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Washington, DC- Fr. Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life,
issued the following statement in response to the signing of The Women's
Right to Know Act by Georgia governor Sonny Perdue.
"The passage of The Women's Right to Know Act by the government serves the
needs of women and enhances their dignity. It is surprising that so many who
claim to support the right to choose oppose the right of women to know what they
are choosing.
"Moreover, women do not have abortions because of freedom of choice, but
because they feel they have no freedom and no choice. More information will
increase their freedom to choose rightly."
For more information Priests for Life, please visit www.priestsforlife.org.


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – For the fourth consecutive year, Emmanuel College is again certified as an NAIA Champions of Character Five-Star Institution.
Emmanuel has received this recognition every year since the initiative began in 2009.
It recognizes institutions that reflect the program's five pillars: integrity, respect, responsibility, sportsmanship and servant leadership.
A quick scan of the Lion's website shows the excellence and balance EC's athletic program brings to the classroom, sports venues and communities they serve as while sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ through athletics.
Institutions are measured on a demonstrated commitment to Champions of Character and earned points in character training, conduct in competition, academic focus, character recognition and character promotion.

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Louisiana voters are used to making the hard decisions about public education that divide their lawmakers. With any luck, they'll have the chance to make those hard decisions again.
After all, it's the voters and families of the Pelican State who are waiting in line for the public school alternatives that lawmakers have made available but can't seem to fund adequately. Consider Louisiana's new Course Choice program, which allows students to shop around for courses—virtual and otherwise—not offered in their zoned school. State schools superintendent John White said earlier this week that there was a wait list of 1,000 students who wanted to take part, with 100 new applications arriving daily.
But White will have to scrounge for dollars if he wants to accommodate everybody. He had to find $2 million to pay for the 2,000 slots he set aside initially, and he figured he'd need to find another $1.5 million just to meet current demand.
Why the funding dilemma? The state Supreme Court declared in May that a constitutionally protected source of public funding is off limits to this decidedly different way of educating the public. The "minimum foundation" for public education in Louisiana—which this...
That charter schools struggle to find and finance adequate building space is a problem that has received well-deserved attention lately, but few reporters and analysts have documented the challenges charters face in entering the multi-trillion-dollar municipal bond market.
So a hat-tip goes to longtime charter and reform leader Nelson Smith for drawing attention to a worthwhile report from the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), which found a lack of consensus among underwriters and investors as to what drives credit strength in the charter sector.
As they expand, more charters are turning to municipal bond markets to finance their building projects. When schools issue bonds, an investor essentially loans them money in return for regular interest payments until the bond "matures," at which point the school repays the principal. School districts and other government entities issue bonds all the time, but many lenders continue to see charters as risky investments.
That perception has consequences for charters, which end up paying higher rates than schools districts, if they can find investors at all. And it's a perception that seems to be based on a faulty picture of what makes a charter school viable for the life of a...
The perseverance of a mother can bring the shortcomings of many school-choice programs into sharp focus.
Consider a woman named Mary Rehberg from Green Bay, Wisconsin, who knows there's not much chance she'll get a voucher for her son in Wisconsin's newly expanded choice program—but she's applying for one anyway. The state expanded the Milwaukee and Racine programs to serve all of the Badger State (population 5.5 million), but lawmakers capped the expansion at 500 vouchers.
"The numbers are hopelessly against us getting a voucher," Rehberg told a reporter last week after attending an information session about the program at a local Catholic school along with 100 other parents. "But by applying we can demonstrate to our state representatives how serious we are about this program."
History might even be on her side. The Alliance for School Choice has reported that legislatures in six states expanded their voucher and tax-credit scholarship initiatives last year after demand for those programs spiked and waiting lists swelled with thousands of names. But expansion was typically done incrementally. Waiting lists remain high in many cases, including at the nation's largest private-school-choice program, the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship.
For a state in which charter school performance has outpaced student gains at traditional public schools, Tennessee should have a better charter law. The dearth of authorizers and the lack of adequate funding for classrooms and building space led the National Alliance for Public Charters Schools to rank the Volunteer State thirty-third out of forty-three in its analysis of charter laws. Imagine what Tennessee charters could do without one hand tied behind their backs.
That's the assertion the Tennessee Charter School Incubator (TCSI) should put to lawmakers now that it has direct access to the legislature. This week, TCSI announced that it was merging with the Tennessee Charter School Association to create a first-of-its-kind organization that both lobbies for and establishes quality charter options. If there is a group that can convince Tennessee's more timid lawmakers to adopt the better policies they have avoided, it's TCSI.
The Incubator has been busy since 2009 developing "reform ecosystems" in Memphis and Nashville, bringing together charter schools, school districts, venture capitalists, and nonprofit groups that might not ordinarily consort with one another. In addition to recruiting effective charter leaders and providing support for schools, it has been successful in helping to...
The Louisiana voucher program is like a toddler learning to walk in a house set with booby traps. Now one year old, it has been bruised by court defeats, bullied by unions, and mocked for its meager academic accomplishments. Even comedian Bill Maher recently poked fun at the fact that just 40 percent of voucher-bearing students could report grade-level achievements.
With the exception of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship, no other school-voucher program has endured so many growing pains. But critics have bludgeoned the Louisiana program because they can. Few private-school-choice initiatives are as transparent as the Pelican State's; sunshine allows us to see how students are performing in Louisiana, whereas most other voucher and tax credit scholarship programs are opaque.
That kind of openness may, when performance suffers, give critics a lot of grist. But it could eventually yield benefits for students...
The charter school movement has inspired a lot of enthusiasm for multi-school networks and their ability to expand, but now it's time to talk more about how these networks are governed.
To be sure, it's less exciting to talk about the configuration and operation of governing boards than it is to talk about scaling up successful charter school models. But this much is true: It's no fun dissecting the breakdown in governance that has led to a charter school's closure.
That's the current reality in Clearwater, Florida. There, the Ben Gamla Charter School is closing its doors after one year of operation not because it performed poorly (most of its fifty students scored well on the state assessment) or because of financial problems (it was thousands of dollars in the black) but because it wrested too much control from its parent foundation....
Ohio governor John Kasich has a guest post over at Fordham's Ohio Gadfly Daily celebrating the state's newest school-choice initiative, the Income-Based Scholarship Program. And he has good reason to celebrate: This newest effort means that Ohio has more private-school-choice programs than any other state.
School choice has a long history in the Buckeye State, as the governor reminds us. The first program in Ohio (and the second oldest in the nation) was created in Cleveland in 1995 and last year benefitted 6,000 students. Additionally, the state's Educational Choice Scholarship Program, the Autism Scholarship Program, and the Jon Peterson Special Needs Scholarship Program collectively helped nearly 20,000 K–12 children last year attend a private school of their choice.
Those may not seem like big student numbers, but with every program that's added and with every student enrolled, Ohio is laying the bricks to build a mansion of publicly funded alternatives to a traditional education. The newest program will start in the fall for Kindergartners who come from households whose incomes fall below 200 percent of the poverty level, and it will grow by one grade level every year.
"Not every student's education needs can be met in the...
In the past year, charter school naysayers have successfully convinced some media outlets to question the actual demand for charters. Take the now-politicized issue of waiting lists. Reporters in Chicago and Boston, for instance, have recently conducted "reviews" of the lists compiled by charter associations or state education departments to determine that some students appear on more than one list. This led to one headline in the Boston Globe that read, "Charter school demand in Mass. disputed."
Of course these students may appear on multiple waiting lists. Anticipating this skepticism, however, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools this year estimated the number of individual students on waiting lists for the 2012–13 academic year. Its newest survey showed that the names of at least 520,000 kids appeared in nearly one million waiting-list entries across the country.
To put that number in context, consider that 520,000 is nearly double the number of new charter students (276,000) who actually enrolled this year, bringing the total charter sector to 2.3 million pupils.
What else should we expect? There's been a yawning gap between charter supply and demand a long time coming. In the past five...
Charter opponents have, with some exception, been quiet over today's release of the newest CREDO study on charter-school performance. The study determined that, in the aggregate, charter school students gained more than a week's worth of learning each year in reading on their peers in traditional public schools and performed about the same as their traditional public school peers in math (the now-famous 2009 study showed a loss of learning among charter students in both subjects).
The real test, however, will apply to charter school proponents, at least those who call themselves such. For while the overall news is good for charters, it's clear that some states are not moving fast enough to adopt the lessons this sector of public education has learned about quality control during the past several years.
States such as Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New York, and Washington, D.C., all showed outsize academic gains in charter schools while states including Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Texas performed weakly. It's not for nothing that most of the states with bigger gains have been less tolerant of bad schools and have passed laws giving charter authorizers more tools to shut down the worst performers; gains from...
It turns out a decision from Ball State University to cut ties with seven badly performing charter schools in Indiana was no death sentence. Four of these seven have been reprieved: Two found new sponsors and two others were born again as campuses of a private Christian school.
All but one of these four previously received F grades on the state's latest school report card (the fourth received a D), and performance had been getting worse, not better. For eighteen months, Ball State held repeated meetings with these schools but found little hope of a turnaround. In January, the university declined to renew their contracts.
When these schools began to shop around for new sponsors, National Association of Charter School Authorizers president Greg Richmond said they were engaged in a race to the bottom, scouring for patrons with lower standards to stay alive. Two of the schools ultimately found new authorizers in small private colleges that had virtually no experience in authorizing charter schools. Two others operated by Imagine Schools opted to reopen as campuses of the fledgling Horizon Christian Academy and encouraged their families to apply to Indiana's voucher program.


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Do you know of some helpful internet sites for medical information or support? Post them here. Please limit the general chat on this thread, so people can easily find helpful info without having to wade through a whole bunch of posts.
Rest Ministries is a Christian site that supports those with chronic illness. They have encouraging articles, helpful info, books and products, and a quarterly magazine (I had an article published in it last issue).
But You Don't Look Sick is a website with a wealth of info. They have a lot of articles, products, and support info, and they have a message board I frequent. The boards are a great place to get advice and support from people who know exactly what you are going through.
The founer of BYDLS, Carolyn, also volunteers her time to help people apply for disability, and those she helps have something like an 89% acceptance rate within four months of the first application (as opposed to the national rate that's more like 60% acceptance within a year or two). There's a whole section on the boards dedicated to SSI/SSDI.
On my own website Sparrow's Flight: Fibro I have a page that lists the symptoms of Fibromyalgia and specifically how they affect everyday life. At the bottom of the page I also have a list of suggestions on how people can reach out and help and encourage anyone in their life who is chronically sick or disabled.


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Arnold, who coached and won on every level during a 40-year career, is remembered as having one of the brightest minds in the coaching profession.
DELAND — Murray Arnold began his career as a head basketball coach at DeLand High in 1960. He ended it 40 years later at Stetson.
In between, Arnold coached high school, college and pro teams on three continents. He won 244 games as an NCAA Division I head coach. He coached Michael Jordan as an assistant with the Chicago Bulls in 1985-86. And he is fondly remembered in the coaching profession as having one of the brightest basketball minds in the game.
Arnold, 74, died Tuesday evening at Good Samaritan Florida Lutheran in DeLand.
Arnold coached DeLand High in 1960-66, winning the school's only boys basketball state championship in 1963. He returned to DeLand in 1997 when he was hired as Stetson's head coach.
Arnold compiled a 42-47 record in three-plus seasons with the Hatters, retiring because of health reasons eight games into the 2000-01 season amid an NCAA inquiry. The program was later put on two years probation for various NCAA violations under his watch.
"He was not in real good health all along,'' said Stetson's all-time winningest coach, Glenn Wilkes, who met Arnold when he coached at DeLand in the '60s.
"He was a very, very outstanding coach. One of the best I've ever known,'' Wilkes said. "He really had a lot of respect among coaches around the country. I can't think of anyone else who loved basketball as much as him.
"I went down to see him in hospice care Monday afternoon and he was very weak, but when I started telling him the scores, I can't tell you how much his face lit up.''
Arnold was born March 4, 1938, in University Park, Md. He attended American University in Washington, D.C., and started coaching the JV team at DeMatha Catholic High in Hyattsville, Md., under legendary coach Morgan Wooten when he was still a student in 1957.
After graduation, Arnold was hired at DeLand, where he compiled a record of 98-50 in six seasons, winning the state title in his third year.
George Raveling, the former head coach at Washington State, Iowa and Southern California, said Arnold had one of the "most unique'' basketball minds in the country.
"He always saw the game through a different lens than the everyday basketball coach,'' said Raveling, who is now the director of international basketball at Nike. "I think his contributions to the game have been insurmountable.
"The game lost a great mentor, teacher, leader, coach and innovator in Murray Arnold.''
Raveling said when he wrote a book on rebounding, Arnold came up with the title, "War on the Boards.''
I've known Murray for 40 years,'' Raveling said. "We mentored each other.''
Arnold also stayed close through the years with former Florida State and Georgia coach Hugh Durham, who was the first college coach to give Arnold a job. Arnold coached FSU's freshman team as a graduate assistant in 1969. Three years later that group went to the Final Four.
"We offered Murray a full-time job (in 1970). But he took the Birmingham Southern head job instead,'' Durham said. "Looking back on it, it was probably a great decision for him, but not for us.''
"I thought he was one of the really outstanding basketball coaches,'' Durham added. "He won everywhere. He won championships in high school, junior college and pros. But having said that, he was a quality, quality individual.''
Arnold led Birmingham Southern to three NAIA national tournament appearances in eight seasons (1970-78). He also won four Southern Conference titles in six seasons at Tennessee-Chattanooga (1979-85) and won a Sun Belt Conference championship during a four-year stint at Western Kentucky (1986-90).
Arnold also led Okaloosa-Walton Community College (now Northwest Florida State College) to the national championship in 1995 and coached Perth to the Australian National Basketball League championship in 1992.
"You could go through all that he accomplished,'' Durham said. "But he used to say, 'The one thing that's unique about me is I don't think anybody else has ever been fired on three continents.' ''
Arnold retired from coaching after he stepped down at Stetson, but basketball continued to be a daily part of his life until the day he died, Wilkes said.
"He watched games at (Daytona State), Rollins, UCF — all over, and I went with him to a lot of them,'' Wilkes said. "But I couldn't keep up with him. He watched a lot of teams practice. He went to Florida's practices, UCF's practices. It was like he was preparing for his next coaching career.''


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By Greg Stobart
Liverpool are set to ramp up their efforts to sign Inter star Wesley Sneijder as the Dutch playmaker continues to stall on a transfer to Galatasaray, Goal.com understands.
The midfielder has been holding out for a transfer to the Premier League and Liverpool are now trying to put together a financial package after stepping up their pursuit of the 28-year-old.
Inter agreed a €10 million [£8.3m] fee with Galatasaray a week previously but Sneijder has delayed a decision on signing for the Turkish club as he waits for offers from English sides.
"A number of meetings are scheduled in the next 24 hours but there is serious interest from Liverpool and Wesley would like to see if they follow that through," a source close to the deal told Goal.com. "This is a big decision at this moment in his career from a football and personal perspective."
Arsenal, Tottenham, Manchester United, Manchester City and Chelsea have all been sounded out over moves for Sneijder during the winter window by third parties but rejected a deal due to the player's £200,000-a-week wages.
The Nerazzurri star currently earns £9m a year at the San Siro and is considering a £1.6m annual pay cut to join Galatasaray as Inter try and force their unsettled midfielder out of the club.
|Liverpool are 11/4 with William Hill to be the Premier League's highest scoring team over January 19-21
"All players on the move in this transfer window must decide what to do and where to go by the end of January. I'll do the same," Sneijder told Gazzetta dello Sport.
"I am in no hurry and I don't want to rush this decision. After what has happened in the last few months, in the context of having made football history with my team-mates, well, I don't want to feel pressured," he added.
"After what I did, I don't want to feel this way - practically obliged to make such an important step in my life in a short space of time. It's not a money matter."
Sneijder played a vital role in guiding Inter to an historic treble in 2010 under Jose Mourinho but has fallen out of favour under current coach Andrea Stramaccioni, making just five Serie A appearances this season before being frozen out of the squad.
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I don't think we've commented on the deal Israel reached with Hizbollah over the weekend. It sounds like a huge victory for Hizbollah, one that Israel will have cause to regret conferring. As Caroline Glick describes it:
In exchange for the bodies of two dead soldiers – Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser – Israel. . .will release six murderers from prison and send them to Lebanon for a hero's welcome. It will give Hizbullah the bodies of 200 terrorists. . . .Israel has agreed to provide Hizbullah with information on four missing Iranian "diplomats." And it has agreed to release an unknown number of Palestinian terrorists from prison.
The meaning of this deal is not lost on Hamas. Its leader, Mahmoud Zahar, has said that Israel's decision to free the Lebanese prisoners in the context of a prisoner exchange with Hizbullah will pave the way for the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners "with blood on their hands." Nor was Hamas alone. According to the Jerusalem Post, other Palestinian armed factions in the Gaza Strip also expressed hope that the deal with Hizbollah signals a change in Israel's policy of not releasing prisoners who were involved in killings. But Hamas' Zahar put most clearly when he explained:
Something important has happened, and there's no ignoring the fact that [the cabinet decision] is a major development. Israel has agreed to release prisoners who it says have blood on their hands. We must therefore seize the opportunity and seek the release of our prisoners. There should be no difference between the case of Schalit [the Hamas terrorist Israel is holding] and the case of Kuntar [an about-to-be-released Hizbollah terrorist]"
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In 1928, the Republican Party promised a chicken in every pot.
Today, the National Rifle Association wants a cop in every school.
The NRA's hunger for more weaponry to stave off the evils wrought by weaponry calls to mind the wickedly funny film, "Thank You for Smoking," based on the novel by Christopher Buckley. In the film, Aaron Eckhart plays a slick tobacco lobbyist who meets regularly for drinks with his counterparts in the alcohol and firearms lobbies. They call themselves the MOD Squad, which stands for Merchants of Death. They dispute which industry kills the most people and thus, which of them has the toughest job, while devising strategies to dupe Americans into thinking that the products they hawk are safe.
To that end, these disingenuous lobbyists are adept at stringing together illogical and irrelevant points while announcing million-dollar campaigns that rarely exist.
"Michael Jordan plays ball," explains Eckhart's character, who, in one hilarious scene, tried to blame Vermont cheddar cheese for causing more deaths than smoking. "Charles Manson kills people. I talk. Everyone has a talent."
And, as his character argues, everyone has to pay the mortgage. Maybe that's why NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre held a press conference Friday and blamed everything except guns for the massacre in Newtown — Hollywood, video games, the media, the courts, the lack of armed, Arnold Schwarzenegger-like terminators in our elementary schools. Heck, why not blame it on the cheese?
This guy must have one monster mortgage.
"I call on Congress today to act immediately to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every single school in this nation," he said, while announcing that the NRA will spearhead a program to develop a model security plan for schools that will consist of well-armed volunteers.
Hey, what could possibly go wrong with that?
And after a week of silent reflection, the NRA's top lobbyist also said this: "There'll be time for talk and debate later. This is the time, this is the day for decisive action." In other words — shoot first, ask questions later.
Listening to LaPierre, I could envision him sharing a cocktail after his press conference with another ethically-challenged lobbyist — say, someone from NAMBLA, for example — and wondering whether we were gullible enough to buy his bull crap.
We weren't, partly because we recall that an armed officer was on duty at Columbine. And we remember that Jared Loughner was stopped in Tucson by unarmed citizens.
But the NRA isn't the only arm of the right wing to go off the rails after Newtown. The NRO, otherwise known as the National Review Online, is one of the most influential Republican voices in the nation. Last week, it ran a column by Charlotte Allen, who channeled her inner Victorian maiden in blaming the killings at Sandy Hook on the "feminized setting" at the school, and the deadly dearth of rippled, testosterone-fueled men.
"Women and small children are sitting ducks for mass murderers," she wrote, calling "male aggression" a handy tool during mass shootings. "Think of what Sandy Hook might have been like if a couple of male teachers who had played high school football, or even some of the huskier 12-year-old boys, had converged on Lanza."
Sigh. Well, Miss Charlotte, they probably would have been killed. I hate to burst her brainless bubble, but in the real world, even big strong men aren't faster than a speeding bullet. In Tucson, a male aide to Gabby Giffords stepped toward Loughner and was shot in the head along with other men, but I can't recall whether they played high school ball.
Allen is firmly in the running with LaPierre for most senseless response to Newtown, although she may actually believe her rant. But in the same speech in which he blames the media for sensationalizing mass shootings, LaPierre shows his true calculating and manipulative colors.
"The truth is that our society is populated by an unknown number of genuine monsters — people so deranged, so evil, so possessed by voices and driven by demons that no sane person can possibly ever comprehend them," he said. "They walk among us every day. And does anybody really believe that the next Adam Lanza isn't planning his attack on a school he's already identified at this very moment?"
It's scary out there, all right. That's because in Wayne's World, America reverts to the Wild West. But everybody has a talent, and the NRA's mouthpiece is adept at showing that life imitates art, but that right-wing hypocrisy is no laughing matter.


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5 Ways to Display a Pez Collection
Who doesn't love Pez? What other candy can claim such a cool dispenser? Some people probably love it a little too much, but as long as they've got a cool way to display Pez dispensers in their home, why not share the love…and the good decorating ideas?
- George and Sara keep their Pez dispensers lined up neatly on a bookshelf.
- David Delfin & Gorka Postigo take a minimalist approach, lining up their Pez along a ledge. We think Donald Judd would approve.
- In Amy's apartment, Pez dispensers cover the walls like kitschy, colorful 3-D wallpaper.
- Sarah Rae keeps things tidy by using an apothecary jar to stow her Pez. A glass lamp would also work.
- Lanni uses floating shelves to display her Pez collection against a bright orange backdrop.
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Mexico: methane gas build-up, spark caused blast
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Gas could have built up for decades before an explosion caused three floors of the headquarters of the national oil company to collapse, killing 37 people, Mexican federal prosecutors said Friday.
Methane gas combined with traces of hydrocarbons beneath the building triggered the explosion, the Attorney General's Office said in a statement.
Vapors from solvents used for cleaning also contributed to the blast, it said.
The office said that methane gas accumulated from fuel kept in the building by a gas company that in the 1930s used the same lot where the Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, headquarters are now located. It said the gas beneath the surface could also have come from a fuel warehouse that was once there.
Methane is the main component of most natural gas used for cooking and heating.
The statement said the Jan. 31 explosion was ignited by either a mechanical or electrical spark. Investigators found an extension cord, a lamp and a plug that could have ignited the blast, it said.
The explosion earlier this year was the petroleum giant's worst disaster in a decade.
Mexico's government relies on oil revenues for about a third of its budget.
President Enrique Pena Nieto has said he will present a bill to Congress next week to allow for more private investment for the company to be more competitive.


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Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers, Spirit Family Reunion and Michael Kiwanuka have joined the lineup for the Newport Folk Festival. They join a lineup that already includes: The Lumineers, Andrew Bird, The Last Bison, Houndmouth, Shovels & Rope and The Lone Bellow.
Newport Folk will return to Newport, RI's Fort Adams State Park from July 26-28. The festival plans to announce additional acts on its Facebook page.


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Policies Governing Student Life
As you enter UW-Platteville whether as a new freshman, transfer or returning student you will find that the university is a vibrant, diverse, active community. The quality of life in our community is directly related to the actions and behaviors of its members. As community members, we each have certain rights and responsibilities. This publication provides information about, as well as policies and procedures that govern, these rights and responsibilities. It is important to realize that it is the responsibility of each member of the community to understand and adhere to these standards.
One of the responsibilities of the community is provide you with information regarding your safety and security. Within this document is information on campus safety and security, crime statistics and rates, sexual assault, harassment and discriminatory conduct.
Although there are many important aspects to our community, none is more important than our commitment to valuing diversity. We strive to be a community where civility is expected and diversity is recognized and valued.
At UW-Platteville ALL students have the right to pursue their education in a non-hostile and non-threatening environment. ALL students have the right to attend UW-Platteville and experience the excellent educational opportunities, both in and outside the classroom. It is the responsibility of each individual to see that our community meets this commitment.
Finally, UW-Platteville is an educational community filled with opportunities. The staff and faculty are here to assist students as they receive an education. However, as it is with many things in life, the quality of your experience at Platteville will only equal the effort you provide. The more involved you become in your classes, with faculty and staff, in clubs and organizations, with events and speakers offered, the more you will learn. We hope that you chose to become actively involved in your education, maximizing your academic and personal achievement at UW-Platteville.
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Crank 2: High Voltage (US - BD)
Gabe assumes he's found the front runner for this year's Best Picture Oscar
The last time we saw Chev Chelios (Jason Statham) he was laying dead on the pavement after falling a couple thousand feet from a helicopter. It looked like his story was over. Fortunately (unfortunately) for Chev the local chapter of Chinese Triads has scraped him off the street, and saved his life… by removing his heart and replacing it with an artificial one. Three months later Chev awakens from his coma, and escapes his captors. Unfortunately his new fake heart will only last sixty minutes now that it's unplugged, unless he manages to keep it charged. Chev's only chance of survival is to find his old heart and have Doc Miles (Dwight Yoakam) stick the ticker back where it belongs.
What if you took post-modern, and multiplied it by meta, then by every pop culture reference ever invented, and divided it by any sense of logic, subtract all political correctness, and pretend real life is a video game? You might get something like Crank 2: High Voltage, an overwhelmingly energetic and silly sequel to the already overwhelmingly energetic and silly Crank. Writer/directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (Neveldine/Taylor) take the more the merrier to heart, and dismiss unnecessary narrative elements like plot and character development in favour of more action, more sex, more nudity, more violence and more ridiculousness. Historically critics have hated the 'more of the same' school of movie sequels, and historically they've been correct, but sometimes a nihilistic disregard for critical acceptance leads to cinematic brilliance. I call it the Final Destination 2 Effect. Crank 2 isn't a movie, it's a mix tape of Looney Tunes cartoons, '80s gore movies, modern, digitally augmented action, video games, and music videos. One thousand monkeys working on one thousand computers, checking their monkey emails, doing Googlemap searches, sending YouTube links to their monkey friends, and streaming Netflix video might come up with something close to this.
As if we missed the point of the exercise, Troma president Lloyd Kaufman makes a cameo appearance, as do a whole bunch of porn stars, making the 'artistic intent' clear. If only they'd gotten Takashi Miike too, because there are shades of Ichi the Killer, Gozu, and especially the Dead or Alive trilogy. Neveldine/Taylor don't have the penchant for shock Miike does (Miike likes to spit genuine disturbance at his audience between moments of enjoyable violence), but they do have an amusing riff on Ichi the Killer's tongue cutting scene. Sometimes the over-the-topness of it all is kind of exhausting, and downright unfunny. The penis, testicle and nipple fetishes lose their humour through overuse, but there are oodles of repeating jokes that never grow old, like the aliasing of nudity. The cut-away gags are a little too Airplane meets Family Guy, but they sometimes hit, like the poor sap that is hit by a stray bullet following his breakthrough at the psychiatrist, or the man-in-suit fight. It's the spaghetti at the wall theory of comedy, and sometimes I like it.
How do you shoot such a film for so little cash? You shoot it on teeny, tiny HD home video cameras, the kind you, yourself, can buy at your local electronic store. 'Wouldn't that look like ass, Gabe?' you implore. Apparently not. Apparently you can shoot Crank 2: High Voltage on cheap little HDs (cost between $700 and $3500), and have it look better than the majority of big budget flicks on Blu-ray disc. Anyone who owns a copy of the first Crank on Blu-ray knows how amazingly sharp the digital HD details are—so sharp I thought the disc was defective when watching it on my old set. Lifelike is an inaccurate description, because the human eye can't absorb this much information. The shutter speeds are a little strange, and the sharpness of some whites is a little overwhelming, but the look is incredible, and doesn't really work in standard definition. The detail of skin is particularly mesmerizing. Watching the film a second time with the commentary I found myself simply waiting for a new character to show up just to catch a glimpse of their specific pore and facial hair structures.
Beyond the detail are the colours, which are relentlessly stylized at some points. Both the on set rigs and the post-production tinkering produce brutally bright hues, and there isn't a lick of compression noise to hinder the full bore clarity of every piece of the rainbow. The whole thing is shot pretty high contrast as well, which both assists the sharp details, and leads to some deep, dark blacks, and some bright, clean whites. There really isn't anything to complain about here—there's no largely noticeable edge-enhancement, or digital artefacts. Even the grain is under control, and almost exclusively, clearly intended.
What if your iPod was stuck on random, and you only included about thirty seconds from each song, and the volume level was stuck at eleven? Then you might have the Crank 2 soundtrack. This DTS-HD track is aggressive on all fronts, from ambient noise and basic vocal performances, to understandable action cues, and the most cartoony, over-stated sound effects. The sound of free flowing electricity oozes throughout the track, along with more bullet hits and ricochets than three Sam Peckinpah flicks, and the unnatural noise of fourth wall breaking film shutters and stretched audio track. The noise comes hard and fast, but mostly maintains a sense of aural coherence during its attack, and the important stuff is made plenty clear. The schizophrenic musical soundtrack plays the heaviest role in the whole track. Besides the nips and snips of pop and rock, the music is even more strongly represented in Mike Patton's pitch perfect original score. Patton (who rock fans will remember as the lead singer of Faith No More) picks and chooses genres, creating an equally schizophrenic mix tape brimming with the heaviest metal, the phatest beats, and the most violent electronic overtones.
The disc's extras start with a writers/directors commentary, augmented by a PiP BonusView mode. Fortunately for me and my little Profile 1.0 Blu-ray player the BonusView option this time around is an entirely separate element on the disc. The commentary is pretty dull, and considering how funny the movie is shocking unamusing, but there are some fun factoids, and with the BonusView extras activated everything is very entertaining. When the Neveldine/Taylor are facing us and talking it's easy to lose interest, but the behind the scenes footage and cast and crew interviews are a fun way to experience the already overwhelming movie. The most interesting bits are those featuring the duelling directors shooting with the itty bitty cameras, giving a glimpse of how this mess of images was put together into a semi-coherent whole.
'Making Crank 2' (51:20, HD) is a two part behind the scenes doc that actually manages to tell us more about the movie than the commentary and BonusView combined. Issues covered during this collection of cast and crew interviews include the inception, producers convincing the directors to make the film, the directors writing the film as a practical joke, gathering the cast, discovering the tiny HD cameras, shooting on the LA locations, dealing with LA paparazzi, getting the porn stars together (Ron Jeremy apparently showed up without being asked), shooting stunts, dealing with Bai Ling, editing, special effects, and the possibility of Crank 3. 'Crank 2 Take 2' (04:00, HD) is a collection of in-camera mistakes that made the final cut, but went by too quickly to notice without being pointed out. Things wrap up with a 'Wrap Party Gag Reel' (03:30, HD) and a trailer, along with trailers for other Lionsgate releases.
How can a critic find more than a few paragraphs to say about a movie that looks them in the face, smiles and gives them a flaming middle finger just before the credits roll? Crank 2 steps over some pretty touchy lines, but it's always gleefully offensive, and light-heartedly subversive, even when revelling in all the things that make us squirm. One can't help but think that Andy Warhol and all the early Dadaists would've approved. The film was made using cheap little HD cameras, and the direct digital transfer is nearly perfect in 1080p. The wild and wacky DTS-HD soundtrack ain't to shabby either. The extras aren't outstanding, but cover most of the behind the scenes bases.
* Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray release.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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Disc Details
Release Date: 8th September 2009
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English
Subtitles: English SDH, French and Spanish
Extras: Directors Commentary, BonusView, Making Crank 2, Crank 2 Take 2, Gag Reel, Trailers, Digital Copy
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Cast: Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Corey Haim, Dwight Yoakam, David Carradine, Bai Ling, Reno Wilson
Genre: Action, Comedy and Thriller
Length: 95 minutes
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Deroy Murdock: Would you trust this President to lead us into war?BY DEROY MURDOCK
September 08. 2013 9:41PM
Can a possibly war-bound USA survive the unbearable lightness of being Obama? As Americans debate potential military intervention in Syria, the true grit of our fighting men and women is unquestioned. But their hesitant and erratic commander-in-chief renders worrisome the notion of attacking Damascus.
On Wednesday, for instance, Obama declared: "I didn't set a red line. The world set a red line."
In fact, on Aug. 20, 2012, Obama said, "We have been very clear to the Assad regime…that a red line for us is, we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized."
Obama installed the trip wire for war with Syria. Now, on the brink of combat, he disowns it.
On Aug. 30, Obama had an uncharacteristically bellicose Secretary of State John Kerry virtually announce that 'bombing begins in five minutes.' One day later, Obama virtually announced that 'debate begins in five minutes.' Obama said he wanted Congress to permit hostilities. But rather than summon lawmakers to Washington, Obama let Congress' summer vacation rage on.
Still, Obama could have spent the rest of Aug. 31 lobbying legislators. Such a photo would have signaled his single-mindedness and steely resolve. Instead, Obama played his 141st round of golf as President.
Such unseriousness seems to be the Obama Doctrine's active ingredient. Consider:
• Obama last June authorized the CIA to provide arms to the Free Syrian Army. "As of right now, they haven't received one weapon from the United States," Sen. John McCain, R–Ariz., lamented. "Reports are that the United States has constrained other countries from giving them the kinds of things they need."
• Last September, Obama met with precisely zero heads of state at the U.N. General Assembly, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who virtually begged to see his American counterpart. However, Obama did find time to be "eye candy" (in Whoppi Goldberg's words) on The View.
• Obama's former aide Reggie Love recently revealed this scene from the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
"Most people were like down in the Situation Room and (the President) was like, 'I'm not going to be down there, I can't watch this entire thing,'" Love said. "So," referring to Obama, himself, and two other staffers, "we must have played 15 hands, 15 games of spades."
That's right. As Seal Team Six intrepidly pursued the man behind the Sept. 11, 2001 slaughter, their commander-in-chief played cards.
• According to a conservative watchdog group called the Government Accountability Institute, Obama skipped 58 percent of his presidential daily briefs between his first inaugural and last March 31. During the entire week before last Sept. 11's massacre in Benghazi, Libya, Obama missed these interactive sessions with top intelligence personnel.
Unforgivably, Obama blew off his PDBs for three days after al-Qaida-affiliated Islamic terrorists killed four U.S. public servants in Benghazi. Obama finally sat down for a full PDB on Sept. 14, 2012 — his first such face-to-face huddle in nine days.
• After al-Qaida-trained crotch bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to detonate 279 passengers and 11 crew members aboard a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines jet on Christmas Day 2009, Obama should have spoken on camera to reassure rattled Americans and remind terrorists of U.S. strength. Instead, he failed to interrupt his Hawaiian vacation and did not even appear publicly for three days. Meanwhile, the National Counterterrorism Center's then-director Michael Leiter left Dec. 26 for a six-day family ski trip.
Back to Syria, Obama's policy seems to be to strike — but not for long, and not hard enough to topple Assad, even though Kerry compares him to Hitler. Under the War Powers Act, Obama could bomb Syria for 60 days without congressional approval. And yet Obama seeks Congress' permission to strike. But if that fails, he may smack Syria anyway.
Amid epic chaos, Obama instills no confidence. This helps explain why so many Americans are reluctant to march to the wavering beat of this unsteady drummer.
Deroy Murdock is a Fox News contributor, a nationally syndicated columnist with the Scripps Howard News Service, and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University.


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Tottenham Hotspur manager Andre Villas-Boas believes Gareth Bale could run Inter Milan ragged in their Europa League clash on Thursday night.
Welsh winger Bale announced his talents on the world stage with two fantastic performances over the then European champions in the Champions League group stage in 2010.
Bale scored a hat-trick at the San Siro in a 4-3 loss before assisting two goals in a 3-1 win at White Hart Lane, in which he made embarrassed Brazilian right-back Maicon.
Villas-Boas said ahead of Thursday's round of 16 tie: "I think Gareth has evolved as a player. He is even more threatening now.
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"Maicon was an outstanding right-back, one of the Brazilian right-backs, so to see a young player like Gareth play like he did against him demonstrates his talent.
"Now, two years on, he plays in a different position. He's become a different player; a bigger player and a more complete player."
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The Toy Hall of Fame was established in 1998 and moved to this location in 2002. So far 49 toys have been inducted using these criteria:
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- Innovation: The toy profoundly changed play or toy design. A toy may be inducted on the basis of this criterion without necessarily having met all of the first three.
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de.setf.amqp implements a native Common Lisp client library for the 'Advanced Message Queueing Protocol'. The implementation comprises wire-level codecs, implementations for the standard protocol objects and methods, a functional interface for message-, stream- and object-based i/o, and a device-level simple-stream implementation.
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de.setf.amqp implements a native Common Lisp client library for the 'Advanced Message Queueing
Protocol'. The implementation comprises wire-level codecs, implementations
for the standard protocol objects and methods, a functional interface for message-,
stream- and object-based i/o, and a device-level simple-stream implementation.
The library targets the revisions of the published AMQP protocol as of versions 0.8, 0.9, and 0.10. This means that it should work with respective RabbitMQ, Apache ActiveMQ, and Qpid implementations. The implementation architecture should also accommodate a control structure appropriate for the prospective 1.0 version - as least as described in preliminary drafts. For each version, a distinct package comprises the object and method definitions for protocol entities and codecs as generated from the respective specification documents.[1] Each collection is a complete projection, which means there is some amount of duplication. The package and directory names names follow more-or-less the naming conventions of the xml protocol documents[2]:
|version 0.8
|[amqp0-8.xml, amqp0-8.pdf (2006-06)]
|version 0.9
|[amqp0-9.xml, amqp0-9.pdf (2006-12)]
|version 0.9r1
|[amqp0-9-1.xml, amqp0-9-1.pdf (2008-11-24)]
|version 0.10
|[amqp.0-10.xml, amqp.0-10.pdf (2008-02-20)]
In order to modify the translation and/or generate new codecs consult the
:de.setf.amqp.tools component.
All protocol versions are expressed through a common interface[3] which is specialized for the common
abstract classes. The initial connection phase determines the correct concrete connection implementation
to be used to communicate with the broker. Given which the other concrete object and method classes are
elected from the same package. One determines the version support directly by loading the respective
.asd file, which makes its connection class available for negotiation.
This is intended as the base for a distributed semantic store. What one has here is a reasonably complete engineering prototype. It consumes phenomenal amounts of memory and runs astonishingly slowly: 5 - 10 milliseconds and 1 to 10 thousand bytes per round trip. A request entails ten levels of generic function dispatch, half of which require keyword processing. A response call stack is about as deep, but with somewhat less keyword processing. As almost everything between the interface commands and the frame buffers is generated code, once it is clear which aspects should remain available for specialization and/or optional arguments, the protocol call stack would benefit from recasting uninteresting elements as ordinary functions of fixed arguments - depending on implementation type, by a factor of ten to sixty.
It would also be nice to generate a table similar to RabbitMQ's to record protocol conformance and compatibility with brokers. Eventually. The present tests are limited to
The library has been built and probed in the following combinations
|AMQP broker
lisp implementation
|MCL-5.2, QPID-0.5, AMQP-0.9r1
|CCL-1.3, QPID-0.5, AMQP-0.9r1
|SBCL-1.0.35, QPID-0.5, AMQP-0.9r1
For example,
$ sbcl
This is SBCL 1.0.35, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.
More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>.
* (in-package :amqp.i)
* (defparameter *c* (make-instance 'amqp:connection :uri "amqp://guest:guest@localhost/"))
* (defparameter *ch1* (amqp:channel *c* :uri (uri "amqp:///")))
* (defparameter *ch1.basic* (amqp:basic *ch1*))
* (defparameter *ch1.ex* (amqp:exchange *ch1* :exchange "ex" :type "direct"))
* (defparameter *ch1.q* (amqp:queue *ch1* :queue "q1"))
* (amqp:request-declare *ch1.q*)
* (amqp:request-bind *ch1.q* :exchange *ch1.ex* :queue *ch1.q* :routing-key "/")
* (defparameter *ch2* (amqp:channel *c* :uri (uri "amqp:///")))
* (defparameter *ch2.basic* (amqp:basic *ch2*))
* (defparameter *ch2.q* (amqp:queue *ch2* :queue "q1"))
* (amqp:request-declare *ch2.q*)
* (list
(amqp:request-publish *ch1.basic* :exchange *ch1.ex*
:body (format nil "this is ~a" (gensym "test #"))
:routing-key "/")
(amqp:request-get *ch2.basic* :queue *ch2.q*))
("this is test #1282" "this is test #1624")
* (amqp:request-get *ch2.basic* :queue *ch2.q*)
"this is test #1820"
* (amqp:request-get *ch2.basic* :queue *ch2.q*)
"this is test #1998"
* (amqp:request-get *ch2.basic* :queue *ch2.q*)
"this is test #2011"
* (amqp:request-get *ch2.basic* :queue *ch2.q*)
"this is test #2014"
* (amqp:request-get *ch2.basic* :queue *ch2.q*)
"this is test #2022"
* (amqp:request-get *ch2.basic* :queue *ch2.q*)
"this is test #2028"
* (amqp:request-get *ch2.basic* :queue *ch2.q*)
"this is test #2179"
* (amqp:request-get *ch2.basic* :queue *ch2.q*)
"this is test #1282"
* (amqp:request-get *ch2.basic* :queue *ch2.q*)
Which, as an aside, illustrates that brokered messages persist between connections until they have been consumed. Of which a default QPID broker with no persistence support was observed to cache only about 500k bytes (ca. 25,000 messages of 20 bytes each).
A .dmg is available for MCL-5.2.
Obtain the required libraries (see amqp.asd). The sources are reflected in the respective system names:
@ r520; Take the svn source;
If you use
0.4.1, you will also need
@ 0-61
(also 0-55)
@ 0-8-0 (or @ patch 165)
@ 2.0.1
merge-uri for non-strict
scheme merging.
Obtain the
de.setf.amqp source and that for the
de.setf.utility library
de.setf.utility.mime module.
Obtain and load
asdf, add the
hierarchical names utility.
If running MCL, with an
asdf version that includes mandatory output translations, either disable it or
otherwise ensure that it doesn't choke on the default binding for
asdf registry. If the central registry entry is a logical
pathname, the hierarchical naming mechanism should suffice to map binaries to a "shadow" directory at the
root of the source tree. The
bordeaux-threads ->
alexandria reference is
unqualified, and as such, requires additional registration.
(asdf:operate 'asdf:load-op :de.setf.amqp._version_)
The example initialization file was used for MCL.
This version is released under version 3 of the GNU Affero license (GAL).[5] The required components are included as per the respective licenses and covered, in this combined form, under the GAL as well
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From Roman settlement to the development of Canary Wharf, this 200 year old warehouse reveals the long history of the capital as a port through stories of trade, migration and commerce.
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The entire collection of the Museum of London Docklands is a Designated Collection of national importance.
The collection consists of objects reflecting the social history of the Thames and London's port, including archaeological finds, works of art, scale models, contemporary tools and many miscellaneous items that would have been traded through the port.
Collections also include the Sainsbury Archive, a collection of documents, artefacts and photographs relating to the history of the food retailing company founded by John James and Mary Ann Sainsbury in 1869.
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In the setting of this historic sugar warehouse, the London, Sugar & Slavery gallery reveals how London's involvement in slavery has shaped the capital since the 17th century, and challenges what you think you know about the transatlantic slave trade and long-held beliefs that abolition was initiated by politicians.
Key artefacts in the gallery are the surviving papers of Thomas and John Mills, who owned plantations in St Kitts and Nevis, providing us with glimpses into the lives of both the enslaved and the slaver.
In the gallery you can experience an immersive sound and light show which is projected on the gallery walls every 20 minutes. The experience encourages you to consider enslavement and freedom both in terms of the transatlantic slave trade and what they mean for us all today.
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With the advent of steam power, the volume of trade flowing through London massively increased. More trade meant more docks. Ships were becoming larger as wooden ships gave way to iron. Between 1855 and 1886 a series of new dock complexes were built on both banks of the river.
The gallery explores the life of the docker, with exhibits such as the massive Stevedores' banner commemorating the 1889 Dock Strike. Other subjects include the arrival of the first dock police force
the building of the Great Eastern, one of the world's largest ships
and the Princess Alice disaster - the worst maritime disaster in British history. Paintings and photographs and film bring the richness of the stories to life.
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City and River 1820 - 1840
- 1 November 2014 — 1 November 2018 *on now
The first half of the nineteenth century brought great change to London's river and port. A huge docks complex was built on the Isle of Dogs, new bridges spanned the Thames and a tunnel was dug beneath it. The scale of London's commercial activity grew massively and all those changes are examined in this gallery.
The gallery also examines the whaling trade. At one time London had the largest fleet of whalers in the world and the display includes a selection of nineteenth-century harpoons, a pot for boiling whale blubber to extract the oil and some timber from a nineteenth century whaler.
This was also an age of engineering, with the demolition of the old medieval London bridge and its replacement with a splendid new one designed by John Rennie. Marc Isambard Brunel went further by constructing the first Thames tunnel between Wapping and Rotherhithe. The gallery includes models and original drawings of what was the world's first tunnel under a navigable waterway.
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Number 1 Warehouse
- 1 November 2014 — 1 November 2018 *on now
The Museum of London Docklands is housed in one of only two remaining warehouses erected on the north quay by the West India Dock Company. Originally built in the 1800s by wealthy merchants and slave plantation owners, these magnificent buildings once held great cargoes of sugar, rum and coffee.
Each storey of the building was originally a different height – dictated by the nature of the cargo to be stored. The ground floors were designed to store two tiers of hogsheads of 'clayed' sugar. The upper floors stored a single tier of the heavier hogsheads of muscovado sugar, while the top floors held the lighter cargoes such as coffee, cocoa, cotton and pimento.
The other warehouses were destroyed during the Second World War in September 1940. After the closure of the West India Docks in 1980 the building became derelict. In 2000 work began on restoring and converting the Grade I-listed building for use as a museum.
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Warehouse of the World 1840 - 1939
- 1 November 2014 — 1 November 2018 *on now
Between 1840 and 1939 the sheds and warehouses that lined the river housed every conceivable commodity: spices, drugs, grain, sugar, meat, fruit, coffee, cocoa, tea, wines, spirits, tobacco, shells, furs, feathers, leather, skins, hide, timber, paper, jute, wool, oriental carpets and more.
This gallery gives a flavour of that cornucopia of goods. It features a tobacco weighing station, a recreation of a bottling vault and exhibits about the tobacco, timber, grain and sugar trades.
There is also a 'cabinet of curiosities' packed with commodities. An interactive touch-screen explores the more exotic of these - ivory, turtle shells and ancient curios. An opium pipe, ingeniously hidden in a section of a sailor's bunk, hints at a darker side of overseas trade.
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New Port New City 1945 - Present
- 1 November 2014 — 1 November 2018 *on now
The museum's final gallery focuses on the changes that have transformed the look and feel of this part of East London over the last 60 years.
Beginning in the post war period, the gallery recounts the ups and downs of London's inland docks, culminating in their closure in the 1960s and 1970s. The traumatic events brought physical dereliction, job losses and severe social strains on local communities.
The turbulence continued as Docklands became the site of the largest regeneration project in Europe. The gallery looks at the process of regeneration through the eyes of community activists and developers. The Canary Wharf development and Docklands Light Railway both feature with uniforms, posters, models and ephemera enriching the story of the massive redevelopment.
The development of Docklands over the past 200 years has mirrored the shifting patterns of British trade and economy. Where ocean-going ships delivered people and products from all over the world to London, multinational corporations now work moving money and goods electronically. New port, new city.
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Mudlarks Children's Gallery
- 1 November 2014 — 1 November 2018 *on now
The Mudlarks gallery at the Museum of London Docklands is an interactive play area for children and their parents. Divided into different zones, Mudlarks provides a lively addition to the more traditional galleries, allowing children and their parents to let off steam while continuing to learn about London's port, river and people.
Younger children can explore the soft play area with its DLR train and giant props, while older children can get to grips with hands-on interactives that bring the history of London's Docks to life. Have fun digging for treasure and damming a river in the Foreshore Finds area, try cargo lading in Tip the Clipper, explore the Victorian Docks in Docklands Playtime and see if you can lift the sacks in Lift and Shift.
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Docklands at War 1939 - 1945
- 1 November 2014 — 1 November 2018 *on now
The docks were an obvious target for Hitler's air force and late in the afternoon of Saturday 7 September 1940, the Luftwaffe launched a massive daylight raid on London. Ninety consecutive night time raids followed. A collection of stunning paintings by William Ware (1915 - 1997) illustrate the intensity of the Blitz on London's docks.
Other exhibits explore the Port's role in the Dunkirk rescue, and secret projects such as construction of the Maunsell Forts
Pipe Line Under The Ocean and the huge breakwaters for the Mulberry Harbours. The gallery contains a life-size replica of a Port of London Authority (PLA) shelter constructed during the war. The PLA built two hundred of these shelters and they saved the lives of many people.
One of the Museum's most treasured possessions is a flag that flew from the bow of one of the first landing crafts to reach France during the D-Day landings on 6th June 1944. It was found among the effects of George Sluman, a former waterman who was coxswain of the craft.
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Sailortown: 1840 - 1850
- 1 November 2014 — 1 November 2018 *on now
The Sailortown gallery is a full size reconstruction of the dark, winding streets of Victorian Wapping. The gallery attempts to recreate the contemporary description of the area as "both foul and picturesque". The area was a maze of streets, lanes and alleys. Its inhabitants catered to the needs of sailors of all nationalities alighting in London.
In 1852, the reverend Thomas Beames wrote of the area around the docks:
"Go there by day and every fourth man you meet is a sailor… Public houses abound in these localities… fitted up with everything which can draw sailors together… in a third class of house were professional thieves … they were evidently preying upon the drunken sailors whose ill luck had led them to places where they were little acquainted."
Those brave enough to enter Sailortown will find an alehouse, sailors' lodging house, chandlery, wild animal emporium, and much more.
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Trade Expansion and Legal Quay: 1600 - 1800
- 1 November 2014 — 1 November 2018 *on now
The formation of trading companies such as the East India Company, Muscovy Company and the Africa Company allowed the British Empire to expand commercially across the world. All had their roots in London.
This gallery also explores the 'Legal Quays' established by Elizabeth I in 1558, for the collection of customs dues on cargoes.
Other displays explore the building of London's first wet docks at Rotherhithe for the whaling trade
the landing of East India cargoes at Blackwall
shipbuilding and related industries.
There are displays about visitors from overseas such as Pocahontas and Prince Lee Boo. A touch-screen journey to China aboard the East Indiaman Falmouth introduces the concept of world trade, navigation and the perils of merchant voyages. A dramatised video shows business being conducted inside a typical 18th-century London coffee house.
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- Family friendly
Thames Highway: AD43 - 1600
- 1 November 2014 — 1 November 2018 *on now
This gallery explores the early ports of London, from the arrival of the Romans in AD43 to the historic ports of Norman and medieval London excavated at Billingsgate and Lower Thames Street.
Artefacts and documents concerning these early riverside trading settlements are displayed, and visitors are invited to interact with archaeologists at a series of multimedia points – introduced by Time Team's Tony Robinson – located in the gallery. The gallery has been designed to support National Curriculum studies in Science, Geography and History.
A spectacular feature of the gallery is a 1:50 scale model of Old London Bridge, the first stone structure over the Thames. One side of the model illustrates the state of the bridge and its buildings at around 1450, the other – hidden until visitors pass through into the next gallery – shows the bridge in all its Tudor glory.
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- Family friendly
London's Night Owls Halloween sleepover
- 26 — 27 October 2018 6:30pm-9:45am
Ever wondered what happens in our museum once the doors are closed for the night?
Find out the terrifying truth as you trick-or-treat your way around the galleries after dark, and solve a spooky crime by torchlight with the help of a mysterious character.
Help us tell terrifying tales from Victorian London including the monstrous story of Dr. Jekyll, and the strange encounters at Sweeney Todd's barber shop during an interactive storytelling session.
Nestle down in the museum galleries for bed, before calming your nerves with a bright and early light breakfast and a family-friendly film in the morning.
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This on-line book describes through pictures a typical day in the life of a delivery boy working for Sainsbury's in 1912.
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Maritime themed stories at the London Museum in Docklands for children 3 years and upwards, and their families. Story sessions last 60 minutes.
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The Dark Lord: Back in Black
Oct 30, 2007
Every girl is crazy about.. a sharp dressed Dark Lord? Well, it may not quite be what we normally think of as a sharp dressed man, but the Tonner Doll company is releasing a new Lord Voldemort Doll, complete with his black designer suit he sported in a scene from "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix." The doll, based on actor Ralph Fiennes as he portrays the Dark Lord in the Harry Potter films, is limited to 150 in number and is available ($150.00 USD) for pre-order here via FAO Schwarz. The description of the doll says "he wears a black twill suit, complete with black dress shirt, black waistcoat, tie, black knit socks, and molded shoes to and an appropriately sinister expression, captured in evil detail by Robert Tonner. He also holds a wand, which is crafted in resin with hand-painted details. With 13 points of articulation, you can display him in many poses with the included display stand." You can also see a larger photo of the stylin' Dark Lord here in our galleries.
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Contando Estrelas: Chernobyl 25 Years Later
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukraine. Google Maps' satellite view gives us a great insight into the devastation of this once thriving area.
Italian website Contando Estrelas has written an informative article on the destruction of the area around the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, which it has illustrated with satellite views from Google Maps.
The article shows images of the power plant itself, the now ghost town of Pripyat (including a Ferris wheel that had been constructed for the May 1st celebrations), abandoned ships in a port to the north of Chernobyl and a graveyard of trucks, tanks, helicopters and other vehicles used after the explosion of 1986 (all of which had to be abandoned because of their exposure to high radiation levels).
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Mr. Easter Bunny
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The popular musical based on the charming book by Victoria and Elizabeth Kann about the girl who can't stop eating pink cupcakes, Saturday, March 23, 2 p.m. $9. Merrick Theatre & Center for the Arts, 2222 Hewlett Ave., Merrick. 868-6400.
The Wizard of Oz!
A musical adaptation of the classic MGM movie, presented by Plaza Theatrical Productions, Saturday, March 23, 11 a.m. $10. The Show Place at the Bellmore Movies, 222 Pettit Ave., Bellmore. 599-6870 or www.
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See the computer-animated fantasy adventure film based on William Joyce's "The Guardians of Childhood" book series, Monday, March 25, 2 p.m. Baldwin Public Library, 2385 Grand Ave., Baldwin. 223-6228.
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I was surprise to find that there were no forums started about this mystical man. (if there are, please correct me, i just can't find it).
Anyways, earlier in the season, he achieved 200 clean sheets, is on game 599th in the K-League, was part of the 2002 Korean WC team.
He missed a chance to have his 600th game at home last week as just three weeks ago he was award a red card, making him miss a game.
They are now on the road for two more games, against Seoul and Suwon, before a rematch of what will be an exciting FA Cup in Pohang.
Kim Byeong Ji - The Legend
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He's now officially the oldest man to have ever played K-League football, his appearance for Jeonnam against Sangju at the weekend at the grand old age of 44 years, 7 months and 14 days means he's broken Shin Eui-son's (Valeri Sarychev) previous record by five days.
I reckon he should at least keep going until he's 50. He's some man
I reckon he should at least keep going until he's 50. He's some man
Re: Kim Byeong Ji - The Legend
Holyjoe wrote:He's now officially the oldest man to have ever played K-League football, his appearance for Jeonnam against Sangju at the weekend at the grand old age of 44 years, 7 months and 14 days means he's broken Shin Eui-son's (Valeri Sarychev) previous record by five days.
I reckon he should at least keep going until he's 50. He's some man
i saw something the other day that said he hasnt drank or smoked in 24 for years or something? or was it 14? i dont think i have gone 14 hours without a brew...
well well well
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He's been part of the K-League set-up for longer than 17 of the 23 member clubs have but it might be game over for the mighty mullet now...
Veteran goalkeeper fails to find team, denies retirement rumors
Kim Byung-ji, the oldest player in South Korean professional football, said on Tuesday he will not retire even though he's yet to find a club for this season.
Kim, who turns 46 on April 8, has been searching for a club after his contract with Jeonnam Dragons in the top-flight K League Classic ended last year. In order to play in the K League Classic or the second-tier K League Challenge, all players needed to be registered with clubs by Monday. However, the data from the league office on Tuesday showed that Kim's name was not listed on any of the 23 professional clubs.
This means that the veteran goalkeeper, who has played a league-record 706 matches, is not eligible to play at least the first half of this season. The registration for the second half of the season starts in July.
"I did have contacts with some clubs, but in the end, we failed to reach an agreement," he said. "I'm not sure whether I will register in July because at this moment, I don't have specific transfer plans."
Kim, however, denied speculation that he will hang up his boots. The goalkeeper, who represented South Korea at the 1998 and the 2002 FIFA World Cups, insisted that he can still compete with young players on the pitch.
"I'm not thinking about ending my career," he said. "I can still exercise and my level of play doesn't plunge just in a day."
Kim said he is busy focusing on solving family matters rather than his transfer issues. Kim, who has three sons, is currently in a legal battle after his youngest son was involved in a school violence incident last year.
"My priority is to solve family matters and focus on my children," he said. "I heard that some teams were afraid that I could damage their public image because of my family issues. But the case is almost closed."
Kim made his pro debut with Ulsan Hyundai FC in 1992 and has played for four different teams since. He played 61 matches for South Korea with his final appearance dating back to 2008.
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He is past it at Classic level based on what I saw last season but would still be a great asset to a few clubs I'm sure. OB Rovers would have him like a shot. if they existed.
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im sure there is a team that needs a player/coach and would it not be gyeongnam, daegu... or could he enlist again and play for sangju? somewhere back closer to home in milyang?
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Has he ever actually worn his mullet in a ponytail?
K-League's first goalie to ever score takes his bow
July 25,2016
It's the end of an era in Korean professional football. On Tuesday, Kim Byung-ji, a goalkeeper and one of the most celebrated figures in the K-League Classic, announced his retirement from the game, marking an end to a prolific 24-year career.
Casual watchers of the sport may know him best for his ponytail, but older fans of the K-League may remember Kim from one particular moment in October 1998, when he took part in Ulsan Hyundai FC's offensive effort to break the tie with the Pohang Steelers and become the first goalie to score in K-League history.
Since then, Kim has become a symbol of Korean football, and as he departs from the field, he is leaving behind many records. He went 229 matches without conceding a single goal. He played full time in 153 straight games. In September 2015, he became the oldest player to compete in a K-League match. And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
"I think nicknames such as 'ponytail' and 'a goalie who scores' are more valuable than anything else," Kim said. "Fans gave them to me, and they show the affection by the fans for me."
For 13 years, Kim also played in 61 international games wearing the Korean national team jersey. But even with a combined pro and international career, Kim has some regrets.
"It was disappointing not being able to play any games during the 2002 Korea/Japan World Cup," Kim said. "When there are two players who are similar in terms of football skills, who gets to start and who remains on the bench comes down to trust from the manager. I was unable to earn the trust of manager [Guus Hiddink]."
During a match against Paraguay in 2001, Kim dribbled the ball up to the half-line but got it taken away from him. Paraguay nearly scored a goal taking advantage of Kim's error, and this infuriated Hiddink. Ever since, Kim was unable to see much playing time under Hiddink's management.
"That was foolish of me," Kim recalled. "I learned how a veteran should go about each game from that experience, how older players of a team should devote and sacrifice themselves for the team. The lesson I learned from that experience allowed me to stay for a long time in this game."
Kim considers Lee Woon-jae as the biggest rival of his football career. Lee, a retired goalie best known for his performance back in the 2002 World Cup, is now a goalkeeping coach for the Korean Olympic football team.
Kim distinctly remembers when Lee blocked his shot during a penalty shootout in 2004 during the K-League Class finals. Kim was playing for the Pohang Steelers then, and Lee was in the Suwon Samsung Bluewings.
When asked why a goalie was chosen for the penalty shootout, Kim said, "Choi Soon-ho [then-manager of Pohang] placed me as the fifth kicker even during practice. I think he took into consideration that I was experienced and at the top of my physical condition. The error came during one of the most decisive moments in K-League history, so I think many people remember clearly about that shot. But I think it is these kinds of stories that allow fans to be so fond of me."
Indeed, the goalie has many stories to tell from his career. After graduating high school, Kim failed to get into a college and worked various part-time jobs including in construction.
His foray into football came when he entered Sangmu FC, the predecessor of military club Sangju Sangmu FC, in 1990. Sangmu was an amateur team then. After spending two years in Sangmu, Kim joined Ulsan Hyundai FC as a walk-on.
"I feel like I started out as a nobody but finished my career at the top," Kim said. "I remember when I first failed to be drafted, I worked as a welder at various construction sites. But I kept on playing this game and eventually became the highest-paid player in the league."
The 46-year-old player credits strict self-management for his success. Indeed, throughout his 24-year career, he has maintained his body weight at around 78 kilograms (172 pounds), even to this day.
After failing to extend his contract with the Jeonnam Dragons last season, he helped younger players improve their game. Shim Min, a goalkeeper for Boin High School who led his team during a national football tournament early this year, credited Kim for his outstanding performance, saying he was able to block shots during penalty shootouts thanks to Kim's instructions.
Kim says he would like to continue with coaching. At the moment, no manager in the top pro league has come out of a career as a goalie. Kim hopes to change that around.
"No one has conceded more goals than me [754 goals in 706 games]," Kim said. "This is not something to be embarrassed about. This is a valuable asset for me."
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Holyjoe wrote:Has he ever actually worn his mullet in a ponytail?He went 229 matches without conceding a single goal.
That is an amazing streak of clean sheets!!
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"He who dares, wins!"
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Kim was involved in a car accident towards the end of November.. initially he felt okay afterwards but a few days later had lost feeling in his legs so went to hospital and had surgery. There is considerable nerve damage and disc ruptures that may take years to recuperate from with no guarantee of a full or even partial recovery. Pretty horrible, hope he can fight through this.
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