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Lovely beautifully maintained 2 story brick on large private lot in Quail Hollow. 2 story foyer. Elegant LR with fireplace. Large family room with fireplace, cherry moldings and built ins. Billard room could easily be downstairs 4th bedroom/ master suite already plumbed for bath!!! Kitchen with island, granite countertops, tumbled marble backsplash, walk in pantry, Bosch dishwasher, SS Wolf 6 gas burner range and oven, SS wall oven and microwave, KitchenAid refrigerator. Study/playroom could also be 4th bedroom down. Convert bar to connecting bathroom. Master suite with office, 2 walk in closets, bath with steam shower, jacuzzi, double vanities, travertine floors and countertops. Walk up attic could be finished. Outdoor terrace with fireplace, egg and grill. Recirculating hot water, Anderson windows 2016, downstairs HVAC Oct 2018. Central vac. 2 car garage with storage.

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  • Zip Code: 28210
  • Year Built: 1980
  • Subdivision/Neighborhood: Quail Hollow
  • Elementary School: Beverly Woods
  • Middle School: Carmel
  • High School: South Mecklenburg
  • Sq.Ft.: 4,943 sq ft
  • Style: Traditional
  • Stories: 2 Story
  • Bedrooms: 3
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  • Half Baths: 1
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  • Sewer: City Sewer
  • Sq Ft Main: 2921
  • Sq Ft Upper: 2022
  • Sub-Sub-Type: 2 Story
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On 1 October 2018 new Government regulations came into force that effect animal boarding businesses (including home and day boarders), dog breeders, pet shops, riding establishments and any person keeping or training animals for exhibition.

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Southeastern Community College’s Building the Dream capital campaign has received another generous gift. Standard of Beaverdale, a locally owned full-service lumber yard and hardware store located in West Burlington, has contributed $50,000 with a single check.

SCC President Dr. Michael Ash says including Standard of Beaverdale’s gift, the College has secured funding pledges of over $9.2 million of the campaign’s $12 million goal.

Kenneth Schwenker, President and owner of Standard of Beaverdale and a member of SCC Class of 1972, authorized the gift.  He was named the 2015 Distinguished Alumnus of the Year for the West Burlington Campus and is a long-time supporter of the college.

Ash notes, “Ken is a community-minded individual with deep roots at SCC. He loves the Blackhawks and is always one of the first businesses to step forward when we have an unmet need. For his outright gift and for his many hours of volunteering and donating in support of our college, we are truly grateful.”

The Building the Dream capital campaign will fund SCC’s expansion initiative of the same name. It includes the new Health Professions Center and the Hall of Sciences on the West Burlington campus, and the Industrial Technologies Training Center on the Keokuk campus. With an estimated total project cost of $27 million, it is the largest, most comprehensive infrastructure investment undertaken by SCC since 1995.

“I’ve always believed that if you want to see positive change, you have to participate in it. I was honored to be asked to invest in the campaign. It really is an investment. Every dollar contributed will pay dividends to our communities. Our company will hire SCC graduates and they will buy our business’s products. Why wouldn’t we want to help?” asks Schwenker.

Campaign chair Michael Shinn, also an SCC alumnus, expressed his sincere appreciation for Schwenker’s gift. “Ken understands that growth and development of our region requires participation. He didn’t hesitate to get involved and actively shares his enthusiasm for the college’s plans with others. That’s what it’s going to take for this campaign to succeed, involvement, investment and building awareness.”

For information about the Building the Dream campaign, contact campaign Becky Rump at 319-208-5065 or brump@scciowa.edu.

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A lack of data curators and managers capable of cleaning up observational measurements, particularly in less developed nations, is limiting the scale and scope of ocean research, researchers have said on the sidelines of an oceans science meeting.

To deal with the challenge, the Ocean Sciences Meeting in Hawaii last month (23-28 February) heard proposals for creating a comprehensive, quality controlled database.

This would help overcome limited scientific capacity and allow under-resourced researchers to better participate in efforts to understand pressing issues such as climate change, scientists said.

The complexities involved in transforming raw oceanographic data into a useable state means researchers with limited data skills or financial resources are less able to meet the necessary standard, said Stephen Diggs, a data manager at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, in the United States.

The explosion of ocean data being collected through modern methods exceeds scientists’ capacity to deal with it, he told SciDev.Net on the fringes of the conference.

“There definitely needs to be workforce development to get more data curators and managers that come out of their training ready to deal with this,” he said.

Interdisciplinary work that is crucial for answering questions such as what effect climate change is having on marine environments is especially sensitive to reliability issues, he added.

This is because, when faced with data sets from various disciplines, researchers often lack the expertise to spot and correct all the biases created by the idiosyncrasies of different regions and collection methods, he said.

Providing researchers with rigorously quality controlled data from outside their immediate field was the motivation behind a proposed initiative, which called for scientists’ support at a town hall meeting during the conference.

The International Quality-Controlled Ocean Database (IQuOD) would combine automated, large-scale data cleaning done by computers with finer-grained expert analysis. The goal would be to produce a definitive database of the data from the 13 million locations with sea surface temperature records — some dating back to the eighteenth century — scattered across various institutions.

According to Diggs, this would significantly improve on the oceanographic database hosted at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) National Oceanographic Data Center. Even though NOAA's only conducts limited automated quality control its repository of marine datasets is the world’s most comprehensive.

Other variables, such as salinity and oxygen concentrations in the water, could be added to the temperature data as the IQuOD project progresses, said Diggs.

While a lack of data management capacity is felt globally, this is particularly the case in regions where resources are stretched, said Diggs.

Quality control done at the level of individual researchers is a “huge drain on resources” and often whole data sets will be removed from analysis if the researcher involved lacks the necessary skills, said Rebecca Cowley, a data analyst with Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and an IQuOD team leader.

To build such a massive international database, funders must stop their piecemeal approach of supporting small, dispersed quality-control projects and focus on a concerted effort, she said.

Reliability issues are not limited to ocean data, with atmospheric scientists facing similar hurdles, according to Shawn Smith, a meteorologist at Florida State University, United States.

But he told SciDev.Net that these problems are “not insurmountable” and that advances in computing power have allowed more and more quality control to be completed automatically.

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Future reserves could bar deep-sea trawlers from much of the high seas.

First ever high-seas conservation treaty would protect life in international waters

No flag can claim the high seas, but many nations exploit them. As a result, life in the two-thirds of the oceans beyond any country's territorial waters faces many threats that are largely unregulated, including overfishing and the emerging deep-sea mining industry.

Now, nations are negotiating the first-ever high-seas conservation treaty, which the United Nations expects to finalize next year. As delegates met this week at U.N. headquarters in New York City to hash out the details, marine scientists moved to influence the outcome. One research group unveiled the results of a global mapping effort that envisions expansive new marine reserves to protect key high-seas ecosystems. Other teams are working on maps of their own using powerful modeling tools to weigh a reserve's potential for achieving key conservation goals, such as protecting important feeding grounds or helping sea life adapt to warming seas, against its economic costs.

"The policy opportunity this represents is much rarer than once in a lifetime," says marine ecologist Douglas McCauley of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Nations are asking "how we should protect two-thirds of the world's oceans, [and] it's the first time in human history that this has ever been asked."

One key issue facing negotiators—who met for the first time late last year and are scheduled to gather twice more over the next year—is how much of the high seas to protect. Existing preserves cover about 5% of the world's oceans, mostly in territorial waters. Under a different U.N. agreement, nations endorsed a goal of expanding reserves to cover 10% of the entire ocean by 2020. But many conservationists and scientists—as well as the government of the United Kingdom—argue the new pact should go bigger, placing 30% of the high seas off limits to unregulated exploitation.

Until recently, researchers lacked the data to choose which parts of the ocean to include. "If I was asked to do this 5 or 10 years ago, I would have said no," McCauley says. But now, taking advantage of a growing torrent of data from satellites, tagged animals, and survey ships as well as advances in computing power, researchers have launched at least three major efforts to show policymakers what new high-seas reserves could look like.

The tools are allowing researchers to offer answers to thorny practical questions. For example, which spawning and feeding grounds should get protection if reserves can't cover them all? And how can static protected areas address climate change, which could cause fish and other organisms to move into new areas?

The team that showed off its handiwork this week presented two possible reserve networks, one covering 30% of international waters, the other 50%. To create the maps, researchers from several universities, funded by the conservation group Greenpeace, combined biological data, such as the distribution of fish, sharks, and whales, with oceanographic information, such as the locations of seamounts, trenches, and hydrothermal vents. They identified ocean currents, potential mining areas, and biologically productive zones where deep, cold waters rise to the surface. And they located places where ocean temperatures hold steady most of the year—potential safe havens from global warming—as well as areas with large temperature fluctuations, which might harbor creatures preadapted to cope with warming.

They combined these data layers using Marxan, a program that can draw maps to maximize benefits while minimizing costs. The team also added constraints, such as requiring the program not to place the most productive fishing grounds within a reserve, and to favor networks of larger, connected reserves over smaller, isolated patches. Out of hundreds of possible configurations for the 30% and 50% scenarios, they picked the two they thought offered the best protection for biodiversity with the fewest trade-offs.

One lesson "is that protecting 30% of the area of the high seas doesn't protect 30% of the most valuable conservation features … because of the way habitats and species are distributed," says Callum Roberts, a marine biologist at the University of York in the United Kingdom and a leader of the team. Up to 40% of international waters would have to be protected, he says, to represent 30% of ecosystem types.

A second team, which includes McCauley and is funded by Pew Charitable Trusts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is taking a similar approach, but its scenarios envision 10% and 30% coverage. It plans to present its maps at the next round of treaty negotiations in August.

A third team, funded by the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C., is not limiting its mapping to the high seas and won't recommend protecting a select percentage of the ocean. Instead, the researchers will divide the entire ocean into blocks 50 kilometers on a side and rank them by conservation value. The team hopes to unveil its work early next year at the final U.N. treaty negotiations.

Some nations, especially those with large high-seas fishing fleets, will likely oppose the creation of large reserves. And even if negotiators can agree on large-scale protection, they will still face plenty of difficult issues. For example, should reserves bar all exploitation, or allow some fishing or mining, perhaps only during certain seasons? And how should the rules be enforced? Proposals to create an international body to police the high seas have already proved controversial.

Still, researchers hope their maps will encourage nations to be ambitious. "Given how fast species have declined in the last 20 years," Roberts says, "it will be a catastrophe if we can't capitalize on this momentum."


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Scotland Club XV 35-26 Ireland Club XV

Scotland Club XV retained the Dalriada
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The Scots, coached by Melrose boss Rob Chrystie, produced a dominant first half performance as they scored three tries – all from the front row – to take a 23-0 lead at the break.

Craig Jackson opened the scoring with a pair of penalties, before the ill-disciplined visitors lost centre Matt D’Arcy to the sin-bin, the referee eventually losing patience with an Irish side that conceded 11 penalties in the opening 40 minutes.

And that saw the Scots cut loose, as prop Shawn Muir went over for the first try just two minutes after the yellow card, before tighthead Steven Longwell added a second shortly after.

By the time man of the match Russell Anderson went over for the Scots third try – all with Ireland down to 14 men – they were comfortably ahead, both on the night and on aggregate, after a 26-23 defeat on Irish soil last month.

HALF-TIME: Scotland Club XV 23-0 Ireland Club XV

The Irish, who had former Leicester Tigers and Munster back Johne Murphy among their coaching staff, were much better after the resumption, centre Neil Kenneally and wing Dan McEvoy their standout performers.

Shortly after the restart, Kenneally pulled a try back for the visitors, with captain Neil Cronin converting for 23-7.

And it was ‘game-on’ at Netherdale when McEvoy scorched clear of Craig Gossman and Fraser Thomson to touch down in the corner, with Cronin adding a superb conversion from the touchline into the wind to make it a nine-point game.

Rob Chrystie’s side re-took control with two tries in quick succession, Thomson broke down the blindside to put Craig Gossman over, while the roles were reversed late on as the Scots sealed victory.

Irish replacement hooker Patrick Finlay crossed for two late tries, but they were not enough as the Scots held on to retain the Dalriada Cup.

FULL-TIME: Scotland Club XV 35-26 Ireland Club XV

A delighted Chrystie said afterwards:  “I’m really pleased for the boys. They put a lot of effort and work into the game.

“I think we built and controlled the game really well. We lost that momentum in the second-half but it shows the mentality of the group to remain calm under pressure.

“When we did get those opportunities we were clinical in our execution.

“As a group, they have been outstanding to work with and they deserved the win tonight.”

SCOTLAND CLUB XV: Fraser Thomson (Melrose) (capt); Jordan Edmunds (Boroughmuir), Ross Curle (Stirling County), George Taylor (Melrose), Craig Gossman (Ayr); Craig Jackson (Melrose), Charlie Shiel (Currie Chieftains); Shawn Muir (Hawick), Russell Anderson (Melrose), Steven Longwell (Ayr), Iain Moody (Melrose), Robert McAlpine (Ayr), Blair MacPherson (Ayr), Thomas Gordon (Currie Chieftains), Jack Turley (Heriot’s).
Replacements: Jonathan Matthews (Boroughmuir), Nick Beavon (Melrose), Struan Cessford (Heriot’s), Hamish Bain (Currie Chieftains), Ruairidh Leishman (Stirling County), Murdo McAndrew (Melrose), Jamie Forbes (Currie Chieftains), Robbie Nelson (Currie Chieftains).

IRELAND CLUB XV: Eamonn Mills (Lansdowne); Harry Brennan (Lansdowne), Niall Kenneally (Cork Constitution), Matt D’Arcy (Clontarf), Daniel McEvoy (Lansdowne); Jamie Gavin (Garryowen), Neil Cronin (Garryowen) (capt); Cronan Gleeson (Old Wesley), Robbie Smyth (Terenure College), Colm Skehan (Young Munster), Ben Reilly (Clontarf), Alex Thompson (Terenure College), Michael Melia (Terenure College), Jack Dwan (Lansdowne), Michael Noone (Clontarf).
Replacements: Paddy Finlay (Dublin University), Tom O’Reilly (St. Mary’s College), James Kendrick (Cashel), Joe McSwiney (Cork Constitution), Paulie Tolofua (Naas), Angus Lloyd (Dublin University), Mark O’Neill (Tenenure College), Fionn Higgins (Naas).


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By Zach Wahls

Boy Scouts of America’s Executive Committee Unanimously Approves End to Ban on Gay Adults

On 13, Jul 2015 | In scouting | By Zach Wahls

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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, the Boy Scouts of America announced that the National  Executive Committee unanimously approved a resolution allowing gay adults to serve as employees and volunteers.  A vote by the National Executive Board, the Boy Scouts’ governing body, is set for July 27th.

Based on the BSA’s documents, the change would:

  1. Eliminate the BSA’s across the board ban on openly gay or bisexual adults in scouting.
  2. Allow each individual troop or unit to determine its own policy regarding the eligibility of openly gay or bisexual scoutmasters or other adult leaders.
  3. Prohibit regional governing councils or non-Troop entities such as boy scouts camps from discriminating against employees and volunteers based on their sexual orientation.
  4. Allow previously removed leaders to reapply for their positions.

If ratified on Monday, July 27, the change will be effective immediately.

Following the announcement, Zach Wahls, an Eagle Scout and the Executive Director of Scouts for Equality, issued the following statement:

“Today’s announcement hopefully marks the beginning of the end of the Boy Scouts of America’s decades-old ban on gay leaders and parents like my two moms. In two weeks, the BSA’s national executive board will vote to ratify a resolution that has already been unanimously adopted by their executive committee.

“For decades, the Boy Scouts of America’s ban on gay adults has stood as a towering example of explicit, institutional homophobia in one of America’s most important and recognizable civic organizations. While this policy change is not perfect—BSA’s religious chartering partners will be allowed to continue to discriminate against gay adults—it is difficult to overstate the importance of today’s announcement.

“The BSA has explicitly cited the work of Scouts for Equality members Pascal Tessier, an openly gay Eagle Scout working at a Boy Scouts summer camp in New York state, Yasmin Cassini, a lesbian woman from Colorado who was denied employment on the basis of her sexual orientation, and Brian Peffly, an openly gay Eagle Scout who until recently served as an assistant Scoutmaster in central Ohio. I could not be more proud of, or grateful for, the courage, strength, and dedication to the values of Scouting as demonstrated by Pascal, Yasmin, and Brian.”

The relevant portions of proposed resolution reads as follows (emphasis added). The full resolution can be downloaded here:

Regarding Employees and Non-unit Volunteers

Adult leaders in the programs of the Boy Scouts of America must (a) subscribe to and abide by the values expressed in the Scout Oath and Scout Law, (b) subscribe to and abide by the precepts of the Declaration of Religious Principle, and (c) demonstrate at all times behavior that exemplifies the highest level of good conduct and respect for others and that is consistent with Scouting’s values and codes of conduct.

No adult applicant for registration as an employee or non-unit-serving volunteer, who otherwise meets the requirements of the Boy Scouts of America, may be denied registration on the basis of sexual orientation.

Regarding Religiously Affiliated Troops and Units

The Boy Scouts of America affirms the right of each chartering organization to reach its own religious and moral conclusions about the specific meaning and application of these values. The Boy Scouts of America further affirms the right of each chartering organization to select adult leaders who support those conclusions in word and deed and who will best inculcate the organization’s values through the Scouting program.

From the BSA’s frequently asked questions:

Can a gay adult be a Scoutmaster or unit leader?

Yes. If selected by the chartered organization, an otherwise qualified and eligible gay adult is eligible to serve as a unit leader.


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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has posted its list of submissions for the Foreign Language Film Award category after eligibility concerns forced committee members to delay publication by one week. While the 54-strong list - a record number of submissions that beats last year's mark by three - includes for the first time an entry from Afghanistan in the form of Jawed Wassel's FireDancer, it is also distinguished by its omissions.

The UK's original Hindi-language entry The Warrior was rejected and has been replaced by Tim Lyn's Eldra, a Welsh-language coming-of-age tale that won the Film Festival of Wales FilmFour Audience Award. An Academy spokesperson said committee members voted against The Warrior because Hindi is not a language indigenous to the UK and the film was not about the Hindu community in the UK. Hong Kong will not have an entry after The Touch, an adventure-romance that was produced by and stars Michelle Yeoh, was rejected because most of the dialogue is in English and not Mandarin. Palestine's acclaimed drama Divine Intervention was not accepted because Palestine is not recognised as a bona fide nation by the Academy despite having a non-voting seat on the United Nations.

Apart from Afghanistan, two other countries have been accepted for the first time: Bangladesh with Tareque Masud's The Clay Bird and Chad with Mahamat Saleh Haroun's Abouna.

The Foreign Language Film Award Committee, chaired by producer Mark Johnson, will screen all entries starting on Dec 4. The five nominations will be announced on Feb 11, 2003 and the 75th Academy Awards take place on March 23, 2003.

The 2002 foreign language submissions are:

Afghanistan FireDancer (Jawed Wassel, director)

Algeria Rachida (Yamina Bachir-Chouikh)

Argentina Kamchatka (Marcelo Pineyro)

Austria Gebirtig (Robert Schindel and Lukas Stepanik)

Bangladesh The Clay Bird (Tareque Masud)

Belgium The Son (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)

Brazil City Of God (Fernando Meirelles)

Bulgaria Warming Up Yesterday's Lunch (Kostadin Bonev)

Canada Un Crabe Dans La Tete (Andre Turpin)

Chad Abouna (Mahamat Saleh Haroun)

Chile Ogu Y Mampato En Rapa Nui (Alejandro Rojas)

China Hero (Zhang Yimou)

Colombia The Invisible Children (Lisandro Duque Naranjo)

Croatia Fine Dead Girls (Dalibor Matanic)

Cuba Nothing More (Juan Carlos Cremata)

Czech Republic Wild Bees (Bohdan Slama)

Denmark Open Hearts (Susanne Bier)

Egypt The Secret of the Young Girl (Magdy Ahmed Aly)

Finland The Man without a Past (Aki Kaurismaki)

France 8 Women (Francois Ozon)

Germany Nowhere in Africa (Caroline Link)

Greece The Only Journey of His Life (Lakis Papastathis)

Hungary Hukkle (Gyorgy Palfi)

Iceland The Sea (Baltasar Kormakur)

India Devdas (Sanjay Leela Bhansail)

Indonesia Ca-bau-kan (Nia diNata)

Iran I'm Taraneh, 15 (Rassul Sadr-Ameli)

Israel Broken Wings (Nir Bergman)

Italy Pinocchio (Roberto Benigni)

Japan Out (Hideyuki Hirayama)

Korea Oasis (Lee Chang-dong)

Lebanon When Maryam Spoke Out (Assad Fouladkar)

Luxembourg Dead Man's Hand (Laurent Brandenburger and Philippe Boon)

Mexico The Crime of Father Amaro (Carlos Carrera)

Netherlands Zus & Zo (Paula van der Oest)

Norway Hold My Heart (Trygve Allister Diesen)

Philippines Small Voices (Gil M. Portes)

Poland Edi (Piotr Trzaskalski)

Portugal O Delfim (Fernando Lopes)

Romania Philanthropy (Nae Caranfil)

Russia House of Fools (Andrei Konchalovsky)

Slovakia Cruel Joys (Juraj Nvota)

Slovenia Head Noise (Andrej Kosak)

Spain Los Lunes Al Sol (Fernando Leon de Arano)

Sweden Lilja 4-ever (Lukas Moodysson)

Switzerland Aime Ton Pere (Jacob Berger)

Taiwan The Best of Times (Chang Tso-Chi)

Thailand Mon-rak Transistor (Pen-ek Ratanaruang)

Tunisia The Magic Box (Rida Behi)

Turkey 9 (Umit Unal)

United Kingdom Eldra (Tim Lyn)

Uruguay Corazon de Fuego (Diego Arsuaga)

Venezuela The Archangel's Feather (Luis Manzo)

Yugoslavia Labyrinth (Miroslav Leki)


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European SLO network goes from strength to strength

Supporter liaison officers (SLOs) from 13 countries attended the third meeting of the European SLO network at the home of Feyenoord Rotterdam in early June. The gathering constituted a highpoint in the development of this growing representative body.

After previous meetings in Stockholm and Gelsenkirchen it was the turn of Rotterdam to do the honours this time. Representing host club Feyenoord, manager for supporters and social work Ton Strooband welcomed the following SLOs to the third meeting of the European SLO network: Andrey Kyuchukov, Dunav Ruse (Bulgaria), Lasse Bauer, Brøndby (Denmark), Jonathan Waite, Tottenham Hotspur (England), Jasmin Hyvärinen, Ilves Tampere (Finland), Hugues Esteban, Olympique Lyon (France), Thomas Kirschner, Schalke 04 (Germany), Riccardo Bertolin, AS Roma (Italy), Matjias Loeb, Vålerenga (Norway), Nuno Ribeiro, Boavista (Portugal), Ivan Ulanov, (CSKA Moscow), JP Taylor, Celtic (Scotland), Pierre Nordberg, Malmö FF (Sweden) and Maarten van Holstein, Feyenoord (Netherlands). Apologies were received from Tomas Carnogursky, Slovan Liberec (Czechia) and Jerome Lambert, FC Lausanne (Switzerland).

The proceedings kicked off with a presentation by Feyenoord on the SLO work done by the club. As the senior SLO, Ton Strooband is on the same hierarchy level as the safety officer. The SLO/CSR department comprises six people, including two “fan coaches”, two matchday SLOs and a disability access officer (DAO). Four members of the department are employed full-time. Of particular interest was the club’s focus on the 13-23 age group as part of its attempts to reduce anti-social behaviour. The SLO department is part of the appeals and rehabilitation process regarding stadium bans and its work is proving very successful, as only 2% of banned supporters re-offend. Feyenoord also have a dedicated SLO for the away team.

Next up was Thomas Kirschner, lead SLO at German outfit FC Schalke 04, who spoke about the new fan and spectator management course organised by the German Football League in conjunction with the universities of Potsdam and Kassel. The course is an 18-month programme costing €9,500 that offers ECTS credits to those who participate and is classed as vocational training. Conflict resolution, communication, stress management, fan culture, crowd management, and sports legislation are among the topics covered as part of a new academic drive to professionalise the SLO work in Germany.

The floor was the handed to the first of two guest speakers, David Bohannan, chair of the European Think Tank of Football Safety and Security Experts, whose presentation focused on the Council of Europe Convention on an Integrated Safety, Security and Service Approach at Football Matches and Other Sports Events. David highlighted the existence of different standards in each country (policing, stewarding, SLO, legislation, etc.) and the challenges this raised for match organisation, policing and supporter liaison. One problem is that SLOs are still viewed with suspicion by other stakeholders, who often see and treat them as ordinary fans. He also looked ahead to possible changes in European legislation, in particular with regard to spectator violence, pyrotechnics use and racism and discrimination, and the implications for SLOs in their day-to-day work in terms of risk, responsibilities and liability. The meeting agreed to seek expert legal advice for dissemination among their peers.

The second day was dedicated to our final speaker, Keith Dalton, who is Head of Football Operations at UEFA. It was a major step forward in the development of the network to have Keith attend the meeting and the participants wasted no time in highlighting the need for UEFA to place more attention on the SLO role, for example with regard to their participation in the organisation meeting ahead of European matches. Keith pointed out that although it was the responsibility of the club to decide who attended such meetings UEFA could raise awareness for the SLO role among match delegates, for example, and require them to ascertain whether an SLO was present.

The SLOs also repeated their request for a dedicated SLO section in TIME, UEFA’s club information exchange system. This would greatly enhance the ability of SLOs to prepare matches and share information with their counterparts at other clubs, especially in the early stages of the UEFA competitions, when time is of the essence. Keith confirmed that this was a work in progress. Another bone of contention was the fact that SLOs are not specifically invited to attend the UEFA/EU Security Conference, which takes place after the draw for the Champions League and Europa League group stage has been made and gathers club safety officers and attached police, among other security experts, for an exchange of information and experience.

The meeting closed with an important decision to transfer the group from an informal network to a working group with nominated spokespersons and sub-working groups on various topics of importance, such as reporting and resources, risk and liability, the proposed second UEFA SLO handbook, securing recognition of the SLO role as a profession at EU level, among other things. Nominations were sought for the first representatives of the SLO working group, and JP Taylor (Celtic), Thomas Kirschner (Schalke 04) and Ton Strooband (Feyenoord Rotterdam) were selected. The “committee” will now draft an outline remit for the working group in conjunction with SD Europe before seeking further discussions with UEFA and other stakeholders such as the Council of Europe.

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PS4 News: Retro Console and Nostalgic Theme

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    Looking back at most of our childhoods, we all all remember the PlayStation 1 and how it would fill our time with classic PlayStation games. I can remember playing for hours, enjoying round after round of Bloody Roar, trying to figure out how I just pulled off that combo. In honor of the consoles upcoming 20th anniversary, Sony has decided to produce a limited edition console that will hopefully bring back some nostalgia to the older generation.

    The announcement came early today alongside an unboxing video and another video showing off the retro style of the new PlayStation 4. The console holds true to the classic design, colored with what Sony calls PlayStation grey. On the top, you will find the original PS symbol as well as another sticker showing it's legitimacy as limited edition. There will only be 12,300 units made available world wide with no announced release date. The reason for the odd amount of time is due to the date in which the first console was released. The console will include a Dualshock4 controller and PlayStation Camera that will come in a commemorative box depicting the consoles 20th anniversary. Though there isn't an official release date, the console will be available for preorder on Saturday, December 6th for €499. More information on the console and where they can be purchased will be announced at Sony's PlayStation Experience keynote that will be held this Saturday at 10am PT.

    If you want to get the retro console but don't want to wait till it's release, Sony has released a theme that you can download for your PS3, PS4, and PSVita. The theme is presented in the classic PlayStation 1 style featuring the PlayStation grey color scheme. The theme also changes the startup sound to that of the legendary console, bringing back those feelings that everyone felt all of those years ago. The theme is currently only available in Europe but is expected to make it's way to the North American market later today.

    I wasn't planning on getting a PS4 anytime soon but seeing this is making me consider getting a PS4 before I get an X1. Can't wait for this.

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