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PALISTRAEL
(From the Dreams of Winter 1999)
By: A Zionist Jew
I did not hear that all this ever happened, but this is what I am about to tell.
I wonder whether it has any effect on anybody.
HOW ODD!
It started as rumors; then some news appeared -- until the matter became widely known.
What one realizes is, that a very curious ideological alliance is forming among the Palestinians.
This has been taking place for quite a number of months -- and according to some, even for over a year. It began among 'Israeli Arabs', and later continued increasingly also in the West Bank and even in the Gaza Strip.
It is a new Palestinian movement that is prepared to see in the Zionist idea a positive value for them. On the other hand, the same movement attaches no great value to the relations of the Palestinians with the Arab countries.
These Palestinians claim that they have been residents of Palestine since ancient times. Yet, on top of that, they contend that they are in fact mainly Israelis who remained on their land while the Roman-Christian regime was replaced by the Moslem rule. Most of them used then to be Jews; a considerable minority were Samaritans. In those days the lot of them accepted Islam.
According to this movement, that happened because the Jewish leadership had disintegrated, the economic situation deteriorated, and one could lighten the burden of taxation only by accepting the ruling creed. Other Jews accepted Christianity -- some before Islam and others during the Crusades.
Accepting Islam was helped not the least by the fact that it honored the site of the Jewish temple, and rebuilt that desolate mount.
In these ideas, the proponents rely also on the research work of I.Ben-Zvi (2nd president of Israel) and others. Various findings were mentioned, among them: preserving the ancient names of towns and villages; observing Jewish practices in various villages; and also the fact that up to the 20th century, the adherence of most Palestinians to Islamic practice was not great.
Accordingly, a few Palestinians began to wonder whether it is more conceivable to view the "return of the Jews to Zion" as a process that brings brothers together -- brethren who had been separated for ages and are destined to share again the same lot.
Such ideas became audible, started disputes in limited circles, and until recently no one dared to publicize them.
Some of these Palestinians tried to discuss this issue with Jews. Doing so, they usually encountered a cool, belittling response. It so happened -- either when that Jew belonged to the left, seeking national self-determination for Palestinians -- or when he was a rightist, reluctant to regard a Christian or a Moslem as a partner to a national Jewish brotherhood.
Lately, the Palestinians who uphold these ideas organized and presented it openly.
A letter that they circulated to various "public figures" included the following paragraphs:
The Moslem and Turkish regimes forcibly united the whole Middle East, and blurred the distinction of the various peoples. Only in the present century the Palestinians started to be aware of their uniqueness. This trend was enhanced by the Zionist Jewish immigration, and later by the demarcation of the country by the British mandate.
The encounter between the immigrating Jews and the Palestinian brethren was tragic.
On the one hand, the Jews tended to ignore the rights of the local residents. They preferred to come to terms with the conquering regimes. They purchased land from the 'effendis', and at times evacuated the 'falahin' from the lands on which they had been sitting for ages and ages -- since the days that those falahin used to be Jews. The Zionists also struggled against hiring Palestinians.
On the other hand, the Palestinian leaders failed to understand that Zionism could be a great opportunity for their national salvation. They did not encourage the Jews to develop ideas of unity after the visions of Herzl and Jabotinski.
The Intifada regained honor to the humiliated Palestinian Tribe -- in the eyes of the Jewish public as well. The Oslo agreements proved it before the whole world.
Now is the time to require, first of us, the Palestinians, to declare ourselves all as original Israelis. Then we should demand of the Jews to recognize it and let us have our place within the framework of the universal Jewry.
The "figures" that received the letter preferred to ignore it.
The Israeli State radio and television in Hebrew and Arabic did not find space to cover this group. However, the same group succeeded to present itself through a television talk show on one of the cable networks.
One of the group's leaders, Aziz Najar, was a guest at that show.
The man has a handsome appearance, glowing eyes, excellent Hebrew.
The host presented him as a marked graduate of the Hebrew University in Jewish History and Hebrew Literature.
After Najar presented the essentials of the group's thesis, another guest wearing a yarmulke who sat beside him argued that the Palestinians maintain no real relationship to the Jewish religion. Najar's response to that was as follows:
The People of Israel had not always been uniform concerning religious practice.
The Christianity and the Islam of the Palestinians are much nearer to present Judaism than the worship of idols, Gold Calves, various Baals and stellar bodies, which characterized the Tribes of Israel beside the worship of the One God.
Most of the Jewish public nowadays does not ascribe much importance to religion.
At this point, a female model who sat on his other side said, that anyway the language of the Israelis is Hebrew, as it used to be in ancient days. Najar said to her:
Losing the Hebrew language happened not to the Palestinians alone.
The Jews in this land and in Babylon, shifted to Aramaic, many years before the Islam era. In the various exiles they adopted the ruling language: Greek, Spanish, Arabic, German, English -- and in all cases kept to Hebrew only as a religious practice language that most of them couldn't understand.
Palestinians, who return to Hebrew as well, are marked for a fluent clear language. For many of the Palestinian intellectuals, Hebrew is the main reading language.
Later on, a telephone call came to the show from a viewer from Ramalla. He brought up the theory of several Palestinian thinkers, contending that the Palestinians are the descendants of the Canaanites who used to live here before the Israelis.
Najar dismissed this theory as "improbable". He said:
There is no historic model that demonstrates that it was precisely the Jews who left the land, while the Canaanites -- of which nothing was heard for millennia -- remained. At most, one could contend that a lot of Canaanite blood flows in both Jewish and Palestinian veins...
The host asked Najar whether according to him there is not an extensive mixture of Arabs among the Palestinians, and he responded:
It is true that the Israeli Palestinians did absorb different populations -- from the Arab conquerors as well as from nearby lands. Yet, the purity of race never characterized the general Israeli people. During the days of the First Temple they absorbed the Canaanites. In the 1st century BC they absorbed the whole Edomite nation in one block, as was done also with the Arab Jeturi Tribe who used to live in this land.
The Jews in the Diaspora also absorbed large foreign populations such as Khazaris, Yemenites, Carthaginians, Ethiopians and many more.
INIQUITIES AND BLOOD
More of what Najar said in that show is as follows:
The elderly people remember and miss the great fondness that used to prevail between Jews and Palestinians in various places on a personal basis with good neighborliness.
The great trouble was with the political leaders of both. They demanded from each side loyalty to their own tribe, clothing the other side with a threatening and vicious image. Thus, they led to: conflicts, raids, pogroms and boycott, wars and refugees, military rule and occupation, suppression and collaborators, beating and torture, Intifada, kidnapping and murder, prison, demolition of houses, uprooting of trees, deportations and closures -- up to mass killing by suicidal religious fanatics of both sides.
Then the question was raised whether all that has not wiped out forever the prospect of true fraternity. Najar reacted:
We hope that it has not. There were in the past severe civil wars among the Children of Israel.
The Tribe of Benjamin was almost fully exterminated in such a war.
The Children of Manasseh massacred their close brethren the Children of Ephraim.
The Kingdom of Judah fought the Kingdom of Ephraim.
Hasmonaeans and Hellenists, Sadducees and Pharisees, national zealots and moderates -- all fought each other with extreme bitterness -- yet, the People remained the same People.
The man was asked what should happen now in practice, and he said:
The Sharing of Destiny must be renewed between the Palestinian Children of Israel who clung to their land and their Jewish brethren, the returning expatriates, who clung to their religion.
Najar quoted from the Midrash saying: "Residing in the Land of Israel overweighs all the commandments of the Torah."
According to him, the Palestinian autonomy should serve only during a period of transition towards true unity.
The difficulties in managing the autonomy indicate the existence of a basic problem that will persist as long as the attitude in both sides does not change.
It is not in vain that the 'Israeli Palestinians' are reluctant to join a separate Palestinian state.
Different frameworks to Jews and Palestinians should be maintained as long as it is necessary. Possibly, the present Palestinian citizens of Israel could be included in such frameworks.
Eventually the differences will diminish to include mainly matters of local government, preserving ethnic cultural assets and maintenance of religious institutions.
He sees no hindrance for Palestinians to share service in the Israeli army. As a matter of fact, he recommends it warmly.
PALESTINIANS AND THE ARAB COUNTRIES
An armygeneral in uniform, who was also a guest on the show, asked Najar what was his view on the prospective reaction of the Arab countries to his ideas. The answer was:
What happened to us Palestinians after '48 should convince us that those countries are no sisters -- not to the Moslems in Palestine and for sure not to the Christians.
The despise Arabs have shown towards the Palestinians, is well known.
How did they receive us when we escaped -- or were deported -- to their area? Like brothers?
They only used us politically, scorned and humiliated us.
The aid of Arab countries to the Palestinian autonomy is negligible.
We don't care much for the Arab regimes. We need not belong to the Arab league.
Yes, we do share with them language and religion -- but this cannot overweigh authentic nationalism.
It is a fact that whenever Palestinians and Zionists operate together -- understanding and success emerge, of the kind we could never achieve with Arabs who are alien to us. Only Zionism can grant us real democracy.
Toward the end of the show, each participant was asked to sum up. Najar, in his turn, mentioned that the prophets of Israel had spoken about the unity that is expected to come back and prevail among hostile tribes of our one People. He quoted Isaiah:
"And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the Four Corners of the earth. The envy of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim."
COLLABORATORS OR PATRIOTS
This appearance aroused a harsh and abusive reaction in the circles of the PLO, while people of the Jihad and the Hamas and also the Fatah-Hawks, even threatened to do away with Najar and the rest of the activists of this new alliance.
A rumor has been spread that this is an organization of collaborators, who only try to gain shelter in Israel before the Palestinian state takes over the whole area.
A reaction on behalf of that alliance claimed that among them there are academics and also businessmen, farmers, workers and artists, residents of Israel and of the other territories. Among them there are also ex-activists of Palestinian freedom groups, who had spent no short time in Israeli prison, time which most of them used for studies.
It has been hinted that there is some latent support for this alliance also among officials of the Palestinian Authority.
It is worth mentioning that that talk-show got no reaction in the Hebrew press, apart from one television critic who reviewed the talk-show. He criticized it for inviting a bizarre guest who spoke on behalf of Arabs who uphold Zionism.
THE NEW UNITY
I have an acquaintance, a woman journalist, whom I'll call here 'Zehavith' (giving her real name might cause her trouble with her editor). She has a Palestinian female friend who is about to graduate from university studies in political science and international relations. Let's call this student 'Amina'. Zehavith had told me that Amina used to point out the advantages that the Palestinian woman gained as a result of the relations with the Jews.
During the recent year, Zehavith began to hear from Amina that the relative status which Palestinian women achieved in the Middle East, might be connected also to the descent of the Palestinians from the ancient residents of the land. It came out that she forms these ideas in the framework of a group which convenes in private homes with no publicity.
Some time ago, Amina agreed to invite Zehavith to such a meeting.
Part of the conversation there was in Arabic, but out of consideration towards the guest they talked in Hebrew too, and Zehavith could write down some of the discourse in her pocket book.
I copy here some excerpts from that pocket book. All the names are fictitious because we can't know if the participants are ready to be exposed as yet.
Suheil, a bus driver, called for the renewal of peaceful relations between the Jewish settlements and their Palestinian neighbors. An objecting voice said that this might be possible concerning Bnei-Akiva settlements, but not with the Kahanistic ones, and it seems quite hard in Hebron.
Ra'ed, a merchant, voiced the opinion that a retreat of Israel from the Golan is not in place, since Syria threatens to take over the whole land and do away with both Israeli and Palestinian entities in favor of 'Greater Syria'. Accordingly, the occupation of the Golan is required for the security of both Tribes.
Basam, a journalist, claims that the immigration of more Jews is apt to strengthen the joint Israeli entity to be formed, against the danger to all the residents of the land from the fanatic Arab countries and from Iran.
Adnan, a police officer, adds that the self-confidence of the Jews will increase in correspondence with their growth in number, so that they may be more willing to grant real equality of rights to the Palestinians.
Sami, who deals with finances, went even further. He claimed that if the Jews are convinced in the sincere loyalty of the Palestinian Tribe to the Israeli People, it might be in order with them to apply the Law of Return also on Palestinians who were exiled in the recent fifty years or so. His discourse was encountered in the group with bitter laughter.
Ra'ed then said that there is room for a covenant between the ancient Peoples of Israel and Egypt, who have so much in common. Amina mentioned here the similarity between the achievements of the Egyptian and Palestinian women.
Basam added that the connection between the united Israeli People and the Druze could be based on the ancient alliance with the Kenite Tribes who resided quite honorably among the Tribes of Israel, descending from Jethro -- alias Nebi-Shu'eib. Here a response was voiced that there are quite a few wounds to heal also between the Druze and the Palestinians.
Amina said that unity with Transjordan (she preferred this name) is conceivable, based on the historic past. She also expressed hope that the Peace with Jordan and the openness that follows, will convince everybody to that effect.
In her vision, the Jewish immigrants, and likewise the Palestinian refugees, will be encouraged to settle there too and contribute to economic and social development.
The united Israel-Palestine army will be deployed in the Arab Desert confronting the common eastern adversaries. No one can say what is the meaning of that for the status of the Hashemite dynasty.
All the participants agreed that the religious fanatics on both sides must be prevented from deranging the chance for re-uniting the People of Israel.
Ahmed, an engineer, observed from his own experience, that Jews nowadays do not know how to give proper respect to a fellow human being.
Amina commented that most Jews are also negligent in preserving their own respect. In her opinion, 'respect' is something that they should learn from Palestinians. Without real partnership this is going to be a painful lesson to both sides...
In the course of a dispute that broke out there, someone quoted a prominent Palestinian whose name they refused to give. He said that the way of true unity on a Zionist basis might be the doorway to the forsaken ideal of 'secular democratic state'.
Zehavith passed her pocket book to me, after the editor of her paper would not give any coverage to such a group.
WHAT HAPPENS AMONG THE JEWS?
Many supporters of this movement have expressed great interest in the response to their ideas.
They are alert to opinions of Palestinians both within the "green line" and in the other areas -- and no less -- to opinions of Jews.
So far, official spokesmen for the Israeli government and the Zionist movement refrained from any reaction.
So did both "Peace Now" and "Gush Emunim".
Secretaries of political parties argued that the subject is not in the agenda. Rabbis too, refused to respond.
Kahana followers said that this new misfortune is the result of the continuing disregard of their warnings.
It became known that some Jewish public figures, who have not been politically active, are preparing to meet with the activists of the new alliance.
A get-together has taken place in a well known home for the elderly in central Israel. Veterans from various circles and camps conferred there, trying to form a common attitude towards these ideas. A reporter who arrived there was not allowed to enter, but he knew the faces of many of the assembling men and women. Among them he saw: children of "Hashomer" members, veteran "mukhtars" of Jewish settlements, someone from the "Arab Platoon" of the "Palmah", those who used to be juniors of "Brith Shalom", remnants of the "Friends of the Convert Association", former activists of the "Canaanite" movement, a veteran of the Intelligence community, a famous American reformist rabbi retired in Israel, researchers of the Arab village, and certain others whom he did not know. The discussion was very intensive, and it became known that all the participants agreed to re-convene.
THIS TOO WAS IN MY DREAM
Just today someone handed to me the results of a public-opinion survey that was conducted the other day among the Palestinians, following these publications. The surveyors promised the respondents full confidentiality.
The survey shows that those called "Israeli Arabs" include 40% who oppose these ideas, 35% who are ready to examine them and 25% who refuse to answer.
In East Jerusalem those opposing are 50%, and 30% are ready to examine.
In "C areas" 55% oppose, 10% are ready to examine, and the rest refused to respond.
It was not possible to maintain the survey in the Palestinian Authority area.
My story goes that far.
Wrote with Love:
Asher Shla'in
P.O.B. 36242 Tel Aviv 61362, Israel
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DIARY OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER!: "Does It Always Have to be the "Good" Ones? Giving All Students a Chance!
"Does It Always Have to be the "Good" Ones? Giving All Students a Chance!
I was talking to a high school teacher about the mentor program that was established between the 5th graders and the high school football team.
The response was, "Which football players?"
When I said I wasn't sure, the response was, "I hope it's not the ones I'm thinking about!. really hope it wasn't those kids!"
I paused, and said, "Well whichever ones they are, they have done an excellent job with our boys!".
Why do we automatically put down our kids? Why are we so quick to label? Why do we want to put our kids into a box?
Don't they deserve as much of a chance to fail and/or succeed as anyone else?
Shouldn't we give them a chance to prove their worth?
Isn't it possible that when we place them in a certain environment, an environment where we thought they couldn't, they prove us wrong, and show us they could?
I am guilty of this as well. When there's a chore outside the realm of the Job Cards, there are certain names which are always at the tip of my tongue. I have to consciously stop myself, and think of another child I can call on.
Everyone deserves a chance to prove that they aren't what we think they are. Some will succeed, some will fail.
Our kids loved having lunch with their mentors every week, enjoyed talking to them, the field trip to their football game,playing with them at recess, and got a special thrill out playing with them in the End of the Year Flag football game. Whoever these young men were, they were a positive influence on our students.
I loved watching them interact with our "babies." Watching their eyes light up when they came for lunch, and greeted their mentee. The pride they felt in being a mentor.
I don't know which football players were chosen, but our kids loved them.
It doesn't always have to be the "good" ones.
It's great to hear about students breaking down barriers between cliques as well as between the "cool" kids and the ones often left behind. This should also make the younger students have far less fear of transitioning to high school.


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I treat Sherlock Holmes the way other people treat Pokémon: gotta watch 'em all! From the big names like Rathbone and Brett to the obscure ones like Whitehead and Howard, I can't get enough of seeing Holmes on screen.
But the more Sherlock Holmes adaptations I watch, the more I begin to see patterns. Not all of these patterns are good ones. Take, for instance, the case of Mycroft Holmes.
So yes. Mycroft is fat. I say this not as an insult—there's nothing wrong with being fat—but as a simple statement of fact.
Until recently, Mycroft hasn't shown up in many adaptations, or if he does, his role is brief. That's understandable, given that he only appears three times in the canon. My personal favorite on-screen Mycroft is Charles Gray from the Granada series.
Gray gave us a Mycroft who was lazy yet cheerful. He and Sherlock merrily exchange deductions and solve cases together, with Mycroft even reluctantly agreeing to do some footwork now and again. Gray's Mycroft is a delight and I recommend him to everybody.
But again, it's not like we have a whole lot of Mycrofts to choose from pre-21st century. That's starting to change now. We've had a spate of new Sherlock Holmes adaptations lately, each more daring than the last in its willingness to reinterpret the canon.
A side effect of all this is a Mycroft renaissance. Sherlock's mysterious sibling has gone from a very minor recurring character to an adversary, a rival, a secretly loving protector, and even a hero in his own right. Unfortunately, as his role has expanded, his waistline has shrunk.
We'll start with the obvious. Sherlock's Mycroft is portrayed by series co-creator Mark Gatiss.
Not pictured: a fat person.
There is one caveat here. The Christmas special, The Abominable Bride, is set in the Victorian era and features a morbidly obese Mycroft who makes bets with Sherlock about how much he can eat before he finally keels over. That's rather less than flattering. And anyway, most of this episode takes place in Sherlock's imagination, so it doesn't really count.
They hand-wave Mycroft's appearance as the result of an illness that caused him to lose a lot of weight. Sounds to me like they wanted an excuse to avoid portraying a fat Mycroft. People can get sick and not end up looking like this!
Then there's Miss Sherlock, a Japanese adaptation where both Holmes and Watson are women. The Mycroft character is named Kento Futaba, and he's played by Yukiyoshi Ozawa. Here he is with Sherlock.
He's…sturdy, I guess? Honestly, I don't know enough about Japanese culture to be able to say how this character is perceived by a Japanese audience.
The only modern adaptation I can think of where Mycroft stays fat is Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, where he is played by Stephen Fry.
You'll note this is the one adaptation I've mentioned thus far that takes place in the 1890s, not in the present day. But don't worry, Mycroft has been put on a completely unnecessary diet in Victorian-set stories as well. Let's look at the Russian miniseries Sherlock Holmes, where both Sherlock and Mycroft are played by Igor Petrenko. The main difference between them now is Mycroft's facial hair.
Personally, I think they did this just so they could have a gag about Sherlock disguising himself as Mycroft and fooling everybody (except Watson, who is not amused).
Even print media isn't immune to this phenomenon. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's graphic novel, Mycroft Holmes and the Apocalypse Handbook, is a prequel tale about a young, energetic, womanizing Mycroft.
Because making him young, energetic, womanizing, and still fat would have stretched credulity.
Finally, in the interest of fairness, I should mention that the concept of a thin Mycroft did not originate with any of the examples I've listed here. It goes back at least as far as 1970's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, where Mycroft was played by Christopher Lee.
So 21st-century adaptations didn't start the trend of forcing Mycroft to slim down; they just perfected it.
What does all this mean, exactly? I'm guessing it's an extension of Kelly's observations regarding fatness in YA: it's okay to have been fat, past tense (especially if that past was in another century), but to be fat, present tense, is unacceptable. In addition, it's okay if a minor character is fat, but the second he starts to get depth and character development, he has to lose weight. Now there's a logic that Sherlock Holmes himself would be proud of.
This is all speculation on my part. I don't know what these folks were thinking when they cast and wrote their Mycrofts. Maybe they were just trying to subvert the canon as much as possible and got carried away.
But it's important to remember that questioning canon is not inherently subversive. Questions like "What if X was a woman instead of a man?" give voice to a group of people who were traditionally excluded from certain types of roles. Questions like "What if X wasn't fat anymore?" do the opposite. They're oppressive, not subversive.
We have so few decently depicted fat characters in the media. Mycroft could be one of them, if someone would just let him be fat.


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Space island or variation, may refer to:

In general
 Space station
 Space habitat
 Habitable planet

Specific aerospace projects
 Hilton Space Islands, a proposed space hotel chain
 Space Island Group (SIG), a space infrastructure company
 SIG Space Island Project, a proposed space infrastructure project

Other
 Islands of Space (novel), a 1957 U.S. science fiction novel by John W. Campbell
 Treasure Island in Outer Space (aka Space Island), a 1987 TV miniseries
 Space Island (album), a project under development by NZ band Broods
 "Space Island" (song), a tune from the soundtrack album for Coffee Prince (2007 TV series)
 Space Island (fictional location), a stage from the videogame series My Singing Monsters
 Space Island (film), an unmade 1950s Universal Pictures film competing with Conquest of Space

See also

 Space Island One (TV show), a 1998 TV series
 "Theme from Space Island" (song), a tune by !!! from 2004 album Louden Up Now
 Space (disambiguation)
 Island (disambiguation)

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Described as "good old-fashioned Harlem soul power and next generation New Orleans voodoo" this 10 piece collective has one of our favorite songs on the air right now. The story behind this band starts with musician Kyle Ridley who moved from NOLA to NYC and was looking for a singer to collaborate with on some new songs he had written. While waiting for the subway Ridley discovered the powerful voice of Bill Hudson, a singer in his 70's performing with a doo-wop group for the busy commuters. "Everybody was sort of just walking by and going about their day, but I just stood there and watched. I had to reach out" Ridley said.
In a surprise move, Jack White released two brand new songs with his band The Raconteurs... the more melodic track is "Now That You're Gone" and is sung by Brenden Benson. The band's first new songs in over a decade were delivered to 88.5 FM, but if you have a Third Man Records Vault service subscription, you probably got the new releases as well. No word on a full length album just yet.
David Gray will always be considered and friend and supporter of 88.5 FM as he graciously performed at a benefit concert for us in the past. We've heard about there being a new David Gray song… so we waited and waited and waited. Now we have "A Tight Ship" a single offered along with some album details and a tour announcement. The new LP will be available early March, it will be called Gold In The Brass Age and David Gray will be returning to SoCal late June.


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How the LEGO company is going green
The campaign towards environmental sustainability is no longer a preserve of world governments. Increasingly, companies and are under pressure to employ sustainable business practices.
So, what crosses your mind when you hear the word LEGO? Plastics, right? Well, LEGO is here to change our traditional perception of toys by moving from oil-based products like plastics to plant-based materials like sugar cane polyethylene.
But how is that even feasible? Well, buckle up because we're about to take you through the entire journey of how this renowned toy maker is moving away from plastic completely. So let's get down to business!
How did LEGO start making plastic toys?
The LEGO story dates back to 1932 in a small Danish village of Billund, with Ole Kirk Christiansen as its ambitious creator. After experiencing many challenges, like fire outbreaks, market crashes, and the loss of family members, Christiansen experienced a massive breakthrough in 1949 when LEGO successfully produced the first-ever plastic product called the "automatic binding brick."
The main idea of LEGO's first plastic brick was inspired by its founder seeing a plastic injection molding machine at a trade fair. Impressed by what he saw, Christiansen would then order a molding machine in the mid-1940s from the UK, thus marking the enduring journey of the LEGO plastic era.
What motivates the LEGO company to go green?
As the world moves away from oil-based products at a fast pace, the LEGO Group is naturally evolving given its product is primarily made from oil.
"We want to play our part in building a sustainable future and making a positive impact on the planet our children will inherit," reads a statement on LEGO's official website. The company's desire to go green is unquestionable, with a clear road map on how they plan their transition. For instance, LEGO aims to make its packaging 100% sustainable by 2025 using recyclable or renewable materials, and its core products by 2030.
What material does LEGO use for its products?
Presently, LEGO uses a petroleum-based substance called acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) to produce roughly 98% of its toy products. That means only 2% (or 80 out of its 3,600 construction pieces) come from a bio-sourced material.
It may seem like an insignificant proportion, but as Tim Brooks, the company's vice president of environmental responsibility, notes, "this is a great first step in our ambitious commitment of making all LEGO bricks using sustainable materials." And we couldn't agree more!
LEGO's impending transition into plant-based products
As LEGO plans to transition fully into plant-based materials and products, the question remains; will the replacement be as high quality as the ABS plastic presently being used? The short answer is YES, if not better!
The company's head of environmental responsibility states that children and parents will barely notice any difference since plant-based polyethylene has similar properties as its plastic counterpart. Furthermore, the company adds that it'll source the sugar cane sustainably and test all the elements to ensure they meet the "high standards for quality and safety."
But that's not all; LEGO is committed to ensuring that everyone gets involved in their ambitious journey towards environmental sustainability. Thus, it has started a campaign themed "plants from plants," enabling enthusiasts to build, upload, and share their customised superheroes using LEGO sustainable product collection. If you're interested in joining the mission, be sure to check out this page for more details.
Adopting sustainable packaging by 2025
As mentioned, LEGO plans to make its packaging sustainable by 2025. But what's the back story? Well, the idea is simple; you can't purport to produce environmentally sustainable products, only to package them on single-use disposable plastics. It doesn't make sense, does it?
For that reason, the company decided to take a holistic approach towards going green—hence the introduction of recyclable paper packaging in 2022. Though not full-fledged (at least not yet), the company has rolled out a four-year plan (beginning 2021), within which it will phase in the new sustainable bags.
Today, however, roughly 75% of cardboard used to make LEGO boxes comes from recycled materials. What's more, all the cardboard and paper used in LEGO products and packaging are 100% sustainably sourced, recyclable, and endorsed by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). Last but not least, LEGO will design its sustainable packaging in a way that helps children understand and appreciate the essence of recycling and have the best play experience.
Supporting other green causes
Another way The LEGO Group is championing a move to sustainable resources is its move towards environmentally-conscious themes in its playsets. As well as new sets arriving in 2022, here are two sets that include electric vehicles (EVs.)
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Buckle up for a green, clean road trip! Olivia and Mia are taking a drive in their electric car. It's running low on power, so they stop at a charging station. The station has a wind turbine and solar panel to generate the electricity.
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Welcome to the modern family house, an eco-friendly home with solar panels and an Octan-E charging station for the cool electric car.
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WSU's New Innovation Hub Aims to Boost Entrepreneurship, Engagement
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David Tarver is many things: a former telecom engineer with Bell Labs who left to start his own born-in-the-basement company that later sold for $30 million, author of the book "Proving Ground," founder of the Urban Entrepreneurship Initiative, a University of Michigan professor, and all-around booster and mentor for Southeast Michigan's startup ecosystem. In July, he took on a new title: senior counselor to Wayne State University's provost in the areas of innovation and entrepreneurship.
As part of his new position, Tarver has spent the past four months overseeing the creation of Wayne State's new Innovation Hub, which will work across campus to ensure that students, faculty, and staff have the resources and skills needed to "achieve career success, drive economic development, and improve their communities." It's not an organization or new bureaucracy, Tarver points out, but an initiative of the provost.
"The Innovation Hub will touch all innovation and entrepreneurship activities at the university," Tarver explains. "The development of technology is proceeding so rapidly that in every discipline, we're seeing disruption and the opportunity for new business processes and ideas. Even if they're going to go work for someone, the business model will soon be upended, and we're preparing students to innovate in that context."
Some of the work being done under the Innovation Hub umbrella includes expanding entrepreneurship courses as well as programming at TechTown Detroit, the university-affiliated venture accelerator, and the Anderson Engineering Ventures Institute; refining the school's technology transfer operation; and beefing up support to student-led startups and entrepreneurial projects.
"It's an effort to coordinate work on campus and facilitate better results," he says. "For students as well as faculty and staff, there's a premium on getting work into the market faster. If you're too slow, you miss the window. That's why we're streamlining how we form partnerships with industry and the community."
As a result of stakeholder feedback, Tarver says Peter Falzon has been hired to spearhead the redesign of the technology transfer office's processes. After researching what other universities do, Wayne State will likely move to a "foundation structure" to oversee tech transfer, he adds.
"The foundation would hold the university's intellectual property assets and negotiate with industry [representatives]," Tarver says. "It's a closely aligned non-profit that does work on Wayne State's behalf."
The Blackstone LaunchPad, a tool for engaging students and faculty interested in entrepreneurship, has been re-named Innovation Warriors and will continue to "help with whatever phase they're in," Tarver says. Two student teams—It Comes Naturally, making insect repellents from natural products, and ToDoolie, offering an "Uber for home improvement projects"—are finalists in next week's Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition.
"The idea is to identify projects, inspire students, and support them through the development continuum," Tarver says.
TechTown, he says, is "really buzzing," and that work will also continue and grow. For example, Tarver says the DTX Launch accelerator program will expand to include high school students, and an introductory entrepreneurship course will be taught at TechTown instead of a traditional classroom to better connect the community at large to what's going on at the university.
"We want to use TechTown as a conduit to bring more community activity into Wayne State," Tarver says. "The event next week is a microcosm of what we're trying to do on a large scale."
On Nov. 15, Wayne State will host a launch celebration for the Innovation Hub. Tarver … Next Page »
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Objective: Educate GFWC/OFWC Members and Communities about the importance of International relationships and global topics of all age groups. Motivate club members and their communities to take actions promoting positive International relations and enable our members to become better world citizens through advocacy, education and action.
Ideas: Take part in or start an International Sister City Program, take part in International festivals, celebrations and parades, invite foreign visitors and non-citizen residents to attend club meetings as guests or as speakers to inform members about their countries; plan a meeting around International foods or a country of your choice sharing trivia or facts about that country and serving foods of that country.
Sponsor or host Youth Exchange Students to help meet their needs while in the U.S.A.
or sponsor U.S.A. students who wish to travel to other countries.
Have programs by members about their International travels or about their ethnic backgrounds. Promote legislation in support of human rights around the world. Promote programs to ensure women and children all over the world have access to health, education, equality and protection.
Observe the International Day of Peace, also known as World Peace Day, which occurs annually on September 21. Ask local officials for proclamations which call for ringing of church bells, school bells, and all other bells in the community in an effort to join with the 10 A.M. ringing of the PEACE BELL at the United Nations.
Observe World Food Day which occurs annually on October 16, in an effort to make all aware of world hunger. Support or establish a local food bank. Some suggestions would be to work at a local soup kitchen, make food or hold a local canned good drive to donate to your local food bank.
Participate in GFWC Partnership programs.
GFWC challenges each member to educate yourself and strives to enable members to become better World Citizens. The GFWC Partners are the organizations listed with whom GFWC has established a formal relationship and mutual understanding. To ensure that donations to GFWC partner organizations at the individual, club, district, or state level are reflected toward GFWC's collective impact, make sure to write GFWC in the memo line on your donation check.
For over 65 years, Heifer International has given livestock, agricultural products and training to help families in 125 countries gain sustainable food and income sources.
· Heifers for the Holidays: Raise $500 and purchase a cow for a community. Milk is provided and can earn money for a community. A share of this Heifer purchase is $50.
· At Easter sell chocolate chicks and rabbits and purchase a low-cost, high yield gift that can help a family increase protein intake and income. A trio of rabbits is $60 or a flock of chickens is $20.
· These educational materials include lesson plans, video documentaries, stories and ideas for activities for all ages.
This is an International medical organization providing volunteer missions to repair cleft lip and cleft palate surgeries for children.
these simple straight-stitch projects can be requested through Bonnie Keuhne. See email above.
· Raise funds to support Operation Smile's programs to give a child a new smile and hope for better future.
proceeds to Operation Smile. Have a bake sale or garage sale and donate the proceeds to Operation Smile.
Have a baby shower and collect diapers, gowns and blankets.
for Operation Smile can be found listed here.
Shot@Life, a United Nations Foundation's campaign, seeks to educate, connect and empower Americans to champion vaccines in order to save children in developing countries. Every 20 seconds a child dies from the lack of a vaccine-preventable disease.
World Pneumonia Day (November 12th).
· Signing the Shot@Life Pledge and adding your voice to the movement of people committed to reducing childhood deaths around the world.
· Donate funds to send life-saving vaccines to children in developing countries.
· UNICEF's Healthy Village Project works with villages in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to support efforts to build and maintain basic systems to provide clean water, a simple latrine for every home and insecticide treated mosquito nets in each home. It costs $5000 to support a village. All donations will go towards GFWC's collective efforts. Contact Lacy Stone for more information.
small bucket on your head, do the 3 legged race or a maze.
to help children of the world survive and grow. Order boxes at www.TrickorTreatforUNICEF.org.
Certificates to one State Federation in each membership category for partnership projects.
Certificates to one State Federation in each membership category for program projects.
$50 award to one club in the nation for a partnership project.
$50 award to one club in the nation for a program project.


A closed system infusion management system developed to prevent infection.
With its no-dead-space structure, the inside of the infusion set remains sanitary, helping to prevent infection due to pooling of fluids.
Air bleeding when priming is unnecessary, and drugs, etc. can be accurately administered at the indicated dose because there is no dead space.
The system's design is particularly useful in the fields of pediatrics and neonatal medicine because small amounts of drugs can be administered accurately.


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Head of Denmark's Top Art School Dismissed Over 'Drowning' of Colonial King
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by Igor Kuznetsov
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Earlier this year, a bust of 18th-century King Frederik V was dumped into the water to draw attention to Denmark's colonial past and its involvement in the slave trade.
Kirsten Langkilde, the head of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, has been sacked over a performance that featured the 'drowning' of a bust of a former Danish king in a Copenhagen canal.
In November, artist Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld took a replica bust of 18th-century king Frederik V from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, where she was employed at the time, and threw it in the canal, ostensibly to draw attention to the country's colonial past and its involvement in the slave trade, especially in modern day Ghana.
The bust of the ruler was made of clay, and was destroyed in the process.
Efter at Weekendavisen har afdækket, at gruppen bag ødelæggelsen af busten på Kunstakademiet bruger de samme vendinger som et af akademiets interne kurser, erkender institutleder Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld, at det var hende, der ødelagde skulpturen.https://t.co/G3ExtRYvNW
— Weekendavisen (@weekendavisen) November 13, 2020
While the performance was initially carried out anonymously, Dirckinck-Holmfeld later claimed responsibility and was removed from her job the very same day.
However, the scandal grew and has now claimed the scalp of the Academy's director, Kirsten Langkilde, who reportedly had sent an internal mail with a link to the video of the drowning, with the comment "Have a good weekend".
"The Culture Ministry and Kirsten Langkilde have not been able to come to an agreement on the challenges facing the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. There is therefore the need for new energy," Culture Minister Joy Mogensen commented on the sacking, as quoted by Jyllands-Posten.
The event took place on 6 November and was recorded in a video by the group Anonymous Artists. The group claimed that the goal of the performance was to "show solidarity with all the artists, students and people all over the world who have had to live with the aftermath of Danish colonialism".
Ironically, Frederick V was the founder of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. He is best known for purchasing what would become known as the Danish West Indies in 1754. His memory has since been immortalised in the town of Frederiksværk on the island of Zealand, the town of Frederiksted on the island of St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands, as well as the Copenhagen district of Frederiksstaden. The city of Serampore in West Bengal, India, was earlier named Frederiksnagore, and the city of Paamiut in Greenland was formerly named Frederikshaab, both in his honour.
At its apex, the Danish Empire spanned across four continents from the Danish West Indies in the modern-day US Virgin Islands, to the Danish Gold Coast, now a part of Ghana, and territories in India, such as present-day Tharangambadi. In Europe, its possessions included Estonia and Iceland.
Today, the Danish Realm includes, in addition to Denmark proper, Greenland and the Faroe Island, now autonomous regions.
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Denmark Apologises to Greenlandic Children for Forced 'Danisation'
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Trump's DACA deal could flip 4 states to Dems
'Illegal immigrants obtaining voting rights equals checkmate America! They win, we lose'
U.S. border with Mexico stretches more than 1,950 miles, much of it unpatrolled.
President Trump has long promised he will secure the U.S.-Mexico border with a "big beautiful wall," but a major bargaining chip in his negotiations possibly could flip four or even five traditionally Republican-leaning states to Democrats in future elections.
Those states are: Texas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia and North Carolina.
Of the five, Texas, with 34 electoral votes, has the most impact on presidential election outcomes. Florida has 29; North Carolina, 15; Georgia, 16; and Arizona, 11. In 2016, Trump won Texas 52.2 percent to Hillary Clinton's 43.2 percent. His winning margin in Florida was much tighter at 48.6 percent to 47.4 percent. Trump took North Carolina with 49.8 percent to 46.2 percent; Arizona, 48.1 percent to 44.6 percent; and Georgia, 50.4 percent to Clinton's 45.3 percent.
But political trends in those traditionally Republican-leaning states could see a shift if illegal immigrants known as DREAMers, or illegal immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as minors, are offered amnesty and particularly if they're eventually given voting rights. Those fives states host large numbers DREAMers, as Fortune magazine reported last January.
This graphic, compiled from 2017 data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, shows where all the so-called "DREAMers" live in the U.S. The traditionally Republican-leaning states with the highest numbers of "DREAMers" include Texas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia and North Carolina
The issue began in 2012, when then-President Obama signed an executive order giving work permits and temporary residence to more than 800,000 noncitizens under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program. In making his announcement, Obama stated: "Effective immediately, the Department of Homeland Security is taking steps to lift the shadow of deportation from these young people. Over the next few months, eligible individuals who do not present a risk to national security or public safety will be able to request temporary relief from deportation proceedings and apply for work authorization."
The Obama administration, through a memo by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, claimed the actions were legal and within executive authority due to "prosecutorial discretion."
Obama further expanded his immigration actions in 2014 to include illegal-immigrant parents under the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents, or DAPA. Under Obama's actions, many illegal immigrants who were granted deferrals received assistance funded by the states.
In September, Center for Immigration Studies Director of Policy Jessica Vaughan reported that, if DACA recipients are given amnesty, at least 1.4 million legal immigrants would enter the U.S. through chain migration, which is when legal migrants and naturalized citizens are allowed to bring foreign family members into the country. When those family members get legal status, they, too, can bring in more foreigners.
In one study, Princeton University researchers found that 618,342 illegal-immigrant DACA recipients from Mexico could bring in as many as four million relatives.
What do YOU think? Will legalizing DREAMers kill GOP election prospects? Sound off in today's WND poll
The Trump administration acted to end Obama's DACA policy in September. He rescinded Obama's order but delayed shutting down the program for six months while urging Congress to come up with a legislative solution.
But now President Trump is indicating he's open to DACA approval, provided his border wall is funded.
On Tuesday, Trump held a televised immigration and budget meeting at the White House and invited a bipartisan group of lawmakers.
"We want to see something happen with DACA," Trump told the members of Congress. "It's been spoken of for years. And children are now adults, in many cases."
Trump also said, "Truly, it [a DACA fix] should be a bill of love."
President Trump (Photo: Flickr/Michael Vadon)
Conservative pundit and "In Trump We Trust" author Ann Coulter called it the "lowest day of his presidency."
"Trump, flanked by Dems & open-borders GOPS, announces plan for 100% open-ended amnesty (per courts)," Coulter tweeted before she posted a string of additional comments blasting the president's immigration statements.
Related column: Turns out Bannon was Trump's brain by Ann Coulter
Later that day, President Trump tweeted: "As I made very clear today, our country needs the security of the Wall on the Southern Border, which must be part of any DACA approval."
Whatever the DACA result, the issue could have a major impact on U.S. elections.
As WND reported, William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, has warned that any grants of residency or a path to citizenship to DREAMers would mean a surge in Democratic Party voting rolls.
Gheen tweeted Sunday that giving DACA recipients legal status without voting rights is a "dirty trick."
"[W]ithin a year, activist judges will award full citizenship," he said. "Right now, illegals are law-breaking criminals, but if Congress tries to create a second class tier of citizenship without voting rights, the courts will shoot that down quickly."
On Wednesday, Gheen elaborated on his concerns in exclusive comments to WND:
The GOP dirty trick is to try to grant a legal status without voting rights so courts can do the dirty work, and they can claim they didn't see that coming. Illegal immigration and amnesty are part of a big chess game being played by billionaires and elite powers intent on forcing American citizens into a regional and then global governance construct that destroys our borders forevermore. In chess, people use gambits to win the game. They will give up a chess piece or two in order to take the piece they need to win the game.
Trump passing DACA or comprehensive amnesty in exchange for some concessions on border security, visa lotteries and chain migration is a gambit and all of those "wins" will eventually be reversed by Democrat socialists who get to take permanent control of U.S. elections, laws and governments within 10 years of millions of illegal immigrants obtaining voting rights, which equals checkmate America! They win, we lose. Trump has made it clear in his White House meeting Tuesday: He is one of them, not one of us.
Democrats admit that DREAMers are a "critical component of the Democratic Party's future electoral success," according to a leaked memo obtained recently by the Daily Caller News Foundation. In the memo co-authored by Clinton's former communications director, the leftist organization Center For American Progress Action Fund calls preservation of DACA a "moral imperative."
"The fight to protect Dreamers is not only a moral imperative, it is also a critical component of the Democratic Party's future electoral success," the memo states. "... If Democrats don't try to do everything in their power to defend Dreamers, that will jeopardize Democrats' electoral chances in 2018 and beyond. In short, the next few weeks will tell us a lot about the Democratic Party and its long-term electoral prospects."
Meanwhile, also on Tuesday, a federal judge issued a ruling ordering deportation safeguards for Obama's DACA recipients while a legal challenge to keep the program proceeds. The Trump administration said it plans to challenge the ruling by U.S. District Judge William Alsup. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called the ruling "outrageous."
"An issue of this magnitude must go through the normal legislative process," she said. "President Trump is committed to the rule of law, and will work with members of both parties to reach a permanent solution that corrects the unconstitutional actions taken by the last administration."
On Wednesday evening, more than 100 CEOs sent a letter to Congress, demanding that lawmakers pass a bill to keep DREAMers in the states permanently. The CEOs included Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook of Apple, Microsoft president Brad Smith, Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam.
"We write to urge Congress to act immediately and pass a permanent bipartisan legislative solution to enable Dreamers who are currently living, working, and contributing to our communities to continue doing so," the letter stated. "The imminent termination of the DACA program is creating an impending crisis for workforces across the country."
The CEOs continued: "In addition to causing a tremendous upheaval in the lives of DACA employees, failure to act in time will lead to businesses losing valuable talent, cause disruptions in the workforce, and will result in significant costs. While delay or inaction will cause significant negative impact to businesses, hundreds of thousands of deserving young people across the country are counting on you to work in a bipartisan way to pass permanent legislative protection for Dreamers without further delay."


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Q: iphone core data save not working Im trying to save a list of Device classes (a custom class) using Core Data and retrieve it. But After I save it, my query, which is VERY simple, doesnt return any records.
My call to save the records always returns YES and no errors:
BOOL resultOfSave = [managedObjectContext save:&err];

My predicate for searching by the property userLogin is like so:
- (NSArray *) devicesForUser:(NSString *)username
{
NSFetchRequest *request = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] init];
NSEntityDescription *entity = [NSEntityDescription entityForName:@"Device" inManagedObjectContext:managedObjectContext];
[request setEntity:entity];

NSPredicate *predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"userLogin = %@", username];
[request setPredicate:predicate];

NSSortDescriptor *sortDescriptor = [[NSSortDescriptor alloc] initWithKey:@"macAddress" ascending:YES];
NSArray *sortDescriptors = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:sortDescriptor, nil];
[request setSortDescriptors:sortDescriptors];
[sortDescriptors release];
[sortDescriptor release];

NSError *error = nil;
NSArray *fetchResults = [managedObjectContext executeFetchRequest:request error:&error];
if (fetchResults == nil) {
    // Handle the error.
    NSLog(@"ERROR: nil fetch result array");
}

[request release];
NSLog(@"devicesForUser [%@] count %d", username, [fetchResults count]);
return fetchResults;
}

but I always get zero results, if I get rid of the predecate, I get all the objects, and if I loop through them I can see that the userLogin property for at least one of the object IS set to the username that I pass in...
Has anyone ever had an issue like this???
Thanks for any help you can give
Mark

A: In your predicate, change:
@"userLogin = %@"

...to:
@"userLogin == %@"

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Information about the history of Murchison House Station Kalbarri Western Australia.
The rich history of Murchison House has been shaped by the hands of pioneering battlers, wealthy wool merchants and even an Indian Prince!
Today it is a family owned and operated venture endeavouring to continue the pastoral traditions and offer visitors an insight into outback life.
Murchison House Station was founded in 1858 by Charles von Bibra to provide meat and wheat to lead miners at Galena, beef to the growing Perth market and remount horses to the British army in India.
The original shearing shed also dates back to the 1860's. In its heyday up to 35000 sheep would be brought to this shed for shearing.
Features include the extensive use of Oregon pine and the 100 year old wool press and wool classing table.
A surprising collection of military vehicles, earthmoving equipment vintage cars and farm machinery has found a final resting place on Murchison House Station.
"Depreciation Row" showcases an assortment of machinery worn out by a life on the station.
There are several graves at the homestead cemetery, some marked by impressive headstones, others not marked at all.
The graves pictured are those of R.N. Fawcett and E.W. Broad, the pilot and mechanic aboard one of three aeroplanes participating in Australia first commercial air service in 1921. They were tragically killed when their plane crashed not far from the homestead.


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Some concentrate on the music of particular countries or cultures, and some look at the overall concept of 'folk' and what it means to the people who perform this music.
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A great and very touching ghazal written by the last emperor of the once great Mughal Empire, Bahadur Shah Zafar, who was imprisoned by the British after the 1857 war of independence and shifted to Andaman. picplzthumbs This ghazal is an expression of what he felt during the last days of his life. Sung by Mohammad Rafi, arguably the greatest singer of Bollywood, the music for this ghazal was composed by S N Tripathi, who also encrypted his name with his compositions in this movie. It is one of the greatetest pieces of ghazals composed in Bollywood. Genius's community of contributors powers the world's biggest collection of song lyrics and musical knowledge. What a great hub! I share your dream of visiting all of the country's national parks. Unfortunately, I haven't made it to any of those in California yet.
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Home UK & Europe Europe UK steps up no-deal Brexit plans with 3,500 soldiers on standby
UK steps up no-deal Brexit plans with 3,500 soldiers on standby
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The British government on Tuesday said it was allocating two billion pounds ($2.5 billion) to fund Brexit and putting 3,500 troops on stand-by after ministers agreed to make no-deal planning "an operational priority". The news came amid continued opposition to Prime Minister Theresa's May draft divorce deal, just 14 weeks before the country leaves the EU.
Following a meeting of her cabinet — the last before parliament breaks for Christmas and New Year — Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson said around 3,500 troops would be on stand-by to help deal with the "any contingencies" from a no-deal outcome.
The postponed vote has left members of her own party and Labour opposition politicians infuriated.
But Brexit Secretary Steve Barclay said ministers still hoped to secure backing for May's agreement in a House of Commons vote delayed until next month. He added that any responsible government would intensify preparations for the "default option" of leaving the European Union without a deal on March 29 next year.
"We agreed that preparing for no deal will be an operational priority within government," Barclay said. "But our overall priority remains to secure a deal." He said departments would step up their advice to businesses on how best to prepare for the scenario, which many fear could be catastrophic for the British economy.
Read more: British PM using Brexit for political survival
Businesses will be provided with a 100-plus page online preparation pack and emails will be sent to 80,000 of those most likely to be impacted over the next few days, according to Downing Street.
Finance minister Philip Hammond insisted in a statement Tuesday that "the PM's deal is the only way to deliver on the referendum while protecting jobs, businesses and prosperity". The same government statement said that Hammond was making arrangements to ensure that government departments "can fund measures to address civil contingencies in a no deal scenario".
Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson said around 3,500 troops would be on stand-by to help deal with the "any contingencies" from a no-deal outcome.
The Home Office, which will get the biggest share of the Brexit funding, will use it, among other things, "to increase Border Force capability with hundreds of new officers," it said. May's cabinet is divided between ministers who want the government to embrace a no-deal outcome and those who favour parliament having a final say in a series of votes on potential scenarios for Brexit.
One option is the prime minister's own Brexit deal, but that is hanging by a thread after she was forced to pull a vote on it last week in the face of huge opposition from within her own Conservative Party. Earlier Tuesday, Downing Street reportedly blocked opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn's request Monday for a non-binding no-confidence motion in May.
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That had followed her telling MPs they will not get to vote on her deal this week, but would have to wait until the week beginning January 14. The delay prompted accusations that the prime minister is stalling to increase pressure on MPs to back her plan — and fresh calls for Labour to initiate a binding no-confidence vote against the whole government.
However, such a move faces likely defeat after Conservative Brexit hardliners and the Democratic Unionist Party, which props up her government, both said they would back May.
The same government statement said that Hammond was making arrangements to ensure that government departments.
Running Down the Clock
May insisted Monday that she was continuing to seek "assurances" from the EU over elements of her plan, although EU officials said no meetings were planned. The postponed vote has left members of her own party and Labour opposition politicians infuriated.
Read more: Conservatives' Brexit faultlines run deep in divided UK
"The prime minister has cynically run down the clock, trying to manoeuvre parliament into a choice between two unacceptable outcomes" — her deal or no deal, Corbyn said. May is also facing calls for a second referendum to resolve the impasse, with dozens of MPs from all sides now supporting another plebiscite and reports that May's officials are also considering the possibility.
But the prime minister argued that this would betray the 2016 Brexit referendum result and undermine public confidence in politics. "Let us not break faith with the British people by trying to stage another referendum," she told parliament on Monday. "Another vote… would do irreparable damage to the integrity of our politics," May said, adding that it would also "likely leave us no further forward".
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Fink Named USJ's First Head Men's Lacrosse Coach
WEST HARTFORD, Conn. - University of Saint Joseph (USJ) Athletic Director Bill Cardarelli has announced the hiring of Andrew Fink as the first-ever head men's lacrosse coach in University history. Fink, who comes to USJ after spending the previous 16 years at Mount Ida College, will immediately begin recruiting for the Blue Jays' inaugural men's lacrosse team set to take the field in the spring of 2020. Fink will also guide the USJ women's lacrosse team as the interim head coach for the spring 2019 season.
"We are very excited to welcome Coach Fink to the USJ family. He has shown great success in building and sustaining a program and has a winning mentality that is unparalleled," stated Cardarelli. "He brings a wealth of lacrosse experience and knowledge to USJ and we look forward to him getting started recruiting our future men's team and coaching our women's team this spring."
Men's lacrosse will be the fifth male sport added since the University made the decision to go coeducational in the summer of 2017. USJ will officially open its doors to male undergraduate students this fall and begin competing on the men's side in soccer, cross country, basketball, and swimming & diving.
"I am extremely honored to be given the opportunity to begin to lead the Blue Jay's lacrosse programs and continue to compete in the GNAC," said Fink. "I look forward to the challenge of building a men's program here at the University of Saint Joseph and am excited to immediately start coaching with the women's team this spring. I would like to thank Athletic Director Bill Cardarelli for this opportunity and I can't wait to get started."
Fink joins the Blue Jays after spending the previous 16 seasons at Mount Ida College, serving as the head men's lacrosse coach for the last 15. He has compiled an overall head coaching record of 171-91 and currently holds the record for most wins as a head coach in the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) with 54 since the conference opened its doors to men's lacrosse in 2011.
While at Mount Ida, Fink led the Mustangs to eight conference championships, six in the North Atlantic Conference (NAC) and two in the GNAC. He is a four-time Coach of the Year earning the honor as NAC Coach of the Year in 2004 and 2010 and GNAC Coach of the Year in 2011 and 2015. Fink was also dubbed Mount Ida College's Coach of the Year twice, garnering the status by the Mustangs in 2009 and 2011.
In 2017, Fink led the Mustangs to a 14-5 record, including an eight-game winning streak, and helped them reach the GNAC championship game for the fifth time in seven years since joining the league.
That game also marked the eleventh season in which Fink and the Mustangs appeared in their conference title game, as they made seven appearances in the NAC championship, winning six straight conference titles from 2004 and 2009. His 2007 NAC championship team, which earned the first NCAA tournament bid in program history, was inducted into the Mount Ida College Athletics Hall of Fame in 2014.
While members of the NAC, Fink compiled a regular season conference record of 47-1 and began a streak of eight seasons in which he coached the team to double-digit victories, including a program-record 15 victories in 2012, when they repeated as GNAC champs in just their second year in the conference.
Fink, whose teams have made four trips to the NCAA Division III Men's Lacrosse tournament, played his college lacrosse at the University of Hartford, graduating in 2001 with a degree in communications from the College of Arts and Sciences. As a four-year varsity player and three-year starter, Fink played defense for the Hawks. In his junior campaign, the Hawks earned the American East Conference regular-season title.
Fink and his coaching staff presented for the ninth time at the U.S. Lacrosse National Convention in 2018, with previous topics including "Offense vs. Defense - Strategy and Adjustments", "Team Defense", "Man-Down Defense", and "Team Defense Playing Angles and Throwing Quality Checks" in Baltimore, Maryland. Fink and his staff's presentation at the 2018 convention in Baltimore was a field demonstration in conjunction with the Boston Storm of the United Women's Lacrosse League (UWLX), a team which he is the General Manager of.
Working with Championship Productions, Coach Fink has also created a video titled "Building a High-Pressure Zone Defense," which utilizes his expansive knowledge of the game.
He is also the owner and operator of the Big 3 Lacrosse and Xcel Lacrosse. Fink also skippers two travel teams and has traveled to Prague, Czech Republic, and Berlin, Germany with his international team to compete in the Prague Cup.
A graduate of Rocky Hill High School in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, Fink earned all-league and all-state honors in lacrosse.
Andrew and his wife Noelle reside in Cumberland, Rhode Island with daughter Micah and son, Meyer.
FINK FILE:
Year Overall Record
Conference Record
GNAC (2011-Present)
NAC (2004-2010)
Tournament Finish
2004 9-3 3-0 Champion v. Castleton
2006 14-3 7-0 Champion v. Castleton
2010 12-7 9-0 Runner-Up to Castleton
2011 11-7 7-0 Champion v. Lasell
2012 15-5 8-1 Champion v. Norwich
2013 11-8 8-1 Runner-Up to Norwich
2015 11-5 7-1 Runner-Up to Emmanuel
2016 9-9 4-4 Quarterfinalist
2017 14-5 7-1 Runner-Up to Lasell
15 Yrs 171-91 101-15
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Q: std::chrono with NDK r10e could not be resolved Do not think I did not search, my Android project (on Eclipse) refuses to recognize std::chrono library. The include is OK in my header file :
#include <chrono>

But when I want use it :
using namespace std::chrono;

I have a : Symbol 'chrono' could not be resolved, and all the functions of chrono are unavailables.
So I use NDK r10e, I add some lines in my Application.mk, which now looks like this :
APP_PLATFORM := android-22
APP_STL := gnustl_static
APP_CPPFLAGS := -std=gnu++11
NDK_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION := 4.8

And in my Android.mk, I add :
LOCAL_CFLAGS += -std=gnu++11

It did not solve my problem. Any ideas ? Bad Eclipse configuration ?
After modifications in mk files, I have build and re-build my project.

A: This is known problem of GNU libstdc++ in Android NDK. It's built on top of very limited libc (Google's Bionic) and thus can't provide full C++ Standard Library functionality. In particular, std::chrono is almost completely disabled at build time, but not only std::chrono. There are many other classes and functions being disabled, so Google's NDK just don't support C++ fully.
You can switch to LLVM libc++ (APP_STL := c++_static), but it has experimental status in Google's Android NDK and is actually unstable (i.e. it cause crashes in the application even for completely standard C++ code). This instability is caused by the same reason as for GNU libstdc++ - i.e. because it's built on top of very limited libc.
I'd recommend switch to CrystaX NDK - alternative fork of Google's Android NDK, which I've started mainly to solve Google's NDK problems such as non-standard implementations of libc, libc++, etc. CrystaX NDK is developed to work as a drop-in replacement for Google's NDK (except for the fact that it provides fully standard-conforming low-level libraries). In CrystaX NDK, both GNU libstdc++ and LLVM libc++ are much more stable and fully conforming to C++ standard, at least at the same level as they conform to it on GNU/Linux. In particular, std::chrono is fully implemented there and works just fine. Also, in CrystaX NDK, you can use more recent compilers such as gcc-5.3 and clang-3.7, with better support of C++11 and C++14. I'd be happy if it helps you.