Every single day we get at least one call from a customer asking if we provide a driver for the rental boats. The answer is sadly no. We would love to come have a great day on the water with you though.
Due to the number of calls we get on this though, we thought it would be a good idea to elaborate on why we don't offer this service.
First and foremost, you have to have a Captains License to operate ANY boat for compensation. Doesn't matter the circumstances. There has been other boats around Lake Wylie who tried to offer a driver without that person having a Captains License and they got nailed. The Coast Guard and local police do patrol the lake and look out for infractions like this!
Secondly, and more unknown, is insurance issues. Surprisingly if we were to provide a driver our insurance would go up. It would almost double! As you can imagine, insurance for a rental fleet of boats is EXTREMELY expensive. So, doubling that is not something most operations would consider.
Lastly, even if we had a staff member with a Captains License and we paid the outrageous insurance premiums to be able to offer that service, the cost to pay a licensed Captain for a full day boat rental would make it more expensive than most customers would be willing to pay for a day on the water.
The good news is, renting a boat with us is easy. The rental process is easy online, the training at our dock is comprehensive and easy to understand. All we ask is that you pay close attention to our staff when they are going over everything and you'll be fine!
To be safe on the water, just go slow. It really is that easy.
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bolttech enters Ireland partnering with Three Ireland
The launch takes bolttech to 14 markets around the world
Singapore/ Hong Kong, 3 December 2020 – Growing insurtech group bolttech announced today its expansion into Ireland through its device protection partnership with Three Ireland, one of the country's leading mobile telecommunications operators, and CKH Innovations Opportunities Development. The partnership brings bolttech's innovative device switch programme to Three's SIM only customers across the country through the switch service '3PhoneSwap', the first non-insurance switch programme in the country.
bolttech's entry into Ireland marks the business' 14th market across three continents, with its device protection offering now present in Ireland, Italy and Austria in Europe, and Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and South Korea in Asia.
Rob Schimek, Group Chief Executive Officer at bolttech, said, "The appetite for device protection continues to grow around the world, reflecting customers' growing need to protect their digital lifestyles from disruption. Ireland is an exciting and innovative market for our business, and I'm pleased that our partnership with Three Ireland will allow us to bring customers new ways to protect the technology at the centre of their lives."
David Ward, Head of New Products & Propositions at Three Ireland said, "Keeping our customers connected is our priority at Three. We know how crucial mobile devices are and we're pleased to partner with bolttech to introduce Ireland's first mobile phone switch service to our customers. This convenient service is exclusively available to our SIM only customers both in-store and online; customers can sign-up conveniently from the comfort of their homes and get their swapped devices delivered to their location in just a few clicks."
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Phonemyposseagain Tries Stakes Company for First Time in Tyro
Phonemyposseagain will look to make it back-to-back victories when he tries the turf for the first time in Sunday's $60,000 Tyro Stakes for two-year-olds going five and a half furlongs at Monmouth Park.
"He's been training really well," said trainer Chuck Spina. "He's run well in each of his races against some tough company including a stakes winner and this spot isn't easy either. He's well rested and looks ready to go for Sunday."
The son of Posse out of the Phone Trick mare Phone Express broke his maiden in his third start by 3 ¾ lengths against New Jersey breds on July 2 at Monmouth. In his first two starts, he has finished second in each behind good company in Wesley Ward's filly Schianti, who beat the boys that day, and Firenze Fire, who won the Grade 3 Sanford Stakes at Saratoga in his next start. Jose Ferrer has been aboard for all three starts and has the call once again on Sunday.
Owned by Joseph and Gayle Ioia, Phonemyposseagain has worked once leading up to his run in the Tyro. That breeze came on July 27 when he went four furlongs in :49 2/5 over a fast Monmouth main track.
The two main threats to Phonemyposseagain appear to be Hemp Hemp Hurray for Wesley Ward and Todd Pletcher's Earth, both broke their maiden on the turf in their first try.
The only other Tyro entrant to break their maiden on the grass was Coop Tries Harder for Jane Cibelli, who went wire-to-wire in his first try on turf and around two turns on July 5.
The Tyro will run as race 9 on Sunday's 10-race card. Gates open at 11:30 a.m. with first post set for 12:50 p.m.


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Q: Simultaneous access to files. Strange locking behavior I can't understand my program behavior.
int MyOpenWrite(char *name,int flags) {
    int fd;
       unsigned long tm;
    unsigned long t;

    tm=time(0)+5;  //5 seconds
    for (;;) {
        fd = open(name,flags,S_IREAD|S_IWRITE|S_IRGRP|S_IWGRP|S_IROTH|S_IWOTH);
        if (fd>0) break;
        if (time(0)>=tm) return -1;
    }
    //1111111111111111111
    LockFile(fd);
        DelayInSeconds(60);
    //2222222222222222222222
    return fd;
}

int LockFile(int fd) //return 0 - OK; -1 - Error
{
    struct flock    lock;

    lock.l_type = F_WRLCK;
    lock.l_start = 0;
    lock.l_whence = SEEK_SET;
    lock.l_len = 0;
    return fcntl(fd,F_SETLKW,&lock);
}

This is cgi-bin program.
I've started one request which appends data to some file.
As you see it delays for 60 seconds after lock.
Then I've recompiled the program without this delay
and did the next request.
The second program is waiting between //1111 and //22222
until first program exits.
I expected that second program returns in MyOpenWrite with -1 code after 5 seconds of waiting.
But there is no delay on opening cycle.
But there is a long delay in LockFile.
Whats wrong here?
Thanks!

A: This happens because you're using advisory locking, i.e. the file is not physically blocked from being opened but instead it will coordinate readers and writers via fcntl().
Both versions of your code use the same code for LockFile(), which means that the second will wait for the first; the open() call is not likely to fail unless the file doesn't exist or can't be opened for reading and writing.
If you do not want to wait when a file is already locked you should use F_SETLK instead of F_SETLKW. That will return -1 immediately if a lock could not be obtained.

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Ken Davy joins Yorkshire sports education start-up as chairman
The chairman of Huddersfield Giants rugby club has joined Yorkshire based sports education start-up, Sporting Age, as chairman.
Ken Davy, who is also founder and chairman of AIM listed compliance and business support group, SimplyBiz, has joined Huddersfield enterprise Sporting Age, to provide guidance and investment as the company looks to grow its presence in schools across Yorkshire and beyond.
Sporting Age was founded in 2017 and works with primary school teachers to improve levels of physical literacy among pupils by increasing their confidence and competence in fundamental movement skills including running, jumping, throwing and catching.
Ken commented: "I am delighted to be working with the team of specialists at Sporting Age in a capacity that brings together my passion for sport and business.
He continued: "It is an appalling situation that in the UK, thirty five percent of children leaving primary school age 11 are classed as overweight or obese.
"The work the Sporting Age team is doing across Yorkshire to ensure that children are confident in physical activity from a young age is a key factor towards helping improve this statistic."
Shaun Fox, co-founder at Sporting Age, said: "Ken has joined us at an exciting time of growth. More than 1,500 primary school pupils in West Yorkshire have now completed our competency test, allowing us to establish their individual 'sporting age', akin to a reading age.
"This data has enabled us to create stage-appropriate lesson plans that ensure each pupil is participating in physical activity at the level which is correct for their individual ability, leading to increased confidence and improved levels of physical literacy."
The news follows an announcement in January that Sporting Age has been awarded a £75,000 funding boost from the £3million social investment loan fund, Sporting Capital.
Shaun added: "Since working with Sporting Age, one of our partner schools has seen a 93% improvement across its total pupils in at least one area of fundamental movement skills.
"What we are doing is working for primary schools and their pupils, and under Ken's expert guidance we hope to extend our reach to even more pupils across Yorkshire and the wider UK."
L-R Jonny Nolan, Shaun Fox, Ken Davy and Andrea Springthorpe
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Please don't use the code in this project directly in a game.
Maelstrom remains a shareware game by Ambrosia Software.
It looks to me like it should not be in 'games' but in 'non-free'.
with item 6 of the Free Software Guidlines.
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Thanks Weldy. It's tragic, but I'm sure I'll get over it.
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Frying pans... what are these things you talk of?
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I was listening to Joe Jackson and having my one beer while doing it, does that help?
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QUACKS! Here come the race-baiters and their canards
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Let me get this out of the way just to help stymie the idiot race-baiters: Martin Luther King was an American and in fact a global hero, worthy of all the respect he receives; and a black man being elected as president is one of America's greatest achievements, so far.
And by the way, nobody needed to tell me that. Least of all the race-baiting idiots and fascists.
Some of the speakers at this week's MLK memorial (or what I call the August 28, 2013 edition of the near-daily public speaking series called "Race-Baiting Canards and Utter BS for Progressive Power and Democratic Party Votes") have calculated that it is more politically expedient for them to regurgitate their victim card and their racial division card, and their income disparity card, and
other phony cards from their stacked deck of left-wing canards — than to speak the truth. And that goes for all of the race-baiting industry, like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Barack Obama, and most other Democrats and progressives — who were all in attendance.
Is it just me, or was that memorial almost identical to the last Democratic Party convention?
But at this actually important MLK event, the speakers (virtually all of whom were Democrats or progressives) missed the opportunity to become real heroes, once again. On purpose, in some cases.
On this historic 50th anniversary of MLK's speech, the speakers could have used the opportunity to finally admit that the problems within the black community and the racial problems they incessantly caterwaul about are almost entirely of their own making — or at least that of their own making with the help of their brethren on the left — the progressive movement.
They could have used this historic occasion to become heroes to an entire nation (like MLK himself), rather than just heroes to the members of their well-nurtured and mollycoddled ministry (a word I used advisedly).
Instead of solidifying their status as annoying charlatans and shlubs according to most of right-thinking America (which I like to think is at least half of America), they could have made the historic announcement that they, and nearly everything they have stood for, have been an abject failure. They could have acknowledged their abject failure as leaders of the liberal or progressive politics that caused this, over the past half century.
But some of these people are just incapable of doing that — or they haven't yet matured to the required level. Others purposely don't do it.
For those "others," this is business. It's a race-baiting industrial complex of which they're the captains. And as a part of their huge compensation packages, they're taking home the same size piles of cash that the so-called "1%" — the real captains of real industry (who actually create jobs and GDP) that they so disrespect and despise, are earning.
As another part of their pay package, they continually have their egos stroked with the fawning, cheering accolades of the liberal white-guilt media, liberal Hollywood, liberal academia; and, alas, by what are ironically
the modern day serfs — serfs of the government and of the myriad entitlements, which they helped create. These serfs are further beholden to these captains of the race-baiting industry.
The serfs have become reliant upon society, and moreover the left — the progressive — leaders within.
Progressives did this. And the captains perpetuate it.
The captains of the race-baiting industry don't want this to end. They're lying about wanting all the racial tensions and inequality to end. They need it to continue. They covet all this inequality and racial tension — they help build it, in fact. That's why they're called "race-baiters." Sadly, they are so self-interested and greedy and scurrilous and nefarious that they seek only to continue this much ballyhooed racial animosity and disparity and inequality — to further their scornful careers.
This passage from Bernie Goldberg's latest column revisiting some of the speeches, helps exemplify my rant.
Bernard Goldberg
Martin Luther King Knew the Difference Between Nooses and Handcuffs
… There was lots of talk about the progress that has been made over the years. And lots of talk about how the dream is still unrealized, how the struggle must continue. They talked a lot, too, about the great "wealth gap" between blacks and whites today. President Obama said, "The gap in wealth between races hasn't lessened, it's grown." But neither he nor the other speakers talked about why, in Jesse Jackson's words, "We're freer [today] but less equal."
And no one talked about what just may be the single most important explanation for poverty in America. A while back, William Galston, an advisor to President Bill Clinton, took a hard look at why some people are poor, and he came up with what appears to be a simple solution to avoid a life of poverty. Just do three things, he said: finish high school, marry before having a baby, and marry after the age of 20. Only 8 percent of families who do this are poor while 79 percent who don't do these things are poor. …
Conservatives didn't do this. We all know that. There is no argument. Democrats — progressives caused people to become reliant upon and dependent upon the government. They taught people that there is no consequence to acting irresponsibly in their personal lives or within a family. In fact, they've so diminished the value of "family" that now, a huge number of people place no value whatsoever on the concept of or the institution of traditional marriage and family. It's been cast as not fun, and not "cool" to them. Moreover, it's not what their idols in the rap and R&B music industry do, or what the cool set in Hollywood do. Liberals actually see it as a badge of honor for women to have babies without fathers in the picture at all.
So they own this problem of 72% of black babies being born-out-of-wedlock, and the myriad social problems that naturally flow from that.
And they all know this, and they all hide it. They lie, obfuscate, and if you dare cross them, they of course call you a "racist," which in the era of Obama, ironically, has become so overused and boring that it's lost all meaning. Almost like the liberal-left version of marriage and family.
It it walks like a canard and quacks like a canard, it's another canard.
See this video of Juan Williams and The Five discussing this issue almost exactly along the same lines as my rant here: http://youtu.be/fue85V_ngoY
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Jharkhand: 4-year-old girl raped, eyes gouged out, hands chopped off #Vaw #WTFnews
A four-year-old girl was raped, her eyes were gouged out and hands chopped off.
The rape and murder of a missing four-year-old girl, whose eyes were gouged out and hands chopped off, brought back horrors of witchcraft in Jharkhand where killings linked to superstitious beliefs are rampant.
The mutilated body of the girl, missing since December 15, was found near her village in East Singhbum district on Thursday. Villagers suspect a sorcerer was behind the gruesome crime.
Police didn't rule out the involvement of family members or people known to the girl.
They said organ trafficking gangs could be involved too, but the girl's autopsy must confirm if any of her kidneys is missing. Also, stray dogs could have scraped out the eyes.
This is the second such crime in Jharkhand in a week after a 19-year-old girl was raped and burnt to death in Booty Basti under Ranchi Sadar police station on December 16 — on the fourth anniversary of the brutal gang rape and murder of a paramedical student in New Delhi. Police have yet to track the Ranchi suspect.
JMM parliamentarian Sanjeev Kumar and legislator Amit Mahato met Union home minister Rajnath Singh in New Delhi on Friday and demanded a CBI investigation into the brutal rape and murder of the BTech student from Ram Tahal Chowdhary Technical College in Ranchi.
In East Singhbum, police initially refused to look for the girl when her parents reported her disappearance. They lodged a missing complaint four days later.
Angry villagers assaulted the assistant sub-inspector before a police team rescued him with the promise of strong action against the culprit.
"Someone close and known to the victim appeared to be behind the act because had there been outsiders or a racket been involved they would not have dumped the body in the village. But we are probing every lead and not ruling out any angle," Shailendra Barnwal, the Jamshedpur rural superintendent of police, said on Friday.
The girl's father, who is a farmer and a daily wage worker, has not named any suspect in his complaint. But several women in the village told police that a sorcerer from a nearby village, who was spotted on an adjacent hillock for the past six months, could be involved.
Villagers are also talking about two young men on a motorcycle, alleging that they drugged the girl when she was playing outside her house on December 15 and committed the crime.
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This is a gruesome incident. The incident must be investigated. It is sad that such incidents are on the rise. The government has done little to contain such gory incidents


I must say my parents are very much bangal [a typical identification of Bengali people who migrated from Bangladesh to west Bengal] due to their food choice and cooking habits, but they used to quickly adopt to the good food habits of the ghoti people here after knowing some very important food values like gota sheddho of sheetal shasthi puja. Though there were no ritualistic food culture in our family, but I can still remember how we used to relish gota sheddho in the winter when new and baby vegetables were easily available. My mother used to soak kulotthokalai and green whole mung dal usually on the Saturday nights and our Sunday breakfast comprised of a big bowl of gota sheddho and gola bhat of lal rice [overcooked unpolished rice aoush or gobindo bhog rice] and every time my father used to repeat the story of dhenki chhata chal and it's flavor.
I can still remember because of my unwillingness to go to general washrooms on school days, my mother was so anxious about my health that she used to soak the kulottho ritually on holidays and gave me in the morning to drink in an empty stomach to keep my renal function healthy. Needless to say the rest of the handful of soaked dal was added to the curry or lentil for the meal for that day.
In Bengal the Sheetal shashti puja [Sheetal means the cool and shasti means the 6th day] is observed on the 6th day of the Sukla Paksha of Magha month the day after the sukla panchami or Saraswati puja. A special preparation of cooked whole vegetables [usually consisting of five different types of vegetables and 6 number of each] in legumes traditionally called Gota Sheddho is cooked on the day before the puja that is on panchami day (fifth day)in the evening of saraswati puja and the food is served on the next day when it is cooled or sheetal. Hence comes the name. This ritual is mainly observed by the Bengali mothers wishing for a long and healthy life of their children by cooking the best new vegetables.
Almost every family has their own version of making gota sheddho, like my mother who could not compromise with the items, which listed a big handful of kulthi with the whole green gram legume [gota mung], jujube [topa kul], drumsticks [sojne danta], white broad bean [sada sheem], baby potato [notun aloo], baby brinjal [choto begun], green tomato [kancha tomato], arbi root [gati kochu], green peas with peel [gota karaishuti] and saindhob labon [sea salt] and it is very common to exchange a bowl of gota sheddho among the neighborhood.
Wash and soak legumes in clean and enough water for at least 6 hours before cooking. Do not discard the water. Boil the legumes and add all the vegetables one by one. Vegetables which need more time to cook properly has to be added first. Cook on medium heat for about 20-30 mins. Dal and vegetables should be well-over-it (almost boiled but not completely) cooked but not mushy. Turn off the heat and drizzle 2 tbsp raw mustard oil over it.
Horse gram or Kulattha kalai s the poor man's pulse in India and is consumed as dal or sprouts, Kulattha guda, Kulattha yoosha, and Kulatthadya ghrita. The seeds are generally parched and then boiled.
The perennial horsegram (Dolichos uniflorus) is a twining herb grown in India for food and fodder. The original Latin name for horsegram was Dolichos biflorus and the exact synonym for horse-gram is Macrotyloma uniflorum commonly known as Moth bean.
Nutritional value (per 100 gm.) of different nutrient in horse gram.
Horse gram contains 0.39% phosphorus, one-third by weight of the ash is phosphoric acid.
Kulthi, Hurali, Madras gram, Muthenif, Rahitha, Culutu, hulage, kulithu, habulakulta, Kultha, Rarat, vulavalu, Gaheth, Botang, Kollu, Horse gram contains 0.39% phosphorus, one-third by weight of the ash is phosphoric acid. A soak solution (1.5% NaHCO3 + 0.5% Na 2CO3 + 0.75% citric acid). It also possesses phyto agglutinin, globulin, psoralin and coumestrol in a considerable amount, though like in many other modern age commercially refined and processed food grains the content may be greatly reduced.
In a clinical study on 30 cases of urolithiasis, of which 17 cases were having renal calculi and 13 having ureteric calculi, the combination of Svetaparpati with Kulatha Kvatha proved to be effective in relieving pain, burning micturition and showed appreciable lithotriptic and diuretic action. This drug was also found to be highly effective in checking haematuria in cases of urolithiasis and is reported to have good therapeutic value in the treatment of urolithiasis, especially in cases of ureteric calculi. Ref: mpuas_vol.5_pg.123-138.
Scientists from the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology have found that unprocessed raw horse gram seeds not only possess anti-hyperglycemic properties but also have qualities which reduce insulin resistance. The scientists made a comparative analysis between horse gram seeds and their sprouts and found that the seeds would have greater beneficial effects on the health of hyperglycemic individuals. The majority of anti-oxidant properties are confined to the seed coat and its removal would not do any good. Raw horse gram seed is rich in polyphenols, flavonoids and proteins, the major anti-oxidants present in fruits and other food materials. The seed has the ability to reduce post-prandial hyperglycemia by slowing down carbohydrate digestion and reduce insulin resistance by inhibiting protein-tyrosine phosphatase 1 beta enzyme. It is an excellent source of iron and molybdenum.
There was once a time when people had to be convinced only by ritualistic customs to maintain health issues compared to now where an overrated objective approach has developed in our minds that tend us to justify anything and everything by scientific reasoning. "Oh this is clinically proven" they say and derive satisfaction. The rural people who constitute 70 to 75% of the Indian population live in about 5,76,000 villages located in different agroclimatic conditions. The village people have their own diverse systems of health management. While most of the common ailments were managed in the house by home remedies which included many species and condiments like pepper, ginger, turmeric, coriander, cumins, tamarind, fenugreek , tulsi, etc., more complicated cases were attended by the traditional physicians who used a large number of plants from the ambient vegetations and some products of animal or mineral origin to deal with the local diseases and ailments.
In Andhra Pradesh, horse gram or Ulavalu is prescribed for persons suffering from jaundice or water retention, and as part of a weight loss diet. It is considered helpful for rejuvinating iron deficiencies, and also for maintaining body temperature in the winter season. Ulavacharu (Horse gram soup) is a popular dish in Andhra Pradesh, which is served in most of the Telugu speaking people's weddings and ceremonies and tastes wonderful with boiled rice.
Pana Sankranti or Chhatua Sankranti is celebrated to mark the first day of the solar month. On this day a small pot with a hole at the bottom filled with 'pana' or sweet drink is hung on a basil [Tulsi] plant. The falling of water from the pot symbolizes the falling of rain and thus this Sankranti marks the commencement of rainy season and of the cultivation cycle. The people of coastal Orissa ceremonially consume the flour of horse gram [chhatua] after offering it to the basil plant.
In Kerala, horse gram, Muthira in Malayalam, stir fry horsegram or Muthira Upperi or Kollu Poriyal is used as a home remedy to reduce high blood pressure.
In Tamil Nadu, horse gram called Kollu, in the southern districts it is called Kaanam is commonly used in Tamil dishes, including kollu chutney, kollu thoran, kollu porial, kollu avial, kollu sambar, and kollu rasam.
In traditional siddha cuisine, horse gram is considered a food with medicinal qualities.
In Maharashtra, and specifically the coastal Konkan region and Goa, horse gram (Kulith) is often used to make Kulith Usual, pithla and laddu. It is used to make popular dishes like Kulitan Saaru, Kulitan Upkari, Kulitan Ghassi (coconut curry preparation) and idli like preparation(but not fermented) called Kulitan Sannan. In Karnataka cuisine, huraLi saaru, huraLi is a main ingredient. Hurali is also used in preparation like usali, chutney and Basaaru.
In South Canara region of Karnataka, in Tulu it is also called as Kudu.
Gahat or Kulath is a major ingredient in the Pahari region of northern India. In Himachal Pradesh, Kulath is used to make Khichdi.
In Uttarakhand, it is cooked in a round iron saute pan kadhai to prepare Ras, a favorite of most Kumaonis.
In Gharwal region, another more elaborate dish is phanu which is made in a kadhai with roughly ground gahat [previously soaked overnight] boiled over several hours. Towards the end, some finely chopped greens like palak or spinach, rai, tender radish leaves, or coriander leaves if nothing else is available, are added to complete the dish. Served with boiled rice, jhangora [a millet-like grain, used as a staple by poorer Garhwalis only a decade ago and now a prized health-food] or just roti, phanu is a wholesome and nutritious meal.
The Bhava Prakasha refers the kulattha [kulathi, dolichos biflorus, horse gram] and some other vegetations under priyangu or a flowering tree under yagnic ausadhis. The ausadhi is not used in the modern context of medicine. Nandikeswara mentioned in The Nandikesa kāsika there are four classes of plants – vanaspati, vrksa, osadhi and virudha. Plants bearing fruits are called Vanaspati. Those having both visible flowers and fruits are called Vrksa. Those that die after their fruits ripen are Ausadhis and the weak plants and shrubs are called Virudha. It is clear from the Susruta samhita that the word ausadhi is used in a dual sense, viz, grains as well as medicine.
The medicinal use of horse gram dates back to Charaka and Susrutha samhita [1-2 century BC]. It is referred as kulattha [in sanskrit] in these texts. Acharya Charaka categorized it as a diaphoretic [swedopaga]. In various ayurvedic texts, it is called with different names like – tamra beeja, stiramutra, kaala vrudda, kulittha, shweta beeja, sitetara,anilapaha, kharshana, peetarmudga, aliskandha, surashtaka, tamra vrinta etc.
Doshic action: pacifier of vata pitta and kapha doshas.
Horse gram : Softly boiled, 25 gm. Take in the Morning and Evening. Can add onion and chilly pieces along with seasoning.
Take butter milk and barley for reducing heat generated due to above food.
Collect and store rain water before reaching ground in a container other than plastic, distill the water. Add 1/4 teaspoon good turmeric powder to half glass rain water and take early in the morning. Do not take food for one hour.
Food to be taken at night for weight reduction: Take old rice, Jowar, old wheat, Moong dal, horse gram, barley seeds in equal proportion. Soak them overnight, dry them in the morning. Add little by little quantity in pan and fry them. Later powder the contents and store. Prepare roti and take them in the nights as food.
Stoneless horse gram is washed and cleaned. On the day before soak in water and on the next day, it should be cooked well with the same water. On proper cooking add salt, jaggery, pepper powder and mix well. Add 5 ml ghee, coconut pulp at the end seasoned with curry leaf, asafoetida and cumin seed tempering. This is served when it is warm. It is very tasty and nutritive. This dish is good in chronic cold, cough, urinary disorder etc.
Rheumatoid arthritis - soup of horse gram (kulattha yusha) and excess perspiration powder of fried horse gram is rubbed to the body.
Urinary calculi - decoction of horse gram or medicated ghee prepared out of horse gram.
Amenorrhea/ dysmenorrhoea - to the decoction of horse gram asafoetida is added and given Utricaria – soup of dried raddish and horse gram.
Comprising mostly of the oral traditions practiced by the rural villages. Carriers of these traditions are millions of housewives, thousands of traditional birth attendants, bone setters, village practitioners skilled in accupressure, eye treatments, treatment of snake bites and the traditional village physicians/herbal healers, the vaidyas' or the tribal physicians. This stream of inherited traditions are together known as Local Health Traditions (LHT). It represents an autonomous, community supported health management system which efficiently and effectively manage the primary health care of the Indian rural mass.
At the second level of traditional health care system is scientific or classical systems of medicine. This comprises of the codified and organized medicinal wisdom with sophisticated theoretical foundations and philosophical explanations expressed in classical texts like 'Charka Samhita', 'Sushruta samhita', 'Bhela samhita', and hundreds of other treatises including some in the regional languages covering treaties of all branches of medicine and surgery. Systems like Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani, Amchi and Tibetan, etc. are expressions of the same. Ayurveda was taught in the ancient Universities in India and evolved, developed and flourished mostly among the urban centers and thus used to be a refined system of medicine.
Beginnings of medicine in India,As in Greece, is found in mythology. According to this realm, medicine and surgery were gifts from the god Indra to Sages Bharadwaja, the patron saint of medicine, and Dhanvantari, the patron saint of surgery. Sage Dhanvatari renounced his royal status as Prince of Kasi [Varanasi] and retired into forest where he dictated his Ayur Veda to Susruta. These two scholars passed on their knowledge to two worthy men, Atreya and Susruta. The earliest records of medical practice in the world began about 600 B.C., with the Sanskrit Treatise of Sages Atreya and Susruta.
Pioneers of Medical Education Located on the present Jhelum River, Takshasila [Taxila] was the second ancient school of medicine. Sage Atreya, who is believed to have imbibed the Ayur Veda [science of life] directly from Sage Bharadwaja, headed the medical school in Taxila. His treatise on medicine is contained in 46,500 verses. When Emperor Alexander invaded India in 327 B.C., physicians and surgeons in India were well respected for their knowledge and skill.
Some writers say that Aristotle was inspired by Eastern knowledge. Both Sages Atreya and Susruta practiced around 600 B.C., nearly 150 years before Hippocrates. Buddhist folklore indicates the existence of two great schools in India during Vedic period where medicine, astronomy, mathematics and philosophy were taught. East of the River Ganga was city Varanasi [Kasi] where Sage Susruta headed the medical department. Having learned anatomy from Sage Atreya, Susruta points out in his treatise, Susruta Samhita, the differences between his techniques and Atreya's. The treatise on surgery indicates that he was probably the first surgeon to perform a rhinoplasty and ear lobe reconstruction.
Another great contributor to the ancient medical system was Sage Charaka, a philosopher, Astronomer and physician in the second century B.C.. As the physician of King Kanishka, Charaka edited and revised the Atreya Samhita. Charaka's contributions, in 120 chapters, deals with the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the heart, chest, abdomen, genital organs and extremities. Charaka's wide range of knowledge was evident from his instructions on building hospitals, maintaining hygienic atmosphere for patients and in details like providing toys for children. A detailed code of medical ethics was already well-evolved in India by 600 B.C. In essence, the code required medical practitioners to lead a life dedicated to caring for the sick and maintaining patient confidentiality. Cultural conducts while treating patients were also presented in detail.
Ayurvedic formulations use combinations of a selection of around 1200 species, about 500 of which are commercially traded. Ayurveda uses medicinal plants in various forms, some of which can be gathered only by destructive harvesting: in 30 per cent cases only the roots are used, in another 13 per cent only the bark and it is only in about 16 per cent that the whole plant is used. In other cases, medicines use the fruits, leaves, flowers, rhizome, seeds etc. It is commonly thought that medicinal plants are mainly herbs, but in fact about one-third are trees—this has implications for conservation and management of supplies to the industry. The majority of plants used in ayurveda are procured from the wild, though around 10 per cent are cultivated on private lands.


A foundation of a home is like the legs of a human body. As strong legs support your body, a solid concrete foundation will encourage your property. It is the key to a long-lasting concrete structure.
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In other words, basement underpinning and bench footing could be described as digging the basement floor and creating a new floor in a lower degree. The underpinning and bench footing technique is typically for raising the overall height of the basement. But, also, it ensures a stronger basis for your home.
It'll increase living room for you and your loved ones.
It may be used as a rental space and help you make more income.
It will increase the total value of your home.
A healthy basement will keep the house free of molds, cracks, mold and odor.
If your house is too old, the basement lowering Toronto technique can prove to be a savior. It will not just strengthen the base of your house but also provide you with an additional living room. If your home is over 30 years old, the odds are that the basement wasn't constructed with the purpose of using it as a living room. You can employ the underpinning and bench footing to increase the height of the basement. It can help you to make additional living room in your property.
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Liège 2, museums – fuss and Boverie
Before I reached Liège I heard a lot of fuss about the Grand Curtius, a project to link a group of the city's museums and to create a strong cultural hub, but I have to say I wasn't that impressed. The €59 million project opened in 2009 (10am-6pm except Tuesdays; €9; www.grandcurtiusliege.be), but it's not very well organised, with lots of dead-ends and poor signage, and there's nothing particularly amazing to see anyway. The bright-red and remarkably tall mansion (built for the merchant Jean de Curte between 1597 and 1610, in Mosan Renaissance style) overlooks the Meuse, but it's still basically empty (I saw a few grand fireplaces and a temporary show of contemporary art there) and the entrance to the complex is on the far side on Féronstrée – glazed walkways (see below) lead from the ticketing area to the four supposedly unified museums, of archeology, weaponry, decorative arts, and religious art and Mosan art. There's information in four languages in the introductory section but after that it's French only.
The Grand Curtius
There is an excellent collection of glasswork, from its origins 5,000 years ago in Mesopotamia and Egypt via medieval stained glass and Bohemian crystal to wonderful Art Nouveau and Deco creations; the weaponry collection includes some very odd-looking modern guns (all composites and electronics) made in nearby Herstal. Incidentally, Herstal is one of the possible birthplaces (c742) of Charlemagne, but I saw no mention of this. We are however promised an exhibition soon on Georges Nagelmackers, born in Liège in 1845, who invented the sleeper carriage in 1867 and developed it into a Europe-wide empire of trains such as the legendary Venice-Orient Express.
Your ticket also includes the Archéoorum (archeoforumdeliege.be), under the Place St-Lambert, where you can poke around among the foundations of Gallo-Roman buildings and the first cathedral; but I'd still say Le Grand Curtius is a great deal of fuss about not very much, and is also overpriced.
Nearby, at Féronstrée 114, the Musée d'Ansembourg (Thurs-Sun 10am-6pm; €5) is in an splendid townhouse, built for a banker in about 1740, that still has its original interiors, with fine plasterwork and wood carving, and a display of furniture, paintings, tapestries, clocks and chandeliers from the period of its construction, all in authentically liégeois style.
Liège-Guillemins station
I was much more impressed by the Boverie (Tues-Fri 9.30am-6pm, Sat/Sun 10am-6pm; en.laboverie.com), a new and expanded incarnation of Liège's Palais des Beaux Arts (built in 1905 for the Exposition Universelle) that lies on a new axis from Liège-Guillemins (the stunning new station by Santiago Calatrava with its soaring birds-wing roof – see above and below) via a new foot/cycle bridge and the Boverie park (at the southern tip of the Outremeuse island) to the Mediacité centre (designed by Ron Arad, but basically a shopping centre with cinemas in the run-down Longdoz district). Opened in May 2016, the new Musée des Beaux-Arts de Liège (BAL) brings together the collections of the former Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, the Musée de l'Art Wallon and the Cabinet des Estampes et des Dessins, as well as a new space for international touring exhibitions. Visiting the permanent collection costs €5 (free on the first Sunday of each month), while temporary exhibitions cost between €12 and €17. The permanent collection, on the lower level, starts (chronologically speaking) with a portrait by the Köln painter Bartholomäus Bruyn (1493–1555), a fairly average portrait by Anthonis Mor (c1562) of Lambert Lombard, a real Renaissance man who was court painter to Prince-Bishop Érard de la Marck, a still life by Pieter Claesz, portraits of a man and a woman (1669) by Nicolas Maes, a portrait of the sculptor Jean Del Cour (1685) by his brother Jean-Gilles Del Cour and a portrait of Napoleon (1804) by Ingres. From the late 19th century come a Monet of the port of Le Havre, a lovely painting by Alfred Stevens (La Parisienne japonaise, c1873) and Meunier's big view of the Seraing ironworks (c1880), as well as a Rodin sculpture.
In the 20th century it was city policy to build a good contemporary collection, and they had an extraordinary stroke of luck when the Nazis sold off the paintings in the Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) exhibition, showing what was to them unacceptably modernist (and Jewish) art – nine paintings were bought at a sale in Luzern in 1939, by Chagall, Gauguin, Kokoschka, Laurencin, Liebermann, Marc, Pascin, Picasso and Ensor (who I could do without, frankly). How they then survived the German occupation is another matter that I haven't investigated. In fact the city had spent less than a fifth of their available funds, so they also went to Paris to buy Post-impressionist works by Signac, Utrillo, Vlaminck, van Dongen, Guillaumin and Ensor again (but he was Belgian, so hard to avoid, I suppose). You'll also see Post-impressionist paintings by Derain, Marquet and the Belgian Theo van Rhysselberghe, and also Magritte (another Belgian), Léger, de Stäel, Vasarely, Arp, Tàpies, Ben Nicholson and the Canadian Jean-Paul Riopelle.
Finally, the Galerie Noire (also on the lower level) displays prints and drawings by Millet, Delacroix, van Gogh, Jean & Jean-Gilles Del Cour, Meunier, Reps, Ensor, Marc, Matisse (a Tête de Jeune Fille from 1947), Sonia Delaunay-Terk and (being Belgium) a selection of comic strips, all in the usual low-light environment.
By the way, there's a café called Madame Boverie, and the park, with wild rabbits hopping about, is popular for picnics.
Another exciting new project is La Cité Miroir (the last R is placed backwards), a new exhibition centre opened in 2014 in a former municipal swimming pool (a fine modernist building opened in 1939) at Place Xavier Neujean 22 (Mon-Fri 9am-6pm (from 10am in summer), Sat/Sun 10am-6pm (closed Sun in summer), citemiroir.be). The main hall (see below) makes a fine performance space, and usually houses a photo exhibition too, and a couple of permanent exhibitons (€5 each), Plus Jamais Ça! (Never Again!) on the Holocaust, and Lutte, Histoires d'Émancipation on the struggle for a fairer, more equal society.
La Cité Miroir
It's also worth noting that the opera house (Opéra Royal de Wallonie) has been renovated, the Théâtre de Liège moved into new premises on the Place du 20-Août in 2013, and there's a good arthouse cinema, the Sauvenière, at Place Xavier-Neujean 12.
Some practicalities
The Tourist Office has moved from Féronstrée 92 to the Halle aux Viandes (the former meat market; daily 9am-5pm, to 6pm June-Sept; liege.be/tourisme) at 13 Quai de la Goffe (though not actually on the quai).
I stayed in the very friendly youth hostel in the cloisters of St Nicholas church (where detective writer Georges Simenon, creator of Maigret, went to church as a boy), in the traditionally working-class Outremeuse district, now also busy with immigrants (more African than Arab). There are some nice Art Nouveau apartment buildings here, and, a block east of the hostel, the rather bizarre Tchantchès statue – Tchantchès (from the Flemish for 'little Jean', Jantches) is a folkloric figure, derived from a comic puppet who appeared between the acts in the early 19th-century marionnette theatre and is now a symbol of Liège and in particular the Outremeuse district. The bronze statue was erected in 1936, and giant puppets representing him and his gal Nanesse are now mainstays of street parades and festivals here.
The pedestrianised central area known as Le Carré is famed for its lively bars, but I didn't find it very attractive. There are some nice cafés in cultural centres etc, but they and the few veggie places seem to close quite early, leaving just loud bars and formal restaurants. Opposite the youth hostel, La Cène (Rue Henri de Dinant 17; lacene.be) is a lively bistro, also serving Italian and Lebanese dishes.
On the transport front, a tramway (keskistram.be) is under construction along the left bank of the Meuse, to open in 2018 with luck [delayed until late 2022, and now April 2024, with luck… incroyable]. The 12.5km line will link the Standard Liège stadium in the west to Liège-Guillemins station and Coronmeuse in the centre, with a short branch to Bressoux station across the Meuse. There are already bus-only lanes in the centre of town, using a tunnel optimistically built for a metro in the 1970s.
The concept of Benelux (the union of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg) doesn't seem to have reached the SNCB, Belgium's national railways. The ticket machines at Liège-Guillemins (2 of the 3 were out of action anyway) don't sell tickets to Luxembourg, so you have to queue at the ticket desk – as a Belgian train runs through to Luxembourg every hour this seems bizarre; there's no real cycle space on these IC trains either. The short hop north from Antwerp to the Netherlands is equally problematic in my experience.
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Shrek (Mike Myers) finds himself in a twisted version of Far Far Away, where he and Fiona never met.
Children, Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy, Animated95 Mins2010PG
Long-settled into married life and fully domesticated, Shrek (Mike Myers) begins to long for the days when he felt like a real ogre. Duped into signing a contract with devious Rumpelstiltskin, he finds himself in an alternate version of Far Far Away, where ogres are hunted, Rumpelstiltskin rules, and he and Fiona (Cameron Diaz) have never met. Shrek must find a way out of the contract to restore his world and reclaim his true love.
DirectorMike Mitchell
Mike Myersas Shrek
Eddie Murphyas Donkey
Cameron Diazas Fiona
Antonio Banderasas Puss in Boots
Julie Andrewsas Queen Lillian
John Cleeseas King Harold


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The Top 10 Public Education Issues From 2017 That Need Our Attention In 2018
December 29, 2017 February 16, 2018 / caffeinatedrage
Like every other year, 2017 has been a rather contentious, perplexing, and frustrating year for public school advocates. There is simply a lot working against us.
However, that only means that we keep fighting for public schools.
For the calendar year of 2017, Caffeinated Rage had over 75,000 hits and over 200 new posts most all of which dealt with education in North Carolina. As the new year arrives, it might be worthwhile to review the top ten public education issues that surround North Carolina's school system.
And they are not listed in any particular order as all of them have an incredible amount of gravity.
Betsy DeVos became Secretary of Education.
Betsy DeVos has no degree in education meaning she is not even educated in how to educate. Betsy DeVos has no teaching experience. Betsy DeVos never attended a public school or state supported university. None of her children have either. Betsy DeVose's monetary contributions to Christian-based schools and evangelical organizations has been conservatively estimated at $200 million. Betsy DeVos is totally anti-union and believes that teachers are paid too much. Betsy DeVos supports vouchers.
https://caffeinatedrage.com/2017/01/20/taking-dolorous-umbrage-at-betsy-devos-with-no-apologies-to-dolores-umbridge-but-i-miss-alan-rickman/
Mark Johnson became state superintendent.
Consider this – a corporate attorney who taught for two school years through a program that historically does not place many long term teachers into the public schools, who did not complete a full term as a school board member and has never had a child in the public schools was elected in the most contentious election year in recent memory to become state superintendent. After he was elected and before he took office, he was granted more power as a state superintendent by a gerrymandered legislature in a special session that was thought to be called to repeal HB2. He then spent the first six months of his term "embroiled" in a legal battle with the state board of education that is controlled by the same political party and literally has been a non-public figure while a budget that expands vouchers, keeps charter schools from being regulated, lowers per pupil expenditures for traditional public schools, and cuts the budget for the very department he is supposed to run.
https://caffeinatedrage.com/2017/07/15/the-most-enabled-man-in-raleigh-north-carolinas-state-superintendent/
What SB599 means is that for-profit outfits can make money fast-tracking teacher candidates in a rather precarious preparation programs.
The original bill was introduced by Sen. Chad Barefoot who has shown himself to be the most recent poster child of the privatization movement in North Carolina's public education system.
https://caffeinatedrage.com/2017/06/29/the-stench-of-sb599-raleigh-knows-why-we-have-a-teacher-shortage-they-created-it/
The Privatization Movement.
That's because there exist too many relationships between business leaders, lobbying groups, wealthy benefactors, politicians, and educational reformers to be coincidental. In fact, many in the "reform" movement that have started to dismantle the public school system are strategically linked to each other, including BEST NC.
Look at the graphic below:
https://caffeinatedrage.com/2017/02/11/the-dramatis-personae-in-the-privatization-of-public-schools-in-north-carolina-or-who-is-trying-to-reform-education-through-deformation/
School Performance Grading System.
The school performance grades are based on a model developed by Jeb Bush when he was in Florida. It's disastrous and places a lot of emphasis of achievement scores of amorphous, one-time testing rather than student growth throughout the entire year.
It's part of the "proficiency versus growth" debate that really came to the forefront during the Betsy DeVos confirmation hearings when she could not delineate between whether test scores are used to measure student "achievement" or student "growth."
The people who made the decision to keep both the school performance grading system formula where it is and still expand vouchers ABSOLUTELY UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PROFICIENCY AND GROWTH. IT HELPS TO VALIDATE THEIR WANT OF MORE VOUCHERS.
https://caffeinatedrage.com/2017/07/05/the-ncgas-plan-to-make-school-performance-grades-fuel-voucher-expansion/
HB13 and #ClassSizeChaos.
Remember when Sen. Chad Barefoot said this in February of 2017 concerning House Bill 13?
"For years, the General Assembly has been sending tens of millions of dollars to districts for new classroom teachers for the purpose of lowering classroom sizes," he said. "The question we keep asking over and over again is, 'What did they do with the money? …The data that we have received from the districts varies, and some districts did not fully respond to our information request. What some of the data has shown is that there are districts that did not reduce class sizes with the funding we sent them. Why are they holding art and PE teachers' jobs hostage for their misallocation of classroom teacher funds?" (http://www.wral.com/law-reducing-class-size-has-music-art-pe-teachers-anxious-about-future-/16628678/).
https://caffeinatedrage.com/2017/12/26/a-convenient-lie-or-rather-the-ncgas-deliberate-distortion-of-the-truth/
Lack of Student Services especially those that deal with mental health.
Addiction, depression, and hopelessness are becoming more prevalent in today's youth, and this public school teacher can emphatically state that it is causing us to lose too many of our young people. And while society as a whole can debate the extent to which mental health issues should be dealt with, there should be no doubt whatsoever that more should be done.
https://caffeinatedrage.com/2017/08/29/everybody-hurts-prioritizing-mental-health-in-high-schools-with-some-r-e-m/
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Attack on Governor's School.
An amendment offered by none other than Sen. Chad Barefoot on May 10, 2017 was yet another assault by the North Carolina General Assembly against the arts in our schools.
Amendment #2 to Senate Bill 257 proposes to establish a "Legislative School For Leadership and Public Service" using the very funds that would have financed Governor's School starting in 2018-2019.
In short, Chad Barefoot and others of his ilk want to do away with Governor's School and replace it with a "Legislative School of Leadership and Public Policy."
https://caffeinatedrage.com/2017/05/11/sen-chad-barefoots-bid-to-end-governors-school-and-establish-a-legislative-school-for-gerrymandered-leadership-and-public-policy-to-suit-private-interest/
Principal Pay Plan.
If there is one thing that BESTNC's involvement in the new principal pay plan has shed light upon, it is that being fully financed does allow for groups to take action and have influence, especially behind closed doors in Raleigh.
https://caffeinatedrage.com/2017/09/21/open-letter-to-best-nc-about-their-principal-pay-plan-and-their-shallow-response-to-the-push-back/
State Board vs. Mark Johnson.
The State Supreme Court's decision to hear the case means that it is considered so important that the appeals courts are being bypassed. Simply put, it might be the most important battle in the five-year fight against privatization of the public school system here in North Carolina.
It is a fight to keep the "public" in public education.
https://caffeinatedrage.com/2017/12/11/nc-state-board-of-education-vs-mark-johnson-and-the-fight-to-keep-public-schools-public/
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Excellent list. Your readers are lucky to have such a perceptive teacher-parent-reporter in the NC trenches. Here's hoping for a better 2018.
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I just returned home from a brief trip to San Antonio with my mom. While looking for a place to eat one evening, we happened upon a quaint little historic town called Castroville. The town was founded by a group of colonists from Alsace, France, in 1844. Many of the town's original buildings and charming homes - built in the 1800's - are still intact and identified on a walking tour.
This home stopped me in my tracks! Not because of its age (it was built in 1911), but because it was ordered from the Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog for $5000!!
The house was shipped by rail … and then hauled to Castroville by horse and wagon where it was assembled by a couple of local carpenters. And to top it off, the original owner's son still resides in the home!
fanciful scuptures in your backyard?
which just happened to be a cool vintage car!
This booth contained some of my favorite folk art!
I wanted to take each one of them home with me!
This school of fish was created from old cans.
embellished with repurposed and vintage items!
Hope you did something fun this weekend, too!


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Home News & Analysis New York pension breaks private equity target allocation
New York pension breaks private equity target allocation
The $153bn New York State Common Retirement Fund has marginally surpassed its 8 percent private equity target allocation while approaching its 6 percent target real estate allocation.
Suzanne Weinstock
The New York State Common Retirement Fund's (CRF) commitments to private equity hit 8.3 percent of total assets as of 31 March, in excess of the pension's 8 percent target.
The $153 billion state pension had $12.7 billion in capital committed to private equity at the time, according to CRF's annual report for the fiscal year ended 31 March.
CRF's private equity portfolio generated a 24.8 percent one-year return while overall the pension returned 2.6 percent on its investments.
The pension recorded $29.5 million in expensed private equity management fees and $112.5 million in capitalised private equity management fees.
The pension's second major alternative asset class, real estate, returned 14.75 percent for the year. Real estate investments totaling $8.9 billion represented 5.8 percent of total assets. CRF's target allocation to real estate is 6 percent.
The New York public pension is currently limited to investing no more than 25 percent of its total portfolio in alternative asset classes and plans to launch a strategic asset allocation review in 2009.
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Bishop Fintan Monahan has urged all road users to take extra care this June bank holiday weekend.
After 11.30am Mass on Sunday Bishop Monahan will lead a 'Blessing of the Roads' ceremony in Clonlara parish, Co Clare, and offer prayers for the safety of all road users. Bishop Monahan has invited parishes in the Diocese of Killaloe to join with him in prayers over the weekend.
Bishop Monahan said, "I am aware that many county councils and civic groups, especially the Road Safety Authority, work very hard to promote safety on the roads. But in truth we all share this responsibility to protect human life on our roads.
"Up to this morning, 63 people have died this year on roads across the State. This loss of human life is heart-breaking for the loved ones of the deceased and a tragedy for our society as a whole.
Bishop Monahan continued: "After 11.30am Mass this Sunday in Clonlara parish I shall take part in a 'Blessing of the Roads' ceremony. I am also inviting parishes across the diocese to pray for those who have lost their lives in tragic circumstances, and also to pray for the safety of all road users.
"I firmly believe that prayer and reflection can change our driving behaviour, calm our aggression, and remind us to take care of our spiritual, moral and physical dimensions. In this context I recommend the following dedicated prayers for motorists which can be said before driving," Bishop Fintan added.


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Cadron Gap
Cadron Gap transects Cadron Ridge on the north edge of the city of Conway, Arkansas. The gap was exploited in 1871 by the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad, which avoided building trackage that climbed the 150 foot ridge line. The gap in the ridge contributed substantially to the development of Conway to the south. The first U.S. Post Office in the area was at Cadron Gap before its transfer south to Conway Station in 1872.
Interstate 40, U.S. Highway 64, and Arkansas Highway 25 also traverse the Cadron Gap.
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We were also attracted by the flexibility of the package enabling us to add or change elements to meet our particular requirements. Carole was very helpful in this regard and were more than happy to give what time they could in looking to meet these wishes. One of the best things we found was being able to deal directly with both Carole and Tafun who were only ever a phone call away and thereby giving us a very personal service.
For those of you who are not familiar with Turkey, the Bay of Fethye is simply stunning and provided a wonderful setting for our 'Sunset Wedding'. On the 'Big Day', the 'Carole Ann' and her crew played their part making sure all our guests felt welcome and well looked after and the food, music and service was first rate. The wedding was absolutely everything we had hoped for!
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The boat was definitely the perfect choice for our wedding and the scenery was breath taking. All of our guests have said it was the best wedding they have been to because it was so informal, so relaxed and so much fun. They also loved being able to have a swim in the sea after the ceremony! Carol organised everything perfectly and we had everything we wanted – even managing to decorate the whole boat in lilac flowers to match the colour of my bridesmaid dresses!
Thank you so much to both of you and the crew for all of your hard work and for giving us a perfect wedding. We hope to return next year for our first anniversary and join you on your sunset cruise.
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Parent Guide to GCSE Grading Structure
Once again, Queen's Park High School students have done themselves and us, as a community, proud. Despite the turbulent 18 months they have endured, our students have shown such commitment to their studies and a determination to succeed which have today reaped just rewards. We were thrilled to have been able to welcome our students back into school this morning, having achieved both some spectacular individual successes as well as sustaining (and indeed exceeding) the pattern of improvement the school has seen over the past few years.
This year we are particularly thrilled to see so many of our students achieve above and beyond expectations with a third of the year group having achieved one or more (up to over 3) grades better across all their subjects than originally targeted. In this respect, particular mention needs to be given to the following students who have made exceptional progress over the last 5 years: Craig Duggan, Lucia Morris, Niall Hagan, Omar Sheb, Tara Kord, Isaac Miller, Anna Kelsall, Ruby Platt, Luke Harris, Joe Brown, Jasmine Murphy and DD Smyth.
Other outstanding performances with grades 9-7 in at least 8 subjects come from: Erin Kendall-Smith, Tess Griffin, Sarah Kefford, Dan McDermott, Kelsey Griffiths, Emi Mayan, Emily McHugh, Joel Coombs and Laura Mateus.
"This is another special day for us here at Queen's Park. I feel incredibly proud of our Year 11 students, a cohort for whom we have always had high expectations, which they have lived up to admirably. Their commitment, maturity and determination to succeed have been modelled throughout lockdown and they have faced all the challenges which have been presented to them with positivity and verve.
For each and every student, today is about celebrating their own personal success and determining their next steps in their academic journey, whatever that may be. It has been a privilege for us as staff to be able to support and help shape their futures.
We pride ourselves at Queen's Park for our family feel, the fact that all our students are known and nurtured and when looking through the results this year we were thrilled to be able to pick out so many success stories for students who have had to overcome significant personal barriers throughout their educational journey and for those who have made significant progress both academically and
personally as a consequence. I hope we have played our part in setting them up for successful futures, whether this be here at Queen's Park in the 6th Form or elsewhere. We wish them all the best of luck."
"I am immensely proud of all students collecting their results today. Two years ago they were set the challenge of working hard, being resilient when faced with challenges and to show great determination to reach the top of their 'Mars bar' hill, and they have all certainly done that, in the most difficult of circumstances. I look forward to seeing a large number of them returning to us in September to embark on their next challenge. Well done!"
Mrs J Cutler, Key Stage 4 Leader
For information on our A Level examination results 2021 please click the link below:
A Level Examination Results 2021
Provisional GCSE Key performance measures
Progress 8 Score -0.64 -0.17 0.3*
Attainment 8 Score 43.46 43.44 53.74
Percentage of students achieving a Strong Pass** in English & maths
Percentage of students achieving a Standard Pass*** in English & maths 40%
Percentage of students achieving a Strong Pass in English
Percentage of students achieving a Standard Pass in English 52.1%
70.5% 60.20%
Percentage of students achieving a Strong Pass in maths
Percentage of students achieving a Standard Pass in maths 46.6%
Percentage of students achieving a Strong Pass in the Ebacc
Percentage of students achieving a Standard Pass in the Ebacc 12.3%
Percentage of students entering Ebacc 33% 27.9% 45.50%
* Based on SISRA collaboration data - no official P8 for 2020 due to Covid
** A strong Pass = Grades 9-5
*** A Standard Pass = Grades 9-4
The following link provides access to the DfE School Performance Tables website.
DfE website
Progress of students compared with those across the country -0.72 -0.32 0.24*
Average Grade at KS5 D C- C+
Progress in Maths -0.04 0.29
Progress in English (suppressed data to allow for anonymity due to low number of pupils) SUPP SUPP
Retention (proportion of students who get to the end of the main programme of study that they enrolled on at your institution) 53/54 98.1%


Last Friday (July 13, 2018), the Meuller team issued an indictment of a handfull of Russian GRU agents who are claimed to have hacked the DNC and DCCC servers, then distributed stolen information in an attempt to discredit the Hillary Clinton campaign. Or maybe the goal was to have Donald Trump elected President, which did happen. In any case a big figure in the story is Guccifer 2.0, who purported to be a Romanian hacker, but the Meuller team claims was actually Russian agents. This seems like an interesting angle to explore a bit.
The name Guccifer is derived from "Gucci" and "Lucifer", and originated from an actual Romanian hacker who is the person who found and revealed George W. Bush's paintings, and various other bits of mischief. For his effort he was extradited to the USA, convicted of his actions, and is now in jail.
The original Guccifer, Marcel Lazăr Lehel, is a Hungarian-Romanian from from the far west of Romania, near Arad, where there is a strong ethnic-Hungarian minority. He broke into a number of AOL, Yahoo!, Flickr, and Facebook accounts, releasing dirt captured from those accounts. This included family photo's for President George H.W. Bush (#41), President George W. Bush's attempts at painting, and other information. Reportedly he has little in the way of computer skills, and instead had worked as a Taxi driver. He has been convicted of crimes both in Romania and in the USA, and is currently serving a sentence in a Romanian jail. In 2017 he gave an interview in which he claimed Guccifer 2.0 was an invention of the American Government.
By comparison Guccifer 2.0 is a computer wizard. Taking his claims at face value he broke into the DNC network using a previously undisclosed bug in the firewall, for example.
Like Marcel Lazăr Lehel, Guccifer 2.0 claimed to be Romanian and to share some of Lehel's ideals. But there were huge contemporaneous doubts that Guccifer 2.0 was a Romanian, and instead was an invention of Russian Intelligence. The following outlines many of those doubts, and contains links to key contemporaneous articles.
An example is a report published by The Intercept going over those doubts. The Intercept is led by Glenn Greenwald, and has been strongly skeptical -- rather, refusing to rush to judgement -- about claims Russia hacked the 2016 election. This piece in July 2016 took that tone, but did a very good job outlining the issues.
And yes - in a way this could be Karmic Payback for what the USA has done to undermine elections around the world.
The article quotes Paul Manafort - at the time Trump Campaign Chairman - saying claims Russia hacked the election as absurd. Note that Manafort is now in jail awaiting trial in two separate cases where it's claimed Manafort was in cahoots with Russian Oligarch's close to Putin, and working closely on using the Trump Campaign in some kind of manipulation.
Quote from Gen. Flynn, then a senior advisor to the Trump Campaign and later NSA Director, says: "would not be surprised at all" to learn that Russia was behind the breach of the DNC network. "Both China and Russia have the full capability to do this." Note that Flynn had to resign as NSA Director after he was found to be subverted by Russian Intelligence, and he has pled guilty to various crimes, is awaiting trial, and is expected to have provided information to the Meuller investigation in exchange for a lighter sentence.
Crowdstrike released a detailed technical analysis of what they found in DNC's servers. Crowdstrike is a top-end security firm with lots of experience in the field. They identified two sets of Russia-intelligence-affiliated hacking groups based on the types of files installed into compromised systems. It appeared the two Russian groups were not aware of each other, and one group may have been FSB while the other was GRU. In any case the groups and tools used are so commonly used by Russian hackers that intelligence services easily recognize the fingerprints.
Another analysis by Mandiant came to the same conclusion.
Another analysis by ThreatConnect concluded VPN software used to communicate with Journalists is Russian - "Guccifer 2.0 is using the Russia-based Elite VPN service to communicate and leak documents to reporters."
Julian Assange is famous for his hatred of Hillary Clinton. While the Wikileaks website is designed so anyone can leak documents anonymously with no way to be identified by Wikileaks, is it possible that Assange used the site to foment trouble for Clinton?
The Meuller indictment of July 13, 2018 has these email quotes in which Organization 1 is clearly Wikileaks. This shows Assange arranging the timing of information releases with the Guccifer 2.0 persona, demonstrating that Assange was not being a neutral actor.
October 7, 2016, DHS released a press release saying that the breakins at DNC and other issues had the hallmarks of Russian Intelligence.
The U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC) is confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from US persons and institutions, including from US political organizations. The recent disclosures of alleged hacked e-mails on sites like DCLeaks.com and WikiLeaks and by the Guccifer 2.0 online persona are consistent with the methods and motivations of Russian-directed efforts. These thefts and disclosures are intended to interfere with the US election process. Such activity is not new to Moscow—the Russians have used similar tactics and techniques across Europe and Eurasia, for example, to influence public opinion there. We believe, based on the scope and sensitivity of these efforts, that only Russia's senior-most officials could have authorized these activities.
In March 2018, The Daily Beast published a piece about Guccifer 2.0 with lots of details.
One detail is that Guccifer 2.0's emails all traced back to an e-mail provider in France, but researchers determined that whoever was sending those emails used "Elite VPN, a virtual private networking service that had an exit point in France but was headquartered in Russia." But, one time Guccifer 2.0 forgot to turn on the VPN service and "As a result, he left a real, Moscow-based Internet Protocol address in the server logs of an American social media company, according to a source familiar with the government's Guccifer investigation."
Meaning -- VPN software hides the origin of someone browsing the Internet, and instead spoofs their location to a VPN endpoint. Often people use VPN's to hide behind anonymity as they download copyrighted files. Or more legitimately, VPN's are used by employees to access corporate networks. But obviously this capability can be used by an intelligence service to masquerade themselves.
The Daily Beast says "Working off the IP address, U.S. investigators identified Guccifer 2.0 as a particular GRU officer working out of the agency's headquarters on Grizodubovoy Street in Moscow." Such an address is not listed in the July 13, 2018 indictment which instead lists two other locations in Moscow.
They do note that Guccifer 2.0 sprang into existence within hours of the report by Crowdstrike that the DNC and DCCC networks had been infiltrated by Russian-intelligence. Guccifer 2.0 claimed to be a lone hacker, but contemporaneously this idea was widely derided.
According to the Meuller indictment the birth of Guccifer 2.0 may not have been so closely tied to the revelation of Russian hacking. That is - "The Conspirators" (Russian Intelligence) had begun setting up the dcleaks.com website and Facebook/Twitter presence in April 2016, with the launch of the website on June 8, 2016. But the public unveiling of Guccifer 2.0 (via a blog post) did come within hours of public revelation by Crowdstrike that the DCC/DNC networks had been hacked.
On or about April 19, 2016, after attempting to register the domain electionleaks.com, the Conspirators registered the domain dcleaks.com through a service that anonymized the registrant.
They were setting up domain names a couple months before the Crowdstrike revelation.
On or about June 8, 2016, the Conspirators launched the public website dcleaks.com, which they used to release stolen emails.
On or about June 8, 2016, the Conspirators created the Twitter account @dcleaks_. The Conspirators operated the @dcleaks_ Twitter account from the same computer used for other efforts to interfere with the 2016 US. presidential election.
On or about June 14, 2016, the DNC -— through Company 1 -- publicly announced that it had been hacked by Russian government actors.
This was the Crowdstrike revelation. The indictment goes on to say that on June 15, "The Conspirators" (which the indictment identifies as Russian Intelligence) posted its first posting on the Guccifer 2.0 Wordpress blog. In that first posting Guccifer 2.0 claimed to be a lone hacker who had broken into DNC and DCCC networks.
Vice Motherboard had an online chat interview with Guccifer 2.0, and it seems the Romanian used by Guccifer 2.0 was very poor grammar as if Guccifer 2.0 was using Google Translate.
The use of a long-known IP address used by Russian Intelligence: "a long-known APT 28 so-called X-Tunnel command-and-control IP address, 45.32.129[.]185."
ThreatConnect also described as a "deception operation" meant to sow confusion.
The Meuller indictment of July 13, 2018 gives lots of details about the use of Bitcoin to pay for services. This included the dcleaks.com website, the web hosting account for that website, for VPN services, for other servers, and so on.
The indictment says that while Bitcoin transactions are somewhat anonymous, the complete transaction ledger is out there in the public for all to read, and that they tracked down the transactions to culprits. The accounts used for making Bitcoin payments are associated with email addresses used for other purposes. And somehow they concluded the payments originated from Russian Intelligence.
The only Romanian connection to any infrastructure choices is that the dcleaks.com domain name was registered using a Web Hosting provider based outside of Craiova Romania. The actual web hosting for the domain was sourced from a service in Malaysia.
The hosting company in Craiova allows payment in Bitcoin - and the agents may have chosen them for that purpose.


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712 Dywizja Piechoty – niemiecka dywizja z czasów II wojny światowej, sformowana w Trewirze na mocy rozkazu z 5 maja 1941 roku, w 15. fali mobilizacyjnej w XII Okręgu Wojskowym.

Struktura organizacyjna
 Struktura organizacyjna w maju 1941 roku
732. i 745. pułk piechoty, 652. oddział artylerii, 712. kompania pionierów, 712. komapania łączności;
 Struktura organizacyjna w listopadzie 1942 roku
732. i 745. pułk grenadierów, 652. oddział artylerii, 712. kompania pionierów, 712. kompania przeciwpancerna, 712. komapania łączności;
 Struktura organizacyjna w sierpniu 1943 roku
732. i 745. pułk grenadierów, 652. pułk artylerii, 712. kompania pionierów, 712. kompania przeciwpancerna, 712. komapania łączności;
 Struktura organizacyjna w październiku 1943 roku
732. i 745. pułk grenadierów, 652. pułk artylerii, 712. batalion pionierów, 712. kompania przeciwpancerna, 712. oddział łączności;
 Struktura organizacyjna w styczniu 1944 roku
732. i 745. pułk grenadierów, 1712. pułk artylerii, 712. batalion pionierów, 712. kompania przeciwpancerna, 712. oddział łączności;
 Struktura organizacyjna w grudniu 1944 roku
731., 744. i 763. pułk grenadierów, 1712. pułk artylerii, 712. batalion pionierów, 1712. batalion fizylierów, 712. oddział przeciwpancerny, 712. oddział łączności, 1712. polowy batalion zapasowy.

Dowódcy dywizji
 Generalmajor George von Döhner 5 V 1941 – 16 IV 1942;
 Generalleutnant Friedrich – Wilhelm Neumann 16 IV 1942 – 1 II 1945;
 Generalmajor Joachim von Siegroth 1 II 1945 – 2 V 1945

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Dywizje piechoty III Rzeszy
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Dywizje sformowane w 15. fali mobilizacyjnej
Dywizje sformowane w XII Okręgu Wojskowym (III Rzesza)

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