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Bristol's most wanted romance fraudster Mark Acklom on the run with wife and two daughters
Police have released new details that he might be with his wife and two daughters
Michael YongEducation and news reporter
Acklom is thought to be with his wife and two daughters
One of Britain's most wanted fugitives from the UK is believed to be in Spain and on the run with his wife and two daughters.
Police have released new details on Monday, October 23, about romance fraudster Mark George Acklom, 44, who is subject of an European Arrest Warrant as part of a national operation.
He is wanted for allegedly defrauding a woman, who he was in a relationship with, out of £850,000.
Posing as an MI6 agent, he conned Carolyn Woods out of her life savings during a year-long whirlwind romance.
During that time, he is also alleged to have defrauded several businesses and start ups in Bristol.
Since the National Crime Agency and Crimestoppers' Operation Captura appeal as launched last year, a member of the public spotted Acklom in Geneva, Switzerland on May 10.
He has not been seen since, and has since disappeared with his family.
Wife's help
Acklom spotted in Geneva
Avon and Somerset police have today released details of Acklom's wife for the first time, and say she could be assisting him.
Maria Yolanda Ros Rodriguez, 47, is likely to be with Acklom and may be using the aliases Yolianda Ross, Maria Long, Mary Moss or another name entirely.
Detective Inspector Adam Bunting, who is leading the efforts to find Acklom, said: "Mark Acklom is a convincing fraudster and we're working hard to locate him as soon as possible.
"We believe he'll be with his wife Maria Rodriguez and their two young daughters, who we know up until last year's appeal, were enrolled in El Limonar International School in the Murcia area of Spain.
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"In the days following the appeal he removed his children from the school and together with his wife, he disappeared.
"We have significant concerns about the children's wellbeing given they were uprooted, with no notice, from their school, friends and family. It's highly likely Acklom will have placed his children in another fee-paying school."
Mark Acklom
Police are asking British expats with children in private international schools to look out for the Acklom family.
They say his wife might be working as a yoga teacher or attending yoga classes where she lives.
Acklom and his wife have also previously set up businesses working within the property development and rental sector. Both are fluent in other languages, including Spanish.
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DI Bunting added: "Mark Acklom has links through property to Spain and there's been a positive sighting in Switzerland. We also have information linking him to Dublin and Italy, but he could be anywhere in Europe. It's possible he may have travelled outside the EU.
"He's described as 5ft 10ins, of medium build, with dark brown hair and green eyes.
"We're grateful for the ongoing support of the National Crime Agency and our law enforcement colleagues in Europe but we need the help of the media and the public in the UK and Europe to track him down."
If you have information about the whereabouts of Mark Acklom and are in the UK, please contact the police by calling 101 and giving the call handler the reference number 7429713 or you can contact us via our website.
You can also call the independent charity Crimestoppers 100 per cent anonymously by calling 0800 555 111 or use their non-traceable anonymous online form at www.crimestoppers-uk.org


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Del Martin, 1921 – 2008
Lyon-Martin Health Services mourns the passing of Del Martin, whose lifelong commitment to LGBT rights, alongside her partner of 56 years, Phyllis Lyon, blazed a trail for countless activists who followed. Martin died August 27, 2008, at the age of 87 at UCSF Hospice, San Francisco, California. Survived by spouse Phyllis Lyon, daughter Kendra Mon, son-in-law Eugene Lane, granddaughter Lorraine Mon, grandson Kevin Mon, sister-in-law Patricia Lyon and a vast, loving and grateful Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender family.
The community will be diminished by the absence of Del's voice, her strength and leadership. Her passing strengthens our continuing commitment to providing quality care to those in our community who are marginalized, those who are in need, and those who persist in the struggle for equal rights for all. She was a role model and a good friend. We carry on in her name.
An eloquent organizer for civil rights, civil liberties, and human dignity, Del Martin created and helped shape the modern Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) and feminist movements. She was a woman of extraordinary courage, persistence, intelligence, humor, and fundamental decency, who refused to be silenced by fear and never stopped fighting for equality. Her last public political act, on June 16, 2008, was to marry Phyllis Lyon, her partner of 55 years. They were the first couple to wed in San Francisco after the California Supreme Court recognized that marriage for same-sex couples is a fundamental right in a case brought by plaintiffs including Martin and Lyon.
Born in San Francisco on May 5, 1921, Dorothy L. Taliaferro, or Del as she would come to be known, was salutatorian of the first graduating class of George Washington High School and went on to study journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. At 19, after transferring to San Francisco State College (now San Francisco State University), she married James Martin and two years later gave birth to their daughter Kendra. The marriage ended in divorce.
Del Martin met the love of her life, Phyllis Lyon, in Seattle in 1950 when they worked for the same publication company. They became lovers in 1952 and formalized their partnership on Valentine's Day in 1953 when they moved in together in San Francisco. In 1955, they bought the small home that has been theirs ever since.
In what would prove to be an act that would change history, Martin, Lyon, and six other Lesbians co-founded the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) in San Francisco in 1955. DOB, which was named after an obscure book of Lesbian love poetry, initially was organized to provide secret mutual support and social activities. It became the first public and political Lesbian rights organization in the United States, laying a foundation for the women's and Lesbian and Gay liberation movements that flowered in the early 1970s and continue today.
Del Martin used her writing and speaking talents to challenge misconceptions about gender and sexuality. "We were fighting the church, the couch, and the courts," she often remembered years later, naming the array of social and cultural forces early activists confronted when homosexuals were treated as immoral, mentally ill, and illegal. As the first President of DOB, she penned stirring calls to arms. "Nothing was ever accomplished by hiding in a dark corner. Why not discard the hermitage for the heritage that awaits any red-blooded American woman who dares to claim it?" She was the second editor (after Phyllis Lyon) of DOB's groundbreaking monthly magazine, The Ladder, from 1960 to 1962 and ushered in a new decade of political engagement and media visibility for the nascent Gay rights movement. The Ladder grew from a mimeographed newsletter in 1956 to an internationally recognized magazine with thousands of subscribers by 1970, and thousands more readers who copied its contents or circulated it among friends and coworkers. Martin's many contributions to The Ladder ranged from short stories to editorials to missives: one of the most famous is "If That's All There Is," a searing condemnation of sexism in the Gay rights movement written in 1970. Due to Martin's influence, The Ladder provided one of the few media outlets confronting misogyny in the decade before the rebirth of women's liberation.
In 1964, Del Martin was part of a group that founded the Council on Religion and the Homosexual in order to lobby city lawmakers more effectively to reduce police harassment and modify the sex laws that criminalized homosexual behavior. In later years, Martin was also a founding member of the Lesbian Mother's Union, the San Francisco Women's Centers, and the Bay Area Women's Coalition, among other organizations.
As an early member of the National Organization for Women (NOW), Del Martin worked to counter homophobia within the women's movement – fear of the so-called "lavender menace." She and Lyon were the first Lesbians to insist on joining with a "couples' membership rate" and Martin was the first out Lesbian on NOW's Board of Directors. Their efforts helped to insure the inclusion of Lesbian rights on NOW's agenda in the early 1970s.
Lesbian/Woman, the book they co-authored in 1972, is one of Martin and Lyon's landmark accomplishments. The book described Lesbian lives in a positive, knowledgeable way almost unknown at the time. In 1992, Publishers Weekly chose it as one of the 20 most influential women's books of the last 20 years.
For many years, Del Martin was a leader in the campaign to persuade the American Psychiatric Association to declare that homosexuality was not a mental illness. This goal was finally achieved in 1973.
Del Martin's publication of Battered Wives in 1976 was a major catalyst for the movement against domestic violence. Martin became a nationally known advocate for battered women, and was a co-founder of the Coalition for Justice for Battered Women (1975), La Casa de las Madres (a shelter for battered women) founded in 1976, and the California Coalition against Domestic Violence (1977). She lectured at colleges and universities around the country. Martin received her doctorate from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in 1987.
Martin's keen political instincts and interests extended her influence into the mainstream Democratic Party. She and Lyon were co-founders, in 1972, of the Alice B. Toklas Democratic Club, the first Gay political club in the United States. Martin was appointed Chair of the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women in 1976 and served on the committee until 1979. She worked as a member of many other councils and boards including the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women. Throughout the years, many politicians recognized their stature as community leaders and sought advice and endorsement from Martin and Lyon.
It is difficult to separate Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon and write about only one of them. Their lives and their work have intertwined and their enduring dedication to social justice has been recognized many times. In 1979, local health care providers established a clinic to give Lesbians in the San Francisco Bay area access to nonjudgmental, affordable health care and named it Lyon-Martin Health Services in their honor. In 1990, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California awarded the couple with its highest honor, the Earl Warren Civil Liberties Award. In 1995, Senator Dianne Feinstein named Martin, and Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi named Lyon, as delegates to the White House Conference on Aging, where they made headlines by using their moment at the podium to remind the 125,000 attendees that Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender people grow old, too, and must be included explicitly in aging policies. The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality gave Martin and Lyon their Outstanding Public Service Award in 1996. They are among the most beloved figures in the LGBT community and have served as Grand Marshals at Pride marches across the nation and been honored by every major LGBT organization in the country.
Del Martin identified her own legacy in 1984 when she said that her most important contribution was "being able to help make changes in the way Lesbians and Gay men view themselves and how the larger society views Lesbians and Gay men." She had the courage to be true to herself when the world offered only condemnation for Lesbians. Martin showed all of us how to have what she called "self-acceptance and a good sense of my own self-worth." Del Martin never backed down from her insistence on full equality for all people and, even at 87 years old, she kept moving all of us closer to her ideal.
Courtesy of the National Center for Lesbian Rights

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The 2017 International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) was held in Orlando, FL January 29th – February 1st. This year's IMSH marked the induction of the first Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) class of Fellows. The induction included 34 SSH Fellows and took place during a black tie dinner event at the Rosen Center. Fellows and their guests convened for a cocktail reception, photos, dinner, and the induction ceremony on January 3oth as one of the many events occurring as part of IMSH. Clinical Playground's own Dr. Eric B. Bauman was nominated by several of his colleagues and inducted as a SSH Fellow along with other renowned scholars in the field of healthcare simulation.
The 7th Annual IMSH Serious Games and Virtual Environments Arcade and Showcase took place on the opening day of the conference. This years Arcade and Showcase was paired with Spectrum of Ideas, which showcased low cost simulation, sim-modifications, and new cutting edge sim-based technology. This years event was extremely well attended with over 30 presenters and 700 conference attendees rotating through the Serious Games and Virtual Environments Arcade & Showcase.
Runner Up: Michael Nemirovsky, et al – SavingLives!
One of the most interesting stories associated with this years Serious Games and Virtual Environments Arcade & Showcase is the incredible story of Ali Bahsoun, MBBS. Dr. Bahsoun was on hand for this years Arcade & Showcase as a conference attendee. He wanted to thank Dr. Bauman for the incredible opportunity he was given when he presented at the 2nd annual Arcade & Showcase as a medical student studying at Kings College London. Dr. Bahsound demonstrated a virtual laparoscopic surgical trainer he fashioned out of cardboard box and his iPhone. As a result of that demonstration five years ago, Dr. Bahsoun was able to commercialize his multi-media simulator. His invention has since been used all over the world for laparoscopic surgical training and generated enough royalties to pay for his wedding. Drs. Eric B. Bauman and Jeff Taekman founded the SSH Serious Games Serious Games and Virtual Environments Special Interest Group almost ten years ago, which in turn gave rise to the Serious Games and Virtual Environments Arcade & Showcase.


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Lovesick teen kills mom's chickens, texts her pictures
Hayden Smith charged with domestic violence, criminal mischief
Updated: 1:08 PM EDT Jun 29, 2015
Carla Field
Digital Managing Editor
Hayden Smith: Accused of killing his mother's chicken
An Alabama teenager gave his mother a deadline to fix his broken relationship with his girlfriend, or he would start killing her chickens. When the deadline passed, the 18-year-old killed chickens, and texted pictures of the carcasses to his mother.Deputies said Hayden Smith threatened to kill one chicken every 15 minutes until his mother contacted the girl's parents to attempt to mend their relationship.The sheriff's office says Smith gave his mother a noon Thursday deadline. He killed six chickens, one every 15 minutes as he had threatened.Smith also said he would burn down his mother's house, shoot any deputies who showed up at the home just west of Huntsville and kill himself.Deputies arrested Smith before he was able to kill any more chickens. He is charged with criminal mischief and third-degree domestic violence.
ELKMONT, Ala. —
An Alabama teenager gave his mother a deadline to fix his broken relationship with his girlfriend, or he would start killing her chickens. When the deadline passed, the 18-year-old killed chickens, and texted pictures of the carcasses to his mother.
Deputies said Hayden Smith threatened to kill one chicken every 15 minutes until his mother contacted the girl's parents to attempt to mend their relationship.
The sheriff's office says Smith gave his mother a noon Thursday deadline. He killed six chickens, one every 15 minutes as he had threatened.
Smith also said he would burn down his mother's house, shoot any deputies who showed up at the home just west of Huntsville and kill himself.
Deputies arrested Smith before he was able to kill any more chickens. He is charged with criminal mischief and third-degree domestic violence.


This blocked-off area of Plain Street is where police officers initiated a shelter in place.
One unidentified male suspect is being evaluated at Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center following a three-hour-plus standoff with the Lewiston Police Department and local first responders.
About 8 a.m. Tuesday, the Village of Lewiston Police Department responded to a check-the-welfare call on Plain Street, between Niagara and South Fourth streets. They soon initiated a shelter in place, telling neighbors to remain in their homes.
The suspect was initially with his parents, but they left the home. He was alone in the house at the time he was apprehended. No weapons were initially discovered.
"Early this morning, we received a call for a check-the-welfare. We had a person that was involved in some sort of domestic," LPD Chief Frank Previte said shortly after 11:30 a.m. "Patrols arrived on the scene here. When we arrived on the scene here, we were informed that there was a 34-year-old male that was inside the house. He was refusing to come out at that time. We tried to make contact with him and were unable to at that point.
"So, during the course of this call, what we did was, working along with the other agencies (officers from the Niagara County Sheriff's Office, New York State Police and Border Patrol), we continued to try to make attempts. We notified and activated certain teams to help us with that. From the State Police, we had a negotiation team that was dispatched. From the Sheriff's Department, we had their emergency response team.
"Ultimately, we were able to get a robot into the house and a phone into the house to have contact. That was negative. It didn't turn up with any positive results. We were unable to make contact at that point, still. So, near the end here, what we did was ... the Sheriff's Department Emergency Response Team ended up making entry into the house.
"We have the male secured now. He's going to be taken for evaluation to Niagara Falls Memorial Hospital."
Previte said the LPD has yet to determine what, if any, charges will be levied against the suspect. The department doesn't know if the suspect harmed his parents.
"Our first priority in this is to get him some help," Previte said. "We're not sure about charges. We'll have to look at what transpired before this. Our main focus up until this point has just been his safety and to secure him safely and get him out of the building."
Previte said the suspect has military experience and may be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
A shelter in place was set on Plain, Niagara and Cayuga streets from Niagara to Fourth streets. The lockdown was initiated because "We were concerned for everybody's safety," Previte said.
"We're confident and feel pretty safe that nobody's safety was at risk at any time during this - the neighbors or the neighboring area," he added.
Previte noted, "With something like this, having one person inside, we didn't believe and have any information that he was a danger to himself or anybody else. (But) our goal in that, again, is everybody's safety, and that's our main concern."
Lewiston Police Department Chief Frank Previte addresses the media following the apprehension of a suspect.


How to Handle Hoarding in Community Associations - Advanced Management Inc.
Across the nation, hoarding is becoming an increasingly common problem. It is especially in community associations in which people live in close proximity to one another. Depending on the severity of the situation, hoarding can cause unpleasant odors, pest control problem and even health hazards that extend from the hoarder's home into common areas and neighboring units. Hoarding is a disorder that is usually caused by some type of mental health problem, so while it is a problem that must be addressed in community associations, it must be handled in a sensitive and discreet manner. If hoarding is a problem in your community, here is what to do.
Florida Statues allow representatives of associations to enter units in emergencies and to prevent damage to other units and common elements. While this may give an association the authority to enter a unit to determine if hoarding is happening, doing so (without the unit owner's permission) typically is not a good idea.
Instead, contact your association's attorney. Having him or her draft a letter to the alleged hoarder could encourage the unit owner to take care of the problem. Make sure the letter states the concern regarding potential damage to other units and common areas. Include a date by with they must confirm that hoarding is not taking place or eliminate the problem.
If the letter does not produce the desired result, involve government agencies. The fire, health and building departments have the authority to step in and attempt to handle the situation. At the very least, representatives from these agencies can inspect the unit and write a report which may help the association if they choose the file a lawsuit against the hoarder.
Dealing with hoarding in condominiums and other community associations is a challenge that many boards are forced to face. In addition to decreasing property values, the consequences of hoarding can spill over into neighboring units and common areas. As a result, it is a problem that needs to be dealt with promptly.


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''The Fell' shows off British acoustic music in its best possible light." Folk Radio UK
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The Brothers Gillespie
News from the hills
This week we loaded up the old blue van with musical instruments and hit the southward road for our first festival gig since the pandemic hit and changed all our worlds. So it was that after a long drive through the evening we rocked up at As You Like It festival on Wednesday morning, a little weary from a night spent in the van by a wheat field in Warwickshire but in good spirits. It was a lovely thing to arrive in a place dedicated to music and to play for the kind hearted and generous folk at the festival and see a field full of faces as if for the first time in the shifting sunlight and shade. We were thankful. And it was a pleasure to meet up with fellow musicians and those whose lives delight in music. We had a happy time feeling the currents of the future billowing and making friends. We enjoyed a lovely jam with Tim Edey at his late session who brought so much colour and life to some of our songs. We've some plans and things to announce soon but for now we just wanted to celebrate a return to the sharing of music and the joys of togetherness and to wish everyone well. We long so much to return to the road and to play our music to audiences once again. It has been a tough time in many ways this last year for so many of us and much has been revealed over the painful months about our world and many illusions dispersed. May we all find a place where our deepest longings meet the needs of the world and may we all know belonging.
Janurary Snow
Deep snow upon the land and mist flooding the valley. Mountain summits revealed for an instant, islands in a dense white sea. Then they vanish.
Clear cold skies, darkness on the eastern horizon and silken clouds that linger in the west, in the last of the light. A strange stillness in the valley, as you raise your voice to sing out it echoes in silence. What became of them, the ancient ones who dwelt here on the hill top? What happened to their language and their ways? They were here on evenings just like this. The hills remember them, and the sleeping rocks. You feel a stirring, glowing embers of something you once knew, and the heart is free soaring like a crow in the dusk.
Already we are turning into another year, the Solstice and the feasting season passed. Gradually the days lengthening and the light returning, yet still in the deeps of winter. We have been turning inward a little with the season and the current state of things whilst carrying on with our work and planning for times ahead. We are continuing to release recordings and videos specially for our generous supporters on Patreon, recent releases have included original songs and installments in an ongoing series on Northumbrian and Borders Traditional Songs. It has become something of a focus for us so if you like our music please visit the page and consider subscribing- here is a link https://www.patreon.com/thebrothersgillespie.
With 'Hazelsong Theatre' (our newly founded folk theatre troupe with Andy Bates and Linda Richardson) we are starting work on a piece for the fascinating 'Bamburgh Bones' project in Northumberland exploring the excavated 'Bowl Hole' Anglo-Saxon cemetery near Bamburgh Castle. This is leading us out onto deep waters of history and myth and we have been spending much time reading accounts of the time of King Oswald and the Northumbrian Golden Age, of Aidan and Iona, the shifting fates of British and Anglo Saxon Kingdoms and the spreading of Christianity in those early medieval times. We are meeting regularly online and starting to dream and envision aspects of the performance. We'll post updates here and a link to the theatre company's website when this is created. Check out the Bamburgh Bones project and its amazing digital ossuary here https://bamburghbones.org
Especially given the increased challenges of the pandemic, we are feeling inspired to become more skilled at recording and producing our own music and we are planning to record an album this year. Quite a number of songs feel like the time for recording might be approaching and we hope to have some retreat time before long to work on material. One of our recent releases on Patreon was a home studio recording of our song 'The Bird on the Bough' and though there is much to learn and there may be many potential difficulties, the idea of making a record under our own steam and embracing the creative potential of that feels exciting.
It's an uncertain time at the moment as disquieting déjà vu sets in, late into lockdown, hospitals filling, the people blamed for the government's faults. Sometimes it can all feel like a strange dream. We send out our solidarity and hope people are able to stay well and feel connected, may there be blessings and happiness ahead this year.
Once more blessed Autumn scatters gold among the leaves and Samhain draws near. Far off memories live again in the body, the town moor in Newcastle at life's dawn, dusk light on the red brick walls of the back lane in sweet secret melancholy of post-industrial decay. Riding the swings through torrents of the imagination to the Great Waterfall of the West, dark pictures on the walls that speak mysteries, visions of a world before your life began, strange echoes in a child's soul.
Time of endings and beginnings, dying of leaves and tending of seeds. Wind and light quicken the life force even as we enter the cold and turn inwards. A time for dreaming.
Our last update here was back in February, not long before the advent of the historic and troubling epoch of the Covid-19 pandemic. Strange to look back to that month when we were readying ourselves for a tour in Holland and Germany with many other good gigs on the horizon. The live music scene pretty much collapsed before we hit the road and we still don't know when it might return or in what form. Our hearts and solidarity go out to all those who have suffered in these challenging times and also to those who are taking risks to keep performing the essential work of society, nurses and support workers, growers and harvesters of food, people working through the night in logistical chains to make goods appear in the morning, shop attendants, refuse collectors and countless others. The Pandemic has been a stark reminder that those who perform some of the most crucial work and make the biggest sacrifices in our society are among the least recognised and remunerated. It has reminded us that we live in a country where most people are subordinate to the requirements of capital and policy is tailored to the interests of the rentier class and government ministers' friends in the corporate sector who are busy bungling and dismantling our outsourced public services. In possession of all the facts and with the now undeniable ability to make major structural interventions in the economy, the ruling elite still chooses to sail onwards towards climate catastrophe as its toxic media works constantly to undermine truth, stoking up migrant fear to distract people from the blazing reality that those in power are both incompetent and parasitic. Meanwhile the Chancellor uses the terminology of 'viable' and 'unviable' jobs and suggests those working in the arts should retrain. When a cabal of bankers brought about the 2008 financial crash through unfettered greed we seem to recall they were given an astronomic bailout at public expense rather than being asked to seek other work. Perhaps the chancellor and his whole party should seek other work, that would really give us all a break. With little opposition coming from a new Labour leadership that has apparently sold out and retreated from the brave experiments of the past five years, it seems we must rely yet more deeply on the resilience of our communities and the compassion and solidarity that connects human hearts.
Having very few gigs it has been a time for practising and working on music and there have certainly been blessings for us in the reduced outward busyness of these times. In the early days of the lockdown we started a Patreon page and this is becoming a major focus of our work at the moment. Here we are aiming to regularly release music, videos and writings specially for our community of supporters. As well as offering working versions of new original songs, we are also planning a series of traditional repertoire from Northumberland and the Borders and are feeling inspired by the process of recording performances on long distance walking and camping trips. Recently we did a walk of several days from Traquair Kirkyard in the Scottish Borders where our grandparents are buried, south to St Mary's Loch and back via Yarrow through a land rich in balladry and story. We learned two Border ballads for this trip and filmed versions of them (as well as various other songs and instrumental pieces) at places on our way that were intimately connected with the tales. We aim to go on more such journeys over the coming months and continue documenting them and releasing material. If anyone is interested in becoming a monthly subscriber to our Patreon page or would just like to check it out you can find it here https://www.patreon.com/thebrothersgillespie. Please share the page if you're interested. We would like to express our deep gratitude to all our Patreon supporters, it is vital support at a challenging time and is really helping to keep us focussed and connected with our work.
Another project that we're excited about is the formation of a new folk theatre troupe with our wonderful myth-weaving puppeteer friend Andy Bates. This has arisen from work we have done and are continuing to do with Barabara Ravelhofer of Durham University. Last year we participated in two great events Barabra organised in Durham engaging with research by the REED North East project (Records of Early English Drama) with a particular emphasis on the rich dragon-related heritage and mythology of the region. The performances blended theatre with storytelling and music and featured amazing dragon puppets made by Andy Bates and Emma Berry. We were inspired to keep exploring this direction and create a theatre company that would weave myth, folklore, music, theatre, puppetry and storytelling. Our working name for the project is Hazel Song Theatre and we hope to foster experiences of community through the animation of an imaginative, creative relationship with the natural world and with the diverse cultural heritages of these lands. We are currently working with Barbara and others to plan a series of dragon-themed pageants in the North East for next year that will hopefully feature processions, ceilidh dancing and performances from the nascent theatre troupe. Locations will include Hexham, Morpeth, Newcastle, Ripon, Bamburgh Castle and Brancepeth Castle. The precise when and how of these events will depend on the way the Pandemic situation continues to evolve but we will keep people informed here and through our mailing list.
Recently we did an interview with the lovely Andrew Singer from 'Trafika Europe Radio - Europe's Literary Radio Station'. He was calling us all the way from Manhattan and it was a real pleasure to speak with him, we felt an immediate camaraderie. Our conversation is punctuated by several songs from the Fell and you can listen here https://omny.fm/shows/trafika-europe-radio/the-brothers-gillespie-uk-folk-duo Do check out the radio station generally as well, they are doing great things.
A huge thanks to everybody who has supported us thus far, from our parents to friendly faces putting coins in our case in windows arcade in the long ago, to Paula inviting a pair of Corbies onto the stage at Newbrough right through to Andrew who we spoke to the other day. To all the countless gems of people we've met and shared music with and listened to and been encouraged by on our journey, it's been an honour and a joy. Contrary to what the Tory government would no doubt like, we have no intention of packing it in (or retraining in 'cyber' as the recent dystopian government-backed poster would have it). The more they take the piss, the more dynamite we must load in to the catacombs beneath the edifices of the status-quo. The more disquieting and alienating the times, the more we are moved to sing out with the wild songs of the Earth and remember the still beautiful possibilities of the human heart. Hopefully some day not too far off we can return to doing live gigs and will gather again with friends by bright hearth sides. Till then, much solidarity, love and gratitude from us.
On a day of soft light with Imbolc not long passed there is a stirring of Spring in the air and the heart begins to dream of roving.
Though it's a fraught time in which it seems that the broken disaster politics of greed, denial and the will to death has tightened its grip, we try not to spin off in despair. We tune in to the darkness, resistance and resolve are purified and strengthened and still we bear witness to the possibility that love, compassion, desire, the imagination can be tended and brought to fruition in this land.
The Winter has held some fine adventures and encounters for us. On tour in England we played a house show in Sheffield where a world expert in wax cylinder recordings was in attendance and made a recording of us during the show on a Thomas Edison machine from the early 19th century using a wax cylinder he had made himself. We sang into a horn and our faces were still with wonder as we listened back through the same horn to the eerie, moving sound of our own voices from a distant time. Elsewhere a house show blossomed into a cracking late session with new-found friends, we drank deep of some ancient South Downs faery magic at the unique Brushmakers Arms Pub in Upham and also strengthened our connection with the thriving folk scene of London with gigs at Islington Folk Club and just recently at the newly established but excellent Dulwich Folk Club.
In December a few dreamy days were spent at Tim Lane's studio in the countryside south of Edinburgh recording the work of our collaboration so far with the amazing Trio Mythos string ensemble and Provencal vocal troupe Tant Que Li Siam. The recording features Sophie Renshaw's breathtaking string arrangements of songs by ourselves and TQLS and will be available to listen to soon. At the end of the recording process we all travelled south for a concert in our homelands in Humshaugh village hall and in the morning walked up Wall Fell together in Winter sunshine. It seemed another thread was woven between the hills of Northumberland and the slopes of the Ventoux and our hearts were invigorated by the warmth of true camaraderie. We'll be developing this collaboration over the coming year and plans are afoot to work on more material and do a tour together further down the line.
We're excited for the possibilities of the coming year. In March and April we'll be going on tour in Holland and Germany and shall be playing at Costa del Folk in Ibiza not long after our return. Further off on the horizon we're also planning tours in Ireland and Southern Germany/ Switzerland. In the Summer months we're looking forward to getting in touch with the spirit of the land and opening to the blessings and uncertainties of the road with some musical adventures around Britain by foot and bicycle.
Autumn Winds
The year so far has brought several offerings to us. We are a few weeks back form playing at Sidmouth Folk Festival, an amazing convergence of folk music, dance and culture on the barmy South Devon coast. It was a pleasure to spend some time there imbibing the spirit of the festival and to catch up with some musician friends along the way.
In July we caught the train down to Provence to work with fabulous ladies of Trio Mythos, (a classical string trio) and the elemental and wonderful Tant que li Siam (a polyphonic trio from Occitane) on music and potential future collaborations culminating in a concert in an ancient church in the hills which broke into spontaneous singing and dancing outside after the concert when wine and cheer were alive in the night and the frame drums and bells joined the fiddle and flute. On the way home we soaked in Marseille's edgy and smokey glory, Algeria was winning the semi-final of the Africa Cup and smoke and fireworks and flares were everywhere in the crumbling city.
The Summer also saw us begin to engage with the musical and story traditions of Dragon's in the North of England due to a very auspicious collaboration between ourselves, Professor Barbara Ravel Hoffer of Durham University and two puppet making, leather working magical artisans Emma Berry and Andy Bates, so far this has led to two theatrical concerts with volunteers from Durham Uni in Durham Cathedral and at Ushaw College.
We are now turning our mind to organizing tours for next year, including our first trip to Netherlands and Gemrnany and Czech in March/April and further UK and Ireland tours throughout the year. If anyone would like to discuss hosting us for a house concert or put us on in a venue somewhere please get in touch. We also hope for some hibernation time this Autumn and Winter to work on new music.
In late Sept early Oct we are on tour in England and will be filling gaps in our itinerary busking in towns along the way and seeing who we meet.
Thanks to the support of everyone who helped with our crowdfunder we were able to finish creating 'The Fell' and launch it with a concert at Hexham's Queen's Hall which was for us a hugely enjoyable night. We have had two subsequent launch concerts in Newcastle and Edinburgh which were a joy. It feels a relief to have finished bringing the album into the world. We are hitting the road in Feb for a string of concerts in the North East, Scottish borders, London, Devon and Sheffield. We just received our first review of the album which was very positive from Folk Radio UK. Thankyou again to all of you who have made it possible for us to create this album through the spirit of the gift. https://www.folkradio.co.uk/2019/01/the-brothers-gillespie-the-fell/
Approaching Halloween
Autumn is here with its rains and mists and sudden goldenings in the trees. Life brings unexpected challenges and the earth turns into its colder side. Our album held by the spinning fell under the stars comes closer to its time of birth. We have a launch date in Hexham on the 11th December and a pre-launch in London on 1st December with more dates to come. We are having a crowdfunder to help us get this creation into physical shape, to call the midwifes and fellow travelers of our soul family to help us birth this little album of hill songs. Looking forward to the long roads of Winter and the hearth fires, praying for more music and inspiration and for the unexpected but timely success of our collective movements towards compassion and justice and that we become more poetic even as we deconstruct our social conditioning and walk in cities thick with green space. How to speak over the ocean with a tongue that is inside the rain and broken out into the moor and yet aflame with a spirit of internationalist love? And equally importantly how to develop the strength and skill to listen to the voices on the wind speaking of another place in another language. How do we move en masse confidently and efficaciously without abandoning poetry and succumbing to the simple tyranny of abstraction and utility?
We are in the midst of recording an album, of songs we have been carrying with us for a little while. When walking through Wall village, after a wedding party on the village green a couple of weeks ago we were struck by the vision of the hill above the green. Such a generous presence in our lives going back to childhood. Such a refuge. As George Makay Brown said, if he had been born in a city he would never have written a line, without the fell we wouldn't have these songs to sing.
So the album is called 'The Fell' and we are loving the process of recording these songs in th dreamy studio of Tim Lane in the borders. We'll be releasing the album to the world in December with a launch in Hexham and will be setting up a crowdfunder in the next few weeks. If you'd like to welcome us for a show as part of our album launch tour in December please get in touch whether it be it a big venue or an intimate house show you have in mind.
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Wilderness and Wild 5:41
Devilswater 5:19
My Son David 5:33
Tina's Song 6:15
Tuesday, March 15 @ 7:00PM Tue, Mar 15 @ 7:00PM Queens Hall, Hexham Queens Hall, Hexham Queens Hall, Hexham
Saturday, March 19 Sat, Mar 19 The Bury Met The Bury Met, Bury, Greater Manchester The Bury Met, Bury, Greater Manchester
Sunday, March 20 @ 7:00PM Sun, Mar 20 @ 7:00PM Cafe #9 Sheffield Cafe #9, Sheffield Cafe #9, Sheffield
Monday, March 21 @ 7:00PM Mon, Mar 21 @ 7:00PM Kitchen Garden Cafe Birmingham Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham
Wednesday, March 30 @ 7:00PM Wed, Mar 30 @ 7:00PM The Brothers Gillespie Ashburton Arts, Ashburton Ashburton Arts, Ashburton
Saturday, April 2 @ 8:00PM Sat, Apr 2 @ 8:00PM The Brothers Gillespie Globe at Hay, Hay on Wye Globe at Hay, Hay on Wye
Monday, April 4 Mon, Apr 4 Folkandroots at the Green Note The Green Note, London The Green Note, London
Tuesday, April 5 @ 7:00PM Tue, Apr 5 @ 7:00PM Brighton Folk Lore Rooms Brighton Folk Lore Rooms, Brighton Brighton Folk Lore Rooms, Brighton
Friday, April 8 Fri, Apr 8 The Globe, Newcastle The Globe, Newcastle , Newcastle The Globe, Newcastle , Newcastle
Sunday, April 17 @ 7:30PM Sun, Apr 17 @ 7:30PM The Brothers Gillespie Settle Victoria Hall, Settle Settle Victoria Hall, Settle
Friday, June 17 Fri, Jun 17 Beverley Folk Festival Beverley, St Mary's Church, Beverley Beverley, St Mary's Church, Beverley


The quality and quantity of the global food supply now and into the future are increasingly under threat. The food system contributes to one-third of greenhouse gas emissions and losses in biodiversity, to name just two consequences leading to environmental degradation. To mitigate environmental and health harms, governments around the world have instituted public policies to advance sustainability goals throughout the food system from producers to consumers. Without worldwide shifts in diets, the achievement of sustainability goals will be extremely challenging.
The availability and analysis of data on policy design and implementation plays an important role in identifying the evidence base to determine which policies are successful in the pursuit of the desired outcomes in sustainability goals, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.
What are sustainable diets and food systems?
A system is sustainable when it optimises current natural resources, protects biodiversity and ecosystems, and respects social, economic and health outcomes. Sustainable diets and food systems are inextricably linked.
Diets drive food systems because dietary choices impact food production, processing, storage and trade. In turn, food systems influence diets in terms of food availability, affordability, acceptability and safety, reflecting both adequate sustainability and nutrition.1 For instance, although consumers in London or Shanghai may not yet see the impact of environmental degradation on their food systems, farmers throughout the world have already begun to adapt their agricultural practices. Sustainable diets are therefore an outcome of, and can only exist within, sustainable food systems.
Figure I identifies the major concepts involved in understanding the interconnectedness of sustainability, food and diets.
Food systems Consist of all the elements (environment, people, inputs, processes, infrastructures, institutions etc) and activities that relate to the production, processing, distribution, preparation and consumption of food and the outcomes of these activities, namely nutrition and health status, socioeconomic growth and equity, and environmental sustainability.
Sustainable food systems A food system that ensures food security and nutrition for all in such a way that the economic, social and environmental bases to generate food security and nutrition of future generations are not compromised.
Diets A function of food systems, diets are the foods a person regularly consumes—including habits, routines and traditions around food.
Sustainable diets Diets that are protective and respectful of biodiversity and ecosystems, culturally acceptable, accessible, economically fair and affordable, nutritionally adequate, safe and healthy, while at the same time optimising natural and human resources.
Governments worldwide have implemented various policies to promote sustainable food systems and address the burdens of malnutrition. However, it is often difficult to evaluate the extent to which policies promote the multiple facets of sustainability. Policy analysis—a set of quantitative and qualitative tools for a comprehensive evaluation of policies—can illuminate a broad array of alternatives to the status quo in order to reach a public goal. Because sustainability policies intersect across environmental, health and economic sectors, effective policy analysis tools are paramount in helping governments to identify areas for improvement.
Recently, researchers have begun creating tools to help policymakers evaluate the effectiveness of policies supporting domestic sustainability goals. Two of these, the Food Sustainability Index (FSI), developed in 2016 by The Economist Intelligence Unit with the Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition, and the Sustainable Diets Framework (SDF), developed in 2017 by Downs et al, 4 can be used in conjunction to evaluate the sustainability of both food systems and the diets they produce.
The Food Sustainability Index ranks food system sustainability across 25 countries—the G20 and five from otherwise unrepresented regions, including two low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The FSI evaluates qualitative and quantitative data to assess the true sustainability of a country across three primary dimensions—nutritional challenges, food loss and waste, and sustainable agriculture—and investigates how policy and programmes manage to work across sectors to improve the sustainability of these systems. The FSI compiles country-level data from a variety of sources and engages in policy analysis by ranking countries.
The Sustainable Diets Framework by Downs et al illuminates the gaps in objectives that the FSI intends to fill. The SDF outlines 53 constructs (see Figure II) that it sees as necessary to constitute a sustainable diet. The framework is used to evaluate the extent to which policies address the various constructs and then scrutinises the efficacy of these policies to work across sectors to support sustainable diets.
The broad overlap of the two evaluation frameworks—over half of the constructs from the SDF are assessed in the FSI—indicates the potential for their interdependent use in evaluating sustainability policies. The Economist Intelligence Unit notes that where possible, both national and sub-national data should be collected and analysed to ensure a holistic view of a domestic food system. Such an endeavour supports the Downs et al argument that primary data collection must accompany policy analysis. The FSI incorporates data on environmental, agricultural and nutritional outcomes, all of which are present in the SDF's constructs. Worldwide, the achievement of sustainability goals will require comprehensive data collection and analysis of the policies and practices involved with food loss and waste, nutritional status and agriculture—indicative of the critical role played by both the FSI and the SDF.
Although the FSI, like many studies, models sustainable diets and food systems in high-income countries, little research has characterised what food groups and eating patterns will compose sustainable diets in LMICs now and into the future.5 Further, significant gaps in data exist on diet composition and food consumption in LMICs, particularly as they relate to consumer behaviour, preferences and attitudes about food. For instance, a sustainable diet in Paris will look very different from one in rural Kenya owing to differing food availability and access, as well as the customs and traditions surrounding food procurement and mealtimes. As such, culturally sensitive food system modelling is necessary to reach worldwide sustainable goals.6 Policy analysis and integrated data platforms such as the FSI and the SDF can help policymakers elucidate gaps between policy and practice by producers and consumers throughout the food system, particularly in LMICs.
The ability to adapt flexible frameworks and evaluation tools allows policymakers and researchers to use strong local data which can determine the different steps countries must take to achieve sustainability goals. Expanding the FSI to LMICs would require greater data collection on programme coverage to ensure that both urban populations and remote villages are captured by the index, which would in turn expand the accuracy and functionality of the FSI and its data. The FSI could use the Downs et al SDF to identify gaps for actionable recommendations and to promote adequate funding and resource allocation by LMIC government ministries and agencies. Incorporating LMICs into worldwide indices levels the playing field, presenting a more holistic understanding of food group diversity and what constitutes a sustainable diet.
1. HLPE. 2017. Nutrition and food systems. A report of the Committee on World Food Security High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition.
3. Popkin, BM. 2011. "Agricultural policies, food and public health". EMBO Rep. 12(1), pp. 11-18.
5. Jones, AD, Hoey, L, Blesh, J, Miller, L, Green, A and Shapiro, LF. 2016. "A Systematic Review of the Measurement of Sustainable Diets". Adv Nutr. Vol. 7. Pp. 641-64.
6. Johnson, JL, Fanzo, J and Cogill, B. 2014. "Understanding Sustainable Diets; A Descriptive Analysis of the Determinants and Processes That Influence Diets and Their Impact on Health, Food Security, and Environmental Sustainability". Adv Nutr. Vol 5, pp. 418-429.


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Newest cutting technologies, such as intelligent speed adjustment, deliver fast and accurate cuts. Select the hardness of the material to be cut, and the machine automatically sets the correct speed.
When the wheel is clogged by removed material, it is possible to choose between the automatic Direct Cutting mode which uses a constant feed speed or Impact Cutting . The ExciCut manual cutting mode is used to section harder and larger workpieces. The automatic X-table option allows the user to access MultiCut to cut slices of the same or varying thickness, or cut precisely in specified positions.
The multifunction knob makes setting cutting process parameters quick and easy. Automatic speed setting saves time and lets the user apply the same wheel for different materials to avoid time-consuming wheel changes. Fast changing between manual and automatic cutting is enabled by the motorized cutting arm locking system, and the icon-based color display gives a complete overview of all the information you need.
Discotom-100/-10 are versatile automatic and manual cut-off machines, all in one.
The icon-based user interface, the easy-to-operate multifunction knob and joystick, the automatic cleaning program AxioWash*, and the electric brake ensure easy operation and reduce the risk for user errors.
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Refinance loans saw more closings than any other mortgage loan in January, with refis representing 45 percent of all closed loans, according to the monthly Origination Insight Report published by Ellie Mae on Wednesday.
The percentage of FHA refinances increased to 28 percent of closed loans, up 3 percentage points, and the percentage of conventional refinances increased to 51 percent of closed loans in January, rising 4 percentage points over the prior month, the report indicated.
"As we ring in 2018, we see refinances rise as a percent of overall loan volume, something that we have seen every January since we began reporting this data," said Jonathan Corr, President, and CEO of Ellie Mae.
However, Ellie Mae expects this surge to taper off to industry projected levels in the coming months. "Our expectation is that the percentage of refinances will taper back off to industry projected levels of 25 to 30 percent in the coming months as the purchase market resumes its momentum," Corr said.
The report indicated that 30-year mortgage interest rates in January rose to 4.33 from 4.28 while the percentage of closed ARMs dipped slightly from 5.5 percent to 5.6 percent in the prior month.
The effect of these rising rates was evident in January as closing rates across the board decreased slightly. According to the report, closing rates on all loans decreased from 71.2 percent to 70.9 percent. Closing rates on refinances dipped slightly from 65.6 percent to 65.5 percent and closing rates on purchases decreased from 76.1 percent to 75.7 percent.
Sixty-nine percent of all closed loans had FICO scores of over 700, the report said. Of these, 70 percent of purchase loans and 66 percent of refinances had FICO scores over 700. The average FHA purchase FICO score held steady at 680 in January, while the FHA refinance FICO scores held steady at 645. Conventional refinance FICO scores held steady at 730, and conventional purchase scores held steady at 751.
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Raul Pinheiro, 65, of Peabody, passed away Saturday, December 26th, 2020 at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in Burlington, MA. Born in Terceira, Azores (Portugal), he was the son of the late Francisco and Maria Nazare Valadao Pinheiro. He was born and raised in Terceira, Azores before immigrating to the United States in his early 20's. He settled in Salem and had two sons before moving to Peabody to raise his family. Raul achieved the American Dream through his hard work, oftentimes working multiple jobs to help support his family. His children were able to see firsthand the importance of this hard work. Most recently, he worked at Essex North Shore Agricultural and Technical School in the Farming Department before his retirement. Raul was always willing to offer a helping hand to family and friends or someone that he had never met that would soon become a new friend. Whether you were part of his large family, a friend or even an animal, he was always at his happiest when in the company of others. Raul was very active in the Portuguese Community. He served as the President of the Holy Ghost Society, and was a member of various clubs, including The Club Luis de Camoes and Our Lady of Help Hall. He was also actively involved with the Dancas de Carnival for over 20 years. Raul is survived by the mother of his children, Maria Salome (Nunes) Pinheiro, his son, Michael Pinheiro of Peabody, his son and daughter-in-law, Brian and Cherie Pinheiro of North Reading, as well has his grandchildren, Brandon and Miranda who knew him as Grandpa Raul and another granddaughter on the way. He is also survived by his sisters, Maria Rico and Fatima Pinheiro, both of Terceira, Adelaide Lourenco of California, Encarnacao Dinis and Lucia Melo, both of Canada, and his brother, Ramiro Pinheiro of Terceira. He is also survived by his sister and brothers-in-law, Alda and Jose Cunha of Maine, Filomena Vieira of Peabody, Eulalia Borges of California, and Margarida Nunes of Terceira. Raul was a proud godfather of six, Ana Paula Enes of California, Stephanie Ellis and Stephen Cunha of Maine, Maria de Conceicao Brasil of Terceira, Tanya Pinheiro of Canada, and Kayla Rosa of Peabody. He is also survived by several nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his brothers, Manuel, Francisco, Jose, Joao, and Alexandre Pinheiro. He was also predeceased by his brother-in-law, Alexandre Vieira, Luis Enes and Manuel Nunes. Visiting hours will be held on Wednesday, December 30th from 9:30 AM until 11:00 AM followed by a Funeral Service at 11:00 AM at the Conway, Cahill-Brodeur Funeral Home, 82 Lynn St, Peabody to which relatives and friends are kindly invited to attend. Burial will be in Cedar Grove Cemetery, Peabody shortly after the Funeral Service. All attendees are required to wear facial coverings and maintain social distancing.
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And just as they bring a fresh new approach to the office environment, many Millennials have a very different perspective on how to look for a job than their predecessors who were hired by financial institutions over the last half century. This poses an interesting challenge for search directors who are accustomed to more traditional tactics to find the best candidates.
Given their affinity for social media, Millennials don't bother with typical job search practices – such as posting their resume on job boards. Instead, they use social media sites – like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and others to create and reinforce their network. Today, a reported 75 percent of U.S. employers utilize social media for recruiting job candidates. If your institution isn't among this group, you are missing out on an opportunity to find access to the talent you are seeking from this age group.
Additionally, Millennials are using technology to learn about your institution well before they meet for a face-to-face interview. Likewise, you should do your homework and find out as much as possible about your candidates. Visit their LinkedIn profile to learn more about their work experience and what interests them professionally and personally. It's also important to make sure your financial institution's online presence represents your organization well, because this is where many young professionals get their first impression of a potential employer. If you don't have an online presence, or the one you have is outdated, you may lose your top candidates to a more socially connected institution.
According to industry studies, Millennials aren't impressed with the traditional "getting to know you" interview process. With the information they have learned about an organization in advance of the first meeting, they are ready to have a discussion on how their skills can benefit the financial institution and vice versa.
Also, realize that Millennial candidates have grown up in a much less formal environment. Don't pass up a chance to hire your next star employee because he or she is less formal than candidates in the past.
The days of delaying follow-up with candidates are over. This generation is used to prompt communication and quick replies - they won't wait around for an employer who takes too long to make a hiring decision. If you decide not to proceed with a candidate, let them know promptly. A message posted to social media about a bad interview experience can spread quickly, shining a less than positive light on your bank or credit union.
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From October 2016 to August 2017 we travelled 10,000 km across Asia by bicycle and raised awareness of two major issues: gender inequality and the need for sustainable energy. We met organisations and individuals who work in the social sector, with a focus on social enterprises, businesses that re-invest their profits to further a social cause. We saw how social enterprise can provide a more sustainable tool for development than simply a reliance on charitable support or donations.
The purpose of Gearing Up is to encourage people to understand the challenges faced by others: this understanding is an essential foundation of collective responsibility.
Please get in touch if you would like to find out more about the original Gearing Up expedition or the Gearing Up Social Adventure Fund; we are happy to provide further information, insights and advice to the social sector in Asia and beyond.
Our social media accounts, and this website, remain active to support journeys undertaken by Gearing Up Social Adventure Fund beneficiaries.
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Two images: The first, a 10Wp solar home system installed in a rural off-grid household in Meghalaya, India. The second, a 10MWp solar power plant in Thailand, recently completed and connected to the grid.
In peak conditions, the Thai plant is able to produce 1,000,000 times the quantity of power as the Indian solar home system. But this is no help to those who live off-grid – they need to generate their own electricity, and in the case above just enough to power three LED bulbs overnight.


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I can get some fresh dill, I got everything else i needed to make dill pickles,,, now i need some dill.. I was at the farmers market today,,, no one had any. Thanks in advance for your help!!
Try Grunts farm on Allen Side Rd. or you can use 1 tsp. dill seed per quart.
do i turn right on Allen's Side Rd. on the way to the airport? thnx.
Pinos had some yesterday, right in the veggie isle, beside the potatos.. man it smelled yummy.
Aggys dad planted some in our garden .. i believe he already took it out.
they had some dill plants at a&p in zellers plaza last time i was there.
already?? when summer is just beginning?? LOL!
you're kind of late for dill. it's all turning to seed now. 2 weeks ago i could have gave you all the dill you wanted.
sorry, but spices won't grow indoors.
it can be grown indoors potted as long as it gets a few hours of bright light from the window. it will just grow smaller, like most plants grown indoors.
Unless you have a large heated greenhouse and willing to wait a long time before harvest you cannot grow spices in our area.


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Technologies>Systems
SDR Technology Targets Flexibility and Security
Software-defined-radio (SDR) technology is quickly being adopted in a number of commercial, industrial, and military applications through the aid of developer kits.
Jack Browne | Jun 12, 2013
Software-defined-radio (SDR) technology at one time was automatically associated with the type of secure communications needed by the Armed Forces. But, as with many things based on electronic components, that has changed a great deal in recent years. SDR-based products are now available for amateur-radio operators, as well as for commercial and consumer radio users. In fact, as some of the critical components for SDR systems—such as analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and digital-to-analog converters (DACs)—have improved in performance and dropped in price, the market for SDR-based products has seemingly expanded to the consumer level. It appears that SDR technology will be embraced by healthy markets in commercial, military, and even industrial areas.
• SDR Board Eases Radio System Design
• SDR Kit Helps Radio Designers
• SDR Technology Marches Forward
An ideal SDR configuration can be as simple as an antenna, ADC, DAC, and programmable processor (to control the data converters). The concept of changing the characteristics of a radio through software has actually been around for almost 30 years, with the possibility of using software and hardware together in this way coming from a laboratory at defense contractor E-Systems (now part of Raytheon Co.). With the security inherent in the programmability of these radios, it is easy to see why so many military radio architects would become entranced by the technology, especially with the growing availability of affordable data converters capable of supporting broadband communications.
At the same time, with the modern consumer's appetite for instant communications and high-data-rate wireless communications, SDR technology represents a viable approach for commercial service providers wanting to field equipment that can adapt to ever-changing wireless standards. Organizations such as the Wireless Innovation Forum (WIF) have registered their support for SDR technology, as well as their desire for this technology to achieve a strong position in both commercial and military communications applications.
One of the more visible users of SDR technology is NASA on the International Space Station. Earlier this year, NASA began using its Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) test bed for experiments to develop advanced communications, networking, and navigation functions in space. The SCaN test bed uses a new generation of SDR technology that promises to bring new cost savings and efficiency to NASA as it develops high-speed data communications solutions for the future. SDRs for the platform have already been developed under cooperative agreements with NASA by General Dynamics and Harris Corp.
According to International Space Station Program Manager Michael Suffredini, "The space station serves as a dynamic test bed for the technologies needed for future human and robotic exploration. SCaN is an example of the technologies that are being matured in low-Earth orbit and used to increase science return of many different types of spacecraft." John Rush, Technology and Standards Director for SCaN at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC, adds: "With the development and deployment of this test bed, NASA has enabled significant future advancements by gaining knowledge and understanding of SDR development."
The test bed has been applied to learning more about communications in space using S- and Ka-band frequencies. It will also be used for an experiment with NASA's latest Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS), to demonstrate a TDRS spacecraft acquiring and successfully auto-tracking a Ka-band user in low-Earth orbit. This test bed is expected to be operational for as long as six years aboard the space station. It is meant to offer experimental opportunities to NASA, industry, academia, and other government agencies. The experiments contribute data to the Space Telecommunications Radio Standard Compliant repository; they enable future hardware platforms to use common, reusable software modules to reduce development time and costs.
SDR Kit Options
To aid SDR developers, a growing number of radio and components suppliers are offering board-level and system-level SDR kits. For example, earlier this year CML Microcircuits unveiled its model DE9941 SDR 1 Demonstration Board, which combines the company's model CMX998 Cartesian Feedback Loop Transmitter, model CMX994 Direct-Conversion Receiver, and model CMX7164 Multimode Wireless Data Modem integrated circuits (ICs). About the size of a credit card, the SDR board (see "SDR Board Eases Radio System Design") supports a variety of modulation formats, including quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM), frequency-shift-keying (FSK), and Gaussian minimum-shift-keying (GMSK) modulation. It is usable to about 1 GHz with frequency-synthesized operation and is ideal for product conceptualization and development. The SDR 1 Demonstration Board operates on a single +3.6-VDC, 2-A supply.
More recently, Pentek introduced its model 8266 personal computer (PC) development system. It is preconfigured to speed application development for the Pentek Cobalt® Virtex-6 and Onyx® Virtex-7 FPGA PCI Express software radio and data acquisition input/output (I/O) boards. Each model 8266 is delivered with the selected Pentek hardware configured for either Microsoft Windows or Linux operating system and ReadyFlow® BSP drivers and software examples, fully installed and tested.
The company's Vice President, Rodger Hosking, explains: "The Model 8266 is offered as a standard pre-integrated platform, saving our customers valuable time and cost in selecting, assembling and configuring components for a high-performance, real-time development system." He notes that "we resolve the typical hardware, operating system, and software compatibility obstacles inherent in new PC development platforms. All hardware is installed in appropriate slots, fully configured with proper cabling, power and cooling strategies, and optimized BIOS and operating system settings. The customer simply needs to remove the system from the package and start developing. As an added benefit, the tested and proven configuration of the Model 8266 streamlines Pentek customer support."
Pentek works closely with a customer to evaluate system requirements and define the SDR development platform best suited for the final application. The Model 8266 includes the company's drivers and board support libraries, as well as example applications and the firm's Signal Analyzer—a full-function analysis tool for displaying signals in the time and frequency domains. The Model 8266 SDR platform, which can be configured with 64-b Windows or Linux operating system, is based on an Intel Core i7® processor and high-performance PCIe motherboard. All necessary coaxial and timing cables are installed and tested, providing SMA connectivity for all analog I/O lines.
Texas Instruments also offers an SDR developer's kit: its TI Small Form Factor (SFF) Software Defined Radio (SDR) Development Platform based on the firm's data converters and a model TMS320DM6446 digital-signal-processing (DSP) system-on-chip (SoC) device. The kit supports an RF range of 360 to 960 MHz with a 70-MHz intermediate frequency (IF) and selectable channel bandwidths of 5 or 20 MHz. It provides -110 dBm typical receive sensitivity and typical RF gain of 22 dB. It is designed to operate on an IBM-compatible personal computer with Pentium III or better microprocessor running the Windows XP Professional operating system. It supports a variety of software development tools, including Texas Instruments Code Composer Studio™ Integrated Development Environment, the Xilinx ISE Foundation for FPGA development from Xilinx, the Xilinx System Generator for DSP software tools, and MATLAB® and Simulink™ software from The MathWorks.
1. The bladeRF board-level radio enables system designers to add SDR capabilities to their designs. (Photo courtesy of Nuand.)
Nuand offers its bladeRF board-level SDR developers' platform (Fig. 1) which connects to a computer via USB 3.0 bus and captures a 12-b 40 MHz bandwidth from 300 MHz to 3.8 GHz. Available open-source software drives provide support for GNURadio among other communications standards. The bladeRF board measures 5.0 x 3.5 in. and is capable of 28-MHz full-duplex channels and can operate in a 2 x 2 MIMO configuration.
2. The NI FlexRIO SDR bundle simplifies radio development by including usable software with the programmable radio hardware. (Photo courtesy of National Instruments.)
A number of test-instrument manufacturers also provide SDR developer kits, including National Instruments with its NI FlexRIO SDR bundle (Fig. 2). It includes the firm's model NI 5791 transceiver, NI FlexRIO field-programmable-gate-array (FPGA) module, and LabVIEW software. The transceiver, which is built into a four-slot PXI Express housing, covers as much as 100-MHz real-time bandwidth from 200 MHz to 4.4 GHz with an 80-dB dynamic range. It employs a standard LabVIEW software design flow already familiar to many engineers to simplify radio development. In terms of SDR software, one of the leaders is Green Hills Software. The firm's INTEGRITY™ real-time operating system (RTOS) has been widely used on SDR programs, notably on those that depend on the SCA v2.2 interface. It is the first operating system to be certified to the latest IEEE POSIX.1-2003 specification. The RTOS is designed to provide central processing unit (CPU) time, memory, and file system resource guarantees in support of critical radio functions and SDR waveforms. It uses brick-wall partitioning to ensure that applications and waveforms always have the resources needed to run and cannot corrupt other applications or waveforms already running.
Although SDR technology started with military users in mind, it is quickly being adopted for commercial and even amateur-radio applications. Organizations such as the Amateur Radio Relay League and companies such as FlexRadio Systems are enabling amateur-radio operators to apply SDR technology to their pursuits. In fact, the FLEX-6000 series transceivers from FlexRadio Systems are SDR designs that have found favor among amateur radio enthusiasts, especially for use in ham radio festivals. These transceivers offer two independent signal capture units (SCUs) as they are known—enabling the SDRs to perform diversity reception over bands from 0.033 to 77.000MHz and 135 to 165 MHz—bringing amateur-radio operation to a new level of sophistication.
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During June 2008, an education sub-committee of the County Wicklow Traveller Inter-Agency Group, completed a research piece involving nine families and six schools in the County Wicklow area. This was carried out by the Visiting Teacher for Traveller Service, together with the County Wicklow Primary Healthcare Programme. The research explored both the difficulties, and the positive experiences faced by young Travellers in post-primary education. The research wanted to find ways of supporting young Travellers in County Wicklow to complete their second level education.
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The morning was chaired by Jim O'Brien, Bray Travellers CDP. Mary Kearney from the Dept. Education and Science gave a background to the sub-committee, and described some statistics on Traveller post-primary education. Findings of the research piece were presented on the day by Wicklow Travellers Group and discussion was facilitated. By the close of the morning, key actions for the future were identified. The committee hope to look at ways of implementing these actions in a sustainable way.
TRAVELLER FOCUS WEEK started on Monday and continues until Friday, with events arranged over a five-day period to highlight issues and challenges facing the Traveller Community.
Education is just one important issue which has been focused upon, with plenty of unheralded background work taking place to improve Traveller student retention rates at secondary level.
In June of this year, an education sub-committee of the County Wicklow Traveller InterAgency Group completed research with the aim of supporting young Travellers who want to complete their second level education.
This research involved nine families and six schools in the County Wicklow area and was carried out by the Visiting Teacher for Traveller Service in conjunction with the Primary Healthcare Programme. Parents, students and school principals were all consulted, as well as members of the Traveller community who enjoyed positive post-primary education experiences.
In order to follow up this research, a seminar took place in the Wicklow Further Education Centre including parents, students and various schools and organisations.
Bray Travellers CDP, Jim O'Brien, chaired the successful morning as Mary Carney from the regional office of the Department of Education and Science gave background information on the work of the sub-committee, and presented relevant statistics on Traveller post-primary education.
Wicklow Travellers' Group presented research they had looked into and key actions were focused upon with a view to supporting Traveller students to complete their second-level education.


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Insectoid warrior critter
Here we have an insect-man with a whole lot of sharp things, ready to stick them into some other critter at the drop of a hat.
I drew it for no particular reason, but now that it's here I can think of no good reason why these guys shouldn't start causing plenty of trouble for my hapless party just as soon as possible. I suppose I'd better start thinking about what sort of stats an emotionless insectoid killing machine should have.
Demon-slaying after-effects — a visual aid
This demonstrates admirably one of the sorts of special effects I was imagining when I did my table of demon-slaying results.
I have no idea where this scene comes from, but I'm guessing one of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies, maybe? Because of the overalls.
In the northern part of my usual campaign region, there is a great — one might almost say grand, if one had no shame — canyon that penetrates in many areas right through to the Abyss.
It's like a summer camp for paladins, because all kinds of demonic critters crawl up out of there all the time.
That's it, in the centre-right of the map.
(You can see a much larger version of the map here — it's about 980KB).
Thief's-Eye View
Getting from one side of a city to the other across the rooftops would be pretty easy in a place like this, assuming the tiles didn't keep shooting out from under your feet. It would be pretty annoying for the people trying to sleep in the bedrooms below though; it's bad enough having cats racketing about on one's roof in the middle of the night, and I expect human-sized critters would make even more noise.
I'm not sure if this scene is Chinese or Japanese, but it recalls strongly the excellent night rooftop chase scene from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Call of Cthulhu is theoretically one of my favourite roleplaying games of all time. Why theoretically? Because in actual fact I've played it hardly ever, and GM'd it never. It's one of those games I have many good intentions for, which never get realized.
From the Modiphius site:
"Achtung! Cthulhu brings you a two-fisted wartime roleplaying game setting for Call of Cthulhu and Savage Worlds, packed full of fiendish Nazi scientists, terrifying ancient mysteries, legendary German war machines, desperate partisans, gun-toting paratroopers, determined investigators, and enough writhing tentacles to pack ten Reichstags.
"Discover the secret history of World War Two - stories of the amazing heroism which struggled to overthrow a nightmare alliance of science and the occult, of frightening inhuman conspiracies from the depths of time, and the unbelievable war machines which were the product of Nazi scientific genius - and how close we all came to a slithering end!"
Since I also love pulp action full of jut-jawed heroes and dastardly Nazis, how could I possibly not love this idea? I obviously couldn't.
Whether the reality lives up to the potential, I have absolutely no idea. I know nothing more about Achtung! Cthulhu than what I've read and seen on Modiphius. Cool cover though.
Note: I notice they've wimped out and replaced the wreathed swastika in the eagle's claws with an old Imperial maltese cross. It's not surprising I suppose, assuming they want to be able to sell anything in Europe; apparently the Germans get very shirty about having swastikas on things these days... all part of their official policy of papering over history so that nobody makes any hurtful remarks about it.
Another Note: You can download Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu quickstart rules PDF here. It's free.
Terrific idea
Check out this idea over at Underworld Kingdoms for building megadungeon maps by overlaying a whole bunch of building plans — castles and so forth.
This is the sort of thing that computers and the internet have made trivially easy. It could have been done back in Ye Olden Tymes with overlay cels and what-not, but it would definitely NOT have been easy or straightforward.
This sort of layout looks a lot more like real building than most megadungeon mapping. Structures that accrete over ages don't tend to have any overarching design, and they don't generally conform to a convenient grid, having been tacked on to and built over existing construction.
This would probably drive any obsessively accurate mappers up the wall. Muahahahahahahaaaaa!!!!!


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Q: Reading csv file to vector of doubles I am trying to read this csv file, let's call it "file.csv", and I'm trying to put it into a vector of double.
This csv contains numbers like:
755673.8431514322,
684085.6737614165,
76023.8121728658,
...

I tried using stringstream, and it successfully input these number to the vector but the input numbers is not like I wanted.  Instead, the inputted numbers are
7556373, 684085, 76023.8

How can I read the whole digits without throwing any of it away?
This is my code
vector<long double> mainVector;

int main()
{
    ifstream data;
    data.open("file.csv");
    while (data.good())
    {
        string line;
        stringstream s;
        long double db;
        getline(data, line, ',');
        s << line;
        s >> db;
        mainVector.push_back(db);
    }
}

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How to read the whole digits without throwing any of it.

As @user4581301 mentioned in the comments, I guess you are missing std::setprecision() while outputting.
However, you do not need std::stringstream to do the job. Convert line(which is a string directly to double using std::stold and place into the vector directly as follows.
That being said, use of std::stold will make sure not to have wrong input to the vector, by throwing std::invalid_argument exception, if the conversion from string to double was unsuccessful. (Credits to @user4581301)
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <vector>  // std::vector
#include <string>  // std:: stold
#include <iomanip> // std::setprecision

int main()
{
    std::vector<long double> mainVector;
    std::ifstream  data("file.csv");
    if(data.is_open())
    {
        std::string line;
        while(std::getline(data, line, ','))
            mainVector.emplace_back(std::stold(line));
    }
    for(const auto ele: mainVector)
        std::cout << std::setprecision(16) << ele << std::endl;
                    // ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    return 0;
}


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