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By Mark Bailey
Although, having been aware of the factory for some years, my first, and only comprehensive visit took place during the early summer of 1953 whilst attending Page Green Secondary Modern School in Broad Lane. It has to be said that the pupils, (particularly the boys) were generally considered to be local factory fodder. And no doubt with this in mind, the annual school event visit for school leavers was a conducted tour of the nearby Harris Lebus furniture factory.
In those days schoolchildren were expected to line up in a file or crocodile two deep, and walk in an orderly and quiet way to ones destination, and thus we proceeded to Ferry Lane via Tottenham Hale, over the Railway Bridge, and lined up outside the Main Office. Alas after all this time I cannot recall how the visit was organised. Having little recollection of the Polishing or upholstery sections, however clearly remember the long West Main Corridor and adjoining passage to the parallel East Main one. Certainly we saw the excellent and well equipped (if poorly located) Surgery.
However I have quite strong memories of the southern end of the works, particularly of the cluttered east/west roadway. I recall that here as in the main north/south entry road both lorries and large removal type vans were usually to be seen, along with trailers, factory trolleys and the like, loaded with both raw timber and part constructed items.
It was via this crowded route that emergency ambulances had to find their way from Ferry Lane to the southern end of the West Main Corridor in order to collect the more seriously injured workers, and rush them to the Casualty unit of the nearby Prince of Wales Hospital in Tynemouth Road.
Continuing southwards one came to the timber yard with its drying kilns and stacks of timber that were in the constant process of being unloaded from the Thames lighters or barges. These vast steel vessels were a familiar sight along the River Lea, (and we were used to constant school warnings never to attempt to board or play on them, as they were very dangerous).
The loaded Lighters, sitting quite low in the water had been towed from the London Docks. The timber having originally arrived there on ships from around the world. Once emptied the Lighters sat very high up on the water, and it was not unknown for workmen and foolish children to fall into the deep cargo hold. Even worse, if one fell into the water the steep sides and undercut bow and stern of said craft made it impossible to climb out. Also given that they were often moored two or three deep meant that a victim could easily be crushed between them!
After the relative quiet of the timber yard, the shock of entering the Mill Shop was staggering, both the noise, dust and frantic activity! It was at this point that I decided that I never, ever wanted to work in a factory. Certainly the Sub – Assembly shop was a little more civilised. But for the life of me I cannot recall seeing any finished furniture during that visit.
Six years later, having found my way in and out of several factory jobs, I decided to follow my late father’s footsteps and join the Middlesex Ambulance Service. By 1964 I was based at Tottenham Fire Station (next to the Town Hall) working on the Front Line Emergency vehicle.
It was the practice within in the service that the two-man crew took daily turns to drive, or attend the patient. And so it happened that the first time we got a call to the Lebus Factory I (as duty driver) knew exactly where to locate the Surgery.
As you may imagine, given the size and complexity of the factory the types of potential accidents (not to mention general illness) were unlimited. Fortunately the Surgery was well equipped for all but the most serious events, and so visiting ambulance crews usually had a fairly easy time. That said, we never did understand why it was located in such an inaccessible position, and that long walk along the West Main corridor could be something of a trail particularly when dealing with a stretcher case, albeit usually mounted on a stretcher trolley.
This article has been reproduced with kind permission by Alan Swain and the Tottenham Summerhill Road website.

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not be. The winds may do their will with the standard of Great Britain, but it is safe from the power of man.
A statesman derided omens ; they ought not to be derided; for popular feeling is sometimes a barometer which perceives the change of atmosphere before it is visible. An historian, therefore, ought not to discard them. They are delightful to the poet, and valuable to the philosopher. Who can read in Josephus of the prodigies which announced the fall of Jerusalem without feeling his heart fail ?
Were I to relate in poetry Rodrigo's descent into the cavern of Toledo, I would describe it as having the images of his predecessors, the Gothic king, set up round the sides of the rock, and only one nich vacant. Torch-light would give a terrifying effect to what may be seen without any effect at all in the Royal Exchange.
109. Munchausen. Who is the author of Munchausen's Travels, a book which every body knows, because all boys read it?
Two of his stories are to be found in a Portugueze magazine, if so it may be called, published about fourscore years ago, with this title
- Folheto de Ambas Lisboas. The seventh number contains a tale of a hunter shooting a wild boar with a peach-stone, because he had exhausted all his ball, and afterwards meeting the same boar with a peach-tree growing out of his loins. The other resemblance is less striking.. A waterman talked one night from the street to a woman at a window, and as neither of them could hear distinctly what the other said, What do you say? was frequently repeated by both. The reason why they could not hear was, that it froze very hard at the time, and in the morning the wall was covered with, What do you
It is not likely that the author of Munchausen should have seen these Folhetos; the low wit which they are filled with could at no time have been well understood beyond the limits of Lisbon, and has long been obsolete there; and in all probability very few sets have escaped the common fate of worthless papers, published in loose sheets, and thereby tempting the destruction which they deserve. But it is probable that the Portugueze and English writers both have had recourse to the same store-house of fable.
110. Cold-bathing in Fevers. Amerigo Vespucci describes cold bathing as the remedy for fever which was used by the American Indians; but they accompanied it with a practice which must have counteracted its beneficial effects. “ Cum eorum quempiam febricitare contigit, horâ quâ febris eum asperius inquietal, ipsum in frigentissimam aquam immergunt & balneant, postmodumque per duas horas circa ignem validum, donec plurimum calescat, currere & recurrere cogunt, & postremo ad dormiendum deferunt, quo quidem medicamento complures eorum sanitati reslitui vidimus.”
says, in ice.
111. Payment of a Copyer of Books. The form of a written agreement, which is preserved in the Partidas, happens to relate to a curious subject. It is the bargain of a
copyer or scribe.
“ Know all men to whom this writing shall come, that Pero Martinez, the scribe, promiseth, consenteth, and bindeth himself to the Dean of Toledo, to write for him the text of such a book, and that he will write it and go on with it till it be compleated, in such a hand as he hath written for a sample in the first leaf of this book, before me N. Notary Public, who have made this writing, and the witnesses whose names are hereunto subjoined. Also the aforesaid Scribe promiseth that he will not labour in writing any other work till this book be finished. And he engageth to do this for the sum of thirty maravedis, ten of which he acknowledgeth to have received from the aforesaid Dean, and the other maravedis are to be paid in this manner: ten when half the book shall have been written, and the other ten when it is finished.
112. Animals in Paradise. The animals in Paradise are the prophet Saleh's camel, the ram which Abraham sacrificed instead of Isaac, Moses's cow (the red cow, whose ashes were mingled with the water of purification), Solomon's ant (who, when all creatures, in token of their obedience to him, brought him presents, dragged before him a locust, and was therefore preferred before all others because it had brought a creature so much bigger than itself); the queen of Sheba's parrot,
who carried messages between her and Solomon; Ezra's ass, Jonah's whale; Kitmer, the dog of the Seven Sleepers ; and Mahomet’s camel. Thevenot.
Most probably this suggested to Voltaire the dramatis persona of his Taureau Blanc.
113. Glover's Leonidas. Glover's Leonidas was duly praised at its first appearance, and more unduly depreciated. The periodical publications of the day abound with criticisms and panegyrics upon it. The best piece of ridicule which appeared upon the occasion is the argument of an epic poem entitled, Jack the Giant-killer.
Book 1. A poetico-historical account how Jack went to an old witch to enquire how to make himself glorious. How the old witch told him, he must be knocked on the head at the Straits of Gibraltar. How Jack, who laughed at all witchcraft, followed the old witch's advice, but first took leave of his wife and family.
2. How Jack travelled and travelled till he came to the Straits. How the giant sent word to Jack he would eat him up. How Jack bade him kiss his
3. How the giant brought all the world to fight against little Jack.
4. 5. How Jack's men fought with the giant's men; but neither Jack nor the giant did any thing.
6. 7. How ther
6.7. How prince Prettyman fell in love, and how Miss Airy killed herself for the man she never spoke to.
8. 9. How Jack, who for a long while said nothing, said his prayers, went out, and was knocked on the head.
THE TRAGIC WRITERS, PRATINAS, PHRYNICHUS, AND
The account which is commonly given of the origin of the Greek drama from the Chorus of Bacchus, is in itself sufficiently probable, and sufficiently supported by external evidence, to justify our acquiescence in it. Many other questions may be proposed relative to the Greek theatre, which afford scope for much disquisition, as the celebration of the Dionysia, the construction and scenery of the theatre, the inode of recitation, the employment of music, the office and use of the Chorus, with others of a similar nature. Omitting the consideration of these till some future occasion, we shall for the present proceed in giving a brief account of the principal tragic writers and their remaining works. Those previous to Æschylus will require but little notice, both because their performances are lost, and the accounts which remain of them are brief and obscure. The chief whose names are mentioned are Pratinas, Phrynichus, Chærilus, and Melanippides.
Pratinas was the son of Pyrrhonidas or Encomius, and was born at Phlius, in Peloponnesus. He repaired to Athens for the purpose of representing dramatic performances, and in the Lxx. Olympiad contended with Æschylus and Chærilus. Though he wrote fifty tragedies, he had the bad fortune of gaining only one prize. Many of his pieces were satyrical, and he is indeed said by Suidas to have been the author of this species of dramatic composition.*
An accident which happened at the performance of one of his plays, is said to have given the first occasion for the construction of a regular and durable theatre. The scaffolds on which the spectators were placed gave way, and by the mischief which ensued the Athenians were induced to guard against the future occurrence of a similar misfortune, by erecting a theatre of more substantial materials.
Phrynichus appears to have been a much more considerable writer. He is ranked by Plutarch with Æschylus as being the first to introduce the fables of mythology, and the sufferings of heroes, on the stage. Before them we must therefore suppose tragedy to have been altogeVol. IV.
* An anonymous and corrupt fragment in Athenæns, xiv. 622, is corrected and claimed for this poet by Mr. Porson, in his late edition of the Hecuba, p. 3.
ther irregular and grotesque. Phrynichus introduced some change in the versification of the drama, and is said to have been the first who exhibited female characters.
A singular circumstance is recorded with respect to one of his performances, which strongly displays the inconsistent and capricious character of the Athenians. Miletus, the capital of Ionia, and an ancient colony of the Athenians, a city eminent for its riches and splendour, and the illustrious characters to whom it had given birth, had been recently sacked by the Persian troops. On this calamity Phrynichus founded his tragedy, entitled the " Taking of Miletus.” The audience honoured its representation by the testimony of their tears; and so powerful was the impression which it produced, that the representation of this calamitous event was forbidden by a public edict, and a fine of a thousand drachmas was imposed upon the author.*
Phrynichus is said to have been the scholar of Thespis. He wrote a tragedy called Phænissæ, on the subject of the Persian war, of which the author of the argument prefixed to the Persæ of Æschylus gives the following account. Glaucus, in his treatise on the fables of Æschylus, says,
that his Persæ was borrowed from the Phænissæ of Phrynichus. He quotes this verse as the beginning of the play:
Ταδ' εστι Περσων των παλαι βεβηκοτων.
An eunuch was introduced, bringing the intelligence of the defeat of Xerxes, and preparing seats for the chiefs of the Persians. Phrynichus is also said to have represented a tragedy at Athens, by which he obtained the victory, Themistocles bearing the charge of the scenery and Chorus; in memory of which an inscription to the following effect is recorded by Plutarch. 66 Themistocles, of the district of Phreari, bore the charge, Phrynichus made the tragedy, and Adimantus was Archon." Bentley conjectures this play to have been the Phænissæ just mentioned, since no subject could be so gratifying to Themistocles as the defeat of Xerxes, in which he had borne so great a share.
A passage of Suidas has given occasion to the supposition that there were two tragic poets of the name of Phrynichus. This lexicographer first speaks of Phrynichus, the son of Polyphradmon, or Minyras, or Chorocles, the scholar of Thespis, enumerating some of his tragedies; and in another article, of Phrynichus, the son of Melanthas, an Athenian tragedian, the titles of some of whose plays differing from the former he likewise mentions. The latter passage is taken from the scholiast of Aristophanes, who adds, that this Phrynichus also wrote the “ Taking of Miletus." But this single authority is of little moment. The different names assigned in the first article to the father of Phrynichus shew his history to have been uncertain; and the plays ascribed to two writers, were in all probability the work
For all the writers, who are very numerous, who speak of the play entitled the " Taking of Miletus,” style the author of it
simply * Herodotus, vi. 21.
simply Phrynichus, the tragedian, without any mark of distinction derived from age or any other circumstance, from any other supposed author of the same name. The scholiast of Aristophanes also, and Suidas, in enumerating various persons who bore the name of Phry. nichus, make mention of only one as a tragic poet.
Chærilus is said to have been the author of 150 plays, and to have gained thirteen prizes. Melanippides was his contemporary, and besides other poems, wrote Dithyrambi and tragedies. Some fragments are cited from him by ancient authors.
These writers, perhaps, contributed in a considerable degree to the refinement of dramatic poetry from the meanness of its original state. The change was not, however, accomplished without opposition from the admirers of the ancient performances. The Chorus* used at first to sing a Dithyramb to the honour of Bacchus, but in time the poets relinquished it, and made the Giants and Centaurs the subjects of their plays; upon which the spectators mocked them, and said, " that was nothing to Bacchus," which gradually became a proverbial phrase. The poets, therefore, sometimes introduced the Satyrs, that they might not seem entirely to forget the god of the festival. Yet tragedy was in all probability left by these poets in a very imperfect state. The Chorus seems still to have remained the predominant part of the drama. This may be concluded from various authorities, and particularly from a passage of Aristotle, quoted and corrected by Bentley. He advances the following question as a problem. “Why did Phrynichus write more lyric songs than any modern poet?" In solution of which he says, 6 Was it because the songs of the Chorus were much more numerous than the verses spoken by the actors ?”
It was, therefore, from the genius of Æschylus that both the decorations of the stage and the construction of the drama received their most material improvements.
Personæ pallæque repertor honestæ,
Æschylus was the son of Euphorion. The time of his birth is somewhat uncertain, but is commonly placed by critics in the sixty-third Olympiad, the epoch of the Arundelian marble. He was sprung from à noble family. He is commonly supposed to have been an Athenian citizen of Eleusis. ' By others, with less authority, he is thought to have been a native of Decelia. He was present in the battles of Marathon, Salamis, and Platæa, in which his valour was distinguished. He had three brothers, Aminias, Euphorion, and Cynægirus, who likewise signalized themselves by military exploits. In the naval battle of Salamis, Aminias lost an arm, and was honoured with the first prize of valour.t. A remarkable circumstance is mentioned in the battle of Marathon, respecting Cynægirus, another of the brothers. As the Persians were flying in confusion to their
ships, * Zenobius and Suidas ap. Bentley, 243. + Ælian, v. 19.

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GLOBAL ORGANIZATION OF PEOPLE OF INDIAN ORIGIN (GOPIO)
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GOPIO/03/31 22 September 2003
Hon’ble Mr. Yashwant Sinha
Union Minister for External Affairs
Government of India
Dear Hon’ble Yashwant Sinhaji,
The Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO), Belgium wishes to submit to you the following:
We are happy to learn that the Government of India is organizing the Second Pravasi Bharatiya Divas from 9-11 January 2004. The celebration of the First Pravasi Bharatiya Divas in January this year was a historic occasion which marked the beginning of a new chapter between India and the Indian Diaspora. In future, the PBD should aim at strengthening the emerging policy framework for a constructive and productive engagement between India and the Indian Diaspora. Although the global Indians are being recognized in every corner of the world for success in their chosen fields, there exists a gap between the Global Indian Society and India. This MEMORANDUM highlights the issues that are increasingly being seen as vital to reconnect India with the Indian Diaspora. The GOPIO Belgium hopes that the Indian Government will address this with all seriousness.
1. Pravasi Bharatiya Divas and Involvement of GOPIO
Out of 2000 NRIs/PIOs who participated in the PBD, a majority of them were either members of the Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) or were connected with organizations who closely work with GOPIO. The GOPIO has been engaged in addressing the concerns of the NRI/PIO in their countries of settlement and to utilize the expertise of Indian expatriates for the benefit of the people in India and the countries where the PIO are settled. The GOPIO has proved beyond doubt that it is the only world-wide organization which is exclusively serving the interest of NRIs/PIOs. It was GOPIO which for years campaigned for recognizing the importance of NRIs/PIOs and for constituting a Commission on Indian Diaspora and it has had the proud privilege of making major contribution to the recommendations of the Commission. Yet, the GOPIO’s role was undermined by not involving it in the initial planning and designing of the Celebration. The whole objective of connecting with the Diaspora seems misplaced without the active participation of the organizations representing the NRIs/PIOs. The government of India is aware of the services the GOPIO has been doing for India’s benefit. During April/May when former President Mr. K. R. Narayanan visited Europe and US, he applauded GOPIO for its yeoman services to India and to the Indian Diaspora. The Belgium Chapter of the GOPIO International, would urge upon you to associate the GOPIO International in the planning of the PBD and other such activities as a matter of policy and principle in order to create better understanding, sensitivity and coordination amongst the NRIs/PIOs worldwide.
2. Dual Citizenship
Dual citizenship has been one of the standing demands of the Diaspora and we welcome the announcement made by the Prime Minister and the steps so far taken by the government in this respect. The Indian Diaspora in Belgium strongly feels that the dual citizenship would result in their playing bigger role by way of investment and other economic and social benefits to India. Today, the Indian Diaspora numbers over 20 million spread far and wide and their annual income of $160 billion happens to be a third of India’s GDP. GOPIO Belgium requests the Government of India to accelerate the process of framing the administrative regulations and procedure for granting the dual citizenship to the NRIs/PIOs and include all European Union countries in the “dual citizenship” policy framework.
3. Greater Participation by the Diaspora
The Indian Diaspora has been an important factor in India’s relations with other countries. The impressive Diaspora can play an important role in promoting India’s interest abroad. This is more so in the fields of culture, education, economic development and arts. The NRIs have great reputation for enterprise and intelligence and Indians are leaders in areas like information technology. The NRI remittances have influenced the Indian economy for many decades and since the economic liberalization in 1991, an even greater potential is seen in India’s relations with the Diaspora. The GOPIO Belgium would urge the government to fasten the economic reform and allow the participation of private sector in the development process. To achieve the desired pace of reforms, the government needs a strong political conviction and a firm economic policy, and the Diaspora is prepared to give its input. Although the Diaspora, particularly the NRIs, cannot herald fundamental changes nor can it force the transformation, it can certainly make its presence felt in the mind of the policy makers and remind them of the enormous challenges India faces. The voice of NRIs in Indian political system is absent and the GOPIO Belgium requests the Government of India its suggestions as constructive and valuable.
4. More Economic Initiatives Needed
India could attract more Foreign Direct Investment if procedural delays are cut down. The dual citizenship is not automatically going to bring in more investment; at the most it may bring in emotional investment. A conducive investment climate has to be created for investor’s confidence. The expertise of NRI’s in management, finance, corporate, trade and banking sectors should be tapped in for economic rejuvenation of India. The Diaspora’s presence in their countries of settlement has also catalyzed demand for Indian goods and services ranging from food to fashion. There was tremendous response when the Government came up with Resurgent India Bond and India Millennium Deposits. The Government may wish to come up with more such schemes to attract NRI investment.
5. Investment Policies should be Made Easier
The NRIS/PIOs in the European Union would like to invest in the knowledge-based industries, financial services, education, tourism, health care, media, etc. Several overseas Indians in the past have burnt their fingers in investing in projects in India as they have wound their way through the plethora of laws and regulations that govern industrial enterprises. Procedural and bureaucratic delays have made it difficult to implement their programmes. Many a well-to-do NRIs/PIOs would like to set up small business in their native places. State governments have schemes to woo investment, but few have shown great success. There is also little protection in case of fraud or cheating in financial or land matters. GOPIO Belgium would urge the Government of India to ask different States to formulate transparent investment and investor friendly industrial policies.
6. Promoting Tourism Industry
The tourism industry in India has great potential and needs to be explored and exploited. Unfortunately lack of facilities in most tourism destinations is a major hindrance to the industry. Infrastructural facilities including better rail services and air connectivity should be made available. The NRIs/PIOs abroad can give India enormously helpful suggestions on this. Indian Tourism Offices outside India do not market India - on the contrary, they provide you with reasons why you shouldn't travel to India. This must change and Embassies, High Commissions and functionaries of the government of India abroad need to become “user-friendly” and sensitive to NRIs/PIOs concern.
The private healthcare sector needs a boost and India can promote this sector as “high-tech healthcare tourist destination”. India can become the destination of world class medical treatment and Government must encourage trade in medical tourism. Demand for medical tourism is most likely to come from the 20 million strong Indian Diaspora as wealthy first and second generation expatriate Indians are aware of the rise of India’s high quality low cost medical treatment.
India lives within every NRIs/PIOs in their hearts and in their soul and they would not like to be treated specially on arrival in India, but their experiences have been very disappointing. Tourist friendly attitude of the custom and immigration officials at the airports will help lure tourists in India. The Government should consider upgrading the facilities at the International airports including improving efficiency, productivity and work culture. The GOPIO requests the government of India to grant permission to NRIs to travel to India by chartered flights. We would also urge the Government to allow the PIO card holders to avail the Apex Travel Fares/promotional fares facilities provided by different national Airlines for travel within India.
7. Helping PIOs to find their Roots
There are many PIOs particularly living in Mauritius, Fiji, Guyana, Trinidad, Surinam, etc. who would like to “re-discover” their places of birth and other information concerning their family roots. The information, sometimes in Archives and other government departments in their countries, are little or inadequate. The information registered in their respective countries about them is so meager that it is unhelpful in making any progress in discovering their roots. Most of these PIOs left India by ships as indentured labourers from ports in Calcutta, Bombay and Madras. The GOPIO Belgium would request the Government of India to host a Website exclusively for the PIOs with details and particulars concerning the migrants, their port of embarkation, destination, original village, etc from information stored in archives in India. The Website should include the assistance (document/search, local transport, guides/district administration, etc.) which the Government is ready to provide to PIO's traveling to India in search of their roots. The State governments should ask its district administrations to help and co-operate with PIOs seeking information about their ancestor roots providing them with administrative assistance. This will go a long way to help PIOs from other countries to explore their roots and eventually meaningful reunification to establish links with their own.
8. Nearly Half a million are without Legal Status
The Indian Diaspora, make up just 1.7 per cent of the total population of India and out of the 20 million living outside the borders of India, only an estimated 3.5 million are well settled in life. However, they are a powerful voice wherever they are. There are about half a million Indians in Europe who are without any legal status for years. Their legalization will help India socially as well as economically. The GOPIO would request you to take up this issue with the European Union and also with the governments of various European countries.
9. Reciprocal Pension Policy Required
When a person from India comes to work in Belgium and even if the person has worked for two years and left the job, the person’s social security fund is not returned and according to the Belgian law the person would be eligible to get his/her social security benefits only when he/she attains the age of 65. The nature of the temporary movement of professionals including changes in their own resident status in their working lives, make it difficult for them to keep pursuing their own paid contribution towards the Social Security and Pension refund with the result that millions of Euros have been left unpaid to the persons; and in most cases it is lost. This is in fact a loss to India’s exchequer. The Indian Government does not have a reciprocal arrangement with the Belgian Government. The GOPIO Belgium would urge upon you to take up this with the Belgian Government for a reciprocal Pension and Taxation Policy.
10. Driving License Exchange agreement
Until few years ago, Belgium had an agreement with India for exchange of Driving License issued in India. For reasons unknown to us this facility has been withdrawn. With increasing number of Indians coming to Belgium for work and other business opportunities, they have difficulty in acquiring a Driving License in Belgium.
11. Air India Net-work
The GOPIO Belgium would request the government of India to consider Brussels in the Air India services network. To start with, a weekly or by-weekly flight would be welcome.
12. “India Week” in Belgium
GOPIO Belgium urges the Government of India to organize “India Week” cultural-cum-business event on sectors such as information technology, tourism, infrastructure, broadcasting, financial services, healthcare and trade. The Business events should also showcase India’s progress in the economic arena and should highlight the potential for India-Belgium economic co-operation and growth. Such an “India Week” Celebration in various cities of Belgium displaying India’s rich history, culture, tradition will further cement its ties with the people of Belgium.
Sir, the GOPIO Belgium is a non-profit, non-partisan, non-sectarian National Chapter of the GOPIO International (www.gopio.net) and is engaged in promoting well being of Non-Resident Indians and People of Indian Origin (NRIs/PIOs) living in Belgium. The GOPIO, in association with the Indian Embassy, has planned to organize an Investors Seminar “India: Opportunities Unlimited” on 4th December 2003. The Seminar aims to generate awareness about the dynamism of Indian economy and investment opportunities in India and its potential to become one of the largest economies of the world. We thank the Indian Embassy and the Government of India for their help, support and assistance in this. We would also like to take the opportunity to compliment the Embassy for portraying well India’s image and improving its trade and economic relations with the European Commission.
With Kind regards,
President, GOPIO Belgium
CC: His Excellency P. K. Singh, Ambassador of India, Brussels.


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1. Meghan’s not her real name.
Though the world knows her as Meghan, that’s actually her middle name. Her first name is Rachel — the same name as her character on Suits.
2. She was once a professional calligrapher.
She told Esquire that she’s “always had a propensity for getting the cursive down pretty well,” after taking handwriting classes in Catholic school. She said, “What it evolved into was my pseudo-waitressing job when I was auditioning. I didn’t wait tables. I did calligraphy.” She did everything from celebrity wedding invitations to holiday cards.
3. At just 11 years old, she spoke out against a sexist commercial.
She told Glamour, “When I was in grade school, I saw this sexist commercial for dish soap. With Rosie’s ‘We can do it!’ mantra in mind, I wrote a letter to Procter & Gamble, Hillary Clinton, and Nick News anchor Linda Ellerbee, who sent a camera crew to meet me. Guess what? They changed the commercial.”
4. She was once a briefcase model on Deal or No Deal.
She told Esquire that her time on the show was something she was “doing while [she] was auditioning to try to make ends meet” and that “working on Deal or No Deal was a learning experience, and it helped [her] to understand what [she] would rather be doing.” She also said that she never had the winning case.
5. She was basically a fashion designer.
She designed two collections for the Canadian retailer Reitmans. You can check out a few of the looks here.
6. She has a political background.
Meghan got the best of both worlds by double majoring in theatre and international relations at Northwestern University, and she even had an internship working for the US Embassy. She told Marie Claire back in 2013 that she “thought for sure [she] would still have a career in politics.”
7. She has two adorable adopted dogs, thanks to Ellen DeGeneres.
Markle told Best Health, “I was sitting there [in the shelter] with him [Bogart] and then Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi walk in … Ellen goes, ‘Is that your dog?’ And I said, ‘No,’ and she’s like, ‘You have to take that dog.’ And I said, ‘Well, I’m deciding.’ And she’s like, ‘Rescue the dog!’ … And she walks outside to get into her car, but instead of getting in she turns around and comes and taps on the window glass, and she yells, ‘Take the dog!’ And so, I brought him home — because Ellen told me to.”
8. She’s a self-proclaimed foodie who knows her way around the kitchen.
She told Marie Claire, “I love to cook. My character [on Suits] is a foodie because they know that I’m a foodie. I’m always on the quest to find amazing new restaurants and new recipes… I do think there’s some value to really throwing yourself into food and embracing where it comes from.” And, I guess food is her lucky charm since Prince Harry proposed to her while they were making roast chicken for dinner.
9. She’s besties with GOAT Serena Williams.
The two met in 2014 at DirecTV’s Celebrity Beach Bowl. Meghan wrote on the Tig that they “hit it off immediately, taking pictures, laughing through the flag football game we were both playing in, and chatting not about tennis or acting, but about all the good old fashioned girly stuff. … She quickly became a confidante I would text when I was traveling, the friend I would rally around for her tennis matches, and the down to earth chick I was able to grab lunch with.”
10. She founded a lifestyle blog called the Tig.
After three years, Meghan shut down the blog in April. In the Tig’s official goodbye, she wrote, “What began as a passion project (my little engine that could) evolved into an amazing community of inspiration, support, fun and frivolity.”


By Cassandra Garrison
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Brazil's Nubank, Latin America's star financial technology firm, began launching Mexican savings accounts on Wednesday as it looks to scoop up market share in a country where more than half of people do not have such accounts.
The digital bank's Mexican arm, known as Nu Mexico, opened a waiting list for the savings accounts, which will roll out in stages with first access going to current clients and members of the company's digital forum Comunidad Nu.
The bank will also launch a Mexican debit card for customers to withdraw cash from ATMs.
Backed by investors including Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, Nubank was founded in Brazil in 2013 to offer consumers a no-fee credit card. Nu Mexico started operating three years ago and has three million clients in the country.
Company executives did not specify when the accounts would be more widely available in Mexico but said early holders would be invited to offer feedback to help shape the strategy.
The savings accounts, which will not require a minimum balance, will be completely digital, a feature executives hope will entice Mexicans who do not have savings accounts, particularly those in rural areas far from physical branches of traditional banks.
"For folks that have never had a savings product before, this type of digital solution with Nu's formula of great customer support will also be a compelling value proposition," Ivan Canales, General Director of Nu Mexico, told Reuters in an interview.
(Reporting by Cassandra Garrison; Editing by Josie Kao)


One-stop voting in New Hanover County over the last 10 days drew thousands of voters.
According to the county’s Board of Elections website, 16,036 of the county’s 158,186 registered voters stopped by one of the county’s five early poll locations over that period. That’s almost 10,000 more than during the one-stop voting period for the 2014 primary election, which drew 6,122 voters, according to data from Carolina Transparency’s vote tracker. During the 2012 primary election, the last one involving presidential candidates, 9,631 people participated in one-stop voting.
New Hanover County Elections Director Derek Bowens expected this.
“Usually in presidential election years, we see a much higher turnout,” Bowens told Port City Daily last month. “It really drives up our numbers.”
According to Laura Rogers, site coordinator at the Board of Elections’ early voting location, they were averaging over 800 people per day over the first week of the period. On Sunday, March 6, the location – the only one open that day – tallied 612 voters in just eight hours of operation.
That high turnout, Rogers said, was partly due to people who came in their Sunday best.
“The NAACP [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People] had several churches involved,” Rogers said. “They brought at least three church vans.”
Those vans, according to New Hanover County NAACP branch president Deborah Dicks Maxwell, carried parishioners from Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church, St. Stephen AME Church and St. Luke AMEZ Church. Maxwell said members of Mount Olive AME Church also voted that day but took their personal cars.
“This is a way to get people that are already in church to go and vote,” said Maxwell, who said this was not the first time they’ve participated in the “Souls to the Polls” movement that happens during each election. “Sometimes it’s easy to forget to go during the week when you’re working and have other things going on.”
Maxwell said they didn’t get as many people involved this year as they have in previous elections.
“We started kind of late this year, otherwise we would’ve had more people,” said Maxwell, whose organization helps provide transportation to voting locations for anyone in New Hanover County during the early voting period and on Election Day itself. “But the numbers validate themselves that day.”
On Friday, March 11, the day before the early voting period ended, 2,818 people tallied votes across New Hanover County. It was the largest turnout of all 10 days.
Maxwell is hoping that the good turnout will continue today, Election Day itself, when the NAACP will be helping people get to their voting precincts rather than the early poll locations.
“We’re not here to tell you who to vote for – that’s your personal choice, your personal ballot,” said Maxwell, saying those in need of a ride can call (910) 264-8298. “We just want citizens to exercise their basic right to vote and make an informed decision.”
North Carolina will be joining several other states in holding their primary elections on Tuesday, March 14. Port City Daily will have results from that night, which in addition to the presidential primaries, include crowded races for New Hanover County Board of Commissioners (Republican) and New Hanover County Board of Education (Republican and Democrat).
Sample ballots can be found here on the county’s Board of Elections website.


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One point should be noticed is that those mechanisms which have an epoxide to be an intermediate are excluded,which should be obtained by the oxidation of the double bond with hydrogen peroxide in Prileschajew reaction. Gormley et al. have shown that the reaction does not proceed through an epoxide.
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- The attack of nucleophiles by base phenolates educated at the double bond under direct attack on the hydrogen peroxide.
- Nucleophiles attack phenolates under the formation of an enolate, which then attacks on hydrogen peroxide.
- Algar, J.; Flynn, J. P. (1934). Proc. Roy. Irish Acad. 42B: 1.
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Indiscriminate cost-cutting and/or inattention to detail during equipment manufacture, installation, operation, and/or maintenance are conducive to forced outages and unbudgeted expenses. Generally speaking, unrealistic expectations are to blame, not the individuals charged with doing their jobs faster and at lower cost.
That’s simply the way it is in today’s competitive generation business. How many times have you seen contracts let on the basis of merit rather than cost? Asset and plant managers take the rap when availability and generating capability go south, so it’s in their best interest to share information on emerging issues. User groups are critical to this timely communication. Why should multiple plants be forced out of service for the same reason?
Manufacturers and services providers have a role to play as well, by keeping the industry and their customers informed about what is not performing as planned and how to correct the underlying issues. A case in point is the generator failure described by a user at the 2013 meeting of the Combined Cycle Users Group (CCUG).
The idea that a failure of this magnitude would occur in a generator less than a year after COD caught CCUG attendees by surprise, judging from facial expressions. It’s important to note that this was not a “one-off” failure. The other two generators coupled to gas turbines at this 3 x 1 combined cycle also were on the verge of failure. However, their repairs were relatively straightforward because the problem was identified before serious damage was done.
An objective of the presentation was to encourage owner/operators to pay close attention to OEM advisories, inspect their equipment accordingly, and take corrective action as necessary. The editors considered it unusual for a large generator made by one of the world’s leading manufacturers of these machines to fail in the manner described—especially so because no one else in the meeting room seemed aware of the incident or its cause.
The following report, compiled from non-OEM industry sources, attempts to explain what likely happened and why. Your thoughts on the subject are welcome and will be held in confidence; write firstname.lastname@example.org. Alternatively, you can reach out to industry colleagues by communicating via the CCUG users-only forum hosted at http://ccug.users-groups.com.
The downside of cost-cutting. Over the last three decades or so, electric power producers have put increasing pressure on generator manufacturers to reduce the cost of their machines. Particular focus has been on indirectly cooled generators common in combined-cycle plants. A result of cost-cutting initiatives is a trend toward generator designs with increased reliability concerns. Examples include widespread use of the global vacuum pressure impregnation system for stator windings, generators built without isolation between core and frame, and an increase in stator-winding vibration issues attributed to high electromagnetic force (EMF).
Cost pressures also have resulted in numerous, more subtle modifications in construction that may show up as problems in unpredictable formats. An example is the “dry-tie” issue associated with some large indirectly cooled generators built by GE since about year 2000 and described in the article referenced above. The term “dry ties” commonly refers to the use of banding tapes to tie endwindings and connection rings.
Stator-winding vibration, it seems, always has been a leading cause of generator problems. Historically, endwindings were tied with cotton cord, then with glass cord, and then with resin-impregnated materials. This evolution occurred as EMF increased in the endwindings and connection rings.
The resin-impregnated tape commonly used on today’s generators is a dry-tie material. Important variables enter into the tie process when using this material, including these:
- The tape is inherently non-lubricating, negatively affecting the ability to tighten the tie.
- The tape manufacturer may, without notice, change the amount of resin within the tape, or make subtle changes to the resin, thereby affecting its bonding and curing properties.
Banding tapes ordinarily are used to make high-strength insulated bands—such as those securing the armature windings on relatively low-speed rotating machines. In manufacturing these bands, the tape is machine-applied with controlled and substantial tape tension. The tape may be heated as it is applied. Significant consolidated cross-sections are built up which make the need for high resin content unnecessary. Plus, resin with high bonding strength is not necessarily required in these applications.
By contrast, making a reliable structural tie with such dry tapes introduces important inherent concerns, including the following:
- Obtaining a consistently tight tie using manual tensioning of a cold, non-lubricating tape.
- Assuring an adequate amount of resin required to obtain tie integration and structure component bonding.
- Assuring that the resin has consistent properties for obtaining high-bond-strength capability.
Generator endwinding support systems designed by GE over the last half century are considered “highly reliable” by at least some sources. This performance is attributed, in part, to a design philosophy which as incorporated a “wet tie.” In making a wet tie, many strands of glass roving (fibers) are drawn though a liquid resin as the tie is made.
Wet ties largely eliminate the issues associated with dry ties. They allow the generator manufacturer to assure the purchaser that (1) the resin has a high bonding strength, (2) sufficient resin is applied with the tie to assure a high-contact bonding area, and (3) the tie is made extremely tight by use of tightening leverage and by taking advantage of the inherent lubricating characteristic of a wet resin.
But in making the wet tie, shop personnel are handling a liquid resin in awkward positions involving a large amount of resin contact with hands and arms. Thus, making the wet tie is an uncomfortable and somewhat tedious process; there is considerable incentive to use an alternative process. The dry-tie material is one possible solution, but its application has led to reliability concerns on some GE generators.
Gallery. Figs 1, 2, and 3 show dusting as evidence of early-stage vibration in an endwinding; Figs 4 and 5 reflect vibration of connection rings. Early-stage dry-tie vibration illustrated in these five photos is relatively simple to repair—that is, to remove the dry ties and replace them with wet ties as recommended by the OEM. Even where insulation wear is significant (Figs 6 and 7), depending on depth and location, it may be possible to repair and retie. An alternative is a stator rewind.
Fig 8 shows a failure location on connection rings. It illustrates the amount of physical damage that can be caused by a failure arc, which persists for several seconds after the breaker trips as field current decays. The photo also shows the relatively weak integration of the tie between ring and support: The ring is connected to the support only at an edge of the ring rather than on a wide face. If the tie and bond are not exceptionally strong, the bond will fail and vibrations and wear can begin.
For the support in Fig 9, note that the ring is contained on the faces but it does not fill the opening provided. Thus the ring is retained only by bonding of the faces and if that bond is broken by differential-expansion forces of cyclic loading, the ring will be free to vibrate.
Some configurations of connection-ring blocking can leave the blocks poorly integrated with the ties and rings. In such cases, the blocks themselves may disbond from the rings and ties. The loose block, or blocks, then can vibrate in a contained space and wear completely through the insulation of both adjacent connection rings. Since adjacent rings likely will be in different electrical phases, this condition is an invitation to electrical flashover and massive arc damage.
The damage in Fig 10 probably resulted from the arc of a phase-to-phase short circuit between two locations of bared conductor caused by vibration. In the event of a line-to-line failure, the minimum repair likely would involve full stator and field rewinds and extensive core, frame, and cooler cleaning. In a worst case, stator replacement could be required.
A few designs include a dummy ring in parallel to the active connection rings (Fig 11). These generators appear particularly vulnerable to vibration and wear. As shown, the ties are not doing a good job of joining the dummy ring to the support. Keep in mind that the dummy ring is made of a composite material having a significantly different expansion coefficient than copper. During cool-down from bake, and with cyclic loading, the dummy ring tends to disbond and become free to vibrate, shift position, wear the ties, and contact and damage connection-ring insulation. Early failure of the winding may result.
Typically, when dry-tied windings experience severe damage or failure, the cause is from insulation wear as seen in Figs 1-7. However, there is also the possibility that debonding of ties and blocking can result in increased levels of component mobility and/or vibration natural frequencies drifting into resonant situations. These changes can result in much faster insulation wear, but they may also result in high-cycle fatigue and fracture of the copper conductor (Fig 12). Each of these conditions, insulation wear and copper fatigue, is extremely dangerous to winding integrity.
Fleet. There have been about 450 generators of the 7FH2 type manufactured between 2000 and 2011. Of those inspected, roughly 15% reportedly exhibited dusting; four with the dummy-ring design showed wear. Recall that the dust generated will appear as a blackish “grease” if the unit is oily. A significant number of 324, 330H, and 390H generators also have been inspected. A few were found with problems ranging from light dusting to serious insulation wear and exposure of copper. These problems focus on the connection rings and the OEM has recommended urgent action on inspecting these specific classes of generators in its advisories. A few that the editors were made aware of include these:
- Technical Information Letter (TIL) 1764, “324 and 330H Consolidated Dry-Tie Connection Ring Insulation Abrasion,” February 2011.
- TIL 1792, “7FH2/7FH2B Consolidated Dry-Tie Connection-Ring Insulation Abrasion,” May 2011.
- Electronic Technical Correspondence (ETC) 129, “Generator Stator Endwinding Dusting,” September 2004.
It is difficult for the OEM, or for the owner, to predict which specific generators in the 7FH2, 324, 330H, and 390H lines may be experiencing difficulty. Reason is that there are numerous, sometimes unknown, variables that can contribute to vibration problems. These variables include the following:
- Electromagnetic forces differ from design-to-design and kVA rating within that design category. These forces have a strong correlation to mechanical duties.
- Variations in winding design, particularly for the connection-ring support structures.
- Tie-material properties are not accurately known to the OEM and may vary somewhat randomly from generator to generator.
- Workmanship may vary from generator to generator, and from bar to bar within a given machine. Such variation depends on the skill and motivation of the individuals performing the work. Fig 1 illustrates this: Some bars are vibrating, others are not.
- Deterioration depends on kVA output and the amount of load cycling, and this information is not readily available to the OEM.
It is clear that among individual generators of the classes noted above, there are unknown interactions of design, materials, workmanship, EMF, and operating duty. In general, then, it is unlikely that one can predict with accuracy which generators are vulnerable to damaging wear. However, there are exceptions that are said to have been made clear to the owners by the OEM. One example is the dummy-ring class of generators.
The OEM has issued recommendations related to inspection, stocking of materials, and the repair of any problems relating to the dry tie that are found. Repair is relatively simple if issues are identified before failure occurs. After a failure involving line-to-line flashover, repair can be very costly and include a long outage.
The bottom line: Unless your generators already have been inspected and found vibration-free, consider at least a cursory inspection of each machine as soon as possible. At a minimum, the initial inspection should focus on the connection end; it involves only removal of the upper outer and inner end shields, and the manhole covers of the non-connection end. But in every case, advice of the OEM should be considered carefully and this advice factored into your investigation and maintenance plans. CCJ


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Richardson Adventure Farm offers 5 mazes with 33 acres of maze fields. There's the Finger Fortune Trail for a quick maze that only takes 10 minutes. The Quiz Maze, answer fun questions to guide you through (if you have the wrong answers, you'll go the wrong way!) Family fun is at every turn in the World's Largest Corn Maze, pumpkin patch, & Christmas trees. Fans of the board game, Clue, will instantly recognize the similarity to our maze game, FSI Farm Scene Investigation. Also enjoy the 50' tall observation tower, a Zip Line that is 30' high and 700' long, the ZORB Ride, a beautiful wooded picnic area, free campfires, 3 wooden bridges in the corn maze, pedal carts and trikes, goats feedings, corn cabin, concessions for sale and free wagon rides to the five acre maze (weekends).
Shawnee Hills Wine Trail
The Shawnee Hills Wine Trail features 12 award-winning wineries located along a 25-mile scenic drive along highway 127 and highway 51 in the Shawnee National Forest. Along the way have a picnic, go on a hike, visit a shop, and stay in a cozy B&B or cabin. Many of the wineries host special events throughout the summer and fall.
Starved Rock State Park Visitors Center
The Starved Rock State Park Visitors Center has several interactive displays, free videos on the park, hiking maps, and more. Trailheads Concessions & Gifts, also located here, is a great place to buy gifts, souvenirs, and snacks (fresh fudge, too)! The Visitor Center and Trailheads are open year-round.
Sunnyfield Greenhouse & Garden Center
Professional growers offering 1200 varieties of annuals, perennials, grasses, vegetables & vines. Heirloom tomatoes a specialty. Visit the expanded display gardens to gather ideas and shop a variety of unique gifts and planters for your garden. Landscape design and installation available. Open April 1 through October 31.
Susie's Garden Patch
Find u-pick asparagus, strawberries, tomatoes and pumpkins. Roadside produce includes sweet corn, muskmelons, peppers and pumpkins. Susie's hosts a Strawberry Festival every June.
Central Illinois' most unique farm market. Wagon rides, playground, corn maze, farm animals, Apple Express train. Farm market filled with unique gifts, fresh produce and specialty foods such as jams, salsas, soups, etc. The large bakery provides an assortment of fresh baked goods and a great lunch on weekdays. Lunch served on weekends in September and October from The Old Market Eatery.
The 200 Acres
Located in the heart of Illinois' Amish country, The 200 Acres is a working farm that features beautiful gardens, including a spectacular collection of more than 5,000 mums, and offers its heirloom seeds for sale. The 200 Acres is especially known for its more than 300 varieties of rare pumpkins, squash and gourds from around the globe that are grown right on the farm and displayed in its Great Pumpkin Patch from mid-September through October 31 every year. The on-site Homestead Bakery sells made-from-scratch goodies such as pies and angel food cake during spring, summer and fall.
Urbana's Market at the Square
Join thousands of residents and visitors during Market season and connect with growers at Urbana's Market at the Square. Choose locally-raised foods and treasure-hunt among the art and craft vendor booths. Gather information about local non-profits, schools and other community groups on our Community Row. Catch up with friends, take in a set from local performers, and enjoy the public square atmosphere the Market has to offer. Saturday morning at Urbana's Market at the Square is one of our city’s signature institutions. It’s a great way to kick off your weekend! Open May through November.
This orchard offers in-season peaches, apples, pears and pumpkins.
Yaeger's Farm Market
Farm products available for purchase include plants, fresh fruits and vegetables, plus a wide variety of Amish jams and jellies. A pumpkin patch and corn maze are featured in the fall.

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We saw some fellow explorers out there this morning, but only from a great distance. As we approached the Tellbrook Arroyo a guy with two dogs on leads appeared from the west and headed up LDR to the high flatland.
We chose to return via LDR-A, a slightly longer route to the heights. The man with the dogs was nowhere to be seen when we got up there, though we spotted him walking his pups down Tellbrook when we were driving home.
|This and the next: long view of Tortugas and the Organs|
|Willow and Frio|
|A smiling Frio|
|Another long view|
|This & the next 2: bushwhacking from Second to First Arroyo|
|This and the next: views from First Arroyo|
|Organ Mountains from LDR-A|

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Ever since the show ended both of them have been busy in their own worlds. Hiten is giving most of his time to his family, while Vikas is busy with his professional commitments.
And when both of them met, their happiness was for everyone to see.
Vikas captioned the picture saying, "Bade Bhaiya."
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CHICAGO Teenagers who watch a lot of television with sexual content are twice as likely to have sex than those who watch few such programs, says a study published today.
It covered 1,792 kids 12 to 17 who were quizzed on viewing habits and sexual activity.
"This is the strongest evidence yet that the sexual content of television programs encourages adolescents to initiate sexual intercourse and other sexual activities," said psychologist Rebecca Collins, who headed the study.
"Even a moderate shift in the sexual content of adolescent TV-watching could have a substantial effect on their sexual behavior."
The study found that kids who watched large amounts of programming with sexual content were also more likely to initiate sexual activities short of intercourse.
It also found that shows where sex was talked about but not depicted had just as much impact as the more explicit programs.
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5 stocks and group lower limit… Suspension of trading from today
At the end of April, a ‘heap of lower limits’, similar to the ‘stock price crash메이저놀이터‘, occurred again in the stock market yesterday (14th).
Four stocks listed on the stock market, Bangrim, Dongil Industrial, Manho Steel, and Daehan Textile, and Dongil Metal on the KOSDAQ plunged to the price limit of 30% around 12:00 noon, recording the lowest price.
The selling windows were various domestic securities companies such as KB Securities and Kiwoom Securities, and it is known that the stocks have been steadily recommended for purchase in a stock-related online community.
The financial authorities will suspend trading for five stocks from today (the 15th) and start checking whether there have been unfair trades.

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SCOTT JAGOW: Not only is A380 a massive airplane — it can carry 555 passengers — but the super jumbo jet has been a massive headache for European plane-maker Airbus. Airlines that ordered the A380 were told this week they’ll have to wait another year to get it. Today, board members of Airbus’s parent company are meeting to figure out damage control. More now from Ashley Milne-Tyte.
ASHLEY MILNE-TYTE: The Middle East’s Emirates Airlines is the biggest A380 buyer with 43 planes on order and the first won’t be ready until August 2008.
Airline consultant Michael Boyd says these delays prove Airbus took on more than it could handle with the super-jumbo.
MICHAEL BOYD:“I think they need to consider cutting their losses because this is not gonna be a big seller, it’s not gonna have a lot of demand, and that could have been understood three years ago.”
But Flight International Magazine’s Guy Norris says there’s no way Airbus will cut and run.
Despite the problems, building this plane has been a huge technical achievement.
GUY NORRIS: “To do a U-turn at this stage would be unthinkable, and the long term potential of this program particularly if they go for the next version, could be a big earner for them in the end of this decade and into the next.”
Still, while Airbus has struggled to get its giant plane off the ground, U.S. rival Boeing has scored an industry hit with its 787 Dreamliner.
It’s smaller and lighter than the A380 and it’s seen three times as many orders.
I’m Ashley Milne-Tyte for Marketplace.
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Kekao Monthly Craft Chocolate Club - August 2020
Has 2020 been the year of the staycation? I think so! What's better than snuggling up with amazingly delicious craft chocolate bars? With our monthly chocolate club, you can experience the best craft chocolate has to offer. Better yet, all makers we curate, ethically source their cacao beans at fair wages. Every bite of chocolate supports a community.
Let's take a closer look at what chocolates you can expect to receive this month with the Kekao Box.
WHAT'S INSIDE KEKAO'S CRAFT CHOCOLATE CLUB AUGUST BOX
FRENCH BROAD CHOCOLATE:
Dan and Jael are the founders of French Broad Chocolate. Their journey in chocolate started in 2003 when the two left grad school and moved to Costa Rica where they bought an abandoned cacao plantation and started, Bread & Chocolate bakery. After living in Costa Rica for two years, the couple moved to Ashville, North Carolina where French Broad Chocolate Lounge was opened.
In 2012, Dan and Jael became bean-to-bar chocolate makers and opened French Broad Chocolate Factory & Tasting Room. French Broad Chocolate began sourcing cacao from trusted farmers and transforming it into fine chocolate. Since 2012, French Broad has created a variety of chocolates, with tasting notes ranging from fruity to deeply earthy.
French Broad 100%
This bar is not for everybody. But it is for folks like you and me. We relish the opportunity to taste the unadulterated purity of 100 percent cacao chocolate. With no sweet embellishment, the seed and the maker can both show their true colour. Just one square of this potent chocolate captures the intensity of a freshly pulled espresso shot. Bold and intensely dark cocoa flavors are balanced with complex and wild fruit flavors of grape and lime.
Tasting notes: Wild Fruit, Grape & Lime
Ritual Chocolate produces small-batch, bean-to-bar chocolate using classic European methods and premium cacao from select sources. Founded in 2010 by Robbie Stout and Anna Davies, their mission is to produce exceptional quality chocolate while celebrating the complexity of the cacao bean.
At their small chocolate factory in Park City, Utah they are involved with the entire chocolate-making process to ensure their values for the highest achievable quality are present every step of the way.
They source some of the highest quality cacao in the world to make their chocolate. With no added flavours, their chocolate is an authentic expression of the flavour unique to each origin.
Ritual Belize 75%
Made with organic cacao that is grown by a network of Mayan farmers in the Toledo district of Belize. This chocolate has an incredible balance of fruity, earthy, and nutty flavors as a result of the complex genetic makeup of the growing region.
Tasting notes: Fruity, Earthy & Nutty
THE CHOCOLATE CONSPIRACY :
Chocolate Conspiracy sources their cacao beans from the Agro-Industrial Cooperative Atalaya. The association is formed by 300 members who live in the margins of the rivers that make up the Ucayali region of Peru, 60% of the members are native to the Achaninka tribes and the rest are migrant settlers who plant many varieties of fruit. The members of the co-op are involved with all the aspects of the growing and harvesting of the cacao, in doing so we end up with a varietal blend of Forastero, Trinitario, and Criollo.
The cacao beans are certified organic, certified fair trade, and certified kosher. The cacao is also non-GMO, non-hybridized, and cultivated from a combination of old-growth cacao trees and new trees that have been planted to help maintain not only the forests but the livelihoods of the farmers and harvesters.
Chocolate Conspiracy Blackberry Ginger Bar 73%
This bar features an 18-year aged blackberry balsamic vinegar that is infused into the chocolate. The fruity taste is rounded out with a hint of ginger. In India, Ginger is called the "universal spice" because it is said to balance all body types and carry health benefits.
Tasting notes: Fruity & Ginger
Beyond Good is a Brooklyn-based chocolate and vanilla company established in 2006 by two Peace Corps volunteers who served in Madagascar. The company sells a range of single-origin chocolate bars and vanilla products, sourced from Madagascar, and Uganda. All of the cocoa is certified direct trade and is sourced directly from Madagascar and Ugandan cocoa farmers.
Beyond Good Uganda Crispy Rice 73%
Of all the bars they make, this may be the hardest to stop eating. When they were in the process of developing this bar, they noticed their R&D samples disappeared the fastest. An amazingly delicious, inclusion bar by Beyond Good.
Tasting notes: Cane & Vanilla
From rich dark Peruvian chocolate bars to new start-up chocolate bars on the come up, you never know what you’ll get inside the box!
Each month we will curate 4 to 5 premium specialty crafted chocolate bars.
Have someone who you appreciate? It also makes as a great gift!
If you want to just try a couple of bars, check out our online chocolate shop. It's a selection of what we have curated in our past boxes.
If you have any questions regarding this blog, our Kekao Box, or premium specialty crafted chocolate bars, feel free to contact us! Keep up with us by subscribing to our newsletter or following us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.


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A San Antonio man is dead after being shot by an officer Monday night.
According to reports, a police sergeant attempted to make a traffic stop near South Laredo and South Alamo, but a struggle ensued between the driver and the sergeant, a reported 20-year veteran of the force
Officials told KSAT that the man pulled out a machete
, prompting the officer to fire once.
The 58-year-old man was transported to a hospital in critical condition, but later died.
The man has not been identified by authorities as of press time.
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I have recently got on the pump because my doctor said it would be better for when i try to have a baby. i wanted to know if anyone has had a really good pregnancy while they were on the pen?
Though I have not been pregnant yet (we are trying), my doctor recommended for me to go on the pump for pregnancy too. After a lengthy discussion with him he told me that it is a general consensus with endo's that it is easier to control you insulin needs through the pregnancy.
Since I have great control now only using humalog and lantus pens I have decided to stay with them. This will just mean more frequent shots (my doc believes that my standard +/- 6 shots a day might double due to hormone fluctuation and changing insulin needs) and of course more bs testing.
I wish you the best of luck with your pregnancy!
I was on the pump throughout my pregnancy and it was great. I kept my A1c at 6.0 and I only gained 25 lbs.
It was easy to adjust and I just love it!!! I was so over taking the shots too.


Peter FitzSimons Oh come on you All Blacks. If the Wallabies do you on Saturday night in the first Test of the Bledisloe Cup like we hope they will, you must lie back and think of England. It might hurt less.
Kieran Read has been ruled out of the All Blacks' first Test against England with concussion symptoms while knee injuries have sidelined two other players.
Stephen Samuelson Live coverage as the New Zealand All Blacks host England at Eden Park.
Ian McGeechan There were four key factors in England's fine performance yesterday - but they can play better, says Ian McGeechan.
Mick Cleary The New Zealand myth was blown away in Auckland on Saturday and it could mark a change in the world order.
Stephen Samuelson Live coverage as the New Zealand All Blacks host England in the Second Test.
Daniel Gilhooly Dunedin: The All Blacks spluttered into life in the second half to hold off England 28-27 in the second Test in Dunedin and clinch their three-match series.
If England's goal was for an anonymous build-up to the first Test against New Zealand on Saturday, it appears to have been a success.
Loose forward James Haskell has been recalled to England's starting team after an absence of 12 months for the opening match of their three-test series against New Zealand at Eden Park on Saturday.
England World Cup-winning back Iain Balshaw has retired after failing to recover from a knee injury.
Ian McGeechan Lancaster and his players have learnt much on this tour - now they must put the lessons to good use, writes Ian McGeechan.
Mick Cleary Former All Black winger believes that the next generation will step up, writes Mick Cleary.
Uncapped pair Malakai Fekitoa and Patrick Tuipulotu have been rewarded for breakout Super Rugby seasons with inclusion in the All Blacks squad to face England.
Liam Napier and Mick Cleary A miskick has ruled England halfback Danny Care out of Saturday’s first Test against the All Blacks at Eden Park.
Daniel Gilhooly England melted in the face of a merciless All Blacks first-half onslaught to lose the third Test 36-13 in Hamilton and suffer a 3-0 series whitewash.
Julian Guyer New Zealand's Hosea Gear scored two tries as the Barbarians went some way to restoring their reputation with a 39-29 win over an unfamiliar-looking England at Twickenham on Sunday.
Marc Hinton A scratchy All Blacks side have survived a scare to down England 20-15 in Auckland in the opening match of their three-Test rugby series.
Mick Cleary Memo to Stuart Lancaster: Take a snapshot of the final Six Nations table. Send to every single England player.
Jonny Wilkinson will aim to retire with little fuss but make no mistake - he is one of the all-time greats, writes Mick Cleary.
New Zealand have brushed aside England 26-7 to win the Hong Kong Sevens and reclaim top spot in the overall standings in the Sevens World Series.


We recently had the pleasure of once again working with Welly, the Instagram-famous English bulldog ( @beefywells ). Welly wasn’t the star this time, but his newborn pups were! Welly became a father recently to this litter of four puppies. And the cuteness is off the chart!
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Yesterday we revealed that Papy Djilobodji had reported for training at the Academy of Light in the morning, and that the 29-year old Senegal international had been present at the first team’s game with Stoke City U21s on Tuesday evening, watching on from the corporate box at the back of the South West Corner.
Djilobodji had been in a self-imposed exile that lasted 72 days, missing all of pre-season and the first month of our League One campaign.
In a statement directed at fans on SAFC.com, the club have directly addressed the situation surrounding the former Chelsea defender in an incredibly blunt fashion.
Sunderland AFC would like to issue supporters with the following update on defender Papy Djilobodji.
Papy Djilobodji has returned to the club, late and having missed pre-season and the opening month of the season proper.
The club is taking legal advice on the situation, and the player has been undergoing fitness tests, to assess whether he has returned to the club in a state to play professional football.
There will be no further comment until the player’s fitness has been assessed fully and the club has received full legal advice.
Just yesterday, co-owner Charlie Methven spoke about what was going on to the press and admitted that they’re dealing with it in a slightly different fashion to what is going on with Didier Ndong, who has still not returned to Wearside.
The club is considering its legal options.
The two cases aren’t identical in that finally Papy Djilobodji has turned up, but nonetheless turning up in the first week of September rather than at the beginning of August in a fit condition to play, as was agreed.
There is an internal procedure going on to determine whether he is fit to play.
Sunderland manager Jack Ross remained coy when asked about what was going on with Djilobodji yesterday when he met the press, and whilst he conceded that it wasn’t really ideal for his own preparations it’s more an issue for the club’s owners at the moment:
Papy is back. Beyond that, because of how the situation has developed and how it will probably continue to develop, it goes beyond me.
I can’t really comment on it other than to say that Stewart and Charlie have stressed that they’ll be the only ones who comment on where his future lies and how it will develop for the club. We’ve said it often enough, a solution would have been best a long time ago and that still remains the case.
This already messy situation is sure to rumble on over the coming weeks and months, with the club of a firm belief that they’re in a strong position from a legal standpoint.


1. n. [Formation Evaluation]
A neutron interaction in which the neutron is absorbed by the target nucleus, producing an isotope in an excited state. The activated isotope de-excites instantly through the emission of characteristic gamma rays. Thermal capture, also called neutron capture, usually occurs at low thermal energies at which the neutrons have about the same energy as the surrounding matter, typically below 0.4 eV (0.025 eV at room temperature). Some elements are better thermal absorbers than others. Neutron capture is an important principle behind the pulsed neutron capture log, the elemental capture spectroscopy log, the pulsed neutron spectroscopy log and the thermal neutron porosity measurement.
Synonyms: neutron capture


By Lori Walewski and Shannon Walz
Living Building Challenge has been mentioned many times in this blog. Living Building Certification consists of three steps.
Now, let’s dive into the layers of LBC certification. First, every project belongs to a LIVING TRANSECT CATEGORY which helps to define “proper development in specific settings…and applies to several Imperatives throughout the LBC” Wolf Ridge’s project is categorized as L3 – village or campus zone. Next the project is assigned a TYPOLOGY which defines the kind of project. There are four typologies – neighborhood, building, landscape and infrastructure and renovation. The West Dorm falls in the renovation category.
Once the project is properly categorized it is matched up with the imperatives for that category. Each Petal has one or more Imperatives or standards that varies based on the Living Transect. “Imagine a building designed and constructed to function elegantly as a flower.” This is how the International Living Future Institute opens its handbook on the overview of the LBC. It is from the flower that we get the seven Petals or performance areas for the LBC: Site, Water, Energy, Health, Materials, Equity, and Beauty. There are 20 Imperatives. As a renovation Typology, Wolf Ridge’s West Dorm project must meet 15 Imperatives to get full certification.
Over the next few weeks we are going to take a closer look at each of the Petals in the Living Building Challenge.
As for the construction on site, the siding is continuing to be installed on the exterior of the building. The work on the elevator in the Naturalist house has started. Drywall and some of the insulation has been delivered and Davis Drywall is beginning the install in the basement. The Maintenance Building has work being done on the radiant heating system.


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I went to the Convention and Visitors Bureau for Geary county on Washington Street. There were nice and helpful people there. I got loaded up with free maps and things. The free booklet they gave me listed 13 hotels in the area. There is also camping at Milford lake. You can contact them for this same information by email at firstname.lastname@example.org or go to the web site www.junctioncity.org .
I scanned a news item from the July 31, 2002 edition of the Emporia Gazette. It is about FREE camping at Milford lake near Junction City. The free campsites include garden plots, utilities, and sheds. The only requirement is that you exchange some volunteer labor for the camp spot.
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Hawker, Thomas (DNB00)
HAWKER, THOMAS (d. 1723?), portrait-painter, according to Vertue, came to live in Sir Peter Lely's house after Lely's death, in the hope of benefiting by the famous associations of the house. This hope was not realised. He is known by a full-length portrait of the Duke of Grafton, engraved in mezzotint by Beckett, a portrait of Titus Oates, engraved in mezzotint and published by R. Tompson, and a head of Sir Dudley North. One Hawker (called by Vertue, perhaps in error, Edward Hawker) is stated to have been admitted a poor knight of Windsor, and to have been living in 1721, over eighty years of age.
[Vertue's manuscripts (Brit. Mus. Addit. MSS. 23068–70); Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting; Chaloner Smith's British Mezzotinto Portraits.]