lies one of the biggest and best raised bogs in Britain. Its astonishingly varied wildlife makes it a place of international importance
Main habitats: lowland raised bog, wet woodland, wet peaty fields, heathland and Teesdalia grassland.
Features of interest
The reserve has 18 species of bog moss, as well as many other characteristic bog plants, such as the insect-eating round-leaved sundew, and more uncommon plants, too, like bog asphodel, bog rosemary, lesser bladderwort, white-beaked sedge, the rare mosses Dicranum bergeri and D. leioneuron and regionally rare golden bogmoss Sphagnum pulchrum.
Cloudberry grows at a much lower altitude than at its principal upland sites, and northern species like crowberry meet southern ones like cranberry, reflecting the location of the Mosses at the southern limit of raised bog growth.
Invertebrates are thriving after the restoration of the bog, including raft spider, the window-winged sedge caddisfly, and 29 species of dragonfly and damselfly. True bog specialists, including the white-faced darter dragonfly and very rare picture-winged bog craneflies, are now back from the brink of extinction.
There are also 670 different species of moth including the pretty little purple-bordered gold, the northern footman, dingy mocha and Manchester treble-bar. The 32 species of butterfly include the unmistakable brimstone, the green hairstreak and the real bog butterfly - the large heath - which lives on cotton sedge and cross-leaved heath.
Adders and common lizard are also thriving. With the restoration of water levels, there have been major changes in the birdlife of the Mosses, the 166 recorded species including wetland birds such as breeding curlew, teal and shoveler. There have been many more sightings of raptors including hen harrier and hobby and over-wintering short-eared owl.
The richer outflow ditches of the Mosses are a stronghold for water voles
See the site visitor leaflet for more details.
The nearest station is Prees, 4 miles away.
Hourly bus services from Shrewsbury to Wem to Whitchurch stop at Tilstock, 3 miles from the Reserve, except on Sundays. On Mondays and Fridays, Shropshire Link provides a demand responsive service into Whixall from Wem, Ellesmere and Whitchurch (0845 678 9068).
The reserve is near Route 45 of the Sustrans National Cycle Network.
Schools and community groups
A limited service may be offered for guided visits for local schools in the immediate area, depending on staffing resources, involving pond dipping and insect collection. Teachers are also welcome to use the NNR Base coach parking, toilets, classroom and collecting equipment and field guides for self-guided visits.
University and college groups will also be guided around the NNR.
Contact site staff for more information.
The NNR relies heavily on people volunteering to help with management works, events, research and administration. Student or graduate placements are welcomed, as are local people who can come in to help for a day or more a week.
The Fenn's Volunteer Group, a small friendly group of practical volunteers, meets twice a month on the second Sunday and the fourth Thursday.
To discuss volunteering opportunities email Steve Dobbin (Reserve Manager) email@example.com
For general enquiries email Peter Bowyer (Senior Reserve Manager) firstname.lastname@example.com or Steve Dobbin (Reserve Manager) firstname.lastname@example.com
Natural England
Manor House NNR Base
Moss Lane
Telephone: 01948 880362
The Stiperstones NNR includes the major part of the Stiperstones ridge in south Shropshire, near the Welsh border.
Main habitats: upland
Recreational events such as orienteering and rock climbing are by permit only.
Features of interest
This is a wild and atmospheric landscape, with a geology of national significance. The Ordovician 'Stiperstones Quartzite', which makes up the ridge was shattered during the last ice age to create the jagged, boulder-strewn landscape seen today.
Common lizard and common frog live on the reserve and local birdlife includes red grouse red kite, skylark, raven and stonechat.
Invertebrates range from armies of hairy wood ants, to magnificent green hairstreak butterflies and emperor moths.
There is open and well-used public access to the reserve. The Stiperstones Stomp is an 8km path that takes in the sights of the ridge and surrounding countryside, while there are also a number of shorter alternative routes and a 650m all-ability trail.
See the site visitor leaflet for more details.
Be aware that:
- many of the paths are rocky and steep
- weather conditions can change quickly and become severe, especially in winter
- lightning strikes are common in this upland area
- livestock may kick, bite, butt and trample, particularly if they have young and if you're with a dog
- sporting rights are privately owned; traps and snares are in use and shoots may take place at any time from 12 August to 1 February inclusive
You should:
- keep your dog on a lead at all times
- watch out for mine workings and heather burning
- wear suitable clothes and footwear, eg walking boots
- carry spare clothes and refreshment
- take a mobile phone or let someone know your route and estimated arrival time
The nearest train stations are in Welshpool (20 kilometres to the west) and Church Stretton (10 kilometres to the east).
There is a mainline train station in Shrewsbury (18 kilometres to the north east).
The Shropshire Hills Shuttles are 16-seater mini-buses which provide easy access into the Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty for walking, sightseeing, pub lunches, picnics and more. They operate every weekend and Bank Holiday Monday from Easter to September. The Stiperstones is a stop on the Shuttle's route.
The reserve is 3 kilometres east of the A488, which runs parallel to The Stiperstones ridge.
By car, access is via minor roads from the A488. As well as the main NNR car park on the road to Bridges village, you can also park at The Bog Centre or Snailbeach.
The NNR is on the route of the Shropshire Way, a 264 km trail from Shrewsbury to Ludlow.
Schools and community groups
Stiperstones NNR hosts visits by school groups. See the school and community groups page in the National Archives for full details.
If you want to carry out scientific studies or collect specimens you should write to the:
Senior Reserve Manager
Natural England
Tel: 01743 792294 or e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
For more information on school visits or to book a school session, contact Jenni Tibbetts on the above address, telephone 01743 792294 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com
Wem Moss
An excellent example of a lowland raised bog, Wem Moss NNR is home to raft spiders, large heath butterflies and large numbers of adders.
Main habitats: peatland
Management: Wem Moss is owned and managed by the Shropshire Wildlife Trust.
Features of interest
Further information about the NNR, its wildlife and how to visit can be found on the Shropshire Wildlife Trust's Wem Moss web page.
Shropshire Wildlife Trust
Telephone: 01743 284280


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In Mozambique, Grim Prospects For Mother And Child
As part of "Beginnings," a summerlong series on All Things Considered, Melissa Block traveled to Mozambique to explore maternal health. This is the first of three reports.
In Mozambique in southeastern Africa, the rates of maternal and infant mortality are among the highest in the world.
In her lifetime, a Mozambican woman has a 1 in 37 chance of dying during pregnancy or within a short time after a pregnancy has ended. One in 10 children won't live past the first year. One in 7 dies before reaching the age of 5.
So NPR wanted to find out what might help improve those outcomes.
Volunteer Health Workers
In the countryside of northern Mozambique, in Nampula province, a large group of women sits on the ground in a small community of mud huts. Just about every woman has a baby on her breast, bundled inside a brightly colored cloth called a capulana.
On average, women in Mozambique have five children. And they start having babies when they're very young — as young as 10.
The women talk about an initiation ritual called okanone, soon after a girl has her first period. It's seen as the end of her childhood. Men know that once a girl has had her okanone, even at age 10 or 11, she's considered old enough to have sex and marry.
Paulina Francisco says the girls learn a "rhythm of initiation" dance that teaches them a lot about sex and about how to please a man. She says that girls are taught when a man comes and wants to sleep with you, "Do this, turn this way, turn that way, grab him this way." Amid much merriment, she wiggles her hips for emphasis.
Francisco is a volunteer health worker in this community, which is named "The 25th of June," after Mozambique's day of independence from Portuguese colonial rule. The group Save the Children, working with Mozambique's Ministry of Health, has trained village workers like Francisco to help with basic medical care. The community volunteers visit people in their homes, since for many it's impossible to make the long haul to a health center.
On a recent day, Francisco visits a young mother named Belita who gave birth to a baby girl in her mud hut just two days before. The mom lies alongside her baby on a low cot on the dirt floor. The hut is tiny — dark and sweltering — and it buzzes with flies.
Francisco rinses her hands, takes the newborn's temperature, then slides her onto a spring scale she has brought to check her weight.
The baby weighs in at nearly 6 pounds — a normal weight.
Francisco warns the mother to look out for danger signs — diarrhea, umbilical infection — and she urges the couple to bring the baby to a hospital soon for vaccines. The father says they'll try to find a bicycle to get to the nearest health center, which is in the city of Monapo. Assuming they do find a bike, it will take them three hours to get there. This community is about 18 miles from the nearest clinic, down rutted red dirt roads.
This family's story is typical of rural Mozambique. In the countryside, more than half the babies born are delivered like Belita's was: not in a health facility, but at home. The women are often attended by a relative or friend, but not by a skilled health worker. The risks are great for both mother and child.
So the government is trying to encourage women to have their babies in maternity units, like the one at the Rural Hospital of Monapo.
Two Newborns, Different Outcomes
This hospital is a grim outpost, old and battered. In the tiny "maternity room," two women with bulging bellies are lying under blue sheets covered with old bloodstains. One woman has an IV drip. She moans softly and grips the metal bed frame. A piece of paper taped to the wall urges, "Bring your baby into the world smiling." It turns out to be a cruel wish.
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Minutes later, more quickly than seems possible, both women have quietly given birth — side by side, with no curtain for privacy, and with virtually no assistance. There is no doctor on hand.
A nurse holds up one baby — a boy — by his feet and vigorously slaps his back, drawing his first cry, before bundling him in a cloth and taking him to be weighed. But the other baby — a girl — is silent. She's still, and blue.
The nurses move with no great urgency. They suction the baby's mouth — try to pump air into her lungs, holding a bag mask over her mouth. They try chest compressions. Excruciating minutes go by.
The newborn girl never takes a breath.
The mother, Fatima Florenco, is expressionless. Maybe she's stunned, or maybe she's resigned to this outcome.
Outside the hospital, head nurse Messias Mireche says unfortunately this baby died because the mother delayed getting to the hospital. She had apparently been in labor for two days before coming here.
Maybe she didn't come in time because she didn't have a way to get here, he adds. Or maybe she didn't know how important it is to get to the hospital. But all that said, even once she got there, the bare-bones hospital had no fetal heart monitor. No doctor standing by to perform an emergency cesarean section.
Skilled Nurses
As unforgiving as conditions are at the Monapo rural hospital, some 40 miles away in the city of Nacala, there is a brand-new hospital painted a creamy yellow. It's spotless.
And, there, you might find your best hope in nurse Laura Simbini, who is trained in maternal-child health. And she embodies one of the ways Mozambique is trying to improve outcomes for women and children. Mozambique has one of the worst doctor-patient ratios in the world: just 1 doctor for every 25,000 people, according to the Ministry of Health.
So nurses like Simbini have been trained to perform emergency surgery: She can do C-sections and hysterectomies. She can operate to treat ectopic pregnancies or sepsis. All these things that the U.S. health system would consider the exclusive province of a doctor, she can do as a nurse.
"We do it this way because we have very few specialists," Simbini says. "So we were trained to deal with emergency situations. We have a doctor here, a specialist, but only one."
Simbini can't talk long: She has two C-section patients waiting for her. One is a 15-year-old girl. Big baby, small mother, Simbini explains. And off she goes to operate.
The Ministry of Health has trained 60 nurses like Simbini around the country, providing emergency obstetric care to women who might otherwise have none. The Mozambican government knows the numbers for maternal and infant death are still way too high. But this at least is one way to try to bring those numbers down.


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This was a tough one to write. I knew I wanted to talk about the idea of "the primacy of the couple" and different kinds of love. I knew I wanted to include some of Eric Klinenberg's Going Solo research about the demographic trend towards solitary living. Fun fact, single-occupant homes are the most common domestic unit in America. Here's another: the average American spends more than half their adult life unpartnered. There's a lot more. Read the book.
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Saudi Arabia's industrial sector recorded growth of 5.5 percent in 1999, while industrial investments totaled more than $60 billion, Saudi Industry Minister Hisham bin Abdullah al-Yamani said Tuesday.
"During 1999, the Saudi industrial sector had growth of 5.5 percent ... while investments in industrial projects totaled $64 billion up to the year 2000," Yamani said in a statement from the Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC).
He said that the value of Saudi industrial products, mainly petrochemicals, reached $22 billion in 1999, of which around a quarter represented the kingdom's industrial exports.
"The contribution of the industrial sector to gross domestic product (GDP) has risen from five percent in 1980 to 10 percent in the year 2000 ... and should reach 20 percent over the next 20 years," the Saudi minister added.
The seventh five year plan for economic development (2000-2005), agreed in August by the Saudi government, predicts annual growth of 3.16 percent in GDP. — (AFP, Riyadh)
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What Is Kidney Disease?
Learn more about the types, symptoms, and risk factors
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) includes any condition that causes reduced kidney function for more than 3 months.3, 4
CKD is present when a patient's glomerular filtration rate (GFR) remains below 60 milliliters per minute for more than 3 months or when a patient's urine albumin‐to‐creatinine ratio is over 30 milligrams (mg) of albumin for each gram (g) of creatinine (30 mg/g).1
With early chronic kidney disease (CKD), people tend not to feel ill or notice any symptoms as kidney function deteriorates slowly over time. For this reason it has been referred to as the "silent killer." Specific blood and urine tests are the only way to determine CKD.5
If kidney failure does occur, typical symptoms are weight loss and poor appetite, peripheral edema (swollen ankles, feet, or hands due to water retention), shortness of breath, blood or protein in urine, high blood pressure (hypertension), nausea, erectile dysfunction in men,6 vomiting, bone pain, headache, insomnia, itching, dry skin, malaise, fatigue with light activity, muscle cramps, high urine output or no urine output, recurrent urinary tract infections, urinary incontinence, pale skin, bad breath, hearing deficit, detectable abdominal mass, tissue swelling, irritability, poor muscle tone, change in mental alertness, and a metallic taste in the mouth.
Causes and Risk Factors
The two main causes of chronic kidney disease are diabetes mellitus and high blood pressure, which are responsible for up to two‐thirds of the cases. Diabetes happens when your blood sugar is too high, causing damage to many organs in your body, including the kidneys and heart, as well as blood vessels, nerves and eyes. When the pressure of your blood against the walls of your blood vessels is too high, it results in high blood pressure, or hypertension. If uncontrolled, or poorly controlled, high blood pressure can be a leading cause of CKD, heart attacks, and strokes. Also, CKD can cause high blood pressure.13
Other conditions that may lead to chronic kidney disease include3:
- Diabetic nephropathy (diabetes can cause permanent changes, leading to kidney damage)
- Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), a chronic inflammatory/autoimmune disease that can injure the skin, joints, kidneys, and nervous system
- Prolonged urinary tract obstruction or blockage
- Alport syndrome (an inherited disorder that causes deafness, progressive kidney damage, and eye defects)
- Nephrotic syndrome (a condition that has several different causes, characterized by protein in the urine, low protein in the blood, high cholesterol levels, and tissue swelling)
- Polycystic kidney disease (a genetic disorder characterized by the growth of numerous cysts filled with fluid in the kidneys)
- Cystinosis (an inherited disorder in which the amino acid cysteine accumulates within specific cellular bodies of the kidney, known as lysosomes)
- Interstitial nephritis or pyelonephritis (an inflammation to the small internal structures in the kidney)
- Renal artery stenosis
- Ascending (chronic) infections of the lower urinary tract
Other risk factors3:
- Heart problems or stroke
- Obesity
- Family history
- Tobacco use
- 60+ years old
Stages of Chronic Kidney Disease of All Types7
|Qualitative Description
|Renal Function (GFR)
mL/min/1.73 m2
|Kidney damage – normal GFR
|Kidney damage – mild ↓ GFR
|Moderate ↓ GFR
|Severe ↓ GFR
|End‐stage renal disease
|<15 (or dialysis)
What happens if my test results show I may have chronic kidney disease?13
Your doctor will want to pinpoint your diagnosis and check your kidney function to help plan your treatment. The doctor may do the following:
- Calculate your Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR). It is the best test to measure your level of kidney function and determine your stage of kidney disease. Your doctor can calculate it from the results of your blood creatinine test, your age, race, gender and other factors.
- Perform an ultrasound or CT scan to get a picture of your kidneys and urinary tract. This tells your doctor whether your kidneys are too large or too small, whether you have a problem like a kidney stone or tumor, and whether there are any problems in the structure of your kidneys and urinary tract.
- Perform a kidney biopsy under image guidance, typically ultrasound. This is done in some cases to check for a specific type of kidney disease, see how much kidney damage has occurred, and help plan treatment. To do a biopsy, the doctor takes a sample from the region of interest. The pathologist than performs the histological analysis.
In complex cases, your doctor may also ask you to see a kidney specialist who will consult on your case and help manage your care.
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1. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ‐ National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease: https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health‐information/kidneydisease
2. https://www.usrds.org/2014/view/v1_05.aspx
3. Johns Hopkins Medicine: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/healthlibrary/conditions/kidney_and_urinary_system_disorders/end_stage_renal_disease_esrd_85,P01474/
4. Chronic Kidney Disease: www.diseaseinfosearch.org/result/3996
5. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – Centers of Disease Control and Prevention: http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/pubs/pdf/kidney_factsheet.pdf
6. National Health Services UK: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/kidney‐disease/symptoms/
7. Recreated from: http://guidelines.diabetes.ca/App_Themes/CDACPG/images/Ch29_Tbl4_Stages_of_CKD.jpg
8. https://www.ukaachen.de/fileadmin/files/global/user_upload/Autosomal_dominante_polyzystische_Nierenerkrankung.pdf
9. https://www.orpha.net/data/patho/GB/uk‐CNF.pdf
10. https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/alport‐syndrome#synonyms
11. https://ercpa.eu/index.php/2017/03/09/discover‐our‐new‐infographic‐on‐ckd/
12. http://www.thelancet.com/campaigns/kidney/
13. National Kidney Foundation (U.S.) Republished with permission.: https://www.kidney.org/atoz/content/about‐chronic‐kidney‐disease
14. https://www.klinikum.uni‐heidelberg.de/Nierenerkrankungen.119146.0.html
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Kazakhstan Wants Russia To Hand Over Their Baikonur Space City
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Hugh Pickens writes writes "RIA Novosti reports that Kazakhstan and Russia are in talks over returning the city of Baikonur to Kazakhstan — the site of the first Soviet rocket launches and Russia's most important space launch center. Baikonur, built in Kazakhstan in the 1950s, is the main launch facility for the current generation of Russian rockets and was leased by Russia from Kazakhstan under an agreement signed in 1994 after the collapse of the Soviet Union. 'Today both nations' governments have decided to set up a new intergovernmental commission for the Baikonur complex to be headed up by first or other deputy prime ministers,' said Talgat Musabayev, head of Kazakhstan's space agency. At issue is control over Baikonur and the rent Russia pays Kazakhstan to use the facility, a subject of ongoing dispute between the two nations ever since Kazakhstan gained independence from the USSR. Earlier this year, Kazakhstan blocked Russia from launching several rockets from Baikonur in a dispute over a drop zone for debris and Kazakhstan insisted this must be covered by a supplement to the main rental agreement signed in Astana in 2004, extending Russia's use of the space center's facilities until 2050. Russia pays an annual fee of approximately $115 million to use the space center, which currently has the world's busiest launch schedule, as well as $50 million annually for maintenance. Russia and Kazakhstan are working to build a new space launch facility at Baikonur, called Baiterek, to launch Angara carrier rockets capable of delivering 26 metric tons of payload to low-Earth orbits but Russia intends to eventually withdraw from Baikonur and conduct launches from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, an operating spaceport about 500 miles north of Moscow — and the unfinished Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Russian Far East."
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When I first heard of pumpkin cornbread, I was reading Meghann's blog and thought it was an amazing idea! I couldn't wait to give it a try. I found the recipe that Meghann used here. Laura of Real Mom Kitchen has some great recipes – including Pumpkin Belgian Waffles that I may be trying out in my brand new Belgian waffle maker that I got on Black Friday!! This recipe wasn't gluten-free, so I made some changes. The results were impressive! Jon really enjoyed it and has been eating this for all of his meals, including breakfast! Hannah also enjoyed it. I had a piece along side my Thanksgiving meal. It was a very nice compliment.
Pumpkin Cornbread
1 cup Pamela's GF Pancake & Baking Mix (if you use a GF flour mix without xanthan or guar gum, you need to add 1/2 – 1 TBSP)
1 Tbs baking powder
1 tsp salt
½ tsp ground cinnamon
¼ tsp ground nutmeg
1 cup cornmeal (I used Bob's Red Mill Stone Ground GF Cornmeal)
2 large eggs
1 cup pumpkin puree
2/3 cup brown sugar
¼ cup canola oil
1 Tbs molasses
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees & grease a 10 inch pie pan or 9 inch square pan.
2. Mix all dry ingredients (except brown sugar) in a large bowl.
3. In another bowl, beat the eggs lightly. Then mix in the pumpkin, brown sugar, oil & molasses.
4. Make a well in the dry ingredient mix and then add the wet ingredients. Stir to mix, being careful to not over mix.
5. Pour into pan and bake for 30 minutes or until the bread is nicely browned and a toothpick comes out mostly clean.
6. Cool slightly & enjoy!
I found this freezes well – it tastes just as good when you defrost & eat slightly warmed in the microwave or toasted in the toaster oven.
So, now the waffle iron details….$79.99 original price, purchased for $19.99. Can't beat that! I tried it out last night with Pamela's Baking & Pancake Mix & Jon had 2 and a half Belgian waffles. Yes, the 7+ inch size. The kid is eating us out of house & home. Oh, then he had some pumpkin pie, as if the waffles (bacon and applesauce, too) wasn't enough.
Recipe for my new POM Wonderful Cranberry Sauce is up on the Examiner. It came out really good! I have been eating leftovers on my salad, ice cream, sandwiches and may have some with cottage cheese for a nice snack tomorrow! I cut the sugar in half and you can't tell.
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LF Stefan Sabol led the way offensively, going 2-for-5 with a double and two strikeouts. He's an interesting mid-round pick from this year. Look for an interview with him around here in the next week.
CF Brandon Nimmo was 1-for-3 with a double, his first extra-base hit of the year, two walks, and an RBI. In three games, he's walked five times and struck out once, which is nice.
First start of the year for Luis Cessa: 5 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 4 K.
R: @ Princeton Rays 10, Kingsport Mets 7
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The day started in Chicago, where we flew before driving to South Bend for the afternoon's game, one of the last of the season. Both teams were positively dreadful, entering with matching 1-9 records. Still! A Notre Dame football game is a Notre Dame football game, we thought. It was worth the trip. So we woke up too early and started off toward Notre Dame, carrying enough pre-game hope to rationalize the journey. Ninety minutes later, someone noticed an ominous sign on the right side of the road.
"Uh, why does it say Welcome to Michigan?" he asked, pointing to the "Welcome to Michigan: Great Lakes, Great Times" sign.
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Then the football started and Touchdown Jesus, lurking behind the stadium, turned away in horror.
The first 10 drives ended with: missed field goal, punt, punt, missed field goal, punt, punt, punt, punt, turnover on downs, fumble. The last two failures were particularly torturous. Going for it on fourth-and-17 — yes, fourth-and-17 — Jimmy Clausen lobbed a pass to a wide-open Robby Parris. The ball smacked him in the chest, and he dropped it, flubbing a touchdown. The Notre Dame diehards around us continued their grumbling, and when Duke fumbled in Irish territory six plays later, we joined them in bitterness. We were wet and cold, and after trekking out to the middle of Indiana, the score was 0-0 with two minutes left in the half. But everyone in our shivering section, no matter their school affiliation, felt united in misery. We were rooting for incompetence, because it was the only thing worth recognizing with cheers. We found solace in solidarity.
Notre Dame proceeded to win, 28-7. The Irish locked arms to sing their fight song, and the seniors threw marshmallows at each other and did whatever it is people do when Notre Dame wins a home football game. I've tried to forget most of that day, except for one choice quote, one fan's sudden epiphany as offenses and defenses swapped places yet again.
"This might be the worst football game I've ever seen," he yelled. We roared in giddy agreement. It was a beautiful moment.
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Just wondering if anyone knows the history behind carrig and Riverstown playing in Offaly and why moneygall play in Tipp
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The GAA grounds is in Tipperary. The late Seamus O'Riain was an Offaly man, but in Tipperary for GAA purposes. I believe hePlain of the Herbs wrote:I don't know why Carrig & Riverstown play in Offaly, and their club history which is on the club's website does little to answer the query. However, that they are situated in Birr Parish, and that the parish rule is treasured in GAA may well be a factor. C&R didn't field for many years during the 1960s due to lack of numbers. During that time they made three separate attempts to join Tipperary. Each attempt was rebuffed by Moneygall's Séamus Ó Ríaín (who later became GAA president), fearing that Carrig entering Tipperary would be the catalyst for Moneygall being moved back to Offaly.
Somewhat similarly, Ballyskenagh played in Tipperary for several years up to the late 1950s. They were faced with disbandment when the Tipperary Board passed a motion that there could only be one club in any parish. Roscrea GAA Club were going nowhere, so Ballyskenagh upped sticks and moved to Offaly.
Moneygall is a different story. They were in Offaly in the early days of the GAA and even contested an Offaly SH final in 1906, when they were beaten by Coolderry. It all came to a head following the 1910 Junior final when Dunkerrin beat Killoughey. Killoughey objected, the Board upheld the objection and, vexed at the Board's treatment, Moneygall/Dunkerrin moved to Tipperary. But while Moneygall village is in Co Offaly, a decent portion of Moneygall is in Tipperary, including, I believe, the GAA grounds. Someone with local knowledge might confirm this.
SearingDrive wrote:The GAA grounds is in Tipperary. The late Seamus O'Riain was an Offaly man, but in Tipperary for GAA purposes. I believe he
taught in Dunkerrin, maybe POTH might confirm this.
Carrig and Riverstown, are geographically and culturally in Tipperary, as per the post about Tipp flags in abundance.. They contest the IHC Final on Sunday v Clodiagh Gaels. On the football scene, Ballaghdereen is in Roscommon, but they play GAA in Mayo. The town was in Mayo initially but was transferred to Roscommon for administrative purposes. In GAA matters they stayed with the Green and Red, supplying county players to Mayo.
theoutsider wrote:Did Ger Oakley not try to get a transfer to Birr when Offaly were going good at the time? Carraig & Riverstown is a really unique one. But thats what the GAA is all about.


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AMERICANS who save for the future, use credit cards or borrow money for tuition, cars and homes deserve assurance that the interest rates on their savings and loans are set in a reliable and honest way.
That's why the revelation that the British bank Barclays attempted to manipulate the London interbank offered rate, or Libor — one of the benchmark rates used to determine the cost of borrowing around the world — is so disturbing. But the Barclays case isn't only about misconduct by large financial institutions. It also raises questions about the reliability and accuracy of these key interest rates, which are largely determined by the private sector, without significant government oversight.
When you save money in a money market fund or short-term bond fund, or take out a mortgage or a small-business loan, the rate you receive or pay is often based, directly or indirectly, on Libor. It's the reference rate for nearly half of adjustable-rate mortgages in the United States; for about 70 percent of the American futures market; and for a majority of the American swaps market, where businesses hedge risks from changes in interest rates.
Libor is supposed to be the average rate at which the largest banks honestly believe they can borrow from one another unsecured (that is, without posting collateral). Libor was set up in the 1980s when banks regularly made loans to other banks on that basis.
However, the number of banks willing to lend to one another on such terms has been sharply reduced because of economic turmoil, including the 2008 global financial crisis, the European debt crisis that began in 2010, and the downgrading of large banks' credit ratings this year.Continue reading the main story
Banks have shifted toward secured borrowing and, on occasion, borrowing from central banks like the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank. As Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, said of Libor in 2008: "It is, in many ways, the rate at which banks do not lend to each other."
These changes in the markets raise questions about the integrity of this important benchmark.
First, why is Libor so different from another benchmark interest rate for borrowing in United States dollars — Euribor, or euro interbank offered rate? Both rates are calculated on the basis of banks' answers to roughly the same question. For Libor, a bank is asked at what rate it thinks it can borrow, while for Euribor, a bank is asked at what rate it thinks other banks are able to borrow. And yet the Euribor for dollar borrowings is about twice as high as the comparable Libor.
Second, why have Libor and other benchmark rates typically not been aligned, since 2008, with the borrowing rates that would be implied by foreign exchange markets? A long-established financial theory known as interest rate parity says that the difference in interest rates between two countries should be roughly in line with the expected change in exchange rates between the countries' currencies. (If it isn't, that opens an opportunity for arbitrage, the practice of taking advantage of price differences.)
Until 2007, as the theory predicted, the difference between the borrowing rate in one currency and the lending rate in another could typically be derived from foreign currency exchange rates. In the last few years, that hasn't been the case, and this divergence between theory and practice has yet to be adequately explained.
Third, why is the volatility of the dollar-denominated Libor so much lower than the volatility of other short-term credit market rates? Just like stocks and bonds, short-term interest rates experience a certain volatility. But Libor has less severe swings than comparable rates.
In addition, the variation in rates that some banks submit to the British Bankers' Association — the private group that oversees Libor — don't seem to match the variation in the rates for their credit default swaps (financial instruments that are similar to insurance and are one measure of a bank's credit risk). There have been times when the swap rates have widened for particular banks (suggesting a growing credit risk) even as their Libor submissions have remained stable (suggesting that the banks' borrowing costs haven't changed).
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