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Dear Wiki user, You have subscribed to a wiki page or wiki category on "Qpid Wiki" for change notification. The following page has been changed by cctrieloff: http://wiki.apache.org/qpid/ClusteringHA New page: = Overview = The following is a proposal for the design of a clustering solution to increase the scalability of the Qpid AMQP broker by allowing multiple broker processes to collaborate to provide services to application clients connected to any one of these processes. By spreading the connections across different processes more clients can be supported. == Terms & Definitions == A cluster consists of any number of brokers in a fixed order. Each broker in the cluster has a unique name. All brokers in the cluster know the set of brokers in their cluster and agree on the ordering of those brokers. The first broker in the cluster is the leader; all brokers agree on the current leader. The mechanisms for achieving and maintaining this structure will be described below. Each client is connected to one broker in the cluster, to whom it sends its requests in the same way it would were it connected to a broker that was not part of a cluster. Clients that implement the AMQP specification should be able to work with a clustered broker unaltered. However, when in a cluster, a broker will need to alter its response to certain client requests. An objective of the design is to minimise the scope and complexity of this altered behaviour. Brokers in a cluster all connect to each other. Though one socket between any two brokers would suffice, it is simpler to implement if we assume that each broker will be a client of each other broker. Thus there will in fact be two connections between any two members, one in each 'direction'. This way we can reuse as much of a non-clustered brokers behaviour as possible. A broker will need to distinguish between sessions with an application client and sessions where the 'client' of the socket in a session is actually another broker. == Outline of Approach for Clustering == Stated simply, the cluster will: replicate exchanges by broadcasting the original Exchange.Declare and Exchange.Delete messages to all members of the cluster. replicate queues by broadcasting the original Queue.Declare and Queue.Delete messages to all members of the cluster replicate bindings by broadcasting Queue.Bind messages to all members of the cluster relay messages from a copy of an exchange in one broker to the equivalent exchange in another broker where necessary to ensure that consumers on any broker in the cluster receive messages that are published to any broker in the cluster Private queues exist in real form in only one broker; the broker that receives the original declaration from a client. All the other brokers in the cluster set up a proxy for this queue. This proxy can be bound to exchanges as a normal queue can, but whenever a message is routed to it, that message is simply relayed on to the broker in which the real queue exists. However, though multiple queue proxies may exist with the same target member, if these are bound such that all of them match a given message, only one copy of that message should be relayed to the target member. Copies of shared queues will exist at each broker in the cluster. These are bound to exchanges as usual and can have consumers registered with them. In addition to consumers from the application clients, these shared queue copies track the number of consumer for that queue that are held on other brokers. They use this information to fairly distribute messages between all consumers. The clustering in general involves propagation of certain methods received by one broker in the cluster from a client to all the other cluster members. Specifically those methods concerned with the setup of routing information are propagated allowing all members of the cluster to play their part in the routing of messages from and to clients distributed across the cluster. In particular the cluster will propagate all Exchange.Declare, Exchange.Delete, Queue.Declare, Queue.Delete and Queue.Bind messages. It will also propagate Basic.Consume and Basic.Cancel messages that refer to shared queues. The propagation can be carried out synchronously or asynchronously with respect to the original client request. In other words the broker that receives one of these messages from a client will send an equivalent message to the other brokers and can then wait until it receives responses from these brokers before it sends the confirmation message back to the client. Alternatively it could return a response to the client immediately. A hybrid approach could also be used. In general the originating broker waits for n responses, where 0 < n < number of members in the cluster. The value of n to be used will be set through policies to achieve the required latency v. consistency trade offs for a particular situation. Cluster Management As mentioned above the cluster is defined to be an agreed set of member brokers in an agreed order. This helps reasoning about consistency. The 'first' member of the group acts as the leader and issues authoritative statements on who is in or out of the cluster. All brokers in the cluster store the last received membership announcement from which they can infer the current leader. Ordering is maintained by requiring that new members join through the leader. A prospective new member can connect to any other member in the cluster, but these other members should pass on the join request to the leader. Once connected to a member of the group the new member issues a join request, to which the leader responds by sending a new membership announcement to all members including the new member. It will also initiate the replay messages required to replicate cluster state to the new member; the other cluster members also participate in this message replay. Once it has processed all the replayed messages and is therefore up to date with respect to cluster state, the new member can start accepting client connections. State is transferred through (a) Exchange.Declare methods for all exchanges, (b) Queue.Declare messages for all queues, (c) Queue.Bind requests for all queue bindings in all exchanges and (d) Basic.Consume requests for all consumers of shared queues at each node. The leader is responsible for replicating all exchanges, shared queues and their bindings. Other members are responsible for replicating private queues hosted by them and the bindings for these queues as well as consumer counts for shared queues. The replay of messages from the leader must be processed before those from other cluster members (as e.g. bindings for private queues require that the exchanges have already been declared). The completion of the required replay of messages from a broker is signaled by a Cluster.Synch message. Messages received after this are 'live' messages received through the receiving broker being treated as a normal member. Failure of a broker may be detected by any other broker in the cluster in the course of trying to communicate with that broker. Failures are handled by sending a suspect message to the leader of the cluster, who verifies the suspected broker is down and issues a new announcement of membership, with the failed broker removed if the failure is verified. In addition to discovery of failure during normal communication, each broker member is responsible for periodically pinging the 'previous' broker (i.e. the broker that occurs just before itself in the ordered membership list). The leader will assume responsibility for pinging the last member to join the group. The leader may itself fail. This may be detected by the next broker in the list, in which case that broker responds by assuming leadership and sending an announcement of the new membership list with the old leader removed. It may also be detected by other brokers. As they cannot send a suspect warning to the leader, they send it to the broker next to the leader. Message Handling Changes and Protocol Extensions To incorporate clustering while reusing the same communication channel for intra-cluster communications and extension to the protocol is proposed. It is not necessary for clients to know about this extension so it has no impact on the compliance of the broker and can be treated as a proprietary extension for Qpid. The extension consists of a new class of messages, Cluster, which has the following methods: === Cluster.Join === Sent by a new member to the leader of the cluster to initiate the joining process. On receiving a join the leader will try to establish its own connection back to the new member. It will then send a membership announcement and various messages to ensure the new member has the required state built up. === Cluster.Membership === Sent by the leader of the cluster whenever there is a change in the membership of the cluster either through a new broker joining or through a broker leaving or failing. All brokers should store the membership information sent. If they are waiting for responses from a member that is no longer part of the cluster they can handle the fact that that broker has failed. If it contains a member to whom they have not connected they can connect (or reconnect). === Cluster.Leave === Sent to the leader by a broker that is leaving the cluster in an orderly fashion. The leader responds by sending a new membership announcement. === Cluster.Suspect === Sent by brokers in the cluster to the leader of the cluster to inform the leader that they suspect another member has failed. The leader will attempt to verify the falure and then issue a new Cluster.Membership message excluding the suspected broker if it has failed leaving it in if it seems to be responding. === Cluster.Synch === Sent to complete a batch of message replayed to a new member to allow it to build up the correct state. === Cluster.Ping === Sent between brokers in a cluster to give or request a heart beat and to exchange information about loading. A ping has a flag that indicates whether it expects a response or not. On receiving a ping a broker updates its local view of the load on that server and if required sends its own ping in response. In addition to this new class, the handling of the following is also altered. The handling of each message may depend on whether it is received from an application client or from another broker. === Connection.Open === A broker needs to detect whether the open request is from an application client or another broker in the cluster. It will use the capabilities field to do this; brokers acting as clients on other brokers require the 'cluster-peer' capability. If a broker receives a Connection.Open from an application client (i.e. if the cluster-peer capability is not required) it may issue a Connection.Redirect if it feels its loading is greater than the loading of other members in the cluster. === Exchange.Declare === On receiving this message a broker propagates it to all other brokers in the cluster, possibly waiting for responses before responding with an Exchange.Declare-Ok. === Queue.Declare === On receiving this message a broker propagates it to all other brokers in the cluster, possibly waiting for responses before responding with a Queue.Declare-Ok. === Queue.Bind === Again, this is replicated to all other brokers, possibly waiting for responses before sending back a Queue.Bind-Ok to the client. === Queue.Delete === On receiving this message a broker propagates it to all other brokers in the cluster, optionally waiting for responses before responding to the client. === Basic.Consume === If the consume request is for a private queue, no alteration to the processing is required. However, if it is for a shared queue then the broker must additionally replicate the message to all other brokers. === Basic.Cancel === If the cancel request is for a subscription to a private queue, no alteration to the processing is required. However, if it is for a shared queue then the broker must additionally replicate the message to all other brokers. === Basic.Publish === The handling of Basic.Publish only differs from the non-clustered case where (a) it ends up in a shared queue or (b) it ends up in a 'proxy' for a private queue that is hosted within another member of the cluster. When the published message ends up in a shared queue, the broker must be aware of whether the message was published to it by another broker or by an application client. Messages that come from other brokers are dispatched to the local brokers own application client subscribers. Messages that come from application clients are either dispatched to the next application client or relayed to another broker. A round-robin scheme applies here where each subscriber, whether a 'real' subscriber or a consumer in a relay link to another broker, gets its 'turn'. In other words the allocation of a message to a consumer on a shared queue happens at the first broker to receive the publish request from the application. All brokers signal their local consumer count by propagating the Basic.Consume (and Basic.Cancel) messages they receive from clients so each broker has a local view of the cluster wide distribution of consumers which can be used to achieve a fair distribution of messages received by that broker. As each broker can receive messages from the application, strict round-robin delivery is not guaranteed, but in general a fair distribution will result. Brokers should remember the next consumer to receive messages from the application and also the next consumer to receive messages from the cluster. A local broker's view of consumer distribution is updated asynchronously with respect to message publishing and dispatch. This means that the view might be stale with regard to the remote consumer counts when the next consumer for a message is determined. It is therefore possible that one broker directs a message to a broker that it thinks has a consumer, but when that message arrives at the remote broker the consumer has disconnected. How this is handled should be controlled through different policies: pass it on to another broker, possibly with the redelivered flag set (particularly if it goes back to the broker it came from), discard the message or hold on to it for a finite period of time and deliver it to any application consumer that subscribes in that time. The situation just described is essentially the same situation as in a non-clustered case where a consumer disconnects after a message has been sent to it, but before it has processed that message. Where acknowledgements aren't used the message will be lost, where acknowledgements or transactions are used the message should be redelivered, possible out of sequence. Of course in the clustered case there is a wider window in which this scenario can arise. Where the messages is delivered to a proxied private queue, that message is merely relayed on to the relevant broker. However, It is important that where more than one proxied queue to the same target broker are bound to the same exchange, the message only be relayed once. The broker handling the Basic.Publish must therefore track the relaying of the message to its peers. == Failure Analysis == As mentioned above, the primary objective of this phase of the clustering design is to enable the scaling of a system by adding extra broker processes that cooperate to serve a larger number of clients than could be handle by one broker. Though fault tolerance is not a specific objective yet, the cluster must allow for the failure of brokers without bringing the whole system to a halt. The current design (and implementation) only handles process failures entirely satisfactorily. Network failures* result in the exclusion of brokers from the cluster and will behave reasonably only where the view of reachability is consistent across the cluster. Network partitions between the cluster nodes will result in independent clusters being formed and there is currently no provision for merging these once the partition heals. * failures here means anything that causes a tcp stream to fail; a relatively straightforward improvement would be to buffered unacknowledged requests that have been broadcast allowing attempts to re-establish a tcp connection on failure and replaying the messages (assuming idempotent messages) The group abstraction described above does not provide virtual synchrony. When a broker fails while performing a broadcast to the group, the result will not be uniform across the other members. Where synchronous propagation is used, the client will be ware of this state as it will not have received the response from the broker and will reissue the request on failing over to another broker. (The current failover as implemented in the Qpid client will actually recreate all state required by the client).
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The car pulled up just outside the bank, and Iphey stepped out, anxiously glancing at her watch again.
The window on her side slid down, and Chinedu peered through it. "Are you sure you'll be OK? I hope your boss won't eat you alive for this," he asked.
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Iphey laughed as she gave it to him. "Please call me, and let's set something up."
Chinedu smiled back. "Yes, let's see if we can start afresh. Actually, I just remembered that you don't have your own transport to get back. How about we kill two birds with one stone? I can pick you up this evening, we can go somewhere nice and then I can drop you off at home."
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"Sometimes, I wonder why I had to go and say that. Perhaps things would have been better if I had kept this close to my chest," he mused.
The more he thought about it, the more he felt it would be better to make a clean breast of things and tell her what had happened in his earlier years...
Chinedu and his four younger siblings were had grown up in Ajegunle, where their father worked as a clerk in an office and their mum sold provisions in a small store. But it was not a happy marriage; the money both their parents brought in was rarely ever enough to feed them all, so there were always rows over why the children did not have school uniforms and books, or when the rent was going to be paid so that the landlord would stop harassing them.
Chinedu remembered those rows with a shudder; they were violent, searing affairs that left him with ugly memories. He also remembered his father often saying to him and his siblings in a bitter voice: "See the suffering that being poor can bring. If you know what is good for you, make sure you study well so that you can get a good job and live in a big house, not this.." gesturing around their cramped one-bedroom apartment. So he coped in his own way by immersing himself in his studies; perhaps he could spirit them away from this miserable existence if he became a doctor, or an engineer. Fortunately for him, his ability matched his desire, and he excelled at school, so it looked like his hopes might become reality.
Unfortunately, at the end of his second to last year in secondary school, his parents separated. His father was tired of being belittled by his wife and left to stay with another woman he had been having an affair with; his mother was only too glad to see him go, as it would mean an end to the endless beatings and abuse. But that meant that the burden of looking after the five of them weighed even more heavily on her, and in the end, this meant that Chinedu had to help to augment the family income by acting as an Alabaru, a load porter at the local market. Needless to say, this meant an end to his studies.
Chinedu recalled his time at the market with mixed feelings. He missed going to school; in addition, the work was hard and competition for customers was fierce. However, he soon realised that the place was alive in a way that he had never experienced as an ordinary market-goer. There was always something going on; in addition, there was a whole underside to life in the area that he had never realised existed until he started hearing stories from the sellers and other regulars who frequented the place.
He soon made two friends, Polycarp and Gbenro. Polycarp was a friendly, rather quiet boy who had also been working at the market as a porter for two years. But Chinedu was more more drawn to Gbenro, a much livelier person who always seemed to have a ready jest on his lips. One of the area boys, Gbenro was his nickname, no one seemed to know his real names. Chinedu also noticed that although Gbenro was not much older than him and did not always do any specific job with the area boys, he always seemed to have a good deal to spend. His curiosity pestered him to find out more; he still longed to return to school, but the meagre tips he got from his work meant that this would be a long time coming.
"So Gbenro, how you come get all dis money wey you dey spend yanfu-yanfu for here, now? No be only this area boy work you dey do here?" he asked one day, after his curiosity would give him peace no longer.
"Ah, bro... dat one na special ting..." Gbenro looked shifty all of a sudden. "I fit tell you, but..."
"But wetin?" Impatience joined curiosity in prodding him.
Chinedu gave a deep sigh. This was the moment he often replayed in his head; the moment his life took a dramatic turn, as a sequence of events began to unfold. It turned out that Gbenro, who ran errands for a gang of armed robbers in the area, had actually been waiting for an opportunity to recruit him to be a part of the gang. So Chinedu started out as an errand boy, passing along information; due to his popularity and having grown up in the area, he knew almost everyone. With time, he graduated to being a participant in the actual robberies, either as a lookout or driver. It had all been part of the excitement of being a teenager, he played cops and robbers and saved some money for his GCE exam. He assuaged any lingering doubts by thinking that no one was being hurt. Until the day everything had gone horribly wrong.
That's it folks. This is a two-part chapter so there'll be no votes today. Check back on Tuesday for the next installment.
Our Contributor is Atala Wala Wala aka Tola Odejayi. For those that asked, the name AWW comes from a childhood song and has no particular meaning, or none that he can remember. I myself think it is poetic with all the alliteration and assonance going on but don't let him hear that. Atala prefers writing prose and editing, he was my editor for A Heart to Mend.
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I think we may of finally got most of the all the bugs out of the mapguide implementation with Openlayers.
This little screen shot, without any pink tiles, is the result of all the bits below working together..
If you doing much with Openlayers and Mapguide, I think you will find both these patches useful
- Mapguide dynamic overlays fails
- A Mapguide Tiled map with all the co-ordinates correct :)
var metersPerUnit = 111319.4908; //value returned via MG APIturns out that's all required in order for a mapguide tiled layer to display with correct co-ordinates, aside from extents and scales
var inPerUnit = OpenLayers.INCHES_PER_UNIT.m * metersPerUnit;
OpenLayers.INCHES_PER_UNIT["dd"] = inPerUnit;
OpenLayers.INCHES_PER_UNIT["degrees"] = inPerUnit;
OpenLayers.DOTS_PER_INCH = 96;
- A Sheboygan example of Mapguide tiled map, Untiled map and untiled map as Overlay all in one map, which makes a good starting point
- Fusion fix for the Mapguide error:The value cannot be less than or equal to zero.
- Finally a sainty bug against mapguide, "The value cannot be less than or equal to zero." is meaningless with out context
Life should be a little bit easier for anyone using Mapguide and Openlayers now!


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The numbers of Cancer are disconcerting. It's one of the top causes of death in most countries, and possibly in our own small local community we know of an individual who passed on of cancer or we know someone whose relative lost their battle with cancer. Here are a few tips to cope with the loss:
Visit a specialist. A few of your family members could be too attached to the dead loved on and find it tough to move on. If you see any worrying or troubling behavior changes - by way of example eating or sleeping habits and other changes, don't be reluctant to have them examined by a psychologist or a psychiatrist. "A loss in the household is very hurtful and that could truly leave shock and the person that can only help is sometimes themselves, the other members of the family and buddies or professionals who can minimize the depression and suffering and point out to us that there is a process that we need to move through naturally" this is according to a psychologist in alternative treatments for breast cancer facility.
Keep pictures and items to remind you of them when they were still not diagnosed.
While it's terrible to view their photos, showing them in their happy or healthy state can alleviate the anguish of seeing them. This reminds your family of their existence, not their passing away from life. Based on a breast cancer alternative treatment expert, "We are all aware that Cancer can weaken a person in a small period of time and could impact our physical, mental and emotional appearance".
Be involved in family activities to keep family members away from contemplating about the lossThere are a lot of family activities which you can take part in - why don't you take pleasure in the water? Trekking, Camping, out of town or out of the country retreat, to help remind us that there are more things in life to relish and to thank for rather than to mourn or grieve. But if you are within a strict budget as a result of hospital bills, just make sure that all family members have plenty of time for their family specifically on the weekends and holiday seasons.
Always voice out whatever you feel for each member of the family. It's always good to know that each one is taken care of and family is always there when you need them. Above that, words are one way to inform them just how you feel while they are still alive.


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Northward once more, I could feel the difference in temperature, my world was turning into a pleasant spring time sensation. The air was sweet and gave me sweeter memories. I fuelled up at a service station at the beginning of sugar cane fields and watched as two trucks played a delicate ballet with a harvester – the empty picking up where the full left off as the latter delivered its bounty to a nearby shipping container. Noticing my gaze, a local approached and explained how the whole thing works, notably the burning off done the night before to crystalise the sugary sap ready for collection – they had deck chairs on the side of the road to watch the spectacle the night before.
No stopping in mind, my path led me to the Rainbow Belt, I travelled the resort speckled main road into Byron Bay, sometimes passing a long haired man driving a campervan, every time thus a nod and wave were exchanged, a knowing recognition of elk, the lifestyle and respect. HAHA or perhaps just a subtle display of pride.
I walked around Byron, biding time and trying to get hold of a friend who was in and out of mobile reception. I found myself at a bar surprisingly, what sold me was padded seats just off the sidewalk, I drank a beer and had good conversation with the two identical bartenders who laughed after my double take – brother A took my order initially, I turned around and brother B had served the beer – jovial confusion resulted.
I caught hold of my friend, Jean-Eric, hopped in the van and headed to his place in the nearby area of Wilsons Creek, beauty surrounded my drive through hilly rainforest oft crossing a bubbling waterway. Colours passed my eye, rainbow banners and Tibetan prayer flags adorned some front fences as I trundled by making such a beautiful contrast to the deep green forest all around. Then down the discovered winding driveway to the front steps where Jean-Eric stood with a smile on his face. I have only known Jean-Eric for a short time, met at a festival in Victoria mid May but we saw each other and formed a wonderful connection. This night enjoyed dialogue and were soon joined by his housemate Kai and his daughter Chilli for dinner.
The day following I drove a short distance to Sachamamma, where a dear friend Emmanuel was staying. Down the paved driveway I led the van, stopping at the teacher's abode – Darpan came out to greet me and told me where to find Mani. I paused atop the grassy knoll viewed from the house and gazed at the opposite hill, the sierra created by a sudden landslide long ago made a feature from the dense foliage. My feet took me down the steep but manicured tropical lawn, the tree line partially concealing several huts appearing to be for meditation retreat or workshops. I reached the bubbling creek that caught my eye on the drive over, its water passing over large rocks and in between long grasses, ferns and broad leafed plants – the theme, green was abundance and bliss.
I caught Mani down in the nursery, it had been many months since we hung out and it was a pleasure to be in his presence again. I joined in on the work and relished in the opportunity to do some gardening, the sharp smell of fertiliser, the sensation of soil pouring through my fingers, the miniature rainbows created as the jungle filtered sunlight hit the fine mist bursting through the sprinklers. We finished our task and headed to his place on the other side of the property, we passed a great white tepee nestled at the bottom of a slope, looking in place against the thick natural backdrop. Mani and his partner Catlin live in a beautiful hut on the edge of Sachamamma, rustic wood was the theme, it felt like such a home, the narrow winding staircase centred by a large cured tree trunk led to the bedroom loft, you could wake from such a bed, roll over and look out a small window to the forest below, its glass beaming with the afternoon light.
We spent the sunny afternoon walking around in a haze of existentialism, in the glee of childhood swinging from a rope into the lagoon or lying in bliss on the grass with a beer, it was good to see such a wonderful brother again.
Jean-Eric and I spent the next day visiting the Rainbow Temple, he had been a part of this collective for many years and I listened to his precursive descriptions excitedly. Upon arriving I revelled in the magic – on a mildly sloping hill a wonderful community – coming and going – had constructed a huge rotunda, so far four stories high, known as the temple. The intent was for seven stories to make up the colours of the rainbow (amongst other representations of this powerful number). The bottom level was the temple space for ceremonies and the like, the two levels up was accommodation – beds with mosquito nets hung over lined the circular wall, the top floor was that of a balcony and preparatory scaffolding for the next level.
There were neighbouring buildings presenting a stage, a dancefloor and a kitchen/dining/chillout area, we sat in the latter and I met the current residents. We sat on lounges circling a fire pit, guitars hung on the wall, artwork was everywhere I looked, from majestic portraits to abstract colours to written inspiration – this was a shared conscious community and I could see myself staying here at some point. Jean-Eric's friend Tahnee and I were told of an underground tunnel and we left to investigate, we found the entrance and ventured in, it was pitch black and my only light source was the camera flash, but Tahnee bought along her phone to light the way. The tunnel ran the entire length of the temple with spaced wells reaching to the surface, ferns rooted underground had sprouted and filtered the sunlight pouring from the sky creating a golden green glow lighting up the parts of the cavern. Along the way I looked up, surprisingly presented with a galaxy of stars, wait, not stars but glow worms! Hundreds of pixel sized blue lights spread out and moving ever so slowly along the rocky ceiling, coming in and out of existence as the worms moved among their holes. We made noises of awe, pausing every so often to gaze into the moving spread of pinprick lights. We walked until the end was apparent and we could go no further, bats had taken residence at the furthest point and flapped about acknowledging our presence, we returned the way we came.
I enjoyed more time with Jean-Eric, two more added to the gathering, Emmanuel and Shannon who were hitchhiking in no particular direction and loving it, that night we shared home made sushi and engaging conversation.
The next morning we all left in separate cars and met at the Mullumbimby markets, this was my parting from the group and my heart was full of love as I drove off into the day in search of my next adventure – Mount Warning.


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Gooding dog pound temporarily closes after positive canine virus test
GOODING, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) - The dog pound in Gooding closed for ten days due to a puppy having a virus called Parvo.
A worker from the dog pound tells us a puppy has the virus that attacks the heart muscles.
Four dogs in the pound are quarantined to stop the virus from spreading and will all get vaccinations.
The worker tells us there is no cure for this virus. Veterinarians can treat symptoms, but Parvo has a 70 percent survival rate.
The vaccinations would prevent any dog that hasn't been infected from being infected. They do not yet know if the virus has spread to the other dogs.They will make arrangements to house dogs if needed during the days they are closed
Technophobe's comment: Local dog owners would be well advised to vaccinate. I have seen parvo kill a friend's puppy. It was not pretty.
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Sir Peter Blake stars at £35k charity teddy auction
Sir Peter Blake stars at 35k charity teddy auction
A bear designed by the Godfather of Pop Art brought four figures at Living Paintings' sale
Vivienne Westwood, Stella McCartney, Marchesa and '60s catwalk icon Twiggy starred in Living Paintings' charity auction of celebrity-designed teddy bears, on February 25.
All 20 bears were sold, with the highest price of the night realised by Peter Bear - the contribution of the renowned pop artist Sir Peter Blake, which brought 3,400.
Sir Peter and his wife Chrissy were in the audience to watch the sale.
Hosted by BBC Radio 6 presenter Lauren Laverne, the sale raised around 35,000 from ticket sales, donations, the raffle and the auction itself.
'Peter Bear' was the top lot, selling for 3,400
"It was brilliant fun, and very exciting," event organiser Esther Graham told Paul Fraser Collectibles.
"The 20 teddy bears dressed by 20 celebrities were paraded down a catwalk by volunteer models... and generated lots of keen bidding!
"It was a fabulous evening during which the work of Living Paintings was showcased at its very best," she said.
Living Paintings is a UK-based charity for blind children and adults.
Sir Peter and his wife Chrissywere atthe sale
It also transpires that the sale featured an Oscar-winning designer among its ranks... sort of.
Marchesa designed the dress worn by Sandra Bullock to accept her Academy Award for Best Leading Actress, earlier this week.
A number of Bullock's outfits worn for her award-winning performance in film The Blind Side will auction alongside Elvis Presley in Premiere Props' Extravaganza Auction, this Saturday (March 13).
Meanwhile, in other Sir Peter Blake news, the artist - known as the Godfather of Pop Art - is currently showing a great exhibition in Paul Fraser Collectibles' home city of Bristol, continuing until March 27.
Blake is perhaps most famous for designing the front cover for The Beatles' 1967 Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band LP.
The coveralso happens to feature one of the mostvaluable pieces of music memorabilia in today's global market.
Images: by Jasper Dalgliesh, courtesy of Living Paintings
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Daily Deals: 2 Historicals and 2 Contemps
Hero of My Heart by Megan Frampton. $ .99
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In this emotional and powerfully erotic tale of love and redemption, a tender vicar's daughter and a tortured war hero discover that sin may be their only salvation.
When Mary Smith's corrupt, debt-ridden brother drags her to a seedy pub to sell her virtue to the highest bidder, Alasdair Thornham leaps to the rescue. Of course the marquess is far from perfect husband material. Although he is exceedingly handsome, with a perfect, strong body, chiseled jaw, and piercing green eyes, Alasdair is also too fond of opium, preferring delirium to reality. Still, he has come to Mary's aid, and now she intends to return the favor. She will show him that he is not evil, just troubled.
Mary was a damsel in need of a hero, but Alasdair's plan is shortsighted. He never foresaw her desire to save him from himself. Alasdair is quite at home in his private torment, until this angel proves that a heart still beats in his broken soul. The devil may have kept her from hell, but will Mary's good intentions lead them back to the brink—or to heaven in each other's arms?
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Sins & Needles by Karina Halle . $ .99
From the Jacket Copy:
Ellie Watt is used to starting over. The daughter of a grifting team, Ellie spent her childhood being used as a pawn in her parents' latest scam. Now she's much older, wiser and ready to give her con artist life a rest. But returning to the dry desert town of Palm Valley, California means one more temptation than she bargained for – Camden McQueen. Once known as the high school weirdo, Camden is bigger and badder than the boy he used to be and a talented tattoo artist with his own thriving business. Ellie's counting on Camden still being in love with her but what she's not counting on is how easily unrequited love can turn into obsession over time. When Camden discovers Ellie's plan to con him, he makes her a deal she doesn't dare refuse, but her freedom comes with a price and it's one that takes both Ellie and Camden down a dangerous road.
i.e., the "prequel" called "On Every Street" tells the "torrid affair" of Ellie and another man who is part of the love triangle.
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Collide by Juliana Stone. $ .99
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Bobbi-Jo Barker has been in love with the wrong man for years. A man who doesn't fit into the perfect, controlled life she's created.A man who not only broke her heart but nearly destroyed her. So the fact that he's back in town shouldn't matter because he's all wrong for her, or so she thinks…
Shane Gallagher, prodigal son, ex-con, and all around hellion, has returned to the small town of New Waterford to mend fences and get his life back. What he doesn't count on are the feelings he still has for the one woman who can break him—the one woman who is totally wrong for him.
And yet, as Bobbi and Shane are thrown together and begin to navigate a life with each other in it, neither can deny the attraction they feel, or the emotions that come with it—the good and the bad. And so the question becomes… can these two damaged souls survive a second chance at love?
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Little Mischief by Amelia Grey. $ 2.99
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How can a lady avoid a scandal…
Just as Miss Isabella Winslowe is finally achieving comfortable respectability, the fascinating and decidedly unrespectable Earl of Colebrooke inconveniently appears…
When a gentleman is so determined to flirt…
The darkly handsome Daniel Colebrooke is intrigued and alarmed when an alluring young lady arrives at his door in need of assistance. In a moment of impetuosity, Daniel decides he must keep a close watch on Isabella, and what better way than to strike up a not–so–innocent fliration…
Together they'll cook up more than a little mischief when a disappearing dead body and a lascivious scandal spins their reckless game entirely out of control.
I haven't read Karina Halle's Sins and Needles (I'm also waiting for the whole thing) but The first book in her Experiment in Terror series, Darkhouse, is free, the next one is .99 and then 2.99 or 3.99 after that. Great series with a great romance although the romance is not the focus of the books. Each book has a self contained storyline so you won't need to wait for them all to come out. At those prices it's relatively painless to decide if you like her.
Thanks for the heads up on that Halle–I snagged it. I liked Sins & Needles, but it has a serious cliffie, so it's good to wait until the whole thing is done. I had other issues with the book, but enjoyed it overall, so I'm intrigued by Darkhouse.
The "Sins & Needles" link to BN doesn't work, and when I do a search on the site, it comes up as a pre-order for $2.99 (releases June 4). Just FYI. I did pick up "On Every Street" for $0.99 though.


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- In a large deep heavy skillet over medium high heat, put the sesame oil. When the oil is hot, add the beef strips and sprinkle with the salt and one teaspoon of pepper. Turn, toss and cook about four to five minutes.
- Reduce heat to medium and add the BBQ sauce and water. Blend. Cover and cook about five minutes.
- Reduce heat to medium low. Add the noodles, carefully blend (the noodles will be stuck together from the packaging), cover with a lid and let the mixture simmer about eight to ten minutes. This will loosen the noodles. Use tongs or a large fork to gently separate the noodles and blend into the liquid.
- Add the pineapple/mandarin oranges with the juice and the thawed vegetable mixture. Blend into the mixture. Cover with a lid and let the mixture cook another about ten minutes stirring a couple of times.
- Reduce heat to low. And add the fresh baby bokchoy. Blend into the mixture. Cover and let it steam about five minutes.
- Serve immediately. Garnish with a sprinkle of coarse ground or freshly ground pepper.
- Extra topping sides: Fill bowls. Serve with a variety of garnishes like chow mein noodles, toasted dried coconut crushed chips, low sodium soy sauce, nuts (I chose salted cashews.), etc.
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It is unacceptable for a Massachusetts employee is treated differently on the basis of skin color, sexual orientation or other legally protected factors. There is not room for workplace discrimination in an work environment, yet many people face unfair treatment without seeking help. While it may seem like an overwhelming and hopeless situation, it is possible to make it stop and hold responsible parties accountable.
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Pulling back the curtain on one of the world's most recognizable voices, Tom Volf's Maria by Callas presents an intimate and carefully constructed portrait of revered soprano Maria Callas through a compilation of found footage, photographs, home videos and records, personal letters, and rare behind-the-scenes footage.
Iconic both onstage and off, Maria Callas' talent and operatic artistry brought her legions of fans and admirers from around the world. However, despite her success and widely esteemed talent, Maria's artistic life was often eclipsed by her celebrity. With rumours, scandals, and intense public scrutiny plaguing her throughout her career, Maria frequently found herself forced to defend her work ethic and shield her personal life from the public, ultimately leading her to feel torn between her two identities: Maria and Callas.
Meticulously weaving together rare archival material and employing Fanny Ardant's (Paris je t'aime) careful voicework to bring Maria's writing to life, Volf introduces a new generation of fans to Maria's magnetic personality, unquestionable artistry and transcendent vocal performances, while also complicating the prevailing narrative surrounding her personal life and public image.
"At the very least, it will send many viewers back to the recordings, some of them superior to the renditions heard here, with a more vivid picture of the extraordinary woman who made them." (Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter)


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This is the second in a series about author visibility. Last week I discussed some challenges indies face. This week and next I'll be discussing the use of freebies.
"Giveaways are a great way to generate interest and spread the word about your book."
That is what I was told by several veteran indie authors, various bloggers, and a whole bunch of indie websites, so I buckled down and organized several. Unfortunately, I mistranslated that statement. I thought it meant that giveaways generate sales, and I was disappointed. Giveaways DO have a place, but before you jump into one, give thought to what you hope to accomplish.
Blog Giveaways
The most common type of giveaway seems to be the blog giveaway. This is when a blogger features a particular book and gives away a copy which has been donated by the author. In my experience, however, I've found that it's not a very effective sales method. In fact, just the opposite usually happens. The folks who enter blog giveaways usually aren't interested in buying your book; they want it free, and by the close of the contest they have forgotten all about it. Nobody actually buys your book. Then at the end of the week, one person wins, and you have to donate a copy. If you're donating a paperback, you've just lost money.
Goodreads Giveaways
With that lesson learned, I thought I'd experiment with a Goodreads giveaway. After all, those often attract thousands of would-be readers. Who wouldn't want that kind of exposure, right? Well, notice I said would-be readers, not would-be buyers. Again, these are people with their hands out. Honestly, I'm not bashing them. I've entered many myself. I'm simply pointing out that this mindset is the logical reason why giveaways don't result in sales.
So I went into this new giveaway with lower expectations and a further test in mind. After a winning name was drawn and the paperback sent out, I contacted forty of the most active Goodreads members who had signed up for my contest. This is actually against Goodreads policy, but I went ahead and did it anyway for the sake of experiment. The first day, I contacted 20 people explaining that they didn't win the paperback, but I offered them a coupon for a .99 Smashwords download of the same novel. I had absolutely no sales as a result. A few days later, I contacted 20 more members, but this time I gave away a coupon for a free Smashwords download. About five of those coupons were actually cashed in. Interesting, huh? It rather proved my point: Giveaways do not generate sales.
Reevaluate Your Expectations
So should we give up on giveaways altogether? Not at all. I read a post from one fellow who did this very same Goodreads experiment, only on a much larger scale and with a different motivation. He offered every single person who signed up for his Goodreads giveaway a free download of his book afterward, hoping to get some reviews posted on the site. Did you catch that? His motivation was not sales, it was reviews, and he was successful. Out of several hundred contacts, he ended up with a good handful of reviews. I forget the number, exactly, but it was like 20 or 30, I believe. That's not bad. And that brings me to my final point: Giveaways can indirectly influence sales.
Let's go back up to that first statement: "Giveaways are a great way to generate interest and spread the word about your book." After my disappointments, I realized there is actually a lot of truth in there. Giveaways are effective, but they aren't the microwave recipe I thought they'd be. Rather, they're a slow cooked meal.
In marketing, I've learned there is a "Rule of Seven." It states that in general, a consumer must be exposed to a product seven times before they purchase it. That's why those Subway ads ran again and again and again during the Olympics. The franchise marketing team has this figured out. And do you know what? After a few days of watching the games, I had to go out and try the new avocado topping on my favorite ham and provolone sub. (It's delicious, by the way!)
Giveaways work in the same way. Each feature, each review, each giveaway is one more t.v. commercial. It's a seed planted. Few readers will buy on the first exposure, so an author must be patient, must keep planting, must keep giving away. Eventually the hard work will pay off.
Effective Giveaways
So abandon the thought that throwing a few free copies before the masses will make you rich and famous. It won't. You have to get more strategic than that. Here are a few ways to make giveaways work for you:
1. Give books away to blog reviewers. If enough people leave enough varying viewpoints in key locations, they will influence buyers. They'll serve as proof that someone out there was glad they took a chance on your book. Even a few negative reviews can be useful by showing genuine reactions and boosting curiosity. And, hey, it's spreading the word.
2. Set the first book in a series free. I haven't tried this yet, but I've heard lots of success stories. It's sort of like baiting a fishing line. Lots of folks will pick up a freebie. If the book is well written, many will swallow the hook and move on to purchase book two, then three, then…you get the idea. I have set single titles free on Amazon temporarily to boost the sale of other single titles and had modest success. Since KDP, however, this hasn't worked as well. The method seems more reliable with a series.
3. Create related content and give it away. This could include a short story featuring some of your characters, or additional scenes. Bonus material. (Think movie special features and deleted scenes.) This type of content won't take nearly as long to put together as a novel. You simply want to create an appetizer that will draw people to your main course.
As a former teacher who now writes for kids, I like to put together a collection of materials (study questions, links, vocab, extension ideas) for each of my novels that educators might find useful in the classroom. The paperbacks have a price tag, but I make digital versions free on Smashwords and Barnes and Noble. So far one has gone free on Amazon as well. As soon as it did, I started selling more copies of that novel.
4. I've even seen the first several chapters of a book published as an ebook and used as a free preview (though I didn't know it when I downloaded it and was angry when I found out and refused to buy it, so if you take this road, LET YOUR READERS KNOW WHAT THEY'RE GETTING).
5. And finally…well, I do have one more specific idea for using giveaways to good advantage. I have been thinking on this all spring and summer, so it is a really good one. One I'm going to put into practice very soon. But I want to discuss freebies a little further before I unveil it. Tune in next week. In the meantime…
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The Xena Reboot: A Fantasy Cast
Xena Warrior Princess has some of the most devoted fans anywhere, and one of her biggest fans - our very own Kate Blake - is here to tell us who she thinks should be cast in a Xena reboot.
How Can A True Xenite Imagine Anyone Else Taking Over?
Anyone who knows me at all knows I am a big Xena Warrior Princess fan and I am frequently updating my Xena fantasy team.
Not because I don't want the original cast back. I would, of course, have them all back and love it!
The thing is, I can't help but get the impression that, perhaps, the cast themselves aren't as keen to come back for a full season, let alone more. In at least one interview, when asked about returning to the role, Lucy Lawless stated that she wants to get Xena's head stuck back on, pretend the cremation never happened or was someone/thing else, and that the quest ultimately ends in them handing over to a new Warrior Princess.
My fantasy for the reboot is outlined in my previous post which includes a passing of the torch scenario so the original cast can have one last proper send off.
So, hopefully the more hard core among you will be able to forgive me for promoting Lucy Lawless to the Warrior Queen, and indulging in my own casting for the next in line.
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I'm not familiar with Lily Rabe or Emmanuelle Vaugier, but I like all of the other suggestions.
Of course, much like the original series, I'm hopeful that they will find a diamond in the rough to play Xena.
And, as much as I would be happy to see a POC cast as Xena and/or Gabrielle, I selfishly hope that they choose actors with similar colouring and physiques to Lucy Lawless and Renee O'Connor so that we could potentially have a three-episode event in the future where Xena and Gabrielle from the future (i.e. Lawless and O'Connor) travel to the past and encounter their younger selves (or some other fantastic premise involving parallel dimensions or alternate realities).
Lily Rabe is a genius idea. I can't decide if I want her as Xena or Gabrielle, though. Luke Colter as Ares is great too.
Anders Holm could be Joxer. He does idiotic well on Workoholics.
My Xena Fantasy Team :
Lily Rabe??? She is a great actress but physically talking she doesn't looks like a Warrior.
Xena – Eliza Dushku. Pros: Very Good actress, Beautiful, Athletic Body. Cons: She is not tall (1.65 m)
Xena – Gina Carano. Pros: Beautiful, Athletic Body, 1.73m height (Lucy Lawless is 1.77m height), she began to act in 2009 and she is very talented. Physically talking she really looks like a Warrior Princess must looks like. Gina has all the necessary to be Xena. Cons: Not cons.
Gabrielle : Anna Sophia Robb, she is a Great actress, natural blonde, Beautiful. I really love the sweetness in her eyes. She would be the perfect Gabrielle.
Ares : Jason Momoa would be incredible in this character.
Autolycus : No idea
Joxer : No Idea
The first season should focus on Xena's origin. Xena's rise to becoming the Conquerer of Nations. It should showcase her relationship with her brothers/mother and her leaving her village, etc. Also Xena destroying the Amazons and her encounter with Alti and Ares would play a part too. and Xena's destruction of Calisto's village. So it should be a young Xena. I think Lucy Lawless would be amazing as Alti. The season would end with Hercules destroying her army. The first season should even be called "Xena: The Conquerer of Nations" and the 2nd season "Xena: The Warrior Princess", every season should have its own title (Like Spartacus) so, there shouldn't be any Gabrielle, or Joxer, or Calisto, they should only come in at the 2nd season. and her Chakram should be introduced only mid season.. its origin should also be there and her first time using it.
and I think Caesar maybe shouldn't even be in it at all.. only because in History, he only comes later.. they should keep Xena in the Bronze Age, unless she time travels.. what's the point of rebooting if its going to be exactly the same? maybe this one should be darker, more gore, more realism and not cheap. I hope NBC spends good money on it.. I think Xena should have went to Starz.. but lets hope NBC keeps it at a quality level..
at least, that's my 50 cents on the subject 🙂
Wth are these people sayin? ONLY LUCY LAWLESS is XENA!
Michael Cera as Joxer!!!
DJ Qualls as Joxer. LOL
If I were to cast someone as Ares, it'd probably be between Stephen Amell and Kellan Lutz, or Jason Mamoa, but Amell is already doing Arrow…


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"School officials in Tangipahoa Parish habitually show disdain for the Constitution, while disrespecting the right of parents, who happen to be Catholic in this case, to choose the religious tradition in which to raise their children," said Joe Cook, the ACLU executive director for Louisiana."I really dislike Joe Cook. He sued the Governor's Program on Abstinence (GPA) back when I worked for the GPA for the mere fact that it was a non-bias program that allowed anyone and everyone to start a GPA Club in their school, church, or even house if they wanted too. Cook even went as far as to say the GPA was using government funds to promote religion by having articles and links on the "news" page of the GPA website that connected to religious sites. Some people just take this seperation of church and state thing a little too far. Joe Cook is one of them, eventhough he does have some valid points at times.
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Season Ends for H.S. Basketball Teams After Brawl
The Indiana High School Athletic Association brought an abrupt end to the seasons of two high school basketball teams after a benches-clearing brawl between the squads caused the cancellation of a game this past weekend.
The association announced on Tuesday that all regular-season games for the boys' basketball teams from Hammond High School and Griffith High School have been cancelled, with each school forced to pay a $500.00 forfeiture fee for each remaining away contest on the teams' schedules. Both teams are also suspended from participating in the state basketball tournament, and shall not receive any revenue from this year's tournament, either.
Additionally, all varsity student-athletes on both teams must complete the "Sportsmanship" course on the National Federation of State High School Associations' website, while each coach must complete the "Teaching and Modeling Behavior" course. Both teams will be placed on probation for the entire 2015-16 school year, which signifies that "serious violations have occurred, are a matter of record and future, similar incidents will not be tolerated." If either team gets into additional trouble, it could lead to their entire school being suspended from the state high school association.
On Saturday, with Griffith leading 4-0 early in the game, Hammond's Tim Echoles shoved Griffith's Anthony Murphy in the back as he drove in for an easy fast-break layup, per The Indianapolis Star. The push sent the Griffith player head-first into the wall, which caused coaches and players to leave their benches to diffuse the situation. Unfortunately, some fans also spilled onto the court, and things spiraled out of control from there, with punches being thrown.
The Times of Northwest Indiana captured video of the brawl:
"You can't take a shot at a kid like that," Griffith coach Gary Hayes told The Times after the brawl. "Somebody's going to get hurt real bad."
Officials ultimately called the game at 4-0, with police having to break up the fracas. The IHSAA decided Tuesday to rule the contest as a double forfeit.
Police obtained footage of the brawl Saturday night to determine whether they could identify any adults coming onto the floor, per The Times. Hammond's athletic director, Larry Moore Sr., told the paper that his school is planning on filing charges against an adult who allegedly struck one of Hammond's players.
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I got to do an OWS practice at Cowell Beach in Santa Cruz last Friday! We practiced the loop we will be swimming for Tri Santa Cruz!
[Photo credit: Linh]
I always feel like a black ant when I wear the wetsuit and black swim cap. Anyways, it was super nice to swim there (and there were no waves that were knocking us around, so that was a nice bonus).
What a great OWS!
Afterwards, we went for a ride around the Tri Santa Cruz biking loop, and I was relieved to find that the course is relatively easy (no big hills) and I think I'm ready to go for the Tri this weekend!
On Saturday, I woke up early and had the pleasure of running a 5K with my trail friend, Sarah!
This was her first ever race, and we decided on the Brazen Summer Breeze 5K (for its flat course and cool weather).
I was a semi-pacer… this was a benchmark race, so we weren't really sure what a good 5K pace would be. We'll figure a specific pace for next time 🙂
Goodness, it was so exciting to see Sarah run as hard as she could and finish strong at the very end!
And her boyfriend Paul was awaiting at the finish line to celebrate her accomplishment!
Congrats to all the 5K, 10K, and half marathon finishers! (Ran into Eric during and after the race):
Right after the race, I went over to Campbell Community Park to spectate. Our church was participating in a volleyball tournament.
Check out my boyfriend and his mad hops:
I love spectating, and it was so great to watch our church members play hard out there!
I will be going down to Santa Cruz today to lead a workshop on health! Our church youth campers and counselors are there right now. I hope and pray that they are being filled and saturated with the Holy Spirit!
These are my little sisters:
And my beautiful siblings who are counseling and volunteering for the first time this year:
I miss them… they are going to become new creations, totally changed from the inside out!
Anything highlights to share from the weekend?
In a triathlon, what would be your weakest leg (swim/bike/run)? [Biking is my weakest leg for suresies]


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In 1852-3 a Richard Docwra was listed in a London Trade Directory as a water pipe layer and contractor. Between 1854-6 his address was shown as Eagle Wharf Road in London. In 1857 Thomas Docwra is listed at Cowley Wharf, Eagle Wharf Road, and Waltham Cross, Herts.
Eagle Wharf Road is alongside the Regents Canal which links to the Thames at Limehouse basin to the south, and which northwards joins the mail line of the Grand Union Canal at Bull's Bridge junction. Between Eagle Wharf Road and Limehouse Basin is the junction with the Hertford Union Canal which links the Regents Canal and the Lee Navigation (River Lee). From this junction it is only 11 miles up river to Waltham Cross.
By 1858 Thomas Docwra had moved around a mile northwards to Balls Pond Road where the firm (which became Thos Docwra & Son in 1865) stayed until it ceased business in 1922. There are directory entries for Thos Docwra at 114 Balls Pond Road, 1 King Henry's Walk and Docwra's Buildings.


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Being Single At Christmas
We seem to fall into two camps at this festive time of year. We either love it or loathe it and that's about the sum of it. I love it and I know plenty who don't!
We can pile a whole lot of pressure on ourselves when we have certain expectations for how we or things should be at this time of year. This can feel overwhelming, especially when we're unhappily single. Everyone seems excited about the party season, getting dressed up, partying, dancing and perhaps having one too many celebratory drinks. If we're on social media the pressure can feel even greater...it seems everyone is having a good time and we're not.
We start looking inward and wondering how life would be better…we play the 'if only' game.
If only I were in a relationship…
If only I lived somewhere more lively…
If only I looked different…
If only I didn't feel so hopeless about meeting new people...
I've been there and know that feeling. And, it's not helpful to pursue that path of self judgment and criticism even though it feels the most natural thing to be doing.
When we stop and see that the pressures and expectations are coming not from the outside world (although it certainly looks that way) we can get a different perspective. The pressures we feel are only ever coming from our own thinking about how we think it should be, or how we think we should be. The expectations are ones we've created ourselves. When I saw this, it changed my attitude and state of mind completely.
Of course it looks like the grass is always greener on the other side. I do understand that. I also read something a while ago that stated that the grass is greener where it's watered. I like that metaphor and I wonder how it might apply to you right now during this festive season if things aren't as you'd hope they'd be.
The suffering and stress we cause ourselves is always because of wishing something was different. We miss out on what is going well in our lives when our mind is racing back through past experiences or living in a made up fantasy future of 'life will be better when…'.
So what can you see differently right now? What can you celebrate about your life right now...it can be the smallest thing. I wonder how you could go easy on yourself, see that what you're feeling is perfectly normal and human. We all go through our own times of being very very human. What is you relaxed into life a little more and spent more time living it rather than being in your thinking.
And you know what? There's a lot to be said for curling up on the sofa with a glass of wine and a box of chocolates and your favourite book or film!
Just a suggestion and one I often need to hear for myself!


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Silent No Longer: Confronting Sexual Violence in the Left
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For too long sexual violence survivors have been sacrificed at the altar of movement building. This approach has a massively destructive impact on survivors, but it also prevents us from creating the kind of movements that we need. We must create social movements which build the revolutionary collective power of the working classes to confront all systems of oppression and exploitation. But to do this we need to start practicing what we preach. We need to challenge misogynist attitudes about sexual violence within our midst and create enduring structures which allow us to support survivors and hold perpetrators to account. Only then can we genuinely claim to be fighting for anarchism and social justice.
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by Bruno Sun Mar 30, 2014 04:17
Hello comrade , sorry for my english
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I know that rape is not just penetration, but she says it happened in his accusation.
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Kids are different on vacation than they are in their normal environment.My teen daughter has two very close friends, and the three of them are kind of inseparable.
Kid A (Radiohead fans? ) has been friends with my daughter since birth. Kid A is relatively level-headed, well-mannered, knows how to act properly in public, and requires no more supervision than my own daughter would. That is to say, "not much".
Kid B is a nice kid, but she comes from a much different background. Family is a little "rough around the edges" (at least, in our opinion), and has a different perspective on what's allowable public behavior and what is not. Kid A is kind of manic and can be unpredictable. Tends to deviate from instructions. Yells at the top of her lungs a lot at inappropriate times. We're not huge sticklers on cursing, but Kid B sometimes does so, loudly, in front of our younger kids. Never deliberately, never maliciously - she's just been raised by parents with different sensibilities. In short, while Kid A is a good friend to our daughter, we nonetheless find her to be a "handful" to deal with, especially in public.
We are very close with Kid A and want to invite her on our next cruise. We like Kid B, too, but we really don't want to invite her, because it will not be a relaxing trip for us if we are constantly needing to redirect her behavior.
That said, we don't want to hurt Kid B's feelings by being excluded. My daughter recognizes and agrees with our concerns, but worries about harming her relationship with Kid B. It would be impossible to take Kid A without Kid B finding out, and we don't want to ask anyone to lie.
The two obvious solutions are to either a.) take neither Kid A nor Kid B, and avoid the issue altogether; or b.) just bite the bullet and take both of them. But I'd like to come up with a third option where we take Kid A without making Kid B feel bad.
I know everyone's different, and will have different opinions on stuff like this, but I'm guessing some of you have faced similar situations. How would you address to let down Kid B as easily as possible?
We brought DD's BFF to Disney, and we really regret it. Turns out that the girl who was awesome on sleepovers and day trips became a real annoying handful on a 10-day vacation in WDW. All of the conversations, group planning sessions, menu viewing, and trips to the Travel Agent did nothing to prepare us for extended time with her. Her personality changed dramatically. Her behavior became erratic. We bent over backwards to accommodate her needs, but she was still difficult. By the time we got home, the friendship was over.
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Stirling is a beautiful city. It's full of old buildings, cobbled streets, castles, monuments and you can see The Highlands on the horizon when you climb up high. It's a small city in comparison to some of the cities in England and definitely in comparison to Glasgow and Edinburgh. Stirling was the capital city of Scotland way way back in the past, it's often referred to as the ancient capital of Scotland, which will give you an idea of how long ago that was. Since then in terms of culinary offerings Glasgow and Edinburgh have far surpassed as they have done in size and population. Stirling seems to have quite a few tearooms and the odd chain restaurant thrown in there. I feel that I was lucky on my last visit to Scotland to happen upon a Henderson's Bistro, which was literally opposite to where we had parked. This time I struggled to find somewhere that grabbed my fancy for lunch. Due to it's historical connections it has a lot of tourists (namely Chinese/Japanese/Americans) and I was reluctant to fall in to a tourist trap. Local blogs, websites and (in desperation) Tripadvisor was of no use and so I would have to use the old method of happening upon a place to eat as I passed on the street. Shock. Horror.
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Broomhall Castle - Menstrie (near Stirling, Scotland)
I wanted to book a castle for D's 30th birthday last year, but unfortunately all the castles I'd looked at were hitting the £250 mark per night. This was a little more than I could budget at the time as we were in the process of buying our first house and everything else to put in it too.To make up for a 30th birthday of unpacking boxes I decided that D's 31st was going to be extra special and I planned a trip away to Scotland. I've been to The Highlands before but D hasn't and I just knew he would love it as much as I do. To make sure we saw as much as Scotland as possible we decided to stay in a few locations, it would also break up the long drive from Leeds. On the way back I was debating whether to stay in Edinburgh or Glasgow. I pondered briefly over Stirling. When D saw a picture of the Wallace Monument (he loves Braveheart) it became set in stone that we would stay in Stirling on the way home.
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