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Posted By: shoalcollective 0 Comment Jordan Valley, Jordan Valley Solidarity
Jordan Valley Solidarity campaign is a network of Palestinian grassroots
community groups from all over the Jordan Valley, as well as international
supporters. Our aims are to protect Palestinian existence and the unique
environment of the Jordan Valley by building international support and
supporting communities on the ground. This includes monitoring, recording and aiming to prevent the abuse of Palestinian human rights by the Israeli occupation and settlers.
The situation in the Jordan Valley is very serious. Since 1967, the Israeli military occupation has been gradually attempting to annex the area (which is 28% of the occupied West Bank). Comments made by Netanyahu in 2019 have left us in no doubt about their intentions. On the ground they are seeking to control more and more of the Jordan Valley by expanding their illegal Israeli colonies. They are trying to drive Palestinians from their land through house demolitions, movement restrictions, curfews, arbitrary arrest and detention, land confiscations, denial of access to water, electricity, health and education.
In 2003, several community members in the Jordan Valley came together to try to build a community-based campaign to defend the indigenous community's presence. Today, the campaign continues to grow, and has spread to all of the Palestinian communities in the Valley. As a grassroots campaign we rely entirely on community members volunteering their time and energy, and support from individuals and organisations that support our aims and activities.
We have no budget to speak of, or any sources of funding, except in the rare cases that a person or an institution comes forward willing to fund a project that the campaign has undertaken.
Since its inception, the campaign has been open to working with any individual or organisation that shares its political analysis of the problem facing the Palestinians of the Jordan Valley and shares the commitment to maintain and strengthen Palestinian presence in the Valley.
The campaign's activities centre around actions which strengthen the steadfastness of Palestinians in the Valley. Our work varies, depending on the needs and priorities of the local communities, but in recent years we have:
• Supported villages such as Fasayil and Ka'abne to build community schools
• Helped several different communities to run water pipes to their local area
• Mobilised local communities around rebuilding structures destroyed by the Israeli occupation
• Built roads so people can more easily access their homes
• Mobilised and educated Jordan Valley communities about the traditional methods of building using homemade hay-and-clay bricks
The second major task of the campaign is raising awareness about the plight of Palestinians in the Jordan Valley and the urgency of supporting them both at the national and international level. This is particularly important given that it is a topic most often ignored in discussions about Palestine and the occupation.
This advocacy work is carried out through:
• Preparing written, audio, and visual materials that advocates of Palestinian rights can use
• Trying to attract media attention to the situation in the Jordan Valley
• Offering eyewitness tours for visitors to Palestine so they can see for themselves what is described above
• Persuading international agencies to operate in the Jordan Valley, to provide the services most needed by the local community, and to monitor the effects of the Israeli policies and practices of the people and the land.
The campaign continues to face several challenges. One of the first obstacles to mobilising the local community is the large distance between the communities of the 150km long Jordan Valley. There is no cost-effective public transport available to Palestinians in the Valley, including the campaign organisers. While dealing directly and in-person with community members is the ideal means of communication, the use of phones and other communication technology is also very expensive, since there is no Palestinian communication infrastructure outside of the Area A and B towns and villages, and the Israeli alternative is costly. The internet is completely useless as a means of communication within the Valley given that only an extremely tiny minority has internet access. The dearth of sources of funding that would allow for the campaign to sustain itself as an independent grassroots initiative is a further challenge.
Despite these challenges the campaign continues based on the determination of the people of the Jordan Valley to remain steadfast on their land, and in the ongoing struggle to regain the land and resources taken from them, the Palestinians of the Jordan Valley.
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226 migrant fatalities recorded worldwide in 2019 so far
Following announcement that a total of 200 migrants have lost their lives worldwide in the first three weeks of 2019, the number now has climbed to 226 for the period 1st-31st January.
Security | 31/01/19
As previously reported, following Italy's tougher stand on accepting rescued migrants trying to cross Mediterranean into Europe, Germany has now withdrawn from the EU's naval force Operation Sophia, set up to tackle people smuggling across the Mediterranean.
The European Community Shipowners' Associations (ECSA) criticised the move last week, calling on EU member states to "set aside the disputes and decide on how to cope with the refugees rescued in the Mediterranean".
We are very disappointed with Germany's decision to suspend its participation in Operation Sophia. Operation Sophia's contribution to maritime security in the Central Mediterranean is very important. There has been an important reduction in the number of migrant crossings which can be attributed to the EUNAVFOR Operation Sophia, whilst it has conducted an increased proportion of rescue operations,
...said ECSA's Secretary General Martin Dorsman.
Similarly, the German Shipowners' Association (VDR) expressed their regret for the decision of the government and called upon the EU to find a solution to the protracted dispute on how merchant vessels will cope with boat refugees.
A 117 vulnerable migrants are believed to have died on the Mediterranean in the first three weeks of January, and another 83 outside Med, according to a previous IOM update.
The news of the second tragedy came along with the rescue of three survivors, two Sudanese nationals and one from The Gambia, who were interviewed by IOM staff on the island of Lampedusa.
As they reported, the three men were on a dinghy carrying 120 migrants, the majority coming from western African countries. About 40 Sudanese nationals also were onboard, having left the Libyan Port of Garabuli on Thursday night.
After about 10 hours at sea, the dinghy started to take on water and many of its passengers drowned, the survivors informed. Among the people drowned were ten women, one known to be pregnant, and two children, including a 2 month-old toddler.
The three men managed to stay afloat for several hours before being spotted by an Italian Navy patrol plane some 50 miles off the Libyan coast.
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) says that 4,216 people made the crossing in the first 16 days of 2019 - more than double the number who arrived in the same period in 2018.
In 2018, about 2,297 migrants and refugees died or went missing in the Mediterranean while 116,959 reached Europe by sea.
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Q: Blackberry Application signing problems I got the .csi files from RIM before 4 years for an blackberry application.
Can we use those .csi files again for signining other blackberry applications also ?
When i tried to run those files it shows the alert messages like "The private key could not be found,and The private key is contained in the sigtool.csk which was not found.

Expected location:c:/blackberry/jde4.2/bin/sigtool.csk.

when i press Yes. It doesnt shows anything. what i will do ?
How is this file generated and what should I to build my application on device ?

A: To be able to sign your app you should do one of:

*

*generate sigtool files by installing the signature keys sent to you by RIM

*copy your old sigtool files (sigtool.set, sigtool.db, sigtool.csk, SignatureTool.jar) to you new environment. However if version of new BB Plugin is newer, you should go the first way
See
A60 – How and When to Sign
Getting code signing keys from RIM, then using them

A: No.
Officially RIM issues keys for use on only one computer.  I don't know how they check or verify this but I have experienced this limitation - I had to get a new set of keys when I switched computers.
After 4 years I doubt you are using the same computer so you will need to get new keys.

A: To sign your app you must need the files sigtool.csk, sigtool.set and sigtool.db
generally you must copy the files inside Eclipse\plugins\net.rim.ejde\vmTools
or you will import the files from Window--> Preferences --> Blackberry Java Plug-In --> Signature Tool --> Import Existing Keys...
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Press Release - Testimony connects with Christian rock band Remedy Drive
May 19, 2014 Gary Lancaster
Contact: Gaelika "Brown Theory" Brown
musiciansstory@gmail.com
Testimony: A Musician's Story
The story behind Remedy Drive's Commodity – A Counter Trafficking Album
SACRAMENTO, Cali., May 19, 2014 - Testimony: A Musician's Story, an audio-biography series that features various Christian artist, hooked up with the Christian Rock band Remedy Drive to tell the story behind their latest album Commodity – A Counter Trafficking Album.
The short episode highlights lead singer, David Zack's undercover human trafficking mission in South East Asia. That mission is the inspiration behind the album. This episodes highlights songs from the upcoming album and promotes their Kickstarter campaign to fund Commodity – A Counter Trafficking Album.
Listeners can look forward to hearing Remedy Drive's full-length story, as well as other Christian Rock and Christian Contemporary artist stories, this summer at testimonystories.com.
"Testimony: A Musician's Story" is a weekly audio-biography series that is narrated by Gaelika "Brown Theory" Brown, and features various Christian artist. It tells their story using their music and interviews. The series has primarily featured Christian Hip Hop artist, and is looking forward to telling stories of musicians in all genres of positive music.
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Book Review: THE MARRIAGE PLOT By Jeffrey Eugenides
From the writer of MIDDLESEX and THE VIRGIN SUICIDES comes a novel for the English majors among us.
By Meredith Borders Nov. 07, 2011
A couple of weeks ago I attended a reading by Jeffrey Eugenides from his latest novel, The Marriage Plot. The introducer told those of us in the audience that this was "a safe space for English majors tonight," and Eugenides concurred, saying "Everyone here was an English major. I've been reading only to English majors all around the country." This English major settled cozily in for an evening of pandering to her particular disposition.
And yes, a large portion of The Marriage Plot—the portion from which Eugenides read that evening— caters to the indulgent romanticism and self-satisfied pedantry of the English major. Madeleine belongs to the "campus lit crit elite," taking classes on Hawthorne and James, seminars on Beowulf and dense upper division courses on semiotics. And despite the fact that I honestly took every single one of those classes and therefore delighted in the authenticity of Madeleine's fictional course schedule, I most connected to this sentence: "Madeleine had become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read."
Madeleine marvels at the relevance of Barthes' A Lover's Discourse to her own life. "Here was an articulation of what she had so far been mutely feeling." She is entirely aware of the fallacy and implausibility of romantic love, yet finds herself strangely susceptible to it. The Marriage Plot is a deconstruction of the marriage plot, any novel whose resolution focuses solely on its protagonist's accomplishment in getting married. And yet the three protagonists of The Marriage Plot, a novel with alternating narration, are all deeply and irrevocably immersed in fantasies of romantic love. Eugenides pointed out that the very use of three narratives subverts the tradition of the marriage plot, yet the novel honors that tradition as earnestly as it violates it.
What else is college if not a series of brains fighting hormones, students falling in love while feeling academically above it? Eugenides mentioned that evening that this novel began to assimilate in his mind with the following line: "Madeleine's love troubles began at the time when the French theory she was reading deconstructed the very notion of love." The semiotics course she takes her senior year is meant to teach students to disassemble traditional values and take a pragmatic, unflinching look at literary and societal manipulation. And yet it's in this course that Madeleine meets Leonard and finds herself poring over the more sentimental passages in Barthes.
Eugenides spoke about a professor who once misquoted a famous line by La Rochefoucauld: "People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about." Eugenides said the professor told him instead, "No would ever fall in love if they hadn't read about it first." I prefer that version of the quote. Fictional romantic love is a dangerous thing, leaving us all unsatisfied with anyone who isn't Mr. Darcy or Estella Havisham. (Never mind the fact that Darcy and Estella would make terrible romantic partners.) In The Marriage Plot, Madeleine, Leonard and Mitchell (the third point of this prim love triangle) are all susceptible to the absurdity of craving not life's love, but fiction's love.
Eugenides said that before beginning The Marriage Plot, he was working on another novel featuring a large family, one peripheral member of which was Madeleine. He then found himself drawn to Madeleine and gave up the other novel, deciding instead to write a book focusing on this character. That makes sense, because the portions of The Marriage Plot told from Madeleine's perspective are by far the most compelling. However, the story of Leonard, the brilliant, handsome manic depressive who inspires Madeleine's longing, is nearly as significant. The descriptions of Leonard's helpless surrender to his own mental chemistry are heartbreaking and stunningly tangible.
The narrative offered by brainy religious studies major Mitchell, however, is a little hollow and lacking. Much like Madeleine, he compares his feelings and experiences to what he is reading at the time, but he never quite resonates. It's interesting because Mitchell travels to Europe and India and volunteers for Mother Teresa, as Eugenides himself once did. Eugenides freely admitted that while Mitchell's section is the closest to autobiographical, it was the hardest to write, becoming unwieldy. Eugenides said, "I find true autobiographical writing impossible but I also find it impossible to write something without some connection to my life."
When the Q&A moderator asked how Eugenides wrote such a convincing female protagonist (more convincing, even, than his two male protagonists), Eugenides replied that he writes females by not writing females. He writes them as humans and thinks of them as females secondarily. He said that almost all of the things that Madeleine thinks regarding her relationships with Leonard or Mitchell are things that he's thought himself in relationships, and the rest he garnered through close observation, such as a woman's fear of urinary tract infections at the beginning of a sexual relationship. "You start seeing enough cranberry juice in enough refrigerators…" Madeleine is indeed fully realized, flawed and utterly believable in a way that Mitchell and Leonard aren't.
The Marriage Plot is almost entirely a wonderful novel, plainly yet beautifully written, honest and piercing. Because it's a clever deconstruction of romantic, Victorian novels, I never expected or wanted a happy ending. However, the ending was worse than unhappy. It took the progress of the three protagonists, everything they had worked toward throughout the novel, and destroyed it. Madeleine, Leonard and Mitchell are each further from the realization of happiness and progress than they were on the first page of the book. I like ambiguous endings. I like unhappy endings. But I do not like an ending that invalidates all of the character advances that preceded it. I decidedly did not like the ending of The Marriage Plot—but you should definitely still read it.
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Le Lunar Receiving Laboratory ou LRL est une installation de la NASA située à Houston (Texas) utilisée  jusqu'en 1979 pour entreposer les roches lunaires ramenées par les équipages des missions du programme Apollo. Cet immeuble a  également hébergé les équipages des missions Apollo 11, 12 et 14 à qui une quarantaine était imposée après leur séjour sur le sol de la Lune pour écarter tout risque d'épidémie. Cette mesure fut levée à partir de la mission Apollo 15.

Historique

Au début des années 1960, les biologistes consultés par la NASA indiquent qu'il n'est pas exclus que des organismes vivants puissent subsister sur la Lune même si les conditions qui y règnent (vide, température) semblent peu favorables. La NASA décide dans la perspective du programme Apollo de construire au Manned Spaceflight Center qui sera nommé en 1973 Centre spatial Lyndon B. Johnson une installation permettant d'isoler les astronautes et les roches lunaires ramenés sur Terre de tout contact avec l'extérieur.

La construction comporte  de surface au sol dont un quart consacré aux équipages en quarantaine et deux autres tiers pour le stockage et la manipulation des roches lunaires ayant couté  de dollars américains ( millions actuels). Des boîtes à gants permettent de manipuler les roches qui sont stockés initialement sous vide puis à partir d'Apollo 12 dans une atmosphère inerte d'azote. À l'issue des missions Apollo  de roches lunaires y sont stockés. En 1976, 14 % des roches sont déplacées dans un bunker de la base de l'United States Air Force de Brooks pour éviter une perte totale en cas de destruction du LRL. Ce stock secondaire de  est transféré au White Sands Test Facility lorsque la base de Brooks est fermée. Mais le LRL est jugé mal adapté à sa mission. En 1977 la NASA décide de construire, toujours au Centre spatial Lyndon B. Johnson, une nouvelle installation destinée à accueillir les roches lunaires et à permettre leur manipulation. Le Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility qui remplace le LRL est inauguré en .

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Ecuador suffered from before Clément Turpin's whistle, who whistled a penalty for Senegal four minutes from the end of the first half. The African champion beat Tricolor 1-0 with a goal from Ismaila Sarr's maximum penalty at minute 43, which partially decides the duel and the qualification of the Leones del Teranga to the round of 16 of the World Cup in Qatar.
The Ecuadorian central defender Piero Hincapié arrives late and overwhelms the Senegalese attacker (minute 41). The ball was not in dispute.
They go shoulder to shoulder, but it's a penalty because they don't both fight for the ball: Hincapié hits him. The Bayer Leverkusen defender gets out of his zone (left) in order to help Félix Torres on the right of the central block. He takes over, but ends up crashing and displacing Sarr.
Shoulder to shoulder is valid when two players are in dispute for the ball, that is, the ball does not have a dominator and two rival players are going to try to seize the ball.
Piero Hincapié (below) brings down Ismaila Sarr despite colliding shoulder to shoulder with the Senegalese striker in the action. Photo: Esteban Biba
Ecuador loses at halftime and is currently eliminated from the World Cup in Qatar with the second half to go, in which they need at least a draw to maintain their qualification for the round of 16, after a first half in which they were beaten by his opponent, with more chances.
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Riverside, CA (Aug 7, 2009), The National off Road Racing Series is proud to announce that it will be holding racing events in Wisconsin in 2009. "We received many requests from drivers in the Mid-West who really wanted a NORRS event to arrive quicker than we originally planned. We have decided to meet their requests. We are finalizing plans to hold 2 events in the Mid-West. One of which will be tailored as an October festival that will send the season off with a bang." said Russell Wayne, COO of VSS Entertainment. (Producers of NORRS) We have plans to hold four rounds of racing. Rounds 1 & 2 will be September 26th, 27th, 2009 at a soon to be announced location. Rounds 3 & 4 will be October 10th, 11th 2009 In Weyauwega, WI. The racers entire fees will be lower than what is being charged by the current series in the Mid-West, thus offering more drivers the ability to race. At the same time, we will keep our payouts higher than the current standard. Sponsorships and vendor spaces are now available. We look forward to seeing local drivers and fans enjoy what is sure to be great off road racing.


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Oil rises but U.S.-China trade war weighs on demand outlook
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Oil prices inched up on Tuesday as OPEC's deal with associated producers last week to deepen output cuts in 2020 continued to provide a floor for prices, but U.S.-China trade tensions clouded the demand outlook.
Brent crude settled up 9 cents at $64.34 a barrel, and West Texas Intermediate oil rose 22 cents, or 0.4%, to $59.24 a barrel.
The benchmarks fell 0.2% and 0.3%, respectively, on Monday.
Last week, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and associated producers like Russia agreed to deepen output cuts from 1.2 million barrels per day (bpd) to 1.7 million bpd to support prices.
However, a Dec. 15 deadline for the next round of U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports weighed on markets.
"Now that the producers announced a production cut last week, the market is holding just below three-month highs," said Gene McGillian, director of market research at Tradition Energy. "Without a U.S.-China trade deal, the market is having trouble heading into a new leg in this rally."
U.S. President Donald Trump does not want to implement the next round of tariffs, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said on Monday – but he wants "movement" from China to avoid them.
The Wall Street Journal reported that officials from both sides were laying the groundwork for a delay of a fresh round of tariffs.
Also the growth rate of China's imports of major commodities has accelerated in recent months, indicating Beijing's stimulus efforts may be bearing fruit and that the impact of a trade war may not be as bad as feared.
But investors remained on edge ahead of other events this week, with the British election on Thursday and U.S. and European Central Bank meetings.
On Tuesday, U.S. House Democrats agreed to support a separate U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement after a year of negotiations, clearing the way for ratification by the Congress this year. The trade deal must also still be approved by the Canadian parliament.
U.S. crude oil inventories were expected to have dipped last week, while stocks of refined products were seen higher with gasoline stocks set to rise for the fifth straight week, a preliminary Reuters poll showed.
The American Petroleum Institute (API), an industry group, is scheduled to release its data for the latest week at 4:30 p.m. EST (2130 GMT) on Tuesday, and the weekly EIA report is due at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday.
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Busy making the awards for this annual event, which will be taking place at York Minster in December.
Dug out and Open !
Winter is truly here and our winter opening hours are upon us.
We will still be working in the studio and using the winter months creatively, (best time of year to blow glass) and we are open by appointment from 1st Dec until 1st March. Give us a call on 01751 417550 to arrange to visit and of course, the main road to Pickering in pretty much always passable, the moor roads are most often closed… safe journeys.
Much more snow yesterday and still snowing today. Visited the icicle bridge and it was worth the effort of wading thru the snow.
Over heard this conversation in the pub last night ! Like the white stuff myself… heavy snowfall last night.. magical.
Our beautiful bowls will be travelling out from Rosedale to the following exhibitions.
Click on the name to follow the link to each galleries site.
Stephen returned having had a great time. It was not about making finished objects, but exploring ideas in hot glass and debating the past present and future of working with hot glass.
Each team was given a theme to explore, Stephen worked with Wilke Adolfsson as part of team of 7 makers designers and students to explore the theme of Silent Chaos.
If you have an interest in design education the Pukeberg Design School is well worth a visit.
Beautiful light over Rosedale this afternoon with a low winter sun.
Stephen is off to Sweden for a few days glass making as part if this interesting project info below. Its a heady mix of teams with designers, skilled glass makers working together experimentally.
Our little street got together for a fire party…. wonderful fire, thanks for all who helped build it and contributed to the evening with food, wine and fireworks.
The weather was also very kind, although the frost away from the immediate circle of the fire was astonishing. The small cooking fire was enjoyed by the children later…. !
Brilliant, just brilliant. Clear good voices and honest musicianship, up close and personal, its what the band room does best !


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John Lewis plan for student rooms threatens future of Granite Planet climbing centre
Owner Tony Windo fears his popular business on Kernick Industrial Estate at Penryn may be shut down for good
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A climbing centre boss said the future of his Penryn business was under threat from major retailer John Lewis which wants to transform the site into student flats.
Tony Windo, who has run Granite Planet on Kernick Industrial Estate for eight years, said its 15,000 annual visitors will have nowhere to go and 17 part-time staff without jobs unless the company comes up with a suitable compensation package.
The John Lewis Partnership Pension Fund owns a third of the site, with Falmouth University and Studytel, which is involved with students and start-up businesses focused on creative industries owning the other thirds.
Tony Windo fears he will lose his business (Image: Sally Adams)
Last year a pre-application was submitted to Cornwall Council for a large-scale student accommodation scheme on the site of Granite Planet - called Parkengue - and this, said Mr Windo, was the first he knew that his business was under threat. Although that was withdrawn, a further pre-application for a mixed-use development, including student rooms, library and undercroft parking, has been submitted.
"Prior to that I had tried to secure a ten-year lease and heard nothing," Mr Windo said. "I spent £3,000 on engineer's reports to look at raising the roof to expand. This has all gone on hold."
First look inside shipping container student rooms planned for Penryn and costing £99 a week to rent
Although he has not been served notice to quit, his lease ran out in May and he is waiting to hear from the company about what offer it will make to help him move.
"They are supposed to be sorting out a proposal to hand to me to say how much money they will give me so we can hopefully build a wall somewhere else," he said. "The question is whether they can give us enough money to move to another building. It is frustrating.
Tony said it was cost around £200,000 to build a new climbing wall (Image: Sally Adams)
"When John Lewis put in pre-app twice within the letter the council said we are a community asset and they need to sort out about compensation."
One building on the site is occupied by Granite Planet and the other building is divided into four units, three of which are currently occupied.
In its response to the pre-applications from John Lewis, Cornwall Council's planning department said the council's planning committee had refused another scheme on the grounds that the development would involve the loss of existing employment space on an existing industrial estate and it had not been demonstrated that the land was no longer required for industrial or commercial purposes, both in terms of demand and of supply.
Tax exemption for student houses of multiple occupancy in Falmouth losing council nearly £802,000 a year
"I would anticipate a similar scenario occurring for this scheme, in particular the loss of Granite Planet as a community facility is likely to draw adverse comments," said the council's response to the pre-application.
"I would therefore strongly encourage you to pursue an alternative site for this facility to ensure continuity of a community use."
Mr Windo said, however, that by law the landlord only have to give him one years' ratable value, which is about £18,000, but building a new wall could cost £200,000.
"We would be knackered then," he said. "I think they will come up with some money but until I see something in black and white I worry. We are hanging on day by day. We are in limbo.
"We are the only climbing wall of this kind in Cornwall and if we close where will people go? We have more than 100 organisations, schools, groups that use it and it will ruin their chances of climbing."
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He said the centre has been offered a unit on the old Homeshed site if the proposed student accommodation scheme which involves housing in shipping containers there goes ahead, and is urging people to support it to give Granite Planet a chance of a future.
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A spokesman for the John Lewis Partnership Pension Fund Trustees said: "The John Lewis Partnership Trust for Pensions is invested in a range of different assets and like most funds this includes property. Property agents acting on behalf of the Trustees have for over a year been liaising with the tenant and these discussions are still on-going."
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Backlash against body-shaming: a great message for our young people.
Let me say that I tend to avoid gossip mags and tabloids these days. In my teens and well into my twenties, I couldn't get enough. My friends and I would scour the pages of 'Heat' and 'OK' and 'Closer,' fervently discussing cellulite marks on the legs of supermodels, potential marriage splits, affairs and heartbreak and of course, weight gain and weight loss.
Even in my thirties, my need to procrastinate on a weekend rather than mark school work led me to download the 'Daily Mail' app. The articles were garbage…smelly, rotten garbage. 'Woman who was in a pop group ten years ago gets out of pool in a bikini' seemed to be headline news, along with, 'Actress looks too skinny' right above 'Pop Star lets herself go,' complete of course with pictures of some gorgeous, slim celeb, taken from a bad angle, on a bad hair day as she tucks into a hefty chicken salad (and maybe even a milkshake – "A full-fat milkshake? She's REALLY let herself go!") Full disclosure: my love-hate relationship with these articles and the comment section below soon grew into a procrastination obsession and I was forced to delete. Dark times indeed.
We need people in the public eye to speak out against the ridiculous body-shaming and unattainable, unrealistic expectations of appearance. Our young people need role models that are more than just a perfect pout, a plump arse or a skinny waist. They need people that show courage; people with tireless determination; dare I say, people with talent?!
Of course, teenage girls and boys will always have plenty of days where they feel surrounded by Brad and Angelinas, while they're working the 'Worzel Gummidge chic': its called puberty kids – get used to it! Nevertheless, I don't think we can argue that the sheer amount of exposure to these stories, images and body-shaming, with many children tapping away on their Smartphone from morning through to night, is worsening the problem.
As educators, we can join the likes of Jennifer Aniston, simply by talking about these issues with our students.
As a form teacher, I frequently reminded my students that what they see isn't always what it seems; that happiness isn't a direct result of your waist measurements; that while it's fine to put effort into your appearance, it doesn't define you. At the same time, I expose them to positive role models: Nick Vujicic, an unstoppable force of positivity despite being born without arms or legs; Will Smith, who frequently describes how his immense work ethic rather than talent, led to incredible success; Olympic gold-medallist and Heptathlete Jessica Ennis-Hill, who keenly promotes a healthy, fit and strong body image for women in direct contract to the non-sporting size zero women in the media.
‹ At the end of the day, week or term? Make that positive call home!


On a bright Winters afternoon Norwich R.F.C. welcomed league leaders Ipswich R.F.C. to Beeston Hyrne. Norwich R.F.C. took to the pitch determined to repeat the previous week's victory against Holt R.F.C.
The game started with early forays and exchanges into the visitors half, resulting in two penalties in the first eight minutes of the game for Norwich.
However, it was not long before Ipswich took advantage of a missed tackle and took the lead. This was shortly followed by the home team storming back taking another penalty. The lead continued to swing back and forth, and despite their best efforts, Norwich were unable to hold on to the lead.
Soon after the start of the second half, a penalty for a scrum infringement gave Ipswich a 13 point lead. The Norwich teams spirits did not drop and pushed on to score a corner, although they were unable to convert the points. Norwich continued to push back with two amazing driving mauls, which resulted in Norwich taking a two point lead. Unfortunately this was shortly lost as Ipswich gaining a corner and a conversion.
Both sides kept the pressure up in the last ten minutes of the game, but strong defence from both teams meant that Norwich were unable to pull the score back in their favour.
It was a tough game and Norwich were unlucky not to win, but they should be proud of their performance. Ipswich had a much harder game than they had anticipated.
Norwich – who are sponsored by Anglian Home Improvements – will play their next game against Lowestoft and Yarmouth R.F.C. away on the 14th December.


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The Home Depot is selling a new Google Chromecast that hasn't been announced
The retailer has the new streaming device up for sale for $49.99, two days before its launch
By Nick Statt@nickstatt Sep 28, 2020, 11:14am EDT
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Google's Pixel 5 event is scheduled for this Wednesday, but some of the company's other new gadgets are already appearing on store shelves. That includes its all-new Chromecast, which some savvy buyers have been able to purchase directly in-store from retailers like Walmart and The Home Depot over the course of the last week.
The Verge has purchased one such device from The Home Depot and can confirm the retailer is not stopping customers from checking out and taking the pre-release product home.
The device is selling for $49.99 under the codename Sabrina-Abbey
Not all stores appear to be selling the item; we tried two and only found the new Chromecast at a second location. And inputting the universal product code listed on the receipt into the retailer's website returns no results, so it would appear you can only purchase it early in person.
The receipt doesn't even say Chromecast on it; it just lists the device as "SABRINA-ABBEY ROCK CANDY," which is the hardware's codename (and another clue that the Chromecast is being sold ahead of schedule). Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Is there anything we don't know or haven't seen at this point? Dude picked it up at Home Depot for $50. https://t.co/YiPh6RL42d pic.twitter.com/t2mr4o15iF
— Dave Zatz (@davezatz) September 28, 2020
We've seen plenty about the new streaming dongle pop up in leaks, including its new oval design and Google's first dedicated Chromecast remote. But thanks to these early sales, we're getting a whole lot more information than we usually do ahead of release. Here are some big takeaways, gleaned both from our own experience and that of others who've held Q&A's on Reddit and elsewhere:
The device costs $49.99
The codename is indeed "Sabrina," as early leaks suggest because it's printed on the receipt itself (in full as Sabrina-Abbey, although it's unclear exactly what Abbey means or what it may be referencing)
It comes in a white finish that Google calls "snow"
It runs a rebranded version of Android TV called Google TV (not to be confused with Google's other defunct smart TV platform of the same name first released 10 years ago)
We'll have more to share about the new Chromecast soon. Google's official Pixel 5 hardware event — where it plans to announce the new Chromecast alongside other new hardware, including a speaker from Nest — is scheduled for 2PM ET on Wednesday, September 30th.
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Piles of metal, rusted chains, wood and assorted antiquated clutter covered the yucca-dotted landscape around the trailer where 56-year-old Troy Ray lived. Just outside sat the red Jeep he'd
Death of Pahrump man pinned under Jeep ruled accidental
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Possible earthquake-related death investigated in Nye County
The Nye County Sheriff's Office said Tuesday night that a man died in Pahrump possibly as a result of the July 4 earthquake that rocked the Mojave Desert. Deputies were...
Authorities may never know if Ridgecrest earthquake led to death of Nevada man
Authorities aren't sure if the July 4 Ridgecrest earthquake led to the death of a Pahrump, Nevada man found crushed beneath a vehicle that he apparently was working beneath...
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Sheriff ID\'s Nevada man found dead after California quakes
PAHRUMP, Nev. (AP) — Officials in Nevada are identifying a 55-year-old man found dead under a vehicle they think may have collapsed on him due to earthquakes last week in nearby Southern California. Nye County Sheriff Sharon Wehrly (WER'-lee) said Thursday that...
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L.A. Now Local How could Ridgecrest earthquakes kill someone 180 miles away in Nevada? , Alex Wigglesworth and Rong-Gong Lin II The Nye County Sheriff's Office released this photo of a Jeep that fell on a man in Pahrump, Nev., with the victim's body obscured. (Nye County Sheriff's Office) Last week's twin major earthquakes caused only minor injuries near the epicenter in...
Authorities: Man's death in Nevada desert town is possibly related to July 4th earthquake
Detectives in Nevada began to investigate Tuesday the death of a man who may have died as a result of the July 4 earthquake near Ridgecrest in Southern California, authorities said. If confirmed as quake-related, it would be the first death from last week's earthquakes. At about 1 p.m. on Tuesday, deputies with the Nye County Sheriff's Office were called to Fort Churchill Road...
Death of man under vehicle believed due to California quake - officials
By Rich McKay (Reuters) - A Nevada man found dead and pinned underneath his Jeep is believed to have been a victim of one of the recent earthquakes in southern California that ranked among the most severe in two decades, sheriff's officials said on Wednesday. An earthquake of magnitude 7.1 shook the remote town of Ridgecrest in the Mojave desert on Friday, 1-1/2 days after one...
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Today I learned Indian Standard Time (IST). I woke up an hour and a half before work. I waited for the waterman to come. He came one hour late. When he was in my apartment he asked to have one of my dishtowels and a few Malaysian coins. Given. He didn't have proper change so I paid him in advance for ten deliveries of water. A teacher told me that paying in advance discourages promptness. I didn't have proper change to ride an auto. If you give the driver too much money he will not make change, but take it. Already late I went to break bills at the store. The store was sleepy, slow, and my hurry made it seem insufferable. There isn't much of a sense of expedited shopping in this area. Finally when I got in the auto, we were stuck behind the railway crossing.
When I used a few words of Kannada with the auto-driver he was so excited that he leaned over and told another driver about me. Everyone at the intersection was looking at me. Learning two languages at once, Kannada and Hindi, is wild. I can learn two phrases for one expression and I can pick which one sticks best. Just like a real Indian who mixes his languages like his curries. India has roughly 850 spoken languages and 23 official languages (all of which are on the money); Europe has a pity 250 (Times of India). Almost everyone in India is a polyglot. A language lovers heaven.
I arrived at school thirty minutes late and nobody cared at all. My "I'm going to be late" text message sent twenty minutes before my arrival wasn't received until after I arrived. That's real IST. For something as stress-free as volunteering IST is a welcome change from the razor sharp promptness of Japan.
School was super. One student when asked what makes you happy replied, " kittens and stars ". What makes you happy?
After class and Hindi tutoring I went to Dominos. It's not too good healthy that the only prepared food is Dominos Pyaaza. Pyaaza is not the ideal pre-gym or healthy meal. Unfortunately, cooking every single meal is a sacrifice of time and opportunity. I would have to go to the store, then home, and then cook. This takes over an hour and pulls me into a homely calm rhythm that discourages working out. So I have had to accept eating pizza every time I want to eat out. Pizza, good pizza, in India is 5 USD. In Japan a similar pizza could cost 20$. Pizza in Japan and India is a luxury food. Since the purchasing power parity is scaled in my favor, I can live in the lap of luxury everyday. Dominos was strange because the janitors were women in saris, wearing Dominos baseball caps. Those cloths don't just clash, they culture clash.
At the gym I met a Spanish man who is teaching at a British International School that is very close to my school. Maybe we will meet-up some time.


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First generation entrepreneur adopts unique business model and achieves Rs 80 crore turnover
P C Vinoj Kumar | Tiruppur
Defying every established business principle, a garment export company in Tiruppur has served a single German client for 16 years – without seeking new clients – and increased its turnover from around Rs 7 crore in 2000 to Rs 80 crore in 2015-16.
"I know they say 'don't put all your eggs in a single basket', but it worked for us," asserts Raja M Shanmugam, 52, founder of Warsaw International, a company that was started with Rs 5 lakh in 1989.
Raja Shanmugam started Warsaw International along with his brother and mother as partners in 1989 with an investment of Rs 5 lakh (Photos: H K Rajashekar)
Shanmugam's success story might inspire youngsters standing at the crossroads of life after facing successive failures. If you think you have hit a dead end, this story will give you a different perspective of life – that every loss is for good, and every disappointment is for your betterment.
A first generation entrepreneur, Shanmugam hails from an agrarian family. His father was primarily a cotton farmer, but also cultivated other seasonal crops in the good old Tiruppur - which until the 1970s was more like an overgrown village and had little of the urban characteristics it boasts of now.
Shanmugam, the second among four siblings, has fond memories of his childhood. His family owned an Ambassador car and they had a couple of horses at home.
"My father loved horses, and we had a horse cart which we rode to places as far as 50 to 60 km from Tiruppur
"We used to travel in the Ambassador on long pilgrimage tours during school holidays. Around 11 to 12 people - including cousins - would squeeze into the car and go on those trips. It was great fun," he reminisces.
Between then and now, Tiruppur has grown into India's textile and knitwear hub. About 2,000 garment factories and hundreds of printing, dyeing, and embroidery units are located here and the cluster's turnover is estimated at Rs 36,000 crore.
Shanmugam studied at Bishop Ubagara Swamy School in Tiruppur. When he didn't get an engineering seat, he decided to do BA with the ambition of cracking the IAS.
After graduating in history from St. Joseph's College, Trichy, Raja left for Delhi in 1987 to join a coaching centre there to prepare for the UPSC exams.
He enrolled in the three-year LL.B course at Delhi University planning to acquire a law degree while preparing for the UPSC exam. He cleared the UPSC prelims in his first attempt, but failed in the mains.
Warsaw International which was started with 25 workers, now employs around 1,000 people
The next year, he sailed past the mains, but failed at the interview stage. However, in his third attempt he could not clear the prelims itself. That's when he decided to put a full stop to his IAS dream and return to Tiruppur.
"All others who were preparing with me got into one of the services. Some like Sylendra Babu and M Ravi are now senior IPS officers in Tamil Nadu," he says.
It seemed like his whole world was falling apart and nothing was going right for him. Both his engineering and civil services dreams had come to nought and he could not complete his law degree either.
The year was 1989 and his younger brother M Ramaswamy too had returned to Tiruppur after completing his graduation from Loyola College, Chennai.
It was in this scenario that the brothers decided to venture into business and started 'Warsaw International' - named after the Warsaw Pact nations, which Shanmugam was fond of as a student of history.
Warsaw is a partnership firm. Both the brothers and their mother hold equal stakes in it. "We made an initial investment of Rs 5 lakh; we raised Rs 2 lakh by selling some land and got a bank loan of Rs 3 lakh by mortgaging our property."
"We faced a lot of challenges initially since we were first generation entrepreneurs. We learned each and everything by experience," shares Shanmugam.
T Shirts made from Warsaw International's factory at Tiruppur are exported exclusively to Tom Tailor, a German company
They started with 12 sewing machines and about 25 workers, and their first business was a sub-contract to make T Shirts from a local export company.
They would procure the yarn, get the fabric done outside, then give it for dyeing, printing, embellishment work like embroidery, and do the final stitching at their factory, a 4,000 sq ft shed that belonged to their family.
"We achieved a turnover of around Rs 20 to 25 lakh in the first year. Right from the first year it was a profitable venture. But we kept ploughing back the money into the business adding new equipment," says Shanmugam.
Soon, they took another sub-contract from a Mumbai client and by 1991-92 their turnover crossed Rs 50 lakh.
In 1992, they bagged their first export order from Textile Puttemans, a Belgian company. "In those days, it was difficult to get direct access to clients. We used to send fax or telex messages seeking appointments and then visited the clients in Europe.
"The first order itself was a huge one and worth around Rs 75 to 80 lakh. It was a good break and we started getting more orders," says Shanmugam.
By 1995-96, the turnover touched Rs 4.5 crore. That's when Shanmugam took a critical decision to slow down the growth rate, put the reverse gear and just cater to two customers - Textile Puttemans and Tom Tailor.
Standing tall: Raja Shanmugam took the decision to cater to a single client in 2000
"We took the decision when we found that we had not managed our finances well and the company's liquidity position was not good. We had made investments in some non-productive areas," says Shanmugam.
Within two years they achieved a healthy balance sheet. But instead of ramping up, Shanmugam chose to focus on a single client – Tom Tailor. "At that time Tom Tailor was a promising and growing company," he says.
Warsaw's turnover then was Rs 7 crore – in the year 2000. From that time both companies have grown together, with Warsaw's turnover increasing year on year.
"Some years the growth has been slow, some years it's been steep. 2004-05 has been the best so far when our turnover jumped from Rs 35 crore to 50 crore.
"Tom Tailor procures from other companies as well, but we supply only to them; it was not a condition that they imposed, it was our choice," clarifies Shanmugam.
However, the company is now set to cater to two more clients in order to increase its turnover to Rs 130- 150 crore in the next financial year.
That's because Shanmugam who recently took over as the president of Tiruppur Exporters Association (TEA), has set a target of Rs 1 lakh crore turnover for the Tiruppur cluster by 2020 – from the current Rs 36,000 crore.
"I want to lead by example and increase our company's turnover by at least three times before 2020," says Shanmugam, who had also served as chairman of NIFT – TEA, a fashion technology institute promoted by TEA, from 2007 to 2013, and in his tenure had constructed a 1.65 lakh sq ft building for the institute.
Shanmugam also holds 25 per cent stakes in Alphine Knits India Private Limited, a Rs 225 crore turnover company - started in 2003 - that owns a spinning mill and is into trading of industrial sewing machines. His brother Ramaswamy holds another 25 per cent stakes in Alphine.
In 2013, Warsaw and Alphine along with five other companies launched a joint venture, Apex Clothing Company India Limited, which set up a 30 MW captive solar plant to meet the power needs of the promoters.
Raja Shanmugam, in front of TEA office, where he spends most of his afternoons
The company is also getting into an integrated coconut project that includes manufacture of coir, coir pith products, and virgin coconut oil.
Shanmugam devotes the second half of each day for TEA activities as he believes it is part of his service to the community.
On Sundays he remains at home, just lazing around, watching TV and relaxing with his wife Sujhetha, a homemaker, and son Vishal who has joined Apex after completing automobile engineering from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore.
Finally, looking back, does he regret not getting the IAS? "Not at all. In fact it's my friends who are IPS officers now who are regretting. They say I am blessed, and lucky to be on my own," he says, laughing.
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I thought this was such a brilliant idea. Prep time and clean up was really simple. The goblets were all reusable, and the fruit trimmings went in the compost, so the waste was very minimal. All the fruit was cut up in advance and I was running the blender, so there was no concern about children using knives or appliances. It kept about 14 kids totally occupied and engaged for 20-30 minutes. And of course, it got the kids excited about filling themselves up with nourishing, whole foods ingredients and being creative in the kitchen.
Brilliant! I want to help do this at birthday parties for a job, it was so much fun! And I think that we grown-ups should have parties like this too. And I suppose that now, after acting as Potions Master, I should probably read those Harry Potter books and see those movies. Ha!
We had about 14 children there, so the quantities below reflect what worked for that number. Adjust accordingly for your party, or substitute ingredients as seasonal availability and tolerances require.
10 labels for the fruit and juice - use paper or whatever material you have on hand!


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The play "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller was written in response to McCarthyism in the 1950's. In 1692 and 1693 the Salem witch trials took place in Salem Massachusetts. Girls believed to be involved in witchcraft were responsible for these trials. In the late 1940's and early 1950's senator McCarthy came to office. Senator McCarthy and some of his allies were responsible for hysteria in the United States of America in the 1950's. The scare was also in result of a communist scare after World War II and leading to the cold war. The behavior of the people of the Salem witch trials and Americans in the 19050's resulted in a big scare in reaction to hysteria. McCarthy was elected senate after becoming a lawyer in his sate of Wisconsin. During the first few years of his term nothing major really happened until 1950. In a speech to the Women's club of wheeling in West Virginia he stated that he had a list in his hand of about 205 known members of the communist party working for the United States department. President Harry Truman had signed an executive order that said that all communists or fascists could not obtain a United States government job. The FBI played a big role in the investigation of this list McCarthy contained. McCarthy's friend j. Edgar Hoover, which was a violent ant-communist in the federal government, could not wait to expose the people McCarthy accused of being communists. McCarthy's list created a nationwide scar among the people of the United States. Everything McCarthy said was a lie and he had no evidence to show that the people he accused were really communist but, because of the start of the Korean War and the arrest of two American soldiers accused of spying on the Soviet Union American citizen... ... middle of paper ... ...ations were accused without solid information that could not be proved in any way. These events in history affected people by basically destroying their lives. McCarthyism affected people that were put on those black lists. Once they were put on those black lists it was almost impossible for them to get a job that would help support them and pay for all of their bills that they had. During the Salem witch trial the event destroyed john procter's family and forced his children to live without a father. Although McCarthyism was mostly bad the good was that the idea of McCarthyism destroyed it self and ended the rise of communism in the United States of America. Due to hysteria in the 1950's America and the Salem witch trials both resulted in corruption and the destruction of people's lives. "The Crucible" was written in response to this hysteria in the 1950's.
In conclusion Arthur Miller saw the similarities in The McCarthy Era and The Salem Witch Trials, and portrayed them in "The Crucible." The lives of many people were destroyed during these times in history.
Theocracy In The Crucible
As once stated by Joseph R. McCarthy "I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five people that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department" (Joseph). The red scare occurred in the 1950's when United States senator Joseph McCarthy lied when accusing people for being communists. McCarthyism is the practice of making false accusation for the purpose of ruining the lives of innocent people. In the play, The Crucible by Arthur Miller, which takes place in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692 when the townspeople were accusing and being accused of witchcraft. Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible as a reference to the red scare because in 1692 and 1950's, both societies were being watched closely, were restricted of certain opportunities, and in both there were false accusations. In The Crucible, Salem's downfall was caused by theocracy because the church plays an enormous role in
Explains that mccarthyism is the practice of making false accusations for the purpose of ruining innocent people's lives. arthur miller wrote the crucible as a reference to the red scare.
Analyzes how the crucible is set in a theocratic society where the church and state were one.
Analyzes how mass hysteria spread in salem after giles corey accused martha of witchcraft without meaning to.
Analyzes how hale pressures the girls to confess to help betty awaken, and abigail accuses tituba.
Analyzes how abigail seeks attention and acts in ways she knows are wrong in order to get what she wants.
Concludes that theocratic society, mass hysteria, and girls' desire for attention and power were the three most significant factors which caused the greatest impact.
Theme Of Conformity In The Crucible
In The Crucible, the mass hysteria surrounding the witch trials caused paranoia amongst the people of Salem. Miller uses the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 as a symbol and allegory of the fear surrounding the spread of communism during the 1950s in America. The community's sense of justice was blinded by the mass hysteria and for some, a desire for vengeance and personal gain. The Putnams
Analyzes how arthur miller's the crucible and alfonso cuarón's 2006 dystopian science-fiction film children of men represent people and politics in a unique and evocative way through their differing textual forms, contexts and techniques.
Analyzes how miller uses the salem witch trials as a symbol and allegory of the fear surrounding the spread of communism during the 1950s in america.
Analyzes how cuarón represents people and politics through an exploration of justice in a dystopian society.
Analyzes how miller represents people and politics through an exploration of conformity and non-conformity in the crucible.
Analyzes how cuarón represents people and politics through an exploration of conformity and non-conformity in a dystopian context.
Concludes that miller's the crucible and cuarón's children of men represent people and politics in a unique and evocative way.
Miller's Involvement in the HUAC Hearings: A Commentary on 'The Crucible'
The Crucible was a play written by the playwright Arthur Miller in 1953. American society in the 1950s is often referred to as the Age of Paranoia due to the fear of Communism within Ameica. After World War 2 America and Russia had emerged as the two main superpowers. There was a fear of Communism in America this fear was heightened by Mc Cartyism. Arthur Miller's play can be viewed as a commentary on the "witch hunting" that began in the 1950s in search of Communists. The majority of the population were paranoid and suspicios of Communists. This fear resulted in America becomming very Conservative. Articles like Raymound B. Allen's " Communists should not teach in American Colleges", were published. People's anxieties over communism where high.
Analyzes how the crucible commentates on miller's involvement in the huac hearings. american society in 1950s is often referred to as the age of paranoia due to the fear of communism.
Describes how senator joesph mccarty used the fear of communism to gain political support. the house of un-american activities committee (huac) investigated actors and film makers in hollywood.
Analyzes how miller used the story of the salem witch trials to talk about the irrationality and paranoia caused by mccartyism in ameica.
The Relations between the Salem Witch Trials and the Cold War
In 1953, the play called "The Crucible" written by Arthur Miller created hysteria in all parts of the country. This play describes the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692 and the irony of a terrible period of American history.
Compares the salem witch trials and the cold war with arthur miller's "the crucible" which created hysteria in all parts of the country.
Analyzes how arthur miller intended to break the fear of the cold war and respond to senator mccarthy and communism. the play was a metaphor for the red scare.
Compares the unjustness of the salem witch trails and the mccarthy trials. miller refused to answer questions about the names of people who had been seen in the communist party meetings.
Narrates how arthur miller was denied a passport to brussels, and he was called before the house committee on un-american activities, which wanted to defend and make the constitution better.
Explains that the mccarthyism refers to any chasing of people accused for porpoise.
Explains that the mccarthyism played an important role in the education in universities. students that refused to cooperate with anti-communists were not able to have academic opportunities as scholarships.


My Name is Emilie, I am a Physiotherapist and I came to NZ in January 2015 from England. The process to come to NZ took me approximately 6 Months.
The easiest part of the process was finding a job with the help of Merryl at Accent Health Recruitment and also the time my husband Martin and I spent exploring before we started work!
The most challenging part of the process was getting together my application for my physiotherapy registration, but once it was sent off it all seemed to come through quite quickly.
My first impressions of NZ were WOW! I love this place, the people are so kind and the country so amazing and beautiful. We landed in Wellington, so another first impression was also, Wow, this place is windy!
The best parts of NZ are the scenery, the amazing food and drink and the general outlook on life. The summer weather has also been a bonus!
What I miss the most is my family and friends in the UK, other than that we are 1 month in with no UK food cravings!
My advice if you are planning to come to NZ is do it! Sometimes it feels like you are trying to achieve the impossible but all the time and effort is so worth it. Start early as it takes time to get all your documents together. Having a job agency has made the whole process so much easier, not just in finding a job, but even down to where to go shopping and how to sort all the important documents like tax when you arrive.
Anything else you would like to say? Having never been to NZ, we always had it in the back of our head, what if we are making a mistake, but we don't have one regret, we are loving life out here.
The main difference in my current job I'm finding is that the MDT in general seems to be better staffed and better organised. My working day seems far more relaxed. There are some cultural differences but I am learning quickly and I don't see this as a challenge in any way. The ACC in comparison to the NHS takes some getting your head around, but again I am learning quickly and it is in no way a barrier to how I practice.
Being a rotational physiotherapist in the UK I have become quite used to settling in to new environments which I feel has helped. I work at a rehabilitation unit and the whole process is very similar to one I worked at previously, which also helps. I guess the major factor in moving to NZ from the UK is that I have not had to face a language barrier in my day-to-day life. Finding Marmite in the supermarkets has also definitely helped my husband transition a little easier!


Johnson said that schools and universities should expect students to remove face coverings if they turn up "looking like a bank robber".
If Mr Johnson's comments are found to have breached the party code of conduct, he may face a string of punitive measures. His Brexiteer credentials were bolstered when he resigned as foreign secretary in July, accusing May of killing "the Brexit dream" with her plan to seek close economic ties with the bloc after Brexit next year.
'All jokes about religion cause offence, so it's pointless apologising for them. "On that basis, no apology is required", he wrote, in a letter to the Times. It is, however, a nefarious component of a trendy gateway theology for religious extremism and militant Islam.
"The burqa and niqab are ugly tribal ninja-like garments that are pre-Islamic, non-Koranic and therefore un-Muslim", he wrote in The Times.
But Atkinson, in a letter to The Times, said the MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip had just been telling a joke.
Theresa May was 14 points ahead of Jeremy Corbyn, up seven points on last week, on the question of who would make the best prime minister.
"We are not bound by collective responsibility or that type of discipline and it is the wrong approach to party discipline".
Boris Johnson could be told to go on a diversity training course instead of facing more severe sanctions for his comments over Burkas, The Telegraph has learned. What about metaphor or simile?
A Conservative MP has said it is a "very dark day" for United Kingdom democracy and free speech over the independent investigation into Boris Johnson's comments about the burqa.
"I think people are whipping up a little mountain out of a molehill on this one, I really do".
Mr Mitchell, who was chief whip in 2012, told BBC Two's Newsnight: "I don't think he should apologise".
"This is quite an important issue about free speech and it's got nothing to do with the terrible events that take place over Enoch Powell and the Rivers of Blood speech".
He added: "But let's look at what Boris said: he expressed himself in quite colourful language".
The letter also said that Johnson's choice of Islamophobic words was deliberate and "was made to inflame tensions in a way that makes it easier for bigots to justify hate crime against us", adding further support to Tory peer Lord Sheik's request that Johnson lose the party whip, meaning he would no longer represent the party. "We've got to be able to have this debate".
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Brazil must end evictions during COVID-19 crisis: UN expert
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GENEVA (9 July 2020) – The UN's expert on housing rights today called on Brazil to end all evictions during the COVID-19 crisis, after more than 2,000 families were thrown out of their homes. Thousands more are at risk of evictions in cities and in the countryside in São Paulo state.
"Brazil has the duty to urgently protect everyone, especially communities at risk, from the threat of COVID-19, which has affected over a million and a half people in the country and killed over 65,000," said Balakrishnan Rajagopal, the UN special rapporteur on the right to housing. "Forcefully evicting people from their homes in this situation, regardless of the legal status of their tenancy, is a violation of their human rights."
Although some courts are suspending eviction orders until the health crisis is over, others continue to issue new orders. Local officials also seem to prioritise repossession of properties owned by large companies and land-owners over the health and safety of vulnerable people.
Evicting people now – without offering them emergency shelter or long-term housing – also conflicts with measures to prevent the spread of the disease, Rajagopal said.
"The Brazilian Ministry of Health has asked people to stay at home if they have symptoms, to thoroughly wash their hands and to keep physical distancing in order to prevent contagion," he said. "At the same time, hundreds of families have been evicted in the state of São Paulo without any alternative accommodation, making it impossible for them to comply with official recommendations and rendering them at high risk of contagion."
He also expressed concern that Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro vetoed an effort by the Brazilian Congress to limit the impact of evictions. Congress has not yet voted on a broader bill that would suspend all judicial or administrative evictions during the pandemic.
"I encourage the legislative and executive powers in Brazil to urgently prioritise the protection of human rights of communities in vulnerable situations," Rajagopal said.
"The current health crisis requires emergency measures, including an immediate moratorium on all evictions. Solving's Brazil's housing crisis, with an estimated shortage of over 7 million housing units, will entail further, more transformative steps, which the country also needs to consider without further delay."
Mr. Balakrishnan Rajagopal (United States) is the UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context. He took up his mandate in May 2020. Mr. Rajagopal is a Professor of Law and Development at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. He is the founder of the Displacement Research and Action Network at MIT. He has conducted over 20 years of research on social movements and human rights advocacy around the world focusing in particular, on land and property rights, evictions and displacement. He has a law degree from University of Madras, India, a masters degree in law from the American University as well as an interdisciplinary doctorate in law from Harvard Law School. He served as a human rights advisor to the World Commission on Dams, with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Cambodia. He has published numerous books and scholarly articles, including research reports on evictions, displacement, human rights and housing.
The Special Rapporteurs are part of what is known as the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council. Special Procedures, the largest body of independent experts in the UN Human Rights system, is the general name of the Council's independent fact-finding and monitoring mechanisms that address either specific country situations or thematic issues in all parts of the world. Special Procedures experts work on a voluntary basis; they are not UN staff and do not receive a salary for their work. They are independent from any government or organisation and serve in their individual capacity.
For more information and media requests please contact Jon Izagirre (41 22 91 79715 / jizagirre@ohchr.org), or write to srhousing@ohchr.org.
For media enquiries regarding other UN independent experts, please contact Renato de Souza (+41 22 928 9855 / rrosariodesouza@ohchr.org) and John Newland (mediaconsultant2@ohchr.org)
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Mumbai, Aug 26 (ANI): The Chabad House centre in downtown Colaba, better known as Nariman House, opened on Tuesday, nearly six years after the 26/11 tragedy. The fully renovated six-storeyed Nariman House saw a special gathering of 25 Rabbis representing the Jewish community from all over Asia. The top two floors of the building house a memorial dedicated to the victims of the attack. The bullet marks have been left intact on the walls, keeping the memories of the attack alive. During the attacks, six occupants of the Nariman House including Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife were killed. The couple's son, 2-year-old Moshe, was saved by his Indian nanny. Aug 26, 2014
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THE 4TH Putrajaya International Hot- Air Balloon Fiesta 2012 is well on its way to taking off next week. The annual fiesta, running from March 15 to 18, will be held at Monumen Alaf Baru at Precinct 2 in Putrajaya. Twenty-six hot-air balloon teams from 12 countries have confirmed their participation in this year's fiesta.
Among the international balloonists who have confirmed participation in this year's fiesta are Francis Godfrey Prell from the United States with his birthday cake-shaped balloon and Rick Walczak from New Zealand with his kiwi bird-shaped balloon. Other foreign participants coming from Europe and America are Filip Audenaert, Michael Lambert and Benoit Simeons from Belgium; Alain Claude from France; Guido Fullois from Germany; Peter Van Harten and Daan Elfring from the Netherlands; Adrian Held from Switzerland; David Griffith from the United Kingdom; and Gary Moore, Derek Hancock and Frank Wechter from the United States. Coming from Asia are Benedict Savio, Imo Singh and Syed Karimulla from India; Tawin Dumkhum and Rapee Kornkosiyakart from Thailand; and Tran Minh Quoc, Nguyen Quoc Truong and Nguyen Cong Luan from Vietnam. Of course, the fiesta will not be complete without Malaysia's very own homegrown balloonists, including Mohd Sobri and Khairudin himself (or Captain Rudy as he is more commonly known in the international ballooning fraternity).
Every morning, from 7am to 9am, over the four days of the fiesta, these balloonists will participate in a Hare and Hound competition, which is being held for the very first time in Malaysia. For the competition, one pre-determined balloon, known as the 'hare' will take off first.The other participating balloons in the competition, known as the 'hounds', will then be launched at pre-determined intervals after the hare. The hare balloon then lands on a suitable site and lays out a large piece of fabric at the landing spot. The hound balloons then attempt to drop their markers as close to the centre of the fabric as possible. The closest marker which achieves the highest score wins the competition.
The fiesta will also see the return of the widely-talked-about and highly-anticipated Night Glow event on March 17, when the balloons light up in a synchronised manner to the sound of music, culminating in a fireworks display.
For more details, please visit http://www.myballoonfiesta.com/.


Filet Mignon and King's Hawaiian original rolls make the prefect sliders for Father Day/Summer Grilling.
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What the heck is a Stang anyway?
In our tradition the Stang represents the Horned God Cernunnos in his aspects of protector, destroyer and life giver.
Robert Cochrane is commonly thought to be responsible for the introduction of the Stang into Wicca. Cochrane founded the Clan of Tubal Cain 1951 – 1966 a British Mystery Tradition. He called himself a "cunning man" or witch, and was an important figure in neo pagan witchcraft. Cochrane founded a religion called Cochrane's Craft which some believe is a form of Wicca. Others believe that Cochrane's Craft is a distinct and separate faith because he was openly opposed to Gerald Gardner and Gardnerian Wicca.
The word "Stang" is derived from the Anglo Saxon term staeng or steng which translates as pole or rod. A traditional Wiccan Stang is a staff, shoulder height in length, with a fork at the top resembling the horns or antlers of the male animal. The Stang is used as a greater magickal weapon of fire and represents the Horned God and the male aspect of nature.
In other traditions such as Raven Grimassi's Strega the Stang is used as a tool portraying the Goddess.
The Stang is also symbolic of the World Tree with branches in the Upper World and roots in the Underworld with the trunk running through our Middle Earth. The Stang represents the channel between Sky and Earth.
It is a physical representation of the Goddess, the God and their Children. One fork is the Goddess; one fork is the God and the shaft, their Children.
The Stang can serve as an altar without anything else commonly used on altars. Symbolically the Stang can replace the Chalice (forked yoni) and the Athame (the shaft). The Stang is physically a Staff, which means it functions as a Wand and its base is often thrust into the ground, which completes the list of Elemental Tools, the Pentacle.
The fork (yoni) represents the Goddess, while the God is represented by the shaft (lingam). So, the Stang also represents Their Union, the Great Rite within Wicca.
Standing in or behind a cauldron, it reminds us of the greatest of all mysteries, the cycle of life, death and rebirth.