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Hybrid Learning Comes to Life at Rocketship
Sintia Marquez in Rocketship's Learning Lab, where she uses adapative technology that moves at her level.
When it comes to a student's education, expectation is everything. What parents and educators expect from each student, and what she expects from herself, has a tremendous effect on how a student fares in school.
For Sintia Marquez, a fifth-grader at Rocketship Mateo Sheedy Elementary, expectations are high, both on the part of her parents and her teachers.
Though she's naturally a high achiever – well above grade level in both literacy and math – that foundation of support and encouragement from her parents and teachers is helping her forge ahead, even in a public charter school where more than 90% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch and 70% for whom English is a second language.
Sintia's mother was allowed to progress only to middle school in Mexico. She's a housekeeper now, and her father finds work as a contractor and a restaurant worker. "Sintia can't say that I have a career that she can be proud of," said Livier Maria Marquez in the one-bedroom guesthouse she shares with her husband and two daughters. "One of my hopes is for her to go to college. She really wants to go to Stanford or Santa Clara."
"Remediation occurres in this sort of seamless, automated way."
If the present is any indication of the future, Sintia is well on her way there. In June, she'll graduate from Rocketship, one of three branded charter schools in the area that has plans to expand across the state and across the country. The school offers open enrollment and receives funding from local, state, and federal taxes, as well as from venture capital.
Since she transferred from a nearby public school in fourth grade, Sintia has been able to progress at her own advanced level with the help of the charter school's hybrid learning system. With this system, teachers teach high-level concepts in class, and students practice those theories in a computer lab.
It's all part of a highly engineered, tightly structured block schedule that moves students through classrooms and computer labs, with time for recess, lunch, and outdoor activities throughout the day.
"They're transitioning from class to class the way high school kids do," said Judith McGarry, spokesperson for Rocketship (who has since left the organization). "You'll see how a topic is being introduced in social studies and it gets carried through into math, etcetera."
Here's how it works: A student starts her day with a literacy teacher, for example, for a three-and-a-half hour block of time during which the class practices basic grammar skills, works with guided reading programs, rotates through science or social studies lessons, and works on writing skills. After lunch, the student goes to a different teacher's class, where she works on math for the next one hour and 45 minutes.
Then it's time to go to Learning Lab, a computer area cordoned off by dividers that shares space with the school's modest cafeteria. In the Learning Lab's Reading Center, students read independently at their own level for 30 to 45 minutes everyday (Sintia is reading Twilight and loving it), then take a break with P.E. outside. They then return to the computer rotation, where they spend 30 to 45 minutes on adaptable learning programs.
EducationNext described the specifics in a recent article:
In the lab, the 1st graders log in by selecting from a group of images that acts as a personal password, and then race through a short assessment that covers math and reading problems. Faced with the prompt "Put all the striped balls in one basket and all the polka-dotted balls in the other basket," a student named Jazmine uses her mouse to move the objects to their places. Then it's on to the core activity of her 90 minutes in the lab: a lesson on counting and grouping using software from DreamBox. The scenarios are slightly surreal—more objects to move, in this case mostly fruit, and the reward for getting it right involves an animated monkey bringing yet more fruit to a stash on her island—but she and most other students take on the task assiduously. It may be a lesson, but that's not how Jazmine sees it. "This game is really easy," she says. A bit later, she'll read a book from a box targeted at her exact reading level, and make a return visit to the computer to take a short quiz about what she read.
Rocketship uses educational programs that are adaptive -- they help students progress at their own level and really achieve individualized learning, the Holy Grail of education.
Students spend 30 to 45 minutes reading at their own level in the Reading Center.
McGarry describes it this way, using an example of a student learning two-digit addition: "If she's really struggling, the program sees that in terms of the way she's playing the game. So the program will just unobtrusively and automatically back her up into the building block skills that go into two-digit addition. Once the program sees that she's doing just fine there, then she'll try once again to move into that two-digit scenario. That's how remediation is occurring in this sort of seamless, automated way."
And since most kids don't have computers at home, McGarry said, "they love going into Learning Lab, because it's really fun for them and they get to play."
The programs they use are:
DreamBox Learning (Math)
Reasoning Mind (Math)
ALEKS Quicktables (Math)
Headsprout (Literacy)
Rosetta Stone (English Language Development)
The day is long – from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., but for someone like Sintia, that's not so bad.
"Sometimes I'm tired because I have a bad day, but everyone has a bad day," she says. "But I like it because you can spend more time with friends, and you can better understand what your teachers are talking about."
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Read more about Rocketship:
PART I: How Can An Advanced Student Move Ahead in Public School?
PART II: Hybrid Learning Comes to Life at Rocketship
PART III: Rocketship's Culture - Respectful, Empathetic and College-Bound
PART IV: How to Keep Good Teachers in the Game
PART V: Focus on Assessments Fuels Rocketship's Goals
PART VI: A Look Inside Rocketship
PART VII: Five Lessons Learned from a New Charter School
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For kids who are struggling – including those with learning disabilities or in special education programs – the school provides a Response to Intervention program, where they learn with tutors in small groups. In a large classroom furnished with big, round tables, students rotate in throughout the day for 30-minute intervals for more focused, individual help.
The heart of Rocketship is not just use of computers and a grid schedule, though. Hybrid learning (they don't call it "blended learning" because the computers aren't blended into the class per se) is a huge component of the school's secret sauce. But other important factors contribute to the package: a powerful school culture, strong emphasis on assessments (for better or for worse), and a focus on teacher retention and professional development. More to come on those topics.


How to move Integration from one ICS instance to another ? This is general question and can come in mind of every single person who is working with Oracle ICS.
Oracle ICS provides the options to export and import Integration and Lookup to share between Oracle Integration Cloud environments.
Integration can be exported as a IAR file that can be use in other Oracle ICS instance or import the integration into Oracle Jdeveloper to perform an advance XSLT task(for example: variable creation or using template) that can't be used in the ICS mapper. Once the mapper editing is completed, the mapper file can then be imported back into Oracle ICS service.
The file is saved with a name that consists of the identifier plus the version number, and an iar extension.
Import the integrations that were previously exported as a IAR file from Oracle Integration Cloud Service.
In the Import Integration File dialog, click Browse to navigate to and select the file to import.
If an integration already exists with the same identifier and version, confirm whether to overwrite the existing integration.
Once we create a lookup, we can export that lookup for use in other Oracle Integration Cloud Service environments.
The file is saved as a CSV file with the same name as the lookup.
Have written a separate blog that shows how to import lookup.
JSch API is widely used for connecting a SFTP using Java.
Below is the program to read file from SFTP using JSch library.
In the previous two blogs, I have described the ICS Lookup and how to create Lookup.
Let's suppose we have one CSV file containing hundreds or thousands of records and want to create Lookup in ICS with those values. If we'll be adding all the values manually one by one it'll be very time consuming or irritating. So, ICS provides to import CSV file that will create Lookup with all those values containing in CSV file.
This way importing the CSV file will save the time and create the Lookup for us with bulk values.
HTTP Basic Authentication and WS-Security username token authentication both are different authentication mechanism and independent to each other.
Basic Authentication is used in HTTP where user name and password will be encoded using base64 encoding mechanism and passed with the request as a HTTP header.
HTTP header section will have "Authorization: Basic dGVzdDp0ZXN0" header element.
Username and Password will be encoded using base64 mechanism which is used in Authorization header.
Most of the Webservice clients have option to provide basic auth header. In SOAPUI, at "Authentication" tab, we can provide username and password. If we switch to Raw format(as shown in the above image) of the request, all the HTTP headers are visible and we can see the Basic Auth header is set.
When we use Basic Auth, the username and password setting is on the HTTP headers not in the SOAP message. SOAP message goes with HTTP body.
Securing Webservices using ws-security username token authentication mechanism is a simple mechanism to secure services. It enforces user to provide UsernameToken security header in the SOAP requests.
As shown in the above image, the ws-security header is set as part of SOAP message.
If we secure a service using user name token option, (that is, ws-security username/password authentication) we should pass ws-security headers as shown in the above image.
In this blog, we are going to show you, how to use the Oracle Integration cloud service FTP adapter to read a file from the FTP location.
In my previous blog, I have explained how to configure FTP adapter in Oracle Integration Cloud Service.
After this blog, we have learned how to use file adapter to read CSV file from FTP location.
Use Case: Develop a scheduled process that will read a CSV file from FTP location and will insert the CSV data into a database table.
Create DB connection: DB connection will work as a Target point. In one of my blog, I have showcased how to create DB connection. Please check it out before moving forward.
As soon as we click on the Submit Now button, integration will be submitted. Now see your database tables. Whatever record exist in the CSV file, it must be inserted into the database table.
This is how we can use the File adapter to read the CSV file.


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The AxWidgetInformationWidget presents details of a widget or activity.
It displays the name, the version and further information like the type of integration, dependencies and the features.
The information is based on the technical specification *widget.json* and the bower manifest *bower.json*.

## Content
* [Appearance](#appearance)
* [Usage](#usage)
* [Features](#features)
* [Integration](#Integration)
* [References](#references)

## Appearance
![Illustration of the AxWidgetInformationWidget](docs/img/example.png)

In this example the widget displays information about the WidgetBrowserWidget.
The widget displays the name, the version, a description of the widget, the integration details, the dependencies and a table with all features in this case two.
Both features have properties which are collapsed and can be shown by a click on one of the carets.

## Usage

### Installation
For installation instruction take a look at the [LaxarJS documentation](https://github.com/LaxarJS/laxar/blob/master/docs/manuals/installing_widgets.md).

### Configuration example
```json
{
   "widget": "laxarjs/widget-information-widget",
   "features": {
      "widget": {
         "resource": "widgetInformation"
      },
      "bower": {
         "resource": "widgetBowerConfiguration"
      }
   }
}
```
Use this configuration on a page to get an AxWidgetInformationWidget instance.
The widget expects two resources, one with the topic `widgetInformation` and with the content of a `widget.json` of a widget and the other resource with the topic `widgetBowerConfiguration` with the content of a `bower.json` of a widget.
The data of the resources are the base for the presentation.

For full configuration options refer to the [widget.json](widget.json).

## Features

### 1. Display Details about a Widget from his Widget Information (widget)
*R1.1* The widget MUST display information about a widget or activity (below both called as widget).
The AxWidgetInformationWidget gets these information about the widget from a configurable resource.
The AxWidgetInformationWidget MUST act as a *slave* of the resource according to the master/slave pattern.

*R1.2* The widget MUST interpret the data of the resource like the content of a `widget.json` file.

*R1.3* The widget MUST display the name of the widget, its description and the version.
If there is no version then the text `Unspecified` MUST be displayed.

*R1.4* The widget MUST display the integration technology (e.g. angular) and the type (e.g. activity).

*R1.5* The AxWidgetInformationWidget MUST list every feature  of the widget with their properties and their descriptions.

### 2. Display Details about a Eidget from his Bower Configuration (bower)
*R2.1* The widget MUST allow a configuration of a bower resource.
The widget MUST expect that the content of the resource has the content of a `bower.json` file.
The AxWidgetInformationWidget MUST act as a *slave* of the resource according to the master/slave pattern.

*R2.2* If the feature *bower* is configured, the AxWidgetInformationWidget MUST display the version of the widget from the *bower* resource instead of the version from the *widget* resource.

*R2.3* The widget MUST display the dependencies from the *bower* resource.

## Integration
### Patterns
The widget supports the following event patterns as specified by the [LaxarJS Patterns] document.

#### Resources
* Resource: widget.resource
* Role: Slave
* Access: Read
* Description: The resource with the information about the widget.

* Resource: bower.resource
* Role: Slave
* Access: Read
* Description: The resource with the bower configuration of the widget.

## References
The following resources are useful or necessary for the understanding of this document.
The links refer to the latest version of the documentation.
Refer to the bower.json for the specific version that is normative for this document.

* [LaxarJS Concepts]
* [LaxarJS Patterns]

[LaxarJS Concepts]: https://github.com/LaxarJS/laxar/blob/master/docs/concepts.md "LaxarJS Concepts"
[LaxarJS Patterns]: https://github.com/LaxarJS/laxar_patterns/blob/master/docs/index.md "LaxarJS Patterns"

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Jessica Lowndes and Jon Lovitz: Faking Romance For Music Video!
by Free Britney at March 29, 2016 9:11 am .
Darn it slash thank goodness.
It turns out Jessica Lowndes and Jon Lovitz are not engaged ... or even dating. They faked their relationship to promote her new music video.
Jessica Lowndes - Deva Ju Music Video
The former 90210 star, 27, revealed that her social media posts and rumored engagement to Lovitz, 58, was all a sham over the weekend.
Lowndes' music video for "Deva Vu" (which is quite NSFW incidentally) features the actor and SNL comedic great as her older lover.
"I love a good prank so happy early April Fools!" Lowndes said. "Jon and I met in Hawaii last year when we worked together on Hawaii 5-0."
Jessica adds, "I fell in love with his humor and comedy so when I was looking for someone to be a part of my "Deja Vu (Remix).'"
The video, she says, "is a nod to the '80s Mystery Science Theater 3000 and '90s Pop Up Video. He was the first person to come to mind."
In the video, Lovitz is seen getting dressed while Lowndes lies naked in bed. "That's Jon Lovitz," a pop-up icon indicates on the screen.
It only gets weirder and more raunchy from there, as soon enough, Lowndes is seen performing oral sex on Lovitz in a parked convertible.
"Did You Know? Pineapple juice is loaded with benefits, and it's delicious, too!" a pop-up bubble informs as Lowndes lifts up her head.
The video ends with the hot actress stripping down to black lingerie and climbing on top of Lovitz in bed. Maybe in his fantasies, right?
Yes. Literally. At the end of the music video, Jon wakes up in a hospital, and we learn that kinky events we just saw were all a dream.
Anyway, check out the video above, and take a look at more couples (most of which are or were really dating) with major age differences:
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An off-site meeting of the network AML/CFT Institute Council was held on May 24, 2017 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. The Council meeting was chaired by Rosfinmonitoring Director Yu. Chikhanchin and co-chaired by Kyrgyzstan's Deputy Minister of Education and Science and Assistant to the President of Tajikistan. The meeting was attended by Heads of EAG members' delegations, rectors and senior teaching staff and scientists of 28 universities participating in the network AML/CFT Institute from Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and other countries.
A list of other participants also included representatives of Russia's (the Russian Academy of Sciences was represented by the senior staff of P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute) and Kyrgyzstan's (represented by members of the Bureau of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences) academic communities.
It's the first time that the Council meeting was held outside the Russian Federation. The event was dedicated to strengthening international cooperation in AML/CFT education and science. Among the issues discussed by the Council participants were the on-going efforts to create a common AML/CFT educational environment in Eurasia; increasing the volume of joint AML/CFT research with international participation of national academies of sciences and leading scientific institutions, participants of the network AML/CFT Institute.
Participants not only shared experiences and achievements in personnel training, but also reiterated their commitment to EAG students training in the network AML/CFT Institute within the allocated quota. Participants also expressed their support for further training of the AML/CFT teaching staff at the Rosfinmonitoring Training and Methodology Centre.
The Council decided to establish 8 international working groups, made up of representatives of the universities of the network AML/CFT Institute, members of national academies of sciences specialized in AML/CFT matters and AML/CFT experts from national FIUs. The Council appointed Heads of the working groups from the staff of the network Institute's participants. The Council members agreed to meet in October at the Sevastopol State University to draft regulations governing activities of the working groups and discuss future work plans. Participants thanked the staff of the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University and the Kyrgyz FIU for their help in preparing and holding the meeting of the network AML/CFT Institute Council.
The Council's performance report was presented to EAG Plenary on May 25, 2017.
Network AML/CFT Institute was established in December 2013 with support from Russian Federal Financial Monitoring Service, Ministry of Education and Science and Federal Agencies for Scientific Organizations. It is a modern scientific and educational hub that unites over 30 universities, research and educational institutions of the Russian Federation, member countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States and Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing. Its main objective is staff training for national AML/CFT systems within the comprehensive educational cycle: bachelor, master, specialist, PhD and further training programs.


Social evolution, if taken as evolution of society, is exactly on a parallel to the biological evolution of new species, developing newer forms. The speed of social evolution is at a snail's pace. Making allowance for the difference between matter and vital, we are tempted to say the 'velocity' in both the planes is the same or at least similar.
The mind in the physical matter, if you can call it material mind, is very slow to perceive but perceives everything without fail. From its perception of facts around, through imagination, it chooses a form of action that would facilitate its work. Through trial and error, it arrives at a success and on that basis the organisation of action. The vitality in the body energises this choice and the physicality endorses it in action.
Thus the first organisation or system is born. This is a very slow process. Man developed innumerable organisations thus of which the group, defense, offensive action -- aggression -- , family, community, agriculture, barter, market, movement, settlement, commerce, education, science, money, values, faith, tapas, govt., military, language, negotiation, comprehension, emotion, action stand out. The process of this creation is the only Development the world knows and that process is mental perception and choice, vital energisation, physical execution through skills. It is by the same process the individual develops into a better person.
The process of the collective creating an organisation has a subordinate action where the collective subconscious experience matures in the pioneering individual as conscious knowledge ready for action which when the society at large endorses is accepted as a way of life by the whole society, thus creating the psychological basis for the birth of a social organisation. In the measure this new organisation that is born by the psychological growth and sanction of the entire society draws upon its roots to convert that sanction into laws, rules, procedures, customs, usage, belief, social system and social culture, that organisation takes root in the society. What is consciously and concretely achieved at the top is the subconscious psychological achievement of the entire society which truth was lost sight of even by the Vedic seers. The elite that achieved this achieved by the entire masses and therefore the achievement belongs to the entire society. In practice starting from the spiritual realisation and scientific discoveries down to the reclamation of a piece of land has been held as a personal possession by the discoverer or that group. Hence the secrecy, the esoteric groups, the exclusive rights, the property right, the patent etc. Mother argues for the abolition of property rights and the law of inheritance. Communism even through its 7 decades of failure has succeeded in abolishing the exclusive right from the human consciousness by giving birth to the revolution of rising expectations.
The secondary or subordinate social evolution too included an element of original evolution of organisation, but it is minimal, though essential and significant. The aspect of evolution I would like to consider here is the full spreading of the progress that is achieved by the elite. Time was when the masses considered themselves as alien to progress, culture, civilisation, comfort, convenience and psychologically distanced themselves from the nobles, royalty, aristocrats, the elite, the clergy etc.
To wish to occupy the throne was treason whereas to aspire for the Presidency now is to be dynamic. To dress well was disobedience for a Harijan here. To know more than the guru was betrayal. 'Ambition' was used to describe dynamism and therefore all upward movement was cursed.
This was also the period of the individual in the sense that he alone was responsible for his destiny as the duty of the govt was only to maintain law and order and society has no obligation to the individual. Unofficially and imperceptibly the society, through the laws of the govt and social disapproval, compelled the individual to acquire a modicum of education and a minimum of health. In this process the govt. and the society began to commit themselves to the individual and welfare came to stay. It is obvious now that the society which educates the individual is well on the way to "develop" the individual in future which function was essentially discharged by the family till now. Apart from the foundation laid by the family, it is the individual who develops himself today. Should the aim of social development be fulfilled, the society should shoulder the task of developing the individual to his maximum capacity in future.
While the primary development -- the first innovation -- is necessarily slow being an ascending movement of nature, the spread of development from the top to the entire society, is always in a sweep after it begins. This is so because this is descent. Nature is at leisure and has eternity before it. She chooses a patient, slow moment. The descent is of the mind on matter and therefore is fast, being subtle.
Monarchy considered the common man's aspiration to the throne as treason while democracy accorded him not only the right to choose his 'king' but also the right to become one. The economic status which remained the exclusive possession of the upper middle class was not even considered by the lower middle class as a possibility. Not to wish for it was a virtue, to be unambitious. Now the advanced technology and commercial organisation are changing the scene. Everyone aspires for everything. The social 'values' reflect this underlying reality. The non-performing slow worker 'demands' the same pay as the high-performing skilled person who earns it as an incentive. Behind this irrational demand lies the rationality of "what the society produces belongs to the society."
Suppose the economic gains of the society are to be extended to all, the society in greater part has to develop several institutions and the individual has to acquire a host of capacities simultaneously overlooking the original rule of individual to society and again to all individuals. This is a must. Solving this challenge even in theory is a major step forward.
In the world conditions of this decade facilities of training, communications, follow up, organisational support, psychological milieu exist in enough measure to achieve this as the expectations have reached the very fringes of the society. The leadership should rise to the occasion to render this into an ordered transition without which the change will come about through chaos, breakdown, goondaraj, terrorism etc. The military stockpile will leak into the hands of the revolution completing the process. This is avoidable. The first step is Guaranteed Employment in the West, abolition of hunger in the East.
Should this change occur, we will witness initially a world without poverty, hunger and sorrow. It will take a few decades for humanity to overcome the wonder of a sorrowless world. As the horizontal spread of aspiration has reached the end, the society is ready for the vertical to take off.
The rustic living in the village not only lacks comforts and conveniences of the modern urban life, but lives in the mind set of a rustic to whom superstition is sacred and offers a mental security; he is ruled by the fear of the new, the unknown. To urbanize a village will take several decades while a rustic moving to the city is able to shift to the new atmosphere sharing its beliefs. This new mental attitude enables him to take to modern urban life in a few years. The leaders of thought can bring about this 'change in atmosphere' in the minds of the entire population by enlightened social action that will bridge the gap between the old and the new. As the energy of the population is released everywhere where the expectation rears its head, supply of missing links of the new organisation will accomplish this quickly. Russia where the expectations have risen to the level of a revolution among a highly educated population, is the ideal place to make an experiment.
Marriage was a social institution formed to rear the children but MAN sought from it psychological satisfaction. When it did not respond to his expectations, he broke it. Now he does not know where to turn. Man expects the present society to fulfill his rising expectations and if it does not he will break its present structure.
Monarchy in England, France, Russia and colonialism gave way. What now faces dissolution is not one form of organised society, but the entire society itself.
In truth the message is not abolition of poverty but a society where all enjoy equally with equal freedom with no fetters to women.
Fresh development saturates the social layer it started from and stops with that. Within the same society, same social stratum, same country, fresh development quickly spreads. The world today is not one unit culturally or politically but with respect to these expectations, the world today is one psychological unit.
Development of resources, economic development, technological development are all the achievements of man. Hence human development is the only development that matters hereafter, especially when each type of development conflicts with the other. Man being the centre of human development cannot generate any such conflict. Man cannot function in such a fashion as to conflict with himself.
As this is social evolution at the level of creating institutions -- mind -- the evolutionary energy is released only in the mind. So all the ideas from the ancient times that have a bearing on social organisation are of interest to us.
The basis of the present society is 'Limitation of the Physical', i.e. resources are limited -- water, land, air etc. -- whereas the society we are entering into is based on the limitlessness of the mind. From the limits of the physical realities to the limitless possibilities of the mind, is the view.
Privileges were originally for the leader only. Then the rights got extended to his family -- royal family. Later it was for the nobles and aristocracy, now it is the upper middle class. Finally it must be for all.
Authority in the society has undergone corresponding changes. What started as physical liquidation -- murder -- changed into mutilation, imprisonment, social ostracism, ridicule ended as defeat in the election and disapproval of the society. But the Future is left to the self-choice. There is no punishment involved but it is left to the individual to choose a bright future.
The Individual in the mass should be so developed in all skills as to fully avail of all the social achievements before the society can evolve further.
The society is poised for evolving an order of affluent joy of mental adventure. It will accomplish itself breaking the existing social structure unless by a conscious evolution a smooth transition is offered by the leadership.
To repeat, as required by the context, the first step is to abolish poverty, disease, ignorance and SORROW.
In the absence of conscious transition, society lies in wait till the TIME COMES when, in a sweep, it accomplishes its purpose. So far, the sweep -- the revolution -- has only been negative in the sense the achievement is by destruction.
It can -- again I repeat -- be made now consciously in a sweep, positively, for the first time.
Several small or tiny expressions are there like the explosive expansion of computer-use.
Crushing sweep is more easily seen in destruction, not so much in the building up -- as in the industrial boom in East Asian nations.
In the very new creation there is no sweep or even swift move. Only when the majority of the society grabs at what the minority has done do we see the sweep. Even in the snail's pace of new creation -- founding of a family -- the sweep is there, but we miss seeing it. As it is matter, the perception of each particle of the new truth is necessary before the whole accepts. What appears to us as snail's pace is every cell of the material mind acquiring the knowledge in sequence. At its own level the speed is the greatest, a sweep. For our mental perception the swiftness of matter is a slow pace.
Again Mother says body understands at the moment when it is ready for action. Till every cell acquires the knowledge the body does not understand. The moment the last cell completes receiving the knowledge, body acts instantaneously. Hence the revolutionary sweep of the rising expectations.
As the original new creation -- of social organisations -- was by the human resourcefulness (of the material mind) its extension from the top to the bottom through expectations must also be by human resourcefulness, this time by the physical mind.
To make the 'physical organisation' of the world is possible by physical, material items like a commercial product usable by one and all.
2. The physical procedure to obtain it.
4. The part of a physical organisation that can use it.
5. The physical enjoyment and comfort it yields.
The new creation is never a fixed possibility. The entire atmosphere is ripe for the imagination to exercise itself. It is not as if there are a few or many alternates from which one is chosen. It is an open situation in which something new is fashioned.
Earlier the 'Products' stopped spreading at a point leaving a substantial population outside itself. This is explained in our own minds as the lack of wealth. Not necessarily so. The population so left out has psychologically distanced itself from what was enjoyed by the elite. No rural landlord can persuade himself either to invest in stocks or become a member of the city Rotary club. He is outside the pace of such a thinking whereas now every blue collar worker wants everything the elite possesses.
The change we propose is worked out at the mental level by education, vital level by upward movement and at the physical level the security is given by the material property.
The enormous energy absorbed by the military is now disengaged. It is there for us to use. Except in raising the masses, it cannot be fully absorbed. Ethnic conflicts when reconciled can absorb mountains of energy. The stock pile has a power to compel people to use. it.
The material mind perceives and the body organises. Here we see that Mind rules Matter.
Sweep has been there. So far it was political. Now it will be economic. We await the sweep of cultural values in the beginning of the next century.


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Појам Спрингфилд може да се односи на:

Спрингфилд (Илиноис), град је америчкој савезној држави Илиноис
Спрингфилд (Масачусетс), град у америчкој савезној држави Масачусетс
Спрингфилд (Мисури), град у америчкој савезној држави Мисури
Спрингфилд (Охајо), град је у америчкој савезној држави Охајо
Спрингфилд (Јужна Дакота), град је у америчкој савезној држави Јужна Дакота
Спрингфилд (Јужна Каролина), град је у америчкој савезној држави Јужна Каролина
Спрингфилд (Њу Џерзи), град је у америчкој савезној држави Њу Џерзи
Спрингфилд (Џорџија), град је у америчкој савезној држави Џорџија
Спрингфилд (Вирџинија), насељено је место без административног статуса у америчкој савезној држави Вирџинија
Спрингфилд (Висконсин), насељено је место без административног статуса у америчкој савезној држави Висконсин
Спрингфилд (Западна Вирџинија), насељено је место без административног статуса у америчкој савезној држави Западна Вирџинија
Спрингфилд (Кентаки), град је у америчкој савезној држави Кентаки
Спрингфилд (Колорадо), град је у америчкој савезној држави Колорадо
Спрингфилд (Луизијана), град је у америчкој савезној држави Луизијана
Спрингфилд (Минесота), град је у америчкој савезној држави Минесота
Спрингфилд (Мичиген), град је у америчкој савезној држави Мичиген
Спрингфилд (Небраска), град је у америчкој савезној држави Небраска
Спрингфилд (Орегон), град је у америчкој савезној држави Орегон
Спрингфилд (Пенсилванија), град је у америчкој савезној држави Пенсилванија
Спрингфилд (Тенеси), град је у америчкој савезној држави Тенеси
Спрингфилд (Флорида), град је у америчкој савезној држави Флорида

Спрингфилд (Симпсонови), измишљени град из анимиране ТВ серије Симпсонови

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Kootu curry is a mix of chick pea, yam and plantain in coarsely ground coconut. The main flavoring of the dish is the fried coconut. This dish is popular in North Kerala. I learned this dish from a family friendthat from Kannur. Eating at her home made me realize with finality that small changes in ingredients make huge difference. I say that because she would serve a fish curry which is with a coconut gravy and I would expect it to be like something I have already tasted. However, the minute I taste it I know I am wrong. A little jeera or a little this or that I learned gives a totally different dimension. Anyways, the crux of it is this dish may not sound very different from a sauted vegetable with coconut but once the vegetables are more of the starch protein variety and pepper and chili powder instead of green chilis come into play you have a new experience. Another of those dishes served in sadya it seems just apt to talk about it today.
Notes: You may add plantain to this dish. There is also a version of green grams and pumpkin with the same coconut mixture which I will talk about in another post.
Would be really cool to wrap them up with roti!
This recipe is very innovative,never heard of this. Click says it all.
Very beautiful pic, and happy vishu to you..
Awesome Idol of Lord Krishna. Kootu Kari looks fabulous!
Nice combo of chana and yam, the pic is amazing. Wish u a happy Vishu.
Nalla Vishu kani..Koottu curryum adipoli aayittundu...Happy Vishu to you too!!
wish u a very happy vishu. The yam kootu looks very tasty and delicious.
wow this looks great !!! A must try. Happy Vishu to you too.
This sounds similar to sundal but adding Yam and plaintain makes its tastes differ. Awesome!
Nice picture of Lord Krishna.
Bowl of chickpeas looks lovely, new recipe for me to try. Happy Vishu to you.
Kootu curry looks really good. Kaniyum kollam .
Lovely vishu kani pics...hope you had a relaxing vishu!
the kootu curry is lovely...i make it with the pumpkin variation...will try your recipe too.
Your pictures are so incredibly gorgeous!!
Happy Vishu.This dish looks delicious.
YUM! What a great looking dish!
Wow! Wonderful combo and beautiful pics! They are really divine!
Looks very nice. I feel like having some rice now.
love the last photo♥ you have so many interesting dishes here!
New to me but sounds interesting. Great clicks!
Hello Ladies, hope you guys had a grate time. Late better than never, Vishu wishes to you both. I never mixed yam with this black channa.. point noted.
Happy vishu and yummy kootu curry!
So yum yam ! I would love to try it but I want to know that if I use mustard oil or soya oil instead of coconut oil will taste differ a lot?
I can't say that I've ever seen plantains in Indian cooking, or yams really! But these are two of my favorite foods. Do you use sweet plantains (ripe) or green plantains?
My version of kootu is so different than yours. Gr8 clicks absolutely treat to see it. Happy Vishu.
Mango Pannacotta & Happy Easter !!


It was indeed another glorious day for the Olatunde and Awogboro families when they hosted the traditional wedding/engagement ceremony of their children: Temilade and Tayo.
The ceremony held at Landmark Event Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos was filled with glamour, colour and culture. There was no dull moment as the Yoruba wedding traditional rites was in full swing throughout.
The bride, who looked radiant in her sparkling attire with enough smiles to match, complimented her heartthrob, who was very dashing and exuded so much joy like true Prince Charming. From the body language shown by this pair, it was obvious that they were truly in love.
As it is the norm, the groom's family began proceedings when they came to pay homage and exchange pleasantries with the family of the bride.
It was after they had been comfortably seated that the groom and his friends were invited.He too arrived in style with a large entourage. As soon as he got to his in-laws, he like a well-groomed Yoruba man, prostrated as a sign of respect. He was not alone. His friends too joined the great expression of respect which is held very sacred in Yoruba culture.
He was then showered with prayers, first by the Olatunde family and later by his parents and elders of his family. With the wide smile on his face, no doubt, Tayo was enjoying every moment of the ceremony.
Accompanied by drummers, dancers, friends and family members, the resplendent bride breezed into the venue. Taking one step at a time gingerly, like a Princess, she danced majestically to the centre of the arena. Each step o the way, she was showered with prayers and applause.
Prayer is key at occasions like this, and the bride also got this spiritual fortification aplenty from her parents and members of the Awogboro family. It was only after this session of prayers that she was allowed to identify and join her husband!
This was a union of two top families and the evidence was in the number of VIPs at the ceremony. However, it must be said that the groom's mother, Mrs. Adetokunbo Awogboro, Founder of the famous, Nail Studio, who has been in the grooming business for almost two decades, took this ceremony more seriously that others. Deep into the ceremony, she was still seen giving instructions to ensure that guests were adequately pampered.
It must be said that in terms of planning and execution, this was one classy occasion that will linger in the hearts of many for years.


Intent on bringing awareness to the Bible as the all-time bestseller, the Museum of the Bible commissioned us to build an exciting array of promotional multimedia.
With interest in the Bible from the younger generation waining, the #biblestats hashtag came to the rescue as an ideal medium for broadcasting a message of intriguing Biblical facts to Twitter and Instagram followers.
Sensing the need for something more visual, we created a video for Youtube audiences, detailing 23 astounding facts about the Bible. The video along with the variety of #biblestats social feeds eventually made its way onto a highly interactive single page site.
The video along with the variety of #biblestats social feeds eventually made its way onto a highly interactive single page site.
When it came to the Twitter feed, the Museum of the Bible had a unique visualization in mind, requesting we build a map plotting #bible and #biblestats tweets in real-time from around the world.
In addition to dynamic moving map markers, a panel unifying the entire feed into one scrollable location, made searching through tweets easily accessible.
A dropdown menu of hashtags accompanied the panel, allowing the user to filter through any particular hashtag or see a combined feed all hashtags.
With so many tweets occurring in such a short period, special precautions like throttling on the server and clustering map markers were employed. These measures saved the day when it came to the user simply enjoying the feed versus being overwhelmed by data.With so many tweets occurring in such a short period, special precautions like clustering map markers saved the day when it came to the user not being overwhelmed by data.
Loaded with 23 surprising facts, teaming with vector and font animations, and digested in under 4 minutes, the video was a hit. Our video team took great pains to search out classical and modern facts in the timeline that lead to the Bible as the undisputed best seller of all-time.
Our video team took great pains to search out classical and modern facts in the timeline that lead to the Bible as the undisputed best seller of all-time.
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FIA F2 / Breaking news
Markelov linked to Williams 2019 F1 drive
Co-author: Erwin Jaeggi
Formula 2 frontrunner Artem Markelov has been linked to a possible future at Williams – and the Russian has indicated that he will either graduate to F1 next year or stop racing.
With Lance Stroll and his backing set to move to Force India, possibly before the end of the current season, Williams is clearly searching for extra finance for 2019, and Markelov and his Russian Time support could fit the bill.
Crucially, he is one of the few drivers on the market who has a budget and a superlicence, having passed the FIA's 40-point requirement when he finished second in last year's F2 championship. He is lying in fifth place in the 2018 series.
He is currently part of the Renault F1 junior programme, but with Nico Hulkenberg and Daniel Ricciardo confirmed for next year, there is no race seat on the horizon at the French marque.
One complication is that Williams already has Sergey Sirotkin and SMP Racing on board, and it's understood that the two Russian drivers and their support packages might not be compatible, despite the potential marketing synergies should the team take two drivers from the same country.
"I think that news you will know more in the end of the year, because we are still don't know yet 100 percent," Markelov said when questioned about his future at Spa. "But hopefully we'll get some possibilities to drive an F1 car next year."
Asked if Williams would be an interesting possibility he said: "Yeah, hopefully they will look at me and try to put me in a car and give me this opportunity. So we'll see."
Markelov insisted that he wouldn't stay on for another season in F2, saying he'd done "too much already."
Regarding an alternative should he not land an F1 role, he said: "Maybe finishing. Why not? Finishing or Formula 1. So, a nice word for the writing. Finish or Formula 1."
A Williams seat is also very attractive to Mercedes, as it could be the only option for the manufacturer to place Esteban Ocon in 2019, should the Frenchman not end up at McLaren.
If Ocon has a seat elsewhere, then Mercedes can focus on getting F2 points leader George Russell into Williams.
Artem Markelov, RUSSIAN TIME
Photo by: FIA Formula 2
Spa F2: Latifi takes first win of 2018, Norris second
Norris: F2 title "just as important" to McLaren as FP1 outings
Series Formula 1 , FIA F2
Drivers Artem Markelov
Author Adam Cooper
FIA F2 Next session
Hitech expands into F2, takes grid to 22 cars
Honda junior Tsunoda secures F2 graduation with Carlin
Drugovich joins MP Motorsport for F2 move
De Vries nearly gave up on single-seater career
The year Leclerc fully revealed his star status


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Visual Art – Fall 2017
Photography, Visual Art
Birds by Jordan Singh
German Fall Streets by Tara Schwartz
Light Night by Jordan Singh
Unexpected Roses by Tara Schwartz
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Prose – Fall 2017
Kauffman Museum
By Marjean Harris
By Ayse Bayiryüzü
Letter to Labels
By Kelly Habegger
Broadsides – Fall 2017
Dinner Parting
Letter to the Well-Meaning Guests at our Baby Shower
By Elizabeth Ratzlaff
By Austin Biggerstaff
Picea – Broadside by Austin Biggerstaff
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Letter to Labels – Kelly Habegger
Dear Labels,
It has been eighteen years since you entered my life and can I please request a little personal space? You always seem to stalk me. Whether I travel to another country, stay in one place and explore what it has to offer, or simply walk around campus, you always like to tag along and stamp another word onto my body. You never seem to leave my side whenever I try making new connections. You always enjoy watching me struggle with the consequences of the marks on my body and how they affect the interactions I try to build.
Since I was a young child, you've been assigned to me. I barely knew what you were doing until later on in life. I grew up being the "Director's Daughter" and that's all you ever put on me for fourteen years. You called me out for it and made sure others knew that too. I lost a ton of confidence because of your assigned work; did you know that? Do you remember that time when you sat on the steps while I comforted a friend, the other watching my movements and speech before telling me subtly that I did the wrong thing. Right then and there you stamped on "Worst Friend Ever." Why did you do that? There is no need to put that on me; I tried! Was I wrong for trying to help someone that I care about? What about that time you stamped "Idiot" all over my body because of my attempts to get a better grade in a class, causing me to scratch and itch? Maybe you should get a better ink.
You've been harder to avoid since I moved away to college. I fear the marks you put on me since the day I was born. All I see are your stamps in the mirror, your eyes peering over my shoulder, your malicious grin. You're ready to put more on me; I know you are. Every time I demand a restraining order for you, you manage to find a way around it. I cannot see you and that is the worst part.
I will ask one more time now that I send you this letter. Stop tailing me to my classes and to my visits with family and friends; stop making me feel useless and lost in this world. Your marks have burned into my skin and caused irritation. I have tried countless times to stop you and I am not about to lose this war. You will not win. I will not lose to your labels — not now, not ever.
Your Favorite Loser
Keep Smiling – Ayse Bayiryüzü
Have you ever tried to think back and grasp your memories? I am sure right now you are trying to visualize a particular past event. Well, then we are not really different from each other.
Here I am, stuck in the middle of Lawrence, feeling isolated from the rest of the world. I am over 4,000 miles away from London, but it feels more like four million miles. I can't stop gazing at this gloomy-looking fountain. The siphon has stopped pouring water into the basin. Not only is the fountain dried out, but the plants and trees also seem withered and brown. Butterflies lie on the ground, and squirrels hide from the people and heat in their burrows.
My dad used to talk about what a romantic and dreamy person I am. I could be physically present at a certain place but mentally in a different universe. That is why he used to call me Luna, which means moon in Latin. I believe that names have an impact on your personality, and I guess that is the reason for me living in a different world in my mind.
As I sit by the dried-up fountain, it seems to transform into the glamorous fountain in Regent's Park, London. All the shades of the rainbow are mirrored through the water streams. The sunshine lets the leaves of the trees sparkle like thousands of emeralds. Butterflies are gliding with their majestically fanned out wings and lead me to the Queen's Mary Garden, my favorite place. The essence of the roses always take me back to the times me and my dad spent with my mom. I can smell the different fragrances: apple, lemon, or even honey. They have the most extraordinary names like Princess Alice, Song and Dance, Remember Me, and my favorite one, Keep Smiling. If you think I made all of it up, go and see yourself. The flowers are dancing and splashing rain water. Squirrels are dangling from Oak to London Plane, and everything seems lively. One day before I came here to KU, my dad and I spent the whole day here.
"You'll go there and make me proud!" were his exact words. "Don't make the same mistakes I did." All of a sudden something ripped me out of my thoughts.
"Luna, Luna!" It was Isabelle. "I have been trying to catch your attention for a really long time now, but you kept staring at this fountain.…"
"I'm so sorry!" The fountain still looked the same, but at least I knew it could take me to my home and my dad, whenever I wanted. I just have to remember the smell of the roses and everything seems to be colorful again.
"Are you coming or what?" she asked me. "Have you been in your own little world again?"
"I'm coming. Wait for me!" She was already at the other side of the campus, but I closed my eyes one more time to give my dad one last hug.
Sam Taylor Interview
Sam Taylor on Poetic Experimentation, Writing Beyond Your Intention, and How Crazy Civilization Is
Interview by Austin Biggerstaff
Listen to a clip of the interview here:
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On April 20, 2017, associate professor and poet Sam Taylor visited Bethel College on the invitation of the English Department and gave a poetry reading on the Prairie Sky Stage. Because Taylor's work often engages issues of ecology and species loss, his reading occurred around Earth Day, and the Environmental Action Club offered the audience an ecological footprint quiz. Taylor is the director of the MFA program in Creative Writing at Wichita State University. He is the author of two books of poetry, Nude Descending an Empire (Pitt Poetry Series 2014) and Body of the World (Ausable / Copper Canyon 2006). He is currently working on his third book of poetry. Before his reading, Taylor found time to answer some questions over of cup of coffee with YAWP! editor-in-chief Austin Biggerstaff.
Austin Biggerstaff: What are you working on now? Is it similar or different from your previous works?
Sam Taylor: Well, I have a book that I'm almost done with and have been in the final stages of editing for a while that is actually radically different from my first two books. It contains a lot of different kinds of experimental poems — self erasures, strike-throughs, footnotes, and different approaches to constructing a lyric. At the same time, it tries to put all those experiments together in a larger narrative arc. I've been working on finishing that up for a while, so I'm also starting new work for a fourth book at this point. That book is, probably, less different. [Laughter.] After doing all these experiments, I have a renewed appreciation for the classical lyric.
AB: Is there anything interesting that you're reading right now and drawing inspiration from?
ST: The book I'm reading right now is a book by Svetlana Alexievich, a Russian Nobel Prize winner. It's not a book of poetry. It's not really a book of fiction. It's not a book of essays. It's kind of uncategorizable. She compiles oral histories, so she compiles lots of voices of real people talking about their experience. I've previously read the one where she wrote about Chernobyl, which is just a mind-blowing and tragic book. Now I'm reading the one — and I don't remember the title of it — but it's centered in the period of the 1990's in Russia, post-Soviet era … all those transformations that were going on in that time. It doesn't directly connect with poetry, but it's a pretty interesting world: there are stories going back to early Soviet times and Stalin times and stories about the transition.
AB: It sounds like you're interested in politics and ecology. There is a poem on your website titled "Madagascar," and it sounded as if the poem wanted to point out that there are big topics going on in everyday life that are being "swept under the rug." It's as if these people involved in this great tragedy were just put into TIME magazine to acknowledge the issue and then are quickly forgotten about. Does a lot of your work come from this impulse to make issues that are more likely to be forgotten more visible?
ST: I wouldn't say that my work comes from a desire to make issues more visible for the sake of making them more visible. I think there are a lot of issues that are already very visible if you're paying attention. I don't approach writing poems as a way of advancing an agenda. I am interested in expressing the experience of being alive in our time, and I think part of that experience is being aware of an incredible number of disturbing things that are happening all the time. I try to let that into the space of the poem as I think it is in our space of consciousness.
AB: Do you like to write mostly about events that are happening outside the United States? Do you like to hit on topics that deal with the United States?
ST: I don't really like to hit on topics. I think, like most writers, I write about what interests me, what haunts me, what fascinates me, and what disturbs me, but also just what arises in the space of a poem — which I think is beyond your intention.
AB: How has your work with the Wilderness Refuge inspired your writing?
ST: I love the Earth, and I'd say that the Earth, in general, is one of the things that inspires me most. So it was an opportunity to live in a beautiful place of the Earth for several years and to live there without most of the things that humans have created. I had a good shelter and I had certain kinds of security, but I didn't have electricity or phone or Internet. So I was really with the land and trees and animals and the way that the sky and the way that the Earth is and has been for millions of years. From that perspective, that experience dramatized for me how crazy civilization is in a lot of ways that you kind of feel within civilization, but it is hard to see it that clearly when you're immersed in it, and you're part of it, and you're dependant on it in so many ways.
AB: You had a couple experimental poems in the Kenyon Review that utilize text and space in very unique ways. How have you been playing with space and text in your work?
ST: Those are poems from that third book that I mentioned earlier. In that collection, I was working a lot with self-erasure – with having two levels of text and erasing part of the text to find another text within it. That was one way. There are a lot of ways though. In that book, I was searching for how to tell the truth, really, and began from a place of feeling frustrated by the ways that the truth of what happens is usually more complex than the aesthetic form that expresses it. So I was looking for different ways to express that complexity and there are a lot of different ways in that book. Mostly, they deal with having different levels of what is said and what is not said instead of there being a clear line — this is what the poems says, and everything else it leaves unsaid. These poems say things that then they erase or that then are crossed out and that then are present in a ghostly way, or they find things hidden within what was originally said or were not said. So there is more of a three-dimensional process in movement and the poem becomes partly about the process of articulation and the process of deciding what's said and what's not. And those decisions are actually part of the meaning because they reveal something about what it is you're trying to talk about.
AB: For my last question, what tips can you give to aspiring writers? Do you have any particular writing prompts or exercises that have been useful when you're teaching students in the classroom or for yourself?
ST: I think it's pretty individual. What I might say to someone depends a lot on who they are and where they're at in what they're doing. A lot of beginning writers have a hard time [with throwing ideas onto a piece of paper]. I find, when I teach an introductory course, a lot of aspiring writers — I don't know if you can call them writers at that point — have a hard time of losing control and letting go. You have to be able to let go and be able to — you have to be able to … say things that you don't understand, say things you don't intend, you did intend, and be willing to sound stupid. There's so much potential advice that could be said, that has been said. I don't think I really have any special gem that's never been said and the particular things — I would say — really depend on the individual person.
AB: Thank you very much letting YAWP! interview you, and we are very excited to have you on Bethel's campus with us today.
ST: Thank you. It was a pleasure to be here.
Dinner Parting – Broadside by Marjean Marie Harris
Letter to the Well-Meaning Guests at our Baby Shower – Broadside by Elizabeth Ratzlaff
She didn't fully understand why they had moved and now lived in a basement. But she did know that her mother was going to school to be a nurse, there was a nice grandma-like lady living upstairs, and she got to go across the street to the museum prairie. She was afraid to go to the deep woods beyond, but she loved the tall thick grass and flowers. No other kids went there, although there were kids around in the neighborhood. There was that boy who lived on the corner in the big house. She thought he must be rich, and she knew he had a father because they played out in the yard sometimes.
It was scary to be at a new school. Sometimes she wanted friends, but she felt kind of mixed up about it. Most of the time, she didn't look at anyone and just stayed behind her long curtain of dark brown hair. As soon as she got home from school, she put some Ritz crackers and vanilla wafers into a baggie, dug out leftover celery sticks and an apple core from her lunch sack, picked up her book, and headed across the street. She always made sure there were no cars coming and even more importantly to her, no other kids or even grownups around.
She made her own path deep into the quiet grayish brown tall grass. Golden bees and orange butterflies hid against the yellow clumps of flowers. The pokey leaves and sticky spider webs did not deter her. She had tripped a couple of times over long grass and dried-out stems lying flat on the ground. Soon the prairie enveloped her and she made it her own.
There was now a special place for her in the middle of great falling sunflowers, crisscrossed and tangled into a canopy. Inside there was soft darkness with shifting spots of light. Wispy brushes atop tall grass waved lazily. Down below were rusty pointy stars and drying flowers turning to dust. The sky blue above held floaty puff clouds and sometimes a blackbird, hanging up high, wings beating against the wind.
Settling and munching salty and sweet, she listened to the hazy heat. Raspy droning filled the air, soft and then so loud it hurt her ears. She thought the choir was made up of crickets and the green jumpy bugs with fairy wings. There were also grasshoppers, nervously catapulting around. She imagined they were tiny flying dinosaurs with their scaly plates and big eyes.
She was surrounded by an aroma that smelled like bread toasting and mud all at the same time. If she put her face close to the grassy mat and dug with her finger, she could feel the cool earth below. There were narrow bumpy tunnels veering off here and there. The tops of the tunnels were soft, and she was careful to not disturb the creatures burrowing below. Eventually, she fell into her book, ending in a warm sleepy dream.
When her mother called her name, she sat up. Carefully offering the celery sticks and apple core into the black spotted green leaves and withering brown stems around her, she took in return a tiny bouquet of fragile white daisies, dark berries, and a cluster of pink.


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unknown son Clucas Boyes1
M, #525891, b. 15 May 2000
unknown son Clucas Boyes was born on 15 May 2000.1 He is the son of Martin Boyes and Rowena Joan Clucas.1
[S5859] Rowena Bowes, "re: Clucas Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger LUNDY (101053), 8 February 2012. Hereinafter cited as "re: Clucas Family."
Charlotte Salusbury-Trelawny1
F, #525892, b. circa 1830, d. 15 June 1894
Charlotte Salusbury-Trelawny was born circa 1830 at Calstock, Cornwall, EnglandG.2 She was the daughter of Sir William Lewis Salusbury-Trelawny, 8th Bt. and Patience Christian Carpenter.1 She died on 15 June 1894 at Jacobstow, Cornwall, England.2
[S7177] Bob Janes, "re: Bosanquet Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger LUNDY (101053), 27 June 2014. Hereinafter cited as "re: Bosanquet Family."
Jessy Rose Mary Murray1
F, #525893, d. 23 May 1871
Jessy Rose Mary Murray was the daughter of John Murray.2 She married Sir William Lewis Salusbury-Trelawny, 10th Bt., son of Sir John Salusbury-Trelawny, 9th Bt. and Harriet Jane Tremayne, on 14 July 1868.2 She died on 23 May 1871.2
From 14 July 1868, her married name became Salusbury-Trelawny.2
Children of Jessy Rose Mary Murray and Sir William Lewis Salusbury-Trelawny, 10th Bt.
Sir John William Salusbury-Trelawny, 11th Bt.+2 b. 6 May 1869, d. 7 Feb 1944
Florence Rose Mary Salusbury-Trelawny+3 b. 1871, d. 25 Sep 1941
John Murray1
John Murray lived at Philiphaugh, ScotlandG.2
Child of John Murray
Jessy Rose Mary Murray+1 d. 23 May 1871
Reverend James Buller Kitson1
M, #525895, b. circa 1812, d. 13 July 1870
Reverend James Buller Kitson was born circa 1812 at Crediton, Devon, EnglandG.1 He married Harriet Eliza Buller, daughter of John Buller, on 9 October 1849 at Reigate, Surrey, England.2 He died on 13 July 1870 at Liskeard, Cornwall, EnglandG.1
He was Vicar at Morval, Cornwall, England.3 He was the Rector at Morval, Cornwall, EnglandG.1
Children of Reverend James Buller Kitson
Maj.-Gen. Sir Gerald Kitson+
Harriett Buller Kitson+1 b. 1850, d. 9 Mar 1932
Child of Reverend James Buller Kitson and Harriet Eliza Buller
Reverend John Buller Kitson+2 b. 21 Dec 1853, d. 20 Apr 1923
unknown son Brabazon1
Last Edited=10 Feb 2012
unknown son Brabazon was the son of Philip William Brabazon and Maria Flood.1 He died, unmarried.1
unknown wife (?)1
unknown wife (?) married Chaworth Brabazon, 6th Earl of Meath, son of Chambre Brabazon, 5th Earl of Meath and Hon. Juliana Chaworth, athough he never co-habited with her.1
She was a chambermaid.1 Her married name became Brabazon.1
Reverend William Tisdall1
Reverend William Tisdall married Lady Mary Brabazon, daughter of Chambre Brabazon, 5th Earl of Meath and Hon. Juliana Chaworth.1
He was the Vicar at St. James's, Dublin, County Dublin, IrelandG.1
Kathleen Maitland1
F, #525899, d. 14 July 1961
Kathleen Maitland was the daughter of Arthur Maitland.1 She married Lt.-Col. Hon. Claud Maitland Patrick Brabazon, son of Reginald Brabazon, 12th Earl of Meath and Lady Mary Jane Maitland, on 22 February 1915.1 She died on 14 July 1961.1
From 22 February 1915, her married name became Brabazon.1
Children of Kathleen Maitland and Lt.-Col. Hon. Claud Maitland Patrick Brabazon
Elizabeth Maitland Brabazon+1 b. 9 Dec 1915, d. 11 Sep 2010
Felicity Margaretta Brabazon+1 b. 9 Apr 1917, d. 2 Jan 1995
James Keith Forrester1
James Keith Forrester married Catherin Elizabeth Poole, daughter of Lt.-Col. Evered Mansfield Poole and Elizabeth Maitland Brabazon, in 1980.1
Children of James Keith Forrester and Catherin Elizabeth Poole
Anne-Marie Catherin Forrester1 b. 1983
Charlotte Antonia Forrester1 b. 1986
Alice Elizabeth Forrester1 b. 1988
Jack James Everard Forrester1 b. 26 Nov 1994


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Mahatma Gandhi «Bapu»
Nonviolence, Peace and Tolerance. One of the best ways to remember Gandhi's memory is what Gandhi himself said: "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
The word Mahatma means great soul. This name was not given Gandhi at birth by his parents, but many years later by the Indian people when they discovered they had a Mahatma in their midst.
Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, Gujarat, a small state in western India. He was named Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The word Gandhi means grocer, and generations earlier that had been the family occupation. But Gandhi's grandfather, father, and uncle had served as prime ministers to the princes of Porbandar and other tiny Indian states, and though lower caste, the Gandhis were middle-class, cultured, and deeply religious Hindus.
On January 30th 1948, he was assassinated in Delhi by a Hindu fanatic.
Raj Ghat, Delhi is a memorial to Mahatma Gandhi that marks the spot of his cremation
Gandhi's ashes at Aga Khan Palace (Pune, India)
"Peace is a friendly open hand
Peace is a place to understand
Because of peace we negotiate
Peace is the only end to all our hates"
- Gandhi
Documentary, 44min 14sec, Colour & B/W, 1997
His pacifist philosophy brought one of the world's great powers to its knees. He proved that violence is not the only road to change.
Mahatma Gandhi's life was a study in contrast and paradox. He saw himself as doing God's work, yet recognized only personal conscience as the highest authority. He was a charismatic leader of millions who confounded intellectuals. He took a vow of abstinence, but in old age welcomed young women into his bed! BIOGRAPHY® profiles the small man who took a great nation on his shoulders and changed the world. Trace his rise to power and fearless campaign of truth, non-violence and non-cooperation with injustice that defeated the British Empire. Biographers offer insight into his surprising personal life, while historians explore his remarkable accomplishments. Hear from his grandson, Arun Gandhi, and, in a rare interview, the Dalai Lama reflects on Gandhi's incredible life and enduring legacy.
From the formation of his philosophy to changing the face of the world, this is the complete saga of the Pilgrim of Peace Mahatma Gandhi.
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"When I despair"
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Happy 150th Birthday, Mahatma Gandhi
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THE GANDHISERVE ARCHIVES
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Peter Rühe's Gandhi Collection
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MY LIFE IS MY MESSAGE - The life and work of Mahatma Gandhi
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October 2: Gurudev's address in World Summit on countering violence and extremism
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Here you can adopt the Pledge of Nonviolence by adding a personal comment.
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Prayers for peace blowing in the wind
Acclaimed artist Manas Kumar Sahoo created sand sculpture of Mahatma Gandhi on the occasion of International non violence day
MAHATMA - LIFE OF GANDHI 1869-1948 (abridged, 2hrs 15min)
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Speech by GANDHI London 1931
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Mahatma Gandhi - God Is (Spiritual Message) (London 1931)
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Mahatma Gandhi : Film : MAHATMA - Life of Gandhi, 1869-1948 (5hrs 10min)
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Gandhi Jayanthi Wishes from Namadwaar Team......Gandhiji's sayings on Greatness of Divine name Rama.....
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Arun Gandhi urges practice of nonviolence, personal peace
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The Gandhian Knot
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82nd commemoration of Dandi March and the spirit of peace and non-violence
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B.Gita- Those with Pure Heart attain Cosmic Consciousness very Quickly
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Comment by Eva Libre on December 2, 2022 at 5:33pm
Gandhi wrote this list on a piece of paper that he gave to his grandson on their final day together shortly before he was assassinated. But Gandhi was not the author, as the list was first presented in a sermon delivered by Anglican priest Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, on March 20, 1925..
More information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Social_Sins
Comment by Eva Libre on May 27, 2022 at 11:22pm
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness.
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"Peace is its own reward."
Comment by Eva Libre on April 23, 2021 at 11:23pm
A wonderful photograph of Arun Gandhi's grandfather, Mahatma Gandhi, with the very very young Dalai Lama.
Comment by Nada Jung on February 11, 2021 at 12:30am
How wonderful this world could have been if we lived according to these wise words!
Comment by Eva Libre on October 9, 2020 at 10:26pm
"Prayer is not asking.
It is a longing of the soul.
It is daily admission
of one's weakness.
It is better in prayer to
have a heart without words
than words without a heart."
(Mahatma Gandhi)
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Comment by Eva Libre on June 7, 2020 at 5:02pm
We talk about non-violent resistance against segregation but we fail to celebrate the quite women voluntaries who lived in our mids. This is the portrait of Mrs Gandhi with a photograph of her husband Manilal Gandhi been charged for occupying the white municipal library in protest against the segregation of libraries in Durban. She does not appear in the photograph with her husband - but years later I inserted her back into history.
Pix Omar Badsha 1981


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Freaking out: restaurant milkshakes accused of containing 'grotesque' sugar levels
By Stefan Chomka contact
13-Nov-2018 - Last updated on 13-Nov-2018 at 10:06 GMT
Related tags: Health, Sugar, Casual dining
Restaurant brands Toby Carvery and Five Guys have been singled out for serving milkshakes with 'alarming' and 'grotesque' levels of sugar by health charity Action on Sugar.
The carvery chain's unicorn freakshake, which contains the equivalent of 39 teaspoons of sugar and 1,280 calories, was named by the charity as the most 'shocking shake', with the US burger chain's banana and chocolate and cherry milkshakes also named and shamed for their high sugar and calorie content, which were said to contain as much sugar as four cans of cola.
Action on Sugar is calling for a ban on what it says is excessively high sugar and calorie milkshakes sold in high street restaurants and fast food chains as well as for mandatory traffic light nutrition labelling across all menus.
It is also calling for a ban on the sale of milkshakes that exceed the calorie limit of 300 kcal per serving set by Public Health England's sugar reduction targets.
Its research of 140 products from 14 high street restaurant and fast food chains found that all milkshakes, with nutrition labelling available online, would receive a red (high) label for excessive levels of sugar per serving.
"It is unnecessary and unacceptable to sell milkshakes with over half an adult's daily calorie needs in a single serving," says Holly Gabriel, Nutrition Campaigner at Action on Sugar.
"There should be a limit of 300 calories per serving on these drinks. If you choose to eat out in a restaurant or cafe, you could unknowingly be consuming up to four times the amount of sugar and calories compared to a similar product from a supermarket, which demonstrates how easy it is to reduce sugar and calories."
The amount of sugar and calories in milkshakes served in restaurants has crept up over the past few years thanks to the rise in popularity of freakshakes, described as a 'monstrous mashup' between a drink and dessert. The trend for freakshakes originated in Australia but has since spread across the UK, with drinks often topped with items such as waffles and doughnuts, thus significantly boosting their sugar content.
While restaurants don't position such drinks as everyday options, Action on Sugar says there is often not sufficient nutritional information to allow consumers to make informed choices. It is calling for government intervention to force restaurants to display clear nutritional information online and in their sites.
"Undoubtedly some of these milkshakes contribute to excess sugar and calorie intake, and it is shocking this information is hidden from the consumer, who would struggle to find it," says Kawther Hashem, a researcher at Action on Sugar based at Queen Mary University of London.
"It is time the government introduced legislation to force companies to be more transparent about what is in their products by displaying clear nutrition information online and in the outlets, at all times."
Other drinks singled out by the research include Pizza Hut's salted caramel ice cream shake and Harvester's Cookie Monster freakshake.
Related topics: Legislation
Faecal bacteria found in ice and soda at five leading pub chains