That slinky went down the stairs FAST. We zipped past that dangerous season, and it seems we've jumped straight into summer. Hot and the humidity factor is rising.
But sticky is no excuse for not hoofing it in to work. Rain will still force me into the car, but just because we're above 80 in the afternoon is not enough to stop me from taking to the streets. And mornings have been beautiful!
The poor little fella! To be cut down so brutally in his prime by a riding mower!
Some day…when I'm ALLLLLLL chopped up!
I'll never forget ya, little buddy!
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But I don't understand. It's not a future sign. It's a current sign. Maybe a sign of the future but that's a sign right now in this here present. I'm so confused! Now, not in the future.


Cayman Parrots Photo by Stuart MailerThe sight of a pair of Cayman parrots is a familiar one to many Caymanians. You are more likely to hear the raucous squawking of the National Bird of the Cayman Islands before actually seeing one, especially in the early morning and late afternoon when they are most vocal.
The magnificat Cayman Brac Parrot. Image by Simone ScottThe next time you take a hike through the Mastic Trail or visit the Cayman Brac Parrot Reserve, you could just find yourself standing on your own land.
The Cayman parrot is facing a combination of threats which an international expert says could see the bird extinct within forty years if action is not taken to preserve the habitat the parrots need. Frank Rivera-Milán from the US Fish and Wildlife Service has been counting parrots in the Cayman Islands since Hurricane Ivan in 2004. During a presentation of his work here over the last eight years, Rivera-Milán issued a stark warning about the national birds and the threats they face which could in the face of another catastrophic event see them disappear.
Cayman Brac Parrot. image by Phil ButlerPaul Watler from the National Trust has been plunging deep into the brush and woodlands of Cayman Brac searching for nesting and breeding grounds for the Cayman Brac Parrot.
The Bird SquawkerCayman Wildlife Rescue, a programme of the National Trust, has been testing a Cayman parrot deterrent device with great success.
A Florida–based company, called Bird Busters, has created a custom device which is programmed specifically to ward off Cayman parrots from crops. The device, called a Bird Squawker, plays back distress calls and alarm calls from Cayman parrots, cries of predatory hawks, gunshot noises and digital sound effects in a random pattern to confuse and scare offending birds.


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Welcome to Colour INKspiration 41.
Every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month the Colour INKspiration crew create projects with a given colour palette. You can join in the fun too, by creating your own work of art and uploading the image to our Facebook Page HERE.
This week we are using our Regals Collection to inspire you all.
Choose any three colours from this collection plus any basics for your project.
My project for this week was based on Bronwyn Eastley's Share What you Love Pocket Card Tutorial but I used the Wonderful Moments Stamp Set.
This card is a great fold and simple to make. Its a bit hard to see but I have used the Tufted Embossing Folder to create a pretty embossed background behind the bride.
I used Blackberry Bliss, Rich Razzleberry, Smokey Slate for my cardstock, and a touch of Crushed Curry from the special release Watercolour Pencils available last month for the brides hair.
I love how this turned out. So much so, we made this very card at class this week!
I hope you liked my project. If you would like to learn how to create this card fold then pop on over to Bronwyn's Tutorial store HERE.
Now it's time to hop on over to the lovely Tanya Bell and see what she has created for you all.
I thought I would pop by today to share with all you this brilliant Pocket Card design by Bronwyn Eastley.
I have used our beautiful Healing Hugs stamp set to create the centre piece of my pocket car, but you can easily change up the design to add whatever suits the occasion!
These clever cards are designed so that you pull out the card from the pocket to add your message.
Despite the look they are actually really simple to make.
I have used Stamps from the Timeless textures stamp set in the background, and its a bit hard to see, but i created a very soft background layer on the white cardstock using Sahara Sand and the Sheet Music stamp. These two stamp sets are great for creating interesting textured backgrounds and adding depth to your cards.
Do you want to know how to create your own Pocket Card? Pop on over to Bronwyn's tutorial shop HERE and see all her amazing designs!
Welcome to another week of CASEing the Catty!
This week we are CASEing the Tranquil Textures section of the Annual Catalogue between pages 154 – 163.
We would love you to play along with the challenge to. So take the hop, create your own project using inspiration from the catalogue images from the given section and then pop a picture of it on our Facebook Page HERE.
I thought it was a great colour combination and not one I would naturally think to use myself, so I had to have a play!
Now I didn't mess with the design too much at all for this card because I LOVED the texture and layers that the Timeless Textures stamp set created on this card. Not to mention the gorgeous green! So my card ended up VERY similar to the original.
I used Granny Apple Green for my card base which is then stamped with one of the textured stamps from Timeless Textures. I also chose to use the rose from Healing Hugs for my card and Crushed Curry, because if you have been following me on Facebook you will know I have been featuring this stamp set heaps lately!!!
I think the overall effect of this card is quite lovely. I hope you do too!
Now its time to hop on over to Judy's blog and see what she has created this week.
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Hi everyone and welcome to this weeks Colour INKspiration 39 – Subtles.
For this challenge we are using the subtle colour palette, where you can choose 3 subtle colours plus any basics to create your project. Remember, once you have created it jump on over to the Colour INKspiration facebook group to upload your pic for the challenge right HERE.
Since our colour shake up in June, the Subtles collection has by far been my stand out favourite colour group. There is such a range of pretty, coordinating hues to play with, and Soft Sea Foam is by far one of my stand out colours!
However, today I decided to create my card in hues of blue using my current favourite stamp set – Healing Hugs!
I used a tutorial by the very talented Jennifer McGuire called Stamped see through cards to create tonights card. I thought Healing hugs and the leaves would work perfectly to create a similar look to the one she creates on her video HERE.
These cards work by layering all the individual pieces together so they slightly overlap, then adhering them, so the card front is see through in the gaps. It's quite a clever and effective card and I'm really pleased with how it turned out.
My flowers are coloured using Pool Party ink, the gently using a sponge dauber around the edges to add some Balmy Blue for extra depth. Add a bit of Pear Pizzaz for the leaves and my challenge was complete!
I hope you enjoyed my creation this week. Don't forget to upload yours by Monday 20th of August.
Now its time to hop on over to Jackie's blog to see what she has created!
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This is a gorgeous section of the Annual Catalogue. There's lots of products I want to get my hands on in here!
Today I decided to CASE the image on page 135 – and from the looks of the teams projects this design has been quite popular!
I changed the orientation of my card, and because I wanted a colour card base, I stamped my images onto Whisper White before fussy cutting them and adhering them to the card. I then cut around the outline of the images again for the card front.
I love playing with Healing Hugs, so I knew that the flower was what I wanted to use to create this card. I also combined it with the Stitched Labels Framelits – You NEED those framelits in your crafting stash! They are amazing! I stamped two of the flowers in Calypso Coral and the other flower was created by inking up in Daffodil Delight, then sponging the edges with Calypso Coral using an ink dauber. Its a gorgeous effect that you can use on any flower image.
I hope you enjoyed my project today. Now it's time to hop on over to Kathryn's blog and see what she has created this week!
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Welcome to Colour INKspiration Challenge #38!
What is a Colour INKspiration Challenge I hear you say….well it's where the design team take a specific colour palette every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month, and create a project using those colours. You can play along too over at our Facebook Group by creating your own project and uploading an image for us all to be inspired by!
Not a member of the group? No Problem…just click HERE and request to join, but make sure you answer those questions first!
For this challenge we are creating with a very pretty colour Palette of Powder Pink; Gray Granite; Berry Burst; Whisper White and Basic Black as inspired by the image below.
I have an upcoming Follow Your Dreams Class, so I decided that was the set I needed to pull out and get playing with for this challenge. Are you loving all the new catalogue items? Have you found your favourites so far?
Here is my project for Colour INKspiration 38.
I started by stamping the large dream catcher with versamark and heat embossing with Gold embossing powder. I then cut out three smaller dream catchers in Powder Pink, Berry Burst and Gray Granite and used the long feathers for my Gold dreamcatcher. I even added some Tranquil Textures Sprinkles tied on to metallic thread to give my dreamcatcher a 3D feel. I softly sponged the background using one of the smaller dreamcatcher circles as a mask.
It is a bit of a fiddly card to make, I love how it turned out with all the layers!
Here's a bit of a closer look for you.
I hope you enjoyed my project. Now it's time to hop on over to Kathryn's blog and see what she has created for you all.
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where every Sunday the Design Team Copy and Share or Selectively Edit images from a given section of the catalogue. This week we are CASEing from pages 38 – 51 of the Annual Catalogue.
This section is full of beautiful inspiration, so it was difficult to know what to CASE, but as it happens – I realised yesterday that I hadn't created a card like I normally do when my daughter performs.
Yesterday she was staring in Into The Woods Jnr. I love being able to create an individual card that relates to the performance.
I used the basic layout but for mine I used the new Subtle embossing Folder as the background. I am LOVING this folder for just that bit of texture in the background without overwhelming the images on the card. And Of course – what better set to use for Into The Woods than our Rooted in Nature Bundle!
I really like the effect of the Tree Stump stamped on Vellum. It gives a more subtle appearance on your cards. And those brilliant embossing dies to create the leaves…whose not loving those!
TheLabeller Alphabet allowed me to create whatever sentiment I wanted! Don't you love being able to get as creative as you want!
I hope you enjoyed this weeks project. Now it's time to hop on over to Monique and see what she has created for you all!
So it's been a while as I'm sure you will all be aware, but life has been SUPER busy lately! But I have jumped on board for CTC 180 – Favourite Retiring Project.
Today was no easy decision at all. Retiring time always brings mixed feelings of sadness saying goodbye to my favourites and anticipation for all the new goodies. I honestly couldn't decide which was my absolute favourite for today's challenge, so I combined a few favourites to create my project today.
I think if I was honest, my absolute favourite retiring item would have to be my Large Number Framelits. I'm not entirely sure what I am going to do without those….who am I kidding, they haven't even moved out of my 'current' framelits basket to my retired but keeping' basket yet, so I will continue to use them for a LONG time yet!!! I truly believe they are a MUST HAVE item!
My other favourites are the Rainbow Builder Framelits and the Myths and Magic Bundle – so I added them all to this project that I created for my niece!
I think this card pretty much sums up my favourite retiring projects! I will miss all of these products so much! Lucky for you, you still have a few more days to get your hands on our retiring products before they disappear forever. I've learnt the hard way not to delay or you miss out! Don't be like me and make sure you place your order before May 31st!
I look forward to sharing some of our new goodies with you in the next CASEing the Catty hops!
Now its time to hop on over to the lovely Monique and see what she will miss the most!
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Lit2Go
by Elizabeth Keckley
Chapter 7: Washington in 1862-1863
Country of Origin: United States of America
Source: Keckley, E. (1868) Behind the Scenes London, England: Partridge and Oakey
Readability:
Flesch–Kincaid Level: 7.4
Genre: Memoir
Keywords: 19th century literature, african american literature, american history, american literature, autobiography, behind the scenes, biography
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Keckley, E. (1868). Chapter 7: Washington in 1862-1863. Behind the Scenes (Lit2Go Edition). Retrieved January 22, 2020, from https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/87/behind-the-scenes/1452/chapter-7-washington-in-1862-1863/
Keckley, Elizabeth. "Chapter 7: Washington in 1862-1863." Behind the Scenes. Lit2Go Edition. 1868. Web. <https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/87/behind-the-scenes/1452/chapter-7-washington-in-1862-1863/>. January 22, 2020.
Elizabeth Keckley, "Chapter 7: Washington in 1862-1863," Behind the Scenes, Lit2Go Edition, (1868), accessed January 22, 2020, https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/87/behind-the-scenes/1452/chapter-7-washington-in-1862-1863/.
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In the summer of 1862, freedmen began to flock into Washington from Maryland and Virginia. They came with a great hope in their hearts, and with all their worldly goods on their backs. Fresh from the bonds of slavery, fresh from the benighted regions of the plantation, they came to the Capital looking for liberty, and many of them not knowing it when they found it. Many good friends reached forth kind hands, but the North is not warm and impulsive. For one kind word spoken, two harsh ones were uttered; there was something repelling in the atmosphere, and the bright joyous dreams of freedom to the slave faded—were sadly altered, in the presence of that stern, practical mother, reality. Instead of flowery paths, days of perpetual sunshine, and bowers hanging with golden fruit, the road was rugged and full of thorns, the sunshine was eclipsed by shadows, and the mute appeals for help too often were answered by cold neglect. Poor dusky children of slavery, men and women of my own race—the transition from slavery to freedom was too sudden for you! The bright dreams were too rudely dispelled; you were not prepared for the new life that opened before you, and the great masses of the North learned to look upon your helplessness with indifference—learned to speak of you as an idle, dependent race. Reason should have prompted kinder thoughts. Charity is ever kind.
One fair summer evening I was walking the streets of Washington, accompanied by a friend, when a band of music was heard in the distance. We wondered what it could mean, and curiosity prompted us to find out its meaning. We quickened our steps, and discovered that it came from the house of Mrs. Farnham. The yard was brilliantly lighted, ladies and gentlemen were moving about, and the band was playing some of its sweetest airs. We approached the sentinel on duty at the gate, and asked what was going on. He told us that it was a festival given for the benefit of the sick and wounded soldiers in the city. This suggested an idea to me. If the white people can give festivals to raise funds for the relief of suffering soldiers, why should not the well–to–do colored people go to work to do something for the benefit of the suffering blacks? I could not rest. The thought was ever present with me, and the next Sunday I made a suggestion in the colored church, that a society of colored people be formed to labor for the benefit of the unfortunate freedmen. The idea proved popular, and in two weeks "the Contraband Relief Association" was organized, with forty working members.
In September of 1862, Mrs. Lincoln left Washington for New York, and requested me to follow her in a few days, and join her at the Metropolitan Hotel. I was glad of the opportunity to do so, for I thought that in New York I would be able to do something in the interests of our society. Armed with credentials, I took the train for New York, and went to the Metropolitan, where Mrs. Lincoln had secured accommodations for me. The next morning I told Mrs. Lincoln of my project; and she immediately headed my list with a subscription of $200. I circulated among the colored people, and got them thoroughly interested in the subject, when I was called to Boston by Mrs. Lincoln, who wished to visit her son Robert, attending college in that city. I met Mr. Wendell Phillips, and other Boston philanthropists, who gave me all the assistance in their power. We held a mass meeting at the Colored Baptist Church, Rev. Mr. Grimes, in Boston, raised a sum of money, and organized there a branch society. The society was organized by Mrs. Grimes, wife of the pastor, assisted by Mrs. Martin, wife of Rev. Stella Martin. This branch of the main society, during the war, was able to send us over eighty large boxes of goods, contributed exclusively by the colored people of Boston. Returning to New York, we held a successful meeting at the Shiloh Church, Rev. Henry Highland Garnet, pastor. The Metropolitan Hotel, at that time as now, employed colored help. I suggested the object of my mission to Robert Thompson, Steward of the Hotel, who immediately raised quite a sum of money among the dining–room waiters. Mr. Frederick Douglass contributed $200, besides lecturing for us. Other prominent colored men sent in liberal contributions. From England[B] a large quantity of stores was received. Mrs. Lincoln made frequent contributions, as also did the President. In 1863 I was re–elected President of the Association, which office I continue to hold.
For two years after Willie's death the White House was the scene of no fashionable display. The memory of the dead boy was duly respected. In some things Mrs. Lincoln was an altered woman. Sometimes, when in her room, with no one present but myself, the mere mention of Willie's name would excite her emotion, and any trifling memento that recalled him would move her to tears. She could not bear to look upon his picture; and after his death she never crossed the threshold of the Guest's Room in which he died, or the Green Room in which he was embalmed. There was something supernatural in her dread of these things, and something that she could not explain. Tad's nature was the opposite of Willie's, and he was always regarded as his father's favorite child. His black eyes fairly sparkled with mischief.
The war progressed, fair fields had been stained with blood, thousands of brave men had fallen, and thousands of eyes were weeping for the fallen at home. There were desolate hearthstones in the South as well as in the North, and as the people of my race watched the sanguinary struggle, the ebb and flow of the tide of battle, they lifted their faces Zionward, as if they hoped to catch a glimpse of the Promised Land beyond the sulphureous clouds of smoke which shifted now and then but to reveal ghastly rows of new–made graves. Sometimes the very life of the nation seemed to tremble with the fierce shock of arms. In 1863 the Confederates were flushed with victory, and sometimes it looked as if the proud flag of the Union, the glorious old Stars and Stripes, must yield half its nationality to the tri–barred flag that floated grandly over long columns of gray. These were sad, anxious days to Mr. Lincoln, and those who saw the man in privacy only could tell how much he suffered. One day he came into the room where I was fitting a dress on Mrs. Lincoln. His step was slow and heavy, and his face sad. Like a tired child he threw himself upon a sofa, and shaded his eyes with his hands. He was a complete picture of dejection. Mrs. Lincoln, observing his troubled look, asked:
"Where have you been, father?"
"To the War Department," was the brief, almost sullen answer.
"Any news?"
"Yes, plenty of news, but no good news. It is dark, dark everywhere."
He reached forth one of his long arms, and took a small Bible from a stand near the head of the sofa, opened the pages of the holy book, and soon was absorbed in reading them. A quarter of an hour passed, and on glancing at the sofa the face of the President seemed more cheerful. The dejected look was gone, and the countenance was lighted up with new resolution and hope. The change was so marked that I could not but wonder at it, and wonder led to the desire to know what book of the Bible afforded so much comfort to the reader. Making the search for a missing article an excuse, I walked gently around the sofa, and looking into the open book, I discovered that Mr. Lincoln was reading that divine comforter, Job. He read with Christian eagerness, and the courage and hope that he derived from the inspired pages made him a new man. I almost imagined that I could hear the Lord speaking to him from out the whirlwind of battle: "Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me." What a sublime picture was this! A ruler of a mighty nation going to the pages of the Bible with simple Christian earnestness for comfort and courage, and finding both in the darkest hours of a nation's calamity. Ponder it, O ye scoffers at God's Holy Word, and then hang your heads for very shame!
Frequent letters were received warning Mr. Lincoln of assassination, but he never gave a second thought to the mysterious warnings. The letters, however, sorely troubled his wife. She seemed to read impending danger in every rustling leaf, in every whisper of the wind.
"Where are you going now, father?" she would say to him, as she observed him putting on his overshoes and shawl.
"I am going over to the War Department, mother, to try and learn some news."
"But, father, you should not go out alone. You know you are surrounded with danger."
"All imagination. What does any one want to harm me for? Don't worry about me, mother, as if I were a little child, for no one is going to molest me;" and with a confident, unsuspecting air he would close the door behind him, descend the stairs, and pass out to his lonely walk.
For weeks, when trouble was anticipated, friends of the President would sleep in the White House to guard him from danger.
Robert would come home every few months, bringing new joy to the family circle. He was very anxious to quit school and enter the army, but the move was sternly opposed by his mother.
"We have lost one son, and his loss is as much as I can bear, without being called upon to make another sacrifice," she would say, when the subject was under discussion.
"But many a poor mother has given up all her sons," mildly suggested Mr. Lincoln, "and our son is not more dear to us than the sons of other people are to their mothers."
"That may be; but I cannot bear to have Robert exposed to danger. His services are not required in the field, and the sacrifice would be a needless one."
"The services of every man who loves his country are required in this war. You should take a liberal instead of a selfish view of the question, mother."
Argument at last prevailed, and permission was granted Robert to enter the army. With the rank of Captain and A. D. C. he went to the field, and remained in the army till the close of the war.
I well recollect a little incident that gave me a clearer insight into Robert's character. He was at home at the time the Tom Thumb combination was at Washington. The marriage of little Hopo'–my–thumb—Charles Stratton—to Miss Warren created no little excitement in the world, and the people of Washington participated in the general curiosity. Some of Mrs. Lincoln's friends made her believe that it was the duty of Mrs. Lincoln to show some attention to the remarkable dwarfs. Tom Thumb had been caressed by royalty in the Old World, and why should not the wife of the President of his native country smile upon him also? Verily, duty is one of the greatest bugbears in life. A hasty reception was arranged, and cards of invitation issued. I had dressed Mrs. Lincoln, and she was ready to go below and receive her guests, when Robert entered his mother's room.
"You are at leisure this afternoon, are you not, Robert?"
"Yes, mother."
"Of course, then, you will dress and come down–stairs."
"No, mother, I do not propose to assist in entertaining Tom Thumb. My notions of duty, perhaps, are somewhat different from yours."
Robert had a lofty soul, and he could not stoop to all of the follies and absurdities of the ephemeral current of fashionable life.
Mrs. Lincoln's love for her husband sometimes prompted her to act very strangely. She was extremely jealous of him, and if a lady desired to court her displeasure, she could select no surer way to do it than to pay marked attention to the President. These little jealous freaks often were a source of perplexity to Mr. Lincoln. If it was a reception for which they were dressing, he would come into her room to conduct her downstairs, and while pulling on his gloves ask, with a merry twinkle in his eyes:
"Well, mother, who must I talk with to–night—shall it be Mrs. D.?"
"That deceitful woman! No, you shall not listen to her flattery."
"Well, then, what do you say to Miss C.? She is too young and handsome to practise deceit."
"Young and handsome, you call her! You should not judge beauty for me. No, she is in league with Mrs. D., and you shall not talk with her."
"Well, mother, I must talk with some one. Is there any one that you do not object to?" trying to button his glove, with a mock expression of gravity.
"I don't know as it is necessary that you should talk to anybody in particular. You know well enough, Mr. Lincoln, that I do not approve of your flirtations with silly women, just as if you were a beardless boy, fresh from school."
"But, mother, I insist that I must talk with somebody. I can't stand around like a simpleton, and say nothing. If you will not tell me who I may talk with, please tell me who I may not talk with."
"There is Mrs. D. and Miss C. in particular. I detest them both. Mrs. B. also will come around you, but you need not listen to her flattery. These are the ones in particular."
"Very well, mother; now that we have settled the question to your satisfaction, we will go down–stairs;" and always with stately dignity, he proffered his arm and led the way.
[Footnote B] The Sheffield Anti–Slavery Society of England contributed through Mr. Frederick Douglass, to the Freedmen's Relief Association, $24.00; Aberdeen Ladies' Society, $40.00; Anti–Slavery Society of Edinburgh, Scotland, $48.00; Friends at Bristol, England, $176.00; Birmingham Negro's Friend Society, $50.00. Also received through Mr. Charles R. Douglass, from the Birmingham Society, $33.00.
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Fourth Battalion Brigade of the Guards (1 Rajput)
Posted on February 22, 2016 by Ainy
A commemorative postage stamp on the Bicentenary of the 4th Battalion Brigade of the Guards (1 Rajput), an Indian Army mechanised infantry regiment :
Issued for : The Department of Posts is happy to issue a commemorative postage stamp on 4 GUARDS (1 RAJPUT) on the occasion of its Bicentenary Celebrations.
Stamp, FDC & Cancellation : Sudha Chaudhry
Type : Stamp, Postal Used
Colour : Multicolour
Perforation : 13 x 13
Paper : Imported un w/m Adhesive Gravure Coated stamp paper in sheets 50.8 x 53.5 cms.
Printing Process : Photogravure
Printer : India Security Press, Nashik
The Battalion 4 Guards (1 Rajput) was raised as part of the Bengal Army on 15th September, 1798, at Sasseram (Bihar), by Major George Sackville Brown. Fighting against the Marathas and the French, in the Battle of Delhi in 1803, the Battalion's collective gallantry was so conspicuous that an 'HONORARY COLOUR' was awarded to the Battalion, a unique honour never bestowed on any other unit of the Indian Army till date. The Battalion took part in the Battle of Bharatpur in 1805 and planted the 'Battalion Colour' on the ramparts of the Bharatpur Fort despite stiff enemy resistance and heavy casualties. The 'Battalion Colour' which was riddled with bullets was ordered to be burnt. The remnants preserved by the old soldiers and their children, were pinned on to the 'New Colour' and were carried to victory at Bharatpur in 1826. The revered shreds of the 'Old Colour' are still preserved in a silver casket known as the Battalion's 'Centre Piece'. This event has been introduced as a case study on Motivation in the Indian Army under the title, 'The Tattered Flag'.
Prior to the First World War, the Battalion saw action in Punjab, Afghanistan, Burma and China. In the First World War, the Battalion proved its mettle at 'Dujaila Redoubt' in 1916. In the Second World War, the Battalion saw action in Burma and accepted the 'Japanese Surrender' at Andaman and Nicobar Islands in 1945.
In 1947, the Battalion was one of the first to be rushed into J&K. On 6th February 1948, the enemy attacked Taindhar. They were beaten back. In this historic battle, Naik Yadunath Singh, though himself wounded, rushed out of his bunker and charged the enemy single handed. He was awarded the Param Vir Chakra, posthumously.
In 1962, the Battalion was deployed at the watershed in West Sikkim and was later selected to form part of the United Nations Emergency Forces at Gaza during 1964-65. The Battalion got an outstanding report during its 'tour of duty' with the UN.
In 1971, the Battalion spearheaded the advance and was the first to reach the outskirts of Dacca on 13 December 1971. For its outstanding performance, during 1971 operations, the Battalion was awarded the Battle Honour 'Akhaura' and Theatre Honour 'East Pakistan'. Due to its glorious traditions and rich heritage, the Battalion was chosen to spearhead the mechanisation of Brigade of the Guards in 1987.
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Computer-based tools and experiments for Microsoft Excel and the Palm Computing Platform are available for downloading. A Web-based application, The Hacker's Diet Online, which can be used from any computer with Internet access and a Web browser, is available.
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This Web-based application allows you to maintain weight and exercise logs, produce custom charts, analyse trends, and plan diets from any computer with Internet connectivity and a Web browser. Data may be imported from and exported to other versions of the computer tools, or exported as CSV or XML for analysis with other programs.
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An implementation of the Eat Watch nutrition and exercise log and analysis software for the Palm Computing Platform (PalmPilot, Palm, PalmOS, etc.), including desktop software for any platform with a standard C language environment which generates illustrated HTML logs from databases backed up from the handheld.
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Q: Facebook login button onlogin callback fires twice Per documentation, the html attribute 'onlogin' can be used to run a callback function after a login is complete
However we're consistently getting the supplied function run twice, causing problems when it does actual work.
While we can catch this with a counter of how many times its run I'd rather have an understanding of why this happens and fix it than apply a workaround. The entirety of the code is below (won't run in snippet):

<!DOCTYPE html>

 <meta charset="UTF-8">
 <title>facebook login test</title>

And the console:
Navigated to https://fbtest.dev/fblogin <- on page load
reached script tag <- on page load
XHR finished loading: POST "https://www.facebook.com/ajax/bz". <- on page load
XHR finished loading: POST "https://www.facebook.com/ajax/bz". <- on facebook login prompt window opening
fbLoginHandler fired [1] times <- on login complete
fbLoginHandler fired [2] times <- on login complete

A: My Faster workaround was as following:
I just set a variable called fblogin_done
fblogin_done = 0;

And in the function that is being executed twice i put a counter and a blocker with a timer
function CheckLoginState() {
    if (fblogin_done == 1) return; // avoid twice executions
    fblogin_done = 1;
    window.setTimeout(function(){
        fblogin_done = 0; // wait 1 second after a second execution
    }, 1000);
}

A second was enough to me to avoid more than 1 execution,

A: It seems to have to do with the data-auto-logout-link set to true.
Setting that to false, stops the button from firing the onlogin function twice.
Without seeing how the SDK handles it, my best guess is that when the button changes to become a logout button, it must be checking for login and triggering the onlogin function a second time.

A: I found this to be a clean way of handling the double call.
function mainLogin() {

   FB.getLoginStatus(function (response) {   // when connected, login, avoids double call
      if (response.status === 'connected') {
         fbLogin();
      };
   });
}

function fbLogin() {

   FB.api('/me?fields=name,id,email', function (response) {

      if (!jQuery.isEmptyObject(response)) {  //make certain we got a response object
         console.log(response);
         //todo: Get the FB data and process it...

       } else {
          //todo: err handling
       }
    });
}

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Depending the the amount of vacuuming you do.
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As you mop the floor you are going to use the very same techniques and vacuuming.
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From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
By William A. Darity, A. Kirsten Mullen


Install your side panels. Lightly hold or clamp a panel in place and center-punch on the steel chassis tab. The curved end on the panel is the rear. The front of the panel lines up just behind the front of the tube. The idea is for the tube to take rock impacts before the panel. Adding trim to the leading edge of the panel is a good idea. Put the grommets in the acrylic holes. Bolt head on outside, then supplied gasket, then nut, then frame tab, then another nut.
Install your mounts first. They are riveted in. We used hardware store rubber grommets (1/4″ ID) to protect the bodywork from the hardware.
Next is positioning the bodywork on the mounts.
The hood does not sit on the tubes – it stands off a little to prevent scratches and increase airflow. The hood is also positioned forward on the main round 1.75″ OD "dash" tube. You want to place the hood just back enough to overlap the front of the tube from the top view. We recommend using trim to cover the edges, but it is not required.
The front hood mounts are shorter than most customers will mount their hood. Theoretically, a 1.6 hood could be mounted that low, but you'll need to space it if using a later NA or NB (intake manifold and idle adjuster screw). We used 1/4″-20 button head screws for maximum adjustability. You can use two jam nuts to hold them in place or hardware-store clip nuts like we did. We used a hardware store rubber spacer with a washer on top for the hood to sit on. The bodywork mounts are also designed to use Dzus or quarter-turn fasteners if you wish to go that route. The front and rear bodywork mounts are pre-lased for 5/8″ and 3/4″ spring fasteners if you want to go that route.
Mount the nose after the hood, and be sure the hood is pushed all the way back on the aerocatches (they have a little slop). To mark the holes for the bodywork fasteners, we used a little bit of grease on the center of each mount and tapped the bodywork against the grease when positioned correctly. The grease marks your pilot hole, which you can drill normally. Drill your final hole with a sharp undamaged drill bit and tape the gelcoat to reduce chipping.
Different radiators will have different heights and mounting positions. Place some painters tape along the bottom of the nose. Mark out your cut lines in pencil, then go over with a sharpie. To prevent future fatigue cracks, drill holes at the intersections. A 3/8″ drill bit will work nicely. Just to further explain the stress relief holes, I made a quick drawing. The left drawing is what you want to avoid. The middle one is perfectly acceptable and will last a long time. Be sure to drill the holes first, as it is quite difficult to drill anything but a full hole in something.
The right one just simply looks a little better and more finished. You can accomplish the rounding by placing some 80-180 grit sandpaper on a thin, hard block of material. Even a ruler would work. Sand before you take off the tape, and be careful not to scratch the gelcoat. It's good practice, as, this is a part of the car that will hopefully never see the light of day.
You can then cut the fiberglass with a metal blade. Do not use a wood blade, as you want a high tooth density to resist the chance of cracking the gelcoat. Hand saws, hack saws, jig saws, dremels, angle grinders with cutoff wheels, and pneumatic cutoff wheels all work great.
When you cut the fiberglass, wear some latex gloves and a dust mask. If you're heating the fiberglass with your cutting tool (rotary cutoff wheels), wear a respirator. Before you take your gloves and mask off, take off the protective tape. Wet a disposable cloth and wipe down the nose to clean up the fiberglass dust. Do not use a paper towel, paper towels will scratch paint and gelcoat.
Fiberglass dust can be itchy, if you get some on your wrists or anywhere else, rinse the area in cold water. If you got some in skin folds (like inside your elbow or between your fingers), press duct tape on the affected area and pull it off. It will get the fibers out.
Now for the trunk. Put some painter's tape on the 1.75″ OD round tube (rear cabin bulkhead) in front of the front subframe, as you'll be marking it. You'll want to set the trunk cover on the car. With painter's tape and a sharpie, mark when the front of the trunk intersects the tube. This will tell you the longitudinal position of your front trunk mounts. This sets the relationship between the trunk and the rear tophat mounts. There should be a 1/4″ gap on that rear tophat. The front trunk mounts do have an edge that lines up with the fuel tank mounts. The rear trunk mounts are fixed and you can install them as shown in the pictures.
The bottom of the mount should be no closer than 0.25″ from the rear tube. The edge on the mount that lines up with the inside of the tophat is intentional. That's how you determine the angle. Height is not critical, as long as it's the same on both sides. We put ours right under the radius of the tophat's sheet metal bend.
After mounting the front nose/hood piece, the trunk should be fairly self-explanatory. Grease or shoe polish on the mounts, slip on the trunk, tap against the mounts, drill your pilot holes, drill your final holes, and done.
The Exocet kit includes eight fender mounts. Two fender mounts are used in each corner. Once installed, the fiberglass fenders can be mounted by drilling appropriate holes and using polyurethane adhesive to bond them to the fender mounts.
The frontmost fender mount is the one with three bolt holes that replaces the stock brake dust shield. The fender mounts that go on the back of the front corner and the front of the back corner are the same size/design and will bolt to the top caliper bolt. The rearmost fender mount is the one with the slightly longer mounting tab, meat to bolt to the nub on the non-ABS rear upright.
Note 1: Depending on the castings of the Mazda uprights and where you drill your hole in the fender mounting tab, you may need to take an angle grinder and remove a little material from the mounting tab on the fender mount for proper/secure fit.
Note 2: The fender mounts are made out of 1/2″ steel bar and are designed to have enough give to be bent a few degrees as needed for final fitting of the fenders. Once bolted down, you can bend them with your hands with a sizable amount of force.
Note 3: You may want to use a little thread locker on bolts, especially the top caliper bolts.
Note 4: In rare cases, some Miata donors may not have a nub on the rear upright and will require a steel angle bracket to be attached to the upright.
Remove dust shield and replace with bolt on mount. Locking washers are recommended.
Note the angle and where it fits to be bolted via top caliper bolt.
Drill two holes and use bolts with locking washers and/or nylock nuts to secure to the nub in the rear hub.
Note 1: You may want to consider grinding or filing the side of the nub flat for a better fit.
There have been a number of ways builders have approached securing the fiberglass fenders to the steel mounts. The basic concept involves cutting a hole for the 1/2″ diameter bar to support the fender and then securing the bar to the underside of the fiberglass with polyurethane adhesive, P-clips, or welding a small tab to the fender mounts for a larger attachment point.
This is the classic method first recommended by MEV on the first UK Exocets. Exomotive used this method on XP-1 and we have now had it running for over 3 years on the street and track with fantastic results. This method involves roughing up the surface on the bottom side of the fender to ensure a good bond. We recommend using the highest quality polyurethane adhesives from manufacturers like Loctite, DAP, Liquid Nails, and others. A 10oz tube will cost between $7-15 depending on brand/purchase location. Use a healthy amount of PU adhesive to completely surround the entire 1/2″ bar and continue at least an inch in all directions on the underside of the fiberglass. After application and setting the final position, place a microfiber towel on top of the fender and place a few books or weighted items on top to keep slight pressure during the curing process.
Builder Geoff (Steadfast) used these 1/2″ P-clips to grip the bar then used allen-head bolts, metal washers with a rubber washer on the side that contacts the fiberglass, and nylon lock nuts to prevent loosening.
Similar to the P-Clip method, this method involves welding a small tab to the 1/2″ bar to provide a place to bolt the fenders on. If your desire is to be able to run a number of different tire/wheel/offsets, you could consider adding a slot in this mount to allow the fender positions to slide and be set with bolts in the optimal position for the wheel/tire/offset combination selected.
UK Builder JGilbert took this method a step further and fiberglassed small stainless steel plates into the underside of the fenders. Read more on page 21 of his build thread.


While on patrol in a marked radio car with a fellow officer, a police officer received a radio run reporting shots fired in the vicinity of 142nd Street and Rockaway Boulevard. Arriving at the scene within approximately two minutes, the police were waved down by a man. The latter reported that a friend had attempted to shoot him three times but the gun failed to fire. The police were directed to what was apparently the only apartment on the second floor of a building located at 142-90 Rockaway Boulevard.
A Queens County Gun Crime attorney said that the officer and other officers went to the apartment on the second floor, and upon discovering the door partly open, the officer, with gun drawn, announced that the police were there and were coming in. Upon entering the apartment, the officer observed an older woman in the living room, and he observed criminal defendant and another man emerge from a bedroom, approximately 12 to 15 feet away from the point of the officer's entrance into the premises. Both men were put up against a wall and frisked. Neither was found to be in possession of a weapon. The man, having entered the apartment, identified defendant as the person who had attempted to shoot him. Defendant was arrested and handcuffed, and the second person who had emerged from the bedroom was released.
In one evening, a Detective, who was assigned as backup to an undercover police officer who was attempting to buy controlled substances at a social club. There is no evidence in the record that the undercover officer was able to achieve that objective. However, at 8:00 P.M., the undercover officer advised the Detective by radio transmission that a tall white male with a pony tail approached her inside the social club and asked her "if she wanted to take a hit of cocaine".
A Queens County Criminal attorney said that approximately six hours after the defendant asked the undercover officer if she wanted a "hit" of the drug cocaine, the undercover officer left the social club, and the Detective and other police officers arrived at the social club. The police directed its occupants to leave, and "stopped" and searched the defendant and "everybody when they came out". The Detective recovered a packet of cocaine from the defendant's jacket pocket and a .38 caliber automatic gun from the defendant's boot.
It is unclear from the record whether the defendant was arrested before or after the search. Our dissenting colleague's conclusion that the defendant was "the first of seven patrons to be arrested and searched", is based upon a statement of the defendant's attorney made upon "information and belief" during colloquy. During subsequent colloquy, the defense counsel stated, also "on information and belief", that the undercover officer was a "very beautiful" woman, and that the defendant "could have been just trying to pick her up". Clearly, neither of these representations constituted evidence.
Upon defendant's motion, the Court conducted a combined hearing. The People called three witnesses, a Detective assigned to the Police Commissioner's office, and 2 Police Officers. The defendant's father testified for the defendant.
A Queens County Criminal attorney said that an Officer overheard these radio reports. While in the vicinity of 156th Street and 113th Avenue, approximately three blocks from the shooting and six minutes after the original broadcast, the officer observed defendant, a male Black, 6'1″' tall and 185 lbs., leaning against an automobile, parked on the left side of the street. Defendant was wearing a dark blue hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans, and was the only male in the area. He had his hands in the pouch in the front of the sweatshirt, which sagged a little.
The Officer asked defendant to remove his hands from the pouch, which he did, at which point the officer noticed that the pouch sagged or drooped more and he observed a bulge. He reached and touched the area with his left hand and felt the cylinder of a gun and reached inside with his right hand, removed the gun and swung defendant around, placing him up against a car. A subsequent inspection of the weapon revealed four live rounds and one spent shell.
While on motor patrol in August 1977, a Police Officer received a call that shots were fired at premises located at a street in Queens. He proceeded to that location with his partners. Upon arriving and receiving information that someone had been seen on the roof, the Officer received permission from a tenant to go through her apartment to the fire escape which gave access to the roof.
A Queens County Gun Crime attorney said that on his way to the roof, the Officer observed the defendant peering down. As the officer approached, the defendant said, "That is all right, Officer, I am only walking my dog." He told him to keep his hands in view, and he completed his ascent to the roof. It was dark and the weather was clear and warm.
A Queens County Criminal lawyer said that when the Officer arrived on the roof, he saw the defendant standing there without shirt or shoes. He was attired only in a pair of coveralls. He had a dog with him. When asked if he had heard anything, the defendant told the Officer that he had heard a few shots fired. At that moment his partners arrived, coming through two entrances from separate stairwells, which, they said, had been locked from the inside.
A Queens County Criminal attorney said that the only testimony before the Grand Jury is that of two police officers, the second one being a fingerprint expert whose testimony was elicited merely for the purpose of making the instant charge a felony, and who otherwise gave no substantive testimony.
The other witness, testified that in the course of a police investigation he took the defendant into custody at the Detective Squad in Queens County; that he questioned him in regard to a shooting that occurred at about 5:30 p. m. on that day; that the defendant told him that he was engaged in the shooting, that he had used a pistol, and that he had dropped that pistol in a specified catch basin.
Consequently, the court decided to settle the motion.
A man is charged with three counts of forgery in the second degree, criminal buying and receiving stolen property, criminal concealing and withholding stolen and wrongfully acquired property, possessing a pistol loaded with ammunition as a felony, and possession of a pistol, a bludgeon and a set of metal knuckles as a misdemeanor. The matter of the forgery counts and the buying, receiving, concealing and withholding counts are a quantity of airline tickets.
The man then moved for an order suppressing the use of any and all evidence seized in violation of his constitutional rights and for other and further relief as justice may demand a hearing was ordered.
The evidence discloses that the police obtained a search warrant from a judge of the criminal court, based upon the information allegedly furnished by a reliable informant that the man was in possession of jewelry which was proceeds of a crime, also a loaded gun and possible other contraband.
In this Criminal case, the defendant appealed from a judgment convicting him of falsely reporting an incident in the third degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
A Queens County Criminal attorney said that in the early morning hours of May 2007, the defendant appeared at a for treatment of a gunshot wound to his left foot. After the hospital notified the police responded to the hospital, and asked the defendant what had happened. The defendant answered that, while he was standing on the corner of 157th Street and South Road in Jamaica, Queens, an unknown black male fired shots at the ground, and he was struck in the foot.
The defendant was subsequently transferred to another hospital, where he gave a similar account to a New York City Police Detective. The latter told the defendant that he did not believe his story and warned the defendant that if his account proved to be false, he would be charged with filing a false police report. The defendant then changed his story, and told the Detective that he had been drinking in a bar on Linden Boulevard, a location within the 113th Precinct. He stated that, when he left the bar, he was shot by someone he did not see.
At approximately 12:55 a.m., a police officer, in plain clothes and assigned to the street crime unit, was driving southbound in an unmarked police car with his partner when he observed an automobile that double parked the street on the northbound side. He also observed that there were no other similarly double parked cars. The officer saw a man, who was standing on the passenger side of the car by the open rear door, remove something from his waistband, lean over and place it in the rear passenger compartment. The officer could not tell what the object was but, based on his extensive experience as a police officer and member of the street crime unit and the man's movements, he believed it to be a gun. The officer then made a U-turn and pulled up behind the car, which had two occupants, both women, seated in the front. As the police vehicle came to a stop, the man closed the door and walked away.
The officer exited his car, stopped the criminal man near the rear of the car, identified himself as a police officer and, while the other officer detained the man, approached the car. On the floor of the rear compartment, he observed an empty shoe box and a .9mm semi-automatic handgun, the barrel of which was partially covered by the shoe box. The officer recovered the gun, which had six rounds of ammunition in the magazine and one in the chamber. At that point, the man told the officer that he would take the weight for the gun. After the officer explained to the man that if the gun was not his, he should not take the responsibility for it, but, the man admitted that he owned the gun.
At trial, the man called two witnesses, first, a neighbor and a friend of his family, who testified that the man was on the sidewalk talking to his brother when two men, whom she later learned were police officers, arrived. After speaking to the occupants of the double-parked car and removing them from the vehicle, one of the officers reached into the car and removed something. The two officers then arrested the man. The man's second witness testified and stated that she was an ice cream vendor and a friend of the man, who had occasionally worked with him on her route. She stated that she was sitting in the driver's seat of her automobile while waiting for the man, when she saw two plainclothes officers approach him as he stood on the sidewalk talking to his brother, and, apparently believing the man to be a robbery suspect and ask him for identification. She further stated that the officers then searched the front and back of her car and recovered a gun, which the criminal man denied owning. She did not know who owned the gun or how it found its way into her car. She testified that the man had not been in the car before the police approached.
The deceased and his male friend occasionally sold marijuana out of a grocery store they owned together in Queens. While the deceased was away on a trip, the defendant came into the store and told the male friend that he wanted to buy a quantity of marijuana. They agreed on a price of $4,000, and the defendant later sent a man to pick up the drugs. The male friend soon discovered that the bills the man had given him in exchange for the marijuana were counterfeit. He called the defendant and demanded that he either return the drugs or bring the money. The criminal defendant did neither and, when the deceased returned from his trip, the male friend told him what had happened.
On the evening of January 19, 1993, the deceased was in the store with another friend. An associate of the defendant telephoned but the deceased hung up on him after saying only, that he doesn't want to hear what he is to say. Another call came and the caller told him to bring the stuff back. Another call came in, this one from the defendant himself. Again, the deceased said that he doesn't want to hear it, just bring it back.
A few minutes later, another man arrived at the store, followed soon after by the defendant and two other men. After one of the men asked the deceased why he had hung up on him, the defendant suddenly produced a gun, pointed it at the deceased, and said that he heard him telling the people what he is going to do him. The deceased replied that it is not true, but the defendant fired one shot at him from a distance of approximately four to five feet, striking him in the neck. After being shot, the deceased made an attempt to get out of the store through the back door behind the counter. He was unsuccessful.
A man spent the evening of Saturday and the early morning hours of the next day in a basement apartment, smoking large quantities of crack cocaine and drinking large quantities of alcohol. As the night progressed, he also kidnapped and robbed at least two individual. After one of the said victims became very agitated, the man allowed him to leave on the condition that he will be back with money. The victim returned with his armed stepson and a friend. The man shot and killed the stepson, firing five rounds at him.
The man was then convicted of felony murder in the second degree, kidnapping in the second degree, robbery in the first degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree. He then filed an appeal, principally arguing that the trial court should have given a justification charge to felony murder.
At trial, a witness testified that at approximately 9:30 P.M., he went to a basement apartment to pick up a woman, whom he had recently met. Immediately upon entering the apartment, an individual whom he had never seen before and whom he identified at trial as the man, placed a gun at his back, searched him, took his money, keys, wallet, and other personal items, and ordered him to sit down. Also, inside the apartment at that time, there were the woman and two men that the witness had never seen before. The man, the woman, and the other individual then drank and did drugs, all of which they purchased with the witness' money. At no time did the man put away the gun. During that time, the witness heard the man claim that when the drugs ran out, the woman would be the only witness.


The Sensirion Demo reads values from the Sensirion SHT-11 module and displays temperature, relative humidity and dewpoint using vga-text or tv-text. The calculations are a good example of using the Float32 routines. A seperate Sensirion object contains all low level interface routines suitable for use in other projects. An updated version of FloatString is also included.


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Q: Django - Return JSON, Error I got a View.py function that looks like this:
def GetAllCities(request):

cities = list(City.objects.all())
return HttpResponse(json.dumps(cities))

My City model looks like this
class City(models.Model):
    city = models.CharField()
    loc = models.CharField()
    population = models.IntegerField()
    state = models.CharField()
    _id = models.CharField()

    class MongoMeta:
        db_table = "cities"

    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.city

I am using a MongoDB that looks like this
{
   "_id" : ObjectId("5179837cbd7fe491c1f23227"),
   "city" : "ACMAR",
   "loc" : "[-86.51557, 33.584132]",
   "state" : "AL",
   "population" : 6055
}

I get the following error when trying to return the JSON from my GetAllCities function:
City ACMAR is not JSON serializable
So I tried this Instead:
def GetAllCities(request):

    cities = serializers.serialize("json", City.objects.all())
    return HttpResponse(cities)

And this works but It's very slow, it takes about 9 seconds(My database contains 30000 rows)
Should it take this long or am I doing something wrong?
I've built the same app in PHP, Rails and NodeJS.
In PHP it takes on average 2000ms, NodeJS = 800ms, Rails = 5882ms and Django 9395ms. Im trying to benchmark here so I wonder if there is a way to optimize my Django code or is this as fast as it gets?

A: *

*For sure you do not need to return ALL cities, as you probably won't display all 30000 rows anyway (at least in user-friendly way). Consider a solution where you return only cities within some range from requested location. Mongo supports geospatial indexes, so there should be no problem in doing that. There are also many tutorials over the internet how to perform spatial filtering in Django/MongoDB.
def GetAllCities(request, lon, lat):

    #Pseudo-code
    cities = City.objects.filterWithingXkmFromLonLat(lon, lat).all()

    cities = serializers.serialize("json", cities)
    return HttpResponse(cities)

*If you really, really need all cities, consider caching the response. Location, name and population of cities are not things which change dynamically, in a matter of let's say seconds. Cache the result and recalculate only every hour, day or more. Django supports cache out of the box
@cache_page(60 * 60)
def GetAllCities(request):
   (...)

A: Another thing you can try to get a little more of speed is to get from db just the values you need and get the QuerySet to build the dictionary.
A simple query like this would work:
City.objects.all().values('id', 'city', 'loc', 'population', 'state')

Or you can put it in a manager:
class CitiesManager(models.Manager):

    class as_dict(self):
        return self.all().values('id', 'city', 'loc', 'population', 'state')

class City(models.Model):
    .... your fields here...

    objects = CitiesManager()

And then use it in your view as:
City.objects.as_dict()

A: FOUND A SOLUTION
I am benchmarking with different methods, one method is to see how fast one language/framework is to select ALL rows in a database and return it as JSON. I found a solution now that speeds it up by half the time!
My new views.py
def GetAllCities(request):

    dictionaries = [ obj.as_dict() for obj in City.objects.all() ]
    return HttpResponse(json.dumps({"Cities": dictionaries}), content_type='application/json')

And my new model
class City(models.Model):
    city = models.CharField()
    loc = models.CharField()
    population = models.IntegerField()
    state = models.CharField()
    _id = models.CharField()
def as_dict(self):
        return {
            "id": self.id,
            "city": self.city,
            "loc": self.loc,
            "population": self.population,
            "state": self.state
            # other stuff
        }

    class MongoMeta:
         db_table = "cities"

def __unicode__(self):
        return self.city

Found the solution here


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Michelle Obama to bring book tour to the O2 Arena and here's how to get tickets
The former First Lady is bringing her 'Becoming: An Intimate Conversation with' to the O2 Arena
Michelle Obama has announced an O2 Arena date as part of her book tour.
The former First Lady will bring the event to London on April 14.
Entitled 'Becoming: An Intimate Conversation with', it sees her return to the UK in 2019 following huge demand for a recent London date.
She says: "I couldn't be more excited to visit even more cities across the country and around the world.
"I've been so humbled by the response to the tour thus far and the overwhelming interest we've received from so many communities we weren't able to visit this year.
"That's why I'm thrilled that we're able to expand our conversations to these new settings and wider audiences. I can't wait to continue the discussions that have been so meaningful for me and, I hope, for so many others."
Earlier this month she took part in 'Becoming: An Evening with Michelle Obama' at the Southbank Centre.
The event saw Obama in conversation with acclaimed novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
They discussed her best-selling memoir 'Becoming', and topics including imposter syndrome, Barack's presidency, motherhood and meeting the Queen.
This previous event sold out in seconds when tickets went on sale, so although the O2 holds 20,000 people it's expected to be just as popular.
The tour is also visiting venues in the US including Detroit, Brooklyn and Dallas.
Find out how to get tickets for the London date below.
How to get tickets
Tickets will be available from:
They go on general sale at 1pm on Friday December 14.
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coach dan, despres great shot and used on power play last year... now in the NHL you refuse to use him ?
orpik embarassed, so i guess he wants to hide in the box for a couple minutes.
They play awful music there.
well that is just disgusting.
That goal would happen...I just had to laugh when I saw it.