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Our trekking horses are the outcome of the interbreeding between New Forest Ponies and Arab. Grazing and galloping together in the same park, they are in good harmony with each other. Thanks to the Luberon's preserved nature they are really calm and have a gentle temperament.
Here is the family tree of our horses :
Each year, there are about 3 newborn foals. The young horses begin training at 3 years of age and start trekkings around age four. So we have about 8 young horses permanently.
La Florentine offers full livery for your horses at 8€ per day.
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Sgt. Parker selected as officer of the year
(Local News ~ 01/02/08)
BY CARIN MCCLUNG, Democrat News Staff Trumann has a new police officer of the year. Chief Larry Blagg recently presented Sgt. Anthony Dale Parker with a plaque pronouncing him Trumann Police Department's officer of the year. Sgt. Parker joined TPD in January of 2003...
Hooker, Story announce engagement
(Local News ~ 01/02/08)
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hooker of Trumann are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Tara Elizabeth to Anthony "Tony" Story, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rick Story of Jonesboro. The bride elect is a graduate of Trumann High School and Arkansas State University, where she received a bachelor of science degree in journalism. ...
New website developed
(Local News ~ 01/02/08)
A new website has been established to aid in the preservation of information of our ancestors, Arkansas Gravestones, http://arkansasgravestones.org. There is no charge for use of the website and users may submit photographs to be included on the site...
CRDC accepting applications
(Local News ~ 01/02/08)
Crowley's Ridge Development Council (CRDC) Inc. will begin accepting applications for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) on Tuesday, Jan. 8. Applications will be taken at 402 Market Street from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., being closed for lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays...
Bobby Ray Smith
(Obituary ~ 01/02/08)
Bobby Ray Smith, 60, of Trumann died Saturday, Dec. 22, 2007 at the family residence in Trumann. Mr. Smith was born in Trumann and was a lifetime member of the Trumann area. He was a factory worker. He was preceded in death by one sister, Melba Stevens; two brothers, James Lee Smith and Lucion Leonard Smith and his parents, Mack H. and Omer Edna Willcockson Smith...
Paul Edward Allred
(Obituary ~ 01/02/08)
Paul Edward Allred, 56, died Monday, Dec, 17, 2007, at the Piggott Community Hospital in Piggott. He was born on Thursday, May 17, 1951, son of the late Robert Holston and Gracie Earlene Baine Allred. He was born in Harrisburg and had lived most of his lifetime in Trumann. He was disabled, a veteran of the U.S. Army and of the Church of God belief...
Neva LaVerne Hickman
(Obituary ~ 01/02/08)
Neva LaVerne Hickman, 86, was born on Thursday, Nov. 10, 1921, daughter of the late Logan and Neva Workman Coker. She died Sunday, Nov. 16, 2007 at NEA Baptist Medical Center in Jonesboro. She was born in Harrisburg and had lived most of her lifetime in the Central Community near Harrisburg before moving to Jonesboro in 2004. She was a homemaker and a member of the County Line Church of Christ...
Bryon Landis Long
(Obituary ~ 01/02/08)
Bryon Landis Long, 41, of Harrisburg, died Saturday, Dec. 22, 2007 at NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital in Jonesboro. Mr. Long was born in Trumann and had lived his lifetime in the Trumann and Harrisburg area. Mr. Long was self employed as a Acoustical Ceiling Tile installer and of the Church of Christ faith...
Carl Dewayne Stevens
(Obituary ~ 01/02/08)
Carl Dewayne Stevens, 60, died Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007, at his residence. He was born Dec. 23, 1947, at Jonesboro. He worked as a piano assembly worker. He was a Vietnam veteran, serving in the United States Army. He liked the outdoors, hunting, fishing and camping...
David Creemore
(Obituary ~ 01/02/08)
David Creekmore died Saturday, Dec. 22, 2007, at St. Bernard's Medical Center in Jonesboro. He was born in Parkin and had lived in Trumann for the past 30 years. He was a retired farmer and of the Assembly of God faith. Mr. Creekmore was preceded in death by one granddaughter and his parents, M.H. and Dovie Mae Martin Creekmore...
Todd Maness
(Obituary ~ 01/02/08)
Todd Maness, 46, of Lepanto died Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2007. He was of the Baptist belief and a retired construction worker. Survivors include his wife, Evylen Maness; two daughters: April Maness and Angela Maness; his parents, A. J. Maness and Bonnie Adams; and one brother, Tony Maness...
Dalaney Renea Osment born
(Local News ~ 01/02/08)
Autumn and Wes Osment of Trumann are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Dalaney Renea Osment. She was born at 1:57 p.m. on Nov. 30, 2007 at St. Bernard's Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. She has one big brother, Drew. Her grandparents are Bill and Peggy Biggers, Gaylon and Kim Muse, Lynn Osment and Freddie and Jan Osment. Her great-grandparents are Glen and Imogene Muse, Maxine Osment and Orval Parnell...
Madelyn Karaki born
(Local News ~ 01/02/08)
Don and Ann Marie Karaki are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Madelyn Bennett Fumi Karaki. Madalyn was born at 5:53 p.m. on Dec. 11 at the University of Alabama Hospital in Birmingham, Ala. She weighed seven pounds and seven ounces and was 19 and ˝ inches long...
2007 year in review: Part 2
(Local News ~ 01/02/08)
April 4 - The Trumann community mourned the death of former Mayor Jack Edwin Coggins. Coggins, a former pharmacist and Trumann businessman, served two terms as mayor and also served on the Poinsett County Quorum Court. Preceded in death by a son, Jerry Edward Coggins, he is survived by his wife of 56 years, Erin Coggins, and two sons, Jack Jr. of Batesville and John of Cabot. He was 77...
Blood drive was a success
(Local News ~ 01/02/08)
Brenda Shinall hopes that one day donating blood for the American Red Cross will be a chain-wide activity for the Movie Gallery chain. But, for now, she's proud that the Movie Gallery in Trumann has just completed its second annual Red Cross Blood Drive...
Filing begins for district judge
(Local News ~ 01/02/08)
County Clerk Fonda Condra recently announced that petitions are available at the clerk's office for filing for the Nonpartisan Judicial office of District Court Judge. For candidates filing by petition, the filing periods begins at noon Jan. 17 and ends at noon Jan. 31...
Crittenden Regional Hospital recognizes home care and hospice professionals
(Local News ~ 01/02/08)
More than 11 million Americans receive home-delivered healthcare from home health providers. In their honor, Crittenden Regional Hospital Home Care and Hospice recently joined the National Association for Home Care & Hospice in recognizing those that work in the home healthcare and hospice profession...
I'm ready for my normal life again
(Local News ~ 01/02/08)
I enjoy getting an extra day or so off a week during the Christmas and New Year's holidays, but it throws me way off. I never seem to know what day it is. My regular normal life is so regimented on certain days of the week, that when I shift and do things on a different day I am all off kilter...
SO has training course
(Local News ~ 01/02/08)
The Poinsett County Sheriff's Office is hosting a part time II Auxiliary Officer Certification Course. The course will begin at 6 p.m., Monday, Feb. 4 and be each Tuesday and Thursday night thereafter. Each class will range in length from two to four hours...
TPD felony arrest report
(Local News ~ 01/02/08)
Shawn Michael Marrs, 735 Hurd Street, was arrested on Dec. 20 by Det. Sgt. Jonathan Skaggs. He was charged with possession of controlled substance (meth), possession of drug paraphernalia, DWI drugs, driving without a license and careless and prohibited driving...
Bay lunch menu
(Local News ~ 01/02/08)
Week of Jan. 7 -- 11 Monday -- Chili dog, chips, Mexican corn, pudding, tropical fruit and milk. Tuesday -- spaghetti, toss salad, baby carrots, garlic bread, diced peaches and milk. Wednesday -- chicken nuggets, potatoes and gravy, green beans, rolls, pineapple and milk...
A year of milestones
(Local News ~ 01/02/08)
It's officially 2008! I know people get agitated when a 26 year old mentions feeling old, but I do feel old! 2008 sounds like something out of a science fiction movie to me. However, the funny sounding year does mark a few milestones for me. The start of 2008 marks the beginning of my fifth year working at the newspaper. ...
Sometimes life just doesn't go as planned
(Local News ~ 01/02/08)
Whether you like it or not sometimes there are slip-ups or mistakes or problems that you did not plan for… Friday became one of those days when my editor, Samantha, called after four o'clock. I'd just gotten home from the office and was in the backyard playing with the dogs...
Sammie Charlene Shelton
(Obituary ~ 01/02/08)
Sammie Charlene Shelton, 80, of Marked Tree, died Monday evening at Craighead County Nursing Center where she had resided briefly. Born in Risco, Mo., Mrs. Shelton moved to McCormick in 1958 and then to Marked Tree in 1963. She was a homemaker and a member of the First Baptist Church in Marked Tree...
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It has been a long time since my last post and I was hoping to listen to some fresh new music, so I picked up Shwekey's latest album, Ad Bli Dai.
As I noted in my review of Shwekey's previous album, a change in course was the only thing he could possibly do to stay relevant and cool. It hasn't happened and, by inertia, this album is not really a new album, it's just more of the old.
Let me get more specific. The opening song Areivim is a complicated choice for a first song - little energy, not catchy and not a innovative arrangement. This is at best the traditional "filler" song but right at the start of the album of JM's most popular singer.
Teshuva is arguably Yossi Green's least original song in a long time. It's hasn't the usual YG taste to it.
Veshochanti and Naase Venatzliach are already better and I cannot criticize as much. It's a little different and it's acceptable. But then it comes Mimkomcha I wonder what Shwekey liked about this song. I can easily spot Waldner's hand in most his songs, but in this one I was surprised to see his name in the credits. To compose a slow, mellow Mimkomcha is the same as composing a new slow, mellow Hamalach Hagoel - nobody can hear it anymore. Just a few Mimkomcha's that come to my mind - Mendy Wald's, Shlomo Simcha, Avrumie Flam, Carlebach (lehavdil). And here again, Shwekey goes for such a song. And the same goes for Ad Bli Dai - Dedi, Shnitzler and others have similar songs.
I always do my best to write even-handed reviews but I'm afraid I cannot go ahead and start saying wonders about this one and it's a case point of what going on today in mainstream JM - little originality, courage or musical beaktroughs. Yes, Shwekey can still sing beautiful songs like the uber-popular Vehi Sheamda but this is not Shwekey's signature kind of song. Vehi Sheamda is Razel's shtick and Shwekey was only the best way to make this song popular. When it comes to put a project together, Shwekey failed to bring us his usual hit songs. I miss Yedid!
PS: I did modify this post a little in response to the harsh comments I received and I did my best to soften the tone.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Shwekey's New Album, Ad Bli Dai
It has been a long time since my last post and I was hoping to listen to some fresh new music, so I picked up Shwekey's latest album, Ad Bli Dai.
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Well, Well!! I'll try to keep my tone mildly.. I beg to differ with this write up. It seems like you have something very against Y. Shwekey personally. I have bought this past 3 weeks- 6 new releases and Yaakov Shwekeys beats them all!!! Every single song is beautiful, classy and yes! the slow songs are soo nice and hartzig.. Every day by davening, since this tape came out, when i say Hashiveinu Tshuva- i stop and humm this song to myself.. I just get such a warm feeling... And the song mimkomchu is soo hartzig!!! I get chills when i listen to it...
I dont know how you can jusst degrade in 1 moment 100s of hours of work somebody put in. I never ever commented online on any website. This is my first comment becuase i just felt that i couldnt just close the computer without telling you that there are hundreds, thousands of people that lovvvee this new tape and i'm proud to say that its one of the best tapes from all releases.
If you got something agains a singer - then be so nice and keep your mouth shut... It seems like youve got that bad attitude even before you started listening to the cd and you were just sitting there and searching for criticsm...
Think before you voice your opinion to hundreds of readers out there!!! THIS is not called a fair review... Your biased.
- October 27, 2009 at 10:31 PM
- YK said...
I respect your opinion. We all have different ears and musical preferences and I'm not claiming no one will like this album. For me, an album can sell well and still be pointless in terms of innovation and originality.
I very rarely criticize an album but if I paid a fortune for it and was expecting to hear something good, I feel entitled to voice my personal opinions.
- October 28, 2009 at 4:05 AM
Thanks for your review, YK -- it's been a while since an old-school JM blogger has taken on a mainstream album like Shwekey's in a detailed way. While I think your review is a little harsh (reminiscent of another former JM blogger's reviews, perhaps?), I think you make some good points. I didn't hear anything in Shwekey V that sounded different than his other albums.
- October 28, 2009 at 7:05 AM
- YK said...
I just want to make clear I've nothing against Shwekey. I love many of his songs but now that he has become super-famous and the number 1 singer in JM the stakes are higher and I come to expect a little more from him. He has all the tools to produce something great, as he has done in the past, but it seems to me that he is not breaking any new ground in terms of originality.
I'm even thinking that now is Lipa-time and that Shwekey will not be bringing any breakthroughs any more. Lipa today is much more original and cool than Shwekey, specially if you compare their latest albums. You disagree?
- October 28, 2009 at 7:15 AM
I do agree that currently Lipa is much cooler than Shwekey, and that he IS probably the most original artist in the mainstream Jewish music world right now. However, I think that Shwekey still has a very attentive audience in very yeshvish circles, among people who are not necessarily looking for originality.
In general, the whole JM scene continues to confuse me more and more, to the point where I don't know what to make of it. Over the past few yeas, there has been an influx of new, young singers who all work very hard to be original, have their own sound, and even to incorporate non-Jewish musical influences...but nothing has really impressed me much as of yet. I feel like this is why the old-school JM bloggers have sort of given up on reviewing the new "shiny-shoe" albums and have been paying more attention to alternative, outside-of-the-box artists (or stopped blogging much altogether, like you).
- October 28, 2009 at 8:21 AM
- YK said...
Your analysis is perfect.
I think most JM listeners are into the shiny-shoe business and that tempts many singers to just keep doing more of the same. My criticism will not look good to this public but I'm not afraid of saying the truth as I see it. Music for me is originality and that is it.
Lipa is clearly ahead of them all mostly because of his innovative lyrics, something I have lobbied for a long time. I just wished we had such good lyricists for songs in Hebrew...
- October 29, 2009 at 10:59 AM
i agree to comments all the way how could u say its original and on top of everything the guy just sings with no feeling
- November 1, 2009 at 1:49 PM
and just forgot to mention of course lipa is the king of the new generation after mbd and avremale
- November 1, 2009 at 1:54 PM
- YK said...
How come everyone is posting anonymously? Come on guys, give names.
In any case, Anon, I don't think Shwekey sings without feeling - he actually seems to be into his songs. The problem is just that the songs are below average. I think Lipa is ahead of Shwekey And Fried right now, and I think he will be up there for a while.
- November 1, 2009 at 2:12 PM
he seems into something but it sounds like he is more into himself n about lipa being ahead of freid maybe yes or no but freid is already a leagend like the king mbd so lipa needs many more years to catch up but from the new generation ofcourse he is the king
- November 2, 2009 at 12:57 AM
- YK said...
I agree.
- November 2, 2009 at 1:39 AM
I for one appreciate an honest review.
That being said, you cannot use the words "king of Jewish music" on anyone other than Reb Mordechai Ben Duvid.
While MBD's voice is not where it was five years ago, his originality and hartz shine on his latest album Kulam Ahuvim.
Btw IMHO the best fast song composition of the album and , for that matter, of the year goes to Aron Razel in Me'en Hasimcha. MBD and Razel knock that song out of the park.
- November 9, 2009 at 5:17 AM
- YK said...
Well, Carlebach was also the king at his time, in my opinion and had possibly a even stronger impact in JM. But I agree with what you said.
- November 9, 2009 at 10:58 AM
I'm a little late to conversation, but i would like to add my two cents.
YK, I commend you on your review. Touche! Shwekeys album was lackluster and offered nothing of worth other than track 3,10 and vhi shumdah which was from ceasaria. The arrangements were stale the lyrics were mostly overused. Shwekey has reached a level where people just buy his album because its a Shwekey album.
I wrote a guest review for lifeofrubin but he wouldn't post it because i mostly echoed your sentiments.
The culture in the jm blogs is to review an album only if they like it. Thats why you saw no reviews of this album. Rubin claims he was going to review it but never did.
The first anonymous post sounds like a shwekey employee.
I have had issues with the objectivity of bloggers who only write positive reviews and call every release a materpiece. But I also understand that the worst loshon hora one can say is LH that cause one to lose parnassa.
- November 11, 2009 at 2:19 PM
- YK said...
can you email me your write-up? I'm just curious to see what you wrote.
it's no secret that singers make their money from weddings rather than from the albums. the only one losing parnassa is me, specially considering that I paid 20 euros for this album!
- November 12, 2009 at 10:45 AM
- Shimon said...
Just a quick comment with some food for thought on Shwekey and Lipa (I love both by the way).
Being Cool isn't always a plus in the long run. Recently Radio Kol Chai tried to sum up the last decade of Jewish music (they actually did a pretty decent job of it).
In the top 50 songs there were 5 by Shwekey (including 3 in the top 15) and 0 by Lipa. The broadcasters commented on this fact noting that Lipa's songs are too shitky. They seem to need Lipa's unique style of presentation and are hard for others to sing. They don't fare so well in the test of time.
This is an interesting point which bears some consideration.
- November 12, 2009 at 11:44 AM
- YK said...
You make an excellent point.
It does seems that the more yeshivish songs are always the ones that become wildly popular. Any theories?
- November 12, 2009 at 1:52 PM
1. If you want good lyrics in Ivrit, check out Shuly Rand's "Nekudah Tovah". Awesome CD.
2. Yeshivish likes singability - many of Lipa's songs are musical talent. There's a MAJOR difference between the two. Lipa is developing an art, or his inner expression; most yeshivish singers are trying to produce a song that becomes a staple at every Kumzits.
Most JM listeners just don't seem to be that sophisticated to appreciate stuff that's REALLY good.
- November 12, 2009 at 2:05 PM
- YK said...
1. Didn't you read my review of Shuli Rand's album? I'm a major fan and lobbied very strongly for him in last year's JM Awards. The king of lyrics.
2.I think so too. I believe a large chunk of JM listeners are not really into original music. They just want more of the same. But there is also people like us (or me), who like different things. In other words, there's a market for both sub-genres.
- November 12, 2009 at 2:38 PM
- Hislahavus said...
I had not seen it, and will read it now. On these lines, I'll have an article up on JMR soon G-d willing on other Israeli albums like it (out of the box JM), as a continuation of my series "Alternative Jewish Music".
And I agree that there's room for both.
BTW, regarding Mimkomcha, you missed 3 MBD Mimkomchas!
- November 12, 2009 at 6:29 PM
- Sim said...
Wow, there is a sense of LAshon Horah that has to be adhered. 1) the answer to your speculation of the more Yeshivishe a song is the more popular it gets is pretty simple - a funky cool song while it is quite entertaining or enjoyable to listen to -It will not be sung at a wedding- as a wedding singer myself the way you know you were succesful is by seeing how well the crowd adapts to your song choice. Also in terms of Lashon Horah, as frum Jews we are obligated to keep ourr negative opinions to ourselves especially if it could result in a loss of parnasa, which I feel quite confident that this type of review would do...
All the best!
- November 13, 2009 at 12:33 PM
- Shimon said...
I'm not sure giving a bad review of an item which is publicly marketed would be considered Loshon Hara. It is specifically being put in front of the public to be judged for better ofr for worse.
What about the money of the many potentially disappointed buyers?
As far as hebrew lyrics check out Ovadia Chamama's Keshehaneshama Meirah - Simply Amazing.
- November 14, 2009 at 9:34 AM
i actually think that if you liked shwekey once and enjoy lipa now, plus you think he is better than fried, your taste of music has definitely changed, so, don't expect shwekey to change and have any "cool" or "fresh" sounding songs, because his style will continue to be catering to his crowd, i.e. the crowd you once belonged to. Shwekey, as most commentators here have pointed out, hasn't changed his style, and kudos for that, for being true to himself. There are many people that just want to hear true heartful songs and don't care of how new they sound, i.e. fans of shlomo carlbach or the ever popular yehuda green etc. And by the way, carlbach never changed his style in his 40 years of making music!
I specifiably disagree about shwekey's song Teshuva. I believe its the most hartzige song on this album, and towards the end of this song, he does some incredible vocals that i've never heard from shwekey ever, a truely inspirational song. Just so you should not say i am biased or that i am not a valid opinion, the up and coming benny friedman has rated this song his best on the album!!
- November 14, 2009 at 9:11 PM
- YK said...
I forgot to refer you to my post about Shuli Rand's Jerusalem concert a few months ago. It was really nice and he unveiled his Elokai Neshama (great!) then.
- November 15, 2009 at 11:12 AM
- YK said...
Most but not all songs depend in the wedding factor. Think of Carlebach, which had many non-wedding-friendly songs that became hits.
- November 15, 2009 at 11:19 AM
- YK said...
I have Chamama's latest album but to me Shuli Rand's is much better (ok guys, start the Loshon Horo charges again). But I do absolutely love his Ana Bekoach, which is immensely popular in Israel but never got any buzz in the US.
- November 15, 2009 at 11:24 AM
- YK said...
"or that i am not a valid opinion" - those who have been following this blog know that I value all opinions, even if they do not agree with mine. I don't expect everyone to think the same way.
You cannot possibly compare Shwekey to Carlebach. Carlebach is a composer, Shwekey is a singer. Carlebach created his own musical genre, Shwekey didn't. Carlebach had an universal appeal while Shwekey pleases the crowd you refered to.
And by the way, Carlebach did evolve musically throughout his lifespan. Only a fraction of his songs became extremely popular; many other crazier songs didn't make it. I have the recordings.
- November 15, 2009 at 11:39 AM
YK, My point wasn't about comparing carlbach to the likes of shwekey, rather to compare that they both have a loyal following despite that theyr styles of songs have hardly changed. And carlebach never changed his style to sound more modern or "in style"...
- November 15, 2009 at 12:21 PM
- Hislahavus said...
Re Hebrew Lyrics - have you heard A Groyse Metsie? Their first album doesn't have that much lyrics going on, but check out their website for their new stuff - www.groyse.com. Wild ideas, and crazy stuff. (Hashem is, among other things, "Psycholog mispar echad").
- November 15, 2009 at 9:52 PM
I only read the first few posts, but I must agree that this album is not very good at all. I used to be obsessed with shwecky, but Ad Bli Dai is one of my least favorite cds. I almost don't want to listen to anymore shwecky
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Squash, sage and ricotta galettes
As a non-meat eater I would be chuffed to bits to be presented with these for my Christmas dinner, or for any dinner for that matter! The pastry is gorgeously crisp and flaky against the creamy filling and tender sweet squash. The flavours are spot on too, squash, sage and nutmeg is such a classic combination.
Obviously if you're pushed for time (there's never enough of it at Christmas) you can use ready-made pastry. These will keep for a day or two in the fridge and re-heat beautifully too so feel free to make them ahead of time if you need to.
makes 4
40g toasted hazelnuts (ground finely)
200g plain flour
100g butter
pinch of seasalt
splash of very cold water
450g (ish) butternut squash
150g ricotta
25g parmesan
1 1/2 tsp dried sage
pinch of grated nutmeg
salt and pepper to taste
Rub together the ground hazelnuts, butter, salt and flour, using your fingertips or a food processor, until it looks like fine breadcrumbs. Use a little of the cold water to brind everything together but don't let the dough get sticky. Wrap the dough in clingfilm and put it in the fridge to chill for 30 minutes.
Pre-heat the oven to 230°c and line a large baking sheet with baking parchment.
Combine the ricotta, sage, parmesan, nutmeg and salt and pepper, mixing well and set it aside. Slice the 'neck' of the squash (don't bother to peel it) so that the slices are only a couple of millimeters thick. Use a cookie cutter to cut the squash into pretty shapes, this should be pretty easy if your squash is thin enough.
Once the dough has chilled and relaxed roll it out on a very lightly floured surface so that it is just a few millimeters thick. Cut four circles out of the dough (a breakfast bowl makes a good template) re-rolling the dough as necessary.
Put the discs of pastry on the prepared baking sheet. Add a dollop of the ricotta mixture to the centre of each and spread it a little. Arrange the squash slices on top, so that they overlap. Fold over the edges of the pastry, crimping and gathering as necessary. I like to brush the edges with a little beaten egg so that the pastry is lovely and golden once the galettes are baked. Dot the top of each one with a tiny bit of butter and sprinkle on a bit of black pepper.
Bake them for 15 minutes, then lower the oven temperature to 190°c and bake for a further 20 minutes.


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Ground effect vehicle A-90 Orlyonok. Экраноплан "Орлёнок"
A ground effect vehicle (GEV) is one that attains level flight near the surface of the Earth, made possible by a cushion of high-pressure air created by the aerodynamic interaction between the wings and the surface known as ground effect. Also known as a wing-in-ground-effect (WIG) vehicle, flarecraft, sea skimmer, ekranoplan, or wing-in-surface-effect ship (WISE), a GEV can be seen as a transition between a hovercraft and an aircraft. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has classified the GEV as a ship.[1] A GEV differs from an aircraft in that it cannot operate without ground effect, so its operating height is limited relative to its wingspan.
In recent years a large number of different GEV types have evolved for both civilian and military use. However, these craft are not in wide use.
Small numbers of experimental vehicles were built in Scandinavia just before World War II. By the 1960s, the technology started to improve, in large part due to the independent contributions of Rostislav Alexeev in the Soviet Union[2] and German Alexander Lippisch, working in the United States. Alexeev worked from his background as a ship designer whereas Lippisch worked from his own background as an aeronautical engineer. The influence of Alexeev and Lippisch is still noticeable in most GEV vehicles seen today.
The Soviet Central Hydrofoil Design Bureau (CHDB), led by Alexeev, was the center of ground-effect craft development in the USSR; in Russian, the vehicle came to be known as an ekranoplan (Russian: экранопла́н, French: ecran "screen" + Russian: plan "plane", from эффект экрана effekt ekrana). The military potential for such a craft was soon recognised and Alexeev received support and financial resources from Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
Some manned and unmanned prototypes were built, ranging up to eight tons in displacement. This led to the development of the "Caspian Sea Monster", a 550-ton military ekranoplan.[3] Although it was designed to travel a maximum of 3 m (9.8 ft) above the sea, it was found to be most efficient at 20 m (66 ft), reaching a top speed of 300 kn (350 mph; 560 km/h) (400 kn (460 mph; 740 km/h) in research flight).
The Soviet ekranoplan program continued with the support of Minister of Defense Dmitri Ustinov. It produced the most successful ekranoplan so far, the 125-ton A-90 Orlyonok. These craft were originally developed as very high-speed military transports, and were based mostly on the shores of the Caspian Sea and Black Sea. The Soviet Navy ordered 120 Orlyonok-class ekranoplans. But this figure was later reduced to fewer than thirty vehicles, with planned deployment mainly in the Black Sea and Baltic Sea fleets.
A few Orlyonoks served with the Soviet Navy from 1979 to 1992. In 1987, the 400-ton Lun-class ekranoplan was built as a missile launcher. A second Lun, renamed Spasatel, was laid down as a rescue vessel, but was never finished.
Minister Ustinov died in 1985, and the new Minister of Defense, Marshal Sokolov, effectively stopped the funding for the program. Only three operational Orlyonok-class ekranoplans (with revised hull design) and one Lun-class ekranoplan remained at a naval base near Kaspiysk.
The two major problems that the Soviet ekranoplans faced were poor longitudinal stability and a need for reliable navigation.
Since the fall of the Soviet Union, ekranoplans have been produced by the Volga Shipyard[4] in Nizhniy Novgorod.
GEV developed since the 1980s have been primarily smaller craft designed for the recreational and civilian ferry markets. Germany, Russia, and the United States have provided most of the momentum with some development in Australia, China, Japan, and Taiwan. In these countries, small craft up to ten seats have been designed and built. Other larger designs as ferries and heavy transports have been proposed, though none have gone on to further development.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, smaller ekranoplans for non-military use have been under development. The CHDB had already developed the eight-seat Volga-2 in 1985, and Technologies and Transport developed a smaller version by the name of Amphistar.
In Germany, Lippisch was asked to build a very fast boat for Mr. Collins from Collins Radio Company in the USA. He developed the X-112, a revolutionary design with reversed delta wing and T-tail. This design proved to be stable and efficient in ground effect and even though it was successfully tested, Collins decided to stop the project and sold the patents to a German company called Rhein Flugzeugbau (RFB) which further developed the model.
Tandem flarecraftHanno Fischer took over the works from RFB and created his own company called Fischer Flugmechanik. Their two-seat Airfisch 3 and their later model that seats 6 passengers have been a successful design. This craft, the FS-8, was to be produced by a Singapore-Australian joint venture called Flightship.[5] The company no longer exists, and the ship is out of production. An ongoing research project in collaboration with the university of Duisburg-Essen, involves the development of the Hoverwing.[6]
Günther Jörg in Germany, who had also been working on Alexeev's first designs, and was familiar with the challenges of GEV design, developed a GEV with two wings in a tandem arrangement, the Jörg-II. It was the third, manned, tandem airfoil boat,named "Skimmerfoil", which was developed during his consultancy period in South Africa. It was a simple and low-cost design, but has not been produced to date. The consultancy of Dipl. Ing. Günther Jörg was founded with a fundamental knowledge of Wing in Ground Effect physics, as well as results of fundamental tests under different conditions and designs that began in 1960. In 1984, Günther Jörg received the "PHILIP MORRIS AWARD". In 1987, the Botec Company was founded
Current development
A number of companies have been heavily lobbying governments for development funding to pursue research and development of GEV craft exceeding 500 tonnes. The current worldwide trend in the decline in military research and development spending since the end of the Cold War era has not been conducive to funding the development of GEV craft. The perceived development risk is very high due to the untested nature of the technology and the uncertainties in the development process, operational costs and performance outcomes. GEVs have been suggested as the solution to a number of possible operational roles, with heavy lift being the most appealing attributes. GEVs have been proposed as an alternate to the very large aircraft needed to fulfill these transportation goals. The US Air Force report "Airlift 2025"[citation needed] looked at using GEVs as heavy-lift platforms with the capabilities of insertion into remote locations, long range and good survivability. In the report, GEVs were cited as inappropriate for the intended use as there was a need for another method of transport from the coast to the required destination. Another study by the US Navy's "Strategic Studies Group XVI"[citation needed] also looked at the possibility of using small GEVs as insertion and extraction craft or naval gunfire teams. Also discussed were the advantages of using WIG craft for transoceanic cargo craft, where their increased speed would reduce resupply times by at least 60%.
Civilian roles for GEVs have been heavily promoted at a number of conferences held since 1993. GEVs have been suggested as recreational craft, small to large ferries and large transport craft. A number of small companies have emerged designing and constructing GEVs for these purposes. A number of large Russian and US companies have gone as far as the preliminary design of a number of concept GEVs mainly for the transport and heavy lift market.
Theoretical research into GEVs' aerodynamics, ground effect and WIG craft stability has proceeded at a number of research centres. Performance enhancement of takeoff and landing distances as well as methods to increase sea state limitations have been analysed on prototypes and with model tests. Research continues into the determination of the most efficient platform configuration.
Besides the development of appropriate design and structural configuration, special automatic control systems and navigation systems are also being developed. These include special altimeters with high accuracy for small altitude measurements and also lesser dependence on weather conditions. After extensive research and experimentation, it has been shown that "phase radio-altimeters" are most suitable for such applications as compared to laser, isotropic or ultrasonic altimeters.[7]
Even today R&D activities are being carried out for such vehicles in several countries, including Russia, USA, China, Germany, UK and Australia. Other future projects include the horizontal take-off and horizontal landing of Aerospace Planes (ASP) using ekranoplans.
In Russia, the reduced defense spending has forced GEV manufacturers to look for potential sales in the civil market. A number of designs have been proposed for heavy transport while a small GEV, the Amphistar, has been produced in limited numbers.
In 2007, Vice premier and defense minister Sergey Ivanov announced at a meeting of the naval board: "A federal targeted program will be created according to which Nizhniy Novgorod will manufacture wing-in-ground-effect vehicles".[citation needed] The designers of the Beriev aviation scientific and technical complex responded immediately and have promised to create the new ultra-heavy Be-2500 transport amphibious airplane. The Be-2500's takeoff weight will be about 2,500 tonnes with a useful payload near 1,000 tonnes. Wing span is 125 meters, length is 115 meters and height is 29 meters. Cruising speed at altitude is 770 kilometers per hour, and in ground effect is 450 kilometers per hour. For comparison: wing span of the Boeing 747 is 64.4 meters, the airplane's length is 70.6 meters, and height is 19.4 meters.
Additionally, the civilian Arctic Trade and Transport Company (Арктическая Торгово-Транспортная Компания) produces "Aquaglide" ekranoplans, small craft capable of transporting five people including the pilot.
In China, GEVs are being researched to fulfill a number of roles in the Chinese military and commercial use. The China Academy of Science & Technology Development and China Ship Scientific Research Centre (CSSRC) started GEV project in 1980. The 702 design bureau and 708 design bureau designed a number of small prototypes. In 1995, the first commercial ferry Tianyi-1 project started. In 1998, the first Tianyi-1 prototype is tested. In 2000, the model is for commercial sale in China. Currently a larger prototype Tianxiang-2 has been completed and a 50 seater Tianxiang-5 is under development.
In the USA, a number of small companies have designed and tested a number of small ferry and recreational craft. The L-325 has gone into limited production and is for commercial sale in the U.S. Aerocon has proposed the development of a large GEV transport craft but does not appear to have gained sufficient funding for the project.
In Germany, the military interest of the 1970s has decreased. As a result the German company RFB has shifted its emphasis from GEV development. The former technical director Mr. Fischer founded a company Fischer Flugmechanik which has designed and built craft for the recreational market, their most notable development being the Airfish recreational craft. Fischer Flugmechanik, in conjunction with Techno Trans research institute, have been sponsored by the German Ministry of R&D to develop a second generation GEV. This has resulted in the development of the two-seat prototype, HW-2VT.
The leading German company for Tandem Airfoil WIG craft is the Botec GmbH, located near Frankfurt.
In 1984 Phillip Morris Company awarded Dipl. Ing. W. Günther Jörg as the winner of the competition for Future Traffic Systems. Botec Company was founded in 1987 under the leadership of the Tandem Airfoilboat specialist Dipl. Ing. Günther W. Jörg . Dipl. Ing. Günther W. Jörg and his team have developed a large number of WIG craft for the civilian market, some of which have gone into limited production. The development of those TAF (Tandem Airfoil Flairboat) includes a number of craft in different designs and sizes. Botec GmbH has developed Tandem Airfoil Flairboats suitable for leisure boat applications and for commercial applications. Up to 2005, 16 Tandem Airfoil Flairboats had been built and successfully tested according to all rules and regulations. Dipl. Ing. Günther W. Jörg and his team have provided a lot of ideas scheduled for further applications in the commercial transportation sector.
In Japan, GEV technology has been analyzed in order to gain a leading position in the fast ferry design and construction market. A number of research craft have been prototyped and tested but none have proceeded onto development.
In Australia, there are a number of small enterprises, companies and individuals, the most newsworthy being the Rada and Seawing companies. These companies were established in the early 1990s with the goal of developing small commuter and recreational craft. None of the craft built by these companies progressed beyond prototype development. Neither of these companies are functioning at present, however the principals are still active in GEV development. In 2004, a company from Australia known as Sea Eagle emerged, and worked with China's CSSRC to develop a civilian range of Class B Wing Effect Craft. Currently the Craft is flying in China.
Sea EagleNew Zealand mechanic Rudy Heeman successfully adapted a 2-person hovercraft [8] as a wing in ground effect vehicle in 2010.
One of the problems that have delayed the development of these craft is the classification and legislation to be applied. IMO has studied the application of rules based on the International Code of Safety for High-Speed Craft (HSC code) which was developed for fast ships such as hydrofoils, hovercraft, catamarans and the like. The Russian Rules for classification and construction of small type A ekranoplans is a document upon which most GEV design is based. However in 2005, the IMO classified the WISE or GEV crafts under the category of ships.
The International Maritime Organization recognizes three classes of ground effect craft:
Type A cannot operate out of ground effect.
Type B can jump to clear obstacles by converting kinetic energy (speed) into potential energy (height), but cannot maintain flight without the support of the ground effect.
Type C are certified as aircraft, with the ability to operate safely and efficiently out of ground effect.
Advantages and disadvantages
A ground effect craft may have better fuel efficiency than an equivalent aircraft flying at low level due to the close proximity of the ground, reducing lift-induced drag. There are also safety benefits for the occupants of the craft in flying close to the water as an engine failure will not result in severe ditching. However, this particular configuration is difficult to fly even with computer assistance. Flying at very low altitudes, just above the sea, is dangerous if the craft banks too far to one side while making a small radius turn.
A takeoff must be into the wind, which in the case of a water launch, means into the waves. This creates drag and reduces lift. Two main solutions to this problem have been implemented. The first was used by the Russian Ekranoplan program which placed engines in front of the wings to provide more lift. The Caspian Sea Monster had eight such engines, some of which were not used once the craft was airborne. A second approach is to use some form of an air-cushion to raise the vehicle most of the way out of the water, making take-off easier. This is used by German Hanno Fischer in the Hoverwing (successor to the Airfisch ground effect craft), which uses some of the air from the engines to inflate a skirt under the craft in the style of a sidewall hovercraft.
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Tokio Hirano was one of the, if not THE winningest competition judoka in history.
The story goes that he racked up 4300 competition wins in 6 years in western Europe in the early 1950's. That's more than 700 wins per year, year-after-year! Who among us modern mortals can even conceive of attempting 14-15 shiai matches per week for 6 years?
So, when people started asking him how he did the things he did, be (basically) said, "Like this!" and began dancing and leaping around, waving his arms! Needless to say, very few people seem to have understood what he was trying to communicate, and his unorthodox genius appears to have nearly disappeared from the judo world after a generation of ignorance and neglect.
Fortunately in the past few years, more video has shown up online and there seems to have been a resurgence in Hirano's exotic judo practice methods. There is definitely something here worth spending a lot of time on!
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The members of the Ormskirk and Bootle Group accompanied by their partners, family and friends, met at Litherland Masonic Hall for FROTH's annual James Bond themed Casino Night. The evening has been a popular event in the social calendar for the group over the last few years and was again this year very well attended.
The evening started with Ormskirk and Bootle Group Vice Chairman and FROTH Chairman, Graham Chambers, welcoming everybody to the casino night. Graham then explained how the system worked with the use of 'Froths' as money, before he declared the tables open.
The dining room in the hall was set up with two roulette tables and two blackjack tables, with the guests being able to purchase for £5 the so named 'Froths', these were to the equivalent value of 500, which could then be exchanged for chips to be played at the various tables. The person who had the most 'Froths' at the end of the evening won a prize.
Playing in the background throughout the evening, were the theme tunes from all the James Bond films thus helping to add atmosphere to the evening. With everyone standing around the tables to play the various games, a fun experience was ensured for all.
As last year, Graham and Cath Traynor acted as the croupiers on the two roulette tables and Ray Barrow of St. Luke's Lodge No 6006 acting as the croupier on the blackjack table. Throughout the night, the tables were very popular with everyone playing a number of games on each of the tables.
At the half way stage there was a short break, where everyone was able to have something to eat from the large buffet which had been supplied by the guests. A large selection of food ensured that no one went hungry certainly lent great support to the evening.
Once the break had finished, everyone returned to the casino tables to continue playing the games. At the end of the evening, Graham presented the prize to the person who had won the most 'Froth's' on the night. This year the lucky winner received a bottle of whisky. This was followed by two auctions, where it was possible to use any winning or remaining 'Froth's' to bid for a couple of bottles of wine.
During the evening a raffle was held, with a large number of prizes on offer. Including the money raised from the raffle, a grand total of £540 was raised on the evening for FROTH.
At the end of the night Graham said: "I would like to thank everyone again for supporting the casino night and I would like to thank all those who have helped this evening, especially Cath and Ray. Thank you and I wish you all a safe journey home."
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The Devendra Fadnavis government's dream of giving Mumbai its first operational underground metro line by 2020 has hit roadblocks even before work has begun.
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If asked to identify factions clawing at each other's religious throats on the American and world stage, who would you cite? Protestants vs. Catholics? Muslims vs. Jews and Hindus? In popular consciousness, Evangelical or evangelistically minded Christians and Muslims are two plausible contenders. Controversial publicity alleges unwelcome proselytizing by the U.S. military in Afghanistan. Christians in Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia and elsewhere fear for their homes, worship spaces, and very lives, sometimes ostensibly converting to Islam in hopes of procuring greater safety. Zealous political pundit Pat Robertson observes, "The entire world is being convulsed by a religious struggle ... whether Hubal, the Moon God of Mecca, known as Allah, is supreme, or ... the Judeo-Christian Jehovah God of the Bible is Supreme."
Is conflict inevitable? Fighting and fighting words aside, relations between Evangelicals and Muslims are far from uniform. More quietly but no less significantly, Evangelicals and Muslims are seeking sacred flourishing together and collaborating to alleviate human suffering.
Carl Medearis, co-author of Tea with Hezbollah, Yale University's Joseph Cumming, and Muslims like Jordan's Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad who authored "A Common Word" signed by dozens of Muftis and Muslim leaders worldwide see Jesus' teaching as a basis not for division, but for Muslim-Christian unity. Even if Muslims and Evangelicals differ in some understandings of Jesus, both affirm Jesus as a virgin-born prophet and Messiah whose message is preserved in what Muslims call the Injil or "Gospel" and Christians identify as the New Testament. Indeed, Medearis and Cumming are among the first contemporary Christians to lecture and dialogue about Jesus at Egypt's Al-Azhar University -- the foremost academic institution in Sunni Islam.
Medearis and his New York Times bestselling coauthor Ted Dekker detail in Tea with Hezbollah about praying and discussing Jesus' teachings with the unlikeliest interlocutors: Hamas and Hezbollah leaders, Saudi Arabia's Minister of Oil, two of Osama bin Laden's brothers, and now deceased Lebanese Sheikh Ayatollah Fadlallah. Medearis relates on his blog how peace-making initiatives arising from Tea with Hezbollah include the India-Pakistan disputed region Kashmir. At the 2011 National Prayer Breakfast, one Kashmiri leader encountered a Pakistani presidential contender who is the son of Pakistan's first female Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto. "The two met with some other key political leaders and began a friendship that could literally change the face of that region. And it was all bathed in prayer and done in the name of Jesus."
South of Washington DC, the Muslim Chaplain at Duke University, Abdullah Antepli (who once lead a prayer for Congress), co-teaches a class with Hebrew Bible / Old Testament professor Ellen F. Davis, "Listening Together: Christians and Muslims reading Scriptures." Antepli and Davis lead mostly Christian and Jewish graduate students in studying the Quran, Bible, and other Jewish, Christian and Muslim writings for three hours a week. Professor Davis recently visited Sudan, and she expresses appreciation for Surah Al 'Imran 3:113-114 in the Quran affirming Jews and Christians who "hasten to do good deeds as if competing with one another ... Whatever good they do, they will never be denied the reward of it." Surah 3:113-114 echoes Hebrews 10:24-25 in the New Testament, "And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another."
When I was writing my Harvard University thesis on Evangelicals and Muslims last spring, I discovered that care for the poor and orphaned is one area where Evangelical Christians and Muslims are not merely talking about cooperation, but cooperating. Syrian Christian Chawkat Moucarry, author of several books on Christianity and Islam, and Director of Interfaith Relations for the Evangelical NGO World Vision International, discloses that World Vision operates in twenty Muslim-majority countries where Muslims comprise most of the World Vision staff. "Without ignoring the distinctive beliefs of each tradition, knowing our common ground enhances our work for the common good of the communities we serve."
Likewise, Evangelical Joel Rosenberg relays reconciliation between himself -- a Jewish convert to Christianity who worked for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu -- and Tass Saada, a former assistant to PLO chairman Yasser Arafat. Like Rosenberg, Saada sought to reorient his life around the teachings of Jesus. When Rosenberg and Saada met to spearhead humanitarian work in Gaza and the West Bank, they were deeply moved. "Here we were, a former aide to PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat and a former aide to Prime Minister Netanyahu, hugging each other -- not trying to kill each other -- in the heart of Jerusalem. All because of the work Jesus had done to give us hearts of love rather than hatred." If Rosenberg and Saada can learn to love each other because of Jesus, is it possible others can too?
What about the ubiquitous desire of Evangelicals and Muslims to convert each other? Last fall, Imam Antepli participated in a dialogue with evangelism professor Stephen Gunter, moderated by Duke Divinity School Dean Richard Hays. Antepli and Gunter playfully hinted that they would like to see the other convert, but instead of sniping and griping, Hays led these professors in an exchange about what they admired about each other's faith: care for the poor, spiritual discipline, and mutual devotion to the One True God.
Antepli is also friends with J.D. Greear, a Southern Baptist pastor at the rapidly growing Summit Church in Durham, NC. Greear lived in Muslim majority Indonesia for two years, where he developed a reputation for praying with and for local Muslims. When some were scolded for petitioning prayer from and with a non-Muslim, they quickly defended Greear as a righteous person, "someone who has God's ear." On a larger scale, when a radical Muslim faction facetiously offered to "protect" Christian Indonesians celebrating Christmas, thousands of other Indonesian Muslims stood to safeguard their Christian compatriots, an action replayed by Christians shielding praying Muslim protestors in Egypt this February. Would Greear and Antepli do the same for each other? Yes, in a heartbeat. Greear quotes French philosopher Voltaire, "I may disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. beloved by many Muslims and Evangelicals alike proposed in his "The American Dream" speech a message as applicable to Evangelicals and Muslims today as it was to King's original audience in the 1960s: "We must all learn to live together as brothers (and sisters), or we will all perish together as fools." As Evangelicals and Muslims like Carl Medearis, Prince Ghazi, Imam Antepli and Pastor Greear labor globally and locally in the spirit of Jesus to realize the first option of King's vision, I pray their efforts multiply.
Benjamin B. DeVan has taught religion, philosophy, and African American literature at North Carolina Central University, Peace College, and a January term mini-course at MIT titled, "Religion: Bringing the World Together, or Tearing the World Apart?" He completed his MA in Counseling at Asbury Theological Seminary, his MDiv at Duke University, a ThM at Harvard in World Religions with a thesis on evangelical Christians and Islam, and is now a doctoral candidate at Durham University in Great Britain writing a dissertation on the New Atheism.


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Vipassana meditation: keep calm and carry gum/
The concept of Noble Silence is fundamental to Vipassana meditation. You don't talk to anyone for the duration of your stay; you don't make eye contact; you refrain from singing show tunes in the shower.
By extension, no-one talks or makes eye contact with you. I've been to parties in Edinburgh like this, so have no objections in principle.
But this time was different. After being told about the facilities, and reminded we couldn't leave the site for the next four days, Noble Silence descended. That was in the kitchen block at 7.50pm on Thursday, 10 minutes before the first sitting.
At 7.53pm, in my dorm, I realised I'd left my toothbrush at home. I realised this with my hand, inside my backpack, groping frantically. I had the paste but not the brush.
I rummaged through the bag again. And again. Socks. Panties. But no brush. I drew the curtain across my cubicle and considered suicide. Then I bit my clenched fist, shook it at the gods and mouthed the word Scheiße several times.
My mute dorm-buddies made haste arranging their sleeping bags, toiletries, crack pipes … and there was I, Mr No Brush, twisting in the wind of Woori Yallock.
I sat on the slats of my rudimentary bed, looked at the bare plywood walls, feeling like a prisoner of war …
In the meditation hall, I crossed my legs, wrapped a woolly blanket round my shoulders, back and legs.
Sadly, we didn't get to see Goenka on VHS, but I was happy to hear him on cassette after three and a half years.
He was the same old Goenka: equanimous as anything, enlightened as bits.
Learn to master your mind, one debilitating leg cramp at a time.
It takes a while to get into it, of course. You breathe in, breathe out, think about your toothbrush, your teeth, your frigging toothbrush …
I would survive the night, but would I make it to Sunday evening? My poor gnashers: I wouldn't have blamed them if they jumped ship.
I tried controlling my faculties, reminding myself it's all impermanent, annica, annica … that sensations arise, pass away …
It was Baltic outside the meditation hall – a full moon, clear sky. In the sleeping quarters, the warm smell of my dorm-buddies' bodies was repulsive and weirdly welcoming.
I thought of the men in Stalag Luft III and other containment camps … my brothers.
In the bathroom unit, I claimed one of four sinks, then sooked a fat blob of Colgate from the tube and tried to swill with it.
This required considerable oral oomph. It was tart; my eyes streamed a beauty.
Passingly satisfied with the fluoride coating, I used my index and middle fingers as a brush.
It was rubbish.
The prisoners at the other sinks brushed as if they're lives depended on it. One guy in particular thrashed his molars, working up a lather, purging the surface of his tongue.
I watched this in my peripheral vision, while pretending not to, which meant my fellow PoW's could probably see me too. But as I gagged, I knew we were all gagged: I couldn't ask for help and they couldn't slag me off.
Someone banged a gong at 4am on Friday for the first meditation of the day.
It started well. I got some good Anapana in, some decent chill.
We had to focus exclusively on the breath lapping against our philtrums; but in time my gob started mouthing off in my mind's eye.
I once asked my dentist, post scraping, how long it would take for new plaque to form.
"Hahahahahahahah," he said, darting a glance at his female assistant, who in retrospect he was probably banging.
"Oh Paul," he said. "Hahahaha. It's started already."
I replayed this scene against the back of my eyelids a few times. It was 18 hours since my last brush, 54 or so to the next one.
My philtrum twitched.
Day one's objective was simply still the mind. Have you ever stilled the mind? It's not simple.
You think you're getting there, but no – off it goes, for a minute, an hour, a month …
As the cranium quietens, you start seeing how these distractions and reactions form. For me, one went something like this:
I felt my shoulders loosening …
… saw a thread getting caught on clothing, drawing the fabric together in tight, little waves …
… thought this was a good analogy for my relaxing shoulders …
… recalled how satisfying it is when you pull the fabric and it straightens out …
… wondered how I'd put that feeling into words …
… convinced myself this thread-catching happens only in nylon …
… pondered the production and use of synthetic polymers …
… got a sudden mental image of my gran's navy nylon trousers …
… remembered she had passed away …
… started crying.
It's true what Moses said: the brain's a mental organ.
By Friday evening my mouth was a festering moth. I could use a sock to clean my teeth, I thought, a T-shirt but, no …
Escape was an option, however remote. Had I not seen, just that morning, two burly laundry men picking up adult-sized bags of linen and throwing them with abandon into a laundry truck? No, I hadn't.
Ultimately, you're responsible for your own liberation.
There was plenty of plywood to shore up a tunnel. I could shake earth from my pajama bottoms before the next sitting.
After my last Vipassana course, I was told someone had tried escaping in the dead of night and was "persuaded" to stay – i.e. caught in the carpark and beaten to a meditative pulp by the volunteer management.
How many others have simply disappeared, "become enlightened", "transcended"?
Naturally, I'd given the site a pretty good recce in my spare time.
A few acres, fenced in; trees around the perimeter; fields stretching to the horizon across the Yarra Valley. If they sent the rottweilers after me I'd be dead in no time.
Under cover of darkness, I kicked some stones about, edged closer to the site carpark.
There were no guntowers as such, but structures either side of the gate: one was disguised as a prefabricated hut, the other as a moss-laden caravan. If I could make it to the car, anything was possible.
I knew there was a Coles supermarket about three miles east, full of brushes – a hair brush would do, a broom, a lint remover.
When the pre-dawn gong went on Saturday, I squeezed more Colgate into my moosh.
Meditation halls the world over are dark and cold at this time of day, which makes it hard to see people sitting there. You knee them in the head as you pass, and can't even apologise.
You have to get to your cushion, get your blanket on, your hoodie up, yawn, crack your knuckles, scratch your nuts.
My brain was still engaged with Goenka's free-ranging discourse from the night before.
Goenka: Observe your sensations …
Brain: Gum disease, swollen tongue …
Goenka: Let go of attachments …
Brain: A brush, a brush, a brush …
Goenka: Focus on your breath …
Brain: Erm …
Goenka: Be happy …
Brain: I can't …
Each time my tongue tapped furry enamel my desire to escape intensified. At several points my mutinous mind wandered out to the tea tree forest on the site's western perimeter.
I'd sneaked into it the day before, and cut a path through the trees until seeing signs warning me not to go any further.
I'd stood there for an hour and a half singing Leonard Cohen songs.
The signs were alluding to the fact there was, just a few steps away, a sheer drop to near-certain death down a treacherous gully.
But if I survived I could be up to the supermarket and back in an hour, provided my ankles weren't broken, the gashes in my bonce not too severe.
I'm doing it, I thought, still sitting, knees blow-torch burning – I'm escaping.
No, yes, no, yes, no …
The clunk of the penny dropping, that I'd given the course manager my wallet and phone for "safe keeping", wasn't pleasant. It knocked the wind from my sails.
Even if I survived the fall, fought off rabid wallabies and made it into Coles in blood-stained pajama bottoms with bad hair and feral mouth, what was I going to do? Ask them to give me a toothbrush for free? Steal one?
I denied myself honey in my ginger tea for the third night in a row on Saturday … Mr McCavity said no in no uncertain terms.
This bugged me. This bugged me a lot. The drink was the only sustenance permitted between 11.30am and 8.30am the next morning.
That did it. I cracked.
I left the kitchen block and bumbled cautiously though the darkness, arms outstretched. I crossed some rough terrain en route to the course manager's accomodation.
I climbed some steps. Faint light escaped through a gap in his curtains.
When he opened the door we made eye contact, and I laid the whole thing out straight/ slightly sheepishly:
"A problem … I've got a big problem … My teeth … haven't brushed them … my gums hurt … I need a brush …"
The course manager nodded and bowed slightly. "We sell brushes here on site," he said. "If you come with me, I'll get you one.
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From colonial times to the 20th century, sugar producers collected the sap by punching a small v-shaped gash in the maple tree, inserting a wooden or metal spout into the cambium, and hanging the bucket into which the sap dripped. This picturesque collection method has mostly given way to systems of plastic taps and tubing, which carry the sap from many trees to a central holding tank.
The flow of sap is triggered by a thaw following on a hard frost in the sunny days of late winter (February, March and April). Over a six-week season, the taps remove around 10% of a tree's sugar stores, in an average of 5 to 15 gallons per tree.
It takes around 40 parts of sap to make 1 part syrup. The sap contains around 2% sucrose at the beginning of the season, and only half that at the end; therefore, late-season sap must be boiled longer and has a darker and stronger flavor. Today, many procurers use energy-efficient reverse osmosis devices to remove about 75% of the sap water without heat, then boil the concentrated sap to develop its flavor and obtain the desired sugar concentration. They aim for a temperature around 7 degrees F above the boiling point of water, the equivalent of a syrup that's around 65% sugar. Maple syrup can be boiled down further to create maple sugar, which is approximately 90% sucrose.
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text: Pleasingly, the weather cleared in good time for our visit to Culachy Woods on Friday. What a brilliant start we had when we spotted a female Sika deer as soon as we arrived. In spite of the midges, we tried to find as many different things as we could on the forest floor. After that, we made pictures with what we had found…we were able to look at Mrs Brady's lovely picture for inspiration. We had a go at making bark rubbings and we also practised being quiet so that we could hear the sounds of the forest. We were hoping to meet up with Coinneach and Breagha, our Pixie guides, but they must have been busy elsewhere. Maybe we will see them next time we go to the woods. Many thanks to the estate for their kind permission. Thanks also to the mums who came along to help…we couldn't do these trips without you!


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|Cycle Route Details
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The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and several Members' Governments of the region established a Trust Fund to promote the Decade of Disabled Persons in the Asia and Pacific Area (1993-2002) due to the scarce resources devoted to rehabilitation of persons with disabilities. Regional action should create self-help organisations for persons with disabilities, promote non-handicapped environments and facilitate regional and / or sub-regional co-operation on production of low-cost, high quality technical aids. During the UN Decade, ESCAP organised training workshops on management of self-help organisations to carry out surveys, prepare technical guidelines and regional conferences of non-Governmental organisations to promote the Decade for Disabled Persons in the Asia and Pacific Area.
Since 1981, the Member States of the Arab Gulf Programme for the United Nations Development Organisations, the Economic and social Commission for Western Asia (ESCAW), in co-operation with the UN Voluntary Fund on Disability have been financing projects and programmes for disabled persons world-wide.
The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) organized the African Regional Conference on the International Year of Disabled Persons in 1980 for the development of regional programmes for the socio-economic integration of disabled persons in Africa.
In Latin-America, the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC)'s efforts focus upon financial constraints and elimination of negative cultural factors on the image of disabled persons.


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Learn innovative and kid-friendly relaxation, breathing and yoga strategies ideal for both the home and classroom setting. This session is highly interactive and engages participants through experiential learning, reflection and collaboration. By analyzing what structural pieces, rules and expectations are consistent to our kid-friendly space, we can effectively implement relaxation, breathing and yoga tools that have a positive impact on the children we serve.
Workshop objectives: At the end of this workshop, participants will have tools to empower children to use relaxation and yoga strategies to cool down, make more positive behavioral choices and focus on learning. At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to create an authentic and meaningful relaxation, breathing and yoga practice for students. At the end of this workshop, participants will collaborate to create a sustainable, authentic and proactive implementation plan based on the session's activities.
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Patna Museum: Down the ages
* Situated on Budha Marg in the ancient city of Patna, Patna Museum is one of the most important museums in India. It is famous all over world for its rare and priceless collections.
* The Patna Museum was established in the year 1917 by sir Edward Gait, the then lieutenant governor of Bihar and Orissa. In the early days it was housed in one of the wings of the Patna High court. With increase in collection, the wing of Patna High court proved to be very much inadequate for the display of exhibits and so the entire collection was moved to the new building which was built in the indo-sarcenic style. It is one of the finest architecture examples in India.
* The Patna museum, during the period of ninty nine years of its existence has collected more than fifty thousand objects and thus occupies a very prominent position as a repository of ancient Indian culture and tradition. It is a multipurpose museum and so the collections are varied in nature. There are several sections-such as Archaeology, Ethnology, Natural history, Coins, old arms and trophies, art and miscellaneous. Thangka paintings and rare manuscripts of Tibet brought by great scholar and wanderer Rahul sankritayan is also a very prized possession of the museum.
* The archaeology section contains varied antiquities such as pre-historic objects, stone sculptures, bronzes, terracotta, seals and sealing and beads etc. The pre historic objects contain pal eoliths, microliths and neoliths from different parts of Bihar and other places including foreign countries.
* The museum preserves few of the important finds of harappan civilization which included the terracotta figurines, potteries, copper and bronze objects, seals and sealing of different size. The museum posses the rare collection of bronze images in India. These bronzes were discovered from chausa (Buxar), Kurkihar (Gaya) Nalanda, Belwa, Aluara (Dhanbad), Sonepur (Orissa), Negapattam (Tangore) etc. A large number of bronzes were discovered from Nalanda. These depict. the deities of all the three religion i.e. Buddhism, Jainism and Brahmanism prevalent at that time in India. The figures are dated from post-gupta to pale period.
* Museum has a good collection of terracotta, seals and sealing from vaishali, Nalanda and Dharawat. Various sealing have inscriptions, which are important for the study of the economic, political and religions condition of that period.
* In the art section in consists of painting on paper of different schools such as the mughal school, Pahari School, Rajput School, Gujrat School and Patna School of Painting. They range in date from the beginning of the 13th century. to the end of the 19th century.
* The museum has got a very rich collection of coins, silver and copper punch marked and cast coins are in good number. Indo-greek, Indo-parthian coins are also preserved in this museum.
* Numerous tourists and research scholars visit this museum to see the extremely rare and valuable antiquates and art objects from all over the world.