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K. P. S. GILL
Occasional writings on Terrorism & Governance
Keep militants on the run in J&K
Over the past years, many 'solutions' to the Kashmir problem have emerged from time to time: a US sponsored 'way forward' that lead nowhere; the pressure tactic of an 'autonomy report'; 'Track II Diplomacy' and a great deal of meddling by entirely well-intentioned but not particularly well-informed individuals; the release of the Hurriyat leaders and the fitful initiation of 'talks' with them; and a short-lived unilateral declaration of cease fire by one of the major terrorist groups active in J&K, the Hizb-ul-Mujahiddeen. By and large, none of these initiatives reflected any clear perspective on the problem, any coherent vision of a process of resolution, and, certainly, none worked to a visible plan. Each had, in fact, the character of a gamble – the arbitrary introduction of a new variable in the prevailing equation backed up with the unfounded hope that 'things may work out for the better'. They worked out, in fact, much for the worse, further destabilizing an already unstable situation, and causing greater bloodshed than has become the norm in this hapless State. It is now time to make an objective assessment whether the current suspension of offensive operations against terrorists in J&K, presently in the latter half of its third month, should be added to this listing of aimless gambits.
It is regrettable but true that, despite decades of experience with terrorism, India and its institutional structures of governance appear to learn nothing from the past. There is, instead, a constant harping on simplistic, content-free slogans – such as the insistence on a 'political solution', without any clear definition of what such a solution could be, and without elaboration on what norms are to apply to measure its transitional successes and failures. There is, moreover, a complete absence of understanding of the fact that, just as the use of force has its inherent limitations, so has politics. What the one can do, the other cannot. There is a great deal of talk about the need for a political solution – and this is correct. But the search for a political solution is not a necessary exclusion of the military option. It cannot mean that the army and the paramilitary forces must first, suddenly and arbitrarily, be immobilized or withdrawn from the area of conflict so that 'politics' can come into play. Such a strategy of abandonment simply hands over the Valley to the terrorist warlords and their puppeteers in Pakistan.
A great deal has now been written about the peace process in Kashmir. But there is, in fact, no such animal in existence. The unilateral declaration of a suspension of offensive operations against terrorism cannot be termed a 'peace process'. This is, at best, a tactical ploy to create international pressure on Pakistan to curtail support to terrorists operating from its soil. At this level, it appears to be working. There has been a cessation of cross border artillery exchanges and small arms fire between the Indian and Pakistani Army units stationed along the LoC. The Indian defense establishment has, however, rubbished Pakistan's claim of significant withdrawal of forces along the LoC. Nevertheless, the Pakistan leadership has been forced to initiate at least some apparent moves to curb the activities of the jehadis within that country, and there have been announcements that the military government there would prevent the collection of funds for the 'jehad' and the open display of weapons by extremist groups. I am, however, extremely skeptical of the eventual impact of all these moves. The fact is, the terrorists are clearly instruments of the Pakistani state, and, on the Kashmir issue, their interests are identical with those of the present regime. While there may be some tactical shifts on both sides in order to pander to international opinion, the ground situation will remain the same, and in the event of any weakness on the part of the Indian government, the bloodshed in J&K will only escalate. To believe otherwise is merely wishful thinking.
Consequently, irrespective of what 'political solution' is pursued or secured, it is my firm conviction that, as long as the terrorists are not given everything they want – and they don't just want Kashmir, if you read what they say, you will know that they think of Kashmir only as a gateway to the rest of India – they will keep on killing. Terrorism will eventually have to be defeated on the ground through the use of force. This does not exclude a political solution to the problems of J&K. But such a solution has to be negotiated with the political players there, not with terrorist warlords based in Pakistan. Here it is important also to distinguish between terrorism and any other political or economic problems within the State. Terrorism is no longer a 'Kashmiri' problem. It is an export and an imposition sourced from Pakistan. Terrorism itself will have to be resolved through the use of force. There can and must be no negotiations with terrorists – though there are strong lobbies who believe that there should be. Such negotiations only strengthen the terrorists, not only within these areas of conflict, but elsewhere as well, wherever criminal opportunists and violent groups believe they can secure similar results by resorting to the same methods. There has been a gross underestimation of the 'demonstration effect' of terrorist actions, especially where these secure even qualified success, and this can prove, over time, to be suicidal for all of civilization.
It is now time to assess the impact of the present suspension of offensive operations in terms of morale and effectiveness of the Security Forces in J&K. There have been several demoralizing attacks against the SFs themselves, and some utterly barbaric incidents involving civilians. It is a fact, however, that, in the first two months of the one sided 'cease fire' the total number of fatalities has gone down, in comparison to the months preceding the cessation of offensive operations, but fatalities among civilians have risen, and there is an atmosphere of fear and rising disorder in the State. There has, moreover, been a significant worsening of the ratio of security personnel and terrorists killed: in the first two months of the 'cease fire' this was 1:1.97, as against 1:3.04 in the first seven months of the year 2000. The worst element in the current scenario, however, is the sense of impotence that has been imposed by the bar against offensive operations. It is difficult for fighting men and those sworn to the protection of law and order to understand the wisdom of a decision that tells them that they cannot act against criminals and terrorists, even when they have specific information regarding their whereabouts and activities, until after they have actually struck. Nevertheless, I do not believe that there has been any excessive loss of morale on the ground at this point. How long the spirits of the SFs can be sustained at existing levels in the face of continued attacks and the present one-sided 'cease fire' is, however, a moot question.
The course of current events is particularly unfortunate in view of the changing ground situation in recent years, and the increasing confidence, especially among the local police force. The State Police appears to be more willing to take on the militants than was the case in the early phase of terrorism in the State. This is at least in part a consequence of the change in public perceptions. The erosion of popular support to the terrorists, accentuated by the increasing activities of terrorists of foreign origin, gives the local police a clearer mandate to act against the 'jehadis'. This is very important, especially in view of the fact that these policemen are drawn from local communities themselves, and are not only influenced by the popular sentiment, but are also vulnerable to attacks on their families. This base in the local communities can also be a source of extraordinary strength, once cooperation from the people increases. Information flows from the public regarding the movements of terrorists have been steadily increasing over the past months, and this is another reason for numerous successful operations by the security forces, especially in the months preceding the declaration of suspension of offensive operations. I believe that, if they were not asked to fight with their hands tied behind their backs – as is the present case – the police and SFs could be enormously effective in their fight against the terrorists now, and are capable of explicitly defeating the militancy in the State.
(Published in The Pioneer, February 17, 2001)
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The year's second 10-bout fight card at the Armory last Saturday once again ended in controversy.
Sunday, April 14 was a day in sports history that millions around the world will never forget.
A flood of memories came to me after Tanysha Scott led her alma mater DeLaSalle to their first Class 3A state tournament girls' basketball championship since 2013.


Andy Lawson impressed hugely during TT 2015 practice week.
Competing on Shirlaws Motorcycles Racing rider ZX10R Kawasaki Andy during Friday nights's practice session at TT 2015 lapped at 123.312 mph unofficially his fastest lap speed to date around the mountain course.
The 2014 junior Manx Grand Prix winner has alongside TT 2015 shown his undoubted pure road racing talent at Spring Cup National Road Races and Cookstown 100 securing top quality results at both hugely popular meetings.
Alongside action on Shirlaws Motorcycles Racing ZX10R Kawasaki in superbike, superstock, senior races, supersport races are to set to see Andy ZX6R Kawasaki mounted.
The ultra competitive lightweight TT sees him competing on ER6 Kawasaki machinery.
For the RST superbike TT race tomorrow Andy is 29th away, he originally held start number 58 for superbike TT but thanks to his great pace during practice week he starts from 29th position.
He has the talent, machinery, pace and speed to secure a world class result tomorrow.
Having achieved the fantastic feat of winning the 2014 junior Manx Grand Prix Andy has already at TT 2015 showcased his proven pace around the most iconic of all road race circuits.
Tomorrow is set to see in contention for a result of the highest quality as he opens his superbike racing account at the Isle of Man TT.


At 3 Monkeys Zeno, we are always drawn to people who think differently. So I was delighted to interview Nicole Yershon, the author of Rough Diamond: Turning Disruption into Advantage in Business and Life, at our Book at Breakfast event.
We all sometimes struggle to persuade the businesses we work with to be less cautious and think differently, but that is Nicole's specialty. She is a straight-talker, always looking for the next big thing in tech, who never takes no for an answer. She's a human embodiment of 3 Moneys Zeno's core values of openness, curiosity and courage.
When I worked with her a few years ago, I would always know that, if I saw her bearing down on me, I would end up – like it or not – working on something creative, that had never been done before, that was fun and often award-winning.
Despite coming from an ad agency background, she's a force to be reckoned with in any setting. I was eager to explore how the learnings of her book could help the clients of 3 Monkeys Zeno. I asked her about a term she uses to describe the people, even in large organisations, who are able to think differently: intrapreneurs.
Like the title of her book, Nicole is a self-confessed rough diamond. And yet she's able to impose structures to breed creativity. She recommends 'semesters of learning' whereby twice a year, she would pick an emerging technology, meet as many people as she could who were experts in the field, and then apply what she'd learnt to solving a client's problems.
That way, at least once every six months, she'd have a new point of view on something that people probably didn't know much about that could help both her clients' business and her own.
Nicole's advice for spreading creative thinking in an organisation is simple: just spot the colleagues who are always begging: "tell me more." Allow them to flourish, and don't burden them with back-to-back meetings or long working hours. Give them some slack. Give them room to breathe. Get them to leave the office and see interesting things for themselves.
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"In 2003, a few months after I got married, I was diagnosed with a degenerative neurological disorder. They started teaching occupational therapy to live in my "new" body, and flyers of all the assistive service I was going to need.
It was awful. I did not want to live like that.
I went back to school and became an adaptive fitness therapist. I discovered a whole new world of really intelligent people who worked outside the box in movement therapy.
Every morning, I wake up and know that I keep moving because I want the dignity of being able to use the bathroom by myself. It doesn't seem like a grand adventure, but when you have lived in a body where that was not an option, it keeps me motivated."


Cool pics, I tend to walk through them before I see them!
Cool photos! The last one is my favorite of these. Great bokeh, especially at f/5 and not even at half the full zoom. I don't know anything about canon but seems like a really nice lens.
Thank you. The Canon 100-400 new version is an amazing piece of glass but over $3,000 in Canada. It can focus at 400mm at 3 feet away so it makes a good macro lens.


Many of you have asked about my family member Gracie, who was shot by a fellow student in her school a couple weeks ago. She is recovering well. Though the bullet literally bounced off her spine (and missed her aorta by a hair), doctors expect a full recovery (though she is not yet walking again). As you read this, please pray for her.
As I understand it, she was shot and fell, and most of the students naturally turned from the sound of gunfire and ran away. But one student, a Christian, became aware that Gracie was shot, stopped, knelt down next to her . . . and prayed over Gracie. In that moment, Gracie said, she knew she was not alone. God came close, through this courageously compassionate friend.
Courageous: doing what we know to be best, in the face of threats that cause us to feel fear. A Christian does not hate this present life, but this world is a temporary grave, because of what is coming next. We are free to give ourselves up, because we don't gain ourselves here; we gain ourselves There, in Christ's return. As I consider what this girl did, I find myself returning to passages and commentators that point me towards heaven. I need my mind settled on my real home, more. I'm too often too enamored with the fleeting beauty of the sights of this trip I'm on; I need to be awakened again to the sights and smells of Home. God give us this sight.
Compassionate: I choose this word deliberately. I don't mean empathetic - "accessing" what another feels, and feeling that with them. Empathy can actually distract us from the presence of mind to give the other person what they really need. Evidently Gracie did feel fearfully alone in that moment. Our suffering doubles when we walk in it alone. But compassion sees what the other person truly needs, and, being moved by that need, supplies that need. Gracie's friend was not distracted from what Gracie needed most in that moment. She saw with clarity that mere human, impotent presence was inadequate - she needed the powerful presence of God Himself, a presence that could overcome.
So she prayed. Gracie needed all the resources of heaven itself in that moment. So this friend called them down. Though she was probably only reacting, it nevertheless was courage aimed at a wise, useful, and powerful goal. God make us so aware of each other's needs, and so wisely, courageously, and compassionately moved to respond.


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Chelsea striker Diego Costa admits he unhappy living in England
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The Spain international and Chelsea striker, Diego Costa has admitted he is unhappy living in London.
Costa is his statement said "I am happy at Chelsea, I am not necessarily saying that I am happy with my life in London. But that is something totally different. It has nothing to do with it."
"I have another two years on my contract. I am always very honest with those close to me. I tell them that I am very happy at Chelsea.
"The club gives me a lot, the fans, the team-mates. I am in a team that is winning and that motivates me even more.
"Last season was not the best, not just for me but for other players and for Chelsea. This year I hope will be different, that we win titles.
"If you are in a team that is winning, you always want to stay, for the allotted amount of time," Costa added.
As his future at Stamford Bridge remains unknow,Giego costa is the subject of interest from Chinese club Tianjin Quanjian during the January transfer window. The CSL outfit were ready to pay him up to£600,000-a-week. They are expected to return this summer, as Costa dithers over a new Chelsea deal.
Costa has scored 17 Premier League goals this season, but has failed to find the net in their last five matches.
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Nikon d5100 is a really descent camera body for whoever wants to take the kind of pictures you are watching right now!
This is a 16.2 millions pixels Camera from 2011, still available online I think, or second hand, this is obviously great to start photography from beginner to advanced users. Quality of picture is great and sharp. Do not forget to choose the right lens with this great body.
I've chose a Nikkor 18-200 f3.2.
This wide range from 18mm (almost wide angle) to 200mm alows to have a single lens for every situations, which is a good compromise while travelling.


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War Memoirs May 1917 - Oct. 1917
17th New York at Second Bull Run
The Polar Bear Expedition
Australian Imperial Forces
The Western Front
My Gulf War Experience
The Invasion of Mesopotamia
The End of Bulgaria
Civil War Record
Make your plans to fit the circumstances.
-- General George S. Patton, Jr
War Stories: Vietnam
War Stories published under this topic are as follows:
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Greyhound Downed
I was flying C&C for an operation in lower III Corps, near the end of the Plain of Reeds, actually further SE, near the Thumb and the Testicles, if you know the area. Our Company XO, a fairly new Captain and aviator and a great guy, was my PP.
Note: by Robert Glasier, 240th Assault Helicopter Company 11356 Reads
The Two Women
I have a good idea why the sergeant from Kentucky raised his rifle to shoot the two women who were walking to market along the Tra Bong road that day.
Note: By Tom Dier 8043 Reads
Every day we wandered aimlessly through the dense, green, vegetated, treacherous terrain. Men became lost, absorbed, into the greenness that nature built long ago. The same greenness that Charlie used so well to conceal his roads, bases, weapons, and supplies. The dark forests that seemed to offer up a war with mosquitoes, leeches, physical and emotional exhaustion, and the endless search. Frustrations of living, coping, and the lack of sleep. So tired you don't give a shit anymore. Face the danger, press on. Prison life at hard labor couldn't be this bad. Nevertheless, prison is life and out here, there are no guarantees of any such thing.
Note: by Tom Hays 8474 Reads
There Really Is A War
Well Mom,
There really is a war going on over here. We made contact in daylight yesterday for the first time since I've been here. You know how they say war is not like the movies show it. Well, they're wrong. It's exactly like the movies.
Note: By Tim Driscoll 8257 Reads
One long mission
Little did I know that within an hour I would be beginning the second half of my WestPac cruise, albeit in a new squadron. My name is Bill Angus and I was a B/N with VMA (aw) 224 embarked aboard the Coral Sea.
Note: By Captain Bill Angus (retired) VMA (AW) 242 Carrier Air Wing 15 USS Coral SeaCVA 43 9977 Reads
Tet 1968
It has been 36 years since the tet offensive of 1968 broke out. However each year since then I remember my first time under fire, and what a mess I made of it. I arrived in country in September 1967, I was an 11B primary MOS. In Cam Ranh Bay I received orders for a military intelligence unit.
Note: by Robert Ryan, 525th Military Intelligence Group 16813 Reads
Tet 68
Incoming in Saigon, my sleepy brain never really sleeps. My bed is on the first floor, I am instantly awake, I can tell the difference between incoming and outgoing in my sleep. That was definitely incoming. I had just transferred to the 120th Assault Helicopter Company, flying out of helipad Hotel-3 in Saigon from a serious kick ass line outfit, the Blackhawks or 187th Assault Helicopter Company in Tay Ninh, we got rocketed all the time there.
Note: by Wayne R. "Crash" Coe 8658 Reads
Strange Day
I was on a S&D with the RFs. We were moving along a heavily vegetated canal with open rice paddies to our flanks. The VC were waiting for us and we got into a sharp firefight. It was head-on and we could not maneuver against them because of the paddies. To our front, a small finger of vegetation stuck out from Charlie's positions, so we decided to assault it in an attempt to flank them.
Note: by Don Steiner 9654 Reads
This is the Spirit of America
From the 1/14th Daily Journal for 19 NOVEMBER 1966.
19 NOVEMBER 1966 Although the heavy contact with NVA troops on the 13th of November was still fresh in the minds of the men, today they would relive this struggle with an even more determined and large enemy force. Innumerable incidents of personal heroic actions, and the valiant fighting team spirit of out units brought us through on top.
Note: Sgt Ted Belcher was awarded the Medal of Honor, PostHumously. 8013 Reads
Trucking in Vietnam
A starry night in January 1968, found me on a westbound Trailways Bus somewhere in the Nevada desert. My transistor radio was playing "Hey Jude", and my destination was Vietnam. The first time I had ever heard of Vietnam was in 1965. I was assigned to the 396th Truck Company located at Panzer Karserne in Boeblingen, Germany. Our CO would call us together periodically and brief us about this place called Vietnam.
Note: by Fred Probst, 566th Transportation Company 18319 Reads
The First Brigade
On 22 July 1968, the First Brigade of the 5th. Infantry Division [Mechanized], left Fort Carson, Colorado, under the command of Colonel Richard Glikes. Forward elements of the Brigade had been shipped out earlier to stake our claim to I-Corps. The heavy stuff, tanks and APCs and the likes had been shipped out in May and June. For the rest of us, we were to fly all the way. The last movie I saw on post was Elvira Madigan.
Note: by M.J.M. Raffin 17458 Reads
Barrel Bombing; a CO's View
In the summer of 1970 I was flying near Football Island and observed an Army CH47 helicopter rolling barrels of what appeared to be fuel off the ramp and then igniting them. It looked like they were trying to burn the grass in the area. On return I thought about what I had seen and came up with the idea of doing something similar.
Note: by Charlie Block 8406 Reads
HILL 882
The helicopter's jet engines strained, with the Huey B's blades slicing through the air, making the familiar sounding "chop, chop, chop," as the bird made a sharp turn. We were sitting on our helmets to protect against rounds coming through the floor of the aircraft.
Note: by Ted McCormick, B Co., 1/327th Inf, 101st ABN Division 9904 Reads
The New Guy Who Saved My Life
We had a new guy in our mortar platoon I will call Joe C. He was a Chicano from East L. A. He was friendly, and fun loving but liked to take chances. In the world of mortars, one of the top rules, is not to have a round in each hand while firing a mortar tube. It is nearly impossible to keep track of where the round in the barrel is.
Note: by Larry Nuckolls, 81MM + 4.2", B Co., 2/22 (M) 25TH INF DIV., 1970. 8435 Reads
Outpost Hotel
Det 6 was staging out of Song Ong Doc. It was going to be a dark night with no moon, so as we watched the sun slip below the horizon, we knew we would be flying that night. Sure enough, the scramble alarm went off around midnight. The AMY, a series of support barges for PBR's, was the command post for our area of operations. The AMY activated the alarm.
Note: by Jim Plona 8914 Reads


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Marietta Holley (pen names, Jemyma, later, Josiah Allen's Wife; July 16, 1836 – March 1, 1926), was an American humorist who used satire to comment on U.S. society and politics. Holley enjoyed a prolific writing career and was a bestselling author in the late 19th century, though she was largely forgotten by the time of her death. Her writing was frequently compared to that of Mark Twain and Edgar Nye. Along with Frances Miriam Whitcher and Ann S. Stephens, Holley is remembered as one of America's most significant early female humorists. Holley's work appealed to all classes of society. Her readers are scattered over the entire world and include men and women of every station and grade. Her books are widely read in Europe.

Early years and education
Holley was born in a modest cottage in Ellisburg, New York, on the outskirts of Adams, New York, July 16, 1836. She was the youngest of Mary Taber and John Milton Holley's seven children. The family lived on a small farm in Jefferson County, New York, on the road leading from Adams to Pierrepont Manor. The Holleys went to Jefferson county from Connecticut. Her maternal grandfather, "Old Squire Taber" as he was called, went to Pierrepont Manor from Rhode Island.

She received the rudiments of an English education at a neighboring school, and later, with the exception of teachers in music and French, she pursued her studies at home. At fourteen, she ended her formal education in order to supplement the family income by giving piano lessons. When she was a young girl she was given to poetry, and wrote a great deal. She thought she should like to become a great painter; then she decided to be a poet, but finally abandoned both intentions. Holley commenced her career as a writer when in her teens, though she published nothing until 1876.

Career

At the age of seventeen, she converted to the Baptist faith and joined the Adams Village Baptist Church. Her father died when she was 25, and Holley took charge of the farm and care of her sick mother and sister.

Her first appearance in print was in a newspaper published in the Adams Journal. Her first pen-name was "Jemyma". The editor of that paper encouraged the young aspirant with some timely praise, as did Charles J. Peterson, for whom she wrote later. The editors of the Christian Union published what they called "a sweet little poem" from her pen. She wrote also for the Independent and several other weekly and monthly journals. Her articles at that time were mostly poems, and were widely copied in the United States and in Europe.

It was in a dialect sketch written for Peterson's Magazine that she first adopted the pen-name "Josiah Allen's Wife". That pen name and "Jemyma" were a protest against the too musical pen-names of literary aspirants. Those articles attracted the attention of Elijah Bliss, president of the American Publishing Company, of Hartford, Connecticut. Against the protest of his company, he brought out Holley's work. He urged her to write a book for him, which she did, and it was an immediate success, and was republished at once in England and Canada. The name of the book was My Opinions and Betsy Bobbet's (Hartford, 1872).

Her next book, Samantha at the Centennial, appeared in 1877, and at once pleased the popular taste. The Wayward Pardner appeared in 1880. Miss Richard's Boy, a book of stories not in dialect, was published in 1882. These books were brought out by the American Publishing Company, and the same firm published an illustrated poem of hers called The Mormon Wife. Holley's follow-up prose work, Sweet Cicely, (New York, 1885) was wrought out through her horror of intemperance and her desire to see the young of her country saved from the evils of strong drink. This was followed by Samantha at Saratoga (Philadelphia, 1887).  Poems (New York, 1887), revealed strength and tenderness, but failed to suit the popular taste because they were wanting in the grotesque humor and pathetic homeliness of style which characterized her prose works. Samantha Amongst the Brethern, appeared in 1891.

After Holley became a successful novelist, she built a mansion called "Bonnie View" near her family's home in Pierrepont.
She wrote over 25 books, including one collection of poems, two dramas and one long poem, between 1873 and 1914. Among her novels was a 10-book series that detailed the travels and married life of Samantha and Josiah Allen as they journey outside Samantha's rural hometown, which was similar to Holley's own. Holley herself spent most of her life close to her family's farm; aside from Saratoga and Coney Island, she never actually visited the places to which she sent her fictional protagonists; she instead depended on maps, guidebooks, and descriptions for the necessary details.

Her books were translated into other languages and brought her a comfortable income. Many contemporary writers and suffragists held her in high regard; her famous friends included Susan B. Anthony, Twain, and Clara Barton. Anthony frequently asked Holley to give speeches at suffrage conventions because of Holley's support of women's suffrage, but she refused public appearances.

Themes and style
Many of Holley's writings share themes of prohibition and women's rights. Like Charles Dickens, she brought to her aid the very people whose sufferings she aimed to relieve, and whose evil deeds she hoped to check. She was not only quaint in expression but magnetic, and her sentiments were often touchingly and pathetically strong.

Quaint, grotesque humor and pathetic homeliness of speech were the weapons she used to make known the wrongs of her sex and the evils of the times. In her prose work, she mostly employed the speech of half-taught people, writing of their ludicrous blunders, and turning ridicule against ancient wrongs, venerated because they are ancient. Every one laughs at the absurdities of Josiah Allen's Wife, and no one forgets the crushing exposures of fraud and oppression which she makes.

Personal life
Holley never married. A maiden sister resided with her. Holley died March 1, 1926, at age 89.

Selected works

'[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t5db7wk1v;view=1up;seq=9 'My Opinions and Betsey Bobbet's: Designed as a Beacon Light, To guide Women to Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, But which May Be read by Members of the Sterner Sect, Without Injury to Themselves or The Book]. Josiah Allen's Wife.  Hartford Conn., : American Publishing Company, 1873, c. 1872
Josiah Allen's Wife as a P.A. and P.I.: Designed as a Bright and Shining Light, To Pierce the Fogs of Error and Injustice That Surround Society and Josiah, And to Bring More Clearly to View the Path That Leads Straight on to Virtue and Happiness. Josiah Allen's Wife.  Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, c. 1877
Betsey Bobbet: A Drama. Adams, N.Y.: W. J. Allen, 1880
The Lament of the Mormon Wife. Josiah Allen's Wife. Hartford, Conn. : American Publishing Company, 1880
My Wayward Pardner; or, My Trials with Josiah, America, the Widow Bump, and Etcetery. Josiah Allen's Wife.  Hartford Conn., American Publishing Company, 1880
Miss Richard's Boy and Other Stories. Hartford, Ct.: American Publishing, 1883
Sweet Cicely: Josiah Allen as a Politician. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1885Miss Jones' Quilting and Other Stories. New York: J.S. Ogilvie, 1887
''Poems]. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1887
[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo1.ark:/13960/t6h13kh3s;view=1up;seq=11 Samantha at Saratoga or Flirtin' with Fashion. Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers, 1887
Samantha Among the Brethren. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1890
Samantha on the Race Problem. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1892; republished 1898 as Samantha Among the Colored Folks
Tirzah Ann's Summer Trip and Other Sketches. New York: F. M. Lupton, 1892
Samantha at the World's Fair. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1893
Widder Doodle's Love Affair and Other Stories. New York: F. M. Lupton, 1893
Josiah's Alarm and Abel Perry's Funeral. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1895
Samantha in Europe. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1895
Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition. New York: G. W. Dillingham, 1904
Around the World With Josiah Allen's Wife. New York: G. W. Dillingham, 1905
Samantha Vs. Josiah: Being the Story of the Borrowed Automobile and What Became of It. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1906
Samantha on Children's Rights. New York: G. W. Dillingham, 1909
Josiah's Secret. Watertown, N.Y.: Hungerford-Holbrook, 1910
How I Wrote My First Books. Harper's Bazaar (September 1911)
Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands. New York: Christian Herald, 1911
Samantha on the Woman Question. New York:  Fleming H. Revell, 1913
Josiah Allen on the Woman Question. New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1914
What Is Behind Ouija? The World Magazine (27 June 1920): 5,13
The Story of My Life, Published serially. Watertown Daily Times, Watertown, N.Y., 5 February to 9 April 1931

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 Marietta Holley's 1890 Book 'Samantha Among the Bretheren' has been serialized in Mister Ron's Basement Podcast
  Marietta Holley (links, bibliography, and pictures at the American Authors site)
 Electronic Books
 Marietta Holley site created by South Jefferson Central School Students

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1926 deaths
American humorists
19th-century American women writers
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China Unveils First AWACS Aircraft for PAF
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China has unveiled the first ZDK-03 airborne warning and control system (AWACS) aircraft for the Pakistani Air Force (PAF).
The ZDK-03 is a sophisticated AWACS aircraft, which is fitted with advanced sensors and a communications suite.
In 2008, the PAF signed a contract with China Electronics Technology Group for the joint development of four ZDK-03 AWACS aircraft configured to Pakistan's specifications.
PAF chief Air Chief Marshall Rao Qamar Suleman said the ZDK-03 AWACS will strengthen the PAF's capabilities to maintain peace in the region.
Suleman said the AWACS was part of the PAF's overall strategy of transforming itself into a lean and technologically advanced air force.
The PAF has also received two of four Saab-2000 AWACs aircraft ordered from Sweden, according to the Pakistan Observer.
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School will be closed for spring break April 18-22. Regular scheduled classes will resume April 23.
I would like to wish everyone a blessed and happy Easter filled with many smiles and a lot of laughter with those you hold dear.
PSSA makeup testing in language arts for students in third and fourth grade will take place April 23-26.
Second-grade students will take to the Sheckler Elementary stage 7 p.m. April 25 to perform their show, titled "Bugs," for family and friends to enjoy.
Catasauqua Middle School fifth-grade student Maliya Walp saw an opportunity to help reduce the amount of food tossed out at CMS. At breakfast and lunch, students must select from at least three of the food groups — meats and proteins, whole grains, fruits, vegetables and milk. One item must be a fruit or vegetable. In order to take the minimum number of items to create a student meal, a student may be required to select a food he or she will not eat.
Thursday, April 18: Schools are closed. No meals served.
Friday, April 19: Schools are closed. No meals served.
Monday, April 22: Schools are closed. No meals served.
Join the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) team May 5 at Arts Quest Center at SteelStacks, Bethlehem, for the March of Dimes "March for Babies" Lehigh Valley 3-mile walk to support premature babies. Registration begins 9 a.m., and the walk begins 10:30 a.m.
See Miss Schmidt for more information or look for QR codes around the school to sign up and help out.
There will be perfect attendance rewards April 26 and May 3.
Reminder: School is closed for spring break April 18, 19 and 22.
Classes will resume April 23.
Catasauqua Middle School is now taking orders for flower vouchers for Hickory Grove Greenhouses to benefit the student activity fund.
Each voucher is good for either one tray of bedding flowers or vegetables or a flowering hanging basket.
The PSSA pep rally at Catasauqua Middle School is scheduled for April 12.
There will be a PTF meeting 7-8 p.m. April 16 in the library.
School is closed for spring break April 18, 19 and 22.
CMS is now taking orders for Hickory Grove Greenhouses flower vouchers to benefit the student activity fund.
All Catasauqua High School seniors are reminded to continue to submit photos showing your plans for after graduation to Mrs. Frantz in the guidance office.
All photos will be posted on the bulletin board located outside of the CHS guidance office.
Hanover Township is currently interviewing for a part-time job to maintain the park system on weekends from mid-April through October. Applicants must be 17 or older.
Pay is above minimum wage.
More information is available on the bulletin board outside the CHS guidance office.
Students in third and fourth grade will begin PSSA testing in language arts April 15-17. Testing will resume after the spring break.
Students should get a good night of rest and eat a healthy breakfast, especially during testing dates, as they should also do every day. Students should also avoid being tardy or absent and shouldn't have any appointments scheduled during testing days.
School will be closed April 18-22 for spring break.


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Cruise down the legendary Highway 1 and see California's unparalleled rugged coast. The entire 17-mile drive is jam-packed with jaw-dropping sights and landmarks including the Pacific Ocean, Carmel by the Sea, Silicon Valley, Monterey's Cannery Row, Mission Carmel, Pebble Beach, and more. There's no better way to experience California's coast.
Travel with us down California's rugged coast, known as Highway 1. This stunning drive affords one amazing view after another. Enjoy the winding roads down the coastline as you sit comfortably in our luxury tour coach. Soak in a bit of California history at Cannery Row. Enjoy the many local seafood restaurants and shopping options during a stop in Monterey, or for an additional fee explore the world-famous Monterey Bay Aquarium.
We invite you to join us on this wondrously scenic tour as you enjoy bits of California's history and pristine vista points of interest.
The Monterey & Carmel Tour is approximately 11 hours in length and is available on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays at 9:00am year-round. The tour price includes the entrance fee into the 17-Mile Drive. The 17-Mile Drive will be closed during Pro Golf Tournaments.
Have you been to Monterey & Carmel - Scenic California Coastline Tour? Share your knowledge and be the first to review this.
The tour is a total of 17-miles. Passengers will be driven throughout the duration of the tour.
Is hotel pick-up service available?
Yes. Passengers staying in most San Francisco and San Francisco airport area hotels can receive complimentary transportation to and from their hotels.
Transportation is not available for guests staying in the East Bay, South Bay, or North Bay areas. It is recommended that these passengers take BART (if from the East Bay) or CALTRAIN (if from the South Bay) into San Francisco to receive transportation to the tour from there.
No. Meals are not included on the tour.


The Minister hasnt answered a single written question since she became a Minister, including one asked on 27 November 2017, almost three months ago.
The Division 1A Athletic Director's Association, now known as Lead1, hasnt taken a stance on sports betting, said Tom McMillen, president and CEO.
The federal gas tax hasnt been raised since 1993 and hasnt kept up with inflation, she said.
We get the bigger part of the $10 million than Indoesia and Sri Lanka but not the amount hasnt been broken down yet,' he said.
Jeff Hirschberg, vice chairman of The Northeast Maglev, said that despite the need for federal funds and the fact the Japanese technology hasnt been approved for transit uses in this country the company still thinks it can be up and running by 2024.
Central President All Pakistan Government Employees Coordination Council Mohammad Aslam Khan told media crews that despite pledges by the provincial government, the allowance hasnt been approved.
He also expressed that the working relationship with Chacha Imran Khan hasnt established as yet.
THE boys doubles winner Sumit Nagal said the feeling of winning a junior title at Wimbledon hasnt sunk in yet.
Green polyethylene (PE) hasnt reached its full potential, but the technologys popularity is growth, particularly among companies like Tetra Pak, General Mills, McCain and Danone.
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If we're lucky, we can unload a container in two days, if a boat hasnt come in, but if there is a boat, it will take several days and you just have to wait," said Wilmer Guevara, processing agent for the Baptist customs agency.
An IMF mission wraps up a two-week inspection Wednesday of the Serbian economy as part of a periodic Article IV consultation, but it hasnt opened negotiations with the former Yugoslav republic on a new loan, he said.


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Adoration of the Shepherds with Saint Roch is a 1514-1515 oil on canvas painting by Palma Vecchio, now in the main side chapel of the church of San Lorenzo in Zogno, Italy.

History
It was commissioned for the altar dedicated to Saint Joseph in Santa Maria, the church of the Franciscan monastery in Zogno. It was recorded on that altar during the pastoral visit by Carlo Borromeo in 1575. The first art historical work to mention it being in Zogno was Carlo Ridolfi's 1648 Le Maraviglie dell'arte: overo le vite de gl'illustri pittori, though that misattributed it to Giovanni Cariani, a Bergamo-born artist of the Venetian school very active in 16th century Bergamo. David Teniers the Younger disagreed with that theory, attributing it to Palma Vecchio in 1660. The artist may have made some copies that are now in private collections.

When the monastery was suppressed and closed and its property sold to the Furietti family, the artworks inside were taken on by the town council, which in turn ceded them to the convent of tertiary sisters of the church of Maria Santissima Annuciata in Zogno, which had been established there on 5 January 1731. Only in 1816, after this too had moved to the Montello district, the work was given to the Confraternity of Saint Joseph, which looked after the altar of the Nativity in the parish church of San Lorenzo. It was restored by the painter Crotta before being exhibited as altarpiece in the first side-chapel on the south side of the nave. Unfortunately this restoration turned out to be heavy-handed, though in the mid 20th century Mauro Pelliccioli managed to remove the heavy colour it had added and restoring the original ones. Around this time it was valued by the art historians Adolfo Venturi and Bernard Berenson, who confirmed its attribution to Palma, though not all critics agreed.

References

Bibliography
 Giulio Gabanelli, La parrocchia di Zogno nei secoli, Clusone, Edizioni Ferrari.

External links

Palma
Paintings in the Province of Bergamo
Paintings by Palma Vecchio
Paintings of Saint Roch
1515 paintings


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Just getting back to posting weekly… Here's the market update for across the country.
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Fire Island National Seashore
Suffolk Co., NY
The National Seashore offers visitors a variety of unique features in one easy-to-reach location including dune-lands, an ancient forest and beautiful beaches.
Within this ever-changing elongated land mass called Fire Island National Seashore is New York's only designated Federal Wilderness area. One can hike over its 20 miles of beach bordering the Atlantic, explore life in the dune-lands and see an ancient forest. There is even a primitive camping area for those willing to brave poison ivy and ticks. A permit is required for camping. Call (631) 281-3010 to obtain one. Autumn is perhaps the best time to hike the area, when it is still warm but the extreme summer sun is gone. A particularly unique point of interest for walkers is the Sunken Forest, located at Sailors Haven to the west (Hiking Long Island guidebook).
A good place to start a hike is from Smith Point Park at the southern base of the William Floyd Parkway. The real way to see the National Seashore in its splendor is to walk the beach heading west or continue on the boardwalk for a while and pick up the beach on the south side on a boardwalk path that leads to it. It should also be noted that one can hike westward from the Smith Point parking lot about five miles through Smith Point County Park to the rough water of Moriches Inlet. Four-wheel-drive vehicles are likely to be encountered here.
Use the Web Map link on this site for a trail map.
Within this ever-changing elongated land mass called Fire Island National Seashore is New York's only designated Federal Wilderness area. One can hike over its 20 miles of beach bordering the Atlantic, explore life in the dune-lands and see an ancient forest. There is even a primitive camping area for those willing to brave poison ivy and ticks. A permit...
National Parks Service
Contact park
Web Map: NPS map
Buy Book: Hiking Long Island: A Comprehensive Guide to Parks and Trails
From the Long Island Expressway take exit 68 to William Floyd Parkway (County Route 46) south to its end at Smith Point County Park.
For electronic navigation and mapping: GPS Coordinates -- 40.732430, -72.866920 (Fire Island Wilderness Visitor Center, County Rd 46, Shirley, NY 11967)


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A: I found this jsfiddle with nice implementation of what you are looking for.

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A: Your image says you want something like JSON Tree.
you can do this by using several Jquery plugins. here is the one - github link, Z-Tree

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This year, Write Club founder Ian Belknap and Lindsay Muscato plan to weigh in by crafting writerly, typewritten love (or hate, up to you) letters after a quick phone or Skype conversation with the purchaser. You can commission one for $9.75 via Etsy, and they won't judge you for scrambling to put together a Valentine plan this late in the game. They launched the project just yesterday, after a wildly successful stint this past weekend producing letters on demand for guests at the Museum of Contemporary Art's most recent First Friday event.


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I know this reference will be lost on a few of you, so let me explain. The Beverly Hillbillies is a situation comedy broadcast by CBS from 1962 – 1971. The story line centered on the trials and tribulations of the Clampett family who moved to Beverly Hills, California after the OK Oil Company discovered oil in Jed Clampett's swampland. If you are not familiar with the show, you can watch the episode where Jed strikes oil and get a quick feel for it. By the way, if you do watch the episode, there is nothing wrong with your monitor. The show was broadcast initially in black and white.
So what does Jedd Clampett have to do with shale gas? Jedd's story illustrates just one of the challenges economic development professionals will need to consider when managing their community brands successfully through the upside opportunity created by shale gas.
More on Jedd in a minute. First, let's frame the challenge so we can better understand the role economic development professionals can play.
Susan Christopherson is a J. Thomas Clark Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University. She has been studying the community level economic impact of shale gas development. One of her observations that helps frame the challenge is shale gas is not a renewable energy source. When a well is played out, it is gone. On the surface, you might think "no duh". But, if you know that a revenue stream has a fixed life then you are a lot more motivated to think about how a community will deal with the time when the revenue stops.
Susan's counsel is to provide good stewardship. That includes being a good steward of the environmental impact, but also of the impact on the community's economic well-being. The key will be to reap as much of the positive benefits as possible, mitigate the downside risk, and come out of the cycle with a stronger sustainable economic position. That will require anticipating what will happen in the short-term when the drilling accelerates, and in the long-term when the natural gas reserve is depleted. It is going to take economic development leadership.
What Are Some of The Impacts You Might Expect?
Social – The ramp up of drilling will increase the local population as drilling crews from other shale gas operations are brought into the community to help with the extraction process. Seeing so many out-of-state license plates in a community can be disconcerting to many residents. The absolute increase in demand at entertainment venues, grocery stores, gas stations, etc. can be a new and perceived major inconvenience as people see their traditional way of life changing. Since most of the local employment won't come until the post-drilling phase, there may be initial resentment that jobs created for the drilling phase are not helping to reduce local unemployment levels.
Services – More people means an increased demand on services like police, fire, and education. An increase in truck traffic means the potential for increased accidents and demand for emergency response and health related services. There can be an increased demand for rental housing as well as hotel and motel rooms. Restaurants will likely see an increased demand.
Infrastructure – More trucks means an increase in wear and tear on the road system, along with an increase in dust in the summer and traffic noise year round.
What is the Jed Clampett Effect?
Let's revisit Jedd now. In the field of psychology there is a condition called the Sudden Wealth Syndrome. One day you are poor and the next day you are making millions from payments made by an energy company for the mineral rights on your property. Most of us have an immediate visceral reaction like – Give me a problem like that … please. But, you might want to be careful what you ask for. Studies conducted by Dr. Goldbart in the 1990's of instant millionaires created in Silicon Valley found many suffered from a variety of stress-related disorders linked to having to deal with instant wealth. They has symptoms such as excessive guilt, paranoia, fear of loss of control and sleep issues. In addition, often people who become instant millionaires may find friends and relatives asking for handouts or acting jealous. This further compounds the feeling of guilt. Without proper management, friends may stop speaking to each other, families can begin feuding, the entire communities can become fractionated. In short, the culture of the community may be forever changed. This will have a direct impact on your community's ability to deliver your brand promise.
As an economic development professional, you can view the challenge in the context of place brand management. You know the current image of your community is about to go through a transformation process and a new identity will be formed. The "product" (your community) is about to undergo a fundamental change. The goal of your work should be to ensure your new community identity is even more appealing for both citizens and potential capital investors.
Your professional role is to help lead your community through the transition, by forming a vision for what your community could be after the shale gas is depleted, enrolling and energizing the community in that vision, and then working with your public and private sector leaders to create a proactive development plan that results in a diversified industry portfolio that can sustain your community's economic well-being. Having and executing an economic development plan will help the public and private sector leadership ensure a positive long-term outcome.
Designing and deploying the plan takes strong personal leadership and hard work. But, it certainly can be done successfully.
Economic development professionals in communities affected by the Marcellus and Utica Shale Plays are working through the challenges right now. This is a living case study that all economic development professionals can learn some new best practices from. I encourage you to weigh in with your thoughts. If you are an economic development professional in an area with a shale gas play, please share your experience and observations. The more we can learn from each other, the better we will all be able to perform our roles.
Thanks for sharing this, Ed. Reference to the Beverly Hillbillies is a great attention getter, at least for those of us who still remember that show!
You make an excellent point about the need to plan for what comes after a source of tremendous wealth generation is depleted. Countries benefiting from their vast mineral reserves have often parked the surplus into a sovereign wealth fund, with varying degrees of success. Those focused on domestic infrastructure, raising educational levels, and economic diversification have generally done much better than others who invested their wealth abroad, or simply squandered it. Or the government can run a structural fiscal surplus and direct it into a "rainy day"-type fund. The experience of Australia and Chile in particular has been quite positive. At the regional or local level, newfound wealth can often price producers in other sectors out of markets, as their business costs surge with rising property values, congestion, labor shortages, etc. Planning ahead is thus critical indeed. Thanks for yet another thought-provoking conversation starter!
Sudden wealth is a 'problem' if you don't have a plan in place for what happens during and after the 'boom.' Yes, there may be some short term issues for some in the community as housing prices rise, etc., but there will also be benefits in the form of higher property tax revenues, sales tax revenues, ad valorum taxes, etc.
The core issue is how to use the relatively short term benefits and surplus as a window of opportunity to realize longer term structural improvements in the wealth creating potential of the community. You need a migration path.
This path can best be perceived based on the current competences of the community, and how they can be leveraged for future growth. What investments need to be made now? In what areas? Looking at current capabilities and looking at how they may be extended into adjacent industries or capabilities can often provide clues.
Ed: Thanks for advancing the discussion. It's worthwhile for EDPs to take a longer-term look at the shale gas opportunity that many areas are being presented.
I would suggest that the "good environmental stewardship" aspect of this needs to be expanded upon. I have seen many good economic development intiaitives go by the wayside on the weight of the either/or discussion concerning the environmental impact of a development, whether it's the location of a water bottling plant, the development of an industrial park on top of lands containing indian arrowheads, or the installation of wind turbines along a vista.
We need to help our decision-makers (and funders) by providing them with the best available information, so that efforts are well educated. We should be taking INFORMED risk, which means that as we promote shall gas development, we are able to state that we have done the best we can to understand the environmental impacts and have suggested reasoned development strategies. In the case of shale gas, research is still being done in a range of areas and there is a very critical documentary making the rounds.
Too often, similar projects die when we discover that we don't have all of the information and we are surprised by the criticism coming from advocates of one sort or another.
This also suggests that we should be widening our economic development stakeholders to include enviornmental advocates, just as we should be including labor in our partnerships.
Ed, you raise some valid points that often remain hidden until they poke you. Great wealth that comes from an outside entity always has strings attached to it. As they say in the circus, "Be careful when you ask the gorilla to dance, because the gorilla always wants to lead." Being armed with an accepted comprehensive plan and a community's unified vision, it is possible to maintain come control. Sound environmental stewardship and a vibrant economy are not mutually exclusive. It is possible to achieve both goals, but it demands all decisions to be made based on the long-term considerations.
I look at call centers in the same manner. Once the domain of US-based companies in cities like Phoenix, Tampa and San Antonio, call center have migrated eastward to Europe (Ireland, Poland, France…) in the 1990s and moved further east to India and Manila, in search of the lower cost FTE in 2000 and beyond. As call centers pick-up and move east, they leave a scorched earth footprint on the area. The highly coveted entry-level call center jobs have left and the supporting infrastructure is looking for the next wave of economic development.
There's a renewed emphasis on US-based "rural sourcing", migrating jobs from off-shore call/contact centers back to the US, but in places where talent can be attracted quickly and inexpensively. I would urge "rural sourcing" communities to begin planning for their eventual demise of call and contact center work and start to create a sustainable "service" organization.


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Dr. Harry Wolper's wife may have passed away, but this eccentric scientist isn't about to allow God to keep her from him. He doesn't choose to follow her to the grave. Instead, he decides to use his scientific knowledge and skills to devise a way to bring her back through cloning. Harry must choose to either accept the new life God has given him or to become a creator of a new one.
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The Environment and Electronic Devices
To offset your computer's greenhouse-effect gases emissions, you'd have to use it for between 33 and 89 years before you get a new one.
We live our lives surrounded by electronic equipment and we can no longer get by without it. However, we don't usually think about the consequences of its production and use or our model of consumption. And when we do, we are often unaware of the full complexity of the reality.
Our electronic devices don't just raise an ethical dilemma; they also pose serious problems for the environment at all stages of their life cycle, but most of all at the initial and final stages of the product's life.
The life cycle of electronic devices:
01. Production: over-exploitation of natural resources and pollution
What resources are used, on average, to make a computer?
240 Kg of fuel
22 Kg of chemicals
1500 litres of water
In 2015, more than 164 million laptops were sold.
This means that, in just one year, we use more than 246 billion litres of water, 39,360 tonnes of fuel and 3,068 million tonnes of chemicals.
Sources: El País and Trendforce
And what resources are used, on average, to make a microchip?
16000 litres of water
1,6 Kg of fuel
0,7 Kg of chemicals
You need an average of 132 kg of fuel to produce the microchips that make up a desktop computer.
The energy needed to produce a single microchip is more than the average energy used by a computer over three years of use.
Sources: Lowtech Magazine and WorldWater
What is the true cost of your mobile phone? The origins of your smartphone's components.
The total use of resources over the course of a product's life, from mining the components to its final disposal, is known as its "environmental rucksack".
The environmental rucksack of our technological equipment is very heavy – much greater than the device's real weight.
To produce one smartphone, we use 44.4 kg of natural resources. For one computer, it's around one tonne.
To produce all the metal contained in all the mobile phones in circulation today, 450 million tonnes of rock had to be mined and processed, which is 12 times the weight of all the cars circulating in the UK.
For all the mobile phones in the world today, the metal in them would have required 450 million tonnes of rock to be dug up, smashed and processed. This is equivalent to 12 x the weight of all the cars on UK roads.
Sources: The Great Recovery: e-Waste and Naciones Unidas
Prof. Sam Kingman Nottingham University
Your mobile phone's environmental rucksack
80gr: Net weight of a mobile phone
28,6Kg: raw material extraction
9,8Kg: use
6Kg: production
100gr: disposal
Your smartphone's environmental rucksack
Source: e-Waste en América Latina
The environmental impact of the production of computers, tablets and smartphones is so great that, to offset it, we would have to use each device for between 33 and 89 years.
Source: Umwelt Bundesamt
OUR CURRENT MODEL OF CONSUMPTION
We have to rethink our model of consumption. If we carry on at the current pace, to get to the year 2050 we would need: 8.5 planets to absorb the carbon monoxide, 6 planets to meet demand for steel, 3.5 planets to meet demand for cement, 3.5 planets to meet demand for wood
8.5 planets to absorb carbon monoxide
6 planets to meet demand for steel
3.5 planets to meet demand for cement
3.5 planets to meet demand for wood
Source: Sustainable Design Award, 2004
"The population of the rich countries is 20% of the total world population, but it is responsible for the consumption of 80% of commercial-use energy, 75% of wood, 50% of fish and cereals and 40% of water." (Sustainable Design Award, 2004)
20 % of the world population
80% of the energy
75% of the wood
50% of the cereals and fish
50% of the water
80 % de la población mundial
02. E-waste: technological rubbish
Despite all the resources used that you have just seen, we throw out our smartphones on average after just 20 months to buy another one (although their useful life is 10 years) and every 3 to 5 years we replace our computers.
These items become electronic waste, or e-waste, which is defined as all the office and home appliances that contain circuits or electrical components and that operate on batteries or a power connection.
In fact, up to 90% of a mobile phone's materials and 93% of a computer can be recycled.
E-waste, if it is properly recycled, can turn into a good source of money rather than being a problem.
THE COMPOSITION OF YOUR ELECTRONIC DEVICES
THE PROBLEM
In 2014 alone, 41.8 million tonnes of e-waste were produced worldwide.
This amount increases each year by 5%.
41.8 MILLION TONNES
Even after their useful life, our devices still have a high commercial value. The estimated value of the e-waste produced in 2014 is 48 billion euros.
48 BILLION EUROS
The electronics industry uses a large amount of metals and minerals in the production of our devices and these materials are essential for the electronics to work properly. Some are precious metals, some are rare metals. With regard to metals, the problem is not just the exploitation of scarce natural resources, but also the fact that the minerals trade sometimes fuels armed conflict. An example of this is the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Your electronic device may contain up to 60 different elements.
Gold and silver: used because of their electric conductivity and their solubility in tin-based welds.
Cobalt: used in batteries
Tungsten: used because of its high density which is needed to make devices vibrate
Tantalum: used in capacitors
Indium: used in LCD screens
Example composition of a smartphone
These seem to be small amounts but things change when you consider it on a large scale. The amounts of metals like cobalt and palladium used to make mobile phones and tablets are significant:
Cobalt: 9.4% of global production
Palladium: 8.9% of global production
A tonne of mined minerals produces, on average, 5 g of gold.
However, from one tonne of recycled mobile phones, you can extract around 280 g of gold.
What happens to our e-waste?
When we throw out our devices, they can follow any one of these four possible routes:
Collection through official channels (local refuse facilities, specific special collection initiatives) to be processed and, as far as possible, recycled.
NORMAL WASTE
There are two options here:
landfill sites (the chemical substances and toxic metals enter the ground)
incinerators (emissions of greenhouse-effect gases, mercury and dioxin)
COLLECTION - legally and illegally - OUTSIDE OF THE OFFICIAL CHANNELS
Electronic waste ends up in the second-hand market, is exported (see point 4) or is recycled.
SENT TO COUNTRIES IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
In this case, it will be processed without the necessary safety conditions to protect people and the environment. It is also impossible to recycle it with the results that can be achieved if the appropriate technology is used.
03. Toxic substances for people and the environment
All e-waste contains and produces toxic substances that pose a health risk to humans and are a source of environmental pollution.
For that reason, they should not go in normal waste bins – not even electric cables.
Complete, working electrical devices are not active sources of dangerous residues. However, if they are not treated correctly when they are discarded, the toxic substances can end up in the environment.
Toxins present in our computers and the possible impact of e-waste on our health:
Lead: 10%
Affects the central nervous system, the reproductive system, kidneys
Mercury: 0,1%
Affects the central nervous system, leads to high blood pressure, brain damage, kidney damage
Cadmium: 0,1%
Damage to the stomach,
lungs and kidneys
PVC: 23%
Foetal deformity, liver cancer, damage to the nervous system
Source: Ecogreen it Recycling
Arsenic: 0,02%
Affects the lungs, skin and prostate and may cause liver cancer
Beryllium: 0,02%
Respiratory and cardiac problems, lung cancer
Barium: 0,04%
Brain damage, problems with the liver, kidneys, stomach, blood pressure
Hexavalent chromium: 0,1%
Damage to the liver, kidneys and stomach, lung cancer
The effects on people may be direct, where they affect people who work processing these materials without sufficient protection, or indirect, whereby the pollutants enter the water and earth and affect the population at large through the food chain.
Children are at the highest risk of absorbing dangerous chemicals and for that reason, in 2013, the WHO issued the "Geneva Convention on E-waste and Children's Health".
The pollution from these dangerous residues can spread a great distance, as far as dozens of kilometres from the original deposit, via bioaccumulation and atmospheric transport.
Pollution by toxins originating from electronic waste can reach up to 50 km from the waste site.
Concentrations of heavy metals dissolved in the water in areas around electronic waste sites are up to 18 times higher than in distant areas.
Electronic residues are an emerging threat for the environment due to the presence of heavy metals and flame retardants, released by poor practices in e-waste recycling, such as incineration and the use of solvents. Furthermore, the threats posed by large e-waste sites can also apply to smaller sites, which make up the majority worldwide.
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Homewares is in decline in the Netherlands due to consumer preference for spending smaller amounts of money on products such as glassware and dinnerware. However, new companies such as Blond Amsterdam and Babette are able to generate sales from these preferences by creating colourful, unique homewares items, at low prices. These companies are also creating products in sync with emerging market trends, such as high-tea cake stands and sushi plates.


In 1952, Bill Bright wrote The Four Spiritual Laws, an evangelistic tract that became the calling card of Campus Crusade for Christ. While this was three years before I was born, I probably didn't encounter it until my late teens.
When I started college in 1973, I got to know people from the main Christian groups on the UND campus: InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, and of course, Campus Crusade. I was pretty clueless about denominational differences, and saw nothing odd about being Lutheran. I was pretty accepted by the InterVarsity folks, but I couldn't understand why the Campus Crusade kids kept wanting to go through the Laws and pray "the prayer" with me. My telling them I was a Christian wasn't enough; I had to jump through their CC-shaped hoop in order to be accepted by them.
While I can't recall why I understood this as a young child, I did understand that God loved me and, yes, had a plan for my life. Perhaps it was from the many Bible stories I learned in church and Sunday school about people like David, Samuel and Moses, chosen as children to serve God. Whatever the reason, I not only knew that God loved me, but also knew that I was destined for great things.
The world around me, of course, did everything possible to destroy this sense that I was loved and special. The message that the world gives is that we have to perform to certain standards to receive any love or respect, and that we will never, ever really be good enough. As with shame, this sense of needing to do more and try harder keeps us controllable by the powers that be.
As I left college and entered the corporate nightmare, this became all too clear. No one out there loves you unconditionally, and their plans for you are not necessarily for your own benefit. The message that God loves us and has wonderful plans for us is crucial; I believe this is one reason why Joel Osteen pastors what I understand is the largest church in the country. People don't hear this in the world (or in many churches), and they are literally dying for it.
I relished this message as a young child. I cling to it today. God loves me, this I know, and He has a wonderful plan for my life. And guess what? He's got a doozey of a plan for you, too.
What was your reaction the first time you heard, "God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life? What is your reaction today?