Brazilian aerospace giant Embraer announced that an undisclosed customer has placed a new firm order for 15 new Embraer E195-E2 aircraft.
New order is valued at US$1.17 billion at list price and will be added to Embraer’s Q4 2022 backlog.
Embraer is a global aerospace company headquartered in Brazil. It manufactures aircraft for Commercial and Executive aviation, Defense & Security, and Agricultural customers. The company also provides after-sales services & support through a worldwide network of wholly owned entities and authorized agents.
Since it was founded in 1969, Embraer has delivered more than 8,000 aircraft. On average, about every 10 seconds an aircraft manufactured by Embraer takes off somewhere in the world. The aircraft transport over 145 million passengers per year.
Embraer is the leading manufacturer of commercial jets up to 150 seats and is the main exporter of high value-added goods in Brazil. The company maintains industrial units, offices, service and parts distribution centers across the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe.


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Although Vascular Ehlers Danlos Syndrome EDS (Type IV) is considered rare, the possibility of complications with all types of EDS should be considered in a surgery or a trauma situation. Do not assume that your patient has been typed correctly, as clinical diagnosis is often difficult. Take necessary precautions during procedures with any type of EDS. Thank You!
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) is a heterogeneous group of heritable connective tissue disorders characterized by articular hypermobility, skin extensibility and tissue fragility. There are six major types of EDS. The different types of EDS are classified according distinct features.
Reprinted with Permission from the Canadian Ehlers-Danlos Association (CEDA)
“However, examples of unclassified variants and ‘overlap phenotypes’ are becoming more common. Mutations in genes encoding fibrillar collagens or collagen-modifying enzymes have been identified in most forms of EDS, including the classic and vascular subtypes (collagen type V and III, respectively), and the rare arthrochalasis, kyphoscoliosis and dermatosparaxis variants (type I collagen defects). To date, the genetic background of the hypermobility type of EDS remains unclear, although some new insights have been gained recently.” *

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asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many convictions there have been of estate agents who carry out speculative property transactions, whether in their own names or through nominees, in respect of such transactions.
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Applying Social Psychology: From Problem to Solution on Myanmar Community Conflicts
Authors: Ma Tin Cho Mar
Short DOI: https://doi.org/ggrs9v
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The paper aims to find out possible solutions to the ‘hatred’ and ‘ethnic cleansing’ operations going on in Myanmar. Myanmar, the largest country in mainland Southeast Asia, is bordered by India to the west and China to the east. Drawing on works in the field of social and political instability, this study shows how ethnic cleansing has become a controversial issue in Myanmar and Myanmar Government policies to create the bulk of urban poor who are the victims of hatred and ethnic cleansing. It also discloses how certain structural features of the social and political system, including the power of the security forces and the business sector are facilitating and perpetrating, perhaps even encouraging the violence.
The study provides accounts of the social and ideological make-up of both the victims and the perpetrators of hatred and ‘ethnic cleansing’. It argues that the victims are targeted not because of their political views or activities, but because they are perceived as bearers of unwelcomed attributes, such as poverty, criminality and ill-health. It shows that many of the perpetrators of ‘ethnic cleansing’ are state agents, often members of the National Police or of paramilitary groups that operate with official license and backing. Members of the business sector are also deeply mixed up in the violence. Lastly, this study shapes two principal reasons for the persistence of hatred and ‘ethnic cleansing’: the failure to bring the perpetrators to justice and the matter on intentional violence, death, destruction and harm to a community, in part or in whole, simply because of some people’s religious faith, ethnicity or belief. Finally, the paper tries to proffer a lasting solution to the avoidable and preventable problems by applying a psychological solution through the use of path model developed by Buunk and Van Vugt (2007).
Keywords: Myanmar, Rohingya, Poor, Hatred, Negative thinking, Love, Positive Thinking, Tolerence
Paper Id: 285
Published On: 2018-09-05
Published In: Volume 6, Issue 5, September-October 2018
Cite This: Applying Social Psychology: From Problem to Solution on Myanmar Community Conflicts - Ma Tin Cho Mar - IJIRMPS Volume 6, Issue 5, September-October 2018. DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/RPXBJ

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Another one in the never-ending series of pictures that fall under the category of “Shots I almost didn’t get because I was too lazy,” this is kind of a simple picture of a flower at sunrise but there’s a few things that stand out to me not only about the photo but about how it was shot, so I figured it was fairly well suited to end up here on the blog. We have had an unusual amount of rain in Oklahoma this year, with May being the wettest month ever since records have been kept. So much precipitation, in fact, that sunny mornings like this have been more the exception than the rule. This has led to an incredible amount of greenery and other natural growth that doesn’t usually happen until a bit later in the year, if at all, and is part of what made this shot possible in the first place.
As I was driving to work (instead of biking, thanks to the wet weather) I saw this field near our house that had exploded in yellow flowers overnight. My first thought was “Hmm, that would make a good picture” and then I just kept driving. Seriously, I almost didn’t get this picture because I decided I couldn’t spare 30 seconds to stop my car and walk across the street. Thankfully I quickly realized that this was a pretty lame course of action especially given how often I preach about getting your camera off the shelf and going out to shoot with it. A half block later I pulled into a parking lot, grabbed my camera, and ran back to the field to take a few pictures because…well, why not?
I liked how the sun was peeking over the horizon which not only gave a nice bit of backlighting on the flowers, but also gave the rain and dew on the ground an ethereal, almost otherworldly look. (Truth be told it reminds me of some areas deep within the planet Zebes.) I purposely left the image a bit low in overall contrast to give it a somewhat dreamy quality, as if you were looking at it soon after waking up before your vision has cleared. As is my custom I did not review the shots on-site, and instead just got in my car and continued on my drive to work hoping I got a good picture. Turns out I did, or at least I got one that I’m happy with. And really, that’s often all that matters with photography anyway :)

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Lunar Cabaret and Full Moon Cafe, March 24
By David Whiteis
Heroes ain’t born; they’re cornered.
The Lunar Cabaret felt somewhere between intimate and claustrophobic as folksinger Rosalie Sorrels took the stage on a Sunday evening two weeks ago. Earlier that weekend she’d joked that it might be a kick if there were a “riot” to see her; by show time people were eyeing the wall-to-wall crowd and making nervous wisecracks about fire codes and Who concerts. But in vintage folkie style the patrons made do with unflagging goodwill–they saved seats, passed cups of coffee down rows, patiently waited their turn at the counter. Sorrels’s appearance was part of an ongoing cross-country tour (“I drove 20,000 miles in four months–hell, truckers don’t even drive that much!”) to support her current CDs: Borderline Heart on Green Linnet and The Long Memory, with Bruce “U. Utah” Phillips, on Red House. She’s shaken off the worst effects of a cerebral aneurysm that threatened to end her career in 1988 (“when my head blew up”), but life on the road has become increasingly wearying for this staunch individualist who proclaimed her footloose independence on such LPs as Traveling Lady and Traveling Lady Rides Again. “Let ’em try this for 30 years and see if they still think there’s anything ‘romantic’ about it,” she says. “I think of myself as a migrant worker.”
Sorrels was born and raised in Idaho, but her cultural roots are diverse. Her mother, Nancy Stringfellow, managed a bookstore in Boise, entertained visiting literati and artists, and wrote in her spare time: a collection of her memoirs and poems, Report From Grimes Creek After a Hard Winter, edited by Sorrels, was published in the early 90s. Her father was a highway engineer and craftsman with a roguish bent, a passion for wilderness and solitude (“The man got physically sick when there were more than five people in a room”), and an abiding affection for the Irish trinity of music, verse, and whiskey.
Young Rosalie–named after her father’s mother–grew up surrounded by poetry and song, and by her teens was infatuated with Billie Holiday: “I don’t think there was a song [Holiday] had recorded that you’d play the first two bars and I wouldn’t recognize it right away,” she says. “I really knew everything she’d ever sung. I knew every word Lenny Bruce ever said; I knew every word Lord Buckley ever said. I never got to see Charlie Parker, but I had all his records–his 78s.”
The dreamy young bohemian found herself sidetracked, however, by a combination of personal misfortune and the puritanical ferocity of Eisenhower-era America. She en-dured a gruesome illegal abortion at 16; a year later she gave birth to a baby girl, whom she gave up for adoption. In the process she lost the four-year drama scholarship she’d earned in high school as well as, by her own account, “my desire to be an actress, my self-respect.”
She married at 19 and moved to Salt Lake City with her husband. “He did a real job of convincing me that I was damaged goods, that I could never leave him and do anything on my own. I had five kids by him; he made it very clear that he didn’t want me to have those kids, but he waited until I had ’em to tell me.”
She did, however, stay involved in arts and music. She took folklore classes; she took acting lessons for three years from a teacher who had worked with Camus’ theater in France; she attended poetry readings; she saw everyone from the Temptations to Kitty Wells to Duke Ellington at various venues around town.
In 1966, at the Newport Folk Festival, she met guitarist Mitch Greenhill and in a whirlwind three days recorded the album If I Could Be the Rain for the Folk Legacy label out of Connecticut. Back home, her husband’s response was less than positive.
“He listened and he sneered at me: ‘That sucks! You sing flat!’ He absolutely forbade me to ever leave the house to sing. He hit me, and he hit my kids. I left. I knew if I didn’t a death was going to occur. I had five kids, ages 4 through 14. I was in my 30s–no practical skills, no education, and no credentials. Everyone told me I was too old to start a new life alone.”
Sorrels and her children ended up in San Francisco, where she began to break into the coffeehouse circuit. Wary of relationships, she eventually met a new boyfriend. “We were talking about living together, which was a great idea because he was a sailor and he’d be gone all the time!” After that affair ended, she says, “I had some wonderful relationships with men, but I never lived with anyone again.”
She did, however, have a gift for making friends. Malvina Reynolds, composer of “Little Boxes” and one of the most venerated figures in folk, introduced her around town and encouraged her with a kindly, tough-minded ethic of survival: “I used to go to her when I was troubled. She’d find someone who was more troubled than me and tell me to go help that one. Pretty soon I’d begin to see that my troubles were little and not very interesting.”
Leaving the children with members of her newfound extended family, Sorrels began to bring her personalized mixture of prairie ballads, children’s songs, and hard-edged slices of counterculture idealism to folk audiences around the country. “I lived like a homeless person a lot of the time. I slept on people’s floors; I slept in New York on the Staten Island ferry. But my kids always had a place to stay, they always had enough to eat, they always had good clothes. The money would always go back to the kids.
“They were mad a lot. They’d run away. People would tell them they were ‘poor little things’ because I was gone so much, but actually I was home more than a lot of people with straight day gigs.”
The strain was hardest on her sons. Her youngest got into trouble early and has spent most of his life in correctional institutions; in 1976 her older son David, 22, committed suicide, plunging her into a miasma of confusion and torment that lasted most of the next decade. “He went to a great deal of trouble to let me know that it had nothing to do with me,” she says now. “I couldn’t stand it. I still can’t stand it, but I had to. I had four other kids to take care of.”
Sorrels kept touring, and her network of friends continued to take her in and help her nurse herself back to health. Some wrote songs and poems for her son: poet Gino Sky’s “Kid Shooting Way” is in the liner notes to her 1991 CD Be Careful There’s a Baby in the House on Green Linnet. She poured her own grief into tunes such as “Delia Rose” on Then Came the Children, recorded live in Canada in the early 80s, and “Sing Like the Rain (Last Song for David)” on Be Careful There’s a Baby in the House. By the late 80s she’d regained most of her equilibrium and become something of a folk elder stateswoman in the process.
Today, with over 20 albums to her credit, Sorrels concedes that her single-minded ways (“my eccentricities”) have probably cost her, at least as far as career security is concerned (“[a friend] tried to manage me one time, but I’m unmanageable”). Remembering her confrontation with the owners of a label she claims misappropriated her publishing rights, she growls: “They had two cars and their kids went to private school. I lived in my car and my kid went to jail. I don’t want to hear about it.”
Still, her enemies list is nothing compared to the “beloved community” she’s established through the years. “I keep finding people who have that generous spirit–I never would have made it without them. When I don’t have that kind of contact I feel cut off from the world–it’s almost like your blood runs out. I have this bunch of oases who are people, and I have to get from one to another–they’re life sustaining.”
The ghost of Billie Holiday continues to sing to her as well: “I aspire to sing from the place she comes from. I call it the ‘heartfelt tone.’ Billie had it. Patsy Cline, Hank Williams–all those people who sing from that spot inside of them, the spot that makes everyone feel as though you’re singing their own personal life story. I’m not a consummate artist yet, but I’m a lot closer than I’ve ever been.”
At the Lunar Cabaret Sorrels started her set as she usually does, with a rambling spoken introduction–this time about her longtime musical partner, the gruff-voiced proletarian raconteur U. Utah Phillips. Her first song was Phillips’s “I Think of You,” a western-tinged lament that’s been a staple of her repertoire for years (dedicated, she said, to “the people who come out after midnight in New York City”).
Like the jazz singers she admires, Sorrels often sounds as if she’s thinking in terms of triplets when she phrases. Rather than lock into a stereotypical “boom-chick” folkie rhythm, she’ll ease into a verse on the upbeat or even a few beats early, then pause an extra breath before beginning the next one. On guitar her feathery technique fuses the melodic intricacy of fingerpicking with the propulsiveness of strumming, creating an arid dreamscape for her lyrics. She sings in a reedy drawl, and her ascending soprano wail is deepened by a heart-tugging country lonesomeness and a dose of bluesy grit.
Sorrels followed “I Think of You” with “Eddie’s Song,” Phillips’s eulogy for the late Ed Balchowsky, a pianist and artist who lost his right arm fighting the fascists in the Spanish civil war and was a living legend to several generations of Chicago hipsters. Phillips actually wrote the song prematurely, in response to a rumor that Balchowsky had died–in her introduction Sorrels remembered the fun she’d had singing Balchowsky’s own epitaph to him over the phone. Characteristically, it’s both a tribute to a noble soul and a lament for a time of strong idealism and faith.
After a few more Phillips tunes–a jaunty children’s song that roused the room into a hootenanny-style sing-along; “Jesse’s Corrido,” a politically charged portrait of a young Mexican-American on death row; “If I Could Be the Rain,” which dates back to Sorrels’s first LP and contains the signature lines “If I could hide the way I feel / I’d never sing again”–she switched to her own, more personal, material.
Sorrels reminisced a bit about her San Francisco days, making her struggles sound like a bohemian adventure, then narrated from a letter, sardonic and tender in turn, that her mother wrote to her during that time: “I know there are times when you wouldn’t change your life for any other; certainly not for the well-fed, well-coifed hausfrau with a weekly bridge game….They don’t even know what wings are, and they’d try to put a girdle on them if they ever felt them.”
She followed that with her mother’s poem “Song for Daughters,” another ode to independence and letting go, then segued into the song “Mama,” her response to that poem. If Sorrels is aware of the irony in lines like “Mama, you were right when you said no one could ever hold me” she doesn’t acknowledge it, preferring to let her song stand as an anthem of freedom rather than a cry of loneliness: “Nobody ever bought me, mama, nobody ever sold me / And my friend the wind is teaching me to fly.”
“Mehitabel’s Theme,” the centerpiece of Always a Lady from the mid-70s on Philo as well as Sorrels’s set at the Lunar, is a riotous tale of a hard-bitten alley cat with a gimpy leg who dances defiantly across the alley stones into the teeth of a bitter wind (“I am a lady in spite of hell / And there’s a dance in the old dame yet”). As Mehitabel, Sorrels mewed her lines like a vaudeville tart from the streets of the Lower East Side; she then deepened into a Brando-like rasp when she assumed the character of the “four-flusher” tomcat who seduces Mehitabel into marriage. The song is both a feminist anthem (“Marriage is marriage, and you can’t laugh off that curse”) and yet another affirmation of Sorrels’s driven independence.
Everything seemed like prelude, however, to her two closing numbers, both from Borderline Heart. “Hitchhiker in the Rain” melds Sorrels’s anguish over her son’s suicide with her anger about “the death of the generous impulse” in America, an almost Hebraic fusion of personal sorrow and global concern. Praising the 60s in her spoken intro as “a generous time when everyone seemed to be awake,” she said the era ended for her when she realized she no longer felt safe giving rides to hitchhikers. “What have we done to ourselves,” she asked, “when we’ve become afraid of our own children?”
In the song she spots an “aging innocent” hitchhiking and finds herself visited by David’s spirit “like a dark angel, riding memory’s ark.” She remembers how he used to tell her never to pass up a hitchhiker–“I’d spoil your hitchin’ karma, and you’d never get a ride”–and the song ascends into a wail of grief: “You took yourself away, my son, for anger and for pride / You just spun out one night by the Pacific Ocean side.”
Rather than pick up the hitchhiker, she speeds past him while “you and love and fear and memory tangle in my brain….I leave the aging children standing in the rain.” Sorrels’s voice was as true and powerful here as I’ve ever heard it; she evoked the “heartfelt tune” as if staring into the abyss, with a naked courage that was both humbling and inspiring.
Her closing song, “My Last Go Round,” had an autumnal, almost elegiac tone despite its tricky intervals and sing-song melody. Steadfast in her faith that the unfettered human spirit can find redemption and sanctuary (“I have stumbled, lost and wild / On to sacred ground”), the singer looks back over a life defined–and sometimes buffeted unmercifully–by her relentless hunger for both independence and love, and declares that it’s been good: “We drank the rivers, we rode the twisters, we tumbled to the ground….all my long lost friends and lovers, once again they will be found / I’ll kiss all their shining faces / On my last go round.”
After the set the crowd filed out as Sorrels greeted well-wishers and signed autographs. She’ll be touring until mid-June; after that she’ll be able to get back home to the cabin it took her father from the late 1940s through 1965 to build by hand in an idyllic canyon about 30 miles outside Boise. There she’ll be nearer to her three daughters, her grandchildren, and a new great-grandchild; this time, if she’s lucky, Rosalie Sorrels will be able to stay home until the end of September.

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18:58 - Lethrokai Damn, that's cold... Still sticking my guns on the song though. Always good to give a little promotion anyway. When you find someone that cares, it makes it all worthwhile in the end. ;)
01. Birth Of Eternity [feat. Attila Csihar] 02. Reverie 03. Night Journey 04. Glory To Perdition 05. Two Worlds Collide 06. Ode To A Dying Star 07. Shores Of Death [feat. Attila Csihar] 08. Dreams Spectre 09. Blood Serenade 10. Lacus Somniorum
Additional info Recorded, mixed and mastered at Dunakeszi, HSB Studio, November-December 2003.
Engineered by Viktor Scheer, Zoltán Regenye, Laura Vesztergom.
Produced by András Nagy, Viktor Scheer.
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Tirana, July 3, 2013
After Sokol Olldashi registered his candidacy for leader of the Democratic Party, another personality of the political class, mayor Lulzim Basha has handed in his application to be part of this race.
During his speech, Basha said that, “Dear members and militants of the Democratic Party, voters of the DP. A week ago from this podium, the leader of the DP, Prime Minister Sali Berisha addressed to democrats and Albanian people with a message. This has been a period of reflection. I have heard and felt commotion, disappointment and exasperation about the result that nobody expected. I have read in your eyes the strength to face future challenges, to start with hope and trust the path to once again becoming a majority. Today the democrat family must be more united than ever”.
Basha said that after a long reflection, after thousands of messages by members of the Democratic Party and after talking to Prime Minister Sali Berisha, he decided to run for the head of the DP.
Basha considered this as one of the most difficult decisions of his life. He said that the Democratic Party is a party that has changed history of the new Albania.
According to Basha, nobody can replace Sali Berisha, considering him as the historical leader and a source of inspiration for democrats.
Basha said that the challenge that awaits democrats is not easy, but stressed that the Democratic Party has turned the dreams of the Albanian people into projects and projects into reality.
Basha declared that his effort to lead this new start is strongly supported by the vision, by the courage of predecessors, by the determination of Azem Hajdari and leadership of Sali Berisha.
“Based on today’s convictions and values, I invite you to move forward toward the project of our new beginning. DP will carry out a thorough analysis. I will work hard for the Democratic Party to turn into a strong opposition and to defend the rights of citizens, against arbitrariness and abuse with power. Negativism has no place in this race, because this race aims the victory of the Democratic Party. 8 years ago, united, the Democratic Party managed to win the elections and to make the biggest transformation in the history of the country. Two years ago we won the battle of Tirana. I assure the citizens of Tirana that my commitment will not be lacking. Let us make a new beginning, aware of the challenges that await us to win the hearts of the Albanians and to bring the Democratic Party back in government”, said Basha. /ibna/

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The Glasgow University Sutton Trust summer school is a week-long residential programme running between 5 and 10 July 2020. Senior high school students are invited to experience life at the University of Glasgow through participation in lectures and seminars and academic support sessions.
Reach Society has just entered its 10th year and in 2020 it will be celebrating this milestone by honouring not one but four major contributors by showcasing their biographies on our website
The University of Oxford’s Jesus College is thrilled to offer 10 fully-funded places at its impactful access summer school to Reach Society.
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The Story of British People of African Caribbean Origin
Reach Society has published another compact and comprehensive history of British people of African Caribbean origin for children in primary education.
This children’s edition of the book follows a series of true stories told by grandparents to their two grandchildren, Clinton and Doreen, who are on holiday with them. They tell their grandchildren that being Black does not prevent them from also being British, and they explain how this has come about.
The book contains eight short and highly illustrated stories spanning a period of around 400 years; and it provides many images of men and women of action who have shaped the lives of British people of African Caribbean origin.
The book also outlines how new towns for freed people, education, health, trade unions and political parties were developed by these people in the Caribbean; and shows how the Windrush generation was able to overcome its early challenges to establish itself in the UK.
The children’s edition is an adaptation of the first book skilfully written by Paula Neil and Dr Dwain Neil making it easy for young readers to understand their story.
The book cost �6.99 and is available from Reach Society Publishing.�


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Why does criticism of Israeli policies illicit such outrage in the US? In Israel itself, many voices are heard, and those Israelis who are opposed to the wall or to unreasonable restrictions on Palestinians are not branded anti-semitic. So many of the postings seem to suggest that Palestinians, innocent or guilty, young or old, deserve harsh treatment. But surely Israel, like any country, has a right to defend itself and an obligation to so so in the most humane way possible.
Netanyahu instructs to reexamine open-fire orders against stone- throwers (Haaretz)
from the article: Red Cross: Israel worsening Palestinian humanitarian crisis


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Five GoodGym runners headed out early on a sunny (but chilly) Sunday morning to meet Joe from the National Trust on the beautiful Bath skyline walk.
Due to the heavy increase in walkers along the route over the past few months, some of the heavily trodden public footpaths became public mud-baths during the winter. Joe needed our help with creating a gravel path entering one of the fields to provide a solid surface for future walks.
The path we built will be along the Park Run route when it returns in the coming months so it was important to get the path ready for the runners!
The team used a variety of tools to dig the trench, shift the gravel into place and flatten it out and just under 2 hours of grafting later, the path was complete!
It was great to welcome Meyrick to his first GoodGym task! We wouldn’t have finished the path without him and hope to see him join another task soon.
Bath's Organic Garden is a bit of a hidden gem. Dedicated volunteers work the plots and orchards to the accompaniment of birdsong and children's laughter from the play park next door.
Our task was to create a wicker fence to screen it from the busy and polluting Upper Bristol Road and the team set to with a smile.
Rob fetched and trimmed the longest branches he could find while Mark and the Emilies wove them into a fence - with Ruth helping both tasks.
Kate the supervisor treated us to some delicious organic apple juice and later let us off early as we'd worked so hard, we'd used up all the wood.
Kate was very pleased with how well we'd done and we were pretty proud - the different types of wood - including hazel, willow and bamboo - made it quite a work of art and not of-fence-sive at all.
We will be helping to create a new seating area using some of the blank stones. There will be a stone mason present who will help supervise the moving of the stones.
- Please bring gloves
- All other equipment is provided
Mixture of tasks which could include:
- Clearing/raking the orchard of leaves.
- Cutting back herbaceous growth
- Pruning apple trees
Please bring your own gloves. All other tools will be provided.
This month's meal delivery proved much better weather conditions than the Valentine's Day one. This was a welcome complement to the daffodils that the church had kindly added to the meal packages to celebrate Mother's Day. After a nice catch-up with the other Goodgymers (Ruth the regular, Nicola and her husband who was on his first mission) whilst we decided who was to go in which direction, I set off to deliver four meals to the road just behind the church. All were gratefully received with beaming smiles. Another Goodgym mission well-accomplished :)


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It’s Carnival time. The first Carnival since Malaika’s mother moved to Canada to find a good job and provide for Malaika and her grandmother. Her mother promised she would send money for a costume, but when the money doesn’t arrive, will Malaika still be able to dance in the parade?
Disappointed and upset at her grandmother’s hand-me-down costume, Malaika leaves the house, running into Ms. Chin, the tailor, who offers Malaika a bag of scrap fabric. With her grandmother’s help, Malaika creates a patchwork rainbow peacock costume, and dances proudly in the parade.
A heartwarming story about family, community and the celebration of Carnival, Nadia Hohn’s warm and colloquial language and Irene Luxbacher’s vibrant collage-style illustrations make this a strikingly original picture book.
Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:
With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

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Two senior Senate Democrats introduced a bill Thursday that would boost payments to Medicaid doctors to equal those paid to Medicare doctors.
Sens. Patty MurrayPatty MurrayOvernight Healthcare: GOP healthcare talks stall | Ryan takes backset to Pence in new repeal effort | FDA nominee grilled over industry ties Senators battle over FDA nominee's financial ties FDA nominee won't commit to banning flavored e-cigarettes, cigars MORE (D-Wash.) and Sherrod BrownSherrod BrownFive things to know about Trump's steel order Trump administration investigating effect of steel imports on US Mexico: Recent deportations 'a violation' of US immigration rules MORE (D-Ohio) are hoping to extend a provision of ObamaCare that expired last year that ensures equal payments to all providers.
“We should be making it easier for providers to accept new Medicaid patients, not harder,” Brown wrote in a statement.
The bill would also bump up payments for doctors and nurses who specifically treat women and children, such as OB-GYNs, nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
The Medicaid bump alone would cost the federal government at least $11 billion, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
The bill comes as House GOP leaders are quietly working on legislation that would permanently repeal payment cuts to Medicare providers. While the effort is expected to be bipartisan, Democrats are likely to push for some of their own programs during the deal-making.


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Lancaster, TX Cedar Valley College June 12-13, Richmond, TX George Bush H.S. June 14-15 & DeSoto, TX June June 16-17
The National Urban Professional Baseball League will be launching four new Urban Baseball League teams in the spring of 2018. The league is open to baseball players 17 years old and older who have baseball talent, the participants will be paid. We will offer an eight week fall league in Arizona, September through October 2017, tryouts for the teams will start in May of 2017.
The creation of this professional Baseball League is designed to provide family entertainment and honor the history and memories of past African Americabaseball players (the same as the Negro League Museum in Kansas City, MO). The names of the teams in this league will reflect that of past Negro League players i.e. Rube Foster All-Stars, Cool Papa Bell All Stars, William "Skinny Legs" Blair and the Buck O’Neil All Stars etc.
GENERAL LEAGUE INFORMATION:
Ninety game schedule
May through August in addition to league play-offs
45 away games/45 home games
6 games per week
15 three game home stands
Teams located within 250 - 350 miles
24 players per team
The league is open to baseball players 17 years old and older
All participants will receive monetary compensation
Tryouts for each team will begin in May, 2017
We will offer an eight week fall league in Arizona, to be held in September, 2017 through October, 2017.
The league starts in the spring of 2018
All baseball players interested in trying out for a team should visit our website for registration information at www.urbanbaseball247.com or call (773) 517-2175.

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Full presentation on District 304 Comparative Transportation Cost Analysis by the School Administration. Prepared 1/25/2010.
Cost Analysis of the Bus Buyback program as presented by the Geneva District Administration in approximately 2009. On a per student cost basis, did the Bus Buyback Program make sense when compared to St. Charles, Batavia & Kaneland school districts?
Report from information supplied to the State of Illinois showing a full cost comparison 2006-2008 for each of the Tri-Cities School Districts (Geneva, St. Charles, & Batavia). Transportation costs are highlighted in blue.
Attached is a comparison of bus driver compensation among local school districts and private bus companies. The source is unknown as well as the date published though it is believed to be 2009.
There is no question that a bus driver is the first and last person to see every student and their role is vital to the safe and smooth operation of any transportation department. That said, the salary and benefit structure can't be above the going market cost.


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We are looking for an exceptional engineer with strong iOS experience to join our small, engineering-centric team. You'll play a a critical role on a team building a global experience that almost everyone on the planet can use almost every day.
Our team is a mix of data, development and design, and we’re tackling hard problems across fields. We optimize for practicality, pragmatism, and niceness. If you're wedded to one language or framework, this probably isn't the team for you.
You are unbelievably smart, kind, curious, empathetic, open-minded, and driven. You have engineering breadth and depth, and experience working on cross-functional, collaborative teams. If you love to build beautiful, intuitive, and performant mobile experiences — and want to make the world better for everyone — get in touch!
This is a full time position at an early stage startup in San Francisco, CA, with competitive cash and equity compensation, great perks, smart and nice people, and a killer view of the bridge and bay from the office. We love rapid iteration and face-to-face collaboration, and so we aren't ready for remote teammates.
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Yucca glauca is a species of yucca native to central North America. The plant's native range spans much of the Great Plains region, where it continues to be quite abundant, and it is also grown ornamentally outside its native range. This plant thrives in USDA zones four through eight, and does especially well in low water gardens, for gardeners looking for plants which they can cultivate while saving water.
This member of the agave family is also known as soapweed yucca, small soapweed, beargrass, or simply yucca. It has long, narrow leaves with a bluish cast, and a tall flower stalk which produces numerous creamy flowers. Some animals use Yucca glauca as a forage plant, although it cannot be used as the sole source of nutrition by livestock or other animals.
One problem with Yucca glauca is that it can be come invasive. Outside its native range, if it likes the conditions, it will rapidly grow and spread, and it can be difficult to eradicate. For this reason, people should be careful before establishing a Yucca glauca plant in their gardens, to avoid ending up with a plant which will become a problem in the future. This issue should also be considered when gardening in an area with sensitive native species, as bringing in an invasive exotic could be an unwise decision.
In its native range, Yucca glauca can take advantage of openings in the ecosystem to take over if it is happy where it is growing. When land is cleared, for example, Yucca glauca can seed itself and cover the land very quickly. The plant can also colonize in the wake of a fire or similar event which has temporarily unbalanced the native plant population. In these situations, it is a good idea to contain the Yucca while promoting native plants so that the ecosystem will remain diverse.
People who are interested in growing soapweed yucca can purchase specimen plants at garden stores or through nurseries which specialize in plants which like arid regions. When planting a yucca glauca, people should remember that the flower stalk can grow quite tall, and that the rosette of leaves likes to sprawl out over time, so the plant should not be established in a crowded corner of the garden. Maintaining a Yucca glauca as a specimen planting can also be used to create a zone around the plant which will make it easier to contain if it starts to get adventurous.

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THE MANAGEMENT of Kirehe District Hospital (KDH) would like to refute the content of the article, “Newborn dies after falling off hospital bed”, published in The New Times edition of July 17, 2013, indicating that a baby who was born at our hospital on July 10, 2013 (11:20 am) died as a result of negligence from KDH staff.
At the time of birth, the baby was examined and showed no signs of any complications. On the following day, July 11, 2013, both the mother, Immaculée Muteteri, and her baby were discharged from the hospital and they were all in good condition.
However, on July 13, 2013 at 2am, Muteteri brought the baby again to the hospital where she had been referred to by Kirehe Health Centre. The doctors who received her revealed that the baby was suffering from respiratory chest distress, convulsions and was in a coma. They provided assisted ventilation to provide oxygen but in vain.
They did all the best to save the baby, but unfortunately, he passed away thirty minutes after being admitted.
Doctors confirmed and ruled out trauma. According to the hospital management, this is an indication that the head was normal, consequently refuting allegations that the baby died as a result of a swelling head, as opposed to what the bereaved mother announced and subsequently reported by different media.
This newspaper had reported that the mother told The New Times that the baby had been left on his cot for over an hour and that the cot’s side rails were not locked on one side, while the only nurse who was attending to her was “busy on a computer.” The mother said that the baby slipped off the cot and fell, head first, which prompted her to make an alarm.
Investigations are underway and the Ministry of Health will follow up on the up on the case. Thank you.
Kirehe District Hospital (Management)
Editor – We would like to remind our readers that The New Times tried several times to contact Dr Jean Nepo Uwiringiyemungu, the hospital director, but neither did he answer nor return our calls.
Kirehe Hospital refutes claims that a newborn died after falling off hospital bed


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North Berwick Harbor – Scottish Seaside Art Print
Looking for vibrant artwork that isn’t mass produced? The prints youll find here are often colorful and always memorable. Let your neighbors buy ordinary art while you shop small and express your individual style.
Each print is individually made to your order and available in a range of sizes and formats. Choose from prints to frame locally or ready to hang metal prints, and traditional canvas prints.
On one of my last day in Scotland I found myself on a short train ride from Edinburgh. I wanted to see the Scottish coast once more before heading home. And as the fates aligned, it was definitely a great day for it. Look at the beautiful skies in this print of the North Berwick seaside!
Being winter, of course, the beach and town, apparently quite popular in the summer, was almost empty. Normally, I like the human element of people in a scene, but in this case I think that has made my photos of North Berwick’s beach and harbor almost hauntingly beautiful.
The harbor is the stretch of buildings in the center of this Landscape print of the North Sea. I loved the hodgepodge styles and colors of all those buildings on the docks at Harbour Terrace. It just really gave me a sense for what life must have been like here when this village was about making your living on the sea rather than seaside holiday-makers.
Even in winter I understood the lure of this place across the ages for those who love the sea. I still look at this picture and I feel the cold crisp salt air on my skin and smell the salt breeze off the sea. Can’t you?
There’s just something magical about the sea for me, and doubly so for the Scottish seaside. My day wandering around the streets and beaches at North Berwick remains a highlight of my last trip to Scotland. Such a beautiful winter day made for some incredibly colorful vistas as you can see.
Have you had the good fortune to smell the salt air at North Berwick, too? Or does this print simply appeal to your love of colorful seaside vistas?


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Welcome to Ash Grove RV Park, in rural Harlingen, Texas.
A Full Service RV Park for Adults 55 and Better
Ash Grove RV Park is in a nice residential setting, with larger than usual sites, large shade trees and an average winter temperatures in January at 70 degrees, the coldest time of the year. The Park is 35 miles to South Padre Island, on the Gulf of Mexico, with miles of white sandy beaches and miles of restaurants. We are located 5 to 10 minutes to Wal-Mart, Sears, JC Penny, Big Lots, Target. Kohl’s, Marshall’s and a HEB grocery store, to mention a few. In the same travel time you can be at Logan’s Road House, Olive Garden, House of Pancakes, McDonald’s, several Pizza places and several Mexican restaurants. Being slightly over a mile to the Expressway adds to making this one of the most convenient RV Parks in the Rio Grande Valley.
We are a small park (50 sites) with large sites. Our average site size is 28 feet wide by 43 feet long. Most of our sites are covered by large ash trees, giving it a pastoral appearance. More open sites are also available.
You will find our rates extremely competitive in comparison to other winter parks in the United States and the Rio Grande Valley. It is our intent to provide the best possible value for your money.
The park was formerly known as RV World. The trees and lawns are trimmed. The Recreation Hall, with a new kitchen, has been totally renovated along with laundry room and a handicap accessible shower/restroom. We are continuing to make improvements to the Park. Please be patient with us, we’re sure you’ll find it worth your while.
Please consider staying with us and we will make every effort to make your stay enjoyable.
Tom & Laurie
Owners and Managers
If traveling in East Central Washington state, check this park out: Country Lane Campground & RV Park http://www.countrylanecampground.com Great place to stay when you visit Franklin Roosevelt Lake and the Grand Coulee Dam!!!

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Electric Drum Handler - EDH Series
Performance of EDH Series Electric Drum Handler
- Special design for lifting, rotating or stacking drum.
- Could be operated with hand pump and power for lifting.
- Could be designed with all electric operation including lifting, rotating and driving.
- Suitable for 210 Liters drums.
- Integrated with battery and charger.
- CE and ISO certificates.


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Taggart Associates announces partnership with TRF
Taggart Associates, a Bethlehem-based consulting firm specializing in urban planning and redevelopment, has announced that its partnership with a national leader in financing neighborhood revitalization has brought more than $3 million in loans to local organizations.
The Reinvestment Fund is a nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution specializing in making loans to businesses and other nonprofits that may have difficulty obtaining traditional financing. The company has invested $1.3 billion in mid-Atlantic communities since 1985.
TRF, which has offices in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Jersey City, N.J., targets projects that help build wealth for low-income people and communities.
"As a CDFI, our goal is to support projects that are vital to the community by connecting them to sources of capital and the expertise needed to succeed," said Don Hinkle-Brown, CEO of TRF, in a prepared statement. "As intermediaries of capital, we believe that responsible investing can build incomes, assets and wealth in low-income communities. The Lehigh Valley is one of Pa.'s largest metropolitan regions, and a place where amazing growth is happening. Yet it's also a place where poverty persists, especially in some of the downtowns. That's where we hope TRF can be helpful."
Since mid-2013, TRF and Taggart Associates have been looking for investments that fit their missions. Among the loans awarded: $2.6 million to fund the development of the C-Town grocery store in south Bethlehem and $1 million to support the expansion of Allentown-based AFC First Financial, a company that specializes in helping homeowners make their homes more energy efficient.
"TRF brings a special mission and impressive resources to the Lehigh Valley," says Donna Taggart, CEO of Taggart Associates, in a prepared statement. "I'm excited to be a part of bringing them here and seeing the good they can do. They understand the importance of local background and context when doing community development work."
Lansdale launches redesigned website
The borough of Lansdale recently contracted with Civic Plus to redesigned its website http://www.lansdale.org with new layout, design and structure that reflects the customer-friendly model the borough has adopted and ultimately provides an improved user experience.
The improved website includes a fully functional design with features aimed at making it easier for users to access services and information. The new site is more comprehensive and easier to navigate; but also builds transparency into the borough's business.
Traditions of Hanover receives SeniorAdvisor.com award
Traditions of Hanover Independent Living recently announced the community was presented with a SeniorAdvisor Excellence Award for receiving consistently high ratings from residents and their families in 2013. Only 10 communities in Pennsylvania were honored with the award.
SeniorAdvisor.com is a consumer reviews website established by A Place for Mom (APFM), the nation's largest senior living referral service, as a way for seniors and their families to share feedback on senior-living communities and services. "Traditions of Hanover is proud that our residents and families voted to recognize us as an outstanding Independent Senior Living Community in the Lehigh Valley," said Jennifer Murphy, marketing director. "This award showcases our experience, dedication and commitment to our residents. We look forward to continuing to be the model of excellence for Senior Living. Thank you to all of the families of residents who trust us in caring for their loved ones and thank you for making us one of the top rated!"
Award winners are all over the country and represent the top tier of independent living, assisted living, and Alzheimer's-care communities on the SeniorAdvisor.com website. The designation places winners in the top 1 percent of senior-living communities nationwide according to consumers.
Lehigh Gas Partners recognized for its diversity
Lehigh Gas Partners LP recently announced it has been recognized as a 2020 Women on Boards Winning "W" Company for 2013. Winning companies recognize the importance of board diversity and have 20 percent or more women on their board of directors. Melinda B. German and Maura E. Topper together make up 25 percent of Lehigh Gas Partners' eight-member board.
2020 Women on Boards is a nonprofit national grass-roots campaign committed to increasing the percentage of women who serve on public company boards to 20 percent or greater by the year 2020. Its mission is to educate corporate stakeholders on the importance of board diversity and to use winning companies as examples of good corporate governance.
"The Lehigh Gas Partners LP board of directors is committed to diligent oversight, and a key part of that is board diversity," said LGP Chairman and CEO Joe Topper. "We're pleased to be recognized."


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Subject: I have found a DVD that I think you would enjoy
|Full Metal Panic The Second Raid The Complete Series- Remastered|
Genres: Anime & Manga, Animation
The complete series digitally remastered! It?s tough to keep your grades up without having to take off at a moment?s notice to save the world. But for Sousuke Sagara, undercover high school student and member of the mercen... more »
Digitally Remastered and Packaged in a New Smaller Boxset
ONENEO | Buffalo, NY | 10/02/2009
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Funimation has taken one of its most well respected mecha franchises and decided to give it digital remastering treatment for an upcoming Complete Series box set release.
Coming in at a total runtime of 320 minutes, Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid (TSR) The Complete Series spans 3-discs packaged in a pair of thin packs within a nice cardboard outer slipcase. As with the previous release, the set comes complete with the TSR OVA, Episode 000, 7-part featurette (scouting in Hong Kong), textless songs and a crop of Funimation anime trailers.
Language options are quite thorough with English (Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround or original broadcast Stereo) and Japanese (Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround or original broadcast Stereo) with the option of running English subtitles below either language track choice.
The program wears an appropriate TV 14 rating due to some violent sequences, themes of conflict, and a bit of non-suggestive female (incestual) nudity.
In my opinion the mark of a solid piece of sequel anime is a show's ability to not only present new material but to also seamlessly intertwine it with the plot of the original. Enter Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid (TSR) from anime master workers, Funimation. This gorgeous set represents the proper formula for improving upon the season before it (which just so happens to be the first of the series) without pulling the story off onto an unrelated tangent.
The Second Raid follows the exploits of mercenary soldier Sousuke Sagara who, right from the beginning, does an adequate job of fulfilling his undercover mission as a regular high school student. Unlike the first season, which focused more on the importance of female-lead character Kaname Chidori, this time the viewer is treated to a bit more sympathetic take on the almost child-like innocence of Sousuke. While their hot and cold romance still forms the backbone of the tale, there is no shortage of political motivation or interesting characters to accompany the action.
While Souske resumes his meteoric rise to the title of Sergeant for the paramilitary outfit called Mithril, the major struggle being presented finds Mithril locked in battle with the terrorist group Amalgam. In truth, and despite how well the good guys are presented here, it's tough not to find the bad guys terribly interesting. Among these is a lesbian pair of twin sister assassins, the enigmatic Leonard Testarossa (who just so happens to be the brother of Mithril's own cheery colonel, Teletha) and his extremely wicked robotic enforcers. Last but certainly not least is the lead villain Gates who, quite frankly, captures the concept of full ought insanity in animated form like something American animators can only dream of achieving through The Joker.
And since Full Metal Panic! initially hooked me with its near-flawless use of mecha, it's only proper that I take a moment to recognize the simple truth that TSR not only picks up where the first season left off, it may even supercede the robotic combat at times. Notable here is the ongoing struggle for Souske to make full use of the full abilities of his unit, the Arbalest, and its emotion controlled Lambda Driver. In my opinion the FMP series succeeds where other robot shows fail in both the mobility of the robots (called Arm Slaves or AS' for short) is in their sheer speed and maneuverability. Right from the beginning of the very first episode viewers are treated to an incredible display of AS stealth, speed, and power. It's cinematic showmanship in the purest form and enough to give even diehard anime fans the chills.
Although not entirely essential to the overall plot progression, I should mention that another Arm Slave, the M9 Falke, makes a few appearances that just dazzle with eerie coolness.
The discs themselves contain no shortage of bonus entertainment. The complete 13-episode series is presented across three discs in uncut, digitally remastered glory with dialog coming in the selectable form of English, Japanese or in original broadcast format with English subtitles. While the series itself technically consisted of 13 episodes, Funimation packed both a mini-bonus episode (complete with a scene that had this reviewer actually laughing out loud) and a conclusion OVA full-length episode as well. There is a 7-part featurette entirely in Japanese with English subtitles that does a few interesting things whether they were intentional or not. The first of which is that this section provides an unrivaled look at the Hong Kong lifestyle complete with unlimited comparisons to how life differs there from life in a typical US city. Next it paints the show's creative staff in an entirely different light. I'm guilty of stereotyping anime writers, producers, artists, and directors as moody, withdrawn and slightly disturbed individuals but nothing could be further from the truth with the down-to-earth team responsible for FMP. Finally, anime may be known for an unsurpassed level of detail but never is this reality made clearer than when the viewer is offered a chance to look at the actual Hong Kong locations that inspired the backgrounds of the show. It's downright mind-boggling and a testament to the amount of work that goes into putting a series like this together!
Additionally the set contains a comical little segment in which our creative team takes a trip to a Japanese Self-Defense Force expo for inspiration on the military equipment that appears throughout the series. There are Japanese (English subtitled) commentary tracks across every single episode from several of the show's voice actors and finally the set offer textless versions of the show's theme songs.
The truth is that it is very difficult if not impossible to come away from this presentation without having taken something worth remembering. The anime itself is rich, deep, and oftentimes silly enough to warrant a chuckle but there's something here even for those who wouldn't consider themselves fans of the genre. The creative process and attention to detail is downright awe-inspiring."
TSR left me wanting another season
Andrew R. McLaren | 12/06/2009
(4 out of 5 stars)
"This review assumes you have already watched Full Metal Panic! season one.
The Second Raid (TSR) is characterised by violence and strong language. The enemies are crazier and deadlier, the Arm Slave action better and the Chidori-Sagara relationship cools a little. The upper echelons of Mithril play a strong part in the plot, which is unfortunate because several more seasons would be required to reveal what could be going on there. Tessa's brother plays a teaser role, again unfortunate because he obviously needs a full season on his own.
This season feels like the Empire Strikes Back of a trilogy. Dark, brutal, violent, it is excellent in its own right: but it requires at least another season to follow it.
TSR follows on reasonably directly from FMP season one. The Fumoffu! season can be seen as a comic relief interlude, and fits between the two."

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Instagram got real last night when Chris Brown uploaded a picture of his new hair style which looks very similar to Bay Area's own Adrian Marcel's.
Photo Caption: Taking it back to the 30s! Lol!
Once word got out that Chris is rocking the new 30's look, Adrian took to Instagram how he felt of the new transformation…
Who wore it better?
Written by: Karizma Kysh


Welcome to the soundtrack to your next road trip. In his latest album, Robert Francis embraces “heart-on-sleeve, nostalgia-driven rock & roll” to create a masterful compilation of songs to make your heart feel full. The record features strong guitar, pretty harmonies, lyrics from the heart, and an impeccable mix. An album for the open road. Play!
TRY: 1, 4, 9
RIYL: Ryan Adams, Joe Purdy, Nathaniel Rateliff, Damien Jurado


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UNDERCURRENTS IN GUJARAT People’s Agitation against Forced Acquisition
A STATE obsessed with DEVELOPMENT is challenged by humble farmworkers, pastoralists and fisherfolk. What ensues is terrible repression of democratic rights pitched against peopleâ€™s relentless spirit. This report tries to bring together 3 major movements that rocked Gujarat in modern times. Mainstream Media reporting has been haphazard and at times reluctant.
Gujarat becomes the first state in India to pass the SIR ACT in 2009. Analysts say that this move was to acquire land before the new Land Acquisition Bill came into place. The Government is empowered to declare Investment Region or Industrial Area and designate them as Special Investment Region (SIR) Huge tax rebates for wealthy investors. Labour Laws are made flexible. The Gujarat Irrigation and Drainage Act 2013 says that a farmer cannot install a borewell in his/her fields without government permission.
CONTROVERSIAL SIR ACT
"States like Maharashtra and Haryana are acquiring land from farmers for the SIRs through their consent while here, the Gujarat government is trying to snatch away the farmers' land by force without paying a single rupee. The method of acquiring 40 per cent land compulsorily free of cost is illegal and we will oppose this law.â€œ Sanat Mehta, Former Finance Minister & Farmers Rights Activist "The state government seems to be in a hurry to acquire the land of the farmers to avoid the central move on land acquisition that calls for taking 80 per cent of land for a project through farmers' consent only. The state government cannot use a 150 year old law to snatch the poor people's land. It is an illegal method.â€œ Y K Alagh, Veteran economist and former union minister
CONTROVERSIAL SIR ACT
Mandal â€“ Becharaji SIR #1
May 14, acquisition for the project is declared in local newspapers.
May 30, the Indian Express article ends on a note of government apathy. The trend continues unabated.
June 18, farmers from 44 villages take out a tractor rally from Vithalpur to Gandhinagar amidst heavy police presence against the Mandal Becharaji SIR Government sought to acquire 51,000 hectares of land, including agricultural and pastoral land in and around 44 villages of Ahmedabad, Surendranagar, and Mehsana districts. 700 acres in Hansalpur is already allotted to Maruti Suzuki against the wishes of landowners. The rally was supported by voluntary organisations, Jameen Adhikar Andolan Gujarat and Azad Vikas Sangathan. Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (associate of ruling party) also supported the farmers.
August 15 Police cancels the permission granted for flag hoisting at the last minute to villagers protesting against the Mandal Becharaji SIR but mounting pressure from a collective peopleâ€™s will forces government authorities to relent.
DHOLERA SIR #2
December 18, village Bawaliari. 250 farmers meet to resist another government attempt at land grab (920 square kilometers, 22 villages) in the Dholera region. Mandvipura, a submerged village also included in governmentâ€™s SIR plan. Many such errors found and discussed with those present by Pradyumansinh Chudasama from Bawaliari village Police tries to stop villagers who gathered to share information about the SIR Act December 28, Police denies permission to youths for a motor-cycle rally in the Dholera SIR resistance.
January 4, 2000 farmers attend the Public Hearing organized by Ahmedabad Collector and Gujarat Pollution Control Board. Government officials fail to answer satisfactorily the issues raised by over 2000 villagers. Scheduled to end at 5 PM, the meeting is abruptly called off at 2 PM by the Collector. No conclusions had been reached.
Feb 9, 1000 people from 22 villages gather to register their opposition to the Dholera SIR & to reiterate their demand for Narmada water for irrigation. 100 people arrested In most parts of Gujarat, section 144 remains in force and huge police deployment marks any public gathering as if citizens pose a threat to the nation
The literal meaning of Maldhari is "owner of animal stockâ€œ The Maldhari have been living in the Banni grasslands for nearly 700 years. Most are unable to count or use money
The Maruti Suzuki Company had been given land in village Hansalpur. In 1954, the then government, had allotted this land to the Maldharis, the Dalits and the Thakores of the village who were landless. This land has also been â€˜givenâ€™ away by the government to Maruti Suzuki Co. This was done without taking the affected families into confidence or initiating any talks with them. Moreover the village wasteland had also been given away to Maruti Co. leaving very little grazing land for the Maldharis of the villages, raising a serious issue of their livelihood and sustenance. Cattle-rearing was rendered extremely difficult for them. Hence, under the leadership of JAAG and Azad Vikas Sangathan, the Maldharis decided to undertake a cattle rally from village Hansalpur to Gandhinagar in October 2013 and to hand over their cattle to the government for their care. The police, bowing to their political masters, denied permission for the rally. Earlier also two JAAG leaders Lalji Desai and Sagar Rabari had been taken into custody after a peaceful flag hoisting done by them on 15th August 2013 and were slapped with police cases.
January 18, police lathicharge and arrest protesting Maldharis
Repression continues. Court Hearings are postponed. The Maldharis are considering indefinite hunger strikes to assert their Right to Survival.
Date: March 11; 2014
Hansalpur: Satyagraha for reclaiming the pastureland (gauchar) and agricultural land
The non violent satyagraha of the Maldharis of village Hansalpur (whose land has been allotted to Maruti Suzuki Co. Ltd. by the GoG) is on. About 50 Maldharis, men and women, have been protesting in front of the District Collectorâ€™s office in Ahmedabad since yesterday demanding the return of their lands to them. Yesterday they presented a memorandum to the Collector as well but the Collector was not present to receive it and it was received by the Deputy Collector.
Many prominent civil society leaders like Chunibhai Vaidya, Rajnibhai Dave, Gautam Thakar and Mahesh Pandya also met the agitating Maldharis and extended their support to their struggle. Many farmer leaders of Gujarat also visited them to offer solidarity to their struggle and their support to them.
The Maldharis will continue with their satyagraha tomorrow as well. The matter of the stay order will be decided upon by the Hon. High Court of Gujarat on Thursday, 13 March 2014. Depending on the outcome on Thursday the Maldharis will decide the future course of their programme.
Lalji Desai // Sagar Rabari Jameen Adhikar Aandolan â€“ Gujarat (JAAG)
Jameen Adhikar Andolan â€“ Gujarat (JAAG) A-302, Sharan Residency-1, Near Lohana Chhatralaya, Vasna, Ahmedabad Contact: Lalji Desai 9727589344 Sagar Rabari 9409307693 Date: 12th March 2014 UPDATE Hansalpur: Pastureland (gauchar) and agricultural land allotted to Maruti Suzuki Co. 3 days of dharna come to a close Fast-unto-death to commence from 21 st March 2014 In 1954, the then government, had allotted land (vide survey nos. 1/A/1 block no. 293) admeasuring 83-78-20 ha to the Maldharis, the Dalits and the Thakores of village Hansalpur, Ta. Mandal, Dist. Ahmedabad, who were landless. The same was given for cultivation on a short-term lease. The GoG, on the pretext of giving it to GIDC, then directly sold this land to Maruti Co. Ltd. thus violating the rights of the cultivators/owners. The company was to pay the amount in instalments over 8 years. These owners/cultivators have been fighting against this injustice since 2007, but now the company has started construction of a boundary wall, in protest against which the Maldharis took to the streets in Hansalpur and the police carried out a lathi charge on them. Protesting against this illegal act of construction of the boundary wall the Maldharis brought their agitation to the doorstep of the district Collector and have been sitting on a dharna since the morning of 10th March 2014. This protest ended today at 6 p.m. Their legal suit for a stay order is pending in the High Court and will be heard tomorrow. If the outcome of the court case is not satisfactory and in the absence of a response from the GoG these farmers will go on a fast-untodeath from 21 st March 2014 and will continue to highlight and draw the attention of Gujarat and the rest of India to the anti-farm and anti-people policies of the GoG. Lalji Desai Jameen Adhikar Aandolan â€“ Gujarat (JAAG)
Based on public consent, JAAG has drafted a Charter of Demands.
Jameen Adhikar Andolan – Gujarat (JAAG) CHARTER OF DEMANDS: The situation in Gujarat on the several fronts of livelihoods, land, agriculture, water, common property resources is today more serious than ever before. The reality today in Gujarat is that the big corporate houses are being gifted away large tracts of lands, of their choosing, privately held agricultural lands as well as common property resources of pastureland, wastelands and water bodies. While this is being done, those who are legally entitled to get land from the government, the dalits and the adivasis, are constantly and ruthlessly being denied their due. Prime agricultural land is being diverted to industry and the farmers have no say in deciding their future. The recent stir against the proposed Mandal-Bechraji SIR is one such case of anti-people projects in the garb of ‘development’. It can only bring mass poverty, destruction of whatever is left of rural farming and agriculture and environmental catastrophe. Moreover, the impact of such steps on the lives of women and children in particular – severe malnourishment, adverse health impacts, curtailment of educational opportunities, forced migration, and trafficking – have never been factored into the ‘development’ discourse, keeping them invisible and yet the first victims of ‘development’. All this is happening in the name of so called development. This anti-people understanding of development is leading to ‘jobless growth’ and massive impoverishment, malnourishment and distress suicides. These cannot characterise any society or economy as ‘developed’, but rather would constitute backwardness of the highest order. Indeed, Gujarat’s 11th rank (out of 23) on human development indices is testimony to that. In view of this, we the undersigned, members of civil society and social movements of Gujarat, demand the following: 1. The “Gujarat Special Investment Region Act 2009” is violative of fundamental rights and therefore completely unacceptable to us and should be scrapped altogether. The Gujarat SIR Act 2009 under which the Mandal-Bechraji SIR is being proposed and undertaken does not have any provisions for safeguarding the right to livelihoods, freedom to pursue occupations of their choice or their rights over the common and natural resources of the region like water, forests, pastures and clean air. The Act does not adhere to any fundamental rights, including the right to life and livelihood, their welfare, their rights to safeguard their culture, occupations and ways of life. Constitutionally mandated and elected bodies like the Gram Sabhas and Gram panchayats also do not find the right to represent their grievances. Such legislations would be unconstitutional and undemocratic. Merely the act of the state assembly passing it does not make it constitutionally valid. Hence all actions since the notification of 14/05/2013 are unconstitutional, and to be considered null and void and to be withdrawn forthwith.
2. Stop de-commanding of the Narmada command areas. The people of Gujarat have been promised Narmada dam waters for the last 50 years. The farmers have waited patiently for the Narmada waters, which promise to make agriculture more attractive to farmers. Now when the entire infrastructure which will bring water to the fields is in place, the Government of Gujarat has come with a project which takes away their water and gives it to industry. This is unacceptable to us. We call upon the Government of Gujarat to stop de-commanding of the Narmada command areas with immediate effect. 3. The Gujarat Irrigation and Drainage Act 2013 is a draconian piece of legislation and severely violates fundamental rights and needs to be withdrawn immediately. The Gujarat Irrigation and Drainage Act 2013 is a draconian piece of legislation. According to the Act a farmer cannot install a borewell in his/her fields without government permission. The farmers will now need a licence to draw water from canals and the amount of water that can be drawn by a farmer will be decided by the government. Even the price of water used in the fields for irrigation will be fixed and government officials have been authorised to file cases against farmers who break the law. The farmers will now need to declare the details of wells and ponds in their fields. This would make farming and agriculture, already suffering from anti-farm sector policies, a herculean task and would deter farmers from pursuing agriculture. This ought to be scrapped forthwith. 4. Declare a moratorium on GIDC’s land acquisition. Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC), has a huge land bank, developed over the years through acquisition of land from farmers ostensibly for ‘public purpose’. Much of this land is currently unutilised, as has been pointed out by the CAG reports. Despite this, GIDC has continued to acquire land in several areas. Most often it resorts to veiled threats under which farmers are made to part with their land. These lands are then transferred to industrial houses for SEZs and SIRs which is illegal as it constitutes a change of purpose. GIDC’s data on land ought to be first put in the public domain for scrutiny. Till such time we demand a complete moratorium of GIDC’s land acquisition. 5. The Government of Gujarat needs to come out with an Agriculture Policy. Agriculture as a sector has been neglected and no proactive policy measures, such as are made for industry, have been taken for agriculture. The Government of Gujarat needs to come out with policy measures for promotion and sustenance of agriculture (as against agri-business or agro-industrial policy) as the primary economic sector even today. 6. The Government of Gujarat needs to come out with a comprehensive policy on the use, access to and maintenance of Common Property Resources (CPRs). The Common Property Resources (CPRs) – forests, water bodies, pasture lands, wastelands, coasts, are crucial to the survival and well being of several communities in Gujarat. It provides primary and secondary sources of livelihoods to millions of landless families and communities. These have to be maintained and augmented (quantum and quality) in order for these people to survive. The rights of people over these resources (as against ‘government ownership) should form the bedrock of this policy.
7. The Government of Gujarat needs to unambiguously demonstrate its will to give land to Adivasis and to landless Dalits under the provisions of the Forest Rights Act and Land Ceiling Act respectively. The Government of Gujaratâ€™s anti-people stance is most notably demonstrated in its utmost reluctance to give land to Adivasis and landless Dalits under the provisions of the Forest Rights Act and Land Ceiling Act respectively. Even when it claims on paper to have given the land, the actual possession of the land is never being enjoyed by the Dalits or Adivasis. The state machinery has not intervened on their side to ensure that possession of land actually materialises on the ground. We call upon the Government of Gujarat to take immediate steps to implement these Acts in their right spirit. 8. Declare a moratorium on sale of common property resources. Forests, pasture land (gauchar), wastelands (padtar), sea coasts are common property resources (against the convoluted understanding in government circles that it is of government ownership) on which many marginalised communities subsist, apart from them being absolutely necessary to maintain ecological balance. The coasts, now heavily privatised, are the sole means of subsistence for fisherfolk who depend on them for their livelihoods. The gauchars are especially important to the maldhari community and other nomadic and pastoralist communities whose sole means of livelihood, cattle rearing and breeding, depends on gauchars. We call upon the Government of Gujarat to announce a complete ban on sale of all common property resources. Rather, we urge the government to invest resources to increase the quantum and quality of the common property resources such as forests, coasts and pasture lands. 9. The Government of Gujarat must come out with a White Paper on land acquisitions in Gujarat from 1960 upto 2012. The Government of Gujarat should come out with a white paper on land acquisition, environment impact assessment, social impact assessment and a cost-benefit analysis of industrialisation (jobs created, nature of jobs, incomes earned, infrastructure, usage of this infrastructure ...) in Gujarat since the formation of the state in 1960 up until 2012. 10. All land related information to be put in the public domain The government also needs to bring in transparency in its land dealings with industry and other established sectors. It needs to give out accurate and updated data on land use, land acquired, land leased etc. Transparency is also required in the method of zeroing in on particular parcel/s of land and the method of arriving at pricing and compensation to the land owners/losers. We call upon the Government of Gujarat to take measures to bring all land related information in the public domain. A-302, Sharan Residency-1, Near Lohana Chhatralaya, Vasna, Ahmedabad Date: 8th July 2013
Shri Rajbha Chudasma is a farmer-leader spearheading the farmersâ€™ struggle against the Dholera SIR. On 25th March 2014 there was a minor altercation following a misunderstanding between two or three local communities. Shri Rajbha Chudasma, being a respected leader of the area, intervened in the matter and effected a compromise and the matter was amicably resolved. However, on the morning of 26th March 2014, around 3 a.m. the police arrived at this house and arrested him on false charges and took him to the Dhandhuka Police Station. He has since been kept there.
Jameen Adhikar Andolan â€“ Gujarat (JAAG) A-302, Sharan Residency-1, Near Lohana Chhatralaya, Vasna, Ahmedabad 26th March 2014 INVITATION DSIR: SIR Act hatao, Narmada na neer lavo ! (Remove the SIR Act, bring the Narmada waters) The people of 22 villages falling in the Dholera SIR area have been agitating against the SIR for some time now. They have made detailed representations to various administration officers and agencies as to their demands and objections to the present project. For the last 2 months they have undertaken an intense awareness drive in all the 22 villages of the SIR area and made people aware of the SIR Act and the provisions therein, what the SIR Act mandates and what the administration has been telling them and the situation that many farmers, who gave up their lands, are facing today. They are now planning a massive sammelan in order to show the powers-that-be that they are firm and united in their protest against the SIR. Their demands are: SIR Act hatao, Narmada na neer lavo! (Remove the SIR Act, bring the Narmada waters)
Date: Saturday, 29 th March 2014 Time: 10 a.m. to 12 noon Behind Shree Bhavani Hotel, Bhavnagar Highway, Dholera
We request you all to remain present in large numbers in order to show solidarity with the agitating farmers. Pradhyumansinh Chudasma Rajbha Chudasma 9426454698 9925226217 Jameen Adhikar Aandolan â€“ Gujarat (JAAG)
Sagar Rabari 9409307693
All photographs of Jan, 18 protest, Ruchir Purohit
Issued in Peopleâ€™s Interest by National Alliance for Peopleâ€™s Movements, 6/6 Jungpura B, New Delhi

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Opposition presses for private HOA proceedings to become public
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Twenty-three year old Paris Tassin of New Orleans performed Carrie Underwood’s hit single, “Temporary Home” for her audition last night on American Idol, which brought judge Jennifer Lopez to tears.
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By JENNIFER KAY
As they do whenever they visit Florida, Greg Groff and his young daughter stopped by the manatee pool at Miami Seaquarium, where the speed bump-shaped marine mammals placidly swim in circles.
They noted the pink scars and disfigured tail on one manatee, damage from a boat propeller that left it unable to survive in the wild.
Florida's manatees need even more stringent protections than their listing on the federal endangered species list, Groff said, adding that boaters should go elsewhere if they don't like speed limits in waters where manatees swim.
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