Making a start; Design can be one of the most enjoyable bits of gardening - relaxing, not dependent on the weather and time spent dreaming of wonders to come.
Time spent in preparation can be worth ten times the investment later on when you decide that a particular tree, border etc. is not appropriate or is in the wrong place.
Step 1 - Draw up a plan of your garden to scale on a large piece of paper.
Step 2 - Mark on this plan the things you can't change. Position of your house, windows, doors, garage, fences and other boundaries, neighbours trees/hedges, neighbours windows that overlook your garden. Don't underestimate the influence on your garden of things just outside it.
Step 3 - Make a (realistic) wish list of the things that you would like (and the things that you need) in your garden.
Step 4 - Take your basic plan and your wish-list outside and start thinking about where things are going to be. Write them in pencil on a separate piece of paper. Then leave it all alone for at least a few days before you repeat this step until you're happy with the result.
As time goes on you may decide to have a rose bed or house your National collection of Euphorbias in a particular place rather than the original idea of a herbaceous border. You may go for a patio instead of decking, but at least you will have a good idea of the kinds of things in each area. Think in terms of the use of the surface, of how you will move around the garden and of vertical height.
Mark out borders, hard surfaces, lawns etc. use pegs and string, a hose pipe or even flour (washes away in time). Above all make sure the size of the features are realistic and useful. What may look a delightful shape for a deck on paper, may in reality not have any area that is actually large enough to be practical. It is better to have a worthwhile sized if mundane rectangular patio than a lovely sinuous shape where however you arrange things, there's always one table leg on the lawn.
A frequently used term. If your garden is your outdoor room, then architectural plants are the furniture. They are the long-lived permanent residents that give the garden much of its shape and character. The shorter lived annuals, bulbs and herbaceous perennials are the ornaments and pictures.
When deciding on your planting, begin with architectural plants.
Cost. This will dictate to a large extent what you can and can't do, but often as not is a question of time. Do you complete the whole garden that you want at once or do it in stages? I would suggest that you stick to a longer-term more expensive plan rather than a quick cheapie. If you try to cut corners initially, you will probably end up fiddling around with what you've got and re-do it over the longer period spending the same amount of money (if not more).
If possible make an entrance to the garden or part of the garden - a leafy tunnel with an arbour and climbers over maybe. Shield entrances to the garden from direct line of sight. Coming around a corner or through a tunnel to a "surprise" garden is always dramatic and impressive.
Think about how your garden looks from the overlooking windows. Throughout the year, you will probably look at the garden through windows more than you will actually be in it. Attention to this is one of the easiest and more successful things that you can do to get a rewarding garden. If the garden looks good through the windows, then it will probably tempt you out into it more.
Place bird feeders / tables where they can easily be seen from frequently used windows. You'll also get more value from water features if they're placed where they can be easily seen from a window.
Privacy in the garden is one of the most important elements. Most people take steps to prevent passers by from seeing straight into their living rooms and you'll feel much more comfortable in the garden if there's no sense of being watched. The old adage "good fences make good neighbours" definitely applies here.
Link the garden to its surroundings if possible. If you are lucky enough to have a view of countryside or woodland. Place sympathetic plants leading to the view to give the impression that it is a continuation of your garden. If the view is reasonable, but not wonderful, then a filigree screen of deciduous planting gives a similar impression.
Planting is too often piecemeal, plants are introduced at random by different people at different times. Plant lovers need to be very disciplined here to not be side-tracked by plants that wink at you in the garden centre.
Plan the garden so that you don't see the whole from the house. There should be some parts out of immediate view if possible, with something such as a winding path or stepping stones drawing the eye further and encouraging you to go further.
Features such as statues and pots, sculptures etc. can be successfully be placed out of immediate sight giving a sense of discovery when happened upon.
Make borders as wide as you can. 2ft minimum for small plants, 6ft is better if you have the space. Rather than have a border all around the garden which will probably be narrow by necessity, restrict the range of it but increase the depth. Avoid straight edges, sweeping curves look more natural and interesting. When planting beds and borders, plant according to the ultimate height of the plants, tallest at the back of course.
Try to introduce year-round interest. Time spent planning what plants to grow is important.
Decide what you want before you buy your plants. It's always very tempting to buy the plants that look good at the time of purchase. The danger of this is that you get a garden that looks fabulous each year at the time you went plant shopping but is probably fairly bland the rest of the time.
Don't plant too many evergreens, and try to make sure that some of the ones you do plant flower and / or have berries. Non-flowering evergreens might seem an ideal answer to providing year-round interest but you could end up having a garden that hardly changes with the seasons.
Some plants are spectacular for short periods and ordinary the rest of the time. Think about what you plant near them so that they really shine when it's their turn, but have other plants around them that take turns to do their thing at a different time of the year.
Don't feel that you have to accept what is presented or for sale. There is great satisfaction to be had from making your own features from raw materials.
What should be in a garden? We're told these days that all sorts of things belong there and weird and wonderful materials too. Stainless steel, rusty iron, crushed glass in various colours, steel coated in red primer, concrete looking like concrete and even tarmac in various colours. What will still look good in 20 years time? Alternate patio slabs in rose and yellow shades, a deck of railway sleepers with a frame-work of red painted steel girders or "boring" old fashioned York stone paving? I know where I'd put my money.
The Fibonacci series of numbers is a natural series discovered by the mathematician whose name is attached to them. You start with 0 and 1, then add them together to get the next number and keep adding the last two to get the next one, 0 + 1 = 1, 1 + 1 = 2, 1 + 2 = 3, 2 + 3 = 5. So the series goes 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, etc. It turns out that all kinds of things in nature are arranged according to this series, the number of whorls of leaves around stems, the number of whorls of seeds in a sunflower head and all kinds of unlikely things that jump from one of these numbers to the next missing all of the ones in between.
If you're having problems achieving a natural look in your garden, try arranging your plantings according to these numbers, it's what mother nature does. Alternatively if you are more classically inclined, there is the idea of the "Golden Section" from the Greeks. The ratio of 5 to 8 was thought to be the most pleasing to the eye and was used in all kinds of ways. So when designing your patio, new flower bed, where to bisect your garden when straight down the middle doesn't look so good, then do what Aristotle and Archimedes did, apply the Golden Section and proportion them in the ratio 5:8. 5 and 8 even turn out to be Fibonacci numbers too - spooky.
Do without a lawn Grass is the most economical ground cover so this will not be a cheap option. Alternatively, reduce the grass area as much as you can and consider other surfaces.
Keep the shape of the lawn as simple as possible with sweeping curves and minimal planting of trees / flower beds in the lawn to speed mowing.
Lay a "mowing strip" all around the lawn against beds / buildings etc. This is a strip of bricks or narrow paving at the same level as the grass so that when you mow, the mower gives a good edge without having to strim. Again, not a cheap option as the edge needs to be firmly footed to stop grass and weeds growing between the bricks, once it's down though there should be no more maintenace.
Plant beds with ground-cover shrubs to avoid weeding.
Plant fairly slow-growing plants so you don't need to cut back so often. These can be interplanted with short-lived faster growing biennials and perennials if looks a bit bare to start with (though this is getting away from the low maintenance ideal).
Avoid bedding plants and perennials that die back in the winter.
Avoid containers. These will always be more effort than planting into the ground. Because containers need to be densely planted to look good they need an awful lot of watering. Missing a few days in mid-summer can decimate the contents.
If you plant roses, then use shrub or species types, these are more resistant to disease than others, don't require constant dead-heading and are lower maintenance all round. Avoid "hybrid tea" roses.
Before you plant anything, clear perennial weeds, Dig them out or apply a weed killer. Things will be easier in the long run.
Soil preparation, loads of organic matter to start with, plants will get away and establish quicker meaning less looking after sooner.
Increase the number of drought-resistant plants in your garden e.g. Trees: Arbutus unedo (strawberry tree), hollies, Cordyline australis, pines, Robinia pseudoacacia; Shrubs; Artemesia, Cytisus (broom), Escallonia, Euphorbia characias, Hebes, Perovskia, Rosemary; perennials; Achillea, Echinacea purpureum, Eryngium, Gazania, Nepeta, Lavender.
Use the largest ones that you can afford, they dry out more slowly, glazed clay or other non-porous materials will retain water better too, terra-cotta will dry out from the pot as well as the plant.
Place them away from windy areas if you can, wind dries plants out much more quickly than sunshine.
Avoid conifers, these are particularly susceptible to drying out. If they do dry out, they don't give any warning by wilting, they just look exactly the same but slowly turn brown. By the time they show they're in trouble, it's too late, there's no going back.
Consider installing an automatic watering system.
If you must have a pond, site it away from deciduous trees.
If you want a lawn get a mower that collects the cuttings. Or you could buy a 'Robomower', a programmable automatic mower - you can just sit back and watch it.
Have around 65% - 70% evergreen shrubs, trees, perennials. There are plenty of evergreen flowering plants.


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Dec 21, 2016 | News Releases, Purchasing, Waste, and Recycling, SWATeams
Belén Muñiz is a student team member of the Purchasing, Waste, and Recycling (PWR) SWATeam and a junior majoring in Integrative Biology with a minor in Mathematics.
Muñiz joined the team because she values the contribution students can make to sustainable action.
"When I first read the (Illinois Climate Action Plan), I was very interested on how the campus was implementing these standards and how we as a student body could help the University achieve its goal," she said. "When I learned of the opportunity to be on the SWATeam, I couldn't think of a better way to gain experience in sustainability and get involved in making our University as eco-friendly as possible."
While Muñiz hopes to increase the quality of campus sustainability, she also has ideas about why the role of a sustainable campus is so important:
"As a top-tier research university we are leading the way towards a more sustainable world. The plans and projects we implement here on our campus can be easily emulated throughout our country. We all have the power to be more environmentally conscious.
"Our campus' biggest strength is that we are all like-minded, intelligent individuals. Most of our campus can agree that there is an environmental crisis and that we should be doing something about in. But our biggest weakness is that we are human and we won't do anything until someone takes action and leads us — and that's where the SWATeam comes in."
Muñiz hopes to make this campus strive toward sustainability with the help of her team members.
In her free time, she enjoys music, reading, and being outside whenever possible.
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BELGRADE, Serbia, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Jovanka Broz, widow of longtime Yugoslavian President Josip Broz Tito, died Sunday after a long illness. She was 89.
In a telegram, Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic told her family that Broz had been the victim of "historical injustice," RTS, the government broadcaster in Serbia, said. Officials said a committee will be formed to plan a state funeral.
Broz, an ethnic Serbian, was born in the village of Pekane in the Lika region in what is now Croatia. She was a teenager when World War II began and joined the Partisans at the age of 17 to fight Yugoslavia's German occupiers.
She was introduced to Tito, who led the Communist resistance during the war, serving as a secretary and eventually marrying him. Tito, more than 30 years older, had been married several times and had numerous other relationships with women.
While the couple never divorced, they became estranged during the 1970s. In 1975, she stopped accompanying her husband when he traveled abroad.
When Tito died in 1980 a few days before his 88th birthday, Broz attended the funeral, her first public appearance since 1977.
Three months after Tito's death, Broz was placed under house arrest after an extended search of her home. She lived quietly, staying out of the public eye, until her own death.


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A London pharmacy supplying medicines to customers and care homes has fined £275,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for lapses in data security.
The Doorstep Dispensaree became the first UK business to be fined under the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), which came into effect on May 25, 2018.
According to ICO, the pharmacy left approximately 500,000 documents in unlocked containers at the back of its premises in Edgware. The documents included names, addresses, dates of birth, NHS numbers, medical information and prescriptions belonging to an unknown number of patients.
The documents were dated between June 2016 and June 2018. Some of the documents were water damaged, making the pharmacy responsible for not ensuring security against accidental loss, destruction or damage.
ICO launched the investigation after it was alerted by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
"The careless way Doorstep Dispensaree stored special category data failed to protect it from accidental damage or loss. This falls short of what the law expects and it falls short of what people expect," said Steve Eckersley, Director of Investigations at ICO.
The pharmacy has also been issued an enforcement notice and ordered to improve its data protection practices within three months.
Commenting on the news, Paula Barrett, Partner and Global Co-lead of Privacy & Cyber Security Law, Eversheds Sutherland, said: "There are likely many others for whom the disposal of personal data securely is an ongoing operational concern. Particularly for those businesses where they have a large number of smaller premises, where centralised controls are more difficult to implement. Here what was actually happening on the ground was contrary to their own policy and supposedly arrangements with a service provider."
"In addition to the storage breach itself, they were also sanctioned for non-compliance in other areas. Notably an inadequate privacy notice. One of the first cases in which we have seen the ICO comment."
"It further demonstrates the co-operation between agencies, the investigation process, factors taken into consideration and that the final amount of the penalty notice was reduced following the initial notice from £400,000 down to £275,000, so it appears some consideration was given to representations made. As well as a fine, they also have further remediation work to undertake, so there is, in fact, a combination of tools in the ICO armoury being deployed here. Remediation effort costs could outweigh the fine itself," Barrett said.
Doorstep Dispensaree is yet to respond.
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Leftovers: Cheetos Popcorn explodes into stores, oat milk chocolate bars are cow-free candy
Frito-Lay's new launch not only gives consumers a brightly colored popped snack but also officially names the orange dust that accompanies it, and Dean Foods smooths out the lumps in cottage cheese.
Published Jan. 10, 2020
Leftovers is our look at a few of the product ideas popping up everywhere — some are intriguing, some sound amazing and some are the kinds of ideas we would never dream of. We can't write about everything that we get pitched, so here are the leftovers pulled from our inboxes.
Orange you glad Cheetos is taking on popcorn?
It's getting more easy to be cheesy.
Cheetos has exploded into another category: popcorn. The Frito-Lay brand launched two bagged varieties of ready-to-eat Cheetos Popcorn: Cheddar, covered in the snack's iconic bright orange dust, and a fluorescent red Flamin' Hot variety.
With this launch, the brand has also officially named the flavor-filled dust that makes snackers' fingertips orange or red. It's now called Cheetle, which Frito-Lay trademarked last month (but apparently previously trademarked back in 2009).
"We've seen the way Cheetos lovers don their red- and orange-dusted fingers like a badge of honor, and we're always looking for ways to help them step up their snacking game," Brandi Ray, senior director of marketing for Frito-Lay North America, said in the press release announcing the launch. "The only way to truly take popcorn to the next level is to add the iconic Cheetle, the cheesy dust that will entice Cheetos fans to snack on this popcorn all year long."
Cheetos have been a popular snack since they were first developed in 1948. In the more than 70 years since, the signature orange cheese dust (rather, Cheetle) has found its way onto snacks including traditional cheese curls, cheese balls called Asteroids Flavor Shots and paw shapes in honor of the brand's mascot Chester Cheetah.
So why bring the flavor to popcorn? After all, cheddar cheese corn has been on the market for years. The answer could lie in the crunchy, popped snack itself, which is seen as more natural and healthier than extruded and fried salty munchies. According to Mintel research, U.S. retail popcorn sales grew 32% from 2012 to 2017, reaching a total of $2.5 billion in retail sales. Ready-to-eat popcorn grew 118% in that five-year period, with sales reaching $1.1 billion. And almost half of consumers said cheese was their favorite popcorn flavor.
Big Food is taking notice of popcorn's popularity and snapping up successful brands. Conagra Brands, which owns legacy popcorn giant Orville Redenbacher, bought Angie's Boomchickapop for $250 million in 2017. That same year, Hershey bought Amplify Brands, which owns SkinnyPop, for $1.6 billion. And last month, PepsiCo — which is also Frito-Lay's parent company — acquired popcorn chip PopCorners maker BFY Brands.
Judging from the lasting popularity of all snacks containing Cheetle, Cheetos Popcorn is likely to find its way into many popcorn-lovers' shopping carts. And unlike most of its competitors, this snack is designed to physically leave its mark on those consumers.
— Megan Poinski
Endangered Species Chocolate
Cow-less candy
Trendy oat milk is making its way into the chocolate aisle.
Endangered Species Chocolate is replacing dairy milk with oat milk in its new chocolate bar product line. The 3-ounce oat milk chocolate bar will be sold exclusively at Whole Foods Market this month before launching at other retailers in April, according to a release sent to Food Dive.
The new plant-based bar line comes in three flavors: Oat Milk + Dark Chocolate; Oat Milk, Sea Salt & Almonds + Dark Chocolate; and Oat Milk, Rice Crisp + Dark Chocolate.
Whitney Bembenick, ESC's director of innovation, said in the release the company explored other dairy-free options from almond to coconut milk, but "nothing compared" to the taste and health benefits of oat milk.
All three bars contain 55% cocoa, and each is vegan and gluten-free. Compared to dairy, oat milk is lower in cholesterol and provides heart health benefits, the company said.
"Our consumers really dictate where we take our new product lines," Bembenick said in the release. "We saw the growing trend of milk alternative products available and we knew we needed to respond to market demand."
Alternative milk products have become increasingly popular in recent years as consumers turn away from traditional dairy. U.S. sales of plant-based milk products grew by almost 6% between 2018 and 2019, according to investment firm UBS.
Oat milk has been especially trendy in the last year. Many big companies are introducing yogurts, drinks, coffee and ice cream featuring the oat beverage, including Nesquik, Chobani and Danone. But the chocolate space doesn't have as many competitors when it comes to this category.
Although ESC does face competition on shelves from some other small oat milk chocolate bars, including Goodio and Raaka, there aren't many big name brands in the space yet, so they could have an early mover advantage.
— Lillianna Byington
Dean Foods
Dean Foods smooths out the lumps in cottage cheese
Beleaguered Dean Foods is no stranger to cottage cheese, which is one of many products in its sweeping portfolio.
But the Texas dairy giant is trying a new way for consumers to experience cottage cheese. The Smooth Cottage Cheese product, which mirrors yogurt in its consistency, is available in three flavors: Original, Raspberry and S'mores. The cottage cheese offering taps into a number of trends popular with today's consumer, including a high protein content, real and non-GMO ingredients and a portable container ideal for people on the go.
Dean Foods found an opportunity to drive growth in the single-serve cottage cheese segment by changing the texture so it would be attractive to more people, SmartBrief said. While the dairy product has many attributes shoppers look for in a snack, the chunky texture and tangy flavor of traditional cottage cheese can be off-putting to some people, it reported.
"We ... saw the cottage cheese category in particular has suffered from a lack of innovation, something that younger generations are craving in their food decision making," Sindhura Polasanapalli, senior director of marketing at Dean Foods, said last year to The Shelby Report. "It was the perfect 'white space' to take a classic snack, add a twist to make it fun, and create a product that is a first within the market that consumers could truly indulge in."
Cottage cheese has long struggled to gain traction in a dairy space that has seen yogurt garner much of the attention during the last 20 years through innovations such as Greek styles, flip tops, nut butter mix-ins and trendy new flavors.
According to Statista, per capita consumption for cottage cheese has been gradually trending downward since the turn of the century. In 2018, the average U.S. consumer ate 2.1 pounds of cottage cheese annually, a decline of half a pound from 2000.
But food companies desperate for growth have started spending more money to innovate in a product known for its heyday generations ago as a diet food. Cottage cheese consumption peaked in the early 1970s, when the average person ate about 5 pounds of it per year, according to the NPR, citing data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Last year, cottage cheese brand Good Culture closed an $8 million funding round led by CAVU Venture Partners, with a significant investment from General Mills' 301 INC. And in 2017, Muuna started selling Israeli-style cottage cheese in U.S. stores.
It wasn't all that long ago when yogurt received a jolt after Chobani came on the scene. Since then, the industry has seen more plant-based, low-sugar and new varieties like Icelandic enter the market. Maybe the new Dean Foods cottage cheese will spark a renewed level of interest and bring more people back to the once-loved category.
— Christopher Doering
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The Garrison Art Center's deadline for PHOTOcentric, this year's International Juried Photography Exhibition, is fast approaching on Tuesday, September 5, 2017. This is open to amateur and professional photographers in all mediums. There is a $50 entry fee for five images, and $10 for each additional image. This year, the exhibit will be juried by Francis M. Naumann, an independent scholar, curator, and gallery owner of Francis M. Naumann Fine Art in New York. Naumann specializes in the art of the Dada and Surrealist periods, including the noted photographers Man Ray and Naomi Savage. He has recently organized museum shows for the Whitney Museum of American Art and the American Craft Museum of New York.
The opening reception will take place on December 9, 2017, and the exhibit will last through January 7, 2018, at The Riverside Galleries at Garrison Art Center in Garrison, NY (right next to the train station). "Best in Show" will be awarded $1,000, be featured on the cover of the exhibition book, with the image, artist's biography and website or email address in book, and link on Garrison Art Center website. Awards will also be given to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in each category with a cash prize.
All work must be submitted online using this link. The format for your images should be 72 ppi resolution and JPEG format. 1280 pixels on the longest side and RGB color space (standard) with layers flattened, 8-bit mode. To view the full prospectus for this exhibit, click here to download.
The vibrant Hudson Valley art scene, home to Storm King Art Center, and Dia:Beacon, just got a brilliant new addition. Be prepared to be amazed by post-war Italian art. And you need not go far: Magazzino Italian Art ("Warehouse for Italian Art") has opened its doors in Cold Spring.
Off a verdant stretch of Route 9, Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu have created Magazzino Italian Art, a bold exhibition space that houses a remarkable collection of post-war and contemporary Italian art. It is breathtaking to note that Magazzino's Arte Povera collection is likely the largest outside of Italy.
Both Olnick and Spanu have been long-term collectors of Arte Povera – an avant-garde conceptual art movement that took root in 1960s Turin, Italy. A defiant response to commercialization and industrialization - strong, provocative artworks created from "throw-away," industrial materials and typically large in scale - defines the movement.
The work of numerous artists Stein passionately encouraged and exhibited at the legendary Galleria Christian Stein in Turin are displayed here in Cold Spring.
At Magazzino, you will view the works of Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gilberto Zorio, Marco Bagnoli, Domenico Bianchi, and Remo Salvadori. For a number of the artists, you can see works that span several decades.
Quismondo choose to work with the existing structures rather than tear down. With a new configuration, the two dramatic buildings, sharing an expansive courtyard, stretch over 20,000 square feet. The sparse, elegant space, created in the "rationalist style" is modern and meditative at the same time. The outside setting is lush and retains an ancient orchard.
Admission is free, but an appointment has to be made prior to visiting. Magazzino will mirror the schedule at Dia:Beacon – open Thursday to Monday from April to December, and Friday to Monday from January to March.
Be prepared to spend an afternoon at Magazzino. The compelling works exhibited have detailed descriptions in a very informative booklet that provides a roadmap as you travel through the exhibit space.
You will see the fantastical igloo created by Mario Merz - built from sheets of slate - and Giulio Paolini's "Mimesi" - a towering sculpture of a double "classical" Hermes that represents one of Paolini's most iconic pieces. The mirrored plate of Luciano Fabro will mesmerize you. Each glorious piece evokes response and awe from the viewer.
In September, Magazzino will open a research library comprising over 5,000 volumes. It will be accessible to scholars and those interested in delving more deeply into the world of Arte Povera and Italian contemporary art.
Under the directorship of Vittorio Calabrese (a brand-new Beacon resident), Magazzino will also look to foster collaborations with neighboring institutions and the surrounding communities.
For further information on visiting, go to magazzino.art or call (845) 666-7202. Magazzino is located at 2700 Route 9 in Cold Spring, New York.
jack fuller's paintings are part of the raft's pop-up gallery at 1 east main.
One of Beacon's best qualities is the way its residents rush to shine a spotlight on one another. In this case, Toni Tan of TanDao Studio sent up a flare to A Little Beacon Blog, to make sure we knew about The Raft's pop-up gallery. "I reached out to you on their behalf because they are fabulous," Toni said in an email.
The Raft is a three-person art collective whose members' day jobs include architecture and fashion design. "Two of the artists are Beacon homeowners," Toni says, and "all three are friends." The group's members have been afloat in Beacon for a while: Beatrice and Jack met four years ago as neighbors in the Roundhouse's artist lofts. Jack brought Ben into the fold, and The Raft was launched.
the raft's pop-up gallery opened last weekend and continues this saturday and sunday. the show includes paintings, photography, and other media from three artists.
The former electric blanket factory at 1 East Main Street has been heating up once again in recent months: Visitors will find The Raft's pop-up space next door to a swanky new bridal boutique from Lambs Hill. The gallery initially popped up last weekend, and continues this Saturday and Sunday (open from 1 pm to 7 pm) on the city's East End, heading toward the mountain.
The group only plans to exhibit work this weekend - for now. Second Saturday and other ongoing events may be in the works, though. Keep your eyes on this space! We'll let you know as soon as we know.


Choosing a toothbrush is relatively simple: dentists recommend brushing with a small-headed soft-bristled brush, for two minutes, twice a day.
But how on earth do you decide between the 50-odd toothpastes on the supermarket shelves?
Everybody has bacteria in their mouth which live on sugars in the diet.
During the day, this bacteria forms plaque on our teeth and gums.
Over time, this begins to dissolve the teeth, causing dental decay (holes).
At the same time, the bacterial plaque irritates the gums and can lead to gum disease.
Here's what to look for when choosing a toothpaste.


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COP23: Climate Conference Tip-Toes Around Regenerative Agriculture as Solution to Global Warming
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'Exxons of Agriculture' Take Over World Food System
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By Ercilia Sahores
On Nov. 6, the 23rd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP23) to the UN Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) kicked off in Bonn, Germany, the nation's former capital. Germany is one of the world's worst offenders when it comes to pollution. It's also the largest polluter in all of Europe. But Germany is not alone in the polluting business—and countries are not the only big polluters.
The world's top 20 meat and dairy companies emitted more greenhouse gases in 2016 than all of Germany, according to a report published by GRAIN, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) and Heinrich Böll Foundation.
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By Paul Brown
The food industry and big agricultural concerns are driving climate change and at the same time threatening to undermine efforts to feed the world's growing population, according to GRAIN, an organization that supports small farmers.
Particularly singled out for criticism are the large chemical fertilizer producers that have gained access to the United Nations talks on climate change. GRAIN accuses them of behaving like the fossil fuel companies did in the 1990s, pushing false information in the hope of delaying real action on climate change.
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Healthy Child Healthy World
By Janelle Sorensen
Like many other consumers, I used to think that if I shopped at the local co-op or in the natural section of the grocery store, I couldn't go wrong. I could relinquish my fears of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and pesticides and breeze through my grocery shopping without an eco-care in the world.
Not so true.
Now, I know that just because a product has pictures of baby animals or leaves, or is sitting on the shelf next to an organic product, or says "natural," it does not mean it's healthier or more eco-friendly than other conventional options.
According to the latest report from the Cornucopia Institute:
There are no restrictions for foods labeled "natural" (very basic standards exist only for meat products). The term often constitutes nothing more than meaningless marketing hype promoted by corporate interests seeking to cash in on the consumer desire for food produced in a genuinely sustainable manner.
Unlike the organic label, no government agency, certification group or other independent entity fully defines the term "natural" on processed food packages or ensures that the claim has merit.
This report explores the vast differences between organic cereal and granola products and so-called natural products, which contain ingredients grown on conventional farms where the use of toxic pesticides and genetically engineered organisms is widespread.
Our analysis reveals that "natural" products—using conventional ingredients—often are priced higher than equivalent organic products. This suggests that some companies are taking advantage of consumer confusion.
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Rising Meat Consumption Takes Big Bite out of Grain Harvest
Lester Brown
World consumption of animal protein is everywhere on the rise. Meat consumption increased from 44 million tons in 1950 to 284 million tons in 2009, more than doubling annual consumption per person to more than 90 pounds. The rise in consumption of milk and eggs is equally dramatic. Wherever incomes rise, so does meat consumption.
As the oceanic fish catch and rangeland beef production have both leveled off, the world has shifted to grain-based production of animal protein to expand output. With some 35 percent of the world grain harvest (760 million tons) used to produce animal protein, meat consumption has a large impact on grain consumption and therefore global food security.
The efficiency with which various animals convert grain into protein varies widely. Grain-fed beef is one of the least efficient forms of animal protein, taking roughly 7 pounds of grain to produce a 1-pound gain in live weight. Global beef production, most of which comes from rangelands, has grown by about 1 percent a year since 1990.
Pork production has grown by 2 percent annually since 1990. World pork production, half of it now in China, overtook beef production in 1979 and has widened the lead since then. It requires more than 3 pounds of grain to produce each 1-pound gain in live weight.
Poultry production has grown even more quickly: 4 percent annually in recent decades. It eclipsed beef in 1995, moving into second place behind pork. Poultry is even more efficient, requiring just more than 2 pounds of grain to produce a 1-pound gain in live weight.
Fish farm output may also soon overtake beef production. In fact, aquaculture has been the fastest-growing source of animal protein since 1990, expanding from 13 million tons to 56 million tons in 2009, or 8 percent a year. For herbivorous species of farmed fish (such as carp, tilapia and catfish), less than 2 pounds of grain is required to produce a 1-pound gain of live weight. Although farming carnivorous fish such as salmon can be environmentally disruptive, worldwide aquaculture is dominated by herbivorous species. This represents great growth potential for efficient animal protein production.
There are a number of ways to make animal protein production more efficient. Combining protein-rich soybean meal with grain dramatically boosts the efficiency with which grain is converted into animal protein, sometimes nearly doubling it. Virtually the entire world, including the three largest meat producers—China, the U.S. and Brazil—now relies heavily on soybean meal as a protein supplement in feed rations. Promising new livestock and dairy systems based on roughage rather than grain, such as India's cooperative dairy model, boost both land and water productivity.
Achieving food security depends on changes on the demand side of the equation as well as the supply side. Along with moving to smaller families to curb population growth, this means cutting individual consumption by eating less grain-intensive livestock products and eliminating waste in the food system. An American living high on the food chain with a diet heavy in grain-intensive livestock products, including red meat, consumes twice as much grain as the average Italian and nearly four times as much as the average Indian. By adopting a Mediterranean diet, Americans can cut their grain footprint roughly in half, improving health while increasing global food security.
This data highlight is adapted from World on the Edge by Lester R. Brown. For more data and discussion, see the full book at www.earth-policy.org.
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In times of uncertainty journaling anchors us and makes us resilient.
Humans are creatures of habit. We go about our daily lives, confident tomorrow will be just like today. So when change hits, as it inevitably does, we feel lost and unsure.
Change throws us off our game. It yanks the familiar ground out from beneath us. When we don't know which end us up, we seek the comfort of the familiar. Of ritual, stability, constancy.
Amid this struggling economy, many of us face uncertainty. We may be dealing with job loss or home relocation; both of these changes top the stress charts. Even a welcomed change of scenery or a positive career switch can be disorienting.
In times of change, journaling makes us resilient. It helps us find steadier footing so we can roll with the punches. When the world around us is uncertain, our journal provides a home base, a constant, and an undeniable sense of stability. Here's how.
When you journal regularly, the act itself becomes a ritual, a routine. Journaling through good times and bad keeps you centered when change hits because the habit is there to support you.
Even when your life is turned upside down and you're not sure where to begin, your journal is there every day for you. Even as the walls are crumbling around you, you can sit for half an hour and be guaranteed this continual appearance of blank pages to fill. There is comfort in this constant.
Your physical journal can create a sense of home and comfort. It is familiar, and the more often you write in it, the more a part of you it becomes. Filling your journal with pieces of daily living will affirm its status a rock solid part of your life.
When nothing around you is familiar, your journal provides a space to feel at home.
Journal writing pulls us into the present tense, where we fully inhabit the moment. In this state, we deal with change best. We are not obsessing about future fears yet to happen. We do not need to relive past mistakes. On the page, we can choose to dwell fully in the now.
The now is where we do our best work. We make the best decisions, we feel the most secure. As Julia Cameron wrote, "In the exact now, we are all, always, all right."
Once you've journaled your way through one big change, you've got written proof that you can make it through your current situation. Even when you feel uncertain about your own abilities to cope, you can see your previous entries and recognize your resiliency.
If this is your first go at journaling through change, knowing you're leaving a path to follow for your future self is one way to find stability on the page. You're leaving a breadcrumb trail for yourself to follow at another point in time. This can be both comforting and motivating.
Venting in your journal reduces your stress level so you can return level-headed to the situation at hand. Perhaps even your exciting new change is keeping you from thinking straight. A full-on gushing session will take a load off and allow you to return to earth to handle logistics.
Sometimes the physical stress of change, the worrying or excitement, takes its toll on us more than the actual change itself. Purging this mental energy onto the page frees up valuable real estate you can then use to handle the details of life.


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India: The Dalit Story
Despite its constitutional abolition in 1950, the practice of 'untouchability' remains very much a part of rural India. Some 160 million dalits endure near complete social ostracisation. Their share in the development successes of the past 50 years is dismal.
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India's Flood victims face caste discrimination
BBC NEWS – http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/south_asia/7610999.stm
Hundreds of thousands of people are still homeless after floods hit the Indian state of Bihar last month. Some of the victims face the additional hardships that come from being members of the low caste dalit community. Rajan Khosla of the charity Christian Aid has been meeting some of them in the village of Mirzawaa, where 500 families live in temporary shelters.
"Let me be born again as an animal rather than as a harijan (dalit). We face more humiliation than they," says Tetar Rishidev, a dalit from Mirzawaa village, in the district of Supaul.
After the floods in Bihar millions of people lost their homes, belongings and even family members. But for the dalits of Bihar there is further misery: the caste system.
In Mirzawaa village, Sakal Sadah is a dalit.
Today – unusually – he is happy. There is a food distribution and his family will get food. His children have been surviving on some leftover rice once in a day.
Sakal Sadah is a landless agriculture labourer and earns about 40 rupees (80 cents) for a 12-hour day.
Now he's worried: "Where will I get work now? Everywhere is water. No one is going to employ me, I am a harijan."
Hundreds of dalit families are in the same situation as Sakal: they have been hardest hit by the Bihar floods.
In this emergency, when everyone should be provided with food, certain groups are denied access.
The plight of these communities in remote, rural areas is very serious – especially in the feudal state of Bihar.
They cling to the little they have. Many families have left behind one male member to keep an eye on their house and belongings.
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Asdev Sadah, an elderly dalit, stayed behind to guard the house of his upper caste employer.
"I used to work in their fields," he said.
"They wanted me to watch their house and belongings. I have to listen to them. They will provide my family food and work once they come back.
"I have nothing left in my house – because it was made of mud it has already collapsed. My malik's (employer's) house is strong and they have stuff kept inside."
It seems a strange sort of society where an old man stays back, without food or shelter, taking numerous risks to guard the house of his feudal lord.
But Asdev no doubt knows full well that in this segregated society, there is no other support system for him and his family.
The relief camp in Sabela School in Madhepura is run by one of Christian Aid's partner organisations who are doing all they can to help.
It was set up because organisers knew there were many dalit villages in the area.
I met Jamuna Devi and Puliya Musamaar here.
They told me that they were not allowed to use the hand pump to get water as it belonged to upper caste people.
The same upper caste people also asked the camp organisers to move displaced people away because as dalits they would contaminate the entire place. Their request was refused.
"When will people understand we are also human beings?" Puliya asked. "We need food and water, our children also feel hungry."
I asked one of the aid agencies running another relief camp whether they would have a dalit cook.
Their response was negative. They felt that not everyone would eat food cooked by dalits.
Christian Aid and its partner organisations are including two dalits in the cooking teams in the relief camps they run – thus ensuring that they are not excluded.
Everyone needs food in this crisis situation, so why should people like Sakal Sadah, Jamuna Devi and Puliya Musamaar be so discriminated against?
And if Asdev Sadah can work in the fields and loyally guard the house of his higher-caste employee, then why people should refuse to eat food cooked by them?
We have to challenge the system. I know the problem is gigantic. But efforts need to be made. Each one of us has to make a step forward.
Another aid agency working in this area assured me that they tried to treat displaced people equally.
The critical point is that while equality may be an accepted philosophy it can only happen once people also agree in practice to be equals.
Equality means that all people should get food and their rights and dignity are respected.
But flooding and discrimination seem to have taken those rights away.
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THE AFRICAN PRESENCE IN INDIA
By RUNOKO RASHIDI
SOURCE: http://www.cwo.com/~lucumi/india.html
One of the foremost tasks for contemporary African centered scholars is to provide an historical overview of the global African community. This is a critical task that must be completed in its entirety. This includes the history, culture and present condition of African people both at home and abroad. We are already aware, it should be pointed out, based on recent scientific studies of DNA, that modern humanity originated in Africa, that African people are the world's aboriginal people and that all modern humans can ultimately trace their ancestral roots back to Africa. If not for the primordial migrations of early African people, humanity would have remained physically Africoid, and the rest of the world outside of the African continent absent of human life. This is our starting point.
Since the first modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) were of African birth, the African presence globally can be demonstrated through the history of the Black populations that have inhabited the world within the span of recent humanity. Not only are African people the aboriginal people of the planet, however, there is abundant evidence to show that Black people created and sustained many of the world's earliest and most enduring civilizations. Such was the case in India.
The questions we pose here are simply these: Who are the African people of India? What is their significance in the annals of history? Precisely what have they done and what are they doing now? These are extremely serious questions that warrant serious and fundamental answers.
ANCIENT AFRICA AND EARLY INDIA
Exceptionally valuable writings reflecting close relationships between Africa and early India have existed for more than two thousand years. In the first century B.C.E., for example, the famous Greek historian Diodorus Siculus penned that, "From Ethiopia he (Osiris) passed through Arabia, bordering upon the Red Sea as far as India…. He built many cities in India, one of which he called Nysa, willing to have remembrance of that (Nysa) in Egypt, where he was brought up."
Another important writer from antiquity, Apollonius of Tyana, who is said to have visited India near the end of the first century C.E., was convinced that "The Ethiopians are colonists sent from India, who follow their forefathers in matters of wisdom." The literary work of the early Christian writer Eusebius preserves the tradition that, "In the reign of Amenophis III [the mighty Dynasty XVIII Egyptian king] a body of Ethiopians migrated from the country about the Indus, and settled in the valley of the Nile." And still another document from ancient times, the Itinerarium Alexandri, says that "India, taken as a whole, beginning from the north and embracing what of it is subject to Persia, is a continuation of Egypt and the Ethiopians."
INDIA'S EARLIEST CIVILIZATION
In Greater India, more than a thousand years before the foundations of Greece and Rome, proud and industrious Black men and women known as Dravidians erected a powerful civilization. We are referring here to the Indus Valley civilization- -India's earliest high-culture, with major cities spread out along the course of the Indus River. The Indus Valley civilization was at its height from about 2200 B.C.E. to 1700 B.C.E. This phase of its history is called the Harappan, the name being derived from Harappa, one of the earliest known Indus Valley cities.
In 1922, about 350 miles northeast of Harappa, another large Indus city, Mohenjo-daro (the Mound of the Dead) was identified. Mohenjo-daro and Harappa were apparently the chief administrative centers of the Indus Valley complex, and since their identification, several additional cities, including Chanhu-daro, Kalibangan, Quetta and Lothal have been excavated.
The Indus cities possessed multiple level houses enhanced by sophisticated wells, drainage systems and bathrooms with flushing toilets. A recognized scholar on the Indus Valley civilization, Dr. Walter Fairservis, states that the "Harappans cultivated cotton and perhaps rice, domesticated the chicken and may have invented the game of chess and one of the two great early sources of nonmuscle power: the windmill."
The decline and fall of the Indus Valley civilization has been linked to several factors, the most important of which were the increasingly frequent incursions of the White people known in history as Aryans–violent Indo-European tribes initially from central Eurasia and later Iran. Indeed, the name Iran means the "land of the Aryan."
APARTHEID IN INDIA
The White tribes that invaded India and disrupted Black civilization there are known as Aryans. The Aryans were not necessarily superior warriors to the Blacks but they were aggressive, developed sophisticated military technologies and glorified military virtues. After hundreds of years of intense martial conflict the Aryans succeeded in subjugating most of northern India. Throughout the vanquished territories a rigid, caste-segmented social order was established with the masses of conquered Blacks (called Shudras) essentially reduced to slaves to the Whites and imposed upon for service in any capacity required by their White conquerors. This vicious new world order was cold-bloodily racist, with the Whites on top, the mixed races in the middle, and the overwhelming majority of Black people on the very bottom. In fact, the Aryan term varna, denoting one's societal status and used interchangeably with caste, literally means color or complexion and reflects a prevalent racial hierarchy. Truly, India is still a racist country. White supremacist David Duke claimed "that his 1970's visit to India was a turning point in his views on the superiority of the White race."
Caste law in India, based originally on race, regulated all aspects of life, including marriage, diet, education, place of residence and occupation. This is not to deny that there were certain elements of the Black aristocracy that managed to gain prominence in the dominant White social structure. The masses of conquered Black people, however, were regarded by the Whites as Untruth itself. The Whites claimed to have emerged from the mouth of God; the Blacks, on the other hand, were said to have emerged from the feet of God. This was the ugly reality for the Black masses in conquered India. It was written that:
"A Sudra [Black] who intentionally reviles twice-born men [Whites] by criminal abuse, or criminally assaults them with blows, shall be deprived of the limb with which he offends. If he has criminal intercourse with an Aryan woman, his organ shall be cut off, and all his property confiscated. If the woman has a protector, the Sudra shall be executed. If he listens intentionally to a recitation of the Veda [a traditional Hindu religious text], his tongue shall be cut out. If he commits them to memory his body shall be split in half."
Servitude to Whites became the basis of the lives of the Black people of India for generation after generation after generation. With the passage of time, this brutally harsh, color-oriented, racially-based caste system became the foundation of the religion that is now practiced throughout all India. This is the religion known as Hinduism.
THE BUDDHA AND BUDDHISM IN INDIA
Buddhism appeared in India during the sixth century B.C.E. and came in the form of a protest against Hinduism. Buddhism opposed the arrogance of caste, and preached tolerance. It should not be surprising, then, that it developed a large and rapid following in the regions of India where the Blacks had survived in substantial numbers. On the emergence of Buddhism in India, Diop has suggested that:
"It would seem that Buddha was an Egyptian priest, chased from Memphis by the persecution of Cambyses. This tradition would justify the portrayal of Buddha with woolly hair. Historical documents do not invalidate this tradition…There is general agreement today on placing in the sixth century not only Buddha but the whole religious and philosophical movement in Asia with Confucius in China, Zoroaster in Iran. This would confirm the hypothesis of a dispersion of Egyptian priests at that time spreading their doctrine in Asia."
Dr. Vulindlela Wobogo, another African-centric scholar, has observed that:
"Manifestations of the Buddha in Asia are Black with woolly hair. They all appear to be Egypto-Nubian priests who fled Egypt…The priests carried their spiritual knowledge but lost much of the scientific knowledge for obvious reasons. The well-known aspects of Buddhism and its companion, yoga, are all simply Egypto-Nubian priesthood practices, meditation, and…the belief that one could attain a god-like state if the soul was liberated from the body through knowledge and denial."
In a monumental two volume work entitled A Book of the Beginnings, originally published in 1881, Gerald Massey recorded that:
"It is not necessary to show that the first colonisers of India were Black, but it is certain that the Black Buddha of India was imaged in the Africoid type. In the Black [African] god, whether called Buddha or Sut-Nahsi, we have a datum. they carry in their color the proof of their origin. The people who first fashioned and worshipped the divine image in the Africoid mold of humanity must, according to all knowledge of human nature, have been Africans themselves. For the Blackness is not merely mystical, the features and the hair of Buddha belong to the Black race."
In the first volume of his massive text Anacalypsis, Godfrey Higgins wrote that:
"The religion of Buddha, of India, is well known to have been very ancient. In the most ancient temples scattered through Asia, where his worship is yet continued, he is found black as jet, with the flat face, thick lips and curly hair of the African."
DALIT: THE BLACK UNTOUCHABLES OF INDIA
Possibly the most substantial percentage of Asia's Blacks can be identified among India's 160 million "Untouchables" or "Dalits." Frequently they are called "Outcastes." Indian nationalist leader and devout Hindu Mohandas K. Gandhi called them "Harijans," meaning "children of god." The official name given them in India's constitution (1951) is "Scheduled Castes." "Dalit," meaning "crushed and broken," is a name that has come into prominence only within the last four decades. "Dalit" reflects a radically different response to oppression.
The Dalit are demonstrating a rapidly expanding awareness of their African ancestry and their relationship to the struggle of Black people throughout the world. They seem particularly enamored of African-Americans. African-Americans, in general, seem almost idolized by the Dalit, and the Black Panther Party, in particular, is virtually revered. In April 1972, for example, the Dalit Panther Party was formed in Bombay, India. This organization takes its pride and inspiration directly from the Black Panther Party of the United States. This is a highly important development due to the fact that the Untouchables have historically been so systematically terrorized that many of them, even today, live in a perpetual state of extreme fear of their upper caste oppressors. This is especially evident in the villages. The formation of the Dalit Panthers and the corresponding philosophy that accompanies it signals a fundamental change in the annals of resistance, and Dalit Panther organizations have subsequently spread to other parts of India. In August 1972, the Dalit Panthers announced that the 25th anniversary of Indian independence would be celebrated as a day of mourning. In 1981, in Bangalore, India Dravidian journalist V.T. Rajshekar published the first issue of Dalit Voice–the major English journal of the Black Untouchables. In a 1987 publication entitled the African Presence in Early Asia, Rajshekar stated that:
"The African-Americans also must know that their liberation struggle cannot be complete as long as their own blood-brothers and sisters living in far off Asia are suffering. It is true that African-Americans are also suffering, but our people here today are where African-Americans were two hundred years ago.
African-American leaders can give our struggle tremendous support by bringing forth knowledge of the existence of such a huge chunk of Asian Blacks to the notice of both the American Black masses and the Black masses who dwell within the African continent itself."…
HABSHIS AND SIDDIS: AFRICAN DYNASTIES IN INDIA
India also received its share of African bondsmen, of whom the most famous was the celebrated Malik Ambar (1550-1626). Ambar, like a number of Africans in medieval India, elevated himself to a position of great authority. Malik Ambar, whose original name was Shambu, was born around 1550 in Harar, Ethiopia. After his arrival in India Ambar was able to raise a formidable army and achieve great power in the west Indian realm of Ahmadnagar. Ambar was a brilliant diplomat and administrator. He encouraged manufactures and built canals and mosques. He gave pensions to poets and scholars, established a postal service, and ultimately became one of the most famous men in India.
In a collective form, however, and in respect to long term influence, the African sailors known as Siddis stand out. Certainly, Siddi kingdoms were established in western India in Janjira and Jaffrabad as early as 1100 AD. After their conversion to Islam, the African freedmen of India, originally called Habshi from the Arabic, called themselves Sayyad (descendants of Muhammad) and were consequently called Siddis. Indeed, the island Janjira was formerly called Habshan, meaning Habshan's or African's land. Siddi signifies lord or prince. It is further said that Siddi is an expression of respectful address commonly used in North Africa, like Sahib in India. Specifically, it is said to be an honorific title given to the descendants of African natives in the west of India, some of whom were distinguished military officers and administrators of the Muslim princes of the Deccan.
In the second decade of the sixteenth century a European traveler named Armando Cortesao noted that:
"The people who govern the kingdom [Bengal] are Abyssinians [Ethiopians]. These men are looked upon as knights; they are greatly esteemed; they wait on the kings in their apartments. The chief among them are eunuchs and these come to be kings and great lords in the kingdom. Those who are not eunuchs are the fighting men. After the king, it is to this people that the kingdom is obedient from fear."
The Siddis were a tightly knit group, highly aggressive, and even ferocious in battle. They were employed largely as security forces for Muslim fleets in the Indian Ocean, a position they maintained for centuries. The Siddi commanders were titled Admirals of the Mughal Empire, and received an annual salary of 300,000 rupees. According to Ibn Battuta (1304-1377), the noted Muslim writer who journeyed through both Africa and Asia, the Siddis "are the guarantors of safety on the Indian Ocean; let there be but one of them on a ship and it will be avoided by the Indian pirates and idolaters."
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A lovestruck townie tries to steal a girl away from a traveling fair.
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Splinterheads work the midway, tasked with parting suckers from their cash when a carnival comes to town. In the movie "Splinterheads," however, it's the other way around, with a lovestruck townie trying to steal the girl from a traveling fair. Writer-director Brant Sersen's amiable indie comedy — even less edgy than Greg Mottola's theme-park-set "Adventureland" — attempts to compensate for its too-familiar romantic setup by defining its characters through idiosyncratic hobbies and traits. A non-starter on the fest circuit, "Splinterheads" will likely be overlooked in limited release as well.
As played by newcomer Thomas Middleditch, who's performed with the Improvised Shakespeare Company and several other noteworthy comedy troupes, Justin Frost belongs to the same category of listless, middle-class, white-guy characters as Napoleon Dynamite. He lives at home with his single mom (Lea Thompson), practices amateur karate in his spare time and drives an old Toyota he insists on calling his "sports car" — qualities that don't go particularly far with an edgy girl like Galaxy (Rachael Taylor, "Transformers").
Nevertheless, Galaxy feigns interest when they first meet, showing just enough cleavage to con Justin out of 60 bucks in a gas station scam. When Justin sees her again, she's working the dunking booth at the fair, a two-bit operation just exciting enough to lure Justin and his randy best friend, Wayne Chung (Jason Rogel), after a lame day mowing lawns.
For a character in his mid-20s, Justin behaves more like a junior high teen: He's a bit of a spazz, and lacking in ambition, interests and backbone. He's easily intimidated by Galaxy's carny boyfriend (Dean Winters), as well as the town police officer (Christopher McDonald) who used to date his mom. By the third time he and Galaxy cross paths, during a geocaching hunt for hidden treasure, he is thoroughly smitten, yet virtually incapable of loosening up.
While Justin seems to be coming to terms with his inner dork, Middleditch has clearly embraced his own. The actor looks like a young Daniel Stern, with his sleepy eyes and sideways smirk, and it's not hard to imagine Galaxy would find his awkwardness endearing. At the very least, he seems more sensitive than her cartoonish bully of a boyfriend.
Still, their time together feels mostly pro forma. Sersen ("Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story") uses the old trick of dropping out the dialogue as the two characters laugh and chat, but instead of condensing several dates into a standard falling-in-love montage, he cuts together multiple shots from a single, long drive, which conveys little more than how long it takes to reach their destination.
Side characters introduced as comic relief — including a self-important magician (Jason Mantzoukas) and Justin's older-than-dirt granddad (Edmund Lyndeck) — add flair to what feels like a very small town, but get in the way during the pic's sloppy climax. Still, Sersen has the right instincts for comedy, and with a few clumsy exceptions, his work is polished enough to pass for pro. Red-shot footage looks sharp.
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Q: edtFTPj Java Error when retrieving directories I want to connect to a FTP Server, in this case FileZilla Server, with Java. I've download edtFTPJ/free  and I've been trying the examples that they sent in that package. Connecting to the server, deleting folder/files, renaming, creating folders works, but when I want to get the directory list, the connection gets closed. (This also happens with another library called FTP4J.) Here is the code:
package ftp_classes;

import com.enterprisedt.net.ftp.FileTransferClient;
import com.enterprisedt.net.ftp.FTPFile;
import com.enterprisedt.util.debug.Level;
import com.enterprisedt.util.debug.Logger;

public class GetDirectoryListing {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        String host = "localhost";
        String username = "user";
        String password = "password";

        // set up logger so that we get some output
        Logger log = Logger.getLogger(GetDirectoryListing.class);
        Logger.setLevel(Level.INFO);

        FileTransferClient ftp = null;

        try {
              com.enterprisedt.util.debug.Logger.setLevel(com.enterprisedt.util.debug.Level.DEBUG);
            // create client
            log.info("Creating FTP client");
            ftp = new FileTransferClient();

            // set remote host
            log.info("Setting remote host");
            ftp.setRemoteHost(host);
            ftp.setUserName(username);
            ftp.setPassword(password);

            // connect to the server
            log.info("Connecting to server " + host);
            ftp.connect();
            log.info("Connected and logged in to server " + host);

            log.info("Getting current directory listing");
            FTPFile[] files = ftp.directoryList(".");
            for (int i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
                log.info(files[i].toString());
            }

            // Shut down client
            log.info("Quitting client");
            ftp.disconnect();

            log.info("Example complete");

        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();

        }
    }

}

here is the console output:
INFO [ftp_classes.GetDirectoryListing] 1 Jun 2012 14:05:00.151 : Setting remote host
INFO [ftp_classes.GetDirectoryListing] 1 Jun 2012 14:05:00.151 : Connecting to server localhost
DEBUG [FileTransferClient] 1 Jun 2012 14:05:00.151 : Configured client
DEBUG [FTPClient] 1 Jun 2012 14:05:00.159 : Connecting to localhost/127.0.0.1:21
DEBUG [FTPControlSocket] 1 Jun 2012 14:05:00.175 : 220-FileZilla Server version 0.9.41 beta
DEBUG [FTPControlSocket] 1 Jun 2012 14:05:00.175 : 220-written by Tim Kosse (Tim.Kosse@gmx.de)
DEBUG [FTPControlSocket] 1 Jun 2012 14:05:00.177 : 220 Please visit http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/
DEBUG [FileTransferClient] 1 Jun 2012 14:05:00.179 : Client connected
DEBUG [FileTransferClient] 1 Jun 2012 14:05:00.180 : Logging in
DEBUG [FTPControlSocket] 1 Jun 2012 14:05:00.180 : ---> USER user
DEBUG [FTPControlSocket] 1 Jun 2012 14:05:00.180 : 331 Password required for user
DEBUG [FTPControlSocket] 1 Jun 2012 14:05:00.181 : ---> PASS ********
DEBUG [FTPControlSocket] 1 Jun 2012 14:05:00.181 : 230 Logged on
DEBUG [FileTransferClient] 1 Jun 2012 14:05:00.181 : Logged in
DEBUG [FTPControlSocket] 1 Jun 2012 14:05:00.181 : ---> TYPE I
DEBUG [FTPControlSocket] 1 Jun 2012 14:05:00.182 : 200 Type set to I
INFO [ftp_classes.GetDirectoryListing] 1 Jun 2012 14:05:00.182 : Connected and logged in to server localhost
INFO [ftp_classes.GetDirectoryListing] 1 Jun 2012 14:05:00.182 : Getting current directory listing
DEBUG [FTPControlSocket] 1 Jun 2012 14:05:00.189 : ---> SYST
DEBUG [FTPControlSocket] 1 Jun 2012 14:05:00.189 : 215 UNIX emulated by FileZilla
DEBUG [FTPControlSocket] 1 Jun 2012 14:05:00.194 : ---> PWD
DEBUG [FTPControlSocket] 1 Jun 2012 14:05:00.194 : 257 "/" is current directory.
DEBUG [FTPClient] 1 Jun 2012 14:05:00.194 : setupDirDetails(.) returning: /
DEBUG [FTPControlSocket] 1 Jun 2012 14:05:00.195 : ListenOnAllInterfaces=true
com.enterprisedt.net.ftp.ControlChannelIOException: Software caused connection abort: socket write error
    at com.enterprisedt.net.ftp.FTPControlSocket.writeCommand(FTPControlSocket.java:1020)
    at com.enterprisedt.net.ftp.FTPControlSocket.sendCommand(FTPControlSocket.java:997)
    at com.enterprisedt.net.ftp.FTPControlSocket.setDataPort(FTPControlSocket.java:813)
    at com.enterprisedt.net.ftp.FTPControlSocket.sendPORTCommand(FTPControlSocket.java:669)
    at com.enterprisedt.net.ftp.FTPControlSocket.createDataSocketActive(FTPControlSocket.java:616)
    at com.enterprisedt.net.ftp.FTPControlSocket.createDataSocket(FTPControlSocket.java:583)
    at com.enterprisedt.net.ftp.FTPClient.setupDataSocket(FTPClient.java:2648)
    at com.enterprisedt.net.ftp.FTPClient.dir(FTPClient.java:3664)
    at com.enterprisedt.net.ftp.FTPClient.dir(FTPClient.java:3756)
    at com.enterprisedt.net.ftp.FTPClient.dirDetails(FTPClient.java:3583)
    at com.enterprisedt.net.ftp.FileTransferClient.directoryList(FileTransferClient.java:647)
    at ftp_classes.GetDirectoryListing.main(GetDirectoryListing.java:52)
DEBUG [FTPControlSocket] 1 Jun 2012 14:05:00.197 : ---> PORT 127,0,0,1,201,168

Can anyone help me? I really don't know why this is happening.

A: The error is happening when the client tries to open a listening socket for the server to connect to and send the directory listing.  I'm not sure why that would happen, but I do recommend changing the connection-mode from 'active' to 'passive', which may bypass the problem.  You can do that as follows:
ftp.getAdvancedFTPSettings().setConnectMode(FTPConnectMode.PASV);

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Album Review of Olympia by Bryan Ferry.
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Olympia - Fairly Good, Based on 12 Critics
Bryan Ferry has long been the sultriest of crooners and the most compelling of lyricists. There are smoke rings and cool passion to be found in every sway of his albums, whether he's solo or with art-glam legends Roxy Music. After the husk of 2007's Dylanesque's tribute to the rustic bard, something suave and strange was in order. Ferry invited Roxy's best producer and nearly all of that ensemble's collaborators (including Brian Eno) to abet him in his most experimental deliriously Roxy-ish recordings in decades.
There are two headlines for Olympia, Bryan Ferry's 13th solo album. The first is that it's Ferry's first collection of primarily original material since 1994's Mamouna -- of the ten songs only Tim Buckley's "Song to the Siren" and Traffic's "No Face, No Name, No Number" are from another author -- the second is that among the many collaborators here are Brian Eno, Phil Manzanera, and Andy MacKay, all original members of Roxy Music, their presence suggesting a return to the chilly art of Roxy's earliest records. Neither headline tells the real story: Olympia is Ferry's most seductive album since Avalon, a luxurious collection of softly stylized sophistication.
Bryan Ferry's latest release, Olympia, is glacial in the best sense of the term. In subject matter, Ferry's work with Roxy Music could be described in the same way, but rarely did those songs offer themselves at as languid a pace as the tracks do here. Luckily, the songs are more often grand than boring. Olympia sees Ferry reunited with such Roxy cohorts as guitarist Phil Manzanera and the legendary Brian Eno, collaborating with Ferry for the first time since 1973's For Your Pleasure.
Entertainment Weekly - 79
Based on rating B+
The Roxy Music frontman?s latest solo album opens with soft-focus keyboard that harks back to 1982?s Avalon, so it seems ? almost inevitable when Roxy cohorts Phil Manzanera, Brian Eno, and Andy Mackay wander in later. (Chic?s Nile Rodgers and Red Hot Chili Pepper Flea also drop by.) Finding true love has never come easy to Ferry, but his famed warble still revels in elusive, discofied romance. B+ See all of this week's reviews .
There was a point at which Olympia was intended to be a new Roxy Music album. It would have been the band's first since 1982's Avalon, and there even seems to be a sly nod to that two-decade gap on album opener "You Can Dance", which opens with a brief musical passage that is pretty much a note-for-note reference to Avalon's "True to Life". Somewhere in the process, though, this became another Bryan Ferry solo album, featuring original Roxy Music members Andy Mackay, Phil Manzanera, and Brian Eno, and Ferry brought in a raft of collaborators, some old, some new, to round out the record, his first to feature original songs since 2002's Frantic.
The Manet-inspired photo of an iced-out Kate Moss on the cover of Bryan Ferry's first solo album in eight years doesn't lie. The image throws back to the impossibly glamorous artwork that graced many a Roxy Music record sleeve, and the album's 10 tracks evoke a similar nostalgia for the cult 70s act's panoramic art-pop machismo, with an emphasis on "pop." [rssbreak] Much of Olympia sounds straight out of Avalon-era Roxy, despite an array of all-star collaborators: David Gilmour, Jonny Greenwood, Scissor Sisters, Nile Rodgers and ex-Roxys Brian Eno, Andrew Mackay and Phil Manzanera. Somewhat surprisingly, they blend right in with Ferry's trembling timbre and sensual, textured atmospherics.
Brian Eno often gets the credit for Roxy Music's early eccentricity, playing into the dynamic of a band torn between two strong personalities: Eno's intellect on one side, Bryan Ferry's smooth blandness on the other. This makes sense, considering the band's gradual slide into insipidness that followed Eno's departure, but as a singer and lyricist, Ferry has always contained multitudes, representing a continuous struggle between silky frontman aspirations and outright strangeness. That same conflict is thrown into sharp relief on Olympia, though a skew toward more overt sexiness makes for a host of cheesy moments.
Ferry's professed new sense of urgency since brushing with death in an aeroplane incident in 2000 hasn't produced too many new songs. Olympia is only the Roxy Music singer's second set of new material since 1994. However, he's busily assembled an all-star supporting cast – guitarists Nile Rodgers, Jonny Greenwood and Dave Gilmour, Mani and Flea on bass, and most of Roxy, including Brian Eno.
Drowned In Sound - 50
Given the average age of the readership of this site it wouldn't be surprising to find that some readers most readily think of Bryan Ferry as that former M&S model who covers Bob Dylan songs all the time, rather than the front man for one the most important and influential British bands of all time. In comparison we can we can see Brian Eno's influence in any number of DiS-friendly bands (just see the 'Children of Eno' section of our Sean's 6Music takeover). Perhaps the most disappointing aspect of Bryan Ferry's solo output is that for a fellow of such eclectic and cultured taste, he hasn't done anything terribly original since the New Romantic masterclass of Roxy Music swansong Avalon in 1982.
Ferry can only do jaded nowadays – but when it works, he drags you under with him. Martin Aston 2010 "Making music for a living is quite hard," Bryan Ferry said in 2009. "With every album you have to reinvent the wheel, reinvent Tabasco or HP Sauce." Which might explain why he's recorded just one album featuring originals, 2002's Frantic, since 1994.
New Musical Express (NME)
Their review was only somewhat favourable
On the sleeve, [b]Kate Moss[/b] "reclines seductively" (thanks, [i]Daily Mail[/i]!); musically everyone from [a]Scissor Sisters[/a] to [a]Jonny Greenwood[/a] and three members of [b]Roxy[/b] (including [b]Eno[/b]) lend a hand. But this is no disciple-assisted rebirth. All these contributors are superfluous, each ending up being merely a tiny part of one long pleasant-but-indistinguishable soup of tasteful sessioneering, over which The Voice totally dominates.
Their review was unenthusiastic
Music is meditation for Brian Eno, so it's fitting that portions of Small Craft on a Milk Sea – a collaboration with guitarist Leo Abrahams and pianist Jon Hopkins – sound like they're circulating air at a day spa. Eno's textures stimulate the visual cortex, and though there are nod-offs ("Complex Heaven"), sonic shifts into louder realms ("2 Forms of Anger," "Bone Jump") balance it out. Eno shows up on Roxy Music chum Bryan Ferry's latest, along with former fellow bandmates Phil Manzanera and Andy Mackay.
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