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. We remember when vegan white chocolate appeared for the first time – now there's many brands and types.
Hotel Chocolat have a large range of chocolate suitable for vegans, from beautiful dark bars to batons and bombes and festive items.
Ethical Superstore stock quite a few varieties of fair traded vegan choc.
GreenBay Vegan Supermarket– online and in store, stocking many vegan items including chocolate.
Plamil – are an exclusively vegan company who have a large selection of chocolate (mayo and soya milk too) available in their online shop (expensive postal rates to North of Scotland).
Animal Aid– truffles, hazelnut crunch rochers, boxed chocolates, fudge, bars, Plamil chocolate.
VIVA – boxed chocolates, bars, Tropical Source chocolate, fudge, chocolate beans.
Not chocolate, but Swizzels Lovehearts are vegan! Also vegan are their Parma Violets, Rainbow Drops, Fizzers and their Lovehearts Candy Lipsticks.
The chocolate mousse also works very well as a topping for a no-cook tofu cheesecake.
Preheat oven to 190C/380F. Mix dry ingredients together in a bowl. Add the wet ingredients and mix well – you can add more water or soya milk if the mixture seems too thick. Place muffin cases in a muffin tin (makes about 12) and fill with the mixture. Bake for 15-20 minutes until risen and firm.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Sift dry ingredients into 8″ square or 9″ round baking pan. Mix liquids (except vinegar) and whisk into dry. When batter is smooth, add vinegar and stir quickly, until it is evenly distributed. Put it in the oven, don't let it stand around (that has something to do with the vinegar) Bake for 25-30 minutes…or longer until done. This cake is great served with Provamel's soya dream (cream like). Pictured on right with a chocolate "butter" icing (blob of marg, bit of icing sugar, spoon of cocoa, all creamed together) and sprinkled with flaky vegan hot chocolate or whizzers chocolate beans.
A steamed pud with sauce variation sent to us by Bracken: put broken up chocolate bar pieces in the bottom of a microwavable basin and put the chocolate cake mixture on top. Microwave for 2-4 minutes depending on oven.
Melt everything together slowly in a small saucepan. For icing: leave to cool, stirring occasionally. Once it reaches a good spreading consistency, ice the cake and leave to set completely. For Fudge: Add your nuts etc. if using and pour melted mixture into a dish that leaves it at least 1cm. thick. Set in fridge and then cut into squares.
Melt the chocolate in a bowl over hot water. In a pan, slowly melt together the margarine and syrup and then combine this with HALF the chocolate. Stir in the crushed biscuits and nuts and press this into a greased 9″ by 9″ tin or something of similar size. Beat the soya cream into the remaining 100g or so of chocolate and spread this on top. Chill in the fridge for a couple of hours until set and cut into squares.
a handful each of: chocolate chips, chopped nuts and raisins.
Preheat oven to 200C/400F and grease cookie sheets. Cream together the sugar and marg. Mix in the soya milk and vanilla and then the flour. The mixing of the flour is best done with your hands (messy but fun!). Add the choc, nuts and raisins and mix well. You should have a workable dough (add more flour if it's too wet or more soya milk if too dry and doesn't hold together well). Roll out on a floured board (to just under 1 cm thick) and cut into cookies. Lay on cookie sheets and bake for about 10 minutes for soft bake cookies or a little longer for dryer, crunchy ones.
Variations: Leave out the choc, nuts and fruit and half dip the cooled cookies in chocolate – choccy biscuits! Crushed Whizzers chocolate beans are a colourful replacement for chocolate chips. They can also be pressed all over the top prior to baking. Plain cookies with a handful of sesame seeds or desiccated coconut added into the dough are delicious. Plain cookies with a square of chocolate pressed onto them before baking work well too.
Lightly oil a baking tray. Place the cornflakes in a big bowl ready. Then heat the golden syrup in a saucepan until thin and runny. Remove from the heat and beat in the peanut butter until smooth. Pour the mixture over the cornflakes and mix well.
Push the mixture into the baking tray to form a slab (I find pushing it down with a potato masher works). It should be firmly packed. Then melt your chocolate chips and pour over the top. Refridgerate for at least 3 hours then cut into bars or bite size chunks.
Ok so here is an instalment of all things vegan and chocolatey to inspire those who thought they would never again be able to sample the delights of chocolate heaven. I'm not claiming any of this is healthy so don't blame me for over-consumption!
NB. Chocolate refers to plain (ie.- no other added flavours) vegan chocolate of your choice.
Put the maple syrup in a pan and bring to a boil. When boiling add the nuts and stir constantly until it is almost dry ( ie the nuts are all sticking together and the syrup is not runny) empty out onto some greaseproof paper and allow to cool.
Meanwhile melt the chocolate in a bowl over simmering water. DON'T allow the bowl to touch the water. It should be just above it.
Blend the praline (nut mixture) into either a fine powder or a coarse mixture and stir into the chocolate. Fold in the tofu. When it is all mixed take off the heat allow to cool. The cover and place in the fridge until well chilled.
Work quickly and form into small balls. Roll in cocoa powder or grated chocolate or dip in melted chocolate and allow to set. Eat in moderation, as they are incredibly rich!
If you don't like nuts or have an allergy they can be left out but add a tablespoon or two of sugar or maple syrup to the tofu while blending it (taste as it may need more or less depending on the brand of chocolate you use.
The basic mixture makes AMAZING chocolate spread or how about cutting out rectangles of vegan puff pastry and spreading a layer of the truffle mixture onto it, fold it over (chocolate side in!) and bake in the oven (follow temperature and times on the packet of pastry) and you have vegan pain au chocolat !!
Catriona's wonderful truffle recipe is now included in 'Venturesome Vegetarian Cooking: Bold Flavors for Meat- And Dairy-Free Meals' by J.M.Hirsch and Michelle Hirsch!
Put the milk, marge and sugar into a thick saucepan and heat, without stirring, on a low heat until it bubbles all over and triples in size.
Add the vanilla essence and the dried soya milk and beat till creamy.
Pour into baking trays roughly the size of 48 mars bars and freeze for an hour.
Keep at this temperature for 4-5 minutes, stirring constantly.
Pour the toffee over the nougat and freeze for another hour.
Melt 1200g of vegan chocolate in a microwave if you have one (3 minutes full power per 100g) or place into a bowl above a saucepan of boiling water till melted.
Coat the bars with chocolate and place onto a greased tray. Re-freeze.
Replace vanilla essence with 340g jar of crunchy peanut butter (without the jar) & 20g chopped, un-salted peanuts.
These basic nougat and toffee recipes can be used to make a whole range of vegan versions of chocolate bars.
Boil the sugar and water in a DEEP pan for 20 minutes. Test in cold water until the sugar mixture is crisp and cracks easily. Remove from heat and add the bicarbonate of soda. This will make the mixture puff out and froth up in the pan. Pour into an oiled tin and cut when half cold. When cooled dip in melted chocolate.
CHOCOLATE BUBBLE BATH – do not eat!!


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Q: How to save a SSL certificate and create a virtual host in NGINX using a Rails App? I have a Rails app, which uses the gem Rails Let's Encrypt to generate SSL certificates for custom domains.
The gem is really simple to use. After the installation/configuration, I can generate a certificate and the data will be stored in the database.
I want to save the certificate CRT and the certificate KEY in the respective NGINX folder: /etc/nginx/ssl/
After that, I want to :

*

*Copy the file /etc/nginx/sites-available/default and save with name /etc/nginx/sites-available/customdomain.com

*Change the file customdomain.com with this:
Content:
server {
    listen 80;
    listen 443 ssl;
    server_name www.customdomain.com;
    ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/customdomain.crt;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/customdomain.key;
    passenger_enabled on;
    root /home/ubuntu/myapp/current/public;
    gzip on;
    gzip_http_version 1.1;
    gzip_vary on;
    gzip_comp_level 6;
    gzip_proxied any;
    gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/javascript application/x-javascript text/javascript
    gzip_disable "msie6";
    location ^~ /assets/ {
        expires max;
        add_header Cache-Control public;
    }
}

*

*Create a link to this file in sites-enabled with this code: sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/customdomain.com /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

*Restart nginx: sudo service nginx restart
I did these steps manually and the SSL works fine. How to do this programmatically?
Remember, the steps starts when, with Rails, I generate a certificate. There must be some way to execute these steps. I appreciate any help! Tks!
My environment:
ruby -v: ruby 2.2.2p95 (2015-04-13 revision 50295) [x86_64-linux]
rails -v: Rails 4.2.3
nginx -v: nginx/1.8.0
passenger -v: Phusion Passenger version 5.0.10
Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
Amazon EC2 instance (without load balancer, because LB requires only one certificate in the https)

EDIT 1
Perhaps, there's a way using wildcard configuration. Rather than create one virtual host for each domain, I create only one file, like that:
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/wildcard
In this file, I have a modification like that:
server_name {{customdomain_url}};
ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/{{customdomain}}.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/{{customdomain}}.key;

If it is possible, is better, because the job is only save the certificate files. And will not require the nginx restart.
EDIT 2 - The way
I created a shell script in /user/local/bin/myscript.sh and, in this script, I create a vhost file in /etc/nginx/sites-available/ to test. In rails console, I run the code: sudo /user/local/bin/myscript.sh mydomain.com and the shell script create correctly the file.
It was a test, but works. I will to create the final version and post here the final solution.

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Why isn't the industry cheering about $50 billion in sales?
Brian Todd | Mar 23, 2015
Did anyone notice that December 2014 marked a major milestone for the supermarket industry in the U.S. as sales topped the $50 billion mark in a single month for the first time? Granted it was December and shoppers were full of holiday cheer, but the Census Bureau's tally of cash registers in a single month was one for the record books for the nation's approximately 66,000 supermarkets. So why wasn't the supermarket industry cheering?
That's likely because although that total was 4.7% greater than December of 2013, when you consider that food-at-home prices during the same month were up 3.7% from a year earlier, that gain shrivels to just a single percent.
And unfortunately, during January, although supermarket sales rose 3.8% to $48.7 billion, according to the latest government data, retail food inflation was 3.2% — resulting in a deflated gain of just 0.6%.
So beyond inflation, what kind of sales growth can we expect from supermarkets in the near future?
With the economy continuing to improve, some players may be able to grab a bigger share of the additional expendable income consumers have in their budgets as a result of low fuel prices and low overall inflation. Yet, with increased competition from a bevy of alternative formats, including drug stores, dollar stores and warehouse clubs, such growth will not come easily.
Additionally, retailers working with concierge services such as Instacart and Google Express could benefit from that relationship as growth in online shopping (as much as 21% through 2018, according to Business Insider) is expected to outpace brick and mortar stores sevenfold. It also gives them a way to compete with Amazon as its grocery business expands into new markets.
For you retailers out there, how do you plan to achieve growth this year? And for you manufacturers, how are you looking help fuel that growth?
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Packing up to move is always more work than you anticipate. You always have more stuff than you remember; packing that stuff always take longer than you think it will, and there's always a few unexpected obstacles that set you back a few hours. We hit our first unexpected obstacle last night.
Five years ago, we purchased an area rug from Ikea. It lived in our first apartment, then it moved with us to our current apartment where it endured the infancy and toddlerhood of Monk A & B. Needless to say, the area rug is now worn and tired looking. Time to go.
Now imagine that area rug is made entirely of glue. That's how bad it was.
I swept it and then mopped it with wood floor cleaner and Vim. I got down on my hands and knees and scrubbed it with a scouring pad. I even picked at it with my finger nails. Nothing worked. We needed a putty knife to scrape it off. Unfortunately, we didn't have a putty knife and it was well past 9 p.m. – all the stores were closed. I rummaged around the kitchen drawers looking for another tool that might work. The only thing I could find was a pizza knife.
Dan and I spent the next two hours taking turns scraping the floor with the pizza knife. And yes, we commented multiple times about how ill-prepared we are to become homeowners.
Finally, around midnight, the glue was off. In fact, after all the scraping, scrubbing and mopping, the floors in this apartment are probably cleaner now than when we moved in.
We learned two important lessons. First, Ikea area rugs are inexpensive for a reason. Second, it's time to invest in more household tools – a pizza knife ain't gonna cut it.
We are packing up and heading "north". I put "north" in quotations because people who grew up in Muskoka (Dan included) like to say they are from "The North". I scoff at this because I took a work-related trip to Moosonee once. That is north. My cousin lives in Whitehorse. That is really north. In my opinion, even North Bay just manages to squeak by as "north", but that might only be because they added it to their city's name. Sort of cheating if you ask me. Anyway, Bracebridge is north of Toronto so technically, we are moving our family north.
Bracebridge 2014… just kidding! That photo was actually taken in 2012.
Last week I considered how our move would affect this blog. As of August 23 no longer will I be an urban mom. In fact, I won't even be a suburban mom. I'll be a small town mom?! Maybe not. Bracebridge has a Walmart, Home Depot, Canadian Tire and a Loblaws; in a few years it will probably be considered a suburb of Toronto.
I'll miss Toronto – particularly my sisters and friends who live in the city. In Bracebridge I will have a grand total of two friends. Wait, four friends if I'm allowed to count my in-laws. As much as I'll miss Toronto, I'm also looking forward to the benefits of living in a smaller community and owning our very first home.
So look out Bracebridge, here we come! Looking forward to a bright future in the great white "north".
Today is Mother's Day. For some, it's a day of breakfast in bed, big hugs and special home-made cards. For some, it's a day to send flowers, call or Skype to remind mom of how special she really is. And for some it's a day of excitement and anticipation as they await the arrival of a little one who will one day call them "mom".
Others who are struggling to become a mom. Who are undergoing the emotional roller coaster of fertility treatments. Who are trying their best to focus on their own moms today and not the fact that they haven't become one yet.
Others who are remembering a special mom who is no longer here. Who are patiently and gracefully waiting for this day to be over altogether because, no matter how hard they try to remember all the wonderful memories, the truth is, this is still one of the hardest days to get through.
Others who are spending their Mother's Day consulting with doctors about new test results and unconfirmed diagnoses. Who feel helpless because in the outside world "mom knows best" but here, it seems the nurses usually do.
Yes, this is a day for mothers. But it is also a day for the others. A day for renewed hope, peace-of-mind and continued strength.
If you read this post you know that we have already taken steps to toddler-proof our home. Dan's tweet was about our biggest obstacle to date: the railing of doom (I just made that up – we've never called it "the railing of doom" before, but it's appropriate).
Here's me standing next to a very old house in The Cotswolds, England. See how short this door is?
Anyway, the railing of doom is dangerous for one-year-olds. Especially one-year-olds who like to climb, like Monk A. It had to be fixed and Dan was determined to fix it. Admittedly, I was skeptical. You see, my husband is a musician. And a painter. And a web-developer. And his solution involved 50 feet of plastic chicken wire. You'd be skeptical too.
Railing of doom with new safety netting.
Side note about the above photo: When I started this blog, Dan agreed to let me post pictures of Monk A & B, but not pictures of himself. This happens to work out very well for me because, for the purposes of this blog, I am now married to Ryan Reynolds.
So, thanks to the creativity and hard work of my husband (Ryan) the railing of doom is no more. Not only are Monk A & B safe, but we can get a sweet game of badminton going in our living room. And we can use the extra 41 feet of plastic chicken wire to raise chickens, if we so desire.
A little off topic for this blog of mine, but had to share a letter I just sent to a great restaurant in my neighbourhood.
Last week I enjoyed a delicious meal at your establishment, Green Eggplant. Great food, great service, great atmosphere. But the reason I'm writing is to commend your staff members.
After our meal, as my friend and I grumbled about venturing back outside into the bitter cold to make our way home, we spotted a man coming in the door of your restaurant. This man was obviously suffering from a mental illness and was most likely going to spend the night outside on one of the coldest nights of the year. He walked into Green Eggplant talking to himself, which quickly escalated into a bit of a scene as he started yelling at patrons. It was hard to watch. I fully expected one of your employees to confront the man and try to make him leave. I wondered if someone would have to call the police. After all, who wants a homeless person in their restaurant?
Your staff, however, chose to do the opposite. I looked over and saw a waitress showing the man to a table. She spoke kindly and softly to him, which immediately calmed him down. She brought him a warm drink and some bread. I felt myself exhale. I wanted to hug her. I wanted to hug her for leading by example. For reminding us that having compassion for a fellow human being is more than just a monthly donation to your charity of choice. For giving us a little bit of perspective about how fortunate most of us really are.
When you live in a big city, it's easy tally up the frustrations of day-to-day urban life: gridlock traffic, crowded streetcars, endless construction, noisy neighbours, not to mention the never-ending winter we've had these past few months. But that night, at your restaurant, I felt grateful to live in Toronto – a city with abundant kindness, warm coffee, and people who just want to do the right thing.
So, thank you. And bravo to your staff members who were working last Wednesday night. You should be very proud.
Happy Valentine's Day, all. This is the holiday most folks either love or hate. Parents of very young children, however, are completely indifferent to it. You see, babies and one-year olds have no idea what a Valentine's card is and parents of these babies and one-year olds are just very, very tired.
This post is dedicated to all the moms of babies and one-year olds because, this Valentine's Day, the love we need most of all is love for ourselves (why? Read this post). This is especially true when it comes to loving our post-baby bodies. I know, I know – this topic has been written about and talked about to death. And that's probably making the problem even worse. For example, did you see this?
This picture stirred up some major controversy. And rightly so. Luckily, as a mom of twins, I can more easily ignore these kind of things. Because, unless workout woman stuffs all three of those kids back up there and carries them around for about eight months, she will never understand my excuse. Okay, okay, let's be more realistic: just stick the three-year old up there and see how her stomach looks afterward.
Then there are beautiful blog posts like this one, in which the author describes her ever-changing body as the journey from seed to mother's womb. When I read this, I really, really tried to relate. I should be able to appreciate this poetic way of looking at my body . After all, I'm an English Lit major. I closed my eyes and imagined my stretch marks to be the roads of life. Nope. Can't do it. You see, I was the English Lit major who got rejected from the elite creative writing class because my short story entitled, "The Red Leaf" didn't cut it (but look at me now, suckers – I have a BLOG!).
The truth is, even if you get back down to your pre-baby weight, your body will not be the same. Things shift. And then they resettle into a new place, usually not exactly where you'd like them to be. But that's life, friends. Literally. That's what carrying around life for nine months will do to you.
My wish for moms of babies and one-year olds this Valentine's Day is to stop striving for the body we had before pregnancy and instead strive to at least respect our new one. I also recommend purging all your pre-pregnancy clothes that no longer fit. Get rid of them. In fact, why not donate them? Yes, donate them to workout woman. She appears to be in need of some full-length shirts.
You've read them. I've read them too. Blogs and parenting articles about a so-called battle happening in our very own local playgrounds, public libraries, and splash pads: the "mom war".
Frankly, I'm growing tired of hearing about this topic. I've been at home with Monk A and Monk B for 17 months now and in all my encounters with friends, family and even strangers, I have yet to come across someone who is rude enough to imply that I don't work hard every day. Mind you, I don't get out much or interact with many adults, so that may be the reason. But even so, when it came time to resign from my previous job in public relations, my "working mom" friends were overwhelmingly supportive of my decision and still are.
Here's the thing: we were all judged by others before we became parents and we were all guilty of judging others before we became parents. So why does it sting so much more post-kids? I'll tell you why: mom guilt.
Parents, particularly moms, feel guilty all the time about everything – myself included. In fact, as I write this, Monk A and Monk B are watching a second consecutive episode of The Wiggles and I feel guilty because I read that TV will probably damage their brains in some way.
Letting one baby cry while I attend to the other.
Feeding them only formula from 3.5 months onward because pumping became too tiring and time consuming for me to bear any longer.
Feeding them jarred baby food instead of making my own.
Not sleeping training them properly.
The urge I get to throw them across the room at 3:00 a.m. in the morning, after two hours of listening to them scream.
Yelling or speaking unnecessarily harshly at them (most frequently occurs the day after #6). One particularly low point was when I actually swore at a six month old Monk A because he wouldn't drink his bottle.
The time I accidentally dropped a full jar of Desitin cream on Monk B's head.
Not talking to them enough during the day "in a constant stream" like the parenting books say I should.
Letting them watch too much television and probably damaging their brain cells. Or, at the very least, preventing new brain cells from forming.
Admittedly, I should feel guilty about some of these things (um, swearing at your baby isn't cool). But the truth is, I shouldn't feel guilty about most of the items on this list. And neither should you.
To say parenting is challenging is an understatement. At times, it pushes you to your absolute breaking point and beyond. It's a 24/7 unrelenting job that you're often performing in less than ideal conditions (for me, it's lack of sleep). But it's the job that you want to succeed at more than anything else in the world.
So this mom war we hear so much about? It's not really about a battle we have with each other. No, it's about the battle we wage with ourselves. And I say it's high time we call a truce.
You can't feed babies Starbucks.
I spotted one at first. Then two. Then a whole gang of them. We have ants. It's no surprise – like any house with young children, there is always food on the floor: fresh, organic, carefully prepared food. Heck, if I were an ant, I'd eat off my kitchen floor too.
To be honest though, I'm not a superstar in the kitchen. I don't enjoy cooking. I eat to live, not the other way around. For six years I worked at a busy PR agency where it was not uncommon to have Starbucks for lunch. In fact, Dan and I have mused about living in the future – with the Jetsons – where you get all your nutrients from a pill instead of having to grocery shop and prepare meals. That would suit me just fine.
Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it) when Monk A & B turned six months that had to change. You can't feed babies Starbucks.
I decided to try Baby Led Weaning (read this post) mostly so I could avoid the task of making my own baby food. When that didn't go exactly as planned I ended up feeding them some purees. Most of my friends made their own pureed baby food. I made some too, but 85 per cent of the time I bought jarred food from the store (gasp!). Note: for those who aren't familiar with the unspoken rules of urban parenting, buying baby food in jars is considered to be a no-no. Similar to feeding your children formula instead of breast milk. Or letting them sleep in a drawer. You know, all the things that will surely prevent them from becoming professional athletes or the next Steve Jobs.
Thankfully, there are still a few years before I have to figure out how to make a watermelon basket. In the meantime, Monk A & B will continue to eat wholesome, balanced, yet simple, meals. And the ants in my kitchen will continue to feast on the most wholesome, balanced crumbs they've ever tasted.
*Not to worry, we did purchase childproof ant traps. And a mop.
Monk A is crawling, standing and stepping. The time has come to baby proof our home.
We visited a special baby proofing store and purchased all the necessities: gates, outlet covers, cabinet locks, full body helmets. You know, the usual stuff. While we were there, the store's manager offered us their "safety consulting service". This means a person comes to your house, tells you why it's a death trap, and then makes it safe. No thank you, I say. I already have a guy who does all of that. When we get home, I call my dad.
My dad is my go-to person for installing, assembling and building items out of slabs of wood. Dan can do these things too, but my dad is a pro at constructing indestructible items. If there was ever a tornado to sweep through my parents' neighbourhood, I have no doubt the shelving units dad built in their garage would be the only things left standing in the pile of rubble.
When Dan's cousin came over a few months ago (she is expecting twins) I showed her our cribs. She asked what their safety rating was. All I could do was stare at her blankly. To be honest, I don't even know how to go about finding a safety rating for a crib. Or any item for that matter. I do, however, know that my dad drove to Walmart before we bought the cribs and did everything short of fall asleep in them himself to ensure they wouldn't fall apart. To me, that means more than any safety rating.
My dad agrees to install the gates.The next day he calls. He has done some research on the internet. He wants to be sure we have purchased the best gates, which apparently are KidCo. Luckily, we have indeed purchased KidCo gates. I'm happy to hear the internet says they are the best because, for the price we paid, they should be able to keep prisoners securely inside the Kingston Penitentiary.
I know, not the prettiest gate you've ever seen. To the naked eye, it may look like those slabs of wood were thrown on there haphazardly. But your naked eye is mistaken. Each piece was carefully measured, sawed and drilled. The corner bumper with masking tape was my own personal touch.
"Well, I better hit the road before rush hour," dad says, wiping the sweat from his brow and packing up his toolbox. I hesitate. There is still the matter of the front porch. You see, I like to sit on our porch with Monk A & B, but the front steps were becoming a bit of a problem, especially since there are no gates in existence designed to fit in this particular space (not even at the special baby-proofing store).
Not only has he designed and constructed a customized gate for our front porch, he has also stained it a lovely shade of grey (I like grey). The gate is installed without a hitch. Dad is pleased, I am pleased. Our neighbour is slightly confused as to why we have installed a large fence across the porch, but that's beside the point.
Dan and I can rest easy now knowing Monk A won't be falling down stairs or off the porch anytime soon. Next up? Installing those cabinet locks. Luckily, I have a guy who does that – for the babies, of course.


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Riding on the Wrong Side: British Riders are Better
Feb 08, 2016 at 1:00am ET
By: Chris Cope
Here's a theory: British riders have superior chops to their American counterparts...for now.
Fire up the hater machine: There's no way things are going to be civilized after a headline like that.
But if you haven't gone straight to the comments section to break your fingers typing a load of stereotype-driven vitriol (Bad teeth! Socialism! Rain! Russell Brand!), if you are actually still reading this, I'll explain why I think Britons are better motorcyclists than their American counterparts. And why I think Americans could stand to learn a few things from the Mother Country.
I hope you understand it hurts me to say that. I've developed a fondness for the UK over my years here, but not so much that I don't hate to admit anything British is in any way "better."
Food? No.
Music? No.
Weather? Definitely no.
Healthcare? More accessible, but no.
Police? Friendlier and considerably less shooty, but probably no.
When it comes to riding a motorcycle, however, I can't deny it: The people here do it better.
I'm speaking in general tones, of course. If you happen to be a championship racer or some such thing I'll wager your skills surpass those of some bloke named Nigel who's pootling about on his Triumph. Though, I'd also wager that if you pit Nigel against the average American motorcyclist, he'll come out the better rider.
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On the surface, if you compare the two countries, there's not much reason for this to be true. In both places, motorcyclists make up about the same small percentage of road users (roughly two percent). Both countries have a rich motorcycling history stretching back more than a century. Both countries have fostered motorcycle cultures that have influenced all other parts of the world.
It's true that Britain has more curvy roads per mile. The straightest road in Britain is 12 miles long and there's really only one like it. Whereas the straightest road in the United States is apparently 123 miles long and roads of its kind are so common you probably don't even notice. Obviously, being required to navigate more curves more frequently may help Britons sharpen their skills. But surely that can't be it entirely.
The weather might have something to do with it. We get a lot of rain in Blighty—a lot of gale force winds, too—so if you're going to ride more than five days a year you have to learn how to handle a bike in unpleasant conditions. Laura Llovet's recent article about riding in the rain suggests some Americans have developed these skills, but it seems most refuse to venture out if there's even a possibility of water from the sky.
Certainly it's true that Britain has considerably more commuting motorcyclists (and scooterists). Just last month, the Motorcycle Industry Association announced that sales of commuter motorcycles (i.e., 125cc or less) had reached a record high in the United Kingdom. Maybe the fact that more people ride more frequently is what makes the Brits better. Maybe, but again I'm not convinced. I mean, quite a lot of people commute on motorbikes and scooters in Hanoi, but I'm not sure that makes them masters of the craft.
If I had to peg the reason for British superiority to one thing, I'd say it would be tiered licensing. Yeah, that old chestnut.
Grumpy old Brit riders will tell you tiered licensing exists thanks to the European Union's incessant love of bureaucracy. They are, of course, forgetting Britain's far greater love of bureaucracy, which extends back centuries. And in the unlikely event that the UK does choose to withdraw from the EU this summer (bet you didn't know they're voting on that), I can all but guarantee they'll keep tiered licensing for motorcyclists. Heck, they might even make it more complex.
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These guys didn't face EU regulations.
Those old dudes are right, though, that the current system is guided by EU policy. So the system here is more or less the same you'll encounter in Ireland or France or Germany, etc. And guess what? Those guys are also (generally) better riders than Americans.
The reason tiered licensing makes for better riders is not so much because it restricts different ages to different machines (though there's an argument that may help), but because it creates multiple testing situations. More testing means more studying.
A British person riding from the age of 16 could potentially face seven different exams before attaining a full motorcycle license at the age of 24. There are ways to ignore a few of those tests, but even in the cases of people aged 24 and older, and therefore able to test directly to full-license status, there are a lot of hoops to jump through.
That latter route, known as Direct Access, is how I got my UK license. Much to my chagrin, British authorities saw no value in my US license, so I had to:
Earn a Compulsory Basic Training (CBT) certificate
Take a theory test
Take a "hazard perception" test
Take an on-the-bike test on a closed course
Take an on-the-bike test on the open road, being followed by an examiner who issued instructions via radio
Just the process of earning my CBT was more intensive than the Basic Rider Course I had taken as a teenager in Minnesota. When I took that BRC, I was in a group of 14 people under the direction of a single instructor. The group never left the safety of a YMCA parking lot. But at the end of the day I left with a license endorsement that meant I could go out and buy any size bike I wanted.
Whereas when I did my CBT in Britain, I was given one-on-one instruction (most UK training schools allow no more than three students per instructor) and spent several hours riding on public roads. Not to mention the hours of closed-course and classroom instruction. And at the end of it, I was still only at the beginning of the process. Legally, I was only allowed to ride a 125cc bike.
That may sound frustrating –– and it was –– but the process built my confidence. I did several more days of training to practice and prepare for the on-road tests (tested on a 600cc motorcycle) and when I finally earned my full license, I actually felt I had the ability to use it. Which isn't really how I had felt back when I was 18 and driving home from a YMCA parking lot.
Indeed, in the years between getting my US motorcycle endorsement and my moving to the UK, I never bought a bike of my own. I rode other people's bikes, crashed them, and soon acquiesced to my ex-wife's belief that those murdercycles were bad news.
So, although getting a US license was easier, the process didn't prepare me to use that license.
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The idea of tiered licensing in the United States has been discussed before on RideApart and the reaction has been pretty negative (even I was less than supportive of that particular vision). The basic response that people give is they don't want tiered licensing because Freedom.
Right. The freedom to crash. The freedom to pay high insurance rates because everyone else is crashing. The freedom to not know what you're doing, get scared and give up. The freedom to allow your insecurity to turn to animosity and have your bad behavior spoil it for others. The freedom to be irrelevant in transportation planning. The freedom to sit in traffic and suffer because the government thinks you're too stupid to lane split. The freedom to look across the water and see that just about everyone in Britain is a better rider than you and enjoys more freedoms and advantages as a result.
I think about this stuff a lot, because one day I want to come home. And I don't really want to be wistfully thinking back to these soggy nations when I'm out riding in America. I find a quaint charm in the idea of American exceptionalism, but I know you can't actually claim to be the best if you make no effort to be better.
In order for American motorcyclists to no longer hold our heads in shame, perhaps we may need to consider tiered licensing. Or, at least, far more stringent testing. Exactly how to fix it, though, I'm not sure. What would you do to improve things?
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Haley McKeown, winner of NVSO's 2019 Summerford Violin Concerto Competition. Photo by Marc McKeown.
Phoenix resident, Haley McKeown, was recently announced as the winner of a brand new handmade violin, valued at over $5,000, after competing in North Valley Symphony Orchestra's annual Summerford Violin Concerto Competition. Haley will perform Vivaldi's Violin Concerto in A minor on her new violin at NVSO's "Spring is in the Air" concert, March 9th 7:00 p.m., at North Canyon H.S. Performing Arts Auditorium (1700 E. Union Hills Rd.).
Haley began playing violin in 4th grade in her elementary school orchestra, and began private lessons just before entering 5th grade. In middle school, she started a quartet with a few close friends, then joined North Valley Symphonettes as concertmaster. She successfully auditioned into North Valley Youth Orchestra her freshman year, then into North Valley Symphony Orchestra (adult orchestra) her senior year. She is currently principal second violin for North Valley Youth Orchestra, and plays in the first violin section of the adult orchestra.
Haley had the honor of participating in Regional Honor Orchestra her last three years of high school, and played with the PVUSD District Honor Orchestra her senior year. She was a member of Tri-M while in high school, was concertmaster her senior year, and currently studies violin performance at Paradise Valley Community College. Additionally, Haley plays in the pit orchestra for Valley Youth Theatre. She will transfer to ASU in the fall of 2019, pursing a degree in violin performance, or music education.
This year's competition was held on January 27th. The application process for the competition consisted of composing answers to five essay questions, obtaining a letter of recommendation from outside the NVSO organization, and auditioning in front of a panel of judges. Applicants must also be members of North Valley Symphony Orchestra's Symphonettes, Youth Strings, or Youth Orchestra. The prize violin is donated every year by local luthier Jody Summerford, who recognizes the work that the NVSO artistic staff is doing to nurture and develop young musicians in the Phoenix community. Mr. Summerford was nominated by the AZ Citizens for the Arts for a Governors Award recognizing his philanthropic work for NVSO in 2017.
NVSO wishes to invite young strings players to join one of NVSO's youth orchestras for the 2019-20 concert season. Auditions for North Valley Youth Strings and North Valley Youth Orchestra will be scheduled May 19th and June 1st and 2nd. No audition is required for North Valley Symphonettes. For more information about membership in one of the youth performance groups, visit the website, northvalleysymphony.org, and click on the "Join Us" tab.


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McLaren confirmed Monday that 18-year-old Lando Norris will drive for its Formula 1 team in 2019.
The British youngster is already a test and reserve driver for the team and a contender in the 2018 Formula 2 Championship, where he currently ranks second.
He will replace current McLaren F1 driver Stoffel Vandoorne who will step down from the team at the end of 2018 after a two-year stint. The Belgian driver said he will announce plans for the next season in due course. Rumors of a seat at Sauber have been quashed but there's still an opportunity at Toro Rosso.
Norris' appointment at McLaren comes after it was confirmed in August that Spanish driver Carlos Sainz will replace compatriot Fernando Alonso at the team. Alonso retires from F1 at the end of 2018 after 17 years in the sport.
Prior to joining McLaren, Norris rose rapidly through the ranks in junior racing categories, winning the Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup, Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup and the Toyota Racing Series Championship all in 2016, in addition to five karting championships in the four previous years. Last year, he contested the European Formula 3 Championship, which he won at the first attempt.
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McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown in a statement said that Norris is an integral part in the F1 team's "rebuilding" for the future after a recent string of bad years. The team has already swapped from Honda to better performing Renault power units in 2018 and is currently ranked sixth in the Constructors' Championship.
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Having a variety of games up your sleeve can really help your cat's development and ease the bonding process between the two of you.
Play is beneficial for your cat in a multitude of ways and its importance can never be underestimated. First and foremost, play is exercise and with roughly half of all domestic cats reported to be overweight, the need to alleviate the effects of a largely sedentary lifestyle is strong.
By the same token, play relieves boredom. Time moves slowly for our feline friends, so eight hours cooped up on the sofa probably feels like a whole week at our office desks. Particularly if they're an indoor cat. Mental and physical stimulation helps us shake off the cobwebs of an arduous day, and it's the same for cats.
On a primal note, play reminds cats of exactly what they are, predators. As domesticated animals, our cats have been left largely unable to fulfil their calling as ruthless hunters, so play helps replicate the scenarios that are hardwired in their DNA.
Play is also a great bonding tool to bind you and your cat together.
What are the different types of cat play?
Certain cats will inevitably prefer particular types of game to others, it's just a question of personality.
You should get a sense for their preference through trial and error, but try and give them all a go. Your cat may be something of an all-rounder.
Which games should I play with my cat?
Here are just a few popular variants to get you and your cat in the mood.
Aerial attack: think toys that are attached by string to a stick controlled by you. Wave the toy above your cat's line of sight, encouraging them to attack with their paws, or leap into the air.
Remember: let your cat win, eventually. While they don't want it easy, a futile bid will frustrate them and ultimately make them feel inadequate.
Hide and seek: surprisingly enjoyable for all. Duck behind a bed, desk or sofa and wait to be stalked. You can also hide toys or other safe objects around the house.
Remember: switch off and your cat may creep up on you from unexpected vantage points.
Paper chase: crumple a piece of paper and roll it across the floor – the rest takes care of itself. Simple, but remarkably effective.
Remember: cats are very proud of their conquests, don't be surprised if it's hard work to get your paper back.
Ping pong: we're not suggesting unfolding the full-size table, simply bounce a table tennis ball against the floor or wall and watch your cat bounce along with it. Great for cognitive skill development, and very amusing.
Remember: you may get through a lot of balls, cheap ones will do.
Homemade fun: the best things in life are free – as is the case with many DIY kitty games. From dragging pieces of string across the carpet and watching them chase, to letting them loose on empty wool wheels, you don't need to splash out.
Remember: your DIY efforts haven't been safety checked as toys, so pay extra attention.
When should I not play with my cat?
Like all of us, sometimes cats just aren't in the mood – and it never pays to goad them into something they're not keen on.
Forcing them to play against their will could put them off playing altogether, so instead try gently encouraging them with a variety of toys and offering treats as incentives.
Remember, only ever use toys that are safe for cats and clear away once used. Never leave your cat unattended with a toy.


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Russia's government and central bank approve cryptos as currency
February 13, 2022 by meziesblog.com, posted in Uncategorized
Russia's government and its central bank have reached an agreement on how to regulate cryptocurrencies, according to a statement released by the government.
Photo by David McBee on Pexels.com
The agreement comes after the Bank of Russia last month proposed banning Bitcoin miners and other crypto operations because of concerns it may cause financial instability, citizens well-being, and its monetary policy sovereignty.
Russia's government and central bank are now working on a draft law that will define crypto as an "analogue of currencies" and not digital financial assets. The draft law is reportedly set to be launched on February 18.
The news outlet Kommersant noted that crypto's use as a currency must follow identity checks done through a "digital currency exchange organiser," i.e. a bank or licensed intermediaries.
Operations exceeding R600,000 (almost €7,000) must be declared, otherwise, it may be considered a criminal act. Those who also accept cryptocurrencies as payment will also incur fines, according to the document.
"The implementation of the concept will ensure the creation of the necessary regulatory framework, will bring the digital currency industry out of the shadows and create the possibility of legal business activities," the statement read.
In January, Russian President Vladimir Putin asked for a consensus to be found between the government and the central bank after the Bank of Russia's proposed crypto ban.
Putin acknowledged "certain risks" associated with cryptocurrencies, such as volatility, but also said there are "competitive advantages" in crypto mining but said he also saw advantages.
"The central bank does not stand in our way of technical progress and is making the necessary efforts to introduce the latest technologies in this area of activity," Putin told Russia's Federal Assembly.
With its cheap electricity, Russia is the third-largest country in the world for crypto mining, according to the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index.
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Joseph Beuys: Fond sculptures, Codices Madrid drawings (1974), and 7000 Oaks, a permanent installation furthering Beuys' Documenta 7 project
October 9, 1987–June 19, 1988, Dia Chelsea
Joseph Beuys, Brasilienfond (Brazilian Fond), 1979. © Joseph Beuys/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Photo: Bill Jacobson Studio, New York
Joseph Beuys viewed his Fonds as batteries—devices for receiving, storing, and sending energy. Stacked piles of felt supported by copper plates symbolized protective insulation, while the conductive qualities of the metals implied transmission. The charged nature of these works was palpable when standing next to the tall U-shaped rounds. Felt absorbed the surrounding sound waves, resulting in a dull pulsating silence, which gave the impression that the sculpture was literally teeming with energy. Beuys's practice of Social Sculpture, an effort to explore the power of art to affect social and political change, instilled a sense of agency within these works, allowing the material forms to radiate from within.
In 1974 Joseph Beuys conceived an edition of one thousand sketchbooks inspired by the discovery of two "lost" Leonardo da Vinci sketchbooks in the 1960s. Joseph Beuys: Zeichnungen zu den beiden 1965 wiederentdeckten Skizzenbücher "Codices Madrid" von Leonardo da Vinci (Joseph Beuys: Drawings After the Codices of Madrid of Leonardo da Vinci in 1965) was a unified body of these drawings, exhibited for the first time in 1998. This series of drawings elucidated Beuys's commitment to affect a marriage between art and science by referencing Leonardo's Codices Madrid, which for Beuys embodied "the unification of art and natural science." The artist conducted extensive research on da Vinci's notebooks in an effort to expand his own practice and reach a wider audience through publication. An edition detailing the exhibition was published in 1999.
Joseph Beuys was born in Krefeld, Germany, in 1921. He died in Düsseldorf in 1986.
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Joseph Beuys: Drawings After the Codices Madrid of Leonardo da Vinci
This publication studies and documents the encyclopedic series of drawings by Joseph Beuys.
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Comprising one hundred panels, two stacks of fat and metal plates, and an oil can, Arena—where would I have got if I had been intelligent! (1970/72), a major autobiographical work by Joseph Beuys, is documented here in this comprehensive, scholarly book for the first time in detail.
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11/08/2019 3:40 PM IST | Updated 11/08/2019 7:49 PM IST
This Eid, Kashmiris Are Cut Off From Their Family And Friends As Blackout Continues
For many Kashmiris, the joy has been sucked out of Eid.
By Betwa Sharma
Kashmiri women holds bags filled with essentials and walk past Indian paramilitary soldiers closing off a street in Srinagar on Aug. 10, 2019.
"Salaam Walekum, Mehvish," said a voice on the other end of a call from an unknown number.
It took Mehvish Baba a few seconds to recognise that it belonged to her "mamu"
(mother's brother). The rest of the conversation went like this:
"Are you fine?"
"We are fine. Do you need something?"
"Is naani okay?"
"He said, my naani (grandmother) was fine and then the call dropped," said the 27-year-old Kashmiri living in Gurgaon.
This 15-second conversation on Saturday morning was the first time in six days that Baba spoke with a family member in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), where the Indian government has severed mobile services and the internet in order to suppress any backlash against its decision to bifurcate the northern state, revoke its special status, and demote it to a Union Territory.
There was no time for Baba to bring up Eid ul Adha, one of the biggest festivals in Islam, which will be celebrated in Kashmir on Monday.
In fact, Baba, a program manager in the life insurance sector, has "no clue" how her uncle had managed to call her.
Did he call from one of the satellite phones given to high-ranking police personnel before the communication blackout, she wondered. Or did he stand for hours to use one of the two helpline numbers set up in the Development Commissioner's (DC) office in Srinagar on Thursday.
How long was queue that her uncle might have stood in, she wondered. Were her parents standing next to her uncle and listening?
Baba, who was supposed to fly out to Srinagar to celebrate Eid with her family, felt that she had no choice but to cancel her plan.
"I live 25 kilometers away from the airport. I have no clue how I will even reach home in the middle of curfew," she said. "This is the first time that I won't return home for Eid, but the saddest part is that I won't even be able to speak to my family and wish them on that day."
Kashmiris are used to curfews and curbs on the internet and mobile services — even on festivals — but the lockdown since 5 August has been unprecedented. In addition to internet and mobile services being severed, landlines and cable TV have also been suspended. Kashmiri media outlets have not been able to update their websites for a week. Over a 100 people, including politicians and activists, have been arrested.
The curfew — compounded by the communication blackout — has forced many Kashmiris living outside J&K to cancel their plans to go home for Eid.
Those who have had no communication with their family for seven days might even consider Baba lucky for being able to speak with a family member for 15 seconds.
Sameer Gojwari, a 32-year-old Kashmiri living in Mumbai, is worried sick about his parents and grandparents.
On Saturday, Gojwari, who works in a bank, said, "In a democratic country in 2019, I have not spoken to my family in seven days. Parents have to wait for hours to make a one minute call to their children. This is humiliating. This is unimaginable."
This is humiliating. This is unimaginable.
Srinagar calling
Even as the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government insists that people in J&K have welcomed the abrogation of its special status , a video of a violent protest in Soura, a locality on Srinagar, tweeted by the BBC on Saturday, suggests otherwise.
At least one Kashmiri, a 17-year-old from Srinagar, has been killed in the aftermath of the Modi government's decision, while more have been hospitalised with pellet injuries — some to their eyes.
It took the district administration four days — after blocking all internet and mobile services — to set up two helpline numbers in Srinagar for Kashmiris to reach friends and family members living in the mainland and overseas.
In 2018, J&K had almost 14 million telecom subscribers, and 1.92 million internet subscriptions, according to the Indian government's 2018 telecom statistics.
While the Modi government says the abrogation of Kashmir's special status will grow business and boost investment in the conflict-ridden region, telecom operators are losing an estimated Rs 4 to 5 crore a day in the wake of the shutdown. Local businesses, which have been shuttered for almost a week now, one Kashmiri businessman said, are "bleeding."
At this point, multiple petitions against the communication blackout have been filed in the Supreme Court.
Initially, two helpline numbers were set up in Srinagar, a city of 1.2 million people, but four more landlines were added, Shahid Chaudhary, the District Magistrate (DM) and Development Commissioner (DC) of Srinagar, told HuffPost India on Friday.
There are reports of people queuing up for hours to make phone calls that last barely a minute. These are people who manage to reach the DC's office in the middle of the curfew. There are others who either live too far or can't make it beyond a certain number of security checkpoints.
Total calls till 7:00 pm on Sunday, Chaudhary told HuffPost India, were 5,916. He did not clarify how many of these were incoming and how may were outgoing.
It is important to note that these helpline numbers are for residents of Srinagar city. The situation in the rest of Kashmir Valley, comprising ten districts, is unclear.
Chaudhary has announced that government is "shortly' setting up more than 350 helplines in Kashmir.
On Sunday, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) also tweeted out a helpline number for people to call for any "assistance or updates."
'Bitter sweet'
Political activist Shehla Rashid, who spoke to her mother on August 10 for the first time since the shutdown, said a "fair share" of people had received calls from their parents.
Regarding the conversation that she had with her mother, Rashid said, "I asked her whether she was alright, and she said yes, but I can't be sure. Parents are speaking from the DC office. They are not allowed to say much. I'm not sure if she was speaking her mind. It is a very censored environment."
Speaking to her mother after a week of heightened stress and worry, Rashid said was "bitter sweet."
"I feel content, more at ease, but it also makes me sad that I cannot speak with her the way that I want to. At the end of the day, I just needed to hear her voice. We all do," she said.
On Sunday, Rashid said that she had dispatched a handwritten letter to her mother through a friend who is traveling to Srinagar.
I'm not sure if she was speaking her mind. It is a very censored environment.
My mother navigated dozens of checkpoints and difficulties and called me from the DC Office. She was agitated, crying over the phone and asking where I am, if I've been arrested, whether I'm okay. Spoke to her after 7 days. I hope BJP pays for this, for separating families on Eid
— Shehla Rashid شہلا رشید (@Shehla_Rashid) August 10, 2019
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Patients calling
If the Modi government had to sever internet and mobile phone services in order to bifurcate J&K and revoke its special status, making alternate arrangements well in advance of the communication blackout is the least that the local administration could have done.
The fact that the two helpline numbers in Srinagar were set up four days after the communication blackout suggests that this in part a face saving exercise amidst growing criticism in the international media.
Some Kashmiris claimed to have tried the helpline numbers "hundreds" of times only to find the phone lines busy or unreachable.
Gojwari had tried calling the helpline numbers to not only get a message through to his family in Srinagar, but also for two Kashmiri siblings from Sopore, who were trying to reach their father after their mother, a cancer patient admitted in a hospital in Mumbai, took a turn for the worse.
Gojwari said that he knew of at least four cancer patients in Mumbai, who were trying to reach their families in districts other than Srinagar — Rajouri, Anantnag, Sopore and Samba (Jammu).
The families of the cancer patients, Gojwari said, need to be in touch with their relatives to call for things like money or a blood donor.
As of Saturday, Gojwari said, the siblings had not reached their father in Sopore.
That the long-suffering cancer patients cannot speak with their families on Eid, he said, was heartbreaking. "You have cut communication. This is inhuman."
You have cut communication. This is inhuman.
This is reality on ground...Parents gather to register their phone numbers at DC office in #Srinagar so that they can talk to their children outside #Kashmir and the wait ranges from one to three hours. The whole population is caged and communication snapped... pic.twitter.com/5QMP1jucal
— Hakeem Irfan (@HakeemIrfan) August 9, 2019
Cancelled plans
For the first time in the eight years since he left Kashmir, Gojwari will not return home to celebrate Eid with his family.
"This is distasteful. If they had to disrupt our lives, why not wait till after Eid. We all have such busy lives. This is the one time in the year that I can connect with my family, connect with my people. It's emotional," he said.
For Gojwari, leaving his wife and three-year-old son in Mumbai on their own is not an option. But he is equally scared of taking them to Kashmir, where they the might end up navigating a curfew to reach his house in downtown Srinagar, which tends to be a hotbed of protests, stone-pelting and retaliatory fire from the security personnel.
Seared into Gojwari's mind is that one day in 2016, when he got stuck in a curfew with his wife and son, then five-months old.
"I stopped at every barricade and begged my own people to let us go. I said, 'I am a family man. I have my wife and son with me.' It was humiliating," he said. "This kind of thing leaves a deep impact on a person."
As he talked about taking the 6:30 am flight to reach Srinagar in time to have tea with his family on Eid, every year, Gojwari sounded overwhelmed by the realisation that he won't even be able to speak with them — even to explain his absence to his grandparents.
"My grandparents are 80 years old. They look forward to my coming, every year. You know how grandparents are, They say, 'You must come. Who knows if we will be around next year.′ My grandmother counts the days until I return," he said.
Betwa Sharma Politics Editor, HuffPost India
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