Falcons get a little extra time to get ready for Ohio
NCAAF Team Report - Bowling Green - INSIDE SLANT
After nine consecutive Saturdays with a game, Bowling Green has some extra time to prepare for its November stretch run.
The Falcons, 6-3 overall, have won five straight games and are in second place in the Mid-American Conference at 4-1 after beating Eastern Michigan, 24-3.
Bowling Green is idle until Nov. 7 at Ohio. Ohio suffered a 23-20 loss to Miami on Oct. 27, knocking the Bobcats from the ranks of the unbeaten and out of the Top 25 national rankings.
"We've played very well in October and we're on a little bit of a winning streak; sometimes when that's happening you want to keep playing," Bowling Green coach Dave Clawson said.
"But like everybody else in the conference ... our guys are a little banged up so we're hoping to get them some rest, get them off their feet, and allow them to heal. That will give us a little more energy and juice as we head into November."
Fundamentals on the base offense and defense will be the focus of the Oct. 31 practice. Then the work begins on the Ohio game plan, Clawson said.
"With having the 11 days we will be able to get an extra practice in against Ohio," Clawson said.
After the Ohio game, the Falcons have another long layoff before hosting Kent State on Nov. 17.
NCAAF Team Report - Bowling Green - NOTES, QUOTES
--Bowling Green continues to add to its future schedules with a home-and-home series against Memphis in 2015 and 2016, a home-and-home series with South Alabama in 2021 and 2022, and a game at Kansas State in 2019. Earlier in October, the Falcons added a game against Oregon in 2018.
--Despite a 9-of-20 passing effort for 78 yards against Eastern Michigan on Oct. 27, QB Matt Schilz has moved to fourth on two Bowling Green career passing lists. Schilz has 1,076 passes, going past Rich Dackin's total of 1,056 (1986-89) and 6,999 yards passing, going ahead of Omar Jacobs' total of 6,938 (2003-05).
SERIES HISTORY: Bowling Green leads Ohio, 36-25-2 (last meeting, 2011, 29-28 Ohio).
SCOUTING THE OFFENSE: Bowling Green has moved the ball with its running game during its five-game winning streak. In the last five games, Bowling Green has rushed 205 times for 1,068 yards (213.6 yards per game average) and seven touchdowns. In four of the last five games, the Falcons have rushed for 200 or more yards. The Falcons started the season with five running backs, but have lost Jamel Martin (knee) for the season. Anthon Samuel missed Bowling Green's last game because of a neck injury and Andre Givens had to leave the Eastern Michigan game on Oct. 27 after being hit in the back. However, the running game still produced 225 yards against Eastern Michigan, with John Pettigrew picking up a career-high 136 yards and Jordan Hopgood chipping in with 61 yards. In the fourth quarter, Bowling Green had two long drives that took 12:17 off the clock. While the Falcons' final drive didn't net any points, it used up the final 9:10 of the game.
SCOUTING THE DEFENSE: Bowling Green's defense has been the catalyst for the current five-game winning streak. In the last five games, the Falcons have allowed some mind-boggling numbers -- 33 points, including three touchdowns; 56 first downs; 207.8 yards per game in total offense (140.6 yards rushing and 67.2 yards passing); a 24.3 percent success rate on third-down conversions (18-of-74); while getting 16 quarterback sacks and seven interceptions. Improved tackling has been one of the keys to the success. "We are getting much better play up front, so there are fewer plays getting to the third level of our defense," coach Dave Clawson said. "Where we really struggled the past two years was so many missed tackles in the back end at safety and corner. When you miss a tackle back there, it's a big play and a lot of times a touchdown. Our secondary is doing a much better job tackling." Clawson said Jerry "BooBoo" Gates and Ryland Ward at safety and Darrell Hunter, DeVon McKoy, and Cameron Truss at cornerback have been much better tacklers this season.
QUOTE TO NOTE: "We are certainly going to have some challenges ahead. Ohio is a team we haven't tackled well the previous two years. ... They are going to present a great challenge to us." -- Coach Dave Clawson.
NCAAF Team Report - Bowling Green - STRATEGY AND PERSONNEL
THIS WEEK'S GAME/NEXT GAME: Bowling Green at Ohio, Nov. 7 -- Bowling Green heads into November with all its goals, winning the Mid-American Conference East and getting to the MAC championship game in Detroit, intact but face a challenge at Ohio, which won its first seven games of the season and was ranked in the Top 25.
KEYS TO THE GAME: If Bowling Green can continue to do the things that have worked during its five-game winning steak -- a ball-control offense and a stout defense -- then they should be in the game against Ohio. It will be the fourth time in the last five games the Falcons have face a challenging offense and Bowling Green must stop QB Tyler Tettleton and Ohio's skilled players.
DT Chris Jones -- The senior leads the nation with 11 1/2 sacks and has been a disruptive force all season.
LB Paul Swan -- The redshirt junior has come into his own this season and leads the Falcons with 52 tackles.
R Gabe Martin -- The redshirt sophomore is coming off the biggest game of his career against Eastern Michigan on Oct. 27, as he led the Falcons with seven tackles, had an interception, and forced a fumble that was returned for the touchdown by teammate Chris Jones.
QB Matt Schilz -- The redshirt junior hasn't been called upon to make many plays during the five-game winning streak, but he has to be ready in case the Falcons need to complete some passes in a crucial situation.
ROSTER REPORT
--RB Anthon Samuel, Bowling Green's leading rusher with 725 yards and leading scorer with nine touchdowns, missed the Eastern Michigan game on Oct. 27 because of a neck injury. Coach Dave Clawson said Samuel is listed as probable for the Ohio game on Nov. 7.


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Professional sports hall of fame in Canton, Ohio
Location in the United States
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September 7, 1963; 58 years ago (1963-09-07)
2121 George Halas Dr NW, Canton, Ohio
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Professional sports hall of fame
Jim Porter
The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the hall of fame for professional American football, located in Canton, Ohio. Opened on September 7, 1963,[2] the Hall of Fame enshrines exceptional figures in the sport of professional football, including players, coaches, franchise owners, and front-office personnel, almost all of whom made their primary contributions to the game in the National Football League (NFL).
As of the Class of 2020, there are a total of 346 members of the Hall of Fame.[3] Members are referred to as "Gold Jackets" due to the distinctive gold jackets they receive during the induction ceremony. Between four and eight new inductees are normally enshrined every year. For the 2020 class, an additional 15 members, known as the "Centennial Slate", were inducted into the Hall of Fame to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the NFL.[4]
Original entrance to the Pro Football Hall of Fame
The city of Canton successfully lobbied the NFL to have the Hall of Fame built and has cited three reasons. First, the NFL was founded in Canton on September 17, 1920,[5] (at that time it was known as the American Professional Football Association). Second, the now-defunct Canton Bulldogs were a successful pro football team and the NFL's first repeat champion (in 1922 and 1923). Third, the Canton community held a fundraising effort that garnered nearly $400,000 (equivalent to $2,640,000 in 2019) to get the Hall of Fame built.[6] Groundbreaking for the building was held on August 11, 1962,[7][8] and the Hall of Fame was opened to the public on September 7, 1963.[2]
The original building contained just two rooms, and 19,000 square feet (1,800 m2) of interior space.[9] In April 1970, ground was broken for the first of many expansions. This first expansion cost $620,000, and was completed on May 10, 1971.[2] The size was increased to 34,000 square feet (3,200 m2) by adding another room. The pro shop opened with this expansion. This was also an important milestone for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, as yearly attendance passed the 200,000 mark for the first time. This was at least in some part due to the increase in popularity of professional football caused by the advent of the American Football League and its success in the final two AFL-NFL World Championship games.[9]
Inside the original structure in 2008
In November 1977, work began on another expansion project, costing $1,200,000. It was completed in November 1978, enlarging the gift shop and research library, while doubling the size of the theater. The total size of the hall was now 50,500 square feet (4,690 m2), more than 2.5 times the original size.[9]
The building remained largely unchanged until July 1993. The Hall then announced yet another expansion, costing $9,200,000, and adding a fifth room. This expansion was completed on October 1, 1995,[2] and increased the building's size to 82,307 square feet (7,647 m2). The most notable addition was the GameDay Stadium, which shows an NFL Films production on a 20-by-42-foot (6.1 m × 12.8 m) Cinemascope screen.[9]
In 2013, the Hall of Fame completed its largest expansion and renovation to date; the total size of the hall is now 118,000 square feet (11,000 m2).
Hall of Fame Village, an estimated $900 million expansion project adjacent to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, has completed Phase I of construction; preparations for beginning Phase II are currently[when?] underway.[10][11]
Executive directors or presidents
Dick McCann (April 4, 1962 - November 1967)
Dick Gallagher (April 1968 - December 31, 1975)
Pete Elliott (February 1979 - October 31, 1996)
John Bankert (November 1, 1996 - December 31, 2005)
Steve Perry (April 24, 2006 - January 2014)
David Baker (January 6, 2014 - October 16, 2021)[12][13]
Jim Porter (2021-)
The Hall is made up of several sections, with display of inductees at its heart
Through 2021, all players in the Hall, except Buffalo Bills guard Billy Shaw, played at least some part of their professional career in the NFL; Shaw played his entire career in the American Football League (AFL) prior to the 1970 AFL-NFL merger.
Though several Hall of Famers have had AFL, Canadian Football League, World Football League, United States Football League, Arena Football League and/or Indoor Football League experience, and there is a division of the Hall devoted to alternative leagues such as these, to this point no players have made the Hall without having made significant contributions to either the NFL, AFL, or All-America Football Conference.
For CFL stars, there is a corresponding Canadian Football Hall of Fame; only one player, Warren Moon, and two coaches, Bud Grant and Marv Levy, are enshrined in both halls.
Again for the Arena Football League, there is also a corresponding Arena Football Hall of Fame; similarly, only one player, Kurt Warner, has been enshrined into both halls. The Indoor Football League, in which Terrell Owens played one season,[14] has also established a Hall of Fame.
The Chicago Bears have the most Hall of Famers among the league's franchises with either 37 or 30 enshrinees depending on whether players that only played a small portion of their careers with the team are counted.[15]
Enshrinees are selected by a 48-person committee, largely made up of media members, officially known as the Selection Committee.[16]
Each city that has a current NFL team sends one representative from the local media to the committee; a city with more than one franchise sends one representative for each franchise.
There are also 15 at-large delegates, including one representative from the Pro Football Writers Association. Except for the PFWA representative, who is appointed to a two-year term, all other appointments are open-ended, and terminated only by death, incapacitation, retirement, or resignation.[16]
Voting procedure
Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium with the Hall of Fame in lower right
To be eligible for the nominating process, a player or coach must have been retired for at least five years; any other contributor such as a team owner or executive can be voted in at any time.[17]
Fans may nominate any player, coach or contributor by simply writing via letter or email to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The Selection Committee is then polled three times by mail (once in March, once in September, and once in October) to eventually narrow the list to 25 semifinalists. In November, the committee then selects 15 finalists by mail balloting.
A Seniors and Contributors Committee, subcommittees of the overall Selection Committee, nominate Seniors (those players who completed their careers more than 25 years ago) and Contributors (individuals who made contributions to the game in areas other than playing or coaching). The Seniors Committee and Contributors Committee add one or two finalist(s) on alternating years, which makes a final ballot of 18 finalists under consideration by the full committee each year.[17] Committee members are instructed to only consider a candidate's professional football contributions and to disregard all other factors.[18]
The Selection Committee then meets on "Selection Saturday", the day before each Super Bowl game to elect a new class. To be elected, a finalist must receive at least 80% support from the Board. At least four, but no more than eight, candidates are elected annually.
2020 Centennial Slate
In 2020, a special Blue-Ribbon Panel selected an additional 15 new members, known as the Centennial Slate, to be inducted into the Hall of Fame to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the NFL. Among these 15 members, ten would be seniors.[19] On January 11 during the weekend of the NFL Divisional playoffs, Hall of Fame president David Baker went on the set of The NFL Today to personally tell Bill Cowher, who was working as an analyst on that pregame show, that he was selected as one of the members of the Centennial Slate.
One day later, Baker went on the set of Fox NFL Sunday to inform Jimmy Johnson, working as an analyst on Fox's studio show, that he was also selected.[20] The rest of the Centennial Slate members were revealed on January 15.[4]
The remaining 13 members of the Centennial Slate elected to the Hall of Fame in 2020 are: Jim Covert, Winston Hill, Harold Carmichael, Duke Slater, Ed Sprinkle, Steve Sabol, Alex Karras, Bobby Dillon, Donnie Shell, George Young, Cliff Harris, Mac Speedie, and former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue.[21]
They were enshrined in 2021 due to Covid-19, but are still considered part of the Centennial Class of 2020.
Enshrinement ceremony
A football signed by the 1974 Pro Football Hall of Fame enshrinement class
The enshrinement ceremony is the main event of the annual Enshrinement Week Powered by Johnson Controls that kicks off every NFL season. The celebration is held in Canton, throughout the week surrounding the enshrinement ceremony.[22] All members of the Hall of Fame are invited to attend the annual ceremony.[18]
Enshrinees do not go into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a member of a certain team. Rather, all of an enshrinee's affiliations are listed equally.[17] While the Baseball Hall of Fame plaques generally depict each of their inductees wearing a particular club's cap (with a few exceptions, such as Catfish Hunter and Greg Maddux), the bust sculptures of each Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee make no reference to any specific team. In addition to the bust that goes on permanent display at the Hall of Fame, inductees receive a distinctive Gold Jacket, and previous inductees nearly always wear theirs when participating at the new inductee ceremonies.
Previous induction ceremonies were held during the next day (Sunday from 1999-2005, Saturday in 2006), situated on the steps of the Hall of Fame building.
Starting in 2002, the ceremony was moved to Fawcett Stadium (now Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium), where it was held from 1963 to 1965. Since 2007, the enshrinement ceremony has been held on the Saturday night, since 2017 two days after the Hall of Fame Game.[23]
Hall of Fame Game
The Hall of Fame Game, the annual NFL preseason opener, is played in Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium at Hall of Fame Village in Canton, Ohio. In 2017, the Hall of Fame Game was held for the first time on Thursday night. The preseason classic kicks off Enshrinement Week Powered by Johnson Controls and officially kicks off the NFL preseason.
Black College Football Hall of Fame
The Pro Football Hall of Fame museum includes a permanent exhibit recognizing the inductees of the Black College Football Hall of Fame. The two organizations partnered in 2016, also creating the Black College Football Hall of Fame Classic played at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium.[24][25]
Sign at the old entrance to the PFHOF
The small number of candidates elected each year has helped foster what some perceive as an inequality of representation at certain positions or in certain categories of player, to the exclusion of defensive players in general (defensive backs and outside linebackers in particular), special teams players, wide receivers, and those from the "seniors" category. There has also been criticism that deserving players have been overlooked because they played most or all of their careers on poor teams.[26]
In 2009, a New York Times article criticized the Hall for not including punter Ray Guy on its ballot, erroneously stating that the Hall did not have an inductee at the time representing the position[27] (punter Yale Lary had been inducted in 1979, while Sammy Baugh had also punted in addition to his quarterback play; the punter position was not specialized until free substitution became widespread in the 1960s, and most punters until then also played another position). Guy was eventually inducted as part of the 2014 class for the Hall of Fame.
The Pro Football Hall of Fame is unique among North American major league sports halls of fame in that officials have been generally excluded. No on-field officials have ever been inducted, and only one person--1966 inductee Hugh L. Ray, the league's longtime supervisor of officiating and rules advisor--has been inducted for any contributions related to that aspect of the sport.[28] The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and Hockey Hall of Fame have each inducted game officials as members. In part to rectify the lack of officials and other off-field contributors, the Hall of Fame added a "Contributors" committee beginning with the class of 2015, which will nominate officials, general managers, owners and other positions that have historically been overlooked by the committee at large.[29]
On August 31, 2021, former referee and director of officiating Art McNally was selected as the contributor nominee for the Hall's Class of 2022, marking the first time any professional football official will be considered as a finalist for enshrinement by the entire selection committee.[30]
Another prominent absence from the Hall is sports-journalist Howard Cosell, who has yet to be awarded the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award despite his well-known association with Monday Night Football; an August 2010 Sports Illustrated article hints that Cosell may have even been "blacklisted" by the NFL.[31][32]
As the late 2010s approached, a number of controversial and polarizing figures began to reach eligibility for the Hall. For example, Darren Sharper's career achievements make him a candidate for the Hall, but there is debate over whether he should be inducted due to his conviction on multiple rape charges after he retired.[33]
Terrell Owens' exclusion from the Hall in his first two years of eligibility despite his strong individual statistics was a subject of public debate:[34] while Owens was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2018, he refused to attend the enshrinement ceremony.[35]
Touchdown Club Charities Hall of Fame
Canadian Football Hall of Fame
Arena Football Hall of Fame
Indoor Football League Hall of Fame
Dick McCann Memorial Award--sometimes referred to as the "writer's wing" of the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award
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Doorstop interview, Yankalilla Area School
Topics: Engineering is Elementary program; New child care package; Mayo by-election.
Georgina Downer: Well it’s great to have Minister for Education Simon Birmingham here today at the Yankalilla Area School, and we’ve just had a fantastic demonstration of the new program Engineering is Elementary, and it was so impressive to see the teachers who have done some training at Questacon rolling out this program and really giving the kids that fantastic opportunity to learn the E in STEM, and of course build skills that will be so important for those jobs of the future. So thank you very much, Minister, it’s been really great to see this program which I think gives kids here in Mayo such a fantastic opportunity for the future.
Simon Birmingham: Thanks Georgina, and I’m thrilled to be here today as part of the rollout of the Engineering is Elementary program across more than 80 schools around Australia, supporting around 1600 students here in South Australia to be able to access engineering skills. It’s a program where the Turnbull Government is backing it through Questacon, with multimillion dollar investment and support that is part of our overall Innovation And Science Agenda. We’re very thrilled to be able to partner with Raytheon in this case and I thank them for their work with Questacon and their support for making this program available, and to help bring it from a US model, and Questacon adapting it as something that is directly relevant for Australian school students. Of course, we recognise that some of the fastest growing skills across the world that are required for future jobs are STEM skills, and much of our work focuses on ensuring science and technology and maths are developed and enhanced as areas of subject interest in school. But this is the E, this is the engineering, and what we’ve had the thrill of seeing in this classroom today is how it is that young children can bring engineering skills to life and in doing so, they’re applying their maths skills, they’re thinking about technology, they’re using scientific principles. This is about real life educational skills being deployed in the classroom and developing and inspiring an interest that hopefully will see future generations of engineers working on agricultural projects, transport projects, defence industry projects right across our state, right across Mayo.
Thanks, Georgina. It’s so important it’s here at the Yankalilla Area School, because it’s also an example of the commitment we have to make sure that all children across all schools have access to the type of educational opportunities they deserve. And here in Yankalilla, as part of our valued regional communities, we’re seeing a school taking leaps and bounds ahead in terms of the opportunities it’s offering its students.
Question: Would you say the future of this program being past this trial?
Simon Birmingham: Well, this program is obviously something that is quite easily replicated by so many schools. It is something that doesn’t require a significant investment. It’s about teacher capability, and of course, we continue to work hard in initial teacher education and training, and in providing programs – not just like the ones Questacon’s done here in terms of providing teachers with resources and capability and program tools to be able to deliver this. But also as other programs have done in the maths space, such as the University of Adelaide’s MOOC which they’ve provided open access to teachers across the country to be able to develop new maths, new technology skills for delivery in the classroom. In terms of STEM development, it’s about us continually providing new access to teachers to be able to develop the skills they need and develop and deploy the programs that will work in terms of STEM delivery in the classroom.
Question: So you say you imagine it could be easily replicated. How long though can we expect this trial to go for, and then maybe how long before it’s rolled out permanently into schools?
Simon Birmingham: Well, we’ll be working with Questacon to ensure that the lessons from this are shared and hopefully see school systems themselves pick it up with enthusiasm. But it doesn’t always take a teacher going and training at Questacon. Models like this can be deployed simply and strategically by school systems themselves, and it’s really part of our national STEM partnership agenda that we have with the states and territories, and I hope that over the next couple of years we’ll see more and more schools make engineering a priority alongside science, technology and maths disciplines.
Question: On to issues around the child care subsidy. We’ve seen some modelling which suggests as many as 280,000 families might be worse off under the new subsidy. Is that acceptable to you?
Simon Birmingham: Well, the Turnbull Government has deliberately put in an extra $2.5 billion of support for child care, but also better targeted support to ensure that the greatest number of hours of subsidised care go to the families working the longest hours and the greatest level of support, the greatest rate of subsidy, goes to the families earning the least amount. On average, families across South Australia who have registered already are going to be about $1400 per child, per annum, better off under these reforms. Around 1 million Australian families are going to be better off.
The only circumstances, really, where families won’t be better off are if they’re not meeting a very basic activity test of just four hours per week on average of work and study and volunteering, or if they’re very high income earning families, earning more than $350,000 per annum who see their subsidy cut off.
Question: What about issues around casualisation of the workforce, unpredictable work hours and some families maybe one parent isn’t meeting that activity test every week. What about those issues? Is it acceptable that some families will still miss out?
Simon Birmingham: Well, these are some of the lies that the Labor Party is spreading. This is a well-calibrated program where the activity test is designed to be averaged over a three-month period. So somebody who’s working casually or variable hours is able to average their estimate. They work an average of four hours a week, then they’re going to be eligible for some 36 hours of childcare a fortnight. That is clear support, the steps are clearly laid out. Families are able equally to qualify if they’re volunteering. Volunteering can include volunteering in schools where you can be reading to children, helping with projects like the one we’ve just seen. That’s a recognised volunteering activity that will qualify for the child care activity test. It would include working as a carer, looking for work as part of your Newstart obligations. There are a range of different activities that are recognised to ensure this is light touch, but it does absolutely deliver what we want which is the greatest support to families working the longest hours and earning the least.
Question: Do you think the Australian Government’s doing enough to make child care truly accessible for all people?
Simon Birmingham: This is the biggest improvement to the child care system in more than 40 years. It’s going to make life easier for around 1 million Australian families. No longer will families find that their child care rebate cuts out in February or March of the financial year. They’re going to get support right through the year that doesn’t run out. It’s going to allow, we estimate, 230,000 Australians to participate more in the workforce, to increase the hours or days they work, and they can do that because they’re getting the child care support and their child care bills won’t be an impost. This is a great reform. It’s a positive reform for Australian families. It’s putting more money in the pockets of close to 1 million Australian families and it’s going to make a big difference in terms of their capacity to work the hours and days that suit them.
Question: Will the government ever consider something like making child care payments tax deductible?
Simon Birmingham: Well, there was a thorough Productivity Commission inquiry that looked at how we can improve our child care system, and the problem with something like tax deductibility for child care payments, as the Productivity Commission truly spelt out, is the greatest benefit goes to the highest income earners because we have a progressive tax system in Australia. So, if we made child care tax deductible, my family might benefit, but indeed, those working part-time hours, those on lower wages and incomes, would struggle. What we’ve done is put in place a system where the lowest income families – those earning less than $65,000 per annum – are going to see the rate of support for their child care increase from 72 per cent to 85 per cent without a cap in place. They’re going to be much, much better off and I can’t believe that the Labor Party, the Greens or others, are shedding crocodile tears because high income families might miss out on child care support, when what we’ve done is target the greatest levels of assistance to low and medium income families.
Question: And Minister, how will this change affect you personally?
Simon Birmingham: Well indeed, my family will no longer be eligible for child care assistance. My wife works full-time. I clearly work full-time. We are a family who are in a fortunate financial situation and I don’t expect that Australians would be saying it’s unfair that we might pay for our afterschool hours care or our school holiday care when we need it. What we think is fair, as a government, and what I think is fair personally, is that child support should be targeted to the families who need it most, and they are the families working the longest hours, but earning the least amount.
Question: What do you make of recent polling ahead of the Mayo by-election? Does it make you nervous?
Georgina Downer: Look, I’ve been really enjoying campaigning in Mayo in the Adelaide Hills and the Fleurieu and I’m looking forward to going to Kangaroo Island next week and meeting as many people as possible and talking to them really about the issues that matter most to them. That’s what’s really important to me. But what’s becoming really clear when I go around Mayo talking to people is that people absolutely do not want a Shorten Labor government. There is a real feel in the electorate of what a Shorten Labor government could lead to in this country. And it is quite clear that there is an alliance being created here with my opponent Rebekha Sharkie and the Labor Party and now the Greens. So, it seems clear to me that a vote for Sharkie is going to end up being a vote for Shorten because given the chance and given Rebekha Sharkie’s voting record of 60 per cent of the time in the Australian parliament, she voted with Labor and the Greens. It’s quite clear that given the chance, she would back in a Shorten Labor government.
Question: How can you say that, what specifically has led you to form that opinion?
Georgina Downer: Well, if you look at the Parliamentary Library’s record of individual MPs voting records, Rebekha Sharkie’s is there for everyone to see. It indicates that 60 per cent of the time she voted with Labor and the Greens on legislation and opposed the government’s agenda. She’s opposed cuts to local business taxes. She’s come out against changes to border protection that would mean we have stronger borders, that we make sure that we do keep the boats out of our waters and stop the people smuggling trade. On a variety of measures she has voted with Labor and the Greens and has opposed the Turnbull Government’s agenda, which is an agenda that is going to lower taxes, that is going to make sure that we have a strong economy so we can deliver the essential services that we also very much need and deserve.
Question: All of that aside, the recent polling suggests she is popular in the electorate, does that make you nervous?
Georgina Downer: No, I am very comfortable with the campaign is going- as I said, I’ve really enjoyed speaking to as many people in Mayo as I can about the issues that matter most to them, and it is clear that they don’t want a Shorten Labor government, and I’m really looking forward to the next six or so weeks getting out there and really making sure that I’m listening. And of course being a member of the Liberal Party, part of the Coalition, a party of government, a party that can deliver for this electorate. I think there are some great opportunities and I’m very much looking forward to the by-election on 28 July.
Question: And please correct me if I’m wrong, but it appears that you’ve deleted your Twitter account and there are suggestions flying around on social media that you’ve been blocking certain people who are contacting you about issues, particularly around climate change. Is that true?
Georgina Downer: So I’m no longer active on Twitter because, quite frankly, Twitter is not the place where we, as political candidates, find it’s best to engage with our communities. I use Facebook as my medium for engagement with people in Mayo, and where there are comments that are unacceptable, or trolls that use language that is unacceptable, then sure, we don’t think they are fruitful for political debates and commentary.
Question: So is it right to shutdown political debate on a certain platform just because it doesn’t suit you?
Georgina Downer: Look, ultimately people are free to express themselves on social media and they do so, but…
Question: But is it right for a candidate running in a by-election to, I suppose, shut down an avenue of debate?
Georgina Downer: There are plenty of avenues of debate available to people and I of course welcome people debating issues that are important to them and would not seek to shut down those debates in the public sphere. But on my Facebook page, we have protocols in place that encourage polite debate, frank debate, but where those limits are exceeded, where there is language that is unacceptable and goes to sort of insults, then that’s I guess- commentary of that nature, there’s no place for it on our particular Facebook page. If others want to have different mediums where they have those types of discussions, feel free, but it is not something that we think contributes to a fruitful and constructive debate on the issues.
Question: Was there anything on Twitter that you were uncomfortable having up there? Maybe comments from the past.
Georgina Downer: No, no, no. Not at all.
Simon Birmingham: Thanks, guys.
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USM offers courses ranging from Natural Sciences, Applied Sciences, Medical and Health Sciences, Pharmaceutical Sciences to Building Science and Technology, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Education. These are available at undergraduate and postgraduate levels to approximately 30,000 students at its 17 Academic Schools on the main campus in the island of Penang; 6 Schools at the Engineering Campus in Nibong Tebal (approximately 50km from the main campus); and 3 at the Health Campus in Kubang Kerian, Kelantan (approximately 300km from the main campus).
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2011 NFL Draft Prospects: Nick Fairley For The Denver Broncos?
By Russ Oates Dec 16, 2010, 8:32am MST
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If the NFL season ended today, the Denver Broncos would have the No. 3 overall pick in April's draft. The Carolina Panthers (1-12) would have the top pick, followed by the Cincinnati Bengals (2-11) at No. 2. Should Stanford QB Andrew Luck declare for the draft, the Carolina Panthers would likely select Luck with the No. 1 overall pick. Matt Moore is not the answer and Jimmy Clausen is a rookie who has played like one.
At No. 2, the Bengals could go in a number of directions. However, defensive line help would be a great need. They are tied for last with 18 sacks this season. Looking at Russ Lande's Top 40 at the Sporting News, Clemson underclassman Da'Quan Bowers is his No. 3 prospect in the draft right now. Bowers has 15.5 sacks this season and 25 tackles for loss. That's production any defensive line would want.
The team tied for last with the Bengals for least sacks this season? The Denver Broncos. The Broncos could also use Bowers' help, but if the Bengals draft him who else should the Broncos turn to? Next on Lande's list is Auburn DE/DT Nick Fairley. Fairley was a disruptive presence in the trenches, accumulating 10.5 sacks for a loss of 67 yards and 21.0 tackles for loss. The 6-foot-5, 300-pound lineman would work well in either a 4-3 or 3-4 defense.
However, if the Broncos decide Elvis Dumervil's return will be enough to ignite the pass rush, then the team should look for help at corner in either LSU's Patrick Peterson or Nebraska's Prince Amukamara.


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A Public Health Inspector calls about an issue flagged at an older elementary school. As part of a teacher complaint process, the provincial health and safety agency has been conducting a workplace investigation. Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels were measured and ranged from 412 ppm in an unoccupied classroom to 1,130 ppm in the school library and 1,660 ppm in an occupied classroom that had closed windows. Parents are now concerned and the school board has asked you, as Medical Officer of Health, about the potential health risks to students from CO2 levels that exceed formal workplace standards.
CO2 and air quality concerns
Where does CO2 come from?
What physiological responses occur in response to elevated CO2 levels?
What is the significance of slightly elevated CO2 in school classrooms?
What is the relationship between ventilation (air exchange rate) and respiratory health?
What are commonly cited workplace-applicable standards for CO2? What rationale is given?
What was found by the health and safety agency?
The same agency ordered a health survey... Do you expect this to be useful? What might be more useful? How would you respond to the School Board’s query about possible health risks to students?
CO2 is frequently an issue in the context of indoor air quality concerns.1 It is relatively easy to measure and is commonly included in indoor air quality monitoring. CO2 at levels found in classroom settings do not appear to pose any direct health effects. High CO2 levels, however, are an indication that there is not sufficient ventilation for the number of occupants in the room. Results of CO2 measurements are often incorrectly interpreted and in some cases may be confused with the more serious carbon monoxide (CO).
CO2 is a natural constituent of the air we breathe; it is a colourless, odourless and non-flammable gas produced by metabolic processes (such as respiration) and by combustion of fossil fuels. The average outdoor air concentration of CO2 is in the order of 300 to 400 ppm. Indoor levels are usually higher, due to the CO2 exhaled by building occupants. Human metabolism alone can lead to CO2 levels in excess of 3,000ppm, especially in poorly ventilated rooms. Indoor combustion appliances, in particular gas stoves, can also increase CO2 levels.
Human health effects have been observed at very high levels (> 7,000 ppm) of CO2, but it is unlikely that you would ever find levels this high in homes or classrooms.
Increased ambient CO2 levels cause acidification of the blood with compensatory increase in rate and depth of breathing. After prolonged exposure (days), acid-base regulation can occur via renal mechanisms which can affect calcium metabolism in bone.
The lowest level at which a human health effect (i.e. acidosis) has been observed in humans is 7,000 ppm, and that only after several weeks of continuous exposure in a submarine environment. In its 1987 Exposure Guidelines for Residential Indoor Air Quality,2 Health Canada set an exposure limit of 3,500 ppm to protect against such undesirable adaptive changes to acidosis, in particular calcium release from bones.
The occupational limits for CO2 recommended by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) are 5000 ppm (TLV-TWA) and 30,000 ppm (TLV-STEL),3 based on the direct effects on acidification of the blood.
Of note, no major pediatric studies have been identified to address the possibility of a significant differential in response between adults and children other than realizing that infants and children breathe more air than adults relative to their body size and thus tend to be more susceptible to respiratory exposures.4
CO2 at the levels in this school do not pose a direct risk to health. The elevated CO2 levels (e.g. > 1100 ppm), however, may suggest the need for more ventilation.
Indoor CO2 levels are generally higher than outside, as building occupants produce CO2 when they exhale. Ventilation exchanges indoor for outdoor air and reduces indoor CO2 levels. High indoor CO2 levels therefore may indicate that the air exchange rate is too low for the number of people in the room. School officials should look to increase ventilation by turning up mechanical ventilation systems or by opening windows.
Poor ventilation can make classrooms uncomfortable and can reduce productivity. Poor ventilation can also lead to increased humidity, as moisture produced indoors is not vented to the outside. High humidity can encourage the growth of mould and dust mites; both of which are allergens and asthma triggers.
In addition, ventilation also helps reduce the levels of other indoor air pollutants released from furnishings, building products or chemical cleaners such as formaldehyde or volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Since some of these chemicals have known or suspected health effects, keeping levels as low as possible is always advisable.
Workplace standards applicable to the school environment, if they exist, will be set by the provincial government.
The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Standard 62-2007 Ventilation for Acceptable Indoor Air Quality provides standards for ventilation based on surface area and occupancy. Typically, in an occupied classroom situation, the recommended level of ventilation would correspond to a CO2 level of approximately 1000-1100 ppm.5 A CO2 level of 1,000 to 1100 ppm is therefore offered as “a surrogate for human comfort (odour)” but “not considered a health risk.”
The investigation followed complaints of persistent respiratory irritation by teachers. CO2 measurements were taken in classrooms over the course of schooldays between 9am and 3pm on three separate occasions during the past year. The highest level was 1,660 ppm. Records showed that there had been historical issues with water intrusion into the school. CO was not tested. Two indoor air samples for mould spores were found to be comparable to one outdoor air sample.
What are your thoughts? Would you discount mould as a possible source of the problem based on these test results?
It will be difficult to link health data with the ventilation issue given the lack of before and after data for comparison. As high CO2 levels can simply be an indicator of poor ventilation, there is a possibility that other contaminants are accumulating. It is better to focus on taking steps to improve ventilation and reduce CO2. Illness rates are more likely to be related to community-wide seasonal trends than to the ventilation rates in a school.
As the MOH, you could discuss with parents and teachers about the meaning of the findings, highlighting the low direct risk to health. You could recommend that school officials look at increasing ventilation in the areas with high CO2. Simple measures for improving ventilation may include opening windows and increasing play time outdoors, but the possibility of a source of contaminants may need to be considered and possibly investigated.
A good resource is the US EPA Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools Program6 that provides checklists and tools to deal with indoor air quality issues. Also, for mould-related problems, a good resource is the US Environmental Protection Agency’s guide on Mold Remediation in Schools and Commercial Buildings.7
Also, possible information sources that can help determine if there is a possible problem at this school are records of student, teacher and staff absenteeism rates, records of nurse visits, and comparisons with other schools.
We would like to thank the following individuals for their valuable input and review of this document: Charmaine Enns, Charlene MacKinnon, Josh Moran, and Claudette Erdman for the question and context; Tim Foggin for research and write-up; Catherine Donovan, Brian Giles, and Deborah Schoen for review and comments.
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American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Standard 62-2007 Ventilation for Acceptable Indoor Air Quality. Atlanta (GA): American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers; 2002. 6 p.
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Trusting our government isn’t a matter of choice
By Thomas Sowell
Amid all the heated cross-currents of debate about the National Security Agency’s massive surveillance program, there is a growing distrust of the Obama administration that makes weighing the costs and benefits of the NSA program itself hard to assess.
The belated recognition of this administration’s contempt for the truth, for the American people and for the Constitution of the United States, has been long overdue.
But what if the NSA program has in fact thwarted terrorists and saved many American lives in ways that cannot be revealed publicly?
Nothing is easier than saying that you still don’t want your telephone records collected by the government. But the first time you have to collect the remains of your loved ones, after they have been killed by terrorists, telephone records can suddenly seem like a small price to pay to prevent such things.
The millions of records of phone calls collected every day virtually guarantee that nobody has the time to listen to them all, even if NSA could get a judge to authorize listening to what is said in all these calls, instead of just keeping a record of who called whom.
Moreover, Congressional oversight by members of both political parties limits what Barack Obama or any other president can get away with.
Are these safeguards foolproof? No. Nothing is ever foolproof.
As Edmund Burke said more than two centuries ago: “Constitute government how you please, infinitely the greater part of it must depend upon the exercise of the powers which are left at large to the prudence and uprightness of ministers of state.”
In other words, we do not have a choice whether to trust or not to trust government officials. Unless we are willing to risk anarchy or terrorism, the most we can do is set up checks and balances within government — and be a lot more careful in the future than we have been in the past when deciding whom to elect.
Anyone old enough to remember the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, when President John F. Kennedy took this country to the brink of nuclear war with the Soviet Union, may remember that there was nothing like the distrust and backlash against later presidents, whose controversial decisions risked nothing approaching the cataclysm that Kennedy’s decision could have led to.
Even those of us who were not Kennedy supporters, and who were not dazzled by the glitter and glamour of the Kennedy aura, nevertheless felt that the president of the United States was someone who knew much more than we did about the realities on which all our lives depended.
Whatever happened to that feeling? Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon happened. Both were shameless liars. They destroyed not only their own credibility, but the credibility of the office.
Even when Lyndon Johnson told us the truth at a crucial juncture during the Vietnam war — that the Communist offensive of 1968 was a defeat for them, even as the media depicted it as a defeat for us — we didn’t believe him.
In later years, Communist leaders themselves admitted that they had been devastated on the battlefield. But by then it was too late. What the Communists lost militarily on the ground in Vietnam, they won politically in the American media and in American public opinion.
More than 50,000 Americans lost their lives winning battles on the ground in Vietnam, only to have the war lost politically back home. We seem to be having a similar scenario unfolding today in Iraq, where soldiers won the war, only to have politicians lose the peace, as Iraq now increasingly aligns itself with Iran.
When Barack Obama squanders his own credibility with his glib lies, he is not just injuring himself during his time in office. He is inflicting a lasting wound on the country as a whole.
But we the voters are not blameless. Having chosen an untested man to be president, on the basis of rhetoric, style and symbolism, we have ourselves to blame if we now have only a choice between two potentially tragic fates: the loss of American lives to terrorism, or a further dismantling of our freedoms that has already led many people to ask: “Is this still America?”


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George Whitefield and Dissent
Jones, D., 15 Sep 2020, Evangelicalism and Dissent in Modern England and Wales. Bebbington, D. & Jones, D. C. (eds.). Taylor & Francis, p. 46–64 19 p. (Routledge Studies in Evangelicalism).
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Evangelicalism and Dissent in Modern England and Wales
Bebbington, D. W. & Jones, D., 08 Sep 2020, 1 ed. London: Taylor & Francis. 230 p. (Routledge Studies in Evangelicalism)
Making Evangelical History: Faith, Scholarship and the Evangelical Past
Atherstone, A. (ed.) & Jones, D. (ed.), 30 Apr 2019, 1 ed. London: Taylor & Francis. 304 p. (Routledge Studies in Evangelicalism)
Iain H. Murray and the rise and fall of British evangelicalism
Jones, D., 14 Mar 2019, Making Evangelical History: Faith, Scholarship and the Evangelical Past. Atherstone, A. & Jones, D. C. (eds.). p. 194-212 19 p. (Routledge Studies in Evangelicalism).
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John Gillies and the evangelical revivals
Jones, D., 14 Mar 2019, Making Evangelical History: Faith, Scholarship and the Evangelical Past. Atherstone, A. & Jones, D. C. (eds.). p. 22-41 20 p. (Routledge Studies in Evangelicalism).
Evangelicals and the cross
Jones, D., 17 Jul 2018, The Routledge Research Companion to the History of Evangelicalism. Atherstone, A. & Jones, D. C. (eds.). Taylor & Francis, p. 39-56 (Routledge Studies in Evangelicalism).
The Routledge Research Companion to the History of Evangelicalism
Atherstone, A. (ed.) & Jones, D. (ed.), 11 Jul 2018, 1 ed. Taylor & Francis. 312 p. (Routledge Studies in Evangelicalism)
George Whitefield and Heart Religion
Jones, D., 30 Jun 2016, Heart Religion: Evangelical Piety in England & Ireland, 1690-1850. Coffey, J. (ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 93-112 19 p.
George Whitefield: Life, Context, and Legacy
Hammond, G. (ed.) & Jones, D. (ed.), 19 May 2016, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 344 p.
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Whitefield and the “Celtic” Revivals
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Home Canada What does a re-elected Liberal government mean for northern housing?
What does a re-elected Liberal government mean for northern housing?
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By Sarah Sibley, Local Journalism Initiative ReporterCabin Radio
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With Justin Trudeau’s Liberals once again securing a minority government, many are ready for the party to get back to work and start fulfilling campaign promises.
Of those promises, one of the most crucial for northerners is how the federal government plans to help advance the N.W.T.’s housing priorities and end the territory’s ongoing housing crisis.
In his election campaign, re-elected Liberal MP Michael McLeod touted the work the federal government had completed in the past, stating his party’s government had invested “unprecedented levels into local housing priorities.”
McLeod cited examples like the N.W.T.’s $60-million share of a national fund, a $25-million housing allocation in 2021’s federal budget, the forthcoming Avens Pavilion seniors’ facility in Yellowknife, and what he termed “over $100 million toward housing and infrastructure for Indigenous governments across the Northwest Territories.”
But that has been a drop in a bucket for a territory that, two years ago, reported two in every five homes were either unaffordable, in disrepair, overcrowded, or all three.
In their 2021 election platform, the Liberals committed to producing an “Urban, Rural and Northern Indigenous Housing Strategy with an initial allocation of $300 million.”
If it comes to fruition as billed, that strategy is expected to place a lot of power to buy and refurbish northern housing directly in the hands of Indigenous governments – speeding up a key shift that had slowly begun in recent years.
However, the $300-million figure could find itself immediately stretched. In the N.W.T. alone, new homes paid for with federal dollars have recently cost between $500,000 and $1 million per house.
Asked after his re-election when the N.W.T. could expect the new strategy to become a reality, McLeod told Cabin Radio a lot of preparatory work had already been done to establish ways of investing more money in Indigenous housing.
“I’m just wanting to see a long-term stream of funding come directly to Indigenous governments,“ said McLeod, echoing a demand made by various Indigenous governments in the N.W.T. over the past six years of Liberal government.
“At this point I don’t know formally what my role is going to be [with the strategy] but I know that I’ll be an advocate to get it done,“ McLeod continued.
“I think it’s an important piece of our strategy to address housing, especially here in the North.”
In May, a federal standing committee said Indigenous peoples living off-reserve were “best-placed to address the housing needs of their people and communities” but never received long-term, sustainable funding to do it.
The committee made nine recommendations, of which creating the strategy was one. Establishing an Urban, Rural and Northern Housing Centre, with a mandate and responsibilities to be decided by Indigenous people, was another.
None of that has happened yet, but Dene National Chief Norman Yakeleya told Cabin Radio “the status quo is no longer acceptable and no longer works” in the N.W.T. He wants exactly what the Liberals just promised: direct funding to get more done.
This summer, the Dene Nation unveiled its own housing strategy that pledged new homes built to meet northern demands by an Alberta-based company.
Yakeleya wants the federal government to support that plan, which he believes will create “viable and affordable” housing options for the Dene.
“We know the impacts of inadequate housing are not a one-time fixed cost, but [have] long-term challenges to social and physical effects for our children, our families and our Dene communities,” he said.
“I believe the missing piece of this process is giving the Indigenous leaders the respect and the opportunity to do things for themselves and the people they serve.”
Yakeleya envisages using federal funding to train locals in home repair and construction in their own communities.
He said the Dene Nation had created its own task force to work with the federal and territorial governments to make that funding happen, envisaging a three-way agreement that “recognizes the need to do better in dealing with issues of common concern, like the existing housing crisis.”
“We need to do this work together – no more of the days of the government telling us what kind of houses to build, where to build them,” he said. “It’s time now they begin the road to reconciliation and that requires many government leaders.”
The Dene Nation isn’t alone in producing its own housing strategy. Ultimately, one test of the Liberals’ new strategy will be whether it can withstand the sheer number of Indigenous governments lining up for significant sums of direct funding to address deficiencies.
The Yellowknives Dene First Nation also has a strategy that focuses on helping its members to own their homes, a challenge in many northern communities.
Jason Snaggs, the First Nation’s chief executive, previously told Cabin Radio direct federal funding would bring that strategy to life.
At the Northwest Territory Métis Nation, Garry Bailey requested that Trudeau travel to the Northwest Territories to see the housing crisis first-hand. Bailey believes that might motivate the federal government to hasten the settlement of land claims.
“The government did commit to housing for all people – not just certain people,“ Bailey said. ”I think there’s definitely a lot of work that needs to be done to get people into their own homes.“
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the national Inuit group, listed the housing deficit among 15 priorities for a new Canadian government to tackle.
“ITK has welcomed recent federal investments in infrastructure and housing in Inuit Nunangat and calls on the next federal government to pledge major new and sustained investment in the region in order to bring it into Canada, uphold Canada’s human rights obligations, and help support economic development,“ a statement from the group read ahead of September 20’s polling day.
Meanwhile, promises made in previous elections have still to fully play out.
A Liberal National Housing Strategy unveiled in 2017 pledged more than $72 billion over 10 years to “build supply, making housing affordable, and address chronic homelessness.” That strategy has more than half a decade left to run.
This time around, the 2021 Liberal platform featured a housing plan that would make owning a home easier – for example by reducing mortgage costs and increasing incentives for young people – and build more of them.
While the Liberal plan states it “refuses to pit urban against rural,” some of the 2021 platform – such as a homebuyers’ bill of rights that, in part, bans foreign ownership of homes for two years – may not directly tackle the specific challenges the N.W.T. currently faces.
However, building more homes is something every government in the territory wants. A national co-investment fund already heavily used by the NWT (after some teething problems) is set to be doubled if the Liberals follow through on their campaign pledges, potentially giving the territory tens of millions of fresh dollars for homes.
A “federal housing advocate” should also be appointed within the first 100 days of the Liberals’ new term, a position designed to work toward ending chronic homelessness and keep tabs on the federal government’s housing commitments.
McLeod said he is “confident that we’re going to start to see more investment for the long term” and argues residents will begin to see the issue being addressed on their streets.
He said: “I can foresee a real busy housing construction season coming up next year.”
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I am a New York-based reporter covering billionaires and their wealth for Earlynewspaper. Previously, I worked on the breaking news team at ENP covering money and markets. Before that, I wrote about investing for Money Magazine. I graduated from the University of St Andrews in 2018, majoring in International Relations and Modern History.
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