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Nigeria's chief trade negotiator, Chiedu Osakwe dies
Ambassador Chiedu Osakwe, Nigeria's chief trade negotiator and Director General of the Nigerian Office for Trade Negotiations, has died.
His death was announced in a tribute by President Buhari who described Osakwe as cerebral diplomat, scholar and administrator, has sent a message of condolence to his family, according to a statement by Garba Shehu, SSA Media.
According to the statement, Buhari noted with deep pain, that the passing of Amb. Osakwe has created a gulf in the Nigerian Office for Trade Negotiations, which he served as pioneer Director General, bringing invaluable experience, knowledge and skill in setting up and motivating the operations of the agency that was established in 2017.
President Buhari commiserated with all friends, relations and professional associates of the deceased, who served the country for many years as Foreign Service Officer, before joining the Word Trade Organisation, and later accepting to return to the country as a Trade Adviser to the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, and Director General of NOTN.
The President affirmed that the intellectual depth, fervour and sense of patriotism that Amb. Osakwe handled responsibilities will be sorely missed, especially the frontline and historical role of chairing the Negotiating Forum of the African Union (AU) from June 2017 to March 2018, during which time the negotiations were concluded on the Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
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Genesis (Part 98)
Welcome back to my study/review of Genesis. If you missed the previous parts of this study, you can find them HERE.
Genesis: 24:22-28
22 When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half shekel, and two bracelets for her arms weighing ten gold shekels, 23 and said, "Please tell me whose daughter you are. Is there room in your father's house for us to spend the night?" 24 She said to him, "I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor." 25 She added, "We have plenty of both straw and fodder, and room to spend the night." 26 The man bowed his head and worshiped the Lord 27 and said, "Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his steadfast love and his faithfulness toward my master. As for me, the Lord has led me in the way to the house of my master's kinsmen." 28 Then the young woman ran and told her mother's household about these things.
Verse 22 shows us Abraham's servant presenting Rebekah with jewelry. I want to make a note of the gold ring, first.
ring / earring = נֶזֶם nezem, neh'-zem; from an unused root of uncertain meaning; a nose-ring:—earring, jewel.
Ellicott's Bible Commentary clarifies what type of ring it is:
(22) Earring.—Really nose-ring; for in Genesis 24:47 the man places it on her nose, wrongly translated face in our version. The word occurs again in Ezekiel 16:12, where it is rendered jewel, and again is placed "on the nose;" it is also similarly translated jewel in Proverbs 11:22, where it is placed in "a swine's snout." It was hung not from the central cartilage of the nose, but from the left nostril, the flesh of which was pierced for the purpose; and such rings are still the usual betrothal present in Arabia, and are commonly worn both there and in Persia, made not only of gold and of silver but of coral, mother-of-pearl, and even cheaper materials. (See Quotation in Note on Genesis 24:16.) Its weight, about a quarter of an ounce, would make it not more disfiguring than many of the personal ornaments worn at the present time.
Bracelets are profusely worn at this day by Oriental women, the whole arm to the elbow being usually covered by them.
It appears that Rebekah wore a nose ring. She is the picture of the perfect future bride here in Genesis but with that adornment she might have been viewed as a rebel in some parts of the Judeo-Christian world not so long ago – particularly in the West.
I attempted to learn the value of a Biblical shekel for this post. Here is what I learned from chabad.org:
In terms of today's money, what would be the value of the biblical half shekel?
Maimonides writes (Laws of Shekalim 1:5) that the half shekel mentioned in the Torah – the annual contribution every Jew was required to give to the Temple coffers – is equal to 160 grains of barley, which, in modern measurements, would be approximately eight grams of silver.
It is impossible to know silver's value in biblical times. At today's rate of approximately 17 US dollars per ounce, 8 grams of silver is around five dollars.1
Going on to verses 23 through 25 from The Pulpit Commentaries:
Whose daughter art thou! tell me, I pray thee: is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in? The production of the bridal presents, and the tenor of the old man's inquiries, indicate that already he entertained the belief that he looked upon the object of his search. All dubiety was dispelled by Rebekah's answer. And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah,—to show that she was not descended from Nahor's concubine (cf. Genesis 24:15)—which she bare unto Nahor. This appears to have been the stage at which the jewels were presented (Genesis 24:47). She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in. It was now conclusively determined, by her answering all the pre-arranged criteria, that the Lord had heard his prayer and prospered his way, and that the heaven-appointed bride stood before him.
Rebekah's answer seems a bit wordy to me, a Western reader, but the explanation as provided above makes perfect sense in the context of when she lived. Giving her parentage requires more thorough explanation because she has to clarify that she is not the daughter of a concubine.
Ellicott adds the following:
(24) Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.—Rebekah mentions her father's mother to show that she was descended from a highborn wife; but the servant would welcome it as proving that not only on the father's side, but also on the mother's, she was Isaac's cousin, Milcah being the daughter of Haran, Abraham's brother. And when thus he knew that she fulfilled all the conditions, he gave her the jewels which he was holding in his hand, and bowed the head, and gave thanks.
Rebekah's answer demonstrates not only that she is not the daughter of a concubine but it shows specifically that she is a cousin of Isaac via both her father AND mother.
After all of this – which is quite miraculous given that the servant seems to meet Rebekah almost immediately upon arrival AND she fits all of the necessary criteria – the servant worships the Lord and then tells Rebekah who sent him.
bowed his head = קָדַד qâdad, kaw-dad'; a primitive root; to shrivel up, i.e. contract or bend the body (or neck) in deference:—bow (down) (the) head, stoop.
worshipped = שָׁחָה shâchâh, shaw-khaw'; a primitive root; to depress, i.e. prostrate (especially reflexive, in homage to royalty or God):—bow (self) down, crouch, fall down (flat), humbly beseech, do (make) obeisance, do reverence, make to stoop, worship.
How does Rebekah react? She runs!
28 Then the young woman ran and told her mother's household about these things.
young woman / damsel = נַעֲרָה naʻărâh, nah-ar-aw'; feminine of H5288; a girl (from infancy to adolescence):—damsel, maid(-en), young (woman).
ran = רוּץ rûwts, roots; a primitive root; to run (for whatever reason, especially to rush):—break down, divide speedily, footman, guard, bring hastily, (make) run (away, through), post.
The Pulpit Commentaries says the following:
And the damsel—הַגַּעַרָ (vide on Genesis 24:16)—ran (leaving the venerable stranger in the act of devotion), and told them of her mother's house—a true touch of nature. With womanly instinct, discerning the possibility of a love-suit, she imparts the joyful intelligence neither to her brother nor to her father, but to her mother and the other females of the household, who lived separately from the men of the establishment—these things—in particular of the arrival of a messenger from Abraham. Perhaps also the nose-jewel would tell its own tale.
Ellicott's Commentary echoes the same thoughts:
(28) The damsel ran, and told (them of) her mother's house.—The words inserted in italics are worse than useless. The wife of a sheik has a separate tent (Genesis 24:67), and the result of polygamy is to make each family hold closely together. Naturally, too, the maiden would first show her mother and the women presents of so special a meaning. We even find Laban, the brother, acting as Rebekah's representative; and it is only when the final decision has to be given that Bethuel is allowed to have any voice in the matter (Genesis 24:50).
Both notes instruct that her mother's tents would be separate from those of her father and also separate from his concubine. The impression is that Rebekah has a sense of what may be imminent and that her mother's family will be primarily responsible for negotiating any potential wedding.
We will meet Rebekah's family in the next section of verses.
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"Patient Zero" For Melbourne's Second Wave Was Apparently Not A Quarantine Security Guard
By trentbartlett
The Rydges on Swanston was one of the hotels at which private security contractors were used to monitor those in quarantine
It seems that since Melbourne's second wave kicked off, everybody has accepted that the state's latest "patient zero" was a misbehaving security guard.
However, it has now been revealed that a duty manager at one of the city's quarantine hotels could be the person who may have taken the virus from a returned traveller back into the community.
The Age reports that leaked emails have shown that a manager at the Rydges Hotel on Swanston Street reported on 25 May that he had a fever, telling the Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions that he tested positive later that day.
Authorities are then said to have made a concerted effort to help contain the spread of the virus, with multiple security guards immediately stood down and told to get tested and isolate.
However, five of the seven guards told to isolate all tested positive to COVID-19, spreading the disease throughout their families in Melbourne's northern and western suburbs.
While it is not known how the manager was infected with the virus, there is no suggestion that the infection happened because of improper behaviour.
The second wave has since infected almost 16,000 Victorians.
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What: After the Madballs craze hit in the '80s, a bunch of random bootlegs and knockoffs began showing up in a variety of different sizes and materials, including superball-sized rubber monster balls, eraser-like pencil topper versions, keychains, slightly larger hard plastic types, and many more. Being the lover of monsters and weirdness in general that I've always been, I scooped any and all of these up whenever I had the chance as a kid (well, I still do...). I'm not an expert on what most of these are actually called (I'm assuming many, if not all, are simply nameless knockoffs), but for the ultimate source of monster ball information and Madball madness be sure to check out the awesome site blarghhhspot.
Where: Different varieties of these guys were offered at many different places, including toy vending machines, toy/department stores, and as carnival/arcade prizes.


Brian is the best camper!
I cant help but feel that this camp is an "after-life" like place for kids who died. There are NO adults, and all of the children seem to have come from some sort of rough background.
Perhaps this camp is made to help children make peace with themselves before they move on to the next life?
I would agree, except there are quite a few kids that don't seem to have any potential cause of death in their backstory. For example, Dani got sent to camp because his songs became less famous and the family went broke or whatever. So, maybe they had to start living on the streets and he died of starvation, but that doesn't seem likely to me.
My heart strings, they are plucked!
Is it possible that the egotism has developed a crack that may result in it's utter destruction?
The hidden cat is probably Death who comes to watch his little collection.
This reminds me of Heath Ledger's 1st tournament in "A Knights Tale"
A hoppy ending indeed. I'm glad that Chekhov's painted tomatoes didn't go off. As always everyone's expressions are great and convey so much about them instantly. A wonderful wrap-up.
This was a really sweet page.
Now, as Brian may be a quite fellow, he still knows how to get a good cheer started.
That made my day Katie. I gave you money for your kickstarter and I have had no reason to regret it (yet). You just keep getting better and better.
Forget movies, this storyline is the feel good hit of the summer.
I'm not going to say I've never considered the possibility that the camp is purgatory type place, but it doesn't really fit.
Besides being a really depressing interpretation, I don't think it fits what we know. It's just a world that operates slightly different than ours. Where unwanted kids (and cats) can be sent to a camp and forgotten about.
I think the closest comparison I could make is Dumbo (How depressing is 95% Dumbo?). He's mocked and ostracized for a perceived failing, but the supposed failing is his greatest strength. And I think this is true for a lot of the campers.
Obviously, some of them might just be jerks, but I like to think there's good there, too.
I mean poor Braden seemed pretty happy just notching wood in his room and he got sent off for looking odd.
Next time Malachi... next time.
The first time going through I didn't even notice the mini-story with the rock tomato kids.
Then the next time through looking for the cat i noticed the kid in the bush and his reaction to Brian. Just so much detail in this comic.
Great job as usual, great story line.
Oh gods... Can't handle the feels!
Beautiful end to a brilliant arc. It's comics like this that secure Camp Weedonwantcha firmly in it's place among the best.
This link led me to looking at all the Camp wallpapers, including the one with the deer pooping while jumping over Malachi. I love this comic.
The expressions are so great again.
Btw, speaking of the two mean girls, the tall red haired fair skinned freckled girl and the short black chin length haired tan skinned girl that is, I thought of two names for them back on the strip episode "Friendly Warning": the tall red headed one is Bianca and the short black haired one is Udella.
Brian the supportive and silent guardian.


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Rex trained at The Gaiety School of Acting, Dublin. He recently appeared in the Glass Mask National Tour of Mark O'Rowe's HOWIE THE ROOKIE directed by Neil Flynn.
Rex is Artistic Director of Glass Mask Theatre Company; the Resident company of Smock Alley Theatre Dublin, 2018/2019. Rex recently performed in their critically acclaimed debut production IDLEWILD - A gangland Tragedy by Associate playwright Jimmy Murphy.
Other recent theatre credits include, BULLFIGHT ON THIRD AVENUE by Eddie Naughton, QUICKSAND by Elizabeth Moynihan at the New Theatre, Philip Ridley's TONIGHT WITH DONNY STIXX directed by Karl Shiels at the Peacock Theatre.,an extensive tour of PILGRIM by Philip Doherty (Manchester Theatre Awards Best Actor Nomination), the title role in HAMLET directed by Peter Reid at the New Theatre, PORT AUTHORITY by Conor McPherson at the Viking Theatre, THE MEMORY STICK by Donal O'Kelly, BUG by Tracy Letts for The Corps Ensemble, Mark O'Rowe's MADE IN CHINA at The Viking Theatre with The Corps Ensemble, James Joyce in The musical MAGISTORIUM, HOLLOW GROUND directed by Karl Shiels for Theatre Upstairs, THE MOTHERFUCKER WITH THE HAT directed by Aoife Spillane Hinks for The New Theatre THE CIRCUS OF PERSEVERANCE written and directed by Philip Doherty at Smock Alley Theatre and THE BIRTHDAY MAN by Philip Doherty for which he received a Best Actor Award nomination in the 2013 Dublin Fringe.
Screen Credits include QUANTICO for ABC America, MONGED by Gary Duggan, commissioned by Film Base and the award winning short SOLITAIRE by Gerard Walsh.
Rex is also a highly experienced voice artist working with RTE Radio One on poetry readings and dramas for radio. He is the recent voice of the Ireland under 20's Rugby television campaign.
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This policy sets out the approach to obtaining a national police check as a prerequisite for applying for or taking Shifts with Designated Senders, as defined below, and as a condition of the continuing nature of that relationship. Go People obtains all criminal history records using Intercheck, an accredited Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) Provider approved to access the ACIC National Police Checking Service (the Police Check).
Go People seeks to protect its Designated Senders from unnecessary risk by providing professional and secure delivery services.
Applicants must have a Police Check prior to being assigned a Shift from a Designated Sender. Police Checks are mandatory for Runners, as defined below, who apply for work with Designated Senders but remain voluntary for Runners who only wish to work with other Senders (i.e, non Designated Senders). The Police Check will remain valid for 12 months.
Go People will not accept a national police check, unless it is from from Intercheck and is valid 6 months prior to the date of applying for or taking the Shift to be accepted.
its obligations as set out in the contract with the ACIC Provider.
Runners must advise Go People immediately if during their work with a Designated Sender a Runner is charged with, or convicted of any criminal offence which is or reasonably may be regarded by Go People as relevant to the inherent requirements of the relationship.
When a Police Check is completed, Intercheck will retain as its permanent records the original completed application and consent form and confirmation that a Police Check has been conducted and store on the relevant personnel file for a period of 12 months after which they will be destroyed. Go People will not retain any permanent records but will record a successful Police Check on the Runner's profile for a period of 12 months.
A Runner who applies for a Shift with a Designated Sender should comply with Police Check requirements promptly as the checking and approval procedure can sometimes take a few days. A Runner who has an unsatisfactory Police Check result or refuses consent will be unable to apply for or take Shifts with a Designated Sender.
A record of criminal history does not automatically exclude a Runner from working with Go People.
This policy applies to all Applicants, as defined below, (existing and prospective Runners) applying for or taking a Shift that requires a Police Check. The applying Runner will have to pay the cost of $49 with the funds coming out of the Runner's account (if available).
*If there is Police History Information, the Authorised Personnel will meet to discuss the suitability of assigning a Runner a Shift with a Designated Sender based on the level of the offence.
Go People will maintain complete confidentiality and protect the Runner's identity at all times to ensure the information about the Runner's criminal record is only used for the purposes for which it is intended. Only Authorised Personnel will have access to Police History Information.
Go People will not discriminate on the grounds of a criminal record when making a decision. Nonetheless, it is not an act of discrimination to find a person unsuitable if an Applicant's criminal record means that he or she is unsuitable to perform the inherent or essential requirements of the work.
If you have a grievance based on your the eligibility to work as a result of Go People assessment of your Police History Information, you should send an email to support@gopeople.com.au specifying the exact nature or the reason.
There is no set turnaround time for disputes and grievances to be resolved, however you will receive notification of your request and be provided with updates as they become available.


What's in a Galaxy S4? A whole lot of easily repairable parts, it turns out. The fine folks at iFixit recently got their hands on Samsung's smartphone flagship and wasted no time in tearing it asunder. Scoring an eight out of ten on the repairability scale, the GS4 puts up little defense to tinkering hands with only 11 screws standing between you and its innards. The front panel serves up the single source of difficulty since the glass and LCD are fused together and glued into the frame -- so, you'll have to scoop out most of its components to get to it and the Synaptics S5000B chip powering the tweaked capacitive display. Other than that, there aren't really any component surprises. But don't let that stop you from taking a full tour of the gore-y silicon glory at the source.


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namespace v8 {
namespace internal {
namespace torque {
namespace ls {

TEST(LanguageServerJson, TestJsonPrimitives) {
  const JsonValue true_result = ParseJson("true");
  ASSERT_EQ(true_result.tag, JsonValue::BOOL);
  EXPECT_EQ(true_result.ToBool(), true);

  const JsonValue false_result = ParseJson("false");
  ASSERT_EQ(false_result.tag, JsonValue::BOOL);
  EXPECT_EQ(false_result.ToBool(), false);

  const JsonValue null_result = ParseJson("null");
  ASSERT_EQ(null_result.tag, JsonValue::IS_NULL);

  const JsonValue number = ParseJson("42");
  ASSERT_EQ(number.tag, JsonValue::NUMBER);
  EXPECT_EQ(number.ToNumber(), 42);
}

TEST(LanguageServerJson, TestJsonStrings) {
  const JsonValue basic = ParseJson("\"basic\"");
  ASSERT_EQ(basic.tag, JsonValue::STRING);
  EXPECT_EQ(basic.ToString(), "basic");

  const JsonValue singleQuote = ParseJson("\"'\"");
  ASSERT_EQ(singleQuote.tag, JsonValue::STRING);
  EXPECT_EQ(singleQuote.ToString(), "'");
}

TEST(LanguageServerJson, TestJsonArrays) {
  const JsonValue empty_array = ParseJson("[]");
  ASSERT_EQ(empty_array.tag, JsonValue::ARRAY);
  EXPECT_EQ(empty_array.ToArray().size(), (size_t)0);

  const JsonValue number_array = ParseJson("[1, 2, 3, 4]");
  ASSERT_EQ(number_array.tag, JsonValue::ARRAY);

  const JsonArray& array = number_array.ToArray();
  ASSERT_EQ(array.size(), (size_t)4);
  ASSERT_EQ(array[1].tag, JsonValue::NUMBER);
  EXPECT_EQ(array[1].ToNumber(), 2);

  const JsonValue string_array_object = ParseJson("[\"a\", \"b\"]");
  ASSERT_EQ(string_array_object.tag, JsonValue::ARRAY);

  const JsonArray& string_array = string_array_object.ToArray();
  ASSERT_EQ(string_array.size(), (size_t)2);
  ASSERT_EQ(string_array[1].tag, JsonValue::STRING);
  EXPECT_EQ(string_array[1].ToString(), "b");
}

TEST(LanguageServerJson, TestJsonObjects) {
  const JsonValue empty_object = ParseJson("{}");
  ASSERT_EQ(empty_object.tag, JsonValue::OBJECT);
  EXPECT_EQ(empty_object.ToObject().size(), (size_t)0);

  const JsonValue primitive_fields = ParseJson("{ \"flag\": true, \"id\": 5}");
  EXPECT_EQ(primitive_fields.tag, JsonValue::OBJECT);

  const JsonValue& flag = primitive_fields.ToObject().at("flag");
  ASSERT_EQ(flag.tag, JsonValue::BOOL);
  EXPECT_TRUE(flag.ToBool());

  const JsonValue& id = primitive_fields.ToObject().at("id");
  ASSERT_EQ(id.tag, JsonValue::NUMBER);
  EXPECT_EQ(id.ToNumber(), 5);

  const JsonValue& complex_fields =
      ParseJson("{ \"array\": [], \"object\": { \"name\": \"torque\" } }");
  ASSERT_EQ(complex_fields.tag, JsonValue::OBJECT);

  const JsonValue& array = complex_fields.ToObject().at("array");
  ASSERT_EQ(array.tag, JsonValue::ARRAY);
  EXPECT_EQ(array.ToArray().size(), (size_t)0);

  const JsonValue& object = complex_fields.ToObject().at("object");
  ASSERT_EQ(object.tag, JsonValue::OBJECT);
  ASSERT_EQ(object.ToObject().at("name").tag, JsonValue::STRING);
  EXPECT_EQ(object.ToObject().at("name").ToString(), "torque");
}

TEST(LanguageServerJsonDeathTest, SyntaxError) {
  ASSERT_DEATH(ParseJson("{]"), "Parser Error: unexpected token");
  ASSERT_DEATH(ParseJson("{ noquoteskey: null }"),
               "Lexer Error: unknown token");
}

}  // namespace ls
}  // namespace torque
}  // namespace internal
}  // namespace v8

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Monica Felton (1906 – March 1970) was a British writer, town planner, feminist and social activist, a member of the Labour Party.

Early life
Monica Glory Page (later Felton) was born in 1906, the eldest of four siblings, Una Hilary (b. 1908) who became a teacher and worked in Africa in the 1930s, Basil (b. 1910) and Gwythian Lloyd (1914-2006) who became a consulting engineer. She was brought up in a staunch Primitive Methodists household. Her mother Una Page (née Bone) (1879-1926) wrote temperance hymns, and her father Rev. Thomas Lloyd Page was a Primitive Methodist minister.

She attended Wycombe High School then studied at the University of Southampton and was later awarded a PhD at the London School of Economics; she was later appointed to its board of governors.

Felton had been living in Majorca when the Spanish Civil War started and, on her return to the UK, gave talks about what she saw in Spain at that time.

In 1937 Felton was elected to the London County Council as a Labour Party councillor representing St Pancras South West, holding the seat until 1946. She demonstrated a detailed understanding of the role of women in wartime society and munitions production, in her novel 'To All the Living.'

From 1949 to 1951, she served as the first Chairman of the Corporation for the construction of the new town of Stevenage.

Town planner[edit source]
During the late 1930s, Felton became a leading urban planner.  She was elected to the London County Council in 1937 and continued as an elected representative until the start of the Second World War. However, she also took an interest in rural planning, foreseeing the coming war and food problems:"Do we want to make farming profitable if it means destroying the countryside, or if it means running risks of losing people off the land, or if it means running risks of not having sufficient supplies of food in war time?"   During the war she worked for the British Ministry of Supply and was recommended by Lewis Silkin, 1st Baron Silkin for a role in a secretarial capacity on the Select Committee on National Expenditure for the house of Commons. During the war and afterwards, Felton lectured on urban planning and housing for the BBC Home Service and BBC World Service.

New Towns
After the war hundreds of thousands of new homes were being built. Felton was closely involved in the planning and implementation involved. In the years 1945–1946 she was part of the major New Towns Committee, led by John Reith. Of 15 members of the committee, Felton was the only woman. She worked for the London County Council and Hertfordshire County Council. Her connections with Silkin then led to her appointment as Vice-Chairman of the Stevenage Development Corporation in 1947.

In 1948, shortly after her election to the Stevenage Development Corporation, Felton became the chairman of the Peterlee Development corporation, working closely with Berthold Lubetkin. Whilst in Peterlee, Felton pioneered social research led by women. She commissioned Mark Abrahms to carry out a 'social and economic' survey for the New Town. Working with 'trained housewives', he produced New Town for Old: The Peterlee Social Survey before the end of 1948.

Her Peterlee chairmanship ended in 1949 and she returned to Stevenage as the chairman of the Stevenage Development Corporation in the county of Hertfordshire. Stevenage was the first of the post-war new towns that were built by the Labour government on the basis of the New Towns Act of 1946. she held the post for just two years (see below).

North Korea
In 1951, Felton visited North Korea as part of the Women's International Democratic Federation commission and outlined her impressions in the book That's Why I Went (1954), adhering to an anti-war position. During her visit, she was urged to take the full-scale North Korean view of the origins of the conflict, and briefly met the leader, Kim Il-sung. After her visit to Korea she was fired from her job as Chairman of the Stevenage Development Corporation, expelled from the Labour Party and threatened with prosecution for treason. Her visit to North Korea included viewing the aftermath of Korean War atrocities, which she was told by locals were committed by United States, British and Syngman Rhee forces. A recorded talk she made about this was broadcast from Moscow and her visit and the talk were discussed in the House of Commons.

In 1953, Felton published a seven page pamphlet entitled 'Korea! How to Bring the Boys Home' and became a member of the World Peace Council. She was awarded the International Stalin Prize "for peace between peoples" (1951).

Women's Organising
In 1952, Felton chaired the inaugural meeting of the National Assembly of Women at St. Pancras Town Hall in London. Issues vocalised in this meeting included condemnation of the Korean War and support for disarmament.

India
In 1956, Felton moved to India. Whilst attending a forum in India, Felton met with Rajaji, an Indian lawyer, independence activist, politician, writer and statesman, and also the last Governor-General of India. She later wrote his biography, I Meet Rajaji (1962).

Publications
To All the Living, (1945)

British War Production and the Consumer (Ministry of Information), (1945)

That's Why I Went, (1953)

I Meet Rajaji, (1962)

A Child Widow's Story, (1966)

References

Further reading

Alumni of the London School of Economics
1906 births
1970 deaths
Alumni of the University of Southampton
Members of London County Council
Stalin Peace Prize recipients
Women councillors in England

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"Fabians" for another Venice?
Venice and its Lagoon (english translations)
On the 21st April 2003 the left wing political association April organised a crammed full meeting about "Another Venice". The day after the meeting, I sent the chairman Paolo Peruzza these following notes.
Dear Paolo, I write you what I would have said if I had spoken during the meeting. Of course, as I write today and have not spoken yesterday, I will take into account some of what has been said.
Starting from an analysis
I think that the issue treated in the meeting shows the will to build a new political project for the town. Well, no political project survives if it does not lay on a serious analysis of the current and most recent situation. This is what we have to do at first.
An approach that looks only a little beyond the contingent situation immediately leads us to understand that what is at stake today is not an evaluation of Mayor Costa's and his Council. Should this evaluation be our only activity: (1) we would not understand the reasons why of the current crisis, (2) we would not go far in the definition of a political project.
My opinion is that - beyond the superficial differences in the style and in the cultural background (but we cannot expect all mayors to be great minds!) and perhaps in their awareness of the general interest - there is a substantial continuity in the strategy and political outlook of the various Councils that followed on one another since the early 90ies. Paolo Costa only continues (obviously with his style) the work set by Massimo Cacciari. To say it better, he places his choices in line with the policies shown by the previous city governments.
Very briefly, I would like to recall some events related to issues that I believe are crucial for this town.
A policy that makes tourism compatible with the city (and thus able to contribute to the citizens' income without destroying the resources it is based on) requires a double-faced action.
On one hand, (as Prof. Paolo Costa wisely stated when he was not yet Mayor) a strict policy of "planned tourist rationing". Costa outlined this policy during the discussion about the Expo, and Luigi Scano has developed it further in some of his neglected essays. Surely it is a difficult policy, because it is against the mainstream and because the City Council has very limited direct power on it (and the indirect influence is proportional to its perceived authority on the citizenship).
On the other hand, we need a scrupulous policy of monitoring the building usage destinations and their changes. This is an easier approach, already successfully implemented by previous City Councils (do you remember how Antonio Casellati and Maurizio Cecconi managed to stop the opening of any single fastfood restaurant in Venice?), because the Municipality holds quite effective measures to direct the council urban and building policy.
I only mention that the policy expressed in the above-stated two directions was extremely consistent with the message conveyed by Cacciari in his proposal for the city government, on which is candidature was launched. I am sorry to say, on the other hand, that since his early acts, the Cacciari's Council behaviour was totally opposite. While they did not do a thing for planning of tourist accesses, they made an effort to dismantle all the measures for controlling the building usage destinations: they have withdrawn the Council resolution according to the national "Mammì" Law on the restrictions on the types of commercial activities allowed in the historical city centre and they radically changed the Urban Regulatory Plan exactly in relation with the building usage destinations. In its last phase, the Cacciari's Council even endorsed the current Mayor's project to build a sub-lagunar railway connecting Tessera with Murano and the Arsenale, only useful to increase the "stop-and-go" tourist flow.
Since the 70ies and up to the early 90ies, the steady policy of the centre-left political parties in Venice has been to favour public and council new house-building. Communists, socialists and Christian-democrats (not to mention smaller parties all more or less on the same line) have strictly followed their commitment of "not a single new building for Venetian housing that is not publicly owned and made for Venetian people". The ex Saffa, ex Trevisan, Sacca Fisola, Mazzorbo areas are all positive results of this policy. And the Mulino Stucky recovery did not start only because no agreement was found with the owners about the restrictions (I still use this dreadful word!) to apply to the residential buildings.
It would be interesting to make an analysis of the effects brought about by successive policy line: who has moved in the houses built by private operators with public funding, what are the prices for the tenants, what are the advantages for the owners? What is sure is that the real U-turn (from a 20 years old policy) happened with the "Giudecca Project" and other projects of the first Cacciari's Council, and has never been assessed in an open discussion among political parties and in the town.
We should add that it was a policy change fully consistent with the "less State, more market" slogan, which sounded fashionable in the left wing national political arena during those years. No attention was given to the special Venetian situation that made – over the years - most market-supporters political parties, such as Republicans, Christian-democrats and Liberals promote and support the above-stated public house-building policy.
This is the field where I think the post-communist councils have behaved better, by expressing reasonable opposition to the continuous attempts to accelerate the implementation of the MoSE project at all costs.
The City Council weakness is that citizens and the national and international public have perceived the opposition to the MoSE more as a "concession" to the Green Party's "demands" and "blackmailing", rather than as a convinced belief that the movable gates are not proved to be effective and environmentally compatible.
Venice-Mestre
The first Cacciari's Council has born on the basis of a document that undertook as a priority commitment the objective of building the MetropolitanCity, putting in this framework the articulation of the current Venice council territory into more municipalities. The candidate Cacciari used to stress dramatically this priority.
Everything was quickly forgotten. The prestigious Venice City Council did nothing on the national and regional level, played no role in attempting a systematic coordinated action with the neighbouring councils and the province, in order to make the metropolitan city true at least in the public awareness and in the administrative decision-making. Nevertheless, it is obvious that it should have not been difficult to make the metropolitan city alive (we might say the "Greater Venice") at least in the people's perception before than in the institutions. It would have meant to pursue the same route that less charismatic and less successful "communicators" than the "Philosopher-Mayor" have followed in other European towns: Lyon, Marseille and London.
Opening a bracket, I wonder what does it mean today to oppose again the new referendum for dividing Mestre and Venezia? However, Costa is not the one to blame.
On Friday, Francesco Indovina said in his speech that the proposal launched by Massimo Cacciari in 1988 were theoretical and unfeasible. I only partially agree with this position: those proposals recovered the previous - let's call it "left-wing" – policies and revitalised them by adding new shine. However, Indovina is right when he says that those proposals were top-down and had no real relationship with the town. Surely, it was not the task of a group of intellectuals to build this relationship, and we all have to keep in mind the conditions of political parties in those years. Their task was however to keep a minimum level of coherence when passing from words to deeds. This did not happen.
Starting from those years, Venice has had an approach that I would call demagogical-mercantile to the city problems. An approach aimed at winning the generic public consensus more than to implement a real concrete project in the town, as was put forward in the proposals of the Istituto Gramsci.
In the meantime, the "more market, less State" slogan started to mow down its victims. The "relationship with the private sector" (in the first place the companies with building interests) became the driver of the urban policy. Restrictions became the enemies to demolish. All the measures that would have allowed the proper regulation of the city transformations were destroyed. In order "not to say no", Fiat and Volkswagen were allowed to display their cars in the Venetian campi and in that very square, which sacral nature was celebrated in 1988.
Sure, all this happened with some style. Today we have even lost that style. The story of the Venice "new logo" is exemplificative and astonishing at the same time. Today, on the Gazzettino, the Mayor informs us that the scope of the new and (appalling) logo is to promote Venice in the world and to conquer other markets!!! As if Venice was not – and indeed it has been from many centuries - one of the biggest myths in the world. As if, Venice needed promotion, like an ordinary northeastern small firm. And as if Venice problem was not how to be governed to be up to that myth, in order not to be swallowed by it.
This question is difficult to answer. I will attempt, on the basis of what I have heard in the meeting on Friday.
First, I believe that we need to build a project for the city. Without emphasis, by critically collecting what has been produced in the past and what it might have been elaborated more recently.
I can foresee that two lines will emerge by working in this direction.
A line, which pervaded Armando Danella's speech, finds the resource to valorise Venice future in the special characteristics of the city and its territory. It's a line that I have tried to put forward many times and that I still believe is the only one able to save the city inherent values by casting them in a future for all. It is a difficult and strongly innovative direction, not in terms of formulation but in its possibility of implementation. It would need a strong determination and agreement, which are extraordinary goods these days.
The other line, outlined in Indovina's words, tends to seize the opportunities that the current type of development provides in order to re-launch the economic and social city-life. It is a reasonable direction. However, I consider it very risky because it does not take into account the fact that the current development tends to homologate Venice with the rest of the world, and thus to destroy its inherent qualities that make it a real myth, an universal value and – at the same time – a durable resource for its people.
Perhaps it would be useful if the intellectual collective group, that "April for the left" can represent in Venice, would discuss in-depth these two directions and chose one. And on it would continue to work. How? With what "political" objectives? For the time being, continuing to think and study and discuss: like the Fabian society ages ago, before the birth of a workers party in Great Britain.
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First, a big "thank you" to Sam Du and Eurotuner Magazine for the opportunity and featuring our story and images. The 2010 Port Townsend Cruise was just featured in the November 2010 issue and we were given a two-page spread!!
We do our best to capture a good portion of the day's events on camera, and it gives us a small break from the management and organization of the event itself, which we are heavily involved with. It is unfortunate we don't get enough time to look at each car to show-case what really sets each of the Euros apart – their character. Hopefully we can keep up and improve our coverage as each year gets bigger and bigger. Looking forward to the next one!


I drank wine, had dessert, and still dropped weight.
I was over diets. I'd tried Nutri System, Weight Watchers several times, the South Beach Diet, and so many others. They never seemed to do the trick, and in the end, I'd end up gaining the weight back that I'd worked so hard to lose ... and then some. I'm 54-years-old, and I felt like I'd seen and tried it all — but then I saw the F-Factor diet on Instagram. My cousin kept posting about it and was thrilled with the results, so I decided to look into it.
Basically, the F-Factor is a diet created by Tanya Zuckerbrot — and if you have the time, you should listen to her podcast to get the full gist — who believes that a high-fiber diet where you can actually drink alcohol and dine out can make you lose weight permanently. And she believes that something called GG Crackers is the key.
GG Crackers [ed note: they're officially called GG Scandinavian Fiber Crispbread] have been around in Norway since 1935, and they come in plastic packages with eight thin squares that almost look like a bird seed sheet. You can literally put anything on them. They're low in calories and carbs and packed with fiber, which is essentially the F-Factor diet.
People call them "appetite control crackers." I ordered a box on Amazon.
For the first two months, I'd eat four to eight crackers a day with different toppings. I'd have four for breakfast topped with one egg and one egg white along with avocado or add a wedge of Laughing Cow cheese. It was so filling compared to eating an egg with multigrain bread; I seriously couldn't believe it.
If I had more GG crackers later in the day, I'd make mini pizzas for a snack, which would be a low-carb tomato sauce, shredded mozzarella, basil, and seasoning.
But, again, when you add in the 3 liters of water a day that you're supposed to be drinking on the F-Factor diet and the 8 crackers, it's nearly impossible to eat your dinner. By the time dinner came around, I was so stuffed that I'd give my husband half of my dinner.
Listen, GG crackers were no joke. They keep you full for hours, and they don't taste like cardboard — trust me, I used to eat rice cakes for a loooong time. The first couple of days were a bit of an adjustment because I wasn't getting that much fiber in before. I noticed I felt bloated and my stomach was upset in the beginning, probably the first two days, but once I started increasing my water intake, I felt so much better.
I was so full the entire time, that I didn't even realize I was only eating 800 calories according to MyFitnessPal. I'd eat at max 1,200 calories a day, and that was genuinely a challenge. Oh yeah, I'd also have a glass of wine every. single. night.
But I didn't just eat eggs and cheese and crackers for two months. I started following people on Instagram who were also using GG crackers and noticed you could treat the crackers like toast — so avocado toast came to mind.
And guess what? You can also crush up the crackers and use them as breadcrumbs for meatballs, mac & cheese, breading, you name it. I realized I could add the crackers to literally anything: pancakes, waffles, cookies. It was a game changer.
The hardest part for me was avoiding sweets. As a baker, it's a huge part of my life to bake (and try) what I make. I had to pay attention to carbs versus fiber, and doing the net-carbs math. I stick to 100 to 150 net-carbs a day, but the biggest thing is to make sure I'm getting a minimum of 35 carbs of fiber and 3 liters of water.
I feel like I don't have to keep track of much for this. I'm just having to eat healthy most of the time.
Even though the pumpkin seed and sunflower seed crackers have twice the amount of calories as the plain crackers, they were totally worth it and tasted good. It was just too hard to get the plain ones down.
My favorite of all of the GG cracker options is definitely sunflower. It has the best texture and taste. The original GG cracker (the plain ones) and the oat ones that have even lower calories are not worth the lower calories. The lower calorie crackers taste like wood pulp once you chew them and are straight up grain — so stay away from those unless you're super serious.


ISIS terror group released a hostage video on Saturday demanding the release of all Sunni female terrorist prisoners from Iraqi jails.
The terror group said it was giving the government a deadline of three days before it would execute the six men in the video, who identified themselves as Iraqi policemen and militiamen.
The video was published on jihadist social media groups, one week after the Islamic State terror group announced it had kidnapped 17 policemen and members of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces, which are predominantly Shiite militia groups that fight for the government.


There is a general belief that the biggest old age home in the world is the Indian parliament, such ridiculous is our political system. We cannot blame our politicians, for the law itself is flawed with loop holes and cracks. There is a lot of flexibility in our political system which is taken to advantage by LAW breakers. So If I were the LAW maker of this great country, there are quite a few amendments that I would like to make.
First things first, politicians are the face of our nation, so if politicians are corrupt, then there is no apprehension that the entire nation would be flooded with corruption. The root for all this is the quality of politicians who sit at the top. I agree that every citizen be given equality in all walks of life but there must be restrictions when it comes to leading a nation. So the people who are contesting the election must fulfil some criteria to nominate themselves. Every bloke nominating himself must have a basic degree in education and must have specialised in political science. This would eliminate illiterates from holding the office at the top. Secondly, there must be a separate body which consists of honest people who monitor the politicians who are being corrupt. If found guilty they have the right to file a suit in Supreme court against the same. SC has the right to penalise any politician even if it were the PM of this country. So ultimate power lies in the hands of the SC. Next, there must be age limit for politicians. The age to run the office must have a lower limit of 28 years and upper limit of 70 (max).
Next, the education system needs to be revamped. We produce quantity but not quality professionals. This is because of the disparity in education systems across various states of the nation. So we have to centralize the education system. If this is done, students will have to compete in national level, and the competition would be even, and quality people will make it to the top colleges across the nation. Also, all the quotas for so called under privileged classes should be removed and all students must be given equal treatment. This would eliminate many quacks and inefficient professionals.
India despite being a huge nation lacks proper infrastructure be it roads or buildings, this despite collecting taxes from every earning common man .Most of the money goes in to the pockets of our so called leaders. To avoid such mishaps in future, there must be a web site which informs every citizen of the country the amount of tax collected for that financial year and amount of money spent on infrastructure development. This would enable common man to track his tax and ensure that it has been put to proper use. Since everything is open to public ,the chances of mishandling of government funds and taxes can be eliminated.
Next, justice delayed is justice denied. Although judiciary is the only thing in this country that seems to be less corrupt, the amount of time taken to convict or acquit an accused is simply too much. So there must be speedy yet fair justice available to the people of this country.
Last but not least, all the important departments ranging from RTO, police, EB, water, etc. should have accountability and responsibility. They should clear all the grievances within 24 hours of them receiving the same and should inform if more time is required. Nothing should be taken for granted and status of every problem must be informed to the concerned. They should have respect when are dealing with people and should always remember that they are servants of the government and its people. People have the right to question and they are obliged to respond to the same with utmost gratitude.
If all these stated above are followed consciously, not only the people will have faith in its government and judiciary but the country in general will touch new heights. If every citizen of this country realizes his duty and follows them judiciously, then question of ineffective governance would never rise. Always remember a country is good as its denizens and hence disciplined people means disciplined nation.


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The Mount release on big incoming class
Emmitsburg, Md. (May 18, 2017)—Mount St. Mary's University men's basketball, the reigning Northeast Conference champion, has rounded out its 2017 recruiting class, announced today by head coach Jamion Christian. Donald Carey (Upper Marlboro, Md./Frederick Douglass), Omar Habwe (Lexington, Va./St. James School [Md.]), Nana Opoku (Woodbridge, Va./Potomac), Bobby Planutis (Hazleton, Pa./Hazleton/Bridgton Academy [Maine]), Ace Stallings (Washington, D.C./Sidwell Friends) and James West IV (Woodbridge, Va./Freedom) will be joining the Mountaineers in the fall.
"I am so excited about our 2017 incoming freshman," said head coach Jamion Christian. "Over the past few years, we have been trying to be bigger at every position on our roster, while maintaining our ability to shoot the ball often and well from three-point range. When we look over five years ago we wanted to be the best program in our league at building from within. Watching the yearly improvement of our roster at all positions has consistently become a major part of our success."
"Our incoming freshman class is a great fit in terms of what we believe are the foundations of Mount Mayhem. It has a tremendous local feel, a great understanding of our program and its great history, and the physical components (long arms, speed, shooting ability) that we are diligently looking for in recruiting," noted Christian.
In addition to this year's recruiting class, the Mount will also have redshirt freshmen Jonah Antonio and Jack Vukelich in the fold next season. This will give the Mount eight freshmen on the roster in 2017-18.
"Our roster has been consistently deep enough to use the redshirt as a major weapon for our program, and we are excited to have Jonah and Jack ready to go next season," said Christian.
Donald Carey (Upper Marlboro, Md./Frederick Douglas), 6-5, 190, Guard
Coach Christian on Carey: "Guard play is essential in the pick and roll system that we use here at the Mount, and guards with great size and natural passing ability have had tremendous success here. Donald has the attributes that we look for in our guards in that he is tremendously unselfish, can guard multiple positions and his IQ will allow him to play at a high level. He played at Frederick Douglass High School for head coach Tyrone Massenberg. He averaged 16 points and four assists."
Omar Habwe (Lexington, Va./St. James School [Md.]), 6-6, 210, Forward
Coach Christian on Habwe: "Omar gives us a player unlike any I've recruited here thus far. His raw strength as an incoming freshman will be welcomed. In addition, his ability to shoot the ball from well beyond the three point line gives us a person who can guard multiple positions, but still be a major threat on the offensive end of the floor. Omar comes to us from St James School in Hagerstown Md., where he was a three-year starter for Coach Dan Prete. He averaged 13.5 points and seven rebounds per game."
Nana Opoku (Woodbridge, Va./Potomac), 6-9, 190, Forward
Coach Christian on Opuku: "One of our strengths is having players that can play multiple positions and impact the game in a lot of ways. We've had outstanding combo four men (Sam Prescott, Gregory Graves, Chris Wray), and Nana falls along the line of these players. His reach at 7'3" gives him a distinct shot blocking ability, but his offensive game also possesses great variety. Nana played at Potomac High School, where he played for Keith Honroe. He won a state title as a junior, and averaged 11.3 points and 3.4 blocks this year."
Bobby Planutis (Hazleton, Pa./Hazleton/Bridgton Academy [Maine]), 6-7, 195, Forward
Coach Christian on Planutis: "Size, shooting and passing, Bobby does each of these at a high level. Mount basketball has over the years emerged to having a lot of guys who can play different positions. Bobby will have the ability to play 2-4 positions and help us attack mismatches game in and game out. This past season at Bridgton Academy (Maine), Bobby shot 43% from three while averaging 23 points and eight rebounds. He played high school for Mike Joseph at Hazleton which means he has a tremedous skill set for his size."
Ace Stallings (Washington, D.C./Sidwell Friends), 6-10, 215, Forward
Coach Christian on Stallings: "Every team that presses like we do here at the Mount needs a defender in the back that blocks shots and re-energizes the fast break. Ace has a tremendous ability to change the momentum of a game with his intelligence on the defensive end of the floor. His ability to block shots and finish above the rim is perfect for the ball screen and roll system that we use here at the Mount. Ace will be joining us from Sidwell Friends School, where he was coached by Eric Singletary."
James West IV (Woodbridge, Va./Freedom), 6-2, 165, Guard
Coach Christian on West: "When you think of Mount guards, you think of guys who have an elite ability to score and guys that use their IQ to make those around them better. James is exactly this! He has a tremendous offensive feel and a passion to be here at the Mount. James comes to us from Freedom High School where he was coached by his father, James West. He averaged 19.8 PPG shooting while shooting 43 percent from three-point range.


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Date: February 18th, 2019 (5 days) .
During February Vacation Break, February 18th through the 22nd, we are holding an OUTER SPACE themed week at the Boys & Girl's Club of West Springfield in our Main Street location.
Come join us for a week of fun, crafts, games, STEM activities, fun challenges, and more!
Lunch and Snack are also included!


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Stenhouse Jr. Drives SUNNYD Ford to a 17th-Place Finish at Charlotte's Roval
CONCORD, N.C. (Sept. 29, 2019) – After an emotional week, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. drove his Sunny D Ford to a 17th-place finish in the second annual Roval race at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
"Overall it was a clean weekend for our Sunny D Ford," Stenhouse said. "Our goal was to be there at the end and try to make minimal mistakes. Last year we really struggled so I'm pleased with our performance today."
The two-time Xfinity champion lined up in the 21st position picking up four positions before the first caution flag waved on lap 19. With only six laps remaining in stage one, crew chief Brian Pattie brought Stenhouse to pit-road for four tires, fuel, and a chassis adjustment to help with the loose handling condition. After restarting in the 20th position for the final three-lap shootout, a caution was displayed on the restart ending stage one under yellow flag conditions scoring Stenhouse in the 15th position.
After electing to stay out during the stage break, the Olive Branch, Miss. native lined up in the eighth position for the second 25-lap stage where he maintained in the top 10 before the caution flag waved on lap 41. Another late stage caution set up a six-lap shootout, Stenhouse was able to jockey for position taking the second green-checkered in the 13th position.
While working his way through the field after a green flag pit-stop, the Sunny D Ford spun while racing for position but suffered no damage. After restarting in the 29th position, Stenhouse was able to work his way inside the top 15 with less than six laps remaining. After a late-race caution brought out the red flag for fluid on the track, the two-time Cup series winner lined up in the 15th position for the final six-lap shootout. With this race being a cut-off race for the Playoffs, there was a lot of beating and banging on the restart. Trying to be respectful of the drivers racing for playoff points, Stenhouse took the checkered flag in the 17th position.
Stenhouse and the No. 17 team head to Dover International Speedway next weekend. Race coverage begins at 2:30 p.m. ET on NBC. Coverage can also be heard on MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR radio.


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 Józef Łepkowski (1826-1894), archeolog i historyk, filozof, działacz społeczny, rektor Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego.
 Karol Łepkowski (1866-1925), marszałek rady powiatu sanockiego, właściciel dóbr
 Maksymilian Łepkowski (1817-1893), poseł do Rady Państwa, właściciel dóbr, działacz społeczny
 Stanisław Łepkowski (1892-1961), urzędnik, dyplomata
 Tadeusz Łepkowski (1927-1989), historyk
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Watermelons do well on sandy loam soils which are well drained and slightly acid. When planted on very heavy soils, the plants develop slowly, and fruit size and quality are usually inferior.
They do well at temperatures between 22 and 28 degree centigrade. Stagnation of growth occurs at temperatures less than 15degree centigrade.
Optimum rainfall requirement per cropping season is 600 mm and 400 mm is considered minimum. Excessive humidity may favor leaf diseases and also affect flowering.
Watermelon is propagated by: Seeds, directly planted in the field. Seeds is the most preferred method if you are in a warm region in Kenya.
Watermelons in Kenya are grown throughout the year in lowland areas but peaks of rainy season should be avoided. The holes are dug at a distance of about one meter within the row and about 2 meters between the rows. Plant 2 seeds per hill, placing them 3 to 4 cm (1.5 inches) deep into the soil.
Watermelons produce separate male and female flowers. Male flowers are produced initially, followed by production of both sexes usually at a ratio of 1 female to 7 males. Watermelon flowers are viable for only one day hence important to have pollinating insects.
To be done regularly to keep the field clean. Avoid injuring the plants when weeding.
Fruit pruning-Remove blossom-end rot fruits to promote additional fruit set and better size of the remaining melons. If a market demands larger melons, remove all but three or four well shaped melons from each plant. To avoid disease spread, do not prune melons when vines are wet.
Ensure minimum handling of melons, as extra handling is expensive and may harm the fruits.


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Drone Videos of Riga
Riga is the capital and largest city in the Eastern European country of Latvia. The center of the largest metropolitan center of the three so-called Baltic Republics, Riga is home to one of the most important seaports on the Baltic Sea. Rich in history, Riga was a member of the Hanseatic League, a network of port cities which controlled virtually all shipping and commerce on the Baltic for centuries during the Middle Ages. Its city center is home to numerous well-known churches, and has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage cultural site. Here is a collection of the best drone videos from this city, regarded as a model for how European cities are renewing themselves through culture. Aerial photo: "Riga City" by AirVuz contributor and drone pilot dopeape media.
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Drone Tour of Riga
Epic Drone Video of Riga and Surroundings
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In this video, content creator and pilot Drone Zurich uses a DJI Phantom 3 drone to film the Latvian capital city of Riga and its surroundings on the Baltic Sea. The video features bird's eye views of the victory memorial from World War II, the Kristus Piedzimšanas Pareizticīgo Katedrāle Orthodox church, the old town of Riga (a UNESCO World Heritage site), and the TV Tornis Television Tower, one of the tallest structures in Europe. Riga's Old City has been designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Riga Old Town Highlights
Riga | Europe from a drone
By: proskalov
See the Old Town of Riga, Latvia from above in this winter-time drone video by pilot proskalov. The city's historic core lies on the east bank of the Daugava River, just south of its mouth. The video features footage of some of the top sights in the Old Town, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Some of the highlights include the Riga Cathedral, the seat of the Evanglical Lutheran Church here; the green-steepled Church of St. Peter, most of which dates to the early 18th century; and the Freedom Monument, a World War I commemoration just east of the Old Town.
Autumn in Riga
Autumn in Riga (4k)
Andrey Semjonov
When the Soviet Union dissolved in the early 1990's, its Baltic states were among the earliest beneficiaries. All three had enjoyed a period of independence between the World Wars, and had longstanding cultural and economic ties to Germany and other countries on the Baltic Sea. Latvia's capital city Riga perhaps best exemplifies this economic progress. Here is a beautiful aerial tour of this dynamic and well-preserved city, compliments of content creator Audrey Semjonov and his DJI Mavic Pro drone.
Dome Cathedral, St. Peters Church, and More
Explore Latvia: Riga's Kempinski Hotel
Chris Borg
Contributor Chris Borg took a stay at the Kempinski Hotel in Riga, and created this amazing video from the Latvian capital city and its surrounding area. The video's opening aerial shot is over the city's Old Town and some of its distinctive spires, including the Dome Cathedral (center) and St. Peter's Church (right). Other highlights include an epic shot of the Daugava River and the giant Riga Radio Tower, a nearly 370 meter (over 1.2k ft.) communication tower which is the tallest structure in Europe.
The Riga Freeport
Riga Freeport by Mavic 2 Zoom
Reinis Vilnis
Reinis Vilnis used a DJI Mavic Pro 2 Zoom to create this aerial tour of Riga Freeport, an important port on the Baltic Sea. The capital and largest city of Latvia, Riga was one of the original Hanseatic League cities which dominated trade in Northern Europe for centuries. It continues to serve an important transport function. The largest by far of several ports in Riga, the Freeport primarily handles cargo (bulk and container) headed in and out of Russia and the other former Soviet Union states.
Vanšu Bridge, Swedbank, Z-Towers
MAVIC 2 ZOOM | CINEMATIC EDIT | RIGA 2018
Using a new DJI Mavic 2 Zoom, contributor Reinis Vilnis created this aerial video of some of the modern landmarks in the Latvian capital city of Riga. The first part of the video features the modern-looking Vanšu Bridge; this Soviet Era (1981) cable-stayed bridge spans the Daugava River. Much of the rest of the video focuses on the two tallest skyscraper complexes in Riga: the Swedbank headquarters building and the twin Z-Towers; the latter became the country's tallest buildings in 2017.
The House of the Blackheads
The House of the Blackheads | Phantom 4 Pro
The House of the Blackheads is one of the top attractions in the Old City of Riga, Latvia. It was built in the early 1300's as a guild for merchants and other professions in the port city, which at the time was a member of the powerful Hanseatic League, a group of Baltic Sea cities which controlled much of the trade of northern Europe. The building had been essentially destroyed during World War II, but was carefully reconstructed in the 1990's when Latvia won its independence from the Soviet Union.
Riga's Marathon
RIGA MARATHON 2018 AERIAL VIEW
Reinis Vilnis is one of the top drone pilots in Latvia. In this video, he brings us an aerial view of the Riga Marathon, the country's premiere marathon and one of the fastest growing in northern Europe. The race starts and ends at Riga Castle, probably the most well known landmark in the country's capital city. It's officially called the Lattelecom Riga Marathon in reference to its sponsor, one of the country's top telecommunications and media companies.
Epic One Shot Take on St. Peter's Church, Riga
Contributor Reinis Vilnus created this beautiful one-shot video of one of the most well known churches in Eastern Europe. It's the St. Peter's Church in the Latvian capital of Riga. While it's a Lutheran Church, its construction pre-dates the Reformation. Originally built in the 13th century, the church was destroyed in 1941 during the early days of Operation Barabarossa, the invasion by Nazi Germany of the (then) USSR. It was meticulously reconstucted after the war, a process which took decades to complete.
Nativity Cathedral
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Here's a short but amazing aerial look at the Latvian capital city of Riga, compliments of contributor Reinis Vilnis. It was taken with one of the best setups available - a Zenmuse X7 camera mounted to a DJI Inspire 2 drone. It opens with a shot of Old Town square, then slides behind a modern skyscraper for a "reveal" of the distinctive gold-domed Nativity Cathedral. Completed in 1883, when Latvia was part of the Russian Empire, it's the largest Eastern Orthodox church in the Baltic States.
The Riga Radio and TV Tower
Radio and TV Tower in 🇱🇻 Riga, Latvia
DimiDRONE
One of the most recognizable landmarks in the Baltic republic of Latvia is the Riga Radio and TV Tower. Situated on an island in the Daugava River just upstream from Riga's Old City, the tower stands 368 meters or just over 1.2k ft. It's the tallest tower in the European Union, and one of the 15 tallest in the world as of 2019 (using a definition of "tower" which excludes buildings used for living or work space). Seen via drone in this excellent video by DimiDRONE, the tower was completed in 1989, when Latvia was still part of the Soviet Union.
Riga in a Snowstorm
SNOWSTORM | CINEMATIC MOOD | MAVIC 2 PRO
Top contributor Reinis Vilnis put his DJI Mavic Pro 2 drone to good use creating this highly cinematic aerial video of the Latvian capital Riga in wintertime. The video uses well-edited timelapses to give you an great visual impression of this very old Baltic port city, a one-time member of the mighty Hanseatic League which dominated maritime Northern Europe for centuries. Since becoming independent from the USSR in the early 1990's, Riga has led the way to re-connecting Latvia to the rest of Europe.
Riga: Old and New
Old town of Riga, Latvia
RJurevics
Contributor RJurevics managed to hit most of the visual highlights of Riga in this marvelous aerial tour of the Latvian capital city. The video includes footage of the St. Peters Church in the heart of the city's Old Town; the "multi-humped" Railway Bridge over the Daugava River; the House of the Blackheads, a merchant guild building; the Latvian National Opera House; the Riga Cathedral; the National Library of Latvia; Fredom Monument; and the Riga Radio and TV Tower, the country's tallest structure.
Riga's Maskavas Forštate District
Riga (Latvia) bird's eye view 4K, Part 8
Baltic Drone Videos
Maskavas Forštate is a suburb of the Latvian capital city of Riga. It's situated south of the Old City, on the right (eastern) bank of the Daugava River, Riga's principal waterway. Maskavas Forštate became run-down in the latter years of Communism, but has staged a revival since the turn of the century. This drone video features footage of the following spots in this very old district: St. John the Forerunner Orthodox Church, the Armenian Church, the Grebenstchikov House of Prayer, and the old Sports Arena.
Profile of Jurgis Kreilis
The Drone Dish: Jurgis Kreilis
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In this episode of Drone Dish history, host Tyler Mason talks with Jurgis Kreilis of Film Day (AV profile: Jurgis Kreilis / FilmDay). Jurgis hails from the Baltic republic of Latvia just outside of Riga, and most of his videos have been shot there. Many of his videos can be found in the AirVuz Latvia country collection as well as the Riga city colection. In this episode, he talks about flying drone in Latvia, as well as his specialty in showcasing beautiful landscapes along side carefully selective music.
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CA API Gateway has minimum functions as Certificate Authority for convenience but the OpenSSL suite allows us to have more control on certificates. This article will describe how to generate a certificate signing request that appends custom X.509 extensions to a CSR.
Certificate signing requests for X.509 certificates typically contain standard certificate extensions that specify critical key usage statements and intended deployments of a certificate. Additionally, customized extensions can be provided for client applications to use as they see fit. The Gateway does not currently support the creation of custom X.509 extensions through the Layer 7 Policy Manager. An enhancement request was previously filed under development incident identifier FR-478 to encompass this functionality. In the interim, the OpenSSL suite can provide the necessary tools to add custom X.509 extensions to CSRs.
Specific customization of the OpenSSL configuration file must occur for these changes to take effect. A sample OpenSSL configuration is provided below that meets the specific need.
Once the required OpenSSL configuration has been completed, a new CSR must be generated and the request signed. The example below generates a self-signed certificate from a new private key (server.key). If a key exists or the CSR is to be provided to a CA for signing then skip the applicable steps.


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Premier Inn intends to set off seven new hotels in the Arabian Gulf by 2017.
It is part of a push to increase as many as 10,000 rooms across the Middle East and Asia on the next four years.
It is targeting the prospect of 10,000 rooms by 2018 with more hotels in Dubai and new offerings in Sharjah, Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia. In India there will be 1,000 new rooms in seven hotels and in South East Asia almost 2,000 rooms in 12 hotels. Premier Inn intends to launch 50 hotels in cities all over the Middle East and Asia by 2018.
Presently, it functions five hotels in Dubai with an additional three under construction. As many as five added assets are under discussion.
It was also reported that the mid -market hotel sector works extremely distinctive from upmarket properties. Working a large number of properties in places of high demand is vital so that if one hotel is occupied, the operator can suggest an alternative in the vicinity.
While the UAE may be well-known for its indulgence hotel offerings, it is the mid-range that is the best increasing division. The Dubai Tourism & Commerce Marketing (DTCM) in September 2013 called for an upsurge in the number of budget hotels and proffered a municipal tax amnesty.


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Северинівський парк — парк-пам'ятка садово-паркового мистецтва місцевого значення, розташований на території с. Северинівка Жмеринського району Вінницької області. Оголошений відповідно до Рішення Вінницького облвиконкому № 187 від 13.05.1964 р. та рішення 13 сесії Вінницької обласної Ради 22 скликання від 26.12.1997 р.

Охороняється парк ландшафтного типу, розташований на високому березі річки Рів за 12 кілометрів від міста Жмеринки. Заснований у першій половині XIX століття.

Від в'їзної брами веде алея, обабіч неї — квіти. Тут же зростають ялинки, плакучі верби, каштани та берізки. За палацом з поступовим пониженням спадає величезна галявина з окремими групами дерев. Це — одне з найкрасивіших місць Северинівського парку. Попід самим берегом річки Рів — алея, яка оперізує всю територію парку.

Цінна флора представлена липою кам'яною, бархатом амурським, різновидами спіреї та рядом інших рослин. Всього в парку понад 60 видів і форм деревних порід. Територія займає 43,5 га. Нині в палаці розташовано лікувальний корпус кістково-туберкульозного санаторію.

Джерела
 Заповідні об'єкти Вінниччини. — Вінниця: Велес, 2005. — 104 с.+ 28 с. іл.
 Програма «Теореми буття» про природу Северинівського і Чернятинського парків
 Е. Сецинский, «Приходы и церкви Подольской епархии», Каменец-Подольск, 1901, стр. 624

Парки-пам'ятки садово-паркового мистецтва Вінницької області
Природоохоронні об'єкти, засновані 1964


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Be Aware of the Mind Meaning Making Machine!
Have you ever not heard from a friend or lover and worked out the exact reason for their disappearance in your head? You KNOW why they haven't been in touch even with out speaking to them. Have you ever lost a client/ a job, with out much reason given but in your head you KNOW why?
Have you ever looked at one of your peers, thought how amazingly well their life is going and in your head KNOW exactly why their life is better than yours?
Have you ever not gone for what you really want with a really good excuse why you shouldn't in your head?
Aren't our minds very clever, we are physic, we know everything, we don't need to know the true facts, in fact we can make up the facts and we KNOW it always true.
Our minds can be the most irritating, self deprecating, unsupportive liars we come into contact with on a daily basis.
They have a habit of coming up with reasons why everything is as it is, even when we don't know the true facts. They are mind meaning making machines!! To make things worse the reasons or meanings they create are generally negative against us! They get fuel from our fears, our insecurities, our negative beliefs about ourselves and life.
The big problem is - we often believe our minds to be true!!!
It's time to not pay attention to these deceiving, unsupportive tricky trickesters in our heads.
This is where mindfulness, meditation, yoga all come in. These practices teach us to observe our mind. To notice the thoughts we are having and to not get caught up in an inner dialogue with them.
You can start to notice when you mind starts to make up meanings, and choose not to believe them.
You can start today. Begin to pay close attention to your thoughts, notice when your mind starts to make up stories in your head why something is a certain way. Notice when it's complete fiction on your part.
You can also notice when others are doing it too. How often have you sat around with friends discussing why something has happened when none of you actually know?
These conversations and thoughts are a complete waste of time when you don't know the facts.
"I do not know and that's ok".
"I trust the process of life, it's all flowing just as it should be"
What ever will settle your mind. Or you could simply focus on your breath, or your body as it moves through yoga. Distract yourself from the mind meaning making machine and I guarantee you'll feel a lot lighter, freer and happier within yourself.
Say yes, especially when it feels a bit scary!


Aventuras Mayas, the leading tour operator in Mexico's Riviera Maya, has announced the opening of Hacienda Chukum, a new adventure travel destination near Valladolid, Yucatán with a 130-foot cenote named Chukum-Ha. Named after the surrounding chukum trees indigenous to the area, the park features a number of adrenaline-filled activities for visitors, an open-air restaurant with local Yucatán cuisine, and a gift shop full of locally sourced artwork and souvenirs. The newly developed hacienda will serve as a must-see stop for travelers either visiting the charming colonial town of Valladolid, or on their way to the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itzá and Ek-Balam from nearby vacation destinations like Cancun or Playa del Carmen.
Hacienda Chukum is open every day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with day passes priced at $10 for adults and $5 for children ages 5 to 11. Day passes include parking, access to the Chukum-Ha cenote, life jackets, and a locker. A rappelling experience from the top to the bottom of the cenote is optional at an extra cost of $5 per person. A full day pass for $25 per person includes a buffet meal of local delicacies.
Hacienda Chukum is also available for buyouts for private meetings, weddings and events. Its outdoor pavilion features vaulted, thatched ceilings and can host up to 300 seated guests.


When I was growing up, my favorite book was WALK TWO MOONS by Sharon Creech. I can tell, by my memories of the book, that I didn't truly understand all the intricacies of the story at the tender age of nine. And yet, something about it touched me so deeply and profoundly that I have always listed it in my top five favorite books.
There's something special about Middle Grade literature, and even more so contemporary Middle Grade. There is this huge, enormous potential for empathy of characters in all sorts of situations, and yet, still an understanding, really, a necessity, for good to still win out in some way. Perhaps not a perfectly happy ending, but a hopeful one that leaves the reader with a greater understanding of the world around them as well as a greater ability to see the light and the good and the beautiful.
Harry Potter is wonderful. And I adored ELLA ENCHANTED. Every kid dreams of magic and flying and monsters, and all those fun things are part of Middle Grade lit too. And I have to hand it to the people who write fantasy, it's not easy. World Building is hard. You people have amazing imaginations.
But I wanted to take a minute here to thank those authors who have made me pause at the beauty of the contemporary. The normal. The every day exquisiteness of the people and moments around us. The drama of those small, quiet choices that make all the difference.
Those moments may not come with explosions or magic words or portals to another world. But these moments are powerful. That decision to put down the bottle comes with it's own war zone. The moment a new friendship is realized and opens up a whole new way of looking at the world. The right words spoken to a broken heart, can be more powerful than any spell.
These authors I love and respect take the turning point moments of our lives, letting go of what is no longer yours, jumping into the unknown, pouring your whole heart into something only to see it fail,and they turn them into works of art.
They fill the world with hope. Hope sprinkled into the little moments. The normal. The every day.
I've never lost a loved one to Avada Kedavra, but I've had my very last interaction with my best friend be negative, before she died. I'll never be in a final battle between good and evil, but I can choose kind. I'll never go on a journey to rescue treasure from dragons, but I've learned how to walk two moons in somebody else's moccasins. And so, to all you writers of contemporary Middle Grade. Thank you. Thank you for instilling reverence, awe, joy, and most of all, hope, in your readers, by tucking all of that and more into everyday moments, and creating empathy, compassion and understanding.
You are my heroes, and I want to be you when I grow up.
I totally adore this, and you!
This is completely right on, Amanda. My love for middle grade keeps growing on a daily basis. Thanks for sharing!


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GLG to Buy SocGen's U.K. Fund Unit
The $8.2 Billion in Assets Will Buoy London Firm in Wake of Investor Exodus
Cassell Bryan-Low
LONDON -- Hedge-fund firm GLG Partners LP said it plans to buy the U.K. fund-management unit of French bank Société Générale SA, a sign of how tough times are forcing asset managers to consolidate.
The planned purchase by GLG would bring about $8.2 billion of assets to the London hedge fund, helping it compensate for a recent exodus of investors due to poor performance at several of its largest funds. GLG has seen its assets shrink by about a third this year to $17.3 billion, as of the end of September, from $24.6 billion at the start of the year.
Terms of the deal, which is expected to close in the first half of next year, weren't disclosed. A person familiar with the matter said GLG paid less than $10 million in cash. GLG is considering other acquisitions, this person said.
GLG's move comes at a time when losses and withdrawals are roiling fund managers. The hedge-fund industry globally declined by a record $210 billion in assets in the third quarter, or more than 10%, according to data tracker Hedge Fund Research Inc. As a result, industry observers expect more consolidation as some managers close up shop while others merge in efforts to maintain the large pools of assets they need to generate fee income.
The deal with Société Générale will add to GLG's offerings of traditional mutual funds, which account for about a fifth of its assets under management. Mutual funds can sometimes generate healthy fee income even in falling markets, because they can earn performance fees as long as they do better than a specified benchmark. Hedge funds, by contrast, charge only basic management fees when they lose money, and typically must recoup the losses before they can again begin to charge performance fees.
The deal also will help GLG prevent breaking the terms of a $570 million loan from Citigroup Inc., C -0.08% which requires it to maintain a certain level of assets. That level is set at $15 billion in gross assets as of the end of this year, and increases over time. GLG's gross assets, which include funds reinvested by GLG in its own funds, stood at $21.2 billion at the end of September.
GLG has had a challenging year, and has imposed restrictions on investors withdrawing money from several funds. Its $2 billion European Long Short Fund is down 15% for the year, and the roughly $1 billion Emerging Markets Fund is down 37% for the year. Still, the Alpha Select Fund, which has about $1 billion in assets, is up about 15% this year.
Société Générale's U.K. asset-management unit accounts for about 2.5% of all assets managed by the Paris bank's asset-management unit, SGAM. The bank had been looking to sell the U.K. business because it hadn't reached the desired scale, a person familiar with the matter said.
Write to Cassell Bryan-Low at cassell.bryan-low@wsj.com