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- 1 English
- 1.1 Alternative forms
- 1.2 Etymology
- 1.3 Pronunciation
- 1.4 Noun
- 1.5 Adjective
- 1.6 Preposition
- 1.7 Verb
- 2 French
- 3 Italian
- 4 Middle English
Alternative formsEdit
- Cross (sometimes for the historical cross of Christ)
From Middle English cross, cros, from Old English cros ("rood, cross"), from Old Norse kross ("cross"), perhaps from Old Irish cros (compare Welsh croes, Irish crois), from Latin crux (cruci). Cognate with Icelandic kross ("cross"), Faroese krossur ("cross"), Danish kors ("cross"), Swedish kors ("cross"). Displaced native Middle English rood ("rood, cross"), from Old English rōd ("cross, rood, crucifix, pole"); see rood. The sense of "two intersecting lines drawn or cut on a surface; two lines intersecting at right angles" without regard to religious signification develops from the late 14th century.
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kɹɒs/ (also, especially formerly enPR: krôs, IPA(key): /kɹɔːs/)
- (General American) IPA(key): /kɹɔs/
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /kɹɑs/
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- Rhymes: -ɒs, -ɔːs
cross (plural crosses)
- A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other.
- Put a cross for a wrong answer and a tick for a right one.
- (heraldry) Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.
- A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion).
- Criminals were commonly executed on a wooden cross.
- (usually with the) The cross on which Christ was crucified.
- (Christianity) A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross.
- She made the cross after swearing.
- Sir Walter Scott
- Before the cross has waned the crescent's ray.
- Cowper
- 'Tis where the cross is preached.
- (Christianity) A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a symbol of religious devotion.
- She was wearing a cross on her necklace.
- (figurative, from Christ's bearing of the cross) A difficult situation that must be endured.
- It's a cross I must bear.
- Ben Jonson
- Heaven prepares a good man with crosses.
- The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other
- A quick cross of the road.
- (biology) An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
- (by extension) A hybrid of any kind.
- Lord Dufferin
- Toning down the ancient Viking into a sort of a cross between Paul Jones and Jeremy Diddler
- Lord Dufferin
- (boxing) A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
- (soccer) A pass in which the ball travels from by one touchline across the pitch.
- 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, "Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton", in BBC[1]:
- And Stamford Bridge erupted with joy as Florent Malouda slotted in a cross from Drogba, who had stayed just onside.
- A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross).
- A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross)
- (obsolete) A coin stamped with the figure of a cross, or that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped; hence, money in general.
- Shakespeare
- I should bear no cross if I did bear you; for I think you have no money in your purse.
- Shakespeare
- (obsolete, Ireland) Church lands.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir J. Davies to this entry?)
- A line drawn across or through another line.
- (surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
- A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
- (Rubik's Cube) Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
- (cartomancy) The thirty-sixth Lenormand card.
- (production of cross-breeding or -fertilization): hybrid
- (cross on which Christ was crucified): True Cross
Derived termsEdit
- altar cross
- Celtic cross
- Charing Cross
- cross bearer
- Cross City
- cross of Lorraine
- crossroads
- cross-stitch
- double cross
- fiery cross
- George Cross
- Greek cross
- Iron Cross
- Latin cross
- left cross
- Maltese cross
- New Cross
- patriarchal cross
- Red Cross
- right cross
- Saint Andrew's cross
- Saint George's cross
- sign of the cross
- Southern Cross
- Tau Cross
- True Cross
- Victoria Cross
- Waltham Cross
- → Japanese: クロス (kurosu)
Related termsEdit
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.
cross (comparative crosser, superlative crossest)
- Transverse; lying across the main direction.
- At the end of each row were cross benches which linked the rows.
- Isaac Newton
- the cross refraction of the second prism
- (archaic) Opposite, opposed to.
- His actions were perversely cross to his own happiness.
- (now rare) Opposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for.
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970:, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.50:
- As a fat body is more subject to diseases, so are rich men to absurdities and fooleries, to many casualties and cross inconveniences.
- Jeremy Taylor
- a cross fortune
- Glanvill
- the cross and unlucky issue of my design
- South
- The article of the resurrection seems to lie marvellously cross to the common experience of mankind.
- Dryden
- We are both love's captives, but with fates so cross, / One must be happy by the other's loss.
- Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.
- She was rather cross about missing her train on the first day of the job.
- Please don't get cross at me. (or) Please don't get cross with me.
- Jeremy Taylor
- He had received a cross answer from his mistress.
- Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
- cross interrogatories
- cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other
Derived termsEdit
- (archaic) across
- She walked cross the mountains.
- L'Estrange
- A fox was taking a walk one night cross a village.
- cross product of the previous vector and the following vector.
- The Lorentz force is q times v cross B.
Related termsEdit
- dot
- × (the multiplication sign)
cross (third-person singular simple present crosses, present participle crossing, simple past and past participle crossed)
- To make or form a cross.
- To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect.
- She frowned and crossed her arms.
- To lay or draw something across, such as a line.
- to cross the letter t
- To mark with an X.
- Cross the box which applies to you.
- To write lines at right angles.W
- 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part I, London: Collins, →ISBN:
- An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed 'to save notepaper') and enter into the delightful pastime of 'a chicken from Mr Whiteley's'.
- (reflexive, to cross oneself) To make the sign of the cross over oneself.
- To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect.
- To move relatively.
- (transitive) To go from one side of (something) to the other.
- Why did the chicken cross the road?
- You need to cross the street at the lights.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 8, in The Celebrity:
- Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.
- 2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, "England 1-0 Ukraine", in BBC Sport:
- Ukraine, however, will complain long and hard about a contentious second-half incident when Marko Devic's shot clearly crossed the line before it was scrambled away by John Terry, only for the officials to remain unmoved.
- (intransitive) To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another.
- Ships crossing from starboard have right-of-way.
- (transitive) To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.
- (Can we date this quote?) James David Forbes
- Your kind letter crossed mine.
- (Can we date this quote?) James David Forbes
- (sports) Relative movement by a player or of players.
- (cricket, reciprocally) Of both batsmen, to pass each other when running between the wickets in order to score runs.
- (soccer) To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side.
- He crossed the ball into the penalty area.
- (rugby) To score a try.
- 2011 February 12, Mark Orlovac, "England 59-13 Italy", in BBC:
- England cut loose at the end of the half, Ashton, Mark Cueto and Mike Tindall all crossing before the break.
- (transitive) To go from one side of (something) to the other.
- (social) To oppose.
- (transitive) To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.
- "You'll rue the day you tried to cross me, Tom Hero!" bellowed the villain.
- (transitive, obsolete) To interfere and cut off; to debar.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
- to cross me from the golden time I look for
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
- (law) To conduct a cross examination; to question a hostile witness.
- (transitive) To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.
- (biology) To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
- They managed to cross a sheep with a goat.
- To stamp or mark a cheque in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited into a bank account.
- (to cross-fertilize or crossbreed): cross-fertilize, crossbreed
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Related termsEdit
From English.
cross m (uncountable)
Further readingEdit
- "cross" in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
From English.
cross m (invariable)
Derived termsEdit
Middle EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
From Old English cros, borrowed from Old Norse kross, borrowed from Old Irish cros, borrowed from Latin crux.
cross (plural crosses)
- the Holy Cross; Christ's cross.
- A representation of the cross of Christ; the cross as a Christian symbol, including:
- The sign of the cross.
- A crucifix or crosier.
- (figuratively) The cross in Christian metaphors, such as:
- The cross as a symbol elsewhere, for example:
- gallows, gibbet
- "cros (n.)" in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.


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Visa announced on Thursday their plans to develop payment services for Google Android handsets. The credit card giant also announced a pilot program that gives Visa cardholders with US bank accounts the ability to transfer money to another cardholder's account by using a web browser on their mobile phone, with real-time email alerts each time a transaction is made.
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Visa also announced a similar deal that they've made with Nokia for their Nokia 6212 Classic phone. I'm sure that they will add support for more handsets as time goes on, as 6212 Classic owners are only a small percentage of the market. That service is expected to begin next month, and the Google-Visa deal is expected to be fully active before the end of this year.


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When the curtain rises on ACT season opener "Sweat" and we learn that it's the year 2000, the first reaction is relief.
Just think how many national problems didn't yet exist in those days. For that matter, just think about the cares in our own lives that had yet to develop.
But the glow of halcyon aughts only lasts a few minutes. Because of course, America circa 2000 has its own familiar demons: racism, xenophobia, poverty, addiction, etc.
In this tale by Pulitzer-winner Lynn Nottage about how the working class gets stripped, the past is never a refuge. Instead it's the site of an autopsy revealing the many ways that people — their bodies, their lives, and their livelihoods — all mean shockingly little to the powers that be.
"Sweat" takes place almost exclusively in a small bar in a company town, where the employees of the nearby steel mill meet after hours.
The set by Andrew Boyce is so comprehensive and authentic that if you installed a couple of working taps it could probably open for business right there onstage and few people would notice anything amiss.
The bar is also the show's first big obstacle, though, because in a lesser play it would seem nakedly contrived that so many pivotal events in this town happen here, and that so many characters sit on critical conversations until they're firmly between its walls.
And indeed, it's hard not to notice that this place has the same clientele of just six related people month after month. Theater is an artificial realm, of course, but it's still not a good idea to expose that quite so directly all the time.
The good news is that director Loretta Greco blows those worries straight out of the water, because every word from every actor's mouth in "Sweat" sounds so plausible that in many cases the show surpasses the authenticity of actual conversation.
Case in point, Rod Gnapp (previously the long-suffering restauranteur in "Seared" at SF Playhouse) fills in as Stan, a rock-steady bartender who appears never to have a night off and is full of deadpan wisdom about the nature of life and work.
He opines that nobody cares about hardworking people or basic human decency anymore. He listens to everyone with a sympathetic ear. He uses sardonic wit to cover up his own pain.
The role sounds incredibly contrived, but actually Gnapp is a genuine delight. Similarly, the story of Cynthia, a career laborer who finally breaks into a cushy manager job only to faced with the horror of having to sell out her friends (Tonye Patano), has the bearings of a fairly trite morality tale.
But Patano seems tantalizingly real in the part. Almost everything in "Sweat" does: the resentment, the fear, the arguments, and the compassion hemmed in by dangerous necessity.
Possibly that's because "Sweat" is a real story, or close to one, inspired by the town of Reading, Pennsylvania, which developed the highest poverty rate in the nation after seeing most of the local jobs exported.
The audience realizes this is coming well before most of the characters do, which makes "Sweat" a bit like classical tragedy: Everyone is doomed before it starts, but this only becomes evident to all of them after it's too late.
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The past always seems more solid and enduring that it probably really was. In comparison to the fleeting present, we crave the sturdiness that we always imagine the world had back then.
And in the end that's the real tragedy of Greco's "Sweat."
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- Timothy Bradley v Manny Pacquiao
Bradley blasts 'liar' Arum for Pacquiao comments
WBO welterweight champion Timothy Bradley has called Bob Arum, his promoter, a liar for comments made in the wake of the controversial Manny Pacquiao clash.
Arum claimed that before the judges awarded the contest to Bradley, the fighter told him: "I tried hard but I couldn't beat the guy." But Bradley, who does not expect to agree a rematch with Pacquiao later this year, denies saying anything of the sort.
"I never told Bob that at all. He's a liar and I will tell him that to his face," Bradley said to the Desert Sun. "I told Bob I did the best I can. I got injured. That was it. That's all I said to Bob. I didn't say, 'Bob, I couldn't beat that guy.' I would never say that, because I thought I won the fight.
"Bob's going to say that because that's [Pacquiao] his cash cow. The fact he lost to me, that's hard on him. That's hard on everyone."
However, Bradley is refusing to rule out the possibility of working with Arum, who runs Top Rank Promotions, in future. Bradley's decision to link up with Top Rank helped him secure a lucrative meeting with Pacquiao.
"I have nothing but love for Top Rank. I have nothing but love for the people," Bradley said. "This is a business and some things are said and taken out of context. It is what it is. When I see him, we'll settle this. I'm a big man, I'll talk to him."
The WBO is holding a video review into Pacquiao v Bradley after the judges' verdict was near-universally condemned by fans and critics. The organisation has the power to recommend a rematch, but cannot strip Bradley of his 147lbs title.


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For children as young as toddlers there is a special orienteering course called the string course. The entire route is marked from start to finish, so no one gets lost. A simple map shows the route and the location of the checkpoints, called controls. As children become ready, they can learn about maps, map symbols, direction, figuring out where they are, and so forth, all while on a well-marked course they can follow themselves.
Older children and adults can learn to orienteer on White courses. The White course is for beginners, and is the easiest point-to-point orienteering course. Points are marked on the map, and the goal is to find them in order. Children usually first do White courses with their family or youth group, then with other children, and finally by themselves.
This 'booklet' is designed as a guide for parents, teachers, youth group leaders, and orienteering organizers (but it can be fun as a general introduction to orienteering). It covers a wide variety of topics that are useful in getting children involved in orienteering, helping them get more out of orienteering, and expanding their skills with the resources available in North America. Some sections are suitable for people new to orienteering, and others will be of interest to those already orienteering.
Our new section called New to O1 includes much useful information and many resources as well, so be sure to investigate the information there.
[For "printer-friendly" purposes, footnote numbers next to links throughout the document refer to URLs, listed at the end of the document.]


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By Julie Shelley, U.S. Army Combat Readiness/Safety CenterApril 8, 2013
FORT RUCKER, Ala. - Accident statistics from the second quarter show the Army continues to improve its safety performance well into fiscal 2013, according to data released by the U.S. Army Combat Readiness/Safety Center.
Overall, accidental fatalities declined 13 percent from figures for the same time frame in fiscal 2012. Based on recent updates to existing accident reports, fiscal 2012 is currently tied with fiscal 2000 as the second-safest year on record, not third as previously reported.
"The fact that accidental deaths are down by double digits from one of our most historic years is remarkable," said Brig. Gen. Timothy J. Edens, director of Army Safety and commanding general, U.S. Army Combat Readiness/Safety Center. "Our leaders and Soldiers are putting in the hard work to keep one another safe."
The second quarter saw significant reductions in fatal on- and off-duty ground accidents. Deaths occurring in privately owned vehicles dropped 21 percent from the same quarter in fiscal 2012, and tactical ground fatalities declined by nearly half. Aviation was the only area to experience a substantial increase, with seven fatalities reported during the quarter as compared to zero the year prior.
Combined with data from the first quarter, fatal accidents thus far in 2013 are down 17 percent off duty and 19 percent on duty. In addition, civilian employee injury claims have fallen nearly 20 percent.
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"Historically speaking, these last two quarters are where we'll see our numbers rise," Edens said. "Some years, fatalities have doubled or tripled during the second half of the fiscal year."
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The county seat, San Luis Obispo, is home to California Polytechnic State University, which gives the city a modern, youthful vibe. Meanwhile, tradition continues at the Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, founded by Spanish friars in 1772.
Paso happily retains remnants of its 19th-century cowboy culture: A bastion of summer activity, the Fairgrounds features rodeos and country music stars, culminating with the 10-day-long California Mid-State Fair in late July.
The burgeoning wine culture around Paso is bringing gentrification, such as the fancy new restaurants that have sprung up around the Town Square. Fortunately, the two cultures—cowboy and wine—hitch up together just fine.


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Clearly there are differences in sound between various components, even cables. What disturbs me, is that over the last couple of decades, reasonably priced cable has all but disappeared from the market. If there's a justification for the ridiculous prices of cable, I haven't heard it. It's certainly not in the cost of the materials.
Audio McCarthyism
Do you now, or have you ever, heard differences between loudspeaker cables?
At the Audio Engineering Society Convention in New York in October 1991, a three-hour "workshop" was held called "New Cable Designs: Innovation or Consumer Fraud?" The workshop's format included presentations from six panelists, open auditioning of loudspeaker cables, a double-blind listening test, and audience discussion. The panel consisted of Stereophile's Corey Greenberg, listening-test "expert" David Clark, psychologist Jeff Corey, engineer Fred Davis, and Wilfredo Lopez from the New York Department of Consumer Affairs. The entire event was organized and run by Dan Dugan. Yes, this is the same Dan Dugan who attempted to discredit audio cables at the San Francisco chapter meeting of the AES by disregarding the results of his own blind test (footnote 2). It was obvious from the outset that the "workshop"'s purpose was not to discover if new cable designs were indeed "innovations or consumer fraud" but rather to present a public diatribe against audio cables. As we shall see later from Dugan's closing remarks, cables were merely a convenient subterfuge; the meeting's real and unstated purpose was to attack audiophiles and critical listeners in general.
I was intrigued by the presence of Mr. Lopez from the New York Department of Consumer Affairs; what contribution would he make to the debate? My ominous feelings were soon to be justified. Dugan offered that although "neither of these people [Lopez or psychologist Jeff Corey] are wire experts," they were included to provide a "fresh view" on what is a "social phenomenon" (footnote 3).
The meeting began with Dan Dugan attacking cable advertising by showing examples that had appeared in Stereophile. According to Dugan, the "philosophical position" that believes in differences between cables "leads to this," at which point he showed an ad for the Tice clock—a common, if not particularly ethical, technique of attempting to discredit one position by falsely associating it with an extreme or absurd position (footnote 4). Nevertheless, it achieved the desired end by raising a laugh from the audience.
Dugan then began the open listening portion of the "workshop," where a 10' pair of MIT loudspeaker cables was to be compared with 10' runs of 12/2, a generic 12-gauge, 2-conductor loudspeaker cable.
An examination of the listening conditions reveals much about the beliefs and prejudices of those conducting the test. The playback system which had been hastily thrown together late the previous evening—it included a Spectral CD player, preamp, and 80Wpc power amplifier, and Thiel CS3.5 loudspeakers—had been borrowed from Brooklyn retailer Innovative Audio under somewhat false pretenses (footnote 5). A ballroom in the Hilton, seating about 400 people, and far too large for the amplifier's and loudspeakers' loudness capabilities, was chosen for the listening tests. The loudspeakers were on top of 4'-high tables. Most of the audience was in front of one speaker or the other. Many were seated to the left of the left speaker or to the right of the right speaker. An ABX double-blind comparator box was connected to the power amplifier with 2' of generic 12/2 cable. The MIT cable and 12/2 were both connected to the loudspeakers, and switched in by the ABX box. The amplifier thus saw both cables' capacitance at all times.
In addition, the panelists' microphones were live during the initial auditioning; the sound from the loudspeakers was being picked up by these microphones, amplified, and reproduced by the room's PA system. The audience thus heard the direct sound from the Thiels accompanied by a delayed, colored version reproduced by the PA system.
Dugan suggested that there are "different philosophies of how these listening tests are done." Indeed. The difference in care and setup between this "listening test" and those conducted by responsible reviewers was thrown into sharp relief. Dugan should visit Santa Fe and learn how real listening tests are performed. No Stereophile contributor would even consider making any kind of evaluation under the circumstances of the New York test. It is ironic that the most vehement critics of subjectivists' listening methodology are the ones who themselves show such incompetence in devising their own listening tests. Listening conditions, however, are irrelevant if one seeks to demonstrate a position, rather than to acquire new knowledge. Since Dugan knew the outcome in advance—no audible differences—why expend effort on setup?
Footnote 1: From the Encyclopedia Britannica, 1990 edition, Vol.7, p.611.
Footnote 2: See "Industry Update," July 1991. A few words on Dugan's background are illustrative. He confesses to being a member of several "skeptics societies." These groups, according to Dugan, "...get together and talk about the follies of humanity. We talk about how people go wrong. We have meetings where people who have busted quacks and frauds speak, or we have the frauds and quacks themselves come and talk."
Footnote 3: All quotations are taken from the two cassettes available of the entire workshop. These can be ordered from Conference Copy, Inc., 2222 Avenue X, Brooklyn, NY 11235. Charge card orders are accepted at (718) 934-2890. Ask for tapes WS2.
Footnote 4: In a letter last summer, Dugan explained to me that Stereophile's accepting advertisements for the Tice clock "has led Stereophile...to the point of absurdity." I responded with two points: a) that freedom of speech applies to advertisers as well as to writers; and b) that whereas Audio, a magazine that also accepts advertising for the Tice clock, had performed no evaluation of it and expressed no opinion to its readers, Stereophile had indeed investigated the Tice claims for improved sound quality, the result being that Tice now advertises in Audio but not in Stereophile. Mr. Dugan didn't feel this to be germane.—JA
Footnote 5: A month before the convention, Dugan had asked Corey Greenberg to offer guidelines on choosing a playback system. Dugan wanted two systems, one to show how loudspeaker cables are used in a typical home system, the other to use for a formal listening test in a large room. Dugan proceeded to ignore Corey's recommendations for the blind test playback system and used the "domestic" system for the workshop. Having taken advantage of the good nature of Innovative Audio's Casey McKee in this manner, Dugan proceeded to hold him to ridicule at the workshop as an example of the high-end mindset.


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Need a tasty sauce for springtime ham or pork tenderloin? This ready-in-a-flash nutritious sauce is even great with beef, poultry and seafood. Cherries are one of the top superfoods, providing antioxidants called anthocyanins, which ensure heart health and ease arthritis pain, and quercetin, a natural antihistamine and anti-inflammatory compound. Cranberries also contain natural compounds beneficial to your heart, mouth, stomach, urinary tract and bones.
Makes 2½ cups (10 servings, about ¼ cup sauce per serving)
1 can (14.5-16 ounces) unsweetened tart cherries
½-1 cup light cranberry juice cocktail
2 tablespoons cornstarch
¼ cup brown sugar
¨÷ cup dried tart cherries
¨ø cup dried cranberries
1½ teaspoons Dijon mustard
1. Drain cherries and reserve juice.
2. Add cranberry juice to reserved cherry juice, making 1½ cups total.
3. In a small bowl, stir cornstarch into ¼ cup juice mixture.
4. Add cornstarch-juice mixture to small saucepan along with drained cherries, brown sugar and dried fruits.
5. Cook over medium heat, stirring frequently, until mixture thickens and comes to a boil. Remove from heat and stir in mustard.
Nutrition information (per serving)
Calories: 80
Protein: 0g
Carbohydrate: 20g (100%)
Fat: 0g
Saturated Fat: 0g
Cholesterol: 0mg
Sodium: 30mg
Calcium: 12mg
Iron: trace
Vitamin A: 1145 IU
Vitamin C: 7mg
Fiber: 1.5g
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Steve Jobs threatened to sue smartphone manufacturer Palm if the rival company did not agree to stop poaching Apple employees, according to documents made public by a US court.
The communication from the late Apple co-founder came to light in a civil lawsuit brought by five tech workers against Apple Inc, Google Inc, Intel Corp and others, which alleges an illegal conspiracy to eliminate competition for each other's employees and drive down wages.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs estimate that damages could run to hundreds of millions of dollars.
The defendant companies have attempted to keep a range of documents secret. US district judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, rejected parts of that request, which has now led to details of Jobs ' 2007 communications with then-Palm chief executive Edward Colligan being made public.
Jobs proposed eliminating competition between the two companies for talent, according to a sworn statement from Mr Colligan cited by the plaintiffs.
"Mr. Jobs also suggested that if Palm did not agree to such an arrangement, Palm could face lawsuits alleging infringement of Apple's many patents," Mr Colligan said in the statement.
Mr Colligan told Jobs that the plan was "likely [to be] illegal," and that Palm was not "intimidated" by the threat.
"If you choose the litigation route, we can respond with our own claims based on patent assets, but I don't think litigation is the answer," he said.
Ms Koh is due to rule whether the lawsuit can proceed as a class action, which would give the plaintiffs more leverage to extract a large settlement.
At a court hearing last week, Ms Koh cited emails between top executives as key evidence for plaintiffs, though the judge also said plaintiffs' economic analysis had "holes."
The court filings detail how Google developed its no-hire agreements.
Google's then-chief executive Eric Schmidt told his human resources director that he would prefer any agreement over recruitment to be made "verbally, since I don't want to create a paper trail over which we can be sued later".
In another internal exchange, Google's former staffing strategist Amnon Geshuri tells Mr Schmidt that a recruiter, having pursued an Apple employee, "will be terminated within the hour".
Google spokeswoman Niki Fenwick said Google has "always actively and aggressively recruited top talent."
Mr Schmidt is due to be questioned by plaintiff lawyers next month.
In 2010, Google, Apple, Adobe Systems Inc, Intel, Intuit Inc and Walt Disney Co's Pixar unit agreed to a settlement of a US Justice Department probe that bars them from agreeing to refrain from poaching each other's employees.
The Justice Department and California state antitrust regulators then sued eBay Inc in late 2012 over an alleged no-poaching deal with Intuit.


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After years of rumors, The Crow reboot is coming. The face of this resuscitated franchise is Luke Evans, a handsome Welsh actor who recently appeared in Fast & Furious 6 as well as The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. Set to play Eric Draven, a role originated by the late Brandon Lee in the 1994 original, Evans has been asked what audiences should expect from this resurrected reboot. One thing he promised was that Lee's beloved final film would be respected and unsullied.
Coming Soon tipped a video from Red Carpet News that has Evans assuring The Crow's fans that its inspiration is less the 1994 hit and more the original comic book series by James O'Barr. He explains:
"We just want to be as authentic and loyal to the original comic as possible, and that means the story will be different. It'll be different from what people are expecting. It's not about us ripping off the Brandon Lee movie, that stands alone as a brilliant piece of cult film and a great performance, but we're going back to the book, the original book. And that's exciting because we're bringing to the screen a lot of parts of the story that were never really told. So yeah, it's our chance to do it, to do it differently, but to be as loyal and respectful of the original storyline as we possibly can."
This reflects what O'Barr himself said of the in-development production last summer, when Relativity Media brought him on board to serve as The Crow's consultant. Ahead of a Comic Con panel with the reboot's helmer F. Javier Gutierrez, O'Barr said in a statement:
"It is important for Crow fans to understand that Relativity, Javier, Luke and the entire team are working on a new adaptation of the book itself. I believe that this movie will stand alongside Brandon and his film as a valid work of art, and I look forward to collaborating on the project."
In both of these responses, there is a clear respect being paid not only to Lee's movie, but also to the fans who have made it such a cultural phenomenon. It's well-deserved respect, considering their love of the character of The Crow made the first film a commercial hit and paved the way for a franchise that has boasted five features so far. But it's worth noting, part of the resistance to a reboot was due to how quickly the sequels devolved, culminating in the little-known Edward Furlong/Tara Reid vehicle The Crow: Wicked Prayer in 2005.
Thankfully, this reboot has a better base than Wicked Prayer. While Gutierrez is a bit of a wild card, having only the little-known Spanish feature Before the Fall to his credit, this Crow has O'Barr's blessing as well as a compelling leading man in Evans.
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The new year is a great time for a fresh start — and the perfect time to clean out your medicine cabinet.
The BC Pharmacy Association and the Comox Valley Regional District urge British Columbians to return their old medications to their local pharmacy to protect themselves, their families and the environment.
"We are encouraging everyone to make a new year's resolution to safely dispose of their expired or unused medications," said Ralph Lai, president of the BC Pharmacy Association. "British Columbians can return these medications to pharmacies across the province at no cost."
BC's Medications Return Program ensures safe and effective disposal of old or expired prescription drugs, as well as oral dosage over-the counter medications and natural health products. More information on the program can be found at www.medicationsreturn.ca.
"The CVRD encourages everyone to return expired or unused medications to their local pharmacy to help protect our environment," said Edwin Grieve, chair of the Comox Valley Regional District board of directors. "The BC Recycling Hotline can be contacted at 1-800-667-4321 or www.rcbc.bc.ca for the most up-to-date drop-off recycling information."
The British Columbia Pharmacy Association (BCPhA) is a not-for-profit, voluntary, professional association of pharmacists and pharmacies. It represents more than 2,700 pharmacists and almost 800 pharmacies throughout British Columbia.
The CVRD covers an area of 2,425 square kilometres and serves a population of 63,538 according to the 2011 federal census. Its borders extend from Cook Creek in the south to the Oyster River in the north, west to Strathcona Park, and east to take in Denman and Hornby islands.
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In U.S. Transition Towns, the Big Challenge is Bringing People Together
Michael Brownlee, co-founder of Transition Colorado, says U.S. Transition Towns are based on the original British model and attract the same kind of people. What's different about the United States—what Brownlee calls "ground zero for climate change"—is that there's more work to do here than anywhere else to achieve food independence, freedom from fossil fuels, and the network of relationships necessary in a Transition Town.
"There's much less a sense of community and connectivity here," Brownlee says. "It makes it much more difficult for people to think in terms of self-organizing as a community around these issues."
In other countries where the Transition Town movement is taking hold, such as Australia and the United Kingdom, residents more readily accept the challenges presented by peak oil and climate change and are more eager to take action.
"There is just a markedly greater degree of denial here in the U.S. with things like fossil fuel depletion and climate change and economic decline," Brownlee says.
That makes sense, Brownlee adds—after all, the United States has long been the world's largest consumer of energy and is more dependent on the fossil fuels that accelerate climate change.
Still, the 74 U.S.-based Transition initiatives—out of 321 worldwide—bring people of all backgrounds into their fold, says Tina Clarke, a Transition trainer who has helped start more than two dozen initiatives in the United States.
"We get conservatives who remember how it used to be when neighborhoods and community had a stronger sense of familiarity, community, and mutual support, and we get hippies who have always dreamed of a stronger sense of community," Clarke said. "We get all kinds of people interested in local foods and local economic resilience for themselves and their families."
For years, the environmental movement was considered a fringe effort in the United States, Clarke says. But when Transition initiatives emphasize the rising costs of oil and the need for community action, it resonates across the political spectrum.
"The model is a wonderful model for bringing people together because it starts with relationship-building," Clarke says. "It starts with including everyone in the conversation and inviting everyone to a huge party."
Brownlee started the first U.S. Transition Town in 2008 in Boulder, Colo. When he initiated the first Transition training in September of that year, what he found was not lifetime activists, but novices to the movement.
"For many of them this is the first time in their lives that they have felt called to get involved at a significant level," Brownlee says.
U.S. Transition Towns are still in their infancy, Brownlee says—they are mostly in the "awareness-raising" stage and have yet to devise comprehensive community plans. But what he does know is that the ideas of local food and reskilling are catching on and Transition Towns are making positive strides.
Skill Up and Party Down: The Gentle Descent From Oil Dependence
Transition Colorado's biggest success so far is its Great Reskilling program, in which 8,000 person-hours were dedicated to teaching others basic skills such as canning, home and clothing repair, and raising chickens—things that our grandparents or great-grandparents took for granted, but most of us today don't learn. The response has been so tremendous, Brownlee says, that other groups are teaching their own reskilling programs.
"So many other organizations and even schools are offering that kind of thing now that we don't have to do it," he says. "It's going on everywhere."
Businesses are catching on to serving local food, as well. Today, Boulder County has more than 80 restaurants that offer local food, compared to just seven in 2006.
"They're experiencing community at a level they've never experienced it before," he says. "It is one of the most encouraging things that we see happening anywhere in the world."
Lynsi Burton wrote this article for , the Fall 2010 issue of YES! Magazine. Lynsi is a newspaper reporter in Bremerton, Wash.
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Book Review: Joy Harjo's "Crazy Brave"
Recalling the vision of her birth, the acclaimed poet and performer Joy Harjo declares, "I was not brave." Born in Oklahoma of uprooted tribes and European wanderers, oil money and hard times, the fire spirit of her mother and water spirit of her father, she had to navigate the dualities of her life. At once self-assured and faltering, she deeply loved those whom she also feared.
But she was conscious of her gift. "I was entrusted with carrying voices, songs, and stories to grow and release into the world, to be of assistance and inspiration. These were my responsibility."
Harjo honors this responsibility in her new memoir, Crazy Brave, relating memories, dreams and visions along her journey to find her creative voice and fulfill her destiny. Understated yet forceful, her narrative starts with her childhood, reaches back to the struggles of her Mvskoke/Creek ancestors, and onward to the hope she at last gains through poetry.
Harjo recounts the shadowy realms of her history and the sparks that illuminated her journey. Her white stepfather's violent dominance of the family tormented Harjo through adolescence, but she found refuge in books, art, and theater at school, and in the rare peaceful moments she shared with her mother and young siblings. An Indian arts boarding school in Santa Fe allowed Harjo to explore her creativity and escape brutality at home. Surrounded by other artistic classmates from tribes across the nation, she bonded with peers over common hardships that were the enduring results of oppression.
While still a teenager, Harjo gave birth to her first child alone. Scraping by as a single mother and enduring abusive relationships, she strayed far from her gift. Even as she found liberation in the fight for peace and justice for her people, abandoning her voice left her disoriented. After years of living apart from her dreams, Harjo felt she was at the edge of death, caught between panic and love.
Finally finding the strength to pull away from fear and trust the visionary spirituality she calls "the knowing," Harjo walked through a doorway into a new phase of her life. It was the psychological and emotional breakthrough she needed to focus intently on her creative work.
Harjo's memoir is a gift that urges us to enlist our own crazy bravery to step through the doorways in our lives, following the knowing that exists within us all.


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Thought Control
- Speak with Desmond.
- Install the Cogwave Jammer on the Ferris Wheel.
- Return to the Mansion.
- Knife
- Baseball Bat
- Frag Grenade (x11)
- Lead Pipe
- Assault Rifle (x3)
- 10mm Pistol (x2)
- Energy Cells (M)
- 5.56mm Rounds (M)
- Sledgehammer
- Minigun
- Flamer
- 10mm Submachine Gun
- Silenced 10mm Pistol
- Missile (x5)
- Stealth Boy
- RadAway
- Stimpak (x5)
- Med-X (x2)
- Rad-X.
Part 1[edit]
This mission will begin as soon as the last one ends, while you're talking to the mysterious brain holograms. You'll learn more about just who and what this hologram is supposed to represent shortly. If you're done in this underground cavern, then it's time to go back topside. Use the nearby ladder to scurry back up to the surface. This will bring you to a location in front of the Ark & Dove Cathedral. From there, all you have to do to proceed onward is use your Pip-Boy map to instantaneously teleport to Calvert Mansion, a locale familiar to you by now. Head on inside when you arrive.
As soon as you get there, you'll be greeted by Desmond's two dogs, and will be able to speak with Desmond thereafter. As snooty and annoying as ever, Desmond knows who the man is behind the brain, a man with the name of none other than Calvert. Yes indeed -- you're in his family's mansion as we speak. The Calverts, as Desmond explains, were a powerful and influential family that ran the show in Maryland before the war, and had a considerable sway on national politics as well, with presence in both Houses of Congress, along with perennial gubernatorial and presidential candidates. Desmond's feud with this member of the Calvert family goes back centuries, and Desmond is finally ready to end it, once and for all.
Of course, Desmond is going to need your help to execute his plan, and as ungrateful as he is, he promises to make you rich if he helps you out. After you finish speaking with him, it's time to head back to Pilgrim's Landing, but not so fast! Before you go, you should stock up on all of the goods in the back-center room on the first floor of the mansion, where Desmond's security equipment is. There's a lot of stuff here, though whether or not you'll actually need most of it is a decision you have to make. On and around three different tables, you'll find lots of goods. Among the highlights are eleven Frag Grenades, three Assault Rifles, Energy Cells, 5.56mm Rounds, heavy weapons like a Minigun and a Flamer, five Missiles, and plenty of curative items, like RadAway, Stimpaks, Med-X and Rad-X.
Part 2[edit]
Now, all that's left to do is to fast travel, once back outside, to Pilgrim's Landing. It's from here that you can access a very specific location that Desmond told you about, a seemingly-disabled Ferris Wheel in the middle of the boardwalk. Once you're there, it's almost impossible to miss -- simply travel northward and westward from the teleport point to find it rather easily. However, when you approach it, you'll get a call from Desmond's rival, and he encourages you to instead take the device Desmond handed over to you and destroy it. This is the major decision of Point Lookout -- will you take Desmond's side and plant the device on the Ferris Wheel, or will you take Calvert's side and place the device in the nearby trash compactor, destroying it forever? Please keep in mind that we took the former choice, and that's what we write about in the walkthrough. However, it doesn't seem to affect much the overall arc of the story, since Calvert won't exactly prove to be your friend, even if you choose to help him out instead.
After placing the device on the Ferris Wheel and sending it skyward, scrambling Calvert's messages to the religious cult at the Cathedral, you will have made Calvert quite angry. The result is a thorough working-up you're going to get from some Tribals that suddenly appear on the scene. Break out your weapon-of-choice and corner yourself against the Ferris Wheel, letting the first group of three enemies come to you. Kill them all as they come up the ramp, and then proceed down towards the boardwalk, where you'll no doubt encounter more and more enemies. You can fight who you want, and ignore the rest (especially the pesky snipers on the roof).
With enemies all around you on the boardwalk, you're not going to be able to teleport back to Calvert Mansion instantaneously... at least, not immediately. In lieu of doing that, simply run eastward from Pilgrim's Landing towards the mansion, bashing your "rest" button until the game tells you that you can actually wait. This is the indication you need, since you can now fast travel as well. Fast travel back to the mansion, and watch it explode before your very eyes. When it does, this mission ends, and Point Lookout's final mandatory mission begins in its wake.
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Thai junta gives ex-PM green light to go abroad
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand's military government gave permission for former premier Yingluck Shinawatra to travel overseas for the first time since they overthrew her government in May, a spokesman said on Thursday.
Thai media speculated that Yingluck, accompanied by her son, will go to France to celebrate the birthday of her brother, Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a 2006 coup and fled overseas in 2008 to avoid a corruption conviction. Thaksin turns 65 on July 26.
The junta agreed to Yingluck's request to leave Thailand on a personal trip to Europe from July 20 to Aug. 10 since she "has not violated any orders of the NCPO or any agreements, being the ban from politics or the ban on overseas travels" and "has given good cooperation all along," said junta spokesman Col. Winthai Suvaree.
Yingluck, along with other former Cabinet ministers, were summoned and held briefly by the military after they took power on May 22. Upon their release, the detainees were asked to sign a form saying they will not go abroad without the junta's permission and that they will not engage in any kind of political action.
Yingluck, the country's first female leader, was ousted in May in a court case over her abuse of power, a few weeks before the military staged a coup.
She is currently facing charges of dereliction of duty in overseeing a contentious rice subsidy program.


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- Premier League
West Brom snub new QPR offer for Odemwingie
West Bromwich Albion have turned down an improved offer from Queens Park Rangers for wantaway striker Peter Odemwingie, who is still set to face disciplinary action from the club for his Twitter outburst at the weekend.
Odemwingie, 31, who had a transfer request rejected by the club last week, vented his frustration in a series of tweets on Saturday afternoon but has since apologised, admitting the reaction was "too much".
The Nigeria international backtracked on Sunday night by tweeting: "Looked through my tweets. Deleted some. Was too much. Only excuses - home alone, dark, son and wife in hospital, frustrated.''
Although the former Lokomotiv Moscow man has shown contrition, he may still face a fine of two weeks' wages, with the Baggies confirming that statements by players on the social network site form part of the club's disciplinary code of conduct.
Queens Park Rangers are keen to land the services of the striker and had a £2 million bid turned down at the start of the window for the player. However, they are expected to make another offer before it shuts on Thursday.
Despite having said earlier this month that no senior players are for sale, Odemwingie's recent outbursts may have made his position at the club untenable.
Albion have so far declined to make any public response to Odemwingie's comments.


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Made in Germany, Scheurich indoor pots offer the latest in plant and home design trends straight from Europe. With an array of colours available, ranging from the bold and vibrant to the subtle and earthy, there is a pot to compliment any existing decor or perhaps inspire a new look.
Planning & Projects
How to make a terrarium
Learn how to make a terrarium with this handy guide.
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Brighten up your place with an instant hedge
An artificial hedge or plant wall is not only an attractive feature in your garden, it can also add some much needed privacy. Bunnings Greenlife buyer Katie tells us how easy it is to add an instant hedge to your outdoor area.
Planting & Growing
10 fast growing plants for privacy
These 10 fast growing plants from Bunnings Warehouse will make you help decide which quick growing tree to plant around your fence line for privacy.
Planting & Growing
11 ground covers for your garden
Whether you're looking to cover a large area or simply fill some space between plants in a garden bed, there are many types of garden ground covers to consider. Some have a scent, some feature flowers and all vary in leaf colour, density and coverag...
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How to plant and care for succulents
Succulents come in a huge range of colours, shapes and sizes, will grow just about anywhere and don't need much looking after, making them a plant that's perfect for even the most novice gardener. If you're new to succulents, here are some tips from...
How to keep potted plants in great condition
Pots are a great way to add colour to your space, inside or out. Keep your potted plants healthy all year round by following our simple tips.
7 best pot plants for your garden and home
A few pot plants can add life to your garden and home. We'll take you through seven plants that love to live in pots, and give you a few tips to ensure that they thrive.
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A fence planter is an easy way to breathe new life into an old fence and make the most of the space in your backyard.


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Bumbeck came down from the hills in the Mighty Starlet to catch a showing of Cars today (which totally brought out the softy in us, and may well be our favorite Pixar film yet — disregard the haters and see it). He calls and says, "Hey, I just ran across this awesome bike show," which happened to be at Century Motorcycles (since 1936!), only a few blocks up from us on Pacific. We'd been meaning to check the shop out, and we're kicking ourselves for not going in sooner. Oh man...if your tastes run toward old bikes, we have to say, this show was a killer. Even the Harleys there were well-sorted, although most of the machines were either of British or Japanese origin. This might well be the best motorcycle show we've ever attended, because practically everything there was a runner, and those that weren't, well, they were all rad and weird in their own way. Click through for a grip of photos.
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Our competition calendar for January to August 2019 is now out - Competition Calendar 2019 Jan-August.pdf
Please speak to your coach if you have any questions about the right galas for you.
- 15/06/2019Kent Junior League success
Our team triumph at Kent Junior League Round 1
- 13/06/2019Competition calendar updated
Competition Calendar now out for 19/20 season
- 04/06/2019Summer timetable 2019
Our summer timetable has been published, and will take effect from 29 July.
- 06/05/2019Future Champs 2019 now open for entries
Our annual Future Champions Gala will be held on 23 June at Glassmill Leisure Centre
- 21/01/2019January newsletter
January newsletter is now out!
- 05/12/2018Christmas timetable
Our Christmas table is now out
- 22/10/2018Competition calendar updated
Events for the rest of the 2018/19 season are now out
- 27/09/2018September Newsletter
Our September newsletter is now out - a bumper read. Enjoy!
- 28/05/2018Summer timetable
Summer timetable 2018
- 07/05/2018Spring newsletter
Our spring newsletter is now out
- 28/02/2018Competition calendar updated
Events for the remainder of the 2017/18 season now available
- 14/01/2018January newsletter
Our new year newsletter is now online
- 14/01/2018New Head Coach for Saxon
Welcome to Gareth Keating, our new head coach
- 14/11/2017Arena League Round 2
Saxon swimmers battle through
- 12/11/2017Medals at London Winter Champs
Our swimmers claim two medals at the 2017 London regional winter championships
- 09/11/2017Masters success at the Nationals!
Lauren and Kat had a great weekend at the short course Nationals in Sheffield.
- 18/10/2017National Arena League Round One success
Saxon storm to second in Arena League home fixture
- 01/10/2017October newsletter
October newsletter now available in Club Information section. Enjoy!
- 27/06/2017Saxon Master gains British record
Record breaking success for our masters at the British championships
- 24/06/2017July 2017 Newsletter
July's newsletter is now on the Newsletter page. Find updates on Club achievements, news and details of our new kit.
- 24/06/2017Summer timetable 2017
Our summer timetable is now out, please check the timetable section for details or see the attachment below
- 04/06/20172017 Regionals report
Success for our swimmers at the London regionals
- 21/05/2017Competition programme
Our competition programme for 2017/18
- 29/03/2017April 2017 newsletter
April's club newsletter is here - see Club Information
- 29/03/2017New Kit now available
We have some great new kit
- 12/03/2017Kents success
Well done to all the Saxon Crown swimmers who swam at the Kent championships 2017
- 22/01/2017Kent Champs
Well done to the 27 swimmers who made Kent Champs 2017
- 12/12/2016New timetable from 3 January 2017
A slightly amended timetable will be in effect from 3 January 2017 until the rest of the season. See the timetable pages
- 12/12/2016Christmas and holiday timetable
Christmas and New Year timetable for 2016/2017 is now published
- 24/11/2016Saxon clinch finals spot in Arena League
The Saxon swimmers did themselves proud at the second round of the Arena League in Luton on 12 November, clinching third place on the night and a spot in the top-half finals round in December.
- 12/10/2016Arena League success
Saxon Crown comes in third in Division 1 meet at Watford
- 21/09/2016September Newsletter now out
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- 28/08/20162016/17 Timetable
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- 03/07/2016Summer timetable
Our summer timetable is now out and will run from 25 July to 5 September. Please see the attached form for details.
- 30/05/2016Masters Medal at Europeans
Saxon swimmers take a gold and silver at the European masters.
- 18/05/2016Annual General Meeting
Our Annual General Meeting will be held on Monday 13 June at 7pm at Glass Mill and all are welcome.
- 18/05/2016Joshua's report from British Para-Swimming
Joshua takes the sunshine to the British Para Swimming International Championships 2016
- 17/05/2016New Timetable from 2 May
We introduced a small number of changes to the coaching timetable from 2 May. The aim of the changes is to ensure we continue to fit our available pool time to the needs of our swimmers as best we can. These changes will be in place for the remainder of the season.
- 18/04/2016Success at the Kent County Championships
Saxon Crown Success at the Kent County Championships 2016
- 13/04/2016Future Champs Meet Sunday 26 June 2016
Saxon Crown Future Champs Meet Sunday 26 June 2016
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- 23/09/2017AGM minutes
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Events for 2016/17
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The U.S. Energy Boom Lifts Low-Income Workers Too
New York's fracking ban means more inequality, unlike North Dakota.
Mayors, governors and economic-development officials love natural-resource jobs—and today's North American energy revolution has been providing a lot of them. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of new jobs in the oil and gas industry (technically a part of mining) increased by roughly 270,000 between 2003 and 2012. This is an increase of about 92% compared with a 3% increase in all jobs during the same period.
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NASA rejects state bid for land; SpaceX may look elsewhere
SpaceX, the private space company built from the ground up by Internet millionaire Elon Musk, has a record of delivering on its promises, and Musk says he'll take his business to Texas if Florida doesn't set aside land for a new launch pad.
The state of Florida wants a little piece of Kennedy Space Center land north of the old shuttle launch pads to be a home for private launch companies such as SpaceX.
NASA rejected a bid by Florida for the land, so SpaceX might look elsewhere.
"Watching that will not make us happy," said Dale Ketcham, from the University of Central Florida's Space Research Institute.
Ketcham supports the effort to build a commercial space industry in Florida.
A state launch pad would be overseen by the Federal Aviation Administration, not NASA or the Air Force.
Ketcham says Texas would be willing to approve that.
This new state launch pad would be the home to SpaceX's planned super rocket, the Falcon Heavy, and could be home to other rocket companies as well.
SpaceX will continue to fly space station missions from the Cape, but its commercial launch business will go wherever it's cheapest.
SpaceX has proven it can make money, and create jobs, in the private launch business.


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32.9 miles exactly how far I will walk, and by walk I mean drive, just to be the mom to keep the magic of Christmas alive in this house.
I've been procrastinating buying my son the one and only gift he has asked for this year, the one that makes his eyes 15 year old completely-over-it-emo eyes go all -
because I don't even know why. There is no reason. I just haven't bought it because, and now it's sold out across like America and I didn't find that out until I tried to buy it online today, 17,204 months after he told me Santa bringing it to him would make his life.
Yes, Santa is still bringing him presents. The first rule of Christmas Club is we don't talk about Christmas Club. When you stop believing in Santa, he stops believing in you. Santa brings you what your heart wants the most and what his heart wants the most isn't available at a single online retailer until the Ides of March and oh my god, I don't even know what to DO.
So what I did was start pretending that I don't know how The Internet works and I called (like, with my phone and everything) (I KNOW) every (the) Best Buy in town, and they searched every Best Buy in the city, and then I did the same thing with Target, and then I did the same thing again with Gamestop and by the power of Greyskull, it WORKED. They found one for me at a Gamestop 32.9 miles from my house. Guess how long 32.9 miles from my house takes to drive? Oh, you know, an hour and a half.
The Far East Bay giveth, the Far East Bay taketh away.
I know it's probably not smart to be hyperfocused on one child's Christmas gift when there are five children waking up on December 25th under my roof this year, but in three years this one is off to college and he'll spend one of the two Christmases I get with him before then with his father, so this is the 2nd to last round for him and me and Santa.
This is not my beautiful wife.
I think I'd drive a lot further than 32.9 miles if it meant I got a few more years to torment him with Christmas pictures on Santa's lap, of baking cookies to leave out, of truths we dare not speak aloud lest we break the spell of childhood magic. We've never once, not beyond his very elementary years, talked about the existence of Santa Claus - we believe unitedly in the notion that someone out there delights in delighting us, and making sure he knows that that is worth all the tanks of gas on earth.


text: South Korean Jang Mi-ran, who won weightlifting gold at the Beijing Olympics, says that after struggling with her weight as a teenager, being an athlete has made her happy with her 275 lbs. "I used to think that my size was a flaw before I started weightlifting," said Jang. "But after I started weightlifting, that has become my strongest point. Now I'm very pleased to be dubbed the world's strongest woman." Jang broke two world records in Beijing and plans to compete again in 2012. [Reuters]


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Oh, do I hate piranha salad bars. I walk up and I never know which piranhas to choose. Are the red ones going to taste good with the little yellow ones? Can't some chef sort this out for me?
My hatred of the baffling variety of do-it-yourself food brings me to an interesting conversation we had today while we were questioning the economy of buying diesel-powered automobiles.
An extended conversation between duurtlang (he's Dutch) and Ash78 (he's American) on diesel turned to discussing how car companies provide variety to their dealers and to you, the customer. Specifically, they ended up explaining the differences between how Europeans and how Americans stock up buy their cars.
I'd love to see a world with more plug-n-play options, even at the dealer level. Let me pick a chassis and options, then select my drivetrain and have the two combined, picking it up at the dealership a week later, exactly how I want it.
Dealers could still keep standard inventory, but add this nice little level of customization for buyers who will gladly pay sticker for exactly what they want.
Can't you do that already? I know it isn't the custom, but American car sites frequently offer a configurator option. Is there no option to order what you configure? What you're describing in your post is exactly like it is on this side of the Atlantic. Small inventory at dealers (for test drives mostly), most people order their preferred configuration via a dealer. Hence the larger diversity of options per model.
Nope, and it's a big part of the reason why cars are so much cheaper here (limited selection). In a nutshell, your options are:
1. Very few buyers: Use a configurator to find the exact car you'd like. It will be very limited, so if you want "luxury package," you might be forced to accept a V6 and an automatic tranny, whether or not you really want them. Your custom car might be located 3,000 miles away, or it might not be built yet. Either way, you'll probably pay sticker price for the luxury of exactly what you want.
2. 90% of buyers: Find something that's 80% of what you want in existing inventory. Dealer gives you a better deal because you're buying from inventory. So you'll save 5% or 10% off sticker price and get something pretty close to what you want.
For any given car, a European model might have 50 possible configurations (including 5-6 powerplants). The same car in the US? Maybe 5-10 configurations across 2 engines.
We're high-volume, low price, low customization. I really wish it would change, but dealers hold a lot of the power in the supply chain and our customer base for many generations has grown accustomed to the "retail aspect" of car buying. They like to feel they're getting a deal.
Do you think America could ever switch over to the European model? Should America even want to? Did Ash78 really co-win another COTD?


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Having a lifelong interest in sports and athletics, Dr. Morgan pursued the advanced post graduate Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician designation through National College of Chiropractic, completing the 3 year Sports Diplomate programin 1993. Dr. Morgan has served on the Board of Directors of the Michigan Chiropractic Society was chairman of the MCS Sports Committee. In the early 1990s he served as event chiropractor for the Professional Bowlers Association, the Internation Jet Ski Association, inline skating events, rodeo and bicycling races in Michigan.
A former motorcycle racer and mechanic, Dr. Morgan followed his passion, and in 1994 began working with the American Motorcycle Association Grand National Flat Track racing series. In the ensuing years, Dr.Dale has served at over 120 national races around the country, ranging from Del Mar, California, to Daytona Beach, Florida. Frequently, Dr Morgan is the only physician at these events and is called on to evalulate and treat serious injuries from broken bones to concussions in addition to the usual racing assortment of sprains, strains and bruises.
Dr. Morgan also served as Team Chiropractor for the Detroit Vipers Hockey team of the International Hockey League from 1995 to 2002. In this capacity, Dr. Morgan worked directly with the team surgeons, doctors and trainers. Keeping a chiropractic adjusting table in the trainer's room at the Palace of Auburn Hills arena, Dr. Morgan was often called on to treat the players before, between periods and after games. A number of former players continue to see Dr. Dale for regular chiropractic care.
As a sports chiropractor, Dr. Dale tends to view all patients as athletes. At least in the context that they're seeking his care and counsel to either perform better or to regain something that they've lost. This might be someone who wants to perform at his or her optimum. To be able to run faster, jump higher or perhaps in the case of a motorcyclist, to be able ride harder and longer. Or, maybe that patient is just hoping to be able to bend over to tie their shoes without pain. Regardless of the case or condition, we always offer the patient all available options to return to their full potential as quickly as possible.
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text: RICHMOND, May 12:Search teams in Virginia on Sunday discovered the body of the third person who died when a hot air balloon struck a power line and plummeted to the ground in flames, police said. A search party of more than 100 police and rescue workers found the remains about 91 metres north of where the second body was discovered on Saturday, police said. "Now that the male pilot and two female passengers have all been located, this concludes the large-scale search efforts of the operation," Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said in a statement. The father of the pilot identified him as Daniel T. Kirk, 65, an Army veteran with over 30 years of balloon piloting experience. "He was an excellent pilot," Kirk's father, Donald said, adding that he had flown with his son at least 70 times. "He probably had at least 100 trips a year. That was his life." The University of Richmond on Saturday had named two of its women's basketball officials as among the three people aboard the balloon. Authorities said they would not identify the victims until the medical examiner's report. Crews were still looking for the wreckage of the balloon and basket, which became engulfed in flames, killing all three on board when it hit a power line during a hot air balloon festival Friday evening. Witnesses posted photos and video online showing a balloon in mid-air with its basket on fire and a trail of smoke spilling into the sky. Two explosions were heard and the gondola separated from the balloon and crashed into the woods, authorities said. Based on witness accounts, the pilot attempted to regain control of the balloon and manage the fire, and the two occupants were seen exiting the basket, police said. The University of Richmond in a statement said that associate head coach Ginny Doyle and director of basketball operations Natalie Lewiswere in the balloon. Doyle was a former basketball star at the University of Richmond who graduated in 1992, and Lewis was a championship swimmer at the school and graduated in 2011, the statement said. "Words cannot begin to express our sorrow," said Keith Gill, the school's athletic director. "We are all stunned by the tragic news." The crash occurred during a hot air balloon festival at Meadow Event Park. The Saturday and Sunday events were cancelled. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board were investigating the accident.


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Disentangling Spain's new medical prescription co-payment process
Now that Spain's new co-payment system for medications and prescription charges has come into effect we are beginning to see what the process looks like. There has been a lot of anxiety among residents of all nationalities about what the implications might be. This has not been helped by the trickle of information and regional differences in application.


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Malaysia is a melting pot of cultures and cuisines. If you are a little unsure of what to expect, read on for an easy guide to the local lingo, do's and don'ts and what food you just have to try!
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Tomorrow there will be a major announcement from RPAC and I'd like you to be primed and ready to assist. What is RPAC? "The genealogical community works together through The Records Preservation and Access Committee (RPAC), which today includes The National Genealogical Society (NGS), the Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) and the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) as voting members. The Association of Professional Genealogists (APG), the Board for Certification of Genealogists (BCG), the American Society of Genealogists (ASG), ProQuest and Ancestry.com serve as participating members. RPAC meets monthly, and more often if needed, to advise the genealogical and historical communities, as well as other interested parties, on ensuring proper access to vital records, on means to effect legislation, and on supporting strong records preservation policies and practices." Source: http://www.fgs.org/rpac/about-2/Please take the time to read her entire blog post.


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College sports have yet to ascend to a state of pure, hypocritically ironic -- or ironically hypocritical, take your pick -- energy. This is not for a lack of trying. Before a National Collegiate Athletic Association men's basketball tournament game last week in the nation's capital, association president Mark Emmert appeared on the Verizon Center Jumbotron. He was sitting next to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. He was booed. Loudly and enthusiastically. So loudly, in fact, that the gist of his videotaped message, a public service announcement, went mostly unheard.
If you see something, say something.
The members of the Rutgers University men's basketball team saw something: former coach Mike Rice throwing basketballs at their heads; shoving, kicking and grabbing them; screaming obscenities and homophobic slurs; and generally acting less like a public educator than a man auditioning for a starring role in a reality TV show centered around incorrigible toddlers. The players said nothing. Rice's assistant coaches -- another fine group of public educators -- said nothing, too. Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernetti saw video of Rice's conduct and said as little as possible. University president Robert Barchi reportedly knew the video existed but never asked to see it, the better to say, well, nothing. Former Rutgers director of player development Eric Murdock said something, giving the video to ESPN, but only after he was let go by the school -- a move, his lawyer alleges, that happened because Murdock said something about Rice's conduct to his superiors. As of Wednesday, according to a report on the Daily Beast, Rutgers athletes in other sports were specifically being instructed to say nothing, even though the video already had been made public and resulted in Rice's termination.
None of this should be surprising.
If you see something, say nothing. Keep your head down. Don't derail the gravy train. Protect the status quo. Above all, defer to power and cover your a--. These are the real, rubber-meets-the-road values of our college sports system, the same values shared by corrupt, exploitative and entrenched regimes everywhere, the values never mentioned in frothy NCAA mission statements and coach-penned, pablum-packed Win At The Games Of Business And Life self-help success manuals. A code of silence. A code of silence forever left unwritten and unspoken, because really, if you have to spell it out, you've already messed up. Omertà doesn't work like the Bill of Rights, big bright rules on a big piece of paper. It works silently, in the shadows, through fear and intimidation, bullying and retribution, threats implied and examples made. Why did Rice's players and assistant coaches keep their mouths shut? Why did Pernetti say so little? Why did Murdock wait so long to come forward?
Because college sports whistleblowers get blown up. Snitches get stitches.
Once upon a time, a college basketball coach did a very bad thing. His name was Dave Bliss. He worked at Baylor. One of his players, Patrick Dennehy, had been murdered in the summer of 2003; one of his other players, Carlton Dotson, was charged with the crime. Bliss had personally been making Dennehy's tuition payments, a violation of NCAA rules. He panicked. He told his assistant coaches and players to tell investigators and the press that Dennehy had been dealing drugs.
Abar Rouse was one of those assistants, just 27 years old, on the job for only a few months. He didn't want to lie. He thought Bliss was crazy, that he would come to his senses. He told Bliss as much; according to Rouse, Bliss responded by asking him if he wanted to be fired. Rouse surreptitiously audiotaped his subsequent meetings with Bliss, in part to protect himself, in part because he felt a duty to the truth and to the slain Dennehy's memory. When the tapes were made public, scandal engulfed the school. Bliss already had resigned. A Baylor graduate, Rouse thought he was doing the right thing by his alma mater. He was let go, asked to drop off his basketball office keys. On an ESPN broadcast, he was condemned by Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim, then-Oklahoma coach Kelvin Sampson -- Kelvin Sampson! -- and Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski.
"If one of my assistants would tape every one of my conversations with me not knowing it," Krzyzewski reportedly said, "there's no way he would be on my staff."
Over the next decade, Rouse worked the night shift at an airplane parts factory. He worked at a women's prison. He worked exactly one basketball job, an $8,000-a-year graduate assistant gig at Division II Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls. He reportedly had been blackballed. Meanwhile, Krzysewski co-authored a book called "Beyond Basketball: Coach K's Keywords for Success." He put his name on a Duke University Business School center for -- ahem -- leadership and ethics. He taped an American Express commercial in which he called himself "a leader who happens to coach basketball" and proclaimed that his players leave Duke armed not just with dribbles and jump shots, but also "armed for life."
Question is, what kind of life -- and what kind of arming -- are we talking about?
Too often, this is the pattern in college sports: speak uncomfortable truth to power and end up disappeared; stay quiet and be richly rewarded. In 2001, then-Penn State graduate assistant coach Mike McQueary saw convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky standing behind a prepubescent boy in a campus shower and heard "skin-on-skin smacking sound." He told his father, coach Joe Paterno and university administrators Tim Curley and Gary Schultz about the incident. He did not tell police. He spent the next 10 years getting promoted. In 2003, by contrast, ESPN.com's Tom Farrey profiled a group of college sports whistleblowers. Jan Kemp, who exposed academic fraud within the University of Georgia football program, was demoted and dismissed before ultimately being reinstated after winning a lawsuit against the school. Linda Bensel-Meyers, who did the same at the University of Tennessee, was stripped of her administrative duties and relocated to a basement office. At the University of Minnesota, tutor and athletic department secretary Jan Gangelhoff confessed that she was writing papers for men's basketball players; she lost friends, jobs and 68 pounds over a two-year span.
According to former University of Massachusetts guard Rigo Nunez, college basketball players from a number of schools planned to stage a sit-down during the opening round of the 1995 NCAA tournament, the better to protest what they felt was an economically exploitative amateur system. The demonstration never happened. The players got cold feet. They were afraid of being blackballed. I've reached out to a number of the players likely involved. Even now, none want to talk. It's hard to blame them. Most are still involved with high school and college basketball. They're still afraid of being blackballed. The college sports code of silence is powerful. It can arm you for life. When then-CNN/Sports Illustrated producer Robert Abbott reached out to former Indiana University guard Neil Reed to confirm eyewitness accounts that he had been choked during practice by then-coach Bob Knight, it took a year of late-night phone calls to convince Reed to go public with his story -- and Reed had left Indiana and was living in Australia at the time.
(Recall, too, that Indiana mostly dismissed CNNSI's original report, and only fired Knight after: a) the network aired a tape of the incident; b) Knight grabbed an antagonistic student on campus. Sound familiar?)
According to ESPN.com's Don Van Natta, Murdock is preparing for a life without basketball; friends have told him he will never coach again. Is that the sort of lesson we want college sports to teach? Former Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis had a famous saying: Sunshine is the best disinfectant. Therapists have a saying, too: You're only as sick as your secrets. The irony of college sports' self-protective speak-no-evil culture is that it ultimately protects nothing. The truth has a way of getting out, particularly in the digital age, and in hiding and dissembling and covering things up, troubled individuals and institutions are only setting themselves up for harder falls. Penn State went down. Knight went down. Georgia, Tennessee and Minnesota went down. Rice went down, and both his athletic director and school president may be next. Somebody always sees something; sooner or later, somebody says something, too. Maybe men-molding campus coaches and their bureaucratic superiors ought to teach that from the start, as opposed to slavish, get-along-to-go-along deference; perhaps they could even set an example that might doesn't make right and that some things are more important than tribal loyalty and hierarchical self-preservation.
Call me crazy, but I've always felt that college is supposed to be a place where students learn to question authority and think for themselves.
Then again, what do I know? I'm not a college sports administrator, and certainly not one who makes $1.6 million a year. Not like an administrator who once was the chancellor at the University of Connecticut, where he supervised a massive construction project that later devolved into scandal and more than $100 million in losses. An administrator who according to a subsequent investigation knew about the problems with the project, but failed to disclose them to the school's board of trustees or the state legislature.
The administrator in question? Mark Emmert. He saw something. He said nothing. He fits right in.


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Hi All,I was hoping you could point me in the right direction. I have been trying to setup a LMCE system and test by booting a generic PC over the network and test. My network is setup as follows:Firewall: 192.168.2.1MCE: 192.168.2.2Clients: 192.168.2.5 - 254LMCE is setup to run as a dhcp server with a scope of 192.168.2.5 to .254. It gives out the nameserver and gateway to be 192.168.2.1.When trying to boot from PXE, when trying to mount nfs, I get connection read:connection refused. When I added the MD, I added it in devices, put in the MAC address, updated, then "Setup Diskless MDs" and then did a quick reboot on the router. Any ideas?Thanks in advance.
Hi Andrew,Thanks for your reply. I will try booting the MD tonight and let LMCE autoconfigure it. What should be setup in the root server IP address? I'm guessing that is the LMCE?Thanks Paul
The MD will then sit there for 10 mins or so apparently not doing anything... some kind of progress indicator here would be reassuring. But once you have seen the process once you will understand whats happening... just be patient.
All working ok now, once I removed the MD and let LMCE set it all up automatically. Cheers all


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Finance and Development March 2004
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