The Scarecrows are Back in Town!
We are delighted to see a return of the fantastic scarecrow festival to Melling this summer.
Winners will be announced at the Melling Scarecrow Country Fayre at Melling Tithebarn on Saturday 27th June at 2pm when there will be Maypole & Morris dancing, tug o war, donkey rides, fancy dress, toys, plants, and much more. Entry to the Fayre is Free.
This is last years amazing winner. See our gallery for images of this years entries.


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Why Your Friend Is Always So "Flaky"
This Might Be Why Your Friend Is Always So "Flaky"
Kimberly Truong
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We all have that friend. You know, the one who's completely gung-ho for hanging out until the very last minute, when an emergency just so happens to conveniently come up — for the fifth time in a row. (Or hey, maybe you're that friend — no judgment here.)
Well, a new study claims to expose exactly why that friend is always so damn flaky.
According to a poll conducted by OnePoll for Evite, a lot of young people just really don't see anything wrong with not following through with plans. In fact, data shared with Refinery29 showed that 45% of millennials don't think flaking is that big of a deal — hence why we're more likely to do it.
The poll, which surveyed 2,000 Americans, found that the average person flakes on almost half (46%) of the plans that they make. Plus, more than half (51%) have accepted plans while fully knowing that they wouldn't attend.
The most common reason people gave for flaking was that they were tired, followed by not feeling well enough to attend, and forgetting that the event was happening in the first place.
Sure, the survey also found that flakiness decreases as people get older, but before we dismiss this as another thing that millennials have ostensibly caused ruin to, it's worth keeping in mind that people might be cancelling plans for some very real, valid reasons.
While it's frustrating to be on the receiving end of your friend's flakiness, remember that the person may be dealing with things that they aren't ready to talk about. Of course, it's annoying as hell if someone seems to keep dodging your plans — but it's also important to remember that if a friend is acting out of character, it's worth a conversation.
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Sepoy Mutiny , the First War of independence, started 163 years back
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It is 163 years back, on 10th May 1857, that the Sepoy Mutiny started at Meerut, which transformed in to the First War of Indian Independence.
The war continued for more than one year. The entire North Indian belt was captured or rather liberated by the sepoys and their leaders including many common people who took to arms. But it was difficult to hold the position before the mighty striking force of the British and their tactics of dividing the Indian rulers.
The valour of the leaders of the War of Independence like Rani Lakshmi Bai of Jhansi, Tantia Topi, Kunwar Singh and others are even now sung in ballads in the north.
The end of the war saw the end of the rule of the East India Company and the direct rule of the British colonialists. The Mughal and Maratha empires were liquidated.
The Indians were defeated. But it was the start of a bigger war. Within 100 years, in 1947, British were compelled to leave India resulting in the Independence of the Country.
There are a large number of books written on the Sepoy Mutiny or the First War of Independence analysing the background, the actual war and the after-effects. That was the biggest military attack on the British colonialism by one of their colonies. While the Indians treated the war prisoners including women honourably to an extent, the British after their victory brutally shot and hanged thousands of the sepoys and the commoners who supported them. Even in the British Parliament, it had its ramifications.
On this day we remember those heroes and martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the freedom of the country.


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Lilith Iyapo is alive. She knows that much. Since the disaster on Earth, her existence is defined by a series of disorienting, brutal awakenings, each return to consciousness forcing her to confront old horrors anew: her family is dead. She is the prisoner of mysterious captors who saved her from Earth's nuclear holocaust, but now leave scars on her while she sleeps. She is forced to come to terms with what once was and what her present is.
When Lilith awakens to find one of her captors in her chamber, she's determined to find out who they are and what they want from her. She must face the dark side of survival and decide how she fits into her current society. This gripping series examines the hierarchal tendencies of mankind and questions how it hinders or helps the human race. But nothing could have prepared her for the strange truth of their identity — or for what she learns about her own species.
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Known as both the Xenogenesis Trilogy and Lilith's Brood, this compelling sci-fi saga by the late Octavia Butler questions identity, culture, and what it means to be human. The trilogy begins with Dawn from the viewpoint of Lilith Iyapo, a survivor of Earth's nuclear holocaust. Her home planet is ruined. Humans are nearly extinct. A mysterious species can restore and repopulate Earth—but their aid comes with a price. She is introduced to an alien race, the Oankali, who happen to have three genders: male, female, and Ooloi.
Eventually Lilith bonds with Nikanj, an Ooloi, and the Oankali use this bond to obtain Lilith's help to train humans in the newly-restored Earth. The Oankali have made Earth habitable again and offer humans access to the planet as an exchange for interbreeding and blending the human and Oankali races. The Oankali believe their offering is the solution to humans' fatal combination of intelligence and hierarchal tendencies — but humans rebel.
The first of Butler's influential works to receive serious attention from Hollywood, Dawn will soon be adapted for the small screen by A Wrinkle in Time director Ava DuVernay. Butler, who passed away suddenly in 2006, is also the author of the prescient near-future Parable series, the Patternist series, and the standalone vampire novel Fledgling, as well as numerous short stories.
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"Lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen"
Finely tuned in to her surroundings, Tiny triangulates outside in the yard this morning. Note right ear curved back towards the house, keeping track of any comings or goings of interest, left ear cocked towards the camerawoman's "watch-the-birdie" cat whisperings, and muzzle facing south for information cues blowing her way off the Creek.
"A child born today receives as his birthright the past's accumulated warehouse of technical knowledge, from reading and writing to the recipe for scones, penicillin, suspension bridges, internal combustion engines, and nuclear weapons," observes Roger Kimball in an elegantly dismissive review of Patrick Buchanan's new revisionist history of WWII — Churchill, Hitler and "The unnecessary War" — wherein "Brownshirt Buchanan" attempts to blame not Hitler but Churchill for the war and, by extension, the holocaust. But Paddy's history-challenged revisionism is only a pretext for a Kimballist cogitation on the human condition:
There is an important sense in which a clever 18-year-old knows more physics than Newton, more chemistry than Lavoissier, more mathematics than Euclid. But is he wiser about politics than Madison or Tocqueville? Does he know more about the question, "How should I live my life?" than Socrates?
It has often been observed that one of the distinctive achievements of the species homo sapiens sapiens is its ability to pass knowledge down from one generation to the next: the great repositories of technical know-how and scientific insight into the workings of nature are eloquent testaments to this awesome process. Unfortunately, the operation of tradition, of handing down, is less successful in the realm of morals and politics …
Every generation, it seems, has to recollect the vital, hard won lessons of the past. When it comes to political wisdom, forgetfulness is all-too-often mankind's inheritance.
Eyes, ears and nose focus singlemindedly on things we don't see, hear or smell.
If "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," those who wilfully forget Kimball's "workings of nature" are condemned to lose their shirts. The devastating floods along the Mississippi and its tributaries are a case in point. The words of World Conservation Union Chief Scientist Jeff McNeely in the wake of the 2004 tsunami apply:
"What has made this a disaster is that people have started to occupy part of the landscape that they shouldn't have occupied."
His words resonate today as heavy spring floods threaten to overtop and undermine the levees downstream from earlier flooding in Iowa. Following a record flood in 1927, the Flood Control Act of 1928 authorized the Mississippi River and Tributaries (MR&T) Project to control the "project flood," that is, any flood larger than the record flood, according to the Army Corps of Engineers website. MR&TP includes levees, floodways, channel improvement and stabilization and tributary basin improvements. We shall see how well they work to stem the tide in the coming days.
Douglas Belkin in the WSJ explains why we can't really blame it all on Mother Nature in "Critics Say Building Near Rivers Is Cause Of Recent Problems":
Around St. Louis, where the Mississippi is expected to crest this weekend, a number of scientists and activists argue the floods aren't caused by heavy rainfall but by irresponsible development. There has been considerable building since 1993 in Greater St. Louis, where demand for accessible property is at a premium. New and expanding communities pushed for new, taller and stronger levees.
By building along the riverbanks and forcing the Mississippi into a bed that is less than half the width of where it ran a century ago, residents are displacing water and forcing the river to run faster and higher. That, in turn, increases demand for taller, broader levees.
But as those levees make way for development that paves over wetlands, more runoff water is channeled into the river. Critics said the result is a self-perpetuating cycle: The rivers rise higher, new levees are built bigger, the rivers rise again."
What's that? It bears further study.
Western Civ has codified such things at least as far back as Vitruvius, whose first-century BC The Ten Books of Architecture advised against building on floodplains. But, getting back to Roger Kimball's point, it's the politics, stupid, together with the can-do entrepreneurial spirit that made this country the productive powerhouse it is. A little Corps of Engineers official history sets the stage:
By the year 1879, the need for improvement of the Mississippi River had become widely recognized. The necessity for coordination of engineering operations through a centralized organization had finally been accepted.
Accordingly, in that year, the Congress established the Mississippi River Commission and assigned it the duties. . . " to take into consideration and mature such a plan or plans and estimates as will correct, permanently locate, and deepen the channel and protect the banks of the Mississippi River, improve and give safety and ease to navigation thereof, prevent destructive floods, promote and facilitate commerce, trade, and the postal service."
And, back a little further in history to put life on the Mississippi into perspective:
The Mississippi River always has been a threat to the security of the valley through which it flows.Garciliaso de la Vega, in his history of the expedition begun by DeSoto, described the first recorded flood of the Mississippi as severe and of prolonged duration, beginning about March 10, 1543, and cresting about 40 days later. By the end of May the river had returned to its banks, having been in flood for about 80 days.
Since that time, explorers, traders, farmers, men of commerce, and engineers have known — sometimes too well — the Mississippi in flood.
All is well. She switches to automatic pilot until something comes up.
"It's only human to forget — repress? — horrific experiences, to move on," we wrote with reference to the tsunami:
Those who were there and lived to tell the tale are scarred for life and will never forget. They know it in their bones and will try to warn the world — of what? Pay attention to your surroundings? Don't take anything for granted? Repent before it's too late? — with their stories. Locally it will enter the communal lore. But beyond the region, it won't stick. The rest of us out here in the larger world — who only hear of it, see media images and try in our mind's eye to imagine the horror but then can turn away to the comfort of our everyday lives — we are the ones in danger of forgetting.
"Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons." — Deuteronomy 4:9 (King James Version)
Update: Speaking of forgetting things which thine eyes have seen, we forgot to link last week's Friday Ark at Modulator. Better late than never?
Update II: Steve's latest Friday Ark at Modulator is under way.
Update III: Maggie's links.
Update IV: Dr. Sanity's Carnival of the Insanities is open for business.
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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Therein lies the folly of mankind. Refusal to accept and understand human nature is the greatest weakness of our species.
Posted by: goomp | June 19, 2008 at 06:25 PM
And of course, for far too many Democrats, they deny the past ever happened! Selective amnesia or willful obfuscation? You decide.
Meanwhile, the exquisite Tiny warms the heart and relaxes the soul. I have to confess to a deep desire to pick her up and hold her close to my heart and just cuddle her until she's limp with pleasure - and she probably isn't even that kind of cat. But in the abstract, it sure is a lovely thought!
Posted by: Gayle Miller | June 20, 2008 at 09:30 AM
Ah flooding and the Mississippi... a perpetual dilemma it seems. 1993 is not that long ago - less than 20 years! Yet, much of the land that was completely underwater during that flood, has now been built up. Talk about forgetting...
My husband and I discussed this at length a few times (being as we have family living in the St. Louis area - although not the flood plains).
While for businesses it might make sense to build in these areas and simply take the risk of being flooded out - people buying homes there will most certainly be SOL when the flood waters hit. They'll lose a lot if not everything. I feel sorry for those who came from other areas and didn't know these were flood plains (it's not exactly evident during low water times!), but I don't feel sorry for those who grew up in the area and know where the water goes yet choose to build/buy there anyway.
It's not only the Mississippi - it's the Missouri and Meramec Rivers too. They surround the area and when the Mississippi backs up - they have no where to run off so it's a chain reaction.
The flooding is cyclical - everyone knows there are drought years and wet years. Yet the news media don't seem to understand this - thus you have the huge drama via television. I talked to my sister yesterday - so far the water level is 12 feet below the 1993 levels for the same time period.
Of course coming from this type of background - we now check before we buy a house on the surrounding area and how prone it might be to flooding.
Posted by: Teresa | June 20, 2008 at 12:34 PM
My cousin, Nancy lives in Sioux City, IA in northwest Iowa and when I asked her how they were doing with the flooding in central Iowa she told me that they are fine and that central Iowa doesn't take care of their smaller rivers and too many people live near flood zones.
If I remember rightly, during the Civil War General Grant and his engineers attempted to change the course of the Mississippi River in order to bypass the fortifications at Vicksburg, Mississippi. Although it did not seem to work at the time, the constant force of the river at the point of Grant's excavations, over time eventually changed the course of the River. Today if you visit Vicksburg you will find that the river is no longer close to the city. Nature finished what Grant started.
Posted by: Laura Lee Donoho | June 21, 2008 at 12:22 PM


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Skyscraper Tetris Game Breaks World Record
Drexel University professor Frank Lee has earned the Guinness World Record for largest architectural video game display. Again.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- All the pieces have fallen into place for the designer of a giant Tetris game.
Lee and two colleagues created a computer program to play the classic shape-fitting puzzle on two sides of a 29-story skyscraper in Philadelphia.
They used hundreds of lights embedded in the glass facades of the Cira (SEAR'-ah) Centre. All told, the "screens" totaled nearly 120,000 square feet (11,000 square meters).
Dozens of Tetris enthusiasts played the supersized version in April using a joystick from about a mile away.
The record announced Tuesday beat the previous one also set by Lee. Last year, he recreated the classic Atari game Pong on a single side of the same building.


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When the virus is over, will we see virus movies or escapism?
Mick LaSalle	May 4, 2020Updated: May 4, 2020, 10:34 am
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Good morning, Mick: When COVID-19 is enough under control that filming can begin again and we'll have a steady release of movies, do you think there will be a spate of pandemic movies, or will audiences prefer escapism, movies with little or no mention of the pandemic?
Paul Sheinfeld, Novato
Good morning, Paul: That will depend on a few things, including how long this goes on for and how bad it gets. If it's a full year or more of this, I lean more toward the escapism side of the ledger. No one is going to want to relive this, not for a while.
Still, there will be a few uplifting movies. I've said that Tom Hanks will probably end up playing that Navy captain, Brett Crozier, who tried to protect his men. I also imagine that, sooner or later, every Italian American actor of a certain age (plus New York-born Jewish actors, because of a certain Harvey Keitel-like cultural overlap) will have to begin practicing Andrew Cuomo impressions. And, of course, this could be where Alec Baldwin finally gets a supporting actor Oscar.
But generally speaking, I expect there will be two or three virus movies, which will do so-so at the box office, and then these stories will vanish for about 10 years. Then, if there's no pandemic in the intervening period, you'll start getting the definitive pandemic movies, circa 2030.
At least that's how it worked with the two world wars and Vietnam.
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Hi Mick: You correctly pointed out that Hitler and Osama bin Laden were so disgusting that they couldn't turn out anything "humane or beautiful." However, you added Charles Manson to that list. I wish he had been executed in the early 1970s. Still he sang and composed a beautiful song that is all over YouTube. It's called "Look at Your Game, Girl." Please listen and give your readers an honest assessment of that song.
Kurt Gillespie, Fairfield
Hi Kurt: Just listened to it. It's OK — I've heard worse on the radio — and he was a good singer. But when I said that some minds are so diseased and evil that they couldn't possibly produce great work, I wasn't talking about songs.
If we're talking about good songs by evil people, you could also make the case that "The Horst Wessel Song" has a good beat and you could dance to it, especially if you don't know what it refers to. Two things put songs (and poems, too, but especially songs) in a special category. The first is that they're short bursts, and anyone can suppress the crazy for three verses and a chorus. The second is that they speak from a subjective world in which the singer is the only person whose emotions matter. Their form, as such, gives cover to the homicidal megalomaniac's mentality, because, in a song, the singer is always the source of all wisdom and the boss of the universe.
Take "Look at Your Game, Girl": On the surface, it's a song in which a guy tells a woman that she needs to be happy and stop playing the victim. He tells her, "Stop tryin'/ Or you're gonna play cryin'." Of course, we know that that's a threat, but in the mini-planet of the song, he's just trying to be helpful. Meanwhile, half the songs written by George Harrison, who was practically the moral opposite of Manson, have the same point of entry. Harrison is always telling people what's wrong with them — "Think for Yourself," "Taxman," "Within You Without You," "Piggies," "Beware of Darkness" and on and on.
In 2002, writer-director Finn Taylor released a great movie that touched on this phenomenon. It's called "Cherish." It's suffused with pop songs, as it deals, among other things, with a woman being followed by a violent stalker. The context allows you to realize how selfish, merciless, self-pitying and crazily subjective most pop songs are, including the title song (by the Association). Being on the receiving end of that sick song would be seriously creepy.
Robin Tunney stars in "Cherish," which may give rise to second thoughts on the song of that name. Photo: SARA KRULWICH / New York Times
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