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As a developer, you almost certainly have some knowledge operational with substance, and you may even be recognizable with concepts such as legacy. However, if not you're previously a knowledgeable JavaScript programmer, you almost certainly aren't memorable with the way JavaScript substance and functions really work. This acquaintance is essential in order to comprehend how the Microsoft AJAX Library works, and this episode will educate you the essential practicalities. More purposely, you will learn:
- What encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism indicate?
- How JavaScript functions work?
- How to use unidentified functions and closures?
- How to read a class diagram, and apply it using JavaScript code?
- How to work with JavaScript prototypes?
- How the implementation background and scope affect the output of JavaScript functions?
- How to execute legacy using closures and prototypes?
Mainly developers are recognizable with the basic OOP principles since this information is significant when just beginning for the .NET development. Correspondingly, to expand client-side code using the Microsoft AJAX Library, you need to be recognizable with JavaScript's OOP kind. Although not chiefly hard, sympathetic these kind can be a bit demanding at first, because JavaScript's OOP model is dissimilar than so as to of code base such since Java, C++.
JavaScript is an object-based speech. Just as in C#, you can produce substance, describe their methods, go by them as parameters, and so on. You could see this plainly when working by means of the DOM, anywhere you manipulated the HTML manuscript throughout the methods and properties of the implicit document object. However, JavaScript isn't usually measured a fully object-oriented language because it lacks sustain for some character that you 'defined in "real" OOP languages, or simply equipment them in a different way. Your most significant goal for this chapter is to appreciate how to work with JavaScript substance. As an ASP.NET developer, we suppose that you previously know how OOP works with .NET languages, even though superior information isn't essential.
To make sure we start off from the similar square, in the subsequent pair of pages we'll review the necessary OOP concepts as they apply in C# and other languages—objects, lessons, encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism. Then we'll carry on by "porting" this information into the JavaScript realm. Objects in JavaScript, immediately as a lot of other indoctrination languages, can be compared to substance in genuine life. The notion of substance in JavaScript can be unspoken with real life, touchable objects.
In JavaScript, a thing is a separate body, with properties and type. Appraise it by means of a chalice, for instance. A chalice is a thing, with possessions. A chalice has a colour, a design, heaviness, a fabric it is made of, etc. The similar way, JavaScript objects can have properties, which describe their description.
Objects and properties
A JavaScript entity has properties connected by way of it. Possessions of an entity know how to be explained as a changeable so as to be emotionally involved to the object. Object properties are fundamentally the similar as usual JavaScript variables, excluding for the accessory to substance. The properties of an object describe the description of the object. You admission the properties of an object by means of an easy dot-memo:
Like all JavaScript variables, both the object name (which could be a normal variable) and possessions name is crate susceptible. You can identify a possessions by transmission it a significance. For instance, let's generate a thing named myfavouriteBike and furnish it possessions named make, model, and year as follows:
var myfavouriteBike = new Object (); myfavouriteBike.make = "Tvs"; myfavouriteBike.model = "Apache RTR 180"; myfavouriteBike.year = 1990;
Properties of JavaScript objects can also be accessed or set by means of a category memo. Objects are from time to time called associative arrays, since each belonging is connected with a string charge that can be second-hand to access it. So, for instance, you could admittance the properties of the myfavouriteBike object as follows:
myfavouriteBike["make"] = "Tvs"; myfavouriteBike["model"] = "Apache RTR 180"; myfavouriteBike["year"] = 1990;
An object possessions name can be any legitimate JavaScript string, or no matter which that can be rehabilitated to a string, counting the unfilled string. However, any belongings name that is not a valid JavaScript identifier (for instance, a property name that has a liberty or a hyphen, or that starts with a number) can only be accessed by means of the square bracket notation. This information is also very helpful when possessions names are to be animatedly resolute (when the property name is not resolute awaiting runtime). Examples are as follows:
var myObj = new Object(), str = "myString", rand = Math.random(), obj = new Object(); myObj.type = "Dot syntax"; myObj[str] = "thread assessment"; myObj[rand] = "haphazard figure"; myObj[obj] = "thing"; myObj[""] = "Smooth an unfilled thread"; console.log(myObj);
You be able to also right of entry properties by a string worth that is stored in a changeable:
var propertyName = "make"; myfavouriteBike[propertyName] = "Tvs"; propertyName = "model"; myfavouriteBike[propertyName] = "Apache RTR 180";
You be able to utilize the bracket notation with for...in two iterate in excess of all the enumerable properties of an object. To exemplify how this mechanism, the subsequent purpose displays the properties of the thing at what time you bypass the object and the object's name as influence to the purpose:
function showProps(obj, objName) { var result = ""; for (var i in obj) { if (obj.hasOwnProperty(i)) { result += objName + "." + i + " = " + obj[i] + "\n"; } } return result; }
So, the purpose call showProps(myfavouriteBike, "myfavouriteBike") would homecoming the subsequent:
myfavouriteBike.make = Tvs myfavouriteBike.model = Apache RTR 180 myfavouriteBike.year = 1990
Objects and Classes
What does "object-oriented programming" denote nevertheless? Basically, as the name suggests, OOP puts objects at the middle of the programming model. The object is most likely the most significant impression in the world of OOP—a self-sufficient individual that has state and performance, just like a real-world object. Each object is an occurrence of a class (also called type), which defines the performance that is shared by all its objects. We often use objects and classes in our programs to symbolize real-world objects, and types (lessons) of substance. For instance, we are able to have lessons like Car, Customer, manuscript, or individual, and substance such as myCar, johnsCar, or davesCar. The concept is sensitive: the class represents the blueprint, or model, and objects are meticulous instances of that model. For example, all substance of type Car will have the same performance—for example, the aptitude to change gear. Nevertheless, each personality Car object may be in a dissimilar gear at any exacting time—each object has its exacting state. In indoctrination, an object's state is described by its fields and properties, and its performance is distinct by its methods and events. You've previously worked with substance in the preceding chapter. First, you've worked with the built-in essay object. This is a default DOM object that represents the present sheet, and it allows you to change the condition of the piece of paper. However, you also erudite how to make your own objects, when you shaped the xmlHttp object. In that crate, xmlHttp is a thing of the XMLHttpRequest group. You could produce more XMLHttpRequest objects and all of them would have the same abilities (behaviour), Such as the ability to contact distant servers as you educated earlier, but each would have a diverse state. For example, every one of them may be contacting a dissimilar server.
Encapsulation is a impression that allows the use of an object with no having to know its inner functioning in detail. The communication with an object is done only via its public interface, which contains community members and methods. We be capable of speak that encapsulation allows an object to be treated as a "black box", unravelling the functioning from its boundary. Think of the objects you've worked with so distant: article, a DOM object, and xmlHttp, an XMLHttpRequest object. You positively don't know how these substances do their labour internally! All you have to be acquainted with is the kind you can use. The "features you can use" of a class form the community border of a class, which is the sum of all its civic members. The public members are those members that are noticeable and can be used by exterior lessons. For example, the innerHTML possessions of a DOM object (such as the default document object), or the open () and send () methods of XMLHttpRequest, are all public, since you were intelligent to use them. Each class can also enclose secret members, which are meant for interior procedure only and aren't perceptible from external.
Inheritance allows creating classes that are particular versions of a breathing class. For example suppose that you have the Car class, which exposes a default interface for substance such as myCar, johnsCar, or davesCar. Now, suppose that you desire to bring in in your scheme the notion of a supercar, which would have comparable functionality to the car, but a number of additional kinds as well, such as the potential to fly! If you're an OOP programmer, the palpable move would be to create a new class named SuperCar, and use this class to create the essential objects such as mySuperCar, or davesSuperCar. In such scenarios, legacy allows you to create the SuperCar class based on the Car class, so you don't require coding all the familiar description once again. In its place, you can make SuperCar as a particular description of Car, within which case SuperCar inherits all the functionality of Car. You would only require coding the supplementary variety you want for your SuperCar, such as a means named Fly. In this condition, Car is the bottom class (also referred to as superclass), and SuperCar is the unoriginal class (also referred to as subclass).
Inheritance is immense since it encourages code use again. The possible unconstructive side effect is that inheritance, by its scenery, creates a consequence that is acknowledged as tense combination flanked by the base class and the unoriginal lessons. Stretched combination refers to the statement that any changes that are completed to a base class are mechanically propagated to all the unoriginal classes. For example, if you construct a presentation enhancement in the code of the unique Car class, that development will broadcast to SuperCar as well. While this typically can be second-hand to your benefit, if the inheritance pecking order isn't shrewdly intended such combination can inflict prospect boundaries on how you can get bigger or adapt your base lessons with no violation the functionality of the imitative lessons.
Polymorphism is a supplementary superior OOP characteristic that allows by means of objects of diverse lessons when you only know a universal base division from which they both accept. Polymorphism permits by a base class orientation to admission substance of that division, or objects of unoriginal lessons. Using polymorphism, you can include, for example, a process that receives as limit an object of type Car, and when calling that process you provide as stricture an object of type SuperCar. Because SuperCar is a particular account of Car, all the public functionality of Car would also be supported by SuperCar, although the SuperCar implementations might be different from those of Car. This kind of suppleness gives a great deal authority to a knowledgeable programmer who knows how to take benefit of it.
Object-Oriented JavaScript
Objects and classes are implemented in a different way in JavaScript than in languages such as C#, VB.NET, Java, or C++. Nevertheless, when it comes to by them, you'll sense on recognizable earth. You make objects by the new worker, and you call their methods or admission their fields with the grammar you previously be acquainted with from C#. Here is a small figure of examples of creating objects in JavaScript:
// create a generic object var obj = new Object(); // create a Date object var oToday = new Date(); // make an Array object with 3 elements var oMyList = new Array(3); // create an empty String object var oMyString = new String();
Object formation is, though, the only important resemblance flanked by JavaScript substance and those of "typical" OOP languages. The imminent JavaScript 2.0 will decrease the differences by introducing the idea of lessons, confidential members, and so on, but waiting after that we have to study how to live with no them. Objects in JavaScript have the subsequent particularities. In the subsequent pages we'll talk about every of them in feature:
- JavaScript cipher is not compiled, but parsed. This allows for suppleness at what time it comes to creating or changing objects. As you'll see, it's probable to put in new members or functions to an object or even some objects by changing their prototype, on the flutter.
- JavaScript functions are unequalled objects. In English, this income that the function is regarded, and be capable of is manipulated, just as like other data types. For example, you can go by functions as parameters to other functions, or still homecoming functions. This idea may be hard to clutch since it's very dissimilar from the way C# developers usually believe of functions or method, but you'll observe that this type of suppleness is in fact cool.
- JavaScript supports closures.
- JavaScript supports prototypes.
Objects in JavaScript
In JavaScript, objects are data (variables), by means of properties and methods.
You make a JavaScript thread object at what time you announce a string changeable like this:
var txt = new String ("Hello World");
Creating JavaScript Objects
Approximately "everything" in JavaScript can be objects, Strings, Dates, Arrays and Functions. You can as well generate your personal objects. This example creates an object called "person", and adds four properties to it:
person=new Object(); person.firstname="John"; person.lastname="Doe"; person.age=50; person.eyecolor="blue";
Convenient are a lot of dissimilar habits to produce new JavaScript objects, and you will be able to also add fresh properties and methods to previously alive objects.
This instance uses the distance end to end possessions of the String thing to find the span of a string:
var message="Hello World!"; var x=message.length;
The worth of x, following implementation of the symbols on top of will be:
Accessing Object Methods
You be able to identify a process with the subsequent syntax:
This instance uses the toUpperCase() process of the String thing, to exchange a transcript to uppercase:
var message="Hello world!"; var x=message.toUpperCase();
The worth of x, following implementation of the symbols over will be:
JavaScript Functions
An easy piece of information that was tinted in the preceding episode, but that is frequently Overlooked, is input to sympathetic how objects in JavaScript employment: symbols that Doesn't fit in to a meaning is executed when it's read by the JavaScript exponent, Even as a sign that belongs to a purpose is only executed at what time that purpose is called.
// declaring new variables var date = new Date(); var hour = date.getHours(); // simple conditional content output if (hour >= 22 || hour <= 5) document.write("Goodnight, world!");
document.write("Hello, world!");
This symbols resides in a folder named JavaScriptDom.js, which is mentioned on or after an HTML file (JavaScriptDom.html in the implement), but it might have been incorporated directly in a <script> tag of the HTML file. How it's stored is immaterial; what does Substance is that all that symbols is executed when it's read by the exponent. If it was incorporated in a purpose it would only perform if the purpose is called unambiguously, as is this instance:
// describe purpose to exhibit salutation communication ShowHelloWorld(); // "Hello, World" function function ShowHelloWorld() { // declaring new variables var date = new Date(); var hour = date.getHours(); // simple conditional content output if (hour >= 22 || hour <= 5) document.write("Goodnight, world!"); else document.write("Hello, world!"); }
This symbols has the same production as the preceding description of the symbols, but it is only Because the ShowHelloWorld() purpose is called that will show "Goodnight, world!" or "Hello, world!" depending on the hour of the day. With no that purpose Call, the JavaScript exponent would take note of the survival of a purpose named ShowHelloWorld(), but would not implement it.
This episode walked you from through a lot of fields operational with OOP in JavaScript. It is positively not a simple mission, particularly if you haven't been uncovered to the unspoken concepts previous to. Where you don't sense certain sufficient, have a look at the supplementary property we've referenced.


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The foundation teams up with community leaders with the goal of providing assistance in areas of infrastructure that often fall by the wayside. The E Eric Guirard Foundation works with the East Baton Rouge city-parish government, private businesses, and other charities on public issues such as safety, crime prevention, health, litter eradication, and many more.
Even before the foundation's conception, one of E's early community projects was forming The Clean E Team. Made up of employees, community volunteers, and, of course, E, The Clean E Team patrolled the streets of the Greater Baton Rouge area, picking up trash by hand.
After realizing they needed more hauling power, E even purchased a 12-foot box truck and hired two additional employees to help with the endeavor. Little did he know that the truck would later be a part of what is now the E Eric Guirard Foundation. It's still used for trash pick-up, but also serves as a transportation vehicle to be loaned to other charities in need.
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Last year we launched the series "Be a Tourist in Your Own Community" in Stillwater Living Magazine highlighting tips and suggestions about experiencing unique events and attractions in your own backyard.
It is easy to forget the gems we have when they become a part of our daily experiences. As residents, we pass by them on our drives to work and to the grocery store. Local gems fade into our familiar landscape. We are reminded, however, when travel writers explore Stillwater with a fresh set of visitor eyes, the importance and value of telling the story of our local gems. Nedra McDaniel visited Stillwater last summer on a press trip and wrote a blog entitled, "The Museum That Actually Made Me Interested in Wrestling," about her experience at the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum.
As we start the new year, we challenge you to look around our community with a fresh perspective. Visit places you've been a million times and places you never thought about visiting at all.
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Thanks everybody! Apparently there was virtually nothing in the votes to separate the entries so everyone deserves a pat on the back[*]
I would also like to thank everybody for welcoming me to this site. I usually don't get actively involved in internet communities, I'm one of those people that glide through anonymously, read the bits that interest me and move on. What got me interested in joining you guys' was how you all treated each other with great respect and share polite and fun conversation. You also share a wealth of information and diverse experience. I hope I can contribute similarly.
I'm not sure if anyone is interested in how I did my edit, but if you are then this is the basic outline:
- Opened the RAW image in Lightroom and exported it 3 times as a TIF (-2 stops EV, normal, +2 stops EV)
- Combined the images as one creating a HDR. I used Photomatix for this but Photoshop or even one of the free HDR programs would have worked.
- Opened the image in PS and applied a noise filter and sharpened the image as much as I could without making it look obvious. Sized the image for web.
- Back to Lightroom and played with the settings until I got a nice contrasty BW. This is where the sky got darkened (but there were no local adjustments, it was all global).
- Saved - Done!
The <span style="text-decoration: line-through;"]colour image oops! sorry'color' (I'm in Australia), was done with the Topaz Clean plugin for PS and LR.
Irecieved a few comments about the stars, this was easy and took literally about 5-10 minutes. I added a layer in Photoshop and with a tiny white brush set to about 15% opacityI clicked in some dots. Single clicks for dim ones and multiple clicks for bright ones. A white blob for the comet and the street lights were just a larger brush. Tip: if you click on a point and Shift-Click on another point, you'll make a straight line - I used this technique for the light casts.
Good luck everybody for the next assignment!
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OWASP Pune
Welcome to the Pune chapter homepage. The chapter leaders are Ashwini Paranjpe, Sumita Uday, Ajit Dhumale and Narendra Shinde
OWASP Foundation (Overview Slides) is a professional association of global members and is open to anyone interested in learning more about software security. Local chapters are run independently and guided by the Chapter_Leader_Handbook. As a 501(c)(3) non-profit professional association your support and sponsorship of any meeting venue and/or refreshments is tax-deductible. Financial contributions should only be made online using the authorized online chapter donation button. To be a SPEAKER at ANY OWASP Chapter in the world simply review the speaker agreement and then contact the local chapter leader with details of what OWASP PROJECT, independent research or related software security topic you would like to present on.
to this chapter or become a local chapter supporter. Or consider the value of Individual, Corporate, or Academic Supporter membership. Ready to become a member?
Chapter Sponsors
Some of our other supporters and sponsors include 'Avaya India', 'PTC Software', 'Arizona Infotech'
Sponsor OWASP Pune Chapter to help us organize open and free monthly meetings. For more information, contact the chapter leaders
July 2016 meet on 28th July, 2016 () 5.00 pm to 6.30 pm - IST
Note – OWASP Pune chapter meets are free and open to everyone. Prior registrations are mandatory in order to be allowed to attend the meet.
For Registration please visit - http://goo.gl/forms/B1Va0XvwZOxEAOGx2
Session Details/Agenda:
Topic : ' Tool Demonstration: Rudra - The Destroyer of Evil. Abstract This talk is about a network and file format forensics tools, called Rudra. It provides modules for identifying shellcode, matching Yara rules, visualizing file's structure, etc. via a plugin based architecture. It generates reports in JSON/HTML formats that can then be consumed via external tools like Splunk/ELK.
Duration: 1 hour (+ Q&A)
About speaker: Ankur Tyagi Ankur is a research engineer at Qualys Inc., where he analyzes malicious code and applies statistical modelling to identify suspicious patterns and evolving trends. His research interests include developing algorithms and analysis tools that apply stochastic and machine learning models for classifying large collections of un-categorized samples. He has completed MS in Software Systems with focus on Applied Security from BITS-Pilani. Blog: http://7h3ram.github.io/
Ankur presented Rudra tool at various security conferences including Blackhat USA, Blackhat Asia, Blackhat Europe and Defcon.
When: 28th July, 2016 (Thursday) - 5.00 PM to 6.30 PM IST
Where: Qualys, India,10th & 11th Floor, Panchashil Tech Park, Ganesh Khind Road, Shivaji Nagar, Pune - 411005 (Next to Rahul Theater).
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Past Chapter Meeting prior October 2015
OWASP Pune November, 2015 Monthly Meeting Presentations
- OWASP top 5 issues by Manish Dussad and Sumita Uday
- WebAppSec: Assessment and Defense by Ajit Dhumale (Meetup: 21st April, 2016)


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The data for this map was sent to Reverend Billy by the New York City Parks Department.
Monsanto's Roundup continues to be the major weapon in New York City's arsenal of herbicides even though the World Health Organization says glyphosate is a probable carcinogen. In fact, the frequency and volume of glyphosate used by New York City has increased since 2013.
Scientific studies have found glyphosate to cause non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and other cancers, birth defects, and celiac disease, allergies, asthma, chronic fatigue syndrome. Glyphosate is persistent in body tissue, blood and breast milk in humans. The non-profit organization, Moms Across America, claims exposure to RoundUp has cause pregnancy problems, including stillbirths.
Glyphosate Briefings: Reasons For Concern
Study Says Pesticides Spur Antibiotic Resistance
Scientific American: Widely Used Herbicide Linked to Cancer
Ethoxylated adjuvants of glyphosate-based herbicides are active principles of human cell toxicity
Cytotoxic and DNA-damaging properties of glyphosate and Roundup in human-derived buccal epithelial cells. - PubMed - NCBI
The effect of glyphosate on potential pathogens and beneficial members of poultry microbiota in vitro. - PubMed - NCBI


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Berry Chia Jam
Categories: Breakfast Snacks Yummy Extras
It's an undisputed fact that children love jam. Jam is so fruity it must be healthy, right? In truth, most of the fruit jams that you find at the supermarket are full of added sugar and have very little if anything in the way of real fruit.
Chia jam is so easy to make and equally as easy to eat. Great to add to plain yoghurt, porridge or toast, it's refined sugar free and has no added preservatives or colours.
Packed with antioxidants and omega-3
Berries are high in antioxidants, which help fight free radicals caused by pollution, sun damage and processed food. Chia seeds are rich in omega-3 essential fatty acids, as well as being high in protein. Chia seeds also contain calcium, which is essential for strong bones and teeth.
3 cups frozen berries
150ml filtered water
1 tbsp. sweetener of choice (maple syrup, honey, brown rice syrup) Optional
3 tbsp. chia seeds
Place all ingredients in a saucepan except for the chia seeds.
Bring to the boil and cook until desired texture of berries is achieved.
Remove from the heat and add chia seeds.
Store in an airtight container in the fridge for 2 weeks.
Note: It may be easier to blend the berries with a stick blender to achieve the desired texture.


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Leonard Cohen has enthralled audiences for years with his masterfully written songs, unmistakable voice and legendary charm. Now you can come witness the full Cohen experience for yourself as this internationally acclaimed artist wraps up his 2012 Old Ideas World Tour right here at Brooklyn's Barclays Center.
This very special concert presentation highlights music off of Cohen's 12th studio album, Old Ideas, the performer's highest-charting album in a celebrated career ("Hallelujah," "Bird On the Wire," "Famous Blue Raincoat") that's spanned six decades. The Montreal-born Cohen has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, both here in the States and in Canada. More than 2,000 covers of his songs have been recorded by the likes of Justin Timberlake, Bob Dylan, Elton John, R.E.M, Willie Nelson and more, and his talents continue to inspire and influence artists of every genre and generation.
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Optional feature to provide Microsoft Acrive Directory or LDAP authentication for a Zultys MX30 or MX240 IP-PBX.
The 90-15375 System Licence is used to provide Microsoft Active Directory or LDAP authentication capability for either a Zultys MX30 or MX250 IP-PBX appliance. In the case of an MXcluster, a licence must be applied to each MX IP-PBX in the cluster. Provided as a downloadable file and activated on a MX250 IP-PBX by a supplied Key Code.
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What was your favorite part of camp and why did you choose to come here?
Red Flag days because they were so challenging.
Who is a role model that you look up to and why?
I look up to my teammates, Joshua Roetman, because he is supportive, caring, and is always trying to get me to be better.
What/who is your inspiration to wrestle and why?
I wrestle because it is rewarding. It is not a team sport. It's my will against his, and when he breaks I smile.
What is the most valuable thing you learned at camp?
Hard work always pays off.
What's the most important quality that a successful wrestler must have?
The ability to adapt to any conditions.
What was the hardest thing about camp?
Not getting a lot of sleep.
What advice would you give to a future camper?
Be ready to change.
What makes wrestling different from other sports/activities you participate in?
You have to have more than talent and physical ability. You have to have heart.
Who was your favorite coach at camp and why?
Joe Nord. He saw what I needed to work on and helped me fix it.


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Developed to fit the needs of events of all sizes, the Entry Genius app helps organisers manage entry, track attendance and eliminate ticket fraud at their events.
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So my last batch of photos are extremely late, but never late than better right?
New Year's on Phillip Island...
In the new year, we went to the drive in cinema... (novelty for me as we don't get that many in the UK, if we do, then er... where are they?!)
We made new friends
and went for a long and mighty road trip along the Great Ocean Road...
When the weather took a turn for the er, foggiest?
One of my favourite stops was stopping at The Twelve Apostles...
As well as Loch Ard Gorge (we weren't going to head to this until we thought, 'ahhh let's check it out anyway, may as well as we are right next to it!') One of the most prettiest spots. There is a bit of history to this place, too. The Loch Ard, set off to sail from England to Port Phillip Bay, Melbourne on March 2nd, 1878.
Tragically, the ship collided into the rocky reefs, after Captain Gibbs misjudged the proxomity of the ship and the cliffs of Victoria's west coast after sailing in dense fog. It was too late - the ship was far too close to turn back into the sea and only two of the people on board survived. Tom Pearce, a ship apprentice and Eva Carmichael who was a passenger on the ship.
Tom Pearce had managed to seek shelter from a lifeboard and drifted out to sea, until he came into what is now known as Loch Ard Gorge. Pearce managed to swim to shore and sought shelter in a cave.
Eva Carmichael had been swept off the ship, into the sea and was carried into Loch Ard Gorge, after enduring five hours in the water, Pearce attracted the attention of Pearce who had swam and brought her to shore.
Pearce scaled the cliffs of Loch Ard Gorge and managed to seek help from two men near Glenample Station, a few miles away. Pearce and Carmichael were eventually taken to the station to recover, Pearce received a hero's welcome in Melbourne and, after six weeks,Carmichael returned to Ireland.
It's incredible to think such an sad and tragic event took place here, and once you get a feel of the true depths of the cliffs and how difficult it must have been for Pearce to climb out of the gorge, it's overwhelming.
C took me through a tour of his university, University of Melbourne.
Whilst stopping off for a.......flat white. (Of course!)
...and then taking me for a spot of sushi (for me) and bento (for him).
Before making the long long way home (28 hours to be exact)...Melbourne, you beaut.
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Growing up my Mom used to make these Bacon Chicken Pinwheels for us! They're so yummy but of course I'd love it, right? I mean bacon. BACON! If you've read our blog in the past you know we LOVE bacon. When you roll it in chicken it makes it healthy, right? Just kidding but seriously great.
I realized today that I've never made it for my kids or husband before and I don't think my Mom has ever made it for them either. So, a little about my oldest son Hayden. He looks like a little mini me version of my husband except that he got my blonde hair instead of my husband's red. Other than that, he is my husband, even in his personality. He did, however, inherit my
addiction love of chocolate and bacon. He would eat as much as he could if you left him alone. He also loves when I make chicken for dinner, so now you can see why I was in shock when I realized I have never made this for him.
He was so happy that I got an even bigger kiss and hug after dinner. I'm a sucker for a kiss and hug from my kids. 🙂
Give this recipe a try. It's only 5 ingredients and pulls together so fast but looks and tastes like a special occasion dinner. Let us know if you end up with extra big kisses and hugs after you serve it. 🙂
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- use your toothpicks to hold together
- drizzle the olive oil over the tops and bottom and sprinkle with thyme and garlic powder
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But the Kalibari area is part of the city's military cantonment and is run by the army.
The army is saying that the people who run the temple, as well as the owners of some 70 houses in the neighbourhood, must leave.
They have been served with eviction notices.
The army wants to pull down the existing buildings and replace them with a high-rise shopping complex.
The army says that Kalibari is the property of the local cantonment board, and it has the right to vacate it.
Stiff resistance
It has been trying to clear the area for the past 15 years, and has met stiff resistance from the Hindu residents.
The presence of the Balmiki temple, which is the hub of the Hindu community in this crowded neighbourhood, has become a sensitive issue.
The head priest, Ramlal, who has looked after the temple for the last 35 years, says the property in Kalibari belongs to the minorities.
"In 1861, four Hindu merchants were the owners of half of the cantonment area. They built the houses in the Kalibari area to house their employees. They have been living here since then," Ramlal told BBC News Online.
He said the army would have confiscated the land and property a "long time ago" if they owned it.
Local people do not want to move out of the area.
"We have spent our entire lives in our house or the temple. They are a part of our lives now," said Ms Devi Das.
Ramlal, who is also the local Hindu leader, said that residents of Kalibari are not prepared to live in any other neighbourhood in Peshawar.
But he said that the people would vacate their homes if they were promised accommodation in the high-rise complex.


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june diary yo
i love seeing bicycles around town
3 of my current favourite necklaces
my mischa barton bag, so 80s
new evil eye rings and very dehydrated hand
new printed shirts at work, ive got my eye on the hearts one
so many layers on this window
spent lots of time with this little one who'll be walking soon!
summer prints hanging out
see a big mirror, take a photo
my anna koumoushi birthday present from draw!
and my birthday present from my mother-in-law
the little boy downstairs with his duck
dinner with my bestest friend and my new tiger t-shirt
hawaiian themed hen-night for my sister's best friend
and the vintage wedding car which brought her to the church
epic napkins at the wedding dinner
(the place was called venus, we added the song lyrics, several minutes of laughing)
gonna miss this lady :(
my sister and her husband are going to australia for a year
i feel like sad sam
(i decided sam would live in the fiance's car when he bought it 5 years ago)
new shoes at work
couple of selfie outfits


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I had a fantastic schooling ride on Sydney on Monday afternoon. My pre-ride feeding strategy seems to be working as his Food Alert (coined by Erica) mechanism is not being activated. I hopped right on him and worked for a full 30 minutes without a single evasive maneuver. Except.
You knew there had to be one. Sydney wasn't being naughty. He's trying very hard, but we've finally hit a clog. Sydney's left lead canter is wonderful. He lifts his shoulders nicely (compared to Speedy G anyway), he's prompt, and he easily stays out on the circle. The right lead on the other hand is not so great. I wish I had the vocabulary to explain what he is doing, but since I don't, I am simply going to describe what it feels like. If you can offer a mechanical explanation, I would love to hear it.
When I cue for the right lead canter, inside leg at the girth/outside leg slightly back, Sydney vaults to the right and slams into my inside leg. It feels as though he's pivoting on his inside hind leg. It feels as though if I let him continue, we would simply do an inside roll back and canter off the other way. It feels as though there is no "bend" to his ribcage.
On both Sunday and Monday I was able to work through the resistance and eventually get a bendier canter that moved off my inside leg. It required a massive amount of effort on my part: I literally used my entire body as a swinging weight to heave him off my leg at every stride. We did many, many trot to canter transitions until he got the trot to canter with a "semi-curved" ribcage. Each time we returned to trot I had to rebalance him (to the best of my ability) before I cued for the canter again. This trot to canter work did help, but I'd like a more cognitive explanation so I am not just heaving my weight around to get him off my inside leg.
I have a lesson tonight and hope that JL gets a chance to see what I am feeling. I'll let you know what she describes.


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Over this past weekend, thousands of people came out to San Diego, CA from all parts of the world to experience the famous comic-book convention: Comic-Con.
Comic-Con brings together the best fans, craziest costumes, and hottest celebrities. The exciting weekend was filled with comic-book pop culture - unveiling the most highly anticipated films and games to come. With the guest list ranging from movie stars, authors, directors, producers, writers and more, it's hard to keep track of it all. Here's a quick recap from the weekend!
Some of our favorite IMAX® stars made big appearances. The cast of Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice (Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, and Jesse Einsenberg) participated in a panel discussion at the convention to talk about their upcoming comic-book inspired movie and share the film's latest trailer.
The Batman V Superman star Henry Cavill will also be taking the lead alongside Armie Hammer in this summer's The Man From U.N.C.L.E. A five minute extended preview was premiered exclusively at Comic-con in anticipation of the film's August 14 release date.
We think it's safe to say just about everyone is excited for the next Hunger Games movie. This weekend, convention-goers got to listen to Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, and various cast members at the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 panel.
The newest Hunger Games sequel, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 also delivered their awesome teaser, "Stand with Us" for Comic-Con. The film will be released in IMAX ® theatres this November.
Willow Shields, who plays "Prim" in the Hunger Games, was widely recognized as rocking one of the best looks at Comic-Con this year and even received the "MTV Fandom Of Year Award" on behalf of The Hunger Games at Comic-Con.
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Comic-Con gave us a first look at the new IMAX movie opening in August of 2016, Suicide Squad.
Not to mention, a first look at the terrifying Jared Leto portraying a modern day Joker (from Batman). Yikes!
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In addition, Hasbro revealed their exclusive Dr. Strange action figures.
And this new teaser trailer.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens released a behind the scenes featurette for all your Star Wars fans out there! May the force be with you on it's IMAX release date on December 18, 2015.
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A few character posters for Warcraft were revealed! This film hits theatres in June 2016.
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text: This is how lazy the iPhone has made me. Now, I don't even take the time to take a good picture with a good camera. Well anyway, this is my solution to a vexing problem. For literally years, I have kept my oxo good grips sponge/soap dispenser in an old flower pot. And for roughly the same amount of time, I have been utterly annoyed by it. It was top heavy, and so every time I used it, it would topple into the sink, usually at inopportune moments, like into a sieve of delicate draining raspberries. That all has ended. In a fit of genius, I've now employed pebbles (those small rock like things not the Flintstones character or her namesake cereal!) to counterbalance the top heaviness. As an added bonus I can also place my regular scrubbie sponge on top and the moisture will (at least theoretically) drain, keeping off the mildew. I know from past soap dish pebble experience that I will have to clean and sanitize them occasionally, but for my sanity, that's a small price to pay.


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Store TP is not an "on path" augment for Ranged path on Herculean gear, because of this to use Store TP sets Ranger loses a TON of accuracy, I can understand it if SE feels it is a balance issue, on the other hand, it feels very wrong to get tons of STP augments on the magic path when that actually has no real good use on the magic path. Additionally, AGI is also not an "on path" augment for the magical path of herculean, but crit damage and crit chance are when crit damage and crit chance have zero affect on any magical weaponskill or ninjitsu or for anything RUN can do. Additionally Rapid Shot and Snapshot are available on the ranged path but in lesser values then you can get much easier on other gear (even taeon).
Can this please be changed? As augmenting for ranger has a lot of its own personal frustrations that I don't have to deal with when augmenting for other jobs. THF for example triple attack, accuracy, attack, and dex are great to shoot for and all on path. INT is on path if I want to make an Aeolian Edge set (though the crit dmg and crit chance still make zero sense as to why they'd be on the magic path though there's nothing that can use both MAB and crit in the same ws or ability that I know of).
INT, AGI, MND I could see being on path augments for magic path, but CHR and STR appearing so much makes no sense. What I mean by off path is augments that belong there, every now and again there's a rare chance you get an "off path" one like getting attack on a magic path or ranged path instead of mab or ranged attack. That is how AGI is treated in the magic path and STP is treated in the ranged path and it doesn't make sense to me as those are the augments ranger not only wants but needs the most. I know you removed some augments that had no place for BST on the augment tree, crit chance and crit damage have no place on the magic path, and AGI very much should be there. STP should also be on the Ranged Path and snapshot and rapidshot could be removed altogether unless they are going to compete with what you can get on taeon.


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Wild Camden.Posted: January 6, 2017 Filed under: Amusements, Artistic London, Bohemian London, Events, Interiors, Public Announcements, Wildlife | Tags: Almuth Tebbenhof, Andrzej Maria Borkowski, Camden art, Christopher Reid, Danuta Sołowiej, Heather Barnett, Jens Schaumann, Julia Schrader, Katy Evans-Bush, London art galleries, Marzena Pogorzały, Natalia Zagórska-Thomas, Roisin Tierney, Studio Ex Purgamento 1 Comment
Natalia Zagórska-Thomas wearing Julia Schrader. Photo © Jens Schaumann.
DS: Well, we managed to negotiate our way out of 2016 only to find 2017 looming before us like a rogue ice shelf. Yet although the festive season was full of foreboding there were occasional moments of optimism amidst the gloom; one of the most enjoyable events in my pre-Christmas calendar was the private view of Call of the Wild at Studio Ex Purgamento in Camden.
Antlers © Julia Schrader.
Visitors to the gallery are often wrong-footed by the address; it is located in a second-floor extension in a private home, a flat that belongs to artist and conservator Natalia Zagórska-Thomas and her husband Simon. If there was ever an enterprise that demonstrated devotion to an ideal of what art can and should be, Studio Ex Purgamento is it.
Going into the Thing Seriously; or These Influences Have Been Exerted for Good. © Natalia Zagórska-Thomas (alternative titles provided for the artist by Diane Williams).
Profit, apart from a tiny percentage above a certain price to try to recover some costs, goes to artists directly. Some years we sell a lot; others, not at all. I want to show established names alongside lesser known artists whose work interests me, and to mix visual art forms with text, design, performance, architecture, design, music and science. I show many Polish artists to promote their profile and contribution to the culture of the city.
As to the current show, Natalia describes it thus: This is not a tidy show. This is not a tidy subject. What I wanted is what I think I always want: a contemporary version of the cabinet of curiosities, a camera obscura, an idiosyncratic collection of specimens picked up along the way. It feels like life: messy, chaotic, undisciplined, joyous, violent and confusing.
Pale Blue Hexapod © Danuta Sołowiej.
Somehow, Natalia has managed to fit work by 25 artists into her small gallery; these include sculptures by Almuth Tebbenhof, Danuta Sołowiej, and Andrzej Maria Borkowski, wearable art by Julia Schrader, photographs by Jens Schaumann, Marzena Pogorzały (whose images of massive Antarctic ice sheets are elegant visual tokens of the strangled metaphor I opened with) and your own correspondent. The show also features an extraordinary 'biological' installation by Heather Barnett, and poems by such luminaries (and friends of The London Column) as Roisin Tierney, Christopher Reid and Katy Evans Bush.
Ice 3. © Marzena Pogorzaly.
© Andrzej Maria Borkowski.
You hardly need me to tell you that the London art scene is full of bullshit, any more than you need me to tell you that 2017 could be a rough year. We will need all the optimism we can get our hands on; and any blows against philistinism or the dead weight of cultural conformity are as welcome as they are necessary. As Katy Evans-Bush writes in Call of the Wild's exhibition catalogue: 'At the time of going to print no one knows what's going to happen next. Old ways of being uncivilised are being exhumed and new ones invented. The one thing we do know is that we will need to call on all our most civilised impulses – as well as our deepest, wildest aardvark'. Or, to put it another way, if you think the world is going to end tomorrow, plant a tree today. (Who said that? Answers on a postcard to …)
Ruan Minor, Cornwall, 1978. © David Secombe.
Gallery photos by Natalia.
Call of the Wild runs at Studio Ex Purgamento until 15 January; open weekends from 11 am — 6 pm. To visit during the week, call for an appointment. (132D Camden Street, London NW1 0HY; 07799 495549; firstname.lastname@example.com. http://www.studioexpurgamento.com.)
At Home With The Furries.Posted: May 16, 2016 Filed under: Wildlife | Tags: Furries, Laura Noble Gallery, Summerisle, Tom Broadbent 1 Comment
Moon, a deer in Sheffield. © Tom Broadbent courtesy of the Laura Noble Gallery.
From Wikipedia entry Furry fandom:
The furry fandom is a subculture interested in fictional anthropomorphic animal characters with human personalities and characteristics. Examples of anthropomorphic attributes include exhibiting human intelligence and facial expressions, the ability to speak, walk on two legs, and wear clothes. Furry fandom is also used to refer to the community of people who gather on the Internet and at furry conventions.
Sticks the fox and Terry, Wimbledon. © Tom Broadbent courtesy of the Laura Noble Gallery.
D.S.: Tom Broadbent has been photographing members of the 'furry' community for the past seven years, following a chance meeting with a six-foot wolf called Smirnoff. Tom speaks warmly about the furries and their acceptance of him is fully evidenced by the photographs. Furries inhabit a world of elaborate fantasy, albeit one with a curiously quotidian aspect. They might be in revolt from the mundane but they find release in performing ordinary tasks in the personas of their animalistic alter-egos (or fursonas).
I suppose you could call it a form of living theatre, or lifestyle as theatre. As Tom says, 'There's no one reason why people identify as furry; and in terms of 'costume play' (or cosplay) most of them create their own characters, drawing on a wide range of Fantasy and Sci-Fi influences, from classic Disney cartoons to Star Wars'.
Marshall, a border collie, Woking. © Tom Broadbent courtesy of the Laura Noble Gallery.
In Tom's photographs, we often see his furry subjects in their domestic settings. The 'at home' scenes are as sweet as one could wish: a rabbit tending his garden in east London, a Glam Rock border collie playing his Les Paul in his bedroom on a 1960s estate in Woking, and so on. These images speak of tidy, ordered lives which just happen to incorporate a bit of dressing up. And although the fetish undertow is always present to some degree (bit of a touchy subject for the furry community) that isn't the top note here: Tom's furry friends are endearingly wholesome.
Edward Fuzzypaws shares a moment with labradoodle Teddy, Richmond. © Tom Broadbent courtesy of the Laura Noble Gallery.
Furries are an international phenomenon, but there is a quintessential Englishness about the activity as presented in Tom's photos. These characters might be bit players in an unproduced film by Alan Bennett or Victoria Wood. But what makes Broadbent's pictures more than just another showcase for native eccentrics are the moments where the photographer accompanies his subjects through the looking glass into the realm of private myth. That's when the child-like delight in costume gives way to something wilder.
Bhavvels Bunny, Barking. © Tom Broadbent courtesy of the Laura Noble Gallery.
A nod to Lewis Carroll isn't inappropriate, given that the furry domain shares some of the dreamy charm, transformative power and moral complexity that he represents. That seems obvious enough. But the image of the stag invokes the iconography of the pre-civilized mind and a time when woods were feared and venerated. This stag is a forest god; one that might be worshipped as part of the sacred, time-honoured rituals of Summerisle.
Fangorn, a Jedi tiger, in his living room, Swansea. © Tom Broadbent courtesy of the Laura Noble Gallery.
As for the Jedi tiger, he inhabits a different galaxy to the one you or I live in. He's about to climb into his own Swansea-moored spaceship and leave for somewhere very far away. Nothing cosy about him. And I am afraid that stag will come to stalk me in my dreams.
Tom Broadbent's Furry portraits may be seen at FIX Photo, part of Photo London, at the Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, Bargehouse St., SE1 9PH, until 22 May. Thanks to Laura Noble.
Corgi and pipes.Posted: April 21, 2016 Filed under: Anniversaries, Ceremonial, Class, Wildlife | Tags: Buckingham Palace, HMQ 90, Queen's official birthday, The Queen at 90 2 Comments
DS: About a thousand years ago (1991) I spent a few months working with a BBC film crew – it really was film – making a documentary to mark the Queen's 40th year on the throne. The camera/sound team of Philip Bonham-Carter and the late Peter Edwards, and the director Edward Mirzoeff (a sometime contributor to this blog) – had formidable reputations. I did not have a formidable reputation. I was hired in haste, the production already rolling, to take 'stills' and not get in anyone's way. Naturally, I got in everyone's way – most often in the viewfinder of Philip's Arriflex – but somehow managed to avoid being fired.
My chief recollection of the project is fear: fear of getting in Philip's shot, fear of missing my shot (the sound-proof camera housing I had to use denied easy access to the camera), fear of under-exposure in huge rooms lit by dim lamps, fear of saying the wrong thing … I even discovered a new kind of fear: that my Moss Bros penguin suit was about to collapse in front of royalty. At Windsor Castle photographing a state banquet I suddenly felt the elastic in my waistband give out; my trousers began heading south just as Lech Walesa was greeting the Queen Mother. The nightmares still recur.
I finally overcame my fears and managed to complete the project, salvaging some dignity in the process. Looking back, these images are souvenirs of a time that has become so distant. Who would have thought that 1991 would seem like such an innocent time?
Anyway, this blog post constitutes The London Column's 90th birthday greeting to Her Majesty. Please be upstanding, and cue music:
All photos © David Secombe.
At the Zoo.Posted: November 27, 2015 Filed under: Architectural, Vanishings, Wildlife | Tags: Berhtold Lubetkin, David O'Shaughnessy, East London Photomonth, Hackney Wick, London Hipsters, London Zoo, Lubetkin penguin pool, Zoo Logical 1 Comment
© David O'Shaughnessy.
David Secombe:
My old friend David O'Shaughnessy has an exhibition currently on show at Stour Space, Hackney Wick (part of Photomonth, the east London photography festival). David's show is called Zoo Logical, and is a study of the habitats of zoo animals in New York, Dublin and, as showcased here, London.
© David O'Shaughnessy.
The key word is habitat: the animals themselves are absent. The viewer is confronted with a series of disconcertingly empty rooms reminiscent of deserted stage sets: which is, of course, the point. The animals are expected to perform for our benefit, and their man-made surroundings either mimic their natural environment or display them as specimens in an alien setting. (As beautiful as Berthold Lubetkin's penguin pool is, the birds themselves hated it.)
© David Shaugnessy
Walking round the exhibition last weekend, it struck me that David has selected the perfect location for his show. For those unfamiliar with the locality, Hackney Wick is a kind of giant guinea pig cage for hipsters. A stone's throw from the Olympic Park to the south, and within sight of the looming bulk of Westfield shopping mall, the area offers an environment as fitted to the needs of well-heeled young urbanites as any zoologically engineered habitat. All the key elements are in place: retro-fitted brown field decrepitude, bars and cultural spaces sprouting from light industrial units, towpaths to cycle on, and a sprinkling of riverside new-builds. Anyway, this post is written in haste as Dave's show ends on Monday: so allow me to suggest that you treat yourselves to a visit to Hackney Wick this weekend. Enjoy the exhibition, drink a craft beer or two and look at the men with funny hair.
On the natural history of gentrification.Posted: October 7, 2014 Filed under: Class, Housing, London Types, Markets, Monumental, Public Art, Wildlife | Tags: animal art, Broadway Market, ha, Hackney Road rabbit, Hipster London, Irony and Boe, Poplar chihuahua, Roa, Southbank art Comments Off on On the natural history of gentrification.
Chihuahua by Irony and Boe, Chrisp St., Poplar. © David Secombe 2014.
A London street artist writes:
I remember living in Hackney Wick around six years ago, just as it was being transformed from a barren industrial area into a 'funky' neighbourhood full of vegan coffee shops and 'warehouse raves' that had guest lists and cocktails, interspersed with re-purposed plant hire buildings that had been turned into artists' studio spaces.
I had been a graffiti writer for about four or five years before moving there, and at that point in time I was spending a lot of time utilising the easy access to train tracks from Hackney Wick station to go painting at night. The thing was, Hackney Wick was full of 'street artists', yet I never saw any of them on my nightly overground rail missions. The reason for this was that they were mostly drinking chai tea in their studios, plastering canvases with stencilled pop-culture icons or images connoting cunning political/social commentary… But it was still 'street art'. All the courtyards of the shared warehouse living spaces were covered in pieces, yet the streets surrounding them were bare.
Rabbit by 'Roa', Hackney Road. © David Secombe 2014.
This was the crest of the wave of socially acceptable, tongue-in-cheek street art. It was naughty, but only when it was allowed to be. It was rarely painted illegally, and rarely in places where lots of people could see it; inside the living room of a sandal-clad nut-loaf artisan, or on a peaceful stretch of canal. While the original breed of London graffiti writers tried to paint busy train lines and rooftops, these 'street artists' prefer to hit up Tumblr, Flickr and Twitter with photos of their work. 'Getting up' has been integral to graffiti culture since the beginning – it is the pure manifestation of the territorial roots of the art form, except now the art form is becoming gentrified, intellectualised and critiqued by Guardian columnists, and 'getting up' has turned into social media marketing. While all this is happening, grass-roots graffiti writers are still being locked up with criminal damage charges, sitting in police cells around the corner from a perspex-enclosed stencil that may or may not have been painted by Banksy.
Bird by Irony and Boe, Broadway Market, Hackney. © David Secombe 2014.
Two street artists, Boe and Irony, recently painted a four story chihuahua on the side of a tower block. They suggest in an interview to have pulled this off without alerting anyone as to their activity. I mean, granted, the piece is nice. It's a definite improvement over the old, plain brick wall, However, as someone who has spent their fair share of time crawling around on rooftops and side streets with buckets of paint, I don't buy it. All credit to them if they actually managed to walk around the streets with their faces covered from the cameras, holding a fuck off ladder and the 20+ cans of spray paint they would have needed, set up shop on a residential building for 4+ hours and paint an entire face of said building without anyone even knowing they were there. That would be fucking impressive. There are writers who have been painting in this city for decades, who know all the dark secrets of how to get into train yards undetected and have hit up at least one rooftop in every borough in the city, who wouldn't attempt a stunt like that.
Southbank Centre. © David Secombe 2014.
Street art has always had its own lines of communication. Taggers, know each other by tag and reputation and possibly on the tracks. It's territorial. Now, the territory is worldwide. The territory is in the bank. The artists get cash, the local authorities who pay them get kudos, and global gentrification accelerates week by week. 'Street art' is becoming just another kind of civic prettification – even the Southbank Centre has commissioned some to make itself appear more relevant. Individual neighbourhoods may get brightened up, but the work is mainly for the portfolio and the commercial opportunity.
Bird of prey by 'Roa', off Rye Lane, Peckham. © David Secombe 2014.
The big street animals are unobjectionable. Even the Daily Mail likes them. People didn't want Hackney Council to paint over the rabbit in Hackney Road a few years back – it's inoffensive and it got a reprieve (and no-one likes Hackney Council). But now you get big animals wherever business is moving in on an 'up and coming' area. I see a giant bird or squirrel or fox and all I see is money.
… for The London Column.
See also: Sugary Fun, On the South Bank, A Clockwork London, Sweet Toof.
Urban Myths no.2: Airport Caterpillars.Posted: October 4, 2013 Filed under: Amusements, Tall Tales, Transport, Wildlife Comments Off on Urban Myths no.2: Airport Caterpillars.
Playground, Rotherhithe. © David Secombe 2003.
Giant Edible Caterpillars Seized at Gatwick*
Customs officers at Gatwick Airport got more than they bargained for when they searched the luggage of a passenger arriving from Nigeria: inside his suitcase they found more than ninety kilograms of giant caterpillars swarming inside a bubble wrap cocoon.
The man told the customs officials that they were for his personal consumption during his stay in Britain. However, the caterpillars are a popular delicacy across Africa and, as such, represent a valuable trading commodity. Customs official Bridget Fumes commented: 'We get a lot of people trying to smuggle animals into the country – last month we had someone wearing a lizard as a hat and a man with a pair of monkeys down his trousers, but to my knowledge this is the first time we have had giant caterpillars.'
Stavros Wilt, an insect expert at the Natural History Museum, commented: 'These are likely to be mopane worms, the larvae of emperor moths, which are commonly eaten in Africa. A favoured method of consumption is to pinch the caterpillar at the tail to rupture its innards, followed by a sharp flick to liberate the guts via the burst carapace. The resulting matter may be fried until crisp with onion, tomatoes and chillis. Alternatively, they may be dried and eaten raw as a crunchy snack.'
'This was an unusual seizure but the vigilance of our officers prevented this consignment of rogue insects from entering the UK, and possibly posing a risk to the health and wellbeing of the populace,' proclaimed Ms Fumes. 'I would warn travellers not to attempt to bring any products of animal origin into the UK without a permit, as they may not have been inspected to appropriate standards and may contain diseases. These caterpillars are not something I expect to see in the Gatwick staff canteen any time soon!'
An increasing number of British outlets offer mopane worms for 'own consumption only'. The online retailer Planet Nosh sells 40g bags for £16.99, saying that the insects are a tasty and nutritious alternative to traditional meat products, and describes them as 'the ultimate barbecue novelty'. Experts estimate that the caterpillars seized at Gatwick had a street value of £40,000.
The caterpillars are being cared for at an animal rescue shelter in Kent.
* NB: A mostly, if not entirely, genuine news item: a mash-up of reports from International Business Times, The Independent, lepidoptera.pro, etc. The second in an occasional series. See also: The Supermarket Spider (http://wp.me/p1twhU-33W)
Two Men And A Dog.Posted: August 30, 2013 Filed under: Architectural, Dereliction, The Thames, Vanishings, Wildlife | Tags: 80s Britain, 80s Docklands, Battersea Dogs Home, Bill Pearson, gentrification, south-east London, Stephen Watts poet 2 Comments
© Bill Pearson 1982/85
Late August '87 by Stephen Watts:
Saturday. Afternoon.
Thunder on the Greenland Dock.
A few kids. Wet sand. Fishing.
All of us feel the vatic lack.
Girders. Cranes. New roads.
Bright sciatic colours. Cans.
Concrete. Cables. Coiled wire.
Flesh still curt to our bone.
Autumn thunder on the Greenland
Dock. Suddenly – houses rearing up.
That pall of human indifference.
Heart of the heart ripped out.
Yellow air. Pipes of cloud.
A sky that's been lifted from Bihar.
Houses with archways of walled wood.
Our lives. A crushed heat of air.
Cranes. Wet sand. Girders.
The kids laugh. And then scatter.
Dear body. The poor in their lack.
The rich in their whorl of languor.
© Stephen Watts
Bill Pearson writes:
I moved to New Cross Gate over the Easter weekend, 1981. My only previous experience of living in the big city had been a few years at Kingston upon Thames, very different in all respects to inner city south-east London. Exploring the new area I discovered empty, desolate docks and rundown industrial areas that reminded me of my homeland in the North of England. It was the early days of Thatcherism, before the Falklands War, before the inner city riots, and before the Miners' Strike, when Thatcher was still the most unpopular Prime Minister there had ever been.
© Bill Pearson 1982/85
My local Desolation Row was Surrey Docks – re-generated as Surrey Quays – but on walking and cycling trips I discovered the run down warehouses of Shad Thames (which still smelled of the spices they had once stored), Limehouse Basin, Wapping and the Isle of Dogs, which looked like a war zone. I remember rummaging around a warehouse in Wapping one day and hearing a roaring noise on the floor below. I rushed along to see what it was and discovered that the place had been set on fire by some local kids.
© Bill Pearson 1982/85
The absent other in all of these photographs was Mr. Charles Fox. A Battersea Dogs Home graduate, selected for his fetching smile, his hairy ears and his endearing determination to escape from the Home by digging through the concrete floor. His name was chosen because nobody in our shared house was prepared to have the utility bills under their names, so Charlie the dog ended up taking responsibility for everything. He never seemed to mind. At the Post Office I would occasionally be asked, "are you Mr Fox?" – and when people from the utilities phoned up wanting to speak to Mr Fox and we would invariably say "He's unable to speak at the moment".
© Bill Pearson 1982/85
Charlie and myself covered a lot of miles on our walks. Sometimes I would carry my Canon AE1 and sometimes I would take my Bolex movie camera and sometimes I wouldn't take either because I couldn't afford any film. On these urban forays, I often encountered a fellow rambler who turned out to be another newcomer to south-east London, a political exile from Soweto who had wound up living on the Pepys Estate in Deptford. Not that I knew this at the time: I only learned the identity of Chief Dawethi a quarter-century later, when Chief and I found ourselves sharing an office. Sharing our reminiscences of living in south-east London in the early 1980s, we discovered that we were the ghosts on each other's travels. I mentioned that I took a lot of photographs back then, and it was Chief's suggestion that people might be interested in those images, as the area had since changed beyond recognition. Chief's insight encouraged me to dig out the negatives and study them with fresh eyes.
© Bill Pearson 1982/85
Looking at them now, they appear as remnants of a lost world. 'There is nothing more recent than the distant past'. It seemed unthinkable in the early 1980s that the purlieus of east London could ever become desirable, let alone exclusive. Yet the areas seen in these pictures is today the playground of those who profited from the sale of England; those inhabitants of the soulless apartments that are ruining the London skyline. Even Chief's old stamping ground, the Pepys Estate, is home to Aragon Tower, one of the most up-scale of all gentrification projects, a block of high-rise council flats sold off and transformed into luxury riverside dwellings for the few that can afford them.
© Bill Pearson 1982/85
What of Mr Charles Fox? He moved away to York with one of my housemates. We reasoned that he would have a much better life there than on the mean streets of south-east London. I saw him a few times after he moved and he seemed far happier in the North.
Text © Bill Pearson 2013.
© Bill Pearson 1982/85
Heart Of The City by Stephen Watts:
Grey sky. Fifteen cranes swing
between the road and the river.
A darkened ribcage of girders is
Fleshed out with granite slivers.
Slow bursts of cars stream past
and lead rises up to our rooftops.
It eats the aortas of our babies.
Wee kids who spiral at hopscotch.
We have savage material hearts.
Mine hangs just under my shoulder.
There are reds, yellows and ochres
if I think of colour in some order.
It hangs and pumps at my ribcage
as if a blue bag were slung there.
Full with wet fish & blae-berries.
Words – jump off my tongue here.
It is good to dream as dreaming
makes lucid our human potential …
The spiral of blood in our bodies.
Just where it pumps by my nipple.
Sunflowers. Asters. Fuchsia.
Whatever their colours they seem
held by tight and straitened stalks.
The sun will crash from its beam.
Too close to the savaged heart.
We live in the heart of this city.
Cranes that swing out on the dark
measure our hearts without pity.
© Stephen Watts.


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Jaguar claims the I-Pace takes aesthetic inspiration from the C-X75 concept. You might wonder what an electric family car could possibly have in common with a turbine-powered hybrid hypercar, but similarities do exist. Both feature cab-forward proportions, and both have similar broad, Tarmac-sniffing snouts and a commensurately low, vented bonnet.
The rear of the I-Pace is more of a departure, being tall and squared off for a commendably low drag coefficient of 0.29. Incidentally, it's Jaguar design director Ian Callum's least favourite element, although to our eyes lends the car a rakishly robust, super-distinctive and appealing visual character.
But how to classify the I-Pace? It is exactly a centimetre longer than an XE and yet its wheelbase eclipses that of the XF mid-size saloon. It presents as an SUV but sits conspicuously low to the ground by the standards of such cars. It's also supercar-wide, at 2139mm, including mirrors.
Underneath the aluminium bodywork resides an electric powertrain of predictable architecture. A 'skateboard' battery pack (423 lithium ion cells, liquid cooled) of 90kWh is spread below the cabin floor and sits entirely within the car's wheelbase for a claimed 50:50 weight distribution (53:47 as tested).


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Houston Matters
Sounds from the 2015 Houston Auto Show
Posted on · The 2015 Houston Auto Show continues through the weekend at NRG Center. The show features more than 500 vehicles from more than 30 manufacturers on display, along with test-drive areas and off-road simulators. Houston Matters' Michael Hagerty brings us this audio postcard from this week's show.


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2014 Props & Hops Beer Festival
Mark Twain once said, "The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious."
Those words weren't truer than they were on Saturday, during the rare beer flight, flying over the Coachella Valley.
Temecula: Not Just for Wine Anymore
Located just 60 miles from the Coachella Valley, Temecula is known as Southern California's wine country. Commonly known as the 'jewel' of Riverside County; the charming California town produces over 50 different varietals of wine.
And this is a great thing for the craft beer industry.
Wait. What?
Slightly Stoopid, Ozomatli and Fishbone to Headline at the 2015 Rhythm, Wine & Brews Experience on February 28th, 2015
Indio, CA - Empire Music Ventures is pleased to announce the 4th Annual Rhythm, Wine and Brews Experience on Saturday, February 28th, 2015 at the Empire Polo Club. Taste craft beer and fine wine in one of the most beautiful venues in the Coachella Valley as you groove to the tunes of a diverse musical line-up designed to offer something for a variety of ages and musical tastes.
Firestone Walker Wins Gold at Brussels Beer Challenge
Paso Robles, CA – Firestone Walker's Double Jack IPA secured the hat trick in Belgium this week, landing a gold medal and top honors for the third straight year in its category at the prestigious Brussels Beer Challenge.
The Brussels Beer Challenge was first held in 2012, and Double Jack has now earned the gold medal for the "Pale & Amber: Imperial IPA" category in each competition held to date.
In the words of the Brussels Beer Challenge: "During two days, a tasting panel of 60 international renowned beer connoisseurs tasted 730 beers from all over the world. The participating beers were divided into categories based on origin, typicity and style and then evaluated. At the end of the two tasting days, the best beers, in each category, were awarded a gold, silver or bronze award."
In total, American craft breweries took home 12 gold medals out of 50 categories at the 2014 Brussels Beer Challenge. "The American craft beer revolution continues to become a global force," said brewery co-proprietor David Walker.
Double Jack is the amped-up big brother to Firestone Walker's signature Union Jack IPA, resulting in an aggressively hopped, flawlessly balanced and dangerously drinkable imperial ale.
Double Jack opens up with bright grapefruit and tangerine American hop aromas, courtesy of liberal dry hopping with Amarillo, Cascade, Centennial and Simcoe. Undertones of stone fruit are revealed upon first sip, followed by the essence of blue basil and pine. A sturdy pale and crystal malt backbone brings balance to high hop intensity.
International Stout Day at Coachella Valley Brewing!
Coachella Valley Brewing will be celebrating Stout Day on Thursday, November 6th, with five new stouts!


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Cantilever Pumps Information
Cantilever pumps are specialized centrifugal pumps utilizing a cantilever design in which only the impeller and casing are submerged in the tank or sump. All joints, including seals, bearings, bushings, and suction check valves, are located out of the fluid. This design is ideal for moving slurries and abrasive solutions that could degrade or interfere with submerged joints. They are the standard choice for moving abrasive media.
Pump Operation
Cantilever pumps are centrifugal pumps, relying on one or more impellers to draw and move fluid. For more information on the principles of centrifugal pump operation, visit the Centrifugal Pumps information page on Engineering360.
Cantilever pumps get their name from the cantilever structure, which is a beam supported at only one end (e.g. a diving board).
Similarly, cantilever pumps contain all joints, supports, and bearings at one end, allowing the other end to be inserted into the abrasive media without it interfering with the connections. Thus, the impeller is "cantilevered" from the motor instead of being supported by lower bearings. While most cantilever pumps are mounted vertically (suited for most tanks and sumps), some are designed horizontally based on the placement needs of the application.
Vertical cantilever pump diagram indicating bearing locations and the overhung length. Overhung lenth is the distance between the minimum-starting and maximum liquid levels.
Image Credit: Lawrence Pumps
The primary specifications to consider when selecting cantilever pumps are flowrate, pump head, pressure, horsepower, power rating, outlet diameter, and operating temperature.
- Flowrate describes the rate of volume discharge through the pump.
- Head defines the energy supplied to liquid (per unit weight) by the pump. It is expressed as a column height of liquid (either vertical lift or suction), given in feet of head (ft).
- Pressure describes the operational pressure of the pump. It is usually given in pounds per square inch (psi) or bar.
- Horsepower indicates the output power of the pump, measured in units of horsepower (hp).
- Power rating indicates the power required to operate the pump, measured in Watts (W) or horsepower (hp). In the case of electric pumps, some manufacturers will instead specify the required voltage (in volts or V) and current (in amps or A). The power rating is the product of the voltage and current ratings (power = voltage x current).
- Outlet diameter is the size of the discharge or outlet connection of the pump. Inner diameter (I.D.) describes the size of the inner opening while outer diameter (O.D.) specifies the entire opening size including the pipe thickness.
- Operating temperature defines the range of temperatures or temperature limit of the media handled by the pump.
Selection tip: Selections above 70 hp should be reviewed carefully from a bearing and mechanical seal reliability standpoint before making a purchase.
For a more in depth understanding of pump specifications, performance curves, and operation, visit the Pump Flow information page on Engineering360.
Many varieties of cantilever pumps are designed with additional features to allow for long service life in demanding conditions.
- Shaft-mounted agitators are installed to stir settled solids, helping to maintain a clean and maintenance free sump. Pump life is increased due to this reduction of cycling.
- Some varieties are designed for continuous operation, allowing continual use and operation without wearing out.
- Many cantilever pumps can be run dry or with a loss of prime without sustaining damage.
For a complete description of different pump features, visit Engineering360's Pump Features page.
The number of stages in a pump indicates the number of impellers the pump utilizes. Higher stages are used for applications requiring higher flow or more pump head.
- Single stage impeller pumps have one rotor to impart motion to the fluid.
- Multi-stage pumps include all pumps with more than one stage, which offer the functionality of a number of pumps in a series. For example, double-stage pumps have two impellers and perform like two pumps linked in series.
Aside from sump pump applications, cantilever pumps are widely used in other applications where liquids or slurries are passed and processed, including mineral processing plants, steel mills, chemical plants, and industrial wastewater treatment facilities. They are the primary choice for handling abrasive solid media, and are also ideal for handling high temperature fluids. Cantilever usage is limited to shallow fluid depths less than 8 to 10 feet where a standard motor above the liquid level can be applied cost effectively. Pump cost increases exponentially with depth, since deeper sumps require larger shaft diameters to cantilever the impeller. Submersible pumps are thus better suited for deeper applications.
Design Tip: Cost effective cantilever pumps usually have shaft diameters of no more than 6 inches.
To view an overview of various pump applications, visit Engineering360's Pump Applications page.
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Pre wedding Photography
We love getting out in the open air doing your pre wedding photography. We think its a great time to get to know you both and exactly what you like before your big day. The location of your pre-wedding shoot is totally up to you, it can be a special place that means something to you both. If you had your first date at a music gig in Manchester or you both love nothing more than a stroll with the pooch . A pre wedding shoot is also a good chance for us to see what you like so you can get the most perfect pictures on your Wedding Day. Its also important to show that having your pictures taken isn't scary, and can be full of giggles.
We have been to some amazing locations with our brides and grooms for their pre wedding photography session from Formby Beach, Northern quarter in Manchester, Lymn Park, Edinburgh, Glasgow and we love a road trip so we would love to hear your ideas


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GALA Hispanic Theatre, the theatre in the Tivoli building at 14th and Park that puts on English and Spanish language plays and performances for adults and kids, wants to hear from you! They have an online survey asking your opinion and background on theatre-going and more, and everyone who responds will be entered in a drawing for $100 in tickets to any of 50 local theaters.
If you haven't been, GALA is pretty neat -- it's a nice space with a lot of interesting performances, many of which are in Spanish with English surtitles. The theater was founded in 1976 and has won a number of awards for performances, gender equality (more than 50% of plays many years are written by women) and more.
Here's the info from GALA:
Do You Love GALA? Share your Opinion to Win Free Tickets
We want to learn more about our audience at GALA. Please help us by completing this brief survey and you'll be entered for a chance to win the grand prize of $100 in TheatreWashington TixCertificates -- valid at GALA and 50 other local theaters.