Children TV programs have been in existence for many years. They get broadcasted during the morning and afternoon hours, but they can still run on during the evening hour. Many families give the children enough time for entertainment. In America, there channels designed for children, and they include cartoon, nickelodeon which gained popularity in 1980s and Disney channels. Nickelodeon has gained from the 1980, and it remains the most popular program of all the three programs (Barrie, 2000).
The programs are designed for children and they make the children busy and creative. They have images which makes the children gain interest in watching. The program comes at hours when children have relaxed, and they get the lesson in the program.
In many families in America, they have only one TV which they watch in the seating room. Each member of the family has his own specific program which he likes. The children get motivated to watch their programs, and they do not want to miss. When the children do not watch, they end up hating the other family members because of the denial of access to watch the program. There remains a question on which program to watch and conflict exists between families in America over TV programs (Barrie, 2000).
In America, a lot of families do not agree on which program to watch because most of the families have children as well as adults. Conflict exists within family members debating on which programs to watch or which one not to watch. Research shows that 20% conflict comes as a result of children programs in the TV. The children do not want to lessen to their parent or the elder people, because they have a motive that they deny them to watch the programs they like. The research showed that about 40% of American children get spoiled by the children programs and engage in ant social behaviour. They start causing conflicts from the family and in schools. Research shows that children TV programs cause 30% of family conflict (Barrie, 2000).
The programs watched in America include Nektons, teen nick and Disney XD. Family members argue on whether the programs can help or spoil. All the families contacted in the study had a number of arguments over each program. The arguments ranged from time the program haired, hours it takes and influence to the audience. All family members have a different perception over each program (Withey and Abeles, 1980).
The cartoon network program is watched by many children. Many families have a conflict over time they are scheduled. The elder family members do not want to watch them while the children do not want to miss. Family members have a conflict over time the cartoon network programs are scheduled. People watch four hours a day and their so many programs scheduled. In these hours, all individuals get concerned in watching their favorite program, and this makes family members have conflict (Barrie, 2000).
The measures taken to gather the information ranged from interviews and questionnaires. People did not want to give the information concerning the conflict in their families. The information should have been gathered in secrete. Disclosure of family name made the families feel insecure, and this should be avoided in order to improve the measures (Barrie, 2000).
Children should not watch the television without direct supervision by the guardian. All programs watched should have value to the child, but not imposing other attitude. Families should plan their time and set a program guide in order to identify which programs to watch at what time.


BT has a long history of engagement with the armed forces, dating back over 100 years when the General Post Office (GPO) made an important contribution to British defence and military programmes during the First World War. Over the following decades, BT has continued to build on this relationship through its major technology and people investments in commercial, networking and security operations across Government, including the MOD and the armed forces.
This relationship came to the fore between 2011-14, when Openreach, BT's local network division, needed to recruit field engineers in large volumes. During this time, over 2,000 armed forces Service leavers were recruited through a focused campaign, and since then Service leavers and veterans have been recognised as high quality recruits across BT.
In addition to recruitment, BT has numerous ongoing programmes to deliver its armed forces support agenda, which contribute to its Purposeful Business and Employee Engagement aims.
BT was one of the first signatories to the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant in 2013, and was awarded a Gold Award from the Employer Recognition Scheme in 2014 for its wide-ranging support to the armed forces and its people. Through its various military focused initiatives, BT is able to engage a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, including over 4,000 ex-armed forces employees. It also helps support one of BT's key corporate responsibility targets – for two thirds of employees to engage in volunteering by 2020.
Added to this, there are also operational level benefits. As Mark Arscott explains, between 2011-14, traditional channels were not be able to deliver the volumes required for recruiting into Openreach field engineering roles; over 2,000 ex-military personnel were recruited over that period, and Openreach has seen higher assessment centre pass rates, better retention and lower sick absence rates amongst ex-military employees, compared to non-military people in identical roles.
BT's Armed Forces Network helps promote a sense of community within the organisation and aid a more supportive culture for the transition of ex-military personnel; this has potential to deliver significant employee engagement benefits in the long term.
The costs to BT include staff time and related costs, in particular the creation of a dedicated Head of Military Engagement role, the time spent by employees involved with various mentoring and volunteering initiatives related to the armed forces, and supporting BT's Transition Force programme of workshops, buddying and work placements.
BT is planning to evolve military engagement initiatives further within the three main streams of Business Benefits, Employee Engagement and Purposeful Business Agenda. They are looking into developing joint training and skills accreditation with the Ministry of Defence to enable more effective transition of ex-military personnel into BT.
Volume recruitment continues to work effectively for Openreach engineering roles. Going forward, BT plans to continue recruiting ex-military people into as many parts of its business as possible, in particular operational and project management roles.


You can call this tag from inside a controller or GSP if you need to set any navigation values.
You can use this to "fudge" the current request's activation path. This is only necessary if there is no controller/action available on the current request, or if you need to simulate navigation while ignoring the real current activation path.
You may need to do this inside an error.gsp for example.
You can also set the current navigation scope, for example to use a generic layout that calls nav:primary to display your "admin" menu instead of the default "app" menu.


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Definition - What does Routing Table mean?
A routing table is a type of data file that acts as a map and is often installed on a router, networked computer or other hardware. The routing table contains information about various routes between devices in order to present the most efficient paths for data packets.
A routing table uses static and dynamic Internet protocol or IP addresses to identify devices, and works with an ARP cache that holds these addresses. The routing table is commonly referred to as a resource for finding the next hop, or subsequent route for a data packet. Static or dynamic routes may be compared in order to find the best path for data.
Part of the challenge of designing a routing table is in recording information on many devices with a fixed memory or storage space. There's also the issue of working with an ARP cache and correctly maintaining lists of available routes for data. This is often referred to as incorrect definition of the topology of a network. Other routing problems, such as black holes, which cause ineffective delivery, should also be considered when using a routing table.


That's how they made me"
Ideas pertaining to the 'modern movement' in architecture can be used to inform many of the debates and ideas that now surround the World Wide Web, Web 2.0 and indeed Media Studies 2.0.
There is a sense of post-modern euphoria that we have broken free from the past and that old modernist theories are as redundant as their hierarchies of class, culture and taste, to name but three; we have reached some kind of e-topia. These utopian concepts partly came out of the sixties counter culture that reacted against modernism's perceived authoritarianism- one thinks of Apple, a product of Californian sunshine and LSD, offering us an alternative world, a technological vision with a Byrdsian soundtrack, an alternative to the grey corporatism of the monolithic and historically dubious IBM. In eschewing modernist theories along with all the modernist inequities, are we in danger of throwing the theoretical baby out with the modernist bathwater?
In fact, the optimism surrounding the Internet and the World Wide Web as a communications tool has modernist utopian overtones, because modernism itself was, to many modernists, also a utopia. The web can be seen as a social condenser. The social condenser is a Soviet Constructivist theory about architectural space and how it has the ability to influence behaviour. Does not the 'architecture' of the WWW, a public space, break down perceived hierarchies and create an environment that allows and encourages communities to interact? Looked at this way, the computer becomes the liberation machine in a similar vein to modernism's architectural 'machines for living' that were meant to somehow improve us.
There are also ideas pertaining to the pre-psychedelia, 1950s modernism of the International Typographical Style and its demand for clarity in design that are useful to us when trying to articulate the utopian nature of the Web. In web design Usability Heuristics demands similar things from its designers. The doctrine of usability suggests that with usability comes sociability.
With post-modern utopian notions of connectivity and the transcendence of national, institutional and political boundaries, are we being starry eyed in our optimism, or should we be harking back to the days of clean lines and Soviet-style functionality? The belief that new media benefit society through their attack on perceived hierarchies, and that the web is a great leveller, can be countered by the equally valid argument that the Web is undermining intellectual authority, generating failed spaces that are hostile, that threaten individual and collective security and help to circulate false information and dangerous ideas.
Is the computer best understood, then, with reference to modernist or post-modernist ideas of utopia's and dystopia's?


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text:
using System;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Azure;
using Azure.Core;
using Azure.ResourceManager;
using Azure.ResourceManager.Relay.Models;
using Azure.ResourceManager.Resources;

namespace Azure.ResourceManager.Relay
{
    /// <summary> A class to add extension methods to Azure.ResourceManager.Relay. </summary>
    public static partial class RelayExtensions
    {
        private static SubscriptionResourceExtensionClient GetExtensionClient(SubscriptionResource subscriptionResource)
        {
            return subscriptionResource.GetCachedClient((client) =>
            {
                return new SubscriptionResourceExtensionClient(client, subscriptionResource.Id);
            }
            );
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Check the specified namespace name availability.
        /// Request Path: /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/providers/Microsoft.Relay/checkNameAvailability
        /// Operation Id: Namespaces_CheckNameAvailability
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="subscriptionResource"> The <see cref="SubscriptionResource" /> instance the method will execute against. </param>
        /// <param name="content"> Parameters to check availability of the specified namespace name. </param>
        /// <param name="cancellationToken"> The cancellation token to use. </param>
        /// <exception cref="ArgumentNullException"> <paramref name="content"/> is null. </exception>
        public static async Task<Response<RelayNameAvailabilityResult>> CheckRelayNamespaceNameAvailabilityAsync(this SubscriptionResource subscriptionResource, RelayNameAvailabilityContent content, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
        {
            Argument.AssertNotNull(content, nameof(content));

            return await GetExtensionClient(subscriptionResource).CheckRelayNamespaceNameAvailabilityAsync(content, cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Check the specified namespace name availability.
        /// Request Path: /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/providers/Microsoft.Relay/checkNameAvailability
        /// Operation Id: Namespaces_CheckNameAvailability
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="subscriptionResource"> The <see cref="SubscriptionResource" /> instance the method will execute against. </param>
        /// <param name="content"> Parameters to check availability of the specified namespace name. </param>
        /// <param name="cancellationToken"> The cancellation token to use. </param>
        /// <exception cref="ArgumentNullException"> <paramref name="content"/> is null. </exception>
        public static Response<RelayNameAvailabilityResult> CheckRelayNamespaceNameAvailability(this SubscriptionResource subscriptionResource, RelayNameAvailabilityContent content, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
        {
            Argument.AssertNotNull(content, nameof(content));

            return GetExtensionClient(subscriptionResource).CheckRelayNamespaceNameAvailability(content, cancellationToken);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Lists all the available namespaces within the subscription regardless of the resourceGroups.
        /// Request Path: /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/providers/Microsoft.Relay/namespaces
        /// Operation Id: Namespaces_List
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="subscriptionResource"> The <see cref="SubscriptionResource" /> instance the method will execute against. </param>
        /// <param name="cancellationToken"> The cancellation token to use. </param>
        /// <returns> An async collection of <see cref="RelayNamespaceResource" /> that may take multiple service requests to iterate over. </returns>
        public static AsyncPageable<RelayNamespaceResource> GetRelayNamespacesAsync(this SubscriptionResource subscriptionResource, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
        {
            return GetExtensionClient(subscriptionResource).GetRelayNamespacesAsync(cancellationToken);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Lists all the available namespaces within the subscription regardless of the resourceGroups.
        /// Request Path: /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/providers/Microsoft.Relay/namespaces
        /// Operation Id: Namespaces_List
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="subscriptionResource"> The <see cref="SubscriptionResource" /> instance the method will execute against. </param>
        /// <param name="cancellationToken"> The cancellation token to use. </param>
        /// <returns> A collection of <see cref="RelayNamespaceResource" /> that may take multiple service requests to iterate over. </returns>
        public static Pageable<RelayNamespaceResource> GetRelayNamespaces(this SubscriptionResource subscriptionResource, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
        {
            return GetExtensionClient(subscriptionResource).GetRelayNamespaces(cancellationToken);
        }

        private static ResourceGroupResourceExtensionClient GetExtensionClient(ResourceGroupResource resourceGroupResource)
        {
            return resourceGroupResource.GetCachedClient((client) =>
            {
                return new ResourceGroupResourceExtensionClient(client, resourceGroupResource.Id);
            }
            );
        }

        /// <summary> Gets a collection of RelayNamespaceResources in the ResourceGroupResource. </summary>
        /// <param name="resourceGroupResource"> The <see cref="ResourceGroupResource" /> instance the method will execute against. </param>
        /// <returns> An object representing collection of RelayNamespaceResources and their operations over a RelayNamespaceResource. </returns>
        public static RelayNamespaceCollection GetRelayNamespaces(this ResourceGroupResource resourceGroupResource)
        {
            return GetExtensionClient(resourceGroupResource).GetRelayNamespaces();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns the description for the specified namespace.
        /// Request Path: /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Relay/namespaces/{namespaceName}
        /// Operation Id: Namespaces_Get
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="resourceGroupResource"> The <see cref="ResourceGroupResource" /> instance the method will execute against. </param>
        /// <param name="namespaceName"> The namespace name. </param>
        /// <param name="cancellationToken"> The cancellation token to use. </param>
        /// <exception cref="ArgumentException"> <paramref name="namespaceName"/> is an empty string, and was expected to be non-empty. </exception>
        /// <exception cref="ArgumentNullException"> <paramref name="namespaceName"/> is null. </exception>
        [ForwardsClientCalls]
        public static async Task<Response<RelayNamespaceResource>> GetRelayNamespaceAsync(this ResourceGroupResource resourceGroupResource, string namespaceName, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
        {
            return await resourceGroupResource.GetRelayNamespaces().GetAsync(namespaceName, cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns the description for the specified namespace.
        /// Request Path: /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.Relay/namespaces/{namespaceName}
        /// Operation Id: Namespaces_Get
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="resourceGroupResource"> The <see cref="ResourceGroupResource" /> instance the method will execute against. </param>
        /// <param name="namespaceName"> The namespace name. </param>
        /// <param name="cancellationToken"> The cancellation token to use. </param>
        /// <exception cref="ArgumentException"> <paramref name="namespaceName"/> is an empty string, and was expected to be non-empty. </exception>
        /// <exception cref="ArgumentNullException"> <paramref name="namespaceName"/> is null. </exception>
        [ForwardsClientCalls]
        public static Response<RelayNamespaceResource> GetRelayNamespace(this ResourceGroupResource resourceGroupResource, string namespaceName, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
        {
            return resourceGroupResource.GetRelayNamespaces().Get(namespaceName, cancellationToken);
        }

        #region RelayNamespaceAuthorizationRuleResource
        /// <summary>
        /// Gets an object representing a <see cref="RelayNamespaceAuthorizationRuleResource" /> along with the instance operations that can be performed on it but with no data.
        /// You can use <see cref="RelayNamespaceAuthorizationRuleResource.CreateResourceIdentifier" /> to create a <see cref="RelayNamespaceAuthorizationRuleResource" /> <see cref="ResourceIdentifier" /> from its components.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="client"> The <see cref="ArmClient" /> instance the method will execute against. </param>
        /// <param name="id"> The resource ID of the resource to get. </param>
        /// <returns> Returns a <see cref="RelayNamespaceAuthorizationRuleResource" /> object. </returns>
        public static RelayNamespaceAuthorizationRuleResource GetRelayNamespaceAuthorizationRuleResource(this ArmClient client, ResourceIdentifier id)
        {
            return client.GetResourceClient(() =>
            {
                RelayNamespaceAuthorizationRuleResource.ValidateResourceId(id);
                return new RelayNamespaceAuthorizationRuleResource(client, id);
            }
            );
        }
        #endregion

        #region RelayHybridConnectionAuthorizationRuleResource
        /// <summary>
        /// Gets an object representing a <see cref="RelayHybridConnectionAuthorizationRuleResource" /> along with the instance operations that can be performed on it but with no data.
        /// You can use <see cref="RelayHybridConnectionAuthorizationRuleResource.CreateResourceIdentifier" /> to create a <see cref="RelayHybridConnectionAuthorizationRuleResource" /> <see cref="ResourceIdentifier" /> from its components.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="client"> The <see cref="ArmClient" /> instance the method will execute against. </param>
        /// <param name="id"> The resource ID of the resource to get. </param>
        /// <returns> Returns a <see cref="RelayHybridConnectionAuthorizationRuleResource" /> object. </returns>
        public static RelayHybridConnectionAuthorizationRuleResource GetRelayHybridConnectionAuthorizationRuleResource(this ArmClient client, ResourceIdentifier id)
        {
            return client.GetResourceClient(() =>
            {
                RelayHybridConnectionAuthorizationRuleResource.ValidateResourceId(id);
                return new RelayHybridConnectionAuthorizationRuleResource(client, id);
            }
            );
        }
        #endregion

        #region WcfRelayAuthorizationRuleResource
        /// <summary>
        /// Gets an object representing a <see cref="WcfRelayAuthorizationRuleResource" /> along with the instance operations that can be performed on it but with no data.
        /// You can use <see cref="WcfRelayAuthorizationRuleResource.CreateResourceIdentifier" /> to create a <see cref="WcfRelayAuthorizationRuleResource" /> <see cref="ResourceIdentifier" /> from its components.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="client"> The <see cref="ArmClient" /> instance the method will execute against. </param>
        /// <param name="id"> The resource ID of the resource to get. </param>
        /// <returns> Returns a <see cref="WcfRelayAuthorizationRuleResource" /> object. </returns>
        public static WcfRelayAuthorizationRuleResource GetWcfRelayAuthorizationRuleResource(this ArmClient client, ResourceIdentifier id)
        {
            return client.GetResourceClient(() =>
            {
                WcfRelayAuthorizationRuleResource.ValidateResourceId(id);
                return new WcfRelayAuthorizationRuleResource(client, id);
            }
            );
        }
        #endregion

        #region RelayNamespaceResource
        /// <summary>
        /// Gets an object representing a <see cref="RelayNamespaceResource" /> along with the instance operations that can be performed on it but with no data.
        /// You can use <see cref="RelayNamespaceResource.CreateResourceIdentifier" /> to create a <see cref="RelayNamespaceResource" /> <see cref="ResourceIdentifier" /> from its components.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="client"> The <see cref="ArmClient" /> instance the method will execute against. </param>
        /// <param name="id"> The resource ID of the resource to get. </param>
        /// <returns> Returns a <see cref="RelayNamespaceResource" /> object. </returns>
        public static RelayNamespaceResource GetRelayNamespaceResource(this ArmClient client, ResourceIdentifier id)
        {
            return client.GetResourceClient(() =>
            {
                RelayNamespaceResource.ValidateResourceId(id);
                return new RelayNamespaceResource(client, id);
            }
            );
        }
        #endregion

        #region RelayNetworkRuleSetResource
        /// <summary>
        /// Gets an object representing a <see cref="RelayNetworkRuleSetResource" /> along with the instance operations that can be performed on it but with no data.
        /// You can use <see cref="RelayNetworkRuleSetResource.CreateResourceIdentifier" /> to create a <see cref="RelayNetworkRuleSetResource" /> <see cref="ResourceIdentifier" /> from its components.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="client"> The <see cref="ArmClient" /> instance the method will execute against. </param>
        /// <param name="id"> The resource ID of the resource to get. </param>
        /// <returns> Returns a <see cref="RelayNetworkRuleSetResource" /> object. </returns>
        public static RelayNetworkRuleSetResource GetRelayNetworkRuleSetResource(this ArmClient client, ResourceIdentifier id)
        {
            return client.GetResourceClient(() =>
            {
                RelayNetworkRuleSetResource.ValidateResourceId(id);
                return new RelayNetworkRuleSetResource(client, id);
            }
            );
        }
        #endregion

        #region RelayHybridConnectionResource
        /// <summary>
        /// Gets an object representing a <see cref="RelayHybridConnectionResource" /> along with the instance operations that can be performed on it but with no data.
        /// You can use <see cref="RelayHybridConnectionResource.CreateResourceIdentifier" /> to create a <see cref="RelayHybridConnectionResource" /> <see cref="ResourceIdentifier" /> from its components.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="client"> The <see cref="ArmClient" /> instance the method will execute against. </param>
        /// <param name="id"> The resource ID of the resource to get. </param>
        /// <returns> Returns a <see cref="RelayHybridConnectionResource" /> object. </returns>
        public static RelayHybridConnectionResource GetRelayHybridConnectionResource(this ArmClient client, ResourceIdentifier id)
        {
            return client.GetResourceClient(() =>
            {
                RelayHybridConnectionResource.ValidateResourceId(id);
                return new RelayHybridConnectionResource(client, id);
            }
            );
        }
        #endregion

        #region WcfRelayResource
        /// <summary>
        /// Gets an object representing a <see cref="WcfRelayResource" /> along with the instance operations that can be performed on it but with no data.
        /// You can use <see cref="WcfRelayResource.CreateResourceIdentifier" /> to create a <see cref="WcfRelayResource" /> <see cref="ResourceIdentifier" /> from its components.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="client"> The <see cref="ArmClient" /> instance the method will execute against. </param>
        /// <param name="id"> The resource ID of the resource to get. </param>
        /// <returns> Returns a <see cref="WcfRelayResource" /> object. </returns>
        public static WcfRelayResource GetWcfRelayResource(this ArmClient client, ResourceIdentifier id)
        {
            return client.GetResourceClient(() =>
            {
                WcfRelayResource.ValidateResourceId(id);
                return new WcfRelayResource(client, id);
            }
            );
        }
        #endregion

        #region RelayPrivateEndpointConnectionResource
        /// <summary>
        /// Gets an object representing a <see cref="RelayPrivateEndpointConnectionResource" /> along with the instance operations that can be performed on it but with no data.
        /// You can use <see cref="RelayPrivateEndpointConnectionResource.CreateResourceIdentifier" /> to create a <see cref="RelayPrivateEndpointConnectionResource" /> <see cref="ResourceIdentifier" /> from its components.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="client"> The <see cref="ArmClient" /> instance the method will execute against. </param>
        /// <param name="id"> The resource ID of the resource to get. </param>
        /// <returns> Returns a <see cref="RelayPrivateEndpointConnectionResource" /> object. </returns>
        public static RelayPrivateEndpointConnectionResource GetRelayPrivateEndpointConnectionResource(this ArmClient client, ResourceIdentifier id)
        {
            return client.GetResourceClient(() =>
            {
                RelayPrivateEndpointConnectionResource.ValidateResourceId(id);
                return new RelayPrivateEndpointConnectionResource(client, id);
            }
            );
        }
        #endregion

        #region RelayPrivateLinkResource
        /// <summary>
        /// Gets an object representing a <see cref="RelayPrivateLinkResource" /> along with the instance operations that can be performed on it but with no data.
        /// You can use <see cref="RelayPrivateLinkResource.CreateResourceIdentifier" /> to create a <see cref="RelayPrivateLinkResource" /> <see cref="ResourceIdentifier" /> from its components.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="client"> The <see cref="ArmClient" /> instance the method will execute against. </param>
        /// <param name="id"> The resource ID of the resource to get. </param>
        /// <returns> Returns a <see cref="RelayPrivateLinkResource" /> object. </returns>
        public static RelayPrivateLinkResource GetRelayPrivateLinkResource(this ArmClient client, ResourceIdentifier id)
        {
            return client.GetResourceClient(() =>
            {
                RelayPrivateLinkResource.ValidateResourceId(id);
                return new RelayPrivateLinkResource(client, id);
            }
            );
        }
        #endregion
    }
}

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We did say that it would be hard to imagine another month of the Season that would boast the kind of spectacular goals we saw in August and whilst we weren't wrong, there were some very good (and important) goals scored this month.
With none of September's efforts struck from outside the 18 yard box, it's not quite the feast of outstanding, jaw-dropping, rocket-like efforts which we enjoyed in August. Nevertheless, September saw the Exiles continue a great run of form which currently sees them just outside the playoffs and the goals that got them there were the kind of thing that would see a manager rubbing his hands as yet another training-ground routine comes good.
So, here are your September Goal of the Month contenders.
An excellent team goal with quick passing and great movement was finished neatly by Tom Hillman when the U18s side played Exeter this month. The move begins with a throw-in on the half way line and seven touches later is hitting the back of the net. A special mention must go to the back-heal assist. A beautifully worked goal from the lads and a strong contender for September's Goal of the Month.
Mickey Demetriou scored twice against a solid Crawley side at the Checkatrade.com Stadium earlier this month with a move straight off the training ground. After he fired a warning shot (a header nodded just past the post), he converted the next two corners into goals leaving the Crawley defenders stunned. The defender's second was arguably more impressive, with the centre-back beating his opposite number and finding the top left corner from the edge of the six-yard box.
Whilst the performance and the result might not have been what the Exiles wanted when they made the trip to Morecambe this month, there can be no critisism for the way they equalised the match. Bennett registered his first League since January 2015 to toe home at the near post after some good work from fellow centre-back, Mickey Demetriou.
Padraig Amond notched his second goal in as many home appearences for the Exiles when his quick reactions meant he side footed home the winning goal against Cheltenham earlier in the month. Ben White's shot was going well wide but Amond finished cutely at the back post to win the game for County.
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Natural light is rare and clocks even rarer at casino-resorts on the Las Vegas Strip. That's just one of many reasons why Eataly Las Vegas at Park MGM is a breath of fresh air. Opening to the public on December 27, the 40,000 square-foot culinary destination is spacious and airy with soaring ceilings, tons of windows, and yes, even a clock.
Not that you won't lose track of time among two restaurants, one cafe, three bars, an educational chef's table, a marketplace with six fresh counters, several take-away eateries and 5,000-plus retail products (2,000 of which were never before available in Las Vegas). Open 24 hours a day, there's plenty to do, see and learn, whether grabbing a bite of pizza alla pala, admiring the skills of an expert pastaio, shopping for and sampling imported Italian wine, ogling the meat in the marketplace or spinning three times for good luck on a replica of Milano's iconic bull.


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Posted on March 22, 2015 June 20, 2018 by CMKL
Living in a region famous for a very specific and distinct product, namely Cognac, demands of the newbie resident to learn all he or she or both together in our case, can unearth about it. In order to become more familiar with this mysterious eau-de-vie, this water-of-life, one should taste it, n'est-ce pas, which in turn necessitates one or more visits to a distillery. There are more than 140 cognac producers listed in the encyclopedia of cognac, including the Great Cognac Houses, whose names are globally recognized – Otard, Hennessy, Rémy Martin, Martell, Meukow and so forth. Collectively these businesses farm the almost 200 000 acres or 80 000 Ha of the official AOC Cognac wine region. Additionally, there are any number of small family distilleries, called Brouilleurs de Cru after the 'Brouillis' the brandevin (Brandy) collected from the first distillation pass. Most of the big guys sell tickets for guided tours, similar to tours we've taken in the past when visiting Bourbon whiskey producers like Maker's Mark & Wild Turkey in Kentucky. Lately, however, we've enjoyed more to visit owner operated individual wine domaines in the Languedoc and Bordeaux regions, so we thought, we'll try the same for cognac and pineau, cognac's little sister.
Last week we attempted to do just that and visit a cognac domaine, but, alas, we were informed that tours were presently not available, so sorry. A couple of days later, on the spur of the moment, I called another cognac and pineau producer, the Domaine de Chadeville in Segonzac, the heart of hearts of cognac country. Low and behold, Monsieur was amenable to a visit that very afternoon. The Gourry de Chadeville family has cultivated Ugni Blanc, Folle Blanche & Colombard grapes and distilled them into Eaux-de-vie through fifteen (15!) generations. Their name was first recorded as brandy distillers in 1619, which makes the Gourry family the oldest known continuous viticulturist and distiller. Several (copies of) documents from the 17th century are on display in their distillery and attest to the family's tax-paying diligence. There's also a bill of lading for an eau-de-vie shipment from La Rochelle to Rotterdam in 1735.
The calcified mollusks on the mantel were found in the vineyards
"The King's Dime" one of the Gourry tax documents
Since the character of the grapes used for the distillation of cognac largely depends on the soil in which the vines grow, geology is the deciding factor for a specific location of the Cognac Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée [controlled designation of origin] the Cognac AOC. If you have never been to France, you can scarcely imagine, how important an AOC label is for any given agricultural product. The designation is granted only to products cultivated in a clearly defined area, the terroir [land, territory], and must possess certain specific characteristics, which are determined by factors typical for that location and nowhere else. The AOC certificates are awarded by the National Institute of Origin & Quality (INAO). The first such recognition was granted to Roquefort cheese in the year 1411 and it has remained an AOC product ever since. To this day, only blue cheeses aged in the Cambalou caves of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon may be called Roquefort. Terroir is the significant term here. Terroir means land, certainly, but in a sense of our neighborhood, our home, our past and our future. It implies regional importance but is nevertheless more a cultural concept than a locality.
Since 1936, the vineyard acreage encompassing the Cognac AOC has been geographically subdivided into six Crus, based on soil composition:
In the very heart of the AOC, between the rivers Charente and Né, we find the Premier Cru called Grande Champagne [not to be confused with the bubbly stuff called "Champagne". The word simply derives from the Latin 'Campania' open field]. A prehistoric sea left a rich sediment of calcified ocean critters from Mesozoic times in this area, and the Ugni Blanc vines agree especially well with this chalky limestone ground and ripen with the extra acidity required for distillation. As we learned during our visit to the Domaine de Chadeville, grapes intended to become cognac are not fit for traditional winemaking. The distillation process only works with grapes of high acidity and their natural fermentation must result in a relatively low alcohol content. More about the distillation process later. The Grande Champagne eaux-de-vie need the longest time of all the crus to mature. The Petite Champagne cru has more clay mixed in with its chalky soil and the distillation can develop stronger floral bouquets than the Grande Champagne grapes. The smallest cru is the Borderies, which is said to carry the aroma of violets. It matures faster than the Petite & Grande Champagne eaux-de-vie. And so it continues in concentric circles around the Grand Champagne cru with the respective eaux-de-vie based on vines within their area requiring less time to mature and show somewhat less expressive and refined bouquets, nose and aroma.
But how are these precious fluids created? What about the distillation? How do the beautiful copper stills called alambics or alembics in English, do their job? If you happen to be a biologist like myself, you surely remember your biochemistry labs, when you distilled this or that dangerous substance in a retort, right? For lay people, please remember the three states of any given substance, gaseous, fluid and solid. To purify a substance and reveal its essence, you carefully heat it until the gaseous vapors of the desired extraction arise, which are then cooled into their liquid state. It is the responsibility of the Maître de Chai, the cellar master, with his or possibly her expertise to set up and supervise the entire distillation process. I don't know if there are any Maitresse de Chai* in the cognac realm, as there are in winemaking.
Moving onward from this basic alchemist premise, an eau-de-vie is distilled from the fermented grape juice. To capture the essence of the naturally fermented Must of Ugni grapes, the grape soup has to be heated in the still's boiling chamber to release its fragrant vapors at the alcoholic boiling point of around 70ºC. These precious alcoholic vapors will rise from the Chaudière through the Chapiteau & Col de Cygne, the swan's neck of the alambic apparatus, then pass through the warming spaces of the Réchaufffé onion dome, to be cooled back into liquid form along the length of the copper coils of the Serpentin, where the dripping liquids of this first distillation pass, the Brouillis, are collected to be vaporized once more in the second pass, la Bonne Chauffe. That's the short version. [see diagram below]
In a double distillation to produce cognac, the original alcohol content of the grape must of around 8% is concentrated to about 30% in the brouillis, which is then further purified to 70% alcohol by volume in the bonne chauffe. The maximum alcohol level allowed by law is 72.4% abv. at 20ºC. Naturally, the maître de chai supervises both distillations very carefully. The first pass takes about eight hours to complete, the bonne chauffe usually requires twelve hours. One of the most critical responsibilities for the cellar master to perform is the separation and preservation of only the desired portion of the bonne chauffe. During this second pass, the early fluid released from the cooling coil of the serpentin is almost pure ethanol. This Tête or head, as it is called, has no character and must be discarded. Equally the last fluids emerging from the serpentin, the Secondes, seconds and the tails, the Queues containing many impurities must not contaminate the precious heart of the distillation. The Cœur alone, representing only about 40% of each second distillation shall become cognac. It is the responsibility of the maître de chai to perform this all-important Coupe, the cutting of the bonne chauffe. The reputation of a House of Cognac rests with his talent and expertise to collect the proper cœur for the current year's eau-de-vie.
So far, we only have the potential for a great tipple. The cœur consists of crystal clear 140 proof eau-de-vie, as yet undrinkable. The next step in the process of cognac making is the aging of the eaux-de-vie in oak casks. The aging lowers the alcohol concentration through evaporation, and it adds flavor and color to the future cognac by leaching tannins and aromatics from the oak into the eau-de-vie. Only oak trees from either the Limousin or the Trançais forests may be used for cognac barrels. Since evaporation is limited to an alcohol loss of around 3% per year, most younger cognacs are 'reduced' by adding distilled water. But one can find very old cognacs, which have matured solely through evaporation. Again, it's the responsibility of the cellar master to decide all the components related to the aging of his cognacs, from oak selection to reduction, as well as the length of aging in the oak casks. Another step in the eau-de-vie maturation into cognac is the blending. Each cellar master has his own 'nose' of blending different crus and different ages of maturation into an exciting and balanced finished product to be bottled with pride. In this respect, cognac making is similar to creating perfume. For both, you need a human with a special talent to capture all subtle nuances of bouquets and aromas.
In addition to the human nose in the shape of talented cellar masters, many laws regulate the cognac production. In France everything and his uncle is regulated to within an inch of life itself, thus the process of distilling cognac has more rules than Genghis Khan's army had horses. Including but not limited to the precise dimensions and product output of a Charentaise Alambic still. The entire still has to be made of copper with brass clamps and joints. The copper cucurbit (bulbous heating chamber or chaudière) and all other parts of the still which are being heated have to be enclosed in brick. Maximum and minimum capacities for distillation batches are just as minutely predetermined as are alcohol content, purity, allowed and disallowed additives, grape varieties, length of maturation/aging of eaux-de-vie, type of wood for aging barrels, and so forth ad Infinitum. Even the spacing of the vines to each other in the vineyards is regulated. It's a good thing the Gourry family has been doing this for almost 400 years. It must be utterly daunting for a newcomer!
Equally, though, there is great romance associated with a beloved traditional process or custom. Among the legends surrounding the making of cognac, there's one which really stands out. It's the story of the origin of double distillation. Once upon a time, there was a knight by the name of Chevalier Jacques de la Croix-Maron de Segonzac. He was as pious as he was chivalrous, writing poetry and praying through the night in his candle-lit chamber.
The Chevalier's crest shows the Holy Cross surrounded by three chestnuts
One night, so the legend goes, our deeply religious knight dreamed that the devil himself put him in a cauldron and boiled the bejeebers out of him in order to force him to renounce his beloved Jesus Christ. To no avail! The knight's belief was too strong and he hung on to his soul. But the devious Lord of the Underworld didn't give up so easily. He captured the knight again and boiled him a second time to finally rip out his immortal soul. Thus, when the knight awoke from his nightmare, he experienced a eureka moment and, voilá, double distillation was born.
Lower left corner: brick-enclosed wine boiler, topped by its 'Big Tent' with the swan neck pipe going through the second boiler …
…. into the coiled pipe inside the cooling tank.
Several years ago, we were traveling through the Gers department, the traditional Armagnac country. Armagnac is also an eau-de-vie, a fruit schnapps or brandevin based on grape juice. It's a spirit, just like cognac, but it's not double distilled like its brother next door in the Charente. I remember people saying to us with a wink: "Well, we don't have to double distill Armagnac. It's perfect after the first pass!" That, my friends, is terroir! Hometown pride!!
One last tidbit for your entertainment. Indubitably you have noticed a film of black soot over walls and objects in my pictures of the Domaine de Chadeville distillery.
That is not actually soot, but a fungus called Baudoinia compniacensis. This small, harmless organism feeds on the "Angels' Share", the alcohol that evaporates from the cognac in their oaken casks during the aging process. Little is wasted in nature, so this ethanol becomes fungus food. The taxman has been known to cruise the villages hunting for moonshine operations – identifying them by their blackened walls.
We had the most amazing time at the Domaine de Chadeville, where M. Gourry, the maître de chai himself spent over two hours explaining this mystery called Cognac to us. During our visit, he even offered us a taste of their private family ambrosia, a sip of 100-year-old cognac. That's the golden fluid in the top picture.
Domaine Gourry de Chadeville
* Addendum: Three years later, in June of 2018, we learned of a highly respected female Maître de Chai, Madam Anne Sarteaux, who creates the cognacs of the Maison Meukow, a globally known cognac house.
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Ramapo College cruises past William Paterson University, 108-85
Sunil Sunder Raj
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After suffering their first defeat of the season in overtime last Saturday at New Jersey City University, held to their lowest output and held without a three-point field goal, the Ramapo College Roadrunners were looking to bounce back at the Bradley Center against William Paterson University on Wednesday night.
The Roadrunners (15-1, 9-1 NJAC) responded in resounding fashion with six players in double figures, led by junior forward Nick Stanek pouring in a game-high 20 points and 12 rebounds as the team cracked the century mark for the second time this season. Ramapo shot lights out from the field at nearly 60 percent and knocked down 6 of 12 three-pointers.
"I was anxious to see how we would bounce back and definitely did so," head coach Chuck McBreen said. "We were very happy Stanek stepped up with Tommy (Bonacum) injured and came off the bench with a double-double and very big for us."
"Jimbo probably had his best game of the season," McBreen continued. "Our M.O. is to win the points in the paint and are in the top ten in field goal percentage in the nation and pounded it inside. We ended up shooting near 60 percent for the game and shot 65 percent in the 2nd and shot the three at 60 percent."
Despite a foul-plagued contest where the refs assessed almost 50 personal fouls, both teams' shot the ball extremely well, especially from beyond the arc in the first half. Leading 19-16 with 13 minutes left, the Roadrunners utilized their size, unselfish passing and transition buckets to go on a 15-2 run. Ramapo maintained the intensity on the offensive side expanding the lead to 45-26 with less than five minutes remaining. However, the Pioneers stormed back due to draining shots from distance (10 for 17) and energized by senior guard Joseph Taylor delivering 18 of his game-high 28 points and sizzling from three-point range draining 7 of 12 shots trimming the Roadrunners lead to 56-48 at intermission.
"We had one bad lull with five minutes to go up by 19 and only given up 24 points in the first 15 minutes but 24 in the last five," said McBreen. "We didn't cover anybody and that was probably the only part of the game we were not in control but other than that in control most of the way."
Ramapo came out of the locker room motivated on both ends boosting the lead to 65-50 while holding William Paterson without a field goal for over four minutes. The Pioneers continued to be scrappy chipping the Roadrunners advantage down to 71-63 with a 9-0 run. Ramapo put it away for good with a 23-12 run and relying on their low post play from senior forward Sultan Aminu (16 points) and junior forward Christopher Moseley (13 points).
The Roadrunners hit the road for the next two games before returning to the Bradley Center next Wednesday against Montclair State University. On Saturday Ramapo will be at Stockton University (9-6, 4-5 NJAC) with tip-off at 1:00 p.m. The Ospreys have won the last three NJAC Championships.
"A big game for us with Stockton on Saturday and they beat New Jersey City last week who just beat us and they are good at home," said McBreen. "A dominant program over the last three years and won the league. A big test for us going on the road and down there and we will see if we can start another streak. We have a big 10 days coming up with 4 games and at the end of the day a big stretch for us and saying it all year taking it one at a time."
Since July of 2014 Sunil Sunder Raj has been with In The Zone. Sunil has experience covering minor league baseball, high school and college sports. A beat writer for the Rockland Boulders for six years, Ramapo College men's basketball for four years, NJIT men's basketball and Seton Hall women's basketball. Now focusing on feature articles about athletes, coaches and sports media professionals. A graduate of Ramapo College of New Jersey with a bachelor of arts degree in journalism.
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Mama Kenyatta is a respected local elder and women's leader among the Turkana people of Isiolo, in central Kenya. Founder of an all-Turkana women's group in 1992, Mama Kenyatta works for the self-improvement of local women and families and for pride in Turkana cultural heritage and traditions. One of her grave concerns, besides constantly making ends meet, is that the young are losing the knowledge, awareness, and language of their people. Mama Kenyatta uses the women's group to pass on cultural values and practices of the Turkana to younger women amid a rapidly changing world.
Like other pastoralist groups throughout East Africa, the Turkana face increasing pressures to migrate from their ancestral homelands around Lake Turkana and settle into a largely alien agricultural life. These pressures make them subordinates to other ethnic groups that have long been in control of agricultural lands and expose the Turkana to new influences, languages, and cultures in the urban centers to which they are drawn.
These new influences have rapidly pervaded Turkana life, destabilized traditional relations, and caused young Turkana people to lose touch with their heritage. This is why Mama Kenyatta has made her women's group a focal point for Turkana pride and cultural celebration in Isiolo. Her efforts speak to an age-old problem: how can people maintain their traditions amid the powerful effects of urbanization, exploitation, and new life circumstances?
Isiolo is the quintessential frontier town. Situated at the edge of the great Northern Desert, it is the `last chance' of Kenya's central highlands. Only 35 kilometers northwest of the lush, verdant Meru town, Isiolo sits astride the northbound tarmac atop a hot, semiarid, windswept plain. With a large population of Somali, Boran, and Turkana settlers and a gleaming white mosque signaling the predominance of Islam, Isiolo is worlds apart from largely Christian Meru town to the south, where Bantu-speaking people cultivate tea and coffee on the rich, gentle slopes of Kirinyaga (Mt. Kenya). In Isiolo, only irrigation schemes stand between meager crops and a harsh desert.
Turkana people are caught in the complex history of land use in the Isiolo region. As in many other regions of Kenya, Isiolo land has been distributed within networks of patronage and exploitation. The principal landowners of the district are Meru and Kikuyu settler families who left their own overcrowded home areas for better prospects. Though predominant in the central highlands to the south, the Meru and Kikuyu people of Isiolo are a minority made wealthy by their political and economic ties with the towns and government offices of the highlands. Along with a few Somali families, Meru and Kikuyu business people have also monopolized the trading, merchandising, and real estate sectors of the region.
The poorest groups, such as the Turkana, are effectively barred from these more lucrative sectors of the region's economy. For them, smallscale farming on parched, alkaline soil is the primary source of livelihood. Their struggle is compounded by the fact that they have no agricultural tradition. Only one or two generations ago, most families like Mama Kenyatta's had plied their livelihood from pasturing cattle. Successive wars, droughts, famines, and the enclosure of pastoral lands by the government have forced many of the Turkana to migrate from their ancestral homes around the vast jade expanse of Lake Turkana in the very north of Kenya. In their new homes to the south, they have found land to be tightly constrained and controlled by the well-connected Meru and Kikuyu families. The Turkana eke out a living through sharecropper-like arrangements, working Meru and Kikuyu lands for a pittance. While many own at least some small plots of land, nearly all of the Isiolo Turkana supplement their paltry returns with day labor on large Kikuyu and Meru farms. It is in this context that Mama Kenyatta founded the first all-Turkana women's group in the Isiolo region.
Women's groups in Kenya are made up of predominantly rural, Christian women from agriculturalist ethnic groups (see sidebar). There are very few pastoralist women's groups since pastoralists (Maasai, Samburu, Turkana) do not have a strong tradition of collective labor parties or mutual assistance organizing among women, unlike the Meru, Kikuyu, and Kamba of the fertile highlands. However, as pastoralist groups were settled in newly opened agricultural areas, they adapted certain practices of their Meru and Kikuyu neighbors who were often their patrons, landlords, and employers. Thus, this mixing of ethnicities and cross-cultural adaptation around towns such as Isiolo influenced traditionally pastoralist groups, such as the Turkana, to join women's groups founded by the Meru and Kikuyu women.
In 1983, Mama Kenyatta joined her first group called Muwere Women's Group. Like most women who join groups, Mama Kenyatta saw it as a chance to help herself and her family. This particular group was comprised of Meru and Turkana women, and conducted a `merry-goround' (see sidebar on p. 20) for purchasing goats for each member. Soon after she joined, however, she became aware of the inherent inequality between members based on their ethnic background. "The Meru women weren't doing anything," Mama Kenyatta recalls. "They `ate' everything and used up all the money for improvements on their own lands." Moreover, the group meetings were in Kiswahili, despite the fact that the Turkana women had very little knowledge of the language.
According to Mama Kenyatta, the Meru women had an educational advantage and connections to influential people in town. The Meru members were literate-many of them teachers. As Mama Kenyatta recalls, they exploited Turkana women's illiteracy and ignorance for their own gain, often not even bringing their own money into the merry-go-rounds. Mama Kenyatta told us that the Meru women would say Waturkana ni wajinga, meaning "the Turkana are stupid," to their faces.
Tired of being exploited and cheated, Mama Kenyatta decided to start an all-Turkana women's group in 1992 called Kitamaduni, meaning `cultural' in Swahili. Although Turkana women do not have a tradition of women's groups, Mama Kenyatta and others learned from first-hand experience how to run a group-and how not to run a group. Mama Kenyatta felt that there would be many advantages to an all-Turkana women's group; she explains that "Turkana women won't cheat each other and they can use their mother tongue for group meetings and discussions"-an important factor in accountability.
Just as important, however, was the role the group would play in revitalizing Turkana culture. Mama Kenyatta conceived the group as a place where knowledge of Turkana culture and language could be kept alive and passed on to younger women. Through their participation in the group, "the young women learn the Turkana songs, dances, crafts, traditions, and stories we learned from our parents. They are learning from the old women in the group," Mama Kenyatta explains. This is especially important to her, since living in such an ethnically mixed area has led to problems within the Turkana and has caused the young to lose their language and their culture.
The Kenyan education system and European religions are further sources of anxiety for the Turkana. Schools force students to leave their culture behind by teaching in English and Swahili. The education system is a crucial piece of the nation-building process, encouraging allegiance to the state and to a national civic culture. This nationalism is a principle value of the educated elite. But "Turkana culture has little to do with Kenya or Kenyan things" Mama Kenyatta explains. "Take our clothes for example. We once wore skins and beads only, and still go without shoes." But now she says they have been compelled to adapt so as not to offend their heavily Christianized and powerful Meru neighbors, who see `scant' clothing as rude, unrefined, and sinful. Likewise, Turkana children have had to take on alien languages while their own mother tongue is ridiculed by teachers and administrators who are themselves powerfully entrenched in the national culture.
For challenging the primacy of this nation-building culture, Mama Kenyatta is open to charges of tribalism. But such accusations are often a way to cover up the concerns of disempowered and marginalized ethnic groups and deflect their criticisms of national elites. Moreover, the false dichotomy such charges create between `national' and `tribal' obscures the extent to which the national culture is itself a particular, rather than universal culture with its own set of values and beliefs. Ethnic pride as manifested by Mama Kenyatta's group cannot be reduced to crude `tribalism'-often a code word among elites for ethnic insurgency. Rather, an allTurkana women's group must be regarded as a sign of social health, as a peaceful, non-violent solution to the obvious problems associated with nationalism and elite control of cultural resources. Kitamaduni women draw upon their own cultural resources for strength and community rejuvenation.
Thanks to Mama Kenyatta's determination over the past few years, Kitamaduni Women's Group has flourished. The group carries out a merry-goround for needed household supplies, provides collective farm labor for members, and sells beaded jewelry. Mama Kenyatta remains an important leader and advisor for the group, though she has conscientiously refused to serve as a group officer. Instead, she has encouraged younger women with some formal education and a knowledge of Swahili and English to take up these positions.
One gets the sense that Mama Kenyatta is training a set of leaders for the community's future, leaders who will have the tools to interact with the larger society, but who will retain a level of pride in, and attachment to their people. Thus, this all-Turkana women's group is at once a project for economic self-improvement, a vital hedge against the erosion of culture, and a training ground for future community leaders. Kitamaduni women's group is a highly creative innovation, mobilizing the collective strength of Turkana women within a format pioneered by their patrons and bosses. It is an important institution to keep their culture intact to pass down to Turkana youth, while shrewdly mobilizing community resources for the development of indigenous leadership.


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A Surprise For Manoj Punjabi On His Birthday
No one can ever play a prank on me, especially a surprise" joked Manoj Punjabi once upon a time.
This could be true especially since he is known for playing tricks on people. Not only his office staff but even his wife has been played tricks on!! So pay back day was planned on the 7th of December 2009 as at MD it is a tradition to surprise or play a trick on the one having a birthday. Few of the staff members, who had already got the green signal from Shania, Manoj's wife, started to plan it out. From the ordering of the cake, inviting a few close relatives to the intention of spraying him with confetti! Plans are just plans but to act out the plan on this boss wasn't going to be easy.
First, on the night of the 6th of December, intentionally or unintentionally, Manoj found his birthday cake which had been hidden in the office. Secondly, news spread that on the 7th he had to go straight from the office to a reception. The plan of the confetti had to be dropped because there was no way he could go to a reception covered in confetti. Hmm...sure was a lot of things to reconsider! In the end the committee decided to invite the press to come and celebrate this occasion. They were very enthusiastic and keen to participate.
On D-Day, when Manoj was in a meeting, a huge procession entered his room right up to his desk. The procession was led by his children Nayla (5), and Rehaan (2) carrying this present which was even bigger than them!! They were followed by MD's artists, Budi Sutjiawan the director of SCTV, MD staff and other close colleagues. The members of the press came in last carrying their cameras all pointing in his direction. Whilst blowing the candles, Manoj had to use all his energy as they were the magic candles that refuse to go off! When he cut this cake, he had to feed a lot of people including his daughter Sairaa (8) who had followed later. After feeding his children and his wife, he fed the artists, staff and his other colleagues.. Hmm..as it turns out, he did manage to get "tricked" upon!!
While giving a speech, he admitted "I am surprised! I never expected so many people to come and that too right up to my desk! Thank you everyone". Finally...even Manoj Punjabi got a birthday surprise. Happy Birthday Boss!
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Took this yesterday, your looking at a pair of Dutch passion b.berries in the for ground and a g.s cookie in the back. 4'weeks into flower.
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Pictures like that makes it a shame to have to eventually chop. Great work!
Thanks for the admiration folks! I wish i could tell you with certainty what i did right? This is only my fourth grow and as usual theres plenty of variables. First time using the Lush Domenator 2x lights, first time in super soil, and flowering on an 11/13 light schedule which im giving at least some of the credit to. I say this be because i started on the usual 12/12 schedule and stayed there for 2 weeks before reducing it. Immediatly after the reduction things started moving much faster than id seen in the past. Who knows, im happy. The lights get a lot of the credit too.
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In connection with an extortion case, the Mumbai Police crime branch launched a manhunt on Saturday to find Yogesh Bhoir, a former corporator from Mumbai's Ward 24. His name was mentioned in the case after the arrest of the main defendant, a self-described RTI activist who attempted to extort Rs 1 crore from a developer in Mumbai.
An employee of the company, Harshal More filed a complaint alleging that the main accused, Bhimsen Yadav, had been making false claims against the developer and attempting to halt the construction work they were doing at Kandivali.
Yadav had been harassing the company officials for some time, so they called him in for a meeting where he first demanded Rs 2 crore before settling on Rs 1 crore as an extortion fee to leave them alone and allow the construction work to continue. Yadav added that he would have to split the money with politicians and staff members of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
To lodge a complaint against Yadav, More recorded the conversation. He also added that Yadav claimed to have connections to criminal elements operating out of Karachi and issued a subliminal demand that the company pay the demanded amount in order for the construction to proceed.
When Yadav arrived at the Kandivali office to pick up the first instalment of the money, the police set up a trap for him, and he was immediately taken into custody. He was charged in accordance with the applicable Indian Penal Code sections (IPC).
Bhimsen Yadav revealed to the police Yogesh Bhoir's connection to the case while being questioned. Yadav allegedly went to the business to demand the extortion money with Bhoir by his side.
Bhoir is evading the police at the moment, and authorities are trying to find him. The chargesheet contains the name of the former corporator.
Several local politicians and those who worked with Yadav are being investigated, according to officials, and more arrests could be made in connection with the case.
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Update: The Quest for Packs grand prize has been modified to include $1200 in cash. "We've heard hopeful adventurers voice concerns that the idea of winning the Grand Prize is a daunting prospect," community manager Daxxarri wrote in a forum post. "That's not in the spirit of a proper quest, so to help smooth your way, we're making the rewards sweeter."
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Blizzard is wrapping up Hearthstone's Year of the Mammoth with a "Quest for Packs" sweepstakes that will reward the grand prize winner with 3000 card packs—1000 packs from each of the expansions released during Year of the Mammoth (Journey to Un'goro, Knights of the Frozen Throne, and Kobolds & Catacombs)—plus the Lich King's Helm (the real one, apparently) and a package of Hearthstone swag.
Also up for grabs are 1000 Mammoth Card Bundles, a new bundle featuring ten card packs from each of the Mammoth expansions, and 50,000 Mammoth Packs, containing one pack from each. The Mammoth Card Bundle will also be available for purchase for a limited time when the 10.2 update goes live.
As for that helm, "We found it in his desk after his internship ended," Blizzard said. "Now we're passing it on to you! Yes, the very same helm worn by the Lich King as he stalked the halls of Blizzard Entertainment could be yours!"
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Professional Footballers' Association calls for government inquiry into 'racism and the rise in hate crime in football'
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The Professional Footballers' Association is calling for a government inquiry following Chelsea's Premier League derby win at Tottenham Hotspur which was marred by alleged racist behaviour from the crowd during ugly scenes.
Spurs have vowed to investigate after Chelsea defender Antonio Rudiger reported being targeted with monkey chants during the second half of his team's 2-0 win at the Tottenham Hotspur stadium.
The Professional Footballers Association (PFA) said it was "dismayed and disgusted" at the claims of abuse in north London and pushed for a government inquiry.
"The PFA calls for a government inquiry into racism and the rise in hate crime within football, and immediate and urgent action," said the representative body.
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"The PFA calls for a government inquiry into racism within football and encourage the establishment of an All-Party Group at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport."
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Referee Anthony Taylor stopped the match during the second half after defender Antonio Rudiger, who plays for Chelsea, complained of hearing monkey noises.
Spurs has vowed to "take the strongest possible action" and will conduct a "thorough investigation."
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An announcement was made over the ground's public address system warning that "racist behaviour is interfering with the game."
There were two further addresses over the public address system.
Sports Minister Nigel Adams confirmed he would be meeting with the club later today.
"Depressing to see today's events at White Hart Lane," he tweeted.
"I welcome Spurs investigation and will be speaking with the club's directors tomorrow.
"There is no place for racism or any kind of discrimination in football or anywhere else."
Labour said Premier League football clubs that failed to weed out racist fans should have to play at empty grounds.
Shadow sports minister Dr Rosena Allin-Khan said: "Another instance of racism today. It wasn't acceptable during Eng vs Bulgaria and it's not acceptable now.
"If clubs don't find perpetrators they should play matches behind closed doors."
Antonio Rudiger and his teammates Kurt Zouma and Fikayo Tomori celebrate during the match (Image: Getty Images)
Tottenham MP David Lammy said he was "appalled to hear about racist incidents by Spurs fans" and urged for the culprits to be "punished".
Former England and Man Utd player Gary Neville said players should walk off the pitch if they heard racism emanating from the crowd.
He said: "We have just had an election in this country where both main parties and the leaders of both main parties are accused constantly over the last month of fuelling racism and accepting racism within their parties.
"If it is accepted at the highest office in the country, we are not talking about it at a micro level - we are talking about it at an absolutely enormous level, the highest office in the country.
"We maybe have to empower the players to walk off the pitch and stop the entertainment while it's happening because that's the only way I can see it changing."
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A spokesman for Tottenham Hotspur said: "Any form of racism is completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated in our stadium."
The club said it would take the "strongest possible action" against fans found to have engaged in abuse, including bans from the newly-built £1 billion stadium.
The Department for Digital, Media, Culture and Sport has been contacted for comment.
Following scenes of racist chanting when England played Bulgaria in a World Cup qualifier overseas, Prime Minister branded the culprits "vile" and said such behaviour had "no place in football or anywhere else".
Tottenham Hotspur said any form of racism is "completely unacceptable" and "will not be tolerated in our stadium."
The club said it took any such allegations "extremely seriously and shall take the strongest possible action against any individual found to be behaving in such a way".
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