Veteran actor Dilip Kumar with his wife Saira Banu going out for a drive on the eve of his birth anniversary in Mumbai on Thursday night.
Legendary actor Dilip Kumar's 92nd birthday is celebrated at the Press Club in Peshawar.
@TheDilipKumar posted a photo on Twitter and wrote: Spent a lovely evening in our Pali Hill home-garden with Saira.
Veteran Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar with Salman Khan during the wedding reception of Arpita Khan in Mumbai on Friday night 21 Nov. 2014.
Bollywood veteran actor Dilip Kumar with wife Saira, Salim Khan and Sohail during the wedding reception of Arpita Khan and Aayush Sharma in Mumbai on Friday night 21 Nov. 2014.
Dharmendra and Dilip Kumar during the launch of the latter's autobiography The Substance and The Shadow in Mumbai.
Bollywood actors Amitabh Bachchan and Dilip Kumar during the launch the latter's autobiography The Substance and The Shadow in Mumbai.
Earlier, the celebrity couple had even appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, but after failing to get any response, had launched a counter-attack on the realtor with the defamation notice.
Dilip Kumar and Saira Banu had in January 2018 lodged a police complaint, accusing Mr Bhojwani of forging title documents of their bungalow worth Rs. 250 crore located in Pali Hill area of the upmarket suburb.
Veteran actress Saira Banu has expressed hope that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet her and help save Dilip Kumar's bunglow from the land mafia.
The news was first shared on the actor's official Twitter account by his nephew Faisal Farooqui.
Kumar, 94, was admitted to city-based Lilavati Hospital on August 2, where he was treated for dehydration and urinary tract infection.
In 1969, people from Peshawar descended on Kabul in droves to watch Aradhana. And when Rajesh Khanna died, notwithstanding a few rants, Pakistanis also mourned the demise of the prince of passion.
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In a book that combines psychology and sociology with an insightful understanding of human interactions, Ori and Rom Brafman have written a compelling narrative that helps us to understand the magic behind those moments when we form an incredible connection with other people, or which cause us to become fully engaged in whatever we are doing. In a page-turning narrative in the fashion of their previous book, Sway, the co-authors explore those peak moments in our lives when people or hobbies or activities fully engage our attention when they click' with us. Drawing from recent research in psychology and sociology, and told through the same kinds of engaging stories that made Sway a New York Times bestseller, Click takes us on a roller coaster journey of discovery into those moments in our lives when we are in the zone' when the rest of the world drops away and everything seems to fall into place.


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Each year the troop undertakes a set of community and conservation service projects.
Setting out over 1,000 luminarias for their Christmas season festival.
Every boy seeking the rank of Eagle Scout must plan, prepare, and give leadership on a service project.
In addition to providing service and fulfilling the part of the Scout Oath, "to help other people at all times," one of the primary purposes of the Eagle Scout service project is to demonstrate or hone, or to learn and develop, leadership skills. Related to this are important lessons in project management and taking responsibility for a significant accomplishment.
Service projects can be construction, conservation or comunity service oriented.


As I introduce and outline in my book Flip the Funnel, I believe customer service will become not "a" strategic differentiator, but "the" strategic differentiator — the one that ultimately presents sustainable competitive advantages to companies operating in an otherwise commoditized world.
Think about it for a moment: The "four Ps" of traditional marketing — Product, Price, Place, and Promotion — are today, for the most part, completely commoditized. With rare exceptions — such as the iPhone, Priceline.com, the Kindle's WhisperNet and WhisperSync technologies, or Queensland Tourism's "The Greatest Job in the World" — success achieved by standing out from the crowd is, more than ever, an exception rather than a norm.
Then there's customer service. The notion that we buy — or will buy — from companies that appreciate and acknowledge us, engage us on a consistent basis in meaningful dialogue on our terms, reward and recognize us with an overall superior customer experience and ultimately, connect us with one another in ways that present limitless possibilities of collaboration, conversation and valuable outcomes.To be clear, a key variable that will help us choose — and champion — a company will be the extent to which they commit themselves to the communities they serve, the surroundings in which they operate and the environment on the whole. However, this is not your grandfather's customer service.
In fact, it's not even your father's customer service. Hell, it's not even yours (at least not entirely). Customer service — or, more to the point, servicing customers — is as much a shared experience nowadays as it is a one-to-one process. The traditional value proposition of CRM was inherently flawed at worst and unscalable at best. With technology-powered feedback systems, real-time response or word-of-mouth channels and ultimately socially connected networks of promoters, detractors and influencers, Voice of the Customer has the potential to be an efficient and effective one-two punch that is very much an alive, evolving, learning and adapting organism.
Customer service doesn't stop at 5pm on a Friday - If you're using Twitter or any other social media platform to deliver customer service, you need to play by your customer's "office hours", not yours.
From "everything" to "everyone" communicates — "Target Lady" is the face of the Cheap Chique discount retailer, not the models that adorn the walls of Times Square.
All customers are equal (some more than others) — This is about customer segmentation based on tenure, loyalty, value and status, but it's also about influence; when last did you Google your customer or ask them if they had a blog?
Customer service is not only about solving problems - Just ask the folks at Ritz Carlton, Five Guys Burgers + Fries or Singapore Airlines.
Customer service lives "in the now" — Real-time problem resolution (a Twitter best practice, if you will) is what it takes to avoid becoming the target of a customer crusade.
Customer service can be a revenue generator — Just ask Amazon.com's Prime, Best Buy's Geek Squad or the Apple Store's Genius bars.
Customer service lives in the public domain — As United Airlines found out the hard way when they took 6 months to eventually deny Dave Carroll his claim to get his guitar repaired. Customers will always defer or default to the "private" domain, but after a while, they'll take their umbrage to the masses and make their problem yours.
Customer service can be proactive & anticipatory — Voice of the Customer efforts like My Starbucks Idea are a modern day spin on the analog Suggestion Box. The Flipped Funnel philosophy begins with the customer purchase, as opposed to ending with it. In other words, the process is a journey, not a destination and because of this, contingency and scenario planning are part and parcel of the new service-led, customer-centric value proposition.
Customer service is alive — Mistakes will always happen, but as long as they only happen once, they'll most likely become learning opportunities. There's no playbook or script when it comes to working with a customer as a life partner. Empowering employees to be independent thinkers and proactive problem solvers shouldn't seem like scaling Mount Everest; nor should it be thought of as only a high-end or premium-priced option or alternative. A simple way to get smarter over time is by closing the loop, acting on suggestions/recommendations and most importantly, communicating this to the entire organization.
This approach is one part Back to the Future and one part a glimpse of how brands become more relevant in an increasingly digital, connected, and social world. It's a combination that marries the best of technology with the best of humanity in a time where we are conceivably ushering in a post-marketing era — one governed by what I call "nonmedia" or powered by human-to-human or peer-to-peer.
And the good news is that every company in every industry is capable of flipping the funnel — right now.
All it takes is a customer.
Joseph Jaffe (jaffe@powered.com; @jaffejuice on Twitter) is chief interruptor at Powered, a dedicated social media agency. The author of Flip the Funnel: How to Use Existing Customers to Gain New Ones (www.flipthefunnelnow.com), Jaffe's blog, audio, and video posts can be found at www.jaffejuice.com.


Flipkart Stops Delivering Items over INR 10000 in UP: What's the Real Reason?
Flipkart Stops Delivering Items over INR 10000 in UP: What's the Real Reason?
I recently bought Nexus 4 via Flipkart. When I selected my address it told me that the item can't be shipped to the desired address. I thought initially that this might be because of some issue with the phone or something of that order. Maybe Flipkart was only delivering it to major cities. I did not dwell over the matter much because living in NCR, I just got it delivered to my friend's place who lives in Delhi.
In fact, Flipkart has decided to altogether stop shipping any items in UP if they are above the price of Rs. 10000. I will be honest with you. The first thing that came to my mind when I read this is the meme of Dragon ball (Over 9000 one).
Now, according to Flipkart it is a purely business oriented move. However, it is not difficult to gauge what might have caused this move to take place and that too for the most populous state of the country.
According to Times of India, the 'insiders' are saying the main cause for this step was the number of orders that were 'Cash on Delivery' and were returned by the customers. These fake orders were made just for fun, due to which company was having a negative impact.
A product would take 10 days to go to the customer and back to the company in case it was returned. This meant that the product was stuck in the pipeline and not sold for a span of 10 days. Alongside this, there are costs like transit and insurance which the company had to pay.
What is the most interesting part is the move itself. It is a bold step and to take such a step simply means that the loss incurred by Flipkart must have outweighed the advantage of selling in the largest state of the nation. Taking this into mind we can imagine the amount of fake orders that must have been placed by people.
What baffles me is that if this is the reason for Flipkart to skip the state then why did they not do this for only 'Cash on Delivery'.
The people who are paying by card have already paid the price so why not send them the products. This makes me feel that there must be more to the reasons for Flipkart to take such a huge step.
Only time will tell if other companies follow suit or if Flipkart finds its revenue plummeting because of this. Flipkart has already decided to close its Flyte platform and with the entry of Amazon things are not going to be easy for Flipkart. As of now, if you want to buy anything from Flipkart above Rs. 10000 and you live in UP, you can't.
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Flipkart is facing some real competitions from the likes of global eCommerce firms like eBay and amazon…Amazon recently launched its own marketplace in India, and eBay invested a disclosed amount in Snapdeal…These two events make things more complicated for Flipkart….Flipkart needs to rethink and come up with a long lasting solution in order to survive it….Flipkart is putting some limitations from some of the states of the country….In fact its prices are higher than Amazon too…These won't help at all…I hope it will understand it soon enough….


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How Long Does It Take New Skin Products To Work?
How Long Does It Take For Your Skin-Care Routine To Actually Work?
Daniela Morosini
Illustrated by Mallory Heyer.
There's something to be said for the instant gratification of makeup. When Leonard Lauder coined the term "lipstick index" in the early 2000s, it was because he'd noticed that, even in the depths of a recession, sales of cosmetics like lipstick actually increased, rather than falling off a cliff. Why? Because putting on lipstick — especially when it comes in a luxe gilded case so weighty the tube clicks shut like the door of a very expensive sports car — is transformative. It instantly lifts your mood and look. Can you imagine the studied stoicism of a multi-step skin-care routine having such a positive pull in an uncertain time? I can't. When the chips are down, I at least want to look polished as I fall ever deeper into credit-card debt.
That's probably why we all turn to makeup in times of need — and to be fair, when you notice a massive new zit as you head into your big job interview, concealer is always going to be your first port of call, rather than salicylic acid. Inversely, when it comes to your skin, sometimes you have to play the long game to get results. "As a rule of thumb, the more work that needs to be done on a cellular level, the longer it'll take to see the difference," says cosmetic doctor David Jack. "If it needs to actually change the cells' behavior, you can't expect results within less than a few weeks."
Some things should work quickly: Moisturizer, especially a serum or cream with hyaluronic acid, should smooth the skin pretty much instantly. Something meant to treat acne or pigmentation, however, is going to take a little longer. "If you're using something like vitamin C or retinol, that means a change on a cellular level, so expect to wait at least three months to see a benefit," Dr. Jack says. Likewise, cleanser (especially if you're using it specifically for breakout-fighting purposes) needs to shift your skin's pH a little, which can take a couple of weeks.
Then there are all the masks and creams that guarantee to instantly brighten/lift/tone/give you the complexion of a beaming baby angel or Victoria's Secret model. "If it promises an instant effect, it may well deliver that," Dr. Jack explains, "but the effect will be superficial." Any kind of peel-off mask that "removes blackheads" does so by removing sebaceous filaments, which your skin will simply replenish within a few days, and takes a layer of peach fuzz off with it. Anything that "imparts an instant glow" might brighten your skin, but only through slight surface exfoliation or light-reflecting particles. As for anything that claims to "lift" — well, remember your old friend Isaac Newton and his apple, and put that one back on the shelf.
That's not to say that instant means bad, or ineffective — it's just that any product that promises an instant improvement should be the cherry on top of your skin-care routine, not the cornerstone. And as for your skin "getting used to" something, I personally don't buy it: If it works, why wouldn't you stick with it? "It's true that there is probably an optimal state that a product can get your skin to in terms of bacterial flora and pH, but by stopping, all you're doing is taking yourself back to square one," Dr. Jack explains. "When you add that hero product back in again, it will work again, but only up to that previous point. It's purely psychological to think it looks better after a break." It's far better to keep using a product you know works for your skin, rather than swapping a handful of similar ones in and out for the sake of variety.
And if a product makes you break out, should that be considered a "purge" that we should ride out in pursuit of better skin, or is a breakout a breakout? "The jury's out," Dr. Jack says. Damn. "It's true that rebalancing the flora of your skin can cause purging, but everyone's different. It might clear up, it might not — it happens to some people with retinols or some cleansers and masks." Basically, if you can grin and bear it for a few weeks, it may very well go away, but if the product in question is causing you real grief, go back to your tried-and-tested.
Illustration: Mallory Heyer
If your complexion is generally clear, but you're looking to even out your skin tone a little, make your complexion more radiant, and keep it soft, you should stick with anything new for at least a few weeks. Be scientific about it, and operate a one-in, one-out policy on new products so you can tell what works and what doesn't. If it's long-term acne, fine lines, or pigmentation that has you beat, prepare to enter into an LTR with your new clinical actives. (I like to take process pics with new products to reassure myself that they're actually helping, by the way.) Good things come to those who wait — and also to those who do their homework.
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The webcast series will help increase awareness and understanding about basic fiduciary responsibilities when operating a retirement or health benefit plan for small and medium sized employers. The three part series will help employers and service providers understand how the fiduciary responsibility provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) apply to employer-sponsored retirement and health plans and provide information on how to avoid common problems in managing a plan.
Day 2: March 13 will discuss ERISA's reporting and disclosure provisions for employer-sponsored retirement plans and the Department of Labor's voluntary correction programs for retirement plans.
Day 1: March 12 – Basic fiduciary responsibilities when operating an employer-sponsored retirement plan and ERISA's prohibited transactions provisions and exemptions.
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No Child Left Alive, a book authored by then-teacher Randy Turner, is at the heart of the lawsuit reopened by a Joplin, Missouri judge earlier this month. According to Turner, the title is merely a play on words, and the book is a satire on the state of public education in the United States.
According to the school district that fired him, the book contains obscene material, including profanity and graphic depiction of sexuality to children. Does such a firing violate Turner's First Amendment Rights to free speech? Now that a U.S. District Court judge has reopened the suit, we should soon find out.
Randy Turner wrote No Child Left Alive while he was a teacher at East Middle School in Joplin, Missouri. The book contains sexual situations and profane language. Turner never mentioned the book in class, but he did use social media outlets to promote his book, and some of those outlet circles included his students. Also, he promoted this book on his blog, which had been formerly used to post homework assignments prior to publishing this book.
There was a termination hearing by the school board on May 23, 2013. The district administrators accused him of engaging in immoral conduct. The board concluded that no evidence against Turner rose to the level of immoral conduct, but they were going to fire him anyway based on nine violations against school policy, such as staff conduct, technology usage, teachings on human sexuality, staff conflict of interest, and student publications.
However, in a footnote, the board states that Turner was not charged with immoral conduct for engaging in inappropriate relations with a student. However, it continues, the board was still charging Turner with immoral conduct because he had provided and promoted the obscene material in the book. Turner was formally fired after an official vote was taken at the June 6, 2013 board meeting.
Turner's attorney filed a lawsuit for wrongful termination against numerous members of the district, in violation of Turner's First Amendment right to free speech on June 6, 2018. Turner wanted his job back, including all of the seniority and back pay lost during the five years he had been terminated. The statute of limitations for such a filing is five years. The judge in the original case dismissed the lawsuit, claiming the statue to limitations expired on May 23, 2018, based on the date of the termination hearing.
However, Turner's attorney was able to get a U.S. District Court judge to reopen the case after successfully arguing that the proper date for purposes of the statue of limitations was June 6, 2013, when the board took the vote and Turner was officially terminated, and therefore the case was filed on the very last day possible, according to civil procedural law. The case is now set to be heard on its merits.
If you feel that you or someone you love has been unfairly terminated from work based on first amendment rights, contact a local employment attorney. Your right to free speech is based on the United States Constitution. Any employment policy that impinges on that right can be challenged.


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Raimona National Park in Assam gets support for sustainable community tourism
Subhamoy Bhattacharjee Dec 6, 2021
Raimona National Park Field Gear | Photo: Prabeswar Basumatary
Raimona National Park is the newest addition to the protected area network in Assam. Situated in the tri-junction of Assam, West Bengal and with an international boundary with Bhutan, this is one of the most beautiful landscapes of the area.
Raimona was named as a national park on June 5. This is the second national park in Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) after Manas National Park.
With a view to encourage sustainable community-based nature tourism in BTC, with support from Kachugaon Forest Division, Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) and International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) encouraged the recently-trained nature guides of Raimona National Park with effective field gears.
Acknowledging the effort of capacity building of the nature guides, divisional forest officer at Kachugaon Forest Division, Bhanu Sinha, said: "The equipment to the nature guide is very essential to develop their basic skill, engagement and enhancement of livelihoods to the forest fringe communities through conservation participation initiatives."
Binoculars, field guide books- "Indian Mammals" and "Birds of Indian Subcontinent", t-shirt and caps to all the trained-up nature guides of five local NGOs were handed over by the forest department with support from IFAW-WTI on December 4 in a ceremonial function organised by Raimona Golden Langur Ecotourism Society.
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The newly-created Raimona National Park has also brought a ray of hope to the local communities inhabiting near the park by promoting community-based tourism. Green Forest Conservation (Kachugaon), a local NGO was formed in 2006 and some other local NGOs formed recently like Raimona Golden Langur Ecotourism Society (Mothambill), Daojeng Gonthong Ecotourism Society (Kachugaon), Raimona Hajrai Banglaw Dwimu Ecotourism Society (Takampur), Raimona Sona Bhander Ecotourism Dev. (NGO) have come forward to take this process further, engaging local youth to promote eco-tourism in Raimona National Park.
With a dream to set an example in community-based conservation in Raimona National Park, manager and project head of Wildlife Trust of India, Sanatan Deka, said: "With the patronage of the BTC and forest department we have been working closely with local NGOs in the entire landscape and now encouraging local people to initiate income generating activities like nature guide training, promotion of home stays, setting up of souvenir shops, adopt organic agricultural practices and cultural tourism."
The newly recognized national park is famous for 'Golden Langur' (Trechypithecus geei), the pride of Bodoland. Elephant, tiger, clouded leopard, indian gaur, wild buffalo, spotted deer, hornbills, several species of orchids and having more than 150 species of butterflies, 170 species of birds, and 380 species of plants were recorded till now as per the study conducted by WTI jointly with forest department, BTC.
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About Subhamoy Bhattacharjee
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This week's Alloy was not silent and the show definitely "let the airwaves flow." From new releases and discoveries to timeless classics…and everything in between, and even more! You will want to checkout this week's playlist to see what was shared. Don't forget that you can listen to all of the music from the last episode, "Scaffolding" (click here). This week's artwork, "harder-wear" is a detail of an altered/remixed photograph by yours truly and you can also see the full version here.


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Investor Newsletter
Why the current economy has a hint of the '70s, a utility benefiting from being out of the limelight, and three stocks with rising dividends
Scott BarlowMarket Strategist
Published August 14, 2019 Updated August 14, 2019
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Gluskin Sheff economist David Rosenberg wrote a compelling essay for the weekend Report on Business that scared the pants off investors and non-investors alike. Mr. Rosenberg noted that markets are busily repricing assets for a global recession while 'the world is awash in debt' and constrained from responding to offset potential pain.
The economist also focused on global politics where Brexit, European extremism, another slate of American mass shootings, trade wars and Iran are, to him, indicative of 'a society starting to come apart at the seams.'
The entire column reminded me of the 1970s when I grew up.
In the '70s, the economic stresses came from the same places, although the relative power of labour and capital was reversed. Then, labour had all the power and rampant wage growth crippled corporate profitability, sending equity markets steadily lower.
Monetary policy and central banks were a huge issues 50 years ago but again for reasons exactly opposite to now. Inflation, not deflation, was the biggest threat and borrowing costs were punitive. Ham-handed attempts at wage and price controls by the Nixon administration failed miserably.
Politically and culturally, the '70s had plenty of upheaval. Violent crime peaked during the decade, and major centres like New York City became dangerous cesspools as the photo essay "Death, Destruction, And Debt: 41 Photos Of Life In 1970s New York" highlights. The Iran Hostage situation and the oil embargo threatened the Americans' inflated self-image on the global stage.
Television news played a role then similar to the internet now. North Americans who hadn't owned TVs for very long were confronted with unsanitized video from the Vietnam War and student mass protests on the 6 p.m. news.
The news – which people actually trusted back then – must have caused, like the darker corners of the internet does, a sense of societal implosion. The extreme pessimism of popular movies of the 1970s – Charles Bronson's Death Wish vigilante series, Martin Scorcese's Taxi Driver, Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange and the Dirty Harry films – did nothing to alleviate the gloom.
The capital versus labour dynamic is where I believe the biggest similarities between the 1970s and now lie. The '70s marked the peak of labour's power to dominate market and business interests and now the pendulum has swung too far back the other way. We are merely seeing one extreme of a long cycle.
One of Ronald Reagan's first acts as president was to fire striking air traffic controllers with plans to replace them with the military. This marked, at least symbolically, the turning point for labour power. The modern equivalent would see a president Elizabeth Warren or president Bernie Sanders enact significant anti-corporate, pro-worker policies.
No comparison of eras like this is going to work perfectly – multinational corporations were nowhere near as powerless in the 1970s as labour seems now – but there is enough there to provide a useful perspective. And speaking of perspective, one of the few benefits of age is the realization that the current time's struggles are not completely without precedent, and thus inherently solvable.
–Scott Barlow, Globe and Mail market strategist
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Stocks to ponder
Alacer Gold Corp. (ASR-T). This gold stock has nearly tripled over the past two years, and the Contra Guys think there are more gains to come. Alacer is an unusual company in the mining field. It outlines a plan with a budget and time frame and it actually hits the targets. The Colorado-based company operates a mine in Turkey and trades on the TSX and ASX. (For subscribers).
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Great Rock Albums of 1985: Don Henley- Building the Perfect Beast
Posted in 1980s, Music, Rock, Uncategorized with tags Americans, Building the Perfect Beast, Classic Rock, country music, Don Henley, Fleetwood Mac, hard rock, Hotel California, Patty Smyth, progressive rock, Randy Newman, soft rock, synth pop, The 1970s, The 1980s, The Eagles, The Go Go's, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Toto on July 15, 2018 by 80smetalman
The more I think about it, the more convinced I am that I was not as musically open minded as I thought I was in the early part of 1985. While I make no justification for this, I do think the reason might have been that I was in longing after the wave of heavy metal that was played on commercial radio throughout 1984 became non existent in the early part of the following year. That was probably why I poo-pooed the "Building the Perfect Beast" album from Don Henley. Being honest, I was in Eagles mode (even though they had split up five years earlier) with not just Don but all former members of this iconic band. I expected all of their solo material to resemble the classic "Hotel California" and the singles from this album didn't do that. So, I ignored it until a friend lent it to me and I had a listen. Then I realized what I fool I had been.
Sure, the big single "The Boys of Summer" doesn't sound like "Hotel California" but the musicianship on the song is simply fabulous. There is some great guitar work from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell and Don's voice is clean on this and all of the tracks. I have really come to like this track in my later years.
Upon further reflection back to 1985, I think that I put music into categories of heavy metal and synth pop. "Building the Perfect Beast" not being metal, I put it into the other category. Again I say "Fool!" at least to myself anyway. There is absolutely nothing synth pop about this album. If anything, there are tracks that take me back to The Eagles more country rock sound from the early 1970s. Tracks that bear evidence to this are the fast paced "Man With a Mission" and my vote for hidden gem, "You're Not Drinking Enough." For some reason, that track reminds me of the Eagles' classic, "Take Me to the Limit." But it does say "Early Eagles" all through the song. Thinking back to early 85, at the time I was dating a woman who had a drinking problem and now I'm linking this song with that. "Not Enough Love in the World" is another example of what I am trying to talk about. In fact this track would have fitted perfectly on the Eagles' "Long Road From Eden" album.
One reason for why this album sounds as good as it does is that Don got a load of well known singers and musicians to guest on it. While you know it is definitely Don Henley on every track, these guests, have a look below to see who, add to the quality of the album for sure.
You Can't Make Love
You're Not Drinking Enough
Not Enough Love in the World
Building the Perfect Beast
All She Wants to Do is Dance
Sunset Grill
Drivin' With Your Eyes Closed
Land of the Living
Don Henley- lead vocals, percussion (tracks 5,6,9), drums (tracks 2-4,7), keyboards (track 6)
Danny 'Kootch' Kortchmar- guitars, organ (4), synthesizers (tracks 1,3,6), percussion (tracks 6,9,10), keyboards (9), synthesizer guitar and horn solos (8), ormichard (4), horns (3)
Additional Musicians
Mike Campbell- guitar, synthesizer track 1
Lyndsey Buckingham- guitar, backing vocals track 2
Charlie Sexton- guitar track 3
Tim Drummond- bass (tracks 4&5)
Pino Pallindino- bass (tracks 2,9,10)
Larry Klein- bass track 1
Jim Keltner- drums track 8
Ian Wallace- drums track 5
Kevin McCormick- African drums track 6
Randy Newman- synthesizer track 8
David Paich- synthesizer (track 7) piano (track 4 & 8)
Steve Porcaro- synthesizer (track 1 &4)
Benmont Tench- synthesizer (track 8), keyboards (track 2&5)
Albhy Galuten- synthesizer, Synclavier track 6
Michael Boddicker- synthesizer track 8
Bill Cuomo- synthesizer, percussion track 10
Backing Vocals:
Belinda Carlisle- track 3
Michael O'Donahue, Waddy Watchel, JD Souther, Carla Olson- track 6
Patty Smyth- track 6, 8-10
Martha Davis- tracks 6&7
Marie Pascale Elfman, Dominique Manicelli- track 9
Sam Moore- track 4
Brian Dear, I owe you a thanks for giving me this classic Don Henley album to listen to. Otherwise, I would have been enslaved to my ignorance that "Building the Perfect Beast" was another 80s synth pop album. It is clearly not and full marks to Don for it.
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Great Rock Albums of 1985: Glenn Frey- The Allnighter
Posted in 1980s, Music, Rock, Uncategorized with tags Americans, Blues, Classic Rock, Glenn Frey, hard rock, Heavy Metal, Heavy Rock, Hotel California, Mellow out rock, soft rock, The 1970s, The 1980s, The Allnighter, The Eagles, The Long Run on June 4, 2018 by 80smetalman
When I begin a new year of my trip through the golden decade of heavy metal, I always start with albums that were made in the previous year but didn't come to my attention until the said year. Because there were so many great albums in 1984, I didn't get around to listening to a good number until 1985. One of these was "The Allnighter" from the late former Eagles guitarist/singer, Glenn Frey.
Reflecting back to early 1985, I used to wonder if I was a little unfair to both Glenn and one of his former bandmates who also released a solo album in this year. First, I was very much into all things metal and "The Allnighter" is definitely not metal. Furthermore, I was very much into the last two Eagles albums, "Hotel California" and "The Long Run" which did feature some harder rock than their early 1970s albums.
Glenn goes further away from his Eagles roots with this album as it's a more mellower and somewhat bluesier sound. There are some ballads on here like "Let's Go Home" and "Lover's Moon." Glenn's voice has always been suited to these but it is also versatile enough for the faster songs. "Sexy Girl" is kind of in the middle here and he does sing it well. I recently heard a live version of it and it sounds better than the commercial version. However, the best song and one that I've come to appreciate far more in my aging years is "Smuggler's Blues." This song is proof that Frey can sing harder stuff, not that I had any doubt he couldn't. What has really impressed me about it is the musicianship. Like his previous album, Glenn uses a ton of musicians on it, so I don't know who does the guitar solos on the song but they are ace. Full marks to whoever played them. The song did feature on the mid 1980s TV show "Miami Vice."
The Allnighter
Lover's Moon
Smuggler's Blues
Let's Go Home
Better in the USA
Living In Darkness
Glenn Frey- lead vocals, guitar, bass, drums, piano, synthesizer
Josh Leo, Duncan Cameron- guitar
John 'JR' Robinson, Michael Huey, Larry Londin- drums
David Hood, Bryan Garofalo- bass
Greg Smith, Willie Bergman, Al Garth- saxophone
Vince Melamed, Allen Blazek, Barry Beckett- piano
Barry Beckett, David 'Hawk' Wollinski- synthesizer
Nick DeCaro- strings
Steve Foreman- percussion
Victor Feldman, Jack Tempchin, Oren Waters, Jack Galloway, Luke Waters- backing vocals
I might have mellowed a bit with age and while I like some of what's on "The Allnighter," it really isn't my cup of tea. There are some good songs on it and it's a great album to mellow out to or provide suitable background settings but I won't put away my metal albums in favour of it.
Next post: I know I said at the beginning of the post that I'll be starting with albums that came out originally in 1984 but I have to make an exception. Download is this weekend and I need the correct inspiration.
Kreator- Endless Pain
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Great Albums That Were Lost in the Cassette Player
Posted in 1980s, Heavy Metal, Heavy Metal and the 1980s, Music, Rock, Uncategorized with tags 38 Special, Aerosmtih, Blue Oyster Cult, Cheap Trick, Classic Rock, Dream Police, Get Lucky, hard rock, Heavy Metal, Heavy Rock, Hotel California, Iron Maiden, Jefferson Starship, Loverboy, Lynyrd Skynyrd, REO Speedwagon, Rockin' Into the Night, Slayer, South of Heaven, Street Survivors, The 1980s, The Dreggs, The Eagles, The Who, Unsung Heroes, Van Halen, Van Halen II, Wild Eyed Southern Boys on March 6, 2017 by 80smetalman
For those who have been following me for awhile, you will know that back in the early 198os, I owned a lot of cassettes due to my very limited living space when I was in the marines. Even after I got out, while I began buying vinyl again, I still bought a good amount of cassettes. My logic at the time was you couldn't play records in the car and I need my travelling music. While cassettes had the advantage of being very compact, you could fit one in your shirt pocket, they had the disadvantage of being susceptible of destructing. They could easily get mangled in the player and often times brake. I found this extremely frustrating. While the percentage of cassettes lost was small compared to the number I owned, it still upset me when I lost one to the machine. So, as an in between the years post, I will play homage to all the great albums that were mangled by a tape player.
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Others that succumbed but I don't have pictures for
Slayer- South of Heaven
The Dreggs- Unsung Heroes
The Who- recorded from the radio
There could be more but these are the ones I definitely remember. However, other cassettes weren't mangled in the machine but wore out another way. When played they began to have a hiss sound on them. Eventually, this hiss got louder and present on more of the tape until it was unplayable. There was the odd tape where that started but it stopped and played normal again. Unfortunately, others didn't so here is a tribute to those cassettes that were lost in this manner.
As you can see, many a great album fell victim to the dreaded tape player one way or the other. Thank God for CDs and more modern means of listening to music as I don't have that problem anymore.
Next post: 1984
Great Rock Albums of 1982: Don Henley- I Can't Stand Still
Posted in 1980s, Music, Rock, Uncategorized with tags Black Sabbath, Bruce Dickinson, Classic Rock, Danny Vaughn, Don Henley, Heavy Rock, Hotel California, I Can't Stand Still, Iron Maiden, melodic rock, Ozzy Osbourne, progressive rock, soft rock, The 1970s, The 1980s, The Eagles, Toto, Tyketto on May 8, 2015 by 80smetalman
Sometimes I wonder if musicians who are in a band and then put out their own solo albums aren't faced with an agonizing worry on how their albums are to be received. If the album sound too much like that of their band, they are accused of just putting out the same album with different musicians. On the other hand, if they venture too far from that band's sound, they are criticized for being too diverse or if the album sounds somewhat commercial, selling out. People of little or no experience of heavy metal have accused both Ozzy and Bruce Dickinson of doing the former in spite of the fact that when you listen to those albums, there are notable differences in the sound between Ozzy and Black Sabbath as well as Bruce and Iron Maiden. No pleasing some people I suppose. Having heard many a solo album, I think the one album that best successfully strides the line between these two extremes is the solo album by Tyketto's Danny Vaughn, "Soldiers and Sailors on Riverside." It is my favourite melodic rock album of the 2000+ era and while there are some moments where you can hear the Tyketto influence, he definitely does his own thing without totally diversing and it sounds very good. Therefore, I wonder if back in 1982, I wonder if Don Henley had such a worry when he released his first solo album following the demise of The Eagles.
It took me a couple of listens to "I Can't Stand Still" before I finally remembered how good it is. Fortunately, I am more musically open minded than I was in 1982 and that helped me appreciate it even more. While the influence of Henley's days with The Eagles is definitely there, he puts his own spin on things. It's not "Hotel California" but it was wrong of me to expect it to be. The closest songs that come to that on "I Can't Stand Still" are the tracks "You Better Hang Up," "Nobody's Business" and "Them and Us." As far as The Eagles go, I have always believed that Henley's voice was best suited for their ballads and this is certainly proven with the two ballads on this album, "Long Way Home" and "Talking To The Moon." Ironically, it is the single from the album where Don puts his best personal stamp. "Dirty Laundry" may sound like new wave synth pop to the untrained ear but it is definitely his song and the guitar solos are the best on the album. The following track and probably my favourite, "Johnny Can't Read," gets the same sort of work from Don. What amazes me the most about "I Can't Stand Still" is the sheer number of musicians Henley gets to play on the album with him. I mean, he practically used all of Toto at some point on the album.
1. I Can't Stand Still
2. You Better Hang Up
3. Long Way From Home
4. Nobody's Home
5. Talking to the Moon
6. Dirty Laundry
7. Johnny Can't Read
8. Them and Us
9. La Eile
10. Lilah
11. The Unclouded Day
Don Henley- drums, lead vocals, keyboards
Ras Baboo- percussion, timbales
Derek Bell- harp
Kenny Edwards- bass, guitar
Bob Glaub- bass
Louise Goffin- vocals, gut string guitar
Andrew Gold- keyboards
Max Gronenthal- vocals, gut string guitar
George Gruel- vocals
Garth Hudson- synthesizer
Maren Jensen- vocals, gut string guitar
Danny Kooch Korchmar- bass, guitars, synthesizers, backing vocals
Ross Kunkel- drums
Steve Lukather- guitar
Paddy Maloney- whistle, ulliean pipes
Jeff Porcaro- drums, moracas
Steve Porcaro- keyboards
Timothy B Schmidt- bass, guitar, vocals
Leland Sklar- bass
JD Souther- acoustic guitar, gut string guitar
Benmont Trench- keyboards
Waddy Watchel- electric guitar
Ian Wallace- drums
Joe Walsh- lead guitar
Max Williams- drums
Bill Withers- vocals, gut string guitar
Warren Zevon- vocals, gut string guitar
Don Henley made an impressive start out of the blocks in his solo career with "I Can't Stand Still." While he doesn't completely abandon his past, he isn't afraid to be his own person with the album and once that conclusion is arrived at, it makes the album that much more enjoyable.
Next post; Glen Frey- No Fun Aloud
Great Rock Albums of 1980: The Eagles- Live
Posted in 1980s, Concerts, Music, Rock, Uncategorized with tags Classic Rock, Hotel California, Joe Walsh, The 1970s, The 1980s, The Eagles, The Long Run on July 10, 2013 by 80smetalman
Musically, 1980 had a great many musical highs but it also had a few lows as well. One of these was the disbanding of a band that entertained the world throughout the entire 1970's, The Eagles. The band unofficially disbanded in July 1980 but they still owed their record company, Elektra/Asylum a live album. This magnificent live album was the result.
It can be argued that this album was just a collection of all The Eagles' greatest hits, which just happened to be recorded live. True, the album contains many of the classics which made us love them. Greats like "Hotel California," "Take Me to the Limit," "Heartache Tonight" and "Take It Easy" are all on their and sound brilliant live. The album even includes a live playing of the Joe Walsh solo classic, "Life's Been Good" and a new song "Seven Bridges Road." On the flip side, they leave out a couple of my personal favourites like "Victim of Love" and "One of These Nights" but that's me nit picking. This album is The Eagles at their best on stage and for people like me who never got the chance to see them live, it makes a good consolation prize.
1. Hotel California
2. Heartache Tonight
4. The Long Run
5. New Kid In Town
6. Life's Been Good
7. Seven Bridges Road
8. Wasted Time
9. Take Me to the Limit
10. Doolin' Dalton Reprise II
11. Desparado
12. Saturday Night
15. Take It Easy
Glen Frey- guitars, keyboards, vocals
Don Henley- drums, percussion, vocals
Joe Walsh- guitars, keyboards, vocals
Don Felder- guitars, vocals
Randy Meisner- bass, vocals (1976- recordings)
Timothy B Schmidt- bass, vocals (1980 recordings)
This live album reminds us of the legacy of great music left behind by one of the greatest rock bands of the 70s. A full account of some of the great rock songs they gave us all recorded at what was considered their killer live shows. While the album is great, it also reminds us that it was what signaled the end for them.
Next post: The Pretenders
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Great Rock Albums of 1979: Toto
Posted in 1978, 1979, Heavy Metal and the 1980s, Music, Rock, Uncategorized with tags Classic Rock, Freebird, Hotel California, Kansas, Lynyrd Skynyrd, progressive rock, The 1970s, The Eagles, Toto on August 22, 2012 by 80smetalman
Although I was a big fan of Wayne's World, there was one thing in their book "Extreme Close Up" I didn't agree with. That was some of the songs they listed in the category of "Top Ten Party Killing Tunes." There were at least two other songs that I felt shouldn't have been on the list, "Hotel California" by the Eagles and "Freebird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd. However, down at number two was "Anything by Toto." I don't agree that every song by Toto is a party killer. Maybe in the case of "Georgy Porgy" but not their most noted song, "Hold the Line." That was the song that made me aware of them and I still enjoy listening to it when I play any of the compilation CDs it appears on. Saying that, I do agree with Wayne's number one choice, "Any disco tune."
Sticklers for music history will point out that this album was released in 1978, but it didn't come to my attention until March of 1979. How it did is an amusing story. An Air Force recruitment band came to my high school and played a gig. They introduced "Hold the Line" by saying that Toto had left Dorothy and the rest of the Wizard of Oz group and formed his own band. No, I didn't find that funny either, but they did make the song sound good. Therefore, I was totally impressed when I heard the actual version by Toto.
If someone bought this album today after hearing "Hold the Line," they may be disappointed in the fact that Toto aren't a true hard rock band. They are more of a prog rock band with elements of hard and soft rock. I will go out on a ledge here and say they sound like 10cc with a bit of Kansas thrown in. While the album definitely isn't party killing, it's not a party enhancer either. This album is what I call a good wind down album. It's great for playing when travelling home from a metal concert and you want something to bring you down. It's also good for chilling in your big chair.
One thing I can say from this and other offerings by Toto is that they're all talented musicians. The opening track, "Child's Anthem" is a brilliant instrumental intro to the album and while some of the song "I'll Supply the Love" has that generic commercial 70s sound in some places, there is some good guitar licks and a keyboard solo to bring it up. A critic, which I'm not, might say that the musicianship makes up for any other flaws in the music.
1. Child's Anthem
2. I'll Supply the Love
3. Georgy Porgy
4. Manuela Run
5. You Are the Flower
6. Girl Goodbye
7. Takin' It Back
8. Rockmaker
9. Hold the Line
10. Angela
Bobby Kimball- lead and backing vocals
Steve Lukather- guitars, lead and backing vocals
David Paich- keyboards, lead and backing vocals
Steve Porcaro- keyboards, lead vocals
David Hungate- bass
Jeff Porcaro- drums
Toto are a good prog rock outfit, maybe not as good as Kansas in my opinion, but still good as their first album shows. And don't pay attention to Wayne's "Top Ten Party Killing Tunes" list.
Next post: Queen- Jazz
Great Rock Albums of 1978: Joe Walsh- But Seriously Folks
Posted in 1978, Heavy Metal, Music with tags But Seriously Folks, Classic Rock, hard rock, Heavy Metal, Hotel California, Joe Walsh, Rock And Roll Children, The 1970s, The Eagles on February 23, 2012 by 80smetalman
Back in 1978, I only had a small AM clock radio that only had a range as for as I could throw a baseball. Therefore, I had to encounter a lot of disco tunes and other top 40 rubbish in order to hear the occasional good song. Then one night I heard the killer riffs from an electric guitar. Stunned, I had to turn up the volume of that clock radio and what I heard blew me away, the song "Life's Been Good" by Joe Walsh.
"But Seriously Folks" was the first solo album from Joe Walsh since he had joined the Eagles two years earlier when they put out the famous "Hotel California." This solo album was considered more melodic than Walsh's previous album but it is still a good rock album as it carries many of the traditional guitar licks he was known for.
1. Over and Over
2. Second Hand Store
3. Indian Summer
4. At the Station
6. Inner Tube
7. Theme from Boat Weirdoes
Joe Walsh – vocals, guitars, bass guitar, keyboards, synthesizer
Jody Boyer – backing vocals
Don Felder – guitar, Steel guitar, backing vocals
Glenn Frey – backing vocals
Don Henley – backing vocals
Timothy B. Schmit – backing vocals
Jay Ferguson – keyboards, vocals.
Joey Murcia – guitar
Bill Szymczyk – tambourine, vocals, background vocals
Joe Vitale – drums, percussion, keyboards, synthesizer, flute, vocals.
Willie Weeks – bass guitar
This album was a welcome relief from the onlsaught of disco in the summer of 78. However, it is still probably one of the best albums by Joe Walsh and still a good listen these days.
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Home People A birthday party at 9000 meters and everyone's invited!
The Festival of Hemis is perhaps the biggest and most famous of the monastic festivals. It's a two-day event that usually falls in late June or the first half of July and is dedicated to Lord Padmasambhava. Celebrated across the country, the festivities at the Hemis Gompa in Leh, are particularly exhilarating.
As with all major Buddhist festivals, it celebrates 'the Three Jewels' – the Buddha, the Dharma (the Buddhist Teachings) and the Sangha (the spiritual community). Various stories are told – the essence being the fight of evil with good and the arrival of Buddhism to Ladakh.
The Hemis Gompa is one of the most important monasteries in the Buddhist world, long associated with the Ladakhi royal family. Initiated by a member of Ladakh's ruling family, the festival "HemisTse-chu" has a two hundred and fifty-year-old tradition. On Guru Padmasambhava's birthday, thegompa bursts into life.
Who's birthday is it though?
Guru Padmasambhava is venerated as the representative reincarnate of Buddha, and is believed to have been born on the 10th day of the fifth month of the Monkey year as predicted by the "Shakia Muni Buddha". His life's mission was, and remains, to improve the spiritual condition of all living beings.
The ceremonies begin early in the morning, atop the gompa, to the beat of drums, the resounding clash of cymbals and the spiritual wail of pipes. Initiated by a solemn parade of mock priests, clad in rich robes of china silk and brocade and unusually tall tufted hats, the event revolves around a lavish and extendedpantomime, of spectacular masked dances and sacred plays.
The Hemis festival t akes place in the rectangular courtyard in front of the main door of the monastery. The space is wide and open apart from two raised square platforms, three feet high, with a sacred pole in the centre. On a raised dais decorated with a richly cushioned seat, is placed a small, finely painted table on which are displayed ceremonial items – cups full of holy water, uncooked rice, tormas made of dough and butter and incense sticks. Musicians play traditional music with four pairs of cymbals, large-pan drums, small trumpets and large wind instruments. Beside them, a small seating space is assigned for the lamas.
The portrait of "Dadmokarpo" or "RygyalsrasRimpoche" – the two storey high thangka of Padmasambhava (richly embroidered with pearls and semi-precious stones) is ceremoniously exhibited for all to admire and worship. A little later, the dances start.
The dance dramas depict the magical feats of Padmasambhava in his eight different manifestations vanquishing the enemies of Buddhism. The most esoteric of the performances is, of course, the mystic mask dances referred to collectively as chams.
The first dance is performed by thirteen dancers in black hats. This is known as the 'setting limit' dance because the deities chase evil spirits far away from the limits of the land. Horned devil-masks and padded brocade outfits come to life as they play out the scripture battles between good and evil spirits.
Everyone is invited to participate in the Hemis festivals, irrespective of caste, status or religion. Local people attending the occasion are dressed in their finest traditional attire. Bright cummerbunds on quilted coats adorn the men while women wear the perakp, an elaborate headdress with woven strips of beads and turquoise, silver dangles and upright ears of braided yak hair.
Each family carries a savovar of yak-butter tea, and a canister of tsampat, roasted barley flour. And as the celebrations reach their limits and beyond, the spirits of the audience are enhanced by sipping from huge bowls of Ladakhi liquor known as 'chang', whilst a spectacular fair showcasing beautiful handicrafts produced by the people of the region.
The festivities end on the next day with the "Hashang&Hatuk" dance. Hashang being a Chinese monk, generally known as the "Laughing Buddha" and "Hatuk" his disciple. As the festival draws to a close, religious experience fuses with folk sentiments to create an unforgettable atmosphere that echoes the timeless spirit of the people.
I guess we'll see you there then! Here's how not to look out of place at the festival!


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Czech PM: US will scrap the missile shield in East Europe
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Joi, 17 septembrie 2009, 15:54 English | Top News
"USA will give up plans of installing a missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic", Czech PM Jan Fischer declared after a telephone conversation he had with the US President Barak Obama, Reuters informs. The American leader will make an official announcement on Thursday. Quoting Wall Street Journal, the news agency reads that the Administration in Washington wants to reduce tensions with Russia, but it will alarm European allies.
American and Polish officials discussed on the issue on Thursday in Warsaw. Reuters notes that the information will alarm East European countries that have sought within the last two decades the US' support and protection against their former master from the East, namely Russia. The vice-Foreign Affairs in Warsaw declared that using mass-media is not the way governments communicate between them. He believes there are "serious chances" for the shield to be installed in Poland and he is waiting for the final decision in Washington.
Russian officials refused to comment. But a source from Moscow's Foreign Affairs Ministry said that such a decision will help develop the Russian-American bi-lateral relationship. Russia is waiting for the US Defence Secretary Robert Gates to make his statement.
According to Wall Street Journal, the Obama administration revised the missile shield plan. The George W. Bush administration used to claim in the past that such a shield will protect the US and their European allies from missiles coming from Iran or North Korea. But the current American administration believes that Iran hasn't made much progress in this matter and that the US and the European allies are not threatened at the moment.
Plus, Obama has been saying since the start of his mandate that he aims for better relationships with Russia, so that both countries could work together against Taliban in Afghanistan and reduce their nuclear weapons.
The Bush administration decision of planting a missile shield in Poland determined Kremlin to announce that they will not reduce their nuclear stock and considered it to be a threat at Russia's national security. Wall Street Journal read that the US will ask for missile shields in certain Europe regions that will be less threatening to Russia's security.


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No road, no food: remote village strives for life
24 Aug, 2009 11:34
Residents of a small Russian village are struggling for life. Local authorities have stopped sending food supplies to a remote settlement that has no shops and only five ageing residents.
The villagers are now taking legal action to have their only road repaired.
Is there a road?
For the people in a remote rural village in central Russia life is simple. Surrounded by nature and living in basic huts, it's a dramatic contrast to the likes of Moscow around 300 km away. But something is disturbing the peace and threatens the lives of the villagers.
The heart of the problem lies in the road. That's if you could even describe it as a road.
It's extremely uneven, narrow and surrounded by trees. People from the nearby village, mostly old, are being forced to walk four kilometers along the path to reach the nearest shop and buy the essential food items they need to live.
That's after the local administration of Demidovo stopped sending supply trucks to the village carrying supplies, because they said the road was too dangerous.
Dangerous shopping
The result is an extremely bumpy ride, but rather than improve the state of the road, the authorities decided to leave the five remaining villagers to fend for themselves.
Seventy-year-old Evgeny Egoronov has difficulty walking and struggles to make the weekly two hour long trip:
"I have to use a barrow for support as my legs have been letting me down recently. I have to walk to the next village every Tuesday. Good weather or bad, snow or rain – whatever".
Those who could, left the village long ago – out of 25 houses only five are still inhabited.
But some are refusing to abandon the place they've called home almost all their life and so instead are taking the local authorities to court.
"We only filed a lawsuit after one of our women here, the most energetic and active, died," said local resident Vladimir Luzganov.
"A neighbor of mine once fell right on the road on his way to the food store; we only just saved him. It's difficult even for me, and I don't consider myself frail yet".
We can do nothing – authorities wash their hands
But the local authorities deny that the people's lives are in danger and when asked why they don't help, they replied they simply don't have the funds.
"The money earmarked for road building in our budget is not enough to improve the road or build a new shop," said Vasily Panin, head of administration for the Demidovskoye settlement in Vladimirsky District.
"I realize there are very old people who have great trouble walking to the shop; I feel for them, but there's nothing I can do about it personally".
But that decision might change when the case goes to court.
If it falls in favor of the residents, providing them with a food supply or an improved road, it will create a precedent for other remote villages. With more than 200 in the surrounding area a significant backlash could ensue.
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package demoapp.dom.domain.actions.Action.associateWith;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.Objects;

import org.apache.causeway.applib.annotation.Action;
import org.apache.causeway.applib.annotation.ActionLayout;
import org.apache.causeway.applib.annotation.MemberSupport;

import demoapp.dom.domain.actions.Action.associateWith.child.ActionAssociateWithChildVm;
import lombok.RequiredArgsConstructor;

//tag::class[]
@Action(
    choicesFrom = "favorites"                                   // <.>
)
@ActionLayout(
    describedAs =
            "@Action(choicesFrom = \"favorites\") " +
            "@ActionLayout(sequence = \"3\")"
    , sequence = "3"                                            // <.>
)
@RequiredArgsConstructor
public class ActionAssociateWithVm_noLongerFavorites {

    private final ActionAssociateWithVm actionAssociateWithVm;

    @MemberSupport public ActionAssociateWithVm act(final List<ActionAssociateWithChildVm> children) {
        children.forEach(childVm -> {
            actionAssociateWithVm.getFavorites()
                    .removeIf(y -> Objects.equals(childVm.getValue(), y.getValue()));
        });
        actionAssociateWithVm.getChildren().addAll(children);

        return actionAssociateWithVm;
    }
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20/01/2019 by Cynthia BujnickiReading List
By Cynthia Bujnicki
Hey there avid readers. I hope everyone is having a wonderful week. I'm having an okay one, things could be a little better but, in the meantime, I'll make it work. Making time for reading is always a great stress reliever so there's no stopping that. So, on that note, check out this weeks reading list. Let me know what you think about these titles. If you've read one of the title below let me know what you thought in the comments below. Happy reading!
1. Thetis (The Deep Sky Saga #2)
by Greg Boose
Blind and broken, orphaned teenager Jonah Lincoln reluctantly boards a rescue ship bound for the planet Thetis, but not before it picks up a few more surprising and dangerous survivors from the massacre on the moon Achilles. After regaining his sight, Jonah sees the gated colony on Thetis is just as he feared–cloaked in mystery and under an oppressive rule with no one to trust–and that outside the walls, it's even worse. Surrounded by terrifying new landscapes and creatures, Jonah and his friends fight to save the colony and restore order to the planet.
Just as Jonah grasps his near-impossible mission, the alien voices from Achilles return, pushing him to discover the truth about the Silver Foot Galaxy and his role in both its future and past. And when another ship arrives, it's then Jonah knows he has to make the ultimate sacrifice.
2. Truly Unfortunate (Welcome To Knollville Book 1)
by C.A. King
Growing up in Knoll County wasn't easy, especially without any childhood memories. Truly spent her whole life searching for the answers her mind refused to reveal. There might have been horrors in her past, but her current existence wasn't much better than a nightmare itself. After beginning treatments with a new doctor, disturbing visions began to resurface. The stench of death surrounded her, but where exactly was it coming from?
Jeff always knew he wanted to be one of Knoll County's finest and had no problem achieving that dream. A part of his ambition stemmed from the death of a classmate at the tender age of nine. It might have been ruled an accident, but his gut told him otherwise. When people start turning up dead in the same pattern, Jeff will be forced to put everything on the line to connect the dots between past and present. But in doing so, will his own future be jeopardized?
Truly Unfortunate is a dark paranormal thriller that will leave readers with chills after answering the question: Which is stronger… the boundaries of reality or the safety on one's own mind?
Although there are no explicit or graphic scenes contained in this story, some of the subject matter may be considered more suitable for mature audience.
3. The Storyteller (The Reader Trilogy #3)
by Traci Chee
Sefia is determined to keep Archer out of the Guard's clutches and their plans for war between the Five Kingdoms. The Book, the ancient, infinite codex of the past, present and future, tells of a prophecy that will plunge Kelanna in that bloody war, but it requires a boy—Archer—and Sefia will stop at nothing to ensure his safety. The Guard has already stolen her mother, her father, and her Aunt Nin. Sefia would sooner die than let them take anymore from her—especially the boy she loves.
But escaping the Guard and the Book's prophecy is no easy task. After all, what is written always comes to pass. As Sefia and Archer watch Kelanna start to crumble to the Guard's will, they will have to choose between their love and joining a war that just might tear them apart.
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Sleep deprivation has elevated itself into a global health problem. It no longer comes as a surprise considering how obsessed almost everyone is with their smart gadgets. Moreover, our modern lifestyle prefers non-stop partying at night, eating greasy, fatty and sugary foods that make it difficult for one to sleep, late-night TV or online streaming binge-watching that makes sleeping on time impossible. As a result, you end up looking like a human panda – sporting dark undereye bags that are the result of long sleepless nights.
Sleep deprivation really hurts you bad. Not only do you feel bad from sleeplessness but from all the weight you likewise put on by constantly pulling all-nighters. For starters, you won't have the energy to lead a healthy lifestyle if you don't have the energy for it. Can you imagine doing the extra mile by regularly going to the supermarket to shop for fresh fruits and green and make the laborious preparations of cooking healthy meals or having the time and energy to jog after work or hit the gym perhaps to burn all the calories you've consumed during the day? Likely no, right?
Scientists are to give new advice on how to win the battle against the bulge: stop counting calories and count sheep instead. At a key international conference on Sunday, researchers will seek to highlight that a good night's sleep is as important a factor as any other in ensuring people control their weight and waistlines.
Their research, which will be outlined at the European Congress of Endocrinology in Lisbon, will emphasise how disrupted sleep patterns – a common feature of modern living – can trigger changes in appetite, metabolism, motivation and physical activity, or even a combination of all these factors. This leads to disruption in people's appetite and responses to food. The end result is weight gain. It is hoped that a breakthrough in public awareness of the issue could lead to significant health gains.
"Our studies suggest that sleep loss favours weight gain in humans. It is therefore fair to say that improving sleep could be a promising lifestyle intervention to reduce the risk of future weight gain," said Christian Benedict, a neuroscientist at Uppsala University in Sweden, who is scheduled to speak at the Lisbon conference on Sunday.
Obesity is a growing problem and it predisposes people to a long list of health complications aside from reducing your self-esteem and ego to roughly the size of a peanut. Don't be a part of the obesity epidemic and stay healthy by making a conscious effort to sleeping right and on time every night, if possible.
"Our studies also indicate that sleep loss shifts the hormonal balance from hormones that promote fullness ( satiety), such as the intestinal hormone glucagon-like peptide 1, to those that promote hunger, such as the stomach hormone ghrelin," says Christian Benedict.
Sleep restriction also increased levels of endocannabinoids, which are also linked to appetite, the findings suggest.
The researchers say that sleep loss also affects the balance of gut bacteria, which has been widely implicated as key for maintaining how our bodies process food into energy.
Many studies have proven how detrimental sleep loss is to your body image. If you are conscious of the way you look and don't want to sport unsightly cellulite and layers of fat, you can do your body a favor by observing regular sleeping habits.
Chronic sleep loss has a negative effect on metabolism, hormonal function, and the pace of aging. The lack of sleep can interfere with the body releasing hormones such as cortisol, and growth hormones which influence muscle strength, the ratio of muscle to fat, and cause people to age faster. Excess cortisol can damage a person's health over a period of time and cause decrease memory, low energy, low immune system, weight gain, sleep disorders, and thyroid dysfunction. There are also increased risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, and Type 2 diabetes.
The National Sleep Foundation explains that most adults need 7-9 hours of sleep each night, teenagers need 8-10 hours, elementary age kids need 9-11 hours, preschoolers need 10-13 hours, toddlers need 11-14 hours, and babies need 12-18 hours.
To combat chronic sleep deprivation and the consequential weight gain, try your best to sleep and wake up around the same time each day and night. Sleep in total darkness to promote the body's normal circadian rhythm. It's also not advisable to eat a hearty meal right before bedtime. Also, minimize mental stimulation at night. Turn off your smartphone, so sleep will come naturally.
Just think of the excess fats you'll be gaining and the dark bags under your eyes you'll be sporting when you always pull all-nighters. You're not an owl. Allow your body to rest and relax, so it is ready for what lies ahead the next day or suffer the consequences of sleep loss. Weight gain is the least of your worries if you keep up this unhealthy lifestyle.


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//Author: Julian Yi
//Date: 14 July 2017
//Header file for the board

#ifndef BOARD_H
#define BOARD_H

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <array>
#include <memory>
#include "defs.h"
#include "coord.h"
/*
	structure of a square
	isOccupied will check if a piece is placed on the square
	canMove will determine if a piece can be moved here
	tag is the name of the given square
*/

class Pieces;

struct Square {
	std::string tag = "";
	std::vector< std::shared_ptr<Pieces> > pieces;
	int whiteAttack = 0;
	int blackAttack = 0;
	std::vector<std::shared_ptr<Square>> blockedPieces;
	bool occupied() const {
		return !pieces.empty();
	}
};

namespace boardSize
{
	static constexpr int y = 8;
	static constexpr int x = 8;
}

using squareGrid = std::array<std::array<Square, boardSize::y>, boardSize::x>;

class board
{
	public:
		board();

		// Game play methods.
		bool movePiece(coord oldPos, coord newPos);
		bool placePiece(PieceType pieceType, coord pos, TeamColor color);
		bool deletePiece(coord pos);
		bool occupied(coord pos);
		// Startup.
		void initializeBoard();

		// Debug.
		void printBoard();

		// Squares access for drawing
		PieceType getSquareType(coord pos) const;
		TeamColor getSquareColor(coord pos) const;

	private:
		void promote(coord pos, TeamColor color);
		squareGrid squares;
};

#endif


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Home » Latest News » RBST - Update to Breeding During Covid-19 Pandemic
RBST - Update to Breeding During Covid-19 Pandemic
Native Equine Breeding Advice: COVID-19
Rare Breeds Survival Trust, Stoneleigh Park, Nr. Kenilworth, Warwickshire CV8 2LG
Tel: 024 7669 6551 | email: enquiries@rbst.org.uk | website:www.rbst.org.uk
Patron: His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales KG KT GCB
Registered Charity No. 269442. Company Limited by Guarantee, Registered in England No. 1204694
Advice to Breeders and Breed Societies (15th April 2020)
The Rare Breeds Survival Trust recognises the extraordinary nature of current events, and the priority of maintaining and ensuring the safety of its members, volunteers, associates and the general public.
As such, RBST has closely followed Government advice and instructions when considering its approaches to the breeding of native equines, first of all ensuring all public health legislation is adhered to, as well as the context of the critically endangered status of some of our equine breeds.
Recent Government guidance on social distancing in the workplace gives examples of how social distancing and other measures might be implemented by employers in England to help protect their workforce1. As an example of specific and relevant guidance, the Thoroughbred Association (TBA) have developed detailed protocols and guidelines in order to maintain their essential equine breeding activities.
The RBST suggests that Breed Societies representing native equines consider guidance and protocols such as that from the TBA and others1,2,3, as well as their activities in the context of their necessity for the future development and survival of the breeds. Seasonal breeding in mares on average begins on the 7th April in the Northern Hemisphere, therefore the activities of Breed Society members should be in the context that the equine breeding season can run from April to September.
RBST believes that through adhering to the stringent guidance and protocols, travel and activities that are absolutely necessary for the breeding of native equines may be able to continue. Such protocols must be stringent, detail best practice, and scrupulous records should be kept.
At this time, if you cannot follow all of these protocols, you should not be moving and transporting native horses for breeding, or requesting veterinary involvement. Public health and NHS resources are the priority.
Advice on moving forward?
The RBST advises that during the controls for COVID - 19 that Breed Societies for critically endangered native equines consider developing stringent protocols and associated documents (as examples those developed by trade associations1,2) and thoroughly assess the delivery of breeding strategies that are absolutely necessary to undertake, on a case by case basis.
The 2020-21 RBST Watchlist4 was published on 8th April and provides information on the critically endangered native equines breeds. If native equines breeds wish to obtain further advice on breeding strategies please contact the RBST Head of Conservation, Prof. Philippe Wilson [PhilippeWilson@rbst.org.uk]
1 https://www.gov.uk/guidance/social-distancing-in-the-workplace-during-coronavirus-covid-19-sector-guidance
2 https://www.thetba.co.uk/corona-virus-latest-information-and-guidance/
3 https://www.rcvs.org.uk/setting-standards/advice-and-guidance/coronavirus-covid-19/
4 https://www.rbst.org.uk/watchlist-overview


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Q: Difference between Transferred and Size columns in Mozilla Firexfox Network tab I am trying to determine what the difference is between the Transferred column and Size column. Does it have to do with the difference between compressed files and uncompressed?
I am not compressing my files on my server (Node.js Express server) so I don't know why there would be a difference in file size.

A: Your express application has gzip compression enabled as indicated by the Content-Encoding: gzip header, so the response body is compressed with gzip before sending over the network. Transferred size is when compressed, and size is decompressed in the browser. Express is doing this on the fly, so even though your file is not compressed on disk, it gets compressed before it is sent over the network.
Follow-up on your comments
You haven't posted any code, but it's probable that your express application is using the compression middleware (perhaps from the boilerplate you started with). If so, that will use mime-db to determine if the response content type is compressible. Looking up application/javascript in mime-db reveals it is marked as compressible:
mimeDb['application/javascript']
{ source: 'iana',
  charset: 'UTF-8',
  compressible: true,
  extensions: [ 'js' ] }

Note that a .gz file extension is not involved anywhere here. There is no .gz file on disk, the compression is being done to a .js file in memory. Also note that just setting the Content-Encoding: gzip header without actually encoding the body as gzip is not something you want to do. It will cause encoding errors for the client.


Adelaide United has named a 16-man squad for Wednesday's 2015 Westfield FFA Cup Round of 32 clash with Darwin Olympic at the Darwin Football Stadium.
The Westfield FFA Cup Round of 32 comes to the Northern Territory for the first time tomorrow night.
Darwin Football Stadium will play host to the encounter between Darwin Olympic and reigning Westfield FFA Cup holders Adelaide United as a club from the Northern Territory features in the Round of 32 for the first time.
An allmost full strength squad arrived to a warm Darwin earlier today and will then have a light session this evening (8:00pm ACST) at the Darwin Football Stadium to preparer for tomorrow night's clash.