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It was a year and six weeks ago (April 5, 2010) that 29 coal miners died in a massive explosion in Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch mine in Montcoal, West Virginia, making it the worst U.S. mining disaster since 1970.
Yesterday, on May 19, 2011, an independent investigation commissioned by the state’s former governor reported conclusively that the accident was the result of safety violations by Massey management. The mine was more or less a death trap.
In the investigators’ own words, “The disaster at Upper Big Branch was man-made and could have been prevented had Massey Energy followed basic, well-tested and historically proven safety procedures.” The message couldn’t be any plainer: Had Massey paid as much attention to mine safety as it did to company profits, those 29 miners would still be alive.
And it wasn’t as if safety violations were alien to the company. Indeed, Massey Energy Co. was a major accident waiting to happen. In the previous five years leading up to the 2010 disaster, Massey had been cited for more than 1,300 safety violations by the MSHA (Mine Safety and Health Administration), including poor ventilation?believed to be the cause of the explosion. In 2009 alone, Massey was cited 64 times for ventilation violations.
As Gary Hardesty, an AWPPW safety consultant, once put it, “Because maintaining a safe facility costs money, most companies see safety only as another form of overhead.” Obviously, while Massey management bears the brunt of the blame for regarding worker safety as “overhead”?money they would just as soon not have to spend?the MSHA deserves much of the blame as well.
Blithely issuing one safety citation after another to a renegade company with a proven record of ignoring them (or getting them reduced in the appeal process) is not what a government watchdog agency is charged to do. Mechanically going through the motions of slapping a company on the wrist, and desultorily filing the necessary paperwork, is not the same as hands-on regulation an industry’s safety practices. The MSHA failed in its duty.
And, of course, there’s another component to this tragedy, one reflecting organized labor’s unfortunate loss of influence, not only in the industry but in the country at large. As anyone who’s been paying attention to the mining industry since the 1970s knows, as the percentage of union-affiliated mines continues to decline, mining accidents continue to increase. Statistics show that 92-percent of all mine accidents occur in non-union facilities.
In a CounterPunch interview I conducted a couple of years ago, Phil Smith, Communications Director of the United Mine Workers (UMW) International, made it clear that U.S. mine owners are in collusion to keep miners from seeking union representation. And even though collusion is a cut-and-dried violation of federal labor law, one that the NLRB hasn’t seriously addressed, the companies continue to do it. They do it through intimidation and old-fashioned black-balling.
Because coal mining is a close-knit community, once your name gets put on a company shit-list as a “union activist” or “union sympathizer,” it’s going to stay on that list, and you’re going to find it difficult to get hired anywhere. Coal miners might be a remarkably tough breed of worker, but, tough or not, they have to work to eat, and there are only so many mining jobs to go around.
According to Phil Smith, even on those occasions when a mine does go union, companies have been known to shut down the operation, change names by selling it off to a “phantom subsidiary,” and re-open the mine as a non-union facility. And if anyone squawks too loudly about the illegality of this arrangement, they find themselves out of a job.
So while it’s gratifying to see that Massey Energy was found guilty of egregious safety violations, it didn’t exactly come as a revelation. Massey management knew it all along, the miners knew it, the MSHA knew it, the UMW knew it. And the families of those 29 men knew it. Alas, they learned it a year too late.
David Macaray, a Los Angeles playwright, is the author of “It’s Never Been Easy: Essays on Modern Labor”. He served 9 terms as president of AWPPW Local 672. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org


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Lourdes (France) (AFP) –
Shuttered by the coronavirus outbreak, France's Lourdes Roman Catholic shrine on Sunday marked the start of "Holy Week", an event that normally draws millions of pilgrims every year, with not a soul in sight.
Its doors closed since March 17, for the first time in its history, the sanctuary in the southwest France is instead reaching out to the faithful using television and social media.
"It is certain that for us, like for all Catholics, the Holy Week and Easter will be experienced in a very special way this year," said Olivier Ribadeau Dumas, rector of the Sanctuary of Lourdes.
Holy Week leads up to Easter Sunday on April 11 and this years falls in the middle of France's nationwide lockdown to stem the tide of the coronavirus, which has killed more than 7,500 people in the country to date.
For nine consecutive days, Lourdes priests and chaplains have prayed non-stop -- from 7:00 am to 8:30 pm -- in a show of devotion relayed on TV Lourdes, Youtube, Facebook Live, Catholic channels in France and Italy, and the Catholic EWTN network that broadcasts to the English-speaking world.
The broadcasts have reached as far as Latin America, the Philippines and Indonesia, according to Ribadeau Dumas.
During the week starting Easter Sunday, the sanctuary will continue to broadcast live ceremonies, including several rosary prayers every day in numerous languages.
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"Since the pilgrims can no longer come to us, we invite ourselves into their homes so that they may be sustained in confinement and also in their anguish and anxiety," said Ribadeau Dumas.
In nine days, TV Lourdes viewership has increased threefold, with sometimes almost 150,000 views per day, while the sanctuary's following on Facebook Live jumped over 400 percent and the number of new Twitter and Instagram followers has skyrocketed.
The Lourdes sanctuary was erected around a shrine to French peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous, to whom Catholics believe the Virgin Mary appeared several times in 1858.
The site boasts a spring with reputed healing powers, from which pilgrims drink.
Normally flooded with religious tourists over this period, the sanctuary and the cave where Soubirous is said to have seen the mother of Jesus, are today deserted.
"We will experience Holy Week thanks to the broadcasts. We are in communion with hundreds of thousands of pilgrims watching us in many countries," said Ribadeau Dumas.
The site has also launched "spiritual pilgrimages," with chaplains lighting votive candles on behalf of pilgrims who cannot be there in person.
"There are traditional acts at Lourdes: touching the rock in the cave, the water, and the light" of the candles, said Ribadeau Dumas.
"Today, we are unable to send water or to have people touch the rock, but the light is a symbol that is still possible."
© 2020 AFP


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The Republic of Serbia, a south-central European country with a population of 7,498,001 (excluding Kosovo) is currently going through a politically unstable period with frequent parliamentary crises, changing foreign policy, obligations towards the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and with Kosovo, which is under UN control since 1999, declaring independence in February 2008. There is no risk of a large-scale conflict at the moment, but there is a potential of further mass migration from Kosovo to central Serbia. There are already 140,000 refugees and over 200,000 internally displaced people (IDP) living in Serbia at the moment, as a result of conflicts in the 1990s.
Economically, Serbia is in a state of transition, not only moving from centrally-controlled economy to free market, but also away from the isolation and embargoes of the 1990s. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth is encouraging with 7 per cent in 2007. However, the unemployment is still at 18.8 per cent; the inflation was 7 per cent in the first quarter of 2008 and the huge external debt (37 per cent of the GDP) and increasing export/ import deficit testify to a struggling economy and potential future problems.
According to the Poverty Reduction Strategy data, 10.6 per cent of the population lives below the poverty line defined as 2.4 US dollars per day, and among them there are particularly vulnerable groups such as Roma people (an estimate of 150,000-400,000 living in Serbia), older people (16 per cent of the population is above 65) and people living with disabilities. The lack of public capacity to meet the needs of these populations and their reduced access to the existing health, education and social welfare services increases their vulnerability.
Seasonal emergencies such as floods and landslides cause substantial property damage and heavily influence the quality of lives of the poor/ vulnerable population through damaging their property, food reserves and land.
In addition to the existing body of refugees and IDPs, the position of Serbia on the fringes of the European Union means there is a steady stream of migrants trying to get political asylum in Serbia, on their way to the west. Some 500 asylum seekers are registered in Serbia every year. In addition there are between 40,000 and 150,000 rejected asylum seekers being slated for return to Serbia from Western Europe in the coming years, many of them at the risk of human trafficking upon return.
Official data shows that between 1984 and November 2006 there were 2,088 persons were living with HIV, 1,339 or 64 per cent of them had developed AIDS syndrome and 915 had died. The Red Cross of Serbia has been exploring the possibility of joining the Red Cross and Red Crescent Global Alliance on HIV to scale up its national HIV programming to reduce the vulnerability to, and impact of, HIV. A representative was present at the first round meeting held in Budapest in late 2007, and while they did not take part in the second, follow up meeting in Tashkent in mid-2008, a decision on whether the National Society will sign up for the alliance is still to be taken.
Practical interventions are guided by local needs and realities and the assigned role of the Red Crescent Society as part of the coordinated national HIV and AIDS programme. During the period 2009-2010, the National Society plans to reach people with messages on prevention and reducing stigma and discrimination, including those in key populations at higher risk through peer education, and to provide services for people living with HIV. The National Society is committed to deliver a consistent and predictable package of services in line with the strategy of the Global Alliance, Red Cross Red Crescent competence and comparative advantage, and resources that will be made available.
The Global Alliance framework is expected to strengthen and make better use of the combined capacities of the National Society and the International Federation, also by bringing in regional networks and other funding and operating partners to support community-level actions. It is currently in the planning phase and is expected to roll out in 2009.
The priorities of the Red Cross of Serbia in this context are dictated by the country's humanitarian needs and outlined in its Plan of Action 2006-2010 and the Red Cross law adopted in 2005. Through the definition of its public powers, the Red Cross of Serbia is recognized as an auxiliary to the government in the areas of health and care and disaster management. In 2009 and 2010 the Red Cross of Serbia will be building on the results achieved with the support of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in the last seven years and will work towards reaching the Federation's Global Agenda goals, while observing other essential documents, such as the resolutions of the 30th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent. This work will consist of:
- Further enhancing the disaster management system through training and advocacy, improving coordination between stakeholders at local level as well as conducting risk reduction and vulnerability/ capacity assessment activities
- Direct assistance to the vulnerable population through education programme for 2,500 vulnerable Roma children, social support to people living with disabilities and to 10,000 vulnerable older people; as well as increased advocacy on their behalf
- Raising public awareness related to health topics such as HIV and AIDS and voluntary nonremunerated blood donation among youth
- Promoting the social inclusion of marginalized children/ youth as well as non-violent conflict resolution
- Assistance to refugees in seeking durable solutions for integration
- Direct assistance to asylum seekers and to the returning rejected asylum seekers
- Raising awareness about trafficking in human beings among youth
- Enhancing the capacities and efficiency of the Red Cross of Serbia through improving procedures and practices, improving its public relations and widening its volunteers and partners base
The total 2009-2010 budget is CHF 3,745,733 (USD 3,423,887 or EUR 2,385,817).

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Club Rides – Sunday 15 September
Join us this Sunday (15 September) for the Club rides as follows, starting from the Winchester Hotel at 8.30 am sharp. All rides will be managed by the designated ride leader and will be no-drop.
Club 14 – (average 14-15 mph, around 30-35 miles with a coffee stop either en route or at the end, 2.5 hours)
Leader: To be appointed on the day
Club 16 – (average 16-17 mph, around 50-55 miles with a stop for coffee en route, 3.5 hours).
Leader: Philip Allen
Route: Micheldever, Whitchurch, Inkpen, Chute, Abbots Ann, Crawley. 60 miles/98km
Combe Hill via Micheldever, Whitchurch and Hurstbourne Priors. Coffee at Honesty Inkpen and then return via Chute and Abbots Ann.
Club 18 – (average 18-20+ mph, around 55-60 miles with a coffee stop at the end, 3 hours).
Leader: Nick Tarmey
Route: Stockbridge, Wherwell, Micheldever, Northington, Candovers and Alresford. 53 miles/86 km

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Adventure to London
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Adventure to London - 10th to 12th November
Our trip already began with uncertainty; up until the day before, we didn’t even know if it would even happen: unfortunately, on the preceding weekend’s trip, Skylark’s propeller had finally reached the end of its life, and our yacht had gotten stuck in Shotley. Fortunately, the new propeller got delivered and fitted on Thursday, and Skylark was put back in the water on Friday morning. Just in time for our evening departure!
So on Friday evening we drove to Shotley (it took almost as long to get onto the A14 as it took to get to Ipswich… I keep forgetting how bad Cambridge traffic is). Once we got to the marina, we moved Skylark to the fuel pontoon to fill up. Arturo (first mate and head chef) was going to prepare dinner … but the gas was gone! Fortunately, there was one last full gas bottle in a different locker - just the regulator was a bit stiff. Thankfully, the 24/7 marina staff lent us a wrench (and Skylark did have a toolbox with all the tools on board as well, my first mate just didn’t think of looking in the obvious place, and I didn’t think of them not looking in the obvious place…;)).
Fuel and gas topped up, once the final crew arrived, we went through the safety brief & then through the lock, headed out towards the sea and had a lovely leek & (veggie) sausage risotto for dinner - to prepare our stomachs for sailing through the night. Once past Landguard, we quickly hoisted our sails, and started the night watches.
First watch, 10pm-1am: Dry weather, fast and exciting sailing, heading across the Wallet Spitway, more fast sailing… then sleep.
Second watch, 1am-4am: Waking up after just three hours of sleep, then having to beat into the wind that was heading us, accompanied by lovely rain all watch long. Dark and nothing to see, the night at its coldest. They definitely picked the short straw in all regards:( and didn’t even complain!
Third watch, 4am-7am: Six hours of uninterrupted sleep, the drizzle had stopped, we didn’t have to beat anymore, and got an hour of nice sailing before the wind died down. (We had planned to shake out the reef, but then it became clear that the boat needed a bit of cleaning, and by the time we were done with that, the wind was gone altogether.) Dawn approached and Southend pier came into view.
Just around 7am, we arrived at Southend. With the tide now firmly against us, we decided to moor up and catch a bit more sleep before the tide would again. Following the almanac, which suggested that it ought to be possible to moor up at the pier itself, we motored close - but couldn’t spot anywhere that seemed like a reasonable place to attach a yacht to: only vertical piles everywhere. (Maybe somewhere on the inside, where we hadn’t gone?) Instead, we anchored on top of the sandbank just south of the pier, and here, in the middle of nowhere, right next to a busy shipping lane, it seemed like a very sensible idea to hoist the anchor ball. For those who followed Skylark’s track on AIS, it certainly seemed rather peculiar: a boat in the middle of open water, not moving at all? Had they gone aground?? But no, there was plenty of water underneath.
Once everyone had caught some more sleep, and the tide was about to turn towards central London, we got going again, and everyone had breakfast. Slowly the wind was starting to pick up again, and once on the Thames proper, we went back to being a proper sailing boat again. That we had to tack up the river didn’t stop us, and with the tide underneath our keel we easily made 8 knots over ground. The Thames is certainly a bleak and gloomy river for the most part - oil and cargo terminals, industrial sites, debris and barren land either side, foul smells… One notable exception was the Sikh temple and some of the other buildings in Gravesend. Afterwards, back to more desolateness.
There wasn’t much traffic on the river, only a few cargo ships overtook us. One right as we were tacking upstream underneath Queen Elizabeth II Bridge… great timing! But we were fast enough at tacking back and forth that it didn’t pose a problem. Eventually, we got to the Thames Barrier, and hence had to drop the sails and motor the last couple miles. This is where the scenery finally became more exciting: not least the Barrier itself, and as it turned to dusk, the lights came up everywhere … passing underneath the Emirates cable car, the Millenium Dome, a golf range behind huge fences to keep the balls in, the Isle of Dogs, Greenwich with the Royal Naval College and the Cutty Sark… at the same time, the river was now busier and rather less calm, with countless Clipper catamarans steaming past, and even a bunch of RIB speedboats (probably the tourist and not MI5 kind though).
Eventually, we rounded the final bend and finally caught sight of the Tower Bridge. And lo and behold, just as we got there, we were greeted by a huge firework behind the bridge! We couldn’t have wished for a better welcome at the end of our leg. Once the fireworks were over, we headed back the few hundred metres to Hermitage Community Moorings, where we had the outside visitor’s berth. We moored up, with all the fenders and all the lines we had… I had expected some swell, but hadn’t realised the extent it would have right on the Thames: every so often, the boat would suddenly roll and swerve as if we were out in big waves in the open sea. Nevertheless, the view was totally worth it! And a bit cheaper than St Katharine’s Dock, too…
Unfortunately, two of our crew had to leave us here, so goodbyes were said, and now there was just six of us. Again, we got an exciting meal cooked by Arturo, this time a fragrant potato curry with chapattis. And then a surprise dessert: home-made(!!!) Sicilian cannoli, with chocolate-ricotta filling. Mmmmhhmmmm.=)
After dinner, we walked to Dickens Inn around the corner, where we met a couple old hands from CUYC. However, everyone was a bit tired and looking forward to some proper sleep before getting up on Sunday again, so around 11pm we were back on board. Fortunately, by now the Clippers had stopped and our night was peaceful enough.
Just not too long, as we had a long day’s sail ahead of us to get back to Ipswich by the end of Sunday. So we got up at 5.30am, cast off our various lines, and decided to do one more loop in front of Tower Bridge to say farewell before heading back to the downriver wastelands…
And just as we were turning around to head back home, the engine cut out! And at this point the tide was slowly but surely going upstream towards the bridge. Which wasn’t open and hence wouldn’t be high enough for us to pass through… Panic, call the coast guard!!! What to do now??? After briefly considering deploying the anchor to stop us from smashing into the bridge (but probably fouling the anchor on the ground of the Thames…) I realised that putting a sail up might be a much more sensible thing to do. And fortunately, the wind, a very light westerly, was just enough to gently move us away from the bridge.
Immediate danger averted, we quickly realised that one of the mooring lines had fallen off the foredeck and wrapped itself tightly around the propeller. (Lesson learned: do not become complacent about lines; always double check and get the foredeck crew to take all lines back to the cockpit right away, even if they are competent crew and you trust them a lot…!) The question was, what to do next? We still had to get all the way back to Ipswich … A police boat showed up and asked us if we were okay, and then let us sail down the river under the jib… London VTS was okay with us sailing through the Thames Barrier, but once we got to the next bend, it became clear that the wind was too light and too flaky to get down the whole river under sails in one tide.
We were just next to the Metropolitan Police pier, and so we asked over VHF if we could sail onto the pontoon to figure out our next steps… the police weren’t happy with that, but their boat “John Harriott IV” came back to us and offered to tow us to the waiting pontoon at Limehouse Basin. At this point it was around 7am, they hadn’t even had breakfast yet! We tried offering them a lot of different things, but only the cookies seemed to work. They were very grateful for those though! “A cookie keeps a police officer happy.” :) The Marina wasn’t open yet, and we were trying to find a diver of sorts who would be able to get the rope off. But who’d even be able to see the propeller in the murky waters of the Thames?? Fortunately, the police officers had mentioned that the manager of South Dock Marina was a very helpful fellow, and the almanac even had an emergency number ready. So we rang him out of his sleep (just a few minutes before his alarm though), and the police boat, after a bit of deliberation (they had a bunch of other jobs to do afterwards), kindly agreed to tow us even further, and eventually they dropped us off right next to the entrance to the lock into South Dock Marina… no waiting pontoon here! Just the bare stone wall.
From here, we had to warp Skylark into the lock, through the lock, and out again, all the while ensuring that the boat wouldn’t smash into the stone walls and all the stuff poking out of them. Patrick Keating, the harbour master, and his colleagues were super friendly and helpful and made sure we got everything right, and didn’t even seem to mind that we were giving them work this early on a Sunday morning! Eventually, we were underneath their crane, and once we had managed to take off the back stay, they lifted the boat. From a little work boat, one of the marina staff and Jack managed to reach the propeller, and fortunately could take off the rope without even cutting it, and the propeller seemed entirely undamaged (good thing, given that it was just two days old)! With the engine being able to go back in service, we quickly went back to the lock, and thankfully managed to get out during the short window around high water in which there was enough water between lock and river. If the staff at South Dock Marina hadn’t been so helpful and fast, we would have easily been stuck in London another ten hours until the next high water!
Finally - with just about two and a half hours delay! - we were back on track, once more going past Greenwich, the Millenium Dome and the cable car, and through the Thames Barrier… and, again, the wind started picking up, so back to sailing it was! And very quickly we put in a reef, and another, and another… heavily reefed, we breezed downwind, downstream, and this time we had to gybe back and forth to be able to follow the river’s course.
The Thames really is a foul river: when flushing the heads, the river water looks worse than what you are flushing away…
Around midday on Sunday we were back at Southend. From here the waves started building up, and still on a reach we even managed to surf several times, with the log repeatedly exceeding ten knots. Exciting sailing indeed!
Just the speed over ground was rather less. Maybe the log was overreading somewhat, or the tide was stronger than predicted by the almanac…
As we were getting back to Foulness Sand, the wind started veering, while we had to turn to port - bringing us closer to each other, and a nice broad reach turned into a much closer ride. The wind kept up, gusting over 30 knots, and on the third reef in the main, with not much jib left, we had the main sheeted out as if we were still reaching, still going fast and heeling over substantially. Occasionally a wave would crash over and drench everyone in the cockpit. Fun times :D
We had a beautiful sunset behind us, and then it got dark, and cold, we had to motor dead into the wind to get back across the Spitway to the north Essex coast. Well, we went a little bit off the direct course (and the rising tide made the sandbank more passable) so that we could gain a bit of benefit from motorsailing, to keep our speed up against the waves… After an hour of unpleasantness, we could finally turn the engine off again, and now that we were much closer to the coast, the sea state was easing up. With the rest of the crew getting cold and tired, the skipper took over the helm for the last miles of closehauling towards the Landguard buoy. Sails taken down and motoring along the shipping channel, Felixstowe gave us several huge cargo ships passing by, with a chance to practice some of the slightly less common light signals…
It was around 9pm when we dropped off our drivers at the Shotley waiting pontoon, so they could get the cars back to Ipswich. Reduced to four of us, we motored back towards the Orwell. With the wind coming straight down the river valley, we had to stick to the engine, which didn’t seem to make much progress against now both wind and tide, with a speed over ground of just 3 knots. Made for a looong slog up the river… First we tried to stick to the side of the river in shallow water to have less tide against, but it turned out there were too many mooring buoys and not enough light to spot them easily enough, and we didn’t want to get one of them wrapped around our prop!
So in the dredged channel we stayed. Until we heard a loud honking, which turned out to be a river freighter coming up behind us. It ended up passing just a few meters next to us - we jumped when we noticed!
Having complained to Hywel about the low boat speed, it turned out we had gotten the engine revs wrong… thought 2500rpm was for cruising, but apparently this changed with the new alternator (number three or four this year…). Turns out we could actually do 2800! That improved our speed a fair bit. If only we had realised earlier!
Finally we got to Ipswich, getting close to midnight now, and the only hurdle remaining was getting through the lock. Didn’t expect this to be any issue - we called them on VHF - only to be told that they were dealing with commercial traffic and that we should wait until they would get back to us. So we waited… We intended to go on the waiting pontoon, the foredeck crew cancelled that plan last minute (with some confusion by the helmsman), because the heaps of guano didn’t make stepping off the boat and onto the pontoon appealing or safe - who wants to slip in that and end up in cold November water?? So we just kept circling around, at one point got a call by a commercial vessel that was about to leave its quay, was going to turn into us and in the most polite words conveyed a very clear “get off”.
Once we called the lock for the third time trying to figure out at least how much longer we’d have to wait, the lock keeper finally apologies for the delay and presses the relevant button. Locking through was easy, even though there was some slight confusion with finding a floating pontoon only on the starboard side of the lock (and we had expected to go to the windward side on port). Getting off the pontoon was a bit of a bump, but then we were in the Ipswich basin. Took us a while to find the right berth, but eventually we got it, and thankfully getting in was super easy, no manoeuvring required. Jack was (of course) already there, helping us with the lines. Poor Jannes had had some issues with a failing starter battery and was waiting inside the running car…
We all had a quick final dinner (once more thanks to Arturo), and then we headed off back towards Cambridge. By the time we were in our own homes it must have been 3am, we were all dead tired, exhausted, and happy to have had such an amazing adventure from start to finish. 200 nautical miles in two days!
Many thanks again to the kind crew of the “John Harriott IV” Met police launch and Patrick Keating and his colleagues from South Dock Marina, who had a big hand in the happy end of this adventure!
P.S. The rosemary bread sticks were amazing…
You can see these (and a couple more) photos in full size in the photo gallery.
What an absolute amazing adventure! You couldn't ask for a much more action packed weekend! I was this close to signing up for this, but work commitments (we were moving offices this weekend) kept me off the water unfortunately, but would have been quite a time/memories made this weekend (instead of witnessing how to handling emergencies, all i did was staying up in the whee hours of the night going between offices working on computers and cables). Hope the club schedules more trips down to London as this would have been a dream come true to be a part of!


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Join John McWade for an in-depth discussion in this video The boring book cover challenge: Part 1, part of Graphic Design Tips & Tricks Weekly.
- Hi, everyone, John McWade. A while back, I put on a challenge to design a boring book cover. This was for a book that you'd keep by your bed to read and fall asleep and you swamped me with covers. You can see a lot of 'em on the Graphic Design Tips and Tricks group here on LinkedIn and I'd like to look at some. I did one too so we'll start with that. Your assignment was to design a cover and this was the challenge that does not arouse the reader in any way. You want the reader to not engage with it.
Just blah. The rule was your book needed a title, subtitle optional, a photo or illustration and an author's name, all of which you'd make up. A number of you tried and said how difficult you found it to design something totally bland and it is counterintuitive because we think of bland as easy, as something undesigned like anyone can do a bland thing but that isn't actually the case. All those unattractive designs out there are in fact engaging you in some way.
It can be negative, it's why you react. So the assignment was to get rid of all the reactors so the viewer has basically no response. For example, some of your covers were funny. We liked them but that of course disqualified them. So let's look at a few. Mine I titled Ellen Makes More Dough. A lump of dough. Not big, not small. Colorless, no light, no shadow, no real shape, no composition, no rule of thirds here.
No foreground, background. It's doing nothing. Nothing's being done to it. Nothing off camera to be piquing your curiosity. It's just a lump of dough. Ellen is a common name, plain, soft, no sharp K or X sounds. Plain typeface, it's DIN, D-I-N Regular. Not too light, not bold, plain topic. Nothing interesting in the statement.
Is she having a party, making cookies, cake, pizza? No clue, it just lays there. Subtitle, Rolling, Rolling, Rolling to me, suggests a mild degree of tedium although it's neither difficult nor challenging which would be active. Mary White, simple, common name. Small, centered which of course is inactive. The whole cover is a nondescript beige. Nothing bright. No contrasts.
So this is a design that to my eye and my thinking doesn't engage you. It doesn't take you anywhere. It doesn't invite you in. I can go to sleep looking at this but and here's the thing, even with all this blandness, not everyone found it sleep-inducing. One reader said that Rolling, Rolling, Rolling brought to her mind the Rawhide theme from the old TV show with Clint Eastwood. Another said she felt the urge to poke the dough with her finger but hey, hard to compensate for the occasional fetish.
Let's look at two that you sent in. Midnight Pillow Bedside Tales. Comfy linen, soft colors. This cover designed by Misha seems to have all the right ingredients but there's some culprits in here that mess it up. One is the word Tales which suggest intrigue and mystery and suspense especially because it involves a bed at midnight. Another is the pillow's rakish angle which is extremely active and suggestive too in a Hitchcock kind of way and Mr. Graye.
The name sounds gray but there's that rogue e which to me at least suggests if not an exotic lineage, at least a British one a la Sherlock Holmes. The cover does have good things going for it, mainly the palette which is all soft edges and quiet colors so it's pleasant without being arousing. An A for that. The bleed image though activates the edge. This is a design technique. A bleed conveys a very strong sense that there's something more, that things are happening off-screen almost always and your mind subliminally processes that yet wants to know the more so there's a pull.
Almost all lines create motion. This is also a design technique. If you want to move your viewers' eye, make a line and you don't need to draw one. The pillow makes its own line. It does though bring up a useful technique and that's the angles are super active. If you want to generate function or excitement, make an angle. It's unsteady, it's tippy, it's destabilizing. The triangles, the form and the empty spaces create converging lines which are fast, they move your eye from wide to narrow and the more angles, the more excitement.
So that's our first cover. Attractive but only one yawn for this one. Cover number two by Adam. I love this. Four yawns. Dull topic, I mean, how many color guides do we already own? And 10,000 Shades of Brown, I get tired just thinking about that and the plain page is just empty. Nothing to engage you. Let's zoom in. We have beige swatches on a beige field all desaturated colors, nothing bright.
Virtually no edge here. A soft edge here and almost invisible here. Here's the design lesson. The softer your edges, the quieter your presentation. High contrast edges, black and white being the highest, have a lot of energy. They're exciting. To calm down a design, soften the edges. The lines of the border, I love these. Bland and blander. Medium and slightly less medium.
Just different enough to not be the same which would have the strength of repetition but not different enough to have the energy of high contrast. So just blah. And the swatch layout is off just enough. Look at this spacing. To not make a precision grid which would be engaging. So no intruding on our nap. One last thing. The timid byline at the bottom. My only worry is the placement.
This close to the edge starts generating tension although very little because the name is so small. Also, the title box at the top is close enough to the edge that it's starting to get active. So not quite five yawns for this cover but it's a good one. And that's your design for today. Next time, we'll look at two more. If you'd like to submit a cover and haven't, please do. Post it at the Graphic Design Tips and Tricks group here on LinkedIn. I'll be able to look at only a small fraction of the covers so be sure to interact with your fellow designers.
I know they'll appreciate the feedback. See ya next time.
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By letter dated July 19, 2016 (“the Application”), Investors' Exchange LLC (“IEX” or the “Exchange”) requests a limited exemption from the requirements of Rule 10b-10(a)(2)(i)(A) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Exchange Act”) on behalf of Members
that execute trades on the Exchange for their customers. As discussed in the Application, IEX will operate a fully automated electronic order book with a continuous, automated matching function that will provide for strict price-display-time priority execution (“Trading System”).
The order book and the Exchange's rules provide for post trade anonymity through settlement for trades executed through IEX.
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a. The Exchange
IEX is registered as a national securities exchange under Section 6 of the Exchange Act.
The Members of the Exchange consist of those broker-dealers admitted to Membership and entitled to enter orders in, and receive executions through, the Exchange's order book or otherwise.
The Exchange will operate an order book for orders with a continuous, automated matching function, in compliance with the Exchange's rules and Regulation NMS under the Act.
Liquidity will be derived from orders to buy and orders to sell submitted to the Exchange electronically by its Members from remote locations.
The order book and the Exchange's rules will provide for strict price-display-time priority execution. Under IEX Rule 11.220, orders will be prioritized on a strict price-display-time basis, first by price, then by display (with displayed orders and displayed portions of orders having precedence over non-displayed orders and non-displayed portions of orders at a given price) and then by time. Incoming orders are first matched for execution against orders in the IEX order book. Orders that cannot be executed are eligible for routing to away trading centers, if consistent with the terms of the orders.
All trades will be executed through the Exchange's Trading System on an anonymous basis. The transaction reports produced by the Trading System will indicate the details of transactions executed in the Trading System but shall not reveal the contra party identities. Transactions executed in the Trading System will also be cleared and settled anonymously.
The order book's matching system algorithm permits orders originated by an IEX Member to execute against other orders from the same participant on the same basis as orders from other Members. In the order book's handling of displayed orders, which is based on strict price-display-time priority, a Member could receive an execution against itself, and under the Exchange's Rules, the Member would not know that it was the contra-side of the trade at the time of execution.
a. Rule 10b-10
Rule 10b-10 under the Exchange Act generally requires broker-dealers effecting a customer transaction in securities (other than U.S. savings bonds or municipal securities)
to provide a written notification to its customer, at or before completion of a securities transaction, that discloses information specific to the transaction. In particular, under Rule 10b-10(a)(2)(i)(A), when a broker-dealer acts as agent for a customer, for some other person, or for both a customer and some other person, the broker-dealer must disclose “[t]he name of the person from whom the security was purchased, or to whom it was sold, for such customer or the fact that the information will be furnished upon written request of such customer” (the “Contra-Party Identity Requirement”).
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Because of this, Members will not know the identity of the party to whom they sold securities or from whom they purchased securities. Without this information, Members would not be able to comply with the Contra-Party Identity Requirement of Rule 10b-10. To permit IEX Members to utilize the Exchange without violating Rule 10b-10 under the Exchange Act, on behalf of its Members, is seeking an exemption under Rule 10b-10(f) from the Contra-Party Identity Requirement of Rule 10b-10 when Members execute transactions at IEX, as described in the Application.
Based on the facts and representations contained in the Application, we find that it is appropriate and in the public interest and consistent with the protection of investors to grant the Exchange, on behalf of its Members, a limited exemption from the Contra-Party Identity Requirement in Rule 10b-10(a)(2)(i)(A).
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, pursuant to Rule 10b-10(f) of the Exchange Act, that IEX Members, based on the representations and facts contained in the Application, are exempt from the requirements of Rule 10b-10(a)(2)(i)(A) of the Exchange Act, to the extent that Members execute trades for their customers on the Exchange using the IEX Trading System. This exemption is limited to trades that Members execute on IEX using the post trade anonymity feature described in the Application.
The foregoing exemption is subject to modification or revocation if at any time the Commission determines that such action is necessary or appropriate in furtherance of the purposes of the Exchange Act.
For the Commission, by the Division of Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated authority.
Robert W. Errett,
[FR Doc. 2016-18020 Filed 7-28-16; 8:45 am]
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The race against time continues for farmers in southern Colorado’s San Luis Valley, with the state’s top water regulator warning that a decision on whether hundreds of farm wells will be shut off to help save the Rio Grande River could come much sooner than expected.
July 28, at a virtual symposium on the Rio Grande River, the state warned growers that they were running out of time to correct the situation.
“We’ll see in the next couple of years if we can turn around this trick,” said State Engineer Kevin Rein. “If we’re not turning it around, we need to start having that more difficult conversation.”
The valley is home to the nation’s second-largest potato economy and growers there have been working voluntarily for more than a decade to wean themselves from unsustainable groundwater use and restore flows in the Rio Grande. Thousands of acres of land have been dried up with farmers paying a fee for the water they pump in order to compensate producers who agree to fallow land.
The San Luis Valley, which receives less precipitation than nearly any other region in Colorado, is supplied by the Rio Grande, but under the river lies a vast aquifer system that is linked to the river. It once had so much water that artesian springs flowed freely on the valley floor.
As modern-day farmers began putting powerful deep wells into the aquifer, aquifer levels declined, and flows in the river declined too as a result, hurting the state’s ability to deliver Rio Grande water downstream to New Mexico and Texas, as it is legally required to do.
Between July 2019 and July 2020 the valley’s unconfined aquifer, which is fed by the Rio Grande River, dropped by 112,600 acre-feet. All told the aquifer has lost around 1 million acre-feet of water since the drought of 2002.
Through a plan written by growers in the valley and approved by the state in 2011, farmers had 20 years, from 2011 to 2031, to restore the aquifer. But multiple droughts in the past 19 years have made clear that the region can’t rely on big snow years to replenish the valley’s water supplies because there are fewer of them, thanks to climate change.
“So what is the future, the short-term future, if we can’t count on climate? And let’s admit we can’t,” Rein said. “If climate’s not cooperating the only thing that can be done is consuming less water.”
Adding to pressure on the region is a proposal by Denver developers to buy thousands of acres of the valley’s farm land, leaving some of the associated water rights behind to replenish the aquifer, while piping thousands of acre-feet of water northeast to the metro area.
Rein said drastic steps, like drying up more fields and sharply limiting how much growers can pump, are needed. But this could result in bankruptcies and could cripple the valley’s $370 million agriculture economy, which employs the majority of workers in the region. Worse still, though, would be the shutdown of all wells in the region, which is what could occur if farmers aren’t able to make progress toward aquifer sustainability.
While the deadline to restore the aquifer is set for 2031, if it becomes clear before then that growers aren’t able to restore groundwater levels, Rein will be forced to take action early by turning off all wells.
Rein said his decision likely won’t come as early as next year. But, he said, “Do we wait until 2031, the deadline? Probably not.”
The groundwater challenges and associated deadline stem from Colorado’s historic 2002 drought which led to more groundwater pumping than ever before and resulted in a falling water table, decreases in water pressure, and failing wells.
Groundwater declines have been so severe that they’ve affected surface water levels in parts of the valley. In 2004, state lawmakers passed a bill requiring the state to begin regulating the aquifer to make it more sustainable.
Landowners within the Rio Grande Water Conservation District (RGWCD) responded by forming a groundwater management district known as Subdistrict 1—that was just the first of what will soon be seven approved subdistricts.
Subdistrict 1 set goals and developed a plan of water management in late 2011 that spelled out how to reduce groundwater depletions and recharge the aquifer.
In 2012 they began paying a fee for every acre-foot of water used. That revenue helps pay irrigators who elect to participate in voluntary fallowing programs and other efforts to replenish the river and reduce stress on the aquifer.
And by 2017, irrigators had restored 350,000 acre-feet of water in the aquifer, halfway to their goal. But drought and disaster struck in 2018. With less surface water available and high temperatures, irrigators pumped heavily to maintain their crops. And by September 2018, farmers had lost about 70 percent of the groundwater gains they had worked so hard to recover.
“2018 was extremely frustrating,” said Cleave Simpson, manager of the RGWCD who is also a fourth-generation grower. ”It really kind of set us back to where we were when we started this in 2012.”
It’s not over yet. Some of that groundwater lost in 2018 has been recovered and this year participation in the fallowing program is higher than ever, with more than 13,000 acres enrolled, according to Amber Pacheco who manages the RGWCD’s subdistrict programs—that’s in addition to the 8,800 acres fallowed through the conservation programs that have been running since 2012.
Simpson and others, faced with another severe drought year, are deeply worried about the success of their conservation efforts, but dire times are also boosting motivation to solve the problem, Simpson said.
“There’s a sense of urgency from the board of managers that we’ve got to keep doing more,” Simpson said. “We’ve got to get back what we lost.”
Caitlin Coleman is the Headwaters magazine editor and communications specialist at Water Education Colorado. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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September 28, 2010, 9:42 PM — Cisco has quietly begun serving up content from its main Web site that supports IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol known as IPv4.
The move is significant given that Cisco has been selling IPv6-enabled routers, software and services to carriers and enterprise customers for many years. Now, Cisco is taking the initiative to deploy IPv6 on its own public-facing Web site -- what the IT industry calls "dogfooding" when a company deploys its own technology.
Cisco confirmed Tuesday that on Aug. 23 it began testing IPv6 on an alternative Web site -- www.ipv6.cisco.com -- instead of its main Web site, which is www.cisco.com. Cisco said it is maintaining a dual IPv6 and IPv4 approach for its external Web presence so that all of its customers can access the Web site reliably.
"We could begin with a translating proxy to give an IPv6 presence with an IPv4 back end, but since the end goal is native IPv6 anyway we have decided to take this time to get our applications steadily moved to IPv6 natively rather than translating," explains Mark Townsley, distinguished engineer for Cisco. "We may consider a proxy for some parts of our presence down the road, but for the moment we prefer working on the various IPv6 dependencies in our code directly."
Cisco isn't the only IPv6 vendor to have dragged its feet on deploying the new IP addressing standard on its Web site.
Microsoft, which offers built-in IPv6 in Windows 7 and Windows Vista, has yet to support IPv6 content on Bing or MSN.
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Top 4 Drug Rehab Centers Near Franklin, New Hampshire
Franklin is the smallest of the thirteen cities in New Hampshire, with a population of just under 9,000. It sits in Merrimack County, with a history that dates back to the earliest days of the nation. Residents here should know that if they or a loved one struggle with substance abuse, the first step is to find the rehab program that will work best for them.
Rehab Centers In Franklin, New Hampshire
Patients will often first look at the facilities located within their city’s boundaries. Here is what patients should know about facilities in Franklin.
The Farnum Center offers a few different facilities throughout the area. Within Franklin specifically, they have a 21 bed women’s residential facility (Ray House) and a 42 bed men’s residential facility (Webster Place). On the beautiful 15 acre property, patients have opportunities for recreation, music, creativity, and healing as they learn how to improve their lives in recovery.
Rehab Centers Near Franklin, New Hampshire
In addition to the facilities within Franklin, patients should also look at the options just beyond the borders of their city. This may include Bristol, Concord, and Plymouth.
Mid-State Health Center, Bristol, New Hampshire
The Mid-State Health Center offers patients medication to help them treat opioid dependence. As patients use medication to manage addiction, they also regularly meet with counselors and behavior specialists to better understand their dependence and how to move forward in a healthy way.
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ROAD To A Better Life, Concord, New Hampshire
ROAD to a Better Life works to help patients struggling with addiction, particularly to opioids and alcohol. Patients received medication-assisted treatment to help lessen dependence. They also go through behavioral health treatment with individual therapy and group therapy. An intensive outpatient program is also available for those in need of more involved care.
The Plymouth House, Plymouth, New Hampshire
The Plymouth House offers patients a combination of traditional and holistic treatment options. Patients work through the 12 Steps, but also have access to activities such as yoga and hiking. Patients attend workshops and live on a beautiful campus, which offers the lovely White Mountains as a backdrop. The goal is to provide patients a safe, welcoming, and peaceful environment that encourages recovery.
Substance Abuse In Franklin & Merrimack County
From 2013 to 2017, the number of people who died because of a drug overdose increased from 14.51 to 36.68 per 100,000 people throughout the state of New Hampshire. Although Franklin is one of the smaller cities in the state, it is still home to many people struggling with substance abuse:
- There were 23.11 people admitted to treatment per 10,000 in Merrimack County in 2017.
- There were 970 people admitted to the emergency department in Merrimack County for opioid-related problems in 2017, a large increase over the 559 who were admitted in 2016.
- Franklin itself saw the second highest rates of emergency Narcan usage in the county in 2017.
Traveling For The Best Program
When it comes to substance abuse and recovery, finding the right program can make an enormous difference in the success of the patient. Those searching for rehab centers should consider the program that aligns best with their personality and needs. This may involve traveling outside of their city or state. For more information on traveling for the best program, contact RehabCenter.net.Article Sources


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According to a report by The Next Web, Taiwanese hardware manufacturer HTC is currently working on an Android smartphone powered by blockchain technology.
The phone, reportedly dubbed ‘Exodus,’ will feature a universal wallet and built-in secure hardware that supports cryptocurrencies and decentralized applications.
Blockchain is a technology popularized alongside cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. While the Exodus phone maintains a crypto-connection, its important to understand the basics of blockchain outside of cryptocurrencies to see how revolutionary this device could be.
At its most basic level, blockchain is a digital ledger — it’s commonly used as a record of cryptocurrencies and transactions made using that currency.
Unlike usual ledgers, however, a blockchain record is stored across millions of devices instead of one central location. It’s also decentralized, meaning that it’s accessible by anyone and not corruptible by hackers.
How is that possible? Well, everyone has a copy of the information. If one copy is corrupted, the other copies can verify that there’s something wrong.
One popular analogy compares blockchain to something like collaborating on a Google Doc. With traditional word processors, users have to save individual documents and send them to other people to revise.
With a Google Doc, however, all users can have simultaneous access to the file and can track the changes that are being made.
How will it work in phones?
While there are a number of potential uses for blockchain technology, HTC is sticking to the tried-and-true cryptocurrency application with Exodus.
HTC reportedly is hoping to build a native blockchain network with all Exodus phones acting as nodes to ease crypto-trading among phone users.
In addition to cryptocurrency manipulation, blockchain is touted for its ability to offer both better security and user experience by incorporating cold wallet storage — offline cryptocurrency storage — directly into the phone. However, these features are available on most phones using apps and other software anyway.
HTC isn’t the first to tout a blockchain phone. Sirin Labs announced a $999 USD blockchain phone last year, a device reportedly being made by Foxconn.
While HTC’s phone isn’t available yet, it’s rumoured that the company may sell the phone in exchange for cryptocurrency.
It will be interesting to see how these devices play out. With the current crypto-craze, the phones may sell well, regardless if they offer actual functionality beyond what users can get on their devices right now.
Source: The Next Web

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TOP 10 THINGS THAT COUNT AS WRITING:
10. Reading books about writing
9. Reading great writing
8. Signing up for a writing class
7. Listening to podcasts with great authors
6. Combing through old writing for snippets, ideas, threads
5. Writing in a journal
3. Talking about writing with another writer
2. Reading what you've written from the day before
TOP 10 GRAY-AREA THINGS THAT SORT OF COUNT AS WRITING:
10. Cleaning your house
9. Yard work
8. Going through photo albums
5. Recording dreams
4. Listening to an inspirational song, in a continuous loop
3. Staring into space
1. Walking, alone, in silence, while the writing sifts and sorts
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The importance of considering the compound effects of multiple hazards has increased in recent years due to their catastrophic impacts on human lives and property. Compound effects correspond to events with multiple concurrent or consecutive drivers, e.g., heavy storms, coastal flooding, high tides, and sea level rise (SLR). There is a recent evidence on inundation caused by SLR-driven groundwater rise, and there is a distinct knowledge gap in understanding the compound inundation effects of this phenomenon considering the important hydrologic and hydraulic considerations under compound events. To fill this knowledge gap, we developed a novel analytical framework to understand the movements of the surface flow under typical precipitation events considering their interaction with uprising groundwater and SLR in a coastal watershed located in Oakland Flatlands, CA, USA, home to several disadvantaged communities. This modelling approach simulates the dynamics of compound flooding in two dimensions of the earth surface in a fine resolution, which is critical for devising proper flood management strategies. The reason to focus on disadvantaged coastal communities is that such communities typically encounter disproportionate environmental injustices due to the lack of sufficient drainage capacity in their infrastructure. Our results show that by considering the compound effect of SLR, groundwater inundation and precipitation flooding, the drainage capacity of infrastructure will be substantially exceeded, such that over 700 acres of the built infrastructure could be flooded. This is a considerable increase compared to scenarios that do not consider compound effect, or scenarios that consider inappropriate combinations of driving factors. In sum, our results highlight the significance of considering compound effects in the coastal inundation analyses, with a particular emphasis on the role of groundwater rise.
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License
which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited


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Explore Vietnamese fare, like this variation on the summer roll, served with chile-fish dipping sauce (pictured on the cake stand).
- Yield: Makes 24
Photography: Gentl and Hyers
Source: Martha Stewart Living, December 2000
- 7 ounces rice noodles or cellophane noodles
- 24 rice-paper wrappers
For the Rice-Vinegar Mixture
- 6 tablespoons seasoned rice-wine vinegar
- 4 tablespoons mirin (Japanese cooking wine)
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon coarse salt
For the Rolls
- 1 cucumber, peeled, seeded, and cut into 3-inch-long matchsticks
- 1/2 small jicama, peeled and cut into 3-inch-long matchsticks
- 1/2 cup mint leaves
- 1 small bunch chives, cut into 3-inch-long lengths
For the Dipping Sauce
- 1/4 teaspoon fish sauce
- 1 small red chile pepper
- 1 tablespoon grated carrot
Combine the rice-wine vinegar, mirin, sugar, and salt in a small bowl.
Bring a pot of water to a boil; cook rice noodles until tender, about 3 minutes. Drain in a colander; transfer to a bowl.
Pour 2 tablespoons rice-wine-vinegar mixture over noodles, and set aside. Place the cucumber and jicama in a bowl, and combine with 2 tablespoons rice-wine-vinegar mixture.
Fill a medium bowl with warm water, and dip rice-paper wrappers, a few at a time, until malleable. Lay wrapper on a clean towel, and arrange small bundle of rice noodles, 4 pieces cucumber, 2 pieces jicama, several mint leaves, and 1 chive across lower quarter of wrapper. Roll, folding in ends as you go, forming a tight roll. Place on a plate lined with damp paper towels, and repeat until all 24 rolls are formed. Keep covered with damp paper towels until ready to serve.
For the dipping sauce, add fish sauce, chile pepper and carrot to remaining reserved rice-wine-vinegar mixture. Just before serving, cut rolls in half on the diagonal, and arrange on a serving plate with dipping sauce.


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SET-BC got off to a busy and early start this September with SET-BC Consultant, Josh Campbell, presenting the first SET-BC workshop only six days into the start of the year.
On the afternoon of September 11, Josh headed to School District #68 Nanaimo to whet the appetite of district support teachers for the platter of possibilities that technology can offer to support their students.
On the menu for the more than thirty participants were appetizers of UDL, small servings of technology trials and an entrée of innovative examples of how students might feel who had difficulty reading and writing. Josh deftly led the lively group through a series of courses serving up suggestions as to why it is necessary to present information in multiple ways, why students need options and why engagement is key. Participants sampled iPad’s accessibility settings, trying out dictation, read-back and distilling features and other optional tidbits of reading, writing and access supports. The teachers were also given a taste of Read and Write for Google, checking out word prediction, picture supports, dictionaries, vocabulary builders and much more.
At the end of the session, comfortably full of information, all teachers were able to tell what technology lessons would best satisfy their cravings to learn more, giving the district and consultant the opportunity to tailor their next technology try-out to those items that were of interest to the teachers.
As take-away at the end of a long and busy day, teachers were given a doggy-bag of information in the form of an AfterShare site where all participants can go to re-fill and replenish their knowledge as their appetite for technology knowledge grows.
Bon appétit, Nanaimo – thank you for hosting the first technology event of the year!


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The scientific name of garlic is Allium sativum and is belong to the family of onion species. Garlic belongs to the category of leak, onion, chive and shallots. It possesses a pungent taste and smell. Garlic originates from Central Asia and is used as a seasoning in the food all over the world. Apart from the seasoning quality it has tremendous medicinal uses as well like it helps in treating cancer, sore throat, cold, etc. But, you will be surprised to know that after having such magical uses it has certain side effects as well. So, it is advisable to use garlic under the controlled amount.
Mentioned Below Are Certain Side Effects Of Garlic
Foul Breath And Bad Body Odour
We all are aware of the term ‘Garlic Breath”. The bad breath is often referred as garlic breath which occurs due to consumption of high quantity of garlic in the meal. This often results to foul body odour some time. The pungent smell from mouth and body occurs due to the presence of allyl methyl sulphide. This chemical substance present in garlic gets absorbed by the blood during the metabolism of food. The blood then travels to lung and result in creating a bad breath or garlic breath.
Some people of prone to garlic consumption. The daily intake of garlic may create certain allergies to such people. Some of the allergies caused by garlic are diarrhoea, irritable bowel syndrome, nausea, breathing difficulties, throat ulcers etc. Such allergies occur due to certain chemical substance present in the garlic which are allylmercaptan, allylpropyldisulfide, diallyl disulphide and allicin.
Unsafe For Pregnant Ladies
The sale of garlic and garlic supplements is quiet good due to its healing property. However, it has been proven that over consumption of garlic reduces the platelet counts in the blood. This may result in causing the risk of developing bleeding during and after pregnancy.
It has been reported that garlic causes burns on the skin when used in topical medications. It is often used in acne treatments and naturopathy and may result in painful skin rashes and burns. Topical use if raw garlic should be totally avoided for children.
Interaction With Certain Antibiotics
It is considered safe to consult your doctor about the garlic intake as it interacts with certain antibiotics such as saquinavir, antiplatelets, calcium blockers warfarin and quinolone family and may result in some serious health hazards.


text: This week students finished up their pinch pots and they started the second project. We labeled this assignment as a pinch pot vase. Students are expected to create two pinch pots that are equal in height, diameter, and smoothness from twelve ounces of clay (3/4 lb). In order to prevent the vases from being squatty and heavy for their size, we decided that the vase body was expected to be five to six inches in height. Throughout this lesson, students learned to score and slip the two pinch pots into an egg shape, join and seam the edges, and create a foot and neck for the piece. (Photos will be attached and assignment sheet with be added) In addition to creating a finalized piece, students also learned about carving the surface of the clay to create a pattern. For many students, this was the most frustrating part of this assignment. When a design is scratched into the surface with a needle tool, the mark left is very thin and leaves behind unsightly crumbs of clay. It was frustrating to many of them that they had to go back over their designs. Unfortunately, many students opted out of “finishing” their piece despite instruction and warning about grade deduction.


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NSW Greens have called on the NSW Government to take Victoria’s lead to implement local caps on the number of poker machines in order to reduce poker machine gambling harm.
The call follows an announcement that the Victorian Government of a suite of measures to tackle poker machine harm including:
- added restrictions on pokies numbers in regions most affected by gambling, with an extension of regional caps on machines; and
- Limiting the number of machines in a single venue to 105.
Greens MP and Gambling Harm Spokesperson Justin Field said, “While Victoria pushes ahead with reform aimed at protecting people and communities from addictive poker machines, the NSW Government fails to act.
“NSW already has more than three times the number of machines compared to Victoria and more than five times the Victorian 105 limit in some of our clubs. This is driving gambling losses in NSW of about $8 billion a year. We need to turn this around.
“The NSW Government has a close relationship with the vested interests of the clubs and hotels that operate pokies and acts in their best interests. It talks up reducing gambling harm while its budget forecasts ever increasing tax revenue from poker machines over coming years.
“Recently Fairfield City Council, that faces the biggest poker machines losses of any local government area in NSW, called for a cap on machines.
“The Greens are calling on the NSW Government and the Labor party to support a winding back of poker machines number across the state. Venue limits, regional limits and an overall state cap make a lot of sense.
“The pokies are not a game, these machines are causing family breakdown and financial ruin, contributing to domestic violence and promoting addiction for profit.
“Minister Paul Toole time and again jumps to the defence of pokies when anyone can see the balance has swung too far in their favour. He should take his responsibility to people and families seriously and follow Victoria’s lead on addressing gambling harm.
“The Victorian example shows there are solutions available to make a significant impact on pokies-related harm, what is lacking in NSW is political leadership and will,” Mr Field said.
Victorian Gaming Minister’s Media Release on pokies reform: http://www.premier.vic.gov.au/sweeping-reforms-to-tackle-pokies-harm/


Foetal alcohol spectrum disorder and hearing loss were both likely impacts on the high rates of Indigenous people in the child protection and criminal justice systems, the royal commission has heard.
The inquiry into the protection and detention of children in the Northern Territory on Thursday afternoon questioned several health experts on the prevalence of the two forms of disability and their correlation to child protection and detention issues.
The inquiry also heard suggestions that juvenile detainees who were restrained and spithooded in Northern Territory detention facilities were likely hearing impaired and thus also deprived of sensory and communication abilities.
Prof John Boulton, paediatrician and emeritus professor at the University of Newcastle, told the commission the lifelong costs of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder were “in the millions of dollars”.
“If there are one to 2% of the population who are severely affected with FASD … then we are talking about an enormous burden to the overall Australian community, in the tens of millions of dollars a year,” he said.
“A back of the envelope extrapolation” on the figures of keeping children in detention or out-of-home care was also in the tens of millions, he added.
Studies conducted in Northern America found 60% of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder-affected children over the age of 12 engaged in escalating criminal behaviour, Boulton said in his statement. Alcohol abuse, depression and suicide rates were also extremely high among people with the disorder. Eighty per cent of affected adults had difficulty with employment and 40% had spent time in prison.
Diagnosis currently required a three to four-hour multidisciplinary assessment but waiting times were huge. It would be a “hugely positive step” if the disorder was recognised by the national disability insurance scheme, he said.
Boulton called for fast turnaround diagnosis to be established in courts in order to test defendants before court hearings and said behavioural support programs established in schools in Fitzroy Crossing “must absolutely be supported”.
He said the Aboriginal nations, in particular women from Fitzroy Crossing, had actually led Australia in facing the problem.
The inquiry also heard from consulting psychologist Dr Damien Howard and deaf Indigenous community consultant Jodi Barney.
The inquiry heard a suggestion the prevalence of hearing loss among Aboriginal people in detention was the “smoking gun” connecting ear disease with high rates of incarceration.
The royal commission, which began its first public hearing this week, was called in response to a Four Corners episode that broadcast footage of alleged mistreatment in detention, including the restraining and spithooding of a teenage boy.
The commission heard on Thursday that limited available research suggested as much as 90% of detainees had some level of hearing loss, for whom the use of spithoods would also take away vision, preventing the child from reading body language or communicating visually.
“That visual isolation makes them much more anxious and fearful about what is going on,” Howard said.
Barney, who has worked with adult and juvenile inmates with hearing loss for about 10 years, said: “It distresses me that such a form of discipline is used on children who can’t hear, who has worked with adult and juvenile inmates with hearing loss for about 10 years.
“Taking away another sense from a person who already has a limited sensory [range] is frightening. And that fear stays forever, the fear of having that happen again.”
It was also alleged juveniles in detention have had their hearing aids taken from them, or haven’t had access to batteries, or had the aids confiscated after swallowing the batteries.
The rates of often undiagnosed hearing loss among Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory are estimated at about 30% to 45% but many attempts at researching the issue have been unable to attract funding, Howard said.
One of the few studies undertaken in detention facilities found that 95% of Aboriginal inmates in the Alice Springs and Darwin adult prisons had moderate hearing loss. It was believed to be similarly overrepresented in juvenile centres, but no specific study had been undertaken.
Conductive hearing loss was “endemic” in Aboriginal communities across the Northern Territory and arose from untreated middle ear disease in childhood, “a disease very much of disadvantage”, Howard said.
In response Aboriginal youths were much more “gestural” in communication and picked up physical and visual codes of communication from family and community members, the commission heard.
These were disrupted when removed from home communities and placed in child protection and detention.
Hearing loss had an impact at all stages of a child’s interaction with education, protection and justice systems, the witnesses said.
The apparent lack of attention, focus, or communication with authority figures in schools and other facilities could be misinterpreted as defiant behaviour and often misdiagnosed as ADHD, they said.
Further complications arose with the concept of “gratuitous concurrence” where people agreed with a proposition put them – including in police interviews and court – out of politeness, or out of embarrassment that they didn’t understand or hear the question properly.
Barney said the intervention needed in this space was about 10 to 15 years overdue.
Across Australia there are only four people, including Barney, able to act as deaf Indigenous interpreters, and only one in the Northern Territory.
Howard said recommendations he had previously made were “still current and largely had not been addressed in any way”.
He said his recommendations called for police and others in the criminal justice system communicating with Indigenous people to be aware that most people were likely to have hearing loss, and to be trained in communication processes.
“The FASD issue, together with the evidence that we have had this afternoon about deafness throws such a complexion upon the participation of so many of these children in the criminal justice system, not to mention the child protection system, that we need to look at this carefully,” commissioner Margaret White said at the end of the day.
Earlier on Thursday the commission heard evidence from the co-author of a board of inquiry report into child protection, who said the NT government could have stopped the exponential rise in notifications if it had implemented their recommendations.
Muriel Bamblett told the commission there should be a designated Aboriginal children’s commissioner, an Aboriginal child care agency and an Aboriginal child welfare service.
The commission continues with community consultation meetings on Friday. Further public hearings are scheduled for November.


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Last night’s Screen Actor’s Guild Awards were full of red carpet surprises from veteran A-listers like Cake nominee (in vintage Jennifer Aniston Galliano), Birdman‘s (in Emma Stone Dior Couture), America’s sweetheart (in Julia Roberts Givenchy), Homeland‘s (in Claire Danes Marc Jacobs), & last year’s it-girl, (in Lupita Nyong’o Elie Saab). Also, there were plenty of newcomers who made an impact, including many Orange is the New Black winners like (in Uzo Aduba Angel Sanchez) & (in Danielle Brooks Christian Siriano), as well as Game of Thrones‘ (in Maisie Williams Self-Portrait).
Some of my favorites of the night included The Imitation Game nominee (in Keira Knightley Erdem), Wild‘s (in Reese Witherspoon Atelier Versace), model & wife, (in Camila Alves McConauhey Donna Karan), designer darling (in Emmy Rossum Armani Prive), Modern Family‘s rising star (in Sarah Hyland Vera Wang), St. Vincent nominee (in Naomi Watts Balenciaga), How to Get Away with Murder winner (in Viola Davis Max Mara), & this season’s golden girl, Still Alice winner, (in Julianne Moore Givenchy).
Now the official countdown to the Academy Awards can begin, which takes place on Sunday February 22nd, sure to wow & inspire more amazing style. Who wore your favorite look? What trends are you still talking about? For all the latest on this awards season, check out previous posts with complete galleries from the Red Carpet Review Golden Globe Awards & Critic’s Choice Awards. If that isn’t enough, get more celebrity inspiration from Style Darling‘s spring dress predictions featuring Kerry Washington & Allison Williams, how to style a statement necklace like Katy Perry or Emma Roberts, & Jennifer Lopez’s stylish press tour for her new movie, ! Happy Styling! The Boy Next Door
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I’ve been compiling a long list of my favorite looks during the 2011 calendar year & while there are still a few days left, I wanted to share the highs of the red carpet, press events, famous Style Darlings on the street, as well as the looks that have made the headlines. This is the ultimate gallery of the ensembles to wear for formal occasions, out & about on the street, to a cocktail party, or a date night, including the best descriptions that I could find of who wore what! For more looks that I’ve featured this year, check out
Darling of the Day
Red Carpet Review
Silver Screen Style
Style ABC’s (x3),
Watch This Style
– all categories that thrive on celebrity-inspiration for your style on a budget. I hope all of you had a prosperous 2011 & continue to do good for those around you, as well as for your style! Happy Styling!

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Signature records and Born Kings Entertainment artist Uche Kachikwu popularly known as Kach releases his official new single under his record label “Get Up” produced by super talented Sarz.
Prior to this time, he has released two other songs Tension and Red Lights ft. Lami. Red lights is a feel good rap song with a love feel to it. Kach is set to make you get up on your feet with this amazing jam. Listen and Enjoy, and don’t forget to ask your Dj when turning up tonight for ‘Get Up’
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