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For the safety of all our residents, especially children and the elderly, reduce your speed and follow the posted speed limit.
In an effort to reduce speeds on some municipal roads, we have installed different measures to help change the way people drive and to slow them down. Throughout Clarington, you may find:
|What is the speed limit on my street?
|Under the Highway Traffic Act, the speed limit within a city, town or built-up area is 50 km/h, unless otherwise posted by the municipality. On roads that do not have speed limit signs, the speed limit is 50 km/h.
|How are different speed limits determined?
In determining the proper speed limit, a number of factors are considered, including the width of the road, traffic volumes, pedestrian activity, existing operating speeds, collision history, intersection spacing and the number of entranceways.
Speeds are established in the Highway Traffic Act and by local and Regional by-laws. An effective speed limit is reflective of both the existing operating speed and of driver expectations.
|Can the speed limit be lowered?
|Lowering the posted speed limit does not necessarily decrease the speed of vehicles, reduce collisions or improve safety. If the limit is unrealistically low, it creates a greater speed variance this is a factor in collisions as it tends to lead to more passing and unsafe manoeuvres. For example, some drivers may adhere to the speed limit while others drive at a speed they are comfortable with.
|What should I do about the vehicles that speed on my street?
Residents concerned with excessive speed or dangerous driver behaviour are encouraged to participate in the Road Watch program found on the Durham Regional Police Service website. The Road Watch program gives residents an opportunity to participate in identifying and reporting dangerous and aggressive driving.
Another tool is the radar message board. It displays the actual speed of the passing car and makes hte driver aware of his/her speed without the consequence of a fine. It also monitors and collects the speed data. To request a radar message board installation on your street, please contact Clarington's Traffic Coordinator.
Use our Traffic Information Map to see which streets have been monitored by a radar message board in the past few years.
For more information on speeding, see the Region of Durham's Road Safety page.
|What is traffic calming?
Traffic calming is a term most commonly associated with physical features placed on a roadway to influence the speed of vehicles.
Traffic calming measures such as speed humps can have a positive influence in reducing vehicle speeds. However, there are negative effects associated with traffic calming including increased noise, increased air pollution, and diversion of traffic to adjoining streets. One of the most important factors is the support of the residents living on the street where traffic calming measures are being proposed.
|Do traffic calming measures affect emergency response times?
Studies have shown that certain traffic calming measures, especially vertical measures such as speed humps and raised crosswalks, can slow fire trucks and other emergency vehicles by about eight to 10 seconds each.
Staff always inform residents requesting traffic calming measures of their impacts on emergency response times.
|Do speed humps affect snow plowing?
|Permanent speed humps and raised crosswalks are gradually sloped so that snow plow blades go over without damage to them or the pavement surface. However, drainage and storm sewer operation need to be considered at the very early stages of planning for a traffic calming device.
|Do traffic calming measures affect property values?
|There is no evidence to suggest that traffic calming measures either raise or lower residential property values.
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We offer camps for every child and every interest. Located throughout Clarington, our camps are age appropriate, affordable and most of all, fun.
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German Gulf Enterprises selects Oracle
Construction machinery importer to deploy Oracle E-Business suite to manage booming business
UAE-based importer German Gulf Enterprises (GGE) has chosen Oracle E-Business suite to manage its finances, purchasing, HR and asset management.
GGE imports concrete and other mortar pumps, as well as plaster machines into the UAE and has selected Oracle to help with "its rapid growth and aggressive expansion strategy".
"Given the current construction boom our industry is experiencing, there is now tremendous potential to rapidly grow the business across the Middle East region to take advantage of this period of high liquidity being experienced by the major GCC countries," said Richard Eller, CEO of German Gulf Enterprises.
"However, we need strict controls, greater transparency and rapid timely management information, which the Oracle E-Business Suite is set to help us achieve," he added.
GGE's management has also chosen its implementation partner for the project, Intelligent Corporate Solutions (ICS), which is based in the UAE.
"Increasingly, companies in the Middle East are realising that the software underpinning their business can have a major impact on their ability to grow and take advantage of the many opportunities that are now present in the region. Without timely, accurate management information, an organisation's ability to respond to market changes is diminished and its competitive advantage is eroded.
The decision made by German Gulf to implement Oracle E-Business will no doubt ensure they remain one of the most successful companies in their industry and add further value to their already solid competitive advantage," said Shumon Zaman, CEO of ICS.

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Business Tips
The Top BYOD Challenges and Benefits for SMBs
1 April 2014
by: Dana Salman
The bring-your-own-device (BYOD) movement and other mobility trends are rapidly spreading in the business scene. The widespread use of smartphones and tablets in the workplace is starting to have an impact on corporate operations, particularly for small businesses with more limited IT departments. The BYOD trend creates new organizational challenges making it more urgent for companies to figure out the best way to adjust their operations in response to this growing mobility trend.
The core problem created by BYOD is the corresponding consumerization of IT. With more professionals looking to their companies to provide consumer-like accessibility to multiple devices, small organizations face a serious risk of employees turning to insecure consumer apps and services to meet their business needs. This can lead to major security challenges in areas ranging from file sharing to business phone services.
Mobile devices changing work patterns
Many small business employees have long been attached to their desks and were highly dependent on office software and hardware to get the job done. The BYOD movement is changing this, as it is just as easy to access an application from home, the airport or a coffee shop as it is from the office. This functionality is especially valuable for small businesses because they can allow employees to work on personal mobile devices and save money on office-based technologies.
A recent Gartner study predicted that at least 10 major mobility-related technologies will start having a major impact on the world during the next few years. According to an eWeek report, business mobile device management solutions are among the key solutions set to gain prominence as mobility trends, like BYOD, grow across both large and small businesses.
Looking at the benefits of BYOD
A TechTarget report explained that businesses implementing BYOD stand to gain considerably by reducing hardware purchasing costs, alleviating employees from the burden of carrying multiple devices (a work and a personal phone) and improving productivity by enabling more flexible work operations.
These benefits of BYOD can deliver a significant return on investment, making the challenges associated with the technological strategy worth dealing with. Understanding BYOD challenges and the nuances of the mobility strategy is vital to maximizing the value of these BYOD gains.
Considering the challenges brought on by increased mobile device use
Small businesses must understand and overcome BYOD challenges to take full advantage of the technology. Three main challenges of BYOD include:
Security: Businesses face an entirely new set of security challenges when data is stored on personal devices and transported through public networks. Supporting large-scale mobility planning can be invaluable for small businesses that want to unlock advanced functionality at a low cost, but doing so depends heavily on enlisting data protection solutions or inherently secure technologies that enable safe mobile device use in the workplace.
Quality: Smartphones and tablets may have performance limitations depending on the data network being used, which can hinder employee productivity. Ensuring a high quality WiFi or mobile data connection can overcome potential quality problems.
Expense: Avoiding performance problems often means using advanced mobile networks (3G, 4G or LTE) as much as possible, even in locations where users are roaming. Many telecoms charge based on data used and will increase costs as users go over certain thresholds. This combined with fees for connecting to 3G, 4G or LTE networks from a variety of locations can generate significant, and sometimes unexpected, costs.
Using VoIP services to overcome mobility challenges
The right VoIP solution can go a long way toward easing the challenges associated with BYOD and help small businesses keep up with competitors embracing this trend.
A mobile-focused VoIP platform can help small businesses create the same functionality on mobile devices that users get when they are at their desk. Furthermore, service providers that emphasize this flexibility use fine-tuned software and network setups to keep costs down, ensure optimal performance and keep voice calls and data safe from security threats.


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Royal Mail reveals Bromley dog attacks have more than doubled in past year
PUBLISHED: 11:11 03 July 2017 | UPDATED: 11:18 03 July 2017
Nearly 2,500 attacks happened across the country last year
Dog owners are being warned to keep control of their dogs as the number of postal workers attacked in the past year more than doubled across the borough.
Royal Mail has revealed a 125 per cent increase in attacks, as figures rose from four across the BR postcodes between 2015 and 2016, to nine over 2016 and 2017.
The postal company has warned "every dog attack is one attack too many", adding; "even the most placid animal can be prone to attack if it feels its territory is being threatened."
With the summer holidays fast-approaching, Royal Mail has revealed the number of attacks goes up around the time of school holidays, despite more people being at home to control their dogs.
On average, 71 per cent of attacks on workers happen at the front door or front garden.
Global director of safety, health, wellbeing and sustainability at Royal Mail, Dr Shaun Davis, said: "There have been around 14,500 attacks on our postmen and women over the last five years, with over 2,400 this year alone.
"Some of these attacks have led to extremely serious and life changing injuries and this is unacceptable.
"While the number of dog attacks on postmen and women has fallen in the last year, the numbers are still far too high. Our postmen and women need to be able to deliver the service they provide to communities across the UK, without the risk of injury. This is why this campaign is so important. We need to keep raising awareness of this serious issue and ask all dog owners to keep their pets under control and be a responsible dog owner."
As part of the company's annual Dog Awareness Week, charity Dogs Trust has teamed up to help owners control their pups.
"Teaching dogs how to settle in a home environment and not be worried by the arrival of the postman is such an important day-to-day skill," said canine behaviour and research director Dr Rachel Casey.
"Teaching dogs to be relaxed when the post arrives makes a world of difference to yours and the postperson's day. It also takes relatively little time to teach, especially when introduced early in life. Where dogs are reactive it is important to put in place simple safety measures, such as keeping them away from the door when the post arrives."
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Re: How Secure is TextSecure
Our paper on TextSecure's cryptographic protocol has been published on eprint over the weekend and it appears that people actually read it, which is something I, as one of the authors, am quite happy about.
It also has been posted to the ModernCrypto messaging mailing list, among others, which is run by Trevor Perrin, who authored the initial axolotl protocol, (a variant of) which is used in TextSecure. Moxie Marlinspike has also commented on our findings on said mailinglist. I would love to reply to his remarks there, but my subscription request to the list is still waiting for approval, so I'll just post my remarks here. (EDIT: Turns out there is no approval necessary, it's just that my university's mail server delayed the confirmation message by a few hours.)
First of all I'd like to point out that to me the main takeaway from the paper is that TextSecure's protocol can actually be proven to fulfil its claims, albeit so far just in the Random Oracle Model and under the assumption that we have a better way to establish entity authenticity than TextSecure currently provides. For something that I use to keep my conversations private, this is a rather good result and, from my perspective, way stronger than just having to trust someone's experience in building and breaking crypto implementations, however significant that experience may be.
While developing the proof, we found that we need to require authenticity of the communicating entities (s. above). There, we stumbled upon the issue that communications partners do not need to show their knowledge of the private key that corresponds to the public key they present the fingerprint of. As Moxie has pointed out in his post to the ModernCrypto (MC)list, this situation is not uncommon and does not only affect TextSecure. However, at that point we also started looking into the question which issues can arise from this, and this is how we found an Unknown Key-Share attack exists. The scenario we used to illustrate the issue is that of a prank. The reason is bluntly that we did not want to discuss politics or general societal issues in a technical paper. I'm pretty sure, however, that I can imagine scenarios where someone is coerced to behave like Bart does in our example and the outcome is less funny than having Nelson ruin your birthday party.
For these—obviously rare—occasions we thought a fix would be appropriate. The easiest fix would be to include addresses into the tag of every message. In his post to the MC list Moxie claims that "We were actually the ones to suggest that to them" (them being us).
I believe that this is not correct. While I'm glad that both Moxie and we agree that this is a possible fix, I believe that we were the first to suggest to include addresses in the tag in this context. I just checked our email conversations with Moxie:
I contacted Moxie on the 8th of July 2014 after we thought we had understood the protocol correctly to verify that this was indeed the case. Beyond this rather essential question, we discussed explicitly signing prekeys, the purpose of the signalling key, and I asked about the length-reduced 8 byte MAC. Moxie's reply did not contain the suggestions to include any addresses or identifiers into the tag and we did not receive further emails from Moxie or anyone else on the TextSecure team. On the 25th of July 2014 I sent Moxie a preliminary version of the paper containing a description of the issues we had found so far and the mitigations we proposed. In the "Mitigation of UKS" section, this version already contained the following sentences: "Intuitively, if both, P_a's and P_e's identity, are protected by the tag then the attacks above do not longer work. As identities we propose to use the respective parties' phone numbers, as they represent a unique identifier within the system."
That is why I think it was our suggestion in the first place, prove me wrong and we will gladly attribute it otherwise. But that just as an aside.
However, this fix does not solve the underlying issue with not having properly established that both parties know all parts of the key they present as theirs. We thus propose two different authentication methods that actually require each party to show knowledge of the private key that corresponds to the public key it presents the fingerprint of. We need this property for the proof to hold.
Later in the thread on MC Brian Smith writes that "the TextSecure protocol might be close to something that can be formally proved, and that it is worth considering the role of formal proofs in the design and development of TextSecure", which rather straight to the point. Also, in my opinion, if something in the paper needs attacking, it is the proof. Seeing whether it holds is something every user of TextSecure will benefit from. Obviously, we think it does hold, which means that while we require a slightly different way for two parties to verifiy their respective keys, the remainder of the key exchange and messaging protocol is sound.
Nevertheless I'll address Moxie's other remarks below:
Regarding the way how HMAC is used in the key derivation: I just got back to Moxie on that. I also want to address this here, but I'd like to check back with the other authors first, so bear with me.
When pointing out what we considered an uncommon way of using HMAC, we were referring to the deriveSecrets method in crypto/kdf/HKDF.java, which creates an empty byte array salt, which is then used by the extract method as key to a new mac instance (mac.init(new SecretKeySpec(salt, "HmacSHA256"));). deriveSecrets is called in this way by the getMessageKeys method in crypto/ratchet/ChainKey.java when the initial session key for two parties is derived. While we expected the single unknown (and uniformly distributed) value that exists here—which is the result of the DH key agreement between the two parties—to be used as the key to the HMAC, intuitively, the outcome of doing this otherwise cannot be worse than the common practice of hashing a key to get an output of uniform length. In fact, Dodis et al. have shown that using an HMAC instead yields a better result. Krawczyk built on this and showed that the above HMAC, as utilized in the HKDF construction, which is also used in TextSecure, is suitable as computational extractor under various assumptions, among them the idealized modelling of compression functions as Random Oracle. We followed the same assumption in our proof, where we resort to the Random Oracle methodology.
Regarding the security of truncated SHA2–256:
Moxie further writes: "Since this is extremely common practice, is approved by NIST, and is approved in the HMAC RFC, I think we're in good shape."
In NIST's Special Publication 800–56A (Table 1), we find the recommendation for Minimum MacLen (for use in key confirmation) to be at least 80 bit. At least in the first message two parties exchange per session in TextSecure, one of the uses of the tag is indeed key confirmation.
Moxie then states that he'd "like to hear more about were your see an practical attack". We have at no point suggested that we have a practical attack on the shortened MAC. However the short length of 64 bit is something we consider noteworthy, also given the NIST recommendation of 80 bit cited above.


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Banskia Picnic Shelter 2 offers ample room for running around.
Please note this picnic shelter is classified as a Picnic Area Level 2 site within the Garden. Please refer to our frequently asked questions and terms & conditions for special restrictions that may apply to your booking.
This venue a Tier 2 site and therefore is an exclusive hire and BBQ and lawn area around the shelter.
As part of your hire for this shelter you can bring in:
You can bring any of these commercial activities for $120 per event:
Prices are for site hire only and do not include any security fees that may be incurred if functions fall outside of Garden opening hours.
Commercial activities that are brought in for functions require permission from the Garden. A commercial operator is considered anyone who makes money from their activity regardless of whether that operator is charging you for the service (ie friend or family member providing the service). This is a list of commonly used commercial activities for events. If you have other commercial activities you would like to bring in for your event, please speak with staff for approval.
This Garden has ample parking and paths for bike riding. Shelter 2 is the newer of the picnic shelter facilities.
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LiLo's dad facing jail
Michael Lohan could get prison time over leaked Lindsay tapes
LINDSAY LOHAN's dad MICHAEL could face prison for releasing taped phone conversations he had with the actress and her mother DINA .
Michael insists he's made the recordings public in a bid to get the Mean Girls star some help over her alleged addiction to prescription drugs.
In the secret recordings, Dina expresses her concerns over Lindsay, revealing the star self-mutilates and was allegedly in a relationship with Heath Ledger before he died.
Michael has now released another conversation to RadarOnline.com in which Dina can be heard raising concerns over Lindsay's alcohol consumption.
But the actions could come at a price - he is facing a possible stint behind bars after allegedly breaking a protective order banning him from contacting Dina.
She obtained the order in Nassau County, New York in 2005 - and her attorneys have already contacted the Nassau County District Attorney in connection with the tapes.


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Ron Paul asks, How expansive is FBI spying?
Jacob Hornberger on interventionism making Americans less safe, and the absurdity of the U.S. prosecution of Meng Wanzhou.
Jon Miltimore: "Jack Ryan" gets 4 Pinocchios on Venezuela.
Matt Agorist: New bill in Kentucky to allow cops to detain citizens, force them to explain who they are and what they're doing. (In "libertarian" Rand Paul's state. Will he protest this?)
Peter Schweizer: How five members of Joe Biden's family got rich through his connections.
Becky Akers on "recovering" what wasn't yours to begin with.
Kelley Vlahos on U.S. bureaucrats looking the other way as Saudi bureaucrats help Saudi criminals flee the U.S.
Zero Hedge with an article on a former CIA officer who suggests the U.S. government hacked Ukrainian plane transponder to provoke Iran shootdown. And Joe Quinn asks, Was Iranian missile operator tricked into shooting down the Ukrainian Airlines plane over Tehran?
Sheldon Richman on warmonger Sen. Tom Cotton accusing antiwar think tank of anti-Semitism.
Richard Ebeling: understanding the freedom we have lost.
Laurence Vance on why Christians should not pray for the troops.
J.D. Tuccille: Virginia Gov. Northam smears gun control opponents to frighten his base.
Michael Boldin has this introduction to Virginia 2nd Amendment "sanctuaries."
James Ostrowski says, The Second Amendment works.
Bill Sardi on the false prop of "Get your flu shot": "influenza-like illness."
Tyler O'Neil: Court refuses to kowtow to personal pronouns like "xemself" and faerself."
Jonathan Turley on Germany criminalizing flag-burning.
Gary Barnett: The real serial killers exposed.
Pat Buchanan on the articles of impeachment against Trump: a malicious indictment Mitch McConnell should throw out.
Doug Bandow: Note to Trump: Iraq is not a U.S. colony.
Jon Schwartz: Key architect of 2003 Iraq War now a key architect of Trump's Iran policy.
And John Stossel: Occupational licensing hurts the little guy.


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Giving women better access to finance could unlock $330 billion in annual global revenue. Yet 80% of women-owned businesses are not getting the credit they need. In response, CARE International has launched a campaign calling on the financial sector to develop products and services that are specifically designed to meet the needs of marginalised women.
Lack of access to finance remains one of the major barriers facing women entrepreneurs in marginalised communities across the world. 80 per cent of women-owned businesses with credit needs are either unserved or underserved – a US$1.7 trillion financing gap. CARE International is responding to this injustice by launching our 'Access Approved' campaign. We are calling on the financial sector to develop products and services that are specifically designed to meet the needs of marginalised women.
Women face all kinds of hidden barriers to accessing finance - just because they are women. Take Yeo Nakoni, a female vegetable farmer from the Ivory Coast: "I've worked this land now for 35 years, but the land doesn't belong to me. In our community women don't own land, it belongs to men." This systemic inequality is then compounded when women try to access finances to grow their businesses: "When we go to the bank to ask for a loan, we're denied because we have no collateral."
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Thanks to similar support from CARE, Yeo established a thriving savings group and through CARE's partnership with another microfinance provider, Yeo was able to take out a low-interest loan of around 2,500 USD to expand her enterprise. She is now confidently repaying her loan and she is extremely proud of what she has achieved:
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"In the month of March Emily and I were invited to the city of Chiclayo"
Shawn Bateman, Misionary to Argentina
March, 2018
In the month of March Emily and I were invited to the city of Chiclayo, Perú to speak in a Family Conference. The conference was very well-attended.
It was also the church's 42nd anniversary, and in the Sunday morning service they had an attendance of over 170. We had purchased several books on the family, raising children, and managing finances and had a drawing for a book each night. Emily taught a lesson in the young ladies' Sunday school class, and I had the opportunity to speak seven times.
The brethren there were so hospitable; each meal during our visit was provided by different families in the church. We had sweet fellowship with them and heard many wonderful testimonies of salvation, and how God is using the people there.
Preaching in Spanish, however, is not easy. It takes me longer to prepare the messages because I have to think of how to say things, and look over my message with someone to make sure it is grammatically correct. With that said, thank you so much for praying for us during our language-learning process. Don't stop; we have much to learn yet!
Thanks also for the Bibles! A few churches sent money to help us purchase Bibles. We bought several hundred of them, and are currently passing them out to people without Bibles that we meet while visiting and witnessing. We have also given Bibles to five different churches to give to their visitors. These churches and pastors sometimes lack resources because they are saving money to buy property, to buy seats and furnishings for the church, or they are trying to build a new church building. Each pastor was very appreciative of the Bibles we were able to give to them. Thanks for having a part in that! Each pastor was very appreciative of the Bibles we were able to give to them. Thanks for having a part in that!
Prayer Points:
- Pray for our upcoming trip to the cities of Santa Fe and Rosario in Argentina.
- We are considering moving to one of those cities and starting our own ministry there.
- Pray as we go out and witness that God will use us to bring many people to Him!
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Ward David Gillett on May 5, 2018 at 12:00 pm
Praise the LORD
Dear Brother,
I am so glad how the LORD Jesus Christ is opening up many opportunities for you. My prayer is , may the Lord place you in his city or town he has specifically for you, and may you be faithful to your call no matter what lies ahead. God bless you and your family.
Your Brother in Christ,
Bro. Ward D. Gillett
Tammy Wagoner on May 6, 2018 at 11:59 am
God bless y'all! Praying for you!
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In his latest Pro Pundits article, Lateriser12 – who has overall ranks of 77th and 189th to his name – shares his thoughts on the Fantasy landscape ahead of the run-in.
Games are coming thick and fast and there is no time to breathe in terms of processing information and building a strategy. This is when isolated thinking, acquiring information, eye-test and quick thinking comes into play.
My advice to every FPL manager out there would be don't indulge in too much tinkering. Instead, process as much information as you can and the answers will come to you easier. If I ever have a "this or that" question in my head, I normally tend to re-watch the highlights of the same game and look at some stats in the Members Area and the answer is there in front of me.
I am desperately trying to not overthink the coming eight Gameweeks, which does become a little difficult when you're just outside the top 500. But nothing needs to change in terms of my strategy and I just need to keep doing what I am doing and we will see where I land in Gameweek 38+.
I have been thinking long and hard on what to write.
I could take you guys through my Wildcard team but I'm still tinkering and most of my thoughts are on the Scoutcast I just did with Joe and Andy. Give it a listen.
I thought of giving you guys differentials to consider but Tom has a great track record doing those and we've covered a fair bit of them on the Scoutcast as well.
With eight Gameweeks to go, I'm just going to freestyle this article and talk about a few strategy-focused things that have been playing on my mind and that you might find useful. I did speak about a few of these on the Scoutcast but I think you might find it useful if I elaborate further.
1) What am I doing with Manchester City?
I am writing this article before the Manchester City v Burnley game but as it stands, I have no Manchester City player in my Wildcard draft. The reasoning is quite simple for me: I expect major rotation for them in the next two Gameweeks and I don't think the games will be easy.
They have the FA Cup (Pep mentioned that it was their most important game apart from the UEFA Champions League game against Real Madrid) just three days after the Chelsea game and I think it is near-impossible to predict who will get the majority share of minutes in these three games.
You could say that they will play their strongest team against Liverpool, which doesn't sound like a very attractive prospect. Holding Kevin De Bruyne (£10.6m) is a very reasonable move if you have value attached to him but I've sold him four times this season already and I'm looking elsewhere for the next Gameweek to hunt for hauls.
You should know that this is generally how I play FPL in general, though, as I'm very comfortable switching big hitters in the search of double-digit hauls from premium assets and I don't indulge in 'cover picks' as much as others.
The two players from Manchester City that I did consider on my wildcard are Ederson (£6.0m) and Phil Foden (£5.1m). Here's why.
Manchester City have great fixtures after these two Gameweeks, they looked the fittest and most solid team so far and I expect Ederson to keep a ton of clean sheets until Gameweek 38+.
When it comes to Foden, I expect him to get a lot of minutes and I think he's a really good option for your eighth attacker. What I would do with Foden is that if he is rested for a particular game, I would probably start him in my FPL team in the next game as we expect Pep to rotate and Foden's upside is very high.
In fact, this is exactly what I intend on doing with Manchester City assets. Since I am expecting them to be heavily rotated, I will try second-guessing Pep and get the Manchester City attacker for a particular run or even a single fixture (they have a lot of 'captainable' fixtures Gameweek 33+ onwards).
As things stand, I am looking to add one or two City attackers in my team from Gameweek 33+ onwards and I am being careful to not spread my funds too much with my Wildcard squad so as to afford them in two or three moves.
2) What are my thoughts on the Spurs attackers?
I have seen a lot of the community struggle with what to do when it comes to the Spurs assets. I would first like to bring your attention to this excellent piece written by Neale.
When I read this article, I had made up my mind that Son Heung-min (£9.7m) was going to be my go-to asset for the Spurs run-in.
My view of the Spurs attackers are that all the midfielders are correctly priced and you will get what you pay for. I personally would not consider Steven Bergwijn (£7.4m) as I think he is more prone to rotation than Son or Dele Alli (£8.3m). This quote from Jose Mourinho after the first game for Spurs led to this thinking:
We played with Bergwijn, Lamela, Kane and Son, and our bench was very strong in defensive options. We had Toby Alderweireld and Jan Vertonghen on the bench but we didn't have Lucas or Dele or Lamela or Bergwijn. Imagine Bergwijn on the bench and Lucas playing and coming out minute 60-65 and Bergwijn coming for the last period, I can imagine the impact that we could have. So a bit of frustration but at the same time really happy with the players.
This makes me think that Son and Alli are less prone to rotation compared to Bergwijn.
Another thing I'd like to mention is that Spurs are third on the defensive ticker when sorted until Gameweek 38+ and, as mentioned by Mourinho in the press conference on Monday, Serge Aurier's (£4.9m) competitors for that spot are injured which makes him a good pick in my books:
The only position where we don't have [competition] is right-back because we have only Serge [Aurier] and nobody else. The other options, Tanganga and Foyth, they are both out.
3) But what about value?
I just didn't think I could write an article at this point of time without addressing the value question.
Personally, I don't attach too much importance to value as I always like shifting big hitters.
But even for the more traditional managers, you have accumulated value until this point of the season so that you can use it.
I would not worry about value too much with just eight Gameweeks to go. If you find a higher upside pick that has the potential to bring home a double-digit haul and the only reason you are not selling that player is value, you are playing this game wrong. I assure you that you will be able to buy that player later and if it means paying £0.5m more, so be it.
4) Don't be afraid to chase hauls
I would also encourage all managers to use this unique situation that we are in to go haul-hunting.
All the transfers you make right now should be more focused towards chasing bigger hauls rather than making 'balance-friendly' moves that might not have a huge points impact.
We aren't going to get very many opportunities this season to get the likes of a differential Richarlison (£8.3m) against a leaky Norwich defence.
While earlier in the season, you might think that you are going to be stuck with a transfer for a long time, as the Gameweeks keep passing us, you are only going to hold players for a shorter and shorter time period. That should help you increase your risk appetite.
5) I am looking at structure and price points
While I'm on my Wildcard, I'm thinking about whether I want to go ahead with a 3-4-3 formation or a 3-5-2. I normally play a 3-4-3 but in this case I am considering switching to a 3-5-2 because I see more options in midfield than I do in the strike force.
I am also making sure all my money is spent on the pitch and not on the bench because I will want to bring in Manchester City assets in the near future and I want to keep those funds condensed into my attackers. That said, I do like fifth midfielders like Bukayo Saka (£4.7m) and Phil Foden (£5.1m) more than I like the budget strikers.
6) Short-term punts?
If you are interested in short-term gambles, there are a few I like depending on your team structure. I will mention four that I really like here:
- Matt Ritchie (£5.3m)
- Richarlison (£8.3m)
- Ismaila Sarr (£6.4m) and Abdoulaye Doucoure (£5.6m)
7) Why am I Wildcarding so early?
Many are not confident about Wildcarding so early into Project Restart because of the lack of enough information. While I see value in that point of view, I also think that we only have eight Gameweeks to play.
Being pro-active is the way I like playing the game and while you might argue that your team is 'good enough' for the week, my counter to you would be 'why not go for ideal instead of good enough?'.
Like I mentioned earlier, there are very few hauls left for the taking and I want to try being there for as many as possible. In addition, I don't see the eco-system changing too much between Gameweek 31+ and Gameweek 33+ (famous last words).
On that note, I will take your leave. I will leave you with my latest Wildcard tinker but I cannot assure you that it will be my final team (I still have to watch Manchester City v Burnley):
I hope you will find my slightly unstructured article useful. Good luck for the Gameweek!
Fantasy Football Scout user Lateriser12 has a very impressive Fantasy CV. He has registered two finishes in the top 200 (one of them equating to number one in India) and four in the top 10,000 in the last six seasons. The secret to his success has been playing non-conventionally and fearlessly, swearing by 'upside chasing' and not giving ownership much of a look.
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The National Green Tribunal directed the Central Ground Water Authority and the Uttar Pradesh government to seal all illegal industrial borewells in Ghaziabad district
New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal on Tuesday directed the Central Ground Water Authority (CGWA) and the Uttar Pradesh government to seal all illegal industrial borewells in Ghaziabad district.
A bench headed by NGT chairperson justice Swatanter Kumar asked the CGWA and the district magistrate of Ghaziabad to check illegal extraction of groundwater in compliance with an order passed in April 2015.
"We direct CGWA and DM of Ghaziabad to seal all illegal industrial borewells unless and until they are running with permission from competent authorities," the bench, also comprising justice Jawad Rahim, said. The green panel directed the CGWA to file a detailed compliance report on the issue within a week. The tribunal had earlier said that people who depend on borewells for drinking water and do not have alternative sources of supply, need to obtain permission from the CGWA.
The NGT had directed the sealing of borewells run by industries, private individuals, builders or water tanker operators in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad and Hapur districts. However, the green panel had later clarified that it did not intend to affect the lives of the local residents who depend on groundwater for survival and asked all domestic consumers to apply for permission.
The NGT had also directed CGWA to submit a detailed report on industries in Ghaziabad and Hapur districts after a plea alleged that incessant extraction of groundwater has resulted in depletion of the water table.
The NGT was hearing a plea by Ghaziabad resident Sushil Raghav and NGO Society for Protection of Environment and Biodiversity, seeking closure of all industrial units extracting groundwater illegally in notified areas of Ghaziabad and Hapur.
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Ibadan is the former leader of The Hidden.
Ibadan sent Lourdes to London in order to steal a map from a wealthy collector to a hidden Ashkiri temple.[1]
In 1985, while in the Hindu Kush mountains, near the Ashkiri temple, Ibadan surveyed the map with Darius. He asked the latter to take Arthur King with him on mission to find a stone marker to the temple, thinking him to be getting too close to Lourdes. While they were gone, he trained with Lourdes, acknowledging her fast learning. He asked her what she thought of Arthur, only for her to reply that she only had trust in Ibadan. She attempted to contact the two men but could not, causing Ibadan to reassure her to have faith in them.[2] She further went to look for them using binoculars. Ibadan was more confident, believing Darius to be strong-willed.[1] They soon returned, with Lourdes who had gone to find them. They told Ibadan of their discovery that the temple's marker was in fact the entire mountain, reassuring them that sealing the temple was the best course of action overall. Everyone but Arthur left, allowing Ibadan to explain their intentions for doing what they were doing, elaborating on the Ashkiri's beliefs. When asked who was funding their mission, Ibadan refused to reveal their identity.[3]
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Today your stay in Manuel Antonio comes to an end and you'll head on to your next destination on your family adventure. If this is your last stop then you'll head back to San Jose for your flight home, the drive is around 3 hours. If you would prefer to stay near the airport for your last night, just let your Travel Specialist know.
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WATCH: Hlaudi Motsoeneng for president? Let us first have a woman president - he says
Suspended SABC boss Hlaudi Motsoeneng said at a media briefing on Wednesday that he believed that if he ran for president he would win' but he isn't going to because he wants to see a woman get the job first.
The briefing was about the SABC's 90% local content mandate' an initiative that Motsoeneng introduced shortly before the Western Cape High Court found his appointment as SABC group executive of corporate affairs unlawful and irrational in 2016' as well as the security and vetting of staff' a controversial contract the SABC concluded with MultiChoice' and its new board members.
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