As a premed student, Hans Nieper was eager to apply the tools of physics to the study of and practice of medicine. There he sought out the works of Einstein and other theoretical physicists, including Nikola Tesla and Richard Feynman. Their research and theories pointed to the possibility that gravity, electricity, and magnetism are all manifestations of a single immensely powerful energy field that pervades all space in the universe. Unlike the static "ether" concept of traditional physics, the "vacuum field" is highly energetic and is both the source and the final destination of all forms of energy. Nieper later realized that the existence of such a field, with all of its pervasive energy, has critical implications of the practice of medicine. The more he studied the more he became convinced that the energetic functions of the human body, and the powerful influence of the vacuum field.
Over the course of his studies in medicine and physics at Mainz Nieper came to the realization that the spark of life could be traced to the energy of the vacuum field. Contrary to traditional medical belief, the electrical charge of the cell membrane is not intrinsic to the membrane itself; it is derived from the energetic vacuum field.
The importance of electricity to the proper functioning of the body—particularly of the heart—has been known almost since the dawn of medical science. There are records of physicians in ancient Greece using the electrical current produced by some species of stingrays to restart hearts. Centuries later, modern physicians use electrical paddles to do precisely the same thing.
We now know that normal cellular functions depend on the maintenance of a very precise electrical balance within the without the cell, and that relatively minor changes in that balance can have catastrophic consequences. For example, people die from diarrheal diseases like cholera, not just because the lose fluid, but because they lose electrolytes, charged particles that come from dissolved salt. Low electrolytes lead to potentially fatal disruptions in nerve and muscle function. But the addition of energy field to this picture presents an entirely new dimension to the possible causes and treatments of disease.
He opened his first outpatient consultation and treatment office at Sedanstrase 21, Hannover, Germany in 1964 where, as Hans A. Nieper, MD, he spent the next 34 developing a line of orthomolecular substances that work to balance the body's chemistry. His protocols engage a collection of mineral transporters and nutritional supplements that are essential to restoring cellular health. Natural and nontoxic orthomolecular agents are less stressful to patients' immune system. They also do so without the side effects of costly toxic orthodox agents.
Today these substances form the cornerstone of his clinical treatment of life-threatening chronic diseases such as bi-polar affliction. The successful results he has achieved with his patients speak for themselves.
To begin with the mineral orotates have the increased ability to enter cells. But, what do they do once they're in? The beginning of the answer that question is that orotate salts are electrically neutral and relatively stable against dissociation, two properties crucial their ability to participate in intracellular mineral uptake and transport. The ability to dissociation (dissolve into component ions) in a solvent such as water, for example, dissociates into sodium and chloride ions. At physiological pH the orotate salts are much more stable than table salt and will not readily dissociate into free orotic acid plus a mineral ion.
Free orotic acid (OA) itself is known to get into cells by simply leaking (diffusing) through cell membranes, rather than by being actively transported. But diffusion is a relatively inefficient process, which limits the amount of OA that can enter a cell. By contrast, uracil—a compound almost identical to OA, only minus the carboxylic acid group—is taken up efficiently by a transporter protein that binds to uracil molecules and drags them into the cell. This transporter appears to be specific for uracil or similar molecules which are uncharged, but not for uracil's close cousin OA (which is negatively charged at body pH).
Bind the orotic acid with a mineral, however, and you end up with a stable electrically neutral salt. This property is just what is needed for OA along with its bound mineral to be taken up directly by the uracil transporter. At the same time, neutralizing the charge on OA makes the resulting complex more lipophilic or "fat-loving" than free OA; as a result, the stable orotate complex would be expected to diffuse more easily through the lipid membranes of cells. Essentially just such a mechanism was proposed by Nieper for enhancing the diffusion of mineral ions across cell membranes. Either way—via enhanced diffusion or active transport—complexing a mineral with orotate results in increased uptake of both components of the complex by cells.
That's still not the whole story of orotate, however. Here and there in his papers, Nieper gives tantalizing clues about the role of the "pentose phosphate pathway" or PPP in mediating the effects of his mineral orotates. The PPP is a well-known biochemical cycle which, among other vital functions, is responsible for synthesizing D-ribose 5-phosphate. D-ribose is of course the sugar which gets incorporated into nucleotides (a process known as ribosylation) and ultimately into RNA/DNA. Was Nieper attempting to signal a deep connection between the ribosylation of orotate and its activity as a mineral transporter?
The answer is yes. To see what Dr. Nieper was hinting at, we need some additional background information on OA, also known as vitamin B13.
Although orotic acid isn't officially considered a vitamin these days, over 40 years ago it was found to have growth-promoting, vitamin-like properties when added to the diets of laboratory animals. Subsequent nutritional studies in humans and animals revealed that OA has a "sparing" effect on vitamin B12, meaning that supplemental OA can partially compensate for B12 deficiency. OA also appears to have a direct effect on folate metabolism.
Many of the vitamin-like effects of OA are undoubtedly due to its role in RNA and DNA synthesis. (B12 and folate are also involved in DNA synthesis, but at a point downstream from where OA comes in.) Our bodies produce OA as an intermediate in the manufacture of the pyrimidine bases uracil, cytosine, and thymine. Together, these pyrimidines constitute half of the bases needed for RNA/DNA, the other half coming from the purine bases adenine and guanine which are synthesized independently of OA.
The enzyme orotate phosphoribosyltransferase (OPRTase), which is found in organisms ranging from yeast to humans, is responsible for catalyzing the first step in the conversion of orotic acid into uridine. It does so by facilitating the attachment of a ribose plus phosphate group to OA. The net result is the formation of a molecule named OMP (orotidine 5′-monophosphate), which in turn is the immediate precursor to UMP (uridine 5′-monophosphate).
Because the enzyme OPRTase requires magnesium ions for its activity, some researchers wondered whether a magnesium complex of orotic acid might be involved in binding orotate to the enzyme. They found that the true substrate for OPRTase is not orotate itself but rather a magnesium orotate complex. The fact that the complex is electrically neutral compared to the negatively charged orotate ion means that the complex is more easily transportable to the active site of the enzyme. These researchers suggested that the magnesium complex helps position orotate within the enzyme in the proper orientation for conversion to OMP. In the process the magnesium ion in the complex gets exchanged with the magnesium ion bound to the active site of the enzyme, the net result being that one magnesium ion is released.
In fact, not all the uridine formed from orotic acid does wind up in RNA or DNA. There are other vital roles for orotic acid and uridine in the body-for example, OA gets taken up by red blood cells where it is rapidly converted to UDP-glucose by way of OPRTase and other enzymes. Here UDP is the nucleotide uridine diphosphate. The red blood cells can then act as a storage and distribution pool for delivering glucose and uridine to tissues such as brain, heart, and skeletal muscle. Because UDP-glucose is a precursor for glycogen (a storage form of glucose), the delivery of UDP-glucose to heart muscle and its conversion there to glycogen might account for some of the cardioprotective effects of orotic acid.
As the preceding example shows, the various mineral orotates are likely to be targeted to distinct metabolic pathways in specific tissues. Another example is provided by an experiment involving lithium metabolism in the brain. Lithium is well known for its ability to moderate manic-depressive illness. In an experiment to evaluate lithium-induced changes in brain metabolism, rats were injected with a solution of lithium chloride daily for two weeks. One hour after the last lithium treatment all rats received an injection of radiolabeled orotic acid into the cerebral ventricles. At various intervals thereafter RNA was extracted from rat brains, separated into fractions, and analyzed for radioactivity. The results showed that lithium increases RNA turnover markedly in brain (but not in other tissues such as liver). The authors suggested that lithium acts at the membrane level and that the effects on RNA metabolism are due to changes in the transport of radiolabeled orotic acid-an explanation entirely consistent with Nieper's idea that lithium combines with OA to yield a transportable complex.
In summary, the evidence tends to support Nieper's criteria for orotate as an electrolyte carrier, namely, (1) a low dissociation constant, (2) an affinity for specific cellular systems or organs, and (3) a metabolic pathway which liberates the transported mineral within the targeted organ or system.
Just as relatively minor changes in the composition of the atmosphere have a major effect on respiration (ask anyone who has gone hiking in the oxygen-thin air of the mountains) so changes in the vacuum field, such as the presence of electrical or magnetic fields, have profound effects on the cells. Constant exposure to even a low-level electrical or magnetic field can cause enough of a disruption to alter cellular messages, disable normal repair mechanisms, or even change the expression of reproductive genes.
Much fine research has been done concerning the impact of electromagnetic fields on human cells, including important studies, at great research centers around the world. All of this research has shown, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that living cells do respond to energetic fields, and that the presence of some forms of energy can drastically alter cellular function. When coupled with other risk factors, such as poor diet, exposure to toxic chemicals and other carcinogens, and a sedentary lifestyle, constant exposure to certain types of energetic fields can pave the way for cancer, heart disease, emotional and autoimmune disorders. Humans are living conduits of (and exist because of ) the energy of the universe. This fact carries with it the possibility that we can learn to actively control this energy and use it in positive ways.


The Pauline Fathers welcome you to St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church; the largest parish staffed by Pauline Father's in the U.S.A.
With the ever-increasing population growth in the area, it became quite evident to the pastor of St. Timothy's and the Bishop of Orlando that another church was needed. Land was purchased where our church stands today and the long process of permits was initiated along with a financial campaign to build a new place of worship under the previous Bishop, The Most Reverend Norbert Dorsey followed by The Most Reverend Thomas Wenski.
Three years later with the construction of the new building well underway, our Most Reverend Bishop Wenski proceeded to seek the help of priests to serve the new parish. After many requests to the Father General of the Pauline Fathers, the order of St. Paul the 1st Hermit, Isadore Matriszewski, it was agreed that the two priests would be assigned to help in the Diocese, specifically at the new place of worship, to establish a new parish community named after St. Mark the Evangelist. This new building would be a fellowship hall that would serve as the parish church until at such time a permanent church could be built.
On Saturday at 5:00pm on September 11, 2005 a Mass of Thanksgiving and Blessing was given where Bishop Wenski welcomed the new priests, Father Simon Shaner and Father Sebastian Hanks. Many tasks lay in store for these two men of God, such as forming all the various ministries that are needed for the Liturgy and operation of the church.
More and more people became parishioners and at the end of that September over 650 parishioners had registered. The need for a bigger permanent church had become evident with over 2,000 families registred in the parish in the years to come. With the permission of the Diocese of Orlando a campaign was started in January of 2007 to collect funds for this endeavor. The campaign was a hugh success and the dream of every parishioner to worship the Lord in a new and beautiful church was realized by the end of 2009.
Most recently Father Sebastian has returned to our parish and undertook building a Parish House right here on our church campus for the Pauline Fathers. Parishioners were able to tour the home the weekend of July 26th & 27th, 2014 and recently celebrated Bishop John Noonan's blessing on August 10, 2014 at the 10am mass.


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Cowboy theme. We didnt want the same ole' theme from the stores, so my husband suggested Cowboy and Indian party. We had to ditch the indian idea after not finding anything in the stores. So Cowboy it was!
The inspiration was from a sock pony I had seen online! Then It went from there.
2. Found bowls, sheriffs badges, burlap, ribbon( for cupcake cups), at Hobby Lobby.
3. Stick ponies made from medium men's socks, batting pillow stuffing, brown yarn, brown felt, google eyes, twine, sticks to hold them. All bought from Hobby Lobby as well. I made 19 of them in 3evenings. My wonderful husband even helped me sew on the hair on some of them!
4. Old window for the pick your bandannas.
7. Toy guns are from 7 different Dollar General stores around my area..... Husband just had to have them! But they were a HUGE hit!
9. 12oz cups and lids for cupcakes are from Costco. Sams had them in bulk but too many for way to much $.
10. Balloons and helium tank are from Hobby Lobby as well. ( well worth the helium tank with the 40% off coupon they have online). Filled 50 balloons with it! The giant #1 is from Dierbergs florist $10.
11. Anymore info I left out please comment.
The stick ponies I made for all the kids!
I love the "WANTED Dead or Alive" board! Haha. So cute! The stick ponies are adorable too.


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The different types of fouling in a gas turbine compressor
Unfortunately, compressor fouling is inevitable. Deciding how to deal with it, however, is up to you and it helps to understand what causes it in the first place.
What is compressor fouling?
The term 'compressor fouling' describes the build-up of unwanted materials which leave the surface of the compressor blades rough. This happens over time and, if ignored, can cause huge problems including costly unscheduled shutdowns.
Although it can be a gradual process, compressor fouling can have a big effect on aerodynamic form. In turn, this reduces the air flow which reduces efficiency; you may notice a drop in compressor discharge pressure and an increased temperature. The really important part though, is that an inefficient system is more expensive to run as it requires more fuel.
Therefore, it's imperative to minimise compressor fouling as much as possible, while also having a regular cleaning schedule in place to remove any unavoidable build-up.
What are the different types of compressor fouling?
Fouling can be caused by various contaminants entering the compressor system. It's extremely difficult to entirely prevent it from happening and can be attributed to a number of causes:
This general term describes the deposit of liquid/oil mixtures on the blades. The result is an oily film which in turn attracts particles. These particles may be introduced to the system via exhaust from burnt fuel, oil leaks or even poor quality air polluted with industrial smoke or even car exhaust fumes. Hydrocarbon fouling is considered the worst kind.
Inevitably, there is moisture in the air which enters the compressor. When this air becomes heated, the moisture evaporates, leaving behind a deposit of previously dissolved salt on the blades. As the temperature rises, these deposits become baked onto the blades making them rough and difficult to clean.
Alongside this roughness, the salt can corrode the blade metal and cause rust, which in turn can be a big problem. Salt is a particular problem in terms of compressor fouling offshore and in coastal areas.
It's essential to wash the compressor to remove fouling but some cleaning products contain chemicals which can lead to fouling themselves if not rinsed properly! That's one reason it's critical to choose a specially designed product and use it as directed.
Apart from hydrocarbons, salt and cleaning products, there are numerous other things that can cause fouling. If dust and sand get into the system, they can in themselves erode components and cause fouling if mixed with any kind of oil. Also, air will always have some contaminants such as farming chemicals, industrial gas, exhaust fumes, plant spores and even insects.
What can be done about compressor fouling?
Although it is inevitable that some level of process compressor fouling will occur, the good news is that it can be removed in order to maintain an efficient system. It's extremely important to carry out regular turbine washing with a specially designed product such as Fyrewash.
Off line and on line washing
Off line washing involves shutting down the system to carry out a thorough, manual clean. It is time consuming and this in turn affects productivity.
Although it is important to carry out off line washes, on line washing is an effective way of reducing the build-up of foulants in the first place. By installing a Rochem on line cleaning system, an effective clean is carried out during normal operation and takes just a few minutes.
Together, off line and on line washing remove foulants to maintain a healthy, efficient and productive system.
Find out how you could reduce process compressor fouling and increase its efficiency. Contact Rochem team to arrange a site visit.

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The Superbite is a modern reimagination of the classic Powerbite designed in part with team rider Connor Keating and made from heat treated chromoly. Utilizing a hollow 22mm 48 spline spindle and 3 pc construction they are easy to install and work with most sprocket/frame combinations. Mid Bottom bracket included.


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Q: finding words in past tense using lex I want to know how to write a code in lex to identify and print the words in past tense. I have written a sample code but it doesnt print the word though it identifies the words in past tense. Pls help
%{
#include<stdio.h>
%}
%%
[a-zA-Z]"ed" {printf("%s is in past tense\n",yytext);}
[a-zA-Z0-9,$.]
%%
main()
{
yyin = fopen("pos.c","r");
yylex();
}

When i gave the following as input:
    wanted loved gained maintained decided received
This is the output i got:
        ted is in past tense
        ved is in past tense
        ned is in past tense
        ned is in past tense
        ded is in past tense
        ved is in past tense
This is the required output:
        wanted is in past tense
        loved is in past tense
        gained is in past tense
        maintained is in past tense
        decided is in past tense
        received is in past tense

A: Your pattern asked to match a single letter followed by ed, so that's what got printed.  To match (and thus print) the whole word, you'd need a pattern like [a-zA-Z]+ to match the whole word.

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Interview: Edward St. Aubyn, Author Of 'Lost For Words' And The Patrick Melrose Novels The writer is best known for his semi-autobiographical novels about an Englishman from a posh but monstrous family. St. Aubyn's new book marks a departure.
In Life And Fiction, Edward St. Aubyn Sheds The Weight Of His Past
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The winner of the United Kingdom's only literary prize for comic fiction was awarded Monday to Edward St. Aubyn for his new book, a satire about Britain's most prestigious literary award. The novel is called Lost for Words and it was just published in the U.S.
St. Aubyn is best known for his five semi-autobiographical novels about the character Patrick Melrose, who, like St. Aubyn, is from an upper-class family that was posh but monstrous. St. Aubyn and his character, Patrick Melrose, were sexually abused by their fathers, and their alcoholic mother didn't seem to notice.
New Yorker literary critic James Wood wrote this about the Patrick Melrose novels: "The striking gap between, on the one hand, the elegant polish of the narration, the silver rustle of these exquisite sentences, the poised narrowness of the social satire and, on the other hand, the screaming pain of the family violence inflicted on Patrick makes these books some of the strangest contemporary novels."
St. Aubyn tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross about writing novels that mine his personal tragedies.
On how Lost for Words represents a new approach to writing for him
The [personal] contract under which I originally wrote Never Mind, my first novel, was rather a drastic one. I tried writing three or four novels up to that point and I never completed them, and I'd thrown them away. And I made a deal with myself that I would either write a novel and get it published or commit suicide. I was very unhappy at that time; I was 28. And it worked and I didn't disrupt that formula, so I went on writing with the menace of insanity and suicide in the background.
And then when it came to my eighth novel, I asked myself, "Does it have to be this way?" And Lost for Words, in some sense, is the answer to that question. I tore up the old contract and thought, "Can I write a book I enjoy writing and which people enjoy reading?"
Edward St. Aubyn's 2006 novel Mother's Milk was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Timothy Allen/Courtesy of Farrar, Straus and Giroux hide caption
Timothy Allen/Courtesy of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Edward St. Aubyn's 2006 novel Mother's Milk was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
On his Patrick Melrose novels, which follow the life of an upper-class Englishman from an abusive childhood to heroin addiction to recovery
All of these books are about how to become free: how to become free of your conditioning; how to become free of resentment and hatred and the weight of the past. So Patrick is on the case. He may often be very unhappy or self-destructive or confused or say things that are sarcastic, but his whole direction is toward freedom, which he eventually achieves.
On how Patrick Melrose's father, David, rationalizes raping his son
I think the people who behave in ways which are very destructive, immoral and which they know to be wrong search for whatever excuses, pretext and lies that are available to them, and someone like David Melrose will naturally choose to regard the disapproval that most people would feel about what he does as middle-class prudery. That is the defense available to him. ... People tell themselves the craziest stories, and David Melrose is a particular character in particular circumstances who uses the stories available to him.
The Patrick Melrose Novels
Never Mind/ Bad News/ Some Hope/ Mother's Milk
Paperback, 688 pages |
On his decision to write Patrick Melrose's shocking story in an unshocking way
It would have been so unnecessary to write it in a shocking way. The shock would be amplified, I thought, by writing it in a restrained way. I also felt I needed a certain kind of classicism and simplicity.
The [Patrick] Melrose novels ... are highly autobiographical and are set in one day and in one place. I suppose lucidity is the virtue that I tried to infuse the novels with, and I didn't need to make it a shocking style. On the contrary, both for me to be able to write it at all — to be able to bear to write it — and I think for the sake of the reader, there needed to be various forms of distance, that kind of restraint, and also humor, which emerges rather improbably from the story of rape and addiction and near insanity and the destruction of an individual and the downfall of a family. ... What's comic and what's tragic depends on distance. I suppose the humor is also a way of keeping a distance.
On the power of literature
Books always had this very powerful effect on me because of some communication, somebody seeming even in a very symbolic or displaced way to understand what I was feeling. And I think that is the miracle of literature, is this private communication between one intelligence and another.


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Dufourea dentipes is een vliesvleugelig insect uit de familie Halictidae. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1948 door Bohart.

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I've been as terrible about updating this as I expected to be. Nevertheless, I am struck with inspiration (or maybe it's just energy from coffee), so another post must be written!
For the next week (and the previous week) I'm spending time in Paris. This turned out to be largely a convenient set of circumstances, since I had an excellent experience when I was here two weeks ago, and I wished I could spend more time here.
I'm excited to hear that Hackerbeach will be happening again this year. Last year was an amazing and unique experience, and I can't wait to go again. This year the village hosting us will be Lamu, Kenya.
For the uninitiated, Hackerbeach involves a group of hackers (historically 15-20) gathering in a tropical location for a month to hack on various open source projects. It can be thought of as a month-long hackathon or code sprint for nomadic open source developers. All of the code so far has been focused on the open web ecosystem.
Writing this log reluctantly at the request of a coworker. last time I tried while travelling resulted in three large rambling posts (only 2 of which were published). This time I'll try to write smaller posts of a more personal nature.
Woke up with a sore throat. A bad omen for a long travel stint. I hadn't packed the night before, so it was all done day-of, which surprisingly didn't result in me not packing important items (that I can think of yet). Maybe I'm getting used to this, or maybe I'm just being more reserved in what I consider necessary.
Over the past week I've spent in Bangalore, I've come to appreciate the humble auto rickshaw, or 'auto' for short. For the uninitiated they are similar to a Tuk Tuk in other countreies. That is to say they are small three-wheeled covered vehicles used to ferry two to three passengers around busy streets and through traffic. This is half due to their diminutive size and the other half due to their driver's propensity for disregarding both traffic laws and courtesy to their fellow road-sharers. Bangalore has the busiest (and narrowest) streets in India, and the auto drivers are notorious for trying to take advantage of unwitting customers.
After notifo seemingly stopped pushing notifications to my devices, I began to look for an alternative that more transparently used Google's C2DM service for notifications. It didn't take me long to find NMA, short for NotifyMyAndroid. This is a very simple http(s) API to push notifications to one/many devices. I've broken this down into a few easy steps.
Install pynma.py and nma.py to $HOME/.weechat/python.
Now you too can be harassed by inane IRC highlights no matter where in the world you are! Thankfully, the NMA Android app has a 'quiet hours' in case you'd rather not be woken up in the middle of the night.
As an exercise on how lightweight and extensible LXC can be I decided to create a large installation of LXC containers on my laptop. I wanted to see if LXC would allow me to create large-scale testing environments often needed for testing software with several moving parts.
Install these scripts into $HOME/.irssi/scripts (and symlink it in $HOME/.irssi/scripts/autorun) to have them autoloaded when IRSSI starts.
Sign up for a notifo account, download the android app, and sign in with it. Make note of the username and API key, as you'll be configuring irssi to use them.
Now receiving highlights while you're away (detached from the screen) will send them to your android device.
Now all we need is a daemon running on your client to listen on localhost:4443 and receive the messages, then insert them into some sort of notification service. My method for doing this is to have a script in $HOME/bin run in a screen and display them using pynotify.
I've written a script that I call notifywatch that does exactly that. Save it to $HOME/bin/notifywatch.py and mark it executable.
Add screen -d -m $HOME/bin/notifywatch into your startup scripts, and desktop notifications should work as well (even while connected to your IRSSI screen)!
This morning at Mozilla, we had out first ganeti node failure, which meant we got to learn how to deal with a node failure! So far all of our ganeti clusters have been 2 node clusters, so while relatively simple, it meant an extra quirk in bringing everything up. Thankfully we used the iallocator so as to not overallocate nodes on the cluster. Here's how the process went.
I've updated the lucid image. It should be a lot more stable since I compiled the kernel on the native platform. Right now I'm devising a way to install it to the NAND to make it a lot faster. And of course, Maverick images.
Links to the new download are here, and here.


As I type it is cold and snowing outside. A few days ago it was 60 degrees and I went to church with a sweater instead of a winter coat and flats instead of boots. Now I want to cuddle up under a blanket and have a mug of hot spiced chai! I'm holding onto the idea that it will be warmer once again in a few days. The weather man said so.
So...since it will be spring eventually I thought I'd share some of our new ideas for the blog and some of the designs we've created for the shop.
First off we have a few Gooseberry Patch cookbook giveaways to hold in the coming months and I hope to post a few of our recent family favorite recipes.
I also plan to begin holding Facebook parties for the shop where you can earn free Old House Mercantile products by inviting friends to take part in our online party and order goodies for themselves.
Measuring 5x48 - perfect for a porch!
A perfect reminder of the meaning of Easter!
A dear friend posted about these awesome baked fajitas on Facebook the other day and when she shared the recipe I knew I had to try them out on the guinea pigs. Er, I mean, the family. Ha! These are super simple and very tasty! They had enough of a kick, but not too much that the littler kids wouldn't eat them. This recipe fed our large crew with some leftovers for the men for tomorrow's work lunch!
Preheat oven to 400*. Place chicken strips in 2 - 9 x13 pans. In small bowl, combine oil thru salt ingredients. Drizzle spice mixture over chicken and stir to coat. Next, add tomatoes, peppers and onions; stir to combine. Bake uncovered for 20-25 min until chicken is cooked thru and veggies tender. (Internal chicken temperature is 165 degrees if you want to check it with a meat thermometer -- I highly recommend! That way your chicken isn't dry and overcooked!) Serve on flour tortillas with taco fixins like corn, black beans, cheese, lettuce, black olives, salsa, and sour cream!
Now until the end of September we are having a sale at the shop!
Thanks so much to all who entered the giveaway! I loved hearing all your favorite desserts! I'm hungry for some shooguh now!
Before I reveal the winner I wanted to take a moment to remind y'all of our sale at the shop! Use Coupon Code CELEBRATE2015 to save 25% off all orders over $100!
Robin C. I am sending you an email shortly!
Reply with your address so I can send your cookbook off to you!
We'll have another fun giveaway soon!


That's according to Australian Eggs who today released an Australian Egg Industry Sustainability Framework that forms a long-term commitment by the egg industry to transparent engagement with the community.
"Our research program will help provide egg farmers with a better understanding of community attitudes and communities with a better understanding of the egg industry," Dr Moffat said.
The CSIRO will begin extensive stakeholder engagement in May 2018 and survey research is expected to commence in July.


A & M and m and s and k: Happy Liver Transplant Anniversary!
Yea... my son has been out of transplant for 11 years!!! Congrats!!!
Neither of you know me, I found your blog through the utah liver families blog. I am a graduate student at BYU, my name is Carie Eastman. I was diagnosed with PSC about 2 years ago.
Anyway, I am working with the American Liver Foundation to try to get a branch of it here in Utah. We're having a BBQ on May 19th at Rock Canyon Park in Provo from 6-9pm. I would love to meet you both and get more of your story. I've never met someone with this disease, and would love to ask some questions about your experience with it.
Let me know if you can come that night or meet up some other time. Thanks!


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Premier visits St George Birthing Unit, following refurbishment announcement
St George Hospital hosted the Premier for NSW, The Hon. Gladys Berejiklian, MP, the NSW Minister for Health and Medical Research, The Hon. Brad Hazzard, MP and Mark Coure, MP, Member for Oatley, for a tour of its current delivery suite.
The tour was hosted by Lisa Rathborne, General Manager, St George Hospital and Michael Still, Board Chair, SESLHD, and took place following a state government announcement that it will provide $11.5 million to expand and upgrade the birthing suite at St George Hospital, as well as refurbish existing theatres.
At the delivery suite, guests met staff including Professor Michael Chapman, Director, Women's and Children's, St George Hospital and Lorena Matthews, Nurse Manager, Women's and Children's, St George Hospital, and discussed what the planned refurbishment will mean for both patients and staff.
Ms Rathborne said that on behalf of the hospital staff, she was proud to showcase the services provided by the current delivery suite, which has been supporting local families since 1972.
"The new birthing suite will accommodate eight rooms and two assessment rooms, and will be relocated to level two of the Tower Block. This refurbishment will create more space, and enable our dedicated staff to continue to improve on the exceptional care they already provide," Ms Rathborne said.
The Premier also visited the nursery, where she met two new parents who had just welcomed their first baby, a boy named Liam.


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A specter is haunting Europe – but not the communist specter once envisioned by Karl Marx. Instead, a wave of populism is spreading across the continent, disrupting traditional political alliances and making the formation of stable governments increasingly difficult. In some cases, these movements are even making demands for secession that threaten the integrity of nation states. This mostly right-wing upsurge is driven by a deeply felt sense of popular dissatisfaction, and it is especially dangerous because established political elites remain in denial.


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YOSSI BEILIN
Israeli, Palestinian figures propose 2-state confederation
Israeli and Palestinian public figures have drawn up a new proposal for a two-state confederation that they hope will offer a way forward after a decade-long stalemate in Mideast peace efforts. The plan calls for an independent state of Palestine in most of the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, territories Israel seized in the 1967 Mideast war. Israel and Palestine would have separate governments but coordinate at a very high level on security, infrastructure and other issues that affect both populations.
Israel supporter's dramatic shift shocks establishment
An independent Palestinian state is widely seen as meeting both sides aspirations. For many Jews, Israel is an integral part of their identity, on religious grounds or as an insurance policy in the wake of the Holocaust and an age of modern anti-Semitism. Beinart readily concedes that he and many other American Jews have historically paid little attention to Palestinian voices. In the past, he has accused mainstream Jewish American leaders of blind support for what he thinks are self-destructive Israeli policies. Israel is interesting to me only because this is a Jewish state but Jewish and democratic.


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Q: python question regarding re.search and indexing Im new to python and coding and im trying to understand how re.search and indexing works.
below is what I have so far and I want physical_state to equal what comes after the Completion: (in this case it is success) but I dont really understand how the match.group(1) and re.search works.
import ops         # Import the OPS module.
import sys         # Import the sys module.
import re

# Subscription processing function
def ops_condition (o):
    status, err_str = o.timer.relative("tag",10)
    return status

def ops_execute (o):
    handle, err_desp = o.cli.open()
    print("OPS opens the process of command:",err_desp)
    result, n11, n21 = o.cli.execute(handle,"return")
    result, n11, n21 = o.cli.execute(handle,"dis nqa results test-instance sla 1 | i Completion:")
    match = re.search(r"Completion:", result)

    if not match:
        print("Could not determine the state.")
            return 0  # Look into what the return values mean.

    physical_state = match.group(1)  # Gets the first group from the match.
    print (physical_state)
    result = o.cli.close(handle)
    return 0

output of result, n11, n21 = o.cli.execute(handle,"dis nqa results test-instance sla 1 | i Completion:")
   Completion:success                   RTD OverThresholds number: 0
   Completion:success                   RTD OverThresholds number: 0
   Completion:success                   RTD OverThresholds number: 0
   Completion:success                   RTD OverThresholds number: 0
   Completion:success                   RTD OverThresholds number: 0

error when run
<setup>('OPS opens the process of command:', 'success')

    Oct 18 2018 06:12:57+00:00 setup %%01OPSA/3/OPS_RESULT_EXCEPTION(l)[410]:Script is test3.py, current event is tag, instance is 1381216156, exception reason is Traceback (most recent call last):
      File ".lib/frame.py", line 114, in <module>
        ret = m.ops_execute(o)
      File "flash:$_user/test3.py", line 21, in ops_execute
        physical_state = match.group(1)  # Gets the first group from the match.
    IndexError: no such group

Thanks in advance


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Tammyetta Michelle Spaulding's Car Was Found Abandoned [09/03/2016]
Home » Tammyetta Michelle Spaulding's Car Was Found Abandoned [09/03/2016]
Hattie Juanita Burton, A Pregnant High School Student, Disappeared in 1988
The mysterious case involving the disappearance of Tammyetta Michelle Spaulding continues to haunt investigators. It's been almost four years since the Jackson, Mississippi mother of two had any contact with her loved ones. There are conflicting reports regarding Tammy's last days, but here is the information I could gather.
On September 3, 2016, the 37-year-old took her children to school and then went to work at Comcast. However, she was captured on surveillance cameras at her job leaving early. WLBT 3 News reported that she wasn't seen coming or going with anyone and it's unknown what prompted her to leave. That day, Tammy spoke with her father, James Spaulding on the phone. That's reportedly the last time anyone spoke with her. There are other reports that state Tammy was last seen on September 2 as she took her kids to school and visited a payday lending business.
"The unusual thing is Tammy just disappear and not contact somebody," said James. "The police said her cell phone had been used just a couple of days after she went missing, but they couldn't trace that."
Tammy's family reported her missing on September 7 not knowing that two days prior, her dark blue 2013 Chevrolet Equinox had been found abandoned behind a gas station close to Savanna Street and I-55 South. The keys to the vehicle were missing. A towing service moved the SUV from the gas station and the vehicle was later tracked down by police. The car is currently in possession of the Jackson Police Department.
"Whoever had the car, cleaned it thoroughly," said James. "No fingerprints, not even Tammy's fingerprints, were found in the car."
Then, something strange reportedly happened. A hairdresser named Emma contacted Tammy's aunt because Emma had met a woman who claimed she knew what happened to Tammyetta. The woman eventually called with disturbing, yet unconfirmed, information regarding the missing woman. Allegedly, Tammy's death had something to do with an ex-boyfriend who used his "red truck" to dispose of her remains.
"A lady told them they might as well stop looking for their niece because they would never find her," said Joysteen, Tammyetta's mother. "Because they used a lot of acid to get rid of the body… The relationship she was in, she was pregnant for one guy and he called it off. She found out another girl was three months pregnant at the time she lost her baby."
Tammy's parents are now permanent caregivers to her children. "I'm not supposed to be looking for my child to be dead and gone" her mother cried out. "My child is supposed to be here to bury me." Tammy's father believes the man his daughter was pregnant by was named "Marcus," but he's not sure.
At the time of her disappearance, Tammy was 5 feet 5 inches – 5 feet 7 inches tall and approximately 345 pounds. She has brown hair (it was cut short and dyed blonde) and brown eyes. Both of her ears are pierced and she wears prescription glasses with plastic black frames. When Tammy was 32-years-old, she suffered a heart attack. Two stents were placed in her main artery. Tammy is also diabetic and needs to take insulin daily. She reportedly didn't have her medication with her when she disappeared.
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Eve Heller
Eve Heller is an american experimental filmmaker cinema producer. Her work has been displayed in the American Whitney Art Museum, in the Anthology Film Archives and at the New York and Rotterdam festivals.
Biography Eve Heller began studying filmmaking when she was 17, attending the S.U.N.Y. Department of Media Studies at Buffalo and New York University. She received her BA in German Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies from Hunter College in 1987 and an MFA in filmmaking from Bard College in 1993. Her award winning work has been widely shown, both in the U.S. and internationally, at such venues as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Collective for Living Cinema, the New York Film Festival, Pacific Film Archives, Toronto's Cinematheque Ontario, the Rotterdam International Film Festival, and the Austrian Filmmuseum in Vienna. Eve currently lives and works in Vienna.
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PC World Forums > PC World Chat > I always knew she had no idea what she was doing.
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B.M.
"Former Prime Minister Helen Clark has reacted with shock that a business award she gave was to India's top tobacco company.
Clark, who is now head of the United Nations Development Agency, presented India's largest cigarette maker, ITC (formerly Indian Tobacco Company) with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development's (WBCSD) highest prize for improving the environment and removing poverty. :lol:
This drew an angry reaction from a leading Indian health advocate who termed it a travesty of justice".
HERE (http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/world/7298340/Helen-Clark-shocked-at-tobacco-award)
Iantech
"What is tragic is that Helen Clark, a responsible prime minister and wife of a respected public health expert could not have given this award in New Zealand or any other developed country." Lal said. That guy has his head in the sand, India is not what I would call a 'developed' country.
She was blinded by the Smarm radiating from John Key
An idiot indeed, enough said.
Whenu
Don't suppose a committee at a lower level in the UN made the decision and she is the front-person ?
Irrelevant, the buck stops with her.
Nothing to worry about though, these people get away with every thing. All that matters is the gravy train.
pctek
Yeah, never mind they actually employed people.
Nor do they actually hold people down and force them to smoke.
If I went down the school and sold cancer inducing lollies to kids for a few cents would you defend me as well?
Wait, I need to employ a couple of people to help me, then its all good.
Then the UN can give me a medal.
CliveM
She has always believed herself to be a superior being. It is always some one else's fault not hers. At typical politician with her snout well and truly in the trough. I cannot think of one reported achievement of hers since she lost the election in NZ. Mind you that also applies to the whole UN they are not even close to being united and seem to be set up purely to keep failed politicians in a well paid lo stress job.
You're probably dead right Whenu but it's pretty poor form when the head of an International Organisation presents their most Prestigious Award to an outfit she obviously hadn't bothered to find out anything about.
I remember a few years ago now, an acquaintance actually met the Queen and he was astounded by how much she knew about him right down to his children's names.
No doubt someone had done the research for her, but she must have somehow committed it all to memory.
Queens have very little else to do, other than patting dogs and children.
How ridiculous.
Cigarette companies are not lurking outside schools, nor selling sweet kid stuff, nor for a few cents either.
And as for cancer inducing, yep, let's wait 50 years ish and get cancer, or not.
Or something else, or not.
Most likely we'd end up with one or the other anyway.
But of course alcohol, with it's record of accidents, violence, putrid behaviour in public places, is just fine isn't it.
Never mind if you drink for long enough it will cause a few health issues too.
Oh, and make you fat.,
They do in fact give them away at arcades and youth events, and sell them individually for a few cents.
That aside, Alcohol is a separate toxin, and doesn't effect the stench that is the cancer industry.
I know you enjoy it, and as far as I'm concerned more power to you, you're an adult, if that's the way you want to live your life then that's fine by me. That however doesn't mean we should continue infecting each new generation with poison just to make some faceless corporation rich.
anyway.Lets ask a dead guy if it was worth it.
Mr Patterson said he loved his wife Mary Jane "more than I have words to express" and that every moment spent with her was "time spent wisely".
"My regret is that I felt invincible when young and smoked cigarettes when I knew they were bad for me.
"Now, to make it worse, I have robbed my beloved Mary Jane of a decade or more of the two of us growing old together and laughing at all the thousands of simple things that we have come to enjoy and fill our lives with such happy words and moments.
"My pain is enormous, but it pales in comparison to watching my wife feel my pain as she lovingly cares for and comforts me. I feel such the "thief" now - for stealing so much from her - there is no pill I can take to erase that pain."
Yeah, not so much.


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Science on Stage: countdown to the international festival Inspire article
Keywords: Event report
Author(s): Andrew Brown
Science on Stage brings together many of Europe's most innovative and inspiring science teachers. Andrew Brown reviews some of the recent national activities.
Creating the parabolic
Image courtesy of Guillaume
Lebatard
Science on Stage offers a platform for European science teachers to share their teaching ideas, workshops and performances. Via national events, teachers compete for places at the Science on Stage international teaching festival, which this year will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 16-19 Aprilw1. The 2011 festival, with the motto 'Science teaching: winning hearts and minds', will bring together 350 European science teachers.
France: Solar-powered curry and musical sunshine
The balloon deflates when
the metal bottle to which it is
attached is immersed in
Image courtesy of Ioannis
Gatsios
The French organisers of Science on Stage, Science à l'Ecolew2, collaborated with a national science contest for middle- and high-school students called CGenial. On 15 May 2010, 81 projects were presented in Nantes and 12 teachers were selected to attend the international Science on Stage festival this year
Solar-powered cooking
Guillaume Lebatard and Amandine Sultana described how their students, aged 11-12, used little more than an old satellite dish and some aluminium foil to make a steaming hot gourmet meal. The foil was used to line the surface of the dish, creating a parabolic reflector capable of concentrating the Sun's energy. This solar cooker proved sufficiently powerful to boil water and even to make a delicious chicken curry!
Mathematics teacher Francis Loret challenged his 14-year-old students to battle against him in the Internet's biggest virtual sailing race, the Vendée Globew3. Students were given expert training in the basic principles of sailing and in meteorology and the interpretation of weather maps. They had to grapple with the unfamiliar concepts of spherical geometry, which underpin the calculations necessary to sail in the race. Of the 340 000 race participants, Francis's most accomplished student sailor finished in an impressive 216th place.
Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff… and the Sun? Who would have thought that in addition to sustaining all life on Earth, the Sun also produces music? Jean-Michel Laclaverie and Elisabeth Martre's students studied the frequency of vibrations emitted by the Sun and used them to show how this 'music' compares to that produced by more traditional musical instruments.
Greece: Rainbows and Mars
Elias Kalogirou demonstrates
why a rainbow is bow-
Images courtesy of Elias
Kalogirou
On 15-16 October 2010, 3000 visitors – including 2000 students – flocked to the Hellenic Science on Stage eventw4 at the Laboratory Centre for Physical Sciences of Aigaleo. There, teachers and students from across Greece presented 110 high-school projects, including laboratory exhibits and two student performances.
Physics teacher Elias Kalogirou described how his students designed experiments to explain the wonders of the rainbow using their understanding of optics; why is a rainbow coloured, why is it bow-shaped and how can we create one in the classroom? (Elias has also written an article on microscale chemistry for Science in School: see Kalogirou, 2010.)
Using everyday materials, Ioannis Gatsios built 10 devices designed to teach his students about the behaviour of gases. One consisted of an inflated balloon attached to a metal bottle. When the bottle was plunged into liquid nitrogen at -190 °C, the balloon deflated, illustrating that the volume of a gas is reduced by a decrease in temperature.
Theodoros Pierratos encouraged his students to think like astronauts. He asked them to consider everything that is required to plan a trip to Mars and live on its surface. Classroom experiments helped answer questions such as: how does the solar wind affect electronic equipment, and how can we produce the energy required to maintain a manned base on Mars? (Theodoros's work has also been featured in Science in School. See Patterson, 2009.)
Attending the international festival
Investigating how solar wind
affects electronic equipment
Image courtesy of Theodoros
Pierratos
At each national Science on Stage event, a fixed number of teachers were selected to represent their country at the international Science on Stage festival in Copenhagen. For these teachers, participation will be free.
For other science teachers who wish to attend the international festival, there are a limited number of places for which a registration fee will be charged. See the Science on Stage websitew5 for details.
Kalogirou E (2010) Microscale chemistry: experiments for schools. Science in School 16: 27-32. www.scienceinschool.org/2010/issue16/microscale
Patterson L (2009) A classroom in space. Science in School 12: 50-54. www.scienceinschool.org/2009/issue12/spaceclassroom
w1 – To find out more about Science on Stage Europe and to contact your national organisers, see: www.science-on-stage.eu
w2 – To learn more about Science on Stage France, see: www.sciencesalecole.org
w3 – Details of the Vendée Globe can be found here: www.vendeeglobe.org/en
w4 – For more information about Science on Stage Greece, see: www.physics.ntua.gr/SOS-GREECE/contest.html
w5 – To learn more about the international festival and how to apply to take part, see: http://science-on-stage.eu/?p=3
After each of the previous international Science on Stage festivals (and the Physics on Stage festivals that preceded them), the Irish delegates produced a book describing how to carry out their favourite experiments in the festival. These books can be downloaded free of charge from the Science on Stage Ireland website: www.scienceonstage.ie/resources/
Science on Stage
Andrew Brown recently graduated from the University of Bath, UK, with a degree in molecular and cellular biology. During his course, he took a year out to work for the agrochemical company Syngenta where he specialised in light and electron microscopy. He now works as an intern for Science in School, based at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany.


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Jim Broadbent, Michael Caine, Michael Gambon
Based on a true story about a gang of retired criminals who carried out a major heist in London's famous diamond district. Directed by James Marsh, who helmed The Theory of Everything, The King of Thieves stars a host of familiar faces including Sir Michael Caine, Charlie Cox, Michael Gambon, Ray Winstone, Tom Courtenay, and Jim Broadbent.
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Hatton garden, 2015. A group of sophisticated criminals manage to pull off a major heist in London's famous jewellery district.
A huge haul of diamonds worth £200 million has been taken from the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company. But rather than a gang of highly dangerous mobsters, the public is sent into a frenzy when it's revealed that the culprits are pensioners in their late 60s and 70s who are suffering from all kinds of physical ailments.
Despite their old age, the unlikely suspects managed to pull off one of the biggest robberies in British history. With a bit of learned graft and a few handy how-to books, they enter via a lift shaft and escape through a hole they drilled in the 50cm thick vault.
You might not be able to teach an old dog new tricks, but that doesn't mean he can't still use the ones he's already mastered.
A fascinating drama based on the true events of the 2015 London diamond heist, The King of Thieves is directed by James Marsh, who brought us the ground-breaking hit The Theory of Everything.
Acting legend Sir Michael Caine (The Dark Knight) takes centre stage in the film and is joined by a talented supporting cast, including Charlie Cox (Daredevil) Michael Gambon (The King's Speech), Ray Winstone (Jawbone), Tom Courtenay (Dad's Army), and Jim Broadbent (Game of Thrones).
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Ali Al-Jamri
Between Two Islands
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Year of the Nationalists, Part 4: The Hidden Intervention
Posted on 2013/07/11 by alialjamri
From the Archives is a blog series about Bahrain and its history. The stories told are drawn primarily from the documents, notes and correspondences kept at the British National Archives and India Office archives.
Part 3 of Year of the Nationalists can be read here.
It had already been a historic year for Bahrain. The National Union Committee (henceforth "The Committee") had been officially recognised in March by the Ruler, Sheikh Salman, making them the first legal political party in Bahrain and the Gulf region. That same month, the bungling police brutally fired on an angry crowd, killing many and heightening the tension in the country. The year also saw the first elections of any importance for the Health and Education councils. But this minor process of democratisation was ruined when at the last moment the ruling family selected a certain Shaikh Abdullah to be head of both councils, with veto powers. The Committee boycotted the councils and it was the last attempt at democracy until independence. 1956 also saw the inflammatory rise of anti-British and anti-colonial demands by the opposition: Selwyn Lloyd, the British Foreign Secretary, was attacked by a mob; and the demands that Charles Belgrave, the autocratic Adviser, should leave grew louder and louder.
And then the Suez Crisis happened. Nasser, Egypt's president, nationalised the Suez Canal to help fund his infrastructure projects. In retaliation, Britain and France, who had owned the Canal, concocted a mad plan. On 29 October they made their move when Israel, their partner in this endeavour, invaded the Sinai Peninsula. Britain and France intervened as a peace keeping duo with a secret mission: to take back the Suez Canal.
The Arab world was in an uproar and general strikes were held across the Middle East and North Africa. In Bahrain, the protest marches would turn violent and anti-British rioting ran wild. In the ensuing chaos, the leaders of the Committee were arrested and quiet was restored to the country. It was British military intervention which allowed such a peace to return.
The story is there, but something is missing. Exactly what happened in November 1956? We know the general outline, as summarised above. But the British national archives are amazingly sparse about it. As I will explain, a lot of information is just not there, and its absence is striking. My main source for these articles has always been the documents and correspondences of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office kept in the National Archives in Kew, London. In particular I've been drawing on a series of six files, "Internal Political Situation in Bahrain", series code FO 371/120544 through to FO 371/120549. I've referred to them extensively in telling the story of the "Year of the Nationalists".
The sixth file in the series, 371/120549, covers the events in the last months of 1956. But frustratingly, it has very little on November 1956. My own notes from this file have a large gap following an intelligence report dated 6 November 1956, which notes that a curfew was imposed on 3 November, and that the National Union Committee had released a pamphlet declaring a boycott of British and French goods on 4 November. It also notes that this self-same pamphlet also carried a protest against the arrest of Ibrahim Fakhro, a Committee leader. It is the closest thing to contemporary documentation of the crackdown that I've found. Then silence reigns until near the end of November.
I first looked at these files a year ago. It was only when I began writing Part 3 of Year of the Nationalists that it dawned on me that I was missing a dire amount of information regarding the November events – here were the nationalist leaders, all arrested, and I had nothing on it. So I went back to the Archives and there I found that there is in fact a second series of six files by the Foreign Office. This series, FO 1016/465 through to FO 1016/470, "Bahrain: Internal Political Situation, 1956", runs through the same events as the series that I read last year. Many of the documents within were copies of ones I had already sifted through, but others still were new to me. By now it was clear I had gotten ahead of myself when I started writing this series, but I didn't have the time to go through all six thick files so I took out only 1016/470, the last in the series.
What I found was frustrating. The earliest dated document in this file was from 1 November, a notice issued by the Ruler, Sheikh Salman, reminding the public that under a 1947 law, demonstrations without permission from the Government are illegal. It then further clarified this law, with the inclusion that participants in illegal demonstrations would be fined up to Rs 3000, imprisoned for up to three years, or both. That this statement was issued at all is quite telling of the strength the Bahraini nationalists held on the streets and the rising anger against the British and their war in Egypt. The Bahraini government certainly seemed worried, at the least, that public anger would explode on the streets. This seems like a promising find, but then there are three weeks worth of documents missing: the next dated document after 1 November is on 19 November. Then on 21 November a notice is issued by Charles Belgrave, the Advisor, repealing the 1 November notice of Sheikh Salman. It is from this point on the documents appear in their usual density, with most of them dated December as the brevity of November gives way.
Evidently, Part 6 of the series, which I was reading, was not the file with the information I needed. So I went to order Part 5 – FO 1016/469 – only to find that it's been retained by the Foreign Office. Dated 1956, the record has no title. But sandwiched between FO 1016/468 (Bahrain: Internal Political Situation, Part 4) and the above-mentioned FO 1016/470, Part 6, it's obvious what the record is. Part 4 covers the the summer of 1956 for the most part – its latest correspondence is dated September – and so it seemed Part 5 must have the sought-after information.
But Part 5 is withheld under the Public Records Act (1958), Section 3.4:
Public records selected for permanent preservation under this section shall be transferred not later than thirty years after their creation either to the Public Record Office or to such other place of deposit appointed by the Lord Chancellor under this Act as the Lord Chancellor may direct:
Provided that any records may be retained after the said period if, in the opinion of the person who is responsible for them, they are required for administrative purposes or ought to be retained for any other special reason and, where that person is not the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chancellor has been informed of the facts and given his approval.
The key here seems to be in the second paragraph, where a record may be withheld for "administrative purposes" or "any other special reason". That segment of correspondence and documents filed by the Foreign Office on Bahrain in 1956 is unlikely to be needed for administrative purposes, so what is the "other special reason" alluded to? It is worth noting here that Britain's heavy involvement with the next part of the story – that is, the deportation of the Committee leaders to St Helena at the end of December 1956 – has not been retained by the Foreign Office. That by most measures would appear to be the more controversial of Britain's actions in Bahrain in this time, but it is the military involvement that is hidden from us.
We know that the British intervened in Bahrain in November 1956. The history Tribe and State in Bahrain, Fuad Khuri, states as much. But did they make use of the infantry regiment stationed there earlier that year? Did they just loan equipment like helicopters to the Bahraini police? Exactly what happened is what I want to know. In an effort to at least find out why the file which we can only assume has the full details on the November 1956 events has been retained, I've sent a Freedom of Information Request to the Foreign Office, and they will hopefully have an answer for me within a month.
Having said that, here's how Fuad Khuri tells the story of the November strikes in Tribe and State in Bahrain:
Al-Bakir met with the advisor and agreed to have the committee organize peaceful strikes and mass meetings under police protection.
One assumes this happened on either 1 November, following the Ruler's polite reminder of how illegal demonstrations would be treated, but Khuri doesn't place a date on the meeting. Khuri describes the Committee's protests:
On 2 November the CNU organized a mass meeting in Manama, attended mostly by the urban Sunni. After some fiery speeches, the participants marched in a supposedly peaceful procession, escorted by a symbolic police force. Not unexpectedly, in those moments of emotional contagion, the procession drifted off the route it had planned to follow and soon developed into a riot the police force could not control. Knowing the repressive measures mob actions may stimulate, al-Bakir, supported by his immediate associates, tried to stop them, but to no avail. The mob set fire to the British firm of Gray McKenzie, smashed the windows of the government and the British commercial houses, looted and burned some houses owned by Europeans in Muharraq, and attempted to set alight a gas station in the middle of the bazaar. On the next day they destroyed the boats and machinery of the British firm, looted and burned al-Khalij newspaper, set fire to the Public Works Department building, and tried unsuccessfully to burn down the Catholic church. Several houses owned by Europeans in Manama were looted and some were burned, after being evacuated a day earlier.
It's clear that something needed to be done. The protests had gotten completely out of control of both the formal opposition and the state. Anti-British rioting was tearing Bahrain apart – certainly, it was tearing the country apart for its British inhabitants. At what point, however, was that enough to send Britain into action?
As though the details of these events weren't murky enough, Khuri's narrative doesn't match up one-to-one with what little information can be gleaned from the British archived correspondence. A certain Mrs Thomas, wife of a British aeroplane pilot and occupant of one of the Muharraq houses looted in the riots, sent a frustrated letter to the British Agency complaining about her loss of property. The British Agency consulted with the Foreign Office on how to reply, and through this correspondence comes to us a timeline of the events. We know that at precisely 1.32 PM, Mrs Thomas called the Bahrain State Police to report that children had thrown stones and broken windows. At 2.55 PM, the Royal Air Force (RAF) station in Muharraq reported that children were damaging cars nearby. At 3.40 PM, "in view of the deterioration of the situation" in Muharraq island, police reinforcements were sent in from the Manama station. Then at 6.10 PM Mr Barrow, a neighbour of Mrs Thomas, reported to the police that a crowd was breaking into their flats. A riot squad was quickly sent down and the RAF evacuated the British under siege. By 6.58 PM, the situation had calmed down and the police were withdrawn.
We know all this precise information of the riot in Muharraq, including the date that it occurred: 1 November. But Khuri's history implies that this riot, as well as the others he lists, happened on 2 November or in the days after it. Was Khuri missing some information when he wrote his own history of the events? How much rioting actually occurred before the Committee's Manama meeting on 2 November? The British timeline, with its statement of the "deterioration of the situation", suggests that the looting of the expatriate workers' homes was not an isolated incident. But we can also infer that the rioting was limited to Muharraq island only, since the capital, Manama, was quiet enough for reinforcements to be sent from there.
As was mentioned, we have the details of this particular riot because of a complaint by one of its victims. Mrs Thomas' letter was referred to the Foreign Office and a brief was sent back by Dougles Dodds-Parker, a Parliamentary Under Secretary, who outlined to the British Agency his thoughts and what to write in response to her. He notes that "her most serious complaint, I think, is that the use of British forces for this purpose was not sanctioned early enough during the recent disturbances." Clearly then, the British did not intervene as early as 1 November. Dodds-Parker further writes that:
It was essential, in the interests of our policy both in Bahrain and in the Persian Gulf as a whole, that the use of British forces should be regarded as a last resort in a generalised emergency, and should not be committed on account of a specific local incident (however painful and disagreeable to those concerned) before the inadequacy of the local security forces to keep general order had become clear.
When, then, was that? 2 November? We know that there was a line crossed at which point the British military aided the Bahraini police force. But the looting of British homes was not that line. This all may seem like obsessing over minor details, but the British involvement in suppressing the riots directly led to the imprisonment of the National Union Committee's leaders, and thus the snuffing out of this first, major political organisation in Bahrain and the Gulf.
Here is what Khuri writes on the arrests:
Taking advantage of the Sunni-Shi'a split on the issue, the police, reinforced by British troops, arrested Ibrahim Fakhru on 2 November and four other members, including Shamlan, al-Bakir, and Alaywat, three days later.
Disregarding Khuri's previous and relatively minor errors in the timeline of events (and ignoring the mysterious note on sectarianism, which he fails to expand on), this does confirm that the British were involved on 2 November. The scraps of British documentation that have escaped being withheld might back it up. An intelligence paper was drawn up at the end of each month, and the summary for November notes that a curfew was imposed by decree on 3 November in Manama, Muharraq and Al Hidd, taking effect from 2.30 PM. Does that mean that order was restored to a point where the police could enforce a curfew? If so, then the British must have intervened on 2 November. Or was the curfew needed to impose order? That would suggest that it was on 3 November that they involved themselves. In either case it seems that the British had intervened no later than 3 November, as it was their military which helped the Bahraini Police regain control of the situation. Having said all that, it seems that the simplest course is to take Khuri at face value and accept that the British "reinforced" the Bahraini police on 2 November.
Putting the British archives to one side, there is another primary source we can draw on: the personal diaries of Charles Belgrave (as opposed to his memoir, Personal Column). Can they provide an answer to these questions? Here's his entry on 2 November:
What a day! The telephone must have rung about every five minutes. The earlier part of the morning fairly quiet till the procession started which acted entirely contrary to the arrangement which we had agreed upon. They came past the house shouting my name & and stayed a while opposite the agency, shouting, then went off but they, en route, smashed a lot of windows, set fire to the African & Eastern building & tried to set fire to two petrol stations, fortunately they didn't fire the tanks. In the morning police arrested some men for obstructing the police among them a member of the committee & owing to that the strike is to continue tomorrow and popular anger has again been turned onto me as the Shaikh apparently told the innumerable people who rang him up that his release or detention was a matter for the Police and the Adviser. A very trying day, we could see the flats at Muharraq still burning at night. Sent a cable to Times. I often feel that I dislike intensely every single Arab in Bahrain. After dinner decided to go out & see the Shaikh. Went out in a jeep with 6 armed men, found at 10 oclock all shut up & though we battered the door for quarter hour we got no response. Came home to more telephoning, situation bad in BOAC area.
Here are some very interesting details on the actual turn of events on that day as well as on Belgrave's own personal feelings at the time ("I often feel that I dislike intensely every single Arab in Bahrain"). It at least backs up Khuri's own telling of the events. He even mentions the arrest of Ibrahim Fakhro, though he doesn't name names. However this entry gives no indication as to British involvement in the matter.
The next important event occurred three days after the 2 November riot, on 5 November, when three more Committee leaders are arrested: Shemlan, al-Bakir and Alaywat. Considering the murky records available from the British National Archives, it should come as no surprise that the British are light on the details on the events of 5 November. The only note in the intelligence summary regarding 5 November is that the curfew was lifted between 10 AM and 4 PM. The personal diaries of Charles Belgrave give only enough detail to confirm that this did happen:
The raids went off well, three leaders of the committee were raided, those arrested A Rahman Bakir, Shemlan & one of Hedd to be picked up later.
However, at the end of the 5 November entry, Belgrave finally acknowledges the British military presence in Bahrain. Only a single sentence is given about them:
British troops patrolling & doing guards & ready to help in emergency.
If we accepted Khuri's narrative, that British reinforcements were sent in on 2 November, then we also know now that they were patrolling Bahrain for at least three days – onto 5 November. This also answers the question regarding what form British "reinforcements" took – clearly, the infantry stationed on the islands after the March crisis were put to use. But that doesn't explain what they were doing in the days immediately before or after – as mentioned, the British archival material is non-existent between 1 November and 19 November. When did the British troops return to their barracks?
And more niggling questions are raised: were British troops directly involved in the arrests of Fakhro, Shemlan, al-Bakir and Alaywat? Or was it that their stabilising presence allowed the Bahraini Police to refocus their efforts and carry out the arrests independently? Precisely what was their objective?
It might seem like it should be enough to say that it happened and move on, but the events of these first days of November had significant, lasting effects. In the following year, the British would note the growing problem of the strength of the reactionaries within government:
While we must try to see that a renewal of political agitation is staved off for as long as possible we must also try to see that the Ruler, who is reactionary by nature, by upbringing and by association, does not use this calm solely to strengthen his own autocratic position and that of the Al Khalifa. There is I feel some hope that he will not do so but he needs to be watched constantly and, when possible, have any undesirable tendency checked.
Gault, Political Agent, 21 May 1957
When I said that the great difficulty was the Ruler's own stubbornness and unwillingness to move, [Ahmed Fakhro] agreed but said that he personally considered Shaikh Salman as the best person to be Ruler of Bahrain and infinitely better, with all his shortcomings than anybody else in the family.
Gault, in conversation with Ahmed Fakhro, brother of Ibrahim Fakhro, 23 December 1957
The royalty was in a strong position after the crushing of the Committee and their power was running unchecked (though the latter issue had as much to do with the departure of Charles Belgrave in 1957). From Gault's writings, it seems the British were wary of this new status quo. Yet it is a status quo that they had responsibility in creating, through the military involvement which led to the arrest of the Committee leaders.
At the end of the day, there really isn't enough information to say anything else except this: In the first week of November, anti-colonial anger reached a pitch and riots broke out. The Bahrain police were at a loss to keep the situation under control, when the British military reinforcements entered the scene and restored order. It was in that time that the leaders of the National Union Committee were arrested.
Why did it happen this way? What were the motivations of the British, whose intervention changed the course of Bahrain's history? I don't think there is some great conspiracy at the heart of this hidden history, but there is certainly something very strange about it all: 58 years on from the events, the files telling this tale are still withheld. What is so sensitive about this story of which all the protagonists are now dead, that it still hasn't been released to the public? It is an important, absent, part of the story.
On a personal level, it's a missing piece of the puzzle that has hounded my peace of mind for the last month. I want to find and share why this missing information is so important, but at the end of the day must content myself with the facts we do know. And so after this long detour through the annals of British Archives and the events of November 1956, it is time for me to move the story on.
Next week, the trial and deportation of the nationalist leaders and the departure of Belgrave. Part 5 of Year of the Nationalists, the finale, can be read here.
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