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I hope everyone had a great ECLIPSE day yesterday!! We had a lot of fun here at school :).
I hope to see everyone here at curriculum night tonight! We will also be having our Jekyll Field Trip meeting at the end of curriculum night.
School Dress Code
Below is the Dress code as written in the Dolvin Handbook. With summer still very present, I just wanted to remind everyone of the policy. We have given the students reminders about "school clothes" and "play/home clothes" as well. We even use ourselves as examples. (Ms. Pratt has always been tall, so she has always had to buy longer clothes than her friends. J ORMs. Pratt wears different clothes to the park/mall during the summer than she would wear to school.) Thank you for helping reinforce the school dress code with the students. J
All students shall dress appropriately so as not to disrupt or interfere with the educational program or orderly operation of the school. Extremes in dressing and grooming will not be permitted. Shorts and skirts must meet finger-tip rule and straps must be one inch in width. Bare midriffs, see through clothing, and apparel that designate gangs or similar are not appropriate wear. Flip flops should not be worn to school. On the first violation, the teacher will send a note home to remind the parent and student of the dress code (use standard form). For the second violation, students will be asked to call home for appropriate clothing or borrow from the clinic.
School Update
We are again utilizing an electronic delivery of our 2017-2018 Student Code of Conduct & Discipline Handbook to parents who have an email address on file with their school. This electronic delivery process involves completion of two simple steps, 1) Reviewing the Student Code of Conduct and 2) Completing and submitting the Acknowledgement of Electronic Receipt. Instructions are below:
· Spanish Handbook: https://www3.fultonschools.org/codeconduct/home/indexspa
It is important that you review and discuss the Code of Conduct with your child(ren). Teachers will also review the Code of Conduct with students at the beginning of the school year.
Curriculum Updates:
Blue Math: We are working on 5th grade Unit 1. We have reviewed multiplication and will continue to do so this week. We will also be learning about the Order of Operations and expressions. Students will be tested over Unit 1 on September 8th.
Yellow Math: We are working on 5th grade Unit 4. In this unit we will be working on Fractions. This week, we will focus on adding and subtracting and multiplying fractions. Students will be tested over Unit 4 on September 12th.
Green Math: We are working on 6th grade Unit 1. This is a unit with a lot of review material from 5th grade math. Students will be expected to do all 4 operations (add, subtract, multiply, and divide) with whole numbers, decimals, and fractions. This week, we will be working on reviewing decimal and fraction operations. Students will be tested over Unit 1 on September 12th.
SS: We are currently working on our Civil War and Reconstruction unit. In this unit, students have already learned about the causes of the Civil War, the major battles of the civil war, the generals on both sides, and the end of the civil war. We also talked about the effects of the Civil War on the north and south. This week we will learn about reconstruction Students will be tested over this unit on August 25th.
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Norwegian director Kristoffer Borgli searches for meaning in a world saturated with images and distraction in this thoughtfully playful short documentary. Part visual memoir, part high-end "vlog," Borgli tracks his way through an existential crisis to a point of acceptance and enlightenment amid an overwhelming media landscape.
Borgli moves to Los Angeles in his quest at a time of crisis both personal and global. Amid the glamour and shiny surfaces, even perfume ads cause him to question life and delve into all the New Age "healing" offered by the city, including a brief encounter with actor Jeff Goldblum.
But hope comes in the shape of a YouTube deep dive, where Borgli encounters a Taiwanese bodybuilder named Frank Yang, whose approach to consciousness seems to spark some interest. Borgli arranges Yang to come to LA and stay with him, and the result are a series of wild left turns, detours and improbably entertaining segues on a journey towards understanding and enlightenment.
"A Place We Call Reality" could be categorized as a documentary, but with the combination of formal eccentricity and heartfelt philosophical questing, it's a genuinely fascinating cinematic experience that is fluent in the ways moving images are being used to capture and influence an age-old desire to give meaning to life.
The film sets itself up as a kind of vlog, but with its patchwork of storytelling, stark images, well-crafted editing and humor, it's undeniably much more sophisticated. Intellectually, it's both outrageous, honest and earnest — and the combination of Yang and Borgli together is undeniably hilarious and amusing.
But while the form and expression are experimental and even loose and playful, Borgli's existential dilemmas are real and as ancient as religions themselves.
Humanity's search for meaning has existed as long as people have possessed self-awareness, and while today's world offers many distractions, ultimately it is a journey most of us can't avoid. But with genuine wit and intelligence, Borgli's search is both idiosyncratic and universal — and a genuine pleasure to watch and think over, well after the final frame.

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Full Name: Bob
Game: FFVII Game
Played By: Alastair
Villainy Status: Villain/antihero/both at once/who knows?
Kill Count: unknown, but a lot
Death Count: 2
Originally a small-time anti-Shin-Ra rebel, Bob became a major threat when he walked into a Shin-Ra hospital and massacred everyone inside. As a result, Shin-Ra launched a worldwide search for him which included attacking Fort Condor, greatly annoying Bugenhagen, and Bob was forced to flee, stopping only to loot a gun shop.
Eventually tracked down by then-SOLDIER member Brall, whom Bob then beat into unconsciousness, killed or drove away the underlings of, stole the clothes and equipment of, and abandoned in a bush, before taking refuge in a cave.
Somehow, news of the impending Deepground war reached him, and he decided to use it as a way of seriously sticking it to Shin-Ra before he died. Seen in the final battle organising an initial strike/distraction, machine-gunning some Shin-Ra troops, being killed by the Tsviets and then being killed again by Hojo. His grave is seen in the epilogue.
Personality and Traits:
Highly erratic, violent and sadistic. Seems to be prejudiced against the overweight, and is also quite paranoid (he decides to kill anyone who "is a Shin-Ra, is fat, or looks at me funny").
Not terribly intelligent, it would seem, but very good at fighting, and strong enough to use a buster sword.
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In the universe of For Want of a Nail, Bob has become a mass-murdering terrorist constantly trying and failing to destroy Shin-Ra. He hijacks Shin-Ra's own technology to send himself back in time in an attempt to kill Loki before he can become President Insanity.


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A Fall Look for Anyone
Monday, September 11, 2017
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I am all about a Fall look with boots and bag to match. I love the slouchy-ness to them, so perfect for a cool day casual vibe!! You look AWESOME!!ReplyDelete
Such a great look! I love the black paired with the brown riding boots!ReplyDelete
Cute outfit! It's a perfect one for the cooler days that are surely headed our way.ReplyDelete
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Miss America Pagents always make me think of Julia Roberts in Miss Congeniality!ReplyDelete
Love this tunic top -- I've been eyeing this one for awhile and think I'll order it for fall! Just need to decide which color to get!
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I love those tunics! I have like 5 and they are so comfy. I love black & cognac together too!ReplyDelete
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Such a cute look for fall! Love Miss America - I was flipping between that and the Cowboys game with Derek so I only saw parts!ReplyDelete
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Love this look on you!! Now I want to go order that tunic. It's so cute. I also love your brown riding boots. Makes me ready for some cool weather!ReplyDelete
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Most of my machines have either a 2018 Ford GT or a C6 Corvette as the wallpaper. So things for me.
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The Engagement at Bombuko Mission House Feb 2, 1917
JimF offered to host at the Trumpeter's club's monthly GameNight to have his nicely painted Belgian Force Publique vs my French Foreign Legion….
Dear Mere,
It is your son, the legionnaire , writing again about my latest action. Of the preamble, mine is not to reason why, but to do or die; and so we of the Legion are to advance a great distance to a place to gather some gold but it is that our elite but small force must engage a larger for of Force Publique in dense terrain somewhere in Africa.
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As we must advance, we brought our new artillery. The colonel did some "horse trading" and sold the original 75 gun gained with the crew and now is using other model. The colonel says "it looks better the part". Whatever. It was useful in causing many casualties on the nearest blue clad Belgian askari unit. But throughout the battle it would be slow to move into position.
|the new artillery piece (a Reveresco British Howitzer)
To the right, the second company came under long range rifle plus machine gun fire and rapidly were decimated and soon were hor-de-combat. For our part, we also had too many bullets coming our way and loses building. Only our superior discipline had us still in the fight.
Editor's Note: the plus 2 really helps on the dice rolls!
|Jim's rather nice FP (Foundry Figures)
But nevertheless we needed to move into a thicket to offer some protection. All thought of advance quickly forgotten. Captain Premiermont was extorting us with "Think of France! Think of France! when a bullet struck him down.
|Pressure from the right
|from early in the battle, Captain Premiermort in on the right.
Editor's Note: Yes, once again I rolled double ones for Leader Killed. But heck with six different rolls of a total of only three on two dice rolled at various times during the game as an indication it was enviable.
The Artillery having ever so slowly moving at only 4 inches a turn, finally engaged far targets and doing some good but the askari to our right were now putting us under heavy fire. Again, our discipline kept us together, however, with only three of us remaining we were pinned and finally forced to retreat into the open. The end was nigh. As I write this last passage I hope tha…….
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Jim's use of rubber terrain pieces and plastic aquarium plants was fairly effective. The heavy vegetation did not help either side as the dominance of rifles and modern firepower. The The Men Who Would Be Kings rules are as we came to understand are not designed for two equally modern armed to have a good game. Well, OK, maybe good for August 1914 in northern France at the start of WW1 when such conditions helped establish the building of trenches. In that case, as our game demonstrated in the choices during the game made by Jim and myself, advancing is impossible thus doomed and defensive cover required to survive. Long range artillery is needed and more troops required for any attack. So in many ways this game was very much like the early battles of WW1 when 200,000 casualties occurred in the first month; but a "classical colonial" game is was not.


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By: Javier Encinas, PE | May 22, 2018
A retaining wall is a structure exposed to lateral pressures from the retained soil plus any other surcharges and external loads. When the wall is founded on soil, all overall stability failure modes need to be checked. But what about when the wall is supported on piles? This article discusses the design steps in the design of retaining walls supported on piles. Our software ASDIP RETAIN will be used to support the discussion.
What are the loads transferred to the foundation?
In addition to the retained backfill, retaining walls may be subject to surcharge loads at the top of retained mass. The stem may also have concentrated loads at the top. When the stem extends above backfill the retaining wall may be exposed to wind load. When retaining walls are located in seismic zones the seismic effects should considered.
The horizontal pressures on the backfill side will produce an overturning moment with respect to the base of the footing. The backfill pressure will produce also a horizontal sliding force on the wall. In addition, all vertical forces, including the wall selfweight and the weight of the backfill over the heel must be considered. At the end of the analysis process, three resultant forces at the base of the footing will be calculated: the overturning moment, the vertical resultant, and the horizontal resultant, as shown in the picture below.
How do you check the overall stability?
Pile foundations provide the wall stability directly by the forces taken by the piles. Unlike walls founded on soil, which transfer compression-only forces to the foundation, piles usually have a tension capacity. Therefore the applied overturning moment can be resisted by a couple of forces on the piles, one in tension and one in compression.
Likewise, the applied sliding force will be resisted by the lateral capacity of the vertical piles. When more lateral capacity is required, some piles may be battered so that the horizontal component of the axial load can be used to resist the sliding force.
Unlike walls on soil, the bearing capacity of the pile foundation can be increased by adding more piles, either vertical or batter, per the soils report recommendations. The number and location of piles is very important to calculate the pile forces. Each pile axial load must be smaller than the axial capacity, and the sliding force must be smaller than the horizontal capacity of the pile group.
As an example, the picture below shows the ASDIP RETAIN pile calculations. Note that the controlling load combination is based on service loads.
How do you design the pile cap?
The pile cap is the concrete element that transfers the loads to the supporting piles. ASDIP RETAIN calculates the shear and moment diagrams based on the factored pile reactions and the applied loads. With this information the main reinforcement is then designed at top and bottom of the pile cap.
In the direction parallel to the wall, the pile cap acts as a continuous beam supported by the piles. ASDIP RETAIN calculates the moments based on the pile reactions and assuming a uniformly distributed load.
The pile cap must also be checked for punching shear around the piles, and for one-way shear along the wall. The picture below shows the retaining wall in plan and elevation views showing the pile cap diagrams generated by ASDIP RETAIN.
ASDIP RETAIN includes the design of retaining walls supported on piles. The number and location of the piles are very important to calculate the pile forces. The pile cap must be designed for the resulting shears and moments in both directions. When designed by hand the whole process may be time consuming.
For a more in-depth discussion of the theories and overall stability modes please read my post Cantilever Retaining Walls: An Overview of the Design Process (Part 1).
Detailed information is available about this structural engineering software by visiting ASDIP RETAIN. You are invited to download a Free 15-Day Software Trial or go ahead and Place Your Order.
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Many of you know Gari Glaysher, who has played in our worship band on a few occasions. He is undertaking a Church Tour, performing songs from a new album he is releasing, 'It is Well with My Soul'.
The concert is coming to St John's on 17 June at 7:30pm. The aim of the tour is to showcase Gari's album, but also raise money for different charities. To keep the costs down, there won't be any tickets on sale, but there will be an entry fee of £5. The proceeds will go towards the work of Premier Lifeline.
It should be a great evening of music, and there will be hard copies of Gari's album available for purchase on the night. I am also led to believe that our very own Jonathan Faint might be putting in a 'guest appearance' – so if that doesn't convince you, nothing will! Put it in the diary and invite your friends along for what should be a very enjoyable time.


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1 year ago Edited by Joel Davis on July 3, 2018, 6:03 p.m. Reason: Initial post
Hey I thought this was might be useful or interesting to people here. Disney released a couple of production datasets: a volumetric cloud and a large (45GB) island scene from Moana.
These contain everything needed to render the scene (except, of course, a renderer...) all in documented, programmer-friendly formats. The textures are in PTEX which is a little unusual outside of visual effects but there is a spec and open source code for it.
Anyways, if you're looking for a fun graphics project and want to work with real-world data (which is always a challenge to find), this looks like a great place to start. Something like writing a converter to an existing renderer, a realtime viewer to fly around the scene, or trying to do handmade ray style project on a bit more than six spheres.. :) Even just poking around to see what goes into a scene like this can be pretty interesting.
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Bold decisions in healthcare – Now or never, says the Chamber
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Today the Malta Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise and Industry held a national conference to discuss the way forward for an efficient, fair and sustainable healthcare system.
The event was addressed by the Chamber President, the Health Minister, the Shadow Minister, the Chairperson of Alternattiva Demokratika, the Bishop of Gozo, and a representative of three Chamber Sections related to healthcare.
As a responsible organisation, the Malta Chamber said it felt obliged to discuss its concerns and offer tangible solutions to the healthcare situation in the country. Last May, the European Commission advised Malta to "pursue healthcare reforms to increase the cost-effectiveness of the sector, in particular by strengthening public primary care provision." It also recommended efficiency improvements and reductions in the length of public procurement procedures. Similarly, in its 2012 Country Report, the IMF said it was crucial for Malta "to build broad public consensus for health care reform aimed at increasing the adequacy and sustainability of the current schemes."
The Chamber stated that, "healthcare reform has been unnecessarily delayed by political factors. Consequently, the country is left with a system which is inadequate, unaffordable, and does not reach its objectives."
It added that "the unsustainability issue is not merely a concern for future generations. It is already with us today because due to financial constraints, wastage and the fact that it entitles people to trivial items/services, it is not possible to cater for serious life-saving medication. As a result, in the hour of need, patients, irrespective of their social background are forced to resort to charity or other drastic measures to retain their chance to live."
"The discussion at today's conference was proactive and constructive." The Chamber said that its recommendations were "faithful to the solemn promise made ahead of the last election for medicines and healthcare services to continue to be free. Nevertheless, even within these tight parameters, the Chamber believes there is ample room for improvement."
The suggested scheme, the Chamber said, "aims to improve procurement and by-pass public sector inefficiencies in ordering, stocking and distributing medicine. All this whilst esuring that medicine remains free and that the rights and welfare, especially of the most vulnerable, are safeguarded."
The Chamber's proposals "were based on the principle of "prevention is better than cure" as also applied to the national resources dedicated to healthcare – in particular Primary and Secondary healthcare.
"If resources "re freed to enable a widening of the medicine formulary and to afford the purchasing of important and advanced drugs, people will be healthier and their need to seek urgent attention at Mater Dei and Health Centres will be reduced. More efficacious medicines will result in shorter hospital stays or reduce the need for hospitalisation."
The Chamber pointed out that in order to free up the necessary resources, there must be political consensus on fundamental issues. "Agreement is necessary on taking bold steps to eliminate waste as well as to remove free entitlement to trivial items/services. In both cases, of course, due attention is to be given to uphold the interests of society as a whole. It is evident that saving our healthcare system requires a holistic approach and political maturity."
The Chamber said it was "encouraged by the feedback received on its – rather radical – proposals. It is also encouraged by the manner in which the political parties are approaching the situation."
The Chamber went on to say that it "will continue to work towards facilitating a process of political consensus to pave the way for the country to be in a position to offer – and afford – a healthcare system that our people and future generations so rightly deserve."
The Malta Chamber is proposing a reimbursement system that caters for two categories of patients (a) those who are entitled to free medicines but are in a position to pay for them upon collection and receive a refund from the State; (b) those who are entitled to free medicines and are not in a financial position to pay for them upon collection.
"In the latter case, the patient continues to collect free medicine though the community pharmacy of choice. Medicines are collected upon presentation of a "My Health Card and PIN" as proposed in the White Paper which, in this case, would be pre-credited with the medicines for which the patient is entitled."
"Deductions will be made upon each medicine dispensed to create the desired psychological effect for patients not to collect medicines which they do not need," the Chamber said.
"The E-Card roll out needs to involve family doctors and consultants to ensure that all patients are given a Card irrespective of which category they fall under. Simultaneously, due attention must be given to Primary Healthcare for this to serve as a platform for related systems such as the electronic prescription," The Malta Chamber of Commerce concluded.


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Pioneer of techno music Jeff Mills and international pianist Mikhail Rudy got together for a piano-DJ performance, a film-concert inciting to reflect on the notion of time, with the projection of the sublime images of Clouzot L'Enfer. 2015.
As a precursor and theoretician of techno music from the end of the 1980s, Jeff Mills never stopped creating without looking back.
His artistic ambition has always gone well beyond danse floor music and rather has invested into the mixed territories of dance and image (he wrote the music of Fritz Lang's The Three Ages of Buster Keaton or Metropolis).
The techno maestro has offered a series of creations under the auspices of The Louvre, in collaboration with Mikhail Rudy, known for his concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra or the philharmonic orchestras of Berlin or Saint Petersburg.
Both musicians immerged themselves into the rushes of Henri-Geroges Clouzot's famous unfinished film L'Enfer. The film director's long sequences capture his star Romy Schneider's face, subjecting it to an innovative and fascinating light device, inspired by kinetic art. Such material inspired the DJ and the pianist for their common score : time uniting or separating people.
After their first concert together in The Louvre Auditorium in February 2015, Mikhail Rudy and Jeff Mills will perform in Toulon Théâtre Liberté and Cognac Avant-Scène in May 2016.


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The Dave Matthews Band performing at the second day of last weekend's River's Edge Music Festival on St. Paul's Harriet Island. A three hour show complete with lasers - that's called gettign your money's worth!
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Hello there. How's everyone today? Have you missed me? I've missed you all longgggg time! I arrived home in the early hours of this morning. 2 days short of my target. Still no sleep. Hardcore huh….? 👺 Thats the Warrior that is! 😎
Well Montcada! What can I say. You have Montcada i Reixac & Montcada Ripollet in Northern Barcelona. An old Spanish town, half residential, half industrial. Basically, somewhere in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by mountains.
I only had my mobile's camera, so some of my pics are shit sorry, but so was Montcada.
As soon as I stepped off the train from the airport, I knew it was a mistake & Montcada wasn't for me. 1st off, the smell of the place hit me smack in the face. It stank of sewage & bins. Such an over-powering smell. Add the boiling heat from the sun into the mix & it was the kind of smell that made you wish that you were born without a nose!
As you can see in this pic, there's hardly nothing there, in poor little old Montcada.
My original intinerary plan was to spend 3 days in Montcada, visiting Las Ramblas via the great transport links Ripollet had on offer. Then move on to Madrid & finally Murcia. Well that plan went tits up & a whole new un-intended experience awaited. Its all Montcada's fault. But hey, it worked out great in the end & I've got a lot to write about. I had a blast!
Anyway, after the initial shock of the smell, I quickly came to realise that these lovely Spanish people didn't speak the normal, learned Spanish language. It was a very strong, very fast, Catalan Spanish that's extremely difficult to understand. Therefore, even more difficult for me to communicate. With that, came the bombshell that not one person in this town spoke a single word of English & you could tell by the look in their eyes, that they hadn't even seen an Englishman or any kind of foreigner before. Everyone looked shocked. They would just stare at you as if they were trying to suss you out. Not in a nasty way, but a dumb-founded way. Like eh! What the hell are you doing here? Sort of way. Maybe if I was of weak character, I would of just 360'd it & got the next train out of there. But f**k that, I bounced right on through Montdada i Reixac & into Ripollet. Finally finding my hotel, which took about an hour by the way. Not a very good start to this epic adventure!
Important note for any tourist…..
In Montcada if your not a local then your not just a foreigner, your an outsider!
The hotel itself was great. I stayed at the Sercotel, Montcada. H10.
I was delighted to find a hidden gem on 1 of my smoke breaks;) A nice rooftop pool area.
Its only a small lap pool but trust me. 50 laps after 50 bottles, did the trick!
This rooftop area really was a nice place to chill after the stress of travelling back & forth to Las Ramblas & the headf**k of the surrounding industrial units.
Then I found a small gym that I used. Very basic but good enough for a morning workout.
I booked this hotel because it was meant to have great transport links to explore Barcelona. Hmmm, don't think so! The links are there, somewhere. However it was very testing to even a nice natured person. They were never on time & took far too long to reach Las Ramblas, that by day 3 of visiting the city via Montcada I had decided to scrap my itinerary plan & book accommodation on the La Rambla strip as I simply didn't get enough of it & I craved for more. So that was the point when Madrid went out the window & the initial plan took a twist in a whole new direction.
It was time to do 1 & get the hell out of there as fast as I could.
The train station out of there, which by the way caters for 4 different trains, all with different routes. So you have to be carefull to make sure you actually get on the right one!
The train to my new destination took more than an hour. But hey, who cares eh!
Now I know I've nagged & slagged my way through this entire post, but do join me next time for 6 days, when life gets a lot more lively, in the heart of Barcelona's vibrant Las Ramblas.
Thanks for reading &……
Stay 😎 Travellers. Viva Espana 😜


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The most beautiful square in Prague.
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According to the Old City you can walk indefinitely! And every time to see something new! All houses are not alike, each one can stand for a long time, examining curls, turrets, spiers, paintings, bas-reliefs, figures. Make a few steps and again stiffen in amazement from stucco or ornate balcony, from the color of the facade, from the sculptural group , decorating the roof or anything else completely unusual. Go to the Powder Tower, estimate its size and study the figures that adorn it for a long time. And all the time to shoot, shoot, to home to revise this beauty a thousand times and show relatives and acquaintances. But most importantly, what impresses most is the careful attitude of Prague to its history. Old houses are in excellent condition, among the historical buildings there are no ugly skyscrapers and even the Novodels are struggling not to stand out against the background of old buildings. In old Prague it is impossible not to fall in love. I really want to come back here more than once.
The most beautiful square in Prague and the most beautiful in Europe. It has a special atmosphere that envelops you in its history. In the center the monument to Jan Huss, burned by his Protestant ideas, overwhelms you. Do not forget to look at the crosses, on the pavement in front of the façade that overlooks this square of the Old Town Hall (Clock Tower), which commemorates the executions of another 27 Protestants in 1621. Look at the beautiful towers of the Tyn church, in the protestant church of San Nicolás, in the beautiful facades and its plaques, in number 17 the House of the Lamb where Einstein lived, in the nr 2 beautiful house with graffiti, in number 12 the Goltz-Kinskych Palace where in 1948 the rise to power of the communist party was proclaimed from its balconies, in number 13 the House of the Bell of Stone, in number 14 a beautiful Renaissance house, everything you like, baroque facades, porches. And, as not , there are also terraces where you can eat, have a coffee or an ice cream but I advise you to pass by because for two coffees they charged us 16 euros, better get lost in the surrounding streets where prices are better for your pocket.


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Tubeless tyres are great - fewer punctures being one of their big trump cards - but they can occasionally be an absolute sod to get installed properly. Thankfully tyre and rim compatibility is getting better all the time, and there's a wide range of tubeless pumps and canisters now available that help a lot with the sometimes tricky initial inflation.
milKit reckons its brand new Booster eliminates all tubeless tyre installation woes and is easier to use, more efficient, lighter and less expensive than other products currently available. It has just launched on Kickstarter where the company is hoping to get CHF 30,000 funding to put it fully into production. We have no doubt it'll comfortably meet its target.
milKit has form in producing products that make going tubeless easier, just read our review of the excellent Tubeless Valve and Refill kit to see what we mean. The Swiss company's new Booster is basically a tubeless inflation system, of which there are now quite a few available on the market, but it's smaller and potentially easier to use. If you're not sure what a tubeless inflator is, it's essentially a sealed chamber that you top up with air using a standard pump, then release it all in one go to rapidly inflate the tyre and pop the tyre bead so that it forms an airtight seal with the rim.
- 14 of the best cycling tyre pumps and CO2 inflators
To operate you simply inflate the Booster with a standard track pump, then attach it to the tubeless valve with the valve core removed, and release the air. The Booster looks to be well designed and because there are no hoses or extra valves milKit reckons it works more efficiently than other tubeless inflators. It's much smaller than other tubeless inflators though, and we reckon it will appeal to mountain bikers and adventure cyclists that might want to take it with them as a spare, just in case they need to reinflate a tubeless tyre out in the wild.
And that's made possible because a neat trick up the Boosters sleeve is that it can be used with a reinforced version of a standard aluminium drinking bottle like SIGG or MSR. milKit has, of course, developed a specific canister to attach to the valve, with two sizes available. It naturally works well with milKit's existing Tubeless Valve and Refill kit but is compatible with any other tubeless system.
"Many tubeless users and bike mechanics approached us and said that they loved the milKit valve system, and asked if we couldn't also find an easy solution to the one problem remaining with tubeless tires: inflating them without having to use a compressor," says Pius Kobler, co-founder and CTO at milKit. "This inspired us to develop the Booster."
It would seem milKit is on a mission to make road tubeless easier for the masses. We previously tested the Tubeless Valve and Refill kit which makes filling tyres with sealant easier, as well as also making checking the level of sealant several months down the road possible without having to remove the tyre. You can read Mike Stead's enthusiastic review here.
Interested? The milKit Booster will cost €49 for the large bottle size, and a little less for the smaller bottle, but you can currently pick it up on Kickstarter where the company has decided to launch the Booster, and with a small size canister it is going for €40.
Check out the Kickstarter campaign here
David has worked on the road.cc tech team since July 2012. Previously he was editor of Bikemagic.com and before that staff writer at RCUK. He's a seasoned cyclist of all disciplines, from road to mountain biking, touring to cyclo-cross, he only wishes he had time to ride them all. He's mildly competitive, though he'll never admit it, and is a frequent road racer but is too lazy to do really well. He currently resides in the Cotswolds.


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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is such a debilitating disorder that it effects all of the personality and mindset of a persons well-being. It doesn't just affect that of having to make a person wash his/her hands or make him/her check locks or windows. It effects everything of that person.
Let me explain….
Depression: Depression is very closely linked to that of OCD. It wears heavily on the persons well-being of having to do anything during that of his/her day. OCD makes a person feel worthless for having to check all of the time or having to wash your hands or take constant showers all of the time. I know for me personally it wore on me so heavily on depression that I had to be hospitalised and have shock treatment to come out or be lifted out of my "down" periods.
Self-esteem: Self-esteem is another thing that takes a hit when one has OCD. And when one has OCD their self-esteem is usually pretty low or non-existant, and this is where depression sets in. So one has to set one apart from the rest and work on selfesteem too as well as their OCD.
Self-confidence: self-confidence is another aspect that needs work on when one has OCD. All a person can think about is checking and washing when he/she has OCD, and their day is consumed with the behaviour they think they have to do and invariably end up doing it to no end. Low self-confidence wears on all of our being and knows no end to it's strength when it has a hold of us, so it's imperative that we grab ahold of it and increase it to a level where it is off the charts
so we can enjoy life again.
And we all know that when we feel down our self-esteem and self-confidence take a bad hit. Thats why as an OCD sufferer you should constantly work on your self-esteem and self-confidence as well as that of your OCD directly. Your self-esteem and self-confidence are closely related to your feelings and your feelings take a big hit due to your behaviours and actions during the day.
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AUTHOR: William A. P. Childs
Greek Art and Aesthetics in the Fourth Century B.C. analyzes the broad character of art produced during this period, providing an in-depth analysis of and commentary on many of its most notable examples of sculpture and painting.
Taking into consideration developments in style and subject matter, and elucidating political, religious, and intellectual context, William A. P. Childs argues that Greek art in this era was a natural outgrowth of the high classical period and focused on developing the rudiments of individual expression that became the hallmark of the classical in the fifth century.
As Childs shows, in many respects the art of this period corresponds with the philosophical inquiry by Plato and his contemporaries into the nature of art and speaks to the contemporaneous sense of insecurity and renewed religious devotion. Delving into formal and iconographic developments in sculpture and painting, Childs examines how the sensitive, expressive quality of these works seamlessly links the classical and Hellenistic periods.
What We Are Reading Today: Greek Art and Aesthetics in the Fourth Century B.C.
What We Are Reading Today: Greek Art and Aesthetics in the Fourth Century B.C.
- The nature of "style as a concept of expression," an issue that becomes more important given the increasingly multiple styles
AUTHOR: William A. P. Childs


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Just Ask Any Teacher
I want to help our dedicated teachers and public servants to prepare our children for that future, by enabling those teachers and providing them with the technology and material support to permit them to create an individualized learning environment for each child that prepares them to become life-long learners.
Our schools must first be safe. So, I support banning assault rifles and taking other steps to ensure that children's lives are placed ahead of the interests of the gun lobby. I am determined to protecting and strengthen our public schools. They must again be our top legislative and funding priority. I support teachers and support staff (i.e., allowing collective bargaining). And, believe it is time to get serious about allowing local control.
At one time, North Carolina was second to none in its commitment to public education. From visionaries such as Appalachian State University founders Blanford B. Dougherty and his brother Dauphin D. Dougherty, to former Democratic governors Jim Hunt and Terry Sanford, our state's best leaders have always worked to ensure that North Carolina's children received their constitutionally-guaranteed public education.
Indeed, Appalachian State University (ASU) is an example of our state's commitment to public education. The brothers Dougherty founded what we now know as ASU as a teacher's college in 1899. Over time, it grew and in 1971 became part of the University of North Carolina system. The reason the Dougherty brothers founded the college was because they believed that the children living in the rural mountain counties of the High County deserved to have well-trained teachers who had lived among them. It was that spirit that existed across the Tar Heel State which led similarly-minded individuals to organize what eventually became the North Carolina's graded public schools in the mid-19th Century.
This 150-year sacred commitment to our state's children has been undermined by just a few years of Republican control in Raleigh. Our teachers, our students, and our state deserve better.
The Facts
Teachers are underpaid. As Kris Nordstrom reports in this article for NC Policy Watch, "Politicians from both sides of the political spectrum understand that teachers are the most important classroom factor when it comes to improving student performance. Unfortunately, their policies over the past decade have failed to reflect this understanding. North Carolina's average teacher pay ranking has fallen from 22nd in FY 03-04 to 41st in FY 15-16, and enrollment in teacher preparation programs is plummeting."
Nordstrom notes, "To truly determine the salary required to attract and retain talented candidates to the teaching field, the important measurement is how compensation compares in relation to alternative careers with similar educational requirements. That is, the salaries of North Carolina teachers are best compared against the salaries of other professionals in North Carolina with a bachelor's degree or higher. This metric avoids the weaknesses of traditional state rankings and is more aligned with the data a talented university student considers when deciding which profession to pursue."
Nordstrom concludes, "We need to change the dialogue on teacher pay. Policymakers should stop focusing on North Carolina's ranking compared to other states and instead focus on making teacher salaries competitive with the salaries offered by other similarly-educated professions in North Carolina. Based on this measure, North Carolina's teacher salaries are even more inadequate than previously thought. While creating a competitive teacher salary schedule would require significant investment, the required revenue could be realized by repealing recent years' tax cuts that have largely benefited the wealthy and powerful. Policymakers should also feel urgency to act, as the teacher wage penalty has been increasing over time, and the benefits of a higher-achieving teacher force will benefit all students, particularly disadvantaged students who are less likely to be taught by the most experienced and effective teachers."
I agree. It's time to treat educators like the professionals that they are.
In addition to underpaying teachers, there are now 7,000 fewer teacher assistants in the North Carolina public schools, even while our population grows rapidly.
North Carolina consistently ranks near the bottom (presently 44th) in the nation in per-pupil spending.
Standardized testing is out of control. Teachers are beholden to legislators who have absolutely no experience in education and have hence created classroom environments where administrators, teachers and students are more concerned about teaching to a test than teaching critical thinking.
Meanwhile, Charter Schools divert funds intended for the public schools to entities not nearly as accountable as local school boards. They are often run by for-profit organizations that look at children as a commodity, not a student. So, money that should be reinvested in the public schools instead go into the pockets of the Charter School investors. In short, Charter Schools are essentially private schools funded with public dollars.
It is time we return to the Real North Carolina value of vigorously supporting our public schools.
It is time to develop a teacher pay structure consistent with that outlined by NC Policy Watch.
It is time to provide teachers with the assistants they need to serve our children.
It is time to move North Carolina to the top of the nation in terms of per-pupil funding.
It is time to establish a teacher-recruitment program in partnership with our university system. The example set by ASU founders B.B. and D.D. Dougherty is one we should continue to emulate today.
It is time to recognize that the state of North Carolina can – and must – treat our teachers and other educational professionals with more respect. Anything short of that threatens the quality of education received by our state's children.
That's simply unacceptable. Don't take my word for it though. Just ask any teacher.


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Dear GAP-Forum,
This is to announce a bugfix for the GAP library. The priority
of this fix is high. You should apply this fix soon.
This fix corrects:
1) A potential 'division by zero' error in the polynomial factorization
routine over Z when trying to reduce coefficients.
2) A wrong result of 'IsSubset' for FpGroups if the FpGroup already contains
3) A missing record component, leading to a syntax error, in the element
conjugacy test for matrix groups.
Errors 1 and 3 will yield GAP to enter the 'brk' loop, error 2 may yield
wrong results!
Thanks to Gunter Malle for pointing out the errors 1 and 3.
To apply the fix, load the zoo archive 'fix2.zoo' from the
bugfixes web page
Alternatively you can find this file in the 'bugfixes' directory of the
GAP ftp distribution.
Unpack the file in the home directory of your GAP distribution (the
directory containing the 'lib' and 'etc' directories) using 'unzoo'. This
will replace the erraneous files by fixed versions.
You can remove the file 'description2' afterwards.
You won't need to recompile anything.
Best regards,
Alexander Hulpke


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A couple more updates from Michael Marcel, whose websites on historical and current revival-related events may be read at UK Wells and UK Awakening respectively:
This is a word given by a woman I respect who has been in full-time ministry for many years.
"Having watched the London Awakening meetings I felt it was time to release this dream The Lord gave me almost 12 years ago. The Lord showed me a group of people who had moved from Manor Park to Ilford and was now ministering in Ilford. I saw a group of 11 people worshiping on the streets of Ilford going from street to street, but the interesting thing was a woman was in the front-line and she was dressed in a flowing bridal gown. I then said to the Lord, what is this? And He said this is a group of prophetic people /prophetic ministry that is coming to Ilford who will prepare the way for My return; they are a bridal group operating in prophetic ministry. I noticed in the dream there were 11 people who were committed at that time in dream I also noticed that worship was key to this group in preparing the way and a people for the return of Christ."
Michael writes on 9th September that Capstone Church is still going strong and entering a new phase, as indicated by this prophetic word delivered by Simon Braker of School of the Spirit Leicester:
"As we stood in worship the Lord took me into a vision. I saw a giant bowl in this room and it was full. The angel went to the Father and said, "Father it is full," and the Father looked at him and said, "Well then, get a bigger one!".
"I saw that bowl being tipped into another bowl, and what is here now was dwarfed, because the bowl was so big. What I hear the Lord say is He has been building it up to this moment, and it is no coincidence that Apostle Che Ahn is here tonight and Jerame (Nelson) is coming next week, because from this moment it shifts into an apostolic flow, that it is going to break into a new level in the nations."
RB Footnote:
Che Ahn is one of the leaders of Revival Alliance and founder of Harvest Rock Church, Pasadena. In June 2008 when opening a large gathering connected with an outpouring in Lakeland, Florida, spoke of a 1984 prophecy of revival in southern California. (See a few videos of worship at that event in my blog New Britain: Spiritual rains have started.) Since early 2016 (here) Che's associates Jerame & Miranda Nelson in San Diego have been experienced a Holy Spirit outpouring.


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What not to do
I've been getting SMSes for the past few days that look like this: Mike Wills (Minneapolis / St. Paul, MN) has requested to add you as a friend. Reply 'a' to add, or 'info' to get profile. That's all. I have no idea what service is sending them; they each come from a different generated number like "32665301". I'm certainly not going to reply to them.
Someone designed and implemented that. Did they never test it?


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The Voice Kids Season 1 Final 4, JK Labajo first time on MPS! Read more.
14 year old singer debuted on Daily Top 10 for the first time last Friday, August 28 at No. 10 for his third single "Para Sa 'Yo".
On our weekend charts, the song also made it's landing at No. 7 on OPM Top 10 (Aug 29-Sept 4) and No. 11 on Weekly Top 20 (Aug 30-Sept 5).
"Para Sa 'Yo" will be included on his upcoming album, 'JK'. Meanwhile, watch the lyric video of this song below.
One Direction's "Drag Me Down" dominated our weekend chart as they premiered on the No. 1 spot of Inter Top 10 and Weekly Top 20 this week! The lads dethroned 5 SOS' "She's Kinda Hot" which spent 2 weeks on the top spot and the remaining songs on the chart. Can they maintain their lead? That's one thing to watch out for.
Let's have a recap of the TOP 20 Most Played Songs this week on this playlist below.
Be sure to add this song on your playlist like we do.
Meanwhile, here's the schedule of your favorite MPS weekend charts!
OPM Top 10 - Saturdays at 5 PM
Inter Top 10 - Saturdays at 5:45 PM
Weekly Top 20 - Sundays at 6 PM
And also our Daily Top 10 chart, Mondays to Fridays at 6 PM.
Be updated always on the hottest and latest tracks. Only here on MPS!
Get the latest updates from your favorite music chart, hottest hits and music video releases!
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Hello, and welcome to my September Favorites post!
I have to say, the month of September has passed the quickest so far this year. How did that happen? For new readers, welcome and thank you for joining in! Each month I post a list of my favorite things; books, movies, articles, clothes, things that I'm loving (or not) and snapshots from the month. Enjoy!
Fab Fit Fun Fall Box
I got my first Fab Fit Fun box last week and it did not disappoint! Here's a recap of what came in the fall box:
Hot & Cold Gel Pack, Lavender Cuticle Oil, FreshCare Flushable Cleansing Cloths, Renewing Mud Mask, Matte Color & Shiny Lip Balm Crayon in Florence Fig
Mer-Sea & Co. Scarf
Private Party Gym Bag
B-Low the Belt in Tan with Gold Buckle
Coxet Wire Heart Ceramic Jewelry Holder
How cute is all this fun stuff? The total value of the box ranged from $377 – $397, and I was able to get it for $39.99 with a promo code. There are tons of promo codes out there so if you want to register for the next box, I'd get on it ASAP. They're quarterly, so there's one more this year coming in the winter.
How to Get Dressed by Alison Freer, a costume designer, has been such a fun book to look through. It reminded me of the Lucky Guide to Mastering Any Style, anyone remember that one? I highly recommend How to Get Dressed, even if you already know how to get dressed. I posted my review last week.
I'm excited to watch Lady Gaga's new Netflix documentary, Gaga: Five Foot Two. You can watch the trailer (and read a little review), here.
- Two amazing women, one eye-opening interview.
- Ursula K. LeGuin on staying awake while reading: "To read a story well is to follow it, to act it, to feel it, to become it—everything short of writing it, in fact. Reading is not "interactive" with a set of rules or options, as games are; reading is actual collaboration with the writer's mind. No wonder not everybody is up to it."
- 100 Years of Raisins (!)
In other non-news, haircuts! And, java chip frappuccinos are still my favorite!
I hope your September was great, and here's to a lovely fall season!
And don't forget to check out past favorites: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, and August 🙂


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Hunter Research is working with Mills + Schnoering Architects for the County of Mercer in the creation of a stabilized ruin of the John Rogers House in Mercer County Park, New Jersey. This long-abandoned dwelling is a patterned-brick farmhouse typical of the colonial period in the Lower Delaware Valley. The date in the gable end of this house, picked out in vitrified brick, has long been the subject of debate. Does it read, "1751" or "1761"? In recent years the later date has been gaining greater acceptance. During the dismantling of the house interior several handhewn framing timbers were salvaged by archaeological monitors working in concert with the general contractor. Since several of these beams retained a "waney edge" they were considered good candidates for tree-ring dating. Samples were submitted for analysis to Dr. Daniel L. Druckenbrod, Associate Professor of Geological, Environmental and Marine Sciences at Rider University. According to Dr. Druckenbrod, the results conclusively show that the timbers analyzed were cut "between the late growing season of 1751 but before the start of the 1752 growing season." Now we can finally put the debate over the age of this house to rest. 1751 wins!
Plumbing the Depths of Honey Hollow
Hunter Research has just recently completed for Mercer County a year-long study of the storied section of Baldpate Mountain known as Honey Hollow. For decades, this locale has been posited as a focus of free black settlement, with as many as 50 families supposedly living in close proximity to one another on the mountain's wooded, rocky slopes. Through exhaustive research into primary documents, field survey and oral history, the African-American presence on Baldpate Mountain is shown to be relatively light, widely dispersed, and peaking in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. There was no nucleated black settlement per se on Baldpate Mountain and this idea apparently originated in the mid-20th century in the writings of popular folklorist Henry Charlton Beck. The report is available here.
Evan: Certified Drone Pilot
Last month, Evan Mydlowski, Hunter Research staff cartographer and surveyor, became the company's first FAA-certified drone operator. When coupled with digital photography and videography, Evan and his drone will provide our firm with a vital new capability that we anticipate using on a routine basis to create georectified plan views for archaeological and architectural site surveys and large-scale area excavations. Evan has been putting the Hunter Research drone through its paces recently at the Monmouth University archaeological field school at Jockey Hollow in Morristown National Historical Park where he has been documenting excavations of the Continental Army's encampments of the winter of 1779-1780.


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WordPress SEO by Yoast <= 188.8.131.52 – Blind SQL Injection
WordPress SEO by Yoast is a popular WordPress plugin (wordpress-seo) used to improve the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) of WordPress sites. The latest version at the time of writing (220.127.116.11) has been found to be affected by two authenticated (admin, editor or author user) Blind SQL Injection vulnerabilities. The plugin has more than one million downloads according to WordPress.
Technical Description:
The authenticated Blind SQL Injection vulnerability can be found within the 'admin/class-bulk-editor-list-table.php' file. The orderby and order GET parameters are not sufficiently sanitised before being used within a SQL query. For more information and a PoC please visit WPVULNDB.
I highly recommend updating the Plugin a.s.a.p. (when using it) to version 1.7.4 which has this exploit fixed. I noticed first attempts in my logs already, which doesn't suprise me really as this exploit is in the wild now. Thank god i decided to upgrade WordPress SEO by Yoast a while ago. I always was reluctant as Yoast is known to have somewhat short update intervals.


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Local community groups in Ballymoney are now able to apply for up to £4,000 funding for exciting and imaginative projects using wild flowers and wild flower themes to bring communities together and transform local spaces.
The funding is available through the UK-wide wild flower project Grow Wild, which is supported by the Big Lottery Fund and led by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and already supports a number of community initiatives across Northern Ireland.
Over the past couple of years dozens of groups have been awarded funding of between £1,000 and £4,000 to bring people together to transform a communal space by sowing, growing and enjoying native wild flowers. These projects are now strengthening social bonds, raising awareness of wild flowers and also improving our natural surroundings.
Ideas are now being welcomed for Grow Wild's 2016 community projects, with applications closing on December 1st.
Stéphanie Baine, NI Manager for Grow Wild, said: "If you are a youth or community group with a vision to bring your community together and brighten your local area with wild flowers or even bring wild flowers into people's lives then we would love to hear from you.
We can't wait to get started and urge local people to get involved as much as possible."
Joanne McDowell, Big Lottery Fund NI director, said: "The Big Lottery Fund are pleased to support Grow Wild, which is helping people across Northern Ireland to make the changes they want in their communities."
For more information about community projects or the wider Grow Wild campaign, please visit the website at www.growwilduk.com


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Congratulations Taylor College on achieving and receiving your 2nd Institutional Accreditation!
Accreditation by ABHES signifies that the institution has met the eligibility criteria and evaluation standards of ABHES as evidenced during its most recent on-site review and continues to comply with the policies and procedures for maintenance of accreditation as established by ABHES.
Great job to the Taylor College faculty and staff that work so hard to achieve this triumphant accomplishment! One team one goal one mission!


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Craig Peludat threw three touchdown passes, two to Michael Colubiale, in the Hawks' 38-6 victory over the Wolves.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH — At first, Michael Colubiale thought he wasn't going to be able to catch a pass Friday night.
The Spruce Creek receiver was open in the end zone on two straight plays in the first quarter, but he dropped passes from Craig Peludat both times. The third time was a charm as he caught a 13-yard touchdown toss. From then on his hands were like glue.
Colubiale caught four passes for 109 yards and two touchdowns and Peludat threw for 203 yards and three TDs as the Hawks (2-3) trounced Deltona (0-5) 38-6 in a non-district game at New Smyrna Beach Stadium.
The Hawks, who led 14-0 at halftime, put the game away with three touchdowns in the fourth quarter.
"The first half was ugly, but in the second half we executed a lot better and picked it up on both sides of the ball,'' Colubiale said.
Deltona quarterback Mark Stanford passed for 94 yards and rushed for 21, including a 1-yard touchdown run for the Wolves' only score with 12 minutes left to pull the visitors to within 17-6. But the Hawks scored touchdowns on their final three possessions.
"Second-half defense has been killing us all season,'' said Stanford, who also grabbed a first-half interception playing defensive back.
"Our kids fought for the better of three quarters,'' Deltona coach Ky Cowan said. "I think a little bit of fatigue set in. We have a lot of guys playing both ways.''
Josh Franklin caught eight passes for 90 yards for the Wolves, including a 17-yard reception to the 1 that set up Stanford's TD run.
On the ensuing possession, Colubiale took a screen pass 69 yards to set up Josh Bennett's 6-yard touchdown run. A scrambling Peludat then found Colubiale at the edge of the end zone for a 28-yard scoring pass to make it 31-6. Stephen Brown scored Creek's final TD on a 20-yard run with 3:41 left.
Peludat threw two touchdowns passes in the first quarter. He hit Eugene McGirt deep with a 77-yard scoring pass before hitting Colubiale with a 13-yard strike. Jagger Lieb's 40-yard field goal made it 17-0 with 6:04 left in the third quarter.
The Hawks host Flagler Palm Coast on Thursday in a District 1-8A game, while Deltona hosts crosstown rival Pine Ridge next Friday in a District 9-6A contest.


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By Alan Furst
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The protagonist of Alan Furst's 10th novel is Jean-François Mercier de Boutillon, a 46- year-old French lieutenant colonel who, in the fall of 1937, has just been posted to Warsaw as military attaché in the French embassy there. A widower -- his wife, to whom he was devoted, died three years before -- with two grown daughters, he is a man of deliberate, careful manner. He is also a realist. Over and over again he is seized by "a certain apprehension, a shadow of war," but almost everyone with whom he deals either doesn't see it or denies its existence. A German, Dr. Lapp, who comes to him in hopes of assistance in unseating Hitler, puts it best:
"Do you know the Latin proverb Mundus vult decipi, ergo decepiatur? Herr Hitler's favorite saying: The world wants to be deceived, therefore let it be deceived. And he isn't wrong. Newspapers on the continent explain every day why there won't be war. And I assure you there will be, unless the right people determine to stop it."
Obviously Lapp and his tiny band of allies get nowhere in their plans against Hitler, and Mercier is not able to do a great deal to help them. But that is not Mercier's chief preoccupation; indeed, it is only a subplot in this well-constructed, intelligent novel. Though he is not officially a French spy, he undertakes missions in the Polish countryside aimed at discovering Germany's military plans, in the first of which he and his driver come across what Mercier knows as a "dragon's tooth," or "tank trap." It has been covered up; the driver asks why, and Mercier replies:
" 'Maybe changed their minds. Maybe it wasn't where they wanted it. Maybe there's another one a few hundred yards north, who can say, but that's the likely explanation. Or, if you wanted to think another way, an army that's going to attack, with a tank force, will get rid of the static defenses between them and the enemy border. Because, then, they're in the way.' Mercier's technical description barely suggested what he feared. This was nothing less than preparation for war; a classic, telltale sign of planned aggression. The journalists could wring their hands from morning edition to night -- War is coming! War is coming! -- but what he'd found in the darkness wasn't opinion, it was an abandoned tank trap, defense put aside, and what came next was offense, attack, houses burning in the night."
Other signs abound. A Polish engineer named Edvard Uhl -- "an ordinary-looking man, who led a rather ordinary life, a more-than-decent life, in the small city of Breslau: a wife and three children, a good job -- as a senior engineer at an ironworks and foundry, a subcontractor to the giant Rheinmetall firm in Düsseldorf" -- is recruited by Mercier to spy for the French, smuggling German plans and designs out of the factory. The bait is an ersatz Polish countess -- she actually is Hana Musser, "a half-Czech, half-German woman of uncertain age, who, two years earlier, had fled the fulminous Nazi politics of the Sudetenland and settled in Warsaw"-- who works for Mercier and had lured the panting Uhl into an affair. Uhl needs money to keep things going with her, and Mercier provides it, in exchange for information. But suddenly Uhl disappears, abducted by German agents. All of this, Mercier realizes, "had turned a desk job into something very much like a fight, so to walk away now would be to walk away from a fight. He had never done that, and he never would."
Called back to Paris to meet with superiors, Mercier finds only one sympathetic ear. It belongs to Gen. de Beauvilliers, who "was famously the intellectual of the Conseil Supérieur de la Guerre, the high committee of military strategy, and was said to be one of the most powerful men in France, though precisely what he did, and how he did it, remained almost entirely in shadow." The two have a clandestine luncheon during which Mercier says, "The Germans are building tanks. I was watching them, until I lost an agent. And they're planning maneuvers in Schramberg -- in the Black Forest. They are, I believe, thinking hard about the Ardennes Forest, in Belgium, where the Maginot Line ends." De Beauvilliers is aware of this, but replies: "We are, in France, obsessed by the idea of great men-- nobody else would build the Panthéon. So Marshal Pétain, the hero of Verdun, much honored, idolized, even, has persuaded himself that he is omniscient. In a recent pamphlet, he wrote, 'The Ardennes forest is impenetrable; and if the Germans were imprudent enough to get entangled in it, we should seize them as they came out!' "
Nobody with even the most cursory knowledge of 20th-century history needs to be told that this is, as Mercier puts it, "nonsense." In June 1940 -- two and a half years after this fictional exchange -- the German army smashed through the Ardennes Forest, and France almost immediately fell; that same month Marshall Philippe Pétain accepted the presidency of the Vichy government, Hitler's French puppet. But in the years leading up to that calamitous month the French military high command was so wedded to the Maginot Line that dissent, no matter how informed and eloquent, was pointless. Mercier's contemporary and acquaintance Charles de Gaulle tried to awaken his fellow officers, but to no avail. As De Beauvilliers tells Mercier: "Too bad about the Poles, but they've got to be made to understand we aren't coming to help them, no matter what the treaties say. We might be able to, if de Gaulle and his allies . . . had their way, but they won't get it. French military doctrine is in the hands of Marshall Pétain, de Gaulle's enemy, and he won't let go."
Obviously Furst holds Pétain in contempt, with ample reason, but thumbing his nose at a dead general isn't the point of The Spies of Warsaw. What Furst wants to show is how great is the human capacity for self-deception and the terrible places into which it can lead us. The reader knows at the outset that Poland and France soon will fall and that millions will die, including many of those whom we meet in these pages, and Furst means us to feel frustration and anger as the prevailing idée fixe opens the way to Hitler's acts of aggression. The months following Mercier's arrival in Warsaw were civilized Europe's last chance to save itself, and it failed the test, in great measure because of Germany's overwhelming military superiority but also because too many leaders of the free nations simply refused to acknowledge reality.
As all of this should make clear, Furst is that rarity, a writer of popular fiction who is also a serious novelist. This is the third of his novels that I've reviewed, and the steady growth of his achievement almost can be measured with calipers. At times his prose can get a little strained, as he reaches a little far for effects, but it's now much more controlled than it was a dozen years ago in The World at Night. Like a handful of other writers who have turned espionage fiction into something approximating art -- John le Carré, of course, and Charles McCarry -- Furst combines the craft of entertainment with the exploration of important themes, and in no way does the entertainment diminish the themes.
The Spies of Warsaw is entertaining from first page to last. It has spies in just about every nook and cranny, many of them motivated not by patriotism or valor or anything like that, but by "the gods of greed." Furst clearly enjoys writing about sexual liaisons and romantic entanglements, and there are plenty of both herein, including a delicious little scene with a delicious little Polish princess, memories of youthful trysts with an adventuresome cousin, and a romance with the "very striking" Anna Szarbek, a lawyer with the League of Nations. Through it all Jean-Francois Mercier moves steadily onward, an honorable man in a treacherous world. ·
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