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Colne Engaine ‘Stay and Play’ is a voluntary group run by local families, for local families.
We meet on Wednesdays during term time, 10am-12noon, in the Village Hall.
Every week we set up a different art and craft make and a messy play or sensory activity as well as lots of fun toys and games for babies and toddlers. Anyone between the ages of 0-5 are welcome at Stay and Play, with their carer.
We charge just £2 per family, which includes a drink and snack for children and carers (normally homemade cake!).


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Boris Johnson has criticised the US president Barack Obama and suggested his attitude to Britain might be based on his “part-Kenyan” heritage and “ancestral dislike of the British empire”.In fact, the Churchill story is Johnson's lede:
Writing a column for The Sun newspaper the outgoing Mayor of London recounted a story about a bust of Winston Churchill purportedly being removed from White House.
“Some said it was a snub to Britain. Some said it was a symbol of the part-Kenyan President’s ancestral dislike of the British empire -- of which Churchill had been such a fervent defender,” he wrote.
Something mysterious happened when Barack Obama entered the Oval Office in 2009.Actually, plenty of people could "explain why" the bust "vanished from that room." Here's a fact check Glenn Kessler wrote for The Washington Post early last year, when Ted Cruz brought up the subject:
Something vanished from that room, and no one could quite explain why.
It was a bust of Winston Churchill -- the great British war time leader. It was a fine goggle-eyed object, done by the brilliant sculptor Jacob Epstein, and it had sat there for almost ten years.
But on day one of the Obama administration it was returned, without ceremony, to the British embassy in Washington.
No one was sure whether the President had himself been involved in the decision.
Some said it was a snub to Britain. Some said it was a symbol of the part-Kenyan President’s ancestral dislike of the British empire -- of which Churchill had been such a fervent defender.
The Winston Churchill bust in question was originally provided in July 2001 by then Prime Minister Tony Blair as a loan to President George W. Bush. The bust, now almost 70 years old, was made by English sculptor Sir Jacob Epstein, and Bush said he would keep it in the Oval Office. Various news reports at the time said the bust will be returned once Bush left office.Following along so far? There were two Churchill busts. One was always scheduled to be returned at the end of George W. Bush's term.
The White House residence, meanwhile, has another bust of Churchill, also sculpted by Epstein, which was given to President Lyndon B. Johnson on Oct. 6, 1965, (Here’s Lady Bird Johnson’s diary entry about the gift, which was facilitated by Churchill’s wartime friends, including Averell Harriman.)
It's not completely clear why it was given to Bush in the first place:
In 2012, the Obama White House said the gift in 2001 occurred when the residence bust “was being worked on at the time” but The Fact Checker did not find a reference to that in news reports. Still, at the news conference accepting the gift, Bush told reporters it came about because he lamented to the British ambassador that “that there was not a proper bust of Winston Churchill for me to put in the Oval Office.” So one could wonder why the president would say that when he already had virtually the same bust sitting in the residence.In any case, the bust given to President Johnson remains in the White House. Here's a photo of President Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron -- Johnson's fellow Tory and political frenemy -- examining the bust in July 2010:
But what's up with that bit in Johnson's op-ed about "the part-Kenyan President’s ancestral dislike of the British empire"? Is Johnson channeling Newt Gingrich and Dinesh D'Souza?
Probably not. In fact, it's likely that this idea originated with the British. Here's a Telegraph story about the return of the Bush-Blair Churchill bust, written when Obama had been in office less than a month:
Churchill has less happy connotations for Mr Obama than those American politicians who celebrate his wartime leadership. It was during Churchill's second premiership that Britain suppressed Kenya's Mau Mau rebellion. Among Kenyans allegedly tortured by the colonial regime included one Hussein Onyango Obama, the President's grandfather.In a 2010 New Republic article, James Mann stated flatly that this was a British idea:
... the idea started with the British, those former colonialists, who have repeatedly invoked Kenya to explain every perceived slight from the Obama administration.The reference to the Mau Mau is particularly absurd, according to David Anderson, an Oxford professor and author of Histories of the Hanged: Britain’s Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire.
... I first ran across the Kenya paranoia a few weeks after Obama was sworn in. Gordon Brown, then the British prime minister, was coming to Washington, and a British television reporter asked to interview me about Obama’s views of the world. “He has different roots than all other presidents,” the reporter said. “He doesn’t have ties to Europe.”
... “Revealed: Why Obama Loathes the British” screamed one article in the Daily Mail a few months ago. The article rehashed the history of British colonials and the Mau Mau rebellion.
... You can’t get more exalted than Sir David Manning, who was Britain’s ambassador to Washington from 2003 to 2007. Yet earlier this year, in testimony to a House of Commons foreign affairs committee, he reached low by warning that Obama “comes with a very different perspective” from other presidents.
“He is an American who grew up in Hawaii, whose foreign experience was of Indonesia, and who had a Kenyan father,” Manning said. “We now have a Democrat who is not familiar with us.”
To portray the Obama family as being part of Mau Mau is stir-fry crazy. Let me explain why: The Obama family come from western Kenya, which is about as different from Nairobi and the Kikuyu area as Utah is from New York City. And it’s almost as far way. They come from an area where there was no rebellion, there was no Mau Mau. So while his father and his grandmother may well have been nationalists -- I’m sure they were -- they weren’t directly involved in the Mau Mau rebellion.James Mann notes that the Daily Mail story (“Revealed: Why Obama Loathes the British”) actually raised the question of whether Obama's anger at the BP oil spill was the result of familial contempt for the British -- as if a massive oil spill isn't reason enough for anger. A Kenyan relative of the president was actually asked about this. She assured the Mail interviewer that Anglophobia wasn't the source of Obama's anger. The quote was buried near the end of the story.
The other thing is, if you’ve read anything about Churchill, you’d know that, although he was the head of the government at the time of the Mau Mau rebellion, he was trying as best he could to get the British in Kenya to negotiate and to end the fighting. Churchill was not supporting or condoning the violence. He is actually one of the few British politicians who comes out of this smelling of roses.
So, no, Johnson is unlikely to be echoing American bigots. He's far more likely to be echoing British bigots.

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- Greatest aviation mystery: MH370 hunt ends with no plane, few answers
The Joint Agency Coordination Center in Australia, which has helped lead the $160 million hunt for the Boeing 777 in remote waters west of Australia, said the search had officially been suspended after crews finished their fruitless sweep of the 120,000-square kilometer search zone.
- Centre approves new Ganga cleaning projects at a cost of over Rs 370 crore
The Centre has approved new projects at an indicative cost of over Rs 370 crore for its ongoing Ganga rejuvenation programme in Haridwar and Varanasi and decided to include six more cities\towns under surface cleaning exercise of the river using trash skimmers.
- MH 370
The MH-370, a Boeing 777-200 aircraft carrying 239 people, lost contact with air traffic control over the South China Sea on March 8, 2014. It was on its way to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, when it crashed. The governments of Australia, Malaysia and China, the three countries to which most of the passengers belonged, have been on the lookout for the missing aircraft since it vanished. With no information on the reason why it crashed till date, it remains one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries. Till now, total of twenty pieces of debris from the Malaysian Airlines' jet have now been discovered in various spots around the Indian Ocean, including a wing-flap of the plane in Tanzania. There has been couple of theories behind the reason of the crash. From a suicide plot by Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah to no one at controls when it crashed. As of December 20, 2016, the three countries involved in the search have decided that $160 million search will be suspended once the current effort is exhausted unless new evidence pinpoints the plane's exact location.
- Relatives of missing Flight MH370 passengers 'taking search into own hands'
Relatives of those aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 said on Saturday they were taking the search for the plane into their own hands to try to push governments to expand the search area along the east African coast. Flight MH370, carrying 239 passengers and crew, disappeared on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014, sparking a search in the southern Indian Ocean that entered its 1,000 day on Saturday. Members of Voice 370, an MH370 next-of-kin support group, were speaking ahead of a trip to Madagascar, where they hoped to scour the country's beaches for debris. Spokeswoman Grace Subathirai Nathan said she hoped the trip would help spur the Malaysian, Chinese and Australian governments to collect debris along the continental coast where parts from the aircraft had been found. "After repeated attempts, and repeated requests for a mobilization of a search along the coastline, nothing has been done to date," she told reporters at Kuala Lumpur airport. "So it has fallen into our hands to take this search upon ourselves." Nathan, whose mother was on the plane, was among four Malaysians, two Chinese nationals and a Frenchman who left for Madagascar on Saturday to hunt for debris and raise awareness of the plane among local communities and organizations. Three pieces of debris found on the beaches of Mauritius, Tanzania and the French island of Reunion, have been confirmed to be from MH370. Investigators are examining several other pieces found in Mozambique and South Africa. The search is expected to be suspended by the end of the year, when an Australian-led team completes its scouring of a 120,000-sq-km target area. "We want the world to know that just because the search is about to end, that doesn't mean to us that the search is ending," Nathan said. "There is still a lot at stake."
- Supreme Court to examine inviolability of Article 370
A bench of Justices S A Bobde and Ashok Bhushan agreed to take up this issue for scrutiny nearly a year after entertaining an appeal challenging a J&K high court judgment striking down reservation in promotion to SC/ST employees of the state government.
- Ranji Trophy: Dhawan looks good as Delhi score 37/0 after Rajasthan's 238
Back from injury break, Shikhar Dhawan looked in fluent touch as he hit six crisp boundaries in his unbeaten 29 with Delhi finishing the first day's play at 37 for no loss against Rajasthan in a Ranji Trophy group B encounter on Monday.
- KCR keeps vow, to offer golden crown worth Rs 3.70 crore to goddess
Rao, who had a look at the crown last night, would present it to the Goddess on the behalf of the state government on October 9 on the occasion of Devi Navarathri. He had made different vows during separate statehood agitation for the fulfilment of the goal.
- Malaysia says debris found in Mauritius is from MH370
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia said on Friday that a piece of plane debris discovered in Mauritius was from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared in March 2014 with 239 passengers and crew on board. The Boeing 777 disappeared on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, sparking a two-year search has turned up few leads. Analysis by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau had found that the debris was consistent with the trailing edge of an aircraft wing, Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said in a statement. Two pieces of plane debris were previously confirmed as being from the missing jet. The first was recovered from the French island of Reunion in July 2015, while the second was found on the island of Pemba, off the coast of Tanzania.
- MH370 wreckage hunter won't give up until mystery solved
CANBERRA, Australia: The fedora, the bomber jacket and the consuming quest invite comparisons to Indiana Jones. Blaine Gibson, though, hasn't matched the film hero's triumph in finding the legendary chest containing the stone tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments. Not that he didn't try. "The Ark of the Covenant, I did not find it. However, I do believe that it's in Ethiopia somewhere," Gibson told AP recently. The amateur sleuth has had far greater success finding clues from a modern mystery: the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. He is the first person searching for the plane who's actually found any trace of it and says he won't quit gathering clues until the mystery is solved. "Travel is what I do, but I always love travel with a purpose, and solving the mystery of Malaysia 370 is a purpose ... until I or someone else finds out what happened to the plane and those on board," he said while in the Australian capital of Canberra to visit the headquarters for the official plane search. The Boeing 777 carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members is thought to have plunged into the southern Indian Ocean after inexplicably flying far off course during a flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing, on March 8, 2014. The first reports that Gibson had found a possible part of the plane met with skepticism. Other pieces of suspected debris have been stumbled upon by chance. But how could one private citizen succeed in finding a piece of the plane where a multi-government, multimillion-dollar search had failed? Answer: There is no official search being conducted, beyond that of the 120,000 square kilometers (46,000 square miles) of seabed southwest of Australia calculated to be the crash site. But the triangular panel stenciled "no step" that Gibson found on Feb. 27 has been confirmed as almost certainly a horizontal stabilizer from a Flight 370 wing. Gibson said he found himself in Mozambique partly because oceanographers had told him that debris might wash up on its beaches and partly because he had never visited the country. (The 58-year-old born in California has been to 177 countries in a quest to visit them all). Getting to know relatives of the missing has ended any chance of him conceding defeat in his search. "It was good management, but it was also a lot of luck," Gibson said. "What you don't see before that were the number of beaches that I combed in Reunion, in Mauritius in other parts of the world and found nothing." Gibson has since recovered another 13 pieces of potential debris in Madagascar, with the help of locals he has befriended who now search for him. He and victims' relatives have been frustrated by Malaysia's hesitance to collect the debris and potential personal effects and analyze them for clues. Gibson hand-delivered five pieces of debris on Sept. 12 when he and relatives of Flight 370 victims met in Canberra with officials of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, which is conducting the deep-sea sonar search on Malaysia's behalf. Warren Truss, a former deputy prime minister who oversaw the search until retiring from politics in February, expects more of Gibson's finds will be confirmed. "He has certainly made a constructive contribution to the search," said Truss. Australian oceanographer David Griffin, one of two Gibson credits with pointing him the right direction, found the American to be frustrated that search responsibilities fell between cracks of coordinating agencies. "He sees that one man can just go and get on with the job. I think it's terrific that somebody who has the ability and resources to do that just gets on with it," Griffin said. Gibson has also been a volunteer archaeologist in Belize and Guatemala investigating the fate of the Mayan civilization. His old friend Peter Davenport said he was not surprised that the adventurer would immerse himself so completely in the aviation mystery. Davenport, who is director of the National UFO Reporting Center based in Washington state, said he once got Gibson interested in the Tunguska event: a large explosion near the Stony Tunguska River in Siberia that flattened a vast area of forest in 1908. "Next thing I know, he's there trying to befriend people who knew something about it and trying to get to the heart of the mystery, which is still a mystery in my opinion. It was not a meteor, clearly," Davenport said. (Gibson concludes the explosion was caused by a meteor that vaporized in the atmosphere). Davenport said his friend of more than two decades had the capability to solve mysteries as well as the desire. "He is very engaging, he gets along with people very well, he's non-confrontational, I would say, and these are all qualities that I think evoke in people a desire to work with him and to help him," Davenport said. Gibson said he has always worked to fund travel and selling his deceased parents' home in Carmel, California, for more than $1 million in 2014 will keep him in the hunt for Flight 370. But he and victims' families wish governments would coordinate efforts to collect debris washing up on the western shores of the Indian Ocean. Studying the debris could explain the crash and drift modeling could better indicate where the main wreckage lies. The underwater search is due to end around December if it finds nothing or fresh clues fail to pinpoint a crash site. Gibson is not sure where he will search next, but the Seychelles and Comoros Islands are options unexplored. He did not have a preferred theory of what happened, and warned against the public accepting a popular theory that Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah stole the plane. "People jump to that conclusion simply because there's no other explanation, it's easy to pin it on the pilot who is not around to defend himself, write the mystery off and the search off forever: that is not acceptable," he said. He said the missing plane was a world problem that more nations needed to work to solve. "We need to know that if we get on a plane, we're not just going to disappear," he added.
- 'Burnt' debris can suggest MH370 plane suffered fire damage
The five pieces of the debris discovered by American independent investigator Blaine Gibson were handed over to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) in Canberra on Monday, over two-and-a-half years after the plane carrying 239 people, including five Indians, disappeared.
- Likely MH370 debris with burn marks handed over to investigators
CANBERRA: An American amateur investigator handed possible debris from missing flight MH370 to Australian officials today and said several pieces were blackened by flames, raising the prospect of a flash fire onboard. Mystery has surrounded the fate of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 since it disappeared on March 8, 2014, carrying 239 passengers and crew on a routine flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The Boeing 777 is believed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean after inexplicably veering off course, but its final resting place has not been found despite an intense underwater search off Australia's far west coast. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), which is coordinating the search, said Blaine Gibson had handed over unspecified debris today. "We are seeking advice from the Malaysian authorities regarding how they would like to proceed," an ATSB spokesman told AFP. Gibson told local reporters the debris which had washed up in Madagascar included what appeared to be an internal panel and he had brought the pieces to Australia for forensic investigation. "The top layer of paint has been singed, scorched black," he told Channel 7 of one piece. "It also shows some signs of melting... as you see when something is exposed to fire. "It appears to be from the interior of the plane but not the main cabin, perhaps the cargo hold, perhaps the avionics bay." Gibson, a lawyer from Seattle, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that the pieces could be a "real game changer" if they were found to belong to MH370. "One of the theories is that there was a fire on the plane," he said, adding that there was as yet no evidence to support this theory. The debris was handed over as eight relatives of those onboard the flight had a private visit with ATSB officials. The relatives from China, Malaysia and Indonesia had earlier been shown around one of the search vessels in Western Australia. Canberra has been leading the massive search for MH370 within the 120,000-square-kilometre (46,000-square-mile) search zone set to be fully scoured by December. But the underwater hunt has so far failed to find a single piece of debris from the plane, fuelling speculation that the crash site may be outside the current search zone. The zone was defined under the "most likely" scenario that no one was at the controls as the plane ran out of fuel.
- Relatives of Flight 370 victims to meet Australian searchers
Relatives of some of the 239 passengers and crew lost in the missing Malaysia airliner will fly to Australia on Tuesday in a quest to better understand developments in the search for wreckage and to find some closure more than two years after the tragedy, the daughter of a missing passenger said.
- Rajasthan's Rs 370 crore health insurance scheme comes with many riders
JAIPUR: Government officials and those working with the Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA) met on Friday at the State Institute for Health and Family Welfare to understand how best to expand use of the Bhamashah Swasthya Bima Yojna (BSBY). BL Kothari, CEO, state health assurance agency and MP Jain, who serves as state nodal officer for BSBY, interacted with people from across the state working to bring poor people under the protective umbrella of this scheme. The scheme is aimed at allowing even poor patients access to treatment at private hospitals. It makes for, under ideal circumstances, cashless treatment for the poor as the hospital would be paid by the insurer. There is a cap of Rs30,000 per year for treatment of minor illnesses per family – the family is the unit under Bhamashah. For major illnesses, the scheme covers expenses up to Rs3 lakh per year, twice that offered under such a scheme in Tamil Nadu. To avail of the scheme, Kothari explained that it was not enough to have a Bhamashah card that anyone can apply for. The card must be seeded to the National Food Security Scheme. And one must bear in mind that there is a list of over 1,700 ‘packages’ that are available under the scheme. Some of these are offered only in government hospitals. And one must also be wise enough to discover which private hospital in one’s area is empanelled for the scheme, and which offers the package that one might require. Poor patients are expected to have at their command quite a bit of information. What is more, at the moment of illness, one must remain mindful and carry along the card to hospital. The scheme is applicable only to in-patient treatment. And those admitted must produce the card – or at least remember the number and produce it -- in 48 hours of admission or forego the insurance cover, Jain explained. Chhaya Pachauli of NGO Prayas wondered if a poor patient with inadequate knowledge may not be left moving from one hospital to another, denied treatment for not having the appropriate ‘package’. This could cause delay in treatment. Hari Prasad Yogi from Sawai Madhopur, who works in the area of consumer rights protection, said he had filed an RTI application to discover that lakhs of rupees under the scheme was spent on information dissemination. “Would it not be simpler to just put up boards in the hospitals advertising that it is empanelled on the scheme and listing the packages offered? I could not make out how that money spent on the IEC (information, education, communication) head had been utilized, there was no trace of anything,” he said. Kothari explained that IEC expenses do not always leave behind lasting traces – a street play might have been held, or pamphlets distributed, and these would all be part of IEC. Yogi also brought up an instance of a man approaching the consumer protection court, seeking justice for alleged medical negligence. Since he had used the Bhamashah mode, the court refused to entertain him – he had not paid for the services, and was therefore not, in the strict sense, a “consumer”. Government officials counseled patience, saying the scheme was a new one. Rajasthan government signed the MoU with New India Assurance Company in September last year. The scheme, estimated to cover about 67% of the state’s population, was rolled out in December 2015. Five hundred and sixty eight private hospitals are now empanelled on the scheme, on which the state government will spend Rs370 crores each year. One participant at Friday’s meeting, unwilling to be quoted, wondered if that Rs370 crore per year would not have been better spent directly on strengthening state government hospitals.
- MH370 plunged into ocean at high speed: Report
MH370 plunged into the ocean at high speed — up to 20,000 feet a minute — reinforcing analysis that the missing Malaysia Airlines jet crashed in the current search zone, a report said on Tuesday. The Boeing 777 disappeared on March 8, 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people onboard.
- Malaysia confirms MH-370 course was on pilot's simulator
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia acknowledged for the first time that one of the pilots of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 had plotted a course on his home flight simulator to the southern Indian Ocean, where the missing jet is believed to have crashed. Australian officials overseeing the search for the plane last month said data recovered from Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah's simulator included a flight path to the southern Indian Ocean. Malaysian officials at the time refused to confirm the findings. Yesterday, Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai told local journalists that the flight path was found on the simulator. He also cautioned there were "thousands" of destinations on the simulator and no evidence that Zaharie flew the plane in that area or deliberately crashed it. A recording of the news conference was made available to The Associated Press today. New York Magazine reported last month that an FBI analysis of the device showed Zaharie had conducted a simulated flight to the southern Indian Ocean less than a month before the plane vanished along a similar route. The magazine cited the discovery as strong evidence that the disappearance was a premeditated act of mass murder-suicide at the hands of the captain. "Until today, this theory is still under investigation. There is no evidence to prove that Captain Zaharie flew the plane into the southern Indian Ocean," Liow said. "Yes, there is the simulator but the (route) was one of thousands to many parts of the world. We cannot just base on that to confirm (he did it)." Liow didn't say when the Indian Ocean path was flown on the simulator. He stressed that international experts and Australian officials have agreed that the most likely scenario was "uncontrolled ditching" of the plane. Australia's Joint Agency Coordination Center which is overseeing the search for the plane off Australia's west coast has also said that evidence of the route did not prove that Zaharie had planned to steer the plane off course and showed only "the possibility of planning" for such an event. Malaysia's national police chief Khalid Abu Bakar has said investigations will not be conclusive until the black boxes the cockpit voice recorder and a data recorder are recovered. He did not rule out a pilot suicide. Officials have been stymied in their efforts to explain why the Boeing 777 carrying 239 people veered so far off course during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014. Theories have ranged from a deliberate murder-suicide plot by one of the pilots, to a hijacking, to a mechanical catastrophe. Similarly, search crews have been unable to find the main wreckage of the plane despite a sweeping underwater hunt of a remote stretch of ocean off Australia's west coast. Last month, officials from Malaysia, Australia and China announced that the underwater search will be suspended once the current search area has been completely scoured. Crews have fewer than 10,000 square kilometres left to scan of the 120,000-square-kilometres search area, and should finish their sweep of the region by the end of the year.
- Once 370 acres, Ghata lake is now 2 acres
Gurgaon: Just two hours of rainfall causing mammoth traffic jam and waterlogging across Gurgaon was not a surprise, it was actually anticipated for quite some time as rapid urbanisation in the past decade has destroyed several waterbodies, lakes and natural drains in the city, which once used to store rainwater and recharge groundwater. The most prominent victim of this blind urbanisation is the Ghata lake and dam. Once spread across 370 acres, the lake has been now reduced to just around two acres — due to which rainwater that used to get collected in the catchment area of this dam now flows over to areas like Golf Course Road, causing waterlogging. Till two decades back, it used to be one of the biggest waterbodies in Gurgaon, but it has now become a concrete jungle. Not to mention that Huda has marked the catchment area and the lake bed as Sector 58 in its Master Plan-2021 and today several residential apartments have mushroomed in the locality. However, Ghata lake is just one microcosm of what happened in Gurgaon. As per a recent report, Gurgaon had 388 water bodies, out of which only a handful like Basai lake, Sultanpur lake and Dumdama lake are left. Moreover, most of the interlinking natural water channels in the city have either been encroached upon, acquired by builders, or have become dumping grounds for sewage, silt and construction waste. Irony is that the state government is even aware of this situation and its dangerous impact on the city. The forest department, in its inspection report of May 2016, had raised an alarm — ‘Nothing but a disaster waiting to happen in the event of heavy rain’. The forest department had carried out inspection of the old Ghata bundh and the drainage channels and it revealed that most of the upstream area and the lake bed have been urbanised. “The entire lake bed has been levelled by colonisers and the natural drain coming down from Behrampur and Balola in the Aravalis has been reduced to just a few metres width. This is highly inimical to the hydrology of the area and such natural lakes should have been preserved. Similar is the case with the downstream side of the natural drain that has been filled with construction and demolition waste and reduced to a few metres width only,” the report said. The natural lake and bundh use to have enough water till a decade back, say villagers. But due to the vested interest, the state government gave licence to realtors and they have turned this beautiful area into a concrete jungle. “Now the entire city is paying for this sin. Instead of preserving this waterbody, which could have help in mitigating the dual problem of Gurgaon — depleting groundwater and waterlogging, it was destroyed,” said Suresh Yadav, a resident of Ghata. Ramesh Vashisht (70), a resident of Jharsa, said the British had constructed this dam as rainwater harvesting system to retain water and divert excess water towards Najafgarh drain. The last time the lake was completely filled with rainwater was in 2003. Conservator of forests (south circle) MD Sinha told TOI that till the 80s and 90s when gates of the dam were opened, water use to flow non-stop for around 10-15 days like a river. “Just imagine the amount of water it used to retain in those days, now all these water flow on the road,” he added. Pointing out the root cause of all the problem, retired chief town planner of Haryana, Raj Vir Singh, said instead of conservation of natural water bodies, which could have acted as natural sponge of rainfall and help discharge excess run-off to the Yamuna, the Master Plan marked this area for urbanisation opening this for realtors. “In the last two development plans (master plans 2021 and 2031) of Gurgaon, water channels and ponds were not preserved but thrown open for construction. After complete development of Gurgaon, around 65% area would be concretised,” he added.
- Australia: MH370 captain's simulator had Indian Ocean route
Australian officials confirmed on Thursday that data recovered from a home flight simulator owned by the captain of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 showed that someone had used the device to plot a course to the southern Indian Ocean, where the missing jet is believed to have crashed.


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This is wicked cool graphic, perfect for the day before NFP.
Note the areas in blue — these are the local municipalities that can afford higher minimum wage; the deep red orange are likely going to have difficulty affording big increases.
There is a chicken & egg aspect to this, as wealthier areas (shown by color) can afford higher minimums but simultaneously have much higher costs structures to live in those areas.
Click for the Tableau chart.
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Central Railways, Indian Railways, Govt. of India.
In latest job notification, the Central Railways, Mumbai announces job vacancies for Railway Retired Staff for various posts at Headquarter’s Accounts Offices, Central Railway, in reference to Notification No. AC/Admn/Re-engagement of Retired Staff/2018 to fill 23 vacancies on temporary basis.
Under Central Railways Retired Staff Recruitment 2018, candidates who are Railway Retired Staff are required to apply.
The selected applicant will be recruited for a period of up to 01/12/2019 on a temporary basis and will receive a salary as per guidelines.
An Interested and qualified person has to apply through offline mode by 14.09.2018.
Eligibility Criteria For Central Railways 2018 Retired Personnel Posts:
No. Of Vacancies: 23.
Name of the post:
Sr. SO : 10
Sr. TIA : 06
Sr. ISA : 02
ASV : 05
Candidate maximum age limit should be 65 years.
Should be Railway Retired Staff.
Steps to apply for the post:
- A Candidate has to logon to http://www.cr.indianrailways.gov.in/index.jsp.
- Select relevant job notification “Reengagement of Retired staff on Monthly remuneration basis in exigencies of services in Headquarter’s Accounts Offices, Central Railway”.
- Read complete job details.
- Fill the application form in prescribed format, through offline mode.
- And send details to “HQ Admn Section of. PFA’s Office, Mumbai CSMT”.
Last date for submission of application: on or before 14.09.2018.


Crown Advocate Simon Thomas, prosecuting, and Advocate James Bell, defending, both delivered their closing statements in the Royal Court yesterday. Commissioner Sir William Bailhache was then due to begin summing up before the jury can begin their deliberation.
Jamie Lee Warn (57) is accused of murdering 37-year-old Zsuzsanna Besenyei in 2018 and later disposing of her body at Le Pulec Bay, colloquially known as Stinky Bay. He denies one count of murder and two counts of perverting the course of justice.
Closing the prosecution case, Crown Advocate Thomas said all the evidence pointed to Mr Warn.
He said: ‘If you conclude that he was there [at Stinky Bay] it follows that he knew where her body was and what had happened to it.’
Mr Thomas also alleged that when Mr Warn phoned the police, he did so claiming that he had ‘just found out’ that Miss Besenyei was missing.
He also told the court that Mr Warn had attempted to cover his tracks, adding: ‘Someone doesn’t act in that way unless he is covering something up. The fact is that he had murdered his secret lover.
‘You can’t decide this case by compartmentalising the evidence. It’s essential you stand back and look at the evidence as a whole. Look at the different evidence in chronological order and put the evidence in a timeline. The starting point we know is that the defendant and Miss Besenyei had known each other for some time. By 2018 there was a sexual aspect to their relationship. Why else would someone send them intimate pictures of themselves? The days prior to the murder, money was an issue between them.
‘He [Mr Warn] was calm, collected, measured. There was no panic on his part at all. This wasn’t a moment of madness.’
Advocate Bell questioned whether someone had killed Ms Besenyei or whether her death had been accidental or had another explanation.
He told the court that the neck injury Miss Besenyei had sustained could be consistent with a sexual act. He pointed to her having been on dating sites, sexting or sending sexual messages and to that fact that some sex toys had been found at her home. Advocate Bell stated that Miss Besenyei had not complained about the injury in any of her messages, which could mean that it was self-inflicted or caused during sexual activity.
He said: ‘It leaves open the possibility that serious injury can be caused by sexual activity when no harm was intended. In fact, the intention would be pleasure.’
He questioned where the evidence was of the mechanics that caused her death, asking: ‘Can natural causes be excluded? Was there significant injury not consistent with a prolonged altercation? Was there a clear crime scene? There is no evidence he would want to harm her. There are no messages to suggest he was aggressive or violent.’
Mr Warn denies the charges and the trial continues.


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Dan Halsted's Grindhouse Film Festival brings out the big guns next Tuesday, March 27th with a 35mm presentation of Italian-horror maestro Lucio Fulci's Gates of Hell (aka City of the Living Dead).
Gates of Hell's got more than its share of memorably macabre sequences, including a séance powerful enough to kill (or so it seems), a live burial, an army of maggots on the attack, and, perhaps most famously, an encounter between a drill bit and one man's skull. And, lest we forget, the dead are returning, thanks to some kinda hoodoo-voodoo involving a priest, suicide and the gates of hell.
Here's what to expect, courtesy of Grindhouse Film Festival's press release:
GATES OF HELL (1980) A surreal Italian gutmuncher from gore-maestro Lucio Fulci! A priest commits suicide and unwittingly opens the gateway to hell. The rotting dead rise from their graves to feed on the living in gruesome fashion, while a psychic and a journalist attempt to stop the rancid carnage. This is Lucio Fulci at his finest, so prepare yourself for zombie killing, head drilling, intestine spilling mayhem! Powered by Fabio Frizzi's creepy soundtrack and top notch special effects.
35mm horror trailers before the movie.
Grindhouse Film Festival presents Vigilante (1983)
Gates of Hell will screen at the Hollywood Theatre for one night only: Tuesday, March 27th at 7:30pm. Advanced tix + more info available here.

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Forgiveness Luncheon 2018
Current Nashville Mayor David Briley, CoreCivic CEO Damon Hininger, and Sheriff Daron Hall were joined by more than 650 guests at the Renaissance Hotel to celebrate Dismas at our annual Forgiveness Luncheon on May 24, 2018.
An event-record $201,000 was raised in support of programming and operations this year. Newschannel 5's Adam Hammond emceed the event. The highlight of this years luncheon was the testimony of former resident, Charles Black.


We’re living in the middle of a global pandemic. A virus that has no known cure and is unresponsive to antibiotics has changed our lives. The whole world has basically put its shutters down and as human beings, we have one (very small) moral responsibility – practice social distancing. The only thing that can curb the virus from spreading and infecting more people. And how do you do that? By staying away from each other!
Maharashtra is one of the worst affected states in India and that definitely has something to do with the sheer number of people living in small, very closely connected spaces. Out of the 107,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in India, 35,058 are in Maharashtra alone. And if those numbers say (scream) something it is that we need to stay home, stay safe and AWAY from one another.
Lockdown 4.0 brought with it a few relaxations, especially for non-containment areas. Maharashtra, however, still remains a hotspot and well within the red zone. With all of this going on in the state, an upscale housing society by the name of Kukreja Palace in Ghatkopar East decides to have a samosa party!
Police have booked the members of the #KukrejaPalace for organising the #musical & #Samosa party.0— Pratish Deepak.Shah 🇮🇳 (@Prateesh_Shah) May 19, 2020
The police have arrested the #chairman and a #member of the society.
Surprisingly #BJP #EX #MLA #PrakashMehta stays in this society@ParagShahBJP@chheda_pravin pic.twitter.com/iSHQaqRrfB
According to social distancing norms, a gathering of five or more people is still prohibited. However, the members of Kukreja Palace seem to be living under some sort of a rock? In pictures shared on the internet, one can clearly see that there are at least 30-35 people, two of whom are playing musical instruments and another person distributing samosas.
Please notice, no face masks, gloves or any protective gear was worn by any of these people. All this after we’ve read that the virus has mutated into a stronger, more deadly strain and that it can even spread through speech!
After photos of this (stupid-ignorant-reckless) celebration went viral on social media, two members of the society including the chairman were arrested. According to Tweeple, an ex BJP MLA by the name of Prakash Mehta also lives in the same society.
Members of a housing society in Pant Nagar Area of Ghatkopar were booked for violating lockdown norms by organising a 'samosa party'. Chairman of the housing society & organiser of the party were arrested & released on bail. Further probe is underway: Mumbai Police pic.twitter.com/vqhceKL0Ws0— ANI (@ANI) May 19, 2020
We sincerely hope that people all over the country take social distancing norms more seriously. The virus is still claiming thousands of lives every single day, we don’t have anything to celebrate yet. Please don’t take lockdown 4.0 as a free pass to party with your friends or host large gatherings!
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Lauren Goodger has hinted that she’s back with her ex-boyfriend, Jake McLean, after having to deny that she’s spent her holiday in Dubai, while her ex-fiancé, Mark Wright, enjoying his honeymoon there.
Earlier this week, The Goodge uploaded a photo to her Instagram page, along with the caption: “Dubai my holidays”, prompting some to speculate she’d flown out there for a holiday, while her ex was holidaying with new wife, Michelle Keegan.
Following this, Mark fired off a string of angry tweets about Lauren, calling her “embarrassing” and pleading with her to stop mentioning him in the media.
Lauren later released a statement, claiming she only mentions Mark in her magazine column when she wants to clear up untrue rumours, and had “been privately in a relationship” of her own as of late.
A representative for the former ‘The Only Way Is Essex’ cast member has now insisted that she was only staying in Dubai for the day, and had actually been spent the rest of her holiday in Abu Dhabi.
Her spokesperson told MailOnline: “Lauren is in fact on holiday in Abu Dhabi and not Dubai. She popped over to Dubai yesterday for dinner with friends that live there.”
What’s more, Lauren later uploaded another photo to her Instagram page hinting that the identity of her mystery suitor was her ex, Jake McLean.
Although she never mentioned Jake by name in her post, fans of The Goodge recognised his distinct sleeve tattoo, and speculated her new beau might be her ex.
Lauren and Jake previously split up at the end of 2013, and during her time in the ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ the following summer, she tearfully admitted during an emotional discussion that she still had feelings for him, confessing: “I try to convince myself that I’m over him but I’m not.”


Finally, I got to dive in local waters! Followed the Hantu Blog's monthly dive last Sunday (22 Feb 2009).
Visibility was quite bad, but the diversity of marine life we was was still quite amazing! During my second dive, at one point I actually lost sight of CH, who's my buddy for the trip, when she was like just a body length away. Haha. Luckily after swimming forward a little bit, she came back into sight again :P
Anyway, here's just a quick listing of some of the things we saw:
There were lots of sponges, including many of these huge barrel sponges (Xestospongia sp.). This huge sponge was often mistaken as the Neptune's cup sponge (Poterion patera) which was described from Singapore in 1822, almost 200 years ago. The real Neptune's cup sponge was once believed to be extinct until recently, when it was rediscovered in Australian waters.
Due to the low light-penetration, there were lots of cave corals (Tubastrea spp.) in various colours.
There were lots of sea fans too!
Despite the low light condition, there were several colonies of hard corals, and I especially like this little colony of anemone coral (Goniopora sp.).
Other hard corals encountered include this Diploastrea sp.
And this Pachyseris sp.
Saw quite a few flatworms, but only managed to get a decent shot of this one, probably a Pseudobiceros sp.
Except for the numerous feather stars, I didn't spot any other echinoderms.
But there were lots and lots of slugs! The blue dragon nudibranch (Pteraeolidia ianthina) was the common, and I lost count of the number I saw.
There were several Ceratosoma gracillimum. Before this, I have only seen it once at the intertidal area of St John's Island.
This is probably a Phyllidiella pustulosa.
The pretty Glossodoris atromarginata, a rather common but photogenic species.
My first time seeing a Chromodoris fidelis in local waters!
A few Gymnodoris rubropapulosa were also spotted, looking fat and cute. Wonder what slug did it just eaten...
Looking rather similar to the former, this is probably a Gymnodoris alba instead.
A tiny Dermatobranchus sp.
Thuridilla gracilis - this is not a nudibranch, but a sap-sucking slug.
We also saw this huge prawn which wasn't camera shy at all!
All kinds of tunicates can be found growing on the soft substrate.
And we saw quite a few tigertail seahorses (Hippocampus comes), both male and females! The above was a pregnant male.
On the whole it was a great trip. I must remember to use flash when I go diving next time though - noticed that most of my photos turned out very blue or green... :P
Monday, February 23, 2009
Finally, I got to dive in local waters! Followed the Hantu Blog's monthly dive last Sunday (22 Feb 2009).
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Frankly speaking, I didn't really go Sungei Buloh for birding. I was there today to conduct a mangrove workshop for some secondary school students. Somehow, however, I managed to get a few decent shots of a few birds, so thought I will do a blog entry on these feathered creatures for a change.
Before the students arrived, I went to the bridge area to see if there's anything interesting and spotted this common sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) on the branch of an api-api putih (Avicennia alba). I often see this wader walking alone by the edge of the water, bobbing its head and tail as it walks.
The yellow bittern (Ixobrychus sinensis) can sometimes be seen near the various fresh water ponds of Sungei Buloh, and today, we were rather fortunate that one decided to make its appearance.
Since it's still the migration season, we saw lots of other waders at the main hide, including this flock of whimbrels (Numenius phaeopus). These birds have a distinctive long down-curved bill, allowing it to reach deep into the mud for little animals.
Before the students arrived, I also saw this male pink-necked green pigeon (Treron vernans) near the information counter.
After the workshop, I saw it in the same area again, which makes me suspect that its mate is probably nesting nearby.
Looking around, I saw a female pigeon just a short distance away, blending in nicely into the surrounding greenery with its greenish plumage. I didn't managed to spot any nest though.
Here another shot of it from a different angle.
Today was the last session of the mangrove workshop for these students, and it has been an interesting experience with various interesting finds. I will be coming back at the end of the month for yet another series of walks, and well, I certainly look forward to more exciting sightings to come! :)
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
I helped conducted 2 workshops at Changi Beach on 9 & 10 Feb for some MGS students, and these are some of the stuff we encountered during the trip.
We found one hairy sea hare (Bursatella leachii). This sea hare is seasonally abundant, and sometimes we can find hundreds, if not thousands of them on places like Chek Jawa.
One of the groups found this bamboo clam, also known as a razor clam. It is about the size of my middle finger.
For both days, we found an olive snail!
Several moon snails (Polinices didyma) were spotted prowling around the sand, probably seeking for little shells to feed on.
I was quite happy to see this helmet shell (Semicassis bisulcatum) for the first time! Guess I hasn't really been paying much attention to snails until the mollusc workshop for Project Semakau recently :P
The noble volutes (Cymbiola nobilis) we found here were really huge! While it's rather slow moving, it's a fierce predator of other snails and clams.
Some of the noble volutes were found were dead ones though, occupied by the orange striped hermit crab (Clibanarius infraspinatus).
One of the groups also find a very small but pretty pebble crab! This crab can burrow very well, and can disappear into the sand in an instance.
Amantis shrimp also decided to pay us a visit on both days!
We also found this sea cucumber which I have seen several times, but still don't know what species it belongs to.
The pink thorny sea cucumbers (Colochirus quadrangularis) were in season, and there were lots of them every where. So were the white salmacis sea urchins, but unfortunately I forgot to take a photo of them.
Apart from several sand stars, a group of students found this juvenile biscuit sea star (Goniodiscaster scaber) too!
This pretty flatworm (Pseudobiceros gratus) delighted many of the girls when it started swimming by flapping its sides.
We ended the workshops with the girls doing a short exercise to answer a few questions on shore ecology and conservation. Was really glad that the girls got most of the answers correct. Hopefully this workshop will allow them to better appreciate the little nature treasures that Singapore has got left! :)
Monday, February 09, 2009
Finally, after a few months of rest, we had our first Semakau public walk for 2009.
It was an exceptionally good trip with lots of interesting finds - certainly a very auspicious start for our walks this year. Here's a quick listing of come of the things we saw.
As usual, I was able to find one of the long synaptid sea cucumber in the seagrass meadow.
We have not seen an ocellated sea cucumber (Stichopus ocellatus) for quite a few walks already, so it was really nice that one decided to show itself during our first walk of the year!
Yet another sea cucumber we saw was the sandfish sea cucumber (Holothuria scabra). This is one of the most valuable sea cucumber in the market, especially during the Chinese New Year period now.
Right after crossing the sea grass meadow, there was a huge population of sand-sifting sea stars (Archaster typicus). As the name implies, these are able to burrow into the sand to hide from predators and also to look for food. They feed on tiny organic particles among the sand.
And the star of the day is always the knobbly sea star (Protoreaster nodosus). We found 3 of them today. These brightly coloured sea stars can grow up to about 30cm wide, and is one of the bigger sea stars that can be found in Singapore.
And the special sea star we first spotted during the launch of Project Semakau also decided to make an appearance! We still don't know what species it is though.
This heart urchin (probably Maretia sp.) has a somewhat heart-shaped skeleton, thus its common name.
ST found a sea hare, which I have seen a few times on our southern shores, but still not really sure what species it belongs to. This was also the first time we found a sea hare during a walk too!
The black phyllid nudibranch (Phyllidiella nigra) is commonly seen on Semakau and our other southern islands. Nudibranchs from this family are said to able to release very toxic chemicals into the surrounding water when they are stressed.
The green ceratosoma nudibranch (Ceratosoma sinuatum) appeared to be in season.
It was really nice to see another "heart" after the heart urchin. This is a heart cockle (Corculum cardissa), which can come in various colours, such as orange, yellow, red and blue. Unfortunately, having such a pretty shape comes with a price, and they are often collected, cleaned and sold. Hopefully those seeking for tokens of love for their love ones will rethink about buying dead animals now that Valentine's Day is just round the corner.
There are lots of scallops in Semakau. These bivalves are able to swim by flapping their shells!
A much bigger bivalve will be our resident fluted giant clam (Tridacna squamosa), which can grow to about 40cm wide.
We found many noble volutes (Cymbiola nobilis) with their eggs today. Interestingly, I found a hairy crab (Pilumnus vespertilio) right in front of the volute, which somehow looked as if it was guarding the latter while laying eggs! Haha.
This spider conch (Lambis lambis) had a colony of Porites coral growing on its shell. I wonder if one day the coral will outgrow the shell?
Another mollusc we saw was this squid (Sepioteuthis sp.), which could change its colour to blend into its surrounding. I also found an octopus, but unfortunately was unable to grab a shot before it disappeared.
The upside-down jellyfish (Cassiopea sp.) appeared to be another animals which was in season. These jellyfish has symbiotic algae living it its tentacles, and thus it is usually found swimming upside-down to expose the algae to the sunlight for photosynthesis. Some of the food made by the algae will be passed on to the jellyfish.
The relative of the jellyfish, the hard corals, can be found in a wide variety on Semakau. Many people have probably seen this staghorn coral (Acropora sp.) while snorkelling at our neighbouring countries. It can be found on Semakau too.
Corals come in various growth form other than the branching form. This purplish boulder is actually a Porites coral!
Most of the corals we see are colonial animals, and the Pocillopora coral above is home to thousands of little coral animals known as polyps.
This soft and fleshy looking clump is also a hard coral, Euphyllia ancora! It has a hard skeleton underneath.
Not all corals live in a colony though, and some of them, like this sunflower mushroom coral (Heliofungia actiniformis), is one single animal.
Apart from the hardies, we have the softies too. Here's a colony of soft corals. The greenish ones are those with the polyps extended, while the pinkish ones are the ones which the polyps have retracted.
There were quite a few magnificent anemones (Heteractis magnifica) in the intertidal area of Semakau. Unfortunately, I did not see any anemonefish in the one above.
The bulb tentacle anemone (Entamacea quadricolor) can also be found at the reef crest.
One of the less common anemone, Heteractis crispa, which so far I've only seen on Semakau. I've seen at least 3 of them at various locations over the past 3 years.
Anf of course, we have the usual gigantic carpet anemone (Stichodactyla gigantea), and this one has an anemone shrimp (Periclimenes brevicarpalis).
Talking about shrimps, we should forget about their relatives - the crabs! There were lots of porcelain fiddler crabs (Uca annulipes) near the mangrove area, and the male crabs were busy waving their big claws, probably trying to catch the attention of the females!
We also found a few of the Acanthozoon flatworms.
And I also managed to find a tigertail seahorse (Hippocampus comes) at the site which I usually found them!
Certainly, today was a great start for the year. Looking forward to more great trips with lots of special finds for the rest of the year!


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A KIND OF PASSION, a tribute to classic motorcycles and the people who love them from Squadra Sutge on Vimeo.
Just brilliant Andrew - thanks for posting.I have all those Johnny Cash tracks and I won't be able to think of them in the same light again!
Bit of a juxtaposition with the song and the life of the boys keeping vintage bikes. The Cash version of this song chokes me up and the bikes put a stupid grin on my face. I'm not sure what to feel.BradyBehind Bars - Motorcycles and Lifehttp://www.behindbarsmotorcycle.com/

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Ma. (Theresa) van den Berg, MD
Family Medicine Physician
Dr. Theresa van den Berg feels privileged to be a family medicine doctor because it allows her to make a difference in patients’ lives from the very beginning. She can watch kids grow, empower people of all ages to prevent diseases before they start, and help patients recover from illnesses.
Dr. van den Berg likes getting to know patients personally and building relationships based on mutual trust and respect. She strives to help everyone she sees feel heard and understood. She is passionate about educating patients and giving them the tools they need to improve their wellness.
She completed her residency in family medicine at Genesys Regional Medical Center in Grand Blanc, Michigan. She earned a doctor of medicine from the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines. She also holds a bachelor of science in biology from the same university.
Dr. van den Berg and her husband have two children. They enjoy traveling, whether it’s to Holland or Cannon Beach, Oregon. On the weekends they like exploring the outdoors, eating good food, and watching movies together.


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Food sounds delicious?
Get a table before they're gone
Gemütlich und sehr aufmerksames Service. Wir kommen immer wieder gern
A nice restaurant to spend some quality time with your loved ones. The food was great. I had a great time here.
A good restaurant to try vegeterian food. There are a lot of options available for people who are vegeterian or vegan.


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The competition for this year’s comedy series Emmy will be anything but funny. Even though “30 Rock” has won the series kudo for three years’ running, there are well over a dozen potential nominees spread across network, basic cable and premium cable, setting up a race for the crown that might be even more fierce than the typically cutthroat drama category.
Established comedy contenders like “30 Rock,” “The Office” and “Two and a Half Men” have been joined in the competish by potential first-time nominees including “Glee,” “Modern Family,” “Parks and Recreation” and “The Big Bang Theory.” Several explanations for the explosion exist — including the notion that it has been in the works for much more than the past year.
“Personally, I think TV has, taken as a whole, been really good for a while now,” “30 Rock” exec producer Robert Carlock says. “But if there is a ‘boom,’ then great. And of course the same thing has been happening on the drama side. I won’t pretend to understand the business, but in our thousand-channel universe there are clearly more outlets, and that means more voices can be heard.”
“Party Down” co-creator John Enbom also thinks the broader TV frontier has strengthened the comedy category.
“We were really lucky to work with Starz because they have a different approach than a network,” he says, “and we’ve been given time to develop the show and find our voice.”
Veteran sitcom actress Megan Mullally, who now appears on “Party Down,” believes there’s a spirit of camaraderie at work that’s feeding many of the shows.
“You have a lot of people who are also working on each other’s shows, giving each other jobs, and really the only criteria seems to be if you’re talented and funny,” says Mullally. “I don’t get the sense that there’s a lot of competition as much as they just want to make each other laugh.”
“Modern Family” co-creator Steve Levitan thinks there’s an openness to telling stories about more recognizable characters that has given shows more resonance.
“We … and a lot of shows are telling stories about characters that seem real, that have real problems and that look a little more real than some TV characters did in the past,” he says.
This sense of realism may also be inspired from other television genres.
“I think comedy has been most influenced by reality television,” says B.J. Novak of “The Office.” “The ways shows are shot and the way characters are shown has a lot to do with what we’ve been seeing in reality TV over the last 10 years.”
Count the rise of the single-camera format among those effects.
“I do think there’s been a single-camera revolution,” says “Parks and Recreation” star and producer Amy Poehler. “That’s created opportunities to tell stories in new ways.”
Adds Sarah Silverman of “The Sarah Silverman Program”: “Single camera is more intimate because the camera can go right into someone’s face, and you can take the show in directions that make it feel more authentic for the audience.”
Before anyone gets too comfortable with the idea that it’s all about single camera, you have to consider that “The Big Bang Theory” and “Two and a Half Men” are routinely pulling in big ratings going a relatively more traditional route.
“I was initially reluctant to go back to a multicamera comedy,” says Johnny Galecki of “Big Bang.” “But this format has worked for audiences since ‘The Honeymooners,’ and it’s still working now.”
Still, “Glee” creator Ryan Murphy points out that formats come and go, but letting the audience connect with characters that struggle against a handicap or problem is what makes great television.
“For a while shows were clever but they were a little cold, and I think ultimately audiences want to feel something,” says Murphy.


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Intrigued from this Pinterest pin, I endeavoured to make my sisters and friends soap and knitted dishcloth for our little Xmas prezzie exchange.
So while Martha's recipe was a wonderful peppermint soap, I opted for lavender, spindling a few bits of actual lavender on top. Knitted a few dishcloths of my own or washcloths and now I'm hooked. I can't wait to make oatmeal soap or lemon soap. I mushed up leftovers into a ball and gave it to Lou. He loved it! Below I changed up the recipe and used Shea butter soap and Glycerine soap. I walked into Lush last week and got further inspired. I know what I'm doing on rainy days at the cottage this summer!
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The sustainable life in Lappeenranta
Kirjoittanut Zheng Zhang Luotu 02.05.2016
What is sustainability I often I asked myself. Sustainability was just a concept before I came to Finland, and I did not know what it is exactly. However, when I arrived in Lappeenranta, a beautiful natural city in Finland, the sustainability is not the concept anymore instead it is a life style penetrating into my daily life little by little.
The most incredible thing about Lappeenranta is that it is not like the typical European cities full of historical and elegant architecture, but surrounded by a wonderful natural beauty including Lake Saimaa, the purest lake in the world. As a said before, water, sky, forest with tall and straight trees and the lovely people have make me fall in love with this city deeply and sincerely.
Put aside the nature, the way that people live also gave me a big surprise. For them sustainability is integrated into their daily life. Especially, in the university, I feel like everything is sustainable and valuable around me.
The first thing is the green wall located beside the walking hall, which is made by the real leaves that can absorb the carbon dioxide and release the fresh oxygen. It is an amazing that the wall conducts this green and sustainable innovation. In this spot, we can sit, read, relax and enjoy the nature even inside the building.
Also, the glass corridor from where we can see multiple tall trees and grass is one of the most pleasant places at LUT. The structure of my university architecture makes the nature and sustainability a part of it and shows the sustainable way to everyone in the university silently. In particular, the green color itself has a positive and calming psychological effect on humans.
In addition to the natural beauty, we visualize the sustainability through digital approach, which refers to the straightforward statistics and graph to prove and demonstrate the remarkable result within each month such as the water consumption, the electricity consumption, and the reduction of energy assumption through different sustainable actions and so on. From my point of view, the contrast and analysis of the energy issues not only show the result of current achievement, but also let people think about the sustainable-leading way in the future.
In the technology perspective, the windmill near the school and the solar panels above the building make the significant contribution to the energy reduction in the general way and improve the environment.
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The Poisonous Racism Driving Violence in Ferguson and the Rest of America By Joe Conason, AlterNet, August 20, 2014 …another white supremacist group whose leaders have long enjoyed the patronage of right-wing Republican politicians. The Council of Conservative Citizens, headquartered in St. Louis, is a living legacy of Southern “white resistance” to desegregation…promoting hatred of blacks, Jews, gays and lesbians, and Latino immigrants while extolling the virtues of the “Southern way of life,” the Confederacy and even slavery.
The Integration of Theory and Practice: A Program for the New Traditionalist Movement by Eric Heubeck – The Yurica Report
The Radical Right Roadmap – Paul Weyrich and his disciple, Eric Heubeck, Voter Legislative Transparency Project, Oct 14, 2012
Let There Be Markets: The Evangelical Roots of Economics By Gordon Bigelow, Harper’s Magazine, May 2005
Envisioning Where We Want to Go: An Interview With Evolutionary Reconstructionist Gar Alperovitz By Leslie Thatcher, Truthout, August 22, 2014 a new website – Pluralist Commonwealth – about principles of democratic ownership and on building a sustainable and equitable political-economic system
Robert Reich: American Democracy Is Diseased By Robert Reich, RobertReich.org, August 20, 2014 The only way back toward a democracy and economy that work for the majority is for most of us to get politically active once again, becoming organized and mobilized. We have to establish a new countervailing power. The monied interests are doing what they do best – making money. The rest of us need to do what we can do best – use our voices, our vigor, and our votes.
Breaking Out of the Party Box by Arthur C. Brooks, New York Times, AUG. 18, 2014 … Research by Mr. Hayes shows that most voters instinctively associate morality and strong leadership with the political right…many Democrats fixate on empathy and compassion…Americans don’t want to choose between compassion and morality, or between leadership and empathy. We want leaders who have all these traits. F. Scott Fitzgerald famously declared that “the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” Compassion and strong leadership are not even opposed — yet these days, they can’t seem to be held in the same political mind. What a sad commentary on our times.
Do You Trust the Government? 87% of Americans Don’t August 16, 2014 14:07 By Kevin Mathews, Care2 | News Analysis agree that the U.S. government “can be trusted to do what is right always or most of the time.”…This is a notable departure from the legitimate trust that existed decades ago. Through the 1960s, Americans held favorable opinions toward the government…That all changed when the Watergate scandal struck…The amount of Americans who trust corporations is similarly abysmal: just 17%. That said, the correlation between these low fingers isn’t altogether surprising considering that the unholy alliance between corporations and U.S. politicians prompts many Americans to look at them as essentially the same entity.
False facts and the conservative distortion machine: It’s much more than just Fox News Paul Rosenberg, Salon.Com, Aug 18, 2014
The New American Segregation by Mark Sandlin, co-founder of The Christian Left, Patheos, July 22, 2014 …fat cats convince people who understand themselves to be Christian to support the politicians and policies that will ensure the rich get richer…We need to learn to see it for what it really is…There are “Two Americas”: the Plutocrat Overlords and The Rest of Us. It’s time to focus our genuine and understandable disdain solely on the real enemy — the wealthy Plutocrats and their political henchmen — and stop taking it out on each other…we must vote and when we vote, there must be only one issue that influences our vote: what the candidate’s voting record is on supporting the continued wealth grab by those who already have plenty of it. It is time to take a stand — to do otherwise is to concede defeat, — and that’s what they are counting on.
SAVING HORATIO ALGER – Equality, Opportunity, and the American Dream by Richard V. Reeves, Brookings, August 20, 2014
How the New Monopoly Capitalism Will Crush You to Smithereens By Lynn Stuart Parramore, AlterNet, August 14, 2014
Ferguson: The Fire This Time by Bob Herbert, Demos, August 22, 2014 …Some tragic development occurs; the media spotlight homes in on black people who had previously been invisible; instant experts weigh in with their pompous, uninformed analyses; and commitments as empty as deflated balloons are made. This time it’s Ferguson, Missouri, in the spotlight. And you can bet the mortgage that this time will be no different. The precipitating events that cause these periodic national spasms can vary widely — the flooding of New Orleans, the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the beating of Rodney King. But these tragedies all emerge from the same fetid source — the racism embedded in the very foundation of America….And it’s that racism — stark, in-your-face, never-ending, frequently murderous — that has so many African-Americans so angry and frustrated, so furious, so enraged… Now, because of the persistence of racism and a relaxation of the fight against it, we are moving backwards. Ferguson is just the latest illustration. They are angry about all those things, but they are also angry and frustrated about so much more…voter suppression… the way so many were targeted and victimized by predators in the housing and finance industries, and the disproportionate suffering that African-Americans endured in the subsequent housing meltdown and the recession. And they are angry about being left so far behind in the so-called economic recovery….nearly all are furious at the high levels of racism and personal venom that have characterized so much of the opposition not just to the president’s policies but to him personally…there is profound anger and resentment at the myriad hateful ways that blacks are treated throughout the criminal justice system. …These are just a very few of the many deep concerns harbored by black Americans. (Others include the chronic under-funding and wholesale closing of public schools in black neighborhoods; the continued widespread discrimination in employment and housing; and the humiliating, debilitating racist encounters, large and small, that nearly all black people face at one time or another, and that many blacks face on a daily basis.) What is needed right now is a national gathering of some of the brightest and most committed African-American men and women to begin devising strategies to fight back in a coherent and sustained way against the racial injustice that still permeates this society…. it was true that great strides had been made in the half-century or so that followed the civil rights movement. Now, because of the persistence of racism and a relaxation of the fight against it, we are moving backwards. Ferguson is just the latest illustration….The emergence of effective black leadership to guide us over the long haul is America’s only defense against such outrages, and against what James Baldwin so accurately characterized as the fire next time.
14 defining features of Fascist regimes – The Christian Left, August 2014 Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia) and several Latin American regimes. Britt found 14 defining characteristics common to each:
1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
4. Supremacy of the Military
5. Rampant Sexism
6. Controlled Mass Media
7. Obsession with National Security
8. Religion and Government are Intertwined
9. Corporate Power is Protected
10. Labor Power is Suppressed
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
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14. Fraudulent Elections
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The overall aim of the manual is to enable staff in counterpart STEP and its partner organisations to promote gender equality primarily through main-streaming, special interventions and policy dialogue.
The learning objectives for participants of the course are to:
â€¢Understand and articulate the rationale for gender equality as an objective in itself and a means by which to achieve human rights objectives;
â€¢Become professional promoters for gender approaches to development and particularly in civic education and election awareness programme;
â€¢Understand and articulate the links between the National Strategies and gender equality;
â€¢Be able to apply Counterpart STEP Strategy for Gender Equality in order to advance gender equality in all policy and project related work - regardless of sector or theme, at departments level and
Duties & Responsibilities:
â€¢Develop and produce a gender manual on gender awareness, gender equality, gender and development, gender analysis incorporating issues relevant to gender in the election processes.
â€¢Clarify the Women in Development (WID) and Women and Gender (WAG) approaches, and define gender mainstreaming.
â€¢Develop and produce manual, by incorporating the learning and experiences generated by previous experience and in coordination with gender advisor.
â€¢Facilitate discussions, seminars and workshops among experts and thereby aiming to incorporate culture specific case studies, issues and experience into the modules and manuals.
â€¢Develop assessment tools and techniques for the evaluation, monitoring of staff knowledge (Post training evaluation).
â€¢Be better equipped to promote gender equality and empowerment of women and understand even better why gender equality is essential while conducting civic education activities and election awareness campaigns.
â€¢Know about gender equality in an overall context and understand key gender concepts.
â€¢Understand how culture, norms and traditions have an impact on gender equality in general and on their work with gender.
â€¢Know about gender equality in its international legal and political context.
â€¢Know about gender equality work at country level and understand why and how to apply a country gender analysis.
â€¢Understand why and how to apply a gender analysis at sector level and know potential ways and means of integrating gender equality in specific tasks particularly civic education and election awareness campaigns.
â€¢Understand particular gender issues and how the tools are applied in humanitarian action in situations of crisis and conflict.
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