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Students Bring Mumbai Railways To Halt For 3 Hrs Over Joblessness; Call Off Protest After Assurance
The Logical Indian Crew Maharashtra
March 20th, 2018 / 1:57 PM
Courtesy: Firstpost, New Indian Express, Hindustan Times | Image Credit: Nyoooz
Students protesting over railway recruitment in Mumbai on March 19 called off their protests after more than three hours of flash agitation as the government assured them of meeting their demands.
The "rail roko" agitation was staged on the railway tracks between Matunga and Dadar on the Central Railway (CR). The movement of the trains on rush hours was blocked and police even resorted to Lathi Charge. The protesting students pelted stones in retaliation.
The whole protest which lasted for three hours brought the lifeline of the city to an absolute halt, affecting many commuters.
Reason for the protest
The protests were carried out by the activists of the All India Act Apprentice Association (AAAAA). The body was demanding the scrapping of the 20% quota for the direct recruitment for the candidates who have cleared the All India Railway Act Apprentice Exams.
Before 2016, the railways selected and appointed apprentices for various technical jobs. These apprentices would then were given preference during recruitment. However, in 2016, the Railway Ministry decided to offer just 20% quota. Many apprentices were unable to secure jobs and hence this protest was organised.
In a bid to bring the situation under control, the police resorted to mild lathi charge and the students pelted stones in retaliation. Reportedly, five persons and a few police personnel were injured in the scuffle.
5 Government Railway Police (GRP) personnel and 6 Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel injured in stone pelting during the agitation of railway job aspirants in #Mumbai. pic.twitter.com/0Xu1wzsSjC
— ANI (@ANI) March 20, 2018
With the strike by the drivers of app-based taxis on Monday, more than 4.5 million commuters had to face problems for the second consecutive day. Commuters also complained that they were not informed of when the services would resume.
The Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) asked the managers of the nearby BEST depots to run extra buses to assist commuters in reaching their destination on time. Extra BEST buses plied to and fro from various points like Dadar, Matunga, Kurla, Sion and other stations.
Protest called off after Piyush Goyal assured students
Regarding this issue, CR spokesperson said that the apprenticeship was just to provide training to the apprentices for a specific period, to help them hone their skills and give them experiences and that under the Apprentice Act, there was no provision of giving jobs to the apprentices. In an official statement, the CR spokesperson said, "However, the Ministry of Railways has taken a decision and reserved 20% of the seats filled through direct recruitment. The notification is already issued with the last date of submitting application on 31 March. Apprentices can apply against this notification and Special Examination will shortly be held for apprentices who have done training in Railway Workshops under the Apprentices Act."
The protesting students called off the strike after Railway Minister Piyush Goyal gave assurance. Goyal told ANI, "Recruitment in Railways is underway at a large scale. On directives of the Supreme Court, Indian Railways has made a recruitment policy that is unbiased and transparent."
Maharashtra CM, Devendra Fadnavis told ANI, "Was in continuous touch with officials. No rules have changed, 20 per cent seats are reserved for apprentices but they are demanding more. Lathi-charge was done after agitators started pelting stones, no one was injured."
Rahul Shewale, a Shiv Sena MP from Mumbai met top CR officials to resolve the issue. Post meeting, he said that the railways would hire more than 12,400 eligible candidates.
Written by : Shraddha Goled
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Man Stabbed By Fellow Worshiper At Southport Prayer Meeting
28-year-old man arrested
A 29-year-old man is on the mend, after getting stabbed at a prayer meeting in Southport yesterday.
Another man at the meeting allegedly attacked him around 1pm on Sunday afternoon.
The 28-year-old is accused of stabbing the man several times in the abdomen.
The injured man was taken to the Gold Coast University Hospital for treatment.
His wounds weren't believed to be life-threatening.
His alleged assailant was charged with acts intended to cause grievous bodily harm.
He was due in court on Monday.

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Monday, November 23, 2015
Mini Pop Quiz: Who's That Guy?
Here is a shot of Prowse decked out in his suit, minus the iconic helmet:
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- Dave in Alamitos Beach said...
Besides the killer body, he has a beautiful face and hair. Thanks for giving him his due!
- November 23, 2015 at 2:47 PM
The relationship between David Prowse and George Lucas deteriorated, but David's name will be forever associated to one of the most iconic film roles and one of the most successful movie franchises.
I don't understand how come David has never been paid residuals; leave it to Hollywood accounting to find a way.
- November 23, 2015 at 8:23 PM
- normadesmond said...
being male, one day you'll know; prostate, not prostrate. sorry.
- November 23, 2015 at 8:26 PM
- Poseidon3 said...
OMG... I wasn't even planning on specifying the cancer! I did it on auto-pilot, I think, and the hilarity is that my mother unceasingly calls it "prostrate cancer" and I seethe in frustration each time. LOL Thanksgiving is coming up and I know I'll have to deal with her, so I believe her aura seeped in. Fixing it now.
- November 23, 2015 at 9:59 PM
- Gingerguy said...
Wow what a babe. As I was reading before the reveal, I figured it was "Star Wars" but that he was probably Chewbacca. I love all the pictures but the wrestling singlet is the winner. He actually wouldn't have looked out of place in "Berzerk" in the circus gear. Sad story about Lucas but you just gave him a whole new fan base.
- November 24, 2015 at 9:27 AM
- Poseidon3 said...
Gingerguy, GREAT idea about "Berserk!" Joan would have had fun with that around. ;-)
- November 30, 2015 at 7:59 AM
- Ken Anderson said...
As I've only ever seen the first Star Wars, I've heard the name David Prowse over the years, but I'd never seen him until now! Leave it to you to unearth facts about his tiff with Lucas and Co, photos from his past (who knew what was behind all that costuming?) and a current update! Terrific work all around, Poseidon!
- November 30, 2015 at 9:21 PM
- Poseidon3 said...
Thank you, Ken! I'm glad you enjoyed this. I was a "Star Wars" kid, about ten or so when it came out. I liked the first one plenty, but "The Empire Strikes Back" easily became my favorite. Unless you despise the whole thing, you ought to give it a try sometime! I found the third one less than gratifying, but cannot deny I got a little choked up during the trailer for this latest one, seeing Harrison and Carrie back in their old guises. Still not sure when or if I'll see it, though.
- December 1, 2015 at 10:01 AM
- Michael Langan said...
As a kid growing up in the UK Dave Prowse was famous as The Green Cross Code Man, star of some government-funded public information films they showed on tv and at the cinema about how to cross the road safely... He made quite an impression on me! There's a link here:
and here:
I don't think that's his real voice...
- December 29, 2015 at 12:56 PM
- bob said...
Prowse was in just about every British movie or tv show back in the 70s when they needed a beefy guy. He played a minotaur in a Jon Pertwee episode of Doctor Who and displays his bare backside in the Up Pompeii movie and it's sequel, Up the Chastity Belt.
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The good old days weren't always good for the Detroit Tigers. But at least the trading cards and memorabilia were cheap. Now, it's a pricey proposition to bring autograph guests to area card shops.
Pudge Rodgriguez and Gary Sheffield make more money signing autographs for two hours than a lot of us do in a year. Yet fans still seem willing to line up in Detroit–even for the non-superstars.
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Back home in Pacha Ibiza, the new booth, positioned cleverly to encourage a greater connection with the dancing public, and the enlarged main room of the refurbished nightclub will work perfectly for the Hamburg label boss, who knows exactly what it takes to throw a damn fine party.
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The 10 Funniest Monster Movie Spoofs
What is the Noodle Monster? Tune in to the Portlandia season finale on March 24th at 10P to find out.
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Catch Quarantine this month on IFC.
13 nightmarish scenes from classic horror gems.
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|Cover of the current issue
|Even caught the oncoming blue lights of a police car
in one of our early shots (© Eddie Bull)
|Four lighting frames and a colour shift -
all done in camera (© Eddie Bull)
|Andy's portrait orientation lends itself to
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|Talking of test shots here's a frame to check the
flash exposure before setting off for the driving shot.
The published feature will appeal to all photographers with an interest in low light techniques and light painting, but with the magazine's brand loyalty some of the killer tips are those aimed at Nikon users- namely custom settings, Image Overlay and using CLS to control speedlights.
I'm particularly impressed with how well the images printed - away from the luminance of a computer screen it's really easy for night images to look badly underexposed but the N-Photo team have clearly worked hard to reproduce the pictures honestly.
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Just a small selection from some of the other Heygate Community Gardens wall paintings and drawings that are dotted around the allotment area.
Oh and we can't forget this great collaborative effort!
Just a small selection from some of the other Heygate Community Gardens wall paintings and drawings that are dotted around the allotment area.
Oh and we can't forget this great collaborative effort!
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After Wednesday's appalling council vandalism of the Heygate Community Garden murals and graffiti, local gardeners, artists, ping-pong players and other lovers of the green public space spent the last few days waving their magic hands over the ugly grey paint and restoring the artworks back to life. The Chopstick Houses piece is nearly back to life.
Here are two of the murals that we hadn't time to photograph before the Council decided that splashes of grey paint irregularly applied was nicer than these colourful images. The one on the right was even made by a kind of famous-ish Belgian street artist or so we heard!
The nice pink Elephant was the first to be restored back to good health. A few more waves of the magic hands and she will be as pink as she was before as will the artist who put so much time into painting her on the wall. Well done everybody.
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Yesterday the Council in its infinite and omnipotent wisdom decided to carry out another (1) aggressive attack on the popular Heygate Community Gardens by spitefully destroying the colourful and thought-provoking artworks that have been brightening up the dull spaces within. As part of people's amazing efforts to keep the place public and enjoyable local artists have been welcomed in to use the old walls of houses as canvases to paint murals, graffiti and street art on. As you can see from the pics these were a collection of lovely, considered and sometimes wry artworks created for the benefit of all.
Yesterday, under the direction of Andrew Ashaye (Heygate & Aylesbury Case Management Officer), the Council aggressively decided to return the walls back to uglier and now badly painted over blank walls once again.
It was noticeable that they mostly singled out for painting over the large and thoughtful pieces around the Community Gardens and pond. As you can see from above however the rest of the estate is still covered with scribbles, tags, obscenities and so on but these remained up after the Council had done it's paint slapping. We ask the questions: What possible offence can be caused by the Heygate murals and with what mindset does the Council operate with to come and destroy local artists work without even any warning or debate?
LET THEM KNOW THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE: We suggest that if you feel that this was an unnecessary, wholly unaccountable and aggressive act that you make your feelings known to those who carried it out and to CC in your email Peter John and Fiona Colley, who are the leading Council lights in the Regeneration Dept.
Write to:
Andrew Ashaye – firstname.lastname@example.com
Peter John – email@example.com
Fiona Colley – email@example.com
For more than two years local people have been using the green spaces within to put into practice what the Council has been twiddling their thumbs about and that is how the space within the Estate can be used for community benefit whilst the bureaucratic stages of regeneration grind ever slowly on. Called 'interim use' it means that instead of sealing up the giant forest within the Heygate to await demolition in two or three years time (2), the space is maintained for exactly the sort of the thing the Heygate Community Gardeners have been doing there all along.
Not only does the act of growing flowers and vegetables, giving out free allotments, keeping chickens, running a pond, having growing and planting days, seed swaps and also showing films and having small social events maintain exactly the kind of things that grows communities, it also acts as a deterrent to crime inside the Estate. Leaseholders living on the estate have not been burgled since the community activity started something that had been a regular occurrence before.
All of this local effort and hard work comes from a desire to actually see the Heygate site as still part of the public space of The Elephant area and to maintain the enjoyment to be had at wandering amongst the 400 plus mature trees inside. As part of these acts of growing and nurturing, the work done by artists inside the estate has been welcomed and enjoyed by all involved in the Community Gardens. They were an integral part of keeping a community spirit alive against the whims and anti-social behaviour the Council engages in that pretends to care about community benefits but by it's actions shows nothing but contempt for local people and how they make this a much needed reality here and now.
In March 2012, the Council came to the gardens and stole the pump for the pond and were threatening to remove all the exhibition stands and other objects by which we thought they meant the chairs and tables people use. It was pointed out to them that that 'the council's time and resources might be better spent on things including basic estate maintenance and cleaning'. They argued that they would 'continue to monitor the general health & safety on the site prior to demolition works taking place to ensure that the site also remains safe for the remaining residents'. We had to laugh as the remaining residents are the only ones doing any actual looking after the site whilst the Council does nothing to the collapsing walls, holes in the paving and so on.
This is exactly what is happening at the vast Oakmayne development site at New Kent Rd / Elephant Rd, right next door to Heygate. The site has now sat undeveloped for 6 years now. A couple of years ago without any local consultation The Council agreed to let Oakmayne destroy and seal off the popular open green space next door despite protests from local users and especially the Latino community who used it at weekends for football games. This part of the Elephant's public lands now sits destroyed and enclosed as Oakmayne struggle to find the finances for the daftly-named Tribeca Square – New London scheme.
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We try not to duplicate stories and responses to regeneration plans in The Elephant area that are put up on other local websites but it's very useful to point in their direction. So, here, we will share some links with you to the fantastic and detailed personal and community objections to the Lend Lease Outline Planning Application which is due to be heard before the Council later in the year. That's the planning app for the knocking down of the Heygate Site and for the 'regeneration' of a massive chunk of the northern end of Walworth Rd across to New Kent Rd. With no real commitment to replacing the now empty 1100 Heygate Estate homes with genuine affordable housing, this Masterplan is seriously rubbish as it seeks to pile on loads of private homes on that essential close-to-the-Tube Zone 1 property developers dream site. Not to mention the unaccounted effects that increasing the local population by thousands will have on on local schools, transport, doctors and so on.
Wally Rd – From independent shops to chains?
It's also true that once those who can pay £500,000 for a two bed apartment come in droves to the area, then the Starbucks, Pizza Express and Wagamama chains will arrive close behind and push out the local independent cafes and stores as the landlords see they can make a killing on rent increases. Then Walworth Rd will look and feel like any other boring chain-filled high street and not the diverse and fantastic place it has been for donkey's years.
• Lend Lease Outline Planning Application objections and responses:
Elephant Amenity Network response
Peoples Republic of Southwark response
Richard Lee personal response (PDF)
Adrian Glasspool personal response (PDF)
Southwark Group of Tenants Organisations and Local TRA's (PDF)
Southwark Living Streets (PDF)
The Outline Planning Application can be seen here. Warning! It's made up of 191 documents and so is this almost impossible to comment on unless you have loads of time on your hands and an encyclopaedic brain and a big pencil. But I guess that's the point really.
You can object to it in a much simpler form by visiting the Elephant 35% Campaign site here and using their online objection form. Their summarised objections are as follows: "…that the development proposes no affordable housing and no renewable energy generation. The council's planning policy states clearly that the development should contain a minimum of 35% affordable housing and at least 20% on-site renewable energy provision. I also object to the loss of the large number of mature trees on the site, the high number of parking spaces and the failure to provide essential cycle-route and public transport infrastructure. Finally, I object to the privatisation of the public realm on the site and loss of community facilities."
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Lend Lease, the Australian development company, as you may know by now is the Council-chosen developer behind the knocking down of the Heygate Estate and the proposed regeneration / gentrification of The Elephant. Luckily for us, "Lend Lease takes corporate governance very seriously" says Robert McNamara, the chief executive of Lend Lease in the Americas.
April 25th 2012: Bovis Lend Lease fined $56 million for fraud
"A U.S. subsidiary of the Australia's Lend Lease Construction has admitted to a 10-year overbilling scheme on New York area projects and will pay $56 million in fines and victim restitution, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
Bovis Lend Lease, as the subsidiary was previously known, has its largest U.S. office in New York City, where it employs more than 1,000 people and has worked on projects such as the September 11 Memorial in Lower Manhattan and the Citi Field baseball stadium in Queens.
Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn said the company pleaded guilty to criminal charges it had a "systematic practice" between 1999 and 2009 of billing clients — often government agencies — for hours its workers had never worked.
"Today's proceedings mark the culmination of a three-year investigation into a systematic pattern of audacious fraud by one of the world's largest construction firms," FBI Assistant Director in Charge Janice Fedarcyk said in a statement.
Prosecutors said that the former head of Bovis' New York office, James Abadie, 55, pleaded guilty earlier on Tuesday to charges of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.
Abadie faces up to 20 years in prison. An attorney for Abadie, Stephen Kaufman, did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
Bovis agreed to pay $56 million in penalties and victim restitution as part of a deferred prosecution agreement made public on Tuesday.
The agreement showed Bovis had accepted responsibility for the fraud and was cooperating with investigators. As part of the agreement, the company would put in place new internal controls to prevent any future misconduct.
"Lend Lease takes corporate governance very seriously and is committed to the highest levels of ethical standards," Robert McNamara, the chief executive of Lend Lease in the Americas, said in a statement. "We accept responsibility for what happened in the past and have agreed to continue to make restitution to the affected clients."
Bovis agreed to pay $40.5 million in penalties as well as $13.6 million and $2.5 million to victims of different sets of schemes, the deferred prosecution agreement showed.
In one scheme, Bovis lied about employing construction companies owned by women and minorities to qualify for public projects in New York and New Jersey, court documents said.
The Bovis overbilling scheme concerned projects such as the construction of a criminal court in the Bronx, as well as work on the Brooklyn federal courthouse, the very building in which Bovis was charged".
Source: Reuters
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"What's going for it? It's had the terrible misfortune to be regenerated twice: once, in the 1960s, to convert its poor residents into car-driving modern citizens; and again today, to reprogramme them into the kind of latte-supping pedestrians you see on architects' drawings. But it thrives regardless. Though the eponymous roundabout and shopping precinct grab the attention – you can't miss them – turn the corner on to Walworth Road and what planners and developers didn't regenerate first time around has magically survived. A miraculous scrap of relatively central London that isn't wall-to-wall Stradas. You want a thriving, chain-lite high street? Here you are. Even the precinct is like an anti-Westfield, all Colombian cafes and Nigerian nail bars. While tucked behind are little gems: blitz-surviving Victorian terraces, a proper street market, a great dance centre, incredibly good schools. Re-blooming-generation, I ask you. Who needs it?"
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Dear Soundings
Re: Elephant and Castle Regeneration Consultation
We are writing to you because we feel that there has been a serious misrepresentation of the amount of affordable housing to be built in Phase 2 of the Heygate redevelopment during the preplanning consultation that Soundings has conducted.
At both the exhibition in February and the Housing Workshop on 29th Jan the local community was told that Lendlease would be submitting an outline planning application that would include 25% affordable housing. This has proved not to be the case; instead Lendlease will only be building 'as much affordable housing as is financially viable….' This is in both the Planning Statement and the Housing Statement (8.1.4). The planning case officer has confirmed that the 25% minimum is not part of the application.
We will not labour the significance of this – instead of a guaranteed minimum of 600 affordable homes this development, when complete, could have no affordable housing at all. However whether this is good or bad is not the point of our complaint – it is that local community has been given no opportunity to gives its opinion on the true proposals.
Pre-planning consultation is part of the planning process. A report on the number of meetings, attendance etc. is usually part of the planning application. This report should now state that the local community was neither informed nor consulted about the amount of affordable housing and this should be taken into consideration by the planning committee. As the facilitator of the consultations we believe that it is Soundings responsibility to make sure this happens.
Yours sincerely
Jerry Flynn (ex Heygate resident, Elephant Amenity Network member)
Peter Stevenson (Crossway Church, Heygate Estate)
Adrian Glasspool (Heygate resident, EAN member)
Mark Tubbs (local resident)
Paul McGann (local resident, EAN member)
Lindon Rankin (local resident)
Katherine McNeil (local resident, EAN member)
Steve Lancashire (local resident, EAN member)
Chris Morris (local resident, EAN member)
Celia Cronin (Balfour St, EAN member)
Liliana Dmitrovic (Peoples Republic of Southwark)
M Pathmnabhan (Rockingham Estate)
Peter Davis (local resident)
Richard Lee (local resident, EAN member)
Jon Dennison (local resident, EAN member)
Hector Castells (local resident)
Luke Miller (local resident, EAN member)
Soundings Reply:
Thank you for your letter of 29 May in connection with the Elephant and Castle Consultation. I forwarded this immediately to Lend Lease for their comment. The response from Mr Deck is that the 25% provision set out in the Regeneration Agreement with Southwark Council remains unaltered and whilst it may not be mentioned specifically in the Planning Statement or Housing Statement it is specifically referenced in the Draft Section 106 Heads of Terms in the Application. The public consultation events associated with this application have all reiterated the provision of a minimum of 25% Affordable Housing. Given the above explanation we believe that the consultation has been adequate and appropriate. I do hope this throws some light on the matter and I am sorry if the application documents have led to any confusion.
Kind regards
Steve McAdam
Jerry Flynn: 'Nit-picking by Soundings and Lendlease cannot alter the fact that the promised minimum of 25% affordable housing is not guaranteed by the outline Heygate Masterplan application nor the fact that there has been no consultation with the local community about anything less than 25%. This would require 2 simple questions being put to people – 'are you happy with less than 35% affordable housing (the policy minimum)?' and 'are you happy with less than 25% affordable housing (the Lendlease promise)?' The lack of consultation on this is good grounds for objections to the application.'
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I have, however, been doing some research for what I think my next book will be. Maybe. Probably. Crap, I don't know. Whatever it is, I do think I've stumbled upon something really unique and interesting -- the ideal seedy underbelly to my next novel it just may be.
See, I've discovered that I what I love to base my stories around is something real out there in the world. Or, as in the case of my first novel, real to someone, even if that someone isn't me. And then with that real frame holding up my house, I make up the characters that have to react inside of it, have to show their true selves... Blah blah blah. Ugh. I just don't have the energy...
Anyways, with my next project, what I'd like to use as the backdrop for the dark, funny tale I'll be telling is something out of the history books. Yeah, that's annoyingly vague, I know. Nebulous even. (I love that word.) But before I say more, I have to take this idea -- this history -- into the workshop in my brain and bash it around for a while. Here's hoping my ears don't bleed from all the thinking. Here's hoping that I can actually turn this into something.
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Hello and welcome, Leonie Neal-Dawson with you today on the Imaginarium Designs Chipboard blog. I have two scrapbook pages to share with you today, all choc full of glorious Chipboard pieces.
Chase Your Dreams
My first page 'Chase Your Dreams' is a birthday page celebrating two of my boys becoming teenagers. I've included loads of different chipboard on this page. Most of the chipboard has been inked with StazOn Dove Grey ink and I've also used some silver leaf and doodling as some of the different techniques on this page.
I used two sheets of Nat's Hearts on this page. Each sheet only had 4 hearts remaining in them so I used the whole sheet colouring it grey and then colouring the hearts a deep pink so they would pop out from the page among all the Grey I had happening. I also added some silver leaf to the sheet of hearts.
I then added a congratulations subtitle, the year, an art deco oval cut in half and a leaf as further embellishments.
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Nat's Hearts 1
{Brave} Little Lady
My second share today is about my daughter and I've titled it 'Brave Little Lady' as the photo relates to a minor surgery she had this year and I wanted to document how brave she was throughout.
I used the lovely swirly frame around the photo of my daughter and coloured it with watermelon Gelato.
The callouts and hearts designed by Louise and Nat have also been coloured with Metallic Gelato so they have a faint shimmer to them.
The title chipboard pieces have been inked with Prima Quick Dry fluid Chalk inks, a quick and easy yet effective way to jazz up your chipboard.
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She predicted that consolidation would occur by peer-to-peer lenders either merging or buying each other, rather than by existing large companies, suggesting that any firm looking to get into P2P would need "big pockets" due to the cost of upscaling and the potential of buying several large firms.
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PORTLAND — A Portland Buy Local office opening at 306 Congress St. on Wednesday will be a visible new home for the organization established in 2006.
The 10:30 a.m. ribbon cutting will feature remarks by Mayor Michael Brennan, Coffee by Design owner Mary Allen Lindemann and Maine Surfer's Union owner Charlie Fox.
"Any organization that does a lot of education early on, just like a business, needs to realize there are customers who are just arriving and not heard the message yet," Portmanteau owner Nancy Lawrence said Monday.
Lawrence has owned Portmanteau, where she makes and sells clothing and accessories, at varied Old Port locations for 35 years. She and Lindemann are among the Buy Local co-founders.
"You need to repeat, to talk about nuts and bolts, to give the 'why' to shopping with independents and the deep economics of why that works," Lawrence said.
From its initial 20 members, Portland Buy Local has expanded to more than 450 independently owned businesses spread across the city.
Debra Tenenbaum of Front Porch Public Relations is an organization board member who said the new office is one of the first steps needed to grow Portland Buy Local into its second decade.
"(We needed to) kind of grow up as an organization," Tenenbaum said.
To facilitate the growth, two surveys were circulated to members, one created by the organization, one by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, which has a Portland office at 142 High St. where "Big Box Swindle" author Stacy Mitchell works.
Responses revealed members face similar pressures, including the cost of health insurance, rising lease and rental rates, competition from national chains and big-box stores, and worries about city cleanups after snowstorms.
"The Buy Local survey confirms a lot of things we have heard." Tenenbaum said. "There are a lot more people collaborating, but there is that fear: how long can we keep it going?"
Buy Local Ambassador Thalassa Raasch, the organization's first paid employee, said Buy Local members must be based in the city, have no more than 10 outlets (all in the state), and the majority of owners living within 50 miles of the city, with full authority on business decisions.
Jason Wentworth, owner of Portland's Greener Cleaner on Fox Street and Washboard Eco-Laundry on Danforth Street, said membership gives him more visibility, and opens his eyes to other independent businesses he can support and owners he can network with.
"It can sometimes feel kind of lonely, it is not always easy to have opportunities to exchange with people who are in a similar structure," he said.
Wentworth operates Portland's Greener Cleaner with Sandrine Chabert. His cleaning services are rooted in sustainability and environmental stewardship, offering cleaning without chemicals used in the dry cleaning process.
His Fox Street location was a riskier choice, he said, in part as it is close to more industrial businesses and zoned for light industrial uses.
The stretch of Fox Street heading toward Munjoy Hill is developing, and Wentworth said he is gaining more customers who have seen his shop as they drive by.
"But I think a lot of people in Portland are not aware of what is going on," he added.
Lawrence said staying in the Old Port has been beneficial, but at times, she has found it hard to pay lease rates to owners who may have bought buildings during boom times.
"I am very happily ensconced in a building with landlords who have had businesses in the Old Port and have been in the area long enough to have some understanding," she said.
She said municipal planning should be promoting practices that can help independent business owners thrive.
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The Lunatics' and guests met again to celebrate making it through to the end of the year! We had a great dinner in a relaxed atmosphere with students past and present. Sensei John Hurley made presentations, including giving Jeff his 40th birthday present - a katana!read more
Kids' X-Mas Party 2017
The party had to be put back a week due to the heavy snow the previous Sunday but 9 of the juniors made it to Pizza Hut in Luton this year as well as a couple of their parents for their annual "date" as well. After making the most of the ...read more
Students of the Year 2017
At the end of the year we like to take the opportunity to recognise the students who have put the most amount of effort into their training and who have got the most out of it as well. Congratulations to Ethan Kiernan on winning the Junior Student of the Year award. He ...read more
Annual News Letter 2017
As another year is rapidly coming to a close and 2018 looms ever closer, 2017 has been a very challenging year for the club. This year has been a tough one for our dojo as we have had a number of high grades out due to injuries and personal/work/academic commitments which ...read more
Judging Panel: John Hurley (5th Dan), Alex Buxton (3rd Dan) This was a solid grading with good spirit from the grading hopefuls. It was quite a large grading and all the grading hopefuls passed. The standout performances were: Ethan Lane who showed very high levels of focus and determination, especially considering he is only ...read more
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It was a cold and windy October night in Luton. It was a special night. The night the demons and ghouls come out to play and make mischief in the world of mortal man. It was Halloween at the Luton dojo and we had a special guest make an appearance ...read more
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This year, the Luton delegation to the Ogwen summer course, was just three veterans - John Hurley, Jeff Archer and Simon Mills. But what we lacked in numbers we made up for in insect bites! I'm fairly certain John's tally alone would have equalled everyone else's added together! Putting the ...read more
Judging Panel: John Hurley (5th Dan), Alex Buxton (3rd Dan), Jeff Archer (1st Dan) This was a solid grading with good spirit from the grading hopefuls. We welcome Carl Garner who assessed across from Shotokan to be awarded his Purple Belt in Higashi. The performance of the day went to Liridona Spahija who ...read more
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It's hard to believe that another year has gone by so swiftly and that time of year had come around again. This year the Lunatics chose The Jolly Milliner for their annual Xmas Party with a record 18 in attendance including Luton's newest, youngest and yet somehow most vocal member of ...read more
Student of the Year
As is tradition in the Luton dojo we like to do a presentation and gift for the most improved, dedicated and motivated students. Often this is a very difficult task choosing who should get the awards as most of our students give it their all when training. This year however was ...read more


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This reproduction of the beautifully hand-colored copperplate engraving of "Cuba Insula et Jamaica" was originally published by Cornelis Van Wytfliet in 1597 in his Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum, the first atlas to focus on the mapping of the New World. He named his work an augmentation to Ptolemy's Geography, because it covers the Americas, a part of the world unknown to Ptolemy.
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There is no doubt that raising children can be a hard task, one that only gets harder as they get older. As a mother of six children, I know how stressful that job can be at times! I believe every parent wants what is best for their children, to become responsible well rounded individuals and live a long, healthy and happy life. As children get older the pressures from society and their friends begin to take hold pushing out the ideas and loving wisdom from their parents. Let's face it, at a certain point we parents are no longer cool in our kids' minds.
A local Broken Arrow dad has taken a stand against these pressures and is showing his daughter just how cool he still is. Brian, a local business man, started this journey two weeks ago and is already changing not only his daughter's mindset but her 3300 Instagram followers minds as well.
"We are all very busy people and we think that our kids are doing okay. What we don't know is that society creeps into their minds and replaces parental values and influence over our children. As parents we don't realize it until its too late. I wanted my daughter to realize "I know your growing up and you are seeing boys in a different light but I want you to find a man that cherish's you like I cherish your mother." I need to shower her with hugs and kisses. I need to be the one to tell her I love her daily. I need to show an interest in the things she likes."
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Hua Hong Semiconductor Taps New Energy Vehicle Market with FS IGBT Expertise
HONG KONG, July 20, 2016 - (ACN Newswire) - Hua Hong Semiconductor Ltd ("Hua Hong Semiconductor" or the "Company", together with its subsidiaries, the "Group"; 1347.HK), a global leading pure-play 200mm foundry, today announced that it will leverage its expertise in IGBT (Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor) technology to tap potentials in the new energy vehicle (NEV) market and accelerate the local production of chips for NEVs.
IGBT, a core device of the new-generation energy conversion and control, features high input impedance, small drive power, simple control circuit, small switching loss, fast on-off speed and high operating frequency and it is widely applied in NEV, industrial drive, smart grid, wind and solar power industries. Since its commercial rollout, IGBT has become a mainstay among the new power semiconductor devices, playing an instrumental role in applications with a frequency range of 1~100kHz, voltage range of 400V~6500V, and current ratings of 1A~3600A.
Hua Hong Semiconductor, the world's first 200mm foundry delivering technologies for volume production of Field-Stop (FS) IGBT, succeeded in ramp-up of 1200V non-punch-through (NPT) IGBT from its 200mm production line in 2011, and 600V-1200V FS IGBT in 2013, and remains committed to developing more sophisticated FS IGBT. Building on its constant R&D and innovation, the Company collaborated with its partners and they have introduced technologies for 600V, 1200V and 1700V IGBT and solved some critical IGBT process problems such as silicon warpage and backside processing capability.
Moreover, the Company has identified a roadmap towards higher voltage and current, NEV and ultra-high voltage power electronics markets to gain a solid foothold in the global competition. Demonstrating proven expertise in FS IGBT backside processing, Hua Hong Semiconductor is the only foundry in China possessing a complete set of IGBT backside processing technologies, such as backside thin wafer, ion injection, laser annealing and metallization.
Through years of development, Company has accumulated plentiful experience in production of IGBT that delivers technical performance comparable to leading global corporations within the industry. This has not only positioned Hua Hong Semiconductor as a leader in IGBT manufacturing, but also drived local production progress of IGBT technologies.
NEV will see tremendous momentum in China in the near future, as contemplated by the State Council's Report on Work of the Government 2016 - "China will actively develop and promote new energy vehicles represented by electric vehicle (EV), and speed up construction of parking lots and charging infrastructure in cities", and identified by China's 13th Five-year Plan, including initiatives to introduce NEVs in the bus and taxi fleets. China has become the No. 1 automobile market in the world since 2010 and its annual NEV production and accumulated NEV sales will reach 2 million units and surpass 5 million units respectively by 2020.
IGBT, especially FS IGBT delivering better performance, is indispensable for the core module of EVs, and, as anticipated, it will see the biggest growth opportunity from hybrid and pure EVs. Motor inverter in the core of EV powertrain will give a strong impetus to IGBT modules. With abundant experience in the field of automotive electronics, Hua Hong Semiconductor has built a zero-defect management pattern in compliance with ISO/TS16949 and VDA 6.3 (Quality audit standard of German automotive industry) of multiple customers, which underlines the successful deployment of its customers' MOSFETs and SJNFETs (Super Junction MOSFETs) in automotive electronics. With outstanding full set FS IGBT backside processing competence, Company is the best positioned foundry to ride on the strong momentum of the NEV market.
"As the world's first and largest 200mm foundry for power discretes, Hua Hong Semiconductor provides a full spectrum of solutions ranging from low to high voltage for green energy applications, and tailors various power devices according to customers' requirements. Besides, we are accelerating R&D of 6500V ultra-high voltage IGBT technologies for high-end industrial and energy applications, to consolidate our leadership in the global power discrete sector," said Mr. Fan Heng, Executive Vice President of Hua Hong Semiconductor.
"Building upon its manufacturing expertise, the Company will take advantage of the strong NEV momentum to provide customers with advanced and reliable IGBT manufacturing services and contribute more to local production of IGBT chips."
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Each summer, Cambridge parks come alive with music, dance, storytelling, theater, puppetry, movies and more! Cambridge Arts' Summer in the City program offers a wide array of FREE, multicultural, interactive arts programs, performances, and activities both day and night for children, families, and the entire community.
July - August, 2018
Cambridge Arts Summer in the City
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Summer in the City is made possible through the generous support of our sponsors. Learn how you can become a Summer in the City sponsor or make an individual donation to support access to high-quality arts programming for children and families in Cambridge.
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@ Magazine Beach, 668 Memorial Dr.
Rain Site: Morse School, 40 Granite St.
Join Boston's beloved kids' family band for an audience-participatory, energizing folk/pop/world performance that is perfect for all ages. Bring the whole family and get jumping! vanessatrien.com
@ Tobin Field/Callanan Playground, Alpine St. & Vassal Ln. behind school
Rain Site: Tobin Elementary School, 197 Vassal Lane
Count on Me is a series of STEAM-powered tales with a little math, a little science, a little logic, and a lot of magic. Discover how the power of story teaches us not only how our world works, but how it could work when everyone counts. andreakamens.com
@ Green Rose Heritage Park, Harvard St. between Windsor St. & Moore St.
Rain Site: Fletcher-Maynard Academy, 225 Windsor St.
Join us for a high-energy performance featuring drumming, singing, and dance from Mali, West Africa. Audience participation encouraged! moussadjembeclass.wixsite.com/moussa
@ Sennott Park, Broadway between Scouting Way & Norfolk St.
Rain Site: Cambridgeport School, 89 Elm St.
@ Raymond Park, Raymond St. between Walden St. & Upland Rd.
Rain Site: Graham & Parks School, 44 Linnaean St.
Through storytelling, drumming and audience participation, Odaiko New England demonstrates the beautiful art form of Japanese ensemble drumming. onetaiko.org
@ Kennedy Longfellow School Tot Lot/John A. Ahern Field, Charles St. & Fulkerson St.
Rain Site: Kennedy Longfellow School, 158 Spring St.
Folk songs and folktales from across America come to life in this music-filled adventure. brightstartheatre.com
@ Glacken Field, Huron Ave & Cushing St.
Rain Site: Haggerty School, 110 Cushing St.
"Word Play" uses clowning and puppetry to take audiences on an adventure through the alphabet.
@ Bergin Park, 80 Haskell St.
Rain Site: Peabody School, 70 Rindge Ave.
The show features family friendly, visual comedy magic and fun audience participation. malikthemagicguy.com
@ Riverside Press Park, River St. & Blackstone St.
Rain Site: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. School, 102 Putnam Ave
Punschi is an enchanting tradition of imaginative puppetry and entertainment. Musical interludes, lots of interaction with the audience, and a feisty clown in a box accompany funny hand puppet acts. sandglasstheater.org
@ Dana Park, Magazine St. between Corporal McTernan St. & Lawrence St.
Rain Site: Amigos School, 15 Upton St.
Traditional favorites and well-loved original songs performed on guitar, harmonica, ukulele, bamboo flute and ocarinas. singplaygrow.com
@ East Cambridge Savings Bank Parking Lot, 292 Cambridge St.
Caravan Puppets will delight with hand-crafted puppets, music, and multicultural and original stories. caravanpuppets.com
MOVIE HINT: Join Little Red and other fairy tale characters on this live action musical journey into an enchanted forest.
@ Volpe National Transportation Center Lawn, 55 Broadway
3nity is a newborn, female band with music defined by Latin, American, and African cultures. zayrapola.com
MOVIE HINT: Journey to the other side in this tale about familia, música, and following your heart.
@ Palmer Street, Harvard Square
Family friendly, fast-paced, interactive improv show. Improvisers will weave audience suggestions into instant scenes, games, and songs. improvboston.com
MOVIE HINT: It's a tale as old as time. Be our guest at an enchanted castle where the dishware dances and the furniture sings.
@ Lechmere Canal Park adjacent to CambridgeSide Mall, East Cambridge
Papa Sy's imaginative, hybrid West African dance performance combines dance, song, acting, and poetry.
MOVIE HINT: A young lion just can't wait to be king!
@ East Cambridge Savings Bank Parking Lot, 1310 Cambridge St.
Join Jungle Jim as he twists up a whole lot of fun in this magical balloon show! junglejimboston.com
MOVIE HINT: Be excellent to each other. Party on, dude.
@ University Park, 65 Sidney St.
Music for kids that grownups can dig! waynepotash.com
MOVIE HINT: Follow the yellow brick road, 1970s style.
@ North Point Common, 30 North Point Blvd
Jenny the Juggler dazzles with her juggling, magic, comedy, and music show for all ages. jennythejuggler.com
MOVIE HINT: Grab your favorite fedora and your trusty whip—we have an ark to raid!
@ Cambridge Common
Political Puppet Theater. breadandpuppet.org


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China will relocate about half a million staff to reduce overcapacity, officials from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (MOHRSS) announced at a press conference held on March 1.
Overcapacity reduction in coal and steel was in the spotlight at the briefing. Reducing excess capacity is a vital task to promote supply-side structural reform and redirecting staff is critical to the process, said Yin Weimin, head of MOHRSS.
Starting from the steel and coal industries, China made steady progress in last year's overcapacity reduction. Around 726,000 staff were reassigned from 1,905 enterprises covering 28 provinces.
China will continue to push this work forward this year, and half a million more workers will be relocated. Comprehensive measures have been implemented to secure the relocation of these workers, and new policies will be launched to support the development of new industrial formats in a bid to provide more jobs, said Yin.
At the press conference, Yin and Vice-Minister You Jun also addressed employment and social security.
More than 13 million new jobs were created in China last year, and the country's registered unemployment rate leveled off at around 4.1 percent.
"Steady economic growth provides a strong foundation for increased employment. Last year, China's GDP exceeded 74 trillion RMB ($10.7 trillion). Each one percent increase in GDP created 1.9 million new jobs," said Yin. "Second, China's economy is shifting towards a more service-oriented structure, which has a stronger capability to boost employment. Third, China's support of start-ups and tax reform has created new jobs in various niche markets."
Pension funds were also addressed at the conference. Seven provinces have entrusted their pension funds to the National Council for Social Security Fund for investment, and a total of 360 billion yuan ($52.33 billion) has been allocated.


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We really really go thorough some greens in a week! I find that I'm often running out of salad fixings before it's time for my weekly grocery store and/or Sam's Club trip. It's kind of a pain too since I have to lug both kids in just to pick up some spinach or kale. I was contacted by Rebecca at The Neighborhood Harvest about this very issue!
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To have my greens delivered, I just put a cooler out on my front porch. Everything was packaged so nicely! Once I opened up each container to really check out the goodies, it was easy to see that the quality was far superior to what I had been getting at my local grocery store or Sam's Club. We enjoyed these greens (baby kale, mesclun, baby spinach, green leaf lettuce, romaine, and some pea shoots!) in salads for several days. The meal below was a veggie lover's dream!
Chickpea Tofu BBQ sandwiches <-Recipe here! Very good! 🙂
Sweet Potato {oven} Fries
side salad with ranch dressing
I would highly recommend this service! Just think how inspired you would be to eat your veggies if they came fresh and super delicious to your doorstep! Here's a link to explain a little more how it works!
Have you ever tried a delivery service like this?
Blue Apron or any of those other total meal delivery services?
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RADEXT Working Group Bernard Aboba INTERNET-DRAFT Microsoft Category: Proposed Standard Jouni Malinen Expires: April 20, 2014 Devicescape Software Updates: 3580, 4072 Paul Congdon Hewlett Packard Company Joseph Salowey Cisco Systems Mark Jones Azuca Systems 20 October 2013 RADIUS Attributes for IEEE 802 Networks draft-ietf-radext-ieee802ext-09.txt Abstract RFC 3580 provides guidelines for the use of the Remote Authentication Dialin User Service (RADIUS) within IEEE 802 local area networks (LANs). This document proposes additional attributes for use within IEEE 802 networks, as well as clarifying the usage of the EAP-Key- Name attribute (updating RFC 4072) and the Called-Station-Id attribute (updating RFC 3580). The attributes defined in this document are usable both within RADIUS and Diameter. Status of This Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt. The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. This Internet-Draft will expire on April 20, 2014. Aboba, et al. Proposed Standard [Page 1] INTERNET-DRAFT RADIUS Attributes for IEEE 802 20 October 2013 Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2013 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. This document may contain material from IETF Documents or IETF Contributions published or made publicly available before November 10, 2008. The person(s) controlling the copyright in some of this material may not have granted the IETF Trust the right to allow modifications of such material outside the IETF Standards Process. Without obtaining an adequate license from the person(s) controlling the copyright in such materials, this document may not be modified outside the IETF Standards Process, and derivative works of it may not be created outside the IETF Standards Process, except to format it for publication as an RFC or to translate it into languages other than English. Aboba, et al. Proposed Standard [Page 2] INTERNET-DRAFT RADIUS Attributes for IEEE 802 20 October 2013 Table of Contents 1. Introduction .......................................... 4 1.1 Terminology ..................................... 4 1.2 Requirements Language ........................... 5 2. RADIUS attributes ..................................... 5 2.1 Allowed-Called-Station-Id ....................... 5 2.2 EAP-Key-Name .................................... 6 2.3 EAP-Peer-Id ..................................... 7 2.4 EAP-Server-Id ................................... 8 2.5 Mobility-Domain-Id .............................. 9 2.6 Preauth-Timeout ................................. 10 2.7 Network-Id-Name ................................. 11 2.8 EAPoL-Announcement .............................. 12 2.9 WLAN-HESSID ..................................... 13 2.10 WLAN-Venue-Info ................................. 14 2.11 WLAN-Venue-Language ............................. 15Show full document text


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FARC to end kidnapping for cash
Feb 27 - Colombian rebel group FARC says it will end its long-held policy of kidnap for ransom and free military and police hostages. Paul Chapman reports.
PLEASE NOTE: EDIT CONTAINS CONVERTED 4:3 MATERIAL Colombian army corporal Arturo Arcia's been a hostage of FARC rebels since 1998. The rebel group's announcement that it's to end kidnapping for ransom and free the ten soldiers and police officers it's holding is being welcomed by Arcia's family. SOUNDBITE: Cristina Arcia, sister of hostage Arturo Arcia, saying (Spanish): "Here in the Arcia family we miss our brother but we're very happy now because we know that he'll be coming home. The FARC released that statement and that's what matters now, that my brother is listed among the ten to be freed." The rebels haven't said what would happen to the scores of civilians they're also holding hostage. The Colombians for Peace group says the rebels' announcement is good news but the fate of the civilians also needs to be addressed. SOUNDBITE: Marleny Orjuela, spokesperson for Colombians for Peace, saying (Spanish): "This very good not just for Colombians for Peace but for the country as a whole because I think kidnapping cannot continue to be a political weapon but we also ask that hopefully all kidnapped civilians will be freed soon." The rebels' statement that they would no longer kidnap for financial ends is the first of its kind since they took up arms in 1964. It could be a sign they're looking for some sort of peace negotiations after more than a decade of U.S.-backed strikes that have severely weakened them. Paul Chapman, Reuters


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We see a lot of this amazing little carnivorous plant, sundew, in the Irish hills and bogs; however rarely see it in flower for some reason. Here it is in flower - tiny white flowers at the top of each green stalk.
The reason the flowers are held high above the sticky meat-eating leaves is to allow pollinating insects like bees do their flower pollinating without being accidentally eaten by the plant!


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A story of the historic Lincoln Highway
by Mary Elizabeth Anderson
Hardcover, 52 pages, 10×8, ages 7 – 13, and parents and grandparents
It began with a long-ago dream . . . a road that would run clear across America! The dream became reality in 1914 as the Lincoln Highway began to take form. It became America's first transcontinental highway progressing from New York City's Times Square through New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada and California to San Francisco's Lincoln Park.
Venture from past to present experiencing transportation history.
The book's modern day classroom / field trips adventure story brings to life the historical saga of America's developing transportation system early in the 20th century. It gives historical perspective to a great old highway,o the conceptual idea, the financing, the first improvements, the old cars, the travelers, and it speaks of the work today to preserve what remains of the historical original roadway. It's all mapped out for today's young people to learn about, to explore and to enjoy.
Although targeted for ages 8 to 13, the historical information and photographs are equally enjoyed by parents, grandparents and great-grandparents (the latter with possibly first hand knowledge of the Lincoln Highway's historic events).
Topics include Abraham Lincoln, teams of horses, seedling miles, small towns, making concrete, trucks, auto courts, gas stations, Burma Shave signs, classic cars, road rallies, and much more.
Also included: Lincoln Highway map, list of cities on the Lincoln Highway, 15 full-color photos along the Lincoln Highway today, eight black/white historical photos, and several artist renditions of related historical artifacts.
• Remember Auto courts?
• Teams of horses?
• Burma Shave signs?
Here's one of our favorites:
"Every Day" / "We Do Our Part" / "To Make Your Face" / "A Work of Art" / "Burma-Shave"
YouTube video about The Lincoln Highway: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIpprCxX1M0
If you have a question or comment for the author, you can contact her at her website www.meanderson.com or at her email address: firstname.lastname@example.com
Link Across America: A Story of the Historic Lincoln Highway
Link Across America is a different kind of history book. This narrative starts at Seedling Mile School with a teacher and her excited students awaiting a visit from road rally participants. The students learn that there will be photographers and reporters attending who will cover the event for the newspaper. Why? Because the school is located near and named for one of the "seedling miles" of the historic Lincoln Highway.
Antique cars arrive, and their drivers talk to the children, answering questions and sharing experiences. Mr. Boomer, a member of the Lincoln Highway Association, recounts the history of transportation in general, the importance of President Lincoln, and the highway's history in particular.
Describing how the highway was constructed covered a broad range of topics, including how they figured out how wide to make the road, what materials were used and how they were purchased, the actual process and the role of horse-powered equipment, and how concrete was made. Other interesting trivia included Burma-Shave signs and the still-standing mile markers, brick road sections, and original bridges.
The back of the hard-covered book includes more information on the Burma-Shave jingles; lots of photographs, both modern-day and from the days of the original construction in the early 1900s; a U.S. map detailing the original route of the highway; a listing of the cities, towns, and other points of interest along the route; and contact information for the Lincoln Highway Association.
This book, aimed at elementary students, ties in a lot of different subjects in a convenient story form, making it a good jumping-off point for class discussions, assignments and projects. Besides history, there are tie-ins to science, technology, geography, economics, civics, and government. It can be read aloud (by teacher or pupil) or enjoyed by the student alone. The way it is divided up into sections would make reading homework easy to assign.
Pros: The well-illustrated story form of the book will keep students of all ages interested. It is not a dry textbook, but rather it invites the children to become part of the story, almost part of the class! The sections are short, which makes them easily digestible and memorable. The additional information in the back makes it a more substantial resource for a greater range of ages, allowing for a continued discussion and/or projects to make the material really come alive.
Cons: Link Across America is definitely aimed at elementary students. While that is not a criticism, it's good to know the limits and usefulness of this resource.
I was excited to receive and then read Link Across America. It's the kind of thing that keeps history fun and relevant. I am sure it will be read many times in our home–as part of "formal" school and just for pleasure.
Product review by Krystin Corneilson, The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine, LLC, November 2010
"Here is the story of this great old highway-the idea, the first improvements, the old cars, the travelers, and the work today to preserve what little is left-all mapped out for America's young people. We cannot preserve something until we come to love it; we cannot love something until we learn what is. Link Across America will introduce a whole new generation to this road that helped teach their great-grandparents how to travel. The young are the ones who must learn to preserve it." – Drake Hokanson, Author of The Lincoln Highway, Main Street Across America.
Burma Shave signs … Here's another of our favorites:
"His Tenor Voice" / "She Thought Divine" / "Till Whiskers Scratched" / "Sweet Adeline" / "Burma-Shave"


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On 11/23/2011 07:48 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > This means that virDomainBlockJobAbort() returns to the client without > a guarantee that the job has completed. If the client enumerates jobs > it may still see a job that has not finished cancelling. The client > must register a handler for the BLOCK_JOB_CANCELLED event if it wants > to know when the job really goes away. The BLOCK_JOB_CANCELLED event > has the same fields as the BLOCK_JOB_COMPLETED event, except it lacks > the optional "error" message field. > > The impact on clients is that they need to add a BLOCK_JOB_CANCELLED > handler if they really want to wait. Most clients today (not many > exist) will be fine without waiting for cancellation. > > Any objections or thoughts on this? virDomainBlockJobAbort() thankfully has an 'unsigned int flags' argument. For backwards-compatibility, I suggest we use it: calling virDomainBlockJobAbort(,0) maintains old blocking behavior, and we document that blocking until things abort may render the rest of interactions with the domain unresponsive. The new virDomainBlockJobAbort(,VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_JOB_ABORT_ASYNC) would then implement your new proposed semantics of returning immediately once the cancellation has been requested, even if it hasn't been acted on yet. Maybe you could convince me to swap the flags: have 0 change semantics to non-blocking, and a new flag to request blocking, where callers that care have to try the flag, and if the flag is unsupported then they know they are talking to older libvirtd where the behavior is blocking by default, but that's a bit riskier. -- Eric Blake address@hidden +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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Saturday night we had a snowstorm that knocked down trees and leafy branches and the power went out. After three nights in the dark, we finally got power and heat this afternoon. Unfortunately, that didn't help my running. Total miles 2 weeks ago = 4 miles. Total one week ago = 2 miles. This week = nothing so far. There are two reasons for this: one, I feel really tired and two, while my hip feels good and strong I do feel really imbalanced. So I went to the doctor about feeling tired and they did some tests and I was extremely low on vitamin D. They have me doing 50,000 iu once per week for 8 weeks to see if I can get the levels up. I did write about Vitamin D a while back (here and here)and was doing 2,000 iu a day for awhile, but I stopped doing that last winter when I wasn't running. If you are feeling tired, get your vitamin D levels checked.
While my hip feels fine. I was not sure running on it was the best as my muscles just don't feel in balance. I have no problem with that as I had been running for years with imbalances and didn't expect it to change overnight. Knowing what to do about it, is a problem. The PT works on my hip muscles, but the more I do of the exersises the more others things feel off. I had my 3 month checkup last week with the hip surgeon's office. The PA didn't have much to offer as she said that they look at the joint and not the whole body. So she referred me to the Spine Center at the hospital. I went yesterday and the doctor moved my leg around a little, asked a few questions, and ordered an MRI for my lower back. He said he doesn't do the legs, so if he finds nothing on the MRI he'll send me somewhere else. I wish I could find a doctor that actually looks at the whole picture and not just one specific spot on the body!
I think they need to look at my ankle and my knee as something is making my foot evert out to the side again. Some days it seems pretty straight and others days it doesn't. The doctor yesterday did remark to me, "You know your foot is twisting out!" At PT we are working on that some, so I have a lot of question for tomorrow's visit.
Anyhow, when the power was off I did some reading. I read a biography on Mickey Mantle: The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood. He was quite a heroic figure playing through some tough injuries, but he was also quite a cad. The treatment for athletic injuries back in his day was pretty rough. I also found a book at Barnes and Noble called Foundation: Redefine Your Core, Conquer Back Pain, and Move with Confidence while I was charging my electronics and using their wifi. I had seen the book advertised before, but it had a forward by Lance Armstrong and I don't always trust what Lance signs up to support plus I thought with the word "core" it might just be another "abs" book. This one is very different and the exercises are targeted to the posterior muscles. They were new to me and the program is simplistic enough that I will give it a shot for awhile.
This video gives a peak into the type of exercises. I will write more after I try the program out. I like how it says it addresses muscular imbalances.