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Changing the Park Act, a big deal or not?
by Sue Cockburn
Submitted by Rick Williamson
In Laker Gord Campbell's recent e-mail, he stated that the breaking point for him was when the current Board (well the majority) withdrew their support for getting the Cultus Lake Park Act (CLPA) amended. Over their term, the majority of this Board (usually the same 4 Commissioners) have made some pretty outrageous decisions, but I have to agree with Gord – this one was about as bad as it gets – to me, it clearly displays how these 4 view the public they are supposed to be serving.
Here is a brief recap of how things unfolded (I can provide details if requested):
At the November 23, 2011 Board meeting, then Commissioner Terry Woodrow made 3 motions re the CLPA as follows (Note – I am paraphrasing these motions)
(a) Motion 2462-11: CLPA be amended so that just 5 Commissioners, all elected by Cultus Lake folks
(b) Motion 2463-11: The provincial Ministry should be asked to make the above noted amendments to the CLPA
(c) Motion 2464-11: Support for the above changes to the CLPA should be solicited from the Cultus Lake Community Association; First Nations, Chilliwack & FVRD
All of the above 3 motions were passed with Commissioners Hall & Skonberg among those voting in favour. Commissioner Peter was not at the meeting.
In the summer of 2012, the Listers organized their on-line petition to have the CLPA changed – essentially the same changes as in the Nov. 2011 Board motions. This petition was read in the BC Legislature, but unfortunately, was in the wrong format for the provincial government to act on it.
In the summer of 2013, the Listers organized another petition in the acceptable format and over 900 citizens signed it asking the Provincial government to amend the CLPA – again asking for essentially the same items as asked for in the Nov. 2011 Board motions.
August 14, 2013 Board meeting, Commissioner McCrea makes a motion that the Board be provided with an update from Staff on the Nov. 23, 2011 motions. McCrea's motion is passed with Peter, Skonberg and Toews among those voting in favour of getting this update. Hall was absent.
At the September 11, 2013 Board meeting, there was no update from Staff as directed by the Aug. 14, 2013 motion, but instead Peter submitted a multi-page memo suggesting that these Nov. 2011 motions be rescinded. Based on documentation provided in the meeting Agenda Package and comments made by Ron Campbell, CAO, the Board was told that, in the almost 2 years since the motions were approved, Campbell and his Staff had not followed up regarding these Nov. 2011 Board motions. Campbell's reasons for not following the Board's order/directive was flimsy and stretches my limits of believability as he claims he needed "Direction from the Board".
After some very interesting and revealing discussion, Hall makes a motion to rescind the 3 Nov. 2011 motions (i.e. Hall moves what Peter had recommended in his lengthy memo) and her motion is approved with Hall, Peter, Skonberg and Toews voting to rescind, while McCrea, Payeur & Shanks voted against rescinding. This decision effectively withdrew Board support for amending the CLPA in spite of the fact that over 900 citizens had signed the petition and that it was to be submitted to MLA Laurie Throness for presentation to the legislature. So why would these 4 Commissioners (3 of which were elected by Chilliwack residents – Peter, Skonberg & Toews) vote to deny bringing a representative democratic election process to Cultus? Why would these 4 effectively give the finger to those 900+ citizens by officially going against what so many of their constituents wanted? I have no idea. That is something you will have to ask them.
I recently re-played the recording of that Sept. 11, 2013 meeting and during the discussion, Hall (who voted to rescind) said: "I believe that people who signed that petition, 900 people, didn't have the facts and count on us to have that information and make those decisions for them." Of note, Hall never revealed what these "facts" are and she never expressed any concerns about it back in Nov. 2011 when she voted in favour of the 3 original motions.
Given Hall's reply in #6 above, I wrote and asked her what these "facts" are that she referred to? Hall replied that she had been told by Provincial ministers that the government would not amend the CLPA. As near as I can determine, the most recent time she was told this was in September 2011, 2 months before she voted in favour of the 3 motions. As she voted in favour in 2011, I must assume that these "facts" were not a concern to her at that time, but, for some reason, did become a concern in September 2013 (2 years later). I wonder what changed her mind? Hall also stated in her reply to me: "I am of the opinion that the change to the democratic election process is a great benefit to our community but I also see the need for more pressing issues that need changing in the Park Act." This stunned me, so on Sept. 18, 2014 I asked her what she considered were "more pressing issues" than having a fair democratic election process at Cultus? So far, no reply.
Laker Gord Campbell said in his recent e-mail: "To me, this should be the single biggest issue in this election." I agree with him. Do you? If not, what is the biggest issue to you?
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David Roth: Well, SB Nation found Karim Garcia. I think he looks good. Healthy. Like a sunburned chef on a Food Network show about finding obscure and unhealthy ham varietals in the American south, or a version of Dog The Bounty Hunter with better hand-eye coordination and fewer pukka shells in his hair.
David Raposa: We should all strive for Karim's admirable shade of raw meat.
David Roth: Imagine how good at baseball you have to be to drink that many beers and still ever hit a home run? Because he seriously looks like a white garbage bag full of Killian's Red in a wig, but also seems to have just homered in the picture.
David Roth: That list of 1996's top prospects that SB links to really reflects how far prospect lists have come, too. Jeter's six, Karim's seven, Vlad Guerrero is number nine. You'd have to think that, with today's prospect-grading technology, Vlad and Karim would swap places. Also there are a lot of guys on there just because they're tall and paid by the Yankees.
David Raposa: I didn't check the comments, but is the identity of the number eight prospect revealed?
David Roth: Livan Hernandez! I guess that kind of took the snap out of the list. As does Ruben "The Memorabilia Dealer" Rivera being number three. I think Ruben was only ranked that high because he bribed voters with some stuff from Jeter's locker. He was all, "YA GOTTA HAVE IT."
David Raposa: I can't believe a 32-year-old man can actually be ranked as a prospect.
David Roth: What, Don West? Or... right, Livan. Whatever age he was supposed to be then, I'm sure was still just jonkin' it. Sitting low-80s, eating melt-style sandwiches on the mound and pulling on a sportsbottle full of whole milk in between innings. I know he was once probably lithe and athletic.
David Raposa: In his early zeroes. He was probably a spry tadpole.
David Roth: But I will always remember him as he is now: 54 years young, paunchy, vexingly effective against the Mets.
David Raposa: Livan Hernandez: the cool Jack Morris.
David Roth: He pitched to the score, always. But the score was the soundtrack to Drive. He's that cool and I don't even know what that means.
David Raposa: Livan is a real human being and a real hero. Because he is heavy.
David Roth: And an inspiration to us all in that regard. I just wanted to share that picture of Karim Garcia because it matters to me.
David Roth: I saw him once, out at dinner with David Wells. They were NOT drunk. They were retaining water.
David Raposa: So no parking lot piss stories?
David Roth: I've got plenty, but none involve Boomer or Karim. But the time that David Wells stabbed a guy with a fork in a diner was across the street from where I live. Does that count?
David Raposa: That counts for everything!
David Roth: But I'm glad you brought up the story about Karim Garcia and Shane Spencer roughing up a pizza man at the Mets spring training in the year 2000-and-depressing.
David Roth: All because the pizza dude asked Karim not to piss in the parking lot. These two fifth outfielders were so passionate about winning that that was all it took for them to go Starkweather on a Little Caesar's guy on the Space Coast.
David Raposa: Guys need PT, or else they get snippy with the help. Although I don't know if someone bringing you Little Caesar's is really helping you.
David Roth: I'm sure Erroll Morris is making a movie about the story.
David Roth: Look, it's your business.


This post is sponsored by Hairbow Supplies Etc, but the work, opinions and ideas are 100% mine.
As I say this, I might date myself… but I remember when my oldest daughter was a baby, trying to find supplies to make GIANT (and I mean giant) hairbows for her. The supplies were hard to find, and when found were not the greatest quality. What I would not have given for some great fold over elastic back then… We were in school and it killed me to buy something that I could easily make.
Fast forward 18 years later and my baby hair bow making days are long behind me now. However my girls have not stopped wanting me to make hair accessories for them.
My youngest is almost 13 (oh man how can I be that old??) and we have increasingly had problems thinking of cute gifts for her friends. It seems we've sent more than our fair share of iTunes gift cards to birthday parties the last few years. Tweens and young teens are HARD to buy for.
I had the idea to make hair ties for her friends. They make up easy and require no special tools or supplies. At first we just used plain white cards to hold the hair ties, then I got the idea to put them on cute cards.
So I designed these "Life is too short to have boring hair" cards. I added a "to" and "from" at the bottom to make for easy gift giving.
You can find the cards on my "templates" page. Just print and cut out (just a note, for a better result, print the cards on textured cardstock).
Making the hair ties was EASY.
You're going to need some fold over elastic. You can get it at HairbowSuppliesEtc.com – they have an enormous selection of fold over elastic, in gobs of colors and prints, they even have glitter elastic!
To make the simple hair ties, cut a piece of fold over elastic to 9" long. Fold in half and tie off. Clip the ends for a neat appearance.
I also made a stretchy headband with a flower attached. You can also find a large selection of flowers at HairbowSuppliesEtc.com . I chose to work with the eyelet and polka dot flowers.
To do this, cut your fold over elastic to 20" long. Then using a needle and heavy duty thread, sew the flower to the headband, a couple of inches off center. After you've stitched though the flower a few times, sew on a glittery button.
Then join the ends and knot. Trim.
To attach it to the card simply loop the elastic around the card 3 times.
You can use the same technique to make hair ties with flowers. Simply sew the flower to the center of the 9" of fold over elastic.
In honor of Project Polka Dot, the good folks at HairbowSuppliesEtc.com have sent over a selection of polka dot fold over elastic and flowers. Make sure you stop by and check out some of their new products for Spring!
To enter simply use the Rafflecopter widget below. As a reminder, if you entered one of our polka dot giveaways already this month you don't have to enter a second time.
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If they burst inside your home, as was the case in our house prior to our purchase, they can wreak havoc.
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Where do you buy this elastic? Can you pick it up at joann's or hobby lobby?
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Findlaw Case Summaries: New York Court of Appeals. March 25, 2011.
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Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law
In the Matter of Madeline Acosta, No. 36
In a dispute over the scope of Correction Law Section 75, dismissal by trial court is modified and affirmed because defendant acted arbitrarily in denying application for security clearance by petitioner where it failed to comply with the requirements of the Correction Law.
Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Copyright
Penguin Group (USA) Inc. v. American Buddha, No. 7
In a question involving the scope of long-arm jurisdiction under CPLR 302 (a)(3)(ii) as applied to a federal copyright infringement action, the situs of injury for purposes of determining long-arm jurisdiction is the location of the copyright holder.
Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
The People v. Cornell, No. 119 SSM 61
Conviction and plea of defendant are vacated in the absence of a postallocution motion where the record is unclear that at the time defendant entered his plea, he was aware that the terms of his sentence included a period of postrelease supervision.
Civil Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
Goldenberg v. Westchester County Health Care Corp., No. 50
In a a special proceeding on a notice of a late claim for medical malpractice against defendant, judgment of dismissal by trial court is affirmed where ultimate complaint dramatically differed, substantively and materially, from the proposed complaint which the plaintiff filed in the prior, special proceeding.
Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In the Matter of Mercedes Casado, No. 32
In a challenge to the validity of two orders of the New York City Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) making a distinction between low-rent apartments in which there has been no recent vacancy and other apartments, allowing larger rent increases for the former, judgment of trial court is reversed where the RGB has the power to make such distinction.
The People v. Beasley, No. 53
Conviction and sentencing of defendant for possession of a controlled substance in the second degree and other, lesser offenses is upheld where ground for appeal was not properly preserved at trial.
The People v. Kelly, No. 58
Conviction and sentencing of defendant for robbery in the first degree and burglary in the first degree are upheld where a brief, momentary separation of a juror from deliberations was not the type of violation contemplated by the continuously kept together language of CPL 310.10.
Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Evidence
The People v. Rodriguez, No. 44
Conviction and sentencing of defendant on charges of manslaughter is upheld where a justification charge was not warranted under the particular facts and circumstances of the case, but warranted on less serious offenses.
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Let's focus for a minute on our planet – the fight against climate change, reconciling with our environment. The time for changes that lead us to sustainability has arrived. And is there anything more sustainable than nature itself?
At the end of the twentieth century, scientist Janine Benyus popularised the term biomimicry or biomimetics, meaning "the imitation of life". This discipline tries to emulate nature: shapes, materials, structures, processes, and behaviours are taken from our environment and transferred to our lives. Below are some examples of biomimetic design.
The train with a bird's beak
Japan's bullet train used to make a deafening noise that could be heard from 400 metres away every time it came out of a tunnel.
Engineer Eiji Nakatsu, an ornithology enthusiast, found a solution to this problem by observing a kingfisher. This bird dives underwater at high speed without even making a splash. Nakatsu applied the shape of the bird's beak to the bullet train. Not only did this reduce the noise being produced by 90%, it also made the model 10% faster and 15% more efficient.
Una publicación compartida de Japan Rail Pass (@japan.rail.pass)
Cars that can photosynthesise
The challenge of sustainable mobility may have found its answer in the process of plant photosynthesis: trapping CO2, transforming it into energy, and releasing the oxygen into the atmosphere.
A prototype of a car that carries out photosynthesis, the Ye Zi, has been released in China. Its leaf-shaped roof captures sunlight and breaks down the water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen atoms. The hydrogen propels the car's battery and, at the same time, releases oxygen into the atmosphere.
The algae building
What if we could imitate natural processes and then make them part of a building? This is already happening in Hamburg.
The façade of the BIQ building features microscopic algae that control the light that enters the building. In winter, the algae stop spreading and the façade remains transparent. In summer, the algae multiply and the sunlight is filtered through it. The light that is not absorbed by the algae for photosynthesis is turned into heat that can be stored in the underground geothermic system of the building or be used to heat water.
Una publicación compartida de UrbaCiklo Project (@urbaciklo)
A building inspired by African termites
Buildings account for 40% of emissions. Therefore, efficient buildings are the answer to the fight against climate change.
The passive solution is exemplified in the way African termites live. The structure of their termite nests allows them to maintain their temperature and humidity in extreme climates.
Architect Mike Pearce used the thermoregulation found in large termite nests in the design for the Eastgate Centre office complex in Harare, Zimbabwe. The building is cooled by air conditioning and requires just 10% of the energy that would be used in a conventional building.
Una publicación compartida de Portal arhitekton.net (@arhitekton_magazin)
A forest in the middle of the desert
A forest in the middle of the desert. An installation that collects water in the middle of the Tunisian Sahara. The Sahara Forest Project by architect Michael Pawlyn is inspired by the Namibian beetle, which creates its own freshwater in the middle of the desert.
This giant greenhouse replicates the physiology of the insect by creating a microsystem in which potable water is generated as energy for harvesting in arid climates and for revegetating the surrounding environment.
Una publicación compartida de Sahara Forest Project AS (@saharaforestproject_as)
Reviving cultural spaces after Covid-19
Biomimetics: The answer can be found in nature
The fluid office and new flexible workspaces
Did you know that work is the place where we spend the second highest number of ...
Five examples of virtual interior design
Virtual interior design is now a reality. But where will it lead? Here are ...
White: the bioclimatic way to cool a city
Global warming is one of the biggest challenges facing the planet. The Earth's ...
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West Kelowna RCMP kept careful watch over an empty lot in West Kelowna overnight.
The property in the 2400 block of Old Okanagan Highway was cordoned off with police tape after a local identified a possible explosive on site.
After officers secured the perimeter, they called in the RCMP's Explosive Disposal unit from the Lower Mainland to investigate the device.
The unit arrived Wednesday morning and inspected the item reported to police. They determined the device was actually a kind of fuse commonly used on construction sites.
Police confirmed Wednesday the unit had already been discharged and was no longer active.
Despite the false alarm, West Kelowna RCMP are thanking the person who reported the device. They're encouraging locals to always err on the side of caution, especially when dealing with potential explosives.


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Dramă Totală: Insula Pacatel () este partea a doua din cele 26 de episoade difuzate de Cartoon Network în cadrul sezonului 5 al Dramei Totale. Acest sezon prezintă o nouă generație de concurenți pe o nouă insulă. Aceasta este cea mai nouă locație după Platourile de Film Abandonate din Acțiune: Dramă Totală.

Premiera în România ar fi trebuit să fie în 23 iulie 2014 tot pe Cartoon Network dar a fost mutată de două ori, mai întâi în 25 august 2014 iar în final a început în 10 noiembrie 2014.

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Aidoma primei părți din sezonul 5, Drama Totală: Reuniunea Vedetelor, acest sezon aduce în prim plan un set nou de 14 concurenți pe o nouă insulă care concurează pentru premiul cel mare: 1.000.000$. Regula rămâne aceiași: concurenții vor concura, iar cei care nu fac față probelor, vor vota un membru al echipei. Și acest sezon are ca gazdă prezentator pe Chris McLean (Richard Balint) și co-prezentatorul Bucătarul Satâr (Sebastian Lupu).

La începutul competiției, 14 concurenți vor fi plasați în 2 echipe. În fiecare episod, cele două echipe vor fi supuse la probe și doar o echipă, datorită unui concurent, va câștiga. Echipa pierzătoate se va prezenta seara la Ceremonia la Focul de Tabără, unde în urma unor voturi, toți cu excepția unuia vor primi Nalbe, ca simbol al imunității. Membrul cu cele mai multe voturi va pleca din joc luând Tunul Rușinii.

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Pimâpotew Kinosewak: Amy, Max , Jasmine , Rodney , Samey , Scarlett , și Topher.
Waneyihtam Maskwak: Bărbosul  , Ella , Dave , Sky , Shawn , Leonard , și Sugar.

 Max și Sky  au schimbat echipele în episodul 07, înainte de începerea ceremoniei de eliminare.

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• The Athletic Booster Club will meet Wednesday, June 15 @ 7:00 pm in the Media Center.
include the Golf Outing and Hornet Day.
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Geotechnical drilling is excellent for you if you work in a number of different industries. This form of drilling requires technical expertise, as contractors study soil samples, rock formations and other earth structures, to be sure that you are making the most of any sort of work that you have on your plate. If you want to learn more about how this sort of work might be beneficial to the type of tasks that you handle in your industry, read on and apply these advantages as you seek professional service from construction contractors.
In this day and age, construction work is very thorough and sophisticated. This boils down to gathering and utilizing data that is accurate and organized. These professionals will collect data in real time, which gives them the chance to make adjustments on the fly and to log it in a database. With this level of equipment and experience, you will have an uptick in efficiency and will best be able to put your project together on your own terms.
The wide range of experience that these geotechnical drilling professionals have is innumerable. If you need them on your work site, they will be able to handle things like the mixing of grout, dewatering and well point vacuuming. They have access to core drillers, mud shakers and a host of other instruments that will benefit you exponentially. By hiring these professional contractors, you will not have to worry about financing or renting this equipment on your own, so you will also be able to be a good steward of your project operating budget.
When you manipulate the bottom layers of the earth during your construction project, you are also accessing various measures of heat energy. By using geotechnical drilling, you will be able to convert this energy for use in your own practice, giving you the opportunity to save some money on your energy budget. By accessing this natural, renewable energy, you will also be a good steward of the environment, so that you are able to keep your company in good standing and to possibly take advantage of energy related tax breaks and benefits.
Follow these steps in order to access geotechnical drilling advantages from companies like Haz-Tech Drilling Inc.


"He who has knowledge spares his words, and a man of understanding has a cool spirit. Even a fool when he holds his peace is considered wise; when he closes his lips he is esteemed a man of understanding." "A man's [moral] self shall be filled with the fruit of his mouth; and with the consequence of his words he must be satisfied [whether good or evil]. Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it [for death or life]."
These are very powerful verses! There is so much to learn about the power of your tongue. We learn a great truth about our tongue and about the task that each and every one of us has to master. We all have to know the power of our words and know how to use our tongue to bless and not tear down. Actually there is another verse in the Scriptures that confirms this. In James 3:5 we read, "Even so the tongue is a little member, and it can boast of great things. See how much wood or how great a forest a tiny spark can set ablaze!" So the tongue has tremendous power to either build or to destroy.
Here it says in Proverbs 17:27a, "He who has knowledge spares his words…" In other words, a person who has knowledge doesn't talk a lot. He weighs his words. He thinks about the effect his words will bring. Then he makes a wise decision about what words to speak. Also, if he's not talking much, then it means he must be listening. That's why he is a man who has knowledge. I believe that God created us with two ears and only one mouth because He wants us to listen twice as much than what we speak. The second part of verse 27 says, "and a man of understanding has a cool spirit." A man who has a cool spirit is a man who is not hot-tempered. Not only should we avoid being hot-tempered, but we should also avoid friendships with such people. We shouldn't be friends with people who don't think before they speak and act.
Then it says in verse 28a, "Even a fool when he holds his peace is considered wise…" So even a fool who doesn't speak much is thought to be wise. There is something to be said about closing our lips and holding our peace. That is so much better than being hot-tempered, being easily angered, and making poor decisions because of that anger. Even in marriage, it's important to be quiet. In marriage, arguments often begin because of a misunderstanding. Sometimes one spouse has already built an idea in his/her mind about what the other person is thinking or feeling. Sometimes it may be an inaccurate perception. That's why it's better to have a calm spirit and talk through your arguments with carefully chosen words. That's in any situation in life. A person of understanding and knowledge is a person who listens to others.
Then it says in Proverbs 18:20 that once a man starts talking, then he "shall be filled with the fruit of his mouth." In other words, our words are seeds. When we speak them out, we are planting those seeds. Eventually those seeds will produce a fruit, and eventually we will have to eat of that fruit. The rest of verse 20 says, "and with the consequence of his words he must be satisfied [whether good or evil]." So if we plant good seeds, then we'll reap a good fruit. If we plant evil seeds, then we'll reap an evil fruit. But regardless of whether the fruit is evil or good, we must be satisfied with them, meaning we must deal with the consequences of our words. That's why we have to be careful of the words we speak. If you don't like the fruit that you are reaping or the life that you are living, then check your words. If you don't like the fruit you are reaping, then it's often because you have sown some bad seeds. So just change the seed. Change the words you have been speaking and start speaking some positive words, words that are filled with faith and that are based on the Word of God.
Then in verse 21 we read, "Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it [for death or life]." Your words can either create life or death, both for you and for others. So it's important to think before you speak. Ask yourself how your words are going to affect yourself and other people. For example, if you have a challenge ahead of you, don't say, "I can't do it! I'm not good enough!" Those are words of death. Eventually those words will become a reality in your life and you're going to have to eat the fruit of those words. Instead, speak words of life. "I can do it! I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." (Philippians 4:13) Those words of life will become a reality and you'll successfully overcome your challenges!
Let's check our words. Let's tame our tongues. Today, let's make sure that every word that comes out of our mouths are words of blessing and healing. Think before you speak. If the words you want to say are going to tear others down or even yourself, don't say them. Instead, speak the words that will build others and yourself up. That way, the fruit you will reap will be the positive words you have spoken. That's what a person of knowledge and understanding does.


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This Week In British Politics: 26 February-4 March
By Ivan Morris Poxton on	 March 4, 2018 Politics
Brexit rumbles on, both Johnson brothers (Boris and Jo) receive their share of criticism and the extent of sexual harassment at Holyrood is unmasked.
Brexit: A 'Major' intervention, Labour clarification and May realism
This week saw Labour's tentative push to provide greater detail to its Brexit negotiating position were it in power actually become something more significant and tangible. On Monday, Jeremy Corbyn confirmed in a speech at Coventry University that Labour's position was in favour of a rather than the customs union, producing a bespoke deal for the UK. Corbyn cited keeping the benefits of tariff-free access to the single market and customs union and avoiding a hard border on the island of Ireland as the chief reasons for Labour's stance. Although far short of what some Labour Remain MPs would like, the clarification of position did at least produce clear daylight between Labour and the Conservative government's Brexit stances with International Trade Secretary Liam Fox describing such a policy as 'a complete sellout of Britain's national interests'.
Midway through the week, not one but two former Prime Ministers waded into Brexit. While former Conservative Prime Minister Sir John Major described the chances of the realization of the 'Brexit Bus' £350 million a week NHS pledge as a 'ridiculous phantom', he also called for a free parliamentary vote on the final Brexit deal. Naturally, more Brexit-leaning elements of the Conservative Party were less than impressed, drawing comparison to Major's passing of the Treaty of Maastricht via intensive whipping of Eurosceptic MPs in 1993. Tony Blair, by contrast, opined that clear EU reform, especially with regards to immigration, might be enough to persuade the UK to return to the EU fold in a hypothetical second referendum on the final deal.
On Friday, Theresa May delivered her latest major speech on Brexit, striking a pragmatic tone by stating that 'no-one will get everything they want' out of Brexit negotiations, but remaining optimistic that a deal will be reached. Although May spelt out more detail of the UK's desired future relationship with the EU, including continued participation in the EU's scientific, cultural and educational programmes (sounds like aiming to keep Erasmus exchange membership going?), critics were unhappy with the level of detail about solving the issue of the border between Northern Ireland and Eire. Having emphatically rejected at PMQs the European Commission's draft withdrawal agreement's suggestion that Northern Ireland remain in the customs union, it had been expected that May might elaborate on how the government hopes to avoid a 'hard' border.
There was still time in the week for Boris Johnson to make a creti-ahem, eyebrow-raising intervention on Brexit, likening solving the Irish border issue to the congestion charge between Camden and Westminster. Many on social media lampooned the Foreign Secretary's comments.
Boris Johnson says the Camden-Westminster border is like the Irish border.
Here is that border.
The biggest conflict seen here is a Strongly Worded Letter Camden sent over Westminster's plan to replace the building on the right with a car park.
Yup. Just as tricky as Ireland. pic.twitter.com/kKcto6SX88
— Adam Harrison (@AdamDKHarrison) February 27, 2018
Scottish Parliament Goings-On
On Thursday MSPs backed by 86 votes to 27 an emergency timetable for the Scottish Government's own EU Withdrawal Bill, nicknamed the 'Continuity Bill', as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon made contingencies for if the post-Brexit devolution settlement fails to cede the powers expected to the Scottish Parliament.
The other significant news of the week from Holyrood came in the form of a release of an anonymous survey into sexual harassment and sexist behaviour at Holyrood and in MSPs' offices. In total, of the 1,000+ respondents, 20% overall and 30% of women said they had experienced such behaviour, prompting Sturgeon to declare that she was shocked, saddened and disappointed by the findings.
Urgent Question of the Week
The parliamentary motion of debate known as the urgent question allows the opposition or backbench government MPs to call to account the government over recent or ongoing events. A total of 5 urgent questions were successfully motioned this week, on the following topics: border arrangements between Northern Ireland and Ireland; the Care Quality Commission's report on the 1983 Mental Health Act, which is currently being reviewed; the humanitarian situation in Syria; the denial of Burmese visas to the International Development Committee; the board of the Office of Students.
In the latter urgent question, tabled by Shadow Education Secretary Angela Rayner (pictured above), the opposition sought to pressure the government on a report just released into the appointment process for members of the new body charged with overseeing higher education provision. Criticism of the original decision to appoint Toby Young to the board appeared well-founded as the report revealed flaws in the appointment process and the remarkable detail that the then-Universities Minister Jo Johnson had alerted Mr Young to the role. Considering Young's role as a writer at The Spectator includes when Boris Johnson was Editor and the pair's known friendship formed at university, MP Layla Moran's assertion that the process smacked of 'cronyism' seemed all too plausible.
UKIP's slide into obscurity continued as it suffered the indignity of losing control of Thanet Council, the only local authority it had previous held control of.
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Three learn about healthcare profession
TORRINGTON-- The days of school summer vacation are short, but they were shorter still for three Torrington High School students.
JAMIE PRESTON OLMSTEAD
Over the course of one week, three THS juniors gave up time that they typically spent with friends or enjoying outdoor activities in exchange for something a little more worthwhile. Through the Northwestern Area Health Education Center's OutREACH program, students Jonathan Brewer, Emily Nguyen and Neil Paczkowski were each given a taste of life as a health care practitioner.
"Our mission is to make kids aware of the opportunities available in healthcare, and to expose them to health careers that 'serve the under served,'" said Health Careers Coordinator JoAnn D'Avirro. "I think this solidified their desire to go in to a health career."
Through a diverse health career exploration program, the three were able to witness firsthand the future of medicine, nursing, respiratory therapy, biotechnology and complementary medicine. Visiting statewide facilities such as the Connecticut Children's Hospital, Waterbury Hospital's Trauma Center and Life Star helicopter, each student was able to walk away with community and educational partnerships, and opportunities for future health career exposure.
"It gave me a lot of insight into the healthcare workforce," said Nguyen, who is considering a pharmaceutical-oriented career. "It shares every variety of allied health available."
The free program, open to students enrolled in Region 1, Litchfield, Nonnewaug, Pomperaug, Torrington, Wamogo and Winsted public schools, allows participants the opportunity to explore health careers through a wide variety of experiences including job shadowing, field trips and interaction with real health care professionals. At the close of the program, each student is awarded a certificate of completion.
Under the THS curriculum, interested students are already exposed to a modicum of the health profession through classes that include anatomy and physiology, genetics, advanced placement biology and EMT-B, an entry-level emergency medical technician program.
For some however, including Brewer and Paczkowski who are considering careers in biotechnology and nursing, respectively, introductions to specialized medical fields tend be a bit a bit lacking at the school level. Through the OutREACH program, students are afforded the knowledge of educational requirements and high school preparation needed for what are fast becoming widespread and lucrative careers.
"These really are universal careers," said THS Career Center Technician Jo-An Cracco. "Our students can pretty much go anywhere in the United States to work in the health field."


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ECI directs Tripura to take action against three cop after Congress rally came under attack
Agartala: January 20. The Election Commission of India (ECI) have ordered the Chief Secretary and Director General of Tripura Police to immediate take action against Sub-divisional Police Officer, Officer-in-charge of Rani Bazar Police Station and Officer-in-charge of Jirania Police Station by suspending or removing them.
Today ECI has ordered Inquiry into the incident and has asked Chief Electoral Officer, Tripura to obtain report from DGP Tripura through Chief Secretary, Tripura and submit report by 3 pm on January 20.
Expressing displeasure, the ECI today said Chief Secretary and Director General of Police, Tripura were asked to explain as to why the situation escalated despite a sufficient number of CAPF personnel deployed in the State.
"The Commission conveyed its displeasure in no uncertain and strongest terms on the violent incident despite the Commission's strict directions during visit to the state and thereafter. CS & DGP were directed to ensure level playing field for all political parties and to initiate strict action against partisan officers. The Commission has directed CS & DGP to take stringent action against SDPO Jirania sub-division by suspending or removing him, action against Officer-in-charge of Rani Bazar Police Station and Officer-in-charge of Jirania Police Station by removing them", the order of ECI reads.
The ECI has also directed CS and DGP to immediately assess the threat perception to the leaders of various political parties in the State and provide security as per the threat perception without further delay.
"Chief Electoral Officer, Tripura was directed to reiterate to the District Election Officers to facilitate the permission to political parties on first-cum-first basis and popularise the SUVIDHA App for disposing off applications of political parties for meetings, rally, roadshow, etc", it reads.
The Commission has also appointed three Special Observers and have been asked to proceed to Tripura immediately to take stock of the situation, ensure proper deployment of CAPF, intensify enforcement measures and report back to the Commission.
The three special observers are Yogendra Tripathy (IAS:1985, Karnataka) an illustrious IAS officer retired as Secretary to Government of India, Vivek Johri (IPS:1984, Madhya Pradesh) an acclaimed IPS officer, having served as DGP of Madhya Pradesh and B. Murali Kumar, an IRS officer of 1983 batch has done election duties as Special Observer in Assembly elections of Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, 2022 and West Bengal, 2021.
The report of ECI further informed that the report from Tripura Government confirmed that Dr Ajoy Kumar sustained minor injuries in an unlawful rally (incident happened in the area where permission was not given by district authorities) and it is not true that he received serious injuries.
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Category: Innovative Technology
This year marks the 500th anniversary of the death of Hieronymus Bosch, the Netherlandish painter best known for his painting "The Garden of Earthly Delights." And thanks to the work of a group of art historians, film-makers, and photographers, one no longer needs to travel to the Prado Museum in Spain to get a good look at this amazing painting!
Described as an "online interactive adventure," the site allows viewers to either freely move around the painting, zooming on details or take a guided tour. Additionally, there are some 40 recorded audio essays throughout the painting. Click on an icon, and you can zoom into a detail and listen to an explanation of what's depicted and how it relates to the work overall.
In addition to the interactive painting, there is also a new app allowing viewers to see the garden in "virtual reality." Bosch VR, produced by BDH Design agency, allows viewer to move through the garden by viewing the painting on an iPad or on an iPhone or Android phone using Google Cardboard.
Google Cardboard viewers are available for use from the VRC during normal operating hours.
Qantara
Comprising a website, a traveling exhibition, and book, Qantara is a very rich and interesting resource for studying the cultural heritage of the Mediterranean from Late Antiquity to the 18th century. The website contains over 1500 entries from Western Europe, Byzantium, and Islamic regions that include objects, sites, and monuments. The material can be searched using various intersections such as materials, subjects, or historical period. Each entry has descriptive metadata (size, media, discovery and repository information), a short descriptive essay, and a bibliography.
There are repositories and cultural heritage institutions from nine countries involved in Qantara, and the information has been reviewed by over 200 experts including curators, historians, and researchers.
CT Scan of Medieval Manuscript
Recently, the British Library did a CT Scan of the St. Cuthbert Gospel, one of the oldest European manuscripts, dating to the 8th Century. An explanation of the process of scanning the manuscript can be found on the British Library's website. Once the manuscript was scanned, along with a facsimile used for comparison, the data was processed in a program called "Drishti," which allows for exploring and visualizing vast amount of data (above).
From the scans, researchers discovered that the central motif on the binding was made using a clay-like material, rather than gesso or cord as had previously been thought.
The entire manuscript has been digitized and is available on the British Library's website here.
Storymap: A New Free Mapping Tool from Knightlab
StoryMapJS is a free tool created by Northwestern University's Knightlab, which aimes to make technology that promotes quality storytelling on the Internet. Storymap allows you to highlight locations of a series of events, like this example of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Works of Art. It also uses features like Gigapixel to tag points on an existing images like this example of The Garden of Earthly Delights or SnapMap to instantly create a map through your Instagram feed. Try this open source user friendly tool for plotting your next project!
Vintage Ads from the New York Times and Duke
The New York Times has recently released a collection of ads from the 1960s and they're crowdsourcing the data for the images. Eventually, other decades will be released. The project is called Madison and if you're interested in participating, check out the link here to start tagging! You'll be asked to find or identify ads on the page, tag ads, or transcribe ads.
Another great digital collection of vintage ads is Duke University's Ad*Access, which contains more than 7,000 ads from the US and Canada between 1911 and 1955. Their digital collection is fully cataloged, so you won't have to do any of the legwork yourself! You can browse across many different categories including product, company, publication, date, subject, headline, and audience.
Dartmouth Digital Orozco
José Clemente Orozco's The Epic of American Civilization mural cycle at Dartmouth College's Baker-Berry Library is virtually represented in the Dartmouth Digital Orozco.
The Dartmouth Digital Orozco project allows users to pan and zoom through the 24 panels of the mural cycle as they exist in the library. If you click anywhere on the mural, a lightbox of related images will open. Dartmouth has a wealth of supplementary images including more than hundred preparatory drawings and historical photographs of the mural. You also overlay supplementary images on top of the mural to see how preparatory drawings relate by adjusting the transparency of the overlay.
The VRC has been building a collection of Mexican mural paintings, so if you'd like to explore our images, login to Luna and search for Mexican muralist.
Flickr App for iPad!
Flickr recently announced that they've developed an app for the iPad and iOS 8!
Now iPad users can view high-resolution images on the large retina dislpay screens, as well as share, fave, and comment on photos from other contributors. There are new tools for organizing your photos and a more robust search feature.
Additionally, the app includes a built-in camera interface, so photos taken with the iPad can be edited and uploaded directly into Flickr. There's a small set of editing tools and filters, too.
For more information, visit the iTunes App Store, or stop by the VRC and check it out on our iPad!!
30 Years of Tate's 'Audio Arts' Online
The Tate recently released 30 years of Audio Arts, the "innovative audio cassette-magazine … established by Bill Furlong in 1972."
Users can browse by category, chronology, or contributor, including inimitable figures such as Joseph Beuys, Marina Abramovc, Bruce McLean, Gehrard Richter, and more.
Check out the Audio Arts archive online!
Archnet Releases New Website
MIT's Archnet, a collaboration between the Aga Khan Trust for Culture and the Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT Libraries, "is a portal to rich and unique scholarly resources featuring thousands of sites, publications, images, and more focused on architecture, urbanism, environmental and landscape design, visual culture, and conservation issues related to the Muslim world." The website has recently been remained and restructured since its launch ten years ago.
The website features a timeline, a wide variety of digital collections and research materials, an advanced search, and selected syllabi pertaining to the study of Islamic Art, Architecture, and Culture.
To explore for yourself, check out Archnet!
Dunhuang Research Redux
The New Yorker recently ran a story about the Dunhuang Library and the efforts to digitize the large cache of materials originally discovered in a cave outside Dunhuang, in the Gobi Desert in western China in 1900. That original discovery revealed a chamber with more than five hundred cubic feet of bundled manuscripts in 17 languages and 24 scripts. The sheer size of the find is not its only extraordinary feature. Other significant discoveries were revealed, including the oldest known example of a printed book—out dating Gutenberg's press for sure.
In 1994, the British Library created a team with partners in China, France, Germany, Japan, and Korea to digitize the cache of Dunhuang library materials. Called the International Dunhuang Project, its efforts are two-fold: they want to make the documents accessible to researchers around the world in addition to preserving them. The International Dunhuang Project's database is freely accessible and provides high quality images of manuscripts ad other materials along with robust cataloging information.
Another fantastic research pertaining to Dunhuang is the Mellon International Dunhuang Archive avaialble in ARTstor. With funding from the Mellon Foundation, a team from Northwestern university photographed (in extremely high resolution) more than 40 of the cave grottos at Dunhuang. The photographs they took were stitched together to create 2-and 3-D representations of the caves that can be viewed using QTVR (QuickTime Virtual Reality) technology.
Via the New Yorker.


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Drivezy Debuts into Inter-City One-way Trips Through Vector
Drivezy, the country's largest peer-to-peer car and bike sharing startup, today announced the launch of Vector, a one-way car rental service that will allow customers to make point-to-point trips between two cities. The one-way rental service has been launched between Bengaluru and Mysuru in Karnataka and Mumbai and Pune in Maharashtra.
Customers can pick their cars from the designated Vector zone in one city and drop it in the other. Reservations can be made through Drivezy's website up to 90 minutes in advance. With the launch of Vector, the company is offering a greater degree of convenience to its 5 lakh-plus customer base. In contrast to outstation cab services which charge in excess of INR 2,500 for a one-way trip, Vector offers flexibility at almost half the price. The tariff for a five-hour intercity reservation with Drivezy costs INR 1,350 inclusive of fuel cost. Headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka, Drivezy operates across 6 cities, with a fleet of 2,000 vehicle.
Drivezy features a varied choice of geared and non-geared bikes on its marketplace. High-end bikes like Royal Enfield (Classic) and Dominar are most popular and usually sold out every week.
"Drivezy's innovative peer-to-peer sharing model allows customers to list cars and bikes on the platform when idle and earn on an otherwise, depreciating asset. While the car sharing market in India is huge, we believe that there is a tremendous untapped potential in the bike rental space as well. Vector blends the best of Drivezy – guaranteed parking and advance reservations with the freedom of one-way trips. We plan to expand the scope of Vector to include one-way dockless bike and scooter rentals by June. Superbikes will be another addition to our fleet this year. We are confident that by the 2018 we shall have 5,000 bikes and 20,000 cars on our platform across India, 10% of which will be electric vehicles." said Ashwarya Singh, CEO and Co-Founder, Drivezy.
Drivezy aims to include dockless sharing services for motorcycles and scooters by June. This will allow customers to pick a two-wheeler that has been parked nearby and drop it at any location within city limits. Unlike conventional rental services, dockless sharing absolves the need of dropping the vehicle at designated parking spots, providing customers a greater degree of convenience. This will allow Drivezy to offer 24/7 service and one-way travel at 50 percent of the price of autos and taxis. The company is actively raising a Series B fund to scale this automated system across 12 cities by the end of 2018.
The estimated net-worth of the rental market, according to PwC and EY reports will be at a whopping $335 billion by 2025. With increasing internet penetration in the country, Drivezy is moving fast to the next level with full blockchain integration, as they strive to provide new opportunities and better service to all customers and investors. They are driving meaningful evolution that enables millions of people to access the power of the vehicle sharing economy at a fraction of the cost. The goal is to create a decentralized peer-to-peer shared ecosystem that will enable millions of people globally to share, operate and get the financial benefits from any sharing service and application directly between them in a trusted and efficient manner; from travel to accommodation and investment services, in a wholly secure and private environment.
Drivezy launched bike sharing operations in Bangalore in June 2017, by featuring 250 bikes, and in the short period scaled up to 700 bikes in 4 cities. The core element that has powered this success is the company's strategy to make a transition from an aggregator to a marketplace model. Drivezy aims to resonate the feat across Karnataka, by structuring the largely unorganized bike rental market.
About Drivezy
Backed by prestigious Y Combinator and Google, Drivezy has raised a total of US$16 million from leading global investors. Headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka, Drivezy operates across 6 cities, with a fleet of 2,000 vehicles. In a short span of two years, Drivezy has emerged as a marketplace for self-drive cars and two-wheeler rentals in cities such as, Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune, and Goa. Operating as a peer-to-peer vehicle rental platform, Drivezy sources vehicles from users registered on its platform. Formerly called JustRide, the self-drive car and bike rental startup began its operations in Mumbai in 2015, with 8 cars. It has a customer base of over 5,00,000 customers on its platform. With a monthly GMV of over $1 million per month and a 246% growth in unique customers over the last year, Drivezy is the largest marketplace for vehicle rentals in India. The company was founded by Ashwarya Singh – Chief Executive Officer, Hemant Kumar Sah – Chief Technical Officer & Co-Founder, Vasant Verma – Chief Operating Officer & Co-Founder, Abhishek Mahajan – Co-Founder and Amit Sahu – Co-Founder. Headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka, Drivezy currently operates in four other cities in India (Mumbai, Pune, Mysore, Mangalore and Goa) and aim to expand further. Drivezy's key financing partners include Mahindra Finance, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Sri Ram Finance, Cholamandalam, Axis Bank, Union Bank and Tata Motor Finance.
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'I've had no Royal Mail post in Brockley for more than two months - it's absurd'
Royal Mail post in Brockley hasn't arrived for 'two months'
By Immy Share @ImmyShare Digital Audience and Content Editor
Brockley, Lewisham has been hit by Royal Mail Covid self-isolation absences and staff shortages
A woman from Brockley is among a number of people in the area who have expressed their frustration towards Royal Mail after having not received any post for more than two months.
Maddison, aged in her 20s, says she is still waiting on Christmas gifts and cards from family and friends which haven't been delivered.
She says she has hospital appointments due to come up that she doesn't know the status of, work deliveries that she has not received and is struggling to get refunds from online sellers who insist they have sent out her parcels.
She explained that she is becoming increasingly "frustrated" by the situation – and has not been informed about what the holdup is or why.
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Maddison, who wishes for her full name to be kept anonymous, told the News Shopper: "I don't know whether this is an issue in the sorting office, or if its Covid related, but I've been getting no post whatsoever and it's absurd really.
"I went to the sorting office because I saw on a community page that they can check there if they've got any mail for you but they had nothing for me.
"It's so difficult to dispute that you haven't received an item with a seller when they have proof of postage.
"And, more importantly than Christmas presents, I've had hospital appointments due to come up and I don't know whether they've been cancelled.
"People receive important documents in the post about money or health and it can be very problematic – especially with the backlog in hospitals at the moment.
"It's hard to get an appointment anyway and that's made worse if people aren't receiving notifications about them.
"This aspect of the problem is about people's health at the end of the day."
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Maddison explained that she has written a formal complaint and sent an email to Royal Mail but hasn't heard anything back.
Royal Mail has recently been issuing a service update each day on its website which lists the postcodes in the UK where post may be delayed due to "Covid related self-isolation, high levels of sick absence, resourcing, or other local factors".
Maddison thinks it is "pretty absurd" that SE4 has not been named on the list at all.
A spokesperson for Royal Mail has said that it is experiencing some delays to service in this local area due to high levels of sickness absence and Covid related self-isolation.
Maddison added: "We should be very high on that list.
"There are constantly complaints on our community Facebook pages that people haven't received their post for weeks on end.
"Obviously Royal Mail is not saying there's a problem for whatever reason.
"I can appreciate it's not necessarily the people in the sorting office's problem though."
The situation was the same last Christmas with post in the area according to Maddison – so she says she wonders whether it is Covid related or not.
"It seems to get really bad around Christmas time," she explained.
"I do expect a bit of delay, and I get that, but not two months.
"Now, every time I buy online I ask if my order can be posted with a courier which isn't Royal Mail.
"You want to be able to rely on a postal service."
The Royal Mail spokesperson assured that hard work is being done to get service levels back to normal "as soon as possible".
Another man who lives in Brockley says Royal Mail is "overwhelmed" due to "staff shortages", and assumes that next day deliveries are "buried in a mountain of unsorted mail".
The resident, who wishes to remain an anonymous, has also spoken of the "growing problem" with post in the area.
He has called on the postal company to draft in extra staff – otherwise the problem "will continue".
He explained: "I spoke to my local postman who has told me they are completely overwhelmed by the Christmas mail mountain.
"There has been no effective provision of extra staff to tackle the problem so it keeps getting worse.
"We haven't received any of nine separate items ordered between November 28 and December 8.
"Thousands of Christmas gifts remain undelivered and there is an outcry on local community Facebook forums but the logjam shows no sign of being fixed.
"Without extra staff being drafted in by Royal Mail this will continue for weeks and even months."
The full statement from a Royal Mail spokesperson said: "The vast majority of mail is delivered safely and on time.
"We aim to deliver to all addresses we have mail for, six days a week.
"In the local area, we are experiencing some delays to service due to high levels of sickness absence and Covid related self-isolation.
"We apologise to any customers who may have experienced delays to their mail.
"We are working hard to get our levels of service back to normal as soon as possible.
"Anyone who has concerns over the delivery of their mail should contact the Royal Mail customer service team on 03457 740 740 or via the Royal Mail website www.royalmail.com."
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The late Singh Kaur (Lorellei, Laura Drew) was a singer-composer-arranger of rare magnitude. Well-respected and loved by all who knew her, she was in possession of both a keen compositional mind and a soothing, crystal clear voice. Her live concerts uplifted and inspired many, and her wonderful recordings continue to do so.
Singh Kaur was first exposed to the life of music at the age of five, listening to arias sung by her operatic grandmother. At age 14, she bought her first guitar and immediately began to compose and arrange. Her lyrical concepts were honed during the 14 years that she spent in a yoga ashram studying ancient spiritual teachings and Kundalini Yoga, mixing with an eclectic bunch of musicians and writing and singing inspiring devotional songs.
In 1978 she released her first album – Songs of the Lords Love – a live recording of one of her concerts. Her musical development continued with the release of Peace Lagoon and then Peace Lagoon II, both inspired by her study of the sacred teachings of the Sikh scriptures.
Yogi Bhajan commissioned Singh Kaur to record a series of mantras. These became the highly popular Crimson Series, produced by Liv Singh Khalsa of Invincible Music, and also featuring the beautiful harp playing of Kim Robertson. These recordings remain her most popular, and are frequently played in hospitals, birthing centers, holistic spas and other centers which make good use of healing spiritual music. Crimson 6 is the incredibly beautiful and much acclaimed Ardas.
These recordings were re-released by Invincible as CDs – Crimson Collection 1&2, Crimson Collection 3, Crimson Collection 4&5 and Crimson Collection 6&7.
As a member of the Khalsa String Band, along with other well-known Sikh musicians such as Livtar Singh and Vikram Singh (Antion), she toured throughout North America.
Singh Kaur's spiritual name means Lion Princess, a most appropriate name for this talented performer. With her long flowing red hair and exuberant personality, she was both playful and ferocious. Yogi Bhajan, who gave her this name, would say that it held the key to her destiny: "Sing Singh Kaur!" As she sang, her soul reached out to touch the hearts of others.
Amar Singh Khalsa, with whom Singh Kaur collaborated, recounted her effortless creativity. He recalls the day they were sitting in St. Louis airport with Yogi Bhajan, who was en route for New York. He asked her to put Rakhe Rakhan Har (an ancient Sikh mantra) to music He tapped out the heartbeat rhythm on an empty Styrofoam cup.
When they got home from the airport, they put the rhythm into Singh Kaur's drum machine. By the following evening Singh Kaur had made a rough recording which was basically the finished piece. She had sat this ability to put the perfect music to any words that came her way – English or Gurmukhi.
Singh Kaur died in Maui, Hawaii in 1998 aged 43, following a lengthy battle with ovarian cancer. Active right up to the end, her epic recordings present an amazing experience to those yet to hear her wonderful voice. The "Lion Princess" will forever be remembered through her unique legacy of inspirational spiritual musical.
Crimson Collection Volumes 4 & 5 - Singh Kaur & Kim Robertson CD $17.98


Our wiring is divided up into 15 and 20 amp circuits inside a 200 amp circuit breaker box.
Our panel box was done by an electrician, who gave us a temp outlet early on. In March we began wiring the whole house ourselves.
I've integrated X10 home automated switches into some of the house.


I was the lead designer for the Scholars Exchange series and Nucleus, the Faculty Commons quarterly academic magazine. Interning at Faculty Commons was a tremendous help to my professional development. It taught me a lot about how to carry myself in a professional work environment, while simultaneously helping me to become a better designer. My aspirations for the future is to graduate college and then take all the lessons I have learned during my time at Faculty Commons and apply it to my work and art.


You can remodel or renovate your kitchen to improve its value as well as general appearance. This includes adding some decorative items like mettler balance at AffordableScales.com into your kitchen and replacing others. You can also change your kitchen color themes or introduce different colors to create a contrast. Before you do anything else, you must first sit down and determine you budget. Establish what changes you require in your kitchen to make it appear more beautiful. Replacing your kitchen cabinets knobs and pulls with those that compliment your kitchen appliances can add accent and glamour to your kitchen making it more appealing to the eyes. Other activities that you can carry out to improve the look of your kitchen are landscaping, refinishing of cabinets, adding under cabinet lights, replacing kitchen backsplashes and incorporating crown moldings among others. The good thing is that you can either do this on your own or hire a professional kitchen designer to assist you.
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Q: Save to binary file I'd like to save data to binary file using java. For example i have the number 101 and in my program the output file have 4 Bytes. How can i save the number only in three bits (101) in the output file ?
My program looks like this:
public static void main(String args[]) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
    int i = 101;
    DataOutputStream os = new DataOutputStream(new FileOutputStream("file"));
    os.writeInt(i);
    os.close();
}

I found something like that: http://www.developer.nokia.com/Community/Wiki/Bit_Input/Output_Stream_utility_classes_for_efficient_data_transfer

A: You can not write less than one byte to a file. If you want to write the binary number 101 then do int i = 5 and use os.write(i) instead. This will write one byte: 0000 0101.

A: First off, you can't write just 3 bits to a file, memory is aligned at specific values (8, 16, 32, 64 or even 128 bit, this is compiler/platform specific). If you write smaller sizes than that, they will be expanded to match the alignment.
Secondly, the decimal number 101, written in binary is 0b01100101. the binary number 0b00000101, is decimal 5.
Thirdly, these numbers are now only 1 Byte (8 bit) long, so you can use a char instead of an int.
And last but not least, to write non-integer numbers, use os.write()
So to get to what you want, first check if you want to write 0b01100101 or 0b00000101. Change the int to a char and to the appropriate number (you can write 0b01100101 in Java). And use os.write()

A: A really naive implementation, I hope it helps you grasp the idea. Also untested, likely to contain off-by-one errors etc...
class BitArray {
  // public fields for example code, in real code encapsulate
  public int bits=0; // actual count of stored bits
  public byte[] buf=new byte[1];

  private void doubleBuf() {
    byte [] tmp = new byte[buf.length * 2];
    System.arraycopy(buf, 0, tmp, 0, buf.length);
    buf = tmp;
  }

  private int arrayIndex(int bitNum) {
    return bitNum / 8;
  }

  private int bitNumInArray(int bitNum) {
    return bitNum & 7; // change to change bit order in buf's bytes
  }

  // returns how many elements of buf are actually in use, for saving etc.
  // note that last element usually contains unused bits.
  public int getUsedArrayElements() {
    return arrayIndex(this.bits-1) + 1;
  }

  // bitvalue is 0 for 0, non-0 for 1
  public void setBit(byte bitValue, int bitNum) {
    if (bitNum >= this.bits || bitNum < 0) throw new InvalidArgumentException();
    if (bitValue == 0) this.buf[arrayIndex(bitNum)] &= ~((byte)1 << bitNumInArray(bitNum));
    else this.buf[arrayIndex(bitNum)] |= (byte)1 << bitNumInArray(bitNum);
  }

  public void addBit(int bitValue) {
    // this.bits is old bit count, which is same as index of new last bit
    if (this.buf.length <= arrayIndex(this.bits)) doubleBuf();
    ++this.bits;
    setBit(bitValue, this.bits-1);
  }

  int readBit(int bitNum) {  // return 0 or 1
    if (bitNum >= this.bits || bitNum < 0) throw new InvalidArgumentException();
    byte value = buf[arrayIndex(bitNum)] & ((byte)1 << bitNumInArray(bitNum));
    return (value == 0) ? 0 : 1;
  }

  void addBits(int bitCount, int bitValues) {
    for (int num = bitCount - 1 ; num >= 0 ; --num) {
      // change loop iteration order to change bit order of bitValues
      addBit(bitValues & (1 << num));
    }
}

For efficient solution, it should use int or long array instead of byte array, and include more efficient method for multiple bit addition (add parts of bitValues an entire buf array element at a time, not bit-by-bit like above).
To save this, you need to save the right number of bytes from buf, calculated by getUsedArrayElements().

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Vive le Québec libre! (Viva il Québec libero!) fu la controversa frase che caratterizzò il discorso pronunciato dal presidente francese Charles de Gaulle il 24 luglio 1967, durante una visita ufficiale in Canada per partecipare a Expo 67, a Montreal, nella provincia francofona del Québec.

La frase, uno slogan usato dai quebecchesi favorevoli all'indipendenza del Québec, e il suo uso da parte di de Gaulle, fu interpretato come un sostegno al movimento. Il discorso scatenò un incidente diplomatico con il governo canadese e fu condannato dal primo ministro Lester Pearson, il quale dichiarò che i canadesi non hanno bisogno di essere liberati.

In Francia, sebbene molti fossero solidali con la causa del nazionalismo del Québec, il discorso di de Gaulle fu criticato come una violazione del protocollo.

Eventi che precedettero il discorso
Anche prima del suo arrivo, il governo federale canadese era preoccupato per la visita del presidente de Gaulle. Ad aprile, de Gaulle non aveva partecipato alle cerimonie di commemorazione del 50º anniversario della vittoria canadese nella Battaglia del crinale di Vimy, nel 1917, contro i tedeschi. Il governo di Pearson era così preoccupato per la potenziale interferenza della Francia negli affari interni che inviò preventivamente a conferire con de Gaulle, a Parigi, il Segretario di Stato per gli Affari Esteri, Paul Martini.

De Gaulle, come tutti i leader dei paesi espositori di Expo 67, fu invitato a visitare il Canada durante la primavera e l'estate del 1967. Al presidente francese fu anche separatamente invitato dal premier del Québec, Daniel Johnson, a visitare la provincia.

Contravvenendo al protocollo, de Gaulle non arrivò nella capitale canadese, Ottawa. Giunse, invece, a Québec, l'omonima capitale della provincia, sull'incrociatore Colbert, nave ammiraglia della marina francese nel Mediterraneo.

De Gaulle fu applaudito con entusiasmo dalla folla, mentre il nuovo governatore generale, Roland Michener, venne fischiato durante l'intonazione dell'inno anglo-canadese God Save the Queen. In quell'occasione, de Gaulle parlò semplicemente dei legami in evoluzione del suo paese con il Québec.

Contenuto del discorso
In base a una serie di interviste personali con alti funzionari francesi, e dai documenti da lui scoperti, lo studioso Dale C. Thomson ha sostenuto che la dichiarazione di de Gaulle era stata pianificata e che questi la usò quando se ne presentò l'opportunità.

Il 15 luglio, prima di salire sul Colbert, de Gaulle disse a Xavier Deniau: «Mi sentiranno laggiù, sarà un maremoto!» Confidò anche al suo genero generale Alain de Boissieu: «Io batterò un forte colpo, l'atmosfera si surriscalderà, ma è necessario».

Il 24 luglio, de Gaulle giunse a Montréal e fu condotto al Chemin du Roy, nel municipio di Montréal, dove il sindaco Jean Drapeau e il premier Johnson lo stavano aspettando. Non era in programma che De Gaulle parlasse quella sera, ma disse a Drapeau: «Devo parlare a quelle persone che mi chiamano». Si affacciò allora al balcone per un breve messaggio alla folla che fu trasmesso anche in diretta alla radio. Il discorso si concluse con le parole: «Vive Montréal! Vive le Québec!» ("Viva Montréal, Viva il Québec!"). Poi aggiunse, seguito da un forte applauso, «Vive le Québec libre!», con particolare attenzione alla parola "libre".

Reazioni e conseguenze del discorso
L'affermazione, proveniente dal capo di Stato francese, fu considerata una grave violazione del protocollo diplomatico. Incoraggiò il movimento indipendentista del Quebec e produsse tensioni tra i leader dei due paesi.

La reazione della folla alla frase di De Gaulle fu emotiva e descritta come frenetica,; suscitò inoltre polemiche con i canadesi inglesi, per l'implicita minaccia all'integrità territoriale del Canada.

Il primo ministro canadese Lester B. Pearson rimproverò de Gaulle con una dichiarazione ufficiale, letta alla televisione nazionale e consegnata all'ambasciata francese il 25 luglio: «Il popolo canadese è libero, ogni provincia canadese è libera, i canadesi non hanno bisogno di essere liberati, anzi, molte migliaia di canadesi hanno dato la vita in due guerre mondiali per la liberazione della Francia e di altri paesi europei». Ne scaturì un rumore mediatico e diplomatico, che indusse De Gaulle a interrompere la sua visita in Canada.

Il 26 luglio, invece di continuare la sua visita ad Ottawa, dove doveva incontrare il primo ministro Pearson, il presidente decise di tornare in Francia con un jet militare francese.

De Gaulle fu anche pesantemente criticato da gran parte dei media francesi, in particolare da Le Monde, per la sua violazione del protocollo internazionale.

Il movimento di sovranità del Québec considerò il discorso come un momento di svolta. Tenuto conto del basso livello economico e politico dei franco-canadesi dell'epoca, il sostegno di un capo di Stato straniero sembrava aggiungere credibilità al movimento.

Sul volo di ritorno da Montréal, de Gaulle disse a René de Saint-Légier de la Saussaye – suo consigliere diplomatico – che l'evento era stato «un fenomeno storico forse prevedibile ma che aveva preso una forma che solo la situazione stessa aveva potuto determinare. Come molti altri avrei potuto rifugiarmi in cortesi osservazioni o acrobazie diplomatiche, ma quando si è il generale De Gaulle, non si ricorre a simili espedienti: quello che ho fatto, dovevo farlo».

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Voci correlate
 Canada francese
 Francese del Québec
 Gollismo
 Appello del 18 giugno

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

  - Scheda curata dall'Ufficio per il Turismo del Québec

Discorsi di Charles De Gaulle
Storia del Québec
Quinta Repubblica francese


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