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The Fifty Days of the Hotel Madrid
By Aaron Shulman
AFTER DARK ON OCTOBER 15, 2011, as the worldwide "United For Global Change" march drew to a close in Spain, a group of demonstrators held an assembly in Madrid's famous Puerta del Sol plaza. The day had been a tremendous success: marchers had turned out in more than sixty Spanish cities and reports were coming in that people had demonstrated in over eighty countries. A picture was emerging of the unified global response to the economic crisis many had been dreaming of. At that very moment across el charco — the puddle, the colloquial Spanish way of referring to the Atlantic Ocean — protesters in New York City were flooding into Times Square. "It's decided that the thing can't just end like this," Alfonso F., an activist present, told me in April, recalling the assembly. Some robust gesture was called for, an act of punctuation to end the day and at the same time extend it. Not a block away, on Calle Carretas, one of the streets leading into Sol, an abandoned hotel stood — the Hotel Madrid, as the wanly dulled brass letters above the entrance read, the i missing. After much debate the assembly resolved to occupy it.
After jimmying the doors open a group of people headed into the hotel while a crowd of at least a hundred remained in the street, spilling out around the entrance. It was past two in the morning. In a YouTube video the scene has the heady feeling of a block party infused with a sudden collective purpose. People chant and take pictures as activists gather above in the windows of the hotel. A police van approaches, blue lights flashing. It pauses — the orange sign of the Bershka clothing store across the street reflected in its black mirrored windows — then continues on, provoking cheers and applause.
As this wee-hours fanfare tapered off a core group of forty or fifty hunkered down and installed itself in the hotel, some bringing prior experience with squats, others not. In the morning a species of press release appeared at 7:56 a.m. "sleepless" the message noted at the end; on madrid.tomalaplaza.net, an online meet-up point for activists in Madrid.
"We are a group of people who have found ourselves in an open and abandoned space in very good condition," the communiqué read.
On the night of the fifteenth of October we decided to take it over in order to put it to a social use. The building has five floors, a basement, and two terraces. It includes multipurpose halls, fully equipped rooms, storage areas, kitchens, a cafeteria, electricity, and a large quantity of materials…We invite you to participate and contribute ideas to bring to life this building we consider more than ready for a popular, open, and participatory use. Today Sunday the sixteenth we would like you to attend a series of activities during the day on Calle Carretas, such as a social forum, a picnic, debates, and whatever else occurs to us. Your support is crucial during the coming hours.
After much discussion it had been decided to institute an indiscriminate open-doors policy at the hotel and this posting reflected that. Within hours people were strolling in from the street for a look, including parents with children, a welcome committee of sorts greeting visitors and informing them that they were breaking the law by entering. This decision, to invite any and all comers, would end up defining much of what later transpired at the Hotel Madrid, though right then the occupiers had other things to worry about.
In Spain the first forty-eight hours of a squat is a make-or-break window for how things will develop, legally speaking. The taking of the hotel was against the law. Uninhabited property is protected from "usurpation" by an article in the 1995 Spanish Penal Code, which the squatting community, or okupa movement ("okupa" is slang for 'squatter,' often used to mean the occupy movement — the purposeful misspelling of ocupa with a k giving the word an anti-establishment tincture) is all too aware of. But authorities only have an initial two-day period to forcibly evict squatters without a warrant. After this limbo things get more complicated and time-consuming from a legal and bureaucratic perspective. In the case of the Hotel Madrid, the real estate developer that owned the property, Monteverde, passed up this opportunity to eject the new residents. Instead it sent Pablo Heredia, an architect and project manager at the company, to try to negotiate. (I was able to reach Heredia on the phone at his office, but he was unwilling to be interviewed. Monteverde has issued a gag on all matters related to the hotel.)
Heredia visited the hotel with a detail of police officers on Monday, the second day of the occupation. The activists inside barred the doors and ignored his overtures. Eventually Heredia left after slipping his phone number through a crack in the door, encouraging the occupiers to negotiate. By this time they had hung a sign over the entrance to the hotel, its red letters hollering out the lofty, unapologetically idealistic ambitions which would form the basis for the rocky utopian experiment the Hotel Madrid would become: "La Casa del Pueblo" — The House of the People.
To understand the occupation of the Hotel Madrid you must first understand the Fifteenth of May movement in Spain, 15-M. Or at least you have to begin to understand 15-M.
Celebrating its one-year anniversary this month, 15-M is an unprecedented, electric new social movement in Spain which erupted in the spring of 2011 and went on to influence what would become Occupy Wall Street, as well as actions in other parts of the world, including Greece and Israel. (It was one of the driving engines behind the "United For Global Change" march.) 15-M arose out of a leaderless, horizontal online initiative called ¡Democracia Real Ya! — Real Democracy Now! — whose slogan was:"We're not goods in the hands of politicians and bankers." Inspired by the Arab Spring, activists created a grassroots organizing base through social media, setting the date for nationwide marches on the third Sunday in May, the fifteenth. Klaudia Álvarez, a teacher in Barcelona who got involved early on through Facebook, was like many others who couldn't have predicted the cultural paradigm shift they were midwifing. "Minds from every corner of the country crafted, debated, and crafted again a manifesto, proposals, strategies reached by consensus," she writes in a short book of testimonies about the origins of 15-M, Nosotros, Los Indignados. "We chose a date and a time, with no idea what it was going to unleash."
What happened next began less than remarkably, or at least not in a way that would have anticipated a seismic revision of the national conversation: with a march. From my American perspective it sometimes feels as if there is a march everyday for one cause or another in Spain. Demonstrations can sometimes seem banal. At the same time, this eagerness to take to the streets, to assemble and make demands of one's government, is something I admire about Spaniards, and this was on vigorous display the fifteenth of May, 2011. The march that day had a distinct tenor, one of ecstatic, unified outrage at the state of affairs in the country, where unemployment had topped twenty percent — it is now approaching a flabbergasting twenty-five percent — and a yawning gorge of alienation separated many citizens from their politicians. No one had expected much from the march, but it drew impressive numbers all throughout Spain. This alone might not have been enough to cement 15-M as a new social force, but the next day police violently removed a group of demonstrators who had camped out in Puerta del Sol in Madrid. Videos of the brutality went viral, winning sympathizers and creating a cultural tipping point which would later be echoed in the U.S. when pepper spray was used against Occupy Wall Street. Soon thousands of people were camped out in Sol.
For a few weeks Spain seemed to hum with nothing but 15-M. The media paid feverish attention to the unfolding narrative as the movement awoke to its own beginning. Of course, not everyone was elated. In spite of 15-M's startling ability to transcend political boundaries, not to mention generational ones, many were plainly unenchanted by what was happening, disgusted even. Spain has a long, bitter history of divided politics, with alliances and hatreds dating back to before the country's bloody civil war. During the George W. Bush years by comparison, there was frequent talk about the two Americas, blue states and red states, but spend time in Spain and you'll realize what a tremendously united country we are in the U.S., joined by a flag and constitution we all pretty much agree on. Not so in the land of El Quijote. The 1978 Spanish Constitution has scores of detractors; at an assembly last year in Cordoba last year I heard a professor of constitutional law argue that it was obsolete. And as for the Spanish flag, suffice it to say that there is much to say.
Naturally, then, 15-M provoked passionate, knee-jerk responses among Spaniards. People displeased by what was going on favored an idiosyncratic nugget of slang to describe the demonstrators: perroflautas. This word is akin to treehugger or long-hair in English but literally means dog-flute. (Spanish is a host to many superb neologisms, like my personal favorite, pagafantas, pays-for-Fantas: the guy trapped in the role of hopelessly platonic best friend to the girl he's in love with.) There were of course people who met this hippie stereotype — you really do come across people with dogs and flutes — but the reliance on the word often rang like a shabby talisman against the fact that 15-M was dissolving political and socioeconomic divides. In any case, such politically motivated simplifications could do nothing to stop the wave of demonstrators who flocked to camp out in Puerta de Sol and other plazas all throughout Spain. 15-M found its definitive voice at the end of May when over 25,000 people gathered illegally in Sol before upcoming elections in an act of massive civil disobedience. The authorities did nothing.
The taking of the Hotel Madrid wasn't an official 15-M action — the participants I talked to made a point of emphasizing this — but no one would dispute that it grew out the spirit the movement had awakened.
"Things got complicated very quickly," José, a twenty-seven-year-old Madrid native who was active at the hotel from its first night to its last, told me in May, days before 15-M would celebrate its anniversary on the twelfth. José had been living in London when the movement abruptly coalesced the previous year. He camped out in front of his country's embassy with other Spaniards, one of many such satellite protests of solidarity at the time. After saving up enough money to return home to Madrid he threw himself into 15-M. With degrees in history and sociology the only work he'd ever had in his country was on boats. When we talked he was getting ready to go to Greece for a job bringing a yacht to Spain. José was one of a handful of highly educated, politically conscious young people who didn't live at the hotel but nonetheless dedicated themselves to getting the occupation off the ground. It was his first experience with squatting.
To begin with there were the logistical issues. With only two functioning points of water in the whole hotel, ensuring toilets were flushed and providing for other hygienic needs meant constantly distributing water to floors that didn't have any. And while a stream of food donations arrived, organizing a collective kitchen to feed all the people who had taken up residence at the hotel proved to be too complicated to pull off. On top of this there were the pedestrian, age-old conflicts of roommates the world over: noise at inappropriate hours, general upkeep, and contrasting values. Two people were expelled from the hotel by assembly for making homophobic remarks. But the most problematic tensions related to a clash of cultures: that of the activists who hoped to create a microcosm of 15-M at hotel and the homeless people who flocked there for shelter.
"Maybe it was an error opening the doors," José told me, rolling a cigarette at a café in the Jacinto Benavente Plaza around the corner from the hotel, whose former entrance is now a cinderblock wall. "I was one of the people who supported the open doors. I said, 'Look, we have to be bold. If things work out, great. If not, well, it wasn't meant to be."
The problem was straightforward: you open the doors to the street, you get just that — the street.
Right away a couple of cell phones went missing, not to mention the infrastructure of the hotel itself had to protected. Finding and selling scrap metal is a common pursuit for those at the bottom of the social ladder in Spain, and while the hotel had previously been raided for wiring and piping — hence the problems with the water — there was still plenty left to mine. A security committee was set up to check such plundering, only to have some of its members turn out to be very people looting. "It was super funny because they would be like, 'Don't worry, I've got it under control,'" José recalled with exasperated good humor. "Then maybe I'd be in a room talking and I'd start to hear banging."
"The word is heterogeneous in its greatest profundity," is how Alfonso F. put it, describing the ninety or so people who settled in at the hotel. Alfonso is a 31-year-old IT specialist ardently involved in La Oficina de Vivienda, a social justice collective in Madrid which focuses on housing issues. Along with others he formed what might be thought of as the ideological foundation of the Hotel Madrid, bring his experience to help to establish the assembly-style decision-making process among the residents and set up work committees. "A super diverse group of people," he said. "With a mix of intentions."
The presence of the homeless community at the hotel wasn't unexpected, of course. With the open door policy it had been welcomed. Providing shelter for sin techos — those with out roofs — would certainly be positive. But the attitudes and expectations they brought with them all too effortlessly collided with those of 15-M believers like José. "Rich kid!" José remembered being called during one argument. "You've got a house and you shower everyday, brat!" On the one hand he knew these complaints had their basis in truth. "These were people who have a series of personal problems that don't let them have the stability that we have." On the other hand, such clashes threatened the sustainability of the occupation. José said many activists, initially enthusiastic, called it quits. "The people that really wanted to participate got burned out," he said. "Of those of us who were there working from the first day — after two weeks there were very few left."
Alfonso's perspective on this period in the hotel's trajectory is markedly rosier, perhaps due to his previous experiences with other squatting enterprises and his preparedness for the issues that inevitably arose. With regard to the scrap metal looting, he said, "It wasn't a serious or important problem…It was discussed in the assembly to see how to solve it collectively." He nevertheless recognized that the hotel did present a challenging situation. "There were some hard moments. To confront the sense of discomfort — you're with a ton of unknown people in a super big space that's difficult to manage."
There was the day Bruno, a sizeable Portuguese magnet for trouble, pulled a knife during an argument. No one ended up being harmed.
On top of this everyday struggle to steer the hotel toward stability the media fixated on the problems, which were enough to deal with on their own without having to worry about the hotel's public image. Alfonso believed the press purposely distorted the narrative of the hotel in order "to sell a totally demented story." (This distrust of the media may explain the difficulties I had in finding people who participated in the Hotel Madrid who were willing to talk to me.) Call them growing pains or intimations of collapse, complications weren't lacking on Calle Carretas. Yet amidst all this the hotel was still soon able to begin fulfilling its foremost goal and thus address in its small way the crisis in Spain: by putting up people who had recently been evicted from their homes by bank foreclosures.
While the blooming of 15-M was uniquely Spanish, the movement nevertheless emerged out of sentiments which were rapidly multiplying throughout Europe at the time. In 2010 a tiny book called Indignez-vous!, little more than a pamphlet really, was published in France, written by Stéphane Hessel, a nonagenarian retired diplomat who had fought bravely in the French Resistance. The book slingshotted to the top of the bestseller list, selling 1.5 million copies in less than six months. Not an especially zesty read — the book is a light ramble through Hessel's life drawn from a speech, interspersing impassioned critiques of the current state of affairs in the world — it nevertheless struck a powerful chord, giving voice to many with its title alone: Time For Outrage, as it was published in English, which loses something in translation. A more literal translation might be Get Indignant. Awkward, yes, but it better captures the spirit of indignation and call to action that galvanized millions of readers inside and outside of France. The title translated seamlessly into Spanish as did its message, providing a needed new vocabulary. When 15-M broke out people began identifying themselves with a new term: they were los indignados — the indignant ones.
What is there to be indignant about in Spain? Besides unemployment and a dizzying degree of political corruption — to take just one example, a government official in Andalusia was recently discovered to have spent 25,000 Euros a month of public funds on cocaine — is the number of foreclosure evictions taking place in the country. In 2011 the Spanish legal system processed 58, 241 such cases, an all-time high and a 22 percent rise from 2010. At the same time that more people are ending up on the street, Spain's austerity measures have brought severe cutbacks to social services. Amidst all this, the spectacular fiction of the Spanish real estate boom and its subsequent implosion during the crisis has left a legacy of over three million empty houses in Spain, according to the 2011 Population and Housing Census, while in January of this year El Pais newspaper estimated that the true figure could exceed five million.
While this familiar story of unregulated speculation is reaching a devastating extreme in Spain, it's understandable that some might balk at the occupation of the Hotel Madrid. After all, the hotel was and is private property, protected from usurpation by law. The actions of the activists and other okupa advocates, however, fall within a constitutional framework — Article 47 of the Spanish Constitution, which reads: "All Spaniards have the right to enjoy worthy and adequate housing. Public powers will promote the conditions necessary and will establish the pertinent norms in order to effect this right, regulating the use of land in accordance with the interest of all to impede speculation."
Because of technical legal differences between certain parts of the Constitution, "political and social" principles like Article 47 enjoy less enforceability than others, such as the right to protection from discrimination, Article 14. But it is hard not to sympathize with the mission and method of the activists of the Hotel Madrid: to arm themselves with their constitution and through direct action implement measures to protect fellow citizens where the government had failed. Social justice and private property do not necessarily have to be at odds — I would wager that the vast majority of humanity would like to see them peacefully coexist — but in Spain the tension between these two was and is destroying lives. Was occupying the hotel usurpation? Communism? Or was it a group of citizens joining to battle the crisis on their own terms? Was it democracy?
At this point it would be germane to mention that the selection of the Hotel Madrid for occupation wasn't an arbitrary decision. In January of 2010 Monteverde, the luxury real estate company that owned the hotel, had commenced bankruptcy proceedings, with a debt approaching 170 million Euros. From the point of view of the activists in the hotel Monteverde represented just the type of speculation that had brought on the crisis in collusion with banks — the very banks which had been bailed out while foreclosures in Spain reached a historic peak and more and more people found themselves homeless.
"In the criminal model in which we live if there's one thing that's accomplished it's that the person who is evicted," Alfonso told me, defending the hotel as a just and appropriate measure, "has to live it like a personal flaw, a kind of defect, in which you have failed, just like the unemployed person and others. Fault, in this individualist society, falls on the victim. If anyone needs rescuing, it's the people who don't have any resources."
Esperanza is a seventy-five-year-old woman with silver streaks in dark hair who arrived at the hotel in November, two weeks after it had been occupied. She met with me in May in a library in the diverse, working-class neighborhood of Carabanchel Alto, where she currently lives. Her life has been defined in many ways by the time and place where she was born: Franco's Spain. A fiercely independent, strong-spirited young woman, she found it unbearable beneath the regime's authoritarian Catholicism and totalizing machismo. She had a child out of wedlock and was ostracized by her family, only to have her infant daughter disappear from a daycare facility while Esperanza struggled to make ends meet as a single mother. She was told her daughter had died, but she has always believed she was robbed from her and sold to another family. This claim might sound farfetched if it weren't for the current wave of such cases from the Franco era which have solidified from rumor into fact recently, resulting in indictments, including charges brought against an elderly nun. Flash forward many years — during a decade drifting around Europe she was in France in May of '68 — and in the fall of 2010 Esperanza found herself evicted from her home in Avila. Alone, she went to Madrid and lived a homeless life: she slept in the Barajas Airport and spent her days riding the subway from beginning to end. A political activist since always, when 15-M erupted she got involved and found people who wanted to help her. "The Carabanchel 15-M has been my family," she said.
The activists at the Hotel Madrid and 15-M agreed to set aside a room for Esperanza, with a bed and central heating. When she arrived tensions had begun to even out amongst the hotel's inhabitants. "There was a lot of solidarity and good feeling," she said.
"A distinct reality started to be created," Alfonso said about this maturing period at the hotel during November, "in which people got settled and the especially problematic people began to leave because the collective norms and the collective reality didn't let them do as they pleased. It wasn't a space where no one was willing to respond to anything but rather where everyone responded to everything."
The people who stayed on at the hotel had committed themselves to the enterprise, warts and all. "It's a little paradoxical to be fighting for social justice and everything and then find yourself with the real issue of people from the streets and say, 'I'm out of here,'" José said. "No, this is the street, and it's worth fighting for it."
The assemblies drew greater participation. "They were very productive," Esperanza recalled, saying that these discussions were one of the highlights of her experience at the hotel.
The people from the street and the "rich kid" activists felt out a middle ground. José, a member of the Communication Committee, worked with an illiterate man on the crafting of a press release. Manual labor responsibilities were shared. It wasn't perfect but it was convivencia, a Spanish word that can be translated as 'living together,' or 'fellowship' in a secular sense, and this, for me, was the loveliest aspect of the wild experiment of the Hotel Madrid. On the one hand, highly educated middle-class activists were forced not just to meet but live and work hand in hand with the people who they were fighting for, learning what this truly entailed. And at the same time, people from the street used to a life which didn't allow them to think beyond their most basic needs were forced — or allowed — to reckon with their own valuable ability to contribute as much as anyone else inside the at once high-minded and tumultuous microcosm of the hotel. And the issues raised by Article 47 of the constitution related to homelessness finally became a part of the mainstream national conversation in empty-housed, foreclosure-heavy Spain.
"It was a great project," Esperanza affirmed, looking back on her time at the hotel, even as she maintained doubts about the wisdom of the open-door policy. But in the end that decision didn't hamstring the hotel's principal goal: to house people evicted from their homes like her and others in similar circumstances who found comfort and shelter at the hotel while 15-M and La Oficina de Vivienda sought less provisional living situations for them. "There were committed people who wanted to make important changes to society," Esperanza said. "Let me be clear, the Hotel Madrid was amazing."
At seven a.m. on December 5th police raided the hotel. The eviction order had come. Alfonso called it a "military operation." Norma, a woman at living at the hotel, said she was stripped and searched. It was a devastating blow. Things had been going very well of late: language classes had been organized, seminars and workshops, even a barbershop. An open house was being planned to reintroduce the hotel to the public. José told an anecdote about a police offer breaking down a locked door, only to be left astounded by the consummate library inside. A total of ninety-three people were removed from the hotel, with ten arrests; nine were illegal immigrants detained for lack of proper documentation. Later that day a posting appeared on tomalaplaza.net calling for a response to the eviction. It included this phrase, invoking the constitution and the rights it guaranteed its citizens in relation to the hotel: "We've stopped asking in order to begin to take what is ours." Thousands gathered that night in Sol to protest the eviction.
After fifty days the Hotel Madrid had come to an end.
So a year after its birth, what is 15-M? This a slippery question, as tricky as trying to define Occupy Wall Street. Yet it calls for an answer, or at least an attempt at one. And who better to risk summing up a movement than the people who constitute it?
"15-M is the conscience of society," Esperanza said.
"What's united us is basically the rejection of this criminal model," said Alfonso.
"What is 15-M?" José said. "It's a mood."
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Just when we thought that the year-end festivities are over, done and dusted, the dragons of Asia swing their heavy heads around and let out a little cough of laughter. Over? It's only just beginning!
With Spring just around the corner, we are all looking forward to celebrating the Lunar New Year aka Chinese New Year (on 5 February 2019 this year); the symbolic start to the year for many of Chinese descent.
As everyone celebrating will be aware, the Lunar New Year is a time for family, feasting, festivities and frazzled nerves LOL! 😀 Here in Malaysia, it is a time when we open our doors to family and friends to visit and late nights are inevitable.
So, with all this going on, you can expect to look a little wan and tired during the coming Chinese New Year festivities – 15 days! – but here's some tips for you on how to survive this, and look your best while doing so!
If there's one thing the internet has taught us, it is this – there's always something newer, prettier and more fun coming around the corner. So, we snap up goodies we have our eye on now, but instead of enjoying them, we tuck them away in our drawers and crane our necks, peering into the distance, wondering if there might be something better out there to come.
Or we buy something expensive, or exclusive, and we hug it to ourself and say "I'll keep it for a special occasion" as we gaze lovingly at it.
This was me. But it's now 2019 and I have a new life mantra to live by.
I have also noticed that many otherwise seasoned shoppers balk at shopping at overseas websites. They'd rather wait for it to be available locally, buy from a local website despite a mark up in price, or use a personal shopper/reseller, to save on the perceived hassle, or perhaps get instant gratification.
Nothing wrong with that, except when I'm told by these same people that they find it hard to shop online from overseas, because they're afraid! Well, there's no need to be!
I was a little slow off the starting blocks with online shopping back in the day. Then, many websites did not ship to Malaysia, and it was very frustrating. Today, most do, with the odd exception.


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Acclaimed American Boys Choir to Host Free Workshops, Perform at UT October 30
The American Boychoir, one of the nation's premier choral groups, will present several workshops and a concert at UT on Tuesday, October 30.
The first session will begin at 2:15 p.m. and will include a mini-concert and a workshop on voice building and the male changing voice. The second session will begin at 3:45 p.m. and will include another concert and a workshop on music literacy. The workshops are geared toward area teachers and church directors who have children's choirs.
All events, which are free and open to the public, will be held in the James R. Cox Auditorium in the Alumni Memorial Building. The UT School of Music is sponsoring the event.
The choir is comprised of boys in grades four through eight who come from different ethnic, religious, and cultural backgrounds from around the United States. They attend the Princeton, N.J.-based American Boychoir School, where they pursue a rigorous musical and academic curriculum. The school is the only nonsectarian boys' choir school in the nation.
The choir has an active national and international touring schedule and performs with world-class ensembles including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic. The group appears regularly as featured artists with James Levine at the Tanglewood Music Festival, and has performed with internationally renowned soprano Jessye Norman, prominent jazz musician Wynton Marsalis, pop diva Beyoncé, and at Carnegie Hall with Sir Paul McCartney.
The choir has been extensively recorded on its own label, Albemarle Records, and broadcast on radio and television, with more than forty-five commercial recordings.
To learn more about the American Boychoir, visit their website.
To learn more about the School of Music, visit the website.
Angela Batey (865-974-6649, abatey@utk.edu)
Lola Alapo (865-974-3993, lalapo@utk.edu)

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Linda Haglund, född 26 december 1974, är en svensk bowlare, tävlande för BK Skrufscha i Vänersborg.

Linda Haglund är den enda svenska kvinna som tre gånger lyckats slå en 300-serie i bowling. Bedrifterna skedde 23 februari 1997 i Sundbybergs bowlinghall, 30 mars 1999 i Vänersborgs bowlinghall samt 16 juni 2001 i samband med EM i Ålborg, Danmark.

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 1 VM-silver 5-mannalag (2003)
 1 EM-guld i 5-mannlag (2001)
 1 EM-silver i 2-mannalag (2001)
 1 EM-brons i 3-mannalag (2001)
 4 SM-guld 8-mannalag
 1 SM-guld i 2-mannalag
 1 SM-guld i 4-mannalag
 1 SM-brons i 5-mannalag
 1 NM-brons i 2-mannalag (1999)
 1 NM-brons i mixed(1999)
 1 JEM-brons 5-manna (1992)
 1 JEM-brons 5-manna JNM (1993)

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Firefighter competition comes to Montgomery on Friday
By Michael Shipma and Bethany Davis | May 23, 2017 at 8:32 PM CDT - Updated August 12 at 10:36 AM
MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) - The Montgomery Fire/Rescue Department will host the 2017 Scott Regional Firefighter Combat Challenge this weekend as a way to promote and highlight firefighter fitness.
The event, which is in its 26th year, will feature firefighter teams participating in challenges that will showcase their skills and the demands of the job. The challenge will be held at the corner of Tallapoosa and Commerce streets in downtown Montgomery.
Competitors will take on five events that highlight the readiness and skills required of firefighters in meeting the demands of their jobs. Wearing full bunker gear, they climb five flights of stairs carrying a 42-pound hose over one shoulder. From the top of that tower, they hoist another 42-pound hose up and over the railing on that tower, then run back down touching every step on the way. At the bottom, they use a 9-pound shot mallet to push a sled down a roughly 5-foot steel beam. That sled weighs about 160 pounds. Then they run through a 140-foot slalom course, without knocking over any of the delineators, pick up a charged hose line, and drag it 75 feet. It ends with dragging a 175-pound mannequin backward for about 100 feet.
The two-day competition will feature more than 70 teams from across the Southeast. Of those teams, roughly 100 Montgomery firefighters will be competing in the event. Montgomery's relay team held the World Record and Championship for two years. They lost that title last year, and are fighting to get it back.
"I told the Mayor yesterday morning, he asked me about it, I said 'Mayor, we're looking for 63 seconds'," said Assistant Fire Chief Jonathan Stewart. "That's all we need to get that title back."
The event will start on Friday at 5 p.m. with an opening ceremony and individual competitions. It continues Saturday, alongside the Top Chef cooking competition. The Montgomery Fire/Rescue teams in the event will compete for cash prizes starting at 9 a.m., with registration starting at 8 a.m.
Michael Shipma
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Art & Music Festival – February 21-23, 2020
News and Notes – what's happening at St. Francis
St. Francis 2020 Art and Music Festival
"The Old Ball Game" by Randall Graham, juror
6 – 9 pm: Art Preview Reception (ticket required)
Meet the artists and enjoy wine and catered small plates. Awards will be presented in two categories, painting and photography. This is your first opportunity to view and purchase the art work. In addition, there will be art on display by local high school students, as well as works from the youth at Darlington Arts Center.
Cost: $20.00 for adults, or $30.00 for both evening events
10 am: Oil painting demonstration by Randall Graham, juror for the Art Show
10 am to 3 pm: Art Gallery open to public
5 pm: Musical Revue and Reception (ticket required)
Featuring members of the St. Francis Choir and other local talent performing Broadway, barbershop, and popular tunes, accompanied by our own Joe Perry. A wine and cheese reception hosted by Philadelphia Catering Company will follow the Revue from 6 - 8 pm. Childcare will be provided
Final exhibition and sale of art
11 am to 2 pm: Gallery open to the public
Tickets are available for purchase after the 8 and 10 am Sunday services starting in February or can be purchased at the door on the day of the event. Tickets are $20.00 for either evening or $30.00 for both evenings.
Juror of Selection
Randall Graham, Juror - Randall is an award-winning artist that also loves to share his knowledge of painting through teaching. His passion for art has been apparent since childhood, where drawing and creating stories through works of art started and hasn't stopped yet. He studied at The Carlin Academy of Fine Art and the University of Delaware. Randall also studies with Bo Bartlett who influenced his style. The tradition of Chester County artists continues with Randall.
His work comes in a variety of channels including studio work, en plein air (outdoor painting) and his "en rain air" style. The "en rain air" style comes from painting a scene from his mini van or window while it is raining. The rain drops on the window act as a means for abstraction. The juxtaposition of abstract and reality creates emotional paintings which have become very popular with Randall's collectors.
Randall teaches traditional painting fundamentals at Randall Graham Studio in Malvern, Wayne Art Center and Chester County Art Association. For more information, go to https://www.randallgraham.com/.
by Randall Graham
Darlington Arts Center
Fifty percent of the net proceeds from the 2020 Art & Music Festival will go to the Darlington Arts Center. The Darlington Arts Center, located in Delaware County, strives to serve the cultural needs of a diverse community by providing a school and outreach programs for the visual and performing arts. The Center is a valuable resource for promoting the enjoyment and understanding of the arts for people of all ages as expressed in music, art, dance, and drama.
For more information about this wonderful organization, please click here.
West Chester Food Cupboard
Fifty percent of the proceed from the Art & Music Festival will go to the West Chester Food Cupboard. The mission of the West Chester Food Cupboard commits to provide a variety of fresh and non-perishable healthy food items to West Chester residents in need…because no one should go hungry! To learn how you can help, please click here.
Many thanks to the following sponsors for their generous support of the
2020 Art & Music Festival, the Darlington Arts Center, and the West Chester Food Cupboard
Gold Sponsor - $500.00
Bruton Chisnell Partners
Irene Darocha & Michael Picariello
Silver Sponsor - $250.00
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Bronze Sponsor - $125.00
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Watch The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013) Online
Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthralls all who encounter her – but ultimately she must confront her fate, the punishment for her crime.
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Director: Isao Takahata
Actors: Aki Asakura, Atsuko Takahata, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Kengo Kora, Nobuko Miyamoto, Takaya Kamikawa, Tomoko Tabata
The Journey of Natty Gann (1985)
America is in the depths of the Great Depression. Families drift apart when faraway jobs beckon. In this masterful, atmospheric adventure, a courageous young girl (Meredith Salenger) confronts overwhelming odds…
Genre: Adventure, Family
Okja (2017)
A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend – a massive animal named Okja.
Highlander 2: The Quickening (1991)
In the year 2024, the ozone layer is believed to have been destroyed. It is up to MacLeod and Rameriz to set things right. Opposition comes from both the planet…
Country: Argentina, France, UK
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Thriller
Nazi Overlord (2018)
A D-Day rescue mission turns ugly when a band of Allied soldiers battle with horrific experiments created by the Nazis.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller, War
A Dog's Journey (2019)
A dog finds the meaning of his own existence through the lives of the humans he meets.
Country: China, Hong Kong, India, USA
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Reign of Fire (2002)
In post-apocalyptic England, an American volunteer and a British survivor team up to fight off a brood of fire-breathing dragons seeking to return to global dominance after centuries of rest…
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Life of Pi (2012)
The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets…
Country: Canada, Taiwan, UK, USA
A Dog's Way Home (2019)
A Dog's Way Home chronicles the heartwarming adventure of Bella, a dog who embarks on an epic 400-mile journey home after she is separated from her beloved human.
Country: China, USA
My One and Only (2009)
A mother takes her two sons on an unusual road trip from New York. Pittsburgh, St. Louis and eventually Hollywood in her quest to find a man to take care…
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Hoping to bring his family closer together and to recreate his childhood vacation for his own kids, a grown up Rusty Griswold takes his wife and their two sons on…
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Finding Nemo (2003)
Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to his worrisome father Marlin and a friendly but…
A group of young boys on the cusp of becoming teenagers embark on an epic quest to fix their broken drone before their parents get home.
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The Eugene Airport will fall just shy of a million passengers served in 2016. If the Ducks had landed in a warm-weather football bowl game, that boost may have taken EUG into that prized seventh digit. It won't happen this year, but as the football team has been saying since Halloween, there's always next year.
The airport will take its next quantum leap when they get a nibble on the bait of an adjoining conference hotel. That hasn't happened yet, but there's always next year. In the meantime, we should appreciate what we have. Which is a wonderfully well designed, compact, accessible airport.
I don't know who to thank for the two-story gate structure. If there's a better escalator-centric design for any structure in the world, I'd be happy to know about it. That single innovation prevents the plague that visits every other airport I can think of — sprawl.
Most airports spread themselves out so generously, a typical passenger may have to walk the length of a 747's runway to get from the ticket counter to their departure gate. Connecting flights in any of these airports require passengers to walk so far they should be awarded a half-marathon T-shirt.
Between any two points, there's nothing in between except thousands of people watching you and wondering whether you'll make it, wherever and whatever "it" may be. And then when you arrive, assuming you have any spare time, you become one of the geometrically impossible middle people, watching others hurrying to their endpoints, wondering whether they will make it, wherever and whatever "it" may be.
It's as if we're all living inside a spirograph of dashes between endpoints. Each of us draws the straightest line we can, but we know it must somehow be less or different than that. It would add some comfort if we knew that our curves and others' combined into some sort of picture that delights somebody somewhere.
Alas, we can't be sure of that. Meantime, I have a backup plan to propose.
We should color our ubiquitous rollerbags red, and paint black circles on the sides. We then should add a long metal bar with a handle at the end, that can be tucked into the bag when hoisting it into the overhead compartment.
Do you see where I'm going with this? If not, you'll be like the thousands who will be watching you tow this red roller through airports.
I'd recommend emblazoning these red bags with a Radio Flyer™ logo, except for the copyright infringement. This is in fact what we're all doing. Beneath our parading self-importance, we're silently amazed that we can carry so much stuff — so much important stuff! — around with us. That quiet comfort that we have everything we need traces itself back to our third-grade selves.
We're all pulling our wagons to feel important. And for those moments when we're unsure, that stuff in the wagon puts the importance back. Those scary fourth-graders have nothing on us!
Nobody says a word to anybody they don't know in an airport. Yet it's the safest social setting most people ever inhabit. Between gate and terminal, it's a lock-down. Nobody got in without being screened for identity and weapons. Nobody can get out without passing another security checkpoint.
Everybody's safe — or trapped. Either way, we should have an easier time talking to one another. An airport terminal is really a stuck elevator without the claustrophobia. Red wagon rollerbags could be the joke that gets people talking to strangers.
Many of us remember the awe we felt the first time we flew. Radio Flyer™ flying could invite us and others back to that childlike wonder.


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'Chicago' kicks off new Broadway in New Orleans season
January 24, 2014 by Scott Walker
Media Release:
NEW ORLEANS – (Jan. 24, 2014) — East Jefferson General Hospital Broadway in New Orleans today announces the lineup of Broadway's biggest hits for the 2014 – 2015 season, at the historic Saenger Theatre.
The sensational season kicks off with a true New York City institution and multi-award winning musical, CHICAGO. The season continues with the spectacular new production of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, the electric stage adaptation DIRTY DANCING – THE CLASSIC STORY ON STAGE, Broadway's best-loved musical ANNIE, eight-time Tony Award®-winning musical ONCE, irresistible family musical JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT and MAMMA MIA!, the enchanting tale of love, laughter and friendship.
"Through our long-lasting partnership with East Jefferson General Hospital Broadway in New Orleans and the New Orleans Theatre Association, we can continue our mission to enhance the entertainment marketplace in New Orleans for another season," said David Skinner, general manager of Ace Theatrical Group, Inc., and the Saenger Theatre. "By offering a diverse lineup for the 2014 – 2015 season, we hope to provide a little something for everyone to create memories at the Saenger Theatre for years to come."
Shows of the 2014 – 2015 East Jefferson General Hospital Broadway in New Orleans series include:
A true New York City institution, CHICAGO has everything that makes Broadway great: a universal tale of fame, fortune and all that jazz; one show-stopping-song after another; and the most astonishing dancing you've ever seen. It's no wonder CHICAGO has been honored with 6 Tony Awards®, 2 Olivier Awards®, a Grammy® and thousands of standing ovations. It's also no surprise that CHICAGO has wowed audiences all around the world, from Mexico City to Moscow, from Sao Paulo to South Africa. Whether you're looking for your first Broadway musical, whether you've seen the Academy Award®-winning film and want to experience the show live on stage or whether you've seen it before and want to recapture the magic, CHICAGO always delivers.
Cameron Mackintosh's Spectacular New Production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's
Following an acclaimed sold-out tour of the United Kingdom, Cameron Mackintosh's spectacular new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's phenomenal musical success, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, will come to New Orleans as part of a brand new North American Tour. Critics are raving that this breathtaking production is "bigger and better than ever before." This PHANTOM features a brilliant new scenic design by Paul Brown, Tony Award®-winning original costume design by Maria Björnson, lighting design by Tony Award®-winner Paule Constable, new choreography by Scott Ambler, and a new staging by director Laurence Connor. The production, overseen by Matthew Bourne and Cameron Mackintosh, boasts many exciting special effects including the show's legendary chandelier. The beloved story and thrilling score – with songs like "Music of the Night," "All I Ask Of You," and "Masquerade" – will be performed by a cast and orchestra of 52, making this PHANTOM one of the largest productions now on tour.
DIRTY DANCING – THE CLASSIC STORY ON STAGE
December 16 – 21, 2014
DIRTY DANCING – THE CLASSIC STORY ON STAGE is an unprecedented live experience, exploding with heart pounding music, passionate romance, and sensational dancing. Seen by millions across the globe, this worldwide smash hit tells the classic story of Baby and Johnny, two fiercely independent young spirits from different worlds who come together in what will be the most challenging and triumphant summer of their lives. Featuring the hit songs, "Hungry Eyes," "Hey Baby," "Do you Love Me?" and the heart stopping "(I've Had) The Time of My Life." London's Sunday Express says "This crowd pleasing stage adaptation hits the jackpot!" Don't miss your chance to see this record-breaking live theatre sensation. You'll have the time of your life!
Leapin' Lizards! One of the world's best-loved musicals is back in time-honored form. Directed by original lyricist Martin Charnin, this new production of ANNIE will be a classic incarnation of the beloved original. Featuring the beloved book and score by Tony Award®-winners Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin, ANNIE includes such unforgettable songs as "It's the Hard Knock Life," "Easy Street," "I Don't Need Anything But You," plus the eternal anthem of optimism, "Tomorrow." Don't wait until tomorrow. Subscribe today!
Winner of eight 2012 Tony Awards® including BEST MUSICAL, ONCE is a truly original Broadway experience. Featuring an impressive ensemble of actor/musicians who play their own instruments onstage, ONCE tells the enchanting tale of a Dublin street musician who's about to give up on his dream when a beautiful young woman takes a sudden interest in his haunting love songs. As the chemistry between them grows, his music soars to powerful new heights… but their unlikely connection turns out to be deeper and more complex than your everyday romance. Emotionally captivating and theatrically breathtaking, ONCE draws you in from the very first note and never lets go. It's an unforgettable story about going for your dreams… not living in fear… and the power of music to connect all of us.
One of the most enduring shows of all time, Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber's JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT is the irresistible family musical about the trials and triumphs of Joseph, Israel's favorite son. Directed and choreographed by Tony Award-winner Andy Blankenbuehler, this new production will feature Broadway/television star Diana DeGarmo (Hairspray, Hair) as The Narrator and Broadway star Ace Young (Grease, Hair) as Joseph. Retelling the Biblical story of Joseph, his eleven brothers and the coat of many colors, this magical musical is full of unforgettable songs including "Those Canaan Days," "Any Dream Will Do" and "Close Every Door." Subscribe today and be part of the magic!
MAMMA MIA! is not included as part of the six-show Season Subscription Package.
Season Subscribers have first access and can add MAMMA MIA! to their Season Subscription upon renewal.
Over 54 million people all around the world have fallen in love with the characters, the story and the music that make MAMMA MIA! the ultimate feel-good show! Writer Catherine Johnson's sunny, funny tale unfolds on a Greek island paradise. On the eve of her wedding, a daughter's quest to discover the identity of her father brings three men from her mother's past back to the island they last visited 20 years ago. The story-telling magic of ABBA's timeless songs propels this enchanting tale of love, laughter and friendship, and every night everyone's having the time of their lives!
SUBSCRIPTION PACKAGES ON SALE NOW!
Season tickets for the 2014 – 2015 East Jefferson General Hospital Broadway in New Orleans series are on sale now and can be purchased by calling (800) 218-7469, with special hours through February 20 (Monday through Friday between the hours of 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. CST, on Saturdays between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m.) or online at BroadwayInNewOrleans.com. Six-show season ticket package prices start at $174. The final deadline for current Season Subscribers to renew and keep their same seats is Thursday, February 20, 2014. Individual tickets will be available six to eight weeks prior to each scheduled performance. For group pricing, please call (504) 287-0372.
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Life Candy: "okay, I've had it" #1: frontyard garden.
"okay, I've had it" #1: frontyard garden.
OMG, the weeding, the mosquitoes, the dying plants, the invasive ones, the anthills!
When I came back from our week-long camping trip, there was an elm forest in my front yard garden! (Thanks for not chopping down your old sick elm tree, Ned Flanders!) The leaves of one of the hostas had been eaten up by some kind of crazy hosta-eating bug, and the Scotch moss had morphed into an anthill!
THESE GARDENS ARE NOT LOW-MAINTENANCE, PEOPLE!!!
1: Pare down the number of plant varieties. But all still perennials, of course. I've got it down to raspberries, peonies, irises, ferns, lilies, chives, purple coneflower, bergenia, sedum, hosta, primula, and chinese lanterns.
And I'll be paring down more in the future. Maybe give away the sedum and primula next. Baby steps.
2: Bring in the eco-grass. This isn't your same old Kentucky Bluegrass. I want to stay environmentally-friendly with grasses native to Canada. That means fescue, baby. And as you know, my lovely readers, I'm all about the au naturel lawn, so watering, fertilizing and mowing aren't things I want to devote my time to (see picture of my lawnmower man above). I just want a place to have picnics with my little girl in the sunshine.
Looking forward to only doing some work in my garden in the future.
I haven't done a thing here in 7yrs! I HATE gardens, I just want mr Lawnmower to come along on his ride on and Hank Hill the whole thing. My hubbie should also be wearing a mask like that but instead he's covered in all you can find mosquito netting.
I am like, the worst person ever when it comes to gardening. I don't even know how to pull out weeds. I can't handle gardening! So good for you for doing what you did!
Coming to you via Studio 30+. Love the garden! I'm trying, very gradually, to move our yard from patchy grass to something more scenic, though still kid-friendly. By the time it actually happens, it may be GRANDKID friendly. But whatever. YOU did a beautiful job. Good job with the new grass!
I found your blog via Studio Thirty Plus & glad I did! That picture of your husband and your comment made me laugh! Ha! My husband looks very similar. My husband resembles the men coming into Elliott's house to get ET at the end of the movie. Anyway, I know nothing about gardening, so I will definitely come back to your site! Good stuff!


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Q: Как вместить заголовок в showerror полностью? showerror(message=text,title='bla-bla-bla,just text')

В итоге титл не помещается в заголовок,пишет bla-bla-bla,ju...
В шаблоне функции showerror нет аргумента,который управлял бы шириной заголовка или самого окна

A: В вашем вопросе очень мало деталей. Предположу, что метод showerror относится к tkinter. Действительно нет управления шириной. Но оно и не нужно. Чем больше текст описания, тем шире окно, а следовательно и место для заголовка.
Мне не удалось получить заголовок bla-bla-bla,ju... даже с пустым сообщением

Несколько слов описания создадут много места для заголовка
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"After the rains of the first year, there was only sparse growth of grass. Before the rains of the second year, I had broadcasted 10 kilos of grass seeds. Within a month, the entire land looked like a grass field. The grasses stopped soil erosion during the rains and evaporation and cracking of mud during the summer. Within a span of four years, the topsoil had quadrupled and there was perennial moisture, allowing me to grow all cereals, pulses, vegetables and fruits throughout the year. All those around were amazed to see the luscious Alphonso mangoes, considered as king of mangoes, growing so well on the rocky land."
"I could not have developed my farm without all its integral parts, and I would not have survived even a single night without the safety provided by Ginger, my devoted dog, who would go before me to check out the pathway before I ventured out."
While visiting villages as the CEO of national and international NGOs, I often asked myself: "How can you experience the challenges faced by the poor without being part of their struggles?" That motivated me to step aside and take up the challenge of setting up a biodiverse, organic farm on a desolate piece of land right among the indigenous tribal community.
The experiment helped me to learn by doing and later teach by demonstrating. Attaining self-sufficiency by increasing the sources of income was the greatest challenge. That led me to leave no stones unturned: soil and water conservation, tree plantation, cultivating varieties of paddy, pulses, vegetables, oil seeds, fruits and herbs.
Once the systems were set up, income as well as their sources multiplied. The farm attracted local farmers who were struggling to break even; there was something for everyone to learn and take away. People came from across the region for seeds, saplings, hatching eggs, and herbal medicines. They wanted to learn the techniques for setting up a living fence and setting up a tree-nursery, of soil and water conservation, of making biofertilizers and pest repellants, of pruning, leering and grafting of fruit trees, seed preservation and humane and responsible care for animals and wildlife. They also wanted to learn to plan for their farm, to balance their income and expenditure and to plan for their families. With the dramatic changes in economic improvements brought to hundreds of small villages through the practices my farm taught them, it took me beyond all riches to a life of contentment and peace.
Joseph Keve is the Purpose Group International's director of international programs and arid agriculture. He is a former country direcctor for SwissAid, and former international executive director for the South Asia Partnership International, where he coordinated country offices in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, organized regional training and global research, and liaised with South Asian governments. He has trained over 7,000 farmers in all aspects of agriculture, and has conducted scores of training workshops in all countries of South Asia, including a recent workshop on arid agriculture in Nepal for government officials and local leaders.
Within days of buying a piece of land, I realized that without protection from predators and people, I had no chance of creating a farm. I had no money to invest in building a fence even with thorny plants. I and my dog spent numerous nights chasing animals, both wild and domestic. Then emerged my dream of a living fence.
For several months, I collected every type of tree seeds that I could lay my hands on: teak, rosewood, mahogany, several varieties of acacia, eucalyptus, neem, cashews, mangoes, custard apples, wood apples, of timber and fuel wood, of fodder, oil-seeds and medicines, those with thorns, those which grew large and those which remained as small bushes. I even got the children from the village to collect seeds for me in exchange for biscuits. Once I sat in the centre of the local market with a huge basket of ripe custard apples that I had bought, asking the children to eat the fruit and give me the seeds. Before the first rains came, I had 37 kilos of seeds.
I dug around my farm of nearly 3 hectares and laid the seeds along the shallow trenches that I had dug into the earth. Every morning, I took a walk and smiled at the little leaves that were emerging from the wet ground. I had to control my curiosity: the saplings were too feeble and small to be counted. I continued my seed collection and planting into the second and third years, taking extra care to fill in the gaps.
Towards the end of the rains of the third year, I counted my little and little-bigger trees. The tallest were about 3 feet. And there were 4,722 of them! I had to watch and nurture them for another two years. All through the year I would cut and prune to keep them in place. Finally, I had my own Living Fence! Other than the most-needed protection and wind-break, my fence provided fuel wood for cooking, leaves and tender branches for green manure and composting, certain seasonal green-leaf sprouts and flowers for soups and vegetables and certain barks, leaves and seeds for medicine.
Just watching the tall trees swaying in the winds washed away the aches and pains of an exhausting day. Whenever there was pruning and cutting, all the neighbours were happy to get the castaways to build their own fence or for fuel. By the end of the tenth year, if I wanted, I could sell the wood on my fence for a price equal to what I had paid for the land. The idea has caught on very fast and today there are hundreds of farmers in the area who have their living fences around their farms.
It did not take long for me to realize that I had bought a piece of land that was fit for blasting for granite than cultivating even paddy. On the best of patches, the soil was less than 6 inches deep, sitting on huge boulder stones with crevices that let little water to sink into the soil. Having marked out every bit of space that I needed for any non-agricultural operations, I dug half-moon-shaped shallow trenches against every bit of the natural slopes along the contours of the land. I could not stop all the water, but I could stop every grain of precious top-soil that came along with the waters.
After the rains of the first year, there was only sparse growth of grass. Before the rains of the second year, I had broadcasted 10 kilos of grass seeds. Within a month, the entire land looked like a grass field. The grasses stopped soil erosion during the rains and evaporation and cracking of mud during the summer. Within a span of four years, the topsoil had quadrupled and there was perennial moisture, allowing me to grow all cereals, pulses, vegetables and fruits throughout the year. All those around were amazed to see the luscious Alphonso mangoes, considered as king of mangoes, growing so well on the rocky land.
Most farmers in the region spent nearly one-third of their gross income to buy urea, making it almost impossible to break even in agriculture. Urea kills all the beneficial micro-organisms in the soil like the earthworms, leading to the hardening of soil and aids faster evaporation of moisture. In my search for alternatives, I tried out several types of nitrogen-fixing plants. Finally, I came across Sesbania Cannabina, one of the best nitrogen-fixing plants in the world.
Whenever a portion of the land was idle, I would throw in these seeds and after the plants had grown to about 2 feet, plough them into the soil. This plant that can grow up to a height of 12 feet (in favourable circumstances), has a lifespan of six months. Some survive into a second or even a third season. All through its lifespan, it collects nitrogen from the atmosphere, transports it to its roots, and converts it into granules that are filled with natural nitrogen and supplies it to the soil. Gradually I realized that other than its nitrogen-fixing role, the plant can be used as support for several creepers like varieties of beans and gourds. With its fast growth, it is a wonderful shade tree for nurseries and newly planted saplings. Its leaves and even tender stem turn into green manure within days. Its bright yellow flowers attract all types of bees, butterflies and other insects that are critical for pollination in varieties of pulses, vegetables and fruit trees. There is also the larger variety of Sesbania called Sesbania Grandiflora that can survive up to ten years. Its tender leaves, flowers and pods are edible. In Orissa, those on long fasts munch on the protein-rich seeds to avoid fainting from exhaustion.


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(WIBW) – Blake Finley admits he was a little wobbly the first time on his feet after three weeks in a coma, but soon, he was challenging his therapists. "I'd walk around the whole playground, and I was like, 'This is too easy. Give me something harder,'" the 12-year-old from Auburn, Kan. recalled during a recent break from his packed schedule of sessions at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital's Lincoln campus.
After all, when you dream of playing FIFA and being the next Lionel Messi, you can't afford much time on the sideline. "You do fancy foot tricks with (soccer), and the goalie can block it and throw it. That's what I like about it," he explained.
His goals were nearly cut short Nov. 30th, 2018, on a dark, foggy night, less than two blocks from his house. "The neighbor kid came to the house and told us that Blake got hit by a car," Blake's mom Makaila Bryant said. "We thought he was joking." CONTINUE
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"Why should you caution me?—You do not think I care about Mr. Frank Churchill."
Novel: Emma
Character: Harriet Smith
"Him!—never, never. Dear Miss Woodhouse, how could you so mistake me?"
"I should not have thought it possible,"
"that you could have misunderstood me! I know we agreed never to name him—but considering how infinitely superior he is to every body else, I should not have thought it possible that I could be supposed to mean any other person. Mr. Frank Churchill, indeed! I do not know who would ever look at him in the company of the other. I hope I have a better taste than to think of Mr. Frank Churchill, who is like nobody by his side. And that you should have been so mistaken, is amazing!—I am sure, but for believing that you entirely approved and meant to encourage me in my attachment, I should have considered it at first too great a presumption almost, to dare to think of him. At first,
if you had not told me that
(those were your very words);—I should not have dared to give way to— I should not have thought it possible— But if you, who had been always acquainted with him —"
"To be sure I am. I never could have an idea of any body else—and so I thought you knew. When we talked about him, it was as clear as possible."
"Oh! Miss Woodhouse, how you do forget!"
"Oh, dear,"
"now I recollect what you mean; but I was thinking of something very different at the time. It was not the gipsies— it was not Mr. Frank Churchill that I meant. No!
I was thinking of a much more precious circumstance— — of Mr. Knightley's coming and asking me to dance, when Mr. Elton would not stand up with me; and when there was no other partner in the room. That was the kind action; that was the noble benevolence and generosity; that was the service which made me begin to feel how superior he was to every other being upon earth."
"You would not have encouraged me, then, if you had understood me? At least, however, I cannot be worse off than I should have been, if the other had been the person; and now—it is possible—"
"I do not wonder, Miss Woodhouse,"
"that you should feel a great difference between the two, as to me or as to any body. You must think one five hundred million times more above me than the other. But I hope, Miss Woodhouse, that supposing —that if —strange as it may appear—. But you know
they were your own words, that
and, therefore, it seems as if such a thing even as this, may have occurred before—and if I should be so fortunate, beyond expression, as to— if Mr. Knightley should really —if he does not mind the disparity, I hope, dear Miss Woodhouse, you will not set yourself against it, and try to put difficulties in the way. But you are too good for that, I am sure."
"Yes,"
"I must say that I have."
"Mr. Martin! No indeed!—There was not a hint of Mr. Martin. I hope I know better now, than to care for Mr. Martin, or to be suspected of it."
"I never should have presumed to think of it at first,"
"but for you. You told me to observe him carefully, and let his behaviour be the rule of mine—and so I have. But now I seem to feel that I may deserve him; and that if he does chuse me, it will not be any thing so very wonderful."
"She could not compose herself — — Mr. Woodhouse would be alarmed— she had better go;"—
"No, I hope I know better than to think of Robert Martin,"
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Do you really believe He is there?
Do you actually believe that God is omniscient – knows all things – or omnipresent – everywhere?
If you struggle with secret sin, figuring no one really knows about it, then you probably do not really believe God can see everything or knows everything.
Do you really believe God is watching all the time?
If you mistreat others, steal looks at an attractive person, or conveniently overlook a transaction in your favor, then you probably do not really believe God can see everything or knows everything.
If you have constant, nagging fears and doubts, worry about what is going to happen tomorrow, or refuse to trust others because they might wrong you, then you probably do not really believe God can see everything or knows everything.
Trust Him. Ask Him to reveal Himself to you daily, continually. Allow Him to change you, to grow you into the image of His Son. Let the Holy Spirit move in your life.


Staring at a backlog of transportation projects that reaches well into the billions, the Louisiana Legislature spent a lot of time this year looking into ways to help plug the gap in funding.
Gov. Kathleen Blanco weighed in with a proposal to use $450 million of the state's budget surplus to make one-time road and bridge improvements. With little reaction from many legislators, she openly pondered boosting that amount to about $650 million.
Critics of the governor's plan say the state needs to spend more, and to spend it each year, to make any headway in the state's $14 billion backlog.
To make matters worse, Johnny Bradberry, secretary of the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, said something must be done because the state's backlog of road needs is increasing by up to $400 million a year, reported The Advocate newspaper in Baton Rouge.
Options proposed in the House and Senate run the gamut for how to help eat into the funding gap. At press time, bills that drew consideration included several efforts to redirect fees and taxes from the state treasury to transportation.
One such revenue measure would divert all of the 4-percent state sales tax assessed on cars and trucks. About $360 million annually would be routed to a special highway program for non-federally funded roads.
Funds collected would be required to stay in the parish that owners reside or store their vehicle. The money would be used to finance projects the Louisiana DOTD has outlined based on needs that don't have funding.
A similar bill would give parishes more say in how they spend the money directed to them. The only requirement would be the projects are included in the state's priority program.
Another bill would increase state aid for roads and bridges by $621 million a year by earmarking some state sales and use tax dollars to parishes for road work. Nearly $500 million annually would be directed from the state general revenue fund to the highway improvement fund. The money that now is routed to the general fund comes from vehicle and parts sales tax revenues, mineral revenues and truck registration fees.
Another $125 million from the highway fund would be protected from diversion to other services, including retirement and other benefits to former state highway workers and traffic control assistance for the State Police.
A separate legislative effort would supply funds to complete the state's portion of Interstate 49. It would use $15 million annually from unclaimed property funds in the state. A one-time diversion of $30 million from the state's general fund also would be routed to the unclaimed property fund.
All money would be split evenly to the north and south portions of I-49. Those stretches run north from Interstate 20 in Shreveport to the Arkansas line and south from Interstate 10 in Lafayette to the West Bank Expressway in New Orleans.
Another bill also is intended to route money for the completion of I-49. It would pull $250 million of the state's budget surplus to be used for building the northern portion of I-49.
One other bill would generate revenue for road work by imposing surcharges for repeat traffic violations and drunken driving. It would route money from surcharges, assessed on a points' basis, to pay for major construction projects throughout the state.
Dubbed the "Driver Responsibility Program," the bill mirrors a Texas program that provides hundreds of millions of dollars each year for road work. According to a fiscal analysis of the bill, the Louisiana program would produce $24.5 million in surcharges.


Adults who drank four cups of coffee a day had a 64% lower risk of dying during a new 10-year Spanish study, compared to those who rarely or never drank the beverage.
The link between coffee and reduced mortality risk was strongest for people over 45, the authors say, suggesting that the drink's protective elements are even more important in older age.
The new research, presented Sunday at the European Society of Cardiology Congress in Barcelona, has not yet been published in a peer-reviewed medical journal.Previous studies have suggested that coffee consumption reduces the risk of early death from all causes, but this provided some additional insights into how coffee might affect people of different ages.
For the study, researchers analyzed health data and food-frequency questionnaires from nearly20,000 Spanish university graduates who were involved in a long-term research project and followed for an average of 10 years.
Those who drank the most coffee (four or more cups a day) were 64% less likely to die during the study than those who drank the least (seldom or never) coffee. Overall every two cups of coffee people consumed per day was associated with a 22% lower risk of death over 10 years.
The study could not prove a cause-and-effect relationship between coffee consumption and mortality rates. Lead author Dr. Adela Navarro, a cardiologist at Hospital de Navarra in Pamplona, Spain, says the results do, however, suggest that coffee may have a stronger protective effect among older adults.
Drinking four cups of coffee a day "can be part of a healthy diet in healthy people," she says. That endorsement echoes a similar conclusion published in Food and Chemical Toxicology earlier this year, which found that up to 400 milligrams of caffeinea day (about four 8-ounce cups of coffee) is safe for most people.
Two studies published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in July also found that regular coffee consumption was associated with a reduced risk of death—one in a U.S.population that included African-American, Japanese-Americans, Latino, and white participants, and one in a European population spanning 10 countries.


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CANOE - June 30, 2006
Petty not suing the Chili Peppers
The Red Hot Chili Peppers can breathe easy -- Tom Petty won't be suing the foursome over recent plagiarism allegations.
Some media reports suggested that Petty contacted lawyers and was considering litigation over the close similarities between his song "Mary Jane's Last Dance" and the Peppers' hit single "Dani California."
However, Petty was singing a different tune to Rolling Stone.
He told the music magazine: "The truth is, I seriously doubt that there is any negative intent there. And a lot of rock & roll songs sound alike.
"If someone took my song note for note and stole it maliciously, then maybe. But I don't believe in lawsuits much. I think there are enough frivolous lawsuits in this country without people fighting over pop songs."


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About the Company PaySign, Inc. provides prepaid card programs and processing services under the PaySign brand to corporations, government agencies, universities, and other organizations. The company offers various services, including transaction processing, cardholder enrollment, value loading, cardholder account management, reporting, and customer service through PaySign, a proprietary card-processing platform. It also develops prepaid card products for healthcare reimbursement payments, pharmaceutical assistance, donor compensation, corporate and incentive rewards, and expense reimbursement cards; and payroll or general purpose reloadable cards, as well as gift or incentive cards. In addition, the company offers Buy and Bill programs for patients to purchase directly from physician's office or through an infusion center for physician administered therapies; payment solution for source plasma collection centers; and PaySign Premier, a demand deposit account debit card, as well as customer service center and PaySign Communications Suite services. Its principal target markets for processing services comprise prepaid card issuers, retail and private-label issuers, small third-party processors, and small and mid-size financial institutions in the United States and internationally. The company was formerly known as 3PEA International, Inc. and changed its name to PaySign, Inc. in April 2019. PaySign, Inc. was incorporated in 1995 and is based in Henderson, Nevada.
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namespace Teknoo\East\CodeRunner\Registry\Interfaces;

use Teknoo\East\CodeRunner\Manager\Interfaces\TaskManagerInterface;
use Teknoo\East\CodeRunner\Task\Interfaces\TaskInterface;
use Teknoo\East\Foundation\Promise\PromiseInterface;

/**
 * Interface TasksManagerByTasksRegistryInterface.
 * Interface to define a registry able to persist the task manager managing a task.
 * Manager are identified by their id referenced in the platform, but manager must be referenced into the registry.
 *
 * @copyright   Copyright (c) 2009-2017 Richard Déloge (richarddeloge@gmail.com)
 * @license     http://teknoo.software/license/mit         MIT License
 * @author      Richard Déloge <richarddeloge@gmail.com>
 */
interface TasksManagerByTasksRegistryInterface
{
    /**
     * To get the manager instance owning the task is passed to promise.
     *
     * @param TaskInterface    $task
     * @param PromiseInterface $promise
     *
     * @return TasksManagerByTasksRegistryInterface
     */
    public function get(TaskInterface $task, PromiseInterface $promise): TasksManagerByTasksRegistryInterface;

    /**
     * To register a manager owning a task.
     *
     * @param TaskInterface        $task
     * @param TaskManagerInterface $manager
     *
     * @return TasksManagerByTasksRegistryInterface
     */
    public function register(TaskInterface $task, TaskManagerInterface $manager): TasksManagerByTasksRegistryInterface;

    /**
     * To forged the manager owning a task.
     *
     * @param TaskInterface $task
     *
     * @return TasksManagerByTasksRegistryInterface
     */
    public function remove(TaskInterface $task): TasksManagerByTasksRegistryInterface;

    /**
     * Register an instance of manager to be able to return it via the method get().
     *
     * @param TaskManagerInterface $taskManager
     *
     * @return TasksManagerByTasksRegistryInterface
     */
    public function addTaskManager(TaskManagerInterface $taskManager): TasksManagerByTasksRegistryInterface;

    /**
     * To clear all runners memorized tasks in the persistent dbms.
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     * @return TasksManagerByTasksRegistryInterface
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    public function clearAll(): TasksManagerByTasksRegistryInterface;
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