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SPECIAL REPORT: Seeking a New World : 2: Can Universal Democracy Work? : Freedom hasn't brought instant prosperity and contentment. Now some say that the Western mode of government needs renewal. - Los Angeles Times
SPECIAL REPORT: Seeking a New World : 2: Can Universal Democracy Work? : Freedom hasn’t brought instant prosperity and contentment. Now some say that the Western mode of government needs renewal.
By all rights, Yuri Shchekochikhin, a 39-year-old Russian playwright, should be a very happy man. His plays are winning wide acclaim; the newspaper column he writes is avidly read. He has even been elected to the new Soviet Parliament. Most important, his ardent cause--the advent of democracy--is closer to fruition than ever before.
“The situation is terrible,” he declared, chain-smoking his way down Kalinina Prospekt, one of Moscow’s tree-lined boulevards. “I am worried about a right-wing coup, a military coup. . . . We are heading for terrible trouble.”
Russians simply are not ready for democracy, the new Parliament member complained. His constituents besiege him for help in getting jobs, or apartments, or telephones. “People here still want a good czar to fix everything,” he said.
These should be heady days for Moscow’s democrats. The city is a madcap bazaar of new political movements, from Liberal Democrats, Social Democrats, Christian Democrats and Constitutional Democrats to Monarchists, Pacifists, Greens and even Blues (“the color of outer space,” an official explained).
And the Russians aren’t alone. Around the world, from Prague’s Hradcany Castle to the Royal Palace of Katmandu, an extraordinary uprising of popular will has swept communist and other authoritarian governments from power, seemingly resolving the central political struggle of the 20th Century in favor of capitalism and democracy. But instead of a golden age of stable, humane politics, most newly democratic countries find themselves beset by insecurity and fear.
In Latin America, rightist dictatorships have given way to popularly elected presidents, only to see democracy’s luster dimmed by economic stagnation. In Eastern Europe, a string of communist dictatorships have fallen, but some countries are already feeling what a leader of Poland’s Solidarity movement called “the totalitarian temptation.”
“The tide is coming in now; I think the tide will go out,” said Brent Scowcroft, President Bush’s national security adviser. “A lot of (the new democracies) will not survive the strains of societies trying to cope with very difficult problems.”
* From the Soviet Union to the Middle East and Asia, democracy’s tolerance for pluralism and diversity often collides with religious beliefs and other traditional values--sometimes bending democratic principles into almost unrecognizable shapes. Russia, for example, appears headed down a zigzag path toward a Slavic combination of democracy and authoritarianism; other Soviet republics may invent their own variations, too. One consequence: ideological friction among nations, while less acute than during the Cold War, is unlikely to disappear.
* Even in the stable and prosperous West, there’s a growing consensus that democracy needs renewal, but no agreement on how to go about it. In parts of Western Europe, the radical right and the radical left have shown worrisome bursts of strength. And in the United States, polls find Americans troubled by the shortcomings of their own political system. On both continents, new movements and pressure groups are seeking to make government more responsive.
The old political alignments are taking new forms, from Russia’s Democrats, Greens and Blues to Israel’s Zionists--from South Africa’s white minority to the Arab world’s Muslim majority.
“As long as people are people, democracy, in the full sense of the word, will always be no more than an ideal,” Czechoslovakia’s President Vaclav Havel said in his speech to the U.S. Congress last February. “One can approach it as one would the horizon in ways that may be better or worse, but it can never be fully attained. In this sense, you, too, are merely approaching democracy.”
ON THE RACK OF ECONOMIC DESPAIR
With luck, Daman Dhungane, a middle-aged lawyer from Katmandu, may some day be remembered as the James Madison of the Himalayas. A member of the commission that drafted the first democratic constitution for Nepal’s 1,200-year-old monarchy, he trekked from jungle valleys to the slopes of Mt. Everest asking his countrymen what their charter should say.
He got responses Madison never contemplated.
“All they say is ‘Airplanes,’ ” Dhungane recalled. “Everyone wants an airfield and an airplane, plus seeds and fertilizer. How can we write that into the constitution?”
Dhungane’s dilemma is emblematic of a predicament facing many of the world’s new democracies: From Asia to the Andes, citizens want fundamental liberties, but they often judge a government first on how well it delivers the goods--airplanes and fertilizer, jobs and prosperity.
From that standpoint, the new democracies face tough times.
Throughout the 20th Century, when economic troubles hit countries with weak democratic institutions, the result was frequently democracy’s collapse. The regimes that followed were authoritarian and sometimes bellicose--from Germany’s Hitler to Latin America’s generals.
Nowhere is the problem more stark--or more heartbreaking--than in Poland and Argentina, whose peoples struggled to escape from tyranny, only to be handed the painful legacy of economic misrule.
In both countries, the old political struggle between left and right has been put aside. Now, the question is whether citizens will keep faith in democracy through hard times, or surrender to the promises of new authoritarian demagogues.
Poland opened the way for democracy in Eastern Europe through the epic, decade-long struggle of the Solidarity movement. Now, a little more than a year after its triumph, economic hardship has stripped democracy of some of its allure.
An economic austerity program, after an initial period of success, stunned Poles with its severity; more than 1 million found themselves suddenly unemployed, and the price of bread more than tripled. Almost overnight, the language of politics changed from celebration to recrimination.
“What shape will political life take here?” asked Adam Michnik, one of Solidarity’s leading intellectuals. “It will not be . . . the rebuilding of a Western European state with division into left and right. It will be a conflict of two political cultures: on one side the culture of European liberalism and the other, nationalist, authoritarian and conservative.”
Indeed, Solidarity split in two along the lines Michnik predicted. And the movement’s charismatic leader, Lech Walesa, successfully ran for president on a populist platform that, to some, seemed tinged with authoritarian zeal.
“Today, when we are changing the system, we need a president with an ax: decisive, tough, straightforward,” Walesa declared. The president, he said, should be able to issue decrees without waiting for Parliament to act: “I would save half of Poland if I had such powers.”
Another candidate, Polish-Canadian entrepreneur Stanislaw Tyminski, campaigned for “a democracy of money.”
Only one candidate, Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki, called for both scrupulous adherence to democratic processes and perseverance with the economic austerity plan. The voters rejected him.
Elsewhere in Eastern Europe, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, which had longer histories of democracy before World War II, are suffering the same ills, only to a lesser degree. Bulgaria, Romania and Yugoslavia, with a more meager democratic heritage, are doing even worse.
At a personal level, many Eastern Europeans seem ill-prepared for the risks that capitalism imposes.
“Maybe it’s all gone too fast,” fretted Hans-Joachim Rockstroh, who is trying to turn his East Berlin typewriter-repair shop into a business that can compete in the new Germany. A few doors down, he noted, the neighborhood handyman tried to turn his tinker shop into a Western-style retail outlet and failed. “He didn’t have any business for four weeks,” Rockstroh said. “He tried to hang himself.”
“The rope broke,” he added.
Far across the Atlantic from Eastern Europe, South America is waging its own struggle to stay democratic. A continent once run by so many generals that military rule became known as “the Latin model” now boasts an unbroken string of elected civilian governments. And after a long wave of economic disasters turned the 1980s into what Latins call “the Lost Decade,” most governments--whatever their original political stripe--now proclaim that protectionism and state management of the economy were wrong.
“We in South America are enacting a true epic,” said Argentina’s former president, Raul Alfonsin, who restored democracy after seven years of military rule.
“This has occurred in the framework of the worst (economic) crisis we have suffered in this century. This thoroughly gives the lie to those who suggest that democracy is not viable in countries that don’t have a given level of well-being or economic growth.”
But the democracy Alfonsin restored in Argentina is now in danger of collapsing because of economic chaos. Last year, inflation soared to more than 3,000%, hungry mobs looted supermarkets, and Alfonsin lost his bid for reelection.
His successor, the populist Carlos Saul Menem, launched economic reforms so stringent that they shocked his own followers. Menem’s program initially drove inflation down to only 5% per month--but then, just as in Poland, conditions turned worse again. Today, inflation is back up to 15% per month and thousands of Argentines are applying to emigrate back to Spain and Italy, the countries their grandparents left in search of a better life.
“There is a danger that behind this disenchantment there could come . . . a pre-Nazi climate, a climate that would allow all the authoritarian sectors to move us backward,” Alfonsin said sadly.
Political scientist Atilio Boron is more bitter. “You can save democracy only when you can show that democracy matters and that democracy works,” he said. “Alfonsin said that with democracy, people would eat, people would find their (kidnapped) children and people would be cured. None of that came true. . . . Democracy for us has been nothing.
“If democracy does not work in Latin America, then the way is open for fundamentalist messianic leadership . . . an ultra-nationalist right-wing movement,” he said.
In 1981, after Argentina’s generals led the country into a disastrous war with Britain over the Falkland Islands, the nation rejected military dictatorship. But now the military is restive again; only last week, rebel troops attempted a coup d’etat--the fourth such uprising since democracy’s return.
The fastest-growing party in Argentina today is the rightist Republican Force led by retired Gen. Antonio Domingo Bussi.
In 1984, Bussi was charged with ordering the summary execution of political prisoners during the military dictatorship. He was never tried. In 1989, his party won 10 of 20 contested seats in a provincial assembly in northwest Argentina.
“This battered society has said enough is enough,” the general proclaimed. “There is no stopping us now.”
DEMOCRACY, EASTERN STYLE
It was one of the most democratic elections ever held in the Arab world. The campaigning was spirited; the vote count was honest. For the first time, women were allowed to vote. The winner: an alliance of Islamic fundamentalists who believe democracy is legitimate only if it obeys the dictates of the Holy Koran.
The members of Jordan’s new Parliament, elected in that vote last year, promised to respect democracy, Islam and the monarchy of King Hussein, all at the same time. Most of them also openly rejected secular, Western values--the values most Americans think of as part and parcel of democracy.
“We accept democracy,” said Laith Shubeilat, a soft-spoken civil engineer who is one of the newly elected fundamentalists. “We do not accept liberal democracy. . . . The values of society should be Islamic.”
One of the basic goals of Islamic democracy, he said, is to make Muslim values the moral standards of Jordanian society and Muslim religious law the basis of civil jurisprudence. Otherwise, he complained in a thoroughly modern metaphor: “We are Muslim hardware being reprogrammed to carry Western software.”
From Muslim Jordan to Buddhist Burma, ordinary people have stood up with courage and persistence to demand the same things: democratic government and an economy that works. But while the demand has been universal, the chosen solutions are not.
As a result, in the decade ahead, the banner of democracy may unfurl over forms of government the West will find hard to accept or even understand.
In much of Asia, Africa and the Middle East, the democratic ideals first developed in 18th Century America and Europe still conflict with more traditional views of life. In the Middle East, the main political struggle is not between left and right, but between Islamic and secular. In East Asia, it is between the Confucian tradition of hierarchical authority and newer, more populist challenges. In Africa, it is between tribal and nationalist forms of political life.
In the Soviet Union, where the stakes are highest of all, the contest is between the traditional Russian desire for a strong central authority and the growing centrifugal tendencies toward pluralism.
“Right now, we’re in a wave of democratic advances,” Scowcroft said. “I don’t think they’ll last everywhere, because there are many societies, in many parts of the world, in which a society based on the individual . . . is kind of anathema. An individual is nothing as an individual; he only gets identity as part of a group of some kind or another, whether it’s religious or cultural or ethnic. So I’m not sure that democracy is going to sweep the world.”
“The American model is a model that will not function in certain countries,” said Valery Giscard d’Estaing, the former president of France. “The universal values will be values of liberty. But the organization of power can be on very different models.”
In China, the demonstrators who occupied Beijing’s Tien An Men Square in 1989 erected a statue of the goddess of liberty--but their vision differed from that of demonstrators in Prague and Berlin.
“I believe the form of pluralism most suited to stable change (in China) is not the multiparty system of the West, but rather a ‘regional pluralism’ that would evolve along ethnic and regional lines,” wrote Li Xianglu, a reformer who now teaches at Malibu’s Pepperdine University.
In Africa, strongmen from Zaire’s Mobutu Sese Seko on the right to Mozambique’s Joaquim Chissano on the left are moving haltingly toward multiparty systems. But they appear to be developing a distinctly African hybrid that relies on an autocratic president to maintain a balance among rival tribal groups.
“The idea of the nation (in Africa) . . . still will need time to consolidate,” explained Luis Bernardo Honwana, Mozambique’s minister of culture.
In the Islamic world, the burgeoning Muslim fundamentalist movement has won elections in Tunisia and Algeria as well as Jordan--with no intrinsic commitment to liberal, secular democracy at all.
“There is no single Islam: there is regressive Islam, reactionary Islam, progressive Islam--all sorts of Islam,” said Essam Montasser, an economist at the American University of Cairo. “There isn’t one single democracy: there is regressive democracy, corrupt democracy, progressive democracy, efficient democracy. . . . Democracy has many shapes.”
But the test of democracy in which the world holds the greatest stake is the Soviet Union. A millennium of Russian history offers nothing resembling democracy save nine chaotic months in 1917, and that interlude was cut off by the Bolshevik founders of the present regime.
Insulated from the rationalistic and humanitarian precepts of the Enlightenment, Moscow’s sprawling empire became an ironbound collection of authoritarian cultures.
Even today’s drive toward democracy was ordered from above, in good Russian fashion, by a sometime-strongman named Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
By its own historical standards, the Soviet Union has already become a very democratic place. The new Supreme Soviet, unlike its rubber-stamp namesake of old, has turned into a televised, sometimes-raucous town meeting at which Gorbachev draws fire from both left and right.
Grass-roots movements have halted nuclear weapons testing in Kazakhstan and blocked the construction of a power plant in Moscow. And the Soviet media routinely questions government policies and practices, even at the feared KGB.
But little of this may help the Russians build a stable democratic political system. Many are deeply skeptical of political pluralism and worried about the breakdown in order it might bring. At the beginning of 1990, only weeks before Gorbachev pushed through the constitutional changes to allow a multiparty system, pollster Nikolai Popov found that almost two-thirds of ordinary Russians were cool to the idea.
“Only 27% wanted a multiparty system for the sake of democracy,” he said.
The problem, said Vyacheslav N. Shostakovsky, leader of a reformist group of former communists, is that Soviet citizens simply don’t know what democracy is.
“Soviet society is turning its back on Marxism-Leninism, but at the same time it needs a new religion, a civil religion,” he said. “No wonder. There has been an ideological brainwashing which has affected millions of people over decades. . . . Everybody here wants a party to lead him by the hand.”
On the extreme right, he noted, democratization has had an unforeseen side effect: the resurrection of fascist, anti-Semitic and extreme nationalist groups.
“They can exploit sentiment toward minorities and Jews--and there is the old Russian idea of empire,” Shostakovsky said.
Others have forecast a form of rough democracy tied to traditional Russian nationalism, with the Russian Orthodox Church playing a major role. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the exiled novelist, recently proposed a revival of the Zemstvos, local councils that existed in czarist times as the core of a partly democratic, partly aristocratic system.
Russia “does need democracy and needs it badly,” Solzhenitsyn wrote in an essay published in Soviet newspapers in September. “But given our lack of preparation for the complications of democratic life, it should be built little by little, from the bottom up.”
What finally emerges, French social historian Emmanuel Todd suggests, may be a kind of hybrid: “a liberal facade on an authoritarian population.”
“I don’t think (Gorbachev’s reforms) mean that the traditional authoritarian aspect of Russian culture has dissipated,” he said. “I’m quite sure they are going to produce something intermediate. I think their conversion to democracy is sort of instrumental; they are converting to liberal democracy because it works, not because they love it.”
Even if a new Russian democracy is rooted firmly in Slavic tradition, it will face the daunting challenge of remaking an economy that is sinking toward collapse.
Many Soviets, from top politicians to ordinary citizens, warn that unless the economy improves quickly, social disorders--from the “cigarette rebellions” in towns hit by shortages of tobacco to strikes by coal miners and oil workers--could endanger the process of political reform.
“We could see a major breakdown of the existing industrial system,” warned Vladimir Tikhonov, a leading reform economist.
“The question of where we will be in five years depends on whether we manage to carry out privatization and create a system of free enterprise,” he said. “If yes, then by five years from now we’ll be at the level of the medium-developed countries of Europe. If not, we will slide down into poverty--and our president will have to rule us through the military, through martial law.”
STIRRINGS ON THE FRINGE
In an old five-story apartment building at 122 Weitlingstrasse in what was once the communist half of Berlin, the leaders of Germany’s newest political movement meet behind reinforced doors. Their headquarters’ narrow entryway is filled with shiny new rolls of barbed wire; steel grates lean against a wall, ready as instant barricades.
Officially, the members call their movement “National Alternative.” But almost everyone in the neighborhood calls them by their old name: Nazis.
Its members are young and disaffected, like the Nazis of an earlier era. And while no one expects National Alternative to win any elections, few expect them to disappear soon, either.
“The potential in (the former) East Germany today for people on the right and people who think in terms of nationalism is very big,” declares Andreas Richard, a 20-year-old machinist who is a member of National Alternative’s ruling council.
Berlin has been reunited for only a year, but the city is already showing signs of the same polarization that divided it in the 1920s. For every neo-Nazi cell there is an equally eccentric leftist faction, from anarchists to radical Greens.
Rightists and leftists regularly trade punches in the streets, in a dim echo of the political brawls of their grandfathers’ day. Last April, on Hitler’s 101st birthday, small mobs of rightists smashed shop windows, stormed a homosexual bar and harassed foreign tourists; a few weeks later, leftists attacked National Alternative’s headquarters in Weitlingstrasse.
On paper, the Germans of 1990 have everything: roaring prosperity, a stable democracy and, now, reunification. So why are some of them unhappy with the new post-modern order?
Spokesmen for the neo-Nazis, the anarchists and radical Greens offer vaguely similar answers, despite enormous differences in their ideologies: somehow, parliamentary democracy doesn’t satisfy all the hungers of people caught up in a confusing, changing world. Some Europeans still yearn for causes and ideologies more consuming than market capitalism.
“I think 10 years from now we will need to have gone through a real re-evaluation of our current values,” said Vera Wollenberger, a Greens leader who was active in the movement that toppled the East German communist regime. Eventually, she said, “I think we will experience a similar collapse of the capitalist system.”
That may take some time: In the recent German election, the “fringe” parties came up with their lowest vote in a decade. On the left, the Greens won only 3.9% of the vote; on the right, the nationalist Republican Party took only 2.1%.
But no one is counting them out for good. And the upsurge of extremist politics is not confined to Germany. In France, the rightist National Front won almost 12% of the vote in elections for the European Parliament last year, largely by stirring hatred of non-European immigrants. In Italy, local neo-fascist parties have been gaining respectability and support. Even in the United States, former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke won a surprising 44% of the vote this year for a U.S. Senate seat from Louisiana.
There is more going on here than simple racism or xenophobia. French historian Emmanuel Todd believes these movements are, in large part, reactions to the larger strains of adjustment as societies move into the 21st Century. Paradoxically, he argues, as the traditional quarrels between left and right die down, fringe movements gain more support.
“The existence of the National Front (in France) is quite typical of the situation where the politics are becoming centrist,” he said. “The existence of the National Front . . . is not so much connected with the intensity of the immigration problem; it’s much more connected with the speed of the transformation in society itself.”
Both the new European right and the Greens, he suggested, have risen to provide “disoriented individuals and groups threatened by economic changes a chance to express their anguish.”
But there is yet a deeper problem, a philosophical one: is democracy satisfying to the soul?
The two totalitarian ideologies of the 20th Century, communism and fascism, were both utopian creeds born of dissatisfaction with the existing democratic order (abetted, of course, by economic distress). There are some who suggest that the same bleak mood could arise again.
“Liberalism has won, but it may be decisively unsatisfactory,” wrote Allan Bloom, the conservative social philosopher at the University of Chicago, referring to “liberalism” in the broad sense of democratic secularism.
“It appears that the world has been made safe for reason as understood by the market, and we are moving toward a global common market, the only goal of which is to minister to man’s bodily needs and whims,” he wrote.
And in such a future, he argued, a rebirth of fascism cannot be counted out. “If an alternative is sought there is nowhere else to seek it,” Bloom wrote. “I would suggest that fascism has a future, if not the future.”
Bloom’s gloom was prompted by the suggestion of Francis Fukuyama, a scholar at Santa Monica’s RAND Corp, that the triumph of democracy could mean that humanity has reached its final stage of development--or, as he titled a provocative essay, “The End of History?”
The highest form of human society, Fukuyama wrote puckishly, could be defined as “liberal democracy in the political sphere combined with easy access to VCRs and stereos in the economic.”
But Fukuyama admits that his venturesome theory could stumble on the philosophical question.
“Is life in liberal democracies going to be satisfying?” he mused. “If not, then history is going to continue.”
“The question is this: Is perfect security and material prosperity sufficient for people? Those have been fragile enough goals for all of human history thus far. The philosophical question will be: Is that what makes people happy? Or is it the struggle to get there that makes people happy?”
TRADING GOODS AND MONEY
Volume of global merchandise trade (goods) (1988):
$1.2 billion a day (or, $2.9 trillion a year)
Volume of global foreign exchange transactions (money) (1989):
$640 billion a day (or, $160 trillion a year)
Source: GATT, Bank for International Settlements
Top Recipients of U.S. Direct Investment, 1989
In billions, U.S. dollars.
*West Germany: 23
*Before reunification
WHO’S ‘BUYING UP AMERICA’?
Top 10 Foreign Investors in the United States, 1989
United Kingdom: $119 billion
Japan: $70
West Germany: $28
Switzerland: $19
France: $16
Netherlands Antilles: $11
South Africa: $6

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Edited: 2:40 am, July 29, 2013
1. Re: Darjeeling Update
Aug 02, 2013, 5:36 AM
Surfed over all the forums on Darjeeling stike and bandh situations. You, Sanchit were really instrumental in answering the queries and worries. I was upset as I thought my tour is about to get cancelled from 14th-19th August. Now i'm feeling that I can make it to Sikkim. I am reaching NJP on 15th Aug morning(Dibrugarh express) and return from NJP on 19th Aug night(Darjeeling Mail). Can you please suggest a small itenary for this span of Sikkim. Just one factor me and my wife do not want to visit a very lonely place but relatively lively place(yet not very crowded). Kindly suggest
2. Re: Darjeeling Update
Aug 02, 2013, 6:05 AM
15th NJP – Gangtok, handover the documents for N/Sikkim and Tsomgo-Nathula permit.
16th Gangtok - Nathula Pass, Baba Mandir and Tsomgo Lake
17th Gangtok – Lachung
18th Lachung – Yumthang- Gangtok
19th Gangtok - local sightseeing (half day) and return to NJP
Edited: 6:06 am, August 02, 2013
3. Re: Darjeeling Update
Aug 02, 2013, 9:16 PM
Yeah Abhirup no need to be upset. You can easily go ahead with the Sikkim plan and hopefully you will have an amazing time out there. Itinerary suggested by Mr. Ashis is perfect and have a good time out there.
4. Re: Darjeeling Update
Aug 03, 2013, 6:30 AM
If weather does not support much should i plan for gangtok and pelling since visiting places would be difficult?
5. Re: Darjeeling Update
Thanks for your update. I was supposed to go to darjeeling for four days reaching NJP on the 10th. That however appears to have been cancelled. It is possible to tarvel to gangtok by car now as various news networks are reporting NH31 is blocked ?
6. Re: Darjeeling Update
Aug 03, 2013, 9:36 PM
You have to chalk out the plan once you are there seeing the weather conditions. Not to worry. Lets hope you will get good weather.
7. Re: Darjeeling Update
Hi Abhinav B
Not heard about NH 31 getting blocked. Will have to check but as per my last information it was trouble free and you can go to Gangtok via that.
8. Re: Darjeeling Update
Aug 03, 2013, 9:54 PM
Removed on: 9:58 pm, August 03, 2013
9. Re: Darjeeling Update
Aug 04, 2013, 1:15 AM
As of today, there is no blockage on NH-31A. Sikkim bound vehicles are moving normally.
Edited: 1:16 am, August 04, 2013
10. Re: Darjeeling Update
Aug 04, 2013, 3:08 AM
Ashis Da and Sanchit now I got the idea..
1. Once I'm at NJP I'll head towards gangtok on 15th directly. Any rough idea on car fare?
2. Depending on weather and my choice I can plan for lachen/lachung.
3. Else I can stay for 2 days in gangtok and for a change move to pelling for 2 days.
Is that fine? I have few questions again. Sorry for being in confusion-
1.Wll it be ok to head from pelling directly to NJP on return date?
2.Where should I stay in pelling area ( lower/middle/upper). Any suggestion.
3. If I plan to go to lachen/lachung will I be able to plan it directly after reaching Gangtok. Will there be any problem with booking. Hotels available easily in lachen/lachung?
Suggestions for Tour plan darjeeling and gangtok in March 12:25 am
Stay in Tumling/Tonglu Dec 08, 2017

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Dortmund finally wins again in Stoeger's first game as... | Daily Mail Online
Published: 16:37 EDT, 12 December 2017 | Updated: 17:47 EDT, 12 December 2017
BERLIN (AP) - Borussia Dortmund finally ended its winless streak in the Bundesliga by beating Mainz 2-0 in Peter Stoeger's first game in charge on Tuesday.
Stoeger was sacked by Cologne the week before after his side failed to win in 13 Bundesliga games, but the Austrian coach is respected for leading Cologne to Bundesliga promotion in 2014 and overseeing steady progress in each of the following seasons - up to this one.
BAYERN'S CHANCE
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Baitul Mukarram Mosque is the National Mosque of Bangladesh. Baitul Mukarram was designed by the architect T Abdul Hussain Thariani and has several modern architectural features. It has found its place in the hearts of the Muslims because of the resemblance of its form to the famous Kaba at Mecca.
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Field Reports: Gir Lions Need Home
NEW DELHI: Environment minister A Raja says he will call Gujarat and MP ministers to further a long-pending plan to give the Gir lions a second home, this one in MP. If the ministry feels it necessary, it may request the PM to meet the two state chief ministers to push the plan.
Despite the regular reports of deaths from the Gir forests, the free-ranging Asiatic lion's last bastion in India, the Gujarat government has been refusing to share its pride.
The environment ministry isn't worried about the numbers at Gir; it's worried that "all the eggs are in one basket". If something happens in Gir, this would be the end of the species in India.
On Wednesday, Raja accepted there had been a conflict between the two states. "Despite every effort facilitated by the Union government, Gujarat has refused to give lions. We are pursuing this," he said.
Based on state estimates, the government believes there are nearly 330 lions in and around the Gir forests, sharing space with high-density populations of other large carnivores. Their concentration at one place makes them susceptible to any epidemic, any natural calamity.
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Patent US4092139 - Process for making colored photosensitive glass - Google PatentsSearch Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »Sign inAdvanced Patent SearchPatentsAn improvement upon the making of colored photosensitive glasses via the exposure thereof to high energy or actinic radiation followed by heat treatment thereof, the improvement comprising conducting the exposure of the glasses while such are at a temperature between about 200 410 developing color and...http://www.google.com/patents/US4092139?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US4092139 - Process for making colored photosensitive glassAdvanced Patent SearchPublication numberUS4092139 APublication typeGrantApplication numberUS 05/778,160Publication dateMay 30, 1978Filing dateMar 16, 1977Priority dateMar 16, 1977Also published asCA1099978A1, DE2800145A1Publication number05778160, 778160, US 4092139 A, US 4092139A, US-A-4092139, US4092139 A, US4092139AInventorsJoseph FerenceOriginal AssigneeCorning Glass WorksExport CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefManPatent Citations (6), Referenced by (18), Classifications (21) External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, EspacenetProcess for making colored photosensitive glassUS 4092139 AAbstract An improvement upon the making of colored photosensitive glasses via the exposure thereof to high energy or actinic radiation followed by heat treatment thereof, the improvement comprising conducting the exposure of the glasses while such are at a temperature between about 200 410 developing color and to produce colors of very high intensity.
I claim: 1. A method for making a glass article wherein at least a portion thereof is integrally colored by silver which consists of the steps:(a) melting a batch for a glass containing the constituents of alkali fluoride and the constituents of at least one silver halide selected from the group consisting of silver chloride, silver bromide, and silver iodide; (b) forming said melt into a glass article; (c) exposing at least a portion of said article at ambient temperature to high energy or actinic radiation; (d) heating at least said exposed portion of said article to a temperature between about the transformation range of the glass and the softening point thereof for a sufficient length of time to cause nucleation and growth of microcrystals of alkali fluoride containing at least one silver halide selected from the group consisting of silver chloride, silver bromide, and silver iodide; (e) re-exposing at least said portion of said glass article to high energy or actinic radiation while at least said portion is at a temperature below the transformation range of the glass that is at a temperature between about 200 metallic silver to be deposited as discrete colloidal particles less than 200A in the smallest dimension, and/or deposited within said microcrystals, the silver-containing part of the microcrystal being less than about 200A in the smallest dimension, and/or deposited on the surface of said microcrystals, the portion of the microcrystal coated with silver being less than about 200A in the smallest dimension, said microcrystals having a concentration of at least 0.005% by volume; and then (f) cooling said article to ambient temperature. 2. A method according to claim 1 wherein said re-exposing is conducted at about 275
3. A method of according to claim 1 wherein said glass consists essentially, in weight percent on the oxide basis as calculated from the batch, of about 10-20% Na.sub.2 O, 0.0005-0.3% Ag, 1-4% F, an amount of at least one halide selected from the group consisting of Cl, Br, and I at least sufficient to react stoichiometrically with the Ag, but not more than a total of about 3%, and the remainder SiO.sub.2.
4. A method according to claim 3 wherein said glass also contains about 0.01-0.2% CeO.sub.2.
5. A method according to claim 3 wherein said glass also contains up to 18% ZnO and/or up to 10% Al.sub.2 O.sub.3.
8. A method for making a glass article wherein at least a portion thereof is integrally colored by silver which consists of the steps:(a) melting a batch for a glass containing the constituents of alkali fluoride and the constituents of at least one silver halide selected from the group consisting of silver chloride, silver bromide, and silver iodide; (b) forming said melt into a glass article; (c) exposing at least a portion of said article to high energy or actinic radiation while at least said portion is at a temperature below the transformation range of the glass that is at a temperature between about 200 latent image therein. (d) removing the high energy or actinic radiation and subjecting at least said portion of said article to a temperature between the transformation range and the softening point of the glass for a period of time sufficient to cause nucleation and growth of microcrystals of alkali fluoride containing at least one silver halide selected from the group consisting of silver chloride, silver bromide, and silver iodide; (e) re-exposing at least said portion of said article to high energy or actinic radiation while at least said portion is at a temperature below the transformation range of the glass that is at a temperature between about 200 metallic silver to be deposited as discrete colloidal particles less than 200A in the smallest dimension, and/or deposited within said microcrystals, the silver-containing part of the microcrystal being less than about 200A in the smallest dimension, and/or depositied on the surface of said microcrystal, the portion of the microcrystal coated with silver being less than about 200A in the smallest dimension, said microcrystals having a concentration of at least 0.005% by volume; and then (f) cooling said article to ambient temperature. 9. A method according to claim 8 wherein said exposing and re-exposing are conducted at about 275
10. A method according to claim 8 wherein said glass consists essentially, in weight percent on the oxide basis as calculated from the batch, of about 10-20% Na.sub.2 O, 0.0005-0.3% Ag, 1-4% F, an amount of at least one halide selected from the group consisting of Cl, Br, and I at least sufficient to react stoichiometrically with the Ag, but not more than a total of about 3%, and the remainder SiO.sub.2.
11. A method according to claim 10 wherein said glass also contains about 0.01-0.2% CeO.sub.2.
12. A method according to claim 10 wherein said glass also contains up to 18% ZnO and/or up to 10% Al.sub.2 O.sub.3.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION U.S. application Ser. No. 646,259, filed Jan. 2, 1976 by J. E. Pierson and S. D. Stookey, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,017,318, describes the making of photosensitive colored glasses or polychromatic glasses, as they have been variously called. Two fundamental methods for preparing such glasses are disclosed therein, each method involving a sequence of irradiation and heat treating steps. The glasses can be composed of a wide range of base compositions but each must contain silver, an alkali metal oxide which is preferably Na.sub.2 O, fluoride, and at least one halide selected from the group of chloride, bromide, and iodide. The glasses are irradiated with high energy or actinic radiations selected from the group of high velocity electrons, X-radiations, and ultra-violet radiations in the range of about 2800A-3500A. The heat treatments involve exposures to temperatures between about the transformation range of the glass up to about the softening point thereof. Where the actinic radiation is supplied as ultra-violet radiation, CeO.sub.2 is a required component of the glass composition.
In one of the methods described therein, the glass is initially exposed to high energy or actinic radiations. This exposure develops a latent image in the glass. The intensity and time of this exposure determine the final color which will be produced in the glass. Thereafter, the glass is subjected to a heat treatment which causes the precipitation of colloidal silver particles in situ to act as nuclei. Where a transparent final product is desired, the heat treatment will be undertaken only for so long as to effect the precipitation of colloidal silver nuclei and to cause the growth thereon of extremely small microcrystals of alkali metal fluoride-silver halide, e.g., NaF + (AgCl and/or AgBr and/or AgI). If an opal glass product is sought, the heat treatment will be continued for a sufficient length of time to not only promote the precipitation of colloidal silver nuclei, but also to effect the growth of said microcrystals on the silver nuclei to a size large enough to scatter light. The nucleated glass in then cooled -- conveniently to room temperature but, in any event, to a temperature at least 25 below the strain point of the glass -- and again exposed to high energy or actinic radiations. This second exposure intensifies the color, the hue of which was previously determined via the first exposure. Finally, the glass is reheated to a temperature between about the transformation range and the softening point of the glass to produce the desired color in the glass. It has been theorized that submicroscopic particles of metallic silver are precipitated as discrete colloidal particles and/or deposited on the surface and/or within the alkali metal fluoride-silver halide microcrystals.
Furthermore, whereas that application discloses the utility of cooling the heat treated glass only to a temperature at least 25 transformation range and then exposing it to high energy or actinic radiation, no working example of that embodiment of the invention is supplied. In all of the exemplary illustrations of the inventive processes, the exposures were conducted at ambient temperatures.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION I have discovered a method for making glass articles wherein at least a portion thereof is integrally colored by silver and the colors achieved are of much improved intensity utilizing the basic process set forth in application Ser. No. 646,259, but without requiring consecutive or interrupted heat treatments. The preferred embodiment of the method contemplates exposing the nucleated glass to high energy or actinic radiation while the glass is at an elevated temperature. Thus, the nucleated glass is developed while being exposed at a temperature between about 200 C.
Contrariwise, where the nucleated glass is subjected to exposure of high energy or actinic radiation at temperatures between about 200 development shortened very extensively, but, even more importantly, the colors appear to be purer and more vivid. Thus, the colors developed are certainly equivalent to and, in some instances, appear to be of better quality than those produced through exposure at ambient temperatures followed by several consecutive heat treatments at temperatures between the transformation range of the glass and the softening point thereof.
The range of elevated temperatures to which the glass is subjected during the exposure step must be adhered to closely for the invention to be operable. Hence, at temperatures below about 200 improvement in speed of development and/or in color intensity becomes negligible. At the other extreme, temperatures much in excess of 410 produced, with the ultimate result that yellow is the only color present.
(2) at least a portion said glass article is exposed to high energy or actinic radiation while at least said portion of said glass article is at a temperature between about 200 length of time to develop a latent image therein;
(4) at least said previously-exposed portion of said article is re-exposed to high energy or actinic radiation while at least said portion is at a temperature of about 200 time to cause metallic silver to be deposited as discrete colloidal particles less than about 200A in the smallest dimension, and/or deposited on the surface of said microcrystals, the portion of the microcrystal coated with silver being less than about 200A in the smallest dimension, and/or deposited within said microcrystals, the silver-containing part of the microcrystal being less than 200A in the smallest dimension, said microcrystals having a concentration of at least 0.005% by volume; and then
As was noted above, the initial exposure to high energy or actinic radiation may be conducted at temperatures between about 200 it does not appear to substantively improve the final coloration of the glass, although the step can be advantageous in reducing the time required for nucleation and incipient crystallization. Moreover, if the initial exposure of the glass at elevated temperatures is prolonged for an extended period of time, the glass will simply take on a yellowish cast, if transparent, or assume a white or yellow opaque appearance, if an opal product is formed. Thus, the "conventional" practice of exposure at ambient temperature followed by heat treatment is to be preferred.
The range of temperatures 200 the strain point or the transformation range of the glasses operable in the present invention. Thus, the strain points of the glasses form a minimum at about 425 is customarily deemed to comprise the temperature at which a liquid melt is converted into an amorphous solid, that temperature being considered to lie in the vicinity of the glass annealing point.
As has been observed above, the present invention is operable with the glasses set out in application Ser. No. 646,259. As reported therein, the glasses generally consist essentially, in weight percent on the oxide basis, of about 10-20% Na.sub.2 O, 0.0005--O.3% Ag, 1-4% F, an amount of at least one halide selected from the group consisting of Cl, Br, and I at least sufficient to react stoichiometrically with the Ag, but not more than a total of about 4%, and the remainder SiO.sub.2. Where ultraviolet radiation having wavelengths between about 2800A-3500A comprises the actinic radiation, about 0.01-0.2% CeO.sub.2 will be included in the composition. Finally, where Sb.sub.2 O.sub.3 and/or SnO are utilized as thermoreducing agents, about 0.1-1% Sb.sub.2 O.sub.3 and/or about 0.01-1% SnO will be included, the total Sb.sub.2 O.sub.3 + SnO not exceeding about 1%.
Likewise with respect to application Ser. No. 646,259, in the colored transparent glasses the concentration of the microcrystals will not exceed about 0.1% by volume and the size thereof will not exceed about 0.1 micron in diameter. Normally, to achieve transparent articles, the silver content will be maintained below about 0.1% by weight, the fluoride content will not exceed about 3% by weight, and the total of the remaining halides will be maintained below about 2% by weight. The addition of up to 18% by weight ZnO and up to 10% by weight Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 can be very helpful in improving chemical durability, melting and forming behavior, and other physical properties of the base glass. Such constitute the preferred glass compositions of the invention.
The actual batch ingredients can comprise any material, either the oxide or other compound, which, when melted with the total batch, will be converted into the desired oxide in the proper proportions. The halides are commonly added as alkali metal halides. Where Sn.sup.+2 is employed as the thermoreducing agent, it is frequently included in the batch in the form of a halide.
Whereas the following exemplary compositions primarily involved laboratory scale melting experiments, it will be recognized that large-scale commerical melts requiring pots or continuous glass melting tanks can be conducted with compositions of the subject invention. The batches recited below were compounded, the ingredients ballmilled together to aid in securing a homogeneous melt, and then melted in an electrically-fired furnace operating at about 1450 stirring. Glass blocks of various sizes and configurations were cast, ware was blown, sheet 0.125 inches thick was rolled on preheated graphite slabs, and 10 inches diameter dinner plates were pressed. The glass articles were placed in annealers operating at about 375
TABLE I______________________________________    1       2        3        4______________________________________SiO.sub.2  72.0      72.0     72.0   72.0Na.sub.2 O 16.2      16.2     16.2   16.2ZnO        5.0       5.0      5.0    5.0A1.sub.2 O.sub.3      6.9       6.9      6.8    6.8F          2.5       2.5      2.8    2.8CeO.sub.2  0.025     0.05     0.1    0.1Br         1.1       1.1      0.4    0.4Sb.sub.2 O.sub.3      0.5       0.2      0.3    0.5Ag         0.005     0.01     0.03   0.3SnO        0.04      0.05     0.09   0.12______________________________________
Subsequently, the disc was transferred to an electrically-fired furnace and heated at about 450 that temperature for one hour.
The disc was then removed from the furnace and placed upon an electrically-heated laboratory hot plate operating at 300 hot plate with the disc was then positioned under the ultra-violet lamp so that the disc was in the focal plane of the system. After an exposure of 0.5 hour, the ultra-violet light was extinguished and the disc removed from the hot plate.
EXAMPLE II This example illustrates the effect which conducting the initial exposure to actinic radiation at elevated temperatures (200 can have upon the rate at which color is developed and the hue thereof.
Two groups of square samples of composition 2 from the above table having a side measurement of about 1 inch were cut from glass sheet of about 0.125 inches thickness, and portions thereof masked. The squares of the first group were placed on the above-mentioned hot plate operating at 250 such that the samples were in the focal plane of the system. The masks were successively removed from the squares to yield areas of glass exposed for periods of 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 45, 55, 65, 80, 95, 110, 140, 170, and 230 seconds, respectively. The samples of the second group were positioned in the focal plane of the system and exposed for equal periods of time to ultra-violet radiation at ambient temperature.
The samples from each group were immediately transferred to the above-described electrically fired furnace and heated therein at about 450 all the samples were placed on the hot plate operating at 300 and the hot plate again positioned properly in the focal plane of the system. After an exposure to ultra-violet radiation for 1.0 hour, the lamp was extinguished and the squares removed into the ambient environment.
Thereafter, the disc was transferred to the above-noted electrically-fired furnace and heated at about 450 hour, the disc was placed upon the laboratory hot plate operating at 420 the disc was in the focal plane of the system. After 0.5 hour, the ultra-violet lamp was extinguished and the disc withdrawn into the ambient environment.
Examination of the disc disclosed very little color except various shades of yellow. This circumstance led to the determination of 410 a practical upper temperature limitation for the process.
EXAMPLE IV A pressed disc about 3 inches in diameter and 0.125 inches thick having composition 1 recited in the above table was ground and polished, and strips of masking tape applied thereto in accordance with the description of Example I. Subsequently, the disc was exposed to ultra-violet light for the periods of time reported above in Example III. Thereafter, the disc was heat treated for 1 hour at 520 Example III, and then placed upon the laboratory hot plate operating at 175 place the disc in the focal plane of the system and exposed for 1 hour.
Substantially no truly-definable color was observed in the disc, indicating the temperature was too low to cause the precipitation of metallic silver to produce the desired coloration. In view of that experience, 200 C. has been determined to constitute a practical minimum heat treating-exposure temperature.
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Best of luck to you both tomorrow!!! I think Mr A. should grind a biscuit into the carpet just to see what happens. I mean if he is already screwed, why not?
Oh dear, that sounds scary! How did it work out?
Oh hon – did you both survive to tell the tail?
Hmmm, my dad and your dad might just get along.
It did! they liked him shock horror! Will do the full report tomorrow….am writing the dreaded novel.
Yeah that your Dad likes Mr A :oD
I’m looking forward to the full report but well done for getting on with your book instead … that soooooo has to come first!

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ArchivesAll posts for the month August, 2010	Ghostbuster Cufflinks	Published August 30, 2010 by Sara
Well, with the Halloween season upon us. I figured it would good to list my ever popular Ghostbuster cuff links! What a great way for a man (BUT I am hearing women are starting to wear cufflinks) to accessorize their business suit, but in a small way. 🙂
Tagged: cufflinks, ghostbusters, halloween, mens jewelry, pinkclaymonkey, scrabble tile	Disney Up Grape Bracelet	Published August 28, 2010 by Sara
Finally I have my new item listed, which is the *drumroll please* Disney’s Up Grape Badge Bracelet. It took some finding the vintage caps I used with the bracelet, being as the supplier I was originally pointed to, no longer carried them.
But low and behold among searching for other items, I stumbled across this vintage caps and was so excited! Even more excited when I found they sold a bottle cap that says “Up and Up”. Which is so fitting for what these caps are meant for.
Well, I am not to thrilled with using jump rings to attach the bottle caps and I do have some double jump rings that would reinforce it. And just learned I need split ring pliers. It is now 1am and everyone is closed. *meh* Oh well, but I know what I am doing tomorrow!! 😛
Also, I am excited to be offering cufflinks as well in the Grape Badge style as well. I quite can not fit a safety pin on them, but am cooking up ideas on how to make that work. I haven’t seen any sales on them yet, but I just took the price down a notch in hopes that might generate some interest. (There’s watchers, but still no buyers.) But after tomorrow, my time will be limited again to just concentrating on sales and shipping out orders, being as my husband is getting back into the swing of more appointments. Which I am not looking forward too….. *sigh*
Tagged: bracelet, bridal gifts, bridal shower, bride to be, carl, disney grape, disney pixar up, disney up, ellie badge, love, marriage, pinkclaymonkey, pixar up, vinatge soda caps, vintage, weddings	New Domain	Published August 27, 2010 by Sara
It’s official! I purchased the domain pinkclaymonkey.com for my new store with Ebay. Once the listings end on my old account, they will move over to my new account. I may keep both going, but only time will tell.
In the meantime, I am thinking of ways to create listings for cheap prices, to establish my account, bring in some seller feedback and bring up my score. The more I bring in the less Ebay will leave my new account alone. I have heard how hard Ebay can be when starting out, but this is crazy!! How on earth they get anyone to start out on here, is crazy!
I have also created a fan page on Facebook for my customers, to stay up to date with me and my new creations! Summer is fast approaching and it’s hard to keep me inside. But I hope to get cracking on my new ideas and get my production stocked and ready for Halloween. Which I have noticed I am getting faster at making some of my items, which is a plus. Means less time working and more time for me to spend with my family. 🙂
Tagged: ebay, new domain, new store, pinkclaymonkey	New Items	Published August 27, 2010 by Sara
I have been working like crazy to get new items ready for the anticipated holiday season. I would love to share my “in the works” items, but have learned my lesson to NOT disclose those. But what you can find is a new Harry Potter bracelet, which WOW, is taking off like wild fire! I did not realize how many people would be interested in that. SO, the other day I was running all over Milwaukee to try and find the beads I had used as adornments. I pretty much found all of them except for the star face. But that is ok, I am hoping to replace that with maybe a bird to symbolize a Phoenix or possibly another star design. My Grape pins have been so well received, that I have introduced cufflinks, since so many women purchase it for the fiance for their wedding. I actually just had someone come through to purchase some for her wedding party. (Which I am hoping to get photos to share.)
Also, in the meantime I am thinking of creating a crafting/sample blog, being as I try so many products. I am hoping to share my trial and errors with fellow crafters.
Trying products when it comes out of your own pocket can be quite expensive, so rarely do I venture out to try a product unless I read some REALLY good reviews. So keep checking back!! I am on a roll now! 🙂
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Recap: Grizzlies 107, Thunder 97
Grizzlies 107, Thunder 97: Rudy Gay scored a season-best 28 points and Zach Randolph had 20 points and 11 rebounds to help Memphis win its sixth straight game while snapping host Oklahoma City's five-game winning streak.
Kevin Durant scored a season-high 34 points and grabbed 10 rebounds for the Thunder, but the Grizzlies were able to maintain a double-digit lead for most of the final quarter while improving to 6-1. Marc Gasol added 14 points for Memphis.
Oklahoma City pulled within 97-89 on a dunk by Kendrick Perkins with 4:18 to play. Gasol and Randolph followed with back-to-back baskets to get the Memphis lead back to 12, and the Grizzlies held the Thunder without a field goal for nearly four minutes.
Serge Ibaka had 17 points and four blocks and Russell Westbrook had 17 points and 13 assists for the Thunder, who were playing for the sixth time in nine nights. Oklahoma City shot 48.6 percent from the field but committed 15 turnovers to just eight by the Grizzlies.
Memphis trailed by 10 points after one quarter before outscoring the Thunder 36-15 in the second. The Grizzlies scored the final 10 points of the half for a 56-45 lead.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Durant's 30-point outing was his first of the season and a league-best 102nd since the beginning of the 2009-10 campaign. ... Randolph has produced double-doubles in all seven games but was ejected with 2:05 to play after a verbal squabble with Perkins, who was also tossed. ... Oklahoma City hit all 17 of its free throws over the first three quarters but was just 4-for-9 in the final stanza.
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Fellowes Powershred P-48C Home/Office Paper Shredder (8 Sheet,P-3, Crosscut)
THIS SHREDDER AS ONLY BEEN USED A FEW TIMES STILL IN NEW CONDITION COST NEW £79.00 - Higher superior Cross-Cut - Safety lock disables shredder and prevents accidental activation - Sheet capacity gauge helps prevent paper jams - Easy-lift head
Brand HP ink cartridge for sale. No longer needed. £8 Ink cartridge. Posted by Priya in Supplies, Equipment & Stationery, Ink Cartridges & Toners in Birstall. 10 March 2018
Multi-functional Address Labels
Multifunctional address labels - 500 sheets per box Available in the following sizes; 1 label per sheet x 1 box 2 labels per sheet x 2 boxes 4 labels per sheet x 3 boxes 6 labels per sheet x 1 box 8 labels per sheet x 3 boxes 10 label
Niceday Laser Labels
Niceday Laser Labels 100 labels per pack x 2 packs - 200 labels 2 labels per sheet. Amazing price of £5 for both. Collection only.
Document Enclosed Wallets - Printed & Plain 1000 per box
Box of 1000 document wallets both printed and plain Printed available in the following sizes A6- £10.00 A5 - £18.00 A4 - £15.00 DL - £13.00 Plain available in the following sizes A7 £8.00 A6- £10.00 A5 - £15.00 A4 - £17.00
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Hide away Computer Desk / Cupboard
Distance from search location: 17 miles | Market Harborough, Leicestershire
For sale is a hide away computer desk/ cupboard, It is a beech effect , It is used but in very good condition, So if you don't want to see all your computer stuff , this is a nice solution for you. It has a cd disc rack room for a printer , tower
HP DeskJet 1512 All-in-one Printer *BARGAIN*
Distance from search location: 7 miles | Oadby, Leicestershire
HP DeskJet 1512 All-in-one Printer Perfect condition! £10 Collection from Oadby LE2 Please see my other items! Any questions please ask
Waterfall garment clothing hangers
Distance from search location: 6 miles | Leicester, Leicestershire
There are 80 waterfall garment clothing hangers which have only been used once.They are in perfect condition.They are 40cm in length.
Distance from search location: 17 miles | Cotgrave, Nottinghamshire
Led mod light Have four of them. Led light. Posted by James in Retail & Shop Fittings, Other Retail & Shop Fittings in Cotgrave. 22 May 2018
MARKET STALL TARPAULIN SPRING CLAMPS
60 Market stall tarpaulin spring clamps in good condition only been used once - box included.
HP Officejet 901 Black Printer Ink *NEW*
HP Officejet 901 Black Ink *NEW* £5 Collection from Oadby LE2 Please see my other items! Any questions please ask
BUFFALO U626 300MM COMMERCIAL MEAT SLICER
Distance from search location: 16 miles | Clifton, Nottinghamshire
BUFFALO U626 300MM COMMERCIAL MEAT SLICER Used but very good cosmetic and working condition Cash on collection only 240V/250W
Williams Undercounter fridge
Distance from search location: 2 miles | Thurmaston, Leicestershire
COMREF COOLING LTD We have three of these Williams Undercounter fridges. They have been fully serviced and cleaned They have two shelves shelf and an electronic controller 830mm height x 610mm depth x 650mm width Buyer can collect or delivery
ANTIQUE BUREAU IN WALNUT FINISH WITH WRITING DESK TOP
Distance from search location: 16 miles | Cotgrave, Nottinghamshire
The Bureau is in fairly good condition but has a few marks and scratches, Red leather writing area, lots of compartments for stationary items etc. three drawers and lockable top area. Size 30 inches wide, 17 inches deep, 39 inches high.
Spinning Faux Leather Salon / Office Chair
Distance from search location: 7 miles | Markfield, Leicestershire
Spinning office / salon chair. Perfect condition. Re decorating so no use anymore.
PHILIPS HOT FOOD PLATE WARMER. 4 DISHES with LIDS
Distance from search location: 5 miles | Leicester, Leicestershire
PHILIPS HOSTESS TABLE TOP FOOD & PLATE WARMER. IT IS COMPLETE WITH ALL 4 DISHES & LIDS. IN VERY GOOD CONDITION AND PERFECT WORKING ORDER
Distance from search location: 7 miles | Leicester, Leicestershire
Please note the racking for sale is stainless steel and not black. Picture is the same as I am selling just different colour. In good clean condition 6 months old Has already been dismantled and ready for collection Measurements are: 68” High 59”
Free desk
Distance from search location: 17 miles | Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Free on collection desk 1210 x 1210. In good condition. Requires assembly.
Book case & coffe Table
Distance from search location: 4 miles | Leicester, Leicestershire
Book case & coffe Table . Posted by Mariusz in Office Furniture, Bookshelves in Leicester. 22 maja 2018
PET SITTING BUSINESS FOR SALE - Based in Long Eaton area and surrounds
Distance from search location: 17 miles | Long Eaton, Nottinghamshire
Great opportunity for animal lovers - work from home - can be operated by all age groups. Business has been successfully operating for over 10 years with a very loyal client base of over 200. Working hours mainly morning and evening. The price is hig
Modern walnut and black gloss office desk
Modern walnut and black gloss office desk. Drawer not included 1600 l, 800 w, 700 h. collectionly only excellent condition.
Modern walnut and black gloss office desk and drawer set
Modern walnut and black gloss office desk and drawer set. 1200 w, 800 l, 700 h I have 3 desks with side drawer set. Each at 130. all in good condition. Collection only.
Black Metal Maxi Desktop Single Drawer Lockable Filing Cabinet H36cm x W40cm x D40cm
Distance from search location: 3 miles | Leicester, Leicestershire
Single drawer A4 maxi desktop black metal filing cabinet. Perfect for home office or study to file all your documents. Holds up to 30 suspension files. Collection from Leicester City Centre
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Pine desk in good condition Height :80cm Depth : 63cm Length: 128cm Collection from Thorpe Langston, Market Harborough. Top lifts off for easy moving.
Catering trailer HIGH spec and includes a £947 parry gas griddle that's almost new
I'm selling my beautiful catering trailer only due to a change in home life. We have spared no expense when doing the trailer up. All kitted out with a Perrys £947 gas 3 burner griddle almost new, a Royale 4 pan Bain Marie again nearly new, a drinks
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AgilePMO : Creativity - the most important leadership quality
Creativity - the most important leadership quality
De Bono’s lateral thinking (1967)
Jill Nemiro, author of "Creativity in Virtual Teams: Key Components for Success", and "The Handbook of High-Performance Virtual Teams", and co-editor of "The Collaborative Work Systems Fieldbook" classifies creative techniques into two categories:
Imagery - symbols, scenes, images, “using all the scenes to recreate or create an experience in the mind” (Vealey & w\Walter, 1993)
Meditation. Some people swim or go for a walk. I like going for a walk on my own to the forest next to my house– usually take a note book and a pen and write down the ideas that come to my mind.
In the interview Jill answers the questions which of these techniques are her personal favorites, and why?
“…people will be more creative in finding resources but not necessarily in solving the actual problems. It’s important to make sure that people have the necessary information, funding and materials to do their work.”
“… people are more creative when they have a little bit of time to explore a problem, reflect on what they're doing, gather new information, and to talk to people who might have different perspectives, which can be enormously useful.”
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MIMI WRITES: I've had a demo of this song shelved for a while but felt inspired to finish it last night after hearing about the tragedy in CT. It's more of a prayer/chant than a full song. I just felt an overwhelming need to create something peaceful on a dark day. Dedicated to those that have lost so much and need the strength to carry on.
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89 Reviews #33 of 288 things to do in Tucson Shopping Malls, Shopping 2905 E Skyline Dr, Tucson, AZ 85718-3087+1 520-615-2561Website
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ArizonaMouseTucson, Arizona9013Reviewed 5 June 2017 via mobile Beautiful outdoor mallLa Encantada is a beautifully designed outdoor mall that features more high-end shops than the other Tucson malls. It is two stories. There is no food court, but quite a few eateries make their home here. "North" is a great place to dine, and there...MoreThank ArizonaMouse Spumoni22Scottsdale, Arizona159Reviewed 31 May 2017 via mobile Love this Area of TucsonThis is one of my favorite areas of Tucson. There are plenty of restaurants, Italia North is a must. Lots of great shops and AJ's, a gourmet grocery store like no other.Thank Spumoni22 LynninNMSanta Fe, New Mexico222148Reviewed 3 May 2017 A Beautiful, Fun Open-Air Mall To Shop & DineWhat a fun place! Very close to the La Paloma Resort where we were staying. Such a diverse group of restaurants. Many high end shops, and AJ's market, which was amazing for foods, wines, flowers, etc. This place is so worth a few hours (at...MoreThank LynninNM Sharon8here16825Reviewed 26 April 2017 A Wonderful place to shop!This is an outdoor shopping center that is beautiful with a variety of shops. It also has a fantastic grocery store called AJ's! If you're staying in Tucson for a bit, take a look!Thank Sharon8here Yogesh MBengaluru, India171Reviewed 24 April 2017 via mobile Good mallVisited La Encantada today. Over all a good mall, with a good variety of stores and restaurants.
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The room was very small, bathroom too, only 2... - Hotel Regence Traveller Reviews - TripAdvisor
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Ideal location to start your day and visit all important hotspots of Paris. 300 meters from the metro station, nearby the Moulin Rouge and Sacre Coeur. The room was very small, bathroom too, only 2 channels on the television. The breakfast was a bit poor, we could only get one chocolatebun per table. If you like classic old fashioned French hotels, we recommend this one.
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Hotel Regence is an average hotel but it is a great place to start your trips from. We stayed at the 3rd floor (view on rue de florence). The room was clean and really france, not much space but enough to sleep and have a shower. The shower was broken but the same day fixed without any complains. Breakfast is oke. Orange deuce/ coffee/ tea/ croissant/ bread/ marmelade and different cheese. More than we expected!! The hotel is near to metro Place the Clichy. Buy a ticket for the days you stay and you will see all of the city while it is the best way to travel through the city. First evening we ate at Restaurant Charlot at Place the Clichy. Great place to have dinner and eat fresh fish!!!
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