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An action adventure movie, MISSION WITHOUT PERMISSION tests the resolve of three friends – 12 year-old Maddy (Kristen Stewart), Austin (Corbin Bleu) and Gus (Max Thieriot) – who band together in a mission to raise $250 000 for Maddy's father, Tom otherwise known as Mr P (Sam Robards). He faces a bleak future without the necessary but expensive hospital treatment which is only available from a European clinic when he suffers a relapse from a former climbing injury that leaves him paralyzed.
A resourceful girl, Maddy wastes no time in deciding which path she will choose when faced with the stark choice of either leaving her dad seriously ill in hospital or taking it upon herself to find the required money for his treatment when her mother (Jennifer Beals) runs out of other options.
Persuading her two best friends into helping her out, she hits on the idea of robbing Hardebach Financial, the bank where her mother (Molly Phillips) is working as a freelance security advisor and is installing a new high tech security system for them. Using her mother to gain access to sensitive and confidential information without her suspecting anything, she devises a plan with the help of Austin (a computer genius) and Gus (a mechanical whizz) to pull off a heist to coincide with the bank's opening night reception hosted by a very obnoxious chief executive called Brisbane (Michael Des Barres) – personally responsible for denying Mrs Phillips a loan for her husband's hospital treatment.
This is an innovative and exciting movie packed with action and has several quite intense sequences which will have you holding your breathe and even though you know they will overcome all the challenges thrown their way, it's the way they get to achieving the end result. The karting / police chase and breaking into the bank's vault sequences are particularly tense and the director skilfully manages to keep the suspense up and keep it well paced. The acting from the three young lead actors is notably impressive and it's nice to see Jennifer Beals again who leapt to fame with FLASHDANCE in 1983 and was also in the recent RUNAWAY JURY movie.
This DVD release will definitely be a hit with the kids and keep them thoroughly entertained as it will parents if they just let their imagination go and not pick to many holes in the plan that unfolds and the incredible luck that the film's characters have as well as their sheer determination to see it through to the end.


We are promoting community sufficiency, self-sufficiency at the community level. We are teaching chemical free beekeeping. The CNG philosophy seems like a good match. The word "organic" doesn't really fit well with honeybees.
I don't remember. It's been part of my thinking for several years now.
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Comb removal is conducted on a 4th year at first inspection of that year. For Lang, I use 3 deeps. At first inspection, mid March, the bottom deep is always empty of living bees. That comb is removed at that time. For top bar, comb is removed at harvest and frames are shifted such that comb will eventually be in the remove position. For Warre, the top deep is removed at harvest and the comb is eliminated at that time. New deeps are added at bottom such that they will eventually be in top position for removal. This entire brood comb removal concept is under review by me, and should be under review by all beekeepers based on recent Bee Informed data showing that beekeepers that DO NOT eliminate comb are experiencing LESS loss than beekeepers that do. I will continue my practices while also keeping an open mind about new information that may suggest my practices are not the best choice.
Has any wax or comb in your apiary ever been exposed to coumaphos (CheckMite+) or fenpyroximate (Hivastan), or more than six indirect exposures of coumaphos (CheckMite+), hydramethylnon or fipronil (Max Force Gel roach baite) as closed trapping for SHBs?
My primary maintenance is through split of survivor stock. I also collect swarms. I am selling nucs. I do not purchase bees.
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I do not suppress the Varroa mites. I always assume mites are present. Stock exhibiting traits I want to continue are split such that daughters can continue those traits. Mother is assumed lost to the mites. When mother survives, unexpectedly, more daughters are created to ensure the line is continued.
I never test for mites. My bees must survive in the presence of mites. I seek survivor stock. This is one of my main objectives. It is much more important than honey harvest.
I have never seen AFB or EFB, however, should I see AFB I would burn the entire hive such that no chances of spread are tolerated. Should I ever see EFB, the bees would have to survive on their own. I would isolate the hive in a remote yard to prevent spread.
I do not treat. When I see symptoms, I usually replace the bottom board with a clean bottom board. Other than that, the bees must survive on their own. In this case, I don't even move the hive to isolate it. My bees must survive without chemicals.
Chalkbrood runs it course, no treatment is necessary. Wax moths are a normal part of nature's clean up process. I try to beat them to the comb. But beat them or not, I will generally melt the comb into wax to be sold. We do not have SHB in Colorado. Concerning viral diseases, my bees must survive without treatment. No chemicals. No acids. No essential oils. Nothing. This is why I can get a premium price for my wax and honey.
I use mouse guards made of 1/2 inch hardware cloth. When a mouse beats me. It usually kills the colony. I use electric fence when vulnerable to bears. I use carpet tack on the rare occasion I need to discourage a skunk or whatever.
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The 1975 makes big announcement with the unveiling of their new single Reviewed by Brittany Muldoon on June 4, 2018 .
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The 1975 makes big announcement with the unveiling of their new single
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Ah… so that's what's been going in with the 1975
Previous read: What in the world are the 1975 doing?
So there's good news and bad news. The long-awaited moment is here (well, sort of). The 1975 appeared on Annie Mac's BBC Radio 1 show last Thursday and graced us with their first piece of new music since 2016's I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it.
Enter: "Give Yourself A Try." They also revealed another important bit of information: their new album, previously thought to be released June 1st, will be released in October of this year with a follow-up coming May of 2019. The new album, previously thought to be called Music for Cars, is actually entitled, you guessed it, A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships. While we're bummed that we don't get more new music quite yet, we're pumped about the little preview they've given us with their new single. Hopefully it'll hold us over until October.
"Give Yourself A Try" starts out with a quick and punchy guitar riff that immediately gets our ears buzzing with energy and drives the rest of the song. The single, like most of The 1975's songs, is unbelievably honest. At the beginning, Healy tells us he's about to impart some wisdom: "You learn a couple things when you get to my age." He goes on to sing "You're getting spiritually enlightened at 29." Healy just turned 29 and he has said before that The 1975 is kind of like his diary, so we can expect the rest of this song to be personal.
He's got a message for millennials like himself – you can't be afraid to go outside and experience things. As the song's title goes, you have to give yourself a try. Everyone experiences the trials and tribulations of growing up and even after we learn from them, we still don't know what we're doing half the time, but that's okay. In the song he asks "'And what would you say to your younger self?' / Growing a beard's quite hard and whiskey never starts to taste nice." He acknowledges that as much as we have figured out, we also don't have anything figured out.
Those of you who have been following their website over the last few days also know that the single came accompanied with a video (yes, that countdown clock has been replaced with this). The video adds some perspective to the song, as it starts out in black and white with Healy lying on a couch smoking a cigarette and rattling off some seemingly existential ideas that don't actually make much sense – but that's kind of the point: we all try to sound like we know what we're doing (or maybe we actually think we know what we're doing), when really it's just a bunch of gibberish that only makes sense in our heads.
When the song starts the video switches to color, and it seems that the band has a new color scheme in mind. Red is the dominant color. The lyrics of the song appear in red type on the screen and Healy's hair is shaggy, straightened, and red (maybe orange?). In fact, for the majority of the video, red is the only color we see besides black, white, and gray. We see a bluish-purplish hue for a few seconds during a split screen in the background and some flowers blooming in color, but that's it. And based on the context of the song, we can speculate that the flowers blooming represent how each of us grows into something unique as we get older. I think we have a pretty good idea of their new branding.
So while we'll have to wait a few more months for the full album, we're glad that they treated us to both a new single AND a new music video to go with it. Be sure to check it out if you haven't already and let us know what you think!
Brittany Muldoon
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Catholic hijinks, Hutaree busts, muchas gracias, cheering injustice, eight wonders and more!
The Pope should resign! - Or maybe not.
Raids underway against Hutaree "Christian militia" - News of the week.
Thanks - High praise, indeed.
Editor's Choice: Liberals cheer Bill O'Reilly! Shocking! - Yeah, actually, it is.
Artist Ron Miller takes us on a journey to eight of the most breathtaking views that await explorers of our solar system. The scale of these natural wonders dwarfs anything Earth has to offer. What might we see and feel if we could travel to these distant domains? By interpreting data from probes such as NASA's Cassini, which is now exploring the Saturnian system, and MESSENGER, which goes into orbit around Mercury in March 2011, the artist's eye allows us an early visit to these unforgettable locales.
Wednesday: Chat this week started with Westerns and Sci-Fi, and the interplay between the two. Firefly was a great example of this, but plenty of others abound. Also discussed was the over-emphasis on drama rather than comedy at award festivals. After talking about various movies I had never heard of, we moved on to the whole accomodationist movement with Chris Mooney and the like. I honestly didn't know that was still going on… go figure. The discussion wandered onto various skeptical organizations like CFI and interactions between them. Chat ended with a sharing of favorite podcasts.
No quantum leap in human brain size?
That's a bit much, don't you think, Saudi Arabia?
Why Do We Call Them IDiots?
Scenes From Hitler's "1000-Year Reich": Twelve Years of Nazi Terror and the Aftermath, by Kerry Weinberg.
"In a long, tumultuous life that spanned most of the twentieth century, Kerry Weinberg experienced the brutal disruption of her youth in Nazi-controlled Germany, the fearful wanderings of a Jew fleeing just before World War II, the disintegration of her family during the Holocaust, the turbulent and violent years of 1940s Israel, and periods of relative tranquility as a teacher in Germany, Israel, and the United States. In this extraordinary saga she documents what happened to her and many others like her during that most horrific period of European history. As the events of the Holocaust recede more and more into the past, we have seen the unfortunate rise in recent decades of anti-Semitic revisionist propaganda questioning the historicity of the Nazi-sponsored genocide. In this context, documents such as Weinberg's, which testify to first-hand experiences of eyewitnesses, are especially valuable to set the record straight.
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Operation Lalgarh was an armed operation in India against the Maoists who have been active in organising an armed tribal movement alongside a group called the People's Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA). The operation is organised by the police and security forces in Lalgarh, Jhargram, West Bengal to restore law and order in the area and flush out the Maoists. The area of operation is said to be expanded to 18 police stations in the three Maoist-affected districts of Paschim Medinipur (include newly splitted Jhargram), Bankura and Purulia.

Background
The incident has its root in an incident on 2 November 2008. On the way back from laying the foundation stone of Jindal steel plant at Shalboni, the convoy of the chief minister of West Bengal Buddhadeb Bhattacharya and then central ministers Ram Vilas Paswan and Jitin Prasada came under a landmine attack by the Maoists. Though the ministers were unharmed, it hit a police jeep in the convoy and six policemen were grievously injured. The CPI(Maoist) in a press release accepted the responsibility of the explosion and stated clearly that they were opposed to the steel plant on tribal land and that the target of the explosion was Buddhadeb Bhattacharya.
In the aftermath of the assassination attempt, the West Bengal Police carried out raids across the Lalgarh area. Due to the influence by ruling party CPI (Marxist), the police atrocities, indiscriminate raids and brutal beatings, resulting in serious injuries to many people, mainly women. People have been subjected to beatings, torture, molestation of women and false cases.

The locals allege that Lalgarh police station has long been torturing and detaining adivasis at the smallest pretext on basis of speculation. On 4 November 2008 evening, three boys all studying in high school between standards 8 and 10, were going to their homes in Bashber Village on foot. They were returning from Katapahari, where a program of Baul Song was going on. On the way they were picked up by Lalgarh police for being suspected Maoists The villagers were enraged in the incident and surrounded the Lalgarh police station and blockades were made on several roads by felling trees and digging the roads. Later they formed a committee named Police Santras Birodhi Janosadharan Committee (People's Committee against Police Atrocities) which demanded on thirteen issues and put up posters to publicise the same. The major demands include the Superintendent of Police of Paschim Medinipur district has to hold his ears and ask for forgiveness and he has to say 'Form now onwards I will stop illegally arresting the people and especially women' and release of those illegally arrested and cases has to be dropped against them. Some of the demands of the committee were met and cases against those children arrested were dropped. In turn the Committee removed some of the blockades, though police were not allowed to patrol the area. The Maoists congratulated the people of Lalgarh for their protest, but stopped short if claiming the movement to be under their control. The people of Lalgarh however continually maintained that their movement was peaceful and for demand of basic democratic rights.

Moreover, adivasis of these area were demanding simple development measure such as health centres, schools and roads and the basic means for survival, such as proper prices for forest produce such as the tendu leaves and babui grass, and an end to harassment in the hands of forest officials, timber mafia etc. that drew the ire of the state on them. Which give us a sense of déjà vu with set up of the Police Santras Birodhi Janaganer Committee (PSBJC), or People's Committee Against Police Atrocities by Sri Chhatradhar Mahata.

The movement

The beginning
The police quickly understood the extent of mobilization that the adivasis have made and started making false promises about the imminent release of those arrested including the 3 school students. The police thought of buying some time with these lies, hoping that the mass will disperse with time. But the adivasi crowd around the Police Station only got thicker. Support and solidarity from surrounding and far off adivasi villages started pouring in.
The otherwise omnipresent leaders of political parties were not allowed to negotiate. The adivasi were rather happy about this as in the past the interference of these leaders in any mass protests have always resulted in confusion and withdrawing of the protests with unknown negotiations behind closed door meetings. This time the adivasis chose their representatives from amongst themselves who were communicators rather than leaders and took no decision on behalf of the mass but only communicated them. Soon the police understood that the adivasis were in no mood to return without a result and they disclosed that nothing was in their hands because the ones arrested had already been transferred to Midnapore jail the previous day.

The blockade

The repeated lies by the Lalgarh police infuriated the mass who decided not to depend on the police for any results and to build up a movement to force the release of those illegally detained. They decided to prevent the deployment of reinforcement of police and paramilitary as previously many adivasi movements have been brutally crushed using paramilitary force. Thus roads were dug up and blocked at several places by felled trees. This has uncanny resemblance to the Nandigram movement remained at the headlines throughout 2007 March to December. The Lalgarh village is connected with Jhargram and Medinipur towns by roads which are bordered on both sides by sparse to moderate forests. the roads have been dug up or blocked by trees at least in 25 places.

Solidarity
The road blockade was not just in and around Lalgarh but villages all around took initiative to do the same as they joined in the movement. Adivasi people all around West Bengal felt oneness with the movement as most have faced torture at the hands of police for suspected of being Maoists or their sympathizers. People from villages across West and East Midnapore, Bankura, Birbhum, Puruliya quickly joined in the movement.

Grass root democracy
The movement had no conventional leadership and often entire village population sat together and discussed for hours as to the steps to be taken in the movement. Men, women, youth, students all took part in these grand meetings. The traditional leaders were not stripped of the respect that they usually received but were given no more weight than anyone else at the meetings. A forum was thus launched which had no conventional political color and which united the entire adivasi society for a common cause after a long time. It gained immense popularity and most mainstream parties and their mass bases vanished altogether.

Village committees
Each Village formed a committee of 10 representatives who would with committees of other villages to communicate the decision of the masses of one village to another. Each committee further had two persons who had to be available at all times in case of urgent meetings at short notices.

Participation of women

Adivasi women have come forward in a big way to carry forth this movement. Each 10 persons committee has 5 women members. This involvement of women came naturally to the adivasis who have a more equal society when it comes to gender. The participation of women in meetings and rallies are also remarkable. The atrocities over the women of Lalgarh have been excessive, and the women since then never attend rallies unarmed. They bring along whatever is at hand. Bows, arrows, knives, swords, scythes, axes, sticks, brooms and so on. The attack on the dawn of 5 November has been most brutal on the women with one of them losing her sight, as the butt of a police rifle landed on it. Another woman of Lalghar was manhandled and left unconscious in broad daylight as she tried preventing the police who dragged away her husband who happens to be a local Jharkhand Party leader while they were buying medicines. All this adding to the severe torture and repression of women have led to the present consolidation of the adivasi women, or so they claim.

The demands

The adivasis of Lalgarh sat together to decide upon eleven demands to be met by the government in order that the blockades be removed and police activity normalized. Press statement were given, leaflets distributed and posters in Bengali put up all around, stating the demands.
The English translation of the demands would be
 The SP has to hold his ears and ask for forgiveness. He has to say 'Form now onwards I will stop illegally arresting the people and especially women.'
 The police who were involved in the 5/11/2008 incident where women were beaten up have to rub their noses on the ground as punishment, from Dalailpur Chawk to Choto Pelia.
 The women of Choto Pelia who were injured by the police torture have to be compensated with 200,000 rupees each.
 All suspects arrested or detained in relation to the Shalboni incident have to be released unconditionally.
 All people arrested or accused in suspicion of being Maoist in West Midnapore since 1998 have to be cleared of all charges and should not be compelled to attend court sessions or police station enquiries regularly.
 Arresting locals from anywhere, anytime without warrant have to be ended.
 All paramilitary camps like those in Dharampur, Kalaimudi, Ramgarh have to be removed immediately.
 That Sasadhar Mahato planned the Shalboni explosion sitting in Bashber village — this allegation has to be withdrawn.
 The practice of harassing clubs and organizations of independent people all over Bengal must be put to an end.
 Police patrolling in villages from 5 in the evening to 6 in the dawn have to be stopped.
 Schools, hospitals, panchayet offices cannot be used as police camps, the existing ones have to be removed
Later two more demands were added in face of violent attacks by CPI(M) cadres on the adivasi people involved with the movement.

Traditional leadership
The traditional tribal leaders have been mostly disowned by the tribals of Lalgarh. The Majhi Baba or village elders had since 10 November 2008 proactively engaged in negotiations with the government authority. On 13 November 2008 they declared that most of their demands have been agreed upon and thus they were withdrawing the blockade. Some blockades were removed as well, but the adivasis sat together to decide otherwise and decided to boycott the Bharat Jakat Majhi Marwa group. Their youth wing leader was even beaten up and made to apologise for removing a blockade.

Maoist connection
The government and the ruling party CPI(M) have throughout maintained that the movement of Lalgarh was instigated and somewhat led by Maoist agents, many of whom have come from Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh. The police from the beginning blamed the Maoists for the Shalboni blast and raided the villages and detained people for having suspected Maoist Links. The police alleged that Sasadhar Mahato and other Maoist action squad members planned the Shalboni blast while in Bashber village, Lalgarh. The Maoists soon accepted responsibility of the blast and congratulated the people of Lalgarh for their protest, but stopped short if claiming the movement to be under their control. The people of Lalgarh however continually maintained that their movement was peaceful and for demand of basic democratic rights.

Ruled by fear

Back in 1977, after the first Left Front government took power in West Bengal, entire villages were freed from the control of jotedars, or landlords, by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) workers.

Income poverty and deprivation continue to exist throughout the region — but land reform has given adivasis a level of freedom and security their counterparts in the rest of India do not enjoy.

Marketed as the liberation of Lalgarh, Maoist rule, in fact, made the life of most adivasis worse. Income from forest produce, on which most local residents are dependent, dried up. Government programmes intended to mitigate hardship collapsed altogether.

"In November," says Bhumidhansola resident Manek Singh, "the Maoists forbade us to enter the forests to cut wood. The Forest Department used to pay us Rs. 70 a day for this work. Now, no one even enters this area to purchase the leaf-plates we make. We have been left with nothing."

How, then, have the Maoists gained so much influence in Lalgarh? Jharkhand Party candidate Chunibala Hansda had this simple answer for one journalist reporting on the Lok Sabha elections: "People are scared of them".

Last year, even as the PSBJC was mobilising people against the West Bengal government, the Bharat Jakat Majhi Marwa — an organisation of traditional adivasi community leaders, which is opposed to the CPI(M) — organised a rally to protest Maoist violence. More than 10,000 adivasis gathered in Bhulabheda area of Belpahari on 9 December.

Sudhir Mandal, the adivasi leader who organised the rally, was shot dead less than 48 hours later.

Extortion and attacks

Faced with extortion and attacks by Maoists, government staff also fled the area. Lalgarh residents told The Hindu that the Integrated Child Development Scheme workers were ordered to pay Rs. 1,000 each month; school teachers and staff at the Block Development Office said they were compelled to part with twice as much to local Maoists.

Following the assassination of government doctor Honiran Murmu and staff nurse Bharati Majhi in October, the Lalgarh area has had almost no access to health care.

The 2009 Loksabha election saw a change of power from the Left Wing to the Trinamool Congress- Indian National Congress coalitions in West Bengal, with the coalition winning a total of 25 seats out of 42 seats. Most parts of West Bengal witness post-election political clash and mostly in the Midnapore and Hooghly districts. In Lalgarh area, the CPIM party offices and houses of leaders were ransacked by the people who allege to be getting support from the Maoists. The attacks were increased as the arms and ammunitions were recovered from those party offices. Many of the CPIM supporters have either joined the committee or have left the area in fear of attacks. The people socially boycotted the police, and stopped them from buying foods and other essentials, which forced the police to leave their camps in the Lalgarh area making it a virtual free zone.

Operation — First phase
The Government of West Bengal asked assistance from the Central Government to assist the West Bengal Police in the operations against the Maoists in Lalgarh. Five companies of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and two companies of Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (COBRA) forces who are specially trained to combat with the Maoist arrived at Midnapore on 17 June 2009. In a special meeting between District Officials, Deputy General of Police (West Bengal) and home Secretary Ardhendu Sen the decision to launch the operation was decided. The final order to start the operation was given by Chief Minister, Buddhadev Bhattacharya.

Day 1
On 18 June morning at about 8:00 (IST), the CRPF along with State Riot Police and Commandos proceeded toward Pirakata en route to Lalgarh. Further meetings were conducted during the day between police and district officials on the method of the operation. It was decided that the security forces would march towards Lalgarh as the roads were dug up and trees has been placed as blockades on the roads. The forces started out for the operations at around 16:00 (IST) from Pirakata. The forces faced the first resistance from the villagers at Malida village which is around two kilometres from Pirakata, where around 2000 villagers had gathered acting as "human shields". After warning by the additional Superintendent of Police to leave the place, tear gas shells were fired and subsequent lathi charge was made to disperse the mob. The police raided some houses and detained some villagers in search of Maoists. The police were also successful to disperse and remove three more blockades during the day including one at Tirlakhali, and proceeded further 2 kilometres to Bhimpur village at 18:30 IST. The forces decided to push back 2 km and halt for the night by the roadside at Koima. Some of them retreated another 1 km to Tirlakhali. During setting up of the camp, some gun shots were fired at the police forces from the paddy fields at short intervals and the police force return fired in the direction without resulting any casualties. The police force scanned the area through night vision binoculars. The CRPF men who took part in the action were replaced at night by those kept in reserve at the Pirakata camp while the district riot police have been replaced by the state armed police.

Day 2
On 19 June 2009 morning several leaflets in Bengali and Ol Chiki were distributed from the Indian Air Force helicopters by the government to stay away from the Maoists and refrain from becoming human shields. The security forces tried to advance towards Lalgarh from four different ways; from Sarenga in Bankura district in the north, from Goaltore in the east, from Jhargram-Dahijuri route in the west and the mainly through Midnapur- Pirakata route in the south of Lalgarh. Three companies of Border Security Force (BSF) have been deployed in the operation. Three more companies of BSF has been sent to Lalgarh. This is the first time the BSF has been deployed in anti-Naxal operations. The helicopters were used during the day mainly over the Lalgarh — Dharampur area for air surveillance.

The squads had started operation in one of the most infamous place known as Jhitkha Jungle, which is considered to be Maoist's den keeping in front the COBRA force dividing in two different groups of about 200 soldiers. The sanitization operation to flush out the Maoists in Jhitkha Jungle by the COBRA forces who arrived at Bhimpur at around 13:00 IST, turned out to be an inspection operation along 2 km stretch of the road that passes through the jungle.

Another squad of police have surrounded the area around Sarenga in adjacent Bankura district to seal the escape routes of the Maoists. The police force consisting of a company of CRPF personnels coming from the Sarenga route stopped at Kargil More as the approach road to the bridge was cut, and they had to retreat back to Sarenga. They also broke a demonstration stage and lathi charged the PCAPA members in Sarenga who were present in the demonstration, where 15 members were arrested.

The team who were approaching by the Jharagram route, though able to reach Dahijuri, they returned to Jhargram due to suspect of landmine on the road and roads being dug by PCAPA members. Another team of security forces started moving from Goaltore, which is around 25 km from Lalgarh. The forces had to stop at different places to clear the trees and bypassing the dug roads. Around 500 forces from the Eastern Frontier Rifle and State Armed Forces took part in the operation in this route. They had to face severe resistance from the PCAPA members at Pingboni village, where around 3000 villagers blocked the roads and shot arrows against the police force. However, at around 17:00 IST the police was able to break the barricade and moved forward. Around 10 persons have been detained in this operation and some houses were raided by the police force in search of the alleged Maoists.

The security forces which have proceeded to Bhimpur on 18 June by clearing road from Pirakata left the stretch unguarded. Taking the opportunity, the villagers and the Maoists again put up barricade at five different places between Malida and Tirlakhali. They were confronted by the Maoists who gun fired at several places including, Pirrakhuli, Pingboni and between Pirakata and Bhimpur. Police were also forced to stop at various places due to suspect of landmine on the road or as the bridges were destroyed. Out of the six kidnapped CPIM members, dead bodies of four were found, taking the tally of death of CPIM party members in the post-election violence in Lalgarh area to 10. At about 19:45 IST, there has been a report of landmine blast near Pirakata Bazaar on SDPO's car in which two police personnel has been grievously injured. The state government has asked for more 6 companies of CRPF from the Central Government to assist the state police in the operation. At around 21:00 IST there was cross fire between the police and Maoists at Lalgarh Police Station. The Jharkhand border near Ghatshila was sealed to stop the Maoists escaping into Jharkhand.

Day 3
Maoist Polit Bureau member Koteswar Rao alias Kishenji told over phone to the media that they are ready for negotiations only if the police forces are withdrawn from the area and apologize. The combing operation started around 7:30 IST on 20 June 2009 by the forces in search of Maoists through the Jhitka Jungle with mine protected vehicles. Jhitka was considered to be the most difficult part till now and the police were anticipating serious Maoist attack or landmines. The first group of the forces was able to reach Lalgarh Police Station, which was inaccessible to the forces since November 2008 at around 11:30 without facing any kind of resistance, where they have decided to set up a base camp and proceed to further interior areas.

Houses of two CPIM party members have been torched by the PCPA members in Baita near Jhargram., where the police force arrived and dispersed the attacking mob. An attack by the Maoists took place in Kadashole on the Eastern Frontier Rifles jawans, on the way from Goaltore to Lalgarh at around 16:15 IST. The ill trained police force was attacked with arrows and later with guns. The sudden attack left the police force stunned and they fled the area running for cover. In this confusion and panic, a landmine triggered off leaving 4 police injured in the whole incident. Later, the police returned with a larger force around 17:30 IST and put a strong gun battle for about an hour.

Day 4
There was no such operation, as the police wanted to fix the next strategy, four people were arrested near Khayer Pahari, while they were planting landmine on the road from Sarenga to Lalgarh. Some social activists and artists like Aparna Sen, Saoli Mitra went to Lalgarh to overlook the real situation and talked with PCAPA secretary Chhatradhar Mahato, and appealed to both the state and the Maoists to shun arms and opt for a ceasefire till 14 July. Around 35,000 villagers in the Lalgarh area fled to other places for safety. Many villagers who have fled to several relief camps like in Pirakata complained of being beaten up by the police and sexual harassment to the woman. Trinamool Congress MP and Union ministers of state Sisir Adhikari and Mukul Roy went to Lalgrah to provide shelter to the villagers driven out of their homes by the security forces along the stretch from Pirakata to Bhimpur. They were surrounded by the CPM supporters complaining that why they did not come to their rescue when the Maoist-backed PCPA drove them out of the villages and not allowed to progress further.

Day 5
The Maoists called for a two long bandh starting from today in five states of India, including Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Orissa and Chhattisgarh to protest the re capturing of Lalgarh in West Bengal by security forces. The security has been increased in these states and particularly in the three Maoist hit districts of West Bengal. Normal life was affected in the Midnapore district with a few buses plying on the road and most of the shops remained closed. In Purulia district, train services remained suspended on the Purulia – Chandil section since 2:00 as a landmine was found planted on the tracks near Birandi station. Moreover, an anti-mine vehicle was affected in a landmine blast near Boramora jungle of East Singhbhum district in Jharkhand when the vehicle was on its way to Ghatshila which is bordering West Bengal.

The forces have decided to make a secured circle around Lalgarh and then proceed to the villages situated within that circle. The security forces advanced from the Sarenga route, securing the route towards Pingboni, near Goaltore. More CRPF forces, COBRA units joined the existing teams at Goaltore. A checkpost has been created at Ratanpur, near Pingboni by the PCAPA members to prevent the entry by the forces with bows and arrows and guns. The police force continued to patrol the already secured road from Pirakata to Lalgarh.

The Central government declared CPI (Maoist) as a banned militant group in India keeping in mind the growing unlawful activities by the group, while Government of West Bengal said earlier in the day that it was against banning the CPI (Maoist) and will counter such outfits politically. After that the spokesperson of CPI (Maoist), West Bengal State committee, Mr. Gaur Chakraborty was arrested and charged with Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act on 23 June 2009 for having connection with Lalgarh movement.

Second phase operation
The second phase of the operation started on 26 June 2009 from Goaltore route towards Lalgarh.

Day 9
The forces are expected to cover the stretch up to Ramgarh in the first leg. The COBRA forces moved ahead of the forces at night to sanitise the area of the operation, armed with Sniper guns and night vision telescopes. They were able to reach up to Kadasole village facing tough resistance from the Maoists on the way. The forces were attacked by the Maoists with .22 country-made guns which kept firing at the security forces as they fled from the area. The forces including the six companies of the Central Reserve Police Force, two companies of the State police and two companies of the Indian Reserve Battalion counterattacked the Maoists with mortars, light machine guns and AK-47s. Helicopters were used for air surveillance and feeding the ground troops with the information about the Maoists. Satellite images from RISAT — I was also used to track the movements of the Maoists. The Maoists also blasted some landmines, some of the landmines and an IED were defused safely by the bomb disposal squad. There have been no report of any casualties from either side.

Day 10
The forces started the operation from Kadasole towards Ramgarh. They had to face resistance from the Maoists near Mahultol village on the way, an area surrounded by forests. The Maoists fired at the forces and blasted landmines, the forces counter fired at the Maoists with mortars. The progress of the forces stalled for some time due to rain and as landmines were found on the way which were detonated later. The forces were able to capture Ramgarh at around 15:00 IST, where they would establish another base camp. An office of the Leftist trade union AITUC was burned down by the Moists when they were refused shelter in the building just before the security forces entered Ramgarh. They were greeted by the people who stood on the side of the road with smiling faces and offered drinking water to the forces. Another group of the force started moving from Lalgarh towards Barapelia village, where the PCPA leader Chhatrodhar Mahato lives, on the way to Ramgarh. However, the forces faced tough resistance near Aamdanga village, and had to return to Lalgarh.

Day 11
The forces patrolled the already claimed area in Lalgarh and discovered several IEDs and landmines. Two persons were arrested from Sarenga in adjoining Bankura district when planting land mines between Belepole and Kargil More. Explosives, detonators and firearms were recovered from them. Maoists also fired at around 01:30 IST from the jungles behind the police camp housed in Ramgarh High School taking advantage of the power cut in the area. However, the force switched on their search lights and fired back, making the Maoists to retreat back.

Day 12
The forces started a two pronged operation from Lalgarh and Kadasole towards Kantapahari.

References

External links

Lalgarh, Our Stand
An English subtitled documentary on the Lalgarh movement

Conflicts in 2009
2000s in West Bengal
2009 in India
Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
Manmohan Singh administration

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More proof that New York is the greatest city on earth: The owner of Bran Castle, better known as Dracula's Castle is a New Yorker, and he's willing to sell the building to anyone with 78 million dollars!
The castle is now owned by Dominic von Habsburg, the son of Princess Ileana of Romania who inherited the castle from her mother, Queen Marie. Von Habsburg lived in the castle until 1948 when, at the age of ten, he was forced to flee Romania as communists seized control of the country. He has lived in exile for the last sixty years, and now works as a furniture designer in New York.
Last year, decades after it was seized by the communist government, the castle was returned to von Habsburg's family. Now the tourist attraction is for sale.
For the New York Sun article on Dominic von Habsurg, click HERE.
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hey ananka do you think hollywood would totally ruin the originality of the book if they made Kiki Strike: inside the shadow city a movie? cuz there are some really good books i've read that would come out in movies years after i'd read them and they would be terrible, do think Ms. Miller will let them turn itinto a movie?
There may well be a movie someday, but you're right--it would be hard to do a good one. Maybe Tim Burton (my favorite director) could do a cool, creepy version.


SC District Lay Servant Ministries Training-April 28, 2018-Chartiton, First UMC-This class was originally scheduled for February 10, 2018 but due to weather was postponed until April 28, 2018.
Registration is $30.00 payable online. Deadline for registration is April 6, 2018.
Basic Course-Foundational course for all other courses. This course is the first step in becoming a Certified Lay Servant and must be completed.
Advanced Course-This course focuses on preparing participants for effective missional engagement within their communities and beyond. It's goal is to help participants have a better understanding of and develop a more holistic approach to participating in God's mission for the world.


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To protect public health and the environment from exposure to asbestos through the implementation of the Hawaii Administrative Rule, Title 11 Chapters 501 through 504 requirements, and the Neutral Administrative Inspection Scheme (NAIS) developed under the federal cooperative grant agreement with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
a. Respond to all complaints and service requests received.
b. Conduct HAR Chapter 11-501 through 11-504 related inspections.
d. Conduct asbestos permitted landfill inspections.
e. Conduct audits for asbestos training providers.
f. Identify outdated methods, develop and implement standard changes and amend state laws, rules, and operating procedures to be consistent with national requirements.
g. Secure adequate resources to effectively implement and maintain the program. Acquire state funding to match federal dollars, collect fees and utilize these fees for operating program costs.
h. Receive, review, and record asbestos renovation and demolition notifications and monitor for compliance.
i. Provide outreach services for each program through newsletters, informational meetings, brochures, and presentations to agencies/associations.
j. Implement the asbestos enforcement policy.
Maintain State of Hawaii asbestos abatement accreditation, certification, and registration systems for asbestos entities and individuals.
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Enjoy gourmet food, live entertainment, and a beautiful beach at Mihama American village!
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Enjoy exploring shops made from U.S. military housing from the past in Minatogawa.


The holidays are right around the corner, and that means time for fun holiday DIYs! We teamed up with The Pretty Life Girls to bring you two (adorable) stamped gift tag ideas that'll make gift giving easy & stylish. Plus, get two FREE downloadable gift tag designs and an exclusive discount code for 20% off sitewide.


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Eulasia vittata lineata es una subespecie de coleóptero de la familia Glaphyridae.

Distribución geográfica
Habita en Siria Turquía.

Referencias

Vittata lineata
Coleópteros de Turquía
Coleópteros de Siria


Need some high quality images to work on? High resolution images are those that are at least 300 dpi (dots per inch)... In layman's terms, high quality. When an image is less than 300 dpi, you will notice a loss in quality and an add-in of pixelation when printed.
In this video, tips are given on where to find high res images on the web, plus a cool trick to use with these images in Adobe Bridge.


Meet and surprised with these 9 wonderful tricks to paint your nails that will make it easier to fix when life and have an original and unique look.
All women know how difficult it is nail polish, and most of all, when we try to do some "nail art" or different nail decorations to help you have a very original and striking look. Some people prefer to go to beauty salons and barbershops for this type of manicure with decorations and pay a little more for incredible arrangements.
But with these 9 tricks that we bring you today, you can make the craziest decorations that cross through your head just a little imagination and pulse. Also they are quite fast, allowing you to try new styles that will make you look chic and sophisticated. All in a matter of minutes.
2. With an invisible hook you can make dots of different colors to your nails.
3. With an invisible hook you can make dots of different colors to your nails….
4. With small stickers can generate a chrome effect with two strong colors that stand out, though, do not forget to remove it slowly.
5. A great image to black and white, a little pulse is required but will be amazing.
6. With mesh and a sponge you can design wonderful nails with an original style.
8. The tapes also can be placed on top of the nail and form geometric shapes with them.
9. With some plastic polish smeared with gold you can give your nails a fantastic effect.


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Q: Blending edges of tile overlay I am working on a web map using Leaflet and am using purchased satellite imagery as the base map. We want to limit the extent of the high resolution image to the area of interest, so I have resampled the image from 2.4 to 20 meters, and cut out the relevant area from the 2.4 meter image (Using QGIS). I created tiles with gdal2tiles for both of these images, and have overlayed them in my map. Here is a screenshot of the result:

On some of the edges where the high resolution imagery ends, a black line appears. Looking at the tiles in GIMP there is no such border, and whether or not there is a black line is zoom dependent, so I suppose it's due to the rendering in the browser.
I tried to solve the problem by doing the resampling again at 21.6 meters and lining up the rasters so they would "nest", but the random black lines still appear.
Now I'm thinking of ways to blend the edge of the fine resolution image, or of the generated tiles directly. I could graduate the resolution so there isn't a "drop" from 2.4 to 21.6 meters, or use a transparency gradient. I'm not quite sure how to go about the first idea, but tried out the second in GIMP. I blended the edges of one tile and was happy with the result in the map. I don't want to do the tedious work of manually editing each tile, though. Blending the image before cutting into tiles doesn't work because of the resampling of the resolution.
What is causing this black line? Is there a known solution for this?

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package com.juls.rest.controllers.login;

import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.util.LinkedHashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpSession;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Scope;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PathVariable;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestParam;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ResponseBody;

import com.juls.model.Good;
import com.juls.model.User;
import com.juls.persist.GoodDAOImpl;
import com.juls.rest.services.GoodsService;

@Controller
@RequestMapping(value="/goods")
@Scope("request")
public class GoodsController {

	@Autowired Good selected;

	@RequestMapping(value="/all", method = RequestMethod.GET, produces = "application/json")
	public @ResponseBody List<Good> getAllGoods(){
		List<Good> resultList =  new GoodDAOImpl().getAll();
		return resultList;
	}

	@RequestMapping(value="/byCat/{category}", method = RequestMethod.GET, produces = "application/json")
	public @ResponseBody List<Good> getGoodsByCategory(@PathVariable("category")String category){
		GoodsService service = new GoodsService();
		return service.getGoodsByCategory(category);
	}

	@RequestMapping(value="/get/{goodId}", method = RequestMethod.GET, produces="application/json")
	public @ResponseBody Good get(@PathVariable("goodId")String goodId){
		if (!goodId.isEmpty()){
			Good good = new GoodDAOImpl().getById(goodId);
			if (null != good){
				selected.setId(good.getId());
				selected.setName(good.getName());
				selected.setPrice(good.getPrice());
				selected.setGoodInfo(good.getGoodInfo());
			}
			return good;
		}
		return null;
	}

	@RequestMapping(value="/sort", method = RequestMethod.GET, produces="application/json")
	public @ResponseBody Set<Good> sort(@RequestParam(value="query") String query, @RequestParam(value="by") String by, @RequestParam(value="direction") String direction,
			@RequestParam(value="category")String category){
		GoodsService gService = new GoodsService();
		return gService.doSort(query, by, direction, category);
	}

	@RequestMapping(value="/chosen", method = RequestMethod.GET, produces="application/json")
	public @ResponseBody Good getChosen(){
		return selected;
	}

	@RequestMapping(value= "/search/{query}", method=RequestMethod.GET, produces="application/json")
	public @ResponseBody Set<Good>searchForGood(@PathVariable("query") String query){
		GoodsService gsrvc = new GoodsService();
		return gsrvc.getSearchResult(query.trim());
	}

	@RequestMapping(value= "/search", method=RequestMethod.GET, produces="application/json")
	public @ResponseBody Set<Good>searchForGood(){
		GoodsService gsrvc = new GoodsService();
		return gsrvc.getSearchResult("");
	}
}

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As sales of personal computers spiral down toward typewriter-level numbers, manufacturers are scrambling, but those actually in the market for a new laptop may have reason to cheer.
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CUR hosts a biennial conference where faculty from across disciplines present on all topics relating to undergraduate research mentoring and programming. The GeoCUR Division has been especially active in presenting at the conference. Click on the links to the conference themes below to see a listing of select GeoCUR presentations.


The middle school years are important years in the lives of our students. The students spend this time preparing for high school. Developmentally our oldest students are growing and maturing into young adults. As they become independent learners they also shape their core values and more clearly define their character. We encourage our middle school students to become actively involved in their classes as well as extra-curricular activities including athletics, fine arts and academic and leadership experiences.
Sixth grade is the first year of middle school. This is a year filled with change, as the students move from classroom to classroom throughout the day, and are tied to daily changes in their schedules.
The fall of this first year of middle school is an ideal time to focus on study skills, to help the students cope with the responsibilities of tracking all of their assignments.
Religion in sixth grade focuses on the 7 Principles of Social Justice (Catholic Social Teaching), the Old Testament, and the use of the Visions weekly magazine. In the Old Testament we read, discuss, and do activities with the stories of Creation and Adam & Eve, the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph), and the life of Moses. The Visions magazine teaches the Sunday gospel with stories and activities.
In English, the students study grammar in a meaningful context, and analyze and use different writing strategies. The students give oral reports and write a research paper during their sixth grade year. In reading, students continue to work on reading skills and use novels as the basis of their literature study. Our aim is to help the students grow in their ability to read as well as encourage life-long reading.
The math program is a continuation of learning the processes begun in the lower grades, but with greater competency in the areas of place value, decimals, fractions, ratios and percents. The text book is supplemented with a basic introduction to pre-algebra. Through this program the students learn arithmetic skills in algebraic form. It is a very important step in helping the students be prepared for the algebra skills of the next few grades.
Sixth grade science focuses on physical science with an emphasis on matter, forces and motion. The students will be learning to develop their own lab procedures, write detailed lab reports, and will practice using the scientific method during their experiments. Our highlight is the annual sixth grade trip to Camp St. Croix in Hudson , Wisconsin . During this three day adventure, students strengthen old and develop new friendships as they discover the great outdoors.
The first trimester of Social Studies in sixth grade is spent learning Minnesota History. Students learn about the civilizations of first humans/Native Americans, the fur trade, and the the beginning of Europeans settling in Minnesota. The last two trimesters are spent learning about ancient civilizations. We read, discuss, and do activities covering the 7 characteristics of the civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, india, China, Greece, and Rome. The seven characteristics of civilization are stable food supply, social structure, government, religion, the arts, technology, and a written language.
We aspire to be a community of disciples who work, play, pray, and learn together. We encourage students to develop positive character traits and share their gifts and talents. In partnership with our parents, we encourage our students to be their personal best.
Seventh graders spend the year preparing for the Sacrament of Confirmation, including completing 30 hours of service. The preparation program used in Religion provides both intellectual and spiritual catechesis. Students further their study of Tradition, Scripture, and Divine Revelation, and begin to see how faith connects to life's choices. Finally, students become familiar with the Rite of Confirmation and come to see the sacrament as an important milestone in a life-long journey of faith.
English continues the tradition of incorporating writing, grammar, spelling, speaking, and listening skills in its curriculum. Specifically, students are given multiple opportunities to write in a variety of genres. Emphasis is placed on grammar skill lessons that lead to good writing. Time is also spent on improving the mechanics of students' writing, including spelling. Listening and speaking skills are practiced daily, culminating in the writing and delivery of a formal speech.
Using novels and biographies as the basis of study, Literature allows students to read and react to various authors and themes. They learn to recognize and use common literary devices, figurative language, and formats. They practice reading skills with teacher-selected works as well as personal choice texts. Finally, students practice connecting and comparing texts, concluding in a compare/contrast essay.
The focus of Pre-Algebra is to provide a strong foundation of the basic skills and concepts needed to be successful in both Algebra and any future high school math experience. The curriculum builds on what students know and challenges them to expand their thinking on working with integers, percents, decimals, and fractions. It also covers many of the beginning algebraic concepts, such as, writing and solving expressions, equations, and inequalities. Problem solving, logical reasoning, and critical thinking techniques are taught. While most seventh graders take Pre-Algebra, students do have the opportunity to test into Algebra at this level.
History class covers our country's development from the American Revolution to World War II. Through the study of history and related social sciences, students are provided with essential knowledge that will develop their understanding of themselves and others. In addition to the main text, students also use other sources of information including audio-visual materials, primary and secondary sources, and other historical documents. Methods of study, note-taking, and study skills are incorporated throughout the curriculum.
Science at this level focuses on living things and examines them at many different levels and in many different forms. Our main units of study in Life Science are organization oooof life, cells and cell processes, biochemistry, DNA and heredity, history of the earth, and anatomy and physiology. This class is lab-based, with numerous lab activities throughout the year. Students have the opportunity to work with compound microscopes, dissect some organisms, and complete a variety of engineering problem-solving activities.
We are a Christian community of eighth graders who work, play, pray, and learn together. Our goal is for the students to respect all members of our Nativity family. We encourage all students to develop their gifts and talents to share with our community. During eighth grade, students will participate in a Confirmation retreat, and those who have been prepared in seventh grade will receive the sacrament of Confirmation. In religion classes, study will center on prayer, discipleship, morality, social justice and study of the Old Testament.
The English instruction includes further opportunities to develop written and oral expression. Nativity students utilize grammar and vocabulary skills in their many writing experiences. In the course of the school year, each student will write, reflect, share, revise, edit, present, persuade, narrate, inform, summarize, and more through various assignments and activities. Eighth grade Literature is a combination of teacher directed and independent reading. The students will read and study specific novels as a class while practicing various comprehension strategies. Students also have the opportunity to explore various texts of their own choosing to further develop their enjoyment of reading.
Eighth grade algebra offers several levels to provide students with a pace of curriculum that will allow them to work at their ability level. Accelerated Algebra is a rigorous comprehensive algebra 1 course. Students who successfully complete this class will have the opportunity to go directly into high school geometry in the ninth grade. The other class introduces all of the algebra 1 concepts, providing a solid foundation in the essentials of algebra. Eighth grade Geometry is offered to those students that successfully completed the algebra 1 course as a 7th grader.
In eighth grade Earth Science, students will study Earth and its place in the universe. The curriculum is divided into four areas: oceanography, geology, astronomy, and meteorology. The goal of this course is to better understand the planet we live on, how it works, and why. Throughout the year, students will be exploring area geology and the impact Earth Science has on their daily lives. Eighth grade science students also participate in the Nativity Science Fair.
The main focus of eighth grade Social Studies is the study of geography. Map skills and geographic themes learned in the first few weeks are applied in lessons about regions and countries throughout the year. The students also participate in a program where they drafts countries and follow current events. Students engage in numerous critical thinking exercises that highlight the global nature of their world.


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Published on Pambazuka News, by Samir Bensaid, June 7, 2011.
While both North–South partnerships and South–South partnerships have strengths and limitations, linking these in networked models is an effective way to mobilise expertise and funding and achieve success, writes Samir Bensaid, with reference to the example of ONEP (Morocco) and SNDE (Mauritania).
While both North–South partnerships and South–South partnerships have strengths and limitations, linking these in networked models is an effective way to mobilise expertise and funding and achieve success. Such a networked partnership, involving six public water operators from Europe and two from Africa, was developed to improve access to water in Mauritania. The partnership rests on a solid basis of shared public service principles. A crucial factor in the partnership is the contribution of the Moroccan state water company ONEP (National Drinking Water Supply Company), one of Africa's best performing public water operators.
At the United Nations' Millennium Summit held in September 2000, the world's leaders adopted the Millennium Declaration aimed at reducing extreme poverty and setting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). One of the objectives of the MDGs was to halve the number of people with no access to clean drinking water and sanitation by 2015.
Various evaluation reports have underlined the fact that the countries of the South are far from achieving the MDGs on safe drinking water and sanitation; for the most part they are not even on the road to doing so. This is particularly true for the sub-Saharan African countries.
Certain recommendations were made to support countries of the South. These included the involvement of the private sector (commonly public–private partnerships (PPPs) or private sector participation (PSP)), essentially by delegating the public services' mission of providing drinking water supplies. This approach was emphatically presented for many years as the magic solution to all the problems.
The success of an initiative of this scope essentially depends on political support at the highest level from the government of the recipient country. Institutional aspects and governance of both the quality of human resources and their organisation are also important, even more so perhaps than the financing and implementation of the investments and infrastructure for water and sanitation.
Successful implementation involves setting clear strategic and political objectives to mainstream access to safe drinking water and sanitation, and thinking outside the box rather than opting for ready-made solutions. It involves creating tailor-made solutions that are concrete and designed for each specific situation.
The ultimate aim is to upgrade the level and develop capacities of public operators specifically in countries of the South, so they can deliver efficient, high-performing services that make general access to safe drinking water and sanitation a reality. This can be achieved by promoting South–South public partnership models that are supported by a broad network from the North and managed according to principles of shared know-how and solidarity. (full text and Notes 1 – 6).


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Q: Where to report issues of OpenJDK when you're not a OpenJDK developer? First I thought it's strange that there's no link to a bug tracker on the OpenJDK project page, then I found bugs.openjdk.java.net, but it's only for accredited project members. How do people outside the ivory tower contribute issues? There's the mailing list and some people call sending issues and patches to a mailing list bug tracking... but the development and usage of bug tracker contradicts.

A: I wanted also to report a bug and the only place I could find is the following one:
http://bugreport.java.com/
I hope it is the correct place, Oracle engineer might end up creating an issue in the bugs.openjdk.java.net if it happen to be really an bug.
Hope this helps

A: Go to http://bugs.java.com or jump straight to the report page:    http://bugreport.java.com/
My interpretation of their FAQ is that this will be triaged by an Oracle engineer, and if accepted it will be assigned a number and (usually) become visible in both Oracles + the OpenJDK bug databases.
It would be really helpful if this info/link were on the OpenJDK bug page too. The database split is already confusing enough - when your goal is to contribute to OpenJDK but you find yourself at an Oracle-branded page, it seems like you've gone to the wrong place.
UDPATE (Nov 2019): To add Additional information to a bug (FAQ point 6):

File a new incident with the subject line "Additional information to JDK-XXXXXXX'. Replace XXXXXXX with the reference number received when the report is filed. We are working on a system where you will be able to provide additional information to the existing bug.

Now, if you're curious who can get direct access to the bug database...
From (https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/):

Everyone with OpenJDK Author status or above has a [JDK Bug System] account which may be used to create and edit bugs. Those without accounts can view bugs anonymously.

To understand that, you need to navigate the various "role" definitions:
http://openjdk.java.net/bylaws#author
From Section 7:

An Author for a Project is a Contributor who has been granted the right to create changesets intended to be pushed into a specific Project's code repositories, but does not have the right to push such changesets directly.

From Section 2:

A Contributor is a Participant who has signed the Oracle Contributor Agreement (OCA), or who works for an organization that has signed that agreement or its equivalent and makes contributions within the scope of that work and subject to that agreement. A Contributor may submit changes larger than a simple patch, may propose new Projects, and may take on various roles within Groups and Projects.

and ...

A Participant is an individual who has subscribed to one or more OpenJDK mailing lists. A Participant may post messages to a list, submit simple patches, and make other kinds of small contributions.

So the bar is set pretty high. :-/


1. Be very specific about whether you need a certified medical record or an abstract. A medical malpractice case involving a specific admission would be difficult to evaluate without a full certified copy of the medical records.
3. Use a logical system for staying on top of medical records requests so your office will know when to send a second request.
4. Don't accept a poor quality copy of a medical record. A poor copy may be light, misfed into the copier so that only part of the page is visible, or missing pages. A copy that is double sided, with the pages jumbled and placed front to back in random order, will be almost impossible to follow.
5. Don't put yellow or pink highlighting on the medical records you forward to the expert. The expert may have to explain that highlighting in a deposition one day. The other side may assert that the highlighting assumes the expert cannot find the relevant material without hints from the attorney.
6. Do have someone with medical knowledge organize records before they are sent to an expert or consultant. Organizing means using hospital or nursing home tabs to divide medical records into sections. You will save money on expert witness bills by sending organized records.
7. Don't jumble medical records. Hospital and nursing home records should be organized chronologically within each section of the records. For example, the physician orders should start with the initial set written when the patient was admitted to the hospital, and end with the discharge order.
8. Don't send your expert your only copy of the medical records. You may need to refer to them while the expert has them.
9. Don't send medical records by a method by which they cannot be tracked if lost.
10. Don't send physician's office records without identifying the name of the physician on a cover sheet or without the records request letter. It may be difficult for the expert or consultant to determine the author of the records without this identification.


Completely engrossed in her descriptions of tweezing, plucking, and lasering away hairs in an attempt to become smooth enough for a world accustomed to glossy Photoshopped magazines, my hand strayed to my chin. I stroked it absentmindedly. A sudden prickle interrupted my reverie.
I ran to the upstairs bathroom, turned on the vanity light, and twisted my head this way and that in the mirror to try to get a purchase on the errant hair. I thought I had it between my tweezer tips, but came away with nothing. I checked — it was still there under my fingertips. I grabbed again and again, until finally — satisfaction. I checked my chin. All seemed smooth. I went back to the book.
Mara dives deep into the physiology and psychology of hair removal, as she does with all of the topics in her book, from fainting to hemorrhoids. She explores hair removal in ancient cultures (complete with clam shell tweezers), speaks with fashion execs (their position is that no body hair is a good body hair), and tries to get her all-natural family on board with her hair removal obsession (and learns that her mother makes an exception for her upper lip hair). Even as she learns from an anthropology professor that hairlessness is associated with childishness, which is seen as more attractive — which yes is SUPER CREEPY — she keeps up the depilatory routine.
My awareness of my status as a hairy Eastern European lady came in junior high. I had a boyfriend — a tall, blond, French Canadian cellist. He was a grade ahead of me. He let me know, shortly after we started "dating," that some girls in his class, tall blondes themselves, were jealous.
Well thanks, junior high boyfriend.
I'm not a fanatic about removing hairs other than the ones that sprout from my chin. I semi-regularly shave below the knee and a few other crucial places. My sister is trying to convince me to stop plucking my over-plucked eyebrows (I swear, a few years ago thin was in) so they can get professionally shaped, and even tagged me in a few inspirational Instagram stories where hairy forehead caterpillars are transformed into more shapely and socially acceptable hairy forehead caterpillars. I have hobbity toe hair, but that just seems like an unnecessary amount of upkeep.
Those chin hairs, though! I read Mara's descriptions of exotic and intense hair removal experiences in Spain and India, and of the inherent hairlessness of some Southeast Asian women. She strapped herself to a wall in Spain for a waxing session, got burned by lasers in Bangkok, and had her whole face painfully threaded in India. My hand strayed back to my face. I checked to make sure I'd really tweezed out that one hair. Yep, still gone. How about the one at the top of my neck? Good, good. What about that jerk that shows up at the corner of my jaw, under my left earlobe?
I trotted back upstairs, prepared to contort myself in the name of — what? Social acceptability? Femininity? Self-love? — and pluck that sucker. Whatever I was doing it for, at least I was in good company with Mara, and most other women.
After all of her research, hair removal, and remorse, Mara eventually confesses her hairiness to her husband-to-be, who is predictably unfazed. And my husband and friends probably wouldn't notice if I let those little hairs go wild. But I sure would.
Courtney Naliboff is North Haven island's only year-round Jewish resident (except for her daughter). She is the author of the Salt Water Cure column for Working Waterfront, and blogs as the Frozen Chosen for Bangor Daily News. She also teaches music, theater and English, swims long distances in cold water, and is a volunteer EMT.


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The Glasgow Airport Rail Link (GARL) is a proposed link between Glasgow City Centre and Glasgow Airport. The original plans for an airport rail link were proposed during the 2000s to directly link Glasgow Central station with Glasgow Airport in Scotland. The link was intended for completion by 2013 and would have had a service of four trains per hour via Paisley Gilmour Street railway station.

On 17 September 2009 the rail link was cancelled as part of public spending cuts.

In 2014, proposals were in place to resurrect the project dependent on the outcome of the Scottish independence referendum.

In October 2016, plans were resurrected to build a railway link to Glasgow Airport. The journey time of 16.5 minutes has also been proposed. Under current plans the line would be opened in 2025.

In 2019, it was proposed to deliver the project as part of a wider Glasgow Metro network, using a new light rail line via Govan.

Route
GARL would have run from a reconstructed Platform 12 at Glasgow Central on the former Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway, Ayrshire Coast Line and Inverclyde Line; via Cardonald, Hillington East and Hillington West, to Paisley Gilmour Street station. It would then have run along the Inverclyde Line branching-off just before ,  onto a new purpose-built 1.2 mile (1.9 km) line which would have taken it over the M8 motorway into the airport station, situated close to the main terminal building at Glasgow Airport.

Construction of the link
The Scottish Parliament on 29 November 2006 passed the GARL bill by 118 votes to 8, thus allowing the construction of the route to begin. Construction was to be in phases with the re-location of football pitches in the route's path at Paisley St James scheduled for 2007, before route clearing and track work in 2007 and 2008. The cost of the route was estimated at £170m, with inflation increasing the cost to a potential £210m.

The Ayrshire and Inverclyde lines are very busy with passenger and freight traffic. To provide capacity for trains serving the airport, the GARL plans included the installation of a bi-directional third track in the centre of the existing two between Shields Junction at the Glasgow end and Arkleston Junction, approximately  east of Paisley Gilmour Street, and the installation of an additional two tracks between Arkleston Junction and a re-configured Wallneuk Junction immediately east of Gilmour Street where the Ayrshire and Inverclyde lines split before entering the station.

The most controversial proposal in the scheme was the building of the line on a viaduct over playing fields in the Paisley St. James area and into Glasgow Airport. After much discussion, SPT assured local residents that the playing fields would be returned to original use, with even better facilities such as under-soil drainage and new changing rooms. Using a one-piece bridge design, GARL was to cross the M8 motorway and into the airport.

The scheme was also criticised for the absence of direct connections to the rest of the Scottish railway network which would bypass Glasgow Central - historically the two options for doing this have been Glasgow Crossrail and the electrification of the Shotts Line to Edinburgh. In May 2008, First ScotRail announced that the Shotts Line had been route cleared for Class 158 and Class 170 DMU trains to operate on the line and that an increase in services was likely in the near future.

In 2008, control of the GARL project passed from SPT to Transport Scotland who would have overseen the building of the route. Overhead catenary work and a re-modelling of Shields Junction over the past year have already taken place in connection with GARL.  In December 2008, Transport Scotland announced that the tender competition will begin in spring 2009, meaning GARL would have been operational in early 2013.

Rolling stock
In the proposals drawn up by Strathclyde Partnership for Transport, Class 334 units are shown to work the route. However, speculation surrounds actual rolling stock plans for GARL with the likelihood of First ScotRail using 4-car EMUs rather than a traditional 3-car unit. First ScotRail formerly used 4-car British Rail Class 322 units on its Glasgow Central/ to North Berwick service - themselves ex-airport rail link trains, having been originally built to serve Stansted Airport near London.

In April 2008, First ScotRail placed a bid to tender for a new build of railway carriages for the SPT network of 120 vehicles. Subsequently, on 11 July 2008, Transport Scotland announced that 38 Class 380 trains have been ordered for use on Ayrshire and Inverclyde services and also the Glasgow Airport Rail Link. With the latter project cancelled, the additional units will be put to use on other services in the future.

Cancellation
On 17 September 2009, the Scottish Government cancelled the airport branch component of the GARL project amid concerns over the need for public spending cuts. However, elements of the GARL plans that upgraded the Glasgow–Paisley lines (including replacement of life-expired signalling, provision of two additional platform at Glasgow Central, and installation of the additional tracks between Shields and Wallneuk Junction) were excluded from the cancellation decision and instead taken forward as the separate Paisley Corridor Improvements project, which was completed in 2012.

As part of the driver training programme for the route and new rolling stock, design and media company TotalizeMedia were hired to create a simulation of the infrastructure. This simulation was built using a professional derivative of the railway simulator Train Simulator / RailWorks. With the cancellation of the project, TotalizeMedia redirected the development into a home simulation title.

Planned reinstatement of the link
After the project was cancelled, a tram-train line has been proposed to connect Glasgow Airport with the City Centre using a one-mile tram line to the Airport from the Inverclyde Line.

On 3 July 2014, an article in Glasgow's Evening Times newspaper - jointly written by Prime Minister David Cameron and Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander - said: "Glasgow plans to create a £1.1 billion infrastructure fund that will support projects such as the city centre-airport rail link, major improvements to the region's roads and bus network, and the development of new employment sites."  The proposals would entail a 50/50 investment with £500m each coming from the UK central government in Westminster and the Scottish Government in Holyrood, but being dependent on a "No" vote in the Scottish Independence referendum.  A resurrected GARL would be included as one of the projects which could possibly be funded by the fund.

2016 Proposals
In October 2016, plans were resurrected to build a railway link to Glasgow Airport as part of the Glasgow City Deal. A journey time of 16.5 minutes was also proposed.
The outline proposals included two options:

 Light Rail Option: Cost of £144 million; Running between Glasgow Central to Glasgow Airport via Paisley Gilmour Street railway station using tram-train rolling stock.

 Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) pod option: Proposed link off the existing Inverclyde Line to the airport via a relocated Paisley St James. It was described as having the following features: Passengers would travel on the Glasgow Central/Wemyss Bay - Gourock line and disembark at a relocated Paisley St James station. They would then join the Personal rapid transit pod system and four minutes later arrive at the airport. A new station was proposed to be built at junction 29 of the M8 for interchange (relocated Paisley St James) to the existing line and then a PRT pod link to the airport.

It was claimed that either scheme could be opened by 2025.

Council leads approved the light rail option between Glasgow Airport and Glasgow Central, with construction proposed to begin in 2022 and be completed by 2025.

In 2019, the initial plans to create a direct light rail link were once again shelved. One of the reasons stated was concerns of overcrowding at Glasgow Central. A new proposal was then suggested to adopt the cheaper Personal Rapid Transit system instead between Glasgow Airport and Paisley Gilmour Street. Glasgow MP Paul Sweeney criticised Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken for supporting the downgraded option to use the people mover system to the airport, instead of light rail that would be integrated with the main Paisley Gilmour Street railway station and the wider city region rail network.

2019 Proposal
In 2019 as part of a wider £10 billion plan for a 'Glasgow Metro' network, the Glasgow Connectivity Commission endorsed light rail instead of the PRT option and proposed linking Glasgow airport to Braehead and the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital with a segregated light rail line to Glasgow Central via Govan, instead of using tram-trains. The first phase was approved by Glasgow and Renfrewshire council leaders in early 2020. The initial project would link Glasgow airport to Paisley Gilmour Street train station. Construction won't begin until full approval from both councils is given.

See also
 Edinburgh to Glasgow Improvement Programme
 Western Rail Approach to Heathrow

References

External links
, Transport Scotland
GARL Committee, Scottish Parliament
SPT promotional video
Derailment of Glasgow Airport Link WRONG
Glasgow Airport Rail Link simulator

Abandoned rail transport projects in the United Kingdom
Transport in Glasgow
Airport rail links in the United Kingdom


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De Pere hires new volleyball coach
De Pere High School has hired Patrick Brocker III as its new volleyball coach. Press Times File Photo
DE PERE – De Pere High School has announced the hiring of Patrick Brocker III as its varsity volleyball head coach.
Brocker has been a coach in the Redbirds' program since 2013.
He led the freshman team for one season and has been the junior varsity head coach the past six seasons.
Patrick Brocker III
He is also the head coach of the De Pere Diggers 14's club team.
Before joining the De Pere High School staff, he held coaching positions at Denmark and Green Bay Southwest high schools.
A 2013 graduate of UW-Green Bay, Brocker is a credit operations specialist for Associated Bank.
"Since coming to De Pere, my wife and I have fallen in love with the community, and I am grateful for the opportunity to lead the volleyball program," Brocker said. "The commitment of the athletes here is so impressive. There is a lot of talent in this program, and they should be a fun group to watch."
Brocker will replace Stephen Gladwell, who led the program to a 14-31 overall record this past season and a tie for sixth place in the Fox River Classic Conference.
"I have high expectations for this team, but at the end of the day, the most important thing for me is that the girls enjoy and are proud of their time as a student-athlete," Brocker added. "This is the players' team. I am here to help them get as much out of their volleyball experience as possible."
De Pere athletics director Jeff Byczek said, "Coach Brocker has been a tremendous Redbird for many years. He comes from a volleyball family. He has done a tremendous job growing as a coach at the sub-varsity levels, and his personality is a great fit for our program. We couldn't be more excited to have PJ take the lead."
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I've always been fascinated by the issue of personality – how/why people do what they do and say what they say. One of the best, most useful guides to personality I've ever found is the Keirsey Temperament Sorter, based on the now-classic books Please Understand Me and Please Understand Me II.
While all of these things measure ways we respond to different people and situations, introversion/extroversion is the one that is most visible to other people – and it can even be easier for us to recognize about ourselves.
For example, the world loves extroverts. They are the successful, capable, results-oriented individuals who always seem to be happier and healthier than everyone else. Unfortunately, introverts are frequently perceived by others as just the opposite. They may not luck happy, healthy, or successful, but that doesn't mean they aren't. Looks, after all, can be deceiving.
Let's take a minute to look at the things that identify introverts and extroverts, and see where you think you might fall on the spectrum. And, if you're curious as to how your level of happiness measures up to that of others, you might want to take this free personal happiness assessment.
You can't stand to be the center of attention.
You feel more energized and comfortable when you spend time alone.
Your thoughts often turn inward, even to the point of seeming to ignore what's going on around you.
You may choose to stay quiet in public, even if you have the right answer to a question or pertinent information to add to a conversation.
You enjoy one-on-one conversations with people with whom you feel comfortable.
You don't have many friends, but the ones you do have are very, very close.
Your top concern is not the approval of others, nor is your self-worth derived from it.
You prefer to work alone, or in very small groups.
Introverts also have trouble dealing with change, but their ability to focus is much stronger than that of the extroverts. While the extroverts are chattering away, their introvert counterparts are calmly and quietly listening to what they have to say, even as they're wondering at the sheer volume of seemingly shallow thoughts spilling from their lips. On the other hand, the extroverts think the introverts are kind of strange too. Here are some of the ways in which they're different.
You thrive on being the center of attention, and you even demand it sometimes, with your loud, boisterous manner.
You feel more energized and comfortable when you're with other people (and the more, the better), even if you're with a group of strangers.
You don't let strangers stay strangers for long; you immediately introduce yourself and think of everyone you meet as your new friends.
Your circle of friends and acquaintances is broad and crowded, but your relationships are not always very close – at least not compared to those of the introverts.
You are quick to give your opinions on everything, whether anyone has asked for them or not.
You generally talk more than you listen, and you usually disclose too much information to everyone around you.
You are very easily distracted and often move from one task to another without completing any of them.
You crave social recognition and the positive appraisal of others, and you may feel like a failure if you don't obtain it.
If you resonated with statements in both of the above-mentioned categories, you may not be an introvert OR an extrovert.
Most people have both introverted and extroverted qualities. If you agreed with a mixture of the above statements, you may qualify as an ambivert, and that is a good thing. Really. The somewhat ambidextrous ability to thrive in multiple environments and situations usually means you'll have more personal and social success, as well as better health and well-being than either the true introverts or extroverts.
Love your post! guess I fall in the Introvert category hehe..