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Das Schloss Haigerloch befindet sich in Haigerloch im Zollernalbkreis in Baden-Württemberg.

Die ursprüngliche Burganlage wurde 1095 erstmals erwähnt und befand sich vermutlich am Ort des heutigen sogenannten Römerturms. Die Burg gehörte den Grafen von Wiesneck und gelangte in der zweiten Hälfte des 12. Jahrhunderts in den Besitz der Grafen von Hohenberg. Diese errichteten an der Stelle des heutigen Schlosses eine neue zusätzliche Burganlage. Im Jahr 1381 gelangte die gesamte Grafschaft einschließlich Haigerlochs an die Habsburger. Im Jahr 1497 kam sie durch einen Tausch gegen die Herrschaft Rhäzüns in der Schweiz an den Grafen Eitel Friedrich II. von Zollern.

Nach der zollerschen Erbteilung im Jahr 1576 wurde Haigerloch eigenständiger Sitz einer neu gegründeten Linie der Grafen von Hohenzollern-Haigerloch. Der neue Graf Christoph von Hohenzollern-Haigerloch ließ die Burg zum heutigen umfangreichen Renaissanceschloss ausbauen. Die heutige Gestalt stammt vom Baumeister Michael Beer. Die Schlosskirche wurde zugleich auch zur Grablege seines Familienzweigs bestimmt, der aber bereits 1634 wieder erlosch. Im Jahr 1700 wurde der Neue Bau des Schlosses zugefügt. Im Jahr 1745 verlegte Fürst Joseph Friedrich von Hohenzollern vorübergehend seinen Wohnsitz von Wien auf das Schloss und sorgte für weitere Bautätigkeit. Die Schlosskirche ließ er 1748 mit viel Aufwand barockisieren. Der Hochaltar, der 1609 geweiht wurde, gilt als bedeutendstes Werk der Renaissance-Plastik in Hohenzollern und weist über 60 Holzplastiken auf.

Im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert verlor das Schloss an Bedeutung, so dass es von Kriegszerstörungen weitgehend verschont blieb. Kurz vor Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs wurde im Felsen unterhalb der Schlosskirche ein Experiment zur Kernspaltung betrieben. Heute befindet sich dort das Atomkeller-Museum. Zuletzt war im Schloss 1975 eine Landwirtschafts- und Verwaltungsschule untergebracht, dann kaufte es ein Unternehmer. Seitdem wurde bis 2022 im Schloss ein Hotel mit Restaurant und ein Kultur- und Kongresszentrum betrieben. Die ehemalige Schlosskirche ist heute die Pfarrkirche von Haigerloch St. Trinitatis.

Literatur
 Günter Schmitt: Burgen, Schlösser und Ruinen im Zollernalbkreis. Herausgegeben vom Landratsamt Zollernalbkreis, Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7995-0186-6, S. 195–212.
 Ulrich Feldhahn: Schlösserreise Baden-Württemberg – ein Führer zu Burgen und Schlössern in Privatbesitz. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2005, ISBN 3-935590-63-6.
 Andreas Menrad: Katholische Schlosskirche St. Trinitatis in Haigerloch. Baugeschichte und Restaurierung. Nachrichtenblatt der Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg, Jahr 2018, Heft 2, S. 88–93 (PDF; 5,8 MB)
 Sabine Grimmig: Hochaltar der Schloss- und Pfarrkirche St. Trinitatis in Haigerloch. Die Geschichte eines Altars der Spätrenaissance. Nachrichtenblatt der Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg, Jahr 2018, Heft 2, S. 94–99 (PDF; 5,8 MB)

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Bloomsbury Olympic
By Richard Braude, 24 April 2012
Politics / Urbanism / Regeneration / Policy
Featured in Mute Vol. 3, No. 3 - Becoming Impersonal
Image: All photographs by Rose-Anne Gush
As the 2012 London Olympics looms, construction and education – two poles of an economy of despair – are to meet in East London. Richard Braude draws out the unlikely connections in-the-making between Bloomsbury and Stratford
It is Spring 2012. The party socialists in the Bloomsbury student movement walk out of their classrooms to protest against the reforms to Higher Education, parading through the streets as if each thump on a paving stone will bring the world a little closer to political ignition. A year and a half ago, this was indeed the motion that articulated so successfully the collective, national rage against the current administration's policies towards land, labour and capital. Since then, today's student movement, in Bloomsbury and beyond, has drifted up and down. It still remains more organised and vibrant than its generational precursors have been for perhaps a decade in the UK and the active forms of co-operation between student and trade union activists are equally novel. Yet, in the face of continued, unrelenting government legislation, the movement pauses. The march is directed at the Minister for Universities, David Willets, but it seems impossible to imagine how it could move beyond accusation and into real antagonism.
The move beyond current coordinates is often deemed, in pseudo-management talk, as the key strategic aims of a campaign: with solidarity, with a 'linking up' how could we ever be stopped? Resistance, aggregating under the working title of convenience ('anti-cuts') comprised itself of students, proletarians and other fiscal underdogs, and proclaimed in all its self-congratulatory stellar immensity the necessity of solidarity. Surely if we had joined-up better, like rats biting each-others' tails, we would have mobbed into a mass with no diminishment of momentum? Thus far, ironically, it is the lofty institutions themselves which have been far more feverish and clandestine in expanding outwards into the working class communities from which the student movement was restricted, dominated as it was, in 2010 at least, by cadres from the Russell Group universities.
For while the student movement may have understandably stalled in the face of the onslaught of the fastest transfer of economic governance from nation state to private corporation in the history of our beleaguered welfare state, the university movement has far from subsided. Perhaps, however, we can ride its waves.
Over the past two years in the UK, two sectors of capital production have been central to the political arguments for particular strategies of economic reorganisation: education and construction. Education in the banalised, bastardised vehicle of the Higher Education sector, one which became the centrifuge of both policy and resistance; construction in the bizarre world of the Olympics. The site in Stratford is now the largest construction site in Europe, at a time when new construction projects across the UK as a whole are at the lowest rate of commission since 1980. These two sectors are about to collide with University College London's (UCL) declared intention to construct a new campus in Stratford, on the site currently occupied by a 1960s housing estate.i In the boulevards of Bloomsbury, the potentialities of post-Olympic capital dribble from the colonnades; in Stratford, the soft filtrations of UCL's nanotechnologies trickle into the already toxic marshland.
Carpenters Estate
Carpenters Estate is known for being the largest housing estate standing adjacent to the Olympic Park. At one end, the High Road, broad and empty, strung with dim colour-changing lights, heralds the mix of inflated glass phalloi, surviving workers' cafés and stocky private housing with fragmented coloured surfaces which presently characterise Stratford. At the other end of the estate, a strange road blockade formed out of Olympic signs and wire mesh barriers announces the concealed entrance to the sacred Olympic Park itself: 'Demolish. Dig. Design' proclaims the multi-coloured plastic hoarding. Reflected in the luminescent cyan are the words of a discarded sign, spelling out in reverse 'We Buy Gold'. On the other side of the gate loom the Olympic stadia.
There are three large tower blocks on Carpenters Estate, designed by Thomas North and Kenneth Lund, the West Ham Borough architects through the 1960s. Each 22 storey block stands watch over rows of two and three-storey low rises, which exemplify a range of '60s to '80s council architecture. The towers themselves are built around a central core of pokey corridors, while the outer skin is dominated by windows and black cladding reminiscent of the pioneering Ravenscroft Estate in Canning Town. Each tower rests on large, pastel-coloured concrete trapezoid feet, though at James Riley point, instead of a Le Corbusier-style flow of air beneath the block, the spaces below have been gated up to fence in a myriad of large vacant waste bins.
All three blocks are nearing the end of a 'decanting' process. It's a familiar story which has already played itself out countless times, notably at the Heygate Estate in Southwark. The lack of proper maintenance suffered by the buildings from the moment construction ended is used by the council as a reason for development, promising riches for the council and impoverishment for the residents.
It's worthwhile understanding how the destruction of these blocks is built into the history of their fabric. The old Worshipful Company of Carpenters purchased land in Stratford and West Ham, and in the 19th century turned it from fields for pasture into those for industrial production, leasing it out for the manufacture of bricks, matches and linen. As the railways criss-crossing the marshes needed land from the Carpenters' Company, transformed through South-Sea bubble and colonial necessity into a financially secure apparatchik club, was awarded handsome compensation by the state in lieu of market prices.ii Gifted these cash sums, the Company invested in supporting technical education at Imperial University, King's College London and UCL, as well as the founding of a building crafts college on the site itself. Factories and houses rose up side by side along the River Lea. Both thus suffered the mass bombing of WWII which scattered its way up the valley.iii
In the 1950s, the Carpenters Estate lay as part-ruin, part-rubble, with houses interspersed amongst the detritus. West Ham Council had 8,000 people on its waiting list for housing every year. Faced with this seemingly impossibly task of provision, the council began a program of erecting not only modernist housing estates, but cheap high rises fashioned from pre-fabricated concrete slabs. West Ham bought the Carpenters' land through compulsory purchase order in 1965 and the three towers – Dennison, James Riley and Lund points – were finished by 1968.iv
Across East London, similar towers rose from the dust of history. From '68 onwards, it is a history of decay. In that year, as the Carpenters buildings were finished, the latest of West Ham's housing solutions revealed catastrophic cost-cutting. Ronan Point, a 200ft tower in Canning Town also designed by Thomas North, partially collapsed when a ground floor flat exploded from a gas leak. Every living room on the corner of the building, from base to top, cascaded downwards.
While damp and subsidence have caused cracks and peeling in the Carpenters towers, they remain structurally sound. Lacking such a material justification that could be leveled by council authorities in response to residents' enquiries, the estate has of course become host to bourgeois conspiracies that the buildings must be infected with the social disease named anti-social behaviour, or simply 'decline'. At the Royal Institute of British Architect's current exhibition, 'A Place to Call Home', the buildings purported to have contributed to the 'aspirational' shift in the 1970s were Ronan Point and the Broadwater Farm Estate. While the former represents a physical disaster, the latter is a social disaster. Given that the Broadwater Farm riots, stoked by a racist police force more than inadequate architectural design, did not happen until 1985, the implication can only be that this was a disaster inscribed into the mortar of the dwellings, waiting to burst out.
This attitude is no doubt helped by the desultory data provided from the national census, which records the Stratford Estate as one of the economically poorest areas in the country. Such statistics themselves, however, are unnecessary for any bureaucrat wanting to draw the useful conclusion that the estate is beyond repair, his mind dominated by the threat society perceives in itself, never mind that the real threat is quite clearly in the deleterious balance sheets of local government. And never mind, too, that residents who have lived on other estates speak highly of the lack of fear and violence at Carpenters.
Typically, despite the protestations of the Carpenters community, now in its third generation, James Riley Point was deemed unable to be repaired at reasonable cost in 2004, and has been slowly emptied out since. The other two blocks were marked for termination soon after, each announcement accompanied by the term 'regeneration', and carrying with it the appropriate subtext of class spite. Two thirds of the estate now lies empty.
What makes the Carpenters community cohere, in all its Bengali-Turkish-Polish-aging-Cockney splendour, and in spite of their dwindling numbers, are the shared amenities. There is a primary school on the site, comprising a large set of low and squat pre-fab buildings, stretching out between the blocks. The school will be closed during the Olympics themselves, but the staff still believe their future is assured. The school supported the Newham and West Ham bid for the Olympic site, seeing the games, at least in its official output, as no threat at all. At the estate pub (the Carpenters Arms) the workers are far less certain. The pub managers are hopeful that Olympics will bring more business along the new lane bisecting the estate, leading from the A road to the Olympic Park.
Indeed, despite the busy roads nearby and the roaring Westfield shopping centre just on the other side of the station, I seem to see less people on the estate each time I walk round it. Quietness holds it, cranes watch over it. On one occasion, I caught up with some students on a spliff break in the park. They were attending a ten-week course in basic construction and maintenance at the Building Crafts College next to the estate. The courses are usually funded by local housing associations, institutions which form a central part of the post-Olympic unaffordable homes bonanza. One of the students said he was hoping to get a job at the red tower on the horizon, Anish Kapoor's corporate sponsored sculpture-building, the helter-skelter 'something else' which looms through the mist. He told me how he had a friend who used to live in the Dennison Point behind us, but he and his family had been moved to another council house in Abbey Lane. Other friends had been moved as far as Barking.
This is the next step of the managed decline: breaking up communities and peppering residents through the environs. The London Plan for the Olympics set a target of one half of all new development used for affordable housing.v Of the 11 new blocks currently curtaining off the Carpenters Estate from the rest of the world, about one third are 'affordable'. In an interview with the BBC, the comedically villainous Mayor of Newham, Sir Robin Wales, can be heard assuring his constituents that this managed decline is not so bad; that the former residents of the estate will be rehoused or offered loans with which to buy new homes. Faced, effectively, with the accusation of actively impoverishing his electors, the Mayor retorts that there is no impoverishment, there's just huge bundles of good, wholesome debt waiting for them whenever they ask. So much for the lessons of sub-prime. Already, most of the houses on the Carpenters Estate are privately owned by indebted beneficiaries of the 1980s Right-to-Buy scheme. Those being decanted from the three tower blocks are being encouraged to move into the brand new Genesis Housing Association development opposite the estate, a move with which they also rescind their right to secure tenancies.
As if the throes of privatisation were not enough, the fraction of the newly built Olympic village which Newham will be offered as council-owned housing stock is to be well used in the Realpolitik of class war. Earlier this month, the sickly Mayor revealed proposals for prioritising the allocation of the 348 new houses to 'hard-working' families and soldiers, in a patent continuation of forced labour: work or die, the administration sharply drones. Those who have had the good fortune to retire before they die are being hurried out of their too-costly state provided flats and into the private market.
But we can go further than lamenting the unfair infringement on the rights of proletarians to continue a specific form of life. Instead, we can see in the processes of the Olympics the effect of a high-capital growth project on a section of the working class already mutating through another, parallel process of class decomposition. Capital and class move together. Newham proletarians out, Bloomsbury capital in.
Olympic-Bloomsbury
University College London announced last year that, as part of its beautified Masterplan, it intends to construct a bright new campus in Stratford. The 20 hectare site it proclaims ripe for this illustrious moment is of course the Carpenters Estate. A quick walk around the site makes clear that the only option for such a project, given the specific geography, would be the total destruction of the housing estate and its amenities. The Mayor of Newham, again with the perfect, honest prowess which only his class of quangocrats can deliver, laudates:
With leading educational institutions already firmly established in the area, another university would inspire Newham youngsters to look at the wider opportunities available to them. As well as presenting employment opportunities, a new campus will provide a significant boost to the local economy and provide a lasting legacy for the community.
Read: 'The young people of East London may look upon the heights of UCL with pleasure, and dream that they too, one far off day, could achieve its greatness. But until then they can have the even greater pleasure of employment in the university.'
The Mayor deftly replaces opportunity to aspire with opportunity to survive – ambition for subsistence. Stratford is actually already well covered, if not saturated, with educational institutions. Queen Mary's university is only a quick bus ride away, the Building Crafts College maintains specialist as well as foundation courses, and just on the other side of the depleting old shopping centre is the original branch of the University of East London (UEL). Birkbeck University, also based in Bloomsbury, shares resources with UEL in this first Stratford building, and the two institutions are engaged in a new campus (blandly branded 'University Square') to piggy-back on the Newham building mania. But the hopes for a lasting legacy in the economy (and not just its whimpering cousin, the job market) will be the in-and-out flow of students from UCL, while East Londoners can make do with the service provision of the other institutions on their doorstep. Anywhere except the precious Russell Group spires.
Indeed, where UCL is granted laurels and stooping, the class basis of UEL students earns the full wrath of the Olympic storm. UEL housed many students at the Clays Lane housing estate, once the largest purpose-built housing co-operative in the UK, erected proudly by the National Building Agency. Clays Lane was bought and demolished in 2007 to make way for the presentation of the Olympic site to prospective developers as a symbol of the area as a whole. In other words, students and families were forced out of their homes in order to show off a pristine lot begging for ballparks and tennis courts. It was left as this manufactured wasteland for two years.
The provost of UCL, Malcolm Grant has insisted with the usual excess of management soft talk that Carpenters residents have been consulted (i.e. patronised) and their views listened to (i.e. safely contained). Carpenters Against Regeneration Plans (CARP) have witnessed the council and UCL conspiring to push ahead with development of the site despite their protestations in the sham public meetings, for which security guards were hired to discourage dissenting voices.
More recently, the residents have hit out against the capitalising efforts of the local council, who have signed a deal with the BBC allowing the top five floors of one of the supposedly crumbling tower blocks to be used for broadcasting during the Olympics itself. In this, the council is far from double-speak: it is in fact remarkably consistent. The tenants cannot be bled for the kind of capital which the Olympics provide, so they must be jettisoned. The Olympics must be welcomed in, first from the top of the tower blocks, their height providing the one last function in the new towering behemoths of Stratford Corp, until the dynamite can be placed at their base and the swaggering shapes of UCL can rise from the debris. Even the BBC understand this logic perfectly: they have indicated that while in residence in the top five floors of the block, they will be subletting some of the rooms to international media pundits.
There is another way in which the deterioration of the blocks, and the parallels with the Heygate Estate in this manner, has not gone unnoticed by the culture industry. Both blocks, in their advantageously abandoned states, were used as filming locations for the horror-comedy Attack the Block. The film brings together gang theory and alien invasion, narrating the real and slapstick violence of a group of residents on a London housing estate as they battle against a ferocious alien invasion which seems attacking only their housing block. In the film, the police are eaten by the invading beasts quite early on; this is a world without state protection or intervention (not that any tears are shed for the local enforcement). Nonetheless, this demarcates quite clearly the lines of aggression which ground the film: it isn't a state actor which is being satirised as the invading force, but a class one. The heroic defenders of the block are mainly black: the aliens represent the gentrifying terror of white bourgeois London, tearing at the fabric of their environment, threatening their lives.
The culture industry, of course, sees the impoverishment they themselves are causing through the banality of bourgeois neutrality, and respond with what is – despite its comedic violence – really a nostalgic sob story about friendship and homeliness. And then, the film's profits rolling in, the same class smells the last few drops of capital which can be eked out from the top five floors of a block ready for termination – its friendly, homely community included – and springs on the kill.
Bloomsbury, Olympic
The culture industry, thriving on the output of the emptied estates, is well integrated into the capital, as well as social, mesh of Bloomsbury, Olympic. Russell Square, this Summer, is media hub. Specially provided buses will ferry journos to and fro from tube stations; a special tube line will move them in their thousands from Kings Cross station to Stratford; from the elegant squares of Bentham and Keynes, over to the depleted (but surely well hidden) empty expanses which lie heavily between the Carpenters Estate blocks; from fete to fate. The Camden Council enactment of their 2007 'strategic vision' amount in toto to the second Hausmannisation of Bloomsbury, the processes of 19th century resurfacing. It is of little wonder then that Russell Square is to be fenced off, so that access to the universities can only be made from the North; that the whole of Malet Street, running down the West border of the campus, will be taken up by VIP lanes for media transport.
This also fits in with UCL's strategies to continue its upwards capital trajectory. It is quite clear to anyone even glancing up at the dazzling plate glass of Nido blocks that student housing blocks are now built as vehicles for this seasonal hotel industry. The student population and infrastructure of the modern university can also be put to use in the name of the Olympic spectacle. Bloomsbury, central and well furnished with upmarket cafés and fast food joints, plentiful hotel rooms and luxurious penthouses, situates itself in the out-of-term market as a perfect area for conferences and temporary accommodation. All those student blocks, so well funded and maintained by the university, are being given over throughout Summer 2012 to the hordes of paparazzi and broadcasters covering the season's activities, replete with its battalions of advertising technologies and souped-up multimedia stardust.
The methods of development by which Bloomsbury has been built up and repurposed in recent years visits itself back on the structures of Stratford, but in reverse. The student blocks are not erected to one day be hotels, but the hotels to one day be student blocks. The interchangeability of students and tourists, both now firmly wedged into the class of the nomadic moneyed consumer in the eyes of the bourgeoisie, can be counted on as a vital element of the metropolis and its architecture. The corporate and university forms approach each other ever more closely; the hotel and the student housing block blur as much as the academic and corporate conference – and the shell mutates the organism.
Not being able to build up, and limited in the extent to which they can burrow down, the universities have opted for two other remaining options: the recapitalisation of housing described above, re-mechanisation, and colonisation.
UCL clearly represents the kind of university which the 1960s USA student movement declared a collaborator in the 'military-industrial complex'. Wealth creation from biomedical sciences is becoming a priority for UCL and its sister organisation, UCL Partners. Malcolm Grant (UCL's President and Provost) has been named Deteriorator-in-Chief of the NHS, overseer of the national project of biomed growth, and the creation of the 'London-Cambridge pharma-corridor' as a government report enthuses. The Systems Engineering Department boasts of its links with Ultra Electronics and BAE Systems, and offers an MSc module in 'defence systems'. This runs in parallel with the Department of Space and Climate Physics, incorporating the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, which has been central to the UK's satellite programme for over 40 years.
It is around such projects as these, eloquently mollified under the acronym STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine) that university policy has been nurtured through the crisis. The Carpenters' Company of the 19th century gave its money to UCL for technical education, naively believing it to be a place where craft and masonry could be propagated. The technologies of the modern university spin bio-chemical and petro-military armaments into the world, not ogies and rib vaults.
Meanwhile, waste labour (the unemployed and all the forms of 'bad labour' that creates) is converted into the basic ground for regeneration, and thus supports the dreams of the financiers backing the wasteland projects. The recent King's Cross and Euston developments are showing what happens when you continue to gentrify a neighbourhood beyond the point where gentrification could have already been said to have occurred. UCL's problem is not how to simply increase its class standing but, to borrow Bordiga's phrasing, how to suck more young blood from the dead labour within it. The administrators of Bloomsbury's crisis management are responsible not only for the riches of their masonry, but also the impoverishment of London's workforce. The 50,000 security guards who will cover London this Summer will all be employed through the technics of sub-contraction, a mode of employment which UCL is determinedly rolling out across its estates. University College London sees the unemployed and envisions an army of coffee workers, security guards and cleaners – God forbid, even teachers – to service its high-end consumer market.
Bloomsbury knows that it will always need its laborious base and a working class to service it; but it knows too that it can move into that class and reform it in the image of its own capital composition: repackaged, refinanced, privatised – but only so long as a new working class is found to serve it. So the question remains: for Bloomsbury to grow, it must exploit. It has no option but the imposition of technology and forced relocation. Those currently relocated by the Olympic neopolis include the Clays Lane Estate, as well as the residents of Newham's statutory traveller sites.
Adjacent to Newham, the Hackney marshes have been trespassed by the heaving curves of the Media Centre, one of the most fought over toys of the regeneration frenzy. The main competitor for the kitted out village is the Rothschild backed iCity, aiming to be a corridor of pumping techno-fizzle stretching out across the marshes. With promises of mass-scale educational partnerships, the glittering website is like a hundred other Olympic visions: warm sunrises over glass towers, and swarming digitised figurines playing joyfully between elephantine screens and retail palaces. We know the glass towers of the Olympic visions well; and the interiors they hide. In such utopias, there are critical realities which are divorced from the mind. Utopia, with all its glass panelling, is already present – it bounces off the students of Bloomsbury, reflecting their image as they glide through its sweep. But one glance away from the mirrors and the alienating truths stare back: the labour that breathes underground, in the maintenance sheds and engineering laboratories.
The question remains however, that once Stratford has been mechanised, where will the automated, impoverished residents live? The answer of course is further out of London: to Leyton and Walthamstow, Croydon, Mitcham and Thornton Heath. But these are the very areas where, following the mass criminality of August 2011, business and development finance is being bolstered next. This is to be calibrated under the aegis of Sir Stuart Lipton, one time chairman of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), the vanguard of PFI aesthetics and skyline recompostition, who was forced to resign after it was revealed that he was essentially giving government design awards to buildings he had himself financed; and Julian Metcalfe, founder of Pret, the manicured hand of McDonald's desperate grasp over every high street and concurrent forms of bad labour. As East Londoners are chased further towards exurbia, the developers follow suit.
The situation in East London then, for all its glorification of renewal and – the industrialist salivating into his calcifying spreadsheets – growth, is the result of two kinds of waste colliding: wastelands and waste labour. On the one hand, waste land repackaged and sold as a new product. Artificially manoeuvred into a new price band by the very fact that the radioactive detritus can be safely ignored by developers managing the otherwise celestial habitations of future citizens, the marshlands now present a tidy profit. On the other, the forms of bad labour enacted by the current mechanisms of global capital, with Bloomsbury as one of its most pristine axes.
The Olympic site will, of course, deteriorate. Beneath the buildings, marketed as a new utopia, the accumulated dead labour will be killed off yet again so that more living labour can be sucked from the working classes which will be pulled in from exurbia to service it. The radioactive dust distributed through the soil will become more and more radioactive until, a thousand years hence, its effects will finally start to show and – social turn-arounds notwithstanding – capital will find a mechanism of extracting value from the waste and disaster which entails.
Richard Braude <richardb AT riseup.net> lives in London and organises with Bloomsbury Fightback!
i 'UCL looks east towards Newham for additional university campus', http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1111/11112...
ii The financial revolution of the 18th century forced land owning corporations, including the guilds and livery companies, to turn their assets into security for the new technologies of financial instruments. This not only had the effect of shifting their focus away from employment control and into asset management, but also into some of the foundational sources of cash flow for the expanding global aspirations of the nation state.
iii An unexploded bomb was still waiting at Sugar Hill Lane just down the road, when it was unearthed a few years ago. Another was found on Leyton marshes the other day.
iv The area of Ham, situated between the Thames, the Lea and the surrounding marshes, has been through numerous reallocations of administration and nomenclature. At the end of the 19th century it divided into the Essex county boroughs of East and West Ham, but in 1965 the two were incorporated into the new London Borough of Newham. Carbuncular and marginal, it fell outside of the London County Council remit and instead the council housing was overseen by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (MOHLG) Development Group, as well as the Newham Council Planning and Architecture division.
v 'Affordable housing', of course, falls victim to the usual government double speak, in which affordable denotes the ability for the members of the most admired social strata (the 'middle' class) to devote oblational mortgages at the domestic altar, while those on the lowest wages must be content with the sub-layer titled 'social housing' constructed by those same rentier boddhisatvas. The irony is that society is invoked to entirely conceal the obliteration of social magnanimity this trophic economising entails. See http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/regener... and http://www.communities.gov.uk/housing/housingresea...
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Democrats think that reporters are on their side. They expect reporters to be kind to them and gentle. They expect it. Because they assume we're liberals and we're going to be on their side. And when we're not, and when we're tough, they feel betrayed. They feel that there's been a family break of some kind.
Of course, at no point did either journalist take any responsibility for giving Democrats the impression that the media were all liberal partisans who were "going to be on their side." An examination of Stahl or Woodruff's reporting over the years easily exposes their clear bias against Republicans and in favor of Democrats.
LESLEY STAHL: When I got to cover the White House, you were already covering Jimmy Carter. And they were southerners and I thought that they treated you and me differently, the Carter White House. This was the age of the Equal Rights Amendment. The women in country, and a lot of men, including the President, were very much for getting this passed. And each state legislature had to pass it. And so, that was going on, the President supported it. And women reporters were being treated as kind of second-class citizens. This is so interesting to me because I can't really explain it.
Then Reagan came in, he did not support the Equal Rights Amendment. In fact, he opposed it strenuously. And yet, that White House showed no sexism. I felt I was being treated like one of the guys.
And I never could figure out why – I have figured it out. I've figured it out, finally. Here's why, this is my personal analysis. Democrats think that reporters are on their side. They expect reporters to be kind to them and gentle. They expect it. Because they assume we're liberals and we're going to be on their side. And when we're not, and when we're tough, they feel betrayed. They feel that there's been a family break of some kind.
The Republicans expect us to be tough and they just accept that we're tough, and we're all treated the same, it's very professional. They don't call you up at night and yell at you. Were you yelled at by the Jimmy Carter people?
JUDY WOODRUFF: By – yes.
STAHL: Yes. We all were. And that didn't happen because the Republicans just accepted the – in those days – the First Amendment, they respected what we were doing, and it was all extremely professional.
WOODRUFF: I do think there's something to that, about the Democrats and the Republicans. I also think that when Reagan came to town, he came from of course having spent, what, a couple of decades in Hollywood? He was used to a tough, scrutinizing press corps. He was used to having both favorable and very unfavorable things written about him, and so, I think he brought that comfort level. Maybe he didn't like it, but he was just used to it and it kind of rolled off his back, didn't bother him.
Jimmy Carter, it wasn't that he had had great coverage in Atlanta and Georgia, but you're right, for whatever reason, he didn't expect the kind of coverage that he got. That he got when he got to Washington.


Being the baby of the family seems to automatically qualify me to be unaware of what the real world is all about and the responsibilities of being an adult. For years I take insults my older sister, Jessica who is now twenty-three, would tell me because what she said was nothing but the truth. Like Jessica, my father, Fernando, also nagged me about getting employed. Only my mother, Bertha, supported me in not getting a job and rather focus fully on academics. Anger began to accumulate within me until one day I simply could not support it anymore. Clearly to them I was a burden, which gave me that extra inner fire to call and make my first ever job interview happen. Even with a job, though, all the badgering would not seize.
Lets start from the beginning, where everything truly began. Years back Jessica began to rebel like any other teen, never ending well. Seeing my parents suffer because of her made me realize that I did not - would not - put them in that kind of situation. At a young age I began to act mature, responsible even, but it seemed like a funny joke to them. Only at nine years of age I began to clean the house, cook dinner, and still keep up with homework. Truthfully, I knew nothing about the adult problems, still did not make me naïve about what was to come in my later years.
"Vanessa, Jessica come sit down please. I want to tell you girls something," my father yelled at us from the kitchen.


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The Rochester Technology and Manufacturing Association (RTMA) advocates on behalf of its members on state and federal issues that affect manufacturing.
Our manufacturing voices need to be heard to ensure that the legislative body hears a clear and consistent message. The RTMA has streamlined this effort and you can read more about legislation affecting advanced manufacturing in our region.
You can take action either in support of or opposition to legislation by just clicking here. You will be asked to fill out your name and company address, so your letter will go directly to your specific area legislators. Volunteering is optional.
In pursuit of advocacy, the RTMA is a member of the Manufacturing Alliance of New York State. It is a coalition of New York State Manufacturing Trade Associations. The Alliance works collectively to advocate on behalf of the state's manufacturing community. It organizes coalition grassroots efforts, meetings with legislators, and key policymakers.
Each year, the Alliance organizes Manufacturing Lobby Days in Albany, an annual two-day conference, and lobby trip for manufacturing executives from across the state. The purpose is to visit Albany to educate legislators and policymakers on issues important to New York State's manufacturing sector.
The RTMA is also a member of the Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA). National trade policies have caused significant damage to the U.S. economy. Rather than pursuing a national goal of balanced trade, government leaders have enabled the largest trade deficit in world history to occur. The result is economic decline, job loss, and the destabilization of American Manufacturing.
RTMA works with CPA to advocate for a National Manufacturing Strategy, Balanced Trade Policy, and Tax Reform to promote American Manufacturing.
The RTMA believes it's important to help elect candidates who reflect its members' views. It does this through its Political Action Committee (Committee to Promote Upstate Manufacturing).
As appropriate, the RTMA alerts its members to legislative threats and opportunities. It encourages members to contact their public officials. In order to facilitate that process, a list of Federal and State Legislators from the Greater Rochester Area is provided below. Further, the U.S. President, Vice President, New York State Governor, and New York State Lieutenant Governor are also listed.
U.S. President and Vice President
US Senate & House of Representatives
New York State Governor and Lieutenant Governor
NYS Greater Rochester Senate and Assembly
The 2021 Assembly and Senate General Conference Committee Appointments can be found here.


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Mariam Barghouti born in Atlanta, Georgia, June 23, 1993, is a Palestinian-American writer, blogger, researcher, commentator and journalist. She hails from Ramallah.

Career
She obtained BA in English language and English Literature from the Birzeit University with a focus on sociolinguistics. She received MSc degree in Sociology and Global Change from the University of Edinburgh with a focus on Israeli Ashkenazi-Mizrahi racial hierarchies. She is also known for undertaking monitoring and evaluation missions of humanitarian and development aid in countries such as Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon, along with Palestine, a non-member observer state of the UN, and for various governmental as well as non-governmental organisations.

Her political commentary and research work has notably featured in CNN, Al Jazeera English, The Guardian, BBC, Huffington Post, The New York Times, Middle East Monitor, Newsweek, Mondoweiss, International Business Times and TRT-World. Mariam has also contributed to various books and anthologies including, I found Myself in Palestine. Mariam has also written profiles on Palestinian figures including Palestinian artist Khaled Hourani and Palestinian official and politician Dr. Hanan Ashrawi.

She has been vocal in her examination of media double standards when reporting on Palestine. She has also remained vocal about Israeli violations against Palestinians through storytelling and writing. Her reporting helped raise global awareness about the harsh realities and experiences faced by Palestinians under Israeli control. During the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis, she has often raised her concerns on what she says is Israel's suppression attitude towards Palestine through her work on the ground as a researcher, journalist, and listener.

In May 2021, Twitter restricted the official Twitter account of Mariam who was reporting on the protests from the West Bank during the 2021 Israel-Palestine crisis, Jerusalem, and Palestinians with Israeli citizenship. Barghouti said Twitter had temporarily suspended some of her tweets on the violence being imposed by Palestinian security forces and Israeli army. The company later said the account restriction was due to an error.

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I cannot imagine a more exciting start to the school year. We took about 1200 students outside to witness the eclipse on the first day of school and ended the week stacking sand bags just in case Harvey decided to send us more than we could handle. Mr. Chavez found the start of the 2017-2018 school year to be meme-worthy and our science department is convinced that this will be their year! In addition to the unconventional events, we had the usual fanfare of watching and helping students find their classes. By the end of the week, the majority of the students had the hang of it so hopefully they are all ready for the start of official tardy marks this week. I hope things were as smooth and interesting for you at home!
This year we will have Advisory daily to incorporate more frequent opportunities for brain breaks, community building, guidance counseling, and a host of other activities designed to address the social and emotional needs of our students. The first was primarily focused on students getting to know each other and becoming familiar with campus systems.You are welcome to take a look at the weekly Advisory activities online by choosing "Advisory" from the Student Life tab on the website.
I am sure some of you are wondering where the links to the teacher websites have gone. Austin ISD has adopted an online learning platform known as BLEND, which will be the primary tool for sharing course information for Kealing staff. It is a modified version of CANVAS, which is a system currently used by The University of Texas and a number of other colleges and universities. The parent interface is not yet active but should be up and running during the second semester. I encourage you to have your student log in to the CLOUD to show you the system in the meantime. You can also learn more by taking a look at last week's Advisory lesson or by coming to the principal's coffee in a few weeks.
This year, based on the recommendation of our staff, we will be instituting a Thursday and Friday Homework Hiatus once per grading cycle to encourage our students to recharge with time that is focused away from school. During the Homework Hiatus, scheduled office hours and after school practices will be held but students will not be given new homework assignments. Instead of completing homework assignments or studying, we are encouraging our students to take some time to relax with friends or family. Our teachers will take an email break too.
Mark your calendar for the first KMAG meeting on August 31, Back To School Night on September 5, and the first PTA Meeting on September 7. We hope to see you all on campus for one of these events.
Students and families, please join us on Saturday, September 2 from 9-11 am in the Kealing school garden. We'll be prepping beds to grow vegetables, herbs, and lettuce and adding plants to our butterfly garden. This is a great opportunity to make new friends, learn more about gardening, and earn service hours. The whole family is welcome to attend! Snacks and tools will be provided. Bring water, a hat, and wear sunscreen.
Community Engagement: launched Business Supporter program building connections w/ surrounding community.
PTA Membership, Donation, Business Sponsorship, and Corporate Matching are all ways you can help!
Welcome (back) to Kealing!! Want to get involved with helping to ensure your child's experience at Kealing remains special? You're off to a good start! All Kealing families are members of the Kealing Magnet Advisory Group. KMAG consists of families working with the administration to assist and support Kealing by providing financial and volunteer resources to promote academic excellence, classroom enrichment and diverse academic extracurricular activities. KMAG also works closely with the PTA to address the needs of the larger Kealing Community.
Please mark Thursday August 31st at 7:30 am on your calendar for a brief welcome meeting. We will introduce this year's board, discuss the 2017-18 budget, look for volunteers (all are welcome!) and answer any questions you might have. THANK YOU for making your Kealing Community great! See our website for more information.
KMAG will be hosting a fundraiser through BookPeople September 1 through September 17. Buy your student's required reading books and stock up on fall reading for yourself and your family while contributing to KMAG! Required reading lists for the new school year will be coming home with your student at the end of this week. BookPeople will donate 20% of all sales during the fundraiser period to KMAG (flyer must be presented at time of purchase). If you have any questions, please contact Kristen Bridgeman. Thanks for your support of this wonderful program!


Each and every client, project and design is slightly different from the last; some come armed with an idea. Whilst others allow us to create concepts to turn their brand into products that make people stop, stare and remember. At One Vision Signs, we understand that ideas start life in many different ways. Sometimes even on the back of a napkin and because of this we believe all ideas are worth listening to.
With this in mind, we'll make sure that your project is successful no matter in what format you present it to us. Our team will listen and work with you through every stage from development, design, production and to the final installation to ensure the products we're supplying are exactly what you require to make your business and working environment come alive.
Throughout it all, we ensure the design is not only aesthetically pleasing, but is also in line with your branding. We understand how important brand awareness is. We'll work with you to design a practical product that not only has the WOW factor but also will fit within your budget.
You can rely on our experience and a dedicated team to accomplish your goal. Whether it's to help visitors navigate through your building or effectively communicate your marketing message to clients and prospects. We have the capabilities, creativity and experience to design the product you need to turn your space into a statement and bring your vision to life.


President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has lauded the continuous support of India and its community in Liberia, especially during such a difficult period in the history of the country where it is plagued with the deadly Ebola virus that has claimed several lives.
The Liberian President also lauded the Indian community and their motherland (India) for their immense contributions to the commercial sector of the country, as well as for venturing into the industrial sector where, she said, more jobs will be created for many young Liberians to be employed.
President Sirleaf made the commendation on Thursday, August 28, 2014, at the offices of the General Services Agency (GSA) where a donation was made by the Association of the Indian Community in Liberia (AICL) to help in the combat against the dreadful Ebola virus.
The GSA compound presently hosst the command and support unit of the National Task Force (NTF) on Ebola. The AICL donated assorted Ebola related items worth more than US$200,000 to the Ebola NTF.
The donation consists of a wide-range of items including two ambulances, two thousand bags of rice, hospital beds, 24,000 bottles of water, household utensils, among several other items.
President Sirleaf noted that the Indian Community, through its honorable Consul, has always identified with Liberia-and has and continues to be of great help to the state through its commercial activities that is helping to strengthen the economy of the country.
She indicated that the epidemic is a challenge to everyone and as such it should be combated holistically, further lauding the Indian community for the donation, which she said will help enhance the work of the NTF.
The command and support center, headed by the National Task Force Coordinator, Dorbor Jallah, will take charge of the. She indicated that a true friend is known when one is in crisis — which has been truly exemplified by the Indians.
She said Mr. Jallah and his team will determine the most critical areas where the content of the donation will be distributed. She expressed optimism that the donation will make a difference in the lives of those for whom they are ibtended.
She pointed out that it is not just enough for one to sit on the radio stations, Televisions and make criticisms, but it is more courageous and patriotic to get out there and "do your part" as a citizen of this country. "If you do this and we shall have won this fight against the Ebola virus, it will be a victory for you and your country," she said.
The Liberian leader admitted to short-comings on the part of the government in confronting the Ebola disease, which can be frustrating when the required results are not forthcoming, but said there are clear signs that the fight will be won.
"We need to combine forces to defeat naysayers. We will beat Ebola. I'm tired of hearing Ebola is real, I want us to now say Ebola will be beaten. If we win this fight we will win it for ourselves and our country," President Sirleaf said.
Meanwhile, President Sirleaf said that the level of support received from national and international organizations, multinational companies, business community and friendly countries and peoples, couple with the willingness and resilience of the Liberian people Ebola will definitely be defeated at all costs.
In making the presentation to President Sirleaf, the Indian Consul General, Upjit Singh Sachdeva, said the enormity of the outbreak of the Ebola disease in the affected countries has made fighting the epidemic a global challenge, requiring an effective global response.
Mr. Sachdeva, who is popularly known as Jeety, commended President Sirleaf for her extraordinary leadership in effectively and urgently responding to the outbreak and spread of the Ebola Virus.
He said the AICL notes with satisfaction the measures put into place by the government to stop the spread of this deadly disease. "Accordingly, we have advised all of our members to abide by these measures," he said.
"The current outbreak of Ebola in Liberia is affecting the country in many ways. It is affecting the people; it is affecting all communities in the country; it is affecting the nation, and it is also affecting neighboring nations.
The AICL boss said the situation has unfortunately led to neighboring and other states closing their air and land borders. This is severely hampering intra-sub-regional trade on which Liberia depends largely for the importation of some essential food items.
He said the AICL, as one of several communities in Liberia, sees itself as an important stakeholder in the Liberian society. "As one of the communities in Liberia, we too are affected by the disease. However, we see it our bounding duty and responsibility to contribute our quota to the fight to eliminate the disease in our second home, Liberia," Mr. Jeety said.
The India Consul General indicated that despite the economic consequences on the business community, the AICL has advised all of its members involved in economic activities not to exploit the situation by unnecessarily hiking commodities prices.
"It is against this backdrop that we have come here today to present our donation as part of the national and global response to the fight against the disease," he said.


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Q: Right navbar button moves when alertview is dismissed I'm adapting an iOS 6 app to iOS 7 and I'm experiencing an strange "error". In a screen there's a rightBarButtonItem with a simple image that is showed in his place. But, if the app shows an alertview, the image moves down (50 px or so) when I tap the OK button of the alertview (the only button in this alert). There's no action linked to this alertview, it's only informational.
Also, if I change the image (setImage) of the button, this image will appear out of place.

A: Well, I finally found myself a solution:
I had a UIBarButtonItem with UIBarButtonItemStylePlain and an image setted with setImage on the UIBarButtonItem.
To solve the issue, I have created an UIButton with the image (setting its frame with an CGRectMake) , and then I have created the UIBarButtonItem with initWithCustomView and using the UIButton as the CustomView. This way the image is always where it should be.
Edit:
UIButton* aButton = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
aButton.frame = CGRectMake(0.0, 40.0, 30.0, 30.0);
[aButton setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"anImage.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[aButton addTarget:self action:@selector(aFunction:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
UIBarButtonItem *anUIBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc]initWithCustomView:aButton];
self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = anUIBarButtonItem;

A: Thanks for this raul, I've translated it into Swift for the Swift users out there:
let a = UIButton(type: .Custom)
a.frame = CGRectMake(0.0, 40.0, 30.0, 30.0)
a.setBackgroundImage(UIImage(named: "Share")!, forState: .Normal)
a.addTarget(self, action: "shareThis:", forControlEvents: .TouchUpInside)
let uiItem = UIBarButtonItem(customView: a)
self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = uiItem

A: I had a similar issue with my right nav bar button and it went away when I removed the "title" value of the offending bar button item. In my case the title should never have been set because the button uses an image. YMMV.
I'm not sure why it matters but it fixed my issue with the bar button item getting offset on uialertcontroller dismissal.
I got my inspiration from this question: UIAlertController moves leftBarButtonItem down

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Hymn - "There's Within My Heart a Melody"
Like the sun that is far away and yet close at hand to warm us.
So God's Spirit is ever present and around us.
Come Creator into our lives.
We live and move and have our very being in you. Open now the window of our souls.
Creator God, because you make all that draws forth our praise and the forms in which to express it, we praise you. Because you make artists of us all, awakening courage to look again at what is taken for granted, grace to share these insights with others, vision to reveal the future already in being, we praise you. Because you form your Word among us, and in your great work embrace all human experience, even death itself, inspiring our resurrection song, we praise you. Yours is the glory. Amen.
Hymn - "Love Divine, All Loves Excelling"
Hymn - "Let There Be Peace on Earth"
Today, Sunday, October 28: We are celebrating Leonard Bernstein Centennial Sunday. Winston Skinner is preaching while Michael and Terrie are on vacation.
Belk Charity Sale: We have received $43.50 for our building fund from store sales of tickets for the August Belk Charity Sale. Winston has tickets for the upcoming Charity Sale on November 3 from 6 to 10 a.m. at Belk at Ashley Park. Tickets are $5 each with proceeds going to the building fund. There are individual tickets to buy and packets of 10 tickets to sell.
Georgia during the worship service on Sunday, November 11.
Shoe Drive: Unity Elementary School has asked us to help with a shoe drive. Donations can include any shoes, from boots to heels to flip flops. Shoes can be new or gently used.
Hymn - "My Hope Is Built"
and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old shall dream dreams, and your young shall see visions.
When the Day of Pentecost had come, they were all gathered together in one place.
And suddenly a sound came from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind, and it filled the house where they were sitting.
And there appeared to them tongues as of fire, distributed and resting on each of them.
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit.
God all-powerful, grant that we may rid ourselves of the works of darkness, and that we may invest ourselves with the weapons of light in this life to which your Son, Jesus Christ, with great humility came to visit us; so that in the final day, when He returns in majestic glory to judge the living and the dead, we shall rise to eternal life through Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, now and forever. Amen.
Hymn - "Take Up Thy Cross"
Hymn - "Be Thou My Vision"
Hymn - "Are Ye Able, Said the Master"
The hour is coming, and now is, when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for such the Father seeks to worship Him.
We believe, O Lord, that you have not abandoned us to the dim light of our own reason to conduct us to happiness, but that you have revealed in Holy Scriptures whatever is necessary for us to believe and practice. How noble and excellent are the precepts, how sublime and enlightening the truth, how persuasive and strong the motives, how powerful the assistance of your Holy religion. Our delight shall be in your statutes, and we will not forget you Word. Amen.
Hymn - "Only Trust Him"
Hymn - "Have Thine Own Way, Lord"
Today, Sunday, October 14, 2:30 pm: Charge Conference will be held at Greenville UMC. Each church in our connection will collect and bring canned meats to Charge Conference to be distributed to the churches in the connection which have a food pantry.
Hymn - "Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty"
Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; break forth, O mountains into singing!
For the Lord has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his suffering ones.
O Lord our God, you are always more ready to bestow your good gifts on us than we are to seek them, and are willing to give more than we desire or deserve. Help us so to seek that we may truly find, so to ask that we may joyfully receive, so to knock that the door of your mercy may be opened to us; through Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen.
Hymn - "Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me"
Hymn - "Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus"
Hymn - "Blest Be the Tie That Binds"
The floral arrangement placed in the sanctuary today are in memory of Eleanor Willingham by Rosalind Edmondson.
Today, Sunday, October 7: Please support the United Methodist Children's Home by participating in the Amazing Grace Offering on today.
We received donations totaling $44 for the building fund from the donation jar at last Sunday's fellowship lunch.


I can feel my body surrendering to the drugs. It's a heavy, drifting feeling. I'm relieved insomnia will not find me tonight. I can feel myself sliding into a dream state, that half conscious place where the thoughts in your heard slowly turn into reality. I find myself walking through the woods, alone at first, but soon I am escorted by a little red fox that runs alongside me. My bare feet crunch on the autumn leaves, and the night air chills me through the long, sleeveless, nightgown.
The fox jogs ahead of me as we reach a small clearing in the woods. A cottage sits at the center. Yellow daffodils line the front porch and there's a worn path leading to the front steps. I follow the path and climb the stairs. A gentle breeze tosses my hair and caresses my bare arms into goose-flesh. I smell the light scent of the flowers drifting over the earthy scent of moss, dirt, and decay. From the porch, I stop and survey the surroundings, mostly woods and a low stone wall. My friend, the fox, stops at the bottom of the stairs, sits, watches, and waits.
I step to the front door and press against it with my finger tips. There is no resistance and the door slowly swings open. The warm air curls out around me as I hear the crackle of a fire inside. I step across the threshold. The interior is simple, but cozy. Fresh cut flowers sit at the center of a wooden table with a single chair.
As I move into the room, the door slams behind me and the fire goes out. Startled, I turn as the cold and dark rush in from all sides. I hear hooves pounding down the path. As the strangers come to a halt outside, I hear the men calling, "Victoria! Come out or we will make you!" I can't respond. I stand there shocked and confused. I have the odd feeling they are talking to me.
"Victoria!" I hear the heavy thud of men dismounting and climbing the stairs. They try the door knob, but the door is locked. Boots scuffle across the porch. I smell smoke and hear the crackle of fire as flickering light moves back and forth under the door. Are they carrying torches? They rapidly descend the stairs, but the flickering light remains. It grows brighter and crackles with a desperate hunger. Smoke begins to billow underneath the door as I hear the horses galloping away.


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Theune ist der Familienname folgender Personen:

 Barbara Theune-Großkopf (* 1957), deutsche Mittelalterarchäologin
 Claudia Theune (* 1959; Theune-Vogt), deutsche Archäologin
 Tina Theune (* 1953; Theune-Meyer) deutsche Fußballspielerin und Bundestrainerin der Frauen-Fußball-Nationalmannschaft
 Werner Theune (* 1935), deutscher Jurist und Richter am Bundesgerichtshof


The Global Education Trust was registered as public charitable trust with a pious aim to impart value based higher education to rural students at a very low affordable cost. The trust focuses in the area of Information Technology, Health Science, Management, Laws, Educational Training & Allied research. The trust is farmed very particularly to help education to the students of under developed family.
The Global Education Trust was registered as public charitable trust with a pious aim to impart value based higher education to rural students at a very low affordable cost.


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Ontario Liberal Platform Builds on Plan for Care and Opportunity
Platform Continues To Build A Fairer, Better, More Affordable Ontario
ONTARIO — The Ontario Liberals released their full election platform today, introducing new actions that a re-elected Liberal government will take to build on the plan for care and opportunity presented in the 2018 Budget.
As an anchor to these new plans and to support ongoing fiscal sustainability, the Ontario Liberal platform includes a commitment to introduce legislation that will lower Ontario's debt. When Ontario beats its own fiscal projections, as we have done in each of the last four years, this legislation will require 100 per cent of those unspent dollars to go towards reducing the debt.
In 2014, Ontario Liberals were elected to build Ontario up. After four years of doing just that, and achieving the best streak of economic growth since the 1990s, new actions in the Ontario Liberal platform that build on the plan for care and opportunity will:
Continue the fight for a fair and affordable housing market by:
Tightening rental market rules to stop unfair renovictions
Curbing the use of inappropriate above-guideline rent increases due to capital repairs
Prohibiting above-guideline rent increases in buildings with outstanding work orders related to pest control
Continue to help more workers have the retirement security they deserve by:
Supporting the creation of portable pension plans that stay with a worker from one job to the next
Removing barriers that prevent existing successful private and public sector pension plans from offering their services to more people, so that all workers can join a strong, secure workplace pension plan
Standing up for retirees to get them the benefits they were promised, even in the event of a bankruptcy
Step up environmental protections to keep our air and water clean and our people healthy by:
Expanding the Greenbelt
Prioritizing every community's right to water by making the moratorium on new or expanded water bottling permanent, provided, by the end of 2018, this approach is supported by science
Requiring that 85 per cent of all single-use plastic bottles be recycled
Requiring online and on-label disclosure of toxic substances and chemicals in key consumer products, such as household cleaning products, baby products and cosmetics, starting in 2020
Continue to make life more affordable by:
Eliminating geographic discrimination in auto insurance
Reducing transit fares for most trips that transfer between municipal transit systems and reducing GO train fares within the City of Toronto and on most trips along the Lakeshore East and West Lines
Creating an independent gasoline watchdog to protect consumers and ensure fair pricing across Ontario
The new actions outlined in the Ontario Liberal platform are supported by the fiscal plan presented in the 2018 Budget and do not add any new costs. They build on the plan for care and opportunity that expands publicly funded prescription drugs to one-in-two people in Ontario, builds a record amount of transit, boosts hospital funding, makes the largest mental health investment in Canadian history, helps more people go to college or university with publicly funded tuition and lets more parents go back to work by funding preschool child care from 2 ½ to kindergarten.
By listening to people's needs and choosing to invest in care and opportunity, Ontario Liberals will run a modest deficit of less than one per cent of GDP and have charted a responsible path back to balance. To support ongoing fiscal sustainability, the Ontario Liberal platform includes a commitment to introduce legislation that will tackle Ontario's debt. When Ontario beats its own fiscal projections, as we have done in each of the last four years, this legislation will require 100 per cent of those unspent dollars to go towards reducing the debt.
Doug Ford has not presented a coherent or costed fiscal plan — or any plan. His series of one-off spending and revenue reduction announcements will do nothing to help every day families get ahead and add up to billions in cuts to our schools, hospitals and transit projects.
Ontario's economy is growing stronger and cleaner, but that growth and the care and services it funds are at risk this election. The NDP Platform is riddled with errors and job-killing taxes on business. They still have not fixed the mistake pointed out to them nearly two weeks ago — where they accidentally wiped out billions in programs they supposedly support.
"There is only one party in this election with a credible, costed plan to continue building Ontario up. Ontario Liberals have been listening to the real challenges in people's lives. We have taken real steps to ease those burdens. We have made mistakes, but the positive change we've delivered is real. And that's how I know we can do better."
—Premier Kathleen Wynne
Ontario's interest-paid-on-debt expense is now 8 cents for every dollar of revenue — almost half of what it was in 2000
Since 2013, Ontario Liberals have improved on budget projections by an average of $2.8 billion every year, reducing the debt by $13.9 billion
Ontario Liberals have built the leanest government in Canada, with per capita program spending that is the lowest in the country and services, such as surgery wait times, that are routinely ranked among the best
Two-thirds of Ontario's workers do not participate in a workplace pension plan. About three-quarters of younger workers — aged 25 to 34 — do not participate in a workplace pension plan


Residents across the Bay Area are getting into the spirit of Halloween, including one family in Alameda that has all the neighbors talking. Here's a look at the "spooky" way they're speaking up about politics.
ALAMEDA Calif. (KGO) -- Residents across the Bay Area are getting into the spirit of Halloween, including one family in Alameda that has all the neighbors talking.
Watch the video player above to check out the "spooky" way they're speaking up about politics.
Click here for a look at 2017 Halloween events around the Bay Area.
A home in Alameda is sporting its red, white, and boo this Halloween. Jonathan Bloom gives you a look at the political decorations.


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Rossiter: "It Was a Dream Come True"
A player's debut is always special. Scoring on it is even more so. It's no wonder, then, that Jordan Rossiter was in the mood to reflect on his dream-come-true Tuesday night.
By Noel Chomyn@LFCOffside Sep 25, 2014, 2:00pm BST
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As far as goals go, Jordan Rossiter's first may have had a hint of good fortune to it, rolling sedately from forty yards out, past two defenders and an out of position goalkeeper, to settle in the back of the goal. That was hardly going to dampen the player's excitement, though, or that of fans watching the local 17-year-old start his senior career with a bang.
"I can't remember exactly what I was thinking at the time," said the Academy midfielder when asked about making his senior debut—and scoring on it. "Just make good contact.' I was half thinking about [trying to] go over them, but luckily I didn't. I can't put it into words. When I scored, I didn't know what to do. I just ran off celebrating, but it was a great experience."
Though Rossiter grew up in a family that supported Everton, he joined Liverpool at the age of six and has been working his way up through the ranks ever since. In recent seasons, he has been increasingly identified as one of the brightest future talents currently at the club. Now, even those who don't make a habit of following the academy will have been made aware of him.
The flair and goals of attackers like Jerome Sinclair, Jordon Ibe, and Sheyi Ojo can sometimes grab the attention, but amongst Liverpool's academy players, none seems more likely to join Raheem Sterling regularly in future starting elevens than Rossiter. That day, though, is still likely to be a few years away, and so the youngster is trying to keep his feet on the ground.
"To make my debut was a dream come true," he said, clear excitement mixing with a desire to not let himself get too far ahead of things. "I got told I was starting on Monday and I was a bit shocked to be honest. I just couldn't wait to get out there and it couldn't have gone better. I know personally that this is just the start, that I've got to keep my feet on the ground.
"The manager told me I had done well, and I need to keep on improving and to stay in and around the first team—while improving with the u21s week in and week out. I'm still a long way from being in the first team. I'm still only 17."
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RAAARGH!!! was pitched as a mobile game that combines the arcade classic Rampage with pet simulators. Developed simultaneously for the iOS platform and PCs, in RAAARGH!!! players can issue commands to their giant monster, but the monster has a mind of its own and may require electric shocks to force its obedience. I was brought onto this student project initially as a 3D modeler, however I was quickly shifted to level designer out of necessity. Due to my dedication on the project and natural leadership abilities, I was promoted to 3D production lead and technical artist. My responsibilities included constructing the virtual cityscape with assets provided by my team, implementing the animation and sound assets, creating scripted events in the cityscape, making the in-engine cutscene sequences, ensuring the final product adhered to the restrictions of mobile platforms, and working closely with the creative director, the artists, and the programmers to ensure work was progressing smoothly. A playable project demo was completed within one semester, and the game successfully ran on both PCs and the iPad.
This trailer shows the game in action. The demo was fully playable in Unreal Development Kit (UDK).
For the project, I was responsible for taking assets made by the art team and laying them out in the city to create the environment in which the players controlled the giant monster.
I also worked on models and textures for the demo to ensure the project was completed in one semester, including this 1960s inspired gas station. The low resolution of the models and textures was to ensure the game would run without slowdown on mobile platforms. The player does not typically get to see such a closeup view of the buildings.


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ADHD Medications: Are There Any Long-Term Side Effects, Risks?
Concerned about the long-term effects of taking medication to manage symptoms of ADHD? Read this to breathe easier.
By William Dodson, M.D., LF-APA Verified Updated on January 10, 2018
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Nothing major, in terms of side effects or increased health risks, has been found for taking medications to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) — and researchers have had a long time to evaluate these medications. Amphetamine — found in Adderall, Dexedrine, and Vyvanse, among other meds — was synthesized in 1887 and came on the market soon after as an over-the-counter nasal decongestant spray. Methylphenidate — found in Ritalin and Concerta, among other prescription drugs — was available in Europe in 1939 and came to the United States in 1954.
One caveat: There are no long-term studies assessing these meds in people who have been diagnosed with ADHD. Almost all of the data on stimulants comes from patients who have been diagnosed with narcolepsy — a genetically based sleep disorder that causes excessive sleepiness and frequent daytime sleep attacks. Narcoleptics take mild stimulants daily to treat their condition, often for decades. There have been no reported problems.
Finally, anyone who is concerned about medication safety should remember the risks of non-treatment. Untreated ADHD adversely affects a person's life in many ways. Those with ADD/ADHD who don't take medication have a significant increase in auto accidents, drug abuse, unplanned parenthood, and job loss. They also are more likely to separate and/or divorce compared with those who take medication.
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Southern California Quarterly (1963) 45 (3): 279–280.
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Not sure I should be posting tonight as i feel like crap and am not sure what I'm saying. I came "home" yesterday after three wonderful days and nights with my son, his wife, and 3 grandboys ages 12, 7, and 5 at an indoor water park that also had a great variety of other activities. Had the best time ever!
The kids were a pure joy, and the time away was wonderful. I found relaxation I haven't known in a very long time.
I came back. I put quotation marks around the word "home" because it's my dad's home, not mine.
I gave up my home two years ago. I took an early retirement and quit my job.
I pretty much have no friends now. Going out, means eating somewhere by myself.
Yet, I don't date, because I feel like I can't handle one more obligation or complication.
I've decided that it's very possible to die from loneliness. Today, after a wonderful time away, I woke up angrier than hell at the whole world. Angry all day. Crying off and on. Now more depressed than anything else. I realize I have no balance in my life.
Going away was wonderful, but now that I'm back I'm not sure I can deal with this anymore. I think I've failed Caregiving and want to walk. But the conflict is, I can't desert my dad at this point. In the meantime, I have no life. Almost 62 and have taken care of others my whole life. So I'm angry and depressed today and feeling lonely and hopeless.
Dulcie, I read your post and it brought tears to my eyes. You are not alone. There are so many caregivers feeling the same way. The feelings you are having is so normal. But, What I think your body is saying to you is, you need a change.
So, lets explore what your options are. You have moved into your dads home. Is it in your name? Or is it still in your dad's name?
I get the impression, that your dad does not qualify for any community services. I am going to play devils advocate here- because, I want to understand what is going on.
Why do you perceive placing your dad in a NH as a failure? Why do you expect so much from yourself, when your physical, mental and financial future is really being affected?
Why do you feel that you can do this alone? Is placing him in a NH, and you advocating for him, a failure or an acceptance that you are human and not super human?
Who is going to take care of you when you are ill?
Who will take care of your dad if you are no longer able to care for him, because of illness?
You know, we lost Keith, one of our members, to death. He was young, in his 50's I think.
I spoke to him several times, and he could not bring himself to get off that caregiving roller coaster. It cost him his life.
His mom, Lily, god bless her, may still be living for all I know. I have so many caregivers here- that are on the same roller coaster.
They cannot see that they are having an adverse reaction to their health. Did you know that caregivers, even 3 years after the caregiving journey stops, continue to suffer the effects of chronic stress.
I understand where you are.
So, the tough choice here, is – why do you view making yourself a priority as failure?
As hard as it is, and I know that, when I say this, I have so many of you think I am terrible- but, I must say it- I do not see placing someone in a nursing home as a failure. It is a necessity, when the caregiver is not longer able to do it alone.
In fact, caregiver burnout and stress is the reason for elder abuse and neglect. Caregiver burnout, stress, and guilt causes people to make poor decisions. Decisions based on emotion and not logic.
So, please be gentle with yourself. You need to make some tough decisions. I am here for you, no matter what you decide to do.