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This soft 8mm stringrope is part of our well known Mediterranean Line and it comes in 9 colors. We sell it next to our well known 5mm, 45 plies stringrope.
It is made in Spain by a small family owned manufacturer. The rope is made of 100% cotton, so a natural fiber, and it is made out of recycled materials. Because we (and they!) care about the environment.
This stringrope, or single twisted stringrope, is a 130 plies (!) stringrope which means, 130 fibres are twisted into a single strand. Stringrope is softer than twisted or braided macramerope and it is easier to fray and gives you that awesome fluffy (and straight) fringe.
This listing is the 8mm, 130 plies stringrope in Real white.
You can see all colors on the pictures. I also added some color comparisons for those colors that are alike. We tried to represent the colors in the pictures as accurately as possible but still, colors may vary on different computers and in different lighting conditions. If something is still unclear, please don't hesitate to contact me!
It is made of a natural fiber in Spain. Because we care for our environment, we choose to work with this manufacturer as they make this stunningly soft rope from recycled cotton. Because it is a natural product, the exact length differs a bit per cone (due to the stretch) - therefore it is listed as 'about ... meters' (could be a bit more or a bit less).
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And we now also added hand spun bundles of this incredibly soft rope in 10 and 20 meter! For those cases where you don't need or want the full 120m. For example if you just want to add some fluffy tassels to your 5mm macrame wallhanging or if you just need a little for some texture in your weaving or macramweave.
Prefer a stringrope with a little less fluffiness? Check out the listing with our 45 plies stringrope! It is an 5mm thick stringrope and there is 100, 200 or 500 meter on a cone.
We already sell this rope for over 4 years and are really happy to do so.
When I made a lot of macrame myself, I noted how much rope you need for a macrame piece... it made me think about the footprint I leave on the planet as all these meters need to be made from natural cotton.... and that was the start of my cooperation with this Spanish company for my Mediterranean Line.
Our Mediterranean Line is made entirely from recycled materials in a small family owned business in Spain! How great is that!
They buy left over cotton from all over Spain and turn that into their fabulous macramerope and stringrope. For example, the primrose pink comes from left over material from a sheet and pillow company!
It also means that there is a limit to the amount available. Sometimes, they are able to buy a lot of a particular color but it also happens, it is just a little bit. We therefore advice you to buy all you need at once as it could be, after some time, the color is either replaced by a color that is alike but not exactly the same (due to the lack of recycled material in that color) or it is not coming back at all.
But hey, they produce SO many incredible colors and come with new colors so often, that seems like a small price to pay, right?
I am also very proud of the cooperation with this small company. The owners and me have a lot of contact and together with an USA seller, I am the only one who gets to offer you their 'limited edition' colors (they only make a small batch of these colors as the recycled material to use is only little) and often we are one of the first to show you their newest colors. They also help me out when needed; for huge or speed orders; they sometimes even produce overnight and ship it to me if possible. Love them!
Oh and if you make macrame to sell; please do realize, the fact that you use recycled material could be an extra plus to buy it for those who care of the environment as well ;-)
Within the Mediterranean Line, we also offer twisted rope in different sizes.
Besides our well known Mediterranean Line, we also have our Oriental Line with stringrope, twisted rope and braided rope in many sizes.
You can find them all in separate listings here in our shop.
NATIONAL SHIPPING (within NL)
National shipping: track & trace and insurance
All our national shippings are shipped with track & trace. This only means you know where your package is and when to expect it. This is not an insurance in case something happens with your package while on the way.
As for the insurance of your package; please select accordingly at check out (for only €0,70 extra your package is ensured for loss, damage etc. on route). We strongly advise you to do so when you spend money (for example over €50,-) as otherwise, when something happens, we cannot be held liable.
International shipping: track & trace and insurance
All our international shippings (one exception - see below) are send with a track & trace code and they are insured.
For international, small (less then 350 gram) shippings:
The international rules and regulation changed when shipping to addresses outside of the Netherlands. Unfortunately this means that from 2020 onwards, goods may no longer be franked in the same way as letters. I can frank this type of shipment as a parcel without Track & Trace (being a little cheaper), registered mail or insurance service. Other countries also require that the Dutch post shares information about the content with them digitally in advance.
Long way short: this means shipping small/light items got more expensive :-(
I choose to ONLY send items with track & trace - so as a package. As for those few euros that shipping it without track & trace, it is simply not worth it as packages tend to 'magically disapear' too often in such case.
So if you want a cute plant animal or just 1 wooden macrame ring, it might be smart to add some to your order in order to make the shipping costs more economical.
Calculated weight: for all foreign shippings:
Our system counts the total weight of your shipping. Most of the time, this should give the right shipping price in the end. But when you order a lot, we also need bigger boxes - meaning more shipping material. And this has a weight as well. So sometimes, the weight could be a bit more then automatically calculated. In that case, we will send you a message with the extra costs, before shipping your package. When you agree, we will send you an invoice for those extra shipping costs. After receiving your payment, we will ship your package.
On the other hand: if we calculated you a normal package price for shipping and there is a way of shipping it cheaper, we will do so and refund you the money you were charged too much.
Girlish or not, a pop of pink might just be what you need (besides that coffee). Soft to the eyes, warm to the heart. Not into pink? Any other sweet pastel will do the trick as well.
For that spark, that bling bling, that glitter..
A whole piece or just a little detail, as you like. Our Metallic rope litterally brightens your day!
Sometimes you just need some color in your life! Because it makes you happy :-) Lucky for you,
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You can still place your order but do note: it will be shipped AFTER August 17th. Use code 'StaycationAugust' at check out for a 10% discount on everything, to thank you for your patience.
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The Russo brothers are promising to take Captain America seriously.
Anthony Russo and his brother Joe made have built a reputation as a pairing of two of the sharpest comedy minds in show biz thanks to their work on projects like "Community," "Happy Endings" and "Arrested Development. Thus, their recent appointment as co-directors of the sequel to "Captain America: The First Avenger" – now doubly anticipated in the wake of the success of "Marvel's The Avengers" – raised eyebrows.
When Anthony made a stop at the Television Critics Association's press tour to help promote "Animal Practice," the upcoming NBC sitcom he and his brother are producing, PopcornBiz spoke with him about the Star-Spangled Avenger's next adventure, "Captain America: The Winter Soldier."
How did you sell yourselves – and Marvel – on this film?
Well, my brother and I were comic book geeks from a young age, and big fantasy geeks. They knew that we understood the brand really well and the characters really well. It was a long process, actually, of talking to them over and over again through a series of meetings over a long period of time. We were really passionate about the movie – incredibly passionate about the movie. They felt that and then they felt that it was the right match.
Any flashbacks possible to World War II, simply because that era was so interesting?
Certainly Cap has this complicated history. We're making the movie for first-time viewers, not just for fans, and so because Cap does have a sort of complicated history, a skinny guy who became a super soldier, who was born back then – in the story telling you need to convey that to an audience who doesn't know Cap's story.
This is a film with tons of FX, a big extravaganza, and that's not been on your resume yet. Is that at all intimidating, taking on a tent-pole kind of movie?
Two things: While you haven't seen it in our resume, it has been something that my brother and I have been working on for many years, behind the scenes – sort of preparing. We've had this great run in television comedy, been running with that and maybe 'You, Me and Dupree' was an extension of that on the feature level. But we've spent a lot of years now researching that craft, and the other side of that equation is that Marvel is just this incredible machine that has all these amazing people that work there.
That's part of their confidence in why they can go outside the box and choose directors, because they have people there that know everything. They said to us early on in the interview process, actually, 'We don't expect you to know everything about this stuff' – about what you're asking about, special FX – 'because we're here for that. We're here as resources for that.' And they're very respectful to directors. It's an amazing company to work with.
What appeals to you about Chris Evans' interpretation of this character, as we've seen it thus far?
I love his integrity and his sort of toughness. I think that's what's at the heart of Captain America's appeal: that sort of indomitable spirit and faith in the ideal. I think that Chris really takes that mantle really well.
Marvel has a great clockwork approach about what to seed in their movies for the other properties. Have you already started having those discussions?
Yes, but they're very balanced in that approach. First and foremost is the movie itself, and then that's a little lighter layer of dressing. In terms of the hardcore mechanics of the movie, it's basically contained within the movie itself.
Where are you at in pre-production? Do you have a start date?
We have a release date, which is in April of 2014, and we are going to go in to production early next year.
People have been saying it's smart of Marvel to bring in television directors because they're used to coming in on time and budget, but also that there's a real sense of TV directors being involved with story and can help shape the tone.
I think one reason why people coming from the television world work particularly well at Marvel is sort of connected to one thing said earlier: Marvel is a big company and it's made a lot of movies and these narratives are connected to each other. That's not typical for a feature film, and so a lot of people that work in feature film, that whole concept can be a little foreign in the sense that you have to be thinking about predecessors in a very specific way that aren't just a prequel, but that there's a whole mythology that's preceded you. Television people are used to that, because there are seasons and seasons of a show where the history is very important.
Also, it's a big company and you're dealing with people from the comic book side as well as the feature side at Marvel, and so there's a lot of people to work with, as in television. There's a lot of people to collaborate with. I think people who have worked in television and have done well in television have a gift for being able to work with a large amount of people like that.
What's part of the lightning in a bottle from 'Avengers' that you hope to grab for 'Captain America,' an element that you'd like to get close to?
For me, what I loved most about the movie, which is what many, if not most, people loved about the movie, is the character interaction. There are those great character moments where you have people rubbing up against each other in a way that's really exciting and combustible. While there's all the special FX and the adventure and the thrill and the dangerous fun, those character-to-character interactions are the heart of the film. That's what we're focusing on.
Will there be any Avengers in 'Winter Soldier'?
That's something that Marvel would shoot for me saying!

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So many items in social media right now are selling us on summer reading that it all becomes white noise after a while. Overwhelming and informed by too many widely divergent standards of taste. But "Nabokov on Inspiration and the Six Short Stories Everyone Should Read" at Brain Pickings sent me ordering Strong Opinions and looking through the shelves for the following short stories:
So random reading, six short stories (I found them all) and a glimpse into Nabokov's convictions. This will be my summer reading.
1 - John Cheever's "The Country Husband" ("Jupiter [a black retriever] crashed through the tomato vines with the remains of a felt hat in his mouth." The story is really a miniature novel beautifully traced, so that the impression of there being a little too many things happening in it is completely redeemed by the satisfying coherence of its thematic interlacings.)
2 -John Updike's "The Happiest I've Been" ("The important thing, rather than the subject, was the conversation itself, the quick agreements, the slow nods, the weave of different memories; it was like one of these Panama baskets shaped underwater around a worthless stone." I like so many of Updike's stories that it was difficult to choose one for demonstration and even more difficult to settle upon its most inspired bit.)
3 - J. D. Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" ("Stopping only to sink a foot in a soggy, collapsed castle . . ." This is a great story, too famous and fragile to be measured here by a casual conchometrist.)
4 - Herbert Gold's "Death in Miami Beach" ("Finally we die, opposable thumbs and all." Or to do even better justice to this admirable piece; "Barbados turtles as large as children . . . crucified like thieves . . . the tough leather of their skin does not disguise their present helplessness and pain.")
5 - John Barth's "Lost in the Funhouse" ("What is the story's point? Ambrose is ill. He perspires in the dark passages; candied apples-on-a-stick, delicious-looking, disappointing to eat. Funhouses need men's and ladies' rooms at interval." I had some trouble in pinning down what I needed amidst the lovely swift speckled imagery.)
6 - Delmore Schwartz's "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" (". . . and the fatal merciless passionate ocean." Although there are several other divine vibrations in this story that so miraculously blends an old cinema film with a personal past, the quoted phrase wins its citation for power and impeccable rhythm.)


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As eco-resorting goes, you can't beat standing in beach sand as a clutch of just-hatched turtles stream through your feet under a full moon on a warm, windy night. Such was the nightly activity in February while staying at Heron Island Resort in the Great Barrier Reef.
February is not a good time to visit Heron Island or the rest of Queensland, Australia for that matter. February falls within wet season, when floods and cyclones are expected. Thanks to La Nina, this year has been one of the worst years for both, as major flooding caused widespread devastation in January, and Cyclone Yasi tore up northern parts of the state less than a month later.
But wet season is when the giant green sea turtles nest and lay eggs on the beaches of Heron. As early as six weeks later, hatched baby turtles spew out of the sand dunes like a delightful infestation, and make mad dashes to the sea. These turtles were on the endangered list but are now improving in numbers in the area so they are listed as vulnerable, according to resort naturalist guide Jason Killen.
It takes a little effort to get to Heron Island. This wet season, a good way to avoid flood-damaged areas was to fly from Brisbane to Gladstone. Brisbane is the state's glittering highrise capital, and Gladstone is an industrial port town. From Gladstone, you take a boat or helicopter to the island.
The boat trip is on the resort's shiny catamaran and takes about two hours. In dry season, the trip is smooth and spectacular. In wet season, you may not be as lucky.
The turtle action doesn't start until dark, ideally near high tide. Armed with information from our "5: 30 p.m. turtle talk" led by a resort naturalist guide, we made the minute walk to the beach, careful to use our small flashlights only when necessary and against our bodies so illumination was minimal. Flashlights can disorient the turtles.
We spotted our first rock that moved near the water's edge almost immediately.
We saw at least six other mother green sea turtles going to nest in that little stretch of beach that night. The naturalist guide said that about 65 turtles lay eggs in sand dunes on the small 40-acre island nightly, as it was peak season for nesting.
The turtles weigh about 130 kilograms and pull their hulks up the sand with their thick front flippers and push with their hind ones. In the process they make tracks in the sand like mini tanks.
Nesting turtles can be heard throwing heaps of sand around. They get rid of the dry sand as they dig to the wet stuff to make firm chambers for their eggs. A turtle deposits about 120 eggs that look like gelatinous golf balls. The mother turtle covers her eggs and moves on and makes another body hole in the sand so that predators don't know where her eggs are buried.
The majority of baby turtles will be picked off by seagulls and reef sharks waiting for them. Only one in 1,000 will survive to adulthood. The turtle talk explained that although difficult, people should not touch the hatchlings or interfere with nature.
Heron is not only about the turtles. There are birds there too. And in wet season, lots and lots of them. There are also guided reef and nature walks and snorkelling. During the wet season, we found that the snorkelling was not ideal every day but managed several good outings during our four-day stay.


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Now that we've reached the knockouts, the potential for penalty kicks to decide a match enter play. With that in mind, who would be the first five to step up for the United States if needed?
Bob Bradley has never presided over a game that ended in penalties for the Red, White & Blue, but there are still a few clues.
The obvious first pick of the bunch is Landon Donovan, the team's regular spot kick man. Including shootouts, Donovan has made 10 of his 11 international spot kicks, and seven of those run-of-play scores came under Bradley.
Of course, he isn't likely to take the first one. Unless there's an early miss by one side, I'm thinking he'd go fourth or fifth, third at the earliest.
Interestingly, the last three players besides Donovan to bury a spot kick for the US are not on the World Cup roster: Kenny Cooper, Sacha Kljestan and Eddie Johnson.
Not since DaMarcus Beasley banged one home against China in June of 2007 has another squad member in South Africa scored a penalty kick goal—and that is the only one to the credit of the 22 guys not named Donovan in the locker room.
Beasley could well be part of the first five—that is, if he is actually on the field. A more likely second choice is Clint Dempsey, who has hit a few PKs for Fulham. He seems a more likely lead-off man than Donovan.
Yeoman midfielder Michael Bradley will almost certainly be asked to go 120 minutes if needed and has had mixed success with spot kicks for Borussia Moenchengladbach. Nevertheless, he probably makes the first five.
Defenders Carlos Bocanegra and Steve Cherundolo have successfully taken kicks in club cup competition. Each is a possibility, with the skipper perhaps a shade more likely to be among the selected quintet of shooters.
Beyond that, Jozy Altidore and Benny Feilhaber would probably be closest to making the list.
There are also a couple of good options less likely to be on the pitch at the end of 120 minutes. Robbie Findley hit on PKs twice for Real Salt Lake in last year's playoffs and Stuart Holden had spot success with Houston. Each has netted in an MLS Cup shootout victory.
Looking back, the US haven't lost in a shootout for over a decade. Since falling to Gold Cup foe Colombia in February of 2000, the 'Nats are 2-0 in penalty kick results.


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The White House will halt the deportation of as many as 800,000 young illegal immigrants and in some cases give them work permits, in a sweeping new initiative announced by the Department of Homeland Security.
The Justice Department set the stage Monday to sue Florida over its effort to purge the voter rolls of non-U.S. citizens -- just hours after Gov. Rick Scott announced that his administration was filing suit against the federal government in connection with the same initiative.
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Design of hardware accelerators for embedded multimedia applications
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The subject of this work is the design and the implementation of hardware components which can accelerate the computation in a microprocessor-based digital system controlled by a RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) core. Indeed a RISC core alone cannot achieve the desired computational capability needed tomeet the requirements of modern applications, especially demanding ones like audio/video compression, image processing and 3D graphics. Thus some additional dedicated resources are needed to provide the required performance boost; such resources are referred to as accelerators and come in various forms. In particular, this work focuses on a co-processor based approach, which aims at maximizing the modularity and the portability by adding such accelerators as additional components to be coupledwith a programmable microprocessor. Moreover, especially in the embedded systems domain, limited area and energy budgets are key design constraints which make the designof such accelerators even more challenging. Such limitations call for innovative and effective solutions; since the last few years we have been witnessing agrowth in popularity of configurable and reconfigurable architectures, due to the fact that they are flexible and reusable. As a matter of fact an important advantage they provide is that they reuse at run time the same physical portion of a chip for different functionalities (provided that they can be time-multiplexed). This way it is possible to fit additional functionalities in the same chip without increasing the area occupation. Above all, they are flexible in that they are able to meet the fast changing needs of the market. Depending on the flexibility, we could briefly summarize the spectrum of computer architectures like that: parameterized, configurable, reconfigurable, dynamically/run-time reconfigurable, programmable. The term \emph{reconfigurable} has been used quite loosely, sometimes identifying concepts and architectures differing significantly from each other. One possible interpretation indicates machines which can be reconfigured only statically (and not at run time). Those machines are not real reconfigurable architectures, but rather configurable or customizable architectures which can be changed at design time only. Reconfigurable machines, instead, are characterized by dedicated memory cells used to store special bits used possibly for the run-time or off-line reconfiguration of the architecture (the so called configware). Strictly speaking, the configware of reconfigurable machines is changed (possibly) off-line in the field, while in \emph{dynamically reconfigurable architectures} the configware can be changed at run-time, selecting dynamically which parts of the circuits must be used by the current calculations and which ones are unused, how the hardware resources are connected to each other, and so on. Reconfigurable hardware can be further split in coarse-grain and fine-grain, depending typically on the bit-width of their datapath and on the complexity of the elementary resources which can be selected and interconnected in order to implement a physical circuit to implement a given logical function. The simpler the building logic blocks, the finer the grain. A typical example of fine-grain reconfigurable machines is given by the FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays): their elementary building blocks are usually relatively simple and dependent on the manufacturer and on the model. Typical elementary blocks that can be found inside FPGA devices are small dedicated memories used as lookup tables (LUTs) in order to implement simple logical functions (usually the locations inside those memories are just a few bits wide), small multiplexers, and carry-chain devices. In FPGAs which are oriented to high-end performance there are also dedicated components like entire multipliers and adders (the so called Digital Signal Processing (DSP) blocks). Such components represent an attempt to bridge the gap between coarse-grain and fine-grain reconfigurable machines (hybrid granularity). Unlike fine-grain reconfigurable architectures, there is no typical example of coarse-grain machines. In this thesis the author tries to give a comprehensive report of such architectures, highlighting the ones which turned out to be particularly meaningful and successful. Fine-grain architectures are usually featured by the fact that they are more efficient in the usage of the available logic resources when implementing a given logic function. Coarse-grain architectures, on the other hand, show several advantages like energy-efficiency and ease of programming, meeting the data abstraction present in high-level programming languages. Another key point which distinguishes them from fine-grain machines is that due to the presence of large and complicated logic blocks inside their architecture they are especially suitable for a very efficient implementation of number-crunching applications and computationally heavy tasks. Such applications would require a significant overhead in terms of interconnection usage and latency when mapped on fine-grain machines, which are typically more suited for other application domains. The research presented in this thesis consists mainly of the design space exploration of two coprocessors which can be used as accelerators for RISC microprocessors. The first accelerator introduced is a floating-point unit (FPU), while the second one is a coarse-grain reconfigurable machine. Their design space was thoroughly explored using a parametric, synthesizable VHDL (Very High Speed Integrated Circuits Hardware Description Language) model, which was implemented on ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) standard-cell technologies and on FPGA devices. The implementation on FPGA was useful at first as a fast prototyping platform, but secondly it became also a platform for running real-world applications like Mp3 and H.264 decoders. When this work started the main specification was to create an open source VHDL description. This lead to specific choices like adopting the IEEE-754 (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) standard for floating-point arithmetic, which is nowadays widely accepted. For the same reason the code is as much plain and straightforward as possible. A thorough exploration of the possible architectural choices was made, eased also by the parametric nature of the VHDL code created. A series of different implementations lead to a comprehensive description of the trade-off between area and performance, especially related to architectural variations. A tool based on a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for the simulation and debugging of the execution within the FPU was also developed. The second part of this work describes the architecture of a coarse-grain reconfigurable machine named Butter. This machine was initially meant to be an accelerator to enable running multimedia applications, audio/video processing on a digital system based on a RISC processor. Next, the range was broadened to other application domains like image processing, Global Positioning System (GPS) signal acquisition and tracking, and 3D graphics, enabled by the introduction of special architectural features like support to subword and floating-point operations, which represent an absolute novelty in the field of coarse-grain reconfigurable machines. A GUI-based tool was developed for the automatic generation of the configware used to configure Butter. An entire System on Chip (SoC) featuring a 32-bit RISC core, Milk FPU and Butter takes 65173 Advanced Look-Up Tables (ALUTs) on a Stratix II EP2S180 FPGA device, and runs at 34 MegaHertz (MHz). Using Butter and Milk, some algorithms can achieve a speed-up (compared to their corresponding software implementation) from one up to two orders of magnitude.
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The assault has brought international forces nearer the southern stronghold of Islamist al Shabaab rebels
By Abdi Sheikh
MOGADISHU, Aug 30 (Reuters) - African peacekeeping troops and Somali forces recaptured a southern town from Islamist al Shabaab rebels on Saturday, bringing them a step closer to the insurgent stronghold of Barawe, commanders said.
The assault was part of the second phase of an offensive launched earlier this year to drive the rebels out of towns which they have continued to hold since losing control of the capital Mogadishu in 2011.
Al Shabaab ruled most of the southern region of Somalia from 2006 until 2011 when African troops marched into the capital. African and Somali forces have regained several towns this year, but rebels still hold other centres and tracts of countryside.
"We secured Bulamareer town today. We have chased the al Shabaab and the operation will continue until its goals of securing the entire country is achieved," Abdirizak Khalif, Somalia's deputy military commander, told Reuters.
He did not give casualty figures, but a spokesman for the African Union force AMISOM, Colonel Ali Aden Houmed, said a Ugandan soldier was killed and two soldiers wounded. He said many rebels were killed but was not able to give a number.
Bulamareer lies about 80 km (50 miles) north of Barawe port, a major al Shabaab stronghold.
AMISOM's Houmed said Barawe was "one of our objectives" but said AMISOM and Somali forces had other targets on the way to Barawe that had to be dealt with first.
The rebels, which continue to stage hit-and-run gun and bomb attacks in the capital and across the country, acknowledged that their fighters had pulled out of the centre of Bulamareer.
"After a serious fight with AMISOM and government forces inside Bulamareer town we went to the fringes of the town, but we shall keep up attacks and battles," Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, al Shabaab's military operations spokesman, told Reuters.
He claimed 18 African soldiers were killed and three of their vehicles burned, but made no mention of rebel casualties.
Even as they have lost ground, the Islamist group which wants to impose its own strict version of Islam on the Horn of Africa nation has continued to harass African and government forces and blocked aid supply routes to towns they have lost.
Government officials have admitted that centres they have regained have often turned into "ghost towns" because many people flee as food and other supplies run out. Houmed said the new offensive aimed to prevent a repeat of this scenario.
The assault on Bulamareer began before dawn on Saturday. Many residents had fled before the assault began as AMISOM and the Somali forces had warned of an imminent attack, Houmed said.
Earlier this week, the joint African and Somali force retook another town, Teyeeglo, which lies in the Bakool region, which lies northwest of Saturday's fighting and near the Ethiopian border. That offensive involved Ethiopian forces.
AMISOM is a 22,000-strong African Union force that includes troops from Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Burundi and Sierra Leone.
(Additional reporting by Feisal Omar; Writing by Edmund Blair; Editing by Stephen Powell)
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YouTube is travelling like a high-speed train into one of the most powerful online platforms in the world. Which clever earnings model is hiding behind this success story, and how will this affect our future media landscape?
Waste = Food
Natural resources are being depleted on a rapid scale while production and consumption are rising rapidly in nations like China and India.
Regreening The Desert
For more than 15 years, cameraman and ecologist John D. Liu has been working on his worldwide mission to green deserts and to restore biodiversity.
The Value Of Your Personal Data
Data is being collected about you constantly. All this personal data is being used to send you advertisements and banners, one would say. But that is just the start.
Mobile Gold
Our waste is worth money. Recovering it has started up a new global industry worth billions.
Bye Bye Car
Driverless cars will be how we move around in the future. In 10 years' time, Ford Motors' Bill Ford says his company will sell mobility, not cars. We ask the experts, including Tesla pioneer Elon Musk, what they think the future has in store for us.
Who Owns Football?
Large football clubs are being bought by foreign businessmen, who some say are only in it for the money with no tie to football history. But a protest movement is taking matters into its own hands to tackle the issues facing Europe's biggest sport.
E-stonia - A Start-Up Country
In the very north-east of Europe, on the border of Russia, lies the small country of Estonia. Per capita, it has the most start-ups; internet access is considered a human right and everyone has free wi-fi. And the eyes of the tech world are watching.
Digital Food
Modern food production is dependent on fossil fuels. As we begin to reach the end of them, how will we feed a global population of nine billion in 2050? Start-ups are using smart technology, big data and new distribution systems to find solutions.
Negotiator in Time of War
In Lebanon, 1 in 4 inhabitants is now a refugee. How do the Lebanese deal with this influx? And what impact does it have on the already precarious balance in the region, and beyond? VPRO Backlight follows Dutch UN representative Sigrid Kaag.
Bitcoin Gospel
Is bitcoin the blueprint for a bankless currency or the biggest pyramid scheme in history? Is it the alternative to a failing finance sector, or are we simply shifting power from today's banking elite to a new online elite?
The Bureau of Digital Sabotage
We seem to be prisoners of a worldwide digital web, created by governments and Silicon Valley. How do we stay in control of our own data? Are there ways to escape the digital dystopia?
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In recent years, protesters have taken to the streets of Spain, Tunis, Kiev, Amsterdam, Cairo, Istanbul, Tel Aviv and more - all pressing their demands for change. But what happened after the mass demonstrations?
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The trust that politicians will solve climate change is waning, and a growing group of concerned citizens is looking for other ways to tackle it. They're now focusing on the financial world, which they believe has crucial influence.
The Tax Free Tour
Where do multinationals pay taxes and how much? Gaining insight from international tax experts, VPRO's Backlight takes a look at tax havens, the people who live there and the routes used to avoid tax globally.
Race to Space
As the planet becomes more crowded, eyes are rising to the stars. The colonisation of space is no longer science fiction, it's big business, from NASA to entrepreneurs like Elon Musk. Meet the space lawyer trying to bring order to the space race.
Aleksander Litvinenko
It started as a possible case of food poisoning, but within weeks turned into a spectacle of enormous political proportions. Aleksander Litvinenko, former member of the Russian secret service, died after being poisoned with a radioactive substance.
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The TeePee 🙂 , originally uploaded by SewLaTea.
I've been wanting to make one of these for so long. Now that the playroom is finished (which reminds me, that I still haven't blogged about the redo!) I had no excuse. Well except maybe a newborn at home, but that's beside the point 😉 I used a great tutorial to make this, and I could never have done it without! Thank you to Rachel of Smile and Wave for taking the time to write it all down! My teepee did not come out as neat as hers, and I definitely made a couple mistakes. I cut down my poles a foot shorter than hers and then tried to recalculate measurements and angles….math was never my strong suit…so this proved to be challenging. I did my best and though the panels don't line up as nicely as Rachel's up on top, it still works! And the kids think its cool 🙂 I think I'll paint it like Rachel did too…clean and simple 🙂


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Kotaku reader Riccardo whipped up this HD version of Mother's opening credits. It, like the game itself, is fantastic. If anything should get you excited about an HD Nintendo gaming system, it's this.
Designed by Shigesato Itoi and produced by Shigeru Miyamoto, the Japan-only Mother was originally released in 1989 on the Nintendo Famicom. The game was planned for a U.S. release, but later shelved. Its sequel, Mother 2, was released in the States as EarthBound.
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On my many trips around the world I've learned the biggest change for the better in any community lies in literacy. Not in cash, food, health or housing. Positive changes happen fastest when children get access to books and computers. Literacy paves the way for other good things.
I've visited and contributed to literacy projects in destitute countries in Asia, but it wasn't until I met a Rotarian in Canada that I discovered the need is just as big here at home. Bob Blacker is a retired police officer, former regional governor of many Rotary clubs in B.C., and aide-de-camp to former B.C. Lieutentant-Governor Steve Point, Canada's first aboriginal governor. During his tenure assisting Point, the two decided that aboriginal literacy in B.C. was going to be their focus. Hence the amazing Write to Read Project.
While First Nations have lived in remote regions of B.C. for up to 10,000 years, theirs was always an oral storytelling culture. Books, and certainly not computers, were never part of their learning system. Now in the age of global cyberculture First Nations people are at risk of falling even further behind.
Given Blacker's connections in the world of Rotary, and Point's aboriginal heritage and contacts, they put their thoughts together and came up with a unique vision. Bring modular buildings to remote B.C. communities, stock them with books, wire them with high-speed computers, and form connections to urban-based non-profit Rotarian clubs.
Langley-based Britco Structures president David Taft, a Rotarian, and his company had some 40-foot mobile buildings left over from the 2010 Olympics. Why not donate one to the cause? Where to get suitable books? From Rotary members with library skills. Hence the LRT, the Library Response Team. Literacy training? From Success by Six. Would London Drugs like to donate some computers? Of course they would. High-speed broadband connections? Rotary clubs raised funds. Shipping? BC Ferries came on board.
While the federal government spends hundreds of millions of dollars annually on aboriginal issues, the Write to Read Project has its own tight focus, mostly volunteer. The project already has built 17 "partnerships" between remote aboriginal communities in B.C. and their urban counterparts in Rotary. Several libraries have already been built, many others are in the planning stages, and some communities are looking at eco-tourism prospects and other possible economic generators. The long-term plan is to create jobs for aboriginal people
Literacy breeds opportunity. Entrepreneurship soon follows. For instance, in the remote community of Ditidaht, an hour's drive south of Port Alberni, the old community school may be renovated as a library. Or perhaps as a hostel to serve the thousands of windsurfers, kiteboarders, hikers, and kayakers who flock to this outdoors paradise in summer.
The Ditidaht school has launched a "digital diary" project, using donated digital cameras to encourage high school students to showcase their community. Their plan is to publish an ebook, calendar or other publication for download. Whether books, computers or cameras, it's always literacy that opens the doors for a new tomorrow.
To contribute to the project, contact Bob Blacker in Vancouver c/o www.writetoreadproject.org.


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National conventions, once riveting political theater that held America in suspense for days, have been reduced to a made-for-television, political promo for the two parties. Since primary elections now routinely determine the candidates, this quadrennial dog-and-pony show offers a ho-hum pageant, in which windy speeches are delivered, party platforms hammered out and often ignored, and delegates don silly hats and hold up handmade signs extolling the virtues of candidates, causes and home states. Once the scene of bare-knuckle politicking and backroom deals, the modern conventions now provide comforting tableaus –full of sound and fury, but mostly signifying nothing.
That is why the once-trumpeted network "gavel-to-gavel" coverage has gone the way of disco and leisure suits.
The convention had essentially become obsolete by the 1972 Democratic Convention in Miami. Following the party reforms of the early 1970s, state primary elections could provide enough delegates to choose the nominee. Senator George McGovern—who had helped write the Democratic Party's new nominating rules — garnered a majority of Democratic delegates by the time the convention began. (McGovern was then crushed by Nixon in a landslide.) So we may never again have a repeat of 1924, when the Democrats took 17 days and 103 ballots in the longest convention ever to nominate John W. Davis –who was and remains an obscure congressman from West Virginia.
But once upon a time, conventions mattered. They chose the candidates, often with plenty of intrigue and horse-trading in the notorious "smoke-filled rooms" of yesteryear. And for that reason, some memorable conventions have changed the course of history. Here, in chronological order, are the Ten Most Consequential Conventions, also highlighting a few significant convention "Firsts."
1. 1831 Anti-Masonic Convention—Why start with one of the most obscure third parties in American history? Because they invented nominating conventions. The Anti-Masons, who feared the growing political and financial power of the secret society of Freemasons, formed in upstate New York; among their members was future president Millard Fillmore.
Before the Anti-Masons met in Baltimore in September 1831, candidates for president were chosen in the Congressional caucuses of two major parties –then the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans (soon to be the Democratic Party). In December 1831, the short-lived National Republican party followed the Anti-Mason lead and met in Baltimore to nominate Henry Clay, the powerful Kentucky congressman. The Democrats followed suit, also in Baltimore, selecting Andrew Jackson, the ultimate victor, in May 1832.
"King Caucus" was dead. The political convention had been born. And the country never looked back.
2. 1856 Republican Convention—The first national convention of the Republican Party marks the beginning of the two-party system as we know it. Meeting in Philadelphia, the new party chose John C. Frémont –the "Pathfinder" who mapped the way West for a generation of pioneers. A popular hero, Frémont also provided the new party with its slogan: "Free Soil, Free Speech, Free men, Frémont." The slavery issue had become America's undeniable fault line, even if most Republicans, including Abraham Lincoln, sought only to end the extension of slavery, not abolish it outright..
Frémont also ignited the first "birther" controversy. Opponents claimed he was born in Canada–and worse, back then, he was Catholic! (Former president Fillmore, onetime Anti-Mason, was nominated that year by the Know-Nothings, another odd third party which opposed immigration and foreigners.)
3. 1860 and its Four Conventions—This was the year of not one but four of the most important conventions, producing four candidates—two of them Democrats. In April, the Democrats met in Charleston, South Carolina, but produced no candidate, the first and only time to-date a convention has come up empty. Slavery split the party as southern delegates walked out.
In June, northern Democrats met in Baltimore and chose Stephen Douglas, the powerful Illinois Senator who had famously debated Abraham Lincoln in the 1858 Illinois Senate race. The disaffected southern Democrats also met in Baltimore and chose Kentucky's John C. Breckenridge and demanding federal protection of slavery.
In the meantime, the Republicans met in the Wigwam, a huge building in Chicago, and on the third ballot, chose one-term Illinois Representative Abraham Lincoln. Another splinter group, the Constitutional Union Party, chose former Speaker of the House John Bell.
As all four candidates campaigned, the 1860 election went to Lincoln with about 40 percent of the vote. And the headlong race toward secession and Civil War quickly followed.
4. 1880 Republican Convention—The post-Civil War period produced lively conventions but few fireworks as Republicans dominated presidential politics for a generation. But the GOP meeting in Chicago in 1880 was stuck between two battling wings of the party: the "Stalwarts" who wanted to maintain the "boss system" in which powerful congressmen made the decisions; and the "Half-Breeds" who sought civil service reform among other changes. After 35 ballots, Civil War veteran, Ohio congressman James A. Garfield, was a surprise "dark horse" compromise, with the vice presidential nod going to Chester A. Arthur as a concession to the Stalwarts. A New York lawyer, Arthur had built his career on patronage jobs. Then an assassin's bullet made Arthur, the "gentleman boss," the president.
5. 1900 Republican Convention—With the death of Garret Hobart, William McKinley's first vice president, in November 1899, the GOP was looking for a replacement for the upcoming election. (At the time, there was no Constitutional mechanism for replacing a vice president who died or succeeded to the presidency, a problem resolved in 1967 by the 25th Amendment.) "Under no circumstances could I or would I accept the nomination for the vice-president," the young governor of New York announced in February 1900. But in June, Theodore Roosevelt changed his tune.
Powerful New York bosses wanted this reform-minded governor out of the way and pushed him onto the McKinley ticket at the Philadelphia convention where frenzied delegates rallied to the Rough Riding hero of San Juan Hill. "Don't any of you realize," warned McKinley advisor Senator Mark Hanna, "that there is only one life between that madman and the Presidency."
In September 1901, McKinley was assassinated. Theodore Roosevelt became America's youngest president.
6. 1912 Republican Convention: After Theodore Roosevelt completed his own full term in 1908, he contemplated another run but opted to uphold the two-term precedent. He turned the reins over to William Howard Taft, whose last name was said to stand for, "Take Advice From Theodore."
But following a four-year hiatus, Roosevelt wanted to return to the White House and challenged his successor, winning several primaries but not a majority of delegates. The party regulars remained steadfast to the incumbent Taft and Roosevelt bolted the Chicago convention, claiming he had been robbed, and formed a third party, the Progressive, or "Bull Moose Party," soon thereafter. The most successful third party candidate ever, Roosevelt finished second; he and Taft had split the Republican vote, leaving an opening for Democrat Woodrow Wilson to win the presidency.
7. 1932 Democratic Convention—No surprise here. As the Great Depression worsened, Democrats were confident that the GOP's 12-year hold on the White House would end with Herbert Hoover's defeat. But who would get the nod? New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt and former Governor Al Smith, who lost to Hoover in 1928, were rivals. On the fourth ballot, FDR was anointed, aided by Speaker of the House, Texas' John Nance Garner who became his vice president.
FDR signaled a new era in American politics when he became the first candidate to address the convention, held in Chicago. In his acceptance speech, he promised America a "New Deal."
In 1940, Eleanor Roosevelt became the first First Lady to address a convention in Chicago –also notable for giving FDR his third consecutive nomination and an unprecedented third term.
8. 1960 Democratic Convention—There was nothing new about television at the Democratic convention in Los Angeles. The first televised convention had been Philadelphia's Republican gathering in 1940—but a lot more people had television sets 20 years later. And what they saw was America's first great made for-television candidate, John F. Kennedy, deliver an acceptance speech promising a "New Frontier" echoing FDR's "New Deal." And the presidential game would never be the same. A few months later, the first televised debates against Republican Richard Nixon cemented TV's place in the American political landscape.
9. 1968 Democratic Convention—Television also played a huge role when the Democrats met in Chicago. But it was mostly about what was happening outside the hall. The nation watched the spectacle of anti-war protestors in full battle with Chicago policemen. One Democratic Senator told the convention there were, "Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago." The convention selected Hubert Humphrey, who lost a close race to Richard Nixon. But the violent debacle in Chicago led to the first wave of primary reforms that chipped away at the power of the convention.
This convention also marked the last time that Chicago, which had hosted more conventions than any other city, would welcome a convention until the Democrats returned in 1996 to nominate Bill Clinton for a second term.
10. 1976 Republican Convention—This may have been the last hurrah for the national convention as a meaningful political battlefield. The incumbent President, Gerald Ford had succeeded to the office after Richard Nixon's resignation. The only president never elected president or vice president, Ford faced a furious challenge from the right from former California Governor Ronald Reagan. Ford held onto the nomination in Kansas City, but lost the election to Jimmy Carter. And Ronald Reagan was probably thinking, "You ain't seen nothing yet."
Kenneth C. Davis is the author of Don't Know Much About® History and Don't Know Much About® the American Presidents, which will be published on September 18. His website is www.dontknowmuch.com
© 2012 Kenneth C. Davis
Editor's note: This story originally mistakenly referred to Garfield's assassin, Charles Guiteau, as an anarchist. This was not the case and we regret the error.


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1. Free mid- day meals to poor pupils in Lower
Primary Schools was introduced with the material assistance of CARE
(Co-operative for American Relief Everywhere) during 1961-62 as per G.O. (Rt) No. 2013/61 Edn.dated 31-8-1961. They had withdrawn the assistance from
1984 and gradually left the field by 1986. It was a welfare scheme and was
enjoyed by poor and needy pupils. Consequent on the withdrawal of assistance of
CARE School Feeding Programme, the Government of Kerala was constrained to take over the responsibility of
noon feeding in Primary Schools. Accordingly Kanji Feeding was introduced in
the place of care feeding from 1-12-1984. L.P. Schools
of both Government and aided schools in 222 fishermen villages and tribal belts
were brought under the scheme. Subsequently the programme
was extended to all L.P. Schools of Government and Aided in the state from
2. During 1987-88 the scheme issued different
shape. The area of feeding was widened. As a matter of policy of Government the
programme was extended to all Upper Primary Schools
and Upper Primary sections in High Schools from 1987-88 as per G.O. (P) No.
160/87/Gl.Edn. dated 28-7-1987 with effect from
15-8-1987. It was introduced as a people's programme.
Feeding committee were constituted in every feeding
centre. The committee consisted of the Headmaster of the school, PTA President,
a representative of teachers and a nominee of local body. One of the members
would be chosen as the President of the committee. The committee was aided to
administer the scheme of supplying mid day meal in schools. The committee was
to conduct the supply of Noon Meals in schools with the assistance of local
people and Government. The committee selected the pupils for feeding. No
eligible pupil was left out of the scheme. A state level committee was also
constituted to review periodically the progress of implementation of the
3. The food grains used to feed the pupils
were rice and green gram. The ration paid per pupil per day was 60 grams of
rice coupled with green gram of 30 grams and palmolien
I gram and condiments. Boiled rice and side dish
prepared with green gram, palmolien and condiments
were served as Noon Meal to every needy pupil.
4. The scheme was implemented through the
heads of schools. The food materials for feeding were made available on credit
basis through the Civil Supplies Corporation. The Heads of schools are to
collect the feeding materials from the nearest Maveli
store on production of indents duly passed by the Assistant Education Officer
5. The Noon Feeding Programme
in the state is administered by the Director of Public Instruction at the state
level and assisted by the Senior Administrative Assistant (NMP). At the
District level the programme was supervised and
inspected by the Deputy Director (Education) and supervisors of Noon Meal Programme. The Noon Meal supervisors visited the feeding centres and scrutinised the
number of pupils, fed on the day of visit and examined the quality of cooked
food supplied, functioning of feeding committee, facilities available in the
school for cooking, stock of food materials, details of funds and its
utilization etc. The visit report of the Noon Meal
Supervisors are reviewed by Assistant Educational Officer and the
Director of Public Instruction. The Director of Public Instruction issued
suitable instruction of rectify the defects if found necessary in the
implementation of the scheme. Annual verification of records was also conducted
by the supervisors. The Assistant Educational Officers are the immediate
controlling and inspecting officers at the lower level. The District
Educational Officers also played a vital role in the implementation of the
6. Since the introduction of the NP-NSPE (National
Programme National Support to Primary Education) by
Government of India, on the 15th of August 1995, the noon feeding scheme of the
State was also brought under the NP-NSPE. Accordingly, Government of India
issues 100 gram rice/pupil completely free of cost to pupils of Standard. I to V, who are in the list of noon feeding.
7. But the scheme is introduced in Kerala, with a slight difference. Here the scheme is
extended to pupils of Standard. VI and VII also, while Government of India
considers only pupils of Standard. I to V. Similarly,
while Government of India allows 100 gram of rice/pupil, we in the state supply
only 60 gram/pupil. But in order to compensate this, 30 grams of any one pulse
items such as Green gram, Bengal gram, Turdhal or Lobia is also supplied
per pupil, as side dish, since the rice is supplied as cooked food to pupils.
The entire cost of purchase of these pulse items is met by the State Government .
8. Moreover the Central Government is also
financing partly the transportation cost of the rice lifted from the FCI godowns to Maveli Stores. The
transportation cost paid to Maveli Stores by the
State Government i.e. Rs. 140/Qtl. Out of this Rs. 140 Rs. 50/Qtl. is reimbursed
by Government of India and the balance of Rs. 90/Qtl.
is met by the State Government from the state budgetary provisions.
9. In addition to the above transportation
cost and cost of purchase of pulse items, the State Government also meet the
contingent charges of transportation of all these materials from Maveli Stores to schools as well as the fuel charges,
cooking charges etc.
10. In addition to the regular noon feeding in
schools special rice 5. Kg. per pupil, who are in the
feeding list is supplied during Onam, X'mas and Ramzan. It was started
from the Academic year 1997-98 and still continuing .
11. The contingent charges are paid to schools
through local bodies and the fund is allotted by the General Education
12. From 2008-2009 onwards, Online software
created for supply of INDEND and the calculation of CONTIGENT CHARGES. It was
very helpful to reduce the job of the officials for the calculation process
13. And now 2010-11, E-banking system had developed by the Government
for the distribution of contingent charges,the amount of Egg distribution and the contingency for MILK Distribution.
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