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By Paul Weideman

Catherine Clemens, a landscape architect with a background in art, came up with a cool design for an outdoor fountain. Water, and light, would sprout from a red glass bowl set near one end of a long boulder.

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St. Andrews rising senior guard Marcus Adkison is expected to be one of the top players in the county.

The Montgomery County boys basketball landscape will have a different look this summer, thanks to a new league launched by St. Andrews Episcopal School.

The St. Andrews League will include 16 teams with many, like St. Andrews, that played in the Montgomery County Summer League in previous summers.

Lions boys coach Kevin Jones, who helped launch the league, said he hopes it will help the players gain additional exposure to college coaches. The league is in the process of adding a website that includes schedules, standings, rosters and statistics, Jones said.

We just thought it would be a good opportunity to run a league the way that we wanted, Jones said.

Walt Whitman, the Class 4A state finalists, is one of the 12 Montgomery County public school teams participating in the league, hosted at the Potomac private school.

[We wanted] to do something different, Vikings coach Chris Lun said. ... For us, its right in Potomac. Its close for a lot of our kids.

Other participants include Clarksburg, Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, Gaithersburg, The Heights, Landon, Col. Zadok Magruder, River Hill (Howard), Rockville, Richard Montgomery, Poolesville, Quince Orchard, Watkins Mill and Thomas S. Wootton.

The Lions return three starters, including rising senior Marcus Adkison, from last seasons 18-7 team.

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A new group of Greenpeace activists have taken to the trees in the Leard State Forest in north west NSW to stop Whitehaven Coal clearing land during winter and endangering hibernating wildlife.

Five Greenpeace activists were arrested on Sunday after a three-day protest in the treetops of the forest.

However, another five protesters have built a giant web rope in another part of the forest overnight in order to hinder the company's plan to bulldoze the trees as part of its Maules Creek Mine expansion.

"We hope to stay as long as long as possible," said Greenpeace senior climate campaigner Nick Clyde from the giant web rope.

"We've got food and water and settling in for the long haul."

Whitehaven is spending $767 million developing Maules Creek mine in Leard State Forest and is progressively demolishing around 1660 hectares of native woodland to extract coal by early 2015.

The company had expressed a preference to avoid winter and early spring land clearances to avoid the "key breeding/hibernation seasons for threatened bat and bird species".

But the government recently approved a revision to the firm's biodiversity management plan (BMP).

A Whitehaven spokesman has said the company, previously owned by mining baron Nathan Tinkler, has outlined measures to move wildlife before clearing the land.

Mr Clyde said a neighbouring mine at Boggabri was not permitted to clear land during winter due to the danger to hibernating wildlife but Whitehaven Coal has been allowed to break the rules.

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Juan Loy was sitting in his living room between Gilmer and Big Sandy when he first smelled the smoke.

It was a Thursday in early May, about a month before the 17-year-old Gladewater High School senior was set to graduate, but in that moment, his only thoughts were getting his family out of the house and calling for help.

It was on a Thursday. I missed (school) that day and the next day to start cleaning up and get as much as we could out as soon as we could. Then all weekend I spent cleaning up, Juan said.

Faulty wiring in the attic was blamed for the fire, which worked its way across much of the home before firefighters could extinguish the blaze. What the flames didnt get became waterlogged.

Juan was at home with his father, mother, brothers daughter, sister and sisters family at the time of the blaze.

Juans mother had the presence of mind to grab his cap, gown and graduation invitations before evacuating the home.

It means a lot more now because I can still graduate, Juan said.

Juan, a Gladewater ISD every-man, has played sports, participates in the band and finished seventh in his class.

It took him the first several years of high school, but Juan finally left the basketball and track teams and focused on tennis, while playing brass instruments for the band.

A lifelong Bear, Juan began with the district as a student at Broadway Elementary School.

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The average fixed line home broadband download speed for the largest eight ISPs in the United Kingdom held stable at 21.7Mbps (up from 21.32Mbps in April 2014) and Internet uploads were similarly unchanged at 5.04Mbps. As usual Virgin Media and BT remain the fastest national providers. A new chart that tracks the monthly changes has also been added.

The following summary is based on data gathered using Ooklas universal Speedtest.net service and we then calculate the overall average speeds from only the major national UK ISPs listed below rather than Ooklas overall total (i.e. Ooklas overall figures would be too skewed by business ISPs, niche providers and mobile operators).

Generally speaking May has been a fairly quiet month with no major changes to report; although Zen Internet has snuck into the top 3 after just about managing to unseat PlusNet. Otherwise Virgin continues to be the fastest national broadband ISP for download speeds on 49.36Mbps, with BT coming a distant second at 25.52Mbps (largely due to the high number of slower ADSL2+ users).

Top 8 Big UK ISPs Average Download Speed (Megabits per second) 1. Virgin Media 49.26Mbps 2. BT 25.52Mbps 3. Zen Internet 22.58Mbps 4. PlusNet 21.30Mbps 5. Eclipse Internet 14.99Mbps 6. Sky Broadband 13.46Mbps 7. TalkTalk 13.44Mbps 8. EE 13.05Mbps

Top 8 Big UK ISPs Average Upload Speed 1. BT 7.58Mbps 2. Zen Internet 6.80Mbps 3. PlusNet 6.50Mbps 4. Virgin Media 5.56Mbps 5. Eclipse Internet 4.30Mbps 6. Sky Broadband 3.97Mbps 7. EE (Orange) 3.19Mbps 8. TalkTalk 2.44Mbps

Some readers have also requested that ISPreview.co.uk keep track of individual ISP performance and in response weve included a semi-interactive chart at the bottom that will be used to keep tabs on the listed ISPs, albeit only in terms of downstream performance (uploads change at a far slower rate).

At this stage weve only been doing it since March 2014 and so you wont notice much movement, although the start of Virgin Medias latest double speed upgrade is clearly evident. Take note that the chart will only display if your web browser has enabled JavaScript (most do this by default) and mobile browsers may also need to use Desktop mode to see it.

As usual its important to take average speeds like these with a big pinch of salt. Every home is different and performance can be affected by all sorts of issues, many of which are beyond the ISPs ability to control (e.g. slow wifi or poor home wiring), thus we do not consider the above data to be a reliable barometer for individual users but it can help to highlight general changes in the market.

On top of that its known that Ooklas data attempts to reflect the fastest sustainable throughput performance by dropping a sizeable chunk of the slowest tests and a smaller slice of the fastest results for each ISP, which has its merits but also skews the results a bit. Similarly speedtesting services are rarely perfect, although this is usually more of an issue for ultrafast connections of 100Mbps+ (uncommon).

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